BLC, Blc or blc can refer to:

Code
 Belo Corporation (NYSE stock ticker BLC), a former Texan broadcasting company
 Brasil Central Linhas Aéreas (ICAO airline code BLC), a defunct airline
 × Brassolaeliocattleya (horticultural abbreviation code Blc.), an orchid genus
 Nuxalk language (ISO 639 language code blc), a critically endangered Salish language spoken formerly known as Bella Coola

Initialism abbreviation
 BLC Leather Technology Centre, a British testing, auditing and consulting business

 B lymphocyte chemoattractant (or CXCL13), a chemokine selectively chemotactic for B lymphocytes
 Bachelor of Canon Law, a degree in ecclesiastical studies
 Basic Leader Course, a course of study for non-commissioned officers in the US Army
 Bethany Lutheran College, a private Christian liberal arts college in Mankato, Minnesota
 Bethesda Lutheran Communities, a Wisconsin-based non-profit serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, now known as AbleLight
 Big League Chew, a brand of bubble-gum originally created by the Wrigley Company
 Binary lambda calculus (or Binary combinatory logic), a concept in information theory
 Bloodline Champions, a video game released in 2011 by Stunlock Studios
 Boston Library Consortium, a New England academic library consortium
 Boundary layer control, a concept in aircraft wing design
 Brant Lake Camp, a sleep-away summer camp in Brant Lake, New York, U.S.
 Breakthrough Listen Candidate, a candidate SETI signal detected by the Breakthrough Listen project
 Buxton & Leek College, a further education college in the East Midlands of the UK

See also


16 Vulpeculae is a binary star system in the northern constellation Vulpecula. It has a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.787, which is near the lower limit of visibility to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax shift of  as seen from Earth's orbit, it is located about 222 light years away. The system is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of about −37 km/s. It will make its closest approach in about 0.9 million years, coming within .

The pair orbit each other with an estimated period of 1,201 years and an orbital eccentricity of 0.932. The magnitude 5.93 primary, component A, displays a stellar classification of F2III, matching an aging F-type giant star. This star is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 136 km/s. This is giving the star an oblate shape with an equatorial bulge that is an estimated 21% larger than the polar radius. It is 742 million years old with 1.34 times the mass of the Sun. The star is radiating 31 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 6,888 K.

References

Vulpeculae, 16
Vulpecula
F-type giants
Binary stars
Durchmusterung objects
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The 15th Pan American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 July to 29 July 2007.

Results by event

Athletics
Men's 800 metres
Fadrique Iglesias
Semifinal 3 — 1:48.27 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5,000 metres
Eduardo Aruquipa
Final — 14:50.34 (→ 10th place)
Jorge César Fernández
Final — 15:36.57 (→ 12th place)

Women's 400m Hurdles
Daisy Ugarte
Semifinal 1 — 1:00.26 (→ did not advance)

Women's 20 km walk
Geovana Irusta
Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Football

Men's tournament
Preliminary Round

Semi Finals

Bronze-medal match

Triathlon

Men's Competition
Luis Torrico
 did not finish — no ranking

Women's Competition
Agnes Eppers
 did not finish — no ranking

See also
 Bolivia at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links
Rio 2007 Official website

Nations at the 2007 Pan American Games
P
2007


Dianosuchus is an extinct genus of protosuchid crocodylomorph. Fossils have been found from the Dark Red Beds of the Lower Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China, dating back to the Sinemurian stage of the Early Jurassic. It is characterized by an unusually flattened snout compared to other protosuchians, conical isodont teeth that lacked striations, and very small antorbital fenestrae.

References

Early Jurassic crocodylomorphs
Terrestrial crocodylomorphs
Early Jurassic reptiles of Asia
Prehistoric pseudosuchian genera
Fossil taxa described in 1982


The 15th Pan American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 to 29 July 2007.

Results by event

See also
 Suriname at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links
Rio 2007 Official website

Nations at the 2007 Pan American Games
P
2007


David O. Quick (August 27, 1829 – December 1910) was an American educator and politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Indiana and a trained lawyer, he crossed the Oregon Trail where he was a school teacher and later farmer. He served one term as a Republican in the Oregon House of Representatives.

Early years
David Quick was born on August 27, 1829, in the state of Indiana. He later moved to Illinois where was a teacher and he read law under the direction of James Davis, and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1850. He married Sarah Updyke and had son child, Emerson, before she died in 1857. In 1858, he married Amelia E. Young, and they had seven children together; Elmer, Emerson O., William D., Anna May, Warren, Frederick, and Ada Gertrude.

In 1859, Quick and his family crossed the Great Plains on the Oregon Trail to reach Oregon. Along the way, the family suffered hardships and had to sell most of their possession before Quick worked as a miner and earned enough to continue the journey. After arriving, he was admitted to the Oregon bar in 1864. The family settled in Washington County where Quick owned a hotel in Hillsboro along with a saw mill, as well as taught school.

Political career
Quick was elected to the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1864. He served as a Republican in the House of Representatives for District 36 in Washington County. He served one, two-year term in the legislature, present for both the 1864 regular session and the 1865 special session.

Later years
Quick lived in Washington County until 1888, and then moved to the community of Suver in Polk County. There he owned a nursery and a farm, living in that county for 12 years before later living in Linn and Benton counties. David O. Quick died in December 1910 in Grants Pass in Southern Oregon at the age of 81.

References

Republican Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
People from Illinois
Politicians from Hillsboro, Oregon
People from Polk County, Oregon
1829 births
Educators from Oregon
People from Indiana
1910 deaths
19th-century American politicians
American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law


Medet Sadyrkulov (Kyrgyz: Медет Садыркулов, Medet Sadırqulov; December 13, 1953–March 13, 2009) was a Kyrgyz politician and former chief of staff for presidents Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev. He was also Kyrgyzstan's ambassador to Iran from 2000 to 2005. In January 2009 he stepped down from his post with the Bakiyev administration, refusing an offer to become Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan, and became active in opposition politics.

Sadyrkulov was killed along with his driver and one other companion at about 5 a.m. on March 13, 2009 in what the government claimed was an accidental car crash. In September 2011 an arrest warrant was issued against Janish Bakiyev, brother of the former President and former head of the presidential guard, for the contract killing of Sadyrkulov. Along with other members of the Bakiyev clan, Janish is currently living in Belarus, whence the authorities are refusing to extradite him. Sadyrkulov was on his way back to the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek from neighboring Kazakhstan, where he had been mustering support for opposition to the government. Sadyrkulov was 55.

References

1953 births
2009 deaths
Road incident deaths in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstani politicians
Ambassadors of Kyrgyzstan to Iran


The 15th Pan American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 July to 29 July 2007.

See also
 Saint Kitts and Nevis at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links
Rio 2007 Official website

Nations at the 2007 Pan American Games
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The 15th Pan American Games were held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 July to 29 July 2007.

See also
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links
Rio 2007 Official website

Nations at the 2007 Pan American Games
Pan American Games
2007


Northsea Nights is a live album by American jazz guitarist Joe Pass and double bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen that was released in 1980.

Track listing
"If I Were a Bell" (Frank Loesser) – 7:02
"'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 9:28
"How Deep is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) – 6:12
"Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 8:38
"I Can't Get Started" (Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke) – 7:08
"Blues for the Hague" (Joe Pass, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen) – 6:57

Personnel
 Joe Pass – guitar
 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – double bass

Chart positions

References

External links
Joe Pass Memorial Hall

Joe Pass live albums
Albums produced by Norman Granz
1979 live albums
Pablo Records live albums


The Arboretum de Saint-Avaugourd-des-Landes is an arboretum located in Saint-Avaugourd-des-Landes, Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France.

See also
 List of botanical gardens in France

References

External links
 Vendée Tourisme description (French)
 L'Echo des Chênaies entry (French)

Saint-Avaugourd-des-Landes, Arboretum de
Saint-Avaugourd-des-Landes, Arboretum de


Michael Holman is a British linguist and Slavicist, fluent in Russian, Bulgarian, German and French.  He studied at Lincoln College, Oxford and University of Leipzig, and worked for the University of Leeds in 1966–1999.

Together with the Bulgarian linguists A. Danchev, E. Dimova and M. Savova, Holman developed a system for the English-oriented Romanization of Bulgarian known as Danchev System. He translated Nikolai Haitov's Wild Tales from Bulgarian (published by Owen in 1979) and authored the best-selling Teach Yourself Bulgarian Series (with M. Kovatcheva).

Honours
DLitt honoris causa from Sofia University in 2005.

Publications
 A. Danchev, M. Holman, E. Dimova, M. Savova, An English Dictionary of Bulgarian Names: Spelling and Pronunciation, Nauka i Izkustvo Publishers, 1989, 288 pp.
 M. Holman, M. Kovatcheva. Teach Yourself Bulgarian: Complete Course Package, McGraw-Hill (2nd edition), 2004.
 M. Holman, M. Kovatcheva Complete Bulgarian McGraw-Hill 2011.
 M. Kovatcheva, M. Holman Speak Bulgarian with confidence. Audio-course. Hodder&Stoughton 2010.

External links
 Professor Michael Holman, University of Leeds website.

Living people
Linguists from England
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
Leipzig University alumni


The British Virgin Islands competed at the 15th Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 to 29 July 2007.

Results by event

See also
 British Virgin Islands at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links
 Rio 2007 Official website

Nations at the 2007 Pan American Games
P
2007


The National Football League Management Council is a non-profit association of clubs in the National Football League (NFL) that represents its members in negotiations related to the  Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFL Players Association.  It is based in New York City and its chairman is the NFL Executive Vice President of Labor Relations, Harold Henderson.

References

Management Council
Sports labor disputes in the United States


Johan Martial (born 30 May 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Malaysia Super League club Sri Pahang. He was a France youth international for the under-19 and under-20 teams.

Club career
Martial was born in Massy. He joined SC Bastia after leaving the Auvergne-based outfit AS Montferrand. He received his first call up to the senior squad for their Ligue 2 match against Montpellier on 13 March 2009, and made his professional debut as a late match substitute in the 1–0 victory.

On 2 August 2010, Bastia loaned Martial to fellow Ligue 1 team Brest for the entire 2010–11 Ligue 1 season. The loan deal was made permanent at the end of the season.

In 2015, after his Brest contract expired, Martial moved to Troyes.

On 20 June 2017, after Troyes regained their place in the top flight, Martial moved abroad for the first time by joining Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. in the Israeli Premier League. In February 2019, he moved across the league to Ashdod.

On 4 July 2019, he signed a two-year contract with Panetolikos, on a free transfer. He left the club on 6 June 2020 to join Sochaux.

In January 2022 he joined Malaysia Super League side Sri Pahang. He was released by the club in mid season due to injuries.

International career
Martial made his international debut for France under-19 on 9 September 2009 in a 3–3 friendly draw away to Japan. He was part of the team that won the 2010 UEFA European Under-19 Championship on home soil, making an appearance in the final group game, a 1–1 draw with England.

Personal life
Johan is of Guadeloupen descent. He is the younger brother of former Les Ulis captain Dorian Martial and the older brother of Manchester United and France forward Anthony Martial. He is the cousin of Servette midfielder Alexis Martial.

Honours

France under-19
 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship: 2010
Greek Cup

References

External links
 LFP Profile

1991 births
Living people
French men's footballers
SC Bastia players
Stade Brestois 29 players
F.C. Ashdod players
Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. players
Panetolikos F.C. players
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
Sri Pahang FC players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Israeli Premier League players
Super League Greece players
Malaysia Super League players
France men's youth international footballers
French people of Guadeloupean descent
People from Massy, Essonne
Footballers from Essonne
Men's association football central defenders
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Malaysia
French expatriate sportspeople in Israel
French expatriate sportspeople in Greece
French expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia


Corallochytrium belongs to the class of Corallochytrea within Teretosporea and is a sister group to Ichthyosporea. Corallochytrium limacisporum is the only species of Corallochytrium known so far. It was first discovered and named in the Arabian Sea’s coral lagoons by Kaghu-Kumar in 1987. It was first thought to be a member of the fungi-like thraustochytrids, however, this was later disproven due to Corallochytriums lack of cilia and sagenogenetosome. Little research has been done on the life cycle or morphology. Most research concerning this genus has been done to uncover the evolution of animals and fungi, as Corallochytrium possess both animal and fungal enzymatic trademarks (C-14 reductase and α-AAR respectively).

Etymology
The genus name is derived from the habitat in which it was first found: coral reef lagoons. The single species name is derived from the limax-shaped (slug-shaped) spores that are produced by the cell. (Raghu-kumar, 1987).

Taxonomy
C. limacisporum was first discovered and named in 1987 in coral reef lagoons of three Lakshadweep islands in the Arabian sea; Agatti, Kavaratti and Bangaram (Raghu-kumar, 1987). The organism was initially thought to be a new thraustochytrid protist, a group of protists that closely resemble fungi and produce filaments from which they absorb nutrients (Raghu-kumar 1987). However, Cavalier-Smith & Allsopp (1996) explain that C. limancisporum had been wrongly classified as it lacks all defining characteristics of thraustochytrids. After phylogenetic analysis, Corallochytrium was determined not to be a thraustochytrid, but rather related to choanoflagellates. Cavalier-Smith assigned a new order and class for Corallochytrium under the phylum Choanozoa: Corallochytrida and Corallochytrea respectively (Cavelier-Smith 1995). Recently, Torruella et al. (2015) revealed that Corallochytrium has a sister group: Ichthyosporea and clusters within Teretosporea, an early branching lineage of unicellular organisms that are thought to be one of the closest relatives to animals (Marshall, 2014)

Corallochytrium has become an important species in unraveling the diversification of animals from fungi and opisthokont evolution. Corallochytrium and Ichthyosporea are thought to be the earliest branches of the holozoans (animals and all their ancestors, excluding fungi) (Torruella et al. 2015). However new phylogenetic trees placing Corallochytrium closer to fungi are emerging (Sumanthi et al. 2006). Phylogenetic trees based on the α-AAR gene, put Corallochytrium as a sister group to fungi, however trees using other genes, such as C-14 reductase, have been inconclusive in their placement in relation to animals or fungi (Sumanthi et al. 2006).

Description
Corallochytrium is a small (around 5–20μm in diameter), round, non-photosynthetic choanoflagellate (Torruella et al. 2015, Cavalier-Smith & Allsopp, 1996). It possesses no cilia (despite being a choanoflagellate) and no sagenogenetosome (Cavalier-Smith, 2001). It has a thin wall of unknown composition, that does not resemble that of fungi (Cavalier-Smith, 2001). Like fungi and choanoflagellates, Corallochytrium has flat mitochondrial cristae (Cavalier-Smith, 2001).

Habitat and ecology
Little is known about Corallochytrium'''s feeding and ecology, however its feeding regime has strong implications for the evolution of animals and fungi. Corallochytrium is a marine protist that inhabits coral reef lagoons in the Arabian Sea (Raghu-kumar, 1987). C. limacisporum is predatory and feeds on large eukaryotic prey (Hehenberger et al. 2017). Corallochytrium has the fungal signature α-aminoadipate reductase (α-AAR) which is involved in the α-aminoadipate (AAA) pathway that synthesises amino acids from inorganic nitrogen in fungi (Sumathi et al. 2006). α-AAR is an evolutionarily conserved enzyme in the fungi (Sumathi at al., 2006). The presence of α-AAR in Corallochytrium suggests it is a sister clade to fungi. Like fungi, Corallochytrium has also been found to be saprotrophic (Cavalier-Smith & Allsopp, 1996). Coralochytrium also possess the sterol C-14 reductase gene involved in animal and fungi sterol pathways (Sumathi at al., 2006).

 Life cycle
Little documentation of the Corallochytrium life cycle exists. However it is known that Corallochytrium'' produces colonies by binary, palintomic cell division (Raghu-kumar, 1987). Completion of the Corallochytrium life cycle involves the release of limax-shaped spores (Raghu-kumar, 1987).

References

 Cavalier-Smith, T. 2001.“What are Fungi” in The Mycota VIII: 3–30.
 Cavalier-Smith, T., Allsopp, P. 1996. Corallochytrium, an enigmatic non-flagellate protozoan related to choanoflagellates. Protistology. 32(3): 306–310. doi: 10.1016/S0932-4739(96)80053-8
 Hehenberger et al. 2017. Novel predators reshape holozoan phylogeny and reveal the presence of a two-component signaling system in the ancestor of animals. Current Biol. 27: 2043-2050. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.006
 “Chytrium”. Merriam-Webster. retrieved from: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chytrium
 Marshall, W. 2014. Ichythyosporea. Mesomycetozoa, Mesomycetozoa. Version 6 December 2014 (under construction). Retrieved from: http://tolweb.org/Ichthyosporea/121172/2014.12.06 in Tree of Life Web Project.
 Raghu-kumar, S. 1987. Occurrence of the Thraustochytrid, Corallochytrium limacisporum gen. et sp. nov. in the coral reef lagoons of the Lakshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea. Botanica Marina. 30: 83–89. doi: 10.1515/botm.1987.30.1.83
 Sumathi, J.C., Raghukumar, S., Kasbekar, D.P., Raghukumar, C. 2006. Molecular evidence of fungal signatures in the marine protist Corallochytrium limacisporum and its implications in the evolution of animals and fungi. Protist. 157(4): 363-373. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2006.05.003
 Torruella et al. 2015. Phylogenomics reveal convergent evolution of lifestyles in close relatives of animals and fungi. Current Biology. 25(18): 2404–2410. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.07.053

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24 Vulpeculae is a single, yellow-hued star in the northern constellation of Vulpecula. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.30. The distance to this star can be estimated from its annual parallax shift of , which yields a separation of roughly 409 light years. It is moving further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of +15 km/s.

This is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of G8III, having exhausted the hydrogen at its core and moved off the main sequence. It is a red clump giant, indicating it is presently on the horizontal branch and is generating energy through helium fusion in its core region. The interferometry-measured angular diameter of 24 Vul is , which, at its estimated distance, equates to a physical radius of about 16 times the radius of the Sun.

24 Vulpeculae is about 251 million years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 5.02 km/s. It has 3.41 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 191 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,981 K. This is the probable (99.4% chance) source of X-ray emission coming from these coordinates.

References

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G-type giants
Horizontal-branch stars
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Durchmusterung objects
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Ivan Santini (; born 21 May 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Swiss club Zürich.

Club career
Ivan Santini, born in Zadar, played for his hometown side's youth team, until the summer of 2006, when he moved to Inter Zaprešić where he signed his first professional contract and made four first team appearances, scoring his first professional goal in the process. The next season, he moved to Red Bull Salzburg where he spent the duration of the year as a youth player.

He made his debut on the professional league level in the 2. Bundesliga for Ingolstadt on 8 March 2009, when he came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute in a game against TSV 1860 München and scored his first goal. From 2009 to 2012, he played for Zadar. On 31 January 2012, Santini joined SC Freiburg on a six-month loan move with a clause in which Freiburg could buy out his contract.

In June 2013, he signed a contract to join Kortrijk.

On 18 June 2015, Santini moved to Standard Liège on a four-year contract, for a fee of €2 million. In the final of the Belgian Cup in 2016, Santini scored a goal in the 88th minute of the match to secure a dramatic 2–1 win over Club Brugge.

On 3 August 2016, Santini moved to Caen on a three-year contract, for a fee estimated over €2 million. In January 2017, he became the second Croatian player after Dado Pršo to score at least ten goals in Ligue 1.

Anderlecht
On 3 July 2018, he moved to Anderlecht on a three-year contract for €3 million fee.
He debuted on 13 July 2018 in a friendly match against Ajax and scored two goals.
In his official debut, on 28 July 2018, he scored a hat-trick against his former club Kortrijk.

On 5 August 2018, he scored his second hat-trick of the season against Oostende.
 On 12 August 2018, he scored the second goal in a 2–1 win against Charleroi. He finished the 2018–19 season as the club's top scorer with 16 league goals.

Jiangsu Suning
On 29 July 2019, Santini joined Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning, becoming their fifth and final allotted foreign born player for the season. On 24 October 2020, Santini's ninth minute strike against Chongqing Lifan secured Jiangsu Suning a place in the semi-finals of the 2020 Chinese Super League play-offs against 2018 title winners Shanghai SIPG. Santini was a substitute in the second-leg of the CSL final against Guangzhou Evergrande on 12 November, coming on in the 80th minute for goalscorer Éder. The club held on to a 2–1 win which confirmed Jiangsu Suning as league champions for the first time in their history.

NK Osijek
On 13 February 2021, Santini returned to Croatia to sign with Prva HNL side NK Osijek. He scored the winning goal on his debut for the club against Varaždin on 26 February.

Al-Fateh
On 10 August 2021, Santini joined Saudi Arabian club Al-Fateh.

Zürich
On 29 June 2022, he joined Swiss side Zürich.

International career
Santini made his debut for Croatia in a May 2017 friendly match against Mexico and earned a total of 5 caps, scoring no goals. In May 2018, he was shortlisted on Croatia's preliminary 32-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but did not make the final 23.

His final international was an October 2018 friendly against Jordan.

Career statistics

Club

Personal life
His brother Krševan plays as a goalkeeper. Their father is the late singer Romeo Santini.

Honours
Inter Zaprešić
 Druga HNL: 2006–07

Standard Liege
 Belgian Cup: 2015–16

Jiangsu Suning
 Chinese Super League: 2020

Individual
 Prva HNL Player of the Year: 2010–11

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Footballers from Zadar
Croatian people of Italian descent
Men's association football forwards
Croatian men's footballers
Croatia men's youth international footballers
Croatia men's international footballers
NK Inter Zaprešić players
FC Ingolstadt 04 players
NK Zadar players
SC Freiburg players
K.V. Kortrijk players
Standard Liège players
Stade Malherbe Caen players
R.S.C. Anderlecht players
Jiangsu F.C. players
NK Osijek players
Al Fateh SC players
FC Zürich players
Croatian Football League players
2. Bundesliga players
Bundesliga players
Belgian Pro League players
Ligue 1 players
Chinese Super League players
Saudi Pro League players
Swiss Super League players
Croatian expatriate men's footballers
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland


Lt. Colonel Arthur Owen Vaughan,  (6 September 1863 – 15 October 1919), also known by his bardic name Owen Rhoscomyl, was an English-born writer, soldier and Welsh nationalist. Born as Robert Scowfield Mills in England, Owen Rhoscomyl was influenced by his Welsh grandmother and became a notable patriot to Wales and its history.

Early life
Vaughan was born in Southport, but moved to Droylsden, Lancashire where he was raised. As a child, Vaughan was highly influenced by his maternal grandmother, who was born in Tremeirchion in North Wales. At the age of 15 he ran away from home and went to sea, travelling to America. There he became a cowboy and found work in mining camps before returning to Britain.

Military career
In 1887 he joined the 1st (Royal) Dragoons. He left the Royal Dragoons in 1890 but served again in the British Army in the Boer War of 1899–1902. Vaughan served in several horse troops, mainly in Rimington's Guides and their successor unit Damant's Horse. While in this unit, Sergeant Vaughan was mentioned for bravery under fire and awarded the DCM. In October 1901 he joined Ross's Canadian Scouts, an anti-commando outfit previously led by Arthur L. Howard, in which Vaughan reached the rank of captain.

When the First World War broke out in August 1914, Vaughan was prominent in recruiting a new regiment in South Wales, the Welsh Horse Yeomanry, hoping - in vain, as it turned out - to be given command. Temporary Lt.-Col. Vaughan of the Labour Corps was awarded the DSO in the 1919 New Year Honours.

Literary career and later life

While in South Africa, Vaughan met and married Katharina Louisa (Katherine Lois) Geere secretly on the banks of the Vaal River near Parys in December 1901.

On his return to Britain in 1902, Vaughan set out to promote Wales and in 1905 he completed his most famous work Flame-Bearers of Welsh History: Being the outline of the Sons of Cunedda, which looked at the contribution of the Welsh to the growth of the British Empire. In 1906 he wrote the novel Old Fireproof, followed by Vronina (1906) and Lone Tree Lode (1913).

He was a member of Legion of Frontiersmen.

In 1909 Vaughan scripted the National Pageant of Wales, held at Cardiff Castle. In 1911 he scripted the National Pageant at the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in Carnarvon Castle.

He and Katherine had four children. Katherine died in 1927, while Vaughan died in 1919. A fund was raised to provide a memorial for his grave in honour of his Welsh patriotism in St Thomas' Church, Rhyl, Flintshire. Two headstones mark his grave: an Imperial War Graves Commission headstone under the name, Lt Col A. O. Vaughan, with the badge of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and a Celtic cross honouring his achievements for the Welsh under his bardic name Owen Roscomyl.

Works

 The Jewel of Ynys Galon (1895)
 Battlement and Tower (1896)
 The White Rose of Arno (1897)
 The Shrouded face (1898)
 Y Rhosin Du (1899)
 The Lady of Castell March (1902)
 Old Hendrik's Tales (1904) co-authored with C. L. Vaughan
 Flame-Bearers of Welsh History: Being the outline of the Sons of Cunedda (1905)
 Sweet Rogues (1907)
 Dewi Saint (1907)
 Old Fireproof (1906)
 Vronina (1907)
 Isle Raven (1908)
 A Scout's Story (1908)
 Ou Hendrik se Stories (1908) translated into Dutch
 Lone Tree Lode (1913)
 The Matter of Wales (1913)
 Numerous short stories (1904-1909)

References

The National Library of Welsh Biography

External links

1863 births
1919 deaths
English writers
British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
Welsh nationalists
Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Officers of the Order of the British Empire


The United States Virgin Islands competed at the 15th Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 July to 29 July 2007.

Results by event

Basketball

Men's team competition
 Team roster
Steven Hodge
Kevin Sheppard
Carl Krauser
Cuthbert Victor
Jameel Heywood
Jason Edwin
Darnell Miller
Kaylen Gregory
Akeem Francis
Carl Thomas
Kitwana Rhymer
Frank Elegar
 Head coach: Tevester Anderson

See also
 Virgin Islands at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links
 Rio 2007 Official website

Nations at the 2007 Pan American Games
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2007


Good Bones is a collection of short fiction (most stories only a few pages long) by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.  The collection was originally published in 1992.

The collection explores the sinister side of classical myths, traditional Anglo-European folklore and literary archetypes. Through the stories, Atwood gives voice to the "bad girls": the stupid, ugly or wicked stepmothers and stepsisters who feature as antagonists in the archetypes Atwood explores. For example, the Little Red Hen, the stepsisters from 'Cinderella', and Gertrude from William Shakespeare's Hamlet get their say. Ultimately, these stories explore the danger of life (which inevitably ends in death) and the power of telling one's own story.

The book was republished in 1994, in combination with another Atwood work called Murder in the Dark, as part of the expanded collection Good Bones and Simple Murders.

References

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1992 short story collections
Short story collections by Margaret Atwood
Coach House Press books


The United States Virgin Islands competed at the 14th Pan American Games held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic from August 1 to August 17, 2003.

Results by event

Swimming

Men's Competition

Women's Competition

See also
 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games
 Virgin Islands at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Nations at the 2003 Pan American Games
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2003


The 13th Pan American Games were held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from July 23 to August 8, 1999.

Results by event

See also
 Virgin Islands at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Nations at the 1999 Pan American Games
P
1999


The 12th Pan American Games were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from March 11 to March 26, 1995.

Results by event

See also
 Virgin Islands at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Nations at the 1995 Pan American Games
P
1995


Good Bones and Simple Murders is a book by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1994. Although classified with Atwood's short fiction, it is an eclectic collection, featuring parables, monologues, prose poems, condensed science fiction, reconfigured fairy tales, as well as Atwood's own illustrations. Much of the book is a reprint of two earlier Atwood works, Good Bones and Murder in the Dark.

The story Gertrude Talks Back sees Gertrude, mother of Hamlet setting her son straight about Old Hamlet's murder: "It wasn't Claudius, darling, it was me!"

References

 Pratt, Laura. "Heather Reisman's little list of literary party favours." National Post Dec. 1, 2001. pg. PD. 5.

1994 short story collections
Short story collections by Margaret Atwood
Doubleday (publisher) books
New Canadian Library


A first date is the initial meeting during the dating process of two individuals, in which an effort is made to ask about each other, plan a potential relationship, and/or organize some sort of romantic activity. Aims vary between finding a romantic, platonic, or sexual partner for a short period, to finding a long-term spouse. Dating can vary between cultures, lifestyles, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.

In many countries and cultures, it is the process that romantic relationships are developed and future spouses are found. Some people go on first dates to evaluate a person's potential as a sexual partner. Often, people have dates arranged for them by their friends, or they meet the individual at work, a party, in class, in their community or online on a social media website or dating website. During the date, each participant can evaluate the compatibility of the other person and get the opportunity to screen out individuals who engage in behaviour that a person does not prefer.

There are many possible outcomes on the conclusion of a first date. The two individuals may agree to a second date. One or both parties may decide that there are incompatibility issues and decide not to pursue further dates. Compatibility factors vary a great deal, and can include religion, whether or not a person uses drugs or alcohol, appearance, or personality. Alternatively, the two parties may decide to become friends or some other type of Platonic relationship (a non-sexual relationship). Some first dates may lead to a romantic relationship that can range in duration from short period to a long period.

Purpose of a date
In one sense, the purpose of a first date is the same as the purpose of any subsequent date: it is an opportunity for the two people to meet. However, the first date differs in that it is often used to screen potential dating candidates. If a person displays behaviors deemed to be  problematic, the other person may decide to not meet again. In some cases, one or both parties may decide to end the date before the end of the activity they are engaged in. Because they often set the tone for the relationship, first dates are highly important.  As the study by Mary Claire Morr Serewicz of the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver, and Paul Mongeau of Arizona State University, states that first dates "represent an important early event in the development of dating relationship."

Components of a date
Mongeau's research shows that the term "date" can be condensed into four subcategories:

1. Dyadic: The purpose for which the date is occurring between two individuals.

2. Date cycle: Includes the major behavior components of a date.

3. Positive interaction expectancies: Implies that dates allow each other a chance to get to know one another in a comfortable environment.

4. Sexual overtones: Refers to the part of the date where romantic relationships may develop or include sexual attraction or expectation.

These components are the basis of a date, making up its structure and providing the involved a starting place from which to begin the dating process.

Reasons to date
In the 2004 study done by Mongeau, he quotes Roscoe, who identifies six purposes for dating:

• Recreation (to have fun)

• Socialization (to get to know the partner)

• Status grading (increasing social status by dating an attractive partner)

• Companionship (finding a friend to do things with)

• Mate selection/courtship (finding a spouse)

• Intimacy (establishing a meaningful relationship)

Scripts and dating norms
Mongeau's 2007 study on dates and first date goals quotes Beth Bailey of the University of Chicago, as well as Sally Lloyd of Miami University with an emphasis in family studies. These researchers show that specific dating norms have been around for a long time but have often shifted from generation to generation. Many studies have been done on dating scripts and norms. In a study done by Suzanna Rose of the University of Missouri and Irene Hanson Frieze of the University of Pittsburgh, published in the Journal of Gender and Society, they quote Ginsberg, who writes that scripts “are types of schema used to organize our experiences and are usually composed of a set of stereotypical actions.”

In the Journal of Family Issues, Laner describes that these scripts are what allow people to predict the actions of others and serve as guidelines for their own decisions on how to react to the other person. Studies done by Mongeau, Laner, and Knox all show that first dates tend to be more “traditional” (male-dominated) from start to finish. However, in certain cases, such as gay dating, the circumstances are different.

Availability of alcohol
A factor that could influence dating scripts is the availability of alcohol, which is sold in many Western restaurants and in all licensed bars. In Mongeau's 2004 study, he quotes Barbara Leigh of the University of Washington, who in her article on alcohol says that “it is a familiar idea that alcohol reduces inhibitions and increases sexual response.” William H. George, also of the University of Washington, focuses his research on the influence of alcohol on sexual behavior and has discovered that, when alcohol is involved, sex between friends occurs more frequently.

Overall sexual expectations and behaviors on first dates also change, diverging from the standard “first date scripts.” George has also proven that alcohol can reduce anxiety and increase self-disclosure for men. On the other hand, women are more concerned that their actions might be misinterpreted if alcohol is involved.

Mongeau's study found that individuals were more likely to approve the friendship goal when alcohol was not involved as compared to if it was available, meaning that more friendships were established through first dates when there was no alcohol involved.

Goals, motives and expectations
People on first dates are usually relatively aware of their expectations regarding the outcome of the date. “Evaluation of a date may depend, in part, on the extent to which persons reach their goals.” Goals are fluid, meaning said goals may change over the course of a date. For example, a person may go into a date with the aim of establishing a friendship but at some time during the date decide to pursue a romantic relationship.

Goals depend on the individual, but for the most part, goals on the first date, are fairly similar between parties. In her study on first dates, Mary Claire Morr explains that expectations for a date can be formed based on information about the communicator, relationship and context.

Communicator characteristics include all of the features of the individual, such as personality, physical appearance, and communication style. These characteristics can lead the partner to predict how the other will communicate in a “dating” situation. The relationship factor involves characteristics that describe the relationship between the two individuals. These factors include the degree of familiarity, liking, attraction, or similarity. The context feature involves aspects like the environment and the situations the individuals are in such as privacy, formality, and task oriented. These situations either enhance or diminish the interaction on the date and help maintain and structure individual's goals.

Common goals

First dates are designed to produce a number of relationship outcomes. (e.g., sexual partner, friendship, short-term romantic relationship, or life partnership.) However, as Mongeau says “the desired relationship outcome (if any) is, of course, not directly observable.” Mongeau quotes Theiss and Solomon, who have done many scholarly articles on dating, stating that first dates are very important because partners are both getting to know each other and attempting to establish a relationship definition as well. The three most common goals that people have on first dates are to reduce uncertainty, achieve relational escalation, and to have fun.

Men's vs. women's goals and expectations
As mentioned in the last section, men and women, when dating, have goals and expectations. They are looking for certain qualities and characteristics in a person that they wish to have as their immediate companion. According to a study about sex differences in human behavior by Alice Eagly and Wendy Wood, professors in Psychology at Northwestern University, both men and women are looking for certain attractiveness that fits their taste and style. The study states “the value of attractiveness stems from its perceived association with the ability to provide sexual pleasure.” This means that attractiveness suggests information about “sexual warmth” or sexual arousal. If this is true, then men will typically seek sexiness in a partner. However, Wood and Eagly also say “given that the female gender role contains sexual restraint and lacks sexual autonomy, women place less importance on sexiness in a partner.”

Women’s expectations and goals
Women look for certain cues on a first date: For example, it is important to a woman to find out if the man is courteous or not. Women will look for this by observing if the man comes to the door to pick her up or compliments her on how she looks, for example. If some of her expectations are not met, mainly the most important ones, she will not want to pursue anything more than a friendship. If the expectations are met, a second date might be in the future, but only if the man is feeling the same thing.
Overall, on a first date, women's goals are related more to establishing friendships and having fun. Mongeau, in his 2004 study found that 60 percent of women go on first dates mainly to have fun and 59 percent go on dates to reduce uncertainty (Note, however, that there are some errors in the mathematical calculations done in the study, and the study is statistically invalid as it uses the convenience sampling method.). Women's goals tend to be more relationship-oriented than men's goals. Also, unlike men, women are usually more reserved when it comes to the sexual aspect and having sex. Women are more likely to express companionship, friendship, and romantic relationship goals than men and are also more likely to consider the first date in terms of their relational implications than men.

Men’s goals
Unlike women, men overall have a higher expectation for sexual goals. They are typically more concerned with the sexual aspect of a woman and a relationship. Studies done by Antonia Abbey of Wayne State University and other colleagues indicate that men tend to perceive people and relationships in more of a sexualized manner than women do.

Abbey also argues that "Men may be socialized to attend more carefully than women to potentially sexual cues and are, therefore, more likely to interpret a variety of stimuli as a sign of sexual intent." Men tend to read into women's actions more sexually than women would read into men's actions. For example, men might find tickling to mean that the woman is very interested while to women it might just be a way of flirting or joking around. This can lead to some problems and possibly awkward encounters. Abbey also says that men tend to have a more sexual outlook and oftentimes perceive situations more sexually than women might; therefore, men could then feel that sexual advances are appropriate and justified whereas a woman may not be thinking so.

Abbey's studies might seem at first glance to corroborate the theory that men tend to be more sexually attracted to the opposite sex. However, recent research by evolutionary psychologists and others suggests that the difference in attraction is exaggerated or nonexistent.  A study by Terri Fisher, Ohio State associate professor of psychology,  for example, concludes that previous studies are flawed in that women are seldom given sufficient anonymity when responding to surveys and interviews, and that women give answers that suggest that women have a sexual attraction for the opposite similar to that of men when greater levels of confidentiality are provided. Conversely, men are "socialized" to exaggerate such things as the number of partners that they have had. Fisher concludes that, "Evidence clearly points to the fact that the gender difference in reported sex partners between men and women is an illusory difference created by attitudes related to sexual success as prestigious which in turn impact self-reports."

Citations

References

Dating


The United States Virgin Islands competed at the 11th Pan American Games held in Havana, Cuba from August 2 to August 18, 1991.

Medals

Bronze

 Men's 4x100 metres: Keith Smith, Mitch Peters, Kevin Robinson, Neville Hodge, and Derry Pemberton

See also
 Virgin Islands at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Nations at the 1991 Pan American Games
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1991


Samir Fazli (; born 22 April 1991) is a Macedonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Makedonija Gjorče Petrov.

Early life
Born in Skopje, Fazli lived in Canada for some time, attending Jasper Place High School in Edmonton, Alberta prior to his return to Skopje in 2007.

Club career
Fazli began his career in the youth ranks of FK Makedonija Gjorče Petrov, then had trial for Sampdoria at 16 years old, but a bid by them was considered far to low according to FK Makedonija's club president.
He went on trial with Dutch-side Heerenveen, On 13 March 2009, due to age restrictions, a deal could not be made for his move to Heerenveen, but he would remain in Skopje and continue to play for his club there. Heerenveen's scout Dragan Putevski stated that "he's a big deal", adding that it was his best find to date. Fazli was finally signed by the club for €200,000 on a contract that will keep him there until 2014.
Fazli scored his first goal for Heerenveen on 19 March 2010. He came on as a substitute in the 81st minute and scored in the 90th minute as his team won 4–1 over NEC. He was released by SC Heerenveen in 2014 after his contract expired.

International career
Fazli also a regular for the Macedonia U-21s – he played his first game on 11 February 2009 against the Croatia U-21s. He was a member of the U-17 squad before his call-up to the U-21s.

He made his senior debut for Macedonia in an August 2011 friendly match away against Azerbaijan and has earned a total of 7 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a June 2013 friendly against Norway in Oslo.

Personal life
Fazli holds passports from both Albania and Macedonia.

References

External links

 Voetbal International profile
 Profile at MacedonianFootball

1991 births
Living people
Footballers from Skopje
Canadian people of Macedonian descent
Men's association football forwards
Macedonian men's footballers
FK Makedonija G.P. players
SC Heerenveen players
Helmond Sport players
FC Wil players
NK Rudeš players
KF Shkëndija players
FC Turan players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Croatian Football League players
Macedonian First Football League players
Macedonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
North Macedonia men's international footballers
North Macedonia men's under-21 international footballers


Lee Seul-Gi  (; born 24 September 1986) is a South Korean football midfielder, who currently plays for FC Anyang in K League Challenge.

Club career

Lee Seul-Gi joined Daegu FC from Dongguk University in 2009, being part of the draft that year. On 8 March 2009, Lee made his Daegu FC first-team debut in a match against Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. On 22 March 2009, Lee scored his first goal against Pohang Steelers. He scored his 2nd goal in the 1–2 loss to Incheon United at the Incheon Munhak Stadium on 2 May. Lee scored a further goal in an away match against Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i in a 1–3 loss on 12 July.  Lee continued to play a major role for the club during the 2010 season, but only found the net once in 23 games.

On 29 November 2010, he moved to Pohang Steelers in a swap deal, with Song Chang-Ho moving to Daegu.

In November 2011, he was traded to Daejeon Citizen FC along with Kim Dong-Hee for veteran forward Park Sung-Ho.

Club career statistics

External links

1986 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
South Korean men's footballers
Daegu FC players
Pohang Steelers players
Daejeon Hana Citizen players
Hwaseong FC players
Incheon United FC players
FC Anyang players
K League 1 players
K League 2 players
K3 League players


The 2009 Bahrain Grand Prix (formally the 2009 Formula 1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 26 April 2009 at the Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain. It was the sixth Bahrain Grand Prix and fourth race of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship.

The race was won by Jenson Button driving for Brawn after starting from fourth on the grid. Sebastian Vettel finished second for Red Bull and Jarno Trulli finished third for Toyota. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton drove to a season's best fourth position, followed by the second Brawn of Rubens Barrichello. Kimi Räikkönen picked up Ferrari's first points of the season in sixth, whilst Toyota's Timo Glock and Renault's Fernando Alonso finished in seventh and eighth position.

Report

Background
Going into the round, Brawn GP driver Jenson Button led the Drivers' Championship by 6 points from teammate Rubens Barrichello. Barrichello led Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing and Timo Glock of Toyota by 5 points in second. Brawn GP led the Chinese Grand Prix winners Red Bull Racing by 16½ points in the Constructors' Championship. Toyota were a further point back and the only other team to hit double figures.

Tyre supplier Bridgestone selected the medium and supersoft tyres for the Grand Prix weekend.

Ferrari were yet to score a point, and failure to do so in Bahrain would have resulted in Ferrari's worst ever start to a season in Formula One. Their previous worst start also came when they were Constructors' Champions; in the 1980 season the team scored no points until the fourth race, the 1980 United States Grand Prix West, where Jody Scheckter finished fifth.

Force India introduced a revised floor and diffuser in Bahrain for the Force India VJM02, as well as an upgraded front wing and reprofiled sidepods. Force India driver Giancarlo Fisichella welcomed the upgrades, hoping the car's lack of downforce would be addressed by the new modifications. BMW Sauber decided to install KERS in Robert Kubica's car for the entire race weekend after it had been tested in free practice in China.

Practice
Three practice sessions were held before the race; of which two were held on Friday April 24, 2009, with the first in the morning and the second in the afternoon. Both sessions lasted 90 minutes with weather conditions hot and dry throughout. The third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted for 60 minutes.

At the end of the first practice session, Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time of 1:33.647 in his McLaren car, ahead of the two BMW Sauber cars of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica. Williams' Nico Rosberg continued his quick practice form with the fourth fastest time, followed by the Brawn of Jenson Button, the McLaren of Heikki Kovalainen, Brawn's Rubens Barrichello, and Ferrari's Felipe Massa. Red Bull's Mark Webber and the other Ferrari of Kimi Räikkönen shared the ninth fastest time, completing the top ten. Nico Rosberg was fastest in Friday's second practice session, topping the timesheets with a time of 1:33.339, followed by Fernando Alonso in the Renault and Jarno Trulli in the Toyota. The Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were fourth and fifth, with Button close behind. Adrian Sutil of Force India put in an impressive laptime to finish seventh in the standings, with Toyota's Timo Glock, Brawn's Rubens Barrichello, and Williams' Kazuki Nakajima rounding out the top 10. The BMWs of Heidfeld and Kubica could not repeat their times from the first session, and were classified in seventeenth and twentieth, respectively.

In third practice, Glock managed the fastest time with a 1:32.605 before his car rolled to a halt due to brake problems, and there were improved times from Ferrari and McLaren. Felipe Massa managed the second fastest time, with Räikkönen in fifth. Rosberg was third fastest, and Hamilton posted the fourth fastest time. Nelson Piquet, Kubica, Nakajima, Trulli and Heidfeld made up the top ten.

Qualifying
The qualifying session on Saturday afternoon was split into three parts. Jarno Trulli achieved his fourth career pole position, and his first since 2005, whilst his teammate Timo Glock qualified second. This marked the first time Toyota had put both cars on the front row of the grid. Sebastian Vettel qualified third, with Jenson Button behind him. In fifth was the McLaren of Lewis Hamilton, with Rubens Barrichello in sixth. Renault's Fernando Alonso managed seventh place, and behind him Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg and Kimi Räikkönen completed the top ten. Kovalainen, Nakajima, Kubica, Heidfeld and Piquet made up 11th to 15th on the grid. Those knocked out in the first session and classified 16th to 20th were Sutil, Buemi, Fisichella, Webber and Bourdais. Webber was controversially blocked by Sutil near the end of his qualifying lap (Sutil claimed he didn't realise Webber was on a flying lap), preventing him from posting a fast time. As a result, the stewards gave Sutil a three-place grid penalty, demoting him to 19th position.

Race

Timo Glock got off to a perfect start from second on the grid and took the lead. Jarno Trulli was running second, but had to fight off Lewis Hamilton in the first corner, who had passed Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel from fifth on the grid after a flying start with the help of his KERS. Button had also overtaken Vettel, who was running a heavier fuel load. Kimi Räikkönen, meanwhile, had pushed his Ferrari up to sixth place, making up four positions from the start. Further back in the field, there was damage sustained to the cars of Felipe Massa, Nick Heidfeld, Robert Kubica and Kazuki Nakajima, all of whom had to pit early to replace their front wings, whilst Heikki Kovalainen lost track position after running wide. Massa also complained of problems with his KERS system due to a temperature problem, and was advised to turn it off.

At the start of lap 2, Button overtook Hamilton to claim third position. The KERS-aided McLaren of Hamilton then kept Vettel's Red Bull at bay, and only when Hamilton entered the pits on lap 15 did Vettel finally pass him.

Since both the Toyotas were running light on fuel, they made their pit stops early, with Glock in on lap 12 and Trulli on lap 14. The Toyota team opted to put both their drivers onto the slower, harder compound tyres for the middle stint of the race, opposite to the strategy being run by the other teams. By the time Button had made his stop on lap 15 on the softer tyres, he had made up enough ground over Trulli in just one lap to come out in front. Glock, who had once led the race, had lost so much time on the tyres that he stayed behind Hamilton in seventh place even after the McLaren driver had completed his pit stop.

Vettel's pit stop on lap 18 placed him ahead of Hamilton, but just thirty metres behind the slower-lapping car of Trulli, preventing him from challenging Button for the lead. Button took this opportunity to pull out a 7.5 second gap between himself and Trulli by lap 22.

By lap 34, Button had increased his lead to 15.6 seconds, putting him in clear control of the race. By the time the second round of pit stops were completed for the front runners, Button was ahead of anyone else, this time on the harder tyres. Toyota's tyre strategy had not paid off, and Vettel, on the softer tyres, put in some fast lap times once Trulli had his second stop and was no longer in Vettel's path. After his own stop, Vettel (now on the harder compound tyre) ended up just in front of the Toyota driver, the very opposite of the situation after the first pit stops.

On lap 44 there was drama with Räikkönen and Glock fighting for sixth position, with the Finn just edging out Glock at turn four. Rubens Barrichello had lost a lot of time earlier in the race after failing to pass the KERS-equipped Renault of Nelson Piquet. However, he showed the pace of the Brawn car by ending up just in front of Räikkönen, even after having one pit stop more, then pulled away from him in the final laps.

On lap 48, spiking oil pressure on the Williams of Nakajima caused the only retirement of the race as he crawled into the pits.

Button drove home to his third victory of the season, 7 seconds clear of Vettel, who was pushing particularly hard in the last laps. Trulli crossed the line 2 seconds behind Vettel, with Hamilton finishing fourth. Barrichello took fifth, Räikkönen sixth, Glock less than a second behind in seventh, and Fernando Alonso finished eighth, 52 seconds behind Button. Nick Heidfeld equalled Michael Schumacher's record of 24 consecutive finishes, bringing home his BMW Sauber in 19th and last place.

After the race, in a press conference, Button said that he burned the top of his left buttock during the race because there was an electrical box in the cockpit of the car. Alonso collapsed in the media room after a drinking water pump failed early in the race and an overheating problem behind his driver's seat left him extremely dehydrated and a first-degree burn behind his back. He lost 6 kg during the race.

Classification

Qualifying

Cars that used KERS are marked with "‡"

Adrian Sutil was issued a 3 place grid-penalty for impeding Mark Webber during qualifying.

Race

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also
 2009 Bahrain 2nd GP2 Asia Series round
 2009 Bahrain 2nd Speedcar Series round

References

Bahrain Grand Prix
Bahrain Grand Prix
Grand Prix
Bahrain Grand Prix


Lance Stephenson Jr. (born September 5, 1990) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Leones de Ponce of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He attended Lincoln High School in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, where he was named Mr. New York Basketball after his senior year and appeared in the 2009 McDonald's All-American Game. He later played college basketball for the Cincinnati Bearcats and was selected in the second round of the 2010 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers.

High school career
Stephenson first caught the attention of scouts at age 12, when Clark Francis, a talent evaluator, saw him play at Rumble in the Bronx AAU tournament. Before his first year of high school, he attended the Adidas ABCD Camp, where he challenged O. J. Mayo to a one-on-one game.

In the summer of 2005, Stephenson enrolled at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, but he only attended the school for three days. The school lost in the championship game. The following week, Stephenson did not return to classes at Bishop Loughlin, and was attending Abraham Lincoln High School near his home in Coney Island. National Basketball Association players Stephon Marbury, Sebastian Telfair, and future Seton Hall University star Isaiah Whitehead had also attended and played basketball at Lincoln High. Head coach Dwayne Morton said, "[Stephenson] always talked about outdoing Sebastian, outdoing Stephon," and called him "The best I've ever had at Lincoln." Stephenson went on to lead the Railsplitters to the city title that year.

Lincoln High repeated as champions his sophomore and junior years, while Stephenson won back-to-back Player of the Year honors from the New York Daily News. As a sophomore, he was the youngest player featured in the movie Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot, which followed eight high school basketball prospects. In 2007 as a high school junior he was named to the annual USA Today'''s All-USA boys basketball team, the only non-senior to be given that honor.

In July 2008, Stephenson tried out for the United States national team's under-18 team, but was cut because of chemistry reasons with teammate Matt Farber.

On February 15, 2009, Stephenson passed fellow Lincoln High School alumnus Telfair's previous record of 2,785 points in the Brooklyn borough title game to become the all-time leading scorer for high school basketball in New York State. In March 2009, Stephenson led Lincoln High to an unprecedented fourth consecutive Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) class AA championship. Stephenson scored a game-high 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the 78–56 final win against John F. Kennedy, and helped Lincoln become the first school in city history to win four straight titles.

Stephenson's high school career ended in the New York State semifinal, where Rice High School beat Lincoln 77–50, and Stephenson was held to 12 points by Rice's Durand Scott, who also beat out Stephenson for the Daily News New York City player of the year honor. He ended his career with 2,946 points.

In April 2009, Stephenson played in the McDonald's All-American Game, finishing with 12 points, six assists and three steals.

Recruiting
In early 2009, Stephenson chose Kansas, St. John's and Maryland as his finalists, but he canceled two announcements, and his father said that he had narrowed his choice to Maryland and Arizona.

His official visit to Maryland in February came under scrutiny after he was given a tour of the Under Armour headquarters during his visit. This may have constituted a recruiting violation, as Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank is a Maryland graduate and on the university's board of trustees, and by NCAA rules, "representative of the institution's athletics interests" or a booster.

Stephenson initially told reporters he would announce which college he would be attending following the PSAL title game in March, but delayed the announcement until the McDonald's All-American Game on April 1, saying, "I already know where I'm going. This is not the right place [to make an announcement]." On March 31, Stephenson, who had been expected to commit to Kansas during the All-American game's media event, instead announced that he would delay the announcement again.

In April 2009, another top recruit Xavier Henry, who had been released from his commitment to Memphis after coach John Calipari left to take the Kentucky job, announced he would play for Kansas. Because Henry's commitment put Kansas at the 13-scholarship limit under NCAA rules, it ruled out a scholarship offer for Stephenson.

On May 20, the last day of the late signing period, Stephenson had not signed a letter of intent, but his father Lance Sr. told USA Today that he would not make a decision until his sexual assault case from October was resolved. The day before, a judge had adjourned his case until June 29.

On June 30, Andy Katz of ESPN.com reported that Stephenson signed a financial aid agreement with the University of Cincinnati, and he joined the Bearcats for the 2009–10 season.

College career

Questions remained over Stephenson's eligibility because of his involvement in his documentation, but on November 6, 2009, the NCAA cleared him to play in Cincinnati's season opener against Prairie View A&M University on November 15 without missing any games. In his only season at Cincinnati, Stephenson started 32 of 34 games and averaged 12.3 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. He scored a season-best 23 points and made a season-high 11 field goals in 17 attempts against Georgetown on March 6, 2010. He was the leading scorer among Big East freshmen and was named Big East Rookie of the Year. On April 7, 2010, Stephenson announced that he would forgo his final three seasons of collegiate eligibility and enter the 2010 NBA draft.

Professional career

Indiana Pacers (2010–2014)

Early years (2010–2013)
Stephenson was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 40th pick in the 2010 NBA draft. He did not make his NBA debut until February 27, 2011, in a 110–108 loss to the Phoenix Suns. In four minutes, he recorded two points, two assists and one rebound. He had been in uniform five times before making his debut, but had not received an opportunity due to being the third point guard on the team. He played in 12 regular-season games before being demoted for violating team rules in early April. His ongoing immaturity issues were to blame.

In the lockout-shortened 2011–12 season, Stephenson was a fixture in the first half of the season playing in 32 of the first 35 games, but fell out of the picture in the second half of the season, making just 10 appearances in the final 31. In the regular-season finale on April 25, with the third seed clinched and Danny Granger and Leandro Barbosa given the night off to nurse injuries, Stephenson started for the first time and scored 22 points on 10 of 15 shooting, playing 35 minutes without a turnover. He had 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting in the fourth quarter, but the Pacers fell short against the Chicago Bulls, losing 92–87.

With Danny Granger out injured for the majority of the 2012–13 season, Stephenson had a breakthrough year. He averaged 8.8 points and 3.9 rebounds in 29.2 minutes per game during the regular season. He improved to 9.4 points and 7.6 rebounds during the playoffs, although his shooting percentages dropped in all categories. On April 14, 2013, he scored a season-high 22 points against the New York Knicks. In game six of the Pacers' second-round playoff series against the Knicks, Stephenson scored a career-best 25 points.

Breakout season (2013–2014)
Stephenson had another breakout season in 2013–14, posting career highs across the board in his second year in a starting role. On November 11, 2013, he scored 13 points with career highs of 12 assists and 11 rebounds for his first career triple-double as the Pacers defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 95–79. He had his second career triple-double eleven days later, recording 10 points, 10 assists and 11 rebounds in a 97–82 win over the Boston Celtics. On December 22, 2013, he recorded his third career triple-double with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 106–79 win over the Celtics. On January 16, 2014, Stephenson scored a career-high 28 points in a 117–89 win over the Knicks. He finished the regular season with a league-high five triple-doubles, and finished second in NBA Most Improved Player Award voting. The Pacers entered the playoffs as the first seed in the Eastern Conference and advanced to the conference finals, where they lost to the Miami Heat for the second straight year. His unusual tactics made headlines during the Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat, including blowing in the ear of LeBron James during a game five win.

Following the 2013–14 season, the Pacers offered him a five-year, $44 million contract, but instead Stephenson opted to test the market, believing that he was worth more.

Charlotte Hornets (2014–2015)
On July 18, 2014, Stephenson signed a three-year, $27 million contract with the Charlotte Hornets. On November 7, 2014, he won the game for the Hornets in double overtime with a buzzer-beating three-point shot to defeat the Atlanta Hawks 122–119, finishing with his first double-double as a Hornet with 17 points and 13 rebounds. On January 14, 2015, against the San Antonio Spurs, Stephenson returned from a 14-game absence due to a pelvic sprain.

Los Angeles Clippers (2015–2016)
On June 15, 2015, Stephenson was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers in exchange for Spencer Hawes and Matt Barnes. On December 2, 2015, he scored a then season-high 19 points in a loss to his former team, the Indiana Pacers.

Memphis Grizzlies (2016)
On February 18, 2016, Stephenson was traded, along with a future first-round pick, to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Jeff Green. On March 11, 2016, he scored a career-high 33 points in a 121–114 overtime win over the New Orleans Pelicans.

New Orleans Pelicans (2016)
On September 14, 2016, Stephenson signed with the New Orleans Pelicans. After sustaining a groin injury on November 4 and being subsequently ruled out for six to 10 weeks, the Pelicans waived Stephenson on November 7.

Minnesota Timberwolves (2017)
On February 8, 2017, Stephenson signed a 10-day contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves. On February 14, 2017, in a loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he suffered a Grade 2 ankle sprain. On March 8, 2017, after recovering from the injury, Stephenson signed a second 10-day contract with the Timberwolves. On March 18, the Timberwolves decided not to sign him for the rest of the season.

Return to Indiana (2017–2018)
On March 30, 2017, Stephenson signed with the Indiana Pacers, returning to the franchise for a second stint. On June 25, 2018, the Pacers declined their team option on Stephenson's contract, thus parting ways with him for a second time.

Los Angeles Lakers (2018–2019)
On July 10, 2018, Stephenson signed with the Los Angeles Lakers. On October 24, 2018, he had 23 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in a 131–113 win over the Phoenix Suns. He missed time in March because of a sprained toe on his left foot. He was the last Lakers player to wear number #6 before LeBron James.

Liaoning Flying Leopards (2019–2020)
On August 1, 2019, Stephenson signed with the Liaoning Flying Leopards of the Chinese Basketball Association. On September 22, 2019, he helped the team in an 83–82 title win over Seoul SK Knights at 2019 East Asia Super League Terrific 12 and named the most valuable player of the Terrific 12.

Grand Rapids Gold (2021)
Stephenson was selected by the Grand Rapids Gold 13th overall in the 2021 NBA G League draft. In 12 games, he averaged 19.8 points (.476 FG%, .306 3FG%, .686 FT%), 8.0 rebounds and 4.3 assists in 35.0 minutes per contest.

Atlanta Hawks (2021–2022)
On December 22, 2021, Stephenson signed a 10-day contract with the Atlanta Hawks.

Third stint with Indiana (2022)
After his contract with the Hawks expired, Stephenson signed a new 10-day contract with the Indiana Pacers on January 1, 2022, to return to the franchise for a third stint. He signed the contract under the NBA's COVID-related hardship exception. On January 8, he recorded 16 points, a career-high 14 assists and four steals in a 125–113 win over the Utah Jazz. After initially re-signing with the Pacers on January 11 to a second 10-day contract under the hardship exception, he signed a regular 10-day contract on January 14 due to the Pacers no longer having any players listed in the NBA's Health & Safety protocols. Stephenson signed a second 10-day contract with the Pacers on January 24. On February 4, he signed with the Pacers until the end of the season. On February 13, 2022, Stephenson logged 21 points, four assists, and three rebounds in a 129-120 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. On March 24, 2022 Stephenson scored 25 points in a 103-133 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.

Leones de Ponce (2023)
On April 27, 2023, Stephenson signed with Leones de Ponce of the Puerto Rican league. He was released on May 6 after appearing in 4 games.

Career statistics

NBA

Regular season

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 12 || 0 || 9.6 || .333 || .000 || .786 || 1.5 || 1.8 || .3 || .0 || 3.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 42 || 1 || 10.5 || .376 || .133 || .471 || 1.3 || 1.1 || .5 || .1 || 2.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 78 || 72 || 29.2 || .460 || .330 || .652 || 3.9 || 2.9 || 1.0 || .2 || 8.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 78 || 78 || 35.3 || .491 || .352 || .711 || 7.2 || 4.6 || .7 || .1 || 13.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte
| 61 || 25 || 25.8 || .376 || .171 || .627 || 4.5 || 3.9 || .6 || .1 || 8.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Clippers
| 43 || 10 || 15.8 || .494 || .404 || .700 || 2.5 || 1.4 || .6 || .1 || 4.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Memphis
| 26 || 3 || 26.6 || .474 || .355 || .815 || 4.4 || 2.8 || .7 || .2 || 14.2|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|New Orleans
| 6 || 0 || 27.0 || .473 || .100 || .625 || 3.3 || 4.8 || .3 || .2 || 9.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Minnesota
| 6 || 0 || 11.2 || .476 || .000 || .500 || 1.7 || .8 || .0 || .0 || 3.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 6 || 0 || 22.0 || .409 || .625 || .667 || 4.0 || 4.2 || .5 || .3 || 7.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| style="background:#cfecec;"| 82* || 7 || 22.6 || .427 || .289 || .661 || 5.2 || 2.9 || .6 || .2 || 9.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|L.A. Lakers
| 68 || 3 || 16.5 || .426 || .371 || .685 || 3.2 || 2.1 || .6 || .1 || 7.2
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Atlanta
| 6 || 0 || 11.7 || .385 || .000 || .500 || 2.5 || 1.8 || .0 || .0 || 1.8
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 40 || 1 || 18.6 || .458 || .310 || .795 || 2.8 || 3.9 || .6 || .1 || 9.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 554 || 200 || 22.9 || .445 || .314 || .694 || 4.1 || 2.9 || .6 || .1 || 8.6

Playoffs

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2012
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 4 || 0 || 3.0 || .222 || .500 || .500 || .0 || .3 || .0 || .0 || 1.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2013
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 19 || 19 || 35.4 || .408 || .281 || .622 || 7.6 || 3.3 || 1.2 || .1 || 9.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2014
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 19 || 19 || 37.1 || .455 || .358 || .714 || 6.9 || 4.2 || .8 || .2 || 13.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2016
| style="text-align:left;"|Memphis
| 4 || 0 || 23.8 || .523 || .400 || .800 || 1.5 || 1.8 || .3 || .0 || 13.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2017
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 4 || 0 || 26.8 || .509 || .389 || .750 || 5.3 || 2.8 || .5 || .0 || 16.0'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2018
| style="text-align:left;"|Indiana
| 7 || 0 || 21.3 || .462 || .308 || .556 || 2.7 || 2.9 || .3 || .1 || 10.4
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 57 || 38 || 30.5 || .448 || .330 || .670 || 5.6 || 3.2 || .8 || .1 || 11.1

CBA

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2019–20
| style="text-align:left;"|Liaoning
| 29 || 29 || 34.8 || .522 || .300 || .778 || 7.4 || 3.8 || 1.1 || .2 || 26.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 29 || 29 || 34.8 || .522 || .300 || .778 || 7.4 || 3.8 || 1.1 || .2 || 26.7

BSN

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2022–23
| style="text-align:left;"|Leones
|4 ||4 || 32.0|| .556|| .217 || .762 || 5.3|| 2.5||0.3|| 0.0|| 20.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
|4 ||4 || 32.0|| .556|| .217|| .762 || 5.3|| 2.5|| 0.3|| 0.0|| 20.3

Personal life
Stephenson is the son of Lance Sr. and Bernadette Stephenson. He has a younger brother named Lantz.

Legal issues
In January 2008, Stephenson was suspended from school for five days and missed two games following an altercation with a teammate. In October that year, he was arrested for groping a 17-year-old inside the school. He faced a Class B misdemeanor sexual assault charge, and his parents ended the "Born Ready" reality show following the arrest.

On August 15, 2010, Stephenson was arrested for third-degree assault after allegedly pushing his girlfriend down a flight of stairs. The case was eventually dismissed.

See also

References

External links

 Cincinnati Bearcats bio

1990 births
Living people
21st-century African-American sportspeople
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