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# Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) is the debut novel by American writer Marisha Pessl.

## Background

Pessl wrote three drafts of the book, telling Kenyon Review that "each draft took about a year. It wasn’t so much that I was revising Blue’s voice or the language, but that I wanted to make sure the mystery worked perfectly, that all the twists and turns really worked. Writing from the standpoint of an unreliable narrator, you as the author have to know exactly what’s going on at all times. You have to have a really firm handle on what all of the characters are doing, even if your narrator doesn’t understand. That was really the challenge of this book. And it took two or three drafts to figure that out."
The book was first published in August 2006 by Viking Press, a division of Penguin Group, and was a subject of a bidding war that ended in a sale for six figures.

## Plot

Blue van Meer is a film-obsessed, erudite teenager. She is the daughter of itinerant and arrogant academic Gareth van Meer, who, after the death of his amateur lepidopteran-catching wife (and Blue's mother), never manages to keep his daughter at a high school for more than a semester due to their constant moving from city to city. During Blue's senior year, however, they settle in the sleepy town of Stockton, North Carolina. She starts to attend the St. Gallway School and befriends a group of popular, rich, and mysterious teenagers called the Bluebloods. The Bluebloods are also close friends with the film-studies teacher at St. Gallway, Hannah Schneider, a perplexing woman, who intrigues Blue. After Schneider dies, seemingly by suicide, Blue is left to determine why.

## Style and format
### Literary references

The book is written in the style of the syllabus for an English Literature course and includes references as footnotes. The chapters are named after literary works like Othello, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Wuthering Heights, and Women in Love.

### Non-existent literary references

While the book is replete with literary and cinematic references, some of these references, like "The Way of the Moth" and "One Night Stand" lead to non-existent sources.

## Critical reaction

The book received many positive reviews and was named one of "The 10 Best Books of 2006" by The New York Times.
Veronique de Turenne, reporting for NPR, said that Pessl had "a thrilling and fearless voice. A writing career is launched, like it or not, at warp speed."
Some negative reviews, including one in The Guardian, accused the text of being overly stylized and Pessl of having "a tin ear for prose".

## Awards and honors

It won the inaugural John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize in 2006.

## Film adaptation

In 2007, Variety reported that a movie version was in the works, to be produced by Scott Rudin and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the writing-directing team behind Half Nelson, however, as of 2021 the project has never progressed to filming.
# Hervé Lemonnier

Hervé Lemonnier (born 9 January 1947 at Lisieux), in motorsport better known under his pseudonym "Knapick", is a French rallycross, rally and ice racing driver of the Andros Trophy series.

## Biography

Lemonnier started his car racing career as a competitor in the 1966 Rallye Côte Fleurie. From 1969 on he began to hide his family name by entering competitions under the alias "Knapick". Being at the time a farm machinery dealer, he chose the brand of Knapick trailers for his pseudonym, to hide from his customers that he was one of these "crazy car racers" in his spare time. The businessman from Normandy later moved to Brittany to found a DAF Trucks dealership in Noyal-sur-Vilaine near the town of Rennes.

## Results
### Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results
#### Supercar/RX1

| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | WRX | Points |
| 2014 | Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier | Citroën DS3 | PRT | GBR | NOR | FIN | SWE | BEL | CAN | FRA 23 | GER | ITA | TUR | ARG | | N/C | 0 |
| 2015 | Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier | Citroën DS3 | POR | HOC | BEL | GBR | GER | SWE | CAN | NOR | FRA 22 | BAR 20 | TUR | ITA | ARG | N/C | 0 |
| 2016 | Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier | Citroën DS3 | POR | HOC | BEL | GBR | NOR | SWE | CAN | FRA 20 | BAR | LAT | GER | ARG | | 36th | 0 |
| 2017 | Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier | Citroën DS3 | BAR 18 | POR | HOC | BEL | GBR | NOR 21 | SWE 21 | CAN | FRA | LAT 16 | GER | RSA | | 25th | 1 |
| 2018 | Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier | Citroën DS3 | BAR 17 | POR | BEL | GBR 22 | NOR | SWE | CAN | FRA 23 | LAT | USA | GER | RSA | | 27th | 0 |
| 2019 | Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier | Citroën DS3 | ABU | BAR 19 | BEL 20 | GBR 17 | NOR | SWE | CAN | FRA 21$^a$ | LAV | RSA | | | | 39th | -15 |
| 2021 | Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier | Citroën DS3 | BAR | SWE | FRA 10 | LAT | LAT | BEL 11 | PRT | GER 14 | GER WD | | | | | 17th | 18 |
$^a$ Loss of 15 championship points – stewards' decision

### Complete Andros Trophy results
#### Elite class

| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Position | Points |
| 2015–16 | DA Racing | Renault Clio | VTH1 | VTH2 | PCA1 2 | PCA2 3 | HUE1 | HUE2 | ISO1 4 | ISO2 8 | LVE1 | LVE2 | SBE | STV1 | STV2 | 14th | 199 |
# The Siege at Ruby Ridge

The Siege at Ruby Ridge is a 1996 drama television film directed by Roger Young and written by Lionel Chetwynd about the confrontation between the family of Randy Weaver and the US federal government at Ruby Ridge in 1992. It was based on the book Every Knee Shall Bow by reporter Jess Walter. It originally aired as a two-part CBS miniseries titled Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy on May 19 and May 21, 1996. The miniseries was edited together to become the film The Siege at Ruby Ridge.

## Cast

* Laura Dern as Vicki Weaver
* Randy Quaid as Randy Weaver
* Kirsten Dunst as Sara Weaver
* Darren E. Burrows as Kevin Harris
* G. W. Bailey as Ralph Coulter
* Bradley Pierce as Sammy Weaver
* Gary Graham as Brian Jackson
* August Schellenberg as Indian
* Diane Ladd as Irma Coulter
* Tracy Griffith as Gwen Coulter
* Nicholas Pryor as Bert Yeager
* Hal Landon Jr. as George Mill
* John Dennis Johnston as Tony Vickers
* Robert Harper as Earl Martens
* Lyman Ward as Ross Jones
* Bob Gunton as Bo Gritz
* Joe Don Baker as Gerry Spence

## Awards

| Year | Group | Award | Nominee | Result |
| 1996 | Satellite Award | Best Miniseries or TV Film | The Siege at Ruby Ridge | Nominated |
| 1996 | Satellite Award | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Laura Dern | Nominated |
| 1997 | YoungStar Award | Best Young Actress in a Mini-Series/Made for TV Film | Kirsten Dunst | Won |
# Yves Barsacq

Yves Barsacq (17 June 1931 – 4 October 2015) was a French film actor, who appeared in more than 150 films. He is the son of the French-Russian production designer Léon Barsacq and the nephew of the French theatre director André Barsacq.

## Selected filmography

* Amour de poche (1957)
* Charming Boys (1957)
* Line of Sight (1960)
* Sergeant X (1960)
* All the Gold in the World (1961)
* The Law of Men (1962)
* Pouic-Pouic (1963)
* Angélique, Marquise des Anges (1964)
* Play Time (1967)
* Le Gendarme se marie (1968)
* Le Gendarme en balade (1970)
* Elise, or Real Life (1970)
* Le Chat (1971)
* Hit! (1973)
* Love and Death (1975)
* F comme Fairbanks (1976)
* The Passengers (1977)
* Julien Fontanes, magistrat (1981)
* Princes et princesses (2000)
# Crisis in Clay

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Crisis in Clay is a studio album by the American avant-rock group 5uu's, which was released on December 23, 1997.

## Track listing

* "Comeuppance" (Kerman) – 3:48
* "Broadside Hits and Near Misses" (Kerman) – 2:21
* "The How-To's of Self Taught" (Kerman) – 3:40
* "Bought the Farm" (Kerman) – 4:19
* "Simply Agree" (Drake, Kerman) – 1:38
* "Goliath in the Sights" (Kerman) – 4:18
* "December" (Kerman) –2:55
* "Hunter Gatherer" (Kerman) – 3:30
* "What Price Virtue?" (Kerman) – 3:19
* "Darkened Doors" (Kerman) – 4:54
* "The Encounter" (Kerman) – 3:26
* "The Willful Suspension of Disbelief" (Kerman) – 3:41
* "Cirrus" (Kerman) – 3:38
* "Weaponry" (Kerman) – 1:11
* "Absolutely, Absolute" (Kerman) – 3:48
* "Ringing in the New Ear" (Kerman) – 0:42

## Personnel

* Bob Drake – bass, guitar, violin, vocals
* Dave Kerman – guitar, drums, keyboards
* Sanjay Kumar – keyboards, talking
with
* Scott Brazieal – vibraphone
* Thomas Dimuzio – electronic sounds, computer editing
# Rubkona

Rubkona (or Rub Kona, Rub-Koni) is a town in the Rubkona County of Unity State, in the Greater Upper Nile region of South Sudan. It lies on the northern bank of the Bahr el Ghazal River, connected via the El Salaam Bridge (The Peace Bridge) to the state capital, Bentiu. This bridge was bombed by North Sudanese MiG-29 bomber airplanes on April 23, 2012, during the Heglig Crisis. Rubkona is the administrative center of Rubkona County.
During the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005), conditions were extremely poor and dangerous. Refugees from the countryside moved to the town for greater safety. After the peace agreement was signed in January 2005, there have been great improvements. However, most of those improvements were destroy following the outbreak of the South Sudanese Civil War in 2013. It previously had a large market, and roads to the south were being greatly improved prior to the war. In the rainy season, Rubkona is flooded. People must move from one part of town to another to escape the water.
Bentiu Airport is located just north of Rubkona. Few kilometres north of the town, is also the UNMISS main base in Unity state where Protection of Civilian Sites (POCs) are being hosted. As of September 2020, approximately 167,856 IDPs were reportedly residing within the five PoC, or former-PoC, sites.
# Nivison

Nivison is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* David S. Nivison (1923–2014), sinologist in the United States
* Jack Nivison (1910–2003), President of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man
* Robert Nivison, 1st Baron Glendyne (1849–1930), Scottish stockbroker
* Josephine Hopper, née Nivison (1883–1968), American painter, wife of Edward Hopper
* Ted Nivison [simple] (born 1998), American YouTuber, director and comedian
# Solca, Poland

Solca is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pilica, within Zawiercie County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 9 kilometres (6 mi) north-east of Pilica, 22 km (14 mi) east of Zawiercie, and 60 km (37 mi) north-east of the regional capital Katowice.
# USS Clarke County

USS Clarke County (LST-601), originally USS LST-601, was a United States Navy LST-542-class tank landing ship built during World War II and in commission from 1944 to 1955 and again in the late 1960s. Named after Clarke Counties in Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, and Virginia, she was the only U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name.

## Construction and commissioning

USS LST-601 was laid down on 21 October 1943 at Seneca, Illinois, by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company. She was launched on 4 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Celia Counter Finch, and commissioned on 25 March 1944.

## First period in commission, 1944–1955

During World War II, LST-601 was assigned to the European Theater of Operations and participated in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France in August and September 1944. At the close of World War II, LST-601 remained in active service in Amphibious Force, United States Atlantic Fleet.
LST-601 was renamed USS Clarke County (LST-601) on 1 July 1955. She was decommissioned on 23 November 1955.

## Second period in commissiong, late 1960s

Clarke County was recommissioned on 28 July 1966 and performed service in the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1970. 21 November 1967 she struck a sunken landing craft while attempting to beach at Doc Pho, South Vietnam. The ship lost power and went aground parallel to the beach., and required the salvage efforts of fleet tugs USS Abnaki and USS Ute and rescue and salvage ship USS Bolster, USS Mars, USS Alamo. Clarke County was refloated on 1 December 1967.

## Awards and honors

LST-601 received one battle star for World War II service. Clarke County received six campaign stars plus two awards of the Meritorious Unit Commendation for Vietnam War service.

## Transfer to Indonesia

Clarke County was decommissioned and stricken from the Navy Directory after her Vietnam War service had ended. She was sold to Indonesia for service in the Indonesian Navy as KRI Teluk Saleh (510).
# Paoni 11

10 Paoni – Coptic calendar – 12 Paoni

## Fixed commemorations

All fixed commemorations below are observed on 11 Paoni (18 June) by the Coptic Orthodox Church.

### Saints

* Martyrdom of Saint Claudius Son of Ptolemeus

### Commemorations

* Consecration of the Altar of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste at the Savior's Church in Alexandria
# Edward Angelo

Edward Houghton Angelo (29 July 1870 – 1 October 1948) was an Australian politician who served in both houses of the Parliament of Western Australia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1917 to 1933, representing the seat of Gascoyne, and then a member of the Legislative Council from 1934 to 1940, representing North Province.

## Early life

Angelo was born in Jhansi, in present-day Uttar Pradesh, India, to Mary (née Colquhoun) and Edward Fox Angelo. He was sent to Australia to be educated, and initially attended the Hutchins School in Hobart, Tasmania. In 1882, his father, an army officer, was sent to Western Australia. Angelo joined him there, completing his education at The High School in Perth. After leaving school, he initially worked for the Public Works Department. He later transferred to the Treasury Department, working as a clerk, and in 1887 was posted to Roebourne.
In 1890, Angelo joined the Roebourne branch of the Union Bank. He returned to Perth in 1892, but in 1902 relocated to Carnarvon (the largest town of the Gascoyne region) to help open a new Union Bank branch. In 1907, Angelo left the bank and went into business on his own, eventually coming to hold commercial interests in Carnarvon and the surrounding region. He served on the Carnarvon Municipal Council for a number of years, including as mayor from 1910 to 1915.

## Politics and later life

Angelo was elected to parliament at the 1917 state election, standing for the Nationalist Party in the seat of Gascoyne. He defeated Archibald Gilchrist, the sitting member, by a large margin. Angelo switched to the Country Party in 1920, and won re-election as a Country Party candidate at the 1921 election. The Country Party split into two rival factions in 1923, with Angelo joining the Ministerial (or Government faction). He and several others joined the Nationalist Party after the 1924 election. Angelo was re-elected as a Nationalist in 1927 and 1930, winning with large majorities.
At the 1933 state election, Angelo was defeated in Gascoyne by a Labor candidate, Frank Wise, who was a future premier. He re-entered parliament at the 1934 Legislative Council election, winning election to North Province as the successor to Sir Edward Wittenoom. Angelo served a single six-year term in the Legislative Council before leaving parliament. He subsequently retired to Mount Lawley, a suburb of Perth, dying there in October 1948, aged 78. He had married Frances Mary Peirl in 1894, with whom he had three daughters.
# Lima de Freitas

Lima de Freitas was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, ceramicist and writer. He studied at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes de Lisboa.
He illustrated over 100 books, most notably the Portuguese writer Aquilino Ribeiro's translation of Don Quixote. These illustrations were recently republished in a translation by Jose Bento (ed. Relógio D' Água, 2005). His work in ceramics includes 14 tile panels depicting Lisbon myths and legends which are displayed at the Rossio Railway Station in Lisbon .
He exhibited in group shows from 1946 (first exhibiting at the age of 20 at II Exposição Geral da Academia de Música e Belas Artes da Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes) and had his first solo exhibition in 1950. He exhibited all over Portugal as well as in England, Denmark, Poland and France. He was initially linked with Neorealism. In 1968 he collaborated with Patrick Swift and opened the Porches Pottery. As a writer his published works include: Pintura incómoda (1965), Almada e o número (1977), and Imagens da imagem (1977). He was very active in the arts holding various positions that included Director-General of the State Secretariat for Culture (1976–78), Director of The National Theatre D. Maria II, president of the Academy of Music and Fine Arts Luísa Todi(website), and the first Director of IADE (Institute of Visual Arts & Design website). Among his various awards he was awarded the Medalha de Honra da Cidade (Freedom of the City), Setúbal, "Chevalier et Officier de L'Ordre du Mérite" (Ordre national du Mérite) by the French government, and Order of Saint James of the Sword (a Portuguese Order of Chivalry). The Lima de Freitas School in Setúbal is named in his honour. He was also a Master Freemason.
# List of ambassadors of Kiribati to China

The Kiribati ambassador in Beijing is the official representative of the Government in Tarawa to the Government of the People's Republic of China.

## List of representatives

| Diplomatic agrément/Diplomatic accreditation | ambassador | Observations | President of Kiribati | List of premiers of the People's Republic of China | Term end |
| June 25, 1980 | | The governments in Beijing and Tarawa established diplomatic relations. | Rota Onorio | Zhao Ziyang | November 29, 2003 |
| November 13, 1982 | Atanraoi Baiteke | October 6, 1981: High Commissioner (Commonwealth) in Canberra | Rota Onorio | Zhao Ziyang | |
| November 7, 2003 | | Diplomatic relations between the governments in Beijing and Tarawa were suspended following Kiribati's recognition of Taiwan. | Anote Tong | Wen Jiabao | |
| September 27, 2019 | | The governments in Beijing and Tarawa restored diplomatic relations. | Taneti Mamau | Li Keqiang | |
| 2022 | David Ateti Teaabo | | Taneti Maamau | Li Keqiang | |
25°03′42″N 121°38′55″E﻿ / ﻿25.061591°N 121.648675°E﻿ / 25.061591; 121.648675
* Sino-Pacific relations#Kiribati
* China–Kiribati relations
# Ukwa West

Ukwa West is a Local Government Area in Abia State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Oke Ikpe.
It has an area of 271 km$^2$ and a population of 88,555 at the 2006 census.
The postal code of the area is 452.
Ukwa west is bounded to the north by Osisioma local government area, to the north-east by Ugwunagbo local government area and to the east by Ukwa East local government area, all in Abia State. It is also bounded to west by Omuma local government area, to the south-west by Etche local government area, and to the south by Oyigbo local government area, all in Rivers State.

## Climate

The overall area of Ukwa West LGA is 271 square kilometers, and its average annual temperature is 26 degrees Celsius. The average humidity in the LGA is 71 percent, and the region is home to a variety of rivers and streams. In Ukwa West LGA, the estimated average wind speed is 10 km/h.

## Economy

The local government is the only crude oil producing area in Abia state. Its oil-producing communities include: Owaza, Uzuaku, Umuokwor, Umuahala and Umuorie, amongst others.
The local government is divided into three main political groups; Ipu Group, Asa Group and Ozar Group. It practices what is called rotational leadership. Ipu West is one of the political Wards in it. Though it is one the crude oil producing area in Abia State, but some of its communities and wards are lacking basic amenities such as; good roads, electricity, good health centres and schools. Asa and Ogwe group, including Asa North Wards and ozar, are lacking roads and security. Though, there exist economic hubs in almost all the towns. Example is the Afor Ogwe Market.
Asa people are predominantly farmers, with subsistence agriculture being the major practice, while small forms of commercial farming is also done. The main crop farmed in this area is Cassava, which is processed into garri, and consumed at home or sold in markets. The second important food crop is Yam, while Other crops like Groundnut, Maize, and Plantain are commonly farmed. The area is also blessed with palm trees which is processed to produce palm oil, kernel oil and other palm produce for direct consumption or trade.
Animals are also reared in this area, with goat and chicken being the most common. These are either for food or traded in the markets.

## Language

The People of Ukwa West local government belong to the Asa clan and speak a dialect of Igbo language known as Asa. Asa is spoken mostly in the southern part of Abia state and Northern Rivers state. In Abia state it is spoken in the entire Ukwa West Local Government Area, while in Rivers State, it is spoken in Oyigbo (Obigbo) Local Government Area in communities such as Mmirinwanyi Asa, Kom Kom, Oboama Asa, Uzuoma Asa, etc.

## Locality

Villages and Town in Ukwa West Local Government Area.
Ozar-Ukwu
Ozar West
Ipu-South
Ipu-East
Ipu-West
Asa-South
Obokwe
Asa-North
# Harry Amorim Costa

Harry Amorim Costa (23 May 1927 – 19 August 1988) was the first Governor of Mato Grosso do Sul, when the state was created during the government of President Ernesto Geisel.
In 1982, he was elected federal deputy for the PMDB, then the main opposition party to the government of João Figueiredo. He was unable to be re-elected in 1986, and was appointed Secretary of State for the Environment in 1987. He would die in 1988 in a car accident.

## Biography

Born in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Costa was the son of José Zacarias Costa and Araci Amorim Costa. He received his education at the Escola de Engenharia (Engineering School) of the Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, which was followed by courses in pavement and soil mechanics at the Road Research Institute in Porto Alegre (1954) and the Institute for Technological Research in São Paulo (1956). As early as 1950 he was working as an engineer for the independent authority Departamento Nacional de Obras de Saneamento (DNOS). In 1974 he became Director General of DNOS, having previously held several successful managerial positions in the field of public works and sanitation.

## Political career

On March 28, 1978, the President of Brazil, Ernesto Geisel (1974–1979) appointed Harry Amorim Costa as the first governor of the newly created state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The nomination was approved by the federal Senate the following March 29. Appointed by a decree signed by President Geisel on March 31, he left the post of Director General of DNOS the following May and was sworn in for a four-year term on January 1, 1979. He was politically inexperienced, made administrative mistakes and, without his own base, faced opposition from the most powerful national leaders of the Aliança Renovadora Nacional (ARENA) in Mato Grosso do Sul, who would have preferred to see a governor from Mato Grosso. After five months and eleven days in office, he was released early on June 12, 1979 by President João Figueiredo.
He joined the Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB) party, then the main opposition party against the government of João Figueiredo. In the 1982 elections in Brazil, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress for the PMDB as a federal deputy for Mato Grosso do Sul. Here he stayed for one legislature. His candidacy for re-election in 1986 was unsuccessful.
On March 15, 1987, he was appointed fourth Secretary of State for the Environment (Secretário de Estado do Meio Ambiente de Mato Grosso do Sul) by Governor Marcelo Miranda.
On August 19, 1988 he died in a car accident. He was married to Amélia Santana Costa and had six children.

## Aftermath

In Campo Grande there is a monument in the Parque das Nações Indígenas, a bronze bust was made, a municipal school and a district are named after him.