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The story was based on a news release that purportedly came from Nass' office, but was in fact fabricated by Madison labor cartoonist Mike Konopacki [who] sent the fake release to a staff member who then forwarded it to Associate Editor John Nichols, who wrote the story.The Cap Times took the embarrassing and libelous story down after 40 minutes.
The release seemed plausible because on Wednesday, The Capital Times reported that the University of Wisconsin-Extension's School for Workers abruptly called off an event called "Art in Protest" connected to the Capitol protests after a Nass aide told its organizers that it would be in poor taste. The organizers said publicly that they called off "Art in Protest" for a "variety of reasons" and that "now is not the best time" for it, but the story paraphrased two informed sources anonymously saying that Nass' office threatened the school's funding.
Konopacki helped organize the canceled event, and in that story, he was quoted as saying: "I understand why the School for Workers had to make this move. They're in survival mode. But I'm outraged. This is an attack on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and is an attack on academic freedom."
Nichols wrote a short story based on the fake release and made follow-up calls to flesh out the story, but began to have doubts when he discovered that other sources had not heard about the release.
Questioned about the release, Konopacki revealed that he created it using Photoshop. He said he intended it as a prank (in an initial email he said he "wanted to point out the hypocrisy between allowing Wisconsin protest art in the Smithsonian but not at the Pyle Center" where "Art in Protest" would have taken place), but is apologetic about the confusion it created.
By the way, John Nichols has a new book: "Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street." Meade and I have been reading it.
ADDED: In his book, Nichols is highly critical of the media for getting the story of the Wisconsin protests wrong. Excerpt:
While it was easy to laugh at Fox, it was harder to comprehend the coverage of events in Wisconsin by the New York Times. The Times can and does produce terrific reporting on a variety of fronts. In many senses, it remains the last bastion of old-school "newspaper of record" seriousness in a media landscape that is littered with the carcasses of once-great news-rooms, thus making it more important—and influential—in today's news landscape than ever before in its history. The Times even has something that's lacking at virtually every other print, broadcast, or digital news outlet in America today: a solid labor writer in the person of Steven Greenhouse. Unfortunately, he was not dispatched to Wisconsin to cover the story. The Times reporters who did come to Wisconsin brought with them some of major media's worst misconceptions and biases with regard to unions and working-class people. And in so doing they became a part of the story, reinforcing Governor Walker's intransigence.
Walker is a media junkie.... he reads, listens to, and watches media with an eye for how different outlets are interpreting and reacting to stories....
The Times... blew an even bigger piece of the Wisconsin story several weeks later. When Republican legislators used backroom maneuvers to pass Walker's bill, the Times reported that the fight was "over." But the editors in New York forgot to tell the people of Wisconsin....
The hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites who rallied at their capitol and in communities across the state said by their very presence that they were no longer going to accept the official "line" from old-media outlets that failed them—and new media outlets that simply compounded the sins of the fathers by aggregating and amplifying the folly of media outlets that have replaced reporting with stenography to power. What dawned on Wisconsinites and their allies in other states was that the problem was not simply the overt bias of a Limbaugh or an O'Reilly but the overt ignorance of media outlets that imagined Americans no longer approved of organized labor—and would never ever stand in solidarity with a trade-union movement that was arguing for public services, public utilities, and public schools.
When media outlets got around to conducting polls on the issues that arose in the Wisconsin struggle, they found that, to paraphrase the old Firesign Theatre routine, everything they "knew" was wrong. A CBS News/New York Times survey, conducted shortly after Wisconsin exploded, revealed that six in ten Americans opposed the elimination of collective bargaining rights for public sector union workers, while 56 percent were opposed to the cutting of pay or benefits to reduce state budget deficits. The USA Today/Gallup survey released two weeks after Governor Walker made his proposal indicated that 61 percent of Americans were opposed to legislation that would take away the collective bargaining rights of unionized government workers. Only one in three of those surveyed backed any move to undermine protections for labor.
... Many was the day when an absurdly ill-conceived or simply inaccurate report on the front page of the Walker-supporting Wisconsin State Journal newspaper had been deconstructed by Sly and his guests before Madisonians had trudged out their front doors to find the offending publication in the snowbank where it had landed.


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Norman Wirzba pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. He lectures frequently in Canada and the United States. His work focuses on understanding and promoting practices that can equip both rural and urban church communities to be more faithful and responsible members of creation. Current research is centered on a recovery of the doctrine of creation and a restatement of humanity in terms of its creaturely life.
Professor Wirzba has published The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight. His most recent books are Way of Love: Recovering the Heart of Christianity, From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World, Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, and (with Fred Bahnson) Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with Creation. He also has edited several books, including The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land and The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry.
Professor Wirzba serves as general editor for the book series Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism, published by the University Press of Kentucky, and is co-founder and executive committee member of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology.
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Wind revenue for January to March — the second quarter of Siemens' current financial year — was EUR 1,046 million, down 19% from the same period last year. This was largely due to a decline in the US market.
Profits, meanwhile, were EUR 53 million, 59% lower than the profits of EUR 130 million recorded in Q2 2012.
Siemens blamed the fall on the US market, where Q2 was an exceptionally busy period last year as developers sought to get projects built before the US production tax credit (PTC) was expected to expire at the end of the year.
New projects were then halted or postponed at the end of 2012 as developers waited to see whether the PTC would be, as it eventually was, extended.
This led to a corresponding drop in deliveries for Q2 this year. Despite these falls, there was good news for the engineering giant's wind division in terms of new turbine orders, which were up by more than 200%. Orders in Q2 2012 were valued at just EUR 568 million, but for Q2 2013 stood at EUR 3.29 billion.
The firm credited the boost to offshore turbine deals done in Europe during the first three months of the year.
Siemens president and CEO Peter Loescher said the key deals were in Germany and the UK.
"Siemens Wind Power was able to book two major orders in Europe," said Loescher in a presentation to analysts today.
"First, an order from Dong Energy. We will install 166 wind turbines of the 6MW class at the Hornsea wind farm off England's North Sea coast — that's the first major order for these new turbines. And a second major order in Germany's North Sea. We received an order from the WDP Group in Bremen to deliver and install 80 wind turbines. The contract is worth over EUR 700 million. The order also includes a ten-year service contract. That is the longest-term service contract for offshore wind power Siemens has ever received."
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'Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement presenter applications'
For Immediate Release
Tue, 04/01/2014
Kara Malenfant
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CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is accepting applications from prospective new presenters for the workshop "Scholarly Communication: From Understanding to Engagement." The day-long workshop, now in its sixth year, is led by two expert presenters at locations across the country. The workshop content is updated each year to meet the evolving needs of the community. In 2014, the sections will focus on access, intellectual property, engagement and emerging opportunities for scholarship. In addition to the in-person workshop, the presenter team is seeking to develop virtual programming, which may be via brief recorded videos that would be housed in the ACRL scholarly communication toolkit and/or through a live webcast series as part of ACRL's e-Learning program. Applications are due by 5 p.m. Central on Tuesday, April 22, 2014.
Required qualifications:
- A designated role in scholarly communications within your library.
- Teaching experience.
- Experience with instructional design or workshop design and meeting facilitation.
- Collaborative planning skills.
- Must be available to attend up to two road shows to be offered in summer 2014 to shadow current presenters, then co-present an average of two workshops per year.
- Available to participate in curriculum updates and workshop planning during monthly one hour conference calls.
Strongly preferred qualifications:
- Participation in an ACRL Scholarly Communication workshop (either at ACRL Conference 2009 in Seattle, ALA Midwinter Meeting 2012 in Dallas or as a road show in spring/summer 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 or 2014).
- Available to attend a presenter curriculum design retreat, to be held in conjunction with ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas from 2 - 5 p.m. on Friday, June 27.
The workshop content is dynamic and evolving, and the new presenter(s) will participate in shaping the curriculum as a collegial partner with the current presenters. Serving as a new presenter involves participating in monthly planning calls, in-person design meetings (held in conjunction with ALA Midwinter and Annual Conference), participating in all segments of the workshop event and some development of materials, exercises and presentations. The new presenter will ideally participate in two workshops during summer 2014 and present a minimum of two workshops per year thereafter. The new presenter will gain experience by shadowing experienced presenters and team-teaching a section or assignment before taking a leading role. The ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee will consider applicants who can only attend one program in 2014 and begin teaching in 2015. ACRL will reimburse the new presenter for travel costs for up to two road shows in 2014 (flights, hotel, ground transportation, and per diem for meals). ACRL provides a modest honorarium to experienced presenters.
To apply, please prepare the following materials. Applications must be submitted electronically as a single PDF document that includes:
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- What publications have you authored or presentations have you given (within the library or outside) related to scholarly communications topics?
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Slow Cooker Baby Back RibsI love pork ribs no matter how you make them. Smoked from my favorite BBQ joint, baked in the oven and fall off the bone, full out grilled from start to finish or started in the oven and finished on the grill. Hang around long enough and I'll probably do a pressure cooked rib here soon, which is pretty much steaming, and a lot like boiling, which kinda makes some of y'all crazy when that word boiled is associated with a rib of any kind. Oh yeah, I've boiled them too! And wait, if that's not shocking enough, are y'all sitting down? Because, I've actually even smoked some here recently y'all... although in all fairness to my expert Q'er friends, that's still considered fauxQ, because I did it with an electric smoker, which, frankly is very likely the only smoking you're ever gonna see outta me.
It was my first ever run on smoking anything, well, other than using a smoker box on the gas grill, and, of course, I had no idea what I was doing. So many questions. What are the best most neutral wood chips to use when you smoke multiple things? Do you have to put liquid in the drip bowl, should you, or is that basically steaming the meat? How often do you add chips and when? When it's still smoking or when the smoke slows down, or when it stops altogether? And what about venting? Do you close the vent all the way, part of the way, or leave it wide open? See what I mean? Could you imagine me, Miss Analytic Over-Thinker, using an authentic, real wood smoker? Talk about stress!
I have to admit the Masterbuilt was easy enough to use though. For that first run, I made a rack of baby back ribs using my basic rib rub, a whole chicken using Mimi's chicken rub, and threw in some potatoes on the top rack to use for a smoked potato salad. It was all very good, and there will be more experiments to come. Being clueless, I had no intent of blogging about it so I didn't really make a record of it other than this photograph I decided to snap as an afterthought just before eating. Yes I realize there are two starches on this plate. It was a Sunday and I was out of green stuff... and, okay... maybe even a little lazy.
Anyway, to get back to the slow cooker version, this is based on a recipe shared last year by Jackie, one of our Facebook family members, and I have made them multiple times since, both with spare ribs and baby back ribs. The spare ribs are much more difficult to work with because they are very hard to cut, so you'll literally need a meat saw to break them down - but the baby back ribs cut easily and work beautifully for the crockpot.
Jackie's method of starting the ribs off standing is key to keeping them from stewing in their fats and falling apart into a pile of shredded pork in the slow cooker. Standing them makes them nice and tender, but results in a good bite, so long as you don't overcook them. The rub is another key feature, because the ribs cook only with the dry rub for most of the cooking process, and get sauced only in the end, 30 minutes before supper time. I've made my own revisions, but you can find Jackie's original rib recipe over on the Facebook page. It is a fantastic method and we absolutely love ribs done this way. I know you will too. Thanks so much Jackie for sharing your recipe with us!
Here's how to make them.
Spray your slow cooker generously with some non-stick cooking spray. I find that it's completely unnecessary to bother with pulling the membrane off of the ribs with baby backs, unlike with spareribs where I find it to often be tough. Cut the ribs into serving sized sections - 2 to 4 rib sections, depending on how many are coming for dinner. Combine all of the dry seasonings - brown sugar, paprika, onion and garlic powder, cumin, cayenne, black pepper and thyme - and rub all over the ribs.
Stack ribs vertically in the slow cooker, with the larger cut bone side down, and leaning against each other. Cover and cook on low for about 6 to 8 hours.
Uncover and dab your favorite sauce on the ribs.
Cover, turn the heat up to high and cook for about 30 minutes or until well glazed. Tell me. Is your mouth watering about right now?
Check out more of my rib recipes on my Pinterest page!
If you make this or any of my recipes, I'd love to see your results! Just snap a photo and hashtag it #DeepSouthDish on social media or tag me @deepsouthdish on Instagram!
Recipe: Slow Cooker Baby Back Ribs©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 8 hours | Yield: About 2 to 4 servings
- 1 (3-1/2 to 4 pound) baby back pork ribs, cut into 3 to 4 rib sections
- 1/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
- 1 teaspoon thyme, crushed
- Homemade or commercial barbecue sauce
Spray a 6 quart slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Combine all of the dry seasonings and rub all over the ribs. Stack ribs vertically in the slow cooker, with the larger cut bone side down, and leaning against each other. Cover and cook on low for about 6 to 8 hours. Uncover and dab sauce on the ribs. Cover, turn the heat up to high and cook for about 30 minutes or until well glazed. Alternatively, carefully remove ribs to a foil lined pan and place under preheated oven broiler just long enough to caramelize sauce.
Cook's Note: Because this recipe prepares the ribs standing to keep them out of the fat drippings, you can really only do one rack at a time which will feed 2 to 4 people depending on appetites and the side dishes you serve. To prepare a second rack of ribs you'll need a second slow cooker.
Tip: To finish on the grill for some pretty grill marks, skip the second cook in the slow cooker, coat the ribs on both sides with sauce and sear on a medium high hot grill bone side down for about 7 minutes. Add more sauce, turn and sear on the fat side another 6 to 7 minutes, or until done.
Instant Pot/Electronic Pressure Cooker: Place 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup apple juice or cider in bottom of larger 6 to 8 quart cooker. Use a trivet or rack and lay ribs vertically, with the larger cut bone side down, and wrap rack all around outside of the trivet. May also ball up aluminum foil in the bottom if you don't have a trivet. Season as above. Seal and cook on high for 28 minutes; let pressure release naturally for 20 minutes, then quick release if needed. Carefully remove ribs and transfer to pan. Dab with sauce and finish on grill or under broiler as above.
Air Fryer: Brands and wattage of air fryers differ. Be sure to keep an eye on the food the first time that you cook a recipe and adjust as needed. Preheat air fryer for 3 minutes at 340 degrees F. Prepare ribs with rub as above, cutting into 2 or 3 rib sections, and place onto racks or in basket, meaty side up. Bake for 20 minutes; stop, turn and bake another 10 minutes. Turn, sauce and cook another 10 minutes. Shake basket or shift racks periodically on first and second cook.
Pineapple Brown Sugar Ribs: Season ribs as above. Increase brown sugar to 3/4 cup, using 1/2 cup and adding just enough pineapple juice to form a paste. Rub all over ribs and proceed with recipe.
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Loyola University New Orleans' Centennial Mass of the Holy Spirit is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, in Holy Name of Jesus Church. Loyola President Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., Ph.D., will be the principal celebrant. Faculty, administrators, staff and students are all encouraged to attend the Mass, an important and long-standing tradition at Loyola and other Jesuit institutions. The event is planned and coordinated by University Ministry.
Most Catholic schools, and especially Jesuit high schools and universities, celebrate the Mass of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of every school year. It is a tradition almost as old as the Society of Jesus itself, dating back to the first Jesuit school in Messina, Sicily, in 1548.
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Campaign: Grant's Operations against Vicksburg (1863)
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Forces Engaged: District of Eastern Arkansas [US]; District of Arkansas [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 1,842 total (US 206; CS 1,636)
Description: Lt. Gen. Theophilus Holmes's troops attacked Helena in an attempt to relieve pressure on Vicksburg. Although the Rebels had more troops and did initially capture some of the fortifications, the Union forces repelled them. Thus, Helena continued as an important Union enclave in the Trans-Mississippi theater and served as a base for the expedition that captured Little Rock.
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The two men at the next table look over, but don't interrupt until Kaylyn Kyle takes a velvet box out of her white Michael Kors bag.
As she pulls out her Olympic bronze medal, one of the men at the table says hello and asks for a photo. An acquaintance, he is now a mortgage broker. Kyle has followed a very different path to success.
The 23-year-old has spent the past few years of her life travelling. The University of Saskatchewan Huskies player left post-secondary education early to focus on soccer.
"I'm a Gypsy," she said. From this vantage point, the decision looks like it was a good one. The medal on the purple ribbon feels solid, heavy for its size. If there's anything that symbolizes athletic success, this is it.
Kyle agreed to an interview at the Broadway Roastery on Eighth Street a couple of weeks after her team's historic finish at the 2012 Summer Olympics. On a hot day, Kyle arrives tanned and blonde, sporting a large pink gold wristwatch and jean shorts. She orders a blueberry London Fog, no fat, no sugar.
Kyle could be described as soccer's glamour girl, but that would downplay her abundance of athletic ability.
Throughout the Olympic tournament, her trademark white-blond hair worn in a long ponytail down her back made it easy to spot the midfielder as she ran across the field. The South American girls pulled her hair, but never the Americans or Europeans. In every game, she wore a baby pink headband.
"It's my lucky headband. I always wear pink, I can't wear any other colour," said the superstitious star. She won't wear black cleats, either; she sent her first sponsorship shipment of Pumas back.
"Now they send me the craziest colours."
The Canadian Women's bronze medal finish this summer was Canada's first medal in a team sport at the summer Olympics since 1936. The victory against France came on the heels of a controversial, nail biting semifinal game with the United States' women's team. The Americans took the game 4-3 in extra time. Controversial calls by the referee prompted a huge backlash. Captain Christine Sinclair (who scored an impressive three goals) drew fire for her statements about the officiating.
"We can't comment on that. It is what it is," said Kyle, who sees the bright side of their medal-winning finish. At the end of the day, she says, it all brought much-needed attention to Canadian soccer.
"As crazy as it sounds, I'm glad it happened. It kind of made for a storybook ending," she said. "I loved it, to be honest. I'm a fighter and I always have been. That was a perfect ending for me."
With world-class performances also comes a world-class coaching staff. After a bad game, the players are encouraged not to read social media, and a mental coach helps them refocus after tough games.
With that fairy tale finish behind them, the players are left to focus on life after the Olympics.
Kyle headed home to Saskatoon after the games to stay with her parents, though anyone who follows her online activities knows she's been jet-setting ever since.
"It's easy to come home when you have an amazing support system," said Kyle.
Her first move, after fulfilling a fawning rush of local media requests, was to head to Las Vegas for a weekend with friends. She later took in a Rider game.
The plan is to follow her coach's orders to relax. The team is off until November. They will play a tournament in Greece in the new year. But Kyle can't stay out of the gym.
"We're not supposed to work out, but I love being in the gym, so I've been working out," she said.
Kyle is a natural-born athlete. Her father was a professional hockey player and her mother a competitive volleyball player. Growing up in Saskatoon, the family was surrounded by sports, says older sister Courtnee, who also played soccer at the national level.
"We were always outside playing soccer on the pitches, or in gyms playing basketball or volleyball. I think we both played everything at one stage," Courtnee said via email. "If we were not playing ourselves, then there was always hockey, soccer, NASCAR, or NFL football on the TV.
"For the three weeks the Olympics were on, our house shut down. It wouldn't matter if it was the summer games or the winter games, we were all in front of the TV."
Kaylyn credits a lot of her success to her parents, who she calls her 'superfans.'
"The big thing is, my parents didn't push me in it. I did competitive diving, competitive gymnastics. I tried baseball but I wasn't very good. In high school I did basketball and tennis. I never focused in on one sport and I think that's super-important. Lots of kids do get pushed," she said.
The pressure came from Kyle herself.
She first made her provincial team as a backup goalkeeper. She put in extra work at soccer academies in Saskatoon, trained on her own and eventually was able to leave the net. She remembers being obsessed with the national team's star players like Sinclair. At one point, she had the team captain's poster on her bedroom wall.
Her high school team at Bishop James Mahoney won both the city and provincial titles while she was there, and after high school Kyle joined the U of S Huskies. After only a year, she was invited to play for the Canadian Women's National team and was offered a contract to play professionally in Sweden. She's spent the last few years playing around the world. Kyle nearly made the team for the Beijing Olympics, and played the World Cup in 2011.
The process of making the team for London 2012 was gruelling. Kyle moved to Vancouver and did a residency program for four months, with two or three workouts per day, weights and fitness training. There were 30 players in rotation and only 18 made the final squad.
Said Courtnee: "I know Kaylyn will tell you that she always dreamt of becoming a professional athlete and someday playing in the Olympics, but she didn't know if it would happen. I can tell you that there has never been a doubt in my mind that she would someday represent her country on a world stage."
While the tournament took up most of their time there, Kyle made the most of the Olympic experience in London after the final victory. A fan took the team up and down the Thames in a yacht. Kyle and a couple of friends took in as many events as possible. They celebrated at night — using Kyle's medal to gain VIP access to one club. A big highlight was seeing the Spice Girls at the closing ceremony.
Now, Kyle aims for continued success. After the games, she secured a new agent and travelled to New York to meet with potential sponsors.
"It should be a good year for me," she said. It can be hard for Canadian athletes to support themselves, juggling government funding and support from an agency called CAN Fund.
"There's so many Canadian athletes and not all of us get it," she said. "You really base it on your personal sponsors or your professional contracts outside the team. I've been extremely lucky. I can't complain at all."
Though Kyle shies from the term "celebrity," she has considerable online clout. She now has more than 22,000 followers on Twitter, a number that jumped during the high-profile soccer finals.
Many of these are young female soccer players.
"I would definitely not call myself a celebrity by any means," she said. "Most of my followers are young girls. That's pretty cool to know that I'm only 23 and I'm inspiring 8, 9 and 10-year-olds. It's cool to see the young girls writing you messages."
Her advice is to put in the hard work. She recalls making the national team and having other parents write in to the team, saying she didn't deserve to be there.
"It's so cliche to say, and I hate saying it, but it's all about hard work," she said. "I love proving people wrong. I'd just think of those emails."
She's done coaching work and public speaking. Before the Olympics, Kyle travelled to Liberia Africa as an ambassador for an organization called Right to Play
"It was incredible to see how little they have and how happy they are," she said. "It's really kept me humble throughout this whole experience."
At 23, as long as she works hard, Kyle could have a long career on the national level. Some of her teammates are in their early 30s.
"It all depends on how your body holds up, basically," she said.
For her, an future would involve coaching or sports broadcasting.
Right now, she wants to focus on promoting soccer in Canada, and specifically within Saskatchewan where the sport often takes a back seat to hockey. She hopes to do a camp in Saskatoon with some of her national teammates in October or November.
"Growing up and playing soccer together, I just knew it," said Courtnee. "She just had it. I can't tell you what "it" is but she was different and I always knew that she was going to do something amazing."


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For many kids in the United States, playing football is a natural choice as far as a team sport. But for millions of players across the globe, soccer is the better option.
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world in terms of player numbers. According to the 2006 FIFA Big Count, there were 265 million soccer players in the world, 270 million when referees and match officials were included.
With so many registered soccer players across the globe, it's not surprising that soccer has more fans worldwide than any other sport. If you want to become a globally recognized sport star, soccer is a better option than football.
Soccer players don't need to spend large amounts of money on equipment. The two most costly items are soccer cleats and a ball, and neither need be overly expensive. A jersey, shorts and shin guards are the only other requirements. Football players must buy a large number of protective items for competitive play.
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Football is a stop-start game with frequent pauses between each play. Soccer is a more fluid sport, an aspect that appeals to many fans and players.
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It doesn't take long to learn the basics of soccer. The rules are straightforward and easily defined, with only a few regulations -- such as the offside rule, leaving much room for confusion. Football is a more complex sport in terms of set plays and regulations.
Physical Requirements
Soccer players don't need the physical strength of football players. Athleticism and fitness are important, but you don't need to be physically imposing to play soccer. Some of the world's top players, such as Lionel Messi, rely purely on skill and creativity rather than strength and stature. This makes soccer a more inclusive sport than football, for men and women.
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If you dream of being an Olympic athlete, football is not the sport for you. Though football was featured in the 1932 Summer Olympics as a demonstration event, the International Olympic Committee has yet to accept football as an Olympic sport. Soccer has been a regular feature of the Olympics since 1900.
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Soccer has a truly global reach; football is largely contained within North America. Soccer is like an international language that crosses cultural barriers, allowing you to share your love for the game with other fans throughout the world. Whether you are in Brazil, Burundi, Belgium or Bangkok, you find people with a common interest in soccer.
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Soccer provides more opportunities to compete internationally, at amateur and professional levels. Youth teams often go on tour abroad, and individual players can train in soccer camps across the world. At the highest level, soccer also gives you the chance to represent your national team against all other nations on the planet, something that football does not offer in any comparable way.
Soccer players are less prone to injuries than football players, according to the 2006 High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The one-year study found that football players had the highest injury rate, with 4.36 injuries per 1,000 athlete exposures. Male and female soccer players had a rate of 2.43 and 2.36, respectively.
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The new Carnival of Genealogy challenge is out. And this time, we are to post on our blog a photo of an ancestor and their "bling". Or if we don't have a photo of the ancestor wearing their bling, a photo of the bling.
Well, I come from simple, hardworking farmers. And sorry to say, their hasn't been much bling in my ancestral past! [At least not in the last 200 years or so!]
But there has been one simple piece of jewelry that was reported to have been owned by my great-great-grandmother. I haven't been able to find proof of that. However, I do know for a fact that it was owned by my great-grandmother, as she is the one who passed it on to my mother. And a few years ago, my mother gave it to me.
This is a photograph of my great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Frank [Francis Isidore] Banet and his sweet wife, Adeline Josephine Eve.
Adeline was born to Joseph and Annette Eve on February 11, 1867 in Floyd County, Indiana. She was the youngest of at least six children. The "bling" in question is said to have once been owned by Annette, and then passed on to Adeline. My mother once took it to be appraised, and the jeweler told her it was definitely mid-19th century, which would mean that it easily could have been originally owned by Annette [b. 1840, d. 1870]. Again, there is no proof that she was the original owner.
In the early 1950's, Adeline passed this on to my mother. Adeline was the only grandmother my mother knew, her paternal grandmother having passed away six years before she was born. Mother was so attached to Adeline, that on Adeline's death the family waited to tell Mother about it, because they knew Mother would not be able to get to Indiana in time for the funeral. [Mother was stationed with the WAC's in San Francisco, California, and couldn't have got leave in time.]
Adeline was 91 years old when she died on November 5, 1958. I was born the following November 4th, and I believe that was some consolation to Mother over her loss of Grandma Banet.
The "bling"? I don't believe there's a photograph of great-grandmother wearing this necklace. If there is, I haven't seen it. However, here is a snapshot I took of it.
The body of the cross is made of gold, in two pieces: a front and a back. An antiques jeweler told me it was "handmade". Carefully pressed in a mold. Then the two pieces placed together. The back is devoid of any ornamentation. The front has a "pressed" feathered designed on all arms of the cross. The indentation in the center holds a very tiny diamond. It is considered a "large chip", but without cut facets.
As for monetary worth, I've had an estimate of $750 - $1,000, with a possibility of it going higher at auction, simply because of the "handmade" factor.
As for sentimental value? This cross pendant is priceless! Each time I wear it, I feel my great-grandmother near.
My mother suffered a brain-aneurysm with debilitating stroke in 1995. She has days her memory is good, and others she can't recall a conversation from one moment to the next. But undoubtedly, each time I wear the necklace and visit her she becomes so excited about seeing her grandmother's necklace. "Oh, Cyndi, you're wearing my grandma's necklace!"
In 2006 my son's fiancee wore the necklace during their wedding, as her "something old". She had tears in her eyes when I placed it around her neck. Now, that same sweet girl is about to bless us with a granddaughter. It is my hope to one day place that pendant around my granddaughter's neck. And perhaps, one day, it will be passed on to her granddaughter.
And so, "Annette's Cross", as we've come to call the pendant, will one day soon be passed to her great-great-great-great-granddaughter.
I think she would be happy to know it. And I think she gives us her blessing.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Ancestry Bling...
3 comments:
- J. Moore said...
Quite a lovely little item, you're fortunate to have such a thing.
- July 18, 2009 at 1:50 AM
- Family Curator said...
So glad you posted this photo and story. You've written a priceless memorty; I hope you will print out this article and keep it with the necklace for future generations.
- August 17, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- Tina said...
What a beautiful story and priceless heirloom! Thanks for sharing it with us!
- August 17, 2009 at 10:25 PM
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One man is dead and two others are injured following a triple shooting that occurred around 11:15 a.m. Monday in the 2100 block of Alabama Avenue near Oaks Road.
One man is dead and two others are injured following a triple shooting that occurred around 11:15 a.m. Monday in the 2100 block of Alabama Avenue near Oaks Road.
The incident happened at a car shop. New Bern police say that when they and emergency medical responders arrived on scene, they found Marcello Bryant, 32, of Cove City, in a vehicle at the intersection of Beech Street and Alabama Avenue. Andrew West, 26, of Vanceboro, was found in a yard at Dail Street and Florida Avenue. Both men had been shot and were transported to CarolinaEast Medical Center for treatment.
West was pronounced dead at CarolinaEast, and Bryant was transported to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville via ambulance.
A third shooting victim, Terrell Evans, 29, of New Bern, was at CarolinaEast Medical Center when officers arrived. He had driven himself to the hospital, according to police.
Meanwhile, a person on scene was transported to the New Bern Police Department for questioning and was determined to be the shooter, according to police. They say he is cooperating with law enforcement as the investigation continues. His name was not released.
As of late Monday, no charges had been filed, according to District Attorney Scott Thomas. The suspect had given a statement to police, and several people were being interviewed and evidence was still being gathered, he said.
Police said the incident appears to be an isolated one and they assured the surrounding community that there was no cause for alarm.
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A geomorphic and soil description of the long-term fire experiment in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
Frederik J. VenterI; Navashni GovenderII
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In 1954, the experimental burning programme into fire research was initiated in the Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa. It is viewed as one of the last remaining long-term landscape fire experiments in Africa. Throughout the more than five decades of fire treatments in the experiment, numerous surveys (expanding various spatial and temporal scales), research projects (covering biotic and abiotic components) and analyses have been conducted with the aim to assess the impacts of different fire regimes on the savannah biome. The design of the experiment intended to test the effect of season and frequency of burning on vegetation within four major landscapes in the KNP. However, these effects have been partly obscured by factors not fully taken into account by the experimental design, namely, herbivory, artificial water provision and soil variation. Soil variation between replicates in the same landscape, as well as within individual replicates, has raised the issue of the representivity of the trial. This paper provided a description and ranking of the experimental burning trial according to the geomorphic and soil characteristics of each plot in comparison to the surrounding landscape.
CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS: The KNP burn plots are one of the largest and longest-running fire experiments on fire ecology in African savannahs. However, studies need to consider the underlying geomorphic and soil template when designing experiments and interpreting results. This work describes the representivity of the plots across, and within, treatments.
Fire has long been recognised as an essential determinant of the structure and function of African savannahs (Higgins et al. 2007; Sankaran, Ratanam & Hanan 2008; Scholes & Walker 1993; Trollope 1982) and is often used as a management tool within conservation agencies. The application of appropriate fire regimes is usually informed and adapted by the findings of ongoing research, which is undertaken on the experimental application of selected fire regimes on fixed areas (see e.g., Andersen, Cook & Williams 2003; Knapp et al. 1998), with treatments often repeatedly applied for many decades. The changing attitudes towards fire management within South African conservation areas - from the orthodox equilibrium theory (fixed rotational fire regimes) to one that embraces a dynamic savannah system based on non-equilibrium theory (patch mosaic fires over space and time) (Bond & Archibald 2003; Mentis & Bailey 1990; Van Wilgen et al. 2000; Van Wilgen, Biggs & Potgieter 1998) - has questioned the validity of results from historical long-term fixed fire experiments in influencing fire management policies (Van Wilgen et al. 2004; Van Wilgen, Govender & Biggs 2007). A recent critical review of the long-term fire experiment in bringing about changes in the fire management policy at the Kruger National Park (KNP) found that it had little direct influence. However, the experiment has had numerous other unforeseen benefits, particularly its support and use in ongoing key research projects undertaken on the experiment to improve our understanding of fire as a key driver of savannah dynamics (Van Wilgen et al. 2007).
The spatio-temporal scale and the underlying template of various fire experiments often brings into question the representivity of the results from these plot-based experiments when scaling up to landscape processes. The KNP long-term fire experiment (Biggs et al. 2003) is often criticised regarding the difficulty in separating the effects of the experimental fire treatments from other factors that might be causing the observed differences. The Experimental Burn Plot (EBP) trial was designed with the initial aim of testing the effects of different seasons and frequencies of burning on the vegetation of the KNP. These effects have been partly obscured by factors not fully taken into account by the experimental design, most importantly, herbivory, artificial water provision and soil variation (Biggs et al. 2003).
The response of the vegetation and animal population to the template presented by the geology (which is reflected by the soils) and the changes caused by the ecosystem drivers such as rainfall, hebivory and fire, have led to a complex patch mosaic template within the park (Venter, Scholes & Eckhart 2003). To quantitatively assess the effect that the varying fire regimes have on the dominant vegetation communities, it was envisioned that vegetation surveys would be conducted annually, whilst animal life would be observed periodically (Nel 1953). A comprehensive baseline vegetation (woody and herbaceous) survey was conducted prior to establishment of all treatments in 1954. Vegetation re-surveys were undertaken in the late 1990s and early 2000s (Van Wilgen et al. 2007). During the 50-year lifespan of the experiment, various researchers conducted surveys (which were predominantly of vegetation) on the experiment (Govender, Potgieter & Biggs 2003; Van Wilgen et al. 2007). Webber (1979) was the first to investigate the soil characteristics on the Skukuza plots; thereafter, other work looking at soil characteristics was undertaken by Mills and Fey (2004a, 2004b), whilst the majority of research pertaining to soils on the experiment focused on the nutrient content, cycling and variation in nutrient levels with different fire regimes (Coetsee 2007; Feig 2004; Otter 1992; Shackleton & Scholes 2000; Van Wilgen et al. 2007).
Analysis, understanding and incorporation of the results from the experiment of the effects of fire on savannah systems have only been undertaken in the past decade. The Van Wilgen et al. (2007) paper outlines, in detail, the contribution that the experiment had to effect change in management actions and policy in the park. Key findings on the biota studied on the experiment include the following (Van Wilgen et al. 2007):
- Woody tree and shrub density are unresponsive to fire regimes and fire is not critical for the maintenance of woody plant richness and composition. Exclusion of fire promotes an increase in woody biomass, with the most marked effects on woody vegetation in the extreme treatments (annual burning, burning in summer or wet season, or long periods of fire exclusion). These effects were also greater in areas of higher rainfall.
- Manipulation of fire regimes is not critical for the maintenance of herbaceous plant species diversity. Herbaceous composition changed little with fires in the dormant season, but changes were significant in the wet, growing season and with fire exclusion. Impacts caused by fire were most marked in wetter areas and increased grazing pressure on the plots after the treatments influenced the grass diversity at drier sites.
- There were noticeable effects of fire on small mammal communities, with unburnt sites supporting the most species and highest densities of small mammals.
- Bird species richness and composition did not respond to the different fire regimes.
- No significant effect on ant species composition and diversity between the fire treatments but significant differences in ant assemblage composition were found between the extreme fire treatments (burnt vs unburnt plots).
- Regardless of fire treatment, nitrogen loss is replenished soon after the fire. Frequent, annual burning increases soil crusting on the plots. Mycorrhizal colonisation increases with root branching and fine root development decreases with decreasing fire frequency, allowing for optimal acquisition of resources under different fire frequencies.
- Fire intensity varies as a result of changes in fuel moisture content rather than post-fire age, particularly because of the seasonal differences in fuel moisture content that override those of fuel load.
Since the inception of the experiment in the 1950s, our understanding of the role that fire plays within savannah ecosystems continues to improve. Therefore, current and future fire management policies implemented in the KNP will continue to be supported by the best available science that promotes appropriate adaptive fire management.
Owing to the lack of baseline soil surveys or soil characterisation of the EBPs, this paper provides a soil and geomorphic description of the experiment in order to determine which replicate or individual plots within replicates are not representative of the land types in which they are set. It is well known that differences in soil types cause significant differences in vegetation in the KNP (Venter 1990) and knowledge of the variation and extent of different types of soil and geomorphology on the EBPs is therefore necessary, in order to make future studies on the plots more relevant and representative of the surrounding landscape.
Study site
The KNP was proclaimed in 1926, and covers approximately 1 948 528 ha within the low-lying savannahs of north-eastern South Africa. The vegetation is characterised by savannahs within 37 landscapes (Gertenbach 1983), with the dominant trees being knobthorn (Acacia nigrescens), marula (Sclerocarya birred), leadwood (Combretum imberbe), red-bush willow (Combretum appiculatum), silver cluster leaf (Terminalia sericea) and mopane (Colophospermum mopane). Mean annual rainfall varies from 350 mm in the north to over 700 mm in the south. Geologically, the KNP is underlain by granites in the west, whilst the eastern sector is underlain predominantly by basalt (Venter 1990). The flora of the park comprises 1983 species, including more than 400 tree and shrub species and more than 220 grass species.
Experimental burn plots
Fire research formally began in the KNP in 1954 with the establishment of one of the few long-term fire ecology research experiments in Africa (Van der Schijff 1958). The experiment consisted of the application of fires at varying return intervals and seasons, as well as protection from fire, on a series of plots approximately 7 ha in area within specific vegetation types represented by four of the major ecological regions in the Park (Pretoriuskop: Sourveld vegetation; Skukuza: Combretum vegetation; Satara: Knobthorn and Marula vegetation; Mopane: Mopane vegetation) (Figure 1). The treatments were replicated four times in each of these ecological regions. Within each ecological region, four different replicates or strings were scattered within 20 km of each other. A double firebreak road surrounds the individual replicates (with the area between the firebreak roads burnt annually in autumn) to ensure protection from wild fires.
The treatments originally included annual (B1) winter fires in August and biennial (B2) and triennial (B3) fires in August (winter), October (after first spring rains), December (early summer), February (late summer) and April (autumn). In 1976, further treatments to examine the effects of fires every four (B4) and six (B6) years in October were added to selected landscapes (Satara and Mopane). Full details and history of the experimental design and application of treatments are available from Biggs et al. (2003). Description of the areas in which the KNP's fire experiment was replicated within is outlined in Table 1. The associated fire treatments and plots numbers for each replicate is given in Online Appendix 1a-d.
A series of aerial photographs (digital, colour, shutter speed: 1/800, scale: 1:50 000, altitude: 914.4 m, aircraft speed: 185.2 km/h) taken in April 2000 and field surveys were used to map the land units with their associated soil and vegetation patterns on each of the plots. Sections that are atypical of the specified norm were delineated and assigned a score according to the system described below (Table 2). However, the survey was not conducted to identify, in detail, all soil types or to give detailed descriptions of vegetation within the plots. Reference made to land types in this report is according to the definitions and descriptions of Venter (1990).
Soil differences usually cut through individual plots so that part of the plot may score 5, whilst another part may have a score of 1. The plot as a whole was scored depending on the dominant soil types found on it and how representative it is of the environmental parameters within each particular replicate was assessed visually.
The following assumptions were made with regard to this survey:
- When the EBPs were laid out in the 1950s, the initiators attempted to locate the different replicates on the crests in order to avoid too much soil variation. This assumption is based on the layout of the replicates in both granitic and basaltic areas, where minor portions of mid-slope and foot-slope areas are represented in some of the plots.
- The presence or absence of roads influenced the layout of the EBPs as they were only laid out alongside existing roads. This negatively influenced the attempt to restrict the EBPs to upland areas, so that certain portions of plots occur in foot-slope areas.
- This scoring system was used as a means to investigate the following questions:
- How representative of the broad ecological region or landscape is each group of four replicates and series?
- How comparable is each of the four replicates? This is to test if one or more of the replicates in a series are outliers, why it is regarded as outliers and whether it is enough of an outlier to warrant complete exclusion from analyses under certain circumstances.
- How comparable is each the individual plots in one replicate? Are there particular outliers based on any geological, geomorphologic or soil criteria?
The Pretoriuskop replicates of the EBPs are all fairly well representative of the Pretoriuskop Land Type (Venter 1990). The Fayi replicate generally has more sandy and yellow soils with patches of Avalon-Clovelly and shallow Hutton-Glenrosa-Kroonstad forms (Soil Classification Working Group 1991) dominant with many T. sericea trees (Figure 2a). The downstream part of some of the plots on the Shabeni replicate are influenced by seepage areas and duplex soils, namely deep Clovelly form (Soil Classification Working Group 1991) (Figure 2b). This replicate seems to have less tall grass species than the other Pretoriuskop plots. The Numbi replicate features deep, red, sandy loam soils with minor areas of duplex soils (usually on the foot slope of plots), shallow soils (steep areas) or clay soils associated with intrusions of dolerite or gabbro. A clayey area caused by the presence of some gabbro may occur, for example on plot 4 (fire treatments - Online Appendix 1a-d) of the Numbi replicate (Figure 2c). The Kambeni replicate has been deeply incised by a stream (plot 11) but the influence of this is limited and is characterised by very shallow soils (Escourt form) (Soil Classification Working Group 1991), caused by the steep slope in this area (Figure 2d). Table 3a and 3b illustrates the overall representivity scores for each replicate and individual plot within Pretoriuskop.
Huge granite rock outcrops and boulders occur on some of the Biyamiti plots. The soils within these plots are usually hydromorphic and therefore slightly different from the rest of the plots. The south-western plots (plots 9-12) feature more clayey soils as a result of the presence of dolerite dykes in this area. These plots are generally quite different from the other plots in this replicate, as well as the series, as they are dominated by Estcourt-Swartlands-Kroonstad and Hutton-Clovelly-Fernwood forms (Soil Classification Working Group 1991) (Figure 3a). The Skukuza replicate of the EBPs is characterised by quite large areas of sodic and duplex soils that occur on the foot slopes of parts of plots 6 and 7. These sodic soils have relatively thin A horizons (< 15 cm), which makes these areas completely different from the other areas in the plots. Serious erosion within firebreaks is already evident where the firebreaks cross into sodic soils. Unfortunately, the control or no burn plot (plot 7) (see Online Appendix 1a-d for treatments) at this replicate is one of those most seriously affected by the sodic soils, which covers more than half of the no burn treatment (Figure 3b). The N'washitshaka replicate is characterised by reddish soils (Glenrosa-Hutton forms), but plot 6 is almost completely associated with hydromorphic or duplex soils (Kroonstad-Estcourt forms) (Soil Classification Working Group 1991) (Figure 3c). The Napi replicate also has some duplex soils (Fernwood-Kroonstad and Hutton-Clovelly-Fernwood forms), as well as granite boulders or rocky outcrops (Figure 3d). Table 4a and 4b illustrates the overall representivity scores for each replicate and individual plot within Skukuza.
It is assumed that these replicates were located to represent the S. birrea-A. nigrescens savannah of the central basalt plains. The soils and general vegetation of this zone are described as the Satara Land Type by Venter (1990).
The Satara replicate occurs on a very flat part of the basalt plains. The geology is Sabie River Basalt Formation with dolerite dykes and the soils are mainly moderately deep Shortlands-Swartland soil (Soil Classification Working Group 1991), that are red structured clays. Because of the flatness of this area, a number of shallow pans and associated black vertic soils occur. Some thin, elongated, rocky outcrops associated with dolerite dykes also occur (Figure 4a). The Lindanda replicate (Figure 4b) is representative of soils and vegetation of three different land types, namely Satara, Mavumbye and Nwanetsi (Venter 1990), as it is characterised by soils associated with both the Sabie River Basalt Formation and the Letaba Basalt Formation. It has been influenced by colluviation from the Lebombo Hills. This colluvium has influenced soils in the north-eastern corner of the replicate (portions of plots 5 and 6 and plot 7). The occurrence of more clayey soils along the south-western part of the replicate (plots 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 ) is ascribed to the occurrence of picrite basalts of the Letaba Basalt Formation. This area is characterised by very clayey soils of the Bonheim and Arcadia forms. Stunted A. nigrescens dominates this area and no S. birrea occurs. A drainage line through plot 2 is the cause of alluvial soils (Bonheim and Swartland) (Soil Classification Working Group 1991) and typical associated dense vegetation. The influence of the valley bottom and foot-slope extends about 50 m on either side of the drainage line. The area to the west of the drainage line, covered by plot 1 and part of plot 2 corresponds to a transition between the red, medium clayey soils associated with Sabie River basalt and the black very clayey soils associated with Letaba basalt. The woody vegetation on parts of plots 5 and 6 and all of plot 7 indicates that sodic soil conditions occur, for example Sterkspruit, with Acacia welwitschii as the dominant tree. Some pans also occur in this area. These plots are therefore not completely representative of the Lindanda replicate or the Satara series. The area covered by significant portions of plot 2 and plots 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13 of the Lindanda replicate is characterised by soils of the Swartland and Shortlands forms and features woody plants such as S. birrea, A. nigrescens, Acacia tortilis, et cetera; it is comparable with the rest of the series. The western part of the replicate is associated with Letaba basalt. The Marheya replicate is considered to be representative of the Satara Land Type, but a drainage line through plot 9 also influences plots 8 and 10 with darker, calcareous soils representative of very shallow Mispah-Glenrosa-Maya forms (Soil Classification Working Group 1991) (Figure 4c). The Nwanetsi replicate is regarded as very representative of the Satara Land Type, as most of the area is flat and characterised by red, structured, clay soils, which are characterised as moderately deep Shortlands-Swartland forms (Soil Classification Working Group 1991) (Figure 4d). Table 5a and 5b illustrates the overall representivity scores for each replicate and individual plot within Satara.
Three of the four replicates are situated in the mopane shrub vegetation, with relatively shallow, calcareous, dark, clay soils associated with the picrite lavas of the Letaba Basalt Formation. The Dzombo replicate is regarded as the best replicate as it is very homogeneous with respect to soils and slope and is characterised by soils from deep Milkwood and shallow Bonheim forms (Soil Classification Working Group 1991) (Figure 5a).
Two of the replicates - Mooiplaas (Figure 5b) and Tsende (Figure 5c) - have parts that represent slightly incised, sloping land where soils are shallower and the mopane has a tendency to grow taller. Sometimes, drainage lines or depressions represent deeper and vertic clay soils, for example Arcadia (Soil Classification Working Group 1991). On the shallow or rocky areas, different vegetation may be found, namely trees or shrubs such as Terminalia prunioides, C. apiculatum and Acacia exuvialis, as well as grasses such as Heteropogon contortus and Aristida spp.
The Nshawo replicate is located in an area where three types of parent material occur and where the soils and vegetation are therefore fairly heterogeneous over the replicate as a whole. The Nshawo replicate is located on the interface of the Letaba Basalt and Sabie River Basalt Formations, as well as on the edge of the Shawu vlei area where very deep alluvial soils occur. Soils associated with the Letaba Basalt Formation are dark, calcareous clays, often shallow as on the western side of the replicate, whereas those associated with the Sabie River Basalt Formation are reddish and usually not calcareous. On the reddish soils, trees or shrubs such as Combretum imberbe and Albizia harveyi may be dominant. On the shallow calcareous clays, mopane may dominate and on the alluvial clay deposits thickets of mopane occur (Figure 5d). Table 6a and 6b illustrates the overall representivity scores for each replicate and individual plot within Mopane.
Present long-term studies, such as those in the Serengeti (Stronach & McNaughton 1989), the KNP (Van Wilgen et al. 2007), and Yellowstone National Park (Romme et al. 2011) usually begin as short-term academic projects and are not envisioned to continue for decades. However, they progress over time as new events lead to further research, with the combined data and results leading to insights that were unintended and support additional questions and projects for further understanding (Sinclair et al. 2007). The few longterm ecological experiments in South Africa are crucial to understanding and interpreting the complex ecosystem behaviour involving slow and rapid changes at multiple ecosystem states which only became apparent over a period of several decades (Thirgood et al. 2007).
As previously outlined, the original objective of the experiment was to determine the effect of fire frequency and season on four of the major vegetation types in the KNP (Biggs et al. 2003) and therefore were spaced across the landscape to maximise the representivity of the landscape, particularly with reference to the underlying soils (Van der Schijff 1958). The results from this geomorphic and soil description of the individual plots and replicates in the experiment has indicated that not all plots within replicates and not all replicates within the landscape can be considered homogeneous treatments. It is for this reason that researchers undertaking their projects within the EBPs, can, for statistical analyses, exclude any outlier replicates (based on the soil and geomorphic description) from their sampling protocol. However, it must also be noted that it is the outlier replicate (least representative of the surrounding landscape) that encompasses the variation and heterogeneity that is inherent within KNP ecosystems and therefore it should not be completely ignored.
Finally, the KNP's long-term fire experiment has been instrumental in highlighting that ecosystems are not static and management should not aim to maintain the status quo; rather, it should allow natural change to take place within an adaptive management framework. This understanding could not have been achieved without the array of research and projects that have been undertaken on the EBPs over the past five decades (Van Wilgen et al. 2007).
We thank the South African National Parks for access to data and Sandra MacFadyen for the preparations of the figures.
The role of the fire team that maintained the fire experiment (especially Andre Potgieter) is also gratefully acknowledged, as are the valuable inputs provided by Harry Biggs. Comments from the two reviewers are also appreciated.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) which may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.
Authors' contributions
F.J.V. (Kruger National Park) undertook the geomorphic and soil survey on the experiment. He also developed the scoring system for plot and replicate representivity. The initial project report was prepared by F.J.V. (Kruger National Park), whilst N.G. (Kruger National Park) wrote the manuscript for publication.
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Correspondence to:
Navashni Govender
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Received: 10 Dec. 2010
Accepted: 21 Nov. 2011
Published: 14 May 2012
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