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It seems like last winter only just ended! (view from the obs this morning)
http://peteralfreybirdingnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/01/arctic-beddington.html
Goosander flyby
Woke up, looked out of the window and a male Goosander flew past- first time I've seen one in ages at the farm. Also two Peregrines from the bed.
I decided not to be lazy and went for a walk out in the cold- there were a couple of Water Pipits on 100 acre and also 15+ Chaffinch, 10+ Linnet, 15+ Goldfinch and 10+ Reed Bunting about. A Green Woodpecker and a Kestrel were looking for food on the mound.
Everything is frozen and it looks like wildfowl numbers are down.
World Birds at Beddington
I was having a look at the bird feeders this morning and remembering how I had seen several of the familiar species in other far flung parts of the world. Great Tit (pic 1) is a species that i have seen in many parts of Eurasia, India and the Far East. Geographical variation across it's range is highly complex (over 30 races are described in HBW) but in the UK, newtoni is the sub-species.
Tree Sparrows (pic 2) occur across the whole of Eurasia and the Orient and they have also been introduced to Pacific islands and Australasia.
Chaffinch (pic 3) is a more restricted range species occurring mainly in west Eurasia and parts of North Africa and also Macronesia (although introduced to a wider area including New Zealand). There are up to 14 races including a very distinctive form which occurs in my foreign patch- the Azores. 'Azorean Chaffinch' (winter male for comparison in pic 4) differs from the Chaffinches at Beddington in having a green mantle instead of brown, peachy underparts and face instead of rusty-red and extensive grey on the flanks and vent. There are also structural and vocalisation differences.
PS. I was ponsing about in the obs this morning and missed a Waxwing which flew southeast which I need for my Beddington list.
Proto-type Book 2
Trying to reach the end of year deadlines to get these books done. Here is the proto-type for the music/art project. Gettting there.
Daddylong legs
Been working on our music/art project this week. Got some new stuff coming out soon. Here is one of the pieces we did earlier this year- a cartoon and track called Daddy Long Legs. Its is inspired by my first experiences with nature- which was mindlessly being cruel to nature. The track is really about a fantasy character who doesn't grow out of it.
http://www.theebryans.com/
November Migration
A north-east wind and low cloud produced good conditions for visible migration. I missed a male Pintail this morning but did see an adult Little Gull flying east which I did get a photo of but the photo is too bad for even this blog- which is saying something. Also a Short-eared Owl from the obs window after being alerted by the troops in the hide.
Also going over were 130+ Lesser Black--backed Gull moving south in small groups (pic 2), 10 Siskin, 30+ Fieldfare and 10+ Redwing.
There was also an influx of Lapwing (pic 1) with 55 birds present and also more Shoveler (pic 3) around with 80+ on site. Also 3 Snipe. Teal (pic 4) numbers are down on last week from 350 to 150. There was a Water Pipit on 100 acre yesterday.
Glorious mud
Had a very pleasant walk this morning pondering various nature reserve aspects including public access to the farmlands. We encountered the problem with clay paths and problems of the the public getting stuck in the mud. Take photos of them and laugh was the best solution we could come up with. Problem solved!
THE BIRDS OF BEDDINGTON FARMLANDS PROTOTYPE
Seven long years to get this far! Almost there- one final edit. If you want a copy let me know becuase they will be printed to order. Price depends on how many copies we order. A great Xmas present for the wife- not too heavy, nice and slender so doesn't need too much space on the shelf (fig 5).
Non-Stop Birding
Pic by Twigg.
Two or three years ago I single handedly started an eco-social movement called Non-stop Birding and I am pleased to announce that the movement has gone from strength to strength and...... well I am still at it, single handedly- although for a brief time I had a non English speaking Bulgarian join in the crusade (who gave up once he learnt English and understood what I was going on about).
Well what is Non-Stop Birding?
a) Understanding that birds are connected to and dependent on the wider ecological, social and economic environment and ultimately the welfare of birds depends on the wildlife sensitive management of that wider system
b) Understanding that the protection of birds depends on birds being valued in society at large and protection being incorporated at the system level- in birds being provided for in all of societies endeavours- housing, industry, culture and agriculture. In other words for birds and wildlife to become a 'must have' in the human environment.
c) Personal implemention of the protection of birds and promotion of birding in every endeavour i) At work ii) In the garden iii) In local community activities iv) at the local patch v) on holiday and vi) anything else e.g. down the pub or up the club
d) Despite being a birding freak doing a personal very best to conform (to at least a minimalist level) to wider social expectations (in manners and appearance) and engagements in order to be a good ambassador for birding and to promote the value of birds to others.
e) Birding just for fun and interest as much as feasibly possible.
f) Doing a personal best to be a birder and a normal(ish) human and if they still aint happy well.... f##k em.
Sunrise over Beddington Farmlands
A bit of vis mig this morning- 100+ Woopigeons and 100+ Fieldfare.
Evansmania
Love him or hate him- he is always at the top!
Flyover Bearded Tits!
Migrating Bearded Tits!!..... comical! They look like they are flying into a gale force head wind but it was dead calm! All the other migrants were over taking them. Anyway like all hearty efforts- good to see them having a go and only the 10th record for Beddington.
Also today a Short-eared Owl flying around, 1 Redpoll over, 4 Siskin, 2 Skylark, 30+ Meadow Pipit, 20+ Linnet, 20+ Chaffinch, 10+ Goldfinch and a small influx of thrushes on the old gravel pit- including 10+ Blackbird, 10+ Song Thrush and the odd Fieldfare and Redwing. About 4 Goldcrests about, 1 Chiffchaff and 15+ Long-tailed Tit. Good numbers of wildfowl with 500+ Teal, 50+ Shoveler, 1 Wigeon, 1 Pochard, 6 Tufted Duck, 4 Gadwall, 40+ Lapwing, 1 Green Sandpiper, 4 Snipe and the 'wintering' Common Sandpiper is still around. 1 Kes and 1 Sprawk.
PS The light was awful today- low cloud and mist.
Btw: for some proper photos of short-eareds check out these pics: http://pewit.blogspot.com/2010/11/another-short-eared-owl-fest.html
A message in the dregs
Thousands of pounds spent on sacrificial crops, tens of thousands of pounds spent on consultancy, millions spent on the restoration project and the result........ not much to sing and dance about.
Someone dumps a load of screenings from a filter on the side of the road because they can't be bothered to take them to landfill and the result...... 50+ Chaffinches, 1 Brambling, 20 + Tree Sparrow and 8 Reed Bunting (and some pigeons).
There is a lesson in here somewhere. Probably something like- 'make use of the zero cost material and resources you have available on site to attract birds rather than (or as well as) trying expensive 'sophisticated' and 'clever' methods which are just as effective or in most cases worse and in Beddington's case - don't work at all :-))'
What a load of sh#t.
Beddington Farmlands and the Wandle Valley Regional Park
I attended the Wandle Valley Regional Park Working Groups launch today. Beddington Farmlands will be one of the key components of the Regional Park which will form a unified area of ecological and cultural interest 13 miles in length. An interesting meeting and another step in the right direction.
Meltdown :-)
Sorry, I know this is supposed to be a birding blog but I really do think that a social and environmental revolution is continuing to ignite which will have fundamental implications for birds and wildlife as a new set of society values are won. It is going to be a very long and hard battle with those fighting for people and the planet pitched agaisnt the current order which is largely pro-minority/ anti- social and anti-environment. Basically the debate of our generation is coming to a head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk9SAsP1LA4&feature=channel
Somewhere out there....
Spent the afternoon looking for this: http://www.birdersplayground.co.uk/Thayers%20Gull%20Pitsea%202010.html
There is a regular exchange of gulls between Beddington and the Thames Estuary so it is quite possible this bird turns up at Beddington.
Anyway I saw bugger all except 2 Yellow-legged Gulls and 2 Dunlin. I've been missing a few good beddington birds over the last couple of days : http://dodge007.blogspot.com/2010/11/good-day-at-farm.html
http://www.diporglory.co.uk/page2.html
Birds Britannia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vssdk
November Beddington
A bit of vis mig today in sunny skies with a light north east breeze. 100+ Woodpigeons, 5 Brambling, 4 Redpoll and 20+ Chaffinch flew over. 15+ Meadow Pipit on the mound, 2 Redwings along the path, 10+ Blackbirds, 30+ Goldfinch, 2 Goldcrest and 10+ Pied Wagtail. The Common Sandpiper was still present and there is a leucistic Herring Gull around (above). There were 2 Wigeon on the lake in addition to 200+ Teal and 30+ Shoveler. One Peregrine, 2 Kestrel and one Sparrowhawk.
Ring-necked Parakeets- a former Beddington vagrant. Several hundred birds now fly over Beddington at dusk to roost somewhere to the north.
AZORES EXPLORATION PELAGIC IN 2011
Black-capped Petrel, Graciosa, (26/05/07) by Killian Mullarney
We will be arranging a pelagic off the Azores for next spring, targeting speciality seabirds including the endemic Monteiro's Storm Petrel (at sea) and also Barolo Shearwater, Bulwers Petrel and Wilson's Petrel. We will also be exploring for Trindade and Black-capped Petrels. These species occur regularly in the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras and Trindade Petrel has been predicted to migrate into Azorean waters (see Flood, B & Danzenbaker, M 2009. Birding World 22:4) . This prediction is supported by a series of casual observations. Further exploration off the Azores, targeting these species at the prime time of year with modern chumming techniques is aimed at testing this prediction. This has not been attempted before.
The backdrop will be good numbers of cetaceans and other marine life.
Here's a few photos from previous 'recces'.
Top to Bottom: Barolo Shearwater, Monteiro's Storm Petrel, Great Shearwater, Wilson's Petrel, 'Fea's' Petrel, Loggerhead Turtle, Sperm Whale, Sowerby's Beaked Whale , Blue Shark and Cory's Shearwater.
For further details and to register an interest in joining this mini-expedition please send me an email (littleoakgroup@btinternet.com)
Beddington Farmlands Nature Reserve Update
Not a lot of progress recently.
The Hackbridge Project Update- creating the UK's first sustainable village
Not a lot is happening around here :-))
Beddington Farmlands and the Wandle Valley Regiona...
The Hackbridge Project Update- creating the UK's f...


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/** 164. Maximum Gap
Given an unsorted array, find the maximum difference between the successive elements in its sorted form.

Try to solve it in linear time/space.

Return 0 if the array contains less than 2 elements.

You may assume all elements in the array are non-negative integers and fit in the 32-bit signed integer range.

Credits:Special thanks to @porker2008 for adding this problem and creating all test cases.
**/

#include <iostream>
#include "../utils.h"
using namespace std;

class Solution {
public:
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};

int main() {
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VLS Media Hits
VLS News Releases
Major Briefs
← Sept. 20, 2011, Cheryl Hanna: A Brief Post on Severability
January 20, 2012, Don Kreis: And The Winner Is… →
Sept. 28, 2011, Don Kreis: Searching for Your Friends at the Vermont Yankee Cocktail Party
A long time ago, during a job interview when I was a law student, the chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court asked me where I saw myself in 10 years. "Chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission," I confidently asserted.
Times have changed, and not just because I have long since left Maine for Vermont. What job would I least like to have right now? Chairman of Vermont's counterpart agency, the Public Service Board (PSB).
The ugly thud you just heard? Perhaps it was the sound of the Vermont Yankee controversy, currently pending at the U.S. District Court in Brattleboro, landing on the desk of PSB Chairman James Volz.
Entergy and the state of Vermont have now filed their post-trial briefs in an effort to explain what insights U.S. District Judge J. Garvan Murtha should glean from the three days of testimony and argument in his courtroom earlier this month. The short answer: Not much.
Key factoid from the state's brief: There is lots of chatter in the State House cafeteria; legislators and lobbyists run into each other there and hold casual conversations about pending legislation and other issues of the day.
Key factoid from Entergy's brief: Sen. Ann Cummings, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, apparently once referred to "sterile sheep" and "three-headed turtles" in connection with legislation about state regulation of Vermont Yankee that was pending. Just another bit of proof, Vermont Yankee would have Judge Murtha determine, that when the Legislature was legislating, it was regulating radiological safety and thus intruding on territory that Congress has reserved for the federal government.
Evidence of that sort – indeed, virtually everything that was introduced, interminably cross-examined, and belabored in arguments both written and oral throughout the case so far – falls under the rubric of what is known in the trade as "legislative history."
Here's the problem: If the question is "what does a statute mean?," the authoritative statement is the statutory text, not the legislative history or any other extrinsic material. Legislative history, in particular, is vulnerable to two serious criticisms. First, legislative history is itself often murky, ambiguous, and contradictory. Judicial investigation of legislative history has a tendency to become, to borrow the late U.S. Circuit Judge Harold Leventhal's memorable phrase, an exercise in "looking over a crowd and picking out your friends."
Second, judicial reliance on legislative materials like committee reports may give unrepresentative committee members—or, worse yet, unelected staffers and lobbyists—both the power and the incentive to attempt strategic manipulations of legislative history to secure results they were unable to achieve through the statutory text.
Earth to litigants, and to everyone else who is obsessed with all that evidence about who said what and when at the State House: I did not make up the preceding two paragraphs. They are lifted nearly verbatim from Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc., 545 U.S. 546, 568 (2005), an opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. He, by the way, is not just any old Supreme Court Justice. He is widely regarded as the swing vote on an otherwise equally divided Court and, thus, in some legal scholars' estimation the most powerful person in America. Justice Kennedy's views deserve to be taken seriously when pondering a case that many think will land with a thud at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, back to the thud resonating from the desk of Chairman Volz in Montpelier.
It turns out that when the parties are not arguing in their post-trial briefs about cafeteria chatter and mutant turtles, they are agreeing about something: That Judge Murtha could decide that the Public Service Board, as distinct from the Legislature, has the authority under Vermont law to rule on Vermont Yankee's future and is not prevented by the pre-emption doctrine from doing so.
How can this be? Well, recall that when the PSB approved the purchase of Vermont Yankee by Entergy from a consortium of regulated utilities, Entergy explicitly agreed that its authority under state law to operate the plant would expire on March 21, 2012 – the same date on which the then-applicable federal license would run out. This agreement is memorialized in the much-debated memorandum of understanding (MOU) that Entergy signed with the Public Service Department and ratified by the PSB.
As to state-law operating authority as of this coming March 21, Entergy agreed to seek approval from the PSB (and not challenge the PSB's authority in litigation). At the conclusion of the trial, Judge Murtha asked the parties to comment on a legal concept known as severability – see Professor Hanna's Sept. 20 disquisition on this principle on our blog – a query that comes down to whether the law permits him to hold Entergy to its MOU bargain even if the Legislature is pre-empted from deciding to shut the nuclear plant.
Earlier in the case, Entergy argued that the whole process under state law has become so tainted by politics and pre-emption that even the PSB should not be permitted to consider Vermont Yankee's fate. The company now appears to have abandoned that argument and is willing to take its case before the PSB.
This, of course, raises the question of what happens if Judge Murtha concludes that (a) the PSB can and should exercise its authority to review Vermont Yankee's continued operation, but (b) the Legislature is pre-empted from doing so. Indeed, this seems to be the outcome the judge is most likely to embrace. Does Vermont Yankee continue to operate while the PSB case unfolds? Can the state appeal Judge Murtha's adverse ruling about the Legislature's authority?
It is anybody's guess. But it seems likely that Judge Murtha, or perhaps the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, would enter an injunction that would preserve the status quo ante and keep Vermont Yankee in business. And it also seems quite possible that the Second Circuit, and perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court, would determine that Judge Murtha's ruling about the Vermont Legislature is not ripe for consideration while the PSB proceeding is pending. The PSB, after all, could ultimately rule that Vermont Yankee must shut down – and that would be that.
Or would it? Out of Entergy's post-trial brief can be teased the somewhat subtly stated proposition that the PSB wouldn't have much of a legal basis on which to determine that the plant should be shuttered. Entergy argues, quite persuasively, that under the MOU as well as applicable state and federal law, the PSB would be precluded from basing its decision on radiological safety. And Entergy further argues that other key questions are out of bounds as well.
Prominent among those questions is the economic effect of Vermont Yankee. And here the little discussed second and third counts of Entergy's original complaint in federal court come to the fore. Entergy, unlike Vermont Yankee's previous owners, is not a regulated utility but a merchant generator. In other words, its business is to sell power via wholesale contracts to utilities and other electricity suppliers. It has long been established that these transactions are interstate commerce for purposes of the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause, which precludes states from regulating or burdening interstate commerce. Counts II and III claim that Vermont can not regulate Vermont Yankee's power transactions because the Federal Power Act pre-empts such state authority and because such regulation would violate the Commerce Clause.
As Entergy persuasively points out, a merchant generator, even a big one based in Vermont, has no direct impact on Vermont utility rates, and thus no significant effect on the Vermont economy (or the diversity of its electricity sources) for the simple reason that no Vermont utility is obliged to purchase power from Vermont Yankee. So, while the PSB could arguably tell a utility to shutter a plant because it is too expensive for its customers or represents too big a reliance on one fuel source, these principles are simply inapplicable here for purposes of any PSB deliberations on the future of the plant.
Not so fast. Recall that when Vermont Yankee was utility property, utility customers effectively paid, over time, the cost of building Vermont Yankee. This is because, under established rate-making principles, the carrying costs of the utilities' investment in the plant were included in rates, as were depreciation charges that gradually paid back the cost of the plant itself. So, when the utilities decided to sell Vermont Yankee, they were, in effect, giving up an asset that was, in a broad sense, co-owned with their customers. What the customers got in return was real cash money. Money that was reflected, in part, by whatever portion of the sales price that was ultimately credited to them through rates, and also reflected, in part, by Entergy's agreement to sell relatively cheap power from Vermont Yankee to the utilities as well as to share with Vermont utilities some of the profits from lucrative sales to buyers in other states. Those agreements to share the merchant generation benefits of Vermont Yankee run out on the magic date of March 21, 2012.
Therefore, a fair reading of the MOU is that it was intended by its signatories to give the PSB the opportunity, as to Vermont Yankee operations after the magic date, to consider not the radiological safety of the plant but the extent to which Vermont utility customers would continue to benefit from what is, after all, power that is cheaper than the otherwise prevailing wholesale rate. (The reason is not that nuclear power is inherently cheap – it isn't – but that a plant that's been depreciating for 40 years is relatively inexpensive to operate. Have you ever decided to drive a really old car for as long as possible? Then you grasp this principle.)
This is why the negotiations involving Entergy prior to the litigation focused not on safety but on the possibility of new power deals with Vermont utilities. It is also why Counts II and III are in Entergy's complaint now; the company does not want to be forced to sell cheap power in Vermont. This may well be the festering underbelly of Entergy's position in the case. Via the MOU, Entergy may or may not have agreed to let the PSB rule on radiological safety. But it seems much clearer that Entergy agreed not to sue the state, on constitutional grounds or otherwise, if the PSB tells Vermont Yankee that its continued operation is only consistent with the general good of the state (the statutory standard) if Vermont electric customers continue to reap the benefits of inexpensive Vermont Yankee power.
Still, what sane person would want to be PSB Chairman Volz right now – or one of his two colleagues, commissioners David Coen and John Burke? Each is a capable, thoughtful and independent regulator. But, if forced to conduct a Vermont Yankee proceeding, they will do so in the crucible of hostile public opinion about the plant and its owners, to say nothing of the already established judgment of the Vermont Legislature that Vermont Yankee should close.
They say that bad cases make bad law. This is a bad case, whether heard in a federal courtroom or in the hearing room of the Public Service Board.
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Recent Major Briefs
June 5, 2012, State of Vermont Brief in the Second Circuit (Yankee)
September 26, 2011, Vermont Post Trial Memo
September 26, 2011, Entergy Post Trial Memo
July 18, 2011, Memorandum and Order on Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction
June 13, 2011, Amicus brief of Commonwealth of Mass.
June 13, 2011, Vermont Proposed Sur-reply to Entergy Reply
June 6, 2012, Don Kreis: State to Court of Appeals: Act 160 Just a "Process Statute"
Feb. 28, 2012, Don Kreis: Vermont Yankee and the Rule of Law
NY Times Coverage
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
Vermont Public Interest Research Group
Vermont Yankee
VT Attorney General
YouTube video of Vermont Yankee Forum at VLS
Environmental Law Center
VJEL
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Vermont Yankee Lawsuit: Commentary

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Remote Desktop Protocol 7, the version which shipped with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, is available to install on Windows XP (x86) as well as Windows Vista (x86/x64). This will bring the RDP7 functionality to those platforms including new functional enhancements including multiple monitors, bidirectional audio, multimedia enhancements (specific codecs), etc. In my experience during real-world POCs, it is worth the upgrade.
The Start Menu subscription capability available in Windows 7 has not been backported. You will see the new system tray icon but when you click on it there will not be an option to invoke the control panel applet as you would see in Windows 7. One more reason to upgrade (as if you needed another reason).


The training is addressed to young farmers, coming from rural and semi-urban areas. It is based on the European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET) in order to enable the mobility of learners between EU countries and facilitate the creation of employability for young people, especially in the agricultural sector.
We would greatly appreciate if you could stay with us for a few minutes to complete a short questionnaire on your acquaintance with the hydroponics and sustainable forms of agriculture.
We are happy to announce that the English version of the PONICS VET website is now fully deployed online!
The first meeting of the PONICS VET project took place on 23 till 24 January 2018 in Jelgava, Latvia.


Empire Minecraft has players from all over the world, on several different time zones. Because of that, we have the EMC Time, which is an official time for the server, mostly used for organizing official events. You can use the command /time in game to see the current EMC Time, which is the same as the Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Below, you can see the current EMC Time, as well as other time zones' clocks, so you can compare your time zone with EMC Time.
Thanks to the folks over at timeanddate.com for the clocks!
Take part in events on EMC, host one yourself or visit a special Empire residence.


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«Бульвар Рокоссо́вского» (до 8 июля 2014 года — «Улица Подбельского») — станция Московского метрополитена, конечная северо-восточного радиуса Сокольнической линии. Расположена на территории района Богородское (ВАО). Открыта 1 августа  года в составе участка  — «Улица Подбельского». Была временно закрыта с 16 по 23 февраля и с 30 марта по 4 апреля 2019 года для строительства Большой кольцевой линии.

История и происхождение названия
Станция открыта под названием «Улица Подбельского» 1 августа 1990 года в составе участка «» — «Улица Подбельского», после ввода в эксплуатацию которого в Московском метрополитене стало 143 станции. Была названа по улице Подбельского, в 1992 году переименованной в Ивантеевскую (на перекрёстке этой улицы с  расположен северный выход со станции). После переименования улицы, которая получила исходное название в честь партийного и государственного деятеля Вадима Подбельского, название станции утратило географическую привязку, хотя имя Подбельского сохранилось до настоящего времени в названиях семи проездов, расположенных в том же районе. По решению Московской межведомственной комиссии по наименованию территориальных единиц, улиц, станций метрополитена, организаций и других объектов города станция «Улица Подбельского» 8 июля 2014 года в рамках подготовки к празднованию 70-летия победы в Великой Отечественной войне была переименована в «Бульвар Рокоссовского». Расстояние от наземных вестибюлей станции до самого бульвара составляет 450 метров.

Как отметил мэр Москвы Сергей Собянин: «Мы с советом ветеранов вырабатывали комплекс мероприятий по подготовке к 70-летию Победы в Великой Отечественной войне. Часть мероприятий посвящена увековечению памяти героев войны, великих полководцев, которые защищали Москву и нашу Родину. Предложение было по переименованию станции метро "Улица Подбельского" в станцию метро "Бульвар Рокоссовского"».

Вестибюли и пересадки
Станция имеет два кассовых зала : южный, с тремя выходами — на Открытое шоссе и северный, с двумя выходами — на Ивантеевскую улицу и 7-й проезд Подбельского. На одном конце в северном подземном вестибюле имеется общая лестница, на другом конце в южном подземном вестибюле — эскалаторы и лестница.

10 сентября 2016 года открыта одноимённая станция Московского центрального кольца (МЦК), вход на которую находится в непосредственной близости от выхода №3, южного вестибюля станции метрополитена.

Подземные сооружения
Колонная трёхпролётная станция мелкого заложения (глубина заложения — 8 м). Сооружена по типовому проекту из сборного железобетона с опорой на «стену в грунте». На станции два ряда по 26 железобетонных колонн. Шаг колонн 6,5 м.

Колонны облицованы белым мрамором, путевые стены — металлическими полосами, из которых выложен геометрический орнамент; цоколь стен покрыт тёмным гранитом. Пол выложен светло-серым гранитом с полосами из чёрного и красного мрамора.

Памятников и бюстов на станции нет.

Путевое развитие
За станцией расположен 6-стрелочный оборотный тупик. В средних тупиках (3 и 4 ст. пути) организован ПТО.

Перед станцией расположен пошёрстный съезд.

Галерея

Наземный общественный транспорт

Станция в цифрах
 Код станции — 001.
 В марте  года пассажиропоток составлял: по входу — 42,8 тысячи человек, по выходу — 45,1 тысячи человек.

См. также
 Список станций Московского метрополитена

Примечания

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Станции Московского метрополитена
Колонные станции мелкого заложения
Богородское
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We all have a belief that the actions which we perform in our day to day life are always correct and there is nothing wrong about it and we have been doing this for the entire life. There are numbers of things which we have been doing wrong that irritates us but we never knew that all are because of our own fault.
In order to make a small positive change in your life we would like to share some things that you have been doing wrong throughout out the life and after applying these things in your life I assure you that it will make your life a lot easier and comfortable.
The appropriate way of wearing headphones is to wear it around the ear before placing it in ears as shown in picture.
In order to eat burgers properly hold it by using your thumb and little finger at the base of burger as shown in picture.
The right way to use hairpins is to place the zigzag side inside your hair.
Hold the wine glass stand by using your palm is the correct way to hold a glass of wine as shown in picture.
The right way to do squats is to sit properly without moving your knee position as shown in picture.
The right way to wear a backpack is to tight the strips of the bag so that it reaches to your shoulder and make you feel more comfortable.
The right way to eat pizzas is to hold it tightly at some space from the corner as shown in picture.
The correct method of holding a pen is shown in the above picture.
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As London-born forward has experienced a lack of regular minutes across the previous year, a move to one of the biggest clubs in the world may appeal to him, although a departure in January may be dependent on whether the Premier League champions recruit a striker at the same time.
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Lying with the front or face downward.


Dave Rand is giving a lunchtime Berkman talk titled "The Online Laboratory: Taking Experimental Social Science onto the Internet." It is based on a paper with John Dorton and Richard Zeckhauser called "The Online Laboratory: Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market," which is available online (go to Dave's homepage).
He begins by warning against mistaking correlation for causation. But, he says, you of course need more than that. For one thing, you need subjects, time and money. "In social psych, they use smart tricks." In experimental economics (Dave's field), they use monetary incentives. In field studies, they use surprise. The Internet can help in all these fields: Easy recruitment, many subjects, little effort. But few economists are using online experiments because it's harder to pay people to participate … until online labor markets came along that make it easy to recruit and pay subjects.
Dave is going to focus on Amazon's Mechanical Turk as an online labor market, although there are many other out there. The name comes from an 18th century chess playing robot that actually had a person hidden inside. Amazon's MT farms out tasks to lots of people who are paid relatively little. They pay small amo9ounts of money for short tasks that are easy for humaans but hard for computers: labeling photos, completing surveys, etc. "Human Intelligence Tasks" = HITs. (Dave notes that he has no affiliation with Amazon.) The minimum reservation (= min amt you're willing to work for) is $1.38. Dave usually pays $0.20- 0.40 flat rate per task, and bonus of up to a dollar for each 5 min task. Last time he did this, he got 1,500 people in 2.5 days.
Q: What about selection bias?
A: Most of this talk is about why using the Net is a reasonable approach to economics research.
Who are the Turkers? Modal age is around 30, with a tail going out through the 40s and 60s. 35% from US, 45% from India, and the rest from everywhere else. (Locations are self-reported.) You can limit respondents by country, over 18, and satisfactory previous work at MT. It's completely anonymous to the experimenter. Amazon takes 10%. The motivation overwhelmingly is to make money, which Dave likes because you have a way of controlling the size of the incentive and because that's how experimental economics works. Of course, you don't know if they're watching TV at the same time (or whatever).
Q: How much data do you have to throw away?
A: A fair bit. At the end we often ask a survey question that depends upon people having read the instructions. About 30% of the people fail.
Q: Is there going to be legislation or IRB regs to prevent paying people under the minimum wage?
A: I think most of what I'm running pay around min wage, but it's a good question.
Q: Miriam Cherry is saying we ought to pay min wage.
Dave points out it's really hard to use MT to do experiments that require feedback.
Education level of the Turkers: Most in the US and elsewhere have a bachelor's degree. Most people not from the US are making less than $15,000/yr.
What's great about it: Fast, cheap, easy, incentive-compatible, cross-cultural (with some strange bias — US Turkers may have diff motives than Indian Turkers, etc.) and great potential for field studies.
Isn't this a biased sample? Yes, but most experimental economic studies are done on college undergrads. You get much more age, SES, geographic variation. You do lose control over what else people are doing while doing the experiment. So, you need replication studies.
He looks at an aggregation of results about the dictator game and the trust game, for dollar or for nothing, and it turns out that stakes don't matter as much as economists thought.
Dave's group has replicated various experiments. E.g., they found that priming works (read a religious passage before playing the prisoner's dilemma), although it depends on the person (cooperation goes down for those who don't believe in God and goes up for those who do).
Dave's IRB does not require consent from the subjects since what h's doing is so consistent with that goes on at MT.
Overall, Dave thinks it's great. It opens the door to anyone with a research idea. OTOH, it may result in the "file drawer" problem: Only positive results get published. Journals ought to require scientists to say how many times they've run the experiment.
Dave goes through a few cool studies, which I will not get right. But I see Ethan Zuckerman liveblogging. Go there now.
Pitfalls: Turkers don't pay attention. So, put in attentino-checking questinos. Likewise for understanding instructions. Also, non-random attrition, i.e., people who leave after the first couple of questions because they don't like them. So, check for it, and give them an initial "hook task," such as transcribing text, but they don't get paid until they've done the second part.
People ask how it feels to run a sweatshop, but Dave hasn't lost sleep about it. For one thing, he pays generously compared to MT wages.
Q: Does this crowd out people willing to donate work for free, e.g., at Wikipedia.
Q: Is it easier to believe you're anonymous on Turk than if you're doing real world experiments?
A: Don't know. Could be an empirical study of that.


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Tips on Traveling from Heathrow Airport to Central London
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Located 15 miles to the west of London, Heathrow (LHR) is one of the world's busiest international airports. Luckily, if you need to travel into Central London from Heathrow Airport, there are several different options ranging from private car-hire to public transportation.
Taking the Tube to Central London From Heathrow Airport
The Piccadilly Line connects all Heathrow terminals (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) to central London via a direct service. Services run frequently (every few minutes) between around 5 a.m. and midnight (approximately) Monday to Saturday, and from around 6 a.m. to midnight (approximately) on Sundays and public holidays. All of the airport stations are in Zone 6 (central London is zone 1.) London Underground provides one of the cheapest ways to travel to and from Heathrow Airport but the journey takes longer than other options.
Duration: 45 minutes (Heathrow Terminal 1-3 to Hyde Park Corner)
Taking Heathrow Express to Central London From Heathrow Airport
The Heathrow Express is the quickest way to travel into central London. Heathrow Express runs from terminals 2, 3, 4 and 5 to Paddington station. Trains depart around every 15 minutes and tickets can be bought on board (although you'll pay more for the fare than purchasing a ticket in advance). Travelcards and Oyster pay as you go rates are not valid on Heathrow Express.
Taking Heathrow Connect to Central London From Heathrow Airport
HeathrowConnect.com also runs a train service between Heathrow Airport and Paddington station via five intermediate stations in West London. Tickets are cheaper than the Heathrow Express fares as the journey takes longer. Services run every 30 minutes (every 60 minutes on Sundays). Tickets cannot be bought on board and must be purchased in advance. Oyster pay as you go and Zone 1–6 Travelcards are only valid for travel between Paddington and Hayes & Harlington.
Top Tip: If you're waiting for a train from Paddington on a Friday, and are in the area before midday, you might like to take a 5-minute stroll to see the Rolling Bridge.
Taking the Bus to Central London From Heathrow Airport
National Express runs a bus service between Heathrow Airport and Victoria Station every 15-30 minutes at peak times from terminals 2, 3, 4 and 5. Travelers departing from Terminals 4 or 5 will need to change at terminals 2 and 3.
Duration: 55 minutes from terminal 2 and 3. Journeys take longer from terminals 4 and 5 as passengers need to change at terminals 2 and 3.
The N9 night bus offers a service between Heathrow Airport and Aldwych and runs every 20 minutes throughout the night. The fare can be paid for by Oyster card making it the cheapest way to travel between Heathrow Airport and central London although the journey can take as long as 90 minutes. Use Journey Planner to check times.
Duration: Between 70 and 90 minutes
Taking a Taxi to Central London From Heathrow Airport
You can usually find a line of black cabs outside each terminal or go to one of the approved taxi desks. The fares are metered, but watch out for extra charges such as late night or weekend journey fees. Tipping is not compulsory, but 10% is considered the norm.
Duration: Between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on traffic
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The lepers in today's Gospel reveal something about me and what I aspire to be.
Although Jesus healed 10 lepers, only one returned to thank him. I am moved to contrition when I think of all the times the Lord has blessed me with Grace or answered prayers, and I accept it without thanks, perhaps not intentionally in a feeling of entitlement, but self-absorption all the same.
The last leper, the Samaritan, was culturally the least likely to receive such a gift of healing, and yet, he was the first to proclaim the Lord's mercy.
The leper not only received the gift of healing, but he recognized and acknowledged the source as the Lord Jesus Christ.
I am heartened by his example to praise the Lord in all things, and especially, to live my faith with a grateful heart.
Maria Morera Johnson, author of My Badass Book of Saints: Courageous Women Who Showed Me How to Live, and Super Girls and Halos: My Companions on the Quest for Truth, Justice, and Heroic Virtue, loves writing and speaking about her faith.
Wonderful reminder to thank our Lord in all things! I do understand, as when our favor has been granted, we tend to say a quick "thank you" and go on, forgetting about the graces He has bestowed on us that we were seeking. Thank you for this great reminder, Maria!
Amen amen!! Thank you Jesus for helping me and thank you Maria for reminding me!
Thank you ladies! It's wonderful how we can read scripture and really see and hear the Lord speak to us, isn't it? These reminders lift us daily — they help us in our daily challenge toward holiness!


I've worked for smaller companies my entire life and love the culture that brings. I'm a planner by nature, so this industry suites me. My favorite part of my job is working on financial plans, and my favorite part of working with clients is serving them well and knowing that what we do makes a difference. I enjoy and appreciate the wealth of knowledge and experience my colleagues bring to SYM!
I love spending time with friends and family as much as possible, and I also love traveling and live music. Some items on my bucket list are to travel to Finland with my step-dad (where he is from), to vacation in Bora Bora, and to own and learn to ride a motorcycle.
A meaningful life is not being rich, being popular, being highly educated, or being perfect. It's about being real, being humble, being able to share ourselves and touch the lives of others.


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Researchers Find Cannabidiol (CBD) Can Heal Eczema
Sarah Parfitt June 5, 2018	World Cannabis News
Research conducted at the University of Colorado indicates that CBD is helpful in treating eczema and its associated symptoms, making it a viable alternative to commonly prescribed steroid medications. Researchers found that CBD's anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial properties help topically calm eczema.
Lead researcher Dr. Robert Dellavalle said, "There's a large segment of the population that doesn't like using steroids, even if they are topical… CBD could be an alternative, natural product for them to try," the Independent reports. Now, "when we have somebody who has tried topical steroids or topical immune-modulators that suppress the immune system for psoriasis or eczema and they haven't gotten completely better, there's a potential of using this new therapy that might work in a different way and help them."
The World Health Organization (WHO) has already indicated that CBD has no potential for harm or abuse. Several CBD clinical trials have shown positive results reducing symptoms of skin conditions. Researchers and doctors want to further study CBD but there are restrictions due to cannabis being a federally illegal substance.
Dr. Dellavale said, "The fact that it's illegal at the federal level, but legal at the state level – it leads to a lot of complications in trying to do research on marijuana and its derivatives, all of the cannabinoids."
Dermatology textbooks have referenced cannabinoids and their potential as anti-inflammatories, antimicrobials and anti-itch agents since the first textbooks were published. The first textbook of dermatologic therapeutics says, "a pill of cannabis indica at bedtime has at my hands sometimes afforded relief to the intolerable itching of eczema."
The National Eczema Association said, "It has long been observed that cannabinoids possess anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and anti-itch qualities."
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Kassiah: Jonah Clarke is a contract lawyer, dead set on not taking on any juvenile cases when a girl brings a dog in need to him. He's a lawyer, not a vet, so he brings the dog to the new vet in town–Celia Gamble, his deceased best friend's little sister. Celia's had a crush on Jonah since they were kids and though she's run into legal trouble of her own, she isn't willing to seek any advice from Jonah.
The two try to deny their feelings until they can't anymore.
Jonah deals with the guilt of having feelings for his best friend's little sister.
Celia deals with thinking he'll never see her as anything other than a kid. All the while, Celia's got a serious problem that could affect her family's business as well as her new practice. And Jonah's the only one she can turn to for help.
What happens when they finally give in to their feelings?
Though I didn't particularly love Jonah or Celia–he was too hot and cold, she got a little too bitchy for me–they were authentic, and I was rooting for them to get it together. I liked their banter and their familiarity with each other. I loved the advice that other characters gave them, especially Des.
Give Resisting the Rancher a try if you're looking for a quick read with fun characters and a cute ending.
But she's also had a bunch of other stuff published, including one mystery novel, a couple of literary short stories and a non-fiction series. One summer, she wrote video game dialogue and narrative for Silicon Sisters Interactive, a project that combined her two favourite genres – mystery and romance – with the world of casual gaming.
In 2012 she sold her first romance novel to Entangled Publishing. THREE RIVER RANCH made the Barnes & Noble Top Ten list, The Amazon Top 100 list and is now the foundation of a multi-book series. Recently, the first three books sold to France.
Those early impressions can be hard to adjust, can't they?
I've read this book and really enjoyed it. I thought it was a cute, funny, fresh romance. I'd love to win a signed set of all her RR books! This was the 1st book in this series I had read… but I want now to read the others. :-))) Thanks for the giveaway!
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How much longer will Coca-Cola and Pepsi be 'soda' companies?
Coca-Cola unveiled a new look for its soda products Tuesday, marketing varieties like Diet Coke and Coca-Cola as part of a single, unified brand. The change comes as Coca-Cola and Pepsi try to adapt to consumers buying less and less soda.
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This photo provided by The Coca-Cola Company shows the new appearance of Coca-Cola bottles. Coca-Cola says it is giving cans and bottles of its flagship sodas a makeover, with plans to unify the appearance of regular Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero and Coke Life.
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Coca-Cola is getting a makeover.
The soda company announced Tuesday that it will be unifying its products under a "One Brand" marketing strategy in order to create a cohesive look across global markets. It's also joining others in the soda business in recognizing the need to adapt to consumers' changing tastes.
As part of the design change, Coca-Cola products will feature a red disk and graphics that clearly identify each individual Coke option while integrating them into a more cohesive, single brand. Under the new look, options like Diet Coke, Coca-Cola Zero, and Coca-Cola Classic look less like individual products and more like pieces of a set.
The "One Brand" strategy is scheduled to roll out first in Mexico, and will land in other markets throughout 2016 and into 2017.
Coca-Cola said that the design change is part of a move to more clearly signal to consumers which Coke products will fit their lifestyles. Although soda and soft drinks still account for 73 percent of Coca-Cola's core market, that number is declining as consumers move away from sugary beverages.
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And it's not the only beverage company faced with adapting to a changing clientele. On Monday, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi said that soda now accounts for less than 25 percent of the company's global sales, with just 12 percent coming from sales of Pepsi soda. Instead, PepsiCo relies more heavily on "everyday nutrition" items, like bottled water and its snack foods division, even prompting some debate on Twitter over whether the company should change its name altogether.
For both Coke and Pepsi, a shift away from their soda-centric identities is crucial to their survival. In 1998, the average American drank 56 gallons of soda annually. By 2014, it was 42 gallons, according to Beverage Digest. Soda sales have declined each of the last 11 years.
With One Brand, Coca-Cola is navigating the shift while trying to preserve Coke's status as a household name, Amy Bentley, a professor of Food Studies at New York University, tells the Monitor in a phone interview.
"They're not changing what's iconic, the red brand and lettering, and that's one of the most hugely recognized brand images around," she explains. "[One Brand is] tweaking what's already a very successful brand icon to keep consumer interest. Soda consumption is going down, [and] both Coke and Pepsi are expanding their product lines to compensate with that."
In a press release, James Sommerville, Coca-Cola's Vice President of Global Design, said the new brand strategy "utilizes a historical brand icon to present the range of Coca-Cola products available today in a contemporary and simple way."
Soda's decline stems in large part from increased public awareness about obesity, in which experts contend sugary drinks have played a large part. In response, Coke and Pepsi have made concessions, such as introducing smaller beverage containers as an alternative to full-size soda bottles and no longer marketing soda directly to children.
But some regulators and public health advocates argue those reforms aren't enough. Kathleen Keller, an assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Food Science at Penn State University, tells the Monitor in a phone interview that too many food companies are instead using their ad dollars to merely market different sugary options to children.
"If you ask companies…the data that they cite for that is saying that they're not advertising soda to kids as much, but what you see is that they're not advertising soda, but they are advertising sugar-sweetened beverages in the form of teas or juice drinks. They are essentially just shifting the advertising dollars to other products in their portfolio,"she says.
Dr. Keller explains that the way children respond to food brands they recognize can have a tremendous influence on their eating habits.
"Kids don't know the purpose of advertising is to sell them a product," she says. "They think it's fun, it's supposed to be entertaining and rewarding… but they don't necessarily know what the purpose is behind it."
Advocates say that public measures, like soda taxes to discourage consumption, are more effective. The idea has faced considerable opposition in the United States. Berkeley, California is the only city in the US to have successfully voted in a soda tax. But Mexico's soda tax has coincided with 12-percent decline in soda sales since it was implemented in 2014. In March, Britain announced that it will also introduce a soda tax to curb childhood obesity. The British government has said that one in five English children is obese by the time they leave primary school.
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Fish get addicted to meth through contaminated water, shows Czech study
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Freshwater fish are in danger of becoming addicted to methamphetamine, Czech scientists have warned in a study published in the prestigious Journal of Experimental Biology. Their research has shown that after spending time in meth contaminated waters, fish became less active and displayed withdrawal symptoms.
The Czech Republic has long been known as the biggest producer of illegal crystal meth, known as Pervitin, in Europe. Researchers from the University of Life Sciences have now found that the drug, which enters the waterways through discharge from wastewater plants, can also have a devastating effect on fish.
Researchers performed lab experiments with brown trout, isolating them in a water tank laced with one microgram of methamphetamine. After spending two months in the meth contaminated water, the fish became less active, but they also displayed drug withdrawal symptoms, says behavioural ecologist Pavel Horký, who headed the research team:
"Once we denied the fish access to the methamphetamine, they were trying to seek its source. At the same time, their activity ceased and their behaviour changes were accompanied by changes in the brain tissues, stemming from residues of amphetamine in the brain."
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Mr. Horký says that while the level of meth they used was not insignificant, similar concentrations have previously been found in freshwater streams in the Czech Republic.
"It is still an environmentally relevant concentration. The concentrations can actually range between hundreds of nanograms to units of micrograms.
"They change throughout the year, but also during the week. With many people using the drugs recreationally, you can see a significant increase at weekends."
Methamphetamine is considered one of the most serious global health threats, with its consumption significantly increasing in recent years. The Czech study shows that the problem does not concern only humans but can also threaten aquatic ecosystems:
"It is a big warning, because the animals can start to behave unnaturally. Their desire for drugs may override their desire to obtain a suitable reproductive partner, a food source, to hide from the harsh environment or from predators. From this point of view, the effect of the drug can be as devastating as the effect it has on people and human society."
Fish that live near wastewater treatment plants are exposed not only to methamphetamines, but also to dozens to hundreds of other chemicals, including antidepressants, common painkillers, caffeine and substances used in veterinary medicine. Previous studies have shown that hormones from contraceptives, for example, can change the sex of fish.
The European Union has been trying to ensure that wastewater treatment in its member countries improves, but according to researcher Pavel Horký it is not that easy, both technologically and financially. One of the most effective ways to reduce water contamination, he says, is to stop overusing pharmaceuticals.
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The last time the Sarasota County Commission adjusted the boundaries of the five districts of its members was in June 2011, in response to the findings of the 2010 U.S. Census.
This week, Commissioner Nancy Detert suggested that the board not wait until the data come in from the 2020 Census to modify the districts again. Her reason? The Single-Member District Charter amendment that won approval of voters on Nov. 6, 2018.
Beginning with the 2020 County Commission elections — which will occur before the next Census figures are final — a voter will be able to cast ballots only for County Commission candidates who live in the same district within which the voter resides. The process will be the same for primaries as for the general election.
Previously, in a General Election, any voter could cast a ballot for a commission candidate in each district race, regardless of where the voter or the candidate lived.
Sarasota Alliance for Fair Elections (SAFE) conducted a citizen-initiated petition drive to gain enough voter signatures to place the proposed Charter amendment on the Nov. 6, 2018 General Election Ballot. The Single-Member District measure won approval of 59.84% of the voters who marked the question on their ballots, Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Office records show.
Detert, Commissioner Michael Moran and Chair Charles Hines all were elected in November 2016 to four-year terms. Hines must step down in 2020 because of term limits. However, Detert and Moran will be eligible to run again. Detert, who lives in Venice, represents District 3; Moran, who lives in Sarasota, represents District 1.
Hines then asked County Attorney Stephen DeMarsh about the authority the Sarasota County Charter gives the board in regard to redistricting.
"The commission can redistrict whenever it wants," DeMarsh replied, though it must do so in response to U.S. Census results.
In response to a Sarasota News Leader question, county Media Relations Officer Drew Winchester wrote in a Feb. 28 email that the last time the County Commission approved redistricting was on June 8, 2011. The board conducted the second of two required public hearings that day.
Winchester provided a map of the population of each of the five districts in April 2011.
He was not able to give the News Leader current population data for the districts prior to the News Leader's publication deadline this week.
County Commission District 1: 57,353.
County Commission District 2: 61,755.
County Commission District 3: 66,030.
County Commission District 4: 64,238.
County Commission District 5: 73,769.


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