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Tourism & Small Entrepreneurs : Development, National Policy and Entrepreneurial Culture: Indonesian Cases
Heidi Dahles and Karin Bras
Chapter 1. Tourism and Small Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Perspective
Heidi Dahles
- Introduction
- Tourism and Development
- The Dual Economy
- Small Entrepreneurs
- Theoretical Framework
- About This Book
Heidi Dahles
- Introduction
- Tourism Development and Government Policy in Indonesia
- Small and Petty Entrepreneurs in the Indonesian Industry
- Small Entrepreneurs in Tourism
- Conclusions
Karin Bras and Heidi Dahles
- Introduction
- Tourism in Sanur
- Upgrading Sanur Beach
- Sanur Beach Business
- The Politics of Gender
- Conclusions
Eveline van der Giessen, Marie-Chantal van Loo, and Karin Bras
- Introduction
- Government Regulations in the Hotel Sector
- Kuta - "the Least Balinese Place in Bali"
- Ubud: Living up to Its Cultural Image
- Small Entrepreneurs in the Accommodation Sector
- Conclusions
Theo Kamsma and Karin Bras
- Introduction
- Lombok, a New Tourist Destination
- Gili Trawangan
- Conclusions and Future Scenario for Gili Trawangan
Saskia Peeters, Jolanda Urru, and Heidi Dahles
- Introduction
- Tourism in Yogyakarta
- The Accommodation Sector in Yogyakarta
- Homestays in Sosrowijayan and Prawirotaman: A Comparison
- The Homestay Tourist
- Marketing the Homestay
- Conclusions
Hanneke van Gemert, Esther van Genugten, and Heidi Dahles
- Introduction
- Becak in Yogyakarta
- The Daily Life of Becak Drivers
- Networks and Organizations
- Local Participation
- Conclusions
Karin ter Steege, Sandra Stam, and Karin Bras
- Introduction
- Local Guides: Pathfinders or Small Entrepreneurs?
- The Rinjani Area and Senaru
- Local Mountain Guides
- Guiding in Lombok
- Conclusion
Karin Bras and Heidi Dahles
- Introduction
- Small-Scale Entrepreneurs in Tourism
- Romancing the Tourist
- Conclusions
List of Figures
1.1. Location map of Indonesia
3.1. Negotiating the price of a comme çi comme ça massage
4.1. Signboard announcing homestay accommodation in Kuta
5.1. Outrigger boat to Gili Trawangan
6.1. Malioboro street life
6.2. Signboard announcing guesthouse accommodation in Yogyakarta's Prawirotaman area
7.1. Becak men attracting the tourists' attention on Malioboro street
7.2. Becak man taking a rest
8.1. Mount Rinjani area
8.2. Local mountain guide
9.1. Guide liar in Lombok
9.2. Guide liar in Yogyakarta
List of Tables
2.1. Number of foreign visitors and revenues
4.1. Tourist arrivals at Ngurah Rai airport, Bali (1982-1994)
4.2. Number of accommodations, rooms, and beds in Bali (1991-1995)
4.3. Distribution of hotel rooms among the four main resorts in Bali and percentage of star-rated and non-star-rated rooms (1994)
4.4. Room occupancy rate of hotels and other accommodation, Bali (1991-1995)
5.1. Number of Visitors and Hotel Rooms in Nusa Tenggara Barat (1988-1995)
6.1. Number of visitors to Yogyakarta (1989-1995)
6.2. Number of nights spent in Yogyanese by international and domestic tourists (1993-1995)
6.3. Total number of hotel rooms and occupancy rate (1991-1995)
Book Review
The following excerpts are from a book review by Dimitrios Buhalis, University of Surrey, appearing in Information Technology & Tourism, Vol. 3(2), 2000, pp. 129-130:
Tourism & Small Entrepreneurs, Development, National Policy, and Entrepreneurial Culture: Indonesian Cases. Heidi Dahles and Karin Bras (Eds.). Cognizant Communication Corp., New York, NY, 1999. No. of pages: 165. $30.00.
A collection of fascinating cases on Indonesian entrepreneurs in Bali, Lombock, and Yogyakarta provides a very interesting account on the informal tourism sector of the country. The essays are contributed by lecturers and students of Tilburg University (The Netherlands) who spent a considerable amount of time researching at the destination. Although the book is rooted on entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized tourism enterprises, it is remarkable that it covers a whole range of tourism policy and planning issues for the destination and a wider context for the particular study. Small enterprises cover the accommodation sector (losman, homestays, wigma); tour and travel agencies; transport (minibuses and private cars); restaurants (warungs and street cafes); souvenir business; rental companies (bikes, beach umbrellas, diving, snorkeling and fishing equipment); and beauty services (massage, manicure, hairstylists makeup). On top of these "respectable" professions and businesses the book refers to a large number of illicit and illegal businesses such as escort services, brothels, gambling halls, and drug dealing.
As stated in the literature about the book, the main audiences are undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, and researchers in leisure and tourism studies, economic anthropology, and Asian studies.
Dahlas and Bras also cover three important recent advances in the field of tourism:
1. The debate on sustainable development and issues of local participation and local employment in tourism.
2. The debate on tourism policies and the role of national states against a background of globalization.
3. The emerging debate on the role of micro-entrepreneurs, self-employed people, and/or the informal sector in tourism.
Although chapters are contributed by individual postgraduate students and researchers a fairly consistent style prevails, giving credit to the editors. However, the absence of a concluding chapter fails to synthesize the material and draw similarities and differences with other destinations. The book is about the informal tourism sector in Indonesia rather than entrepreneurship as emphasized by the title, but it will be nevertheless extremely useful to business, tourism, sociology, and anthropology students and researchers who need to appreciate the practices of SMTEs in Indonesia. In this sense it is thoroughly recommended.


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Success of Final Fantasy 7 and 8 on Steam paves a possible path to PC releases for future Final Fantasy titles.
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Publisher planning Final Fantasy event in Shibuya; FFXI and FFXIV presentations also planned.
E3 2012: Square Enix's new Luminous Studio engine offers glimpse at what role-playing franchise could look like in future; tech aimed at consoles, PC, smartphones, and Web.
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Action, RPG games help publisher post 175 percent year-over-year rise to $65.78 million for last nine months of 2011; net sales down slightly to $1.2 billion.
Modern Wild West shooting, dynamic narrative questing, and another postapocalyptic expansion fill up retail shelves this week.
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy for 3DS to require screen taps in sync with music pulled from long-running RPG series.
Square Enix confirms centennial shipment figure for two-decade-old role-playing game franchise.
Get in the mood or get some romantic ideas in our special Valentine's Day music feature.
Direct sequel to 2010's FFXIII being simultaneously developed for 360 and PS3; Motomu Toriyama to direct.
In advance of January 18 Japan event, what appears to be front company registers URL for sequel to last year's top-selling RPG.
Come listen to some of the best soundtracks of 2010 as well as the ones that you may have overlooked.
Asia finally gets the Xbox 360 version of Square's last offline Final Fantasy epic.
Sony honors Square Enix's RPG as only title to sell 1 million-plus in Japan in 2010; Yakuza 4, MGS: Peace Walker, Monster Hunter, more earn Gold-level accolades.
BioWare's action RPG takes the RPG and Ultimate Game of the Year awards at London ceremony; Call of Duty series picks up Shooter and One to Watch gongs.
We talk to Thomas Boecker, the producer of the longest running video game music concerts outside of Japan.
Square Enix reveals new installment, characters for PSP fighting game spin-off as latest console RPG hits Xbox 360 in home country with "Ultimate Hits International" version.
Xbox 360 ad should not have used FMV footage from PS3 version, says UK advertising body, which rules the "misleading" ad should not be shown again.
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2's platinum debut helps lift publisher to 11 percent revenue growth, $21 million profit during April-June period.
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Specialty retailer breaks $2 billion sales mark on strength of stacked March slate including Bad Company 2, Final Fantasy XIII, God of War III; net profits top $75 million.
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Four games go platinum as domestic industry bounces back by 6 percent; DS sells 700,800, Wii sells 557,500; 360 edges out PS3.
Bad Company 2 to push software sales back into black; industry-watchers say Metro 2033 sold solidly while DSi XL struggled; $300 250GB Natal/Xbox Slim SKU predicted.
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I worked in FAO in Nigeria from 2004to 2012, and I am also a economist, checked rural area, farmers can not get profit from farming.
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|A spicy olive oil and mayonnaise based southern condiment that's as good on fried seafood as it is as a salad dressing.
The French version of sauce rémoulade is mayonnaise based, and far less seasoned than Creole remoulade. It usually also includes capers, a mixture of herbs, and some form of anchovy. I tried the vinegar and oil version and found it far too tangy and lacking something for my taste. The addition of mayonnaise fixed that and made it just right for my tastes. I guess my version falls somewhere in between the two, and by the way, if you want, make your own homemade mayonnaise if you prefer, though I don't find it necessary, and frankly, neither do most chefs.
Greek yogurt makes a perfectly acceptable substitute for the mayo in this tart sauce if you want to reduce the fat - I can even show you how to make your own Greek style yogurt at home. To make this a smooth sauce, process it in your blender or food processor, but I don't personally find it necessary since I like the texture.
Remoulade Sauce is perfect dabbed on top of fried green tomatoes or atop pan-fried crab cakes, but is also a great dipping sauce for a variety of meats, fried fish, shrimp, or oysters, fried pickles, fried okra, onion rings, or shrimp boulettes {recipe coming up soon!}. It is used as a dressing for a nice garden salad and, of course, is most well known to dress the cold appetizer, shrimp remoulade. It's also very good when tossed with fried shrimp, similar to a Bang Bang style shrimp.
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Recipe: Remoulade Sauce©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Inactive time: 8 hours | Yield: About 2 cups
- 1/2 cup of chopped green onion
- 1/2 cup of finely minced celery
- 1 clove of garlic, finely minced
- 2 tablespoons of ketchup
- 1/8 cup of spicy Creole mustard
- 1 tablespoon of horseradish
- 1 cup of mayonnaise
- 2 yolks from hard boiled eggs, chopped
- 1/8 to 1/2 cup of white or apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of paprika
- 1 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama)
- Couple dashes of Worcestershire sauce
- Couple dashes of hot pepper sauce
- Pinch of thyme
- Pinch of tarragon
- Couple pinches of chopped parsley
- Kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper, to taste
- 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil
Combine all of the ingredients except for the olive oil. Drizzle in the olive oil, a little at a time, while whisking briskly until mixture is well blended and reaches a nice creamy consistency. Can also process in a food processor for a smoother consistency, if desired. Taste, adjust seasonings, and refrigerate for several hours or overnight to thoroughly chill.
Remoulade Sauce is perfect dabbed on top of fried green tomatoes or atop pan-fried crab cakes, but is also a great dipping sauce for a variety of meats, fried fish, shrimp, or oysters, fried pickles, fried okra, onion rings, or shrimp boulettes. It is used as a dressing for a nice garden salad and, of course, is most well known to dress the cold appetizer, shrimp remoulade.
Cook's Notes: Adjust the vinegar for your level of desired tang. I lean more toward sweet than tart with my taste buds, so I use only 1/8 cup and that is plenty tart for me, but some folks like it real tangy, so start with a little and increase to your own taste. Use only enough to loosen the sauce if you want to use this as a spread instead. Also, if you use Emeril's Creole mustard, which I often do, it does contain a bit of cayenne pepper and horseradish.
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Google's Chrome has been kicking some serious butt in the browser wars lately. It recently raced past Firefox to become the No. 2 browser in the world, and now, according to one measure, it has beaten Microsoft's Internet Explorer to reach the top spot.
According to StatCounter, a Web analytics service, Chrome last week eclipsed IE worldwide, coming in with a 32.76 percent share to IE's 31.94 percent.
The numbers are close, but there's no mistaking the trends. Internet Explorer has been in steady decline, while Chrome's adoption has grown at almost the same pace.
Interestingly, Firefox had been losing share, but its decline has stabilized since the first of the year.
The numbers are very different when you look at North American and U.S. markets.
In North America, IE still holds a healthy lead over Chrome, at 32.76 percent to 25.86 percent. In the U.S., gap is wider – IE has 37.81 percent, while Chrome has 23.83 percent. Also in these markets, Firefox's decline has reversed and it's showing an uptick.
Still, the trends are clear and if they hold, you can expect Chrome to eventually pass IE in North America and the U.S.
Of course, the StatCounter numbers are just one metric. And they look very different from the browser share numbers compiled for April by NetApplications.
The StatCounter results were foreshadowed by the Royal Pingdom report I wrote about last month. There, you could see Chrome racing past Firefox globally to challenge Internet Explorer.
Even with the launch of Windows 8 later this year, I don't see much to halt Internet Explorer's long, slow slide. It's likely being kept afloat in the U.S. by corporations who lock down their Windows PCs, but even that appears to be changing. Barring some unforeseen shift, Chrome looks like it's on a steady march to become the new top browser.
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The first thing to do is to download the .iso image that you want to place on your Netbook. An iso is an image of the distribution that you want to install on the machine. It is important that it is not just copied, it must be installed as an image so that it can boot. Here you can see the image has been selected. Put your flash drive into the machine that will create the image. In this example you can see that /dev/sde1 has been detected.
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Down syndrome (DS) is a group of signs, symptoms, birth defects, and complications that arise from an error in cell division that results in an extra 21st chromosome. This error may occur before, or shortly after, conception and has a widespread effect on the physical and mental development of the affected person. DS is one of the most common and well known chromosome disorders and the most common genetic cause of learning disabilities. It is a congenital condition caused by an extra copy or piece of chromosome 21 in all or most of the affected person's cells.
Chromosomes hold the body's genetic blueprint. Most cells in the body contain 22 pairs of chromosomes and a 23rd set of either XX (in females) or XY (in males) for a total of 46 chromosomes. The 46 chromosomes come together when the woman's egg, containing a single set of 23 chromosomes, is fertilized by a single sperm, containing a single set of 23 chromosomes. The fertilized egg will then divide repeatedly as it grows and develops into a fetus.
In most cases of Down syndrome, random chance leads to the insertion of an extra copy of chromosome 21 in either the egg or sperm. This extra copy becomes part of the fertilized egg and is replicated in all of the embryo's cells. This form of Down syndrome is called trisomy 21, and it accounts for about 95% of DS cases.
Less commonly, an error may occur after conception, in the developing embryo. As the fetus grows, some cells have 47 chromosomes, while others have 46. This form of Down syndrome is called mosaic trisomy 21.
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Yo' I'm still pretty new at this so sorry if I screw up.
As the name suggests, I'm designing a generic RPG system for use in an online forum and I would like an advice offered.
It's still pretty much in Alpha phase but here's what I have so far;
1) The basic game resolution mechanic comes from betting/spending points, if you want to do something you have to reach a target number, you have attributes and skills with static values which help get you part of the way, but you have to spend points to get the rest of the way. True, this means that the characters can accomplish whatever they try but doing so risks running out of points later on. This is kind of based off Nobelis' system, though the scale would be different.
2) You regain points for good role playing or making stuff difficult for yourself.
3) There's degrees of success, if you match the target number you just do it, no fuss about it, if you exceed the target number by a certain amount you can do it particularly well, if you get close to the target number but don't meet you might accomplish it but have some downside to it. In fact that might be the best option as you effectively get a discount on points and the downside might give you the chance to regain points.
I originally thought of this for just skills, I'm not 100% sure I want it for attributes, but the more I think about the more I'm liking it,
Basically you have general skills like Athletics, Guns, or Martial Arts, these skills can be used for anything they cover, you can put a certain amount of points in a general skill, I'm still working on scale, but for example we'll go with 3, after that you have to put points in one or more specialized skills, which, as the name suggests, are specialized versions of the General skills. After increasing specialized skills a certain amount you can increase the General Skill by one, before you have to increase the specialized skill more.
For example; Bob puts 3 points in Guns, he then has to put, for example, 3 points in a specialization (Guns: Dual Pistols) before he can increase Guns to 4, and then he has to put more points in one or more specializations, say, 4 this time, before he can increase the general skill again,
so it'd be; Guns 3 > Guns 3, Guns: Dual Pistols 3 > Guns 4, Guns: Dual Pistols 3 > Guns 4, Guns: Dual Pistols 7 > Guns 5, Guns: Dual Pistols 7.
Certain specializations might fit under multiple general skills, like Gun Fu might be both Guns and Martial Arts, but they cost more, I'm not sure whether to have a double cost so there's no mechanical benefit, or 1.5, (rounded either up or down) or maybe have it cost normally but only count half for unlocking the next rank in the general skills.
I'm thinking of having the same mechanic for Attributes, if so the general attributes would be VERY general, probably only Physical, Mental, Social, and may-be Fate, while the specializations would more classical attributes like Strength or Dexterity, if I don't do this, then I'd just get rid of the general attributes and have the specialized attributes. One benefit of this would be that certain attributes which only fit in certain settings like Sanity, Rank, Magic, or Ki, can be added in as specializations without needing to adjust the character creation points.
Skill specializations on general can be whatever the character wants, while attribute specializations should be defined by the GM.
Each of the General Attribute would have it's own point pool, while I'm thinking that skills should have just one large point pool to cover all of them.
All traits can be good or bad, when they help your character, they give a bonus to achieving the target number, when they hinder they give a penalty while giving you points to whichever pool seems appropriate.
I'm still thinking about how to do this, but these would be abilities / powers that you get, not for what you do but from who you are, and angel might half Flight, Holy, Immortal, and maybe Spirit, while a robot would have Non-organic, Immortal, Repairable, Weak to Water. This would be based off Nobelis' Gifts section.
Bonds: (I use the term from Nobelis for lack of a better option, I don't really like it though) These are things that matter to your character, whether positively or negatively, however you can choose whether they affect you or not, though going dramatically against them often results in a penalty for your character, most often a temporary bond-level wound.
Afflictions: (again, I use the Nobelis term, but I don't like it)
These are similar to bonds, though stronger, whenever they CAN affect you they do, and ignoring / going against them causes a stronger penalty, either a permanent bond-level wound or temporary Affliction-level wound.
Wound: Wounds work the same way as bonds or afflictions, in fact the only difference is that wounds are often the result of someone else's actions and, generally, your character DOES NOT WANT THEM. Wounds too can be both positive or negative, though primarily negative, they can be either temporary or permanent, though in this case temporary means it will heal with time while permanent means you'll have to do something special or unusual to cure it. If you actually want to keep a wound, it ceases to be a wound and becomes a regular bond/affliction and thus requires a certain amount of character points to be spent on it.
Signature Equipment: most normal equipment is just that, normal and not worth mentioning, however certain special equipment can be a trait, if you constantly have it, it's particularly notorious, or is intelligent it can be an affliction, otherwise it's generally a bond.
Some other mechanics I've come up with but I'm still not sure about are Fatigue and Will.
Fatigue is a temporary affliction-level wound that you choose to take, it causes a penalty on all your actions equal to the fatigue level, I'm still working on the mechanics, it'll either give you a big boost in points that you can distribute as you like, but doesn't let you regain points from it normally, or it gives you a small immediate boost in points and lets you regain points from it normally, frankly I'm pulling towards option 1, the fatigue penalty is culmative if you use it over and over again.
Will is a separate point pool but works differently then others, it represents herulclean efforts, instead of adding points, it automatically boosts you up to the next success threshold level, if you use it once you gain a wound, if you use it again without resting for a certain amount of time you gain a serious wound, three times you loose a point of one of your specialized attributes, four times you loose a point in one of your general attributes, five, you die.
So after saying all that, here's what I'd like your advice on, besides general "is this not completely horrible,"
1) From a game perspective how I have the general / specific mechanic set up makes sense, but in real life doesn't it go specific > general instead of general > specific?
2) Would the mechanics as suggested make the characters over powered? The system this is mainly based off, Nobelis, deals with character that are basically gods.
3) Does this make sense? Is it easy to understand?
4) Should I go with the general / specific system with attributes or just have specific attributes?
5) What do you think of the fatigue / will system? I -literally- just thought of them as I typed this, and I'm afraid they're too easy to abuse.
6) What should I call bonds / afflictions instead of bonds / afflictions? I really don't like those names, they make bonds seem good and afflictions bad, but they can be either just as easily.
7) Any other advice / suggestions you can offer? This is my first game so I'm eager to get any help I can.
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San Bernardino's acting city manager and the city's finance director did not respond to emails asking who authorized the cash-outs.
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The city of 210,000, about 60 miles east of Los Angeles, filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection citing a $46 million deficit for this fiscal year.
The amount of cash-outs in May, June and July of this year was the highest for any three-month period in the data reviewed by Reuters.
The pre-bankruptcy cash-outs included David Harp, a police lieutenant, who walked away with $123,156, the third-highest amount during the period. Theodis Henson Jr, a police captain, left with $234,907, while Brian Boom, another lieutenant, departed with $171,110.
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Empeno did not respond to a message left with the city attorney's office or an email sent to his work account. Attempts to contact Boom were not successful.
Friday's hearing will be the first time San Bernardino's biggest creditors - the California Public Employees' Retirement System (Calpers), and Wall Street bondholders and insurers - will meet to argue their case before the judge overseeing the city's bankruptcy application.
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DOVER, DEL – The York College women's basketball team remained perfect on the season as the Spartans rolled to a 67-35 Capital Athletic Conference victory at Wesley College on Saturday afternoon at Wentworth Gymnasium in Dover, Delaware.
The Spartans improve to 8-0 overall and 2-0 in the CAC while the Wolverines fall to 2-6 overall and 0-2 in the league. York is currently ranked 12th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and 14th in the d3hoops.com Poll. The 8-0 start is the best start to a season in the program's history.
The game was tied at five early before the Spartans started to pull away from the Wolverines. Juniors Kelsey Murphy (Olney, Md./Good Counsel) and Kristen Haley (Silver Spring, Md./Georgetown Visitation) hit threes on consecutive possessions to give the visitors a 11-5 lead with 13:03 left in the first half.
Wesley got to within five at 15-10 but York then outscored the Wolverines 21-6 over the final ten minutes of the half, giving the Spartans a 36-16 lead to the break.
The Wolverines edged closer after the break as they trimmed York's advantage to 13 courtesy of a quick 6-0 spurt. Haley snapped the run with a lay up as York got back on track. After a Jazmine Miller triple cut the Spartan lead to 43-29 with 11:09 left, the Spartans went off from beyond the arc. Murphy started the big run with a three, the first of four straight makes from distance. That 12-0 run pushed York's lead to 55-29 and was stopped by a pair of Heather Fuller free throws. York then scored the next five points, increasing the lead to 60-31. The Spartans eventually settled for the 32-point win, their biggest margin of victory of the year.
Haley led all scorers as she tied a career-high with 25 points on 10-of-16 shooting from the floor including 1-of-2 from three. Haley also went 4-for-5 from the charity stripe. She pulled in six rebounds and also had a blocked shot in her 33 minutes of action. Brittany Hicks (Dover, Pa./York Catholic) notched her conference-leading sixth double-double of the year with 11 points and 11 rebounds in 30 minutes of play. Murphy was the third Spartan in double figures with 12 points as she canned four three's in the win. Murphy added four rebounds, four steals and one assist.
Junior point guard Aja Wallpher (Ellicott City, Md./Seton Keough) had another dynamic floor game to lead the Spartan offense. Wallpher had a season-high 10 assists with no turnovers in 35 minutes of work. She also had seven rebounds and three steals. Wallpher currently leads all of Division III in steals with 38 for the year.
Fuller paced Wesley with 12 points and a game-high 17 rebounds in 34 minutes of action. She was 5-for-10 from the floor and 2-for-2 from the line. Fuller also had three blocks and a steal. Miller added 11 points, five rebounds, and four assists. Miller was harassed into 4-of-12 shooting in the loss.
The Wolverines' 35 points was just one point above the Spartans' best defensive effort of the season as they held Roanoke to 34 points back on November 17 in Greensboro, NC.
York shot 39.7% from the field while they had another strong game from behind the arc as they canned 8-of-20 (40%). The Spartans went 13-for-19 (68.4%) from the stripe. Wesley shot just 26.3% from the floor and 21.4% (3-for-14) from downtown. The Wolverines attempted just four free throws as they made two.
Wesley outrebounded the Spartans 42-41 but York forced 17 turnovers. The Spartans had their second straight game with just eight turnovers as they have done a fantastic job of taking care of the ball recently.
The Spartans are now off until Saturday, December 29 when they host Wheaton College in the opening round of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. Tip time at Charles Wolf Gymnasium is set for 6:00 pm. The Spartans will unveil their new "Pink" uniforms and the tournament benefits the American Cancer Society.
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Australian wildlife is full of surprises. I first discovered that crocodiles look a lot like alligators, but with a very different attitude toward humans. A trip to the museum's George Observatory in Brazos Bend State Park often features an encounter with an alligator sunning on your path or floating like a log at the water's edge in Creekfield Lake. You're warned to keep dogs on leashes and leave the gator alone, but no fences restrain you or the gator.
Australian crocodiles are more aggressive, and unfortunately recognize humans as food. Fencing confines all the crocodiles at Hartley's Crocodile Adventure near Cairns, Australia. And a boat ride in crocodile-infested waters requires all hands inside the boat with Plexiglas windows on all sides.
An alligator show often features the handler taping the gator's mouth shut and actually sitting on the patient gator. In contrast, a crocodile show is billed as a "Crocodile Attack Show." It usually features only one crocodile that must be distracted when the keeper dashes across an open area to the protected spot for the feeding. There's nothing leisurely about a crocodile jumping for food or initiating a death roll when the food is attached to a rope that the keeper does not release.
After grabbing the bait, we watched a croc rolling under the water, a technique designed to disorient and drown its prey. This "death roll" allows a croc to feast on large animals at its own pace. As the late Steve Irwin said, "The crocodile death roll is potentially the most powerful killing mechanism on Earth."
Koalas are as cute as crocs are deadly. Koalas are marsupials native to coastal regions of Australia. Like all marsupial babies, baby koalas are called "joeys." At birth, a koala joey is the size of a jellybean! It has no hair, no ears, and is blind. Joeys crawl into their mother's pouch immediately after birth and stay there for about six months. At Hartley's Crocodile Adventure, we petted the soft fur of a female koala and watched an 11-month-old Joey still clinging to its mother's back. Back in Houston, our only marsupial is the lowly opossum, which just doesn't compare.


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Friday, January 7, 2011
Excuse me while I go hug a tree
It seems awfully late in the day for this, but I'd feel guilty if I didn't join the effort.
Today, they'll start chopping away at century-old oaks in Arcadia Oak Woodlands. A committee apparently found this the perfect place for a storm debris and sediment dump. These grand old trees made it through World War I, the Great Depression, the invention of television, and the Bush administration, but LA County swings a mean axe.
Here's the petition where we can ask the County decision-makers to leave the Woodlands alone and go back to doing what they do best: Nothing.
"I'll tell you what I'll do for you – nothing. Is that any good to you? Nothing? Mind you, I can't do it straight away; something is always cropping up. But if I can find the time to do nothing for you, I'll try to squeeze it in." – Alice in Wonderland
(The photo is from Hahamongna, but you get the general idea.)
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Good on ya', Swede!ReplyDelete
wv: dispinge, a synonym for nothing.
I hate hearing this stuff! The old trees have more of a right to be there than we do...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2011 at 9:20 AM
It's worth a fight.ReplyDelete
Great. Now you've made me sign a petition and get myself on god knows how many hippie mailing lists. Still, I approve, Karin.ReplyDelete
what a great quote. Thanks for participating!ReplyDelete
The 1st thot to come to mind was this original one: "Too Little, Too Late."ReplyDelete
Next thot is: I hope I'm wrong.
Oooooh! You scooped me on the Alice quote. I've been saving this one up for just the right day. You've used it to perfection here.ReplyDelete
Good luck taking on The Man.
that's ok Carolynn, it's reusable.ReplyDelete
Thank you all for signing. If you get a clog catalogue, Terry, you'll know why.
Making an oak grove into a dump. My sentiments exactly, Karin.ReplyDelete
Thank you Altadena Hiker for doing this post.ReplyDelete
Thanks for taking part. The flood control folks snuck this one past all the environmental groups and somehow got the approval of Fish and Game. I guess the people we think are taking care of the environment are not always on the environment's side. I've just heard via Laura Garrett that the inquiry found they had done everything correctly and the woodland will be cut down on Wednesday January 12. I think we should all stand by the gate to the killing fields (they already have security in place to make sure no-one gets in) and hold a wake for the trees, and the countless birds, animals and butterflies that will now be displaced. At a time when we're being asked to plant 10,000 trees to make up for the losses in the Station Fire, it seems such a waste to kill healthy old trees like this.ReplyDelete
WV: extering. Seems like the word for what the government morons are doing to those trees. Haven't they heard that California is broke? They can't afford to cut down the trees. Plus, it's not good for global warming to cut them down. Well, you helped Thor with his petition, so we are helping you with yours.ReplyDelete
Wow, great post, Karin. And just what LA County needs - another dump.ReplyDelete
I'm number 739. Wish I'd known about this earlier.ReplyDelete
Hope it's a case of better late, than never.
Anyway, 700-something.ReplyDelete
wv: flubmat
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2011 at 3:38 PM
Btw: The german word for City Hall in is RAThaus.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, Karin!
Well, better late than never. Miss J had no idea this was in the works.ReplyDelete
I signed and called Mike Antonovich's office (213-974-5555) at Bellis' suggestion. Tony Bell said they received the impact statement from Dept of Public Works and will review that. They'll have more info Monday, said to call back then. I told him I'd heard it was a done deal and they were going to start chopping Wed, 1/12, but he wouldn't confirm or deny. Seemed sympathetic but exasperated.ReplyDelete
Brilliant words, Karin. I'm all for hugging those trees. Great idea, Bellis. If you're serious about going over there Wed, count me in.
Signed, sealed, and deliveredReplyDelete
I expected to see something here today after I found out about it on PA's blog. I signed the petition and added my own special thoughts about how the clean up from Hurricane Ivan was handled: some good, some bad. Regarding the sediment disposal, to be blunt and to the point: what a bunch of dopes.ReplyDelete
Good luck with this. They offer no defense of the plan? Crazy.ReplyDelete
Alice would like to stay in Wonderland.ReplyDelete
Great quote, dismal forecast
I just don't understand how this stuff still goes on in this day and age. It's depressingly nonsensical.ReplyDelete
thank you all for joining in. One of the organizers sent an email, all excited that there were signatures from Australia and Michigan and Pennsylvania. And I thought, oh yeah, that's Shell, Banjo, and Marjie.ReplyDelete
As far as I'm concerned, our native oaks are sacrosanct. How could this be? Barbara E. has also been posting on the Arcadia Woodlands issue recently on her blog at www.wildsuburbia.blogspot.com (1/7/11 "Call Supervisor Antonovich").ReplyDelete
I know a secret entrance to the forest that won't be patrolled by their security guys. If I were younger and braver, I might have chained myself to a tree.ReplyDelete
What happened to the greyhound post?
sorry about the greyhound post. Took it down to make a change, then saved it as a draft and that zapped all the comments. Not much point putting it back up after that.ReplyDelete
AH: That's like the time Jane Asher was cleaning out Paul McCartney's place and threw out a bunch of papers containing dozens of unrecorded Lennon/McCartney songs!ReplyDelete
You're for sure gonna break 300 comments on the greyhound post. Have you thought about what you're going to do with the prize money? Take me! Take me!ReplyDelete
I did already sign the petition and passed it along to everyone I know.ReplyDelete
I'll go get Jim right now...I don't think he has signed yet.
wv: droinest - This is the droinest thing I've ever heard.
Thanks for the heads-up about saving as draft. How unhelpful of blogger to send all the comments away.ReplyDelete
Every once in a while, I check on the greyhound post--time to do it again, just to marvel at the tenacity.
Congratulations, KB. You just hit 300 comments!ReplyDelete
Which begs the question, and I can say that because dogs beg for anything, even questions: Don't these people have any hobbies?ReplyDelete
Yes, I was thinking about that as well, they seem to be online 24/7. I laughed out loud about Ron and Elizabeth's attempts to humor them, but they didn't even notice (and one person misunderstood).ReplyDelete
Karin, any poker-playing cats need adoption?
Yeah, I was going to follow PA's with GREAT TASTE, LESS FILLING. But common sense prevailed. Plus, a couple of them apparently know where I live.ReplyDelete
I really think we should have a greyhound posting day on all blogs. It will be so overwhelming. I mean, how can they go talk nonstop on ALL of our blogs?ReplyDelete
Maybe City Daily Photo can make it a Theme Day!
They are like parasites. They have no home of their own, they live in the blogs and websites of others. Don't wish this plague on yourself, Laurie!ReplyDelete
here, they destroy classic architecture, there it's classic trees. this is called "evil"ReplyDelete
Getting back to Arcadia Woodlands, it looks like we have one more day to make some noise about it. I am late getting this on my blog but tomorrow's post links to the petition as well as the latest coverage on Arcadia Patch.ReplyDelete
Well...today is the 12th and I just read your blog...let us know what happened today...ReplyDelete


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In addition to releasing a boatload of console screenshots to support its announcement, Namco also unveiled the evil-doer's official bio. Here it is verbatim:
"One of Pac-man's classic enemies, Toc-Man is a menacing robotic suit with a fearsome kart to match! Toc-Man was built by a ghost named Orson who found himself an outcast in Pac-Land due to his drab, gray color. In an attempt to be accepted in the colorful ghost community, he constructed the suit out of bright yellow scrap metal and became Toc-Man. After disappearing for awhile, Toc-Man recently reappeared when he opened a fully-automated factory dedicated to creating robot henchmen. It is unknown if Orson is still inside Toc-Man's robotic shell, or if the suit taken on a life of its own...
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Pac-Man World Rally is slated to appear on the GameCube, PC, PS2, PSP, and Xbox next summer. We'll keep you updated with more.