In 1999, CSR Ziyang Locomotive Works developed into two DF4CKs which were based on the freight version. DF4CK use two A1A-A1A radial bogies. It spent its working life on the Guangzhou–Sanshui Railway and Maoming–Sanshui Railway.
It was built in 1998 in CSR Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. Its top speed is 160km/h. It is said it used two radial bogies.
The DF4C comes in a different color scheme than the previous DF4s, namely dark blue or later light blue and beige. Therefore, most of DF4Cs are called "Blue Cat" or "Ukraine" .
DF4Cs have been manufactured by several companies:
David Jimenez Alvarez
David Jimenez Alvarez (born July 14, 1975 in Málaga) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C7 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team, Spain, played the United States national 7-per-team football team and won 2-1. His team finished third. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6.
Santiago Lopez Fabregat
Santiago Lopez Fabregat (born June 8, 1963 in Alicante) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C7 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team, Spain, played the United States national 7-per-team football team and won 2-1. His team finished third. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6.
Borja Pardo Calero
Borja Pardo Calero (born January 30, 1979 in Madrid) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C6 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played the United States and won 2-1. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6.
Jorge Peleteiro Rubio
Jorge Peleteiro Rubio (born July 7, 1979 in Alicante) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He is a plumber. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy because he did not get enough oxygen when he was being born, and is a C7 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played the United States and won 2-1. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6.
Milan Michálek
Milan Michálek (born 7 December 1984, in Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional ice hockey left winger. He currently plays for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the San Jose Sharks.
Before playing in the NHL, Michálek played 2 seasons with HC České Budějovice of the Czech Extraliga. He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks with the 6th overall pick in the 2003 NHL daft. He played 4 seasons with the Sharks and was then on September 12, 2009, he was traded to the Senators along with Jonathan Cheechoo and a second round pick for Dany Heatley and a fifth round draft pick in 2010.
His older brother Zbyněk plays in the NHL for the Arizona Coyotes.
Manuel Julian Rufo Gracia
Manuel Julian Rufo Gracia (born June 25, 1975 in Cáceres) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C8 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played the United States and won 2-1. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6.
Juan Carlos Taibo Lopez
Juan Carlos Taibo Lopez (born January 8, 1978 in A Coruña) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C8 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played the United States and won 2-1.
Ivan Vazquez Basurco
Ivan Vazquez Basurco (born February 11, 1975 in San Sebastian) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C7 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played the United States and won 2-1. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6.
Jesús María Visitacion Villan
Jesus Maria Visitacion Villan (born May 17, 1966 in San Sebastian) is a 7-per-team football player from Spain. He has a disability: he has cerebral palsy and is a C7 type player. He played 7-per-team football at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played the United States and won 2-1. He played 7-per-team football at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. His team finished 6.
Viroflay
Viroflay is a French commune of Yvelines, in France.
It is near Versailles and Vélizy-Villacoublay.
Its current mayor is "Olivier Lebrun".
The people who live there are called "Viroflaysiens".
Mika (singer)
Mika (born Michael Holbrook Penniman, Jr.; 18 August 1983) is a British-Lebanese singer.
Mika was born in Beirut, Lebanon to a Lebanese mother and an American father. When Mika was a year old, his family was forced to leave war-torn Lebanon and moved to Paris. He moved to London at age nine. He is openly gay and some of his songs have LGBT themes.
Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower passenger)
Stephen Hopkins (15811644) He was a passenger on the "Mayflower" in 1620, and signed the Mayflower Compact. He was also an assistant to the Governor of Plymouth Colony in 1636.
Hopkins was born in 1581 at Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England and was the son of John and Elizabeth Hopkins. He worked as a tanner and merchant.
There is little information about his early life. He married a woman named Mary and they had three children: Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles.
On June 2, 1609 Hopkins sailed over the Atlantic Ocean for Jamestown, Virginia on the "Sea Venture". This was the head ship of a group of ships lead by Sir George Somers. The "Sea Venture" was carrying the new Jamestown governor, Thomas Gates, and was also delivering supplies to Jamestown.
The ships were on the sea for nearly two months when a severe storm that lasted for five days caused the ships to become separated. The "Sea Venture" was badly damaged and about to sink. They saw land which was the island of Bermuda. They made it to land but were shipwrecked on the island. Fortunately there was much food and water.
In September 1, 1609, they built a long boat and sent 8 men out to try to reach Jamestown to get help but that boat never returned.
In late November 1609, they begin repairing smaller boats enough to take everyone off the island and continue to Jamestown. Hopkins and other people did not agree with Captain Gates and did not think he was a good leader. They had a dispute and Hopkins was charged with mutiny. He was sentenced to death but the people on the ship begged the Captain to take mercy and Hopkins was forgiven.
The settlers in Jamestown did not get along with the Native Americans and they also refused to farm and grow food. They sometimes cheated the Native Americans and they turned against the settlers with violence which lasted for years.
On May 10, 1610, Hopkins and others left the island of Bermuda and came to Jamestown eleven days later. The people in Jamestown were starving to death. They were afraid to go outside the fort and were tearing down their houses for firewood. They were not planting crops. They also refused to trade with the Native Americans or to fish. When he arrived from Bermuda, Governor Gates estimated there was only days worth of food left. He decided to sail to Newfoundland and then went to England. Just as they were preparing to depart, an English ship came into the harbor with supplies and new settlers along with a new governor, Lord de la Warr. The colonists were forced to return and reestablish their fort.