Thank doG. A 2008 newspaper article said a kid's 19 day trip to Australia, Fiji and NZ was over $8,000.
Whoa-- except on second glance, that's for the high school aged kids and according to the website is 22 days.
Journey Through the South Pacific 22 days-- Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji
The grade school age kids are limited to just Australia and fifteen days.
Let's see - that was middle school so she must have been 13 or 14. She traveled to 5 countries in Europe over 2 weeks.
Cool-- if I have more questions, once I talk to Lewis and he gets over the WTF!! I'll email you.
I spent the summer in France on a similar program when I was 12. LOVED it.
I went to the High School in Israel program when I was sixteen. Lewis and I often joke about the fact that the Catholic girl went to Israel and the Jewish boy went to the Vatican.
Please to share with the rest of the class, Cash.
1 c. sugar
5 tbsp. flour
1 pt. whipping cream
1 unbaked 9 inch pie shell
Pinch of salt
Cinnamon
Heat whipping cream, but DO NOT BOIL. Add to sugar and flour mixture slowly. Add salt. Pour into pie shell. Sprinkle cinnamon on top. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes. Then reduce heat to 350 degrees for 30 minutes, or until set.
::drools at pie recipe::
Cash, do you bring the cream to a scald or just very hot?
And look what just came down the pike: J.K. Rowling wins copyright claim
Rowling and Warner Bros., maker of the Harry Potter films and owner of intellectual property rights to the Potter books and movies, sued Michigan-based RDR Books last year to stop publication of material from the Harry Potter Lexicon Web site. Vander Ark, a former school librarian, runs the site, which is a guide to the seven Potter books and includes detailed descriptions of characters, creatures, spells and potions.
The small publisher was not contesting that the lexicon infringes upon Rowling's copyright but argued that it was a fair use allowable by law for reference books. In his ruling, Patterson noted that reference materials are generally useful to the public but that in this case, Vander Ark went too far.
"While the lexicon, in its current state, is not a fair use of the Harry Potter works, reference works that share the lexicon's purpose of aiding readers of literature generally should be encouraged rather than stifled," he said.
He added that he ruled in Rowling's favor because the "Lexicon appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide."
Be interesting to see the ramifications of this.
I just posted about that in the fic thread. The WSJ has posted the judge's opinion.
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Dear Help Service Desk:
"The Link to X doesn't point to Y" isn't really a problem, now is it?
Pour into pie shell.
Just to clarify -- this is while the shell is still unbaked?
This recipe calls for an unbaked pie shell. Some call for baked.
Barb, heat the cream up but DON'T scald it or let it boil. Most of the cooking is done in the oven.
Hah!
For once my bad bad habit of reading Salon Letters pays off!
Someone just referred to Sarah Palin as "Wolfslayer Barbie".
I've seen Caribou Barbie a lot of places.
