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Whether your snack attack hits in the middle of the afternoon or during late-night TV, it can damage your weight-maintenance plan. Mindless snacking will put back on those pounds faster than you can say, "Pass the ranch nachos."
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A little bit of snack planning and self-knowledge can go a long way toward helping you maintain or lose weight, says Banes, whose personal credo is "All things in moderation." But, she cautions, moderation does not mean a daily chocolate bar!
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- Have a vending machine game plan. The best-laid diet plans can go awry and you may find yourself staring down the office vending machine despite your best intentions. It is still possible to make good choices, says Banes. Remember to choose items that have that bit of protein in them. "Pretzels or peanut butter crackers would be a better option than, say, the M&Ms or the KitKat bar," she advises.
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How to create and print Avery address labels with Postnet barcode images in Crystal Reports for ASP.NET - PDF Support
Technologies used
- Neodynamic Barcode Professional 2.5 (or greater) for ASP.NET (WebControl)
- Crystal Reports for .NET (any version)
- Microsoft .NET Framework (any version)
- Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (any version)
In the following Step-By-Step Guide we're going to create an ASP.NET Web Application which includes a Crystal Reports web report for Avery address labels including Postnet barcode images generated by Barcode Professional for ASP.NET. In addition, this FAQ states how to export the report to PDF format maintaining the barcode images into it!
Note: This guide was made using Visual Studio 2005 but you can use any other version of it needing in some cases minor changes.
Follow these steps:
1- Open your .NET development tool. We're going to use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Create a new ASP.NET Web Application.
This Guide uses an XML Schema (XSD files) as data source for the report. Please note that this XML Schema will only be used to design the report in the Crystal Reports Designer.
You can easily generate an XML Schema using an ADO.NET DataSet object. This object has the WriteXmlSchema() method that creates an XML Schema file for you. So, if you need to create a report for a Table in a SQL Server Database, you can create a DataSet object for that Table and then call the WriteXmlSchema() method to get the XML Schema file associated to it. However, in this sample demo we're going to use an XML file instead of a SQL Server Database for simplicity only.
REMEMBER that this is required to DESIGN the reports. Once created the report you won't need it at RUNTIME when you deploy your application.
For sample demos using Typed DataSet or SQL Stored Procedures as Data Sources please refer to the following Guides instead:
- How to create Crystal Reports featuring barcode images using Typed DataSet in ASP.NET
- How to create Crystal Reports featuring barcode images using SQL Stored Procedure in ASP.NET
3- Add to the project the XML file called AdventureWorksEmplayees.xml (you'll find it at the end of this guide ready for downloading)
4- With this file opened, go to XML menu and click on Create Schema.
VS.NET will create an XML Schema file called AdventureWorksEmployees.xsd. You'll find it in the Solution Explorer.
Remember that this file only will be use to design the report.
5- Once we have the XML Schema file, we'll need to modify it and add a NEW element that will represent our barcode images. To do this, double-click on the AdventureWorksEmployees.xsd and add a new element whose name will be BarcodeImage and whose type will be base64Binary as is show in the following figure:
After that, save the XML Schema file!
6- Now it's time to create our CR report.
6.1- Right-click on the project and go to Add/Add New Item.
6.2- Select Crystal Report in the list and name it as AveryMailLabels.rpt.
6.3- In the Crystal Reports Gallery dialog box, select Mail Label and click on OK button as is show in the following figure:
7- The next step is to set the Data Source for the report. On the Wizard dialog box, click on Create New Connection > ADO.NET. In that moment a dialog box will ask you for a file. Specify the AdventureWorksEmployees.xsd file in the XML File Path textbox.
8- Choose the fields to display on the report as is show in the following figure:
Now, choose the Avery label type. In the case we will choose "Address (Avery 5160)"
Click on Finish button to close the Wizard.
For more information about all Avery labels provided by Crystal Report as well as other useful data associated to each of them, see the following table:
Avery Labels Type Labels Size Labels per Sheet
Return Address (Avery 5267) 1/2" x 1-3/4" 80
Address (Avery 5160) 1" x 2-5/8" 30
Address (Avery 5260) 1" X 2-5/8" 30
Address (Avery 5161) 1" X 4" 20
Address (Avery 5261) 1" X 4" 20
Address (Avery 5162) 1-1/3" X 4" 14
Address (Avery 5262) 1-1/3" X 4" 14
Address/Shipping (Avery 5163) 2" X 4" 10
Address/Shipping (Avery 5164) 3-1/3" X 4" 6
Clear Address (Avery 5660) 1" X 2-3/4" 30
Clear Address (Avery 5662) 1-1/3" X 4-1/8" 14
Clear Address (Avery 5663) 2" X 4-1/8" 10
Full Sheet (Avery 5165) 8-1/2" X 11" 1
File Folder (Avery 5266) 2/3" X 3-7/16" 30
�3-1/2� Diskette� (Avery 5196) 2-3/4" X 2-3/4" 9
�3-1/2� Diskette - Red� (Avery 5096)
�3-1/2� Diskette - Blue� (Avery 5896)
5-1/4 Diskette (Avery 5197) 12
5-1/4 Diskette - Red (Avery 5097)
5-1/4 Diskette - Blue (Avery 5897)
Audio Cassette (Avery 5198) 1-5/8" X 3-1/2" 12
Video Cassette Face (Avery 5199)
Video Cassette Spine
Name Badge - Red (Avery 5095) 2-1/3" X 3-3/8" 8
Name Badge (Avery 5395) 2-1/3" X 3-3/8" 8
Name Badge - Blue (Avery 5895) 2-1/3" X 3-3/8" 8
Name Tag (Avery 5383)
Name Tag - Blue (Avery 5883)
Name Tag (Avery 5384) 3" X 4" 6
Rotary Index Card (Avery 5385) 2-1/6" X 4" 8
Rotary Index Card (Avery 5386) 3" X 5" 4
Index Card (Avery 5388)
Index/Post Card (Avery 5389) 4" X 6" 2
Round (Avery 5294) 2-1/2" Diameter 12
The Mail Wizard configures the report according to the Avery Label you have selected.
9- Now, it's time to design the report. Drag & Drop the fields as is show in the following figures:
IMPORTANT: right-click on the BarcodeImage Blod field, select Format and check Can Grow!
Click OK. Save the report and close it.
10- Open the Webform1.aspx of your project and drag & drop a CrystalReportViewer control onto it. Set the DisplayGroupTree property to False.
11- Open the Solution Explorer window and add a reference to the Neodynamic.WebControls.BarcodeProfessional.dll assembly. We're going to use Barcode Professional for ASP.NET as a component library.
Please, see the following FAQ:
How to include the license information in an Application that uses a Neodynamic Product
12- In the code-behind class of the Form, add the following namespace reference:
Visual Basic .NET
Imports Neodynamic.WebControls.BarcodeProfessional
Visual C# .NET
using Neodynamic.WebControls.BarcodeProfessional;
13- Finally, write the following code in the Page_Load event procedure:
Visual Basic .NET
'Create a DataSet from the XML file
'REMEMBER to copy the XML file in the application root
Dim xmlFile As String = Server.MapPath("AdventureWorksEmployees.xml")
Dim ds As DataSet = New DataSet
'The XML File with the data DOES NOT include
'the BarcodeImage "column" or element we've included
'in the XML Schema file.
'So, create the BarcodeImage column
'WARNING: you must name it as you did in the XML Schema
Dim dc As DataColumn = New DataColumn("BarcodeImage", GetType(Byte()))
'Add the BarcodeImage column to the DataTable
'Create a BarcodeProfessional object to fill
'the BarcodeImage column
Dim bc As BarcodeProfessional = New BarcodeProfessional
'We are going to use Postnet Barcode Symbology
'but you could use other
bc.Symbology = Symbology.Postnet
bc.PostnetHeightShortBar = 0.06F 'Set 5 if you use Barcode Professional 2.5
bc.PostnetHeightTallBar = 0.135F 'Set 12 if you use Barcode Professional 2.5
bc.QuietZoneWidth = 0
bc.AddChecksum = False
bc.DisplayCode = False
bc.BarWidth = 0.02F 'Set 2 if you use Barcode Professional 2.5
bc.BarRatio = 1
bc.Text = ""
For Each dr As DataRow In ds.Tables(0).Rows
'We're going to encode the PostalCode column
bc.Code = CType(dr("PostalCode"), String)
dr("BarcodeImage") = bc.GetBarcodeImage(System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png)
'Create a AveryMailLabels report object
'and set its data source with the DataSet
Dim report As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument
report = New CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument()
Dim rptFile As String = Server.MapPath("AveryMailLabels.rpt")
'Export report to PDF format into C:\Temp folder
'NOTE: Give write permission to ASPNET account to Temp folder
Dim DiskOptions As CrystalDecisions.Shared.DiskFileDestinationOptions = New CrystalDecisions.Shared.DiskFileDestinationOptions
DiskOptions.DiskFileName = "C:\\TEMP\\AveryMailLabelsWithBarcodeImages.pdf"
report.ExportOptions.DestinationOptions = DiskOptions
report.ExportOptions.ExportDestinationType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportDestinationType.DiskFile
report.ExportOptions.ExportFormatType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat
'Show it!
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = report
Visual C# .NET
//Create a DataSet from the XML file
//REMEMBER to copy the XML file in the application root
string xmlFile = Server.MapPath("AdventureWorksEmployees.xml");
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
//The XML File with the data DOES NOT include
//the BarcodeImage "column" or element we've included
//in the XML Schema file.
//So, create the BarcodeImage column
//WARNING: you must name it as you did in the XML Schema
DataColumn dc = new DataColumn("BarcodeImage", typeof(byte[]));
//Add the BarcodeImage column to the DataTable
//Create a BarcodeProfessional object to fill
//the BarcodeImage column
BarcodeProfessional bc = new BarcodeProfessional();
//We are going to use Postnet Barcode Symbology
//but you could use other
bc.Symbology = Symbology.Postnet;
bc.PostnetHeightShortBar = 0.06f; //Set 5 if you use Barcode Professional 2.5
bc.PostnetHeightTallBar = 0.135f; //Set 12 if you use Barcode Professional 2.5
bc.QuietZoneWidth = 0;
bc.AddChecksum = false;
bc.DisplayCode = false;
bc.BarWidth = 0.02f; //Set 2 if you use Barcode Professional 2.5
bc.BarRatio = 1;
bc.Text = "";
//Now, generate and fill barcode images
foreach (DataRow dr in ds.Tables[0].Rows)
//We're going to encode the PostalCode column
bc.Code = (string)dr["PostalCode"];
dr["BarcodeImage"] = bc.GetBarcodeImage(System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Png);
//Create a AveryMailLabels report object
//and set its data source with the DataSet
CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument report;
report = new CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument();
string rptFile = Server.MapPath("AveryMailLabels.rpt");
//Export report to PDF format into C:\Temp folder
//NOTE: Give write permission to ASPNET account to Temp folder
CrystalDecisions.Shared.DiskFileDestinationOptions DiskOptions = new CrystalDecisions.Shared.DiskFileDestinationOptions();
DiskOptions.DiskFileName = "C:\\TEMP\\AveryMailLabelsWithBarcodeImages.pdf";
report.ExportOptions.DestinationOptions = DiskOptions;
report.ExportOptions.ExportDestinationType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportDestinationType.DiskFile;
report.ExportOptions.ExportFormatType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat;
//Show it!
CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = report;
14- Set the WebForm1.aspx page as the start page and that's it. Build the ASP.NET Web Application and run it. You'll see the following output.
And you can find the exported PDF file under c:\Temp\AveryMailLabelsWithBarcodeImages.pdf
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Early in the morning we will pick you up from your hotel or the parking Nile cruise to admire this exceptional experience.
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- Motor boat transfer to the West Bank
- Soft drinks & sweets
- Taxes & service charges
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Valley of Kings
The Valley of the Kings is the major tourist attraction in Luxor. It is a valley in Egypt used as royal burial site for a period of nearly 500 years in ancient Egypt. In modern times it has become famous for the discovery of Tutankhamun tomb.Read More
The Colossi of Memnon
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Thebes Egypt
Luxor is one of the world's greatest cities, the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt is even more of an archaeological paradise than the East Bank. It is much more than what we refer to as the Valley of the Kings, though many have called the whole of the area by that name.Read More
Luxor Temple
Many festivals were celebrated in Thebes (Waset in ancient Egyptian). The Temple of Luxor was the center of the most important one, the festival of Opet. It appears that the temple's purpose was for a suitable setting for the rituals of the festival.Read More
East Bank Luxor
In ancient times it was known as Waset and later Thebes under the Greeks. Homer is said to have described Luxor as the 'City of the Hundred Gates'. Travel to Luxor and you will know why it is one of Egypt's great tourist attractions and one of the world's greatest cities.Read More
Karnak Temple
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Hatshepsut Temple
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Luxor Egypt
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Frequently Asked Questions
Egypt is safe country to visit with notable low crime rate, tourist attractions are well secured and there is no common negative attitude towards foreigners, with some sensible precautions and preparations you will feel at home and as safe as you'll ever be.
There is no special dress code when visiting Egypt tourist sites, modest dress is recommended in less tourist sites and there is no special concern for women traveling alone.
Egyptian Arabic is the most commonly spoken language in Egypt, it is also the national language in the country but Egyptians speak and understand English as they study it in school. Fewer Egyptians can speak other languages like French, Italian, Spanish, and German. Egyptians working in tourism sector are accustomed to speak enough English and other languages to fulfill the needs of most travelers.
Egypt is very connected to the world, it has many direct flights with Africa, Asia, European Union and United States. Visit Cairo Airport website for a full list of Airlines that fly to Egypt.
Duty free allowances on arrival to Egypt are 1L alcohol, 1L perfume, and either 200 cigarettes, 25 cigars or 200g tobacco. Duty free shops are available in Egypt airports and major tourist cities (Cairo, Luxor, Hurghada, El Gouna and Sharm El Sheikh).
Giza Pyramids and most monuments and Museums in Egypt open between 8 Am to 5 Pm. During Ramadan, the holy month of the Islamic calendar, be aware that these hours will change significantly.
Shops and stores in Egypt are usually opened from 10 Am to 10 Pm however in major cities it opens much later and some are open 24 hours.
Visitors are welcome in most mosques throughout the year. Modest dress is recommended, women should cover their hair, arms and legs. Both Women and men will remove their shoes before entering.
Taking pictures for people and streets is fine after people permission While Taking pictures for official type or army structures is not permitted. In most historical sites and museums in Egypt it is allowed to use camera, some of them may charge you for camera but at the Egyptian Museum and some similar historical sites it is prohibited and you will be asked to leave camera at reception before entering.
Egypt enjoys big hotel variety from world class luxury to simple hostel accommodations; Check in time in most hotels in Egypt is around midday, 12 or 1 PM.
There in no health concerns or vaccinations required to visit Egypt but we recommend to check with your own doctor, he knows you and your medical history best.
The currency in Egypt is the Egyptian pound (LE), it is about ,06 to USD. Money exchange is widely available, Credit cards are largely used in Egypt major cities and tourist spots.
We do not recommend the public buses in big cities. Taxi and limousine service are fine every where but price is negotiable. Trains go to all big cities in Egypt except Sinai and the Red Sea. Flights from / to tourist cities are always available.
Tipping in Egypt is an appreciated habitual attitude but is Not obligatory. Generally 5 to 10 EGP for small favors is fine for carrying luggage, parking a car or to guys who clean bathrooms. 10 % is fine in restaurant and spa. Tipping your tour guide and vehicle driver should be considered if you're provided with good to great service, feel free to give what you think your experience was worth.
Good to know
- The Luxor Hot Air Balloon Flights is available in multiple languages
- Package prices are fixed in USD but you can pay with any other currency.
- Package price is always valid except for Easter & Christmas periods.
- Package prices are per person per trip including all items in tour offer.
- Package price does NOT include entry visa to the served destination.
- Package price does NOT include fees of any special archaeological sites.
- Luxor Hot Air Balloon Flights price does NOT include personal expenses.
- Package prices are updated always to give you the best possible price.
- Prices would NOT be changed once you have tour package confirmed.
- Children under 2 years old are free of charge in similar tour packages.
- Children between 5 and 5.99 years would pay 25 % of adult package price.
- Children between 6 and 11.99 years would pay 50 % of adult package price.
- Children will be charged in case your tour package includes any airfare.
- 25 % down payment is required to get your tour package booking confirmed.
- 50 % down payment is required to confirm Easter & Xmas package bookings.
- Full payment should be settled in cash or credit card upon arrival.
- Luxor Hot Air Balloon Flights itinerary is available in private or group.
- Printable Payment voucher & confirmation would be emailed to you.
- You will get our contacts list (operators & 24/7 customer care).
- We never apply cancellation fees in all 'force majeure' cases.
- Cancellation fees are applied in personal & business conditions.
- We book airlines from Usa Uk Australia Canada Uae Ksa India & Europe.
- We recommend you to buy good travel insurance as we do Not offer.
- Ask our agents about group discounts and cancellation penalties.
- Terms apply when you book Luxor Hot Air Balloon Flights offer.
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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child develops counting skills while matching and counting pictures of shapes with Oobi.
Your child develops memory skills as they try to remember what piece is missing from the pattern.
Zoodles 11.8.7 Copyright (c) 2014 Inquisitive Minds, Inc. All rights reserved.


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The only thing better than sex is amazing sex. But what if you could make amazing sex last even longer, with an intense orgasm that's two or even three times longer than you've ever experienced?
What if you could increase your semen volume naturally, with huge loads of cum on demand, awesome virility and the reputation of a stud?
When you finally release, it's nothing short of euphoria, with an intense, highly pleasurable orgasm that will leave you gasping for more.
And the look on your partner's face, well, let's just say it sums up what you're thinking without speaking a word...
Let's go again!
No drugs, either. Semenax® is an all-natural formula, of herbals and amino acids including l-arginine, strategically placed in a safe and highly effective male supplement with one objective:
To give you the LONGEST, MOST INTENSE and, yes, BEST SEX of your life!
And now there's CLINICAL PROOF that Semenax® is the real deal, with researchers, who conducted what's arguably the most enjoyable study in history, impressed with Semenax so much they conclude:
"The label claim of Semenax® has been substantiated through this study since Semenax® has shown efficacy in increasing the ejaculate volume over placebo in a short duration of 2 months."
The secret to a mind-blowing male orgasm is deceptively simple: more semen.
And that's exactly where Semenax® steps up and offers YOU the chance to jump-start your sex life with HUGE LOADS of semen that encourage the orgasmic muscles to work harder and faster.
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Yet these muscles only contract while there's semen to expel. Once it's gone, your orgasm is over. Then you wait til you've got enough semen to start the process over again.
And it's not just the length of your orgasm determined by this process. The intensity, too, is governed by the speed at which your muscles contract.
To address this, Semenax® is formulated with key nutrients, including l-arginine, muira pauma and l-lysine, that feed the male reproductive system and turbo-charge your natural production of semen.
This means:
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We knew we were on to something when we launched Semenax® over a decade ago. The glowing testimonials quickly came in from guys who loved the longer orgasm. And they LOVED the intensity.
So we put it to a test. And the results are striking.
In a clinical two month double-blind study of 63 men between 30 and 60, researchers split participants in two groups. The first, dubbed the Semenax® arm, received four Semenax® pills taken twice a day. The second group took a placebo at the same dosage.
The study's objective? To measure the length and intensity of the orgasm for men taking Semenax®.
Kinda makes YOU wish you were part of the study, doesn't it? :)
On the study's conclusion...
A higher number of patients in the Semenax® arm showed a 20% or more increase in ejaculate volume as compared with placebo*.
Semenax® showed statistical significance over placebo with respect to Investigator's global assessment and patient's global efficacy assessment. A higher number of patients in the Semenax® arm showed an increase in orgasm intensity, from Baseline to EoT (End of Treatment), as compared with placebo*.
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Source: Dr. Anuradha Kulkami, Vedic Lifesciences
Effect of Semenax® Capsules on Semen Characteristics, pp 5-6
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Where will your next great marketing idea come from?
Here's an idea.
Pick 5-8 people in your organization who are not in sales or marketing. Invite them to a one-hour meeting later this week, and at the meeting spend 15 minutes each brainstorming on the four questions below:
- How will you identify and empower your most loyal customers to tell your story, increase positive word-of-mouth and general referrals?
- What can employees do to evangelize your brand, and attract both new customers and potential new employees, on and off work hours?
- How could you identify, engage and participate in customer communities to build value, trust, credibility and consideration/intent towards your brand?
- What simple things can you do to inspire greater retention, renewals or frequency with current customers (without spending additional money)?
I bet you'll be pleasantly surprised how creative, innovative and useful their ideas and that time will be.
Bonus points if you hand them a copy of the questions afterward, give them a day or two to think more about it, then reconvene the group for a follow-up session to discuss additional ideas.
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Matt Heinz is principal at Heinz Marketing, a sales & marketing consulting firm helping businesses increase customers and revenue. Contact Matt at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.heinzmarketing.com.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, July 16 (UPI) -- Officials in Fort Worth, Texas, said they are looking into a demolition crew's mistaken razing of the wrong home.
City officials confirmed Monday the house, which was unoccupied at the time, was mistakenly demolished July 12 instead of the nearby property scheduled for demolition, KDFW-TV, Dallas/Fort Worth, reported Tuesday.
David Underwood, owner of the demolished home, said the house had been in his family for decades, but no one was living in the structure at the time of the demolition.
"We came around Silver Creek looking for the lot and my wife said, David... I think the house is gone," Underwood said. "We looked up there and sure enough, it's gone!"
Underwood said there were some irreplaceable personal items and antiques inside the home when it was demolished.
City officials said the incident is being investigated.


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Online Scheduler for Shared Instruments
FOM© is an online accounting and instrument management software.
FOM is FREE for small research group use (online scheduler only, with a minimal installation fee).
FOM supports unlimited number of instruments, unlimited number of facilities, and unlimited number of users.
FOM can be used as a simple scheduler or as a complicated management system. It can be used in a single laboratory, or used to host all the facilities on campus. If you are interested in using FOM©, please contact FOM Networks at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Visit http://www.FOMNetworks.com/ to see the features of FOM©
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General admission-2 Day Admission into LegoLand® Florida and Legoland® Water Park.
We take pride in our ability to provide our customers with the lowest prices on all Orlando attractions as well as great deals on Disney Ticket upgrades! All the prices listed for tickets on our site Include Taxes and include No Hidden Fees.Customers will be able to see the full amount that they will pay listed with no hidden surprises.


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I was surprised when one of my close friend who live in NYC told me she like Kueh Nee Gor.I know kueh nee gor(steamed egg cake) is not many people favorite. I think the reason why many people don't really like this steamed cake is because it texture is quite dry and not really sweet like many other cake out there..I steamed 2 different flavor cake:chocolate and strawberry intend to brings as gift to visit my sick friend.Unfortunately,something come up,so I can't go..Now I left with 2 kueh nee gor for my breakfast..I remember when I was young I used to dipped this steamed cake into hot milo or horlick...yummmy!!
250 gm all purpose flour
500 gm granulated sugar *reduce if it's too sweet*
8 Large egg
2 tbsp orange juice (Tropicana)
3 tbsp 7-up or Sprite
1 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp coco powder
3 tbsp strawberry powder (Nesquick)
1: Sieved flour in a bowl ,set aside.
2: Combine eggs and sugar in mixer bowl,beat ingredients at highest speed until foamy and fluffy.It's about 15 minutes if you use hand beater on speed #3.If you're using Kitchen Aid mixer,use #8 speed for 10 minutes.
3:Then add in 7-up and orange juice before adding in flour.Reduce speed to low ,mix flour well together,remove immediately after 10 round whips .Or just fold in the flour using spatula.*Do not over beat the mixture*
3:Meanwhile,prepare water in a steamer at high heat.
4:Divided the batter into 4 portion.Scoop 1/4 of the dough into a prepared parchment paper over 2 steam basket. Mixed the other 1/4 dough with cocoa powder and swirl over the dough in the basket,to make marble effect cake.Use knife or chopstick or spoon to swirl the chocolate batter .Repeat the same for strawberry flavor.
5:Steam batter in the steamer at high heat for 30 minutes .Do not let the vapor drop on the batter.Best result use clothes to close the gap.Remove the cover immediately from steamed cake to check the readiness by using toothpick.If the tooth pick come out clean,then it ready.
6:Remove parchment paper before cut and serve.


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What Are Specific Land Claims?
Specific claims are grievances brought by aboriginal peoples in Canada against the Crown, the executive level of government.
The Crown has a fiduciary relationship with aboriginal peoples and has a political duty to use its legal authority in relation to aboriginal peoples to protect their distinctive rights and interests. In particular situations, the Crown's role gives rise to lawful obligations. For example, the Crown must act honourably in implementing treaty rights or in using its Indian Act powers to manage the lands and assets of a band on behalf of that community. Specific claims are grievances that arise from the alleged failure of the Crown to fulfill these obligations in particular cases.
Specific claims are not the same as comprehensive claims, in which aboriginal peoples assert their claim of title to land according to historic use and occupation. Unlike specific claims, comprehensive claims do not necessarily involve allegations of Crown misconduct.
Canada has over six hundred aboriginal communities, including Indian bands, Métis groups, and Inuit groups, as well as a large and varied web of treaties and agreements, and federal authority under the Indian Act. Over the years, a large backlog of unresolved specific claims has arisen.
In the landmark case of Guerin, the Supreme Court of Canada held that federal mismanagement of its role with respect to a band's lands or assets can give rise to a claim that can be enforced in the courts of law. The courts have not, however, been a forum in which many claims have been brought or resolved. Not only is litigation expensive and time-consuming, but also the Crown could invoke defences based on the amount of time that had passed since its alleged misconduct occurred.
In Outstanding Business, the federal government consolidated its own internal process for dealing with specific claims. This policy provided that a band could file a claim with Canada, which would consider the claim on its merits and without regard to time-related technical defences. But this process nevertheless proved unsatisfactory because Canada had the final say in claims brought against it and was under no real pressure to resolve the claims with reasonable speed.
After the Oka crisis in 1990, the government of Canada created the Indian Claims Commission (ICC), whose mandate was to conduct inquiries into specific claims and make recommendations. It had no power, however, to make legally binding decisions. While a number of inquiries and reports did contribute to the settlement of specific claims, other reports were not adopted by Canada, and the backlog of claims continued to grow. A collection of the reports of the now defunct ICC is included in this website.
Over many decades, a number of studies proposed the creation of a specialized and expert body having the power to make legally binding decisions on specific claims. One such system was proposed in 1963. In 1998, a joint task force of the Assembly of First Nations and Canada recommended a model bill for a claims commission. In 2003, Parliament enacted the Specific Claims Resolution Act, but it was never proclaimed into force. Aboriginal peoples regarded the bill as falling far short of the key recommendations of the Joint Task Force Report.
The complaints included the views that the proposed system did not provide for a body that was sufficiently independent and that Canada still had many opportunities to delay the processing of claims.
In 2007, the federal government issued its Justice At Last report, which called for an independent adjudicative body. A new joint task force composed of officials from the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Canada worked together on the details of the bill and produced a comprehensive proposal for legislation. Some additional issues were included in a political agreement between the AFN and Canada. Parliament enacted the Specific Claims Tribunal Act, which came into force on October 16, 2008.
About this Site
This website is intended as an educational and research resource for anyone interested in specific claims. Its aim is to provide convenient access to the many documents that have been written on the subject over the years.
The photograph in the header of this website symbolizes Treaty 8, signed in 1899. According to First Nations elders, Treaty 8 was expected to be binding "as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the river flows."
This page provides a chronology of the development of law and policy on specific claims, from the Royal Proclamation of 1763 to the Specific Claims Tribunal Act of 2008. It also includes links to maps, surveys, histories, summaries, and facts on specific claims.
Established in 1991, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples produced in 1996 a 4000-page report containing 440 recommendations regarding the relationship between First Nations and the provincial and federal governments of Canada. Among these were recommendations on lands and resources, economic development, and governance. This page provides links to the relevant chapters of the report.
This page provides links to the reports and recommendations of the Indian Claims Commission, whose mandate was to inquire into and report on the government's rejection of a specific claim, or on the compensation criteria applied in the negotiation of a settlement.
This page provides documents prepared by the Assembly of First Nations, the national organization that advocates on behalf of Indian bands across Canada. It includes reports, analyses, and political resolutions.
This page provides links to federal government documents, including documents produced by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, the Prime Minister's Office, and the Library of Parliament.
This page provides links to bills C-130 (1963), C-123 (1965), C-6 (2003), and C-30 (2008).
This page provides links to academic articles and case comments on specific claims from 1977 to the present.
This page includes links to decisions on specific claims in the courts of law.


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From Kiwi agencies Resn and Saatchi Wellington comes a row of games for New Zealand's air force (how cute is their logo?). The games under the title "Step Up" can all be played on the NZ's airforce YouTube channel - give them a go. The special twist is that you are controlling a live camera across a model landscape. After you have finished playing the game, you can get a personalized YouTube video of your flight to share with friends.
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NOTE : As we go back through the archives of the Design Center we find some articles worth saving. Most are deleted. This article was published with authors' permissions in promotion for their book Multimedia Law Handbook. It was published in 1994 -- only the styling has been updated -- the original file now deleted.
AN UNDERSTANDING OF LEGAL ISSUES is essential to success in the multimedia industry. Mistakes can cost the multimedia developer tens or even hundred of thousands of dollars in legal fees and damages.
Delrina* lost hundreds of thousands of dollars and had to recall all of the copies of its screen saver last fall when it lost a copyright suit. Delrina distributed a screen saver in which one of the 30 modules showed the comic book character Opus shooting down Berkeley Systems' "flying toasters"* (made famous in Berkeley's "After Dark" screen saver program). Berkeley Systems sued Delrina for copyright and trademark infringement. The court ruled for Berkeley Systems, prohibiting further distribution of Delrina's product and requiring Delrina to recall all of the product not already sold.
Two leading multimedia developers, Michael Saenz and Joe Sparks have been in court since the fall of 1993 in a dispute about the ownership of the copyright in their successful game, Spaceship Warlock. The dispute focuses on whether Joe was an employee or independent contractor of Reactor, Inc. (Mike Saenz's company) when they developed the game. If Joe is right in claiming that he was an independent contractor, he is co-owner of the copyright and has a right to half of the profits from the game. These profits could be worth millions of dollars.
This primer will help you understand the legal issues in developing and distributing multimedia works. It is based on the Multimedia Law Handbook from Ladera Press, which has been endorsed by the Interactive Multimedia Association*. This summary of the law should not be viewed as "answering" most questions. Legal matters in multimedia are frequently complex and you should not rely on the information in this primer alone. You should consult with experienced counsel before making any final decisions. Multimedia products require a knowledge of the four major forms of intellectual property as well as the laws governing rights of publicity, defamation and libel.
Major Intellectual Property Laws in the United States
There are four major intellectual property laws in the United States that are important for multimedia developers: Copyright law, which protects original "works of authorship."
- Patent law, which protects new, useful, and "nonobvious" inventions and processes.
- Trademark law, which protects words, names, and symbols used by manufacturers and businesses to identify their goods and services.
- Trade secret law, which protects valuable information not generally known that has been kept secret by its owner. This primer will focus on U.S. copyright law because copyright law is the most important of these laws for most multimedia developers and publishers. COPYRIGHT LAW There are two reasons why it is important for you as a multimedia developer or publisher to be familiar with the basic principles of copyright law:
- Multimedia works are created by combining "content" - music, text, graphics, illustrations, photographs, software - that is protected under copyright law. Developers and publishers must avoid infringing copyrights owned by others.
Original multimedia works are protected by copyright. The Copyright Act's exclusive rights provision gives developers and publishers the right to control unauthorized exploitation of their works. Copyright law is a "federal" law and the law does not vary from state to state (although the interpretation of the law may be different in different courts).
Basic Principles
This section summarizes the basic principles of copyright law, including the types of works that are protected by copyright, how copyright protection is obtained, and the scope of the protection.
Works Protected
Copyright protection is available for "works of authorship." The Copyright Act states that works of authorship include the following types of works which are of interest to the multimedia developer:
- Literary works. Novels, nonfiction prose, poetry, newspaper articles and newspapers, magazine articles and magazines, computer software, software manuals, training manuals, manuals, catalogs, brochures, ads (text), and compilations such as business directories
- Musical works. Songs, advertising jingles, and instrumentals.
- Dramatic works. Plays, operas, and skits.
- Pantomimes and choreographic works. Ballets, modern dance, jazz dance, and mime works.
- Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works. Photographs, posters, maps, paintings, drawings, graphic art, display ads, cartoon strips and cartoon characters, stuffed animals, statues, paintings, and works of fine art.
- Motion pictures and other audiovisual works. Movies, documentaries, travelogues, training films and videos, television shows, television ads, and interactive multimedia works.
- Sound recordings. Recordings of music, sounds, or words.
Obtaining Copyright Protection
Copyright protection arises automatically when an "original" work of authorship is "fixed" in a tangible medium of expression. Registration with the Copyright Office is optional (but you have to register before you file an infringement suit, and registering early will make you eligible to receive attorney's fees and statutory damages in a future lawsuit). Here's what "original" and "fixed" mean in copyright law:
Originality: A work is original in the copyright sense if it owes its origin to the author and was not copied from some preexisting work.
Fixation: A work is "fixed" when it is made "sufficiently permanent or stable to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration." Even copying a computer program into RAM has been found to be of sufficient duration for it to be "fixed" (although some scholars and lawyers disagree with this conclusion). Neither the "originality" requirement nor the "fixation" requirement is stringent. An author can "fix" words, for example, by writing them down, typing them on an old-fashioned typewriter, dictating them into a tape recorder, or entering them into a computer. A work can be original without being novel or unique.
Example: Betsy's book How to Lose Weight is original in the copyright sense so long as Betsy did not create her book by copying existing material - even if it's the millionth book to be written on the subject of weight loss. Only minimal creativity is required to meet the originality requirement. No artistic merit or beauty is required.
A work can incorporate preexisting material and still be original. When preexisting material is incorporated into a new work, the copyright on the new work covers only the original material contributed by the author.
Example: Developer's multimedia work incorporates a number of photographs that were made by Photographer (who gave Developer permission to use the photographs in the multimedia work). The multimedia work as a whole owes its origin to Developer, but the photographs do not. The copyright on the multimedia work does not cover the photographs, just the material created by Developer.
Scope of Protection
Copyright protects against "copying" the "expression" in a work as opposed to the idea of the work. The difference between "idea" and "expression" is one of the most difficult concepts in copyright law. The most important point to understand is that the protection of the "expression" is not limited to exact copying either of the literal words of a novel or the shape of stuffed bear. Copyright infringement extends to new works which are "substantially similar".
- A copyright owner has five exclusive rights in the copyrighted work:
- Reproduction Right. The reproduction right is the right to copy, duplicate, transcribe, or imitate the work in fixed form.
- Modification Right. The modification right (also known as the derivative works right) is the right to modify the work to create a new work. A new work that is based on a preexisting work is known as a "derivative work."
- Distribution Right. The distribution right is the right to distribute copies of the work to the public by sale, rental, lease, or lending.
- Public Performance Right. The public performance right is the right to recite, play, dance, act, or show the work at public place or to transmit it to the public. In the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, showing the work's images in sequence is considered "performance." Some types of works, such as sound recordings, do not have a public performance right.
- Public Display Right. The public display right is the right to show a copy of the work directly or by means of a film, slide, or television image at a public place or to transmit it to the public. In the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, showing the work's images out of sequence is considered "display."
In addition, certain types of works of "visual art" also have "moral rights" which limit the modification of the work and the use of the author's name without permission from the original author.
Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of a copyright owner is an infringer.
Example: Developer scanned Photographer's copyrighted photograph, altered the image by using digital editing software, and included the altered version of the photograph in a multimedia work that Developer sold to consumers. If Developer used Photographer's photograph without permission, Developer infringed Photographer's copyright by violating the reproduction right (scanning the photograph), the modification right (altering the photograph), and the distribution right (selling the altered photograph in his work).
A copyright owner can recover actual or, in some cases, statutory damages (which can be as high as $100,000 in some cases) from an infringer. In addition, courts have the power to issue injunctions (orders) to prevent or restrain copyright infringement and to order the impoundment and destruction of infringing copies.
The term of copyright protection depends on three factors: who created the work, when the work was created, and when it was first distributed commercially. For copyrightable works created on and after January 1, 1978, the copyright term for those created by individuals is the life of the author plus 50 years. The copyright term for "works made for hire" (see below) is 75 years from the date of first "publication" (distribution of copies to the general public) or 100 years from the date of creation, whichever expires first.
Generally, the copyright is owned by the person (or persons) who create the work. However, if the work is created by employee within the scope of his or her employment, the employer owns the copyright because it is a "work for hire." The copyright law also includes another form of "work for hire": it applies only to certain types of works which are specially commissioned works. These works include audiovisual works, which will include most multimedia projects. In order to qualify the work as a "specially commissioned" work for hire, the creator must sign a written agreement stating that it is a "work for hire" prior to commencing development of the product (please note that this primer deals only with United States law; most foreign jurisdictions do not recognize the "specially commissioned" work for hire, and you need an assignment to transfer rights in those countries).
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A dorm-room staple for two decades, Madden brings voice-activated commands—snapping the ball, calling time out, changing the play—that are at high risk of abuse in that particular environment. You may wish to turn them off unless you can be assured you're the only one in the room.
Madden NFL 13's voice-activated Kinect prompts work only in singleplayer offline modes and in online multiplayer. This probably is because the Kinect sensor can't differentiate voices in the same room—a shortcoming we've seen exploited to a hilarious end here in Skyrim. Yet, Skyrim also is less of a spectator sport than Madden, which is why the potential for voice-trolling here is large, if not as precipitous as attacking an entire village and then quicksaving.
"There's nothing you can do to defend against your brother," in the same room, Victor Lugo, a producer on Madden, told ESPN's Jon Robinson. "You'll just need to find a way to shut him up."
If you're playing in a high-traffic area, my suggestion would be to unplug the Kinect sensor, or deactivate its features, if that's available in the menu options when the game releases. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 didn't have an option to deactivate Kinect input. I draped a baseball cap over the thing or faced it backward to keep it from swapping menus when I leaned back in my desk chair.
For those in online multiplayer, don't worry. Once your team comes to the line "we mute you out for that 20 seconds before you snap the ball," Lugo said. "[I]t defends against you telling hike through and having it get picked up through their surround sound speakers."


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We hear completely retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre is pretty revered up in Wisconsin. Especially in the town of Green Bay. Midwesterners are forgiving folks, and they put up with the whole dong-texting and playing-for-the-Vikings thing. So, as you might expect, some dude (pictured above) pretending to be Favre is similarly popular.
The Green Bay Press-Gazette explains:
A man who resembles Brett Favre has been impersonating the former Packers quarterback around Green Bay—he's even been wearing a No. 4 jersey.
David Thomason, Favre's travel coordinator, said the man impersonating Favre reportedly attended the Packers practice Thursday and posed for pictures with several fans. He also showed up at two area sports bars, Thomason said.
Fake Favre signed autographs—as Favre—at the sports bars, but apparently he kept his head down while indoors. A bar owner, Jerry Watson, told the Press-Gazette, "The guy is a phony!"
There's no word yet on what could happen if Fake Favre is busted. If Roger Goodell gets involved, we wouldn't expect much more than a $50k fine in Monopoly money.
Phony Brett Favre seen at bars, Green Bay Packers practice signing autographs [Green Bay Press-Gazette, h/t Brian and BJ]


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Good Friday afternoon. Let's end the week with some app updates.
Skyfire has reentered the iTunes App Store, but who knows how long the app will remain there.
The Skyfire app brings Flash video content to the iPhone by encoding Flash video on the fly and playing it back as HTML5. The key is the abilities of the Skyfire Labs servers to do all this quickly and smoothly. And therein lies the problem: demand of the $2.99 app was so high that the Skyfire system could not cope, so the developer quickly pulled the app to limit the amount of users.
Now, as you can see at right, the app is back, but comes with a warning page that performance might be less than optimal. (No link because it might be dead before you know it.)
"We are going to open batches of downloads for new users over the coming days. The first batch will be in a few minutes on the Apple App Store. It will be first come, first serve," CEO Jeff Glueck wrote on the company's blog. "Please note that there may be some initial congestion as a flood of new users simultaneously try to use the service, but try again an hour later and things should smooth out."
McClatchy released an iPhone app for another of its newspapers -- this time for the Anchorage Daily News. This is the ninth iPhone app for McClatchy, all developed with the assistance of Verve Wireless.
The latest news app offers lots of content, and is definitely based on the unique news needs of the audience: Fishing, Wildlife, Military and other news categories are on the Anchorage Daily News app.
There is one banner ad spot repeated throughout and the first advertiser is, indeed, from an Alaska firm, not some network ad from the lower 48.
McClatchy is certainly behind other newspaper chains. They have no tablet editions yet, and are apparently satisfied to outsource their mobile efforts rather than invest in the future. It's a bit disappointing, but ...
Now for something a little different: the first mobile app from Rosetta -- the language education people. If you've ever investigated spending money on using Rosetta to learn another language you know how expensive it can be.
Now they have released their first mobile language education app, Discover French, which will cost the user $9.99. One would guess that this will merely give the user a flavor of Rosetta, with added costs down the line. But frankly, I'll have to explore the app more to know for sure.
One interest thing about the app is that they decided to do it completely in landscape mode. Exploring the app further might give a clue to this choice.


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Every Wednesday when the weather is fair there is a farmers market for free local grown food. There are dances, and many sports teams. Also you can go into town to watch a movie or dine with a friend. The real fun, however, starts in the winter. There are a number of winter sports, and completions. Upper Michigan get's a lot of snow, which is Ideal for the skiing and snowboard junkie!Read More
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The dorm and college put on game night and movie nights, they were really fun. There were also dances and other things to keep you active.Read More
In the spring, summer and fall, there are a plethora of hiking trails and scenic areas to visit. Right behind the school is Mount Zion which provides a great view of the Porcupine Mountain range. Additionally, the largest of the Great Lakes is only 12 miles away and people can visit the rocky shores of Lake Superior and all its grandness at Little Girl's Point for example. Also, with a short road trip, students can go to Duluth, Minn., or hit several of the bigger cities in Wisconsin. In winter, there are several ski hills in the area where snowboarding, skiing and innertubing are fun activities. There's also an abundance of hunting and fishing opportunities around the area.Read More


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Let $(M,g)$ be a closed, smooth Riemannian manifold. Let $\Delta = -div\nabla$ be the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Let $h$ be a smooth function on $M$. Is there a condition on $h$ weaker than non-negativity such that $\Delta + h$ is a positive or non-negative operator?
I'm thinking of something akin to the following: For the conformal Laplacian, non-negativity of the Yamabe constant is sufficient for any $h$ that is a scalar curvature of a metric in the conformal class.


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Last Halloween, Scott Gold, author of The Shameless Carnivore: A Manifesto for Meat Lovers, offered to serve as guest chef at an underground dinner party hosted by his friend Kara Masi at her apartment in Fort Greene. Tasked with cooking for 12 devoted gourmands, Mr. Gold, an accomplished if not professional cook, swung for the fences, dreaming up a truly frightening dish called "Zombie's Delight": pan-fried calves' brains. He bought the raw organs—four half-brains—at Ottomanelli & Sons on Bleecker, and then, in Ms. Masi's kitchen, proceeded to "blanch 'em in cold water, then poach 'em, then take off all the little blood clots and membranes, and then dredge it in flour and pan-fry it in a nice peanut oil until it's golden brown, then let it drain" (all while dressed as a pirate). Brains "are easily just the grossest raw ingredient you'll work with," Mr. Gold told The Observer with evident glee. But they had a "soft, creamy consistency," almost like a flan, and "a musty, visceral flavor." At least 10 out of the 12 attendees tried them, and while none asked for the recipe, Mr. Gold considered the dish a success. "Most people were just like, 'Oh wow, this didn't make me vomit, hooray!'"
It's a sentiment increasingly familiar to New York diners. In the past few years, offal—the animal parts that fall off the butcher table, like the entrails, head and feet—has progressed from a rare delicacy at risk-taking restaurants like Babbo, Prune and Michael White's now-defunct Fiamma to a ubiquity of near–pork-belly proportions. Prime beef? Hopelessly minor league, not to mention kind of unenlightened. Call yourself a chef? Let's see what you can do with a whole (locally raised, hormone-free, of course) carcass. Let's see you braise a kidney.
Meanwhile, butcher shops like the Meat Hook in Williamsburg and Dickson's Farmstand Meats in Chelsea Market sell ambitious amateurs everything from headcheese to chorizo-stuffed duck hearts. A blog called Nose to Tail at Home chronicles the Julie Powell–like adventures of a young foodie named Ryan Adams (not the singer) attempting to cook from the British chef Fergus Henderson's seminal 2004 offal bible, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating. And last summer's inevitable nationally televised offal street-food competition occurred not on Fear Factor but Top Chef Masters, with Chicago's Rick Bayless' tongue tacos triumphing.
"It shows a level of skill and also a care and concern," said Seamus Mullen, chef at Boqueria in Soho and on 19th Street, who regularly serves pan-roasted sweetbreads, pork liver terrines, lamb kidneys and rabbit organs. Mr. Mullen said that the dishes, while not yet blockbusters, sell well, especially when he puts them in small, cheaper appetizer portions—less of a commitment. There is an obvious spirit of daring to the entrail enterprise. "When we first opened L'Artusi and even Dell'anima, all I wanted on the menu was funky, weird shit," said Gabe Thompson, chef at the two West Village Italian restaurants, where he cooks sweetbreads and livers and has considered adding brains. "Cooks like to eat funky, weird shit, and cooks like to send other cooks out funky, weird shit."
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Cesare Casella is currently serving plenty of guanciale and Sloppy Guisseppe (a sloppy Joe made of leftover parts like oxtail and bone marrow) at Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto on the Upper West Side. He served a veal brains special at the now-shuttered Maremma, along with Granelli—"otherwise known as Rocky Mountain Oysters or cow's balls," Mr. Casella said, but "brains were so much harder to sell than testicles. … For some reason, diners were more comfortable with the idea of eating balls."
Mr. Batali, the primary auteur of fine dining's current offalmania, has had better luck with his lamb's brain "francobolli," a staple since he put it on Babbo's opening menu in 1998. "I used it because it was an inexpensive way to profit," he told The Observer, "but also because it served to distinguish my restaurants from the rest of the Italian restaurants that pretty much had veal Milanese and ricotta ravioli with tomato sauce." He also cites "philosophical responsibility."
For all the balls-out (sorry) nature of offal, chefs offering it still tend to traffic in euphemism. A handy glossary: guanciale (pork jowl), trotters (pig's feet), cod milt (cod sperm, once offered at the now-shuttered John Dory on 10th Avenue), tripe (stomach, though it sounds more like a mild white fish, which perhaps helps account for its popularity), Orielles de Christ (pig skin, available at the Vanderbilt in Brooklyn) and, of course, so-called sweetbreads (thymus and pancreas, available everywhere from Babbo to Prune to Little Italy). Some offal is more straightforward in name, such as fatback (literally, back fat) and caul fat (a fatty membrane surrounding pig intestines). And organs like the liver, kidney and brains have largely evaded semantic cover, though they also sometimes escape mention in terrines around town, where they add depth of flavor if not commercial appeal.
At the new Breslin at the Ace Hotel, April Bloomfield, a Brit and offal's reigning high priestess, has dispensed with the niceties and is serving "Stuffed Pig's Foot (for 2)," which Times critic Sam Sifton described as "the size of a toddler's leg." And possibly piggybacking (sorry again) on the favor for British cooking cultivated by Ms. Bloomfield, a new Scottish gastropub in the West Village called the Highlands has begun tempting/repulsing customers with haggis, the traditional Scottish delicacy involving boiling intestines in a sheep's stomach. Mr. Thompson said the civilian clientele for offal consists of two distinct groups: "All these people who are 20 being like, 'I eat everything!'; and people who are 60 saying, 'I haven't eaten sweetbreads since I was a little kid!'" At the Spotted Pig, where crispy pig's ear is the sixth best-selling dish, owner Ken Friedman recently observed, "These people come in, mostly older English people, and they eat [chef Bloomfield's] liver and onions and bacon, and they like have tears in their eyes."


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Welcome to HiddenSongs.com!
Welcome to HiddenSongs.com - a comprehensive listing of hidden and unlisted tracks from albums by all types of artists throughout the history of recorded music, from vinyl records to cassettes to compact discs to MP3s.
What is a hidden song?
A hidden track (also known as a "ghost track" or "easter egg") is a song on an album which is not listed on the album sleeve or jacket. On a CD, usually the song is accessed by playing the final track through then going through a brief moment of silence. Sometimes they are even found by rewinding past the beginning of the first track!
An unlisted track is different because the hidden song has its own track and can be directly accessed without having to go through the previous song, it's just not listed with the other songs on the album on the back of the sleeve.
Hidden tracks can be live recordings, alternate takes or mixes, or studio outtakes. Not all hidden tracks are songs; sometimes they are made up of studio banter or interviews.
How to use this site
The listings on this site are organized by artist (last name/first name). For example, the artist Sheryl Crow appears in the Cs. The Beatles appear in the Bs. However, if you are looking for a specific artist, album, or song it would be easier to use the search function at the bottom of each page.
Each listing tells the artist, album, hidden song title, any special information such as what the song is about, and directions on how to access the track.
If you know of a hidden song not listed or can add information to any of the existing entries, please let us know.


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A couple weeks ago Holly from, Mom taught Us, asked me if I would like to be a guest blogger for her 12 Guest Bloggers of Christmas. Of course I was thrilled that she asked me. I have never guest blogged before, so the invite was quite the honor. I was not sure what I was going to make, but I knew it had to be something delicious because I did not want to disappoint. Conveniently my fiance bought me a copy of Martha Stewart's Cookies for my birthday a couple weeks ago which gave me plenty of options. I wanted to bake just about everything in the cookbook, but these bars were screaming to be made. The original recipe called for caramel, but I did not start baking these until 9pm and did not feel like running to the store. I left out the caramel, added some peanut butter chips, and halved the amount of white chocolate. These bars are perfect for any baker who has several opened bags of miscellaneous chips stored in the pantry. You can really throw anything in them and they are incredible! They stayed fresh for several days and because they are bars, they will ship well if you plan to ship holiday goodies.
To see the recipe you are going to have to visit Mom Taught Us and while you are there check out all the amazing recipes.
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BOISE, Idaho — An inmate who castrated herself with a disposable razor blade after prison officials refused to treat her for gender identity disorder should have female hormone therapy paid for by the state, a federal judge said.
Jenniffer Spencer, who was born biologically male, sued the Idaho Department of Correction and its physicians, claiming that her constitutional rights were violated and that she was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment when the doctors failed to diagnose gender identity disorder and treat her with female hormones. Instead, the department and its doctors repeatedly offered Spencer the male hormone testosterone.
A trial over the lawsuit has not been scheduled, but U.S. District Judge Mikel Williams ruled Friday that the state must provide Spencer with psychotherapy and estrogen pending trial. Williams also noted that Spencer is scheduled for release in two years, and that getting the lawsuit to trial could take that long or longer.
The state's attorneys contend that prison doctors did not find conclusive evidence that Spencer, 27, has gender identity disorder. It would be unethical for the doctors to prescribe a drug that wasn't needed and that could do harm, attorney John Burke said.
The judge disagreed.
"There is no evidence before the court that female hormones have, in fact, proved harmful to male subjects who are no longer producing testosterone," Williams said.
Other transgender inmates are already receiving female hormone therapy, the judge said, and so the state is able to handle any special concerns that might arise if Spencer were given estrogen.
Correction Department spokesman Jeff Ray said Monday that the agency could not comment until it considered the implications of the ruling.
Lived as a woman
Spencer, who changed her name from Randall Gammett after she was imprisoned in 2000 for possession of a stolen car and escape, had lived full time as a woman and took birth control pills in an attempt to develop the secondary sex characteristics of a woman.
But she didn't tell Correction Department officials that she believed she had gender identity disorder until September 2003, when she learned the state had a policy detailing treatment options for transgender inmates.
She contends the department ignored some 75 requests she submitted for gender identity disorder treatment. Instead, prison doctors diagnosed a nonspecific sexual disorder, then bipolar disorder.
In August 2004, Spencer tried to hang herself in her cell but survived. Two months later she tried to castrate herself, failing in the first attempt but succeeding 10 days later.
The judge ruled that Spencer has a fair chance of winning at trial.
"While defendants seem to have identified the fact that plaintiff has a significant mental health issue regarding gender identity or confusion, there is little in the record to show that they have provided adequate psychotherapy or other counseling to address that issue. Rather, they seem to have consciously disregarded it," Williams said.
Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and an attorney for Spencer, said her client was pleased by the ruling.
"It got her the relief which she so urgently needed without any further delay," Minter said. "The decision is just so overwhelmingly positive that we are very hopeful the department will now work out a settlement with us without insisting on going forward with an entire trial."
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| May 27, 2011, 4:00 pm
There's a nice long weekend coming up, and long weekends call for langorous breakfasts — or at least big ones, what with all that grass to cut.
Here's one for chilaquiles from "Almost Meatless," a smart little 2009 cookbook from Joy Manning and Tara Mataraza Desmond that makes an excellent addition to the "healthier" side of your cookbook shelf. (The authors don't eschew meats and animal proteins altogether; instead, they offer recipes where meats and animal proteins take a back seat — which, common wisdom says, is a more healthful way to eat.)
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