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Quebecers love fine food – and it shows. Every meal in Québec City(QUEBEC CITY HOTELS) is truly a taste sensation.

Although Québec City and its surrounding region are often referred to as North America's fine dining capital, they could also be called its casual dining capital, its sidewalk café capital, its bistro capital, its wine & cheese capital .… In fact, food in Québec City is one of the great pleasures of life – and one of the best reasons for traveling to the city and area time and again.Québec City features a bewildering choice of restaurants. Old Québec alone has over 100, enticing diners at every turn. French and Québec cooking enjoy top billing, but a tempting variety of cuisines from around the world is also featured.

Typical Québec cuisine takes its inspiration from the hearty country dishes our grandmothers used to cook, recipes handed down from generation to generation. A big favorite is tourtière with its tender, flaky crust and perfectly seasoned meat filling. Stews lovingly simmered over the stove entice diners with their garden-fresh vegetables and flavorful, meaty broth.

Cretons – a pork spread unique to Québec – have always been a special treat and are especially good on toast in the morning. Who could resist mom's very own sugar pie – astute visitors sample several pieces while in town to see which version they like best.Anytime is fine for enjoying Québec cuisine, but it's a special thrill in sugar season when the sap starts to run and the maple syrup harvest begins. That's when Quebecers head to the cabane à sucre (sugar shack) to feast and celebrate at a traditional "sugaring off" party.

Sugar shacks are typically cabins in a maple grove where sap is slowly boiled in big vats until it turns an enticing liquid gold. The maple syrup is then served up on everything from fèves au lard, sausage, and eggs to heaping helpings of crêpes. Visitors can enjoy a taste of tire d'érable, a maple taffy obtained by pouring hot syrup into wooden troughs packed with fresh, white snow. Once it hardens, simply roll it around a wooden popsicle stick for a sweet and delicious treat. Then to work it all off, join in the fun of a country jig or two!Québec cuisine is a perennial favorite during the holiday season when families get together; you can enjoy it other times of the year at many of the sugar shacks in the Québec City area and at restaurants like Aux Anciens Canadiens in Old Québec, with its quaint and cozy 18th century decor.Today, however, Québec cuisine has branched out in new directions. Over the past decades – in fact, starting way back in the 1930s – Québec City's culinary scene underwent a startling transformation. Young, ambitious chefs arrived from France and Italy and opened exciting new restaurants.

Soon the city was dotted with upscale dining establishments, each striving to outdo the next.Quebecers took an immediate liking to the refined cuisine these restaurants offered and patronized them in growing numbers. Still today, statistics show that there are more independent dining establishments in Québec than anywhere else in Canada – i.e., fewer chains and more variety.With local demand on the rise, the restaurant and agrifood industries were quick to adjust. Community colleges began offering new courses for budding chefs. Local farm producers diversified their output. Knowledgeable and inquisitive local diners spurred restaurants on to new levels of creative achievement.As a result, agrotourism is on the rise in the Québec City region as new producers add their talents to the local culinary scene. Dairy farmers produce gourmet cheeses to rival the best of France. Wine and cider producers sell their products directly to the public. Breeders feature new offerings like duck, wild boar, pheasant, caribou, emu, ostrich, guinea fowl, and wildly popular saltwater-meadow sheep. Farmers offer organically grown fruit and produce and unusual items like fiddleheads. And new bakers, pastry chefs, chocolate makers and other innovators abound.

The resulting symphony of local taste sensations has inspired a new type of cooking in much the same way that California cuisine has taken West Coast restaurants by storm.Local chef and multiple-award-winner Daniel Vézina typifies this new movement with his subtle blending of flavors and ingredients that follows the ebb and flow of the growing season. His restaurant, Le Laurie-Raphaël, is one of the top rated in all of Québec.The Fairmont Château Frontenac's Jean Soulard was the gold medal winner in Cuisine Canada's annual cookbook competition with his book Naturellement Québec (Naturally Québec).

He has walked off with countless awards for his sumptuous fare served up in the hotel's remarkable turn-of-the-century surroundings.Chef Jean-Luc Boulay at Le Saint-Amour was named Chef of the Year by Québec’s Société des chefs, cuisiniers et pâtissiers three years in a row. Le 47e Parallèle Restaurant, near Grande Allée, enjoys a co-owner who is also the Pastry Chef. Jean-Luc Piquemal is the only Québec chef to be a member of the celebrated Canadian Culinary Team which represents Canada in all the great world culinary competitions.

At the 2004 Culinary Olympic Games held in Germany, he earned a gold medal for pastry making, a unique feat in the annals of Quebec.A good opportunity for visitors to sample and purchase local fare is the Québec City’s Festival of gastronomy – Cup of the Nations, an annual food fair held in conjunction with the Québec City Exhibition every summer. It features a cooking competition pitting local chefs against each other.

"You need three things to drive in India," says J.S. Ragi of Ashok Travels and Tours as he deftly steers his Ambassador automobile through Delhi's traffic confusion, "a good horn, good brakes and good luck.

"Swarms of the beetle-like Ambassadors, cookie cutter copies of the 1954 Morris Oxford, compete on Delhi's streets with motor scooters, motor rickshaws, pedal rickshaws, bicycles, pedestrians, horse-drawn tongas, ox carts and the occasional elephant – all criss-crossing paths as they try to move in different directions.

Driving in Delhi is not for the uninitiated. However, visitors who want an Ambassador at their disposal can hire a car with driver through the Government of India Tourist Office for a surprisingly low rate.Slightly higher prices apply to outstation packages, including the Golden Triangle formed by Delhi, Agra and Jaipur – still the most popular itinerary for first-time travelers in India because it condenses a significant portion of the huge country's history and culture to holiday size.Regular bus and rail routes operate from Delhi to Agra and from Delhi to Jaipur, but driving the complete triangle permits stops in-between and provides glimpses of rural life that continues much as it has for thousands of years.

With a population surpassing 10-million, Delhi is the third largest city in India, following Calcutta and Mumbai (also known as Bombay). It is a city of contrasts, typified by modern hotels on Connaught Place overlooking the still usable 18th century masonry instruments of Jantar Mantar astronomical observatory.New Delhi, laid out by the British after they decided to move the capital from Calcutta in 1911, is an expanse of boulevards studded with government offices, embassies and consulates half hidden in gardens behind high walls.Its centerpiece is Rashtrapati Bhavan, originally the viceroy's residence, but the president's estate since India acquired independence in 1947. It stands at the head of the processional route called Raj Path looking toward India Gate, Delhi's version of the Arc de Triomphe.

Old Delhi is a knot of noisy bazaars choking Chandni Chowk, the road leading from the imposing Red Fort, completed by Taj Mahal creator Shah Jahan in 1648, to the Jama Masjid, India's largest mosque and another Shah Jahan legacy, finished in 1656.Other important pieces of Delhi's past include the Qutab Minar complex, a 13th century settlement dominated by the highest stone tower in India, and Humayun's Tomb, the first in the series of monumental garden tombs that includes the Taj Mahal.Along the 140 miles of the Delhi to Agra highway, the present dissolves into the past. Women in bright saris, balancing gleaming brass or red terra cotta pots on their heads, fetch water from communal hand pumps.

Camels pull two-wheeled carts laden with various goods into traditional markets.Some 36 miles before Agra is Mathura. Its highest structure is a 17th century mosque built atop ruins of the Kesava Deo Temple on the site where Lord Krishna is believed to have been born 3,500 years ago.Agra itself attained glory as the capital of the Mughal Empire. Akbar, son of Humayun and third Mughal ruler, is responsible for constructing most of the monuments in the area — a notable exception being the Taj Mahal, built by his grandson Shah Jahan in the 17th century."The Taj Mahal disappoints no one," says Ram Naresh Mittal, a Government of India Tourist Office guide who has introduced thousands of visitors to the elegant white marble structure.Close inspection reveals that much of its surface is embellished with inlays of semi-precious stones – turquoise, cornelian, malachite, jasper, agate, lapis lazuli, etc. At Agra workshops, visitors can observe artisans working in the same pietra dura technique and select souvenirs from a variety of practical objects which they produce.Agra Fort is one of two former royal compounds in the area, both built by Akbar from native red sandstone.

A classic fortified citadel, its ramparts embrace barracks, bazaars, palaces, mosques, gardens, pleasure pavilions, meeting halls and other elements deemed essential for day-to-day administration of the Mughal government.Thirty-six kilometers west of Agra is Fatehpur Sikri, a beautifully preserved desert resort where Akbar held court for 12 years. Built in gratitude to a saint who foretold the birth of the ruler's first son, it was abandoned because of an unreliable water supply. Intricately chiseled stone screens and ornately sculpted pillars highlight its architectural details.Farther along the 175-mile road to Jaipur is Bharatpur, where Keoladeo Ghana National Park provides sanctuary to more than 350 species of birds, including some 120 migratory species. Knowledgeable rickshaw-wallahs point out birds that even non-ornithologists can appreciate – kingfishers, parakeets, pelicans and storks — as they pedal passengers through the park's cool forest and marshland.Traffic in Jaipur rivals that of Delhi.

The city might be called "Jeep-ur" because of the numbers of that vehicle adding to the turmoil.Instead, Jaipur has been known as "The Pink City" since its walled center was given a wash of that color in 1863 to welcome Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. Jaipur now spreads far beyond the old wall, but the pink core continues to beat as the heart of the city.Its busy bazaars are a treasure trove for shoppers, who can watch craftsmen creating hand knotted carpets, block printed fabrics and blue glazed pottery and then purchase finished wares at some of the best prices in the Golden Triangle.

Among landmarks inside the wall are the Hawa Mahal (Wind Pavilion), a five-story facade honeycombed with small windows once used by court ladies to view street activities and processions without being observed themselves, and the City Palace, which now houses museum collections of costumes, weapons and decorative arts.Seven miles north of Jaipur is Amber Fort, a stuccoed bastion set into the side of a craggy hill. Colorfully caparisoned elephants carry visitors up a steep ramp to the entrance of the fort's attractive terraced interiors, which include a splendid Sheesh Mahal (Mirror Pavilion).

"Under no circumstances are you to pick them up and lick their bums," warned Prue Hewett.

We were in Tropical North Queensland at Cape Tribulation, in the Daintree Rainforest, the most primitive rainforest in the world.Earlier on our walk in Cooper Creek Wilderness, Prue had persuaded us to take Green Ants from a flowering tree and told us to suck them.

They tasted of lemon.Not long after, we came across their jungle brothers, the Jumping Jack Ants. These, unlike the succulent Green Ants, can cause you much distress.

Hence Prue’s warning.It’s as well, when you’re in these parts, to have an expert with you so that you don’t wander around tasting the wrong ants. Nor do you, in your ignorance, want to miss out on the rare birds, insects and mammals and primitive plants species, some of which have been around for 100-million years.

This is the only place in the world where two World Heritage-listed places meet, where two ecosystems live side by side: here the velvety green mantle of the Daintree Rainforest slopes plunge to the aqua waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, its fringing reefs growing almost to the shore.That’s where we found the Daintree Wilderness Lodge which, incidentally, arranges picks-ups from Cairns and Port Douglas.

The Lodge a living biological museum, its setting a fan palm gallery in lowland rainforest between the Daintree River and Cape Tribulation.It was designed and constructed by Anna Graham and her late husband Mal in 1991. "We fell in love with the forest the first time we saw it," Anna said. The wonder of the Lodge is that the Grahams managed to create such luxury with minimal impact on the rainforest. Their concern for the environment was such that clearings for the construction sites were created by hand with crowbars and shovels.

Earthmoving machinery was not used at all. So fastidious were they, that only two live trees had to be removed.Raised boardwalks – designed to minimise the impact on the rainforest floor – link the diningroom, bar and jungle jacuzzi with the seven luxury-style bungalows which are set amidst the rainforest canopy and fan palms. Each bungalow has a covered verandah where tropical breakfast is served.The Lodge’s self-guided walk leads through the lush rainforest to its own private, natural rock pool where you can swim in the pristine fresh water. This area is also known as the "cassowary nursery".

The Lodge is an ideal base to explore the Daintree Cape Tribulation area. One of the best ways to see it is by 4WD with Rum Runner Safaris which offer many diverse adventure tours into the scenic wilderness.We were picked up at the Lodge and driven to the top of Cape Tribulation up the Bloomfield track to see the Bloomfield falls, crossed the Bloomfield River to aboriginal communities ...... the entire journey filled with the driver’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the wild life, flora and fauna.There are many tours available from the Lodge such as diving or snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, scenic flights, horse-riding, river and deep-sea fishing, canoeing and cruises on the Daintree River where you could see crocodiles, tree snakes and amethystine pythons and some of the 225 recorded bird species in the Daintree Valley. Some of Queensland’s most beautiful beaches are a short distance from the Lodge.But the walking tours provided by people like Prue and Neil Hewett of Cooper Creek Walk are among the best bets. They love Cooper Creek Wilderness and enjoy sharing its secrets.

When you’re with them there’s a good chance of catching a rare glimpse of the elusive cassowary, the musky rat kangaroo, Australia’s most primitive marsupial, a Boyd’s forest dragon (a miniature dinosaur from another age), a tree snake or a python and a variety of birds.Neil leads silent night forays into the rainforest where visitors come face-to-face with a myriad of nocturnal sights and sounds: the unmistakable "falling bomb" call of the Lesser Sooty Owl; the glaring red eye of the Papuan Frogmouth Owl; the massive Wolf spiders, open-range hunters conspicuous by their distinctive reflection of their eight eyes; or the large Brush-footed Trapdoor Spiders, also known as Whistling or Barking Spiders because of the sounds they make.

Cooper Creek Wilderness has a remarkable fan palm gallery with a double canopy that is without parallel. It’s featured in the epic film "The Thin Red Line". Among the startling trees is the bumpy satin ash, a tree with a brownish-orange trunk and bright gold flowers on the trunk. The tree is inhabited by a colony of ants which helps in the pollination of the flowers.

There are some painful flora around and you need Prue and Neil around to identify the stinging tree, the wait-a-while and the native bamboo. There are over 3,000 different plant species in the forest, Prue explained, and she warned us about some of the more unpleasant ones.

A discreet knock at the maple-paneled door and in comes our butler. Butler? Gedi gives a slight bow, smiles sweetly and introduces herself. There's a touch of unreality about this scene.

The room is moving slightly, for a start. Outside the large panorama window, the great bulk of South Africa's most famous landmark, Table Mountain, is sliding by. Snaking ahead of us on a bend in the track is a line of brilliant blue rail carriages nearly 400 meters long.This is the Blue Train, voted the world's most luxurious train by the international travel trade and now forging an extended route 3,200 kilometers from Cape Town on South Africa's southern tip to the spectacular Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, known to the local people as Mosi-oa-Tunya – The Smoke that Thunders.The line was originally laid by rugged 19th-century British imperial pioneers in their bid to link Cape Town and Cairo. They got as far as the Zambezi River.

Today's three-day luxury journey, which those pioneers could never have imagined possible, is cosseted by an air-cushioned bogie suspension.Gedi, a pretty young Tswana woman in a chic blue uniform, is one of a team of male and female butlers who pamper travelers aboard the Blue Train for three days and nights of sybaritic pleasure in motion. As the train picks up speed outside Cape Town, she conducts a tour of the suite: buttons to regulate the temperature, to operate the window blinds and to select a variety of channels on the TV set; a bathroom bigger than those found in many city apartments, with a shower-cabin, Italian marble floors and gold-plated taps.The wardrobe has a matching set of kimonos and slippers, with the compliments of the railway company. Tucked away in a corner is a safe for personal valuables.

Gedi takes away our soiled clothes for washing and pressing and tells us to call her on the cellular phone if we need anything.There's another knock at the door. It's the restaurant manager. "First or second sitting for lunch, sir?" We elect the later session, giving us time for an appetizer at the bar, another stylish creation of beautifully crafted birch and maple. Barman Piet recommends a South African sherry, which is the equal of anything from Spain's Jerez area.The best South African wines are served at lunch in the London Savoy-style restaurant car - and while eating we can gaze at the rich vineyards from which they come. The vineyards stretch like a deep green carpet across a wide valley floor and creep up the lower slopes of the brooding, distant mountains. Here and there the green is broken by the gleaming white facades of old Dutch colonial-style farmsteads. Our table companion, a South African businessman, tells us that in late autumn the vines turn crimson in a spectacle of nature that draws photographers from all over the world.South African avocado comes with fresh Cape prawns. The tender lamb chops are from the Karoo, the vast prairie-like high plateau that lies ahead of us on the journey.

The South African cheeses can stand comparison with anything from Europe, and the accompanying port is also South African.The train noses into the Hex River tunnel near Worcester, blotting out the beautiful mountain views for more than 16 kilometers. The light at the end of this tunnel is harsh, falling knifelike on the entirely different landscape that now unfolds - the vast scrubland of the Karoo.As the sun finally begins to drop through the huge African sky beyond the picture window, it's time to gather for afternoon tea in the plush lounge car lined with books. Some travelers opt for card games.The evening begins in grand hotel style with a pre-dinner drink in the bar. The train fare includes meals and all drinks.Dinner is an amplification of lunch, four courses of exquisitely prepared dishes again using predominantly South African produce: ostrich soup, Cape seafood, impala and other game. The wine list doubles as a guide to South Africa's leading vineyards and vintages.While passengers relax over after-dinner cognacs, the butlers are busy preparing the suites for the night. Beds are made, kimonos laid out on fine cotton sheets and duvets and "good night" chocolates placed on the pillows. The air-cushioned bogies produce a cradle-like sensation of being lulled into sleep.Next day, the sun rises on the gold fields of Gauteng, slanting off mountainous dumps of slag which are being reworked with new technology able to recover previously unprofitable traces of precious metals.The number of rail tracks along the Blue Train's route multiplies as Johannesburg approaches and early commuter trains bustle by as we guiltily eat a leisurely breakfast - the kind of "English breakfast" which most British hotels have long since forgotten how to serve: crispy bacon, eggs in every variety, South African farm-sausage and mushrooms.Later, the riotous purple blossoms of Pretoria's jacaranda trees announce the end of this stretch of the Blue Train's journey north. Some passengers say goodbye to their luxury hotel on wheels here, but others stay aboard for the two-day ride to Victoria Falls.When Terence, our new butler, calls by to induct us into the button-pushing conveniences of our suite, we can smile smugly and tell him not to bother: "We know all that."The passing landscape is new – the sparse cattle-rearing plains of Botswana, the eastern fringes of the Kalahari desert, and the game-rich bush and woodland of Zimbabwe, via Bulawayo.

When you are deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, how you handle identity management is as important as query speed and the quality of your data. A well-architected identity management solution ensures that your users are set up automatically when they first join the organization, that they can quickly access applications and data appropriate for their varied roles, and that personal details and access privileges can be easily managed.

This article focuses on integrating Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition with two of Oracle's flagship identity management tools: Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On. You'll see how to combine the security features of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle Identity Management to provide granular, secure access to data.

Identity Management in Focus

User identity has its own lifecycle, beginning with the initial hire, continuing through promotions and changes of department or role, and ending when the staff member leaves and that person's application access is removed. Over time, employees typically need access to multiple systems, and their requirement for data access will change with their roles.

Oracle Identity Management is a broad set of products that provides standards-based identity management tools, including Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Application Server Single Sign- On, Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite, Oracle Identity Federation, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Virtual Directory, and Oracle Web Services Manager. Oracle Internet Directory is an LDAP v.3 directory that leverages the scalability and high availability of Oracle Database to store user and group profiles. Oracle Internet Directory is widely used within Oracle's own applications and middleware tools to provide a single store of identity information. (For an overview of identity management concepts and Oracle Identity Management, see "Access Granted" in the July/August 2006 issue of Oracle Magazine.)

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition has its own security infrastructure for user and group management and control of access to datasources, but it can also be integrated with numerous other industry-standard identity management implementations, including Oracle Identity Management.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition includes Oracle Business Intelligence Server, Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services, and the Oracle Business Intelligence Administration Tool, plus several other server and desktop applications.

Oracle Business Intelligence Server has a local repository that contains information about the many datasources (data warehouses, data marts, packaged applications, and so on) that business users will have access to via Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards.

Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services has its own separate security infrastructure of users and groups stored in a separate repository, known as the Web Catalog. Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboard is the main user interface provided by Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services.

When users log in to their respective dashboards, Oracle Business Intelligence Server authenticates their credentials. If an account does not already exist in the Web Catalog, one is created for them. If a user is a member of any groups that have corresponding Web Catalog entries, the user is granted access to these Web Catalog groups and any dashboards to which that person has access.

As you'll see later in this article, the user and group information contained in Oracle Internet Directory can be used to facilitate the same access scenarios.

Oracle Business Intelligence Server makes it possible for privileged users to "impersonate" other users—this functionality is used by Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services to implement single-sign-on functionality in various scenarios, including one demonstrated later in this article.

Example 1: Leverage Oracle Internet Directory for Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboard Security steps you through enabling users of Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboard to connect to their dashboards by using their Oracle Internet Directory logins and passwords.

Example 2: Augment Oracle Internet Directory User Identity with Oracle Business Intelligence Server Security Features shows you how the features in Oracle Business Intelligence Server can provide granular, row-level control over report data to users authenticated with Oracle Internet Directory.

Exeampl 3: Streamline Access to Oracle Business Intelligence by Using Oracle Single Sign-On steps you through configuring Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to leverage Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On as a partner application. Business users will then be able to access Oracle Business Intelligence Server functionality by using the same user account as for other applications and will be able to access their Oracle Business Intelligence Server dashboards based on group membership.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Gold prices tumbled Wednesday, as the dollar regained strength, to sink nearly $100 below its record high set Monday - leaving some traders wondering if this is the beginning of the end for gold's impressive run.

COMEX gold for April delivery fell $59 to settle at $945.30 an ounce Wednesday. Gold had set an intraday record of $1033.90 Monday.

Gold began to slide shortly after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates Tuesday by 3/4 of a percentage point, instead of the full percentage point that some market participants had expected.

The dollar, which has hit a series of record lows, began to advance against the euro in response to the Fed's announcement. Normally, interest rate cuts depress the value of the dollar. However, since the cut was less aggressive than many expected, the greenback benefited.

"It looked like the sky would fall, which is why we got up to those record levels Monday," said Jon Nadler, senior analyst at Kitco Bullion Dealers in Montreal. "But when the dollar started a bit of a gain this morning, people pulled the trigger across the commodity board."

Gold is priced in dollars, making it an attractive investment for overseas buyers. But if the dollar begins to strengthen, investors from overseas markets are more likely to sell their gold.

Moreover, gold's reputation as a safe-haven investment, one that holds value in times of economic volatility, contributed to the metal's record-breaking run.

Buying gold and other commodities like oil and wheat is seen by many as a way to hedge against inflation, which has also helped support the gold market recently.

As the dollar continues to post gains against the euro, some analysts think gold is heading south after growing nearly 40-fold since its trough of $253 in August 1999.

"If gold drops below $915, it will represent a major shift in psychology," said Nadler, who believes gold could fall to about $850 in the next week.

With lower mortgage resets, the upcoming elections - which tend to boost the dollar - and the coming seasonal lull for gold, Nadler sees gold slipping to around $650 to $750 in the summer.

Some 250 pieces of original Disney animation art that wound up lying in a janitor's closet at Chiba University in Japan for nearly a half century are due to be returned to the Walt Disney Co. after being rediscovered. In return, Disney has agreed to provide high-resolution digital copies of the artworks and $1 million to be used by the university to further studies in animation art. Items in the collection had originally been selected by Walt Disney himself to illustrate both the history of animation and its processes.

It includes artwork from the 1932 short Flowers and Trees, Disney's first animated film in Technicolor. Since the exhibit was also intended to promote the Japanese opening of Sleeping Beauty, a large portion of the material focuses on that film, but there are also cels and background paintings from such movies as Fantasia, Bambi, and Cinderella. "There is no way to put a price on these works -- they represent our artistic heritage," Lella Smith, creative director of the Disney Animation Research Library, told the New York Times. "That said, their value as archival materials for study and research is very high."