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True Green Cities/Celebrating Seven Years – Topiaries, Climate Change and A Gilded Mansion in Newport
In climate change, Historic preservation, museums
An aerial of Rough Point looking north along Newport's Cliff Walk.
Celebrating Seven Years – Stalactites, Climate Change and A Gilded Mansion in Newport
It's been seven years since I launched Barbara A. Campagna/Architecture + Planning, PLLC and while many things have changed, my goal to work on "greening what's already here" continues to be met, often in places I never expected. Many people are finding new ways to integrate historic preservation and green building practices, which makes my new venture a delightful and intellectually inspiring one. This is blog three of my anniversary week.
Rough Point's Impressive Pedigree
Rough Point is a historic site perched on the edge of the Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a rusticated granite and sandstone English manor-style mansion with pinnacled gables and a green slate roof and elaborate bronze casement or fixed or double hung wood windows. The mansion is approximately 40,000 square feet.
Looking at Rough Point's mansion through the historic landscape and flowers.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt first built the house as a summer cottage from 1887-1892. Peabody & Stearns Architects from Boston and McNeil Brothers of Boston were the original contractors. William Bateman and Nancy Leeds (American Tin Plate Company) owned the property from 1906-1922, hiring John Russell Pope Architect to make some exterior alterations, mostly cosmetic. But the most significant ownership was with the Duke family. James Buchannan Duke purchased it 1922 and immediately hired Horace Trumbauer Architects with White Allom (interiors) to enlarge the house, completing it in 1924. Duke died in 1925, leaving the house to his daughter Doris who lived in it for decades. Following her death, the site went through transition from private home to public historic site – 1993-2001.
Rough Point opened as a museum under the ownership of the Newport Restoration Foundation in 2000. Alterations to accommodate new museum use included changing and enclosing the service stair, installing a 12-passenger elevator, creating an apartment on the third floor for a live-in caretaker, installing a handicap ramp, alterations to create galleries for changing exhibits, and a major upgrading of the MEP systems – new HVAC, fire protection, electric service, back-up generator, some new plumbing piping.
Evaluating Water Infiltration at Rough Point
Significant water infiltration has led to salt build up and salt "stalactites" at the window weep holes.
For the past year I have been working with the Newport Restoration Foundation to evaluate some ongoing water infiltration issues that are causing damage to both the interior and exterior. While a review of past projects and studies since 2000 suggests that there has always been some level of water infiltration in the building, particularly on the ocean facing elevations (south and east), it appears that the worse conditions on both the exterior and interior of the Music Room and Solarium have been observed in the past four years, which also coincidentally follows the completion of some masonry/lintel restoration work from 2010-2012. In addition, storms potentially exacerbated by climate change events, have increased in number, strength and impact in the past five years.
Technical Preservation
Doris Duke had real camels at Rough Point, now remembered with topiary camels on the lawn.
Given that the water infiltration has increased almost exponentially in the four years and the damage to the mortar and masonry is increasing, it would appear that the most recent phasing of mortar and masonry projects (2011-2012) may be contributing to these conditions if not actually causing them. This leads to several questions: Was the same mortar composition used by all three contractors? Was it the correct mortar? Was the repointing conducted using the same methods? Were the lintels installed in the same manner with the same methods and materials?
At the same time, as seen with the salt build-up on all the walls, and the "stalactites" on the south wall, has the amount of water penetrating the walls from the marine environment and wind-driven rain increased?
This is a very interesting and complex technical preservation project, and we will be assisting the Newport Restoration Foundation with the continuing evaluation of the conditions this summer.
True Green Cities/Celebrating Seven Years – Transforming Historic Factories in the Northland Corridor
In Adaptive Use, Buffalo architecture, Historic preservation, International Style, rehabilitation
Aerial view of the Niagara Machine & Tool Works on Northland Avenue in Buffalo. Photo courtesy Joe Cascio.
It's been seven years since I launched Barbara A. Campagna/Architecture + Planning, PLLC and while many things have changed, my goal to work on "greening what's already here" continues to be met, often in places I never expected. Many people are finding new ways to integrate historic preservation and green building practices, which makes my new venture a delightful and intellectually inspiring one. This is blog two of m
The oldest section of the Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory – 1910, designed by Green & Wicks Architects. Photo courtesy Joe Cascio.
y anniversary week.
Transforming Historic Factories on Buffalo's East Side
I have had the distinct honor of being the preservation architect for this massive project on Buffalo's East Side as the preservation consultant to Watts Architecture & Engineering.
Historic District Overview: A city-wide survey conducted in 2013, Preservation-Ready Sites, identified the proposed Northland-Beltline Historic District as a potential city and National Register Historic District. The district is generally bounded on the west by Fillmore Avenue, on the east by Grider Street, on the south by a CSX rail line (i.e., the former Belt Line Railroad) and to the north by East Delavan Avenue.
Buffalo Urban Development Corporation, in partnership with Empire State Development, the New York Power Authority, and the City of Buffalo acquired multiple properties in the Northland Corridor. Each of the five industrial plants owned by the City of Buffalo included in this potential historic district has been determined individually eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register Eligible – NRE) by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation (the SHPO). These plants include:
537 East Delavan Avenue (the Houde Engineering Complex & Factory)
631 Northland Avenue (Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory/Clearing Niagara)
741 Northland Avenue (The Otis Elevator Company – "addition" to the Foundry)
777 Northland Avenue (The Otis Elevator Company Foundry)
With this in mind, a neighborhood-wide project on Buffalo's East Side known as the Northland Corridor Redevelopment is being undertaken by the City of Buffalo through the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency and managed by another city agency, the Buffalo Urban Development Corporation. The city is receiving Community Development Block Grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, as well as funds from two state agencies, the New York Power Authority and the Empire State Development. Various tax credits, including New York State and Federal historic tax credits, New Market Tax Credits and Brownfield tax credits are being used to finance targeted rehabilitation projects.
This neighborhood wide project currently includes:
Rehabilitation of 683 Northland, the Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory;
Partial rehabilitation, stabilization and demolition of 537 East Delavan, the Houde Engineering Complex and Factory; and
Stabilization and demolition of 777 Northland Avenue, the Otis Elevator Company Foundry.
There are projects underway at three sites in the district, with others planned for the future. The rehabilitation of Niagara Machine is the first significant project, over $100 Million rehabilitation financed from the Buffalo Billions, Historic Tax Credits, Brownfield Tax Credits and New Market Tax Credits.
NIAGARA MACHINE & TOOL WORKS HEADQUARTERS & FACTORY REHABILITATION
683 Northland
The front facade of the Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory. Photo courtesy Joe Cascio.
The Niagara Machine and Tool Works Factory consists of three distinct buildings related to specific functions of the manufacturing facility and the factory's evolution: 1) The Headquarters and Main Factory (built in multiple building campaigns from 1910-1981), 2) The Pattern Shop (1913) and 3) the Metal Fabricating Plant (1953). The Headquarters and Main Factory and its adjacent Pattern Shop at 683 Northland Avenue are being rehabilitated. The Metal Fabricating Plant is on hold for future use.
Rehabilitation Overall scope of work:
The Headquarters and Main Factory and the Pattern Shop are being rehabilitated for a Workforce Training Center and related tenants. In order to acquire the use of historic tax credits (20% from the state and 20% federal) the project is going through the full Historic Preservation Certification Application Process which includes three parts and review and approval by both the New York State Office of Historic Preservation and the National Park Service.
Niagara Machine and Tool Works Factory Complex National Register Historic District Designation
The Historic District was officially listed on the National Register in March, just a couple weeks ago! The Niagara Machine and Tool Works Factory Complex, located on the East Side of Buffalo in Erie County, New York, is a large industrial facility designed and constructed between 1910 and 1981 by Niagara Machine and Tool Works. The complex is located on the south side of Northland Avenue, an east-west thoroughfare between Chelsea Place and Longview Avenue, along a highly industrialized core north of a CSX railway line, originally known as the Belt Line. Residential neighborhoods, both south and north of the railroad, surround the factories that line the corridor. The principal elevations of the factory face north onto Northland Avenue and south onto the Belt Line. The complex is best known by the name under which it achieved local prominence: Niagara Machine and Tool Works Factory. The area retains its original industrial feeling and setting, with four other factory buildings and complexes lining Northland and another several factories found along East Ferry Street to the south. Each factory had its own Belt Line Rail Road spur or spurs, remnants of which can still be seen.
The Niagara Machine and Tool Works Factory consists of three distinct buildings related to specific functions of the manufacturing facility and the factory's evolution: 1) The Headquarters and Main Factory (built in multiple building campaigns from 1910-1981), 2) The Pattern Shop (1913) and 3) the Metal Fabricating Plant (1953). Also counted in the resource count are three contributing structures: the extant rail spurs from the Belt Line railroad which are still present on the property. The 11 acres of land is primarily occupied by the Main Factory on the eastern half of the site, stretching from Northland Avenue to the railroad. The Pattern Shed is situated just west of the Main Factory towards the northern edge of the site. The Metal Fabricating Plant hugs the western edge of the site, also stretching from Northland to the rail line. A concrete drive wraps around the site with a ribbon of parking against the east side of the Main Factory. A concrete drive and parking lots separate the Main Factory and Metal Fabricating Plant, with iron gates demarcating the vehicle access.
Industrial features remaining in the original foundry of Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory. Photo courtesy Joe Cascio.
The period of significance of the district is from 1910 to 1967, during which Niagara Machine & Tool Works developed and operated the site. The company manufactured tools and machines for working with sheet metal, specializing in presses, punches and rotary sheets. The nomination boundaries encompass the three contributing buildings, the Belt Line spur and the surrounding site historically constructed and used for this production. While the final construction occurred on the site in 1976 and 1981, the last building campaign that can be considered architecturally significant was completed in 1967, which also coincides with the final piece of the factory's post-World War II and Cold War expansion. The original buildings of the complex, built between 1910 and 1913, were designed by Green & Wicks Architects, one of the most noted architectural firms to ever practice in Buffalo.
The Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory developed largely between 1910 and 1981, and like many factories, including its neighbors, it evolved over time as both technology and manufacturing capacity were expanded, and national war and defense needs increased. As a result, the Main Factory building was expanded through many additions. While some of the additions were carefully planned and executed by architects or engineers, others were added as needed and company expansion dictated. There were approximately twelve major building campaigns, which encompass the construction growth represented by three main buildings in the district: 1. The Headquarters and Main Factory (1910-1981), 2. The Pattern Shed (the 1913 shed) and 3. The Metal Fabricating Plant (1953). The three distinct buildings are related to specific functions of the manufacturing facility and the factory's evolution. This application is for the Main Factory Headquarters, and the Pattern Shed only which occupy one tax parcel and has one owner. The Metal Fabricating Plant is NOT included in this project or this Part 2 application. It occupies a separate tax parcel. No work is currently planned on this building or parcel.
Significance of the Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory
Interior of the 1964 International Style addition of the Niagara Machine & Tool works Factory. Photo courtesy Joe Cascio.
The Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory is significant as a good intact representative example of a large-scale tool and machine factory designed and built during the first half of the twentieth century. It is significant in the area of Industry as one of the oldest and most important tool and machine manufacturing facilities built and operated in Buffalo in the twentieth century, whose products were used nationally and internationally across industries. It is significant for its contribution to the manufacturing of tools and machines for working sheet metal, specifically specializing in presses, punches, and rotary sheets for government defense contracts. The company had orders from the federal government during World War I and World War II. But it is during World War II that the company established its role as an important defense contractor. The company had government orders for regular products in addition to equipment for many of the significant international aircraft manufacturers, who used the company's presses to manufacture small parts for aircraft assembly, both during and after World War II. The factory complex is further significant for its association with the industrial development of the East Side of Buffalo along manufacturing nodes of the Belt Line railroad in the early twentieth century.
The complex is also significant in the area of Architecture, as a good, representative example of evolving industrial architectural and engineering trends, innovations and developments during the twentieth century. The Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory is a good example of early twentieth-century factory design with the original buildings designed by the noted Buffalo architectural firm of Green & Wicks, and later buildings and additions designed by local civil engineers H. E. Plumer and Jacob Fruchtbaum. The factory incorporates key advances in factory construction of the period for increased daylight with its large window openings and sawtooth monitor roofs. It also employs modern fireproof construction materials. Advances in early twentieth- century factory operations for mass production incorporated management science and the assembly line as evidenced in the layout of the plant and its two primary buildings. It is significant as a largely intact twentieth-century heavy manufacturing facility located in an industrial node of the East Side of the City of Buffalo.
The original sawtooth monitors at Niagara Machine & Tool Works Factory. Photo courtesy Joe Cascio.
The period of significance begins with the initial design and construction of the factory in 1910, when Green & Wicks designed the first buildings on Northland Avenue and extends through 1967 when the final architecturally significant addition was completed in the complex. While the factory continued in operation into the 1990s, this era encompasses all major construction projects by the company and reflects the period during which the company was at its most prominent. Subsequent additions made to the building in 1976 and 1981 after the period of significance are relatively minor additions in terms of architectural design and are located mostly toward the south end of the Main Factory. The last building campaign that can be considered architecturally significant was completed in 1967, which also coincides with the final piece of the factory's post-World War II and Cold War expansion. The proposed historic district nomination boundaries encompass the three contributing buildings, the Belt Line spur and the surrounding 11-acre site historically constructed and used for this production. This project includes the 7.28 acres and Belt Line spurs related to the Main Factory (approximately 232,500 square feet) and the Pattern Shed at 683 Northland only.
True Green Cities/Celebrating Seven Years – The APT 50th Anniversary Conference
In Historic preservation
Celebrating Seven Years – The APT Buffalo Niagara 2018 Conference
The Buffalo Central Terminal, location of several events during the APT Conference. Photo courtesy Joe Cascio.
It's been seven years since I launched Barbara A. Campagna/Architecture + Planning, PLLC and while many things have changed, my goal to work on "greening what's already here" continues to be met, often in places I never expected. Many people are finding new ways to integrate historic preservation and green building practices, which makes my new venture a delightful and intellectually inspiring one. This is blog one of my anniversary week.
Celebrating APT's 50th Anniversary, September 22-27, 2018
The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) has been one of the most important parts of my adult life. Like many preservation colleagues, my professors in graduate school assigned articles from the APT Bulletin and indeed many of my professors had written those articles. I have been involved in APT's leadership since I graduated from school, first as a Board Member and then President of the APT NY chapter (now APTNE), then board member, Vice President, President, Past President of APT. Since 2011 I have been working with a terrific local committee to plan and bring the 50th Anniversary APT conference to Buffalo Niagara!
Points of Departure
Asbury Hall in Babeville, an adapted church in downtown Buffalo. Location of the APT 2018 Opening Keynote.
Why Buffalo and Niagara? Buffalo was the 6th largest port in the world in 1906. By 1951, it was the 11th largest industrial center in the country, the largest inland water port, the 2nd largest railroad center, and the 15th largest city in the country. It was literally and physically one of the most important points of departure on the continent. As APT looks forward to our "Next 50" we find ourselves at our own significant "point of departure." One of our founders, Peter John Stokes, was from Niagara-on-the-Lake across the Niagara River from Buffalo, making Buffalo and Niagara the perfect location to celebrate this joint international heritage.
As we get closer to our big 50th anniversary celebration in September, we are finalizing our program content and think everyone will be excited to hear what we have planned. The website is live and registration goes live in early May. We anticipate that many of these sessions will sell out early.
The Conference Themes
This year attendees will find several themes running through the program content of the conference – from the Workshops to the Opening Keynote to the Educational Sessions to the Closing Symposium. You will hear about Points of Departure, The Next 50 and Resilience throughout the conference. The theme for our Opening Keynote Session is "Resilience," a topic that our organization sees as one of the most important themes for preservationists moving forward. Buffalo's historic infrastructure provides a much- needed base for developing cities and places who need to be resilient* to the increasing storms and weather systems that are impacting everyone.
*Defining Resilience: Resilience is the capacity to adapt to changing conditions and to maintain or regain functionality and vitality in the face of stress or disturbance. It is the capacity to bounce back after a disturbance or interruption. From Katrina to Sandy, California drought to Mississippi flooding. Resilience is both response and action.
Opening Keynote Speaker: ALEX WILSON, President, Resilient Design Institute in Vermont
Sunday, September 23rd , 2018 5-6:30PM
Alex Wilson, Founder and President of the Resilient Design Institute will be the APT 2018 Opening Keynote.
We are thrilled to announce our Keynote speaker for the official opening of the conference! Alex Wilson is the founder of BuildingGreen, Inc. in Brattleboro, Vermont, an 18-person company that has served the design and construction industry with non-biased information on environmentally responsible design and construction since 1985. He is the author of Your Green Home (2006), and co-author of Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate (1998), and the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (1990, 9th edition, 2007). He has also co-authored a series of four guidebooks on quiet-water canoeing and kayaking for the Appalachian Mountain Club. He is the founder and president of the Resilient Design Institute, which works with partners across the world to create solutions that enable buildings and communities to survive and thrive in the face of climate change, natural disasters and other disruptions. Alex is one of the leading luminaries in the world of sustainability and resilience.
The Opening Session is being held at Asbury Hall in historic Babeville, an adapted church filled with green features such as geothermal heating. The Plenary will be live streamed to our chapters around the world. We expect standing room only, with 750 attendees. The plenary will welcome attendees to Buffalo Niagara and to our 50th Anniversary Celebration. Since we are celebrating 50 years of accomplishments and looking forward to another 50 years, we will celebrate our organization's heritage and Buffalo Niagara's heritage – the reason we chose this location for our significant anniversary. We will specifically celebrate the heritage of Buffalo's Olmsted Park & Parkway System in its 150th anniversary and look forward to congratulating Buffalo leaders from the City and the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy.
Workshops – Saturday and Sunday, September 22nd & 23rd , 2018
The Non-Destructive Evaluation Workshop at the APT 2018 Conference will be held at Willowbank on Day One.
Come early and spend the weekend at one of three workshops for up to 50 participants each:
Terra Cotta Restoration – held at Boston Valley Terra Cotta and downtown. A complementary Terra Cotta walking tour of downtown Buffalo's amazing collection of terra cotta buildings and terra cotta restorations will be available as a guided field session or a self-guided walking tour.
Window Restoration – held at several historic sites in Buffalo, and a local window restoration studio.
Non-Destructive Evaluation – held at the Willowbank School in Canada and the Central Terminal (railroad terminal), just named to the 2018 World Monuments
Field sessions and workshops will travel to Buffalo's National Historic Landmarks such as St. Paul's Cathedral and Louis Sullivan's Guaranty Building.
Watch.
Educational Paper Sessions, Monday, September 24th – Wednesday, September 26th
Panels and sessions will be held in the Hyatt and Buffalo Niagara Convention Center. Over 70 speakers will present original preservation research, chosen by the conference committee through the "Call for Abstracts." We received 200 professional submissions and 25 student submissions. APT brings up to 15 students to the conference to participate for free every year. Also, look for special "theme" plenaries this year to celebrate our 50th!
Field Sessions & Tours – Sunday, September 23rd and Tuesday afternoon, September 25th, 2018
There will be up to 20 site visits around Buffalo Niagara that include local neighborhoods to iconic landmark masterpieces – a Beer Oriented Development session, cruises on the Buffalo River to admire our concrete grain elevators, medina sandstone at the Richardson Olmsted Campus and many churches around town, downtown loft conversions, art glass and geothermal heating at Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House, a Resilience Charrette at Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff on Lake Erie, to name a few.
Canada Day – Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 12:30-10PM
Don't miss the daylong festivities to celebrate our 50th Anniversary and American Canadian heritage, with stops at Niagara Falls, Willowbank, Niagara-on-the-Lake and an anniversary party at Jackson Triggs Winery.
The Next Fifty Symposium – Thursday, September 27th, 2018
A day-long closing symposium held in the auditorium in the downtown Central Library will celebrate the advances of preservation technology and the impact APT has had on the world preservation stage. This closing session will frame the intellectual and technological themes that our thought leaders envision will move APT forward. We hope many of you will stay this last day for a hearty discussion about preservation's past and future. Like the "Setting the Agenda" lunches of a decade ago, where our members steered our direction – you can participate in steering APT's philosophical direction for the next fifty!
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Pictures from our Utah 2006 ATV expedition (6 days/633 miles) via the Fremont, Paunsaugunt, Great Western, Gooseberry and Paiute trail systems.
Blue Grizzly after the hail storm up on Boulder Mountain. Hey, at least it cleaned off all of the dust and mud!


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Title Direct band gap opening in graphene by BN doping: Ab initio calculations
Author/s Prashant P. Shinde
Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411 007 India
Dr. Vijay Kumar Foundation, 1969 Sector 4, Gurgaon, 122001 Haryana, India
Abstract Ab-initio calculations on graphene doped with boron nitride (BN) nanoribbons and patches show opening of a band gap in all cases. The smallest width of graphene in these hybrid layers controls the band gap that varies slowly around ∼0.75 eV when the width of graphene region is in the range of 2 to 5 zigzag chains. Most interestingly the band gap is direct in all the cases we have studied and nearly the same for different doping if the smallest graphene width is the same. These results show the possibility of ultrathin hybrid semiconductor graphene with band gap similar to silicon and an additional attractive feature that it is direct.
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Citing This Document Prashant P. Shinde, and Vijay Kumar , Direct band gap opening in graphene by BN doping: Ab initio calculations . Technical Report CMS-TR-20110901 of the Centre for Modeling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007, India (2011); available at http://cms.unipune.ac.in/reports/.
Notes, Published Reference, Etc. Published as Physical Review B 84, 125401 (2011)
Contact kumar AT vkf.in

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CP Rail train conductor speaks out on her firing after Banff derailment
Questions are being raised about whether railways are providing enough training for workers who operate trains.
Questions are being raised about whether railways are providing enough training for conductors
Kyle Bakx · CBC News · Posted: Feb 09, 2015 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 18, 2015
Video: Train conductor remembers the Banff derailment and how she was not prepared to properly react and respond.
CBC News Calgary
6 years agoVideo
The train conductor involved in the Banff derailment speaks out about her training. 1:48
Stephanie Katelnikoff was operating a train near Banff, Alta., in December, when it derailed. It was her second trip as a conductor for Canadian Pacific Railway, an incident that has raised questions about the training of conductors.
I wasn't thinking. I was in utter shock. Totally ill-prepared to find something like that. — Stephanie Katelnikoff, former conductor
The 25-year-old says the derailment was not her fault and that her training didn't teach her how to react in the event of a derailment. She also alleges the derailment was the reason she was fired from the railway.
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On Dec. 26, 2014, 15 cars carrying grains and fly ash, a material used to make concrete, went off the track west of the tourist town in Banff National Park.
"I wasn't thinking, I was in utter shock. Totally ill-prepared to find something like that," says Katelnikoff. "It put me in a bit of a panic because it was only my second trip and I was already just anxious to be on the train by myself, let alone deal with a derailment."
Stephanie Katelnikoff claims she was fired by Canadian Pacific Railway because her train derailed, but denies she was to blame. (CBC)
Canadian Pacific says training usually takes about six months, but documents show Katelnikoff was working alone as a qualified conductor less than five months after she was hired.
Katelnikoff was hired by CP in late July and entered the company's training program. Katelnikoff says she received four weeks of classroom training, before 13 weeks of on the job training. She says that included six weeks in the rail yard and seven weeks on trains travelling from Calgary to both Red Deer and Field, B.C.
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"Even just a few extra weeks would have been beneficial," says Katelnikoff. "I felt anxious to be out by myself, after what training I had. I did not feel like I was adequately trained. I felt like I was rushed through the training."
She says she was promised first aid training, but never received any.
Katelnikoff claims CP dismissed her because of the derailment. The Transportation Safety Board has not yet released the results of its investigation.
CP initially refused to comment on Katelnikoff, even after she agreed to waive her privacy rights. In a statement late Monday afternoon, CP spokesman Jeremy Berry said that Katelnikoff was let go for a number of reasons.
"Ms. Katelnikoff was not dismissed for one single issue, she was dismissed because of a number of events over her six-month probationary period."
CP also said that Katelnikoff was not alone on the train, but working with an experienced engineer.
However, the conductor is the crew member responsible for operation of the train.
Training shortfalls
Railways are in charge of training and qualifying their own workers to operate trains. The companies create their own training programs and administer their own tests.
If you mishandle that locomotive ... you could have catastrophic effects with that train. — Railroader Rick Rutledge
Railroaders need to learn a vast amount of knowledge covering rules and regulations, air-brake systems, locomotives, train track structures and signals.
There are significant safety concerns regarding ill-prepared workers, since the trains haul products such as chemicals, fertilizer, oil and other hazardous materials throughout the country.
"When you are running that train, if you mishandle that locomotive, if you mishandle the air-brake system, you could have catastrophic effects with that train," says Rick Rutledge, a former railroader with 30 years of experience. "I have seen conductors that have only a couple years' experience that have gone into training to be an instructor, and that, in my view, is not quite enough experience to be doing that."
Rick Rutledge trained locomotive engineers at BC Rail and CN Rail. (CBC)
Rutledge would recommend workers receive at least six months of on-the-job training before operating a locomotive by themselves. Rutledge trained locomotive engineers at BC Rail and CN Rail. If Katelnikoff received 13 weeks of on-the-job training, he says, that was not enough.
"You should be with somebody considerably longer to start to get the craft, because you are dealing with a very unforgiving environment," says Rutledge. "You are dealing with rolling steel and it only takes one mistake and that person can lose a limb or worse."
Canadian Pacific workers load trains in the Alyth Yard in Calgary. (CBC)
Rutledge says railroads likely want to reduce the amount of training to save time and money.
"With the railroads, its either feast or famine. When they are busy, they need people and they need them now. So they put them through the training program, and they try to get them out on a train as quickly as they can to serve the customer. But you run the risk of them not having the experience they need and you start to cut corners."
Rutledge is concerned about the quality of training offered by railways and whether that will lead to another railway disaster on the scale of Lac-Mégantic. Part of the problem, he says, is a lack of oversight by federal regulators. During his time at CN, he says, only once did an inspector come aboard his train.
"They didn't even ask to see my ticket or see if I was qualified to run. So I think the federal government has to step up, and not just check a box, but start looking at what these railroads are doing instead of letting them police themselves all the time."
Injury and termination
The Banff derailment was Katelnikoff's last trip with CP. She worked a few days at the rail yard in Calgary before she was fired. She was still on probation.
In Banff, after she had left the locomotive to see the derailment, she breathed in fly ash dust. A doctor ordered her not to return to work, until the pain in her lungs subsided.
"My paperwork didn't tell me it was hazardous. It was listed as a non-hazardous commodity," claims Katelnikoff. "I think my termination was unfair and based on incorrect facts. And I feel my termination was a lot to do with the derailment, and I think it had something to do with the fact I claimed an injury."
Fly ash can cause respiratory tract irritation and skin burns.
Katelnikoff is asking her union to file a grievance for wrongful dismissal. (CBC)
The letter CP gave to Katelnikoff lists several reasons for her firing, all of which Katelnikoff disputes.
One of the rules she broke was speaking to the media. Katelnikoff contacted a newspaper photographer to see if she could acquire a picture of the derailment.
Katelnikoff plans to file a grievance through her union for wrongful dismissal.
Industry response
CP declined CBC's interview requests. In a statement, the railway says it has a vigorous training program for all new hires that includes classroom, hands-on learning, on-the-job training, and several exams. CP also says it meets all related federal regulations.
The Railway Association of Canada said it does not see any problems with the current training programs for conductors or locomotive engineers.
"We don't have any concern because the regulator doesn't have any concern," said Gerald Gauthier. "If Transport Canada were of the opinion that those training programs are not adequate, Transport [Canada] could do something."
"In your job, you are qualified and do your job, but you feel you should know more. It doesn't mean you are not qualified for your job. You might have a personal perception, that you would need additional training, but the minimum standards for your position are determined by the railways."
Transport Canada declined our interview requests.
In a statement, Transport Canada says railway companies are responsible for establishing employee training programs for locomotive engineers. Transport Canada monitors the railways for compliance with regulations and takes appropriate action, as needed, it says.
Kyle Bakx
Kyle Bakx is a Calgary-based journalist with CBC's network business unit. He's covered stories across the country and internationally.
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Psychology > Vol.6 No.4, March 2015
The Relationship between Social Skills and Sports Activities among Chinese College Students ()
Lu Lv*, Kazushi Takami
Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
DOI: 10.4236/psych.2015.64036 PDF HTML XML 5,733 Downloads 7,072 Views Citations
The purpose of this study was to understand the current state of social skills among Chinese student, especially focused on the students who participated in sports clubs and took physical exercise regularly, and subsequently conducted a new multi-index model further to explore the relationship between social skills and sports activities. 3000 college students were investigated by two scales named revised Chinese university-student social skills inventor (RChUSSI) and the Chinese college students' version of Buss-Perry aggression questionnaire (CC-BPAQ), and resulted in 2543 (84.7%) samples return. By the help of analysis of variance and multivariate analysis of covariance, a multi-index model was conducted and examined. This study reported that the period of primary and secondary school might be the most productive years of human achieving and training social skills. Taking sports activities facilitated learning and improving social skills. Thus, primary and secondary school students are encouraged to have sports activities, which are good for their physical and mental health.
Social Skills, Sports Activities, Chinese College Students, Sports Club Members
Lv, L. & Takami, K. (2015). The Relationship between Social Skills and Sports Activities among Chinese College Students. Psychology, 6, 393-399. doi: 10.4236/psych.2015.64036.
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Q: How to replace all cells in multiple worksheet except one vba What I want to do is to replace all cell values in the multiple worksheets except one.
So For example, there are worksheets sheet1, sheet2, sheet3, and I want to replace all the values "M9" into "M8", but leave M9 in Sheet1 remains unchanged.
This is my code:
`For Each Worksheet in WorkSheets

     If Worksheet <> ThisWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1") Then
          Worksheet.Cells.Replace .....
     End if
 Next`

For For-Next, Just ignore the details as it is related to my contents. I thought this logic would have been right, but vba keep on coming up with error.
Do you know why? And are there any right way to replace the values excluding Sheet1?
Thanks for your help

A: If you want clearing all cells content, as I suppose, please use the next way. It also shows the way of replacing:
Sub RemoveCellsValue()
  Dim ws As Worksheet
  For Each ws In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets
     If ws.Name <> "Sheet1" Then
          ws.cells.ClearContents
          'or
          'ws.Cells.Replace "Oldstring","NewString" 'if you need replacing
     End If
 Next
End Sub

If replacing, the function needs some more parameters. Especially to state if you need to replace if the whole string is found, or only part of it.

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Artificial intelligence software outperforms…
Artificial intelligence software outperforms lawyers (without subject matter expertise) in matchup
By Jason Tashea
November 3, 2017, 8:00 am CDT
During the last week of October, legal technology company CaseCrunch held an AI-versus-lawyer competition, and the machine came out on top.
The competition pitted over 100 attorneys from firms like DLA Piper and Allen & Overy against CaseCruncher Alpha to predict outcomes of just under 800 real, historic insurance misselling claims. The goal was to correctly determine if the claim would succeed or not.
According to CaseCrunch's website, the software predicted outcomes with almost 87 percent accuracy, while the lawyers were 62 percent correct.
"The main reason for the large winning margin seems to be that the network had a better grasp of the importance of nonlegal factors than lawyers," read a statement on the company's website.
Digging deeper into the structure of the competition, Legal IT Insider quoted Ralph Cox, a patent litigation partner at Clyde & Co. in London and an attendee of the event, as saying: "I keep an open mind. However, it struck me that the computer was given all the database information and therefore had an unfair advantage. Lawyers who took part were from outside this area of expertise without any real experience of [Payment Protection Insurance]."
Indeed, the lawyers recruited for this competition were not subject matter experts in the topic tested in the competition.
Ludwig Bull, CaseCrunch's scientific director, said to the same publication that the subject matter imbalance was hard to reconcile.
"We struggled to find an area because lawyers specialise in so many niche areas. So we had to find something that was relatively easily intelligible to most lawyers and where they could also understand the underlying principles relatively quickly. It was as fair as we could make it," said Bull.
Nadia Abdul, one of the co-founders of CaseCrunch, was more succinct, adding: "The system does not have the experience of a lawyer who has worked in the field of PPI."
Even so, this competition was covered by BBC and elsewhere as an epic man-versus-machine matchup, like the legal world's Kasparov versus Deep Blue, a pair of six-game chess matches in the 1990s between the world's reigning chess champion, Garry Kasparov, and IBM's supercomputer. While Kasparov won the first match, Deep Blue won the second. At the time, it was seen has a benchmark in the development of artificial intelligence.
However, Bull seemed to temper this narrative when he told The American Lawyer simply: "These results do not mean that machines are generally better at predicting outcomes than human lawyers. These results show that if the question is defined precisely, machines are able to compete with and sometimes outperform human lawyers."
Framed in that way, pitting humans against computers to assess the outcome of legal issues is not novel. In 2004, professors released research (PF) regarding a classification tree model that better predicted U.S. Supreme Court outcomes than human experts. In 2016, similar work showed an algorithm correctly predicted the outcome of European Court of Human Rights' cases 79 percent of the time; however the algorithm was not pitted against humans in that study. Less abstract, the McKinsey Global Institute found that about 60 percent of all jobs, including lawyers, could have 30 percent of tasks automated today.
Regardless of novelty, the fact remains that machine based decision making is a growing part of the legal space. Of the competition, Timothy Lessen, a partner at Lewis Silkin in London, told Legal IT Insider: "CaseCrunch met my expectations. But then I think I was pre-programmed to expect this result." He added, "I'm not completely clear what [CaseCrunch] will look like yet: an end-to-end product that means 5 percent of the workforce of private practice law firms is no longer required, or a product which allows us to deliver a much better service to clients."
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Percy J. Vaughn, pioneering ASU business dean, dies
Brad Harper
Percy J. Vaughn Jr., the founding dean of Alabama State University's College of Business Administration, died early Tuesday, the school confirmed. He was 86.
Visitation will be 1 to 6 p.m. Friday at Ross-Clayton Funeral Home, followed immediately by the Omega Service. The funeral will start at 11 a.m. Saturday at Resurrection Catholic Church, 2815 Forbes Drive.
The family has requested that memorial donations be made to the ASU Foundation Percy J. Vaughn Fund, P.O. Box 1046, Montgomery, AL 36101 or via www.alasu.edu/giving.
Vaughn, a New Orleans native, came to ASU in 1975 and served the university for more than three decades. He was a marketing professor who recruited faculty and established a business school that has trained decades of entrepreneurs and industry leaders.
He was also something of an ambassador, journeying to communities around the world to forge study-abroad opportunities for ASU students and global connections that the school said continue today.
"Dean Vaughn was an Alabama State University icon," ASU President Quinton Ross said in a statement. "He was highly revered as both the visionary and the driving force behind the establishment of COBA, as well as the college's focus on intense academic preparation, national internship and professional development opportunities, and global connections for COBA students. Even after his retirement, Dr. Vaughn continued to mentor students and graduates, always challenging them toward excellence in their professional pursuits and in their commitment to service.
"Dr. Vaughn was truly a legend. His impact on the field of education was felt not only on this campus, but around the world."
The school honored him by dedicating the Dr. Percy J. Vaughn Jr. College of Business Administration in his name in 2017.
Vaughn had five children, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.


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Train Like the X-Men: Alex McKechnie's Core X
THERE'S A PERCEPTION that pro athletes are born with perfect bodies — and some of them probably are. But make them play hard for years, repeating uncomfortable movements, and the result isn't pretty.
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To McKechnie, the most critical part of the system is that every exercise originates in the core. "You need stability before mobility," he says. "If you shoot a cannon from a canoe, it'll tip over."
His celeb clients — such as Grant Hill and Michelle Kwan — do some intense stuff with the system, such as nonstop jumping in a twist, which might be too challenging for the average exerciser. But McKechnie insists Core X is for anyone. After all, he conceived it as a rehab tool, and now he's packaged it as a home exercise device.
"They shouldn't be afraid of it because superstar athletes do it," he says. "The movements are fundamental."
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The first building in London and the first major office in the UK, to be awarded a new elite standard for BREEAM of 'Outstanding'.
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The University of London's Grade II* listed Senate House, designed by Charles Holden, was in urgent need of refurbishment and updating.
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The building rises out of the park on approach with an undulating profile, making it instantly recognisable and a striking and iconic gateway to Liverpool.
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Palang Gerd (, also Romanized as Palangerd; also known as Palangird, Palangrād, and Payān Gerd) is a village in Homeyl Rural District, Homeyl District, Eslamabad-e Gharb County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 634, in 144 families.

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The Leadership Paradox
What qualities make one person a business tycoon and another a crook? It boils down to a question of competence.
"What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets."
— Andre Malraux
BCG founder Bruce Henderson never imagined his simple strategy called the BCG Matrix would play a starring role in the movie Wall Street. The main character, Gordon Gekko, ruefully admitted the reason he planned to destroy a company was a line borrowed from Henderson, "because it's a dog…with different fleas."
(This article previously appeared in Chief Executive Magazine)
The BCG Matrix recognized that different companies in a portfolio reflect different rates of growth. To figure which had the best chance of earning a good return, Henderson captured their future prospects in a diagram that labeled them a star, question mark, cash cow, or a dog. As Gekko made clear, no one wants to be a dog.
The sheer genius and simplicity of the BCG Matrix became fodder for corporate honchos like Jack Welch. When the GE chief told his troops, "if you are not number one or two, either fix, sell, or kill it," he was saying if your business is not a star, it's a dog and get rid of it. It struck me as ironic that Welch and Gekko were saying the same thing, yet ruthlessness in one was the stuff of legend while in another became the road to prison?
This was truly a leadership paradox.
The New Leadership Matrix
What our discovery boiled down to was that much like Bruce Henderson's Portfolio Matrix, there is a portfolio matrix for leaders, equipped with similar positive and negative attributes. Every CEO starts out as either as an Ace, Wizard, or Centurion and hopes to rise to the level of stars, the equivalent of Nobel Prize winners in business.
In defining the types of leaders, I had to make a few changes to the BCG Matrix imagery to reflect leadership styles: Star, Ace, Wizard, and Centurion. Each type has positive and negative attributes as discussed below, which reflect what certain types of leaders will do to gain success, glory, or wealth. That dichotomy is what separates the leaders from fallen angels. It's also how you end up with Elizabeth Holmes, Bernie Madoff, and Andy Fastow.
For someone to be a true leader, it doesn't matter in which quadrant you start, as long as you are genuinely superb — one who inspires those around them. Taking the fictional example of Gordon Gekko, whose character was based on a composite of Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, and compare him to the real-life Jack Welch, they were both "Aces" that possessed superior technical skills. But Welch transformed himself into a leader so he could build GE into the stratosphere. Gekko found the only thing he was good at was killing companies, much like the greenmailers of the '90s who eventually went to prison.
Where do the paths diverge, I wondered?
The Super Manipulators
Bernie Madoff was a self-made finance whiz, whose star rose so high he was appointed the chairman of the NASDAQ, and pulled down $100 million per year in income from his brokerage — legitimately. Elizabeth Holmes was an engineering student who spoke Mandarin for fun and dropped out of Stanford as a freshman to launch Theranos, a unicorn medical device startup. Super Manipulators like Madoff and Holmes come from backgrounds that suggest accomplishment and fulfilled lives, not the villainy they perpetrated. So where do they go wrong?
The culprit isn't greed, as the media likes to portray, an easy out for a lazy reporter. Stealing when you are highly talented is like marrying for money if you're already rich. It makes little sense. What lies beneath the surface is a personality driven by unhealthy levels of ambition and determination to overcome any challenges that block their path.
Many of us find we are not the superstars we think (or we are told) as we grow up. The high school football quarterback or the debate champ suddenly discover in college they are also-rans. Functional types recalculate the odds. After a period of self-examination, they get back on a not-so-fast track. But Super Manipulators are not like the rest of us, to paraphrase Fitzgerald's line about the rich.
They Are Different Than You And Me
Fitsgerald's famous line to Hemingway about the rich applies to Super Manipulators. Their ambition is extraordinary and they will be ruthless in going after whatever goal their scheming mind creates. The problem is they usually lack extraordinary talent, and when they fail, they lack the patience necessary to overcome the setback. Before the world discovers they are imposters, they cover themselves with an iron-willed determination that impresses the folks watching from the bleachers, like journalists and investors. From that perspective, they seem more like shamans than con artists.
Madoff sits like a financial Wizard of Oz in an undisclosed office where he hides his Ponzi from prying eyes under the cover of a secret hedge model. Holmes replaces her device with one that actually works in an attempt to game the testing. By the time the super manipulator reaches a level of authority and power, only Shakespeare could write a more convincing tragedy.
The perceptible difference between manipulators and the chess moves of true leaders is that one cares only winning for the sake of self-glorification. The other possesses qualities that rise above transactions. Even a Warren Buffett can be ruthless when necessary, but never for the sake of gaming the scoreboard. Leaders like Buffett focus on building something that changes outcomes — they care about what they leave behind, not just what they conquer.
Doubting Your Grandchild
The problem is it can be downright hard to tell them apart. Someone as capable as Theranos board member and former Secretary of State George Schultz rebuked his grandson for doubting Holmes — at a time the grandson worked in the lab! When the young man challenged Holmes, Theranos took him to court and his father had to take a second mortgage to pay legal bills. When super manipulators have power and money are on their side, they stop at nothing and can be invincible. For a while.
Former Secretary of State George Schultz with President Ronald Reagan
Society takes some of the blame. The belief that innovation always breeds success (99% of the time it produces failure) sets up the con, just like Madoff's mathematically improbable returns or Holmes' testing that smart scientists claimed had to be contrived. Even when they fail, society encourages them to keep at it, and the effect on super manipulators, unfortunately, is to convince them that a solution is a little bit further out on the risk curve. One more trial for Holmes and one more good quarter for Madoff is all it will take.
That's when the long spiral towards infamy and the trail of ruined lives follows. It is why it is necessary to pull aside anyone of consequence in an organization to be certain that attributes are consistent with values. Don't assume rockstar talent means everything's okay. It could mean anything goes, including criminal behavior. It is up to responsible people inside the organization to make the call. When Holmes began dressing like Steve Jobs, her board failed to ask why, a simple enough request. By the time they got around to it, she expected to be indulged as if she were Jobs, and if when challenged, she would demonize.
Usually, the way to flush them out is a sign that a super manipulator can't conceal that relates to ego or self-importance. It is why we point out both negative and positives in our leadership matrix. That way, remediable action can be taken while a disaster is preventable.
The 4 Leadership Types Defined
Definition: If there were a Nobel Prize for business, the finalists would be here. As golfer Bobby Jones said about Jack Nicklaus: "he plays a game with which I am not familiar." They have exceptional longevity because they are not replaceable.
Best example: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway. The test of stardom is whether a crisis helps or hurts their reputation. Buffett was the only financial CEO to come out of the Financial Crisis of '08 with his reputation enhanced.
Potential negative: may have a hard time admitting setbacks or dealing with challenges to authority.
Potential positive: Buffett is notorious about creating transparency in the face of mistakes.
Definition: Technical genius that can figure out probabilities better than anyone, and we like to say "they cracked the code." They win games of chance like software, hedge funds, and biopharma, and that's where you will find them.
Best example: Tim Cook, Apple
Potential negative: Can be prone to egotism or arrogance due to technical superiority.
Potential positive: They realize they are gifted, and they are often transparent and are willing to undergo scrutiny.
Definition: They are the 'pull a rabbit out of a hat' CEOs, and appear to have near-magical powers to avoid disaster. There is something of the sorcerer in them, possessed by a vision. You will find them in businesses where "feel" is critical, like Hollywood or venture capital.
Best example: Elon Musk, Tesla
Potential negative: They trust their instincts to the point they may feel infallible. As their style is 'mysterious' unethical behavior may be concealed for a time, in some cases tragically so.
Potential positive: True wizards build empires based on achievement, not publicity. They don't crave media attention (e.g., Steve Jobs refusing to let reporters into the iPhone design studio) although unorthodox ways draw the media to them.
Definition: They are the tortoise in the race. If there is something they don't know, they will learn. People worship Centurions because no one sacrifices more or works harder or cares more about their people. You will find them running retail and consumer product companies that require more substance than flash.
Best example: Mary Winston, Bed Bath and Beyond
Potential negative: They may resort to cutting corners if threatened with defeat.
Potential positive: they inspire amazing dedication and will teach teams how to lead and achieve lofty goals, as their style demands rapid iteration and delegation.
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World TeamTennis expands to 8 teams by adding Vegas, Orlando
World TeamTennis is adding expansion franchises in Las Vegas and Orlando for its 44th season
World TeamTennis expands to 8 teams by adding Vegas, Orlando World TeamTennis is adding expansion franchises in Las Vegas and Orlando for its 44th season Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2019/03/05/world-teamtennis-expands-to-8-teams-by-adding-vegas-orlando/39154465/
AP Published 12:57 p.m. ET March 5, 2019
CARLSBAD, Calif. (AP) — World TeamTennis is adding expansion franchises in Las Vegas and Orlando for its 44th season.
The league that features men and women competing together announced its growth to eight teams on Tuesday.
Regular-season play is July 14-31. The semifinals and final are Aug. 2-3 in Las Vegas.
The Vegas Rollers will play home matches at the Orleans Hotel and Casino. The Orlando Storm will play at the U.S. Tennis Association's national campus.
The World TeamTennis draft is March 12.
More AP Tennis: https://www.apnews.com/apf-Tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports


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Le dongnu de Dahua (ou tongnu, autonyme, ) est une langue hmong-mien parlée en Chine, par des Hmongs.

Localisation géographique
Le dongnu est parlé par les Bunu présents au Guangxi, dans le xian autonome yao de Dahua.

Classification interne
Le dongnu de Dahua appartient au sous-groupe bunu des langues hmonguiques de la famille des langues hmong-mien. En Chine les locuteurs de langue dongnu, comme l'ensemble de ceux qui sont connus sous le nom de Bunu, font partie de la nationalité yao.

Phonologie
Les tableaux présentent les phonèmes vocaliques et consonantiques du dongnu parlé dans le village de Nongjing (弄京村), dans le canton de Qibainong (七百弄乡), dans la juridiction du xian de Dahua.

Voyelles

Diphtongues et rimes
Les diphtongues du dongnu de Dahua sont:  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,   .

Consonnes initiales

Tons
Le dongnu est une langue à tons. Le parler de Dahua compte douze tons, dont huit tons principaux.

Écriture
Les parlers bunu sont considérés en Chine comme des dialectes d'une seule langue. Le dongnu dans sa forme parlée à Nongjing (弄京村), dans le xian de Dahua a été doté d'une écriture.

Alphabet
Le bunu est dotée d'une écriture latine du même type que celles utilisées pour d'autres langues minoritaires dans le pays, des langues hmong-mien, tels que le miao chuanqiandian ou tai-kadai, telles que le kam ou le sui. Ces systèmes n'ont pas recours aux diacritiques mais à des digraphes ou à des combinaisons de lettres complexes pour noter les phonèmes. L'alphabet bunu est :

Tons
Les tons sont indiqués par une consonne écrite à la fin de la syllabe. Seuls les huit tons de base ont une lettre qui leur est propre.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Sources
  Meng Chaoji, 1996, 汉瑶词典 (布努语) - Hàn-Yáo cídiǎn (bùnǔyǔ), Chengdu, Sìchuān mínzú chūbǎnshè
  Meng Chaoji, 2001, 瑤族布努语方言研究 - Yáozú bùnǔyǔ fāngyán yánjiū, Pékin, Mínzú chūbǎnshè
  Barbara Niederer, 1998, Les langues Hmong-Mjen (Miáo-Yáo). Phonologie historique, Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics 07, Munich, Lincom Europa

Articles connexes

 Linguistique
 Liste de langues
 Langues par famille
 Langues hmong-mien
 Langues hmong

Liens externes

Inventaire de langues
Langue bunu
Langue en Chine


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In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Elton John appears after performing his nominated song, "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again," at the Oscars in Los Angeles. The Elton John-led starry benefit concert that featured Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys on Sunday has raised nearly $8 million to battle the coronavirus. The musicians performed from their homes for the hour-long event that aired on Fox and iHeartMedia radio stations. The money will go to Feeding America and First Responders Children's Foundation. (Chris Pizzello/Associated Press file)
Virus: Elton John-led concert raises $8M; Rihanna ups aid
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From finding ways to help others cope to sheltering in place to canceling events, here's a look at some of the ways the entertainment industry is reacting to the spread of the coronavirus, which most people recover from but can cause severe illness in the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions.
CONCERT RAISES MILLIONS
The Elton John-led starry benefit concert that featured Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys on Sunday has raised nearly $8 million to battle the coronavirus.
The musicians performed from their homes for the hourlong event that aired on Fox and iHeartMedia radio stations. The money will go to Feeding America and First Responders Children's Foundation.
Other performers included Tim McGraw, H.E.R. and Sam Smith, who sang "How Do You Sleep" in a cappella form. Dave Grohl sang "My Hero" from his studio in Hawaii, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong strummed his guitar to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," while Camila Cabello sang "My Oh My" from Miami with a guitar assist from beau Shawn Mendes.
The event took place during the time slot that was to belong to the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Procter & Gamble donated $500,000, which Fox Corporation matched. YouTube, is streaming the concert on iHeartRadio's YouTube Channel.
RIHANNA OPENS HER PURSE AGAIN
Rihanna's Clara Lionel Foundation is donating $1 million in grants toward COVID-19 response — a number that is being matched by Jay-Z's Shawn Carter Foundation.
The combined $2 million will support undocumented workers, the children of front-line health workers and first responders and the incarcerated, elderly and homeless populations in New York City and Los Angeles.
Last week, the Clara Lionel Foundation gave $5 million to the response efforts against the coronavirus, with the money going to food banks, testing, healthcare worker training, virus prevention and distribution of critical respiratory supplies.
SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME POSTPONES GALA
Mariah Carey, The Isley Brothers and the Eurythmics will have to wait a year before they get inducted into The Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The Hall has rescheduled its annual gala to June 10, 2021. It was originally to happen June 11 but the coronovirus has wrecked most springtime and summer gatherings.
Others who made the 2020 — now 2021 — class include Steve Miller, The Neptunes — a production team comprised of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo — Rick Nowels and William Stevenson.
Songwriter Paul Williams will be receiving the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award and Universal Music Publishing Chairman and CEO, Jody Gerson will receive the Abe Olman Publisher Award.
CMA FEST 2020 CANCELED
The Country Music Association announced Tuesday that it will not hold its annual CMA Fest in Nashville this year. The event draws thousands of country music fans every year.
The festival, which has been held for more than 40 years, is held in June and features several stages over a four-day weekend.
A statement posted on the CMA Fest website said those who purchased passes for this year can use them for next year's festival in 2021 or request a refund. The statement said they "cannot in good conscience risk the health and well-being of our fans, artists, staff and country music community."
The festival is also a major fundraising event that contributes to the CMA Foundation, which provides money for music education.
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Folic acid is a vitamin belonging to the B-group, and it plays a capital role in the creation of DNA and RNA, the last being directly responsible with the development and the division of the fetus' cells. When taken by men, it improves the quality and quantity of the sperm. Folic acid can be found in foods like citrus fruits and leafy vegetables but it is also available as a nutritive supplement.
Zinc is among the most important mineral when it comes to the health of the reproductive system in both men and women. It maintains the sperm count at high levels and also helps the spermatozoa to have a good motility. As for the women, they need zinc not only in order to produce healthy eggs regularly but also during the pregnancy because it stimulates the division of healthy fetal cells. Broccoli is a vegetable known for its rich content of zinc so it is advisable to include it in your diet.
Vitamin C helps in increasing sperm count working at the same time as an effective antioxidant. From this point of view, it offers a valuable protection to the reproductive material of both men and women against the damaging effects of the toxins found in the body.
When taken by women, vitamin C increases the level of estrogen and progesterone; two hormones that play an important role in the process of ovulation. Tomato, potato and pepper are some of the vegetables recommended to be consumed due to their high content of vitamin C.
Vitamin A plays an important role in skin health, immunity, bone growth and also when it comes to having a healthy reproduction. From this point of view, it regulates the ovulation and increases the production of healthy sperm in men, being among the most effective vitamins to boost fertility. You can find it in the composition of many supplements and also in foods like milk, mangoes, eggs and carrots.