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BSC Super Special #15, Baby-sitters' European Vacation: I See London, I See France
Posted in Uncategorized tagged BSC, Cokie Mason, everyone gets a chapter, Janine Kishi, Robert Brewster, vacation at 6:40 pm by Jenn
I expect these kinds of crimes against fashion from Mallory, but not you, Abby
Summary: Kristy, Stacey, Abby, Jessi, Mallory, and Robert are among a group of students who go to London and Paris on a school trip. It's boring.
Kristy meets the French-Canadian version of Alan Gray, a guy named Michel who keeps annoying her because he likes her. She rebuffs him until they get left behind on a day trip in Paris, and she has to rely on his knowledge of French to survive. They end up practically dating, and Kristy makes out with only the second guy in her life.
Stacey accidentally picks up someone else's luggage, and it contains a jar of ashes. Don't worry, it's not like that. The man who owns the suitcase brought his late Army buddy's ashes to France to spread them at Normandy, where they both fought on D-Day. Stacey's mom is one of the trip chaperones, and she keeps getting on Stacey's nerves by being overprotective. When the McGills connect with the man and give back the ashes, they both decide to go with him to Normandy to spread them. They have a moving experience and end up bonding.
Jessi meets up with David Brailsford's troupe and gets to fill in for an injured dancer.
Abby accompanies Victoria Kent when she goes to meet the queen. Abby doesn't get to meet her herself, but she does accidentally step on the prince's toes.
Mallory meets her mom's cousin and learns that she's related to Shakespeare. She spends the rest of the trip writing, and Jessi has to remind her to enjoy herself.
Robert gets one pointless chapter and spends the trip being annoyed with one of Stacey's former bad girl friends.
Back in Stoneybrook, Claudia, Mary Anne, Dawn, Logan, Cokie, and Janine are working at the playground camp where everyone was competing to get jobs. It's boring, too.
Claudia has a miserable time because Janine is asked to sub in for a counselor at the last minute, and Claudia has to take orders from her. Janine is already on edge because she's working with her ex-boyfriend, Jerry. Ultimately, Claudia gets Janine to calm down, and in turn, Janine stands up to Jerry, who's kind of a big jerk.
Mary Anne mostly deals with trying to keep Logan and Cokie from spending too much time together.
Dawn is barely an entity in this book, but she does spend a day filling in at a day camp for special-needs kids, which leads to an encounter with Susan Felder.
Thoughts: "Robert is Stacey's former boyfriend. Mom is Stacey's permanent mother." Hee. Thanks, Abby.
Trivia: Mallory's parents' names are Jonathan and Diana.
Yeah, I bet this big-shot dance company has no understudy for this major performance.
Mallory, re: an annoying chaperone who keeps going off by himself: "He's at Virginia Woolf's house!" Mrs. McGill: "What's he doing there? Virginia Woolf is dead!" Heh.
Speaking of that annoying teacher, this trip is horribly chaperoned. And I know from horribly chaperoned trips. We were allowed to wander around New York City by ourselves. We were allowed to stay in ski condos by ourselves. But at least we were in high school and somewhat responsible enough to get ourselves from point A to point B without getting lost.
BSC Super Mystery #4, Baby-sitters' Christmas Chiller: It's a Jolly Holiday With Mary
Posted in books tagged BSC, crime and/or punishment, everyone gets a chapter, holiday (celebrate) at 6:41 pm by Jenn
Abby and Mary Anne, please burn everything you're wearing
Summary: This Super Mystery has not one, not two, but THREE mysteries, so it actually deserves to be called a Super Mystery. And they're actually mysterious!
First, it's almost Christmas. (Yeah, I know it was Christmas in the last book. I'll get to that later.) Someone is auditioning for the role of Grinch by breaking into houses in Kristy and Abby's neighborhood. Fortunately, the break-ins happen when no one's home, and only a few things are stolen, but there's a lot of destruction. Plus, the burglar is painting "naughty" on the houses. Kristy's house is left alone, but the family gets a note calling them "nice."
A rake is found at one of the houses, which is weird since it's winter and keeps snowing, so obvious no one's doing yardwork. Speaking of yardwork, the only thing the break-in families have in common (other than their neighborhood) is that they've all recently fired their gardener. The Thomas/Brewers and the Stevensons still employ him. Dawn figures out that the gardener is the burglar, and that the rake fell off his truck, which has been spotted in the neighborhood. The Thomas/Brewers set up a sting with the police (including, of course, Sgt. Johnson), and he's arrested.
The other Stoneybrook mystery involves a pregnant woman Mallory and Jessi run into who doesn't know who she is. No one in town knows her and she doesn't know how she got there. Because she's pregnant around Christmas, she's nicknamed Mary Doe. The Pikes invite her to stay with them so she won't be alone over the holidays.
Mallory manages to figure out what the police can't: Mary's wedding ring is unique, probably custom-made, and her sweater came from a store in California. She picks a jewelry store in the same town in California and sends them a picture of the ring. The owner recognizes it: Her nephew had it made for his wife, Lisa.
Once it's determined that Mary is Lisa, the real story comes out: She was visiting family on the East Coast, started to take the train back, and decided to stop in Boston to visit friends. When the train stopped in Stoneybrook, she got off and most likely had her purse stolen, suffering a concussion in the process. Because no one knew when she was getting back to California, no one knew she was missing. And her husband was out of the country on business, so he didn't know he needed to be worried. Somehow, going into labor jogs Lisa's memory, so she'll be fine.
The third mystery involves Stacey and Claudia, who are visiting Stacey's dad in New York. They spend a lot of time with Stacey's boyfriend, Ethan, who keeps staring at Stacey and is possibly following the girls. He also won't let the girls see certain parts of his apartment. Then the girls start getting notes and seeing fake blood in the elevator and near Stacey's dad's apartment. The doorman says no one has come into the building who could have left anything, so the culprit appears to live there.
The girls are summoned to the basement one afternoon, after being stuck in the elevator, which they thought they had to take since the stairs were roped off. It turns out there was nothing wrong with the stairs, which makes things weirder. Stacey asks Ethan about the note, and he admits that he used to date a girl in her building, Cybil, and she's, shall we say, unstable. She's the one who's been following the girls and doing weird stuff to them. Ethan's only been staring at Stacey because he's sculpting her; the sculpture is the reason he doesn't want the girls in his room.
The three decide to go to the basement at the allotted time, and sure enough, Cybil shows up. She starts ranting about how Ethan likes her, not Stacey. She's turned off the lights, so no one knows what she's planning to do. Claudia knocks her down and Ethan grabs her, though it doesn't seem like she was going to do anything dangerous. Cybil's parents agree that she needs help, and everything's okay between Stacey and Ethan again.
Thoughts: Once again, we have continuity problems. The last book took place around Christmas and included a visit from Dawn. This book takes place around Christmas and starts with Dawn arriving in Stoneybrook. Stacey and Claudia go to New York in this book, but they were in Stoneybrook for the last one. Plus, Logan mentions at the end of this book that he was out of town, but he was in Stoneybrook in the last one. Arg.
Claudia, re: Ethan: "He had staring spells, sort of like the ones Mary Anne's kitten, Tigger, gets." That cracked me up.
Anna suggests that the burglar is using a fake delivery truck to case the neighborhood. When I inevitably turn to a life of crime, that's what I'm going to do. Thanks for the idea, Anna!
Claudia notes that if the elevator she and Stacey are stuck in were to drop, she and Stacey could become "big dead pancakes." Then she thinks that sounds like a good name for a punk band. I call it! Mine!
Mallory sometimes uses her dad's briefcase instead of a backpack. Mal, this is why people make fun of you. (Though I'm sure if Claudia did this, it would be oh-so-cool and fashion-forward.)
BSC Super Special #14, BSC in the USA: Are We There Yet?
Posted in books tagged actual sad moments, BSC, everyone gets a chapter, it's summer (again), Jeff Schafer, Karen Brewer, vacation, Watson Brewer at 8:35 pm by Jenn
Mallory, stop being a dork
Summary: The premise for this book is incredibly dumb. Dawn's father has a friend who's moving across the country, and Mr. Schafer offers to drive his RV from Connecticut to California for him. He somehow convinces Dawn and Jeff to come along, even though they were supposed to spend the summer in Stoneybrook. Watson hears about this and decides he wants to cancel the Brewer/Thomases' vacation so they can also drive across the country in an RV. And of course, Kristy can bring friends (but no one else can). So all of the BSC girls get permission to go along, and a trip that started out with three people balloons to include 15:
RV 1: Mr. Schafer, Dawn, Jeff, Kristy (her travel route didn't match the rest of her family's), Claudia, Stacey, Mary Anne
RV 2: Watson, Mrs. Brewer, Abby, Jessi, Mallory, David Michael, Karen, Andrew
Sam and Charlie are at camp, and the family is smart enough to leave Emily Michelle behind with Nannie. (Can you imagine two weeks in an RV with a two-year-old?) The idea is that everyone gets to pick a special place to visit, and there will be other touristy stops along the way. RV 1 goes north, RV 2 goes south, and everyone meets up in California.
Highlights/lowlights from RV 1:
Kristy wants to visit as many baseball stadiums as possible and buy hats from them (plus go to some games, obviously). It's something she once discussed doing with her father. At a Giants game, she sees him on a Jumbotron and manages to track him down. They talk briefly but he promises to write. Notably, he doesn't ask about any of the rest of the family.
Dawn wants to go to a ghost town, but the one she picks is corny. The group ends up having fun there anyway.
Claudia goes to the Art Institute of Chicago, but nothing interesting happens. Later she stops at a flea market and buys a sketch that reminds her of Georgia O'Keeffe's work. When she gets to California, she looks at the back and discovers that it is an early O'Keeffe. Mr. Schafer's friend, an art appraiser, offers her $500 for it, but she decides to keep it.
Stacey has a not-that-funny comedy of errors in Seattle when she tries to meet up with Ethan at a coffee shop. Also, she thinks Claudia read her diary and spends most of the book mad at her.
Mary Anne has no imagination and only wants to go to Maynard, Iowa, to spend time with her grandmother. (They end up meeting at the Mall of America instead.) She spends most of the book on edge because Mr. Schafer keeps making snarky comments about her and her father. She finally confronts him and he apologizes.
Jeff wants to go rock climbing in Yellowstone, and also get away from all the girls. I kind of feel bad that he has to spend his vacation with drama queens.
I don't remember what Mr. Schafer wants to do, and I don't care since he's annoying in this book. He also runs out of gas in the Badlands and leaves the girls and Jeff alone in the RV so he can get help.
Abby is apparently obsessed with Elvis, which I don't remember hearing about before, so she wants to go to Graceland. There's some uninteresting stuff with an Elvis impersonator.
Jessi first takes everyone to her grandparents' home in New Jersey and briefly suspects that Mallory is racist. (Um, what?) Her grandmother points out that Mallory is just uncomfortable because she's with a bunch of people she doesn't know, and she wants to make a good impression. Jessi's other destination is Dalton, Mississippi, where some of her relatives were slaves. She sees firsthand how horrible that point in history was for black people.
Mallory wants to go to Chincoteague, because she's still obsessed with horses. She does nothing interesting the rest of the book.
Watson has a college friend in Oklahoma, so the group stops at his house for lunch before going to a rodeo, David Michael's pick. A tornado hits and everyone has to hide out in the bathroom. It might have been interesting if there was any possibility that someone could die.
Karen wants to go to Four Corners, the spot where four states touch. Karen is boring.
Andrew is obsessed with the pandas at the San Diego Zoo and has a full-on meltdown when he hears that one that's supposed to give birth has been sent back to China. Then it turns out she wasn't. I don't know.
Mrs. Brewer wants to see the Grand Canyon, and Abby is secretly freaking out about it. It turns out that her father loved the Grand Canyon, and her family was planning a vacation there just before he died. When they arrive, Abby is sad at first but manages to enjoy the experience, feeling like her dad's spirit is with her. She later writes in her journal that her dad once gave her a pep talk based on that "teach a man to fish" saying, and she sees the Grand Canyon as a huge fishing pond. She plans to fish a lot and bring her mom and sister back there one day. It's really sweet and a little sad and I totally did not get a little misty-eyed, someone was chopping onions, shut up.
They also keep running into this annoying girl, Liz, who's traveling with her grandparents. It's dumb. There's also a brief stop in New Mexico, where they meet some of the Stoneybrook kids' pen pals. It's actually too bad Dawn didn't get to make that trip, since she was the force behind that whole thing.
Thoughts: I know I'm definitely, for real an adult because I can't help wondering how expensive this trip was. Gas, food, baseball tickets, admission fees to the rodeo and things like that, souvenirs…that's a big chunk of change.
Also, how do they all get home? Does Watson have to drive the rented RV back?
Also also, if I had to spend two weeks in an RV with anyone, I would probably never want to see them again.
Andrew whines a lot in this book. I don't remember him being so annoying before. Maybe he's just in a super-bad mood the whole two-week trip.
Watson's college roommate's last name is Romney. Um…
Who would you least want to be stuck in an RV with for two weeks, Karen or Dawn? Death is not an option.
BSC Super Mystery #3, Baby-sitters' Fright Night: Which Witch is Which?
Posted in books tagged Alan Gray, BSC, Cary Retlin, Cokie Mason, everyone gets a chapter, Halloween, Logan Bruno, Pike kids, Shannon Kilbourne at 3:17 pm by Jenn
Their outfits are the real fright here
Summary: Over Halloween, Abby, Stacey, Kristy, Mary Anne, and Mallory go to Salem, Massachusetts for a school trip. The trip is part history-project research, part excuse to do a lot of shopping (or at least that's how Stacey sees it). Alan, Cokie, and Cary are also on the trip and being varying levels of annoying. Cokie and her minion Grace are huge mean girls to a sixth-grader named Eileen who rooms with Mallory and is supposedly decended from a witch.
A local museum is displaying a big diamond called the Witch's Eye, which is like the poor man's Hope Diamond, in that it's allegedly cursed. It's stolen while some of the students are at the museum. Mary Anne finds a wig that the girls guess was worn by the theif, and Stacey finds a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper. The girls think the person who stole the diamond is staying at the same inn as the students. At the same time, Abby buys a little ceramic pumpkin in a gift shop and starts taking it everywhere with her, calling it her pet pumpkin.
Anyway, the investigation begins, and Mallory gets really obsessed with documenting everything in the club's mystery notebook. The notebook is back in Stoneybrook, but she has Jessi and Shannon send it to her. Girl needs help. There are a few suspects, including Mrs. Moorehouse, who owns the diamond but may not have insurance; Martha Kempner, a writer who's in Salem to write about the diamond; Sean Knowles, whose reason for being in Salem isn't exactly clear; and Harvey Hapgood, who tried to buy the diamond before it was stolen.
In between working on their projects and investigating the mystery, the girls do some sightseeing and various Halloween activities. They also try to avoid Alan and Cary, who are bugging Kristy. Cokie gets nastier and nastier to Eileen, and Mallory winds up sticking up for her and tearing into Cokie, which is both surprising and awesome of her. It also finally, finally gets Cokie to shut up.
Everyone goes to a Halloween parade, where Abby's fanny pack is stolen, and she's ticked but mostly just happy that her pumpkin wasn't in it. Abby and Stacey's room is broken into, as the theif took Abby's room key, but nothing is stolen. Then Stacey realizes that the numbers she saw earlier are probably a safe combination, so she thinks the person who stole the Witch's Eye stashed it in a safe.
Kristy thinks she's uncovered a clue leading her to the museum, which is closed while the police investigate the diamond theft. She winds up locked inside and runs into Alan, who's been torturing her the whole trip. But he has a clue, too, and they realize Cary set them both up. They arrange to scare the crap out of him, and the three seem to call a truce. It's basically just a red herring.
While Kristy's gone, there's a storm and the electricity in the inn goes out. The other girls decide to snoop around in the suspects' rooms and safes, but they don't find anything. They do, however, see Mrs. Moorehouse and realize how frail she is, leading them to believe she didn't steal the diamond since she wouldn't have been able to make a clean getaway. The girls remember seeing Martha wear high heels for most of the trip, except for the day of the theft, when she wore sneakers. This means she may have been planning to move stealthily. The girls also use the combination Stacey found to open Martha's safe, another strike against Martha.
It's all dark and creepy in the inn, and the girls are freaked out when they run into Sean, since they still don't know what he's up to. He reveals that he's an insurance agent and has been in Salem to keep an eye on the diamond. The girls head off to…I don't know, call the police? Probably not. But Abby gets separated from them and runs into Martha, who grabs the pumpkin and breaks it, revealing the Witch's Eye inside. It turns out she bought the pumpkin at one gift shop, put the diamond inside, and accidentally dropped it in another gift shop, where Abby bought it. She's also been working with Harvey to get her hands on it.
Abby holds Martha off (yeah, I bet) until the police arrive and the girls are branded heroes yet again. Then they have cake with Mrs. Moorehouse, who tells them that she thought she didn't have insurance because Harvey called her pretending to be from the insurance company and told her they couldn't insure the diamond anymore. I don't know, it's a stupid wrap-up.
Also stupid: the B-plot involving Claudia, Jessi, Logan, and Shannon organizing a Halloween parade back in Stoneybrook. Jordan Pike is annoying and the sitters let him embarrass himself until he learns A Lesson.
Thoughts: Harvey Hapgood is not a name for a villain, or at least not a dangerous one. It's a name for a Harold Hill wannabe.
If I were Jessi or Shannon and Mallory asked me to send the notebook, I'd say, "Sure, Mal, it's on its way," hang up, snicker, and go back to whatever I was doing. Otherwise I would be an enabler.
When Abby's fanny pack is stolen, she yells out to the crowd that there's a pickpocket in the crowd. I feel bad for any guy who ever tries to grope Abby in public.
Turns out Mallory is kind of awesome and Jordan is kind of a jerk. Who knew?
BSC Super Special #13, Aloha, Baby-sitters!: The BSC, Hawaiian Style
Posted in books tagged actual sad moments, BSC, everyone gets a chapter, illness, it's summer (again), Logan Bruno, near-death experience makes everything okay, Robert Brewster, vacation at 5:04 pm by Jenn
I want to wear a grass skirt and hula on a beach in Hawaii like a dork, too!
Summary: The BSC girls (minus Kristy, Mallory, and Shannon; plus Logan and Robert) have raised all the money they need to go to Hawaii, so off they go. Jessi makes them all keep a journal of the trip for poor, unloved Mallory, which is why everyone gets a chapter:
Jessi spends the whole trip taking way too many pictures and writing down every little detail of the trip for Mallory. If I'd been with her, I would have hidden her camera and notebook.
Stacey and Robert aren't getting along since he had the nerve to talk to another girl on the trip and Stacey's uncharacteristically jealous. They go with a small group on a side trip that involves helicopter tours over a crater, and Stacey's helicopter crashes. She and her group have to walk back to civilization, but the lack of food takes a toll on Stacey and she ends up passing out from low blood sugar. However, when she's back with Robert, she sees how worried he was and they make up.
Mary Anne and Logan have decided to spend the trip TBI, together but independent, since their friends have been teasing that they spend too much time together. They avoid each other a lot but admit at the end of the trip that they wish they hadn't, and they won't try that again. Mary Anne also accepts a job sitting for a real Hawaiian family, who – shocking! – turn out to be like any other American family. Mary Ann is asked to sit again the next day, but instead she sends…
Claudia, who has been depressed for a lot of the trip. She's just learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor and is uncomfortable with her Japanese heritage. She also wonders how Mimi, who was living in Japan during World War II, viewed the whole situation. When she sits for the Hawaiian family, she meets their grandfather, who's Caucasian and served in the war. He tells her that he doesn't have any animosity toward the Japanese, and in fact has Japanese-American friends. He also points out that the U.S. hurt Japan worse with the atomic bombs. After that, Claudia feels a lot better.
Dawn finds a little beach and enlists some local kids to clean it up.
Abby talks her way into a commercial for sunscreen by saying she's on her school's volleyball team (not true) and is 18 (SO not true). Karma gives her a sunburn.
Mallory and Kristy run a farm daycamp back in Stoneybrook, but Kristy's barely in the book, other than to make everyone wear shirts advertising the club (yes, even in Hawaii). While at the park with a tantrum-throwing Jenny Prezzioso, Mallory encounters a woman who thinks she's a horrible sitter and neglects her charges. The woman, Mrs. Wellfleet, even calls Kristy during a meeting to bash Mallory. Later on, Mallory takes her sisters to the park and catches Mrs. Wellfleet's own son throwing a much bigger tantrum. Mal manages to be the bigger person and not rub it in the woman's face.
Thoughts: Logan's disappointed that they don't get leis at the airport. I would be, too.
I think I've figured out why Abby's so weird: She's high from all of her allergy meds.
Trivia: Mary Anne is part Norwegian.
Before seeing sugarcane, Robert thought sugar was dug out of mines. What?
In the scene where Mrs. Wellfleet's son is a terror, Margo Pike proves to be a wonderful kid. The boy steals the shovel she's using, and at first she tries to be polite and tell him to return it. When he doesn't, she finds something else to do. Then when he moves on to something else, Margo takes the shovel back. The kid gets mad, so she invites him to play with her. So out of eight kids, at least a couple Pikes are turning out all right.
I actually liked Claudia's plotline. We don't hear about her heritage a lot.
BSC Super Mystery #2, Baby-sitters Beware: Ice Ice Baby-sitters
Posted in books tagged BSC, Charlie Thomas, crime and/or punishment, everyone gets a chapter, Logan Bruno, near-death experience makes everything okay, Sam Thomas, Sgt. Johnson, Shannon Kilbourne, Watson Brewer at 1:05 pm by Jenn
This never happened, but whatever
Summary: Spooky stuff is happening to the BSC girls. First, Kristy and Abby see someone apparently breaking into the house next to the Rodowskys'. The police (including Sgt. Johnson) are called in, but the house's owner doesn't think anything was stolen. Then some of the girls get notes and phone calls saying, "You're next." Mary Anne sees a possible stalker outside her house, Kristy gets a rock through her window, someone starts a fire in the trash cans outside Claudia's house, and Stacey almost gets run down by a car.
The girls are pretty sure this isn't just some prank Cokie's playing, but telling an adult or calling the police again would be foolish, so of course they don't do that. At the library, Abby finds a copy of the article about the girls thwarting the pet-napping ring in the trash, and the girls see that the photo that ran with the article is of Claudia, Stacey, Kristy, Mary Anne, and Dawn. With the exception of Dawn, these are the only girls who have gotten threats.
There's really only one lead: Stacey remembers seeing a sticker on the bumper of the car that almost ran her down. The girls figure out that it's from the Stoneybrook Business Bureau, but from the previous year, not the current one. They get a list of members of the bureau for both years but don't get a chance to do much with it. They decide to keep an eye on the house where the possible break-in took place.
Meanwhile, Kristy's family is taking a weekend ski trip at Shadow Lake, and she brings Claudia, Stacey, and Abby along. They think they're leaving all the madness behind in Stoneybrook, but they're wrong. Claudia accidentally winds up on a closed trail (the sign stating it's closed is hidden), and she and Abby almost get stranded there. Stacey gets stuck on a ski lift. Kristy is almost flattened by a snowblower. All possible accidents, but the girls are suspicious.
Mary Anne is sitting for the Rodowskys when she sees a second break-in at the house next door, this one for real. She calls the police (and Logan), and the story comes out that the son of the house's owner was stealing stuff to sell. The guy has no connection to the BSC girls' troubles and even says he wouldn't mess with kids. So it's a red herring, but Mary Anne still solves a mystery.
The BSC members still in Stoneybrook gather for a weekend meeting and finally get around to looking at the list of Business Bureau members. Jessi realizes that one of the people who was a member the previous year but not currently is Karl Tate, the head of the dog-napping ring. A call to Sgt. Johnson lets the girls know that Tate is now out of jail. Mary Anne calls the girls at Shadow Lake and tells Stacey that Karl Tate is free, but there's a blizzard coming, and the phone goes out before Stacey can hear more than his name.
Watson, Mrs. Brewer, and the little kids head into town for supplies while Kristy, Stacey, Claudia, Abby, Sam, and Charlie stay back to ride out the blizzard. A neighbor, Woodie, encourages them to go to the main lodge, but the teens decide to stay put. That is, until their chimney gets blocked and the cabin fills with smoke, forcing them out. They're already on edge, what with the weirdness going on, and the fact that Stacey has spotted a woman they've seen before, Kris, lurking around with a gun. They decide to tell Sam and Charlie what's going on once they all get to the main lodge with Woodie.
Back in Stoneybrook, Mary Anne, Logan, and Shannon take Shannon's dog Astrid for a walk. Astrid chases a cat into Tate's house, so the teens follow her inside to get her. They end up accidentally locking themselves in Tate's study, where they find the photo from the article, this time with a big X through it. Then Mrs. Tate comes home and tells the teens that he needs to be stopped.
As the girls, Sam, Charlie, and Woodie head to the main lodge, Karl Tate appears and Abby knocks him out with a big chunk of ice. (Nice.) Next, Kris arrives, and the girls learn that she's an FBI agent tailing him for violating the terms of his parole. (Just go with it.) Kris takes Tate away, and the others continue their trek to the main lodge. Suddenly, Woodie grabs Stacey and threatens to throw her in the freezing lake. He's Tate's son, and he's basically been driven crazy by what a bunch of teenagers did to his father. Kristy thinks fast, throwing a flare at him, and he falls into the lake.
In the post-madness wrap-up, the girls learn that Tate came to stop Woodie, not to hurt them. And Kristy actually gets in some trouble for not telling her parents what was going on. But I doubt anyone will learn a lesson there.
The subplots, both boring and not (mostly boring):
Claudia thinks Abby is full of herself, since she keeps talking about what a good skier she is. Everyone else knows that Abby's just a jokester and doesn't really think she's better than anyone. Claudia's cold to Abby until their experience on the closed trail, and after that, they're fine.
Mallory's parents are putting in insulation at home, so she and Jessi have to skip the ski trip to watch her siblings. Mal is really ticked about this and doesn't hide it well. She mopes around until Jessi tells her to cut it out. Mallory does occupy herself by putting together the club's mystery notebook.
Mary Anne is mad at Logan because she's been getting notes in his handwriting telling her not to cry. Logan's also acting weird, which she thinks is evidence of his guilt. It turns out he's also getting notes, seemingly in her handwriting, accusing him of lying. They work things out but never figure out who sent the notes. They figure it was probably Cokie.
Kristy is worried about Watson, thinking he's doing too much since his heart attack. She keeps trying to do things for him so he'll take it easy, finally telling him straight out that she's worried. He assures her that his doctor said he's doing really well and can even start exercising regularly. Kristy admits that she doesn't want Watson to leave like her father did. It's actually very sweet.
Kristy tells Stacey that Sam and his girlfriend have broken up, so Stacey's worried that he'll pursue her even though she's dating Robert. Sam tells her that he thinks of her as a close friend now, though he doesn't mind keeping his flirting skills sharp with her.
Thoughts: With the way she eats, I can't believe Claudia still has Halloween candy in December.
When Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne smell smoke in Claudia's house, Mary Anne opens the pantry. In case the canned goods have committed arson?
Abby coming up with Agatha Kristy made me giggle.
Jessi cracks the case on Karl Tate, so good for her. Junior officers are good for something after all.
Shannon's presence in this book, however, is almost completely pointless. She's only useful because of her dog. Ironic, though, that a pet-napper's son was partly undone by a dog.
It's a little funny that Dawn was really the person who sent Tate to jail, but she wasn't one of Woodie's targets.
BSC Super Mystery #1, Baby-sitters' Haunted House: Ghostbusted
Posted in books tagged BSC, everyone gets a chapter, it's summer (again), Karen Brewer, Logan Bruno, Shannon Kilbourne, vacation at 11:13 pm by Jenn
I don't care if that house is haunted, I want to live there
Summary: Karen's mother and stepfather are planning to spend some time in Maine with some friends, the Menderses, who have four kids. They want one of the BSC girls to come along to look after Karen, Andrew, and the Menders kids. All of the BSC girls want to go, and for some reason, the adults agree to bring Kristy, Claudia, Dawn, and Mary Anne along. Jessi and Mallory stay back in Stoneybrook to take on running the club.
There's this whole back story about the house where everyone's staying in Maine – it belongs to Mr. Menders' family, and the guy who owned it may have died, and his wife might be haunting it. If the Menderses want to, they can move there. The kids don't want to move, but the parents are all excited about opening a health-food store, so they spend their time in Maine researching. The BSC girls try to get the kids excited about possibly moving to Maine, even though there's weird stuff going on in the house.
It's typical haunted-house stuff: weird noises, a woman in white, etc. The butler and maid, Mr. and Mrs. Cooper, are also a little shady. Mrs. Cooper supposedly can't talk. There's a fourth floor of the house that the Coopers claim they don't have a key to, and the gardener, Georgio (who's in college but totally has a crush on Claudia), keeps telling the girls it's not safe to go up there. After the girls see a "ghost" in the hallway with a candle one night, they get suspicious of Georgio. It turns out the "ghost" was the oldest Menders kid, Lionel, who wants to scare his family away from moving into the house. But then the girls see a light going on in a window on the fourth floor, which supposedly no one has access to.
Mary Anne does some investigating and learns that there's a dumbwaiter in the house. The woman she talks to at the historical society tells her another woman was in asking questions about the house; the only thing memorable about her was that she spoke with an accent. Claudia and Dawn check out the dumbwaiter and find a tape recorder, which they realize is where the weird noises have been coming from. Dawn winds up having to hide in the dumbwaiter when the Coopers come home, and she discovers that Mrs. Cooper can, in fact, talk.
More digging and research turn up the fact that the Coopers, who claimed to have lived in the town their whole lives, lied about that. The news also comes out that Mr. Menders has a cousin in Scotland who will get the house if the Menderses don't want it. Thanks to Dawn, who remembers that Mrs. Cooper has an accent, and Lionel, who's an aspiring actor and can do all sorts of accents, the BSC girls figure out that Mrs. Cooper is Scottish. They put this together with a photo of one of Mr. Menders' relatives, who Claudia realizes looks like Mr. Cooper, and figure out that the Coopers are the people who stand to get the house (and the possible treasure on the fourth floor).
A storm hits while the adults are all gone for the day, and the BSC girls and Georgio get stuck in the house with the Coopers. But then it gets all anticlimactic and the Coopers just leave the country, apparently thinking the house is really haunted. Disappointing. Also, there wasn't really a treasure. Also also, the Coopers don't kill Karen before they leave. Like I said, disappointing.
Mallory and Jessi's plot is really boring, and also something we've seen before: They have to turn down jobs because the two of them, Logan, and Shannon are the only sitters in town, and then people stop calling. They think the club is losing business, but people are just out of town or don't need sitters.
In other news: Andrew's obsessed with frogs and boats; one of the Menders girls, Jill, is obsessed with Dawn; Karen's obsessed with getting the other girl, Martha, to make friends; and Claudia has to tell Georgio she's 13 in a letter. But at least he didn't go to jail.
Thoughts: There was a lot about this book I forgot, but I did remember the scene with Dawn and Claudia hiding in the dumbwaiter, and the scene where the BSC girls have Lionel speak in different accents so they can figure out where Mrs. Cooper is from.
It's weird to read a BSC book where everyone gets a chapter except Stacey, since she wasn't in the club at this point.
Shannon's a jerk in this book. She shows up late to a meeting, stays for only 15 minutes, and tells Mallory and Jessi that they need to end meetings on time. Why did she even bothering coming?
"Elton Cooper grilled burgers, hot dogs, and chicken for us." But what did Dawn eat? WHAT DID DAWN EAT??
Andrew wants to know the difference between a frog and a toad, so Dawn looks it up in the dictionary. How quaint.
Claudia follows Georgio to a dark shed even though he makes her nervous. Someone get this girl a copy of The Gift of Fear.
Kristy: "Why would he have a candle in the toolshed?" Mary Anne: "For light?" Thank you, Mary Anne, for teaching us all what candles are for.
Mrs. Pike complains about everyone leaving town and not being able to get a sitter, saying they "should have planned better." Hey, maybe you shouldn't have had eight kids you never want to take care of.
BSC Super Special #12, Here Come the Bridesmaids!: "I Do" Times Two
Posted in books tagged Barrett family, BSC, Carol Olson, everyone gets a chapter, holiday (celebrate), Jeff Schafer, Shannon Kilbourne, We ♥ Kids Club at 10:34 pm by Jenn
I didn't know 13-year-old girls could marry each other in California
Summary: Dawn's dad is getting married, so Mary Anne, Claudia, and Kristy fly out to California to help with the wedding. Well, Claudia helps with the wedding. Kristy basically does nothing the entire book. Back in Stoneybrook, Mrs. Barrett is getting married, Stacey's a bridesmaid, and Mallory and Shannon are hired to watch the kids at the wedding. Hijinks ensue.
Dawn thinks Mary Anne's going to be her fellow bridesmaid in the wedding, despite the fact that she never asked her dad or Carol about it. She buys her a dress and everything. When Mary Anne finds out that Dawn assumed she would be in the wedding, they get in a fight, but it doesn't last long, like most of their lame fights. Dawn's also adjusting to having Carol around all the time, and there's some brief stuff about her having to make sure her grades are good before she goes back to Connecticut.
Mallory and Ben Hobart make tentative plans to take a bunch of kids Christmas caroling (oh, yeah, the book takes place right around Christmas), but she has to cancel them, and they get into an equally lame fight. Then they make up. Yeah, like you really care about Mallory. She also does a disastrous job looking after four of the Barrett/DeWitt kids at the wedding, which is pretty much what you would expect if you put a pre-teen in charge of four rowdy kids.
Jessi is enlisted to play Santa at the mall. Yes, Jessi. Apparently no one cares that she's a) 11, b) a girl, and c) not white.
Claudia helps out a bunch with the wedding, taking photographs and styling hair and being dumb about flowers.
Kristy hijacks the We ♥ Kids Club's goodbye party for Dawn, because we all know how flakey and unstructured they are, and how awesome and organized Kristy is. She should have stayed in Stoneybrook. Not only would she have had the kids in line at the wedding, she would have arranged a big project for them involving homemade wedding presents.
Shannon is also in this book.
Jeff worries that Mr. Schafer's housekeeper, Mrs. Bruen, will be fired after Carol moves in, I guess because women are always so good at cooking and cleaning and all that stuff. But then he learns that Mrs. Bruen is actually going to be working more hours. Whatever, Mrs. Bruen, get in the kitchen and make Jeff a sandwich.
Suzi Barrett is worried that Santa won't be able to find her house, since the families are moving. Inspired by two stories she heard in school – Hansel and Gretel and Theseus in the Labyrinth – she leaves a trail of cookie crumbs from the old house to the new one, which is both adorable and brilliant.
This also marks the end of Dawn's six months (or whatever) in California and her return to Stoneybrook, which means we'll barely hear about Shannon from here on out. Fortunately, we won't be saddled with Dawn for too much longer.
Thoughts: The Vista Hills Mall has a health-food snack bar called Health's Angels. Har har.
Why does Dawn have to pay for her bridesmaid's dress?
Mallory once gave Claire a hole-puncher for Christmas. First of all, you suck, Mallory. Second of all, what's a kid that age going to do with a hole-puncher, other than make a big mess?
They could have solved the whole Suzi problem by telling her Santa would find them through magic. Kids accept magic as a valid answer to any question. I guess Suzi's smarter than everyone else in this book.
Why in the world would you arrange for movers to come the same night you get married? I guess the ghostwriter couldn't have Carol move in with the Schafers before the wedding. That would be WRONG.
And why would you expect your future stepmother to ask her fiancé's ex-wife's stepdaughter to be her bridesmaid? Especially when they've only met once before? Also, why does Mary Anne think she deserves to be a bridesmaid when she hears she isn't going to be one? These people mean nothing to her!
Trivia: Jessi's dad is six-two.
The Schafers only serve health food while Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne are visiting, but then serve duck at the wedding. So not only are they rude, they're also hypocrites.
Logan, why are you in this book?
Dawn: "I even loved every morsel of that cake, despite the fact that it was made with way too much refined sugar." That cake had your face on it and was made by an 8-YEAR-OLD, you UNGRATEFUL WITCH. Urge to kill, rising….
"Franklin wears red pajamas every single night." Uh…how do you know that, Suzi?
I would laugh more at Mallory, but I have my own horrible-sitting-job-at-a-wedding-story. Well, it's actually a horrible-sitting-job-at-a-wedding-reception story. When I was in high school, my best friend and I were hired to watch four kids at a reception in D.C. (about ten miles from our hometown). There were two brother/sister pairs, all between the ages of four and eight. We didn't know these kids or their families (they were out-of-town guests), and the kids barely knew each other. (I think they were distant cousins.)
We were put in a room with the kids, a TV, some videos, and some toys. The kids weren't happy to be away from their parents, and they especially weren't happy to be stuck in a room with two teenaged girls they didn't know when there was a big party right down the hall. A big party with cake. So the kids kept trying to escape the room, every five minutes for about three hours. They wouldn't listen to me or my friend, they kept whining and complaining, and they were rude to us and each other. The fact that the food brought to us wasn't great didn't help.
Finally, the reception was winding down, so one of the fathers came to relieve me and my friend and pay us. He was totally drunk (I remember him standing partway down the hall, just staring at me, looking like he would fall over if he took a step), and he handed me a couple of 20s, telling me it was for both me and my friend. Two sitters + four demons kids + three or so hours + horrible accommodations = $20 each, which works out to about $7 an hour. I can't remember how much I usually made for babysitting back then (this would have been 1999), but it was probably closer to $10 an hour.
But wait, it gets better. He added that that had to cover our cab fare back home, because no one had arranged a ride for us. Cab fare from D.C. back home would have eaten up half our fee, at least. Fortunately, someone heard about the payment and gave us some extra money. We also got a ride back home from a couple of women (who hadn't been drinking) going the same way. I believe that was when I told my friend that if she ever needed someone to babysit with her again, she should NOT call me.
BSC Super Special #11, The Baby-sitters Remember: Flashbacks!
Posted in books tagged BSC, everyone gets a chapter, it's summer (again), Laine Cummings, Logan Bruno, Mimi, Shannon Kilbourne at 10:56 pm by Jenn
My copy's yellow, not gold. Now I'm all jealous
Summary: Over summer vacation, all of the SMS students are assigned to write about what they did over the break (LAME!). At a sleepover, the girls suggest alternate topics, and Jessi says they should get to write about their most vivid memories. This leads to the girls (and Logan, later) having various flashbacks about some memorable times in their lives:
Kristy remembers her first sitting job, when she was ten and allowed to watch David Michael after school. Mimi, Mrs. Newton, and various other family friends and neighbors check on her the whole time. Kristy proves to be very responsible, and thus begins her life's meaning.
Mary Anne's memory is of Kristy and Claudia helping her play pranks on a babysitter when they were eight. They think the sitter is mean, but she proves to have a good sense of humor and takes the jokes well. She even plays a prank on them and teaches them another to play on someone else. Mary Anne came away from the experience learning that it's okay to loosen up and be silly sometimes.
Stacey takes us through the time just before and after her diabetes diagnosis in sixth grade. Before, she had a great group of friends; after, they all turned on her because they thought she was either contagious or a hypochondriac. She's happy when her parents tell her they're moving to Connecticut because she wants a new start in a place where no one knows she has diabetes. At first Stacey decides she's not going to tell anyone about her illness, but she feels comfortable enough with the BSC girls to tell them the truth.
Jessi's story is kind of sweet: She admits that she and Becca hated the thought of having a baby in the house when their mother was about to give birth to Squirt. Things didn't get any better after he was born, since he had colic and cried all the time. One day Jessi is the only person around to tend to him, so she sings to him and quiets him down. After that, she realizes having a baby brother isn't that bad.
Dawn thinks about her parents' divorce and her move from California to Connecticut. It's actually a good portrayal of the trauma that that kind of upheaval can cause. It ends with some of the events of Mary Anne Saves the Day.
Claudia remembers being six and having to draw a self-portrait. She draws herself as a butterfly and the teacher ridicules her for not following directions. Mimi goes to the school and tells the teacher that Claudia understood the directions better than anyone else.
Mallory's most vivid memory is of being ten and writing a letter to her favorite author, having been encouraged to do so by Mary Anne. She learns that the author will be doing a book signing at the mall, so her mom takes her. Mallory's incredibly excited, but when she finally gets to talk to the author, she's too nervous to say anything. She talks about how this memory stands out to her because it made her see how much a writer can affect a reader.
Logan talks about moving to Stoneybrook and meeting Mary Anne. It's basically his view of Logan Likes Mary Anne!
Shannon's memory is of starting eighth grade and meeting a new girl named Sally. Everyone thinks Sally's awesome because she lived in England and is rich, but the girl will only be friends with one person at a time. Then she and whoever she's friends with ignore the rest of the group. Shannon briefly gets to be the chosen one, but after she has to decline plans with Sally to study, Sally dumps her for someone else. Shannon develops an aversion to new girls, which is why she's so nasty to Kristy in Kristy and the Snobs. We also get a little info on Shannon's family, namely that she doesn't like being at home and that her parents don't get along very well.
Thoughts: I really didn't remember this book at all. So I guess that's why it's not called The Readers Remember.
Kristy disapproves of all the junk food Claudia eats, but she doesn't seem to have any issues with helping her eat it.
"I am a native New Yorker. (You can't say that about just anyone.)" You can say that about millions of people, Stacey. Grab a ladder and get over yourself, would you?
That said, I felt really bad for Stacey in this book. Laine and her other friends are really awful to her. I also felt sorry for Dawn for possibly the first time; I wouldn't have been able to handle both a divorce and a big move at that age (or any age, really), and she came through it pretty well.
Stacey's group of friends in New York was basically the Plastics, and Laine was Regina. This makes so much sense.
Trivia: Before she got sick, Stacey was going to try out for the soccer team at her school. Interesting – I thought Kristy and Abby were the only two BSC girls interested in sports. And I don't think of Stacey as the athletic type.
Six-year-old Claudia talks just like Karen.
More trivia: Jessi's mom had two miscarriages before having Squirt.
Have we ever learned why Logan's family moved to Stoneybrook? I choose to believe they're on the run from the mob. And that their accents are all fake.
Dawn's dad stays out all night and Sharon calls him a liar? Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and guess he had an affair.
BSC Super Special #10, Sea City, Here We Come!: They Had to Leave Stoneybrook to Be This Boring
Posted in books tagged Barrett family, Bart Taylor, BSC, everyone gets a chapter, it's summer (again), Kristy's Krushers, Logan Bruno, Sea City, vacation at 10:11 pm by Jenn
Seriously, who invited Logan?
Summary: The Pikes and Barretts head to Sea City for two weeks, with the Pikes hiring Mallory (sort of) and Jessi as mother's helpers, and Mrs. Barrett hiring Stacey. Then, for some reason, the Pikes invite the other BSC girls for the second week of vacation. Logan comes for the weekend, for no apparent reason.
Mallory lands herself a date with Toby, the guy who kind of hooked up with Stacey the last two times she and Mary Anne were in Sea City. Except right before they're supposed to go out, Mallory talks to Ben on the phone and realizes she doesn't want to go out with anyone else. She tells Toby nothing's going to happen between them, and he asks if she can hook him up with another cute girl the next time they come to Sea City. Then he writes her a postcard and asks if Jessi's single. Wow, that one's a charmer.
Stacey's totally jealous of Mallory and does a very poor job of hiding it. She also has trouble dealing with Mrs. Barrett, who's kind of annoying.
Mary Anne runs into Alex, her guy from her previous trips to Sea City, and Logan gets jealous, even though Mary Anne obviously has no feelings for the guy.
Before the trip, Kristy struggles to find substitute Krushers for a game against the Bashers, since she refuses to just postpone it and let Bart gloat, or something. She gathers some kids from her neighborhood who have no experience playing softball (and some of them don't exactly want to do it), and they play the weirdest game of softball ever. Sadly, it's the most interesting part of the book.
In the nothing-happens category, Claudia goes to summer school before going to Sea City, Jessi babysits a lot while they're there, and Dawn and Mary Anne run a mini day camp.
There's a hurricane while everyone's in Sea City, but nothing happens. NOTHING HAPPENS IN THE WHOLE BOOK.
Thoughts: For some reason, I love Claudia having the BSC girls (and logan) taste-test Heath and Skor bars.
Setting aside the fact that there's no way Logan could get a job in a restaurant, why would he need to? With three of the BSC girls out of town, wouldn't he have his pick of sitting jobs? Also, what do BSC clients do when everyone in the club is out of town? Do they have to – gasp! – actually spend time with their children?
Dawn tells little kids a ghost story involving murder. Way to go, Dawn.
Dear ghostwriter, Franklin's last name is not Harris, it's DeWitt. Moron.
"Somehow, Kristy had devised a way to convince the grown-ups to take the kids for a half hour." When a 13-year-old has to ask you to spend time with your children on a family vacation, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.
Mallory writes a postcard to Stacey's mom. I don't get it.
Since when is Sea City on an island?


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Maldives wins the prestigious position of the Indian Ocean's Leading Destination at the 23rd edition of the Annual World Travel Awards; Africa and Indian Ocean held on 9th April evening in Zanzibar, Tanzania.The Maldives once again secured the prestigious position as the Indian Ocean's leading Destination after having won the closely contested title in 2015 with Indian Ocean's top tourist destinations including Seychelles and Mauritius.
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In 2013 Network Rail announced a strategic change in the number of contingent labour suppliers from 57 to 20. In addition the four core suppliers would provide 70% of the workforce supported by a number of smaller specialist suppliers. Shorterm wanted to be a significant player on the new framework and needed to compete against much larger incumbent suppliers. Their PQQ and ITT response therefore needed to achieve the highest possible quality score against the Network Rail evaluation criteria. Shorterm engaged The Bid Team to provide bid review and writing services for both the PQQ and ITT. Bid reviews for both submissions were conducted against the evaluation criteria and an evaluation score improvement plan suggested for each answer. Content and presentation were challenged against the criteria and rewritten to address the client focus and wider Network Rail strategic goals. Service descriptions, innovation and experience were addressed in each answer, all within the very restrictive word counts.


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Q: Filtering is not working after upgrading from Angular 5 to 6 The following code worked for me until I upgraded Angular from 5 to 6.
Object Class:
export class Gizmo{
  name: string;
  description: string;

  constructor(name?: string, desc?: string) {
    this.name = name;
    this.description = desc;
  }
}

Service:
  findGizmos(gizmoFindParams: GizmoFindParameters): Observable<Gizmo[]> {
    return this.http
      .get<Gizmo[]>(this.uriVar + "",
        {
          params: this.SetParameters(gizmoFindParams)
        });
  };

Component Method:
filterGizmoData(searchString?: string): Observable<Gizmo[]> {

    let tfp = new GizmoFindParameters();

    if (searchString != undefined) {
      tfp.value = searchString.trim();
    }

    return this.dataCatalogService.findGizmos(tfp).pipe(
    map(x => x.filter(y => !this.detail.detailItem.gizmos.includes(y.name))));
  };

What the code should be doing.
The service will return Observable array of Gizmo.
For example:
Gizmo1
Gizmo2
Gizmo3
Gizmo4

Prior to the method call the this.detail.detailItem.gizmos contain the values
Gizmo2
Gizmo3

When I call filterGizmoData I would expect it to return
Gizmo1
Gizmo4

Instead it is returning the entire list of Gizmos.
As I stated this worked when my project was Angular 5.
This was the code at that time.
   return this.dataCatalogService.findGizmos(tfp)
   .map(x =>
      x.filter(y => !this.detail.detailItem.gizmos.includes(y.name))
    );

How can I get this code to work in Angular 6?
Also there is no errors in the console window.
EDIT (Showing import as requested):
import { tap, debounceTime, distinctUntilChanged, startWith ,  map } from 'rxjs/operators';

EDIT 2 (Added code as requested)
private filterGizmos: Observable<Gizmo[]>;
//Various parts of my program do this:
this.filterGizmos = this.filterGizmoData();

Template:
<mat-autocomplete #auto="matAutocomplete" (optionSelected)="selected($event)">
      <mat-option *ngFor="let gizmo of filterGizmos | async" [value]="gizmo.name" (onSelectionChange)="gizmoSelectionChange(gizmo)">
        {{gizmo.name}}
      </mat-option>
    </mat-autocomplete>

A: Please see the docs for RXJS 6, this is an RXJS issue. there are two solutions.

*

*add rxjs-compat to add backwards compatability to RXJS 5 or lower.

*In RXJS 6, operators are to be always run inside pipe, so...

This should work, however why would you filter inside the map operator when you have a filter operator?
return this.dataCatalogService.findGizmos(tfp)
    .pipe(
        map(y => !this.detail.detailItem.gizmos.includes(y.tag))
    )

or
return this.dataCatalogService.findGizmos(tfp)
    .pipe(
        filter(y => !this.detail.detailItem.gizmos.includes(y.tag))
    )

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The Internet Helped Me Realise I Am Bi
Puberty is a minefield but the online community helped me come to terms with my sexuality
Photo by Sandra Gabriel on Unsplash
Growing up, I was a massive tomboy. I wore boys clothes, I wrestled my four younger brothers, I read fantasy novels marketed at boys such as Alex Rider and Artemis Fowl and I played PC Games such as The Hobbit and various Harry Potter titles.
My younger sister, in marked contrast, was as girly-girl as they come. She loved Disney princesses, Barbie, and her bedroom wasn't just painted pink — it was painted glittery pink.
My parents raised us exactly the same and would let us wear whatever we wanted and we'd get whatever we ask for toy-wise come Christmas, whether that was an Action Man figurine or a EasyBake playset.
It's interesting to me that despite our identical upbringing, I had such a strong tendency towards the more stereotypical 'masculine' toys and activities, whilst my sister was inherently drawn towards the more stereotypical 'feminine' end of the spectrum.
It was after finding some early childhood photos of us both recently that I was struck with a memory of how intensely I tried to resist growing up from a girl into a woman.
There was one family holiday when I was about 11 or 12, where we went to a waterpark and I left my swimming costume behind by accident. Rather than sit out and miss all the fun, I happily donned a pair of trunks (going topless) and was called 'Keith' by my family for the day. It's obviously hugely embarrassing now whenever anyone brings up the occasion I pretended to be a boy, but at the time I didn't care. I was way more preoccupied with getting to go on the water slides than I was with what I looked like, or what other people thought of me.
As a teenager, I tried to ferociously resist the inevitable consequences of puberty. When my best friend at school got her first training bra, I would stare at the straps through her white school shirt in disgust. Why she wanted to wear one (when she had less of a chest than I did at that time) was confusing to me. Why would anyone want to grow up? I refused my Mum's offers to take me for a bra fitting well past the point of needing to wear one, to the extent that it's actually a bit uncomfortable looking at some of the photographs of my teenage self now.
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On the day that I got my first period, I hid my knickers in the bin in the hope that I could delay it indefinitely. It was only when my sister came into my room in tears a few weeks later, telling me she'd started hers, that I finally admitted that I had begun mine as well.
This was the pattern for most of my adolescence; my sister was always one step ahead of me when we were growing up. She was a lot more popular at school and so it's perhaps no surprise that she had her first kiss whilst I was sat at home reading. She came into my room and told me about the experience, and I remember being a combination of horrified and a tiny bit jealous. I think my main feeling was, despite being eighteen months older than her, why would anyone want to do that with a boy?
In trying to pinpoint why I behaved so awkwardly and evasively regarding my journey into womanhood, I think it all comes down to feelings of confusion and uncertainty about my sexuality. I'm now openly bisexual, so I think in part my resistance to my friends getting bras and starting their periods was the first time I was sexually aware of what the adult female body looks like and how I felt about it.
The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle slowly came together for me when I started crushing on a friend later in my teens. This was around the time that I had started a blog on Tumblr, and it was only through the blessing that is the internet that I realised that it was perfectly OK to be attracted to both men and women, despite everything I'd been taught about same-sex attraction at my conservative Catholic school.
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Luckily, my parents are open-minded, caring people — when I came out to them aged 19 it turned out to be no big deal. But I probably wouldn't have had the courage to tell them had it not been for the welcoming, inclusive community that I found online when I was struggling to make sense of my sexuality. Particularly growing up as a Catholic and attending a religious school, it's easy to worry that those closest to you might judge you or feel differently towards you.
The main takeaway from my experiences navigating the puberty minefield is that for all you parents out there, if your child is having some difficulties accepting they are going through puberty, it might be related to their uncertainty about their sexual identity, in which case the most important thing you can do is help foster an open, supportive environment where they know it's OK to be gay, bi, pan, or any other sexual identity.
Did you have a similar experience going through puberty or raising a child who doesn't want to grow up? Tell me your story!
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Gunpowder manufacture began in Millhouse in 1839 and continued until 1921, despite several serious accidents during this time. The ruins of the Mill are visible in the woods to the right on the road from Millhouse to Kames. In order to minimise the dangers of this dangerous industry, buildings were built a certain distance apart, trees were planted to absorb the effects of any blasts, and the buildings were constructed with massive walls and deliberately weak roofs to direct explosions upwards. At the corner by Cladh a Mhuillinn Lodge there is a small cannon designed to test the powder, a timekeeping bell, and a monument to those killed in explosions at the Gunpowder Mill.


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Backing Up SaaS Data Doesn't Have to Be Hard
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption is growing in government. Today, a majority of agencies use SaaS applications such as Microsoft Office 365 and Google Cloud G Suite for at least 30% of their mission-critical resources. Yet confusion still reigns around about the data protection in the cloud.
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You can spend hours scrolling down the rabbit hole of government IT horror stories, which makes the recent launch of the federal website for ordering free COVID tests that much more remarkable. The website worked, and it was surprisingly easy to use. But that success belies decades of underinvestment in digital transformation that has stifled public sector innovation and hardened the government's low-tech image. For example:
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The 2022 fiscal year-end is drawing near for 46 states, which means the time to leverage last-minute opportunities is coming to an end as state, local and education (SLED) organizations set their sights on next year's budget and priorities. With FY23 just around the corner, SLED organizations will start executing on budget plans and drafting request for proposals (RFPs).
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The heightened threat of retaliatory cyberattacks by Russia against critical U.S. IT infrastructure is prompting federal investments in cybersecurity to strengthen its cyber defense posture. The ongoing conflict in the region and the increased targeting of critical infrastructure assets will cause federal agencies to look for ways to strengthen their cybersecurity posture and redefine requirements that address cyber breaches that may occur during the coming months and years as well as drive investments into Zero Trust related tools and threat intelligence.
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Cybersecurity, IT Infrastructure, State & Local Government February 2, 2022
Cybersecurity Funding Opportunities for State and Local Governments
Adhering closely to the U.S. federal government's top legislative priorities for 2022, state chief information officers (CIO's) have once again ranked cybersecurity as their top priority for 2022, following an already established decade-long trend in this direction.
IT Infrastructure April 27, 2021
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A Blueprint and Best Practices for Government Cloud Governance
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What's Next for Election Security?
Election security is a big topic, but it resembles a many-legged centipede. Federal contractors face the reality that elections are the purview of state, county and municipal officials. The technical and managerial abilities of these entities vary from what you might expect in a tiny hamlet to what you might encounter in a million-person suburban county.
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Der Geschützte Landschaftsbestandteil Drosteknapp mit einer Flächengröße von 0,79 ha liegt südwestlich von Rösenbeck im Stadtgebiet von Brilon. Das Gebiet wurde 2001 mit dem Landschaftsplan Hoppecketal durch den Kreistag des Hochsauerlandkreises als Geschützter Landschaftsbestandteil (LB) ausgewiesen. Der LB ist umgeben vom Landschaftsschutzgebiet Freiflächen Thülener Bruch / Schwarzes Haupt / Rösenbeck.

Beschreibung
Der Landschaftsplan führt zum LB aus:

Schutzzweck
Der Landschaftsplan dokumentiert zum Schutzzweck:

Zu Verboten ist im Landschaftsplan aufgeführt:

Mit dem Landschaftsplan wurde das Gebot erlassen:

Literatur
 Hochsauerlandkreis – Untere Landschaftsbehörde: Landschaftsplan Hoppecketal (PDF; 1,2 MB), Meschede 2001.

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The online home of The Salon: A Journal of Poetry & Fiction
Honeybee Press
Honeybee Poetry Series Titles
Naturalization, 2013
Your Voice in Half-Light, by Nicholas Spengler, 2013
Cities of Rain, by Robert McKay, 2012
The Day Bat, by Edie Rhoads, 2011
The Salon: New Vermont Literature – Back Issues
Salon #1
Editor's Note: Edie Rhoads
POETRY:
Stephen Cramer
Snake Charm Tattoos, Myanmar
Sharon Webster
What Dirt Smells Like
Brendan Dempsey
Your Shoulder
What Makes a Peaceful Warrior
Joan Aleshire
Archival Footage: Johns Hopkins, 1944
Finding a Story for my Granddaughter, Aged 3
Tony Magistrale
Penelope Cray
No Suicide
Partridge Boswell
Nicholas Spengler
Rose & Nightingale
Kathryn Flagg
Oogenesis
Gabi Marcel Shapiro
Estrellas de Piel – Skin of Stars
Darshana Bolt
David Moats
Antonello Borra
Translation by Blossom S. Kirschenbaum
THEATRE:
Noah Mease
An excerpt from the play, 'Green Eden'
MEMOIR:
Poppa Neutrino & Christine Ellis
An excerpt from 'North Beach Revisited: Burlington, Vermont'
An excerpt from 'Skinny Dipping'
Gamble everything for love,
if you're a true human being.
Half-heartedness doesn't reach
into majesty. You set out
to find God, but then you keep
stopping for long periods
at mean-spirited roadhouses.
In a boat down a fast-running creek,
it feels like trees on the bank
are rushing by. What seems
to be changing around us
is rather the speed of our craft
leaving this world.
– From 'Gambling', by Rumi
It's with great pleasure that we present the poetry and prose in this spring's Salon, which remind us of the many ways to answer Rumi's challenge. Ink to ink, these authors gamble the unseen and the real, risking a reach into majesty. Our third issue of The Salon represents an exciting new partnership with Burlington City Arts, who have made their own gamble for love's confusing joy by offering to assist us with printing and to host our readings at the lovely BCA Center, where our first issue was fêted. Special thanks to Communications Director Eric Ford for his enthusiasm and generous aid. Heartfelt appreciation to all our supporters as we gather between these covers in honor of communion, courage, and the necessity of self-expression.
– Edie Rhoads, Associate Editor
JOAN ALESHIRE (no relation to the editor) has taught in the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College since 1983. Her fifth book of poems, Happily, comes out from Four Way Books in 2012. She lives in Shrewsbury, VT.
DARSHANA BOLT is an artist, clothing designer for Hot Cooter Hi-End Fashions, art critic for Art Map Burlington, Ramble coordinator, poet, story-writer, lead singer in a punk/drag band called Moustache Ride, model/narcissist, rainbow/spandex/moonboot-enthusiast, Teflon-scraper, anarchist, art teacher, messmaker, and aspiring unicorn. She has a website for brand new things (darshanabolt.wordpress.com) and a website full of older things (darshanabolt.weebly.com).
ANTONELLO BORRA is a poet, translator, and scholar. He is the author of Guittone d'Arezzo e le maschere del poeta, and the co-author of three books of language pedagogy. His most recent volume of poetry is Alfabestiario. He regularly contributes with poems, translations, and critical articles to several journals and magazines both in Italy and the United States. His poems have been translated into English, Catalan, and German.
PARTRIDGE BOSWELL has served as Executive Director of Lebanon Opera House, NH, and Pentangle Arts Council in Woodstock, VT. A founder of Bookstock: The Green Mountain Festival of Words', Boswell is currently president of Harbor Mountain Press, based in White River Junction. Singer, lyricist, and poet, he has performed widely and his poems have recently surfaced in the minnesota review, Rattle, New Delta Review, and in his chapbook In Hindsight, A Happy Accident (Pudding House, 2008). He lives with his family in Woodstock, Vermont.
STEPHEN CRAMER's first book of poems, Shiva's Drum, was selected by Grace Schulman for the National Poetry Series and published in 2004. His second, Tongue & Groove, was published by University of Illinois Press in the fall of 2007. His work has appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, and Southwest Review. He's currently polishing up a third collection of poetry with help from a grant from The Vermont Arts Council. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Vermont and lives with his wife and daughter in Burlington.
PENELOPE CRAY's poems have appeared in such journals as Barrow Street, Pleiades, and American Letters & Commentary. She lives in Burlington, VT, with her husband and son.
Born and raised in Vermont, BRENDAN DEMPSEY is finishing his last semester at the University of Vermont, where he has been studying Classics and Religion. His poetry has been published in the Barn Owl Poetry Extra and Vantage Point, and he is currently work planning his magnum opus: an epic poem in Miltonic verse which will be published sometime in the next 30 years.
CHRISTINE ELLIS is employed as a technical writer in Burlington, VT. She has written and directed several plays with her most recent productions being 'The Divine Collection', The Greeting', and a 13-episode radio comedy, 'Were Tales,' broadcast on community radio stations in both New York and Vermont. For 8 years, Christine has been the main creative force behind the popular 'Thursdays at the Intervale' events and music series, promoting sustainable agriculture through the celebration of art, culture, and food. She is currently editing North Beach Revisited: Burlington, Vermont, a novel she co-wrote with her friend and mentor Poppa Neutrino.
KATHRYN FLAGG is a journalist and poet from Shoreham, VT. She is currently a student in the MFA program at the University of Wyoming, as well as a Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism. Her poetry has also appeared in The Hollins Critic. She co-edits YONTA, a new nonfiction journal of art and science.
VENUS FLYTRAP has been writing stories for most of her life, and stripping for six years. She also enjoys painting pictures, growing vegetables, sitting by the fire, and going for walks.
Published translations by BLOSSOM S. KIRSCHENBAUM include novels Maria Zef by Paola Drigo and I cristalli di Vienna (as Bloodstains) by Giuliana Morandini; stories by Stefano Benni, Marina Mizzau, Fernanda Pivano; and Fables from Trastevere (from the romanesco of Trilussa). Antonello Borra's Alfabestiario will issue with her translations in an American edition.
TONY MAGISTRALE was born in Buffalo, New York. He is currently Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Vermont. He has also taught at the Breadloaf Young Writers Conference and has served as a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Milan, Italy, and Visiting Professor at the University of Augsburg, Germany. His book of poems, What She Says About Love, won the 2007 Bordighera Poetry Prize. Magistrale lives in South Burlington with his wife, Jennifer, two sons, and a golden retriever
NOAH MEASE is finishing his final semester at Middlebury College where he studies Theatre and Spanish. 'Green Eden' began as his Senior Work in playwriting and ran briefly at the independent student theater, the Hepburn Zoo. Two of his other plays were included in the Horizon Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival last summer in Atlanta, Georgia, and he regularly writes radioplays produced by the Middlebury Radio Theater of Thrills & Suspense. He grew up in Williston, Vermont.
DAVID MOATS is an editor at the Rutland Herald, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2001. He is the author of the book Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage, published by Harcourt in 2004. He is also a playwright; five of his plays have been produced by theater companies in Vermont. He lives in Salisbury, VT.
POPPA NEUTRINO (William David Pearlman) is best known for his crossing of the Atlantic on a raft assembled from scrap wood. The voyage was featured in a National Geographic television show as well as in the documentary, 'Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Travelled.' He was the subject of a 2007 book by New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson, The Happiest Man in the World. Poppa – who spent most of the past three years in Burlington – believed that each person, to be truly happy, must define his or her three deepest desires and pursue them relentlessly. Poppa returned to New Orleans to be with his family shortly before he died of heart failure on January 23, 2011. He was 77.
GABI MARCEL SHAPIRO hails from Philadelphia and was begotten by a tribe of artists. Venturing out into the wilderness, he studied music and Spanish at the University of Vermont where he once found a rubber band in the shape of a treble clef on the sidewalk. With his fingers in many pies, he creates music, beer, poetry and bread.
NICHOLAS SPENGLER grew up in Burlington, VT. South End, sister streets. He has always admired little things: fossils, fairy tales, Persian miniatures, poems. Outside of Vermont, he has lived high on a hillside in Valparaíso, Chile, and in a drafty flat in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he recently completed a degree in the internationally celebrated field of Literature and Transatlanticism. Many of his poems have appeared in Middlebury College's Sweatervest Magazine, but this Salon publication is his hometown poetic debut in print.
JON TURNER is a new father and co-director of Green Door Studios with his partner Catherine. He established the Vermont chapter of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and is finishing his second collection of poems, Plant the Seed, under his press name Seven Star Press. Jon is involved with Warrior Writers and Combat Paper and further transforms his wartime experience through letterpress, book binding, poetry and handmade paper.
SHARON WEBSTER is a visual artist and a writer who makes her home in Burlington, Vermont. She has produced seven self-published chapbooks and published in places such as Take Heart, Beam I & II, The Burlington Review, and Seven Days. Sharon has given readings in many venues, including WBUR in Boston. She teaches studio art at Community College of Vermont, and has worked with developmentally challenged adults for many years.
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Reviews, Press, Interviews
Review of 'Naturalization'
New Orleans Gambit Feature
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VPR's Vermont Edition
Seven Days Feature
Burlington Free Press Feature
Edie Rhoads in Poets & Writers
Bayou Magazine Interview
Nola Vie Article
Salon #3 Feature
Destination VT Feature
Write the Book: WOMM-LP
Writers@WRUV
Six Questions For . . .
PRX Boston
VT Literary Publications
New England Review
Hunger Mountain
Onion River Review
Vermont Literary Review
Miniaturized Swarm Hurricanes
Green Door Studio
North End Studio
Burlington City Arts
Burlington Book Festival
Combat Paper Project
Bookstock
Brattleboro Literary Festival
Seven Star Art
VT Poetry Newsletter
Vermont Joy Parade
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Mark George Tobey (11. december 1890 i Centerville, Wisconsin, USA – 24. april 1976 i Basel, Schweiz) var en amerikansk abstrakt maler.

Han studerede kunst ved Art Institute of Chicago før han flyttede til New York i 1911. I 1922 flyttede Tobey til Seattle hvor han underviste ved Cornish College of Allied Arts. Tobey holdt sin første separatudstilling i Seattle Art Museum i 1935.

Sammen med Bill Cumming, Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan og Morris Graves var han en grundlægger af det som er blevet kendt som Northwest School indenfor amerikansk malerkunst.

Mark Tobeys arbejde er udstillet i de fleste store kunstmuseer i USA og mange steder i andre lande. Hans arbejde er inspireret af et personligt trossystem som kan bære præg af Tobeys tilknytning til bahaismen. At han hele sit liv var dybt fascineret af Orientens religioner, reflekteres også i hans arbejde. Han rejste i 1934 til Kina og Japan og blev der mere fortrolig med Østens kalligrafi. Denne inkorporerede han på sin måde i sit arbejde ved at skabe det som er blevet kaldt White Writing, hvid-skrift-billeder.

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Cross-Cultural Research
Almost by definition, cultural anthropology is cross-cultural research. The search for an understanding of what culture is has meant undertaking research with an eye for comparing ethnographic data generated in different societies. Anthropological fieldwork has been driven as much by the desire to test a particular theory about culture as it has been about documenting another unknown group of people.
In current convention, however, cross-cultural research refers to a specific approach to cultural anthropology, namely, using data from multiple cultures to test hypotheses using statistical methods. This quantitative approach developed out of the culture and personality school of anthropology and grew through the work of George P. Murdock, who first organized the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), a database that today consists of nearly 400 different ethnographies of cultural groups, indexed by over 700 different topics.
The lasting value of the statistical cross-cultural comparison using HRAF has been that it has allowed cultural anthropologists to ask the "big" questions that other kinds of research are ill-equipped to handle: What are the causes of warfare? Why do states form? Why do states collapse? What are the causes of social inequality?
The very earliest anthropologists interested in cross-cultural comparative work were out of the evolutionary mold: E. B. Tylor, Herbert Spencer, and Lewis Henry Morgan. These late-18th-century anthropologists compared cultures and ordered them in an evolutionary sequence, called unilineal evolution, based upon their presumed level of development. In analytical and methodological terms, Morgan was the most sophisticated. He conducted actual fieldwork (with Seneca Indians) and collected data from nearly 70 other American Indian tribes in the United States. Indeed, one of his main contributions to comparative cross-cultural research was the discovery of classificatory kinship systems. As might be expected, then, Morgan's evolutionary scheme was the most sophisticated, based upon a culture's technical capacity and material technology.
Nevertheless, the rejection of evolutionism and the kind of comparative work it engendered by Franz Boas and his students pushed cross-cultural comparative work into the background of cultural anthropology for nearly 40 years. When comparative work reemerged in American anthropology, it was the intellectual descendants of Morgan and Tylor who were responsible for it.
Another source of the contemporary statistical model of cross-cultural comparison emerged out of the basic and modal personality school of anthropology. This brand of cultural anthropology included scholars such as Ralph Linton, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Cora Du Bois (all Boasians), and Abraham Kardiner (a psychoanalyst). This orientation toward culture and personality studies was essentially the application of psychoanalytic theory to the study of culture: Cultural anthropologists presented their fieldwork data, and Kardiner provided a profile of that particular culture.
The working assumption of the approach was that every society had a "basic personality," a common denominator of personality types. There was a clear understanding that basic personality was formed based on the cultural institutions involved in child socialization. Cultural patterns, such as mythology, marriage patterns, and gender relations, were believed to be projections of basic personality.
The problems with the approach were that all of these "studies" were conducted after the fact, so there was no real testing of data. Cora Du Bois, however, conducted fieldwork with the Alorese during 1937 to 1938, collecting data specifically to test basic personality. Her work refined the understanding of culture-personality relationships. Unfortunately, the methodological improvements in her research design and execution were lost on most culture and personality anthropologists, who later became enamored of the national character studies.
At Yale, however, the methodology for investigating psychology using anthropological approaches did become more sophisticated, through the interaction of psychologists John Dollard and Clark Hull and anthropologists Edward Sapir, George P. Murdock, and John Whiting.
George P. Murdock was the most influential figure of cross-cultural analysis, a student of William Graham Sumner, which makes Murdock one of the rare American anthropologists of the early 20th century to be trained by someone outside of the Boasian tradition. Indeed, Murdock's intellectual ancestors were from the line of Tylor, Morgan, and Spencer. Murdock first developed the Cross-Cultural Survey during the 1930s and 1940s, which in 1949 became the HRAF. Murdock is best known for this work and for his studies of kinship systems.
Whiting earned his PhD at Yale in 1938 and returned there following military service during World War II to conduct, with Irvin Child, a large-scale, systematic study of child training and personality using Murdock's Survey. Published in 1953 as Child Training and Personality, the work was noteworthy because it tested a model very much like basic personality on a sample of 39 different cultures, using basic statistical procedures to analyze the data. The results were not all that encouraging (the correlation between child training and personality was not strong), but the method led to a number of other examinations of child training and personality, among them Barry, Bacon, and Child's classic Relation of Child Training to Subsistence Economy, which demonstrated that subsistence mode and environment were important influences in how children were raised.
There were, however, notable problems with HRAF. One of these problems was that studies tended to lose information through the coding process. That is, coding a society for a particular trait ignores any variability that might have existed within that society. A second problem was that large-scale, complex societies were either underrepresented or ignored entirely, simply because most anthropological fieldwork was done with small-scale, primitive societies. A third problem was that not all ethnographies were of equal value.
Whiting was aware of all of these problems, but most especially the last, because many ethnographies made no comments at all on child training and child development, Whiting's primary research interest. To address this issue, he and his wife, Beatrice, devised the Six Cultures Project, a study designed to collect similar, directly comparable data from six cultures: the United States (in Massachusetts), Philippines, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, and India. Research results began to be published in 1963, but the project is most famous for Children of Six Cultures, published in 1975.
The HRAF have, however, been consistently upgraded, improved, and expanded. Significant work using the HRAF has expanded the anthropological understanding of complexity, kinship, marriage, and descent; the social correlates of particular subsistence modes; socialization; religion; warfare; and numerous other subjects. A great deal of what cultural anthropologists teach in an introductory course in anthropology is based on work done using the HRAF.
Levinson, D., & Malone, M. J. (1980). Toward explaining human culture: A critical review of the findings of worldwide cross-cultural research. New Haven, CT: HRAF Research Press.
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