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Оганесон (-{Og}-) трансактиноидски је хемијски елемент. Име је признато од IUPAC-а. Унуноктијум (Uuo), како се звао пре добијања званичног имена, веома је нестабилан. Ово је последњи до сада откривени елемент у стандардном периодном систему елемената. Распада се на елемент 116, он на 114 итд.

Према подацима из марта 2018, оганесон је елемент са највишим атомским бројем и највећом атомском масом од свих елемената који су до данас откривени. У периодном систему елемената налази се у 18. групи елемената по -{IUPAC}--у, члан је 7. периоде и -{p}--блока па се због тога убраја у племените гасове. Раније је био познат и као ека-радон, елемент 118 и унуноктијум. Име је добио по руском хемичару који га је и први синтетисао, Јурију Оганесјану. У периодном систему налази се између елемената 117-{Ts}- (први пут синтетисан 2010. године) и хипотетског 119-{Uue}- (који још није успешно синтетисан). До 2005. године откривена су и доказана само три атома изотопа 294-{Og}-.

Историја

Први извјештаји о синтези елемената 116 и 118 у Националној лабораторији "Ловренс Беркли" обављени су 1999. године у стручном часопису -{Physical Review Letters}-. Наредне године, извештај о открићу елемента 118 је повучен, јер се описани резултати нису слагали са резултатима које су добили други научници покушавајући да репродукују описане експерименте. У јуну 2002. директор лабораторије у Берклију објавио је да су првобитно објављени извјештаји највероватније били засновани на кривотвореним подацима. Сумњало се да је један од сарадника, Виктор Нинов, манипулирао са измереним подацима о распаду изотопа током експеримента. Међутим, Нинов се бранио тиме да су апарати за мерење били у квару и оповргавао је своју кривицу.

Године 2006. поновно су се појавили извештаји о успешној синтези елемента 118. У руском граду Дубна, у оквирима сарадње Заједничког института за нуклеарна истраживања и Националне лабораторије "Ловренс Ливермор", добијен је елемент 118, бомбардовањем атома калифорнијума јонима калцијума. Елемент је идентификован путем производа његовог алфа-распада.

Синтеза је изгледала овако:

Етимологија
Новооткривени елемент 118 најпре је носио систематски назив унуноктијум (хемијски симбол -{Uuo}-). Након званичне потврде открића, његови проналазачи су планирали предложити име московијум за нови елемент, након чега би касније требала уследити званична потврда -{IUPAC}-а. У неким медијима такав предлог имена новог елемента се већ почео употребљавати. Група научника из САД окупљена око Нинова најпре је предлагала назив гиорсијум у част њиховог колеге Алберта Гиорса, чији радови су били од великог значаја током откривања елемената од 95 до 106. Међутим, након првобитног повлачења открића, њихов предлог је постао превазиђен.

Дана 30. децембра 2015. -{IUPAC}- је званично објавила откриће елемента 118, те је право давања имена елементу доделила заједничкој групи која је радила на пројекту. Дана 8. јуна 2016. -{IUPAC}- је објавио да је предложен назив оганесон (-{Og}-) према презимену вође научног тима руског института и једног од проналазача елемента Јурија К. Оганесјана. Рок за жалбе истекао је 8. новембра 2016. године. Дана 30. новембра 2016. објављено је званично именовање елемента 118, оганесона. Истовремено, објављено је и званично име за елемент 115, московијум (-{Mc}-). Наставак -он дат је према аналогији назива раније познатих племенитих гасова из 18. групе ПСЕ (аргон, криптон, ксенон).

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Изотоп 294-{Og}- је радиоактиван и са временом полураспада од 0,89 -{ms}- веома краткоживећи. Алфа-распадом оганесон се распада на ливерморијум, који се даље за неколико милисекунди распада на још лакше елементе. Оганесон се убраја у трансактиноиде, док се у хемијском аспекту највероватније убраја у групу племенитих гасова. Међутим, стварно агрегатно стање оганесона у нормалним условима није познато. Оганесон у периодном систему налази се на дијагоналној граници према полуметалима. Халогени елемент астат, који се такође налази на овој дијагонали, јесте у чврстом агрегатном стању, а по изгледу је доста сличан металу. Тежи изотоп 294-{Og}- има као и 294-{Ts}- највиши, експериментално доказани, масени број.

О хемијским особинама оганесона до данас нема потврђених експерименталних доказа, пошто је и постојање овог елемента доказано посредним путем на основу његових уобичајених производа распада. На основу релативистичких ефеката, оганесон се можда неће понашати као други племенити гасови. Овакве особине би се можда могле очекивати и од коперницијума (елемент 112). Према другим мишљењима, коперницијум би се могао понашати доста слично живи.

-{Og}- би могао бити једини елемент из 18. групе са позитивним афинитетом према електрону, па би стога могао бити и хемијски реактиван. Осим тога, у атому оганесона јављају се изузетно снажне спин-орбиталне интеракције (код -{7p}- валентне орбитале више од 10 -{eV}-) које доводе до губитка спољне структуре електронских љуски. То даље доводи до тога да спољни електрони оганесона више личе на униформни електронски гас (Фермијев идеални гас); што би могло узроковати екстремно високу могућност поларизације и релативно високу тачку топљења.

Референце

Литература

 Han, Young-Kyu; Bae, Cheolbeom; Son, Sang-Kil; Lee, Yoon Sup (2000). Spin–orbit effects on the transactinide p-block element monohydrides MH (M=element 113–118). Journal of Chemical Physics 112 (6): 2684.
 Bonchev, Danail; Kamenska, Verginia (1981). Predicting the Properties of the 113–120 Transactinide Elements. J. Phys. Chem. 85: 1177–1186.

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These people appear to have ceased trading. The firewall is still available via some third party download sites but will have limited functionality without Privacyware servers although basic filtering will be unaffected. MC - Site Manager.
http://www.privacyware.com/personal_firewall.html gives Error occurred: 404 - not found. This has been the case for some time already. Any idea about a valid download link?
Works great most of the time, but why the blue and white checks other than to make it unusable. Put it on a white background.
Just thought I'd inform everyone that Privacyware site no longer exists. Bummer... This firewall is still available at Softpedia but is version 7.0.30.2 NOT 7.0.30.3 . If you install this firewall you will find out that the zero day protection and alot of other features no longer work because they are dependent on Privacywares server which no longer exists.
I want to donate so badly, but alas, the liberal policies prevent that. So as the left likes to chant, I'm going to resist... until common sense prevails. Kinda betting your prediction "In the end it may even result in the site shutting down." will come to pass first though. Just ask geekomatic.
FreeFileSync has been my main sync program for many years. Yes a few years back you might have had to uncheck some payware app, but that has not been the case for more than a year. You should always keep an eye out for that on any software products you install anyways. (its not just the free ones that do this) .
I have found FreeFileSync reliable, fast and accurate. It has the ability to save jobs (.ffs) to a batch file which can be run on demand or scheduled by Windows. It works with USB, SD, Network or local folder(s) that windows can see (I have not tried against a cloud based folder). It provides an easy to click override of the option it selects for each file to be processed. Also, they regularly provide updates for bug fixes and enhancements. current version is 10.7.
I'm retired, and I provide a lot of folks help with their PCs (for free). That often includes setting them up with easy to use on demand ability to save their stuff to USB or network storage. Everyone I set up finds it fast and easy to do.
Great resources and great volunteers doing an excellent / unbiased job make this site a valuable resource to folks looking for solutions to all sorts of computing needs. Just because its free does not mean its inferior! In fact I've found for many solutions the free stuff is often better than a paid alternative. The one element here as opposed to other free sites is the great evaluations of the products and product categories. Its been a go to site for me for many years and I hope for many more years. Keep up the good work.
I often wonder where we would be without Gizmo's Tech Support Alert.
It's my turn-to whenever I need an absolutely unbiased and honest review of free software.
Still an oasis of sanity in the cesspool known as the web 2018. Thank you gizmo!
Hope you rhiannon and all had a great Christmas, Happy 2019, donation coming in the NY.
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Thanks works both ways. Your site has provided me with innumerable useful and FREE solutions.
So, seasons greetings to all at Gizmo's. Long may you continue.
Four weeks ago I needed a downloader quickly and based on this article decided to give ClipGrab a try. It worked (almost) flawlessly for four weeks. Just now upon starting it obviously installed an update. Besides ByteFence (BOOO!) which is easy enough to un-check is requested to stop my antimalware service.
Wow, this is such a great place for.....everything really! Thank you for it. I'm going to tell my PC friend's all about it. Keep up the good work. Have a great and successful New Year.
This article is Incorrect. Windows 8.1 has Refresh & Reset. Windows 10 has Fresh Start which keeps the users personal files and some settings and clean installs Windows 10. Windows 10 offers 2 (actually 3 but only going to cover 2 here) types of Reset (1. keep all personal files) and Reset (2. remove everything and reinstall Windows). System Restore does not restore your system to an earlier point - it merely reverses any settings changes, programs installed/uninstalled or registry changes made since the restore point used was created. Any documents, photos, or other personal files are not changed.
Nice idea. I tried it on my Frankencat picture and got the message that it only works on people at this time.
You're welcome. :) Happy Holidays etc.
Nice idea, output looks pretty good, but a limit of 500 x 500 pixels on the outputted layer is quite limiting, sadly.
A worthy find. Thanks for this. Certainly simplifies trimming of my joke images that bit more! Happy Holidays / Christmas etc.
Apps normally have a setting that gives you the option to disable location tracking, and ask to use location data when they are installed. If you're going to leave location tracking turned on and have given permission for any apps to use your location, the settings have to be changed for each app.
Myself, I knew that tracking was occurring, but I had no idea of the extent and accuracy of the tracking or how much money is being made from personal location tracking.
Thank you for the information from the NYT, though I suspect most of us knew it already.
What concerns me is that there is nothing here (apart from read the TOS or use a paid app) about how to stop apps from tracking your location. Maybe an article devoted to that might be of interest ?
Norton removes most utilities from the site.
can anyone recommend a Windows calculator that can be invoked by pressing NumLock?
For years I used the marvelous EldoS AnyCalc, which had that feature, but now I can't get it to run under Windows 10, so I'm looking for a replacement.
Online family tree builders have become so popular in recent years, that a new web-based tool seems to sprout up every day! And with big benefits such as the ability to digitally preserve your family memories, back up your family stories and photos and even collaborate with family members all over the globe, it's no surprise that their popularity continues to rise.
I signed in using a FAKE googl account. CHANGED it to hotmail, created a new FAKE username. WITHOUT A PASSWORD ! Then I got in. NO verification of any email so far. Could not get into the game launcher. Created ANOTHER account, got in again with NO email verification. Sighed in asked them to RESEND email verification. Found it and confirmed account.
Minecraft has become most popular video game from last few years.
That's not good. Have you tried a VPN?
I signed up using a gmail account I keep for such things. I don't recall a welcome email, but I logged out of the site and back in.
I just created another account. I signed up using an email address, first and last, password, and username. I was logged in using that info after account creation. I reloaded the page and was apparently logged out. I went to the login screen and clicked the forgot password link. I got a reset password email immediately. I reset the password and was able to login with the new password. User name, email address and account info were all the same. If you were able to create an account but didn't get an email, try resetting the password with the account info you used. They are in beta, this looks like a hiccup.
In Asia here. "...not available in your region"
I have tried 8 times to open an account there. NONE of the emails came through for me to verify my account. I still cannot get in.
Update: Editors new pick for Best Free Antivirus - Kaspersky Free Antivirus/Kaspersky Security Cloud.
Most improved products of 2018: Forticlient, Windows Defender & Tencent PC Manager. The first two has a real shot to be in top five this time.
That's a usual entry for the HOSTS file. What has been happening is that the entry that Windows Media Player uses to get album information disappears.
You can manually add the line to the HOSTS file using the directions above, or you can reset the HOSTS file using the directions at this Microsoft article - it has directions for Windows 7 and earlier, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. It may restore the entry, I haven't tested it yet, it's a recent find and I haven't had time.
I wiped everything out of my HOSTS file about 6 weeks ago on Windows 8.1 because the problem recurred and I wanted to see what would happen with no entries in the HOSTS file and Windows Media Player.
I'm waiting to see if the issue repeats. I don't usually use Windows Media Player (I use VLC) but I check to see if it's retrieving album information pretty regularly.
When I open my hosts file, I see "This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Window" and no lines not #ed out. Is there another file I should be looking for?
Downloaded and installed 'pdfsam-3.3.7.msi'. As far as I could see, there is no feature to permit visual re-ordering of pages.
I'm glad you could eliminate the crows. Happy Holidays!
Weeks ago, when it was still possible, I downloaded Version 18 and Version 12 (the oldest available).
I got busy and finally got around to installing Version 12 today, hoping it would be old enough to fly under the radar.
No such luck; it installed as a 30-day Trial version; there was no forever free option.
No way am going to "subscribe" for any software; I will use open source or do without.
thanks for that info. I was able to use the portable version that I already had on my HD. Problem free.
Nice wallpaper. Except for the Crows. Like a lot of pics, fauna detracts from the content. Photo touchup!
And yes, it's a disaster in Paradise. But all the rain and cold in the NE U.S.A. is the pits too. You'd think the rain could have been caused to fall in the West. No brown lawns this year.


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Seward Park High School Cheerleading Squad Raises Enough Money For Trip To NationalsThey head to Orlando, Florida, to compete in February.
Battle For Weiner's Seat In Congress Turns Into Referendum On Obama Policies
Republican Bob Turner Grabs The Endorsement Of Assemblyman HikindBy Marcia Kramer September 7, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Filed Under:Anthony Weiner, Assemblyman David Weprin, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Bob Turner, Marcia Kramer, President Barack Obama
David Weprin (L), Anthony Weiner (C), Bob Turner (R) (credit: CBS 2)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The gloves are off.
The special election to replace Congressman Anthony Weiner has turned downright nasty.
It's as much a referendum on President Barack Obama's policies as on the candidates' credentials, reports CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.
Running in a Brooklyn/Queens district that is heavily Democratic and heavily Jewish, Republican congressional candidate Bob Turner got a two-for on Wednesday — the cross-party lines endorsement of Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind.
"Bob Turner, getting to know him over the months, is just what we call a real 'mensch,'" Hikind said, referring to a Yiddish term that loosely translated means "a person of integrity and honor."
Democrat David Weprin responded with the endorsement of Jon Bauman, "Bowzer" of the singing group "Sha Na Na."
"Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba dang de dang dang vote for David Weprin," Bauman said.
Polls show the race to replace the disgraced Weiner is neck and neck and a referendum on the policies of President Obama and Washington, where proposals to cuts Social Security and Medicaid weigh heavily on the voters here. So do the president's policies on Israel.
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"With regard to the well being of the state of Israel there is no question that Barack Obama is someone that we in the Jewish community don't trust," Assemblyman Hikind said.
"The Obama administration has pursued a course that is apathetical to Israel. Here is an opportunity to send a message," Turner said.
As a Democrat, Weprin has had a difficult time distancing himself from President Obama and so he attacked his opponent Wednesday by trying to wrap him in the Republican congressional positions of the last few months — the need to shrink the size of government.
"The main difference between my opponent and I is he wants to solve all the budget problems by cutting, cutting, cutting. There's no question that there's fat in the federal budget. I don't disagree with that, but the way to cut the fat in the federal budget is with a scalpel, not with a hatchet," Weprin said.
"As a businessman I will approach things from a practical non-partisan way simply to get the job done," Turner said.
The special election is next Tuesday. In the war over newspaper endorsements, Turner is backed by the Daily News and the Post. Weprin has the endorsement of the Times.
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Marcia Kramer
Marcia Kramer joined CBS 2 in 1990 as an investigative and political reporter.More from Marcia Kramer


I'm most grateful to the organisers for inviting me to chair this session on the economics of money and what the future of money should bring. In my brief introductory remarks, I shall focus on the international dimension of central bank issued digital currencies (CBDC) especially how CBDC could address one of the long standing grievances in the international economy, namely inadequate supply and distribution of international liquidity. CBDC could offer a new basis for international currency use and as such have a profound impact on international trade and investments.
Currency exhibits unique features allowing decentralised peer-to-peer payments and instantaneous settlement of all debts. The adoption of digital currencies would make such features available for digital payments facilitating and reducing transaction costs in national and international exchange. To clarify, currency is a small subset of money issued normally by central banks and the only central bank money available to the non-bank public typically in the form of notes and coins.
The impact of CBDC rests on the assumption that new financial technologies will change the properties of currencies and of money itself. CBDC or the tokenisation of currency would add features to currencies that will affect their relative attractiveness. It may help overcome prevailing disadvantages in particular of smaller currencies that are normally not readily accepted or used in international transactions. Technology may be the new comparative advantage for currencies.
The asymmetric distribution of international liquidity constrains orderly balances of payments adjustment. This results in large external imbalances and high exchange rate volatility. The dollar has remained the dominant source of international liquidity and the U.S. the only country that can issue international liquidity. The high dependence on the dollar implies that international liquidity relies to a large extent on national policy objectives of the U.S. This is naturally problematic when national and international liquidity needs diverge.
The international monetary system, the rules governing exchange rates and provisions of exchange market liquidity, is meant to induce economic policies geared towards avoiding the built-up of large external imbalances and exchange rate volatility. It has failed to do so for some time in large part due to inadequate incentives.
The problems of international monetary relations are well known and have been around for decades. Reform challenges and shortcomings can be approximated by the 1922 Genoa conference, the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement and the reforms calls by French President Charles de Gaulle of 1965 and can be summarised by the Triffin-Dilemma. Past reform calls have emphasised the need for reducing dependence on national currencies and give sufficient incentives for symmetric balance of payments adjustment. Any future reform is expected to stay very close to earlier reform objectives.
CBDC may fundamentally affect the propensity to hold central bank money by resident and non-residents. If CBDC produces significant efficiency gains by allowing new scope for peer-to-peer transactions and reduced settlement times, international liquidity requirements could be reduced considerably. It would also allow the international economy to function with more diversified sources of international liquidity and could reduce actual needs for international liquidity assistance.
Technological superiority rather than monetary policy may well become an important determinant of international currency adoption and could represent the definitive success factor replacing conventional criteria such as size and liquidity of financial markets.
CBDC is set to shift international monetary relations. If CBDC can alter supply and distribution of international liquidity, it would ease dependence and burden on individual currencies. New technologies offer a new level playing field and the adoption of certain technologies such as distributed ledger may be decisive to determine the scope for future currency uses and hence their attractiveness and the supply and distribution of international liquidity. The international dimension of CBDC seems to offer one of its most interesting features yet.


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A poor prognosis: Great Barr Hall, Staffordshire
December 2, 2011 December 3, 2011 Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat20 Comments
Great Barr Hall, Staffordshire (Image: English Heritage)
Many of the houses featured in this blog are shown as a celebration of the brilliance of our architects and craftsmen in creating one of the finest bodies of buildings of their type in the world. Yet, in abundance is, perhaps inevitably, failure; where an interesting house becomes a victim of circumstance, policy, incompetence or, sometimes, all of the above. Great Barr Hall, once outside Birmingham, now encircled by advancing urbanisation, is a sad example of where a house can languish and deteriorate whilst deliberate vandalism and institutional lethargy condemn it to its fate – and unless something is done soon, Great Barr Hall will join the already far-too-long list of the lost country houses of England.
Great Barr Hall c1800 (Image: artist known / sourced from Bill Dargue)
Despite its current sorry state, Great Barr Hall was once a sizable house – though precisely how large is unclear. An early print in 1798 Stebbing Shaw's 'History and Antiquities of Staffordshire' shows a 11-bay castellated house with four corner turrets but the present house is 9-bays. For comparison, it's interesting to note the stylistic similarities with Syon House in west London, a seat of the Dukes of Northumberland, though it is also 9-bays wide and has an imposing porte cochere.
What is known is in the 1760s, Sir Joseph Scott, then head of a family line which had been in the area for 600 years, built a new house in a 'gothick' style. The original architect is unknown but Stebbing Shaw describes how 'The present possessor [Joseph Scott], about the year 1767, began to exercise his well known taste and ingenuity upon the old fabric, giving it the pleasing monastic appearance it now exhibits – and has since much improved it by the addition of a spacious dining room at the east end, and other rooms and conveniences'. If Scott was his own architect, perhaps he was, in part, inspired by the remodelling of Syon House by Robert Adam which started in that same year.
Sir Joseph Scott's original extensive works led to some financial difficulties and so, from 1785, he moved to the Continent and rented the house out. The lease was taken by Samual Galton junior, a controversial Birmingham Quaker, banker, gun manufacturer, and intellectual who hosted meetings of the Lunar Society at Great Barr Hall leading to it becoming a noted crossroads for industrial ideas, a crucible for the Midlands industrial growth and the wider Industrial Revolution.
Where Great Barr becomes particularly interesting from our point of view is with the arrival of the young architect John Nash and his business collaborator and famous landscaper, Humphrey Repton. Nash was there to provide the buildings which Repton needed to complete his gardening visions. This worked well for both men; Nash was to pay Repton 2.5% for any work the latter passed his way so Nash charged his clients the then rather high fee of 7%, giving him a 4.5% fee. There is no record of Nash ever putting any work towards Repton – but Nash benefited with work on over one hundred estates. There seems to be some uncertainty as to exactly when Nash started working there but John Summerson gives the date as 1800 for the construction of a gothic archway to the adjacent chapel, but other works such as the gate lodges, an icehouse and a new steeple for the chapel started in 1797 and were probably also by Nash and Repton.
Corsham House, Wiltshire - copper engraved print published in The Beauties of England and Wales, 1813 (Image: Ancestry Images)
About this time, the house was also updated to create the appearance we can just make out today – but it hasn't been confirmed that Nash was the architect. However, there are tantalising clues that it could well be by him. Nash had been developing his particular style of Picturesque gothic during his time in Wales and had been applying it with varying degrees of success since then during alterations at Kentchurch Court, Herefordshire, (1795) and at Corsham House, Wiltshire (1797 – a disaster due to poor workmanship with Nash's work later demolished). Yet, some of the architectural fingerprints of each of these can be seen in Great Barr. Externally, one such feature is the crenellations applied to both the roof and the tops of the projecting towers, another is the hooded Elizabethan-style windows. Another interesting piece of the jigsaw is a house which Nash was working on in 1800 in Buckinghamshire, Chalfont Park, which bears not only a superficial stylistic similarity but also one of form – a long rectangular main body with a projecting 3-bay centre. However, Chalfont Park was also altered by Anthony Salvin in 1840 so it's not possible to tell how much of the gothic detailing is Nash's.
The Scott's return in 1797 prompted the works of Repton and Nash before further work in 1830 and 1848 which included moving the entrance from the west side to the north. In 1863, a chapel was built to a design thought to be by Sir George Gilbert Scott, though it was never consecrated and so became a billiard room.
The replacement windows (Image: Simon Cornwell) - click to see 'before and after'
The house remained with the Scotts until the house became a hospital for the mentally ill in 1918 following the death of Lady Bateman-Scott in 1909. As is usual, the institutional nature of hospital use was not kind to the house. Beyond the extensive network of buildings which marched across Repton's parkland (and the south eastern corner of the estate being carved up by the M6 motorway), the house itself had a modern two-storey extension added in 1925 and in 1955 the clock tower, stables and much of the east wing were demolished. In the 1960s, some sensitive architectural 'genius' removed the two splendid first-floor oriel windows which flanked the main entrance and inserted a pair of non-matching government-issue casement windows.
The current plight of Great Barr Hall can largely be laid at the door of Bovis Homes and John Prescott, formerly the Deputy Prime Minister, and the one who eventually signed off on the architectural blight that now affects the house. Considering that the hospital buildings were in two distinct campuses, one to the north west and another to the north east, if there had to be development, replacing the buildings to the NW would have placed them furthest from the house, with the advantage of creating a more complete parkland around the house, with the possibility of re-instating, to some extent, the earlier Picturesque drive. To hope that someone of Prescott's aesthetic insensibilities would see such a solution was always forlorn but one might hope that someone on the local council or in English Heritage might have proposed a more sensitive outcome. Sadly it was not to be and now a large development of 445 executive-style homes has been built, the closest being scarcely a hundred metres from the back of the house. Worse, following the sale of the house to a building preservation trust, little progress has been made, with questions now being asked about the trust's failure to restore it as promised earlier. It was again put up for sale in May 2011 by the Trust at the unrealistic price of £2.2m with the option to buy a further 100-acres of parkland – with the threat of even more development.
Despite some architectural uncertainties, what is clear is that those charged with its care in the recent decades have failed. Perhaps this is a broader failure of policy, that without an explicit mandate to determine that the architectural heritage must be managed, maintained and preserved as far as is possible, it will fall to all-to-fallible councillors to look beyond their own short-term interests; sadly, an unlikely prospect. The NHS generally has a poor record of managing historical assets once it has no further use for them e.g Sandhill Park, and Stallington Hall are just two examples and don't forget that Soane's Moggerhanger survived despite the NHS, not because of it. A strong national policy should provide a clear strategy for preservation of heritage assets taken over by the state rather than just relying on existing listed buildings legislation. In Great Barr Hall's sad circumstance, one can only hope that someone will be able to extract the money owed as part of the enabling development, which can then be devoted to restoring this interesting and significant house so that it once again can be something for the local residents to be proud of, rather than the monument to NHS, central government and local council incompetence which it is today.
Still for sale? (thanks to Andrew for spotting this): Great Barr Hall might still be for sale – there is a page with details but it's not listed on the agent's website: 'Great Barr Hall'. Now listed for £3m but with 150-acres but with another 100-acres of parkland by separate negotiation. Considering the Building Preservation Trust paid just £900,000 for the entire site this seems a little odd – perhaps someone will enlighten us.
Listing description: 'Great Barr Hall' [British Listed Buildings]
'At Risk' Register entry: 'Great Barr Hall' [English Heritage]
Recent history of house and some proposals for rescue
News stories:
'Fears grow for future of Great Barr Hall' [Birmingham Mail]
'£2.2m price tag for Great Barr Hall' [Express & Star]
'18th century Great Barr Hall put up for sale' [Birmingham Post]
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Houses as hospitals: the country houses in medical service
September 20, 2010 November 16, 2010 Matthew Beckett - The Country Seat16 Comments
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire (Image: Amy Lloyd/flickr)
Our country houses have always been adaptable as changing fashions or functions required they accommodate new ways of living or roles. One role which quite a few houses have taken on is that of hospital – either privately or as a fully-fledged part of the NHS – though this use has not always been sympathetic. However, as the modern health service centralises to larger sites it seems some country houses are re-emerging to become homes again.
Hospitals were traditionally monastic, centred on the abbeys and convents but these were obviously scarce. The ill were treated in large dormitories although some established houses in the country away from the main abbey to care for the mentally ill. However the dismantling of the religious orders during the Reformation from 1536, meant that increasingly the burden for care of the pauper sick fell to secular civic bodies, with towns creating their own hospitals. This model persisted until the 17th-century when private benefactors became increasingly prominent, donating funds and buildings for the care of the ill.
One of the earliest country houses to be converted was the partially completed Greenwich Palace. Originally a Tudor royal house, it had become derelict during the English Civil War, so in 1664 Charles II commissioned John Webb to design a replacement but which was only partially completed. It was this building which Queen Mary II, who had been affected by the sight of the wounded sailors returning from the Battle of La Hogue in 1692, ordered to be converted to a navel hospital in 1694, to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor and later Sir John Vanbrugh.
Possibly inspired by the royal example, other country houses were donated or converted for use as hospitals. However, it quickly became apparent that they weren't particularly suitable with one Irish physician, Edward Foster, complaining in 1768 that 'In general, Houses have been rented for Hospitals, which are as fit for the Purposes, as Newgate for a Palace'. By the 1850s hospital design was beginning to emerge as a distinct branch of architecture -Florence Nightingale wrote to an officer of the Swansea Infirmary in 1864 saying that a hospital was a difficult to construct as a watch; no building 'requires more special knowledge'. From this time, the country houses themselves became less important than the space they offered with the house itself being used as accommodation or offices. However, for the treatment of respiratory illness the clear country air was considered part of the cure with houses being acquired as tuberculosis sanatoria such as at Moggerhanger Park in Bedfordshire originally designed by Sir John Soane for the Thornton family.
The First World War necessarily required country houses to come back into medical use due to the terrible consequences of the strategy of attrition through trench warfare in WWI which created large numbers of wounded. Without a national health service there were fewer hospitals able to cope with the seriously disabled or even those simply convalescing. Many country houses were pressed into service, their clean country air and fine grounds considered most helpful to rest and recuperation. During WWII, fewer houses were used as military hospitals as changes in military tactics led to many fewer casualties than expected. However, a significant number were used either by the military or as civilian replacements for urban hospitals which it was feared would be bombed.
Hatfield House, Herts - King James Drawing Room as a hospital ward in WWII
For country house owners, given the possible options of who might take over their house, the bed-ridden were infinitely preferable to the bored squaddies who wreaked such havoc at other houses (apparently housing art treasures was first preference, evacuated schools second, hospitals third). This reality plus a genuine sense of wanting to help led to many owners voluntarily turning over their houses as hospitals including the Earl of Harewood offering Harewood House, Lord Howard of Glossop Carlton Towers, Lady Baillie lent Leeds Castle and the 4th Marquess of Salisbury offering Hatfield House as he had done during WWI. On the civilian side, Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire became a maternity hospital as was Battlesden Abbey in Bedfordshire, Stockeld Park and Farnley Hall, both in Yorkshire. Cholmondeley Castle in Cheshire became a Royal Navy Auxiliary Hospital, treating 'cases of good morale, who are suffering from nervous breakdown usually as the result of operational stresses'.
After the war many houses were returned to their owners in such terrible disrepair that unfortunately hundreds were demolished. Others continued in their wartime roles with some such a Poltimore House in Devon becoming hospitals after the war when two local GPs recognised the need for more bedspaces and so took over the old seat of the Bampfyldes until it was nationalised after the creation of the NHS in 1948. There were also many War Memorial hospitals, founded by public subscription after WWI, which often made use of a country house. The nationalisation of these hospitals gave the NHS many of the country houses it has today – although it is relatively few overall as less than 5% of all their buildings are grade II* or grade I listed. Of the historic 'therapeutic' landscapes it manages, seven are included on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.
However, sometimes these country houses and their settings can escape and revert to being homes, either through conversion or, if the houses has been lost, replacement. Bretby Hall in Derbyshire, built between 1813-15 by Sir Jeffry Wyatville for the Earl of Chesterfield, was an orthopaedic hospital until the 1990s when the main house was converted into flats, as was the High Victorian Wyfold Court in Berkshire. Harewood Park in Hertfordshire was demolished in 1959 after use as hospital in WWII but the estate has been bought by the Duchy of Cornwall with proposals for an elegant and very impressive new Classical house by Craig Hamilton Architects. A similar plan has been put forward for the 57-acre site of the former Middleton Hospital in Yorkshire with the permission requiring the demolition of various redundant buildings from its former use to restore the site.
Sadly though, sometimes the NHS fails to adequately look after the houses it has in its care. As the trend has moved towards large, new hospitals so the historic elements have been overlooked or abandoned as new hospitals are built elsewhere. As funding for new hospitals is not dependent on the sale of the old site and the house, sadly they can be neglected or subject to inappropriate development as has been the case with the grade-II listed Stallington Hall in Staffordshire, which became a home for the mentally ill in 1928, but after it closed has been vandalised and neglected with a housing development built inappropriately close to the house across the lawn, forever ruining it as a country house – a poor payback for years of public service.
Related story: 'Developers draw up plan for country house' [Ilkley Gazette]
Background information: 'Reusing historic hospitals' [Institute of Historic Building Conservation]
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The Magnitude of "I AM"
Jesus said to them,"Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."
What Jesus said here would have resonated with the Jews he was talking to. They understood that Jesus was proclaiming to be God by saying he was "I AM." This statement sounds weird to us, but every Jew would have immediately thought about the story of Moses and God appearing to him in the burning bush.
Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' what shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
This is the only other time when the name "I AM" is used. This is because it is the name of God, one that God declares for himself. So when Jesus says he is "I AM," he is declaring to be God. Yet when Jesus says this, the Jews immediately start to throw stones at him. These same Jews thought themselves to be the offspring of Abraham, following the same God. However, they did not recognize God when He was standing right in front of them! Jesus was speaking truth, yet they did not recognize it as such, or Jesus as God. Jesus, being the Son coming from the Father, knows him and does the work of him. While the Jews may have been the offspring of Abraham, they did not have the same God has him, or they would have recognized and followed Jesus.
It is easy to distance oneself from this story, to think that we wouldn't be like the Jews, throwing stones at Jesus. We like to think that we would keep his word, to follow him. However, we are most likely going to be like those who are throwing the stones. To truly be offspring of Abraham, following the same God, we firstly must recognize Jesus as such. Then we must respond by keeping his word, being obedient to the "I AM", by putting our faith in him. Faith that he is who he says he is, and that he has the words of life, able to redeem you from your sin. If you feel that God is calling you to respond in faith, join one of the many groups at the District Church, where you will be surrounded by other people who will help and encourage you to faithfully follow Jesus.


After raising them from eggs, students from Pomolita Middle School released dozens of steelhead trout into Orrs Creek at Low Gap Park Wednesday.
Maureen Taylor, director of outdoor education for the Ukiah Unified School District, said the students were asked first to investigate the creek's habitat to determine if it would be a good environment for their tiny fish to survive in.
Other factors that will help the fish thrive are deep pools of water, as well as roots, logs and dead plant material that offer them places to hide. Gravel underneath the water is best, with no sand or silt, and with "riffle areas" where oxygen mixes with water.
The program the Pomolita students participated in is called "Steelhead in the Classroom," which is sponsored by the Sonoma County Water Agency, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and Redwood Empire Trout Unlimited.
Taylor said six classrooms at Pomolita were given 50 eggs each, and she was hoping for a 90-percent survival rate overall.


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I want a debate with Asiamah-Nii Lante Vanderpuye
Former Youth and Sports minister Hon.Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye is calling for a debate against the current sports minister Isaac Kwame Asiamah on the state of sports in the country.
According to the maverick politician he is bent on debating with his fellow colleague on sports development, promotion and management.
He made this known when speaking with Asempa FM monitored by Talksafrica.com.
"I'm calling for a debate with him on sports development,promotion and management"he said
He added that,the debate should be held at a neutral grounds or better still his colleague's constituency (Atwima Mponua constituency).
He stressed that, none of the ruling party's appointed ministers can stand the opposition party in a debate on pertinent issues in relation to the development of the country.
"I want the debate to be held at the Accra Sports Stadium or his hometown,the NPP ministers cant stand us in any debate on Ghana's development"he added
Nii Lante Vanderpuye in July described the current sports minister as a bad choice, highlighting the challenges the sector is facing under the leadership of Isaac Asiamah.
Both ministers have criticized each other over the development of sports in the country and debate seem to be one of the best option for the two according to Odododiodoo Member of Parliament.
Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye
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DPW Statement on July Jobs Report
Contact: WisDems Communications (press@wisdems.org)
MADISON –– According to this morning's Department of Labor jobs report, the U.S. added 943,000 jobs the month of July, meaning that in the six months since President Joe Biden took office, over 4 million jobs were created. The report comes as jobless claims fell once again to 385,000, yet another sign that the economy and hiring are rebounding under President Biden and thanks to Democrats' American Rescue Plan.
In Wisconsin, thanks to allocation from Gov. Tony Evers, the American Rescue Plan is providing funds for expanded mental health and substance abuse needs, making critical investments in local tourism, and investing in schools. Local municipalities are also putting the money to work through region-specific initiatives and projects.
In response, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Rapid Response Director Julia Hamelburg issued the following statement:
"On his first day in office, President Biden promised to get shots in arms, checks in pockets, and people back to work. Now, six months later, it's clear that President Biden and his Democratic colleagues in Congress have delivered on that promise despite steadfast opposition from Republicans at home and in Congress.
"To build on the success of Democrats' American Rescue Plan, we must continue moving President Biden's Build Back Better agenda through Congress, including passing the bipartisan infrastructure deal to deliver even more good-paying jobs."
Recent polling shows that President Biden's economic plan is wildly popular with the American people and in battleground districts. Here's a look at the economic progress our country has made thanks to President Biden and Democrats' leadership:
The unemployment rate fell to 5.4 percent in July, down from 5.9 percent in June, and the United States has now recovered approximately 75 percent of jobs lost during the pandemic.
In the past six months, the economy has gone from creating only 60,000 new jobs a month to creating 60,000 jobs roughly every two days. In total, the economy has added a record-shattering four million jobs since the president took office.
The average number of new unemployment insurance claims has been cut by more than half and small business optimism has returned to its 2019 average.
Independent projections from the CBO, the IMF, the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, the OECD, and many others all forecast America this year reaching the highest levels of economic growth in nearly four decades.
The economy has grown at a 6.4 percent annualized rate so far this year—far higher than forecasters had predicted at the end of last year.
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New analysis by the Urban Institute estimates that President Biden's American Rescue Plan will lead to a nearly 45 percent decline in the number of Americans living in poverty this year.
90 percent of families with children will get an average tax cut of $4,380 this year, thanks to the American Rescue Plan. The Child Tax Credit could help cut child poverty in half by next year.
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Myanmar Hurriedly Prepares For An Election
Published March 30, 2012 at 4:50 PM EDT
Christophe Archambault
A man holds a portrait of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally for a candidate of her National League for Democracy party on Friday. The country is holding elections for some parliamentary seats on Sunday.
In Myanmar's capital, Yangon, there's an unremarkable old building that's drawing people from around the world.
It's the headquarters of the National League for Democracy, the political opposition party headed by pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. This weekend, she is running for elective office for the first time, and the humble house has become the focus of even greater attention.
I spent 17 years and four months in jail after being elected in 1990. Seventeen years and four months. I just step out from the jail, I come right to this place, before I go to my home.
When Myanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by a military dictatorship, there would never have been so many foreign journalists at the NLD offices. Now that the country has a nominally civilian government, more journalists are being allowed in, and they pack the room. An NLD activist and former member of Parliament with the improbable name of Nine Nine gives a tour of the headquarters.
"This office is the office for financial assistance to political prisoners — this table and this office," he says. "This is the office of the youth, central NLD youth office. This is the office, temporary office of the campaign committee."
Students and teachers come here to celebrate national day. Overdressed diplomats and journalists sweat through press briefings under antiquated electric fans. Pictures of Aung San Suu Kyi are everywhere, including one with her famous quote: "There will be change because all the military have are guns."
This is where Suu Kyi addresses her followers, and lucky tourists can often catch a glimpse of The Lady with flowers in her hair, bustling upstairs for party meetings. A few unarmed guards provide minimal security.
Out Of Jail, Back To Politics
It seems like just about everyone working here is a pro-democracy activist, many of whom did jail time under the junta, including Nine Nine.
"I spent 17 years and four months in jail after being elected in 1990," he says. "Seventeen years and four months. I just step out from the jail, I come right to this place, before I go to my home."
Nine Nine says what makes this place feel like home is not the physical space, but the people.
Anthony Kuhn / NPR
National League for Democracy members sit in the party's youth division office under pictures of party leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and her father, Burmese independence hero Gen. Aung San.
"I don't have any, I mean, personal feeling about the building," he says. "But, see, I'm quite glad, after staying in the prison for years, and when I step into this place, there are still some people who greet me. 'Hey, Nine Nine' they say. This is one of the amazing moments in my life."
Although the NLD is over two decades old, it's still recovering from being disbanded by the government in 2010, when the party boycotted the general elections. The NLD may not have a lot of money or a fancy headquarters, but it's got a valuable resource in its legions of devoted followers.
Just take cook Sanbar Myint, for example. She and the other NLD cooks whip up big pots of curries, rice and noodles, serving hundreds of meals a day, just out of love for their leader.
"I want to demonstrate women's power by feeding all the activists, just as mother Aung San Suu Kyi demonstrates strength in leading all of us," Myint says.
On your way out the door, you can't miss the NLD merchandising department, where Aung San Suu Kyi baseball caps, polo shirts and key chains are all flying off the shelves. And if music's your thing, there are stacks of CDs for sale with rock, rap and country music, all celebrating The Lady whom everyone wants to meet.