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1635 – Lope Felix de Vega, playwright/poet (Angelica, Arcadia), dies at 72.
1849 – Manuel Acuna, Mexican poet (Nocturno), is born.
1870 – Amado Nervo, [Juan C Ruiz de Nervo], Mexican writer/poet, is born.
1903 – Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nocturno de los Angeles), is born.
1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet, is born.
2009 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer and poet (b. 1913), dies.
Death is all this and more that encircles us,
and brings us together, pulls us apart,
and finally leaves us confused, startled, hanging,
with a wound that doesn't bleed.
Then, only then, both of us alone know
that it is not love, but darkened death
that makes us look, face and face in each other's eyes,
and reach and come together, more than alone and stranded,
still more, and each time more, even still.
—from "Nocturne: The Bedroom" by Xavier Villaurrutia (1903–1950)
Vietnamese Poet Revered as National Treasure
An international conference gathering more than 100 Vietnamese and foreign scholars here on Saturday confirmed once again the glorious life and literary work of great poet Nguyen Du (18th century), who richly deserved to be considered as a cultural symbol of the country. Addressing the conference, Dinh The Huynh, head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Publicity and Education, said the event, that began a series of activities to commemorate the 250th birth anniversary of Nguyen Du (1766-1820) throughout the country next year, will go a long way in preserving and developing national culture.
C.K. Stead is New Poet Laureate
One of the country's most celebrated writers has been named as New Zealand's latest Poet Laureate. C.K. Stead has joined the ranks of luminaries such as Bill Manhire, Hone Tuwhare, and Elizabeth Smither, and will be formally inducted into the role later this month. Stead, a novelist, editor, literary critic, teacher and poet, said the appointment was special to him. "Poetry has been somewhere near the centre of my consciousness for the past 70 years, so this affects me more than any other honour I could have," he said.
Search for Spanish Poet García Lorca's Remains to be Resumed
The search for the remains of poet and playwright Federico García Lorca will be resumed next October if it receives green light from the Andalusia Board, announced today archaeologist Javier Navarro. Interviewed by Prensa Latina, Navarro explained that they already have all the necessary field resources, after interrupting last May the search due to the fact that the Andalusia government withdrew its financial support. The Spanish archaeologist explained that if the authorization is obtained, the project will be resumed in October, when temperatures are lower but there are still many hours of daylight.
'Young Eliot,' by Robert Crawford
By David Yezzi
In an unheroic age, T.S. Eliot was poetry's ideal antihero. Shy, indecisive, gangly, he essayed the Parnassian heights not baroquely turbaned like a Byron but buttoned down and gray-flanneled like a Walter Mitty. By day, he was a Lloyds banker in "a four-piece suit," as Virginia Woolf reportedly described him; by night, a visionary poet, whose lyric fragments harmonized with the malaise troubling Europe after World War I. The Scottish poet Robert Crawford's assiduous "Young Eliot" follows "Tom" from his earliest poetic finger exercises to the "ineradicably insinuating music" of "The Waste Land" (1922), in which April cruelly breeds lilacs as well as a bramble of textual notes.
'The Road Not Taken,' by David Orr
By Adam Plunkett
David Orr has written the best popular explanation to date of the most popular poem in American history. That poem is "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost, and its subject is familiar to most of us who attended an American or a Yankophilic middle school at some point in the last century: A traveler comes to a fork in the woods and, after sweating over his direction in life, takes the road less traveled, and it makes all the difference. Most of us have also heard the story that says this is all bunk. As interpreted in The New Yorker or "Orange Is the New Black," the poem is not in fact an ode to individualism but a joke at the expense of individualist hokum. The traveler hasn't been changed by his choice of a long and lonely road, but tells us that he's going to tell that story when he's older, even though he had no particular reason to choose the road he took. The other looked as grassy, as trodden, as easy or hard or distinctive. It was an arbitrary choice, this national myth of choosing independently and bravely and becoming the sum of your choices or finding yourself.
A New Collection from the Poet Laureate and Other Best-Poetry Books
By Elizabeth Lund
Notes on the Assemblage (City Lights; paperback, $14.95) provides a splendid introduction to the expansive work of Juan Felipe Herrera, the nation's new poet laureate, who will read at the National Book Festival on Sept. 5. In this book, which will be released in September, readers will find a singular voice and an agile mind that shifts easily from one topic and style to another.
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
by Stuart Kelly
From his earliest collection, Nil Nil, it was obvious that Don Paterson had a tremendous gift for the craft of poetry. Later collections have gravitated more and more towards traditional forms, and he has written an extended, and by turns insightful, poignant and hilarious prose commentary on Shakespeare's sonnets. So this book has the kind of inevitability associated with a perfect rhyme, as well as the perfect sleight-of-hand whereby you didn't see the inevitability coming. Amateur poets endstop lines with a cross between a metronome and tinnitus. A poet of genius, like Paterson, makes the chime simultaneously a cadence and a surprise.
The Ironies of Embodiment
by Christopher J. Adamson
Frank Bidart's 2005 book Star Dust concludes with the third—and what until now many readers assumed to be the final—long poem in his "Hours of the Night" series, which he first began publishing in 1990. Bidart described the series in a Bookslut interview as "a project that can't be completed," and, when no new Hour appeared in Watching the Spring Festival (2008) or Metaphysical Dog (2013), it was easy to assume he had abandoned the project in favor of less unwieldy or ambitious work. Fortunately, this was not the case. With the May 2015 publication of "The Fourth Hour of the Night" in Poetry magazine, Bidart reminds us of these masterworks and their place at the core of his oeuvre.
'Despite his controversial personal views, which have clouded his reputation in recent years,' the BBC announcer said, 'a stone to commemorate Philip Larkin is to be unveiled in Westminster Abbey.' It cannot escape the notice of independent-minded writers and readers that what is called public opinion, with its nostrums and committees, has gone far in the field of reductive enforcement. Instead of adding curmudgeonly, sexist Larkin to the noble dead, an ideological purge might better be administered, the corner re-paved with writers all of whose opinions are pukka. (Can the word pukka safely be used in this context?) The Mexican magazine Cultura (6 June 2015) carried an article by Heriberto Yépez entitled 'Se expande la crisis de la poesía gringa'. The title translates itself: 'The crisis in gringo literature is widening'. Yépez links the names of two American writers, Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa Place, to reach a sweeping conclusion about the fragmentation of modern American poetry.
Tom Waits Salutes the Legendary Keith Richards in New Poem
Tom Waits has paid tribute to collaborator and friend Keith Richards in the form of a poem. With the imminent release of Richards' new solo album Crosseyed Heart next month, Waits has penned a lengthy poem to celebrate the Rolling Stones guitarist's legendary status. Via Rolling Stone, Richards is described as having blue urine and smelling like a campfire by Waits which, we think, are meant as terms of endearment.
Maine's Richard Blanco to read new poem at re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana Friday
Maine poet Richard Blanco read a new poem commemorating the re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Friday. Blanco, a Cuban-American who lives in Bethel, announced the news on Facebook on Wednesday.
Headstone is Mounted on Seamus Heaney's Grave: There's a Certain Poetry to this Simple, Evocative Marker
It's two years since the poet Seamus Heaney died in hospital in Dublin at the age of 73 and since his remains were returned for burial in his home village of Bellaghy in south Co Londonderry.
William Jay Smith, Poet and Craftsman of Rhythm, Dies at 97
William Jay Smith, a former United States poet laureate whose work was known both for its acuteness of observation and acuteness of craftsmanship, died on Tuesday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 97. His son, Gregory Jay Smith, confirmed the death. Mr. Smith served from 1968 to 1970 as the consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, as the poet laureate's post was then known. He was the author of many volumes of poems, as well as criticism, memoirs, translations of poetry from a spate of European languages and children's verse.
Cynthia Macdonald, Poet Known for Humor and Ability to Shock, Dies at 87
Cynthia Macdonald, whose idiosyncratic blend of humor and the grotesque made her a distinctive voice on the American poetry scene, died on Aug. 3 in a nursing home in Logan, Utah. She was 87. The cause was heart failure, her daughter, Jennifer Macdonald, said.
Taking Shape by Jan D. Hodge
[Hardcover] Able Muse Press, 80 pp., $24.95
An eclectic mix of shapes and subjects populate Taking Shape―Jan D. Hodge's full-length collection of carmina figurata (sometimes called shaped poems, pattern poetry, or figure poems). Hodge's many masterpieces include depictions of a saxophone, a Madonna and Child, a combination piano/guillotine, and other silhouettes of amazing difficulty and detail. These poems are not only visually stunning, they are also sonically beautiful, and retain a transcendent freedom while conforming to both illustrative and metrical constraints. Taking Shape is a visual feast of inspired poetry.
Small Enterprise by Mary Biddinger
[Paperback] Black Lawrence Press, 70 pp., $13.95
The time: creeping toward the millennium, yet before Y2K panic inspires everyone to stockpile bottled water and cheap wine. The place: a Midwestern metropolis with echoes of Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit, a city trying to preserve the past as a future arrives with gut rehabs and shuttered churches. The dramatis personae: corner bar denizens, bad girls with big plans, novels and their writers, a petulant lake, flocks of grandmothers with rosaries, a wrecking ball or two. Mary Biddinger's fourth full-length collection of poems, SMALL ENTERPRISE, introduces us to a world of risk and risk management, a continual struggle to stay afloat, and a hot triangular romance between man, woman, and city.
The Holding Hours by Christianne Balk
[Hardcover] University of Washington Press, 88 pp., $19.95
Emotion, raw and unadorned, is woven through the poems of Christianne Balk's The Holding Hours. Part I explores the subtle and surprising transformations that come from caring for her young, neurologically injured daughter. Insights unfold in metaphor and persona below the surface of an exquisitely observed life.
Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, & New Collaborations by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
[Paperback] Sibling Rivalry Press, 284 pp., $29.95
Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, and New Collaborations is the quirky love child of Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, award-winning poets who teamed up over twenty-five years ago to practice their collaborative skills on every topic they could joyfully exploit: feminism, gender, sex, witches, religion, the canon, movies, and Olive Oyl, to name just a few. From the erotic to the comedic, the political to the poignant, Caprice presents a fresh look at life from the unpredictable minds of two celebrated writers in their prime.
The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected by Lynn Emanuel
[Paperback] University of Pittsburgh Press,120 pp., $16.95
Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings and pleases with its intelligence, wit and vivacity. It breaks through, in ways that are bold, sexy, haunting and wry, the die-hard opposition of new and old, personal narrative and linguistic play, sincerity and irony, misery and hilarity. Open the book. Something new is happening here.
New Selected Poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
[Paperback] Bloodaxe Books, 400 pp., $35.00
Not only Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. This is intelligent and pointed poetry in the tradition of Brecht, humanely political and generously engaged. The poems have the ease and lightness of real mastery. They are moral in their insistence that human life can be lived well or badly, that it is up to us to choose well and to act wisely. Enzensberger is now writing with an increasing awareness of mortality, yet addresses social and political dangers and evils with undiminished urgency.
Poet Quenton Baker On America's Black/White Split
By Elizabeth Austen
Elizabeth Austen talks with Marcie Sillman about a new chapbook from Seattle poet and teacher Quenton Baker. Baker peels back layers of language to reveal the ways both blackness and whiteness are racialized in "Diglossic in the Second America," just published by Punch Press. In the poem "Corner Store and Back Again," a traffic accident becomes a microcosm of the black/white split, complicated further by mental illness.
The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist
by Adrienne Raphel
Sagawa Chika, born Kawasaki Ai in 1911, died of stomach cancer in 1936, before her twenty-fifth birthday. Even with such a brief career, she was one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poets in early-twentieth-century Japan. At the time, few women in Japan wrote poetry, and those who did typically used traditional forms to address domestic concerns. Sagawa sounded different: she wrote in free verse, not tanka or haiku, and her images were shockingly new. "A chef clutches a blue sky," begins one of her many short, lyric poems, "Illusory Home." "Four fingerprints are left; gradually / the chicken bleeds. Even here the sun is crushed."
'Writing a poem is itself an act of hope'
Saket Suman
iMeena Alexander is undoubtedly one of the finest poets in the contemporary times. Her volumes of poetry include Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award), Raw Silk and Quickly Changing River. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies and teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Philip Hodgins: Mettle
by Lisa Gorton
Philip Hodgins' poetry is alive with strange images, jolts of perception, sudden beautiful cadences. And his poetry is frightening. I mean not supernatural fear but the intimate animal fear we have for our own bodies, the fear of pain and the fear of death. Born in 1959 at Katandra West, Hodgins grew up on a dairy farm. At the age of 24, he was diagnosed with leukaemia and given just three years to live. He died in 1995, the author of five poetry collections and a verse novel. This year, a new edition of his poetry, First Light, appeared in the Braziller Series of Australian Poets, edited by Paul Kane.
Lessons from the Past: Umberto Saba
"Whoever writes poems not because he sincerely needs the help of rhythm in expressing his passion, but out of mercenary or ambitious intentions, and for whom publishing a book is like seeking a decoration or opening a shop, cannot even imagine what stubborn force of intellect and disinterested greatness of soul are necessary to resist every sort of pandering and to keep oneself pure and true, even though dishonest verse, taken in isolation, may be superior."
—from "What Remains for Poets to Do"


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Eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, energy and water fluxes at a lowland valley fen, Anglesey, UK, 2015-2018
This dataset contains time series observations of surface-atmosphere exchanges of net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange (NEE), sensible heat (H) and latent heat (LE), and momentum (τ) measured at a lowland valley fen located on Anglesey, North Wales, UK. Turbulent...
Growing season methane and nitrous oxide static chamber fluxes from Sodankylä region, Northern Finland
This dataset contains calculated terrestrial fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide using static chambers from the Sodankylä region of Northern Finland across both forest and wetland ecosystems. Measurements were carried out during growing season 2012 in two measurement...
Data from a smartphone app for improving mental health through urban nature 2016-2019
This data is NERC-funded but not held by the EIDC. This data is archived in the UK Data Service ReShare repository. The dataset contains data from a randomised controlled trial study which aimed to provide an evaluation of a smartphone app-based wellbeing intervention....
Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris) territory surveys in English woods during 2002-2020
The dataset records the annual number of occupied Marsh Tit breeding territories in 74 individual woods and woodland patches in 14 English counties for variable periods between 2002 and 2020. Different woods were surveyed from between one spring period and for up to...
Soil hydrological characteristics for three areas in the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena (CAZ), Madagascar
We determined the soil hydrological characteristics for 51 sites located in three regions in the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena (CAZ) in Madagascar. The sites differed in terms of land use and land history: closed canopy forests, reforestation sites, tree fallows, shrub...
Rural smallholder agricultural field management surveys across Mozambique
This dataset comprises 259 smallholder agricultural field surveys collected from twenty-six villages across three Districts in Mozambique, Africa. Surveys were conducted in ten fields in each of six villages in Mabalane District, Gaza Province, ten villages in Marrupa...
Derived global responses of annual river flow to catchment forestation through time, between 1900 and 2018
This dataset reports the responses of annual river flow to forestation in 43 catchments and contains 770 data points. Data shows the change in river flow following forestation at annual time scales, along control river flow measurements and associated metadata from...
Grid-to-Grid model estimates of daily mean river flow for gauged catchments in Great Britain (1891 to 2015): observed driving data [MaRIUS-G2G-Oudin-daily]
This dataset is a model output, from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model driven by observed climate data (CEH-GEAR rainfall and Oudin temperature-based potential evaporation). It provides daily mean river flow (m3/s) for 260 catchments, for the period 1891 to 2015....
Metaschoepite dissolution in sediment column systems – groundwater/soil geochemistry and uranium X-ray spectroscopy data
This dataset contains the results of a laboratory study investigating the dissolution of UO3•nH2O particles in dynamic sediment/groundwater column systems, representative of the shallow subsurface at the Sellafield Ltd. site, UK. Measurements were carried out to determine...
Observations of human hygiene behaviours before and after exposure to poultry in Dhaka and rural Tangail district, Bangladesh (2017)
The dataset provides observational information on events when humans are in contact with poultry in rural and urban Bangladesh. Data were collected during observation periods of three hours duration in three settings where humans and poultry have close interactions:...
Land Cover Map 2017 (20m classified pixels, N. Ireland)
This is the 20m classified pixels dataset for the UKCEH Land Cover Map of 2017 (LCM2017) representing Northern Ireland. It describes Northern Ireland's land cover in 2017 using UKCEH Land Cover Classes, which are based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats....
Land Cover Map 1990 (vector, GB)
This dataset consists of the vector version of the Land Cover Map 1990 (LCM1990) for Great Britain. The vector data set is the core LCM data set from which the full range of other LCM1990 products are derived. It provides a number of attributes including land cover...
Community antimicrobial resistance genes and concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and metals in NE England soils (2016)
The dataset collates the relative concentration of nearly 300 antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, and concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and potentially toxic elements (PTE; e.g., "metals") found in soils across northeastern England during a...
Data from the Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing in Mozambican Woodlands (ACES) project
This aggregation contains socio-economic datasets from gradients of different land uses, collected as part of the Abrupt Changes in Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing in Mozambican Woodlands (ACES) project. ACES examined how woodland loss changed ecosystem services and...
Global data for soil water, groundwater and riverine freshwater dissolved organic radiocarbon
This dataset includes dissolved organic radiocarbon content and dissolved organic carbon concentration data for river waters around the globe. The riverine dataset contains already published (n=1163) and new (n=101) data between the years 1962 – 2015. Soil solution...
Soil state and environmental parameters across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016)
Data are presented for soil state and environmental parameters of soil samples collected from paired intensive and extensive grassland systems, including low and high pH parent soils, from 32 sites across the United Kingdom. The samples were collected during winter...
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Land Cover Map 2019 (land parcels, GB)
This is the land parcels (polygon) dataset for the UKCEH Land Cover Map of 2019 (LCM2019) representing Great Britain. It describes Great Britain's land cover in 2019 using UKCEH Land Cover Classes, which are based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. This...
Topsoil particle size distribution from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016
This data set consists of Particle Size Distribution (PSD) measurements, analysed in a sub set of soil samples with a loss on ignition lower than 50%, taken from within a range of land use types across Wales, collected as part of the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation...
Amazon tree ring isotope records of Macrolobium acaciifolium and Cedrela odorata
The data consist of tree ring oxygen (δ18Otr) and carbon (δ13Ctr) isotope data of Macrolobium acaciifolium and Cedrela odorata from five sites in the Amazon basin, including Pacaya (Peru) and Maranon (Peru), Leticia (Colombia), Manuripi (Bolivia) and Riberalta (Bolivia). All...
Grid-to-Grid model estimates of monthly mean flow and soil moisture for Great Britain: weather@home2 (climate model) driving data [MaRIUS-G2G-WAH2-monthly]
This dataset is a model output, from the Grid-to-Grid hydrological model driven by weather@home2 climate model data. It provides a 100-member ensemble of monthly mean flow (m3/s) and soil moisture (mm water/m soil) on a 1 km grid for the following time periods: historical...

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The 2016 Kerala Legislative Assembly election was held on 16 May 2016 to elect 140 MLAs to the 14th Kerala Legislative Assembly.  Voter turnout was 77.53%, up from 75.12% in the previous election. The result was declared on 19 May 2016. The Left Democratic Front (LDF), led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), won the election, defeating the incumbent United Democratic Front (UDF), led by the Indian National Congress (INC), which could only win 47 seats in the election. Pinarayi Vijayan was sworn in as the Chief Minister on 25 May.

Background
The tenure of the members of the Legislative Assembly in the state was to end on 31 May 2016.
As per the voters list published on 14 January 2016, there were around 2.60 crore (26 million) eligible voters including 6.18 lakh (618,000) new voters in the age group 18–21. Elections to the 140-member assembly were held in 21,498 polling stations set up at 12,038 locations. There were 500 model polling stations. Systematic Voters' Education and Electoral Participation (SVEEP) programme was undertaken in Kerala to raise voter awareness.

2,065 Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) units were used by the Election Commission in 1,650 polling stations in 12 constituencies. VVPAT were not used in Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Wayanad and Kasaragod districts.
The Election Commission launched several mobile apps.

Parties and coalitions
There are two major political coalitions in Kerala. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) is the coalition of the left-wing and far-left parties, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). The United Democratic Front (UDF) is the coalition of centrist and centre-left parties led by the Indian National Congress.

Left Democratic Front

United Democratic Front

National Democratic Alliance

Left United Front

Parties not in any Coalition

Opinion polls

Exit Polls

Election Day
Voting took place on 16 May 2016 in all 140 Legislative Assembly Constituencies. The final turnout was 77.35%.

Results

The Left Democratic Front won in a landslide in terms of seats, winning 91 out of 140 seats in the legislature. The incumbent UDF front was defeated and was reduced to 47 seats. The NDA, and independent P. C. George won one seat each.

By alliance

P.C. George, who contested as an independent candidate from Poonjar, joined the NDA on a later date.

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|10.6
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|8.2
|25
|19
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Indian Union Muslim League
|1,496,864
|7.4
|23
|18
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Kerala Congress (Mani)
|807,718
|4.0
|15
|5
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Bharath Dharma Jana Sena
|795,797
|4.0
|36
|0
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Independents(LDF)
|487,510
|2.4
|8
|4
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Janata Dal (United)
|296,585
|1.5
|7
|0
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Janata Dal (Secular)
|293,274
|1.5
|5
|3
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Nationalist Congress Party
|237,408
|1.2
|4
|2
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Independents (IND)
|220,797
|1.1
|420
|1
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Revolutionary Socialist Party
|216,071
|1.1
|5
|0
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Kerala Congress (Democratic)
|157,584
|0.78
|4
|0
|-
|bgcolor=|
|National Secular Conference
|130,843
|0.65
|2
|1
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Revolutionary Socialist Party (Leninist)
|75,725
|0.38
|1
|1
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Kerala Congress (Balakrishna Pillai)
|74,429
|0.37
|1
|1
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Kerala Congress (Jacob)
|73,770
|0.37
|1
|1
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Communist Marxist Party (Aravindakshan)
|64,666
|0.32
|1
|1
|-
|bgcolor=|
|Congress (Secular)
|54,347
|0.27
|1
|1
|-
| colspan="2" |Total
|20,232,718	||100.00||1,203||	140
|-
! colspan="9" |
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Valid votes
| align="right" |20,232,718
| align="right" |99.97
| colspan="4" rowspan="5" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"  |
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Invalid votes
| align="right" |6,107
| align="right" |0.03
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Votes cast / turnout
| align="right" |20,238,825
| align="right" |77.53
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Abstentions
| align="right" |5,866,244
| align="right" |22.47
|-
| style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" |Registered voters
| align="right" | 26,105,069
|colspan="1" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|
|-
|}

By constituency

Notable performances of other candidates

01.P.C.George  won from Poonjar Contituency with a margion 27821 votes

By-elections
 2019 Kerala Legislative Assembly by-elections

No by-election is conducted for Kuttanad and Chavara

Assembly seat sharing post - bye election results:

See also
2015 Kerala local body elections
2020 Kerala local body elections

References

External links
Chief Electoral Officer,Kerala
Election Commission of India
Kerala Assembly Election 2016 Results
UDF Kerala
LDF Keralam
NDA Kerala

Kerala
2016
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A founding member of the New York City law firm Caesar & Napoli, James C. Napoli is a personal injury trial attorney who represents people who have been injured in a variety of circumstances, including construction accidents, auto accidents and tractor-trailer accidents. He also represents individuals in wrongful death, defective products, medical negligence and other personal injury cases.
With more than a quarter century of legal experience he has settled numerous seven-figure and eight-figure cases. He recently represented 50 injury victims of a major, multi-vehicle car crash in Connecticut. The case verdict deemed that all of the vehicles in the crash were equally responsible, which ensured maximum insurance coverage for all victims.
His service has earned him inclusion in Super Lawyers since 2011 and in a list of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers from The National Trial Lawyers for 2012. He has been admitted to practice before all courts in the state of New York and in the Southern and Eastern districts of New York in U.S. District Courts.
Mr. Napoli is active in the legal community and New York communities. He has served on boards of directors for several nonprofit organizations and was special counsel for Covenant House of New York City, a nonprofit assistance program for homeless children. His pro bono representation included victims, firemen and rescuers of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks.
In addition to his seat on New York State Trial Lawyers Association board of directors, he is a member of several state and national organizations, which include the American Trial Lawyers Association (presidential member), a sustaining membership in the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the New York City Bar Association.
About James Napoli
Admitted: 1984, New York
Professional Webpage: http://www.caesarnapoli.com/james-c-napoli.html
Honors/Awards:
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Bar/Professional Activity:
Member, New York State Trial Lawyers Association
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1984
Board of Directors, New York State Trial Lawyers Association; member of the Executive Comittee, 2015
Member, Automobile/Insurance Committee, New York State Trial Lawyers
Member, Bar of the City of New York
Presidential Member, American Association of Justice
Sustaining Member, New York State Trial Lawyers Association
Pro bono/Community Service:
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John Wilson BAKER CITY HERALD
General Aviation Vital to Economy
Even as a company that has roots dating back over 125 years, we believe in the philosophy of adapting to changing times to promote our growth and development. Since my family first purchased property in Eastern Oregon in the 1870s, our business has grown to four locations, including our main location in North Powder. And, for more than 30 years, Beef Northwest has made use of general aviation aircraft and I can say with full certainty that without this critical business tool, we would not be able to serve our many customers across the Pacific Northwest and Canada.
Given the main thrust of our company is ranching and raising livestock, we make use of multiple rural operations throughout the Pacific Northwest and California. One disadvantage of these rural locations is the lack of nearby commercial airports. In my 22 years as managing partner, we have often made use of aircraft like our current turbine Aero Commander to transport multiple personnel to various locations for business meetings and training exercises. With general aviation, we are able to make such trips multiple times a week, a feat that would be impossible by car or commercial aviation.
For example, driving from our main headquarters in North Powder to one of our feed yards in Quincy, Wash., takes five hours. With general aviation, this trip can be made within an hour. This ability to save hours of time and manpower has proven crucial to our growth as a company, since we are able to efficiently manage our locations and conduct multiple business meetings in several locations.
Other businesspeople have made this realization as well and utilize the advantages of general aviation in business application to increase productivity. In fact, general aviation in Oregon helps to support $3 billion in business sales and supports more than 35,000 jobs. Across the country, general aviation is a $150 billion-a-year industry that supports the jobs for over 1.2 million Americans.
In addition, general aviation plays a crucial role in law enforcement, emergency medical response, wildfire fighting, search and rescue, and disaster response.
Unfortunately, many are not aware of the everyday benefits that general aviation provides to our communities. As a result, a particularly harmful proposal for a $100-per-flight user fee tax has been included in the President's budget proposal in the past and would particularly impact small businesses and farms.
But our elected officials in Oregon seem to understand that general aviation is, above all, a tool to increase productivity and accessibility. Governor John Kitzhaber last year declared October as "Aviation Appreciation Month," drawing vital attention to the importance of this industry. In addition, Mayor Bob Andrews of Newberg joined more than 160 other mayors from across the country to write to the President in opposition to harmful new taxes for general aviation.
In addition, Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with Congressmen Kurt Schrader and Greg Wyden, belong to the General Aviation Caucus, which works to protect general aviation and other Members of Congress about its importance. I applaud these efforts and I believe we should all make sure to not lose sight of the vital importance of this form of transportation to our communities across Oregon and country.
John Wilson is the managing partner of Beef Northwest and a member of the Alliance for Aviation Across America.
http://www.bakercityherald.com/Letters/General-aviation-vital-to-economy


Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this week, and as the story goes this means six more weeks of winter. If only the critter was carrying a smartphone, perhaps that would give us a better idea of when Nougat would be coming to your favorite device.
Fortunately we didn't need a groundhog to find out about a few releases, such as a beta update for the Pixel, Nexus phones, and Sony surprising us by being first with the monthly security patch.
Android Nougat beta: Android 7.1.2 is now available for devices enrolled in the Android beta program. The fingerprint gesture that lets you swipe to get notifications now works on the Nexus 5X, but it'll be later before this can be brought to the 6P due to hardware differences. The beta can be downloaded in an over-the-air update for the the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel C, Nexus Player, and Nexus 5X.
Xperia XZ, X, X Performance, and X Compact: Sony is actually beating Google to the punch with the latest security update. According to Xperia Blog, this batch of devices will be updated to the February 1 patch. This means that the monthly update is probably just around the corner for Google's phones and tablets, which probably require a little more development work.
Honor 6X: Good news if this is your phone, as Huawei confirmed to Android Police that a Nougat release is coming in March. We found the Honor 6X to be a rather solid choice for a budget device, and the latest version of Android (it'll also be paired with an update to the custom EMUI 5.0) will improve this offering.


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The Whistle Board Newsletter – No. 64, May 2020
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INSIDE THIS EDITION
RISSB Surveys Industry
RISSB Launches Program Focusing on Track Worker Safety
Don't Miss Next Week's Webinar
RISSB New Members Welcome
Call for Development Group Members for a New Light Rail Standard
Current Public Consultations
Periodically, RISSB formally and independently, conducts a survey to determine the usage of RISSB products (Standards, Codes of practice, Guidelines and Rules) and services (conferences, forums, training programs and the Horizons program). The survey results will create an informed, national picture that will help RISSB understand how it can enhance its product and service offering, as well as raise awareness of its activities.
Surveying commenced this week and will conclude within the next fortnight.
RISSB is launching a program to boost the safety of frontline track workers across Australia. The program of work follows extensive consultation with industry leaders who earlier this year acknowledged that track worker safety is industry's number one priority.
The program will span work packages across five key areas: technology, planning works, skills / competencies, (Safety Critical) Communications, and culture.
More information will be provided in the near future.
Next Week's Webinar
Jen Ablitt, Deputy Director Safety Strategy and Head of the UK Delegation to the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority at the Office of Rail and Road (UK) will deliver a presentation, titled The Critical Friend exploring the regulator's role in the UK and how it delivers value.
Please click on the blue 'Register Now' button to reserve your place.
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You can! Watch one of our eight MasterClass webinars at your desk or in your home and when it's convenient! Go to https://www.rissb.com.au/home/webinars/and click on the 'Watch' hyperlink near the presenter's name.
This week we welcomed two new members - Rail Safety Systems and Gold Creek Engineers Australia to the RISSB fold.
Rail Safety Systems is a systems integrator and manufacturer that leverages existing and proprietary technologies to develop innovative solutions for the rail industry, with a particular focus on providing low cost rail crossing safety products.
https://www.railsafetysystems.com.au/
Gold Creek Engineers Australia provides a unique design service, concentrating on development of large machine and plant, including mechanical design and dynamic structural design.
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RISSB has been engaging with stakeholders to understand what the industry needs to improve safety, constructability and operations of light rail networks. Feedback has been used to inform the development of a draft Light Rail Standards Framework that outlines the key issues RISSB is considering addressing in future light rail Standards.
This week we asked people to submit a nomination to join a Development Group tasked with drafting a new Australian Standard for the use of signals in light rail systems.
Nominations close on Wednesday, 17 June 2020.
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U.K.'s Brum likely profitable for GEN Malaysia: Nomura
Jun 08, 2015 Newsdesk Latest News, Top of the deck, World
A casino resort in Birmingham – the U.K.'s second-ranked city by population and nicknamed locally as 'Brum' – is likely to be a good source of earnings from mass-market gaming for Genting Malaysia Bhd, says a research note from Japanese brokerage Nomura.
"Resorts World Birmingham [pictured in a rendering], which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2015, should lead to future earnings uplift from Genting Malaysia's U.K. operations," said Nomura analysts Tushar Mohata and Alpa Aggarwal in the note issued on Friday.
It followed meetings between Genting Malaysia management and investors hosted by the brokerage during its Nomura Investment Forum Asia 2015.
Nomura added, referring to Genting's countrywide U.K. operations: "Volume in the four international market casinos, which cater to VIPs, might see some slowdown, in line with the global decline in Chinese VIP roll."
According to a corporate website, Genting U.K. has five casinos in London, including its flagship Crockfords, a private members club in upmarket Mayfair.
But provincial Birmingham – along with Durban in South Africa – is said by casino industry professionals to be one of the world's biggest single-conurbation markets for roulette.
According to Birmingham City Council, citing the U.K.'s 2011 national census, around a quarter of Birmingham's 1.07 million recorded population identified themselves as Asian or British Asian, including people with family roots on the Indian sub-continent and China.
Genting U.K. has operated a casino in the city since 2003. Its new GBP150-million (US$229.2-million) property Resorts World Birmingham covers 12 storeys and includes a 50-outlet shopping mall and an 11-screen cinema.
"The resort location is in close proximity to the airport and train station and is planned to have a casino of up to 30 gaming tables, 150 slot machines, sports betting and bingo along with non-gaming amenities including a hotel and spa with 180 four-star rooms and five VIP-star suites," said Nomura's note.
Genting U.K. operates more than 40 casino outlets in the U.K., ranging from Edinburgh in Scotland to Plymouth on the southwest coast of England.
In commentary on Genting Malaysia's other operations, Nomura said the casino operator's core gaming business – the Resorts World Genting casino resort at Genting Highlands in Malaysia – had not been as heavily exposed to the mainland China VIP gaming business as Macau and some other destinations.
"In first quarter 2015, VIP roll was up in low single digits year-on-year, highlighting the resilience of the ASEAN [southeast Asian] VIP business, which Resorts World Genting is mainly focused on. Additionally, 60 percent of the casino revenues are derived from the mass market, which is still holding up," stated the Nomura team.
The institution added that at Resorts World New York City, in the U.S., "a reduction in headcount," that raised severance costs in the fourth quarter had helped in the first quarter to boost earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation by 45 percent year-on-year to MYR96.0 million (US$25.5 million).
Nomura stated that Genting Malaysia was looking to cut further the losses at its majority-owned Resorts World Bimini in the Bahamas.
"The 300-room Hilton hotel, to open in the second half 2015, should further improve the product and visitation to the resort. Management's longer term goal is to capture a higher share of the VIP market due to the high profitability (only an approximately 5 percent gaming tax rate)," stated the Nomura analysts.
Malaysia Covid outlook negative to...
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Yesterday we covered a story where New England Senators were not speaking up to protect the region's Seamounts and Canyons. This prompted me to think about how we need to support politicians who support the protection of the Ocean.
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Wyoming to vote in 2022 to allow local governments to invest in stocks and equities
By Jackie Mitchell
In Ballot measures, State
On April 1, the Wyoming State Legislature referred a constitutional amendment to the 2022 ballot that would allow the legislature to provide by law for local governments (county, city, township, town, school district, or other political subdivision) to invest funds in stocks and equities. Legislation establishing or increasing the percentage of funds a local government could invest would require a two-thirds supermajority vote of the state legislature. Currently, the state constitution allows the state legislature to authorize certain state funds to be invested in stocks.
To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a two-thirds (66.67 percent) supermajority vote is required in both the Wyoming State Senate and the Wyoming House of Representatives.
The measure was introduced as House Joint Resolution 9 on March 4, 2021. It was approved in the House on March 23, 2021, by a vote of 43-16. The Senate approved an amended version of the measure on April 1, 2021, in a vote of 25-5, which was sent to the House for concurrence. The House concurred with the Senate's amendments on April 1, 2021, in a vote of 46-13.
Between 2000 and 2020, the Wyoming State Legislature referred 20 constitutional amendments to the ballot, of which, 12 were approved (60%) and eight (40%) were defeated.
The legislature was set to adjourn the 2021 legislative session on April 7, 2021. The legislature can also refer measures to the 2022 ballot during the 2022 legislative session.
As of April 2, 2021, 15 statewide ballot measures had been certified for the 2022 ballot in 10 states.
Wyoming 2022 ballot measures
Jackie Mitchell is a state ballot measures staff writer at Ballotpedia. Contact us at editor@ballotpedia.org.


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Press reform: Media reaction to regulation deal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21841715
Image caption Press regulation has become a vexed issue in the wake of the Leveson Inquiry
A deal agreed between the three main political parties on measures to regulate the press with a new watchdog - established by royal charter and backed by legislation - has provoked strong opinions.
A number of the UK's national newspapers are taking "high-level legal advice" before making a decision on whether to co-operate with a new regulator.
Newspapers have shared their views on the move in Tuesday's leader columns, while bloggers have been expressing their views online.
UK press
Celebrations are premature. Yes, it is welcome that parliament seems to have stepped back from the worst case scenario - full-scale control of papers by politicians.
And yes, the Sun is committed to tougher rules that safeguard the public. But much remains to be studied before the royal charter can be accepted as the foundation stone of new regulation.
This was a deal done without the involvement of the British press, even though the campaign group Hacked Off was, remarkably, present during the negotiations. The most rational reaction came from Index on Censorship, which declared the deal "a sad day for press freedom in the UK". There was a basic principle at stake and it has been lost.
The role of a free press is to hold the government to account. It should not work the other way round. Despite Mr Cameron's bland reassurance, there is no such thing as a "dab" of statute. Regulation of the press is a matter either recognised in law or it is not.
For all Mr Cameron's protestations, the distinction between his proposed regime and statutory regulation is a semantic one.
The near unanimity in Parliament yesterday in support of the new approach was a powerful indication of how far the press needs to move in order to restore faith in its regulatory structure. The three party leaders urged the newspaper industry to endorse the new dispensation as quickly as possible. However, after 318 years of a free press, its detail deserves careful consideration.
The politics, then, have played out, but will the practicalities? There is still no guarantee. Monday night's non-committal statement by the Newspaper Society suggests that many powerful players are still calculating whether to play ball.
After doing a deal among themselves, the politicians will breathe a sigh of relief and hope they can move on. But as the industry alights on grievances, both real and hyperbolic, the political class as a whole could discover that the brokering has only just begun.
Over the coming weeks, it will be for the newspaper and magazine industry to decide whether it can co-operate with a system involving politicians, many of whom will be here today and gone tomorrow, which overturns 300 years of press freedom.
The bitter irony is this long-drawn out debate comes when the internet - which, being global, has no regulatory restraints - is driving newspapers out of business. If politicians had devoted half as much of their energies to keeping a dying industry alive, instead of hammering another nail into its coffin, democracy would be in a healthier state today.
Given the behaviour of parts of the press over the past few years, and given the prime minister's decision to appoint a judge to shine so unflinching a light on it, something akin to what was agreed yesterday was always the probable outcome.
It is not perfect, from the press perspective. But it could have been worse. Now, all the press must put the posturing and face-saving behind it, accept the new system and move on. Most importantly, we must begin to rebuild public trust in journalism.
The Daily Mirror
The cobbled together blanket law will blow up in Britain's face. Next time a prime minister denounces the censorship of a Mugabe they'll have a ready retort.
Despots will take heart from Britain beating the press.
Fleet Street Fox
When journalists talk about press freedom we are accused of defending ourselves but we are also defending you. There are 62.6 million people in this country, and 20 to 30 million of them read a mass-market newspaper every day. If we successfully defend the rights of the press, we defend the rights of our readers and our non-readers too.
Objectively speaking, I don't mind what I write being controlled by law, so long as the law guarantees that I can otherwise write what I like. We've only got one law for that. It's the Human Rights Act 1998, Article 10. And the government wants to repeal it.
Nick Cohen in the Spectator
The anarchist in me is looking forward to sheer bloody mess this half-baked, illiberal, ill-conceived censorship will bring. It will be a perverse delight to see the regulator overwhelmed and the politicians, who applauded themselves so loudly today, mocked tomorrow.
But this isn't funny because basic human rights are at stake. If politicians from all parties... do not instead tone down this sweeping legislation a great chill will descend on the free republic of online writing, which until now has been a liberating and democratic force in modern British life.
Peter Oborne in the Daily Telegraph
It is a sad moment, but today I have decided to resign from the National Union of Journalists. For some time I have been increasingly disturbed by the NUJ's growing sympathy for state control over the press.
If the union represented journalists, as it claimed to do, it would have been up in arms at yesterday's squalid deal which has granted politicians power over newspapers for the first time in more than 300 years. It would have fought all the way.
Rafael Behr in the New Statesman
I suspect the royal charter will be a disaster. The circumstances of its genesis, the reluctance of the newspapers who are supposed to be governed by it, the lack of understanding among its architects of how the internet works - everything points to chaos and perverse unintended consequences.
Where is the contrition? I hear only what might be called "bankers' apologies". That is the special kind of bogus sorry containing no remorse, only peevish irritation at having been caught doing something deemed unacceptable.
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Computes spatial position models: Stewart potentials, Reilly catchment areas, Huff catchment areas.
Vignettes contain commented scripts on how to use SpatialPostion.
Introduce smoothy to compute distance weighted mean.
Introduce a vignette on how to SpatialPosition with QGIS.
(Re)introduce a longlat param in stewart, mcStewart, huff and reilly to select between eucliean and great circles distances.
Default distance computation is in meters using the Great Circle distance (WGS84 ellipsoid) method.
Introduce the quickStewart function that outputs stewart contour polygons easily. Ratio of potentials are allowed.
Introduce rasterToContourPoly to replace contourStewart.
contourStewart is now deprecated. Use rasterToContour from raster to output contour lines and rasterToContourPoly from SpatialPosition to output polygons.
A resolution is set by default in CreateGrid.
Vignettes are updated to reflect major changes.
New vignette 'Stewart Potentials: a Use Case'.
Minor changes in documentation and vignette.