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Balletto E.,University of Turin |
Bonelli S.,University of Turin |
Borghesio L.,University of Illinois at Chicago |
Casale A.,University of Sassari |
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Italian Journal of Zoology | Year: 2010
This is a methodological paper aimed at comparing methods to assess regional biodiversity. In more detail we compared the effectiveness of hotspots of species richness, of rarity and complementarity in evaluating local animal diversity. Species distributions were sampled over a 10×10 km UTM grid across the Italian territory. We considered 471 species of zygaenids, butterflies, carabines, amphibians and reptiles. Hotspots were analysed at national and regional levels and considered taxa either all together, or separately. To test the predictive value of complementarity analysis, we initially excluded zygaenids. At national level, of 3218 10×10 km UTM quadrats sampled, 161 (5% of total) had highest species richness. Islands included only 1 hotspot (Sicily). Sixty-eight species (14.4%) were not represented. They were mainly endemic (65%), insular (73.5%), or rare (25%). Working taxon by taxon, hotspots numbered 433. Only 85 (19.6%) were hotspots contemporaneously for two taxa and only 9 were hotspots for 3 taxa. Missing species were fundamentally insular species. The regional-level approach generated 467 hotspots. Eleven species were not represented (2.3%). They had marginal distributions, or were insular endemites. Hotspots of rarity numbered 235 and 10 species were not included. Results demonstrated that hotspots are poor predictors of overall biodiversity. The complementarity method identified 67 quadrats. By definition, these quadrats accounted for all species investigated. They failed, however, to predict the occurrence of three zygaenids. As expected, complementarity provided better results than hotspots analysis. Combining the two methods assures that areas having the highest biodiversity are identified, even working with incomplete databases. Regional or rarity hotspots should generally be preferred to hotspots of species richness. © 2010 Unione Zoologica Italiana. Source
Loizzo M.,Rome University |
Bois A.-P.,Universite de Sherbrooke |
Etcheverry P.,National Graduate Engineering School |
Lunn M.G.,University of Alberta
SPE Economics and Management | Year: 2015
The Paris basin (France) is a particularly challenging setting for oil production: Besides lying under a metropolis of 12-million people, it is also exploited for low-temperature geothermal energy and is crossed by a deep, high-quality drinking-water aquifer of strategic importance, the Albian-Neocomian. Vermilion, the biggest producer in the area, undertook in 2012 a basinwide well-integrity risk-management project with the goal of understanding and minimizing the risk of freshwater-aquifer pollution. The Paris basin operations include 20 fields, for a total of 289 active wells, more than half of which were drilled in the 1980s. The objectives of the leakage risk assessment are twofold: First, identify high-risk scenarios and "must act" wells that require immediate intervention; second, adopt lean (i.e., eliminating waste) prevention and mitigation measures that satisfy the local regulator. The risk-assessment methodology is based on scenarios (i.e., ways in which the hazards, brines or hydrocarbons, can cause damage to targets, the freshwater aquifers). Each scenario involves the failure of a number of barriers with the function to prevent or mitigate damage. In this approach, evidence from in-depth failure analysis is used to build and calibrate scenarios, as well as to validate degradation mechanisms and understand their dynamics. Evidence considered is not limited to drilling reports and wireline logs, but includes all observations, measurements, and weak signals that one can use to test assumptions on the presence, absence, or aging of well integrity. Evidence-based scenarios are complemented by known failure mechanisms, thus reducing the risk of "black swans," very improbable but catastrophic events, even though their probability is constrained by observed behavior during the 4,000 well years of operations in the basin. The criticality (product of probability and severity) of each applicable scenario is then computed by use of an exhaustive database of the characteristics of each well, resulting in a complete risk profile for the basin. The risk-assessment process revealed that casing corrosion caused by brine injection is the biggest driver of well-integrity risk; it also allowed tailoring effective prevention and mitigation actions: For instance, the criticality of scenarios is reduced to an acceptable level if the time between tubing failure and injection stop is kept to 3 months or less. Furthermore, the analysis helps define the role of periodic logging and thus reduce possible waste (i.e., actions that do not contribute to understanding, preventing, or mitigating risk). The evidence-based approach, since applied to another French basin, has proved effective for managing risk at the basin level, by cutting a middle way between universal checklists and the excessively narrow focus of well-by-well analysis: The former are too large and hazy and may hide real dangers among hardly applicable generalities, whereas the latter tends to be expensive and unsystematic and misses recurring patterns. Heavy-duty analytics and modeling are used most efficiently on focused and specific failure analyses to understand the dominant phenomena, which one can then use to paint a quantitative and consistent picture at the level of a field or basin. Copyright © 2015 Society of Petroleum Engineers. Source
Resonant interaction between laser and electrons undergoing betatron oscillations in the bubble regime
Curcio A.,Rome University |
Curcio A.,National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy |
Giulietti D.,National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy |
Dattoli G.,ENEA |
Ferrario M.,National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Italy
Journal of Plasma Physics | Year: 2015
The betatron radiation in the bubble regime is studied in the presence of resonant interaction between the accelerated electrons and the driver laser pulse tail. The calculations refer to experimental parameters available at the FLAME laser facility at the National Laboratories of Frascati (LNF), and represent the radiation spectra and spatial distributions to be expected in forthcoming experiments. © 2015 Cambridge University Press. Source
Graphic visualization of probabilistic traffic/trajectory predictions in mobile applications. A first prototype and evaluations for general aviation purposes
Frau G.,Rome University |
Frau G.,DeepBlue Srl |
de Crescenzio F.,University of Bologna |
Taurino D.,DeepBlue Srl
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) | Year: 2015
The present work describes the interactive prototype and the preliminary evaluation results of a tool dedicated to the light General Aviation pilot's community. The tool's interface has been developed through an Android tablet application and aims at supporting the pilots in the task of staying "well-clear" from the surrounding traffic by presenting them the long-term prediction of the flights. The initial results and the approach of a heuristic evaluation conducted with five experts coming from the fields of user-experience, aviation and automotive are discussed along with the improvements in the design of the user-interface focusing on the trajectory depictions. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. Source
Loizzo M.,Rome University |
Lecampion B.,University Pierre and Marie Curie |
Berard T.,CNRS Paris Institute of Global Physics |
Harichandran A.,Imperial College London |
Jammes L.,University Paris - Sud
SPE Projects, Facilities and Construction | Year: 2010
Two main types of reservoirs are considered for geological storage of carbon dioxide (CO2): deep saline formations and depleted oil and gas (O&G) reservoirs. The former offers very large potential capacity and a more-even distribution at the expense of high uncertainty because of the very poor characterization of their properties to date, including their sealing capacity. The latter offers smaller overall capacity, but with a reduced risk because of better reservoir knowledge. Gas reservoirs have also provided a proven seal to pressurized gas. However, reusing depleted O&G reservoirs presents challenges that must be considered in the evaluation of performance factors and the associated risks. Depletion can cause pore collapse in the reservoir, with an associated loss of capacity and injectivity and can weaken caprock and bounding faults or even well completions, leading to possible containment losses because of mechanical failure. O&G reservoirs are also intersected by many wells, and it is likely that stricter regulatory requirements on well integrity and the quality of zonal isolation will force operators to recomplete or work over wells that will be exposed to CO 2, with an obvious impact on cost. Low reservoir pressure may also mean that injection of CO2 in a dense phase would result in reservoir fracturing and very strong thermal effects that may lead to injectivity problems. In the reservoir, chemical and physical differences in behavior between CO2 and methane may adversely affect geological containment and injectivity. Analyzing the benefits and challenges with respect to all performance factors (capacity, injectivity, containment) shows that depleted O&G reservoirs and deep saline reservoirs both offer potentially attractive targets for geological storage of CO2, mostly for complementary reasons. Uncertainty on capacity and injectivity is clearly lower for depleted reservoirs, giving them a potential net economic advantage, whereas uncertainty on well containment favors saline formations, which are intersected by fewer wells. Injectivity in depleted reservoirs may be much more difficult to ensure than for saline formations or O&G reservoirs where pressure has been maintained. Saline formations have a lower, mostly unproven, safety margin between injection and fracturing pressure, resulting in a potential advantage for depleted reservoirs where repressurization will lead to a final pressure lower than or equal to the original value. Each reservoir type has a different risk profile, different advantages, and a rightful place in a portfolio of injection sites. © 2010 Society of Petroleum Engineers. Source


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Streamlining operations
Britannia chose to deploy Casio EG-800 PDAs running the Pocket PC operating system for cabin crews, and IBM x30 laptops for pilots using Microsoft Corp.s Windows 2000 to improve its workflow and streamline operations. Previously, cabin crews and pilots relied on an intranet to print out information to carry aboard the plane before a flight. With the new system in place, data is now replicated from the intranet directly to users PDAs via Wi-Fi during mandatory preflight meetings. With such updated information at their disposal, the planes crew can better prepare meal serving times based on things like flight times, turbulence, weather patterns and so on.Boulton said the Casio EG-800 was chosen for its "ruggedization" and hardened plastic shell. It was no secret that the devices would need to withstand the constant handling throughout the day by a full- and part-time staff, being stowed away into compact areas aboard the plane and being shelved for indefinite periods of time. The Casios will operate only with the addition of a separate data card, used as a secondary backup, in conjunction with the wireless card. Each PDA features its own Secure ID card and records when a PDA user has read a file or document through to the end, creating a daily audit trail. "There are a lot of safety-related issues around paper, and were seeing more and more around that across the transportation industry. People are given reams of paper, and they dont read it properly," said Cavill. From the captains perspective, the wireless technology puts routine checks and engineering issues and features, as well as required flight manuals, at his fingertips. Britannia is running iAnywheres UltraLite database technology on its PDAs, and the Adaptive Server Anywhere SQL relational database for its IBM laptops. The airline is using iAnywheres MobiLink to enable synchronization from each database back into enterprise data sources. Pylon Anywhere tools offer access to corporate e-mail, PIM (personal information manager) custom applications, calendars and personal contact lists. Administration, remote support and management of all Britannias field mobile devices occur through iAnywheres Manage Anywhere Studio. Livelink, a document management system from Open Text Corp., of Waterloo, Ontario, is used to integrate iAnywheres mobile extension at the back office. LogicaCMG is developing a project to put engineering systems data onto the PDA, minimizing repairs and inventory-order time frames. Additionally, RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology has been examined to simplify inspections rather than the current system of unbolting physical hardware structures. Cavill said 22 other airlines have approached the systems integrator about Britannias PDA and laptop mobile access deployment and operation. Martyn Mallick, senior product manager for iAnywhere, of Dublin, Calif., credited LogicaCMGs understanding of mobilized applications and the transportation industry with enabling iAnywhere to integrate and run across Britannias IT architecture seamlessly. "Essentially, when you get started with a project like this, the systems integrator aspect is very important because iAnywhere may not have specific domain expertise for the vertical industries our technologies play in," said Mallick. To the surprise of many, the outcome of those efforts resulted in Britannia saving upward of $910,000 simply by removing paper from its system. A total of $795,000 in cost reductions was achieved via streamlined administration tools. Check out eWEEK.coms Mobile & Wireless Center at http://wireless.eweek.com for the latest news, reviews and analysis.
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As an economist I find the Royal Society Report "People and the Planet" very depressing reading (report, 26 April). The thrust of the report is that with increasing population and scarce resources we must cut back our consumption and reduce the population. However the report is wrong on both counts.
Although population growth recently has been exponentially adding a billion people every 15 years, those who are conversant with the mathematics of exponential curves will know that they all follow a fast-escalating shape that will flatten out and even fall. The rate of growth is slowing markedly and will level off at 8 to 9 billion by 2050 and decline thereafter. This is a completely manageable number.
On resources, massive oil finds off the coasts of Greenland and Brazil – both greater than all the reserves in Saudi Arabia – together with the huge shale-gas finds in the US and in Europe will ensure the world has plenty of energy for the next two centuries.
Terri Jackson
Bangor, Northern Ireland
In Steve Connor's item on the Royal Society's report on consumption and population he remarks that "expanding the availability of contraceptives to the poorest people in the world will not solve... the most difficult problems".
Agreed, but population limitation is an essential part of any project to relieve the pressure of humanity on the world and has been too little discussed. Article after article appears discussing how we are to feed the 9bn who will be on the earth in 2050, without any mention of the possibility of an attempt to keep to a lower number. The impression has long been given that it is not quite nice to discuss population, and politicians and media have alike very often fudged discussion.
In fact, a determination to reduce reproduction has succeeded in countries such as Taiwan, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Tunisia, Brazil and Mexico, using entirely non-coercive methods. It is also true that population growth is not confined to developing countries, but exists in developed, consuming countries also, especially the US and UK.
Reduction should not be difficult given sufficient funds and political will: indeed there is actually an unfulfilled demand for family planning. Two hundred and ten million women (UN Population Fund) who wish to use family planning are denied it for one reason or another. Over 40 per cent of all pregnancies are unintentional, and this results in about 40m abortions annually, of which 20m are unsafe, with a correspondingly high toll in deaths and permanent disability (WHO).
Roger Plenty
Stroud, Gloucestershire
Is Baldrick behind cunning plan for Olympic security?
Even by Baldrick's standards of intellectual retardation, the cunning plan to deter kamikaze terrorists by threatening to shoot their planes down in densely populated areas of London just about scrapes the barrel. And the tax payer is picking up a £1bn bill for this idiocy.
David Bracey
Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire
I don't think Mark Steel (2 May) went far enough with his suggestions. Could I suggest all running events take place on the baggage carousels, with strategically placed suitcases as suitable replacements for the hurdles? The marathon could take place on the escalators.
David R Pollard
Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire
The initial London Olympic bid made much of the issue of sustainability. On the food agenda, there was much hoo-ha about using local, seasonal, organic, free range, etc in order to showcase how well this country can perform in the good food arena.
We are among a gang of UK organic farmers and food producers who were encouraged to bid for supply contracts, through the Organic Trade Board. We obviously all performed really, really badly at several presentations to various multinational businesses contracted to look after the million-pound contract (to give an idea of scale, they were looking for 5,000 tonnes of protein alone).
At the end of last year we all got letters saying we had not been selected to supply, apart from one small producer of UK organic ciabattas and breads. We were told during the presentations that small volumes were no problem, pricing was not an issue, location, don't worry about it: "We just want to showcase the best of British."
We may all have been turned down because we are not the "best of British", but overall the taste lingers that in the end dealing with small, environmentally friendly, sustainable artisans like us and our fellow producers was a complete pain in the backside logistically, and it's much easier to deal with huge business.
Tim Finney
Eastbrook Farm Organic Meats
Helen Browning
The Royal Oak
The queues at Heathrow are only a prelude to other gold medal queues. The ticketing for the Olympics are not for the day but for a session, which means that between each session 80,000 people will need to exit the stadium while at the same time 80,000 people will be trying to get in. Looks like the Olympics might knock Heathrow into silver position!
Steve Horsfield
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Electoral reform is long overdue
Newspapers often encourage their readers on polling day to use their vote, whether in general or in support of particular candidates. You chose instead to follow the lead of some politicians who in the days leading up to 3 May focused on the risk that some candidates, or their supporters, might seek to exploit aspects of our electoral system through fraud (report, 3 May).
Elections staff and the police work hard to prevent fraud. The police investigate electoral fraud because it can involve serious criminal offences. The Electoral Commission monitors and reports on how allegations are dealt with.
Far from putting "little or no pressure" to tighten the voting system, the Commission first called in 2003 for the system of household registration to be replaced with individual electoral registration. In 2006, the House of Lords twice amended an elections bill because it failed to implement this recommendation: that legislation did eventually tighten the rules for postal voting so that all postal votes must be accompanied by the voter's signature and date of birth, which must match those on the original application.
In 2009 the last government finally legislated to introduce individual electoral registration, and the current government has announced it will speed up the timetable. Both acknowledged the continuing pressure from the Electoral Commission to make this change.
Following the 2010 General Election we said the government should review the case for requiring voter ID in polling stations. The government has made no progress on this since then.
Peter Wardle
Chief Executive, Electoral Commission, London EC1
Fatal flaws that undermine Ofsted
Just having retired after nearly 30 years of headship I have come to a few conclusions regarding Ofsted (Education, 26 April). Headship is hard and stressful; it demands long hours and a whole range of skills. It can also be hugely rewarding. A number of heads cannot last the course and look for a way out. The escape route many take is to become Ofsted inspectors. So we have the senseless situation where those who couldn't survive being a head are going in and inspecting those who choose to stay on to try to make a difference.
It would be far more honest if inspectors who judged a school to be unsatisfactory and needing improvement were then compelled to stay and work at that school for at least six months or until that improvement had been made. After all, if the judgement is made by experts then surely those experts are exactly the people needed to put the situation right?
I suspect that grades would improve dramatically if this regime were introduced and people who had escaped from schools to take the Ofsted shilling were suddenly faced with the day-to-day reality of school life again.
As a head of my own school and governor at two others I have been through at least 12 inspections. These schools have all been judged good, so this is not a communication from an embittered head driven out by a failing grade. Rather, it is a note of despair about the money that Ofsted costs, the harm that it can do and the bolthole it provides for people who should still be working in schools.
David Saunders
Langford, Bedfordshire
Murdoch's 'success'
Rupert Murdoch's apologists in these pages (letters, 3 May) and on the Commons' committee, rely on the undoubted fact of the mogul's long history of commercial success to conclude that he must therefore not be an unfit person to run such an enterprise. This is the spurious logic that could be used to argue that Rachman was a good landlord.
Vaughan Thomas
Usk, Gwent
Something about Harry
What is it with James Lawton's love-in with Harry Redknapp? For three successive days we've been subjected to his tedious rants on the missed opportunity by the Football Association around Redknapp's non-appointment as England manager. On 1 May we were told "his treatment has been nothing short of abysmal".
In his recent court case Redknapp claimed to "write like a two-year-old" and said he couldn't spell or "even fill a team sheet in." If true, is this the man we want representing the country on a global stage?
Steve King
Washington, Tyne and Wear
A day before the fuss over the way new England manager Roy Hodgson pronounces his "R"s, you ran an article by Fulham fan Michael McCarthy headed "Don't do it, Woy – it isn't worth it". Where The Independent leads, The Sun follows?
Clive Goozee
Cameron's charm
"Now that the Prime Minister's lost his charm, what's left?" (Matthew Norman, 2 May). Unless that's a typo and Mr Cameron's cleaning lady has just retired, I'm afraid I don't understand the question.
David Woods
Hull, East Yorkshire
Self speak
Will Self's Opinion was excellent ("London thinks only of itself", 28 April). But have a heart Will! I know plain English can be boring, but dirigisme, desuetude, entrepot, satrapies, echt, fanfaronade, all in one short article – quite put me off my breakfast.
Austen Moore
Obscure gem?
"After that she [Chloë Sevigny] was Kate Beckinsale's plainer 'best friend' in Walt Whitman's tale of Ivy League graduates, The Last Days of Disco" (Independent Magazine, 28 April). Now that's a film we'd all love to see, rather than Whit Stillman's film of the same name.
Andrew Belsey
Whitstable, Kent
I don't think "I'ink" for "I think" and "I sh'ink" for "I should think" are necessarily posh (letters, 1 & 2 May). One of the worst culprits is Ken Livingstone – is he posh?
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Andy Murray is back where he kicked off his breakthrough 2012 season and his working partnership with Ivan Lendl, only one win away from successfully defending his title at the Brisbane International.
The reigning Brisbane, Olympic and US Open champion advanced to
the final when fifth-seeded Kei Nishikori retired with an injured left
knee when trailing 6-4, 2-0 in their semifinal early this morning.
Still in his way is Grigor Dimitrov, the 21-year-old Bulgarian who is starting to live up to his reputation as a star-in-the-making by reaching his first ATP Tour final with a 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (5) win over 2006 Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis.
The women's final is set for tonight with Serena Williams against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Both Murray and Dimitrov have an eye on the Australian Open, which starts on January 14, but both are conscious of the early-season interest in a showdown between a member of the top four and a player in the up-and-coming group who are determined to break the domination that Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Murray and Rafael Nadal have had in the majors.
Murray knows what is at stake tomorrow, recalling his first ATP Tour final against Federer — he lost at Bangkok in 2005 — as an opportunity to go for his shots with nothing to lose.
The top four men are constantly asked about players who're capable of being in the next generation of champions. The 25-year-old Murray is now including Dimitrov on his list.
"From my point of view, I hope that there isn't people coming through because it means that I'll be one of the ones that's losing out on a spot," he said, only half joking. "There are loads of guys that are very, very tough players, all with different games.
"Grigor plays with a lot of variety. He can play a lot of shots. He's one the few guys coming through that's got a single-handed backhand as well, so he uses a lot more slice than the others."
Putting them to the test, in the regular tournaments and the more physically demanding majors, is "when you'll find out about them," he said.
He was down 4-1 against No. 5-seeded Nishikori before went on a roll, winning the next seven games before the Japanese player called it quits, two games after receiving medical treatment.
"I'm playing ok. A bit up and down," Murray said. "I've moved better every single match. Returning could have been better, and my groundstrokes, with more matches I'll start it hit them cleaner."
Dimitrov, the youngest player in the top 50, has hit form quickly in 2013 with wins over second-seeded Milos Raonic, the big-serving Canadian, and seventh-seeded Jurgen Melzer en route to his first final.
He raced to a 3-0 lead in eight minutes to establish the only break of the first set and then was up a break in the second before No. 38-ranked Baghdatis hit back to take the match into a third set.
Baghdatis saved a breakpoint to force a tiebreaker and then was stunned when he received a time violation penalty — losing his first serve — when he was down a mini break. The ATP has modified its rules for 2013 to make it easier for chair umpires to caution players about slow play and Baghdatis had already been warned for taking too long between service points.
He fought back in the tiebreaker but Dimitrov came up with a stunning backhand which ultimately turned the match.
After reaching semifinals at Queen's, Bastad and Gstaad in 2012, Dimitrov switched coaches for the off-season and has been working in Sweden at an academy run by Magnus Norman, Nicklas Kulti and Mikael Tillstrom. Together, they set a target of reaching the final in the first week of the season.
"We were actually pretty serious about it, and now that it happened, I was in the locker room and my coach was like, 'Well, I told you so,"' he said. "Definitely every tournament I play of course I want to be in the final."
His single-handed backhand and easy-looking mobility around the court have drawn comparisons with a younger Federer. That doesn't feel like a burden to Dimitrov, who says he hasn't come close to his potential.
"Weighing me down? What for? No, not at all. Total opposite. People can judge anyway, right? Again, Roger is Roger; I'm me," he said. "I haven't won a title yet even though I'm in the final."
Dimitrov said he'd concentrated on honing his physical condition in the off-season because he knows that raw talent will only get him so far.
"Of course I been showing here and there matches that I played, well, outrageous tennis, and I've had matches where I felt like, Ok, I go on court and everything is on. But you have these matches four or five times a year," he said. "That doesn't make you any better player. Talent doesn't win matches.
"I tried to understand all that quite early, because of course there are expectations, everyone compares you, whatever, and these kind of things. But in the end it's the good part in tennis because everything is in your hands. You got to do it. If you want to be out there, you got to go get it from the bottom."
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What is an Emergency Kit?
An emergency kit, according to Ready.gov, is "simply a collection of basic items your household may need in the event of an emergency." Many of the items found in your personal emergency kit may vary from person to person (due to personal circumstances), but the majority should remain constant.
Emergency kits are your bread and butter during times of disaster and other crises. Everything inside should help you get through whatever disaster comes your way. Of course, all disasters come with different challenges, but the basic necessities will always remain unchanged. Which brings us to the next question…
What Should an Emergency Kit Contain?
Keep what you need to survive. What do you need in an emergency? The obvious answers are food and water. But that's just the beginning. With more gear and tools, you will have a much easier time getting through your crisis.
The following list is what Ready.gov recommends you have in your emergency kit (and should last you for at least three days):
- Water
- Food
- Radio
- Flashlight
- First aid kit
- Whistle
- Dust mask
- Moist towelettes, garbage bags
- Wrench or pliers
- Can opener
- Maps
- Cell phone charger, inverter, or solar charger
All these items serve an important purpose for not just survival, but obtaining whatever comforts you can when everything else is out of reach. Whistles are essential for calling for help without wasting too much energy. Moist towelettes can be used for sanitary needs. Food for eating. Water for drinking. Well, you get the idea. Everything in your kit should help you succeed during a disaster.
What Should You Do With Your Kit?
Emergency kits are to be used in the event of an emergency (as the name implies). That means it must be ready when an emergency happens. If your kit has sat unused for years, there's a chance some of the items won't be usable when the time comes.
Flashlight batteries could be dead, food could be old and bad, and other things could be wrong with the contents if you haven't looked through it in a while. Ideally, you should be checking your emergency kits every six months, rotating your food, water, and other gear when necessary.
Keep it Handy
It would be great if we could plan when and where disasters strike. That way we would always be ready. But, as life would have it, controlling those outside factors just isn't something we are able to do. Usually, disasters give us little or no warning, which means you'll need to act fast when a crisis comes for a visit. And, since you never know where you'll be when disaster strikes, it's ideal to have an emergency kit in many different locations.
You spend a lot of time at home. If nothing else, it's where you sleep, and many disasters have been known to wait until the wee hours of the morning before making their presence known (i.e. tornadoes, earthquakes, etc.). Having an emergency kit at home is vital to your success, day or night.
Speaking of night, it's never so dark as when the power's out and you're looking for your gear. That's one reason why it's imperative to store your emergency kit in an easy to reach location. Likewise, disasters may force you from your home without a moment's notice (much like those who fled the wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta). When this happens, you grab what's available and get out of there. By having your emergency kit in a handy, easy to reach location (such as your front closet), your emergency kit becomes your bug out bag, which will help you get through the next 72 hours of uncertainty.
From mudslides in California to snowy roads in many other parts of the country, your road trip can take a turn for the worst without so much as a warning. Drivers have been stranded in their car for days, relying on whatever provisions they had for their road trip to see them through until help arrived. Usually, it's just a few snacks, rather than anything substantial. By having an emergency kit in your vehicle, you can not only have the food and water needed for survival, but tools to help get your car unstuck and back on the road. At the very least, you can have ways to call or signal for help.
Aside from your home, you spend quite a bit of time (too much, perhaps?) at the office. Find out what your business's emergency contingency plan is. If they already have kits for their employees, great! But chances are you're on your own in that regard. Put an emergency kit together to put in your locker, slide under your desk, or somewhere else it will fit.
Your kids deserve to be ready for anything, and you can help them. There are many instances in which your children may have use for a mini emergency kit, such as a school lock down, severe weather, bus accident, and more. Just like any kit, your children's school emergency kits should have water, food, an emergency whistle, a first aid kit, and other essential items. Of course, this kit should be small, so as to fit in the bottom of your children's backpacks. Additionally, have your children keep another emergency kit in their locker. This way, they can have larger items (such as an emergency blanket) already at the school should they need it. For more information, the Mom with a Prep blog discusses what each child's emergency kit should contain, as well as why it's necessary.
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The Archdiocese of St. Louis is blessed with more than 2,200 consecrated men and women religious who are instruments of the merciful love of Jesus Christ in our midst. About half of these sisters, brothers and priests are more than 70 years of age. They are the teachers, nurses, social workers and administrators who have touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of St. Louisans. They continue to spend their lives in loving service and fruitful prayers and suffering offered for the Body of Christ.
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Vanguard Group is at it again. Less than a month after lowering fees on a slug of 35 funds, the Pennsylvania-based fund giant announced another round of fee cuts. This time, it is lowering expense ratios on 21 mutual fund shares with fiscal years that ended in September. The biggest decline? A 25-basis point drop by the Vanguard Capital Value Fund (VCLVX) due to a performance-based advisory fee adjustment.
The price war among exchange-traded funds continues, with OppenheimerFunds significantly slashing the expense ratios on five of its eight ETFs.
The years-long fee war gripping the market for plain-vanilla exchange-traded funds has quickly spawned another front — "smart beta."
Widespread proliferation of unconventional index-tracking ETFs – fully 35% of launches in 2015 — means that fund companies must differentiate their offerings somehow. Few of the new ETFs boast track records long enough to gauge performance. And, with many of the new ETFs revolving around similar-sounding combinations of "factors" — momentum, quality, value, size and volatility — it's frankly tough to know what to expect. That means costs are coming down. And, some fund companies are doing this by putting their ETFs temporarily on sale.
Global X is the latest to lower the fee bar this way. The company announced in a recent filing that it dropped the fee on its $12 million Scientific Beta US ETF (SCIU) to 0.19% a year, down from 0.35%. That brings it well below average for large-cap "strategic beta" ETFs, which Morningstar late last year calculated at 0.39%. (Morningstar uses the catchall "strategic" beta, which is less nebulous than the "smart" moniker; both terms mean indexes that can differ from cap-weighting, either positively or negatively). Here's the catch: the lower fee for the Global X ETF has an expiration date, and that date is March 1, 2017.
This approach is similar to Goldman Sachs Asset Management's move to price its $305 million Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF (GSLC) at 0.09% when it launched in September. This ultra-low fee has a sunset clause, too, unless amended. After Sept. 14, 2016, this ETF's expense ratio rises to 0.24%, according to its prospectus.
The fee cuts continue. The latest are from Invesco's (IVZ) PowerShares.
The firm is cutting expense ratios on six exchange-traded funds. Four are built to reflect company fundamentals in lieu of their market caps, and two are "factor-driven" funds, which are driven by the underlying stocks' characteristics, like beta and volatility.
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PXF FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Portfolio (PXF), from 0.75% to 0.45%
PXH FTSE RAFI Emerging Markets Portfolio (PXH), from 0.85% to 0.49%
PAF FTSE RAFI Asia Pacific ex-Japan Portfolio (PAF), from 0.80% to 0.49%
FTSE RAFI Developed Markets ex-U.S. Small-Mid Portfolio (PDN), from 0.75% to 0.49%
S&P International Developed High Quality Portfolio (IDHQ), from 0.75% to 0.45%
S&P 500 High Quality Portfolio (SPHQ), from 0.50% to 0.29%
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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced the schedule today for its 10th Annual Hoophall Classic, to be held at Springfield College's Blake Arena from January 14-17, 2011 (Martin Luther King Day weekend).
Annually chock-full of the nation's premier high school talent, past Hoophall alumni include Kevin Durant, O.J. Mayo, Jerryd Bayless, DeMarcus Cousins, Derrick Favors, Xavier Henry and Lance Stephenson. 2010's Classic featured high-major talents Kyrie Irving, Jared Sullinger, Tobias Harris, Cory Joseph, Brandon Knight and Austin Rivers.
Forty-seven teams from 17 different states as far away as California and Nevada are represented in this upcoming classic, among them nearly two dozen ESPNU100 talents including Michael Gilchrist, Quincy Miller, Myck Kabongo, LeBryan Nash, Andre Drummond, Shabazz Muhammad and DaJuan Coleman.
Locally, there will be several key games to look for, particularly on Monday morning when Notre Dame-bound Pat Connaughton leads St. John's Prep against Perspectives, the Chicago-based charter school that features Kentucky commit Anthony Davis.
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Mount Vernon (N.Y.) vs. Taft (Calif.), 2
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Oak Hill (Va.) vs. Milton (Ga.), 8
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St. Thomas More (Conn.) vs. Hargrave Military (Va.), 12:30
St. Andrew's (R.I.) v. Findlay Prep (Nev.), 2
Jamesville-DeWitt (N.Y.) vs. Webster Groves (Mo.), 4:30
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St. John's Prep vs. Perspectives (Ill.), 9 a.m.
Christ the King (N.Y.) vs. Westchester Country Day (N.C.), 11 a.m.
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News : Qualfon to Center in Hancock, Creating 400 New Jobs
Hancock, New York, Dec 3, 2013 -- Qualfon, a global business process outsourcing (BPO) and call center services provider, will renovate a long-vacant manufacturing building in Hancock, New York and build a contact center and back-office processing facility that will create a projected 400 new jobs.
Data Control Group, LLC has been operating for 11 years in Deposit, New York and was recently acquired by Qualfon. As a division of Qualfon, Data Control Group was renamed Qualfon Data Services Group (DSG) and specializes in back-office processing services.
"Qualfon is a growing company that has experienced great success in the Delaware River valley. We love the people and their work ethic, and we're excited to further expand our presence in New York," said Pete Lutz, Sr. Vice President of Qualfon Data Services Group. "Upstate New York offers a skilled workforce with a population of 200,000 in a 25-mile radius. Plus, the high demand for contact center and back-office processing positions in the area has been a key factor in driving our investment in Hancock."
Qualfon will revitalize a dormant portion of the Becton-Dickinson plant, which sits on a 52-acre parcel at the confluence of the East and West branches of the Delaware River and formerly housed a medical products manufacturer. The project will be built in two phases, and phase one is scheduled to be complete in the Spring of 2014. Qualfon DSG will move its current employees and back-office operations in nearby Deposit, New York to the new location in Hancock and will occupy 35,000 square feet of the building. Later, it plans to expand to 50,000 square feet.
In an effort to facilitate the hiring process, the Chenango-Delaware-Otsego Workforce Investment Board (CDO) has agreed to help Qualfon in the process of identifying, recruiting, and training of employees. The 400 new jobs will stretch beyond Qualfon's current back-office processing positions and offer customer service, sales, and technical support positions that will help customers across a variety of communication channels including phone, chat, email, and social media.
In addition to new jobs, Qualfon plans to provide comprehensive in-house and educational training to all employees to ensure that local residents with a high school diploma or equivalency degree will qualify for the majority of the jobs to be created. Additionally, Qualfon will offer all employees health insurance benefits, including vision and dental, 401k options, and potentially even assistance with child care.
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Here is the second release from Blackboard Jungle sound system, soon available on their label. A new 12'' featuring Jamaican singer Anthony John on vocals. On side A, the St Ann born vocalist delivers a conscious vocal cut on a nice roots & stepper riddim produced by the French crew while on the flip side we found two instrumental versions, including one melodica cut by Sand-I and the dub version. After a great debut release featuring Afrikan Simba and Vivian Jones, Blackboard Jungle comes with a new 12'' that will probably delight stepper sound followers…
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Alexandria Salvatore. Damon and Stefan's Little Sister. She's 15, she's beautiful, and she's of course a Salvatore. Her brothers thought she was dead and gone for good. They missed her terribly and they want her back. But, what happens when she actually does comes back? This is the story of what could have happened if the Salvatore Brothers had a sister.
hayitslily Feb 14, 2016
so the reason Elena is also wrapped around your finger in the non-alternative version is bcz she's Katherine's double ganger?
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Everyone's commenting about how Stefen's being selfish; they seem to have forgotten that he was compelled to love her. He can't help but think that way.
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Darn i just realized that i make the same storyline like this. A siblings love one person
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Elena & Stefan broke the star-crossed lover shiz between them and the first doppelgangers that didn't end up with what they're meant to be.
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What the hell? She came to stefens room, so how did she hide behind her own bed?


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Talk:Alexander I of Russia
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|A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day... section on March 23, 2005, March 23, 2006, and March 23, 2007.
- 1 This Article Fails
- 2 Princess Maria Naryshkina
- 3 Metternich
- 4 Grand Duke of Finland
- 5 Opening of his grave
- 6 Article is quite accurate
- 7 Article Criticism
- 8 be bold
- 9 Clarification
- 10 Dates, OS and New Style mixed
- 11 Seriously?
- 12 Feodor Kuzmich
- 13 sickness
- 14 Incomplete sentence in 'French Invasion'
- 15 Death
- 16 Now this article is anti-Russian
- 17 Dubious death section missing...
This Article Fails[edit]
This is not an encyclopedic entry, this is nationalistic propaganda. It needs to be edited by someone who takes history seriously. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.8.131.52 (talk) 22:37, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
Princess Maria Naryshkina[edit]
"Towards the close of his life their reconciliation was completed by the wise charity of the Empress in sympathizing deeply with him over the death of his beloved daughter by Princess Maria Naryshkina."
This statement may be inaccurate. Princess Maria Naryshkina was his mistress, not his daughter. I'd like to correct it, but not until I find out whose death brought he and his wife back together. If anyone knows please correct or advise. Alberia Torkenkluvin 19:18, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)
This page says that Metternich first met Alexander in 1819, however, did they not meet at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, following the Napoleonic wars? I believe Metternich was one of the signatories for the Holy Alliance, which was crafted at the Congress.
Grand Duke of Finland[edit]
In intro sentence? Ksenon 20:39, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- (... the first Grand Duke of Finland.) King of Sweden, Johan III Gustafsson I Vasa (1568-1592) took title "Grand Duke of Finland" in his 3.8.1577 dated official letter. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk) 13:42, 24 February 2007 (UTC).
Opening of his grave[edit]
Whatever the truth, when the Soviet Government opened Alexander's grave many, many years later, it was empty. Exactly when was "many, many years later". I'd much rather see a precise date. How about a source that gives this information. JackofOz 07:18, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
- I rewrote some of the last chapter ("Death"), using more neutral language, since most of the rumours are not supported by the sources and there's no direct evidence that the elder Feodor Kozmich ever was (or claimed to be) the emperor Alexander I. [[ouital77 15:20, 26 August 2006 (UTC)]]
Article is quite accurate[edit]
Contrary to the first opinion stated so vulgarly, this article is quite accurate historically, except for some minor errors or omissions (some of which are not errors but rather are still in dispute among historians). Anyone who is a fervent student of Russian history knows that much of it is actually much more dramatic than any novel and nothing needs to be made up or exagerated to add drama to the real Russian history. And this is the opinion of a non-Russian who has been a student of Russian history, art and culture for more than 30 years. wow is wound have never known.
Although I know Russian history is a giant, dramatic tapestry of events, this article really isn't worthy of an encyclopedia, which Wikipedia of course is. While the epic sweep of this Tsar's rule and the context in which he reigned (the Napoleonic Wars) needs to be maintained in the article, much of it just isn't objective. TG312274 21:43, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Article Criticism[edit]
This article is bullshit. I was reading it and just had to stop. This is like a fucking novel.
- I agree. There is hardly any criticism. Napoleon was a visionary who wanted the Russian serfs to be freed (as much as he wanted to give rights to the people of Prussia and Austria), but Alexander refused to free the serfs.
- Yeah this really does need to be clarified, particularly with the removal of all this dramatic trash. Skim to the facts, man, horrendous article to read. Kilter 04:16, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
- Okay, a lot of the article does seem to be a hagiography of the Tsar, without discussion of say his political philosophy or his autocratic opinions. Much of it doesn't fit in with the principle of NPOV. It's late now in England :) so I will try to work on editing this tomorrow. TG312274 21:43, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
be bold[edit]
i 've just been bold and deleted a lot of stuff that just does not belong into an encyclopedia. i could not think of any way to improve it. it just had to go. sorry. trueblood 18:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
What is meant by this line: "and he consoled himself in the traditional manner"? What is this manner? And more citations within the article itself would improve this article. SailorAlphaCentauri 16:41, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Dates, OS and New Style mixed[edit]
We currently have him reigning after he died, an obvious impossibility caused by mixing up old style and new style dates. Can anybody fix this? Smallbones (talk) 16:34, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
"His view of any relation to the incipient "Americans," (who were almost universally considered unruly) in particular, should be subject to the conventions of his times, as such relations were characterized by heady new freedoms in the New World and the hardly unprecedented restrictions still necessarily in place in the Old World. Thomas Jefferson's opinions of his statecraft would have mattered to him, as to any European ruler of the time, as no more important than the flea that was tormenting his dog."
All I have to say with this paragraph is wow...really? Lame. Despite the fact there's no citations to back this up, I'm not even going to bother complaining about the POV much. 126.96.36.199 (talk) 02:36, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Since this sentence and the preceding one are unsourced and appear in the section about *others'* view of Alexander, I deleted them.188.8.131.52 (talk) 19:48, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
Feodor Kuzmich[edit]
There must be some forensic state on this, either the royal burial or that of the starets. 220.127.116.11 (talk) 08:19, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
In the Mysterious Death section, we find "During his trip he himself caught a cold which developed into typhus". Typhus is not related to colds. It is spread by a vector: body lice. Alexander may have had one or both illnesses, but the cold couldn't develop into typhus. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aimzzz (talk • contribs) 18:59, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Also there are few citations in the Death section... no citation for cause of death mentioned above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aimzzz (talk • contribs) 19:04, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Incomplete sentence in 'French Invasion'[edit]
The following first sentence under 'French Invasion' is incomplete:
"In the summer of 1812 with Napoleon's invasion of Russia." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 15:07, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
I am no expert on Alexander I, or colds, or Typhus. Still, it seems completely impossible that a cold "develops into" typhus, as this section suggests in the case of Alexander I. No doubt, during the time of Alexander, people were confused about how the two might be related. According to Wikipedia, which is quite good on this kind of thing, typhus is caused by bacteria. The bacteria basically are carried by ticks. I doubt a cold had much to do with anything.Tombadog (talk) 19:26, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
Now this article is anti-Russian[edit]
The tone is this article seems hostile and disrespectful to the Russian emperor and Russia in general: accusing Alexander of duplicity, paranoia and vindictiveness, and also "erratic" foreign policy, downplaying heroic efforts of the Russian army in the war of 1812 ("few major battles" LOL). Some of the statements are grossly inaccurate (claiming that Russia had only a minor role in European affairs at the time), others are downright absurd, such as the notion that Russian Czar needed liberal rhetoric to shore up his popularity.
The User:Rjensen seems mostly responsible for this dire state of affairs.Keverich2 (talk) 20:16, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is not here to pay respect to any Russian emperor or Russia in general. Its task is not to respect anyone or anything. If you intend to glorify Alexander and/or Russia, you can expect your edits to be reverted. The article cites sources; if you can cite some that disprove the information, please do so here and discuss the issue. Surtsicna (talk) 20:48, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
- I'm not willing to tolerate defamation of Russian historical figures either. It doesn't matter what your "sources" say, statement such as His foreign policy was erratic; his allies never fully trusted him. - this kind of crap simply has no place in encyclopedia (See Wikipedia:NPOV). You can bet I will remove itKeverich2 (talk) 06:39, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- for the record I am not "hostile" to the tsars, but I do have a low tolerance for people who demand "heroic" history. Our job as editors is to get the facts right and reflect the current scholarship in the reliable secondary sources. Rjensen (talk) 23:16, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, your edits are far from impartial. They reflect the typical attitude of inveterate Cold War hawks and actually aim at spreading Russophobic propaganda. I suggest you refrain from editing Russia-related articles in the future. --Ghirla-трёп- 06:13, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- Your description of the French Invasion of Russia is based on book, dated 1911 - talk about "current scholarship". (On a second look, none of your sources qualify as current scholarship) Most of the statements I reverted violated the neutrality requirement. For expample, the statement that His foreign policy was erratic; his allies never fully trusted him. is someone's point of view. It should not be presented as a fact. You could have at least created a new section entitled "criticism" where various critical opinions of Alexander's policy can be presented. Keverich2 (talk) 06:39, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- Anti-Russian? A criticism of the tsar makes one an enemy of Russia? well that's not the way it worked back in the Cold War days-- (I recall since I taught history at MGU in Moscow in 1986). The 1911 allegation is silly. This article originated way back in 2001 when someone (not me--I started on this article in 2012) copied the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article word for word. Wikipedia's "neutrality" requirement is not about being neutral regarding Alexander, it's to be neutral regarding the reliable sources. As for his foreign policy: he switched positions back and forth every couple years from neutral to pro-Coalition to pro-Napoleon to anti-Napoleon. That's pretty dramatic--and erratic. As for 1812, Napoleon really did capture Moscow and the Russians really did rely on a scorched earth policy to destroy the available food supplies. That's in all the textbooks and is not controversial. I used standard histories by Gregory Freeze (1997) pp 148-52, Paul Schroeder (1994), and Hugh Seton-Watson (1988) pp 113-42 as well as Cate, The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia, 1812 (1985) (see his Preface) and Dwyer, Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power (2013) ch 18-20. What sources are you using by the way? Rjensen (talk) 07:24, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- Avoid stating opinions as facts. Usually, articles will contain information about the significant opinions that have been expressed about their subjects. However, these opinions should not be stated in Wikipedia's voice. Rather, they should be attributed in the text to particular sources, or where justified, described as widespread views, etc. For example, an article should not state that "genocide is an evil action", but it may state that "genocide has been described by John X as the epitome of human evil."Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Explanation_of_the_neutral_point_of_view
- Anti-Russian? A criticism of the tsar makes one an enemy of Russia? well that's not the way it worked back in the Cold War days-- (I recall since I taught history at MGU in Moscow in 1986). The 1911 allegation is silly. This article originated way back in 2001 when someone (not me--I started on this article in 2012) copied the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article word for word. Wikipedia's "neutrality" requirement is not about being neutral regarding Alexander, it's to be neutral regarding the reliable sources. As for his foreign policy: he switched positions back and forth every couple years from neutral to pro-Coalition to pro-Napoleon to anti-Napoleon. That's pretty dramatic--and erratic. As for 1812, Napoleon really did capture Moscow and the Russians really did rely on a scorched earth policy to destroy the available food supplies. That's in all the textbooks and is not controversial. I used standard histories by Gregory Freeze (1997) pp 148-52, Paul Schroeder (1994), and Hugh Seton-Watson (1988) pp 113-42 as well as Cate, The War of the Two Emperors: The Duel between Napoleon and Alexander: Russia, 1812 (1985) (see his Preface) and Dwyer, Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power (2013) ch 18-20. What sources are you using by the way? Rjensen (talk) 07:24, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- ^^^Which part of this you don't understand, Rjensen? "Erratic foreign policy" is an opinion. So is the notion that scorched earth policy was crucial in defeating the French army. Ascribing "practical contempt to humanity" to someone is an opinion, that borders on defamation.Keverich2 (talk) 08:22, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- The Battle of Borodino was the largest and the bloodiest battle of Napoleonic wars to date. Suggesting that Napoleon captured Moscow without much effort, like you did, is factually inaccurate mildly speaking.Keverich2 (talk) 08:26, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
- The text is that there were "few major battles" -- Borodino was the chief one; the second largest was much smaller. "Suggesting that Napoleon captured Moscow without much effort" is your invention. As for scorched earth--all the RS consider it important. An "Erratic" foreign policy is one that swerves this way then that--and Alexander swerved back and forth four times in 8 years. The bit about "practical contempt to humanity" is not mine --it entered the article in 2001 from Encyclopedia Britannica. Rjensen (talk) 08:48, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
Dubious death section missing...[edit]
... Currently. No mention of the mystery nor of Feodor Kuzmich. Thought it was worth mentioning:/--Leofil2 (talk) 14:16, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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