Easy to spot on the corner of Maroubra and Bunnerong Roads, this local Italian institution is run by a pizza master who learned his trade back in Italy and, subsequently, in Sydney's Little Italy of Leichhardt. So it's no surprise that Vinny's Woodfired Pizza & Restaurant is akin to taking a Roman holiday, at least for an hour or two.
Coming fresh from the wood oven, the sourdough pizzas are as authentic as they come and topped with a mouth-watering range of ingredients, such as mozzarella, prosciutto, salami, king prawns and so much more. Many of the offerings are vegetarian, halal and gluten-free, so don't be afraid to ask about it. And, of course, if you're not feeling like pizza, Vinny's has pastas, schnitzels and veal specialties too.


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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Martian Menace
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A new addition to the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series from science fiction and crime author Eric Brown.
A second wave of Martians has come to Earth - the first wave having succumbed to lethal Terran pathogens. The second wave, arriving some five years later, did so with the aid of a cure for the various ills that scuppered their earlier plans - and these Martians claim to have come in peace.
Humankind, lulled into a false sense of security, welcomes the Martians who bring with them a host of technological and scientific wonders, and for several years an entente exists between the two races. It is only when Holmes and Watson travel to the Red Planet, ostensibly to track down the killer of an eminent Martian philosopher, that they learn the truth: the Martians who invaded Earth are tyrannical despots who subjugated a 'lesser' race of their own kind, and are merely biding their time to enslave the citizens of Earth. With the assistance of anti-Martian activist Miss Freya Hadfield-Bell, and a cadre of renegade Martians, Holmes and Watson escape Mars with their lives and return to Earth where they hope to work to overcome the rule of the oppressive Martian overlords.

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Where Is She Now: Helen Hunt (Actress) as Jamie - Mad About You.
Claim To Fame: Helen has a long and successful career. She began working in the 1970s as a child actress. Her early roles included an appearance as Murray Slaughter's daughter on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and a regular role in the television series 'The Swiss Family Robinson'.
In the mid-1980s, she had a recurring role on 'St. Elsewhere' as Clancy Williams, girlfriend of Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison.
She may have won an Oscar in 'As Good As It Gets, but there is no doubt that Helen is most-known for her role as Jamie Buchman in the TV series 'Mad About You'.
Boyfriend Matthew Carnahan with whom she has a daughter, Makena' Lei Gordon Carnahan, with. Born 13 May 2004.
Niece of Director, Designer, Peter Hunt.
Info: Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theater and television.
Trivia: Got the role in 'Twister'based on her performance in 'The Waterdance'.
Got the lead in 'As Good As It Gets' after Holly Hunter turned it down.
After divorcing Hank Azaria, she moved to New York, intending to do theater work, especially William Shakespeare.
Dated Eric Stoltz, her 'The Waterdance' co-star.
Beat Teri Hatcher for the role of Jamie Buchman in "Mad About You" at the final auditions.
Where Is She Now: Boy it sure seemed like after winning the Academy Award for 'As Good As It Gets' and the ending of 'Mad About You', Helen seemed to fade away. Well nothing could be further from the truth.
She actually appeared in many movies, in fact she appeared in four movies released in the year 2000. Two of them were in theaters at the same time during the end-of-the-year holiday season, and grossed over $150 million each: Cast Away and What Women Want.
She also hit Broadway in 'Life (x) 3'.
Helen did take some time off after the birth of her daughter. Then hit the big screen again in the 2006 movie, 'Bobby'.
This year she wrapped up, 'Then She Found Me' which will be released in 2008.


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Q: "Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a response was received." Chrome extension I'm building a chrome extension and am trying to create a connection between my background and content script, but `chrome.runtime.lastError is set to:
The message port closed before a response was received.
I have followed this solution How to implement "return true;"? Error: "The message port closed before a response was received.", and added 'return true' to mark it as aynschronous to keep the port open but am still getting an error. Here is my code
bacground.js
chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener((tabId, changeInfo, tab) => {
  var message = { message: "tab has been updated, read HTML from tab" };
  chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabId, message);

  //send second message
  chrome.tabs.sendMessage(
    tabId,
    { tabCreated: "true" },
    function (response) {
      if (chrome.runtime.lastError){
        console.log(chrome.runtime.lastError)
      }
      console.log("received response from context page", response)
      contextPageWidth = response.pageWidth
    });

});

content.js
  chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((request, sendResponse) => {
    sendResponse({pageWidth:"100"})
    return true;
  });

Anyone know where i am going wrong?

A: You need to add the "sender" parameter to your event listener like so:
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((request, sender, sendResponse) => {
        sendResponse({message:foo})
        return true;
      });

For further documentation please visit: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/messaging/

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Q: Why doesn't my file load the ArrayList /w Unity Well, I want to set up a login system for a multiplayer game and I've tried to write code for the server side login check. The username and password should be saved in a file so I can shutdown the server without loss of data. I know it's not a safe way to do this, but I need a starting point to build my prototype. If I´m in Puglish range I would look for alternative.
Any Idea why this doesnt work?
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.IO;

[System.Serializable]
public class Login : MonoBehaviour {

    public ArrayList PlayerNames;
    public ArrayList PlayerPass;
    public GameObject LoginName;
    public GameObject Password;
    public string Playname;
    public string Playerpass;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        Load();
        PlayerNames = new ArrayList();
        PlayerPass = new ArrayList();

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {

    }

    public  void Save()
    {

        BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
        FileStream username = File.Create(Application.persistentDataPath + "/username.gd");
        FileStream password = File.Create(Application.persistentDataPath + "/password.gd");
        bf.Serialize(username, PlayerNames);
        bf.Serialize(password, PlayerPass);
        username.Close();
        password.Close();
        Debug.Log("Saved");
        Debug.Log(PlayerNames);

    }

    public void Load()
    {

        if (File.Exists(Application.persistentDataPath + "/username.gd") && File.Exists(Application.persistentDataPath + "/password.gd"))
        {
            Debug.LogError("Loaded");

            BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
            FileStream username = File.Open(Application.persistentDataPath + "/username.gd", FileMode.Open);
            FileStream password = File.Open(Application.persistentDataPath + "/password.gd", FileMode.Open);
            PlayerNames = (ArrayList)bf.Deserialize(username);
            PlayerPass = (ArrayList)bf.Deserialize(password);
            username.Close();
            password.Close();

        }
    }

    int i;
    string Playerpasz;
    public void CheckRegister()
    {
        Playname = LoginName.GetComponent<InputField>().text;
        Playerpass = Password.GetComponent<InputField>().text;
        if (PlayerNames.Contains(Playname))
        {
            int indexItem = PlayerNames.IndexOf(Playname);
            string pass = PlayerPass.IndexOf(indexItem).ToString();

            foreach(var Passworz in PlayerPass)
            {
                if (i == indexItem) {

                    Playerpasz = Passworz.ToString();
                    Debug.Log(Playerpasz);
                    i = 0;
                }
                indexItem++;
            }
            Debug.Log("Username found: " + PlayerNames.IndexOf(Playname));
           // Debug.Log("Pass1:" + Playerpasz);
           // Debug.Log("Pass2:" + Playerpass);

            if (Playerpasz == Playerpass)
            {
                Debug.LogError("Pasword found");
                LoginSucess();
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.LogError("Falsches Passwort");
            }

        }
        else
        {
            Register();

        }
    }

    public void Register() {
        Debug.Log("Reg");
        PlayerNames.Add(Playname);
        PlayerPass.Add(Playerpass);
        Save();
        LoginSucess();
    }
    void LoginSucess()
    {
        Debug.LogError("Eingeloggt");

    }
}

A: I think that it won't work because of you initialization load order.
Check it out:
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
    Load();
    PlayerNames = new ArrayList();
    PlayerPass = new ArrayList();
}

First you are Loading the Names and Passwords from file, and after that, you simply overwrite the info with a new empty ArrayList. Remove this lines and test again:
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
    Load();
}

Remember that the Start method is called at the first time that the GameObject goes active.
Another good thing to do is what Maximilian said, instead having two arrays for the same group of information, why just don't create a serializable class with the Name and Pass being fields?


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Пепелышево — деревня в Калининском районе Тверской области. Относится к Черногубовскому сельскому поселению.

Находится в 14 км к северо-западу от Твери, на правом берегу реки Тверцы, в 1,5 км к северо-западу от деревни Черногубово.

Деревня расположена между берегом Тверцы и линией Октябрьской железной дороги.

В 1997 году — 6 хозяйств, 13 жителей. В 2002 году — 3 жителя.

Населённые пункты Калининского района (Тверская область)

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What is UTAU? Who is Kikyuune Aiko? How did I get here?
UTAU is freeware voice synthesis for music.
UTAUs (sometimes called UTAUloids) are folders of voice samples that are used in the UTAU software. These folders are usually called "voicebanks."
In its purest form, UTAU provides you with free virtual singers that sing your songs for you!
However, there's also a huge character aspect to UTAU; many UTAUs have a character avatar to represent each of them. Sound familiar at all? If an image of a "hologram" anime girl with giant teal pigtails popped into your head, you're very close. Vocaloid (and thusly, Hatsune Miku) is similar software for the same purpose, though it costs quite a bit more than the low low price of absolutely free.
Kikyuune Aiko is my personal UTAU voicebank. She's the first one I originally recorded and designed. The other characters on this site are either derivatives of that voicebank (in the case of Akio and Fuusenne) or voiced by my parents (in the case of Akihiko and Akiko). This site is where I host downloads relating to their voicebanks or character images and post all my UTAU and Vocaloid-related media that I (or fans of the Kikyuune family) have created!
You can expect a great deal of UTAU covers of other songs (mostly Vocaloid ones) because that's how I initially got into using UTAU.
I love helping people learn how to make an UTAU voicebank and use it properly, but I can't answer that all in a FAQ! Though I have tutorials planned, in the meantime, just message me on Soundcloud or deviantART or Skype, and I'll do my best to help! Please note that I am not currently taking OTO.ini requests or trades.
When will *voicebank* be finished or released?
If I ever say I'll have a voicebank by a certain date, add anywhere from a week or a few months onto the end of that deadline... I sadly do not tend to release voicebanks in a timely manner due to limited time and space for recording. I am also rather nitpicky with sound quality, which doesn't help at all. Many apologies.
What did you use to record?
Aiko's CV-VV voicebanks were recorded in Audacity using my Yeti, and her CVVC banks were recorded using OREMO, all in a closet home-made "studio" at my dad's house. Akihiko and Akiko were also recorded in Audacity on the Yeti, but not in very good spaces.
Aiko's Acts 1 through 3 were recorded in Garageband on the built-in mic on my Macbook. Version 4 (V.4, and V.4.1) was recorded in Audacity on an Audio Technica mic at my college library.
You use UTAU on Mac? Do you use UTAU-Synth?
I have plenty of experience in PC UTAU as I used to use Boot Camp on my older Macbook, but since my new computer has limited harddrive space, I've resorted to using UTAU-Synth almost exclusively for 2 years. However, I recently obtained a PC laptop and I've started using for Vocaloid, CeVIO and PC UTAU things, and I installed PC UTAU on my Macbook via Crossover.
How do Aiko's boots work?
Aiko isn't human! She was originally designed as a "biodroid" or an android with organic parts. It's the inverse of a cyborg, which is where a human was given robotic parts. The reason her boots are so clunky looking and somehow don't fall off is that they're actually part of her leg's outer casing, and it's also a kind of joke with friends that they can turn into rockets or roller skates and other things like a Transformer. However you can have her wear whatever shoes for whatever artwork you want!
Can my UTAU be paired with Aiko/be Aiko's friend?
Unofficially, sure! If you want your UTAU to sing with Aiko or you particularly like to ship her with whomever, go ahead. I think headcanon crushes and idol things are cute and it's really kind of an honor that people like her enough to do that sort of thing.
However, please don't claim it as "official" or go messing with Aiko's Wiki pages! And I'd rather you not ask me out of the blue to make your UTAU her "friend" because it just seems a bit awkward if we haven't ever talked before. Sorry!
Aiko looks like Rin with blue hair.
Okay, I do get this one a lot, and after some recent wiki vandalism, I feel I should address the issue in detail.
I know there are a LOT of similarities. I don't deny that. However, I never intended purposefully for Aiko to be similar to Rin, nor did I actually base her initial design off of Rin. She WAS, however, intended to be Crypton-styled, and her original design was heavily based on both Hatsune Miku and a fanmade named Fuyu Hiiragi. You can really see this in the prototype of her first design from when she was a fanmade Vocaloid and not an UTAU.
I think it's primarily the hair and hairclips that people recognize. The hairstyle developed over time (as shown below), and I just happen to like hairpins, so I added those into her first design. They were just kinda slapped onto her hair and meant to resemble buttons. When I went to try to make her hair a bit more "realistic" and less chunky, it became more and more Rin-like as time went on.
I do not pretend that doesn't resemble Rin, ESPECIALLY in her second-to-last design, but I have been trying to move past that by shortening her hair in back, keeping her bangs symmetrical and making the back flare out more on the sides and curve inwards in the middle. I am too much of a stick-in-the-mud to redesign her completely, so it's likely her hair won't change much past this latest iteration, and the play and pause button additions to the hairpins were a design gift/addition from my friend Mooncrafter, so the hairpins are also gonna stay.
How long have you been in UTAU?
I learned about UTAU through Zuii Takoe/SRS in late May/early June of 2009, but only started working on Aiko around June. She was first posted sometime around July 10th 2009 on my old personal Youtube channel. A week later, on the 17th, I moved UTAU operations to a new channel, UTAUxyz, and I've been at it ever since!
Aiko sounds like a boy. / Is Aiko a guy? / Are you a guy?
Aiko and I are both girls! I'm an alto, which is the lowest feminine voice range, and I tend to record her at what I consider a comfortable pitch.
While I don't mind nowadays if people headcanon Aiko as any gender (I've seen someone consider Aiko to be nonbinary at least once and that was kinda neat) I'll still be keeping the "canonical" gender female.
PLEASE NOTE: Even if you feel Aiko sounds or looks excessively masculine, do NOT refer to Aiko as a "tr*p". This word, which should be obvious, is a transphobic slur.
Have a question, or crits/reviews of Aiko or my USTs/songs?


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Authorization of method for billing and collecting incurred charges
Computation of amount to be raised
Pressurization charge
Unpaid charge as lien on land
Collection of incurred charges
Surety bond to be given by board secretary prior to handling district funds
Redemption of land upon or prior to foreclosure sale
Payment of taxes by district
Borrowing for payment of operation and maintenance costs
Moneys collected
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• redemption after sale
• attorney fees
(1) At any time after the delinquency date fixed by the resolution and upon the filing of the notice of claim of lien under ORS 545.494 (Unpaid charge as lien on land), the board by resolution may direct that all delinquent incurred charges then unpaid shall be foreclosed by the district. The foreclosure shall follow the general procedure of a suit in equity and be filed in the circuit court for the county in which the land to be foreclosed is situated. If land in two or more counties is to be foreclosed, separate proceedings shall be commenced in each county as to the lands in that county. In addition to such incurred charges being foreclosed, the district may recover in the suit the costs and disbursements and expenses of foreclosure, including but not limited to recording and filing fees, title search fees, foreclosure reports and a reasonable administrative fee. Any number of tracts of land may be foreclosed in the same suit, without regard to whether they are delinquent for the same or different incurred charges, or for the same or several years. The judgment shall order the sale of the property and order the sheriff of the county to hold the sale in the same manner as other foreclosure sales. The sheriff shall fix the time for holding the sale and give notice of the sale for two consecutive weeks prior to the day of sale by publication of notice once each week in a newspaper published in the county in which the land to be sold is situated. The sheriff shall also post notices in three public and conspicuous places within the county at least two weeks prior to the day of sale. The irrigation district may be a bidder and purchaser of the property at the sale.
(2) Property sold under this section may be redeemed within 180 days from the date of sale by the:
(a) Former owner whose right and title were sold, or the heir, devisee or grantee of the former owner; or
(b) Holder of legal or equitable title or lien upon the land.
(3) A person who redeems the property under subsection (2) of this section shall pay the amount provided in ORS 18.582 (2).
(4) The court may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party in a foreclosure action under this section. [Amended by 1981 c.897 §61; 1991 c.459 §423j; 1993 c.771 §17; 1995 c.42 §119; 1995 c.618 §83; 2001 c.476 §4; 2003 c.576 §498; 2005 c.371 §1]
Note: 18.582 was repealed by section 73, chapter 542, Oregon Laws 2005. The text of 545.502 (Foreclosure) was not amended by enactment of the Legislative Assembly to reflect the repeal. Editorial adjustment of 545.502 (Foreclosure) for the repeal of 18.582 has not been made.
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[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n an exclusive interview, Aavalar Consulting CEO Joe Yesulaitis reflects on key issues from the first fourteen years and looks forward to a future that he believes is full of promise for his organization.
Interviewer: What is it that Aavalar Consulting does?
Yesulaitis: We are a staff augmentation and recruitment solutions firm that helps hiring managers deploy in-demand, skilled consultants and contractors at client sites across the Mid-Atlantic region. We founded the business in 1999, and have worked hard to build an award-winning reputation with over one hundred of the most innovative Fortune 500 and mid-market companies in the area. We deliver value primarily through staff augmentation services – but we also provide statement of work services and direct placement services. We have been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for the third time, and we've had the honor of being named a SmartCEO Future 50 award winner.
Interviewer: What is the founding vision for the company?
Yesulaitis: Our vision is simple. We aim to connect companies with the right talent, enhance client profitability, and deliver the best possible service, selection, quality, and value every single time.
Interviewer: Why do you do what you do?
Yesulaitis: I've already founded, built and sold a previous IT consulting and staffing firm to a very large national firm, but the entrepreneur in me wanted to do it again. I want Aavalar to be an industry and regional leader and provide hundreds of mid-Atlantic clients the best possible industry talent and service, while offering the best employment opportunities to our people. To accomplish this, we need to sustain our 98% placement success rate and be known by most hiring managers, consultants and contractors as a top five regional, award-winning company.
Interviewer: How do you keep the executive team and employees focused on the company's mission?
Yesulaitis: That's a great question. We took the time to define a very clear "true north", and we only hire people who can help us work toward company goals and reach new heights. Everyone, including myself, focuses on achieving the most important objectives and we all understand how our work adds value to the organization. Each member of our team understands the vision and how their time and effort adds up to make it a reality. We all work as one to move Aavalar toward that vision. Each of us understands our specific and defined role, and every person on our team has clear responsibility and real accountability. Everyone inside Aavalar is held accountable, everyone understands their role, responsibilities are specific and goals are measurable. This has created an environment of accountability, trust, and teamwork.
Interviewer: Have you as the CEO led the company through any major shifts? If so, how has this change affected the success or profitability of the organization?
Yesulaitis: We've worked hard to become the most reliable, easiest-to-use provider in the Mid-Atlantic region, while delivering the highest/best quality, service and advice. Our team is focused on providing fast, flexible and accurate talent delivery, and we center our efforts on enabling superior talent outcomes, and earning and maintaining trust of leading executives and clients.
We've brought in experienced staffing operations and marketing leaders to help us redouble our focus and efforts to build a well-run organization. We've hired experienced staffing sales people, and added a few high-caliber recruiters with experience in the industries we focus on, including: Information Technology, Finance and Accounting and Engineering. We're making sure that every aspect of our operation provides maximum value for our clients, and this means expanding our presence in the Philadelphia market and across the Mid-Atlantic region, and helping our clients – and even our core team – reach new levels of success.
Interviewer: How do you and the executive management team effectively plan and measure company growth?
Yesulaitis: What made me great at starting the business is really no longer relevant to being successful today. Now, I focus most of my efforts on searching for great talent, reinforcing our values and creating a great culture, making sure everyone understands our vision, and locking in the financing we need to scale up the organization.
Interviewer: How do you communicate your company's growth trajectory to your employees?
Yesulaitis: We have built Aavalar around four components that work together. We have a clear and focused business. Everyone in the company is aligned with our culture. Everyone is working toward one clear vision – our "true north". And each of us clearly sees the path forward. We do this because we want to create a performance-oriented business.
What does this mean? It means we have the right people on the bus, and only hire people who are qualified, innovative, and want to help us reach the company goal. It means that we only hire people who are inspired to do their best and we make sure everyone has clearly defined roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and can actually execute. It also means we are a data-driven business where we monitor our goals and numbers and spot problems within our strategy early, not after it's too late. Everyone in our organization is accountable to hit at least one number that defines their success. It also means we are a process-driven business with documented processes and procedures across operations, marketing, sales and recruiting, and with everyone striving to improve productivity and eliminate excess and waste. This all works together to help us plan and communicate well, set expectations, focus our efforts, execute, and measure more accurately.
Interviewer: What is one of the biggest challenges you have faced in leading the company? What lessons did you learn from that experience?
Yesulaitis: The biggest challenge was clearly the financial meltdown of 2008. This was actually worse than 911 and the Dot Com bubble. I learned about keeping a steady hand as you drive through the storm. We might not be able to control what's going on around us, but we can try not to panic and keep doing what we know works best. During that time, I learned a lot about austerity and fiscal restraint. When every penny counts, you learn how to save in ways you never thought of before, and you learn how to get things done with less.
Interviewer: What defines a great leader? How would you best describe your personal leadership style?
Yesulaitis: I need to quote Jack Welch on this one. The four E's.. high Energy, the ability to Energize others, the Edge to make tough decisions, and finally the ability to Execute on their plan. My leadership style is straight forward, no non-sense, and lead by example.
Interviewer: Describe a turning point in your company's growth. What lessons did you learn?
Yesulaitis: There isn't just one turning point in growth. Growth is constant. What you learn is that you need to hire people who are much better than you to perform various functions that you used to do yourself. In other words, building a great team is what's important. Like Jim Collins said in his book Good to Great, get the right people on the bus and get the wrong people off the bus. In the past, I took too much time to do both.
Interviewer: What do you believe is the ideal future for your company?
Yesulaitis: I want Aavalar to be an award-winning, and regionally recognized, staff augmentation and recruitment solutions provider generating north of $20 million in sales per year. I also want to look back and be able to say we made a difference in our clients' lives, in the lives of our employees, and in our industry.


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Mysterious ancient hand print discovered in Jerusalem
Iraq sets conditions to exempt Jordanian products from fee hikes
Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Iraq has not yet decide on exempting Jordanian products from customs duties charged by the Iraqi government on all imports, Abd El Ameer Aziz, Iraq's commercial attaché to Jordan said.
Jordan has requested Iraq to exempt Jordan from the 30 per cent customs duties imposed on imports from all countries during the meeting of Jordanian-Iraqi joint committee, as the two neighbours are bracing for a new era after the expected reopening of the border crossing following a three-year hiatus caused by the security situation in the Iraqi territories.
Iraq has set three conditions in order to exempt Jordan from duties. One of these is that Jordan provides a list of the Jordanian factories' production capacity.
"Iraq needs to make sure that the products imported from Jordan are not reexported products and at least 40 per cent of the production process has been in Jordan," Aziz told The Jordan Times.
Amman Chamber of Industry Chairman Senator Ziad Homsi considered the questions around the Jordanian product quality and ability to meet the needs of the Iraqi market to be positive and implying that Iraq aims to control the products entering its market and their quality.
In addition to what the Iraqi diplomat said, Homsi noted that among the other conditions is that any products from Jordan bound for Iraq should not constitute a competition for Iraqi-made products and homegrown crops.
The incoming products should comply with the Iraqi Agricultural Calendar or the Production Season For Certain Agricultural Products, the sector leader said.
"These measures aim to protect the Iraqi domestic products," Homsi commented, adding that the Jordan Chamber of Industry has already provided the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Supply with the required production capacity data concerning the factories that are willing to export to Iraq.
Yanal Barmawi, the ministry's spokesperson confirmed the delivery of the list to the Iraqi side two months ago and that the ministry is following up with the Iraqi government on the issue.
The official also noted that the free-trade agreement between Jordan and Iraq holds both parties committed to not imposing customs duties.
The trade exchange between the two countries witnessed a retreat in 2015 and 2016, while figures of net exports to Iraq have revealed a decrease in 2016 and mid 2017, Homsi noted.
Before the border closure crisis in 2014, Jordanian exports to Iraq were around 20 per cent of the national exports but they went down to 8-10 per cent in 2016.
Exports to Iraq peaked at JD1.247 million by the end of 2013 . However, they decreased to JD470 million by the end of 2016, the industrialist added.
Jordan's exports to Iraq include food, cleaning materials, electrical devices and appliances, paper, plastic, iron and steel products, in addition to medicines and fertilisers.
*JT


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Blockbuster Field Locked In For Box 1 Photography Superstayers Invitational
The Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club (BGRC) today confirmed the invitees for the Group 3 Box 1 Photography Superstayers Invitational (710m) to be run on Thursday night, 21 June at Albion Park.
The selection panel considered performances of greyhounds engaged in the recent Group 1 UBET Gold Cup series and looked at recent staying performances from around the country, with two Queenslanders and two Victorians getting the nod for the $37,500 feature.
The invitees for the 2018 edition of the event are, in alphabetical order, Champagne Sally (Ray Burman), Jalapeno (Tony Apap), Rippin' Sam (Robert Britton), and Tornado Tears (Robert Britton). Ebby Ripper (Tony Brett) will be the sole reserve for the event.
The invitees have between them recorded 56 wins and amassed around $830,000 in prizemoney throughout their careers.
Ray Burman's Champagne Sally, has established herself as one of Queensland's premier chasers over the distance, winning the last two editions of the $37,500 Winter Chase, the primary lead up to the Group 1 UBET Gold Cup. She failed to make the final of this year's Gold Cup, but showed she is no slouch, dominating a quality field in this year's Winter Chase, clocking a slick 41.68 seconds.
A fast stayer who likes to race on the speed, the daughter of Barcia Bale and Bizarre Barbie holds no less than three track records (Ipswich 520m, Ipswich 600m, Albion Park 600m) and will be suited by the small field format of the Superstayers.
Queensland's second representative is the Tony Apap-trained Jalapeno, who has put in arguably the two best performances of his career throughout the UBET Gold Cup series. The son of Kiowa Mon Manny and Brook Lee defeated Tornado Tears in his heat before running a fast-finishing second to that greyhound in the final. Apap's chaser will be racing at Group level for the sixth time in his career and he will be looking to add the Superstayers to his win in January's Group 3 Queensland Cup (600m).
Robert Britton's first invitee Rippin' Sam has had to live in the shadow of star littermate Tornado Tears in recent months, but his credentials are no less impressive. A back-marking stayer armed with a powerful finish, Rippin' Sam has quickly stamped himself as one of the nation's finest stayers, competing in no less than six Group 1 finals over the distance to this point, with his last run being a closing third in the UBET Gold Cup. After running into recently retired champion Fanta Bale in his first two Group 1 finals, Rippin' Sam broke through for a maiden Group 1 victory in April's Galaxy (715m) at Cannington in Perth and has added the Group 3 Lizrene Speed Star (715m) to his honour roll.
Britton's second runner Tornado Tears is the baby of the field when it comes to race experience, having raced only nineteen times, but he has created a mighty impression in such a short space of time, winning eleven of those nineteen starts including a track-record breaking run of 41.33 in taking out last night's Group 1 UBET Gold Cup. The son of the phenomenal Fernando Bale and Tears Siam made the move south to the Britton kennel in Victoria at the start of the year with an eye on a career as a stayer, but made the Group 2 Launching Pad Final at his third Victorian start. At his first distance start, he ran the second fastest 715m time in Sandown Park history, clocking 41.20 seconds. In addition to his Gold Cup win, he has notched victories in the Group 3 Racecallers Speed Star (595m) and the world's richest staying race, the Group 1 Sandown Cup (715m).
Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club CEO Luke Gatehouse was excited about the quality of the field that the Superstayers has once again drawn together.
"We are lucky to have arguably the two best stayers in the world battling it out here at Albion Park again next week, but the locals won't make it easy for them." Mr Gatehouse said.
"Each year we manage to get a field of quality stayers for the exciting four dog format and next week will be no exception."
For the third year in succession, the BGRC will also be hosting "Super Night" in conjunction with the Group 3 Box 1 Photography Superstayers Invitational which will include $10,000 Open class races over each of the club's five race starts with the 331m and 395m races being part of a heat and final series with heats run this Sunday, 17 June.
Superheroes are once again the theme as we combine the super performances from the greyhounds on the track with appearances from a cast of superheroes throughout the night.
The 'Superdog' promotion will also be in effect once again for those on course, with the number four rug being transformed into the 'Superdog' rug and the BGRC will shout the bar if greyhound number four is successful in any event on the program.
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Tutorial seminars
These tutorial seminars give you the chance to explore your chosen subject in depth with an expert member of faculty and a small group of committed students.
The Tutorial seminar
SCIO's month long tutorial seminars are based around Oxford's tutorial method and
form the foundation for the Oxford Summer Programme (each tutorial seminar is worth 3 credits, and each student takes two tutorial seminars)
are the seminars for the Selected topics in British culture course for the Scholars' Semester in Oxford programme (each tutorial seminar is worth 4 credits, and each student takes one tutorial seminar)
can be taken as stand alone online courses (each tutorial seminar is worth 3 credits, and one or two are recommended).
Tutorial seminar structure
Each tutorial seminar consists of three discussion classes, four gobbets classes, and two tutorials (gobbet is Oxford's word for a small mouthful of text for close reading or translation and then discussion). Students will also have the opportunity to present their research to the group.
Below you will find detailed syllabuses and reading lists so that, once your tutorial seminar allocation has been confirmed, you will be able to start some preparatory reading.
Tutorial seminar discussion classes are meetings of 1 to 2 hours with the seminar leader and fewer than 12 students. For each discussion class students read all or parts of assigned texts and then discuss them.
Gobbets classes are one hour meetings with your tutor and a small group of up to 4 students where you discuss texts in more detail. No written work is required for either the discussion or the gobbets classes.
Tutorials are individual meetings of one hour between the seminar leader and each of the seminar participants. In preparation for each tutorial the student reads assigned texts and writes an essay of 2,000 words (3,000 words in the case of graduate students) in response to a question set by the seminar leader.
Learn more about the month long tutorial seminar tutorials.
Tutorial seminars: reading lists and introductory videos available below
J.R.R. Tolkien: Oxford's creator of other worlds
Dr Emma Plaskitt
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Reading list: J.R.R. Tolkien: Oxford's creator of other worlds
Oxford has been a centre of scholarship for centuries, and since the nineteenth century it has also boasted a considerable number of acclaimed and popular writers of what has come to be known as fantasy literature. Nonetheless, by the early twentieth century, the philologist and literature professor J.R.R. Tolkien felt that such fiction had fallen out of fashion and been handed over to children — 'relegated to the nursery'. He set out to reclaim high fantasy for adults, believing that it had major literary merit and should not be dismissed as escapist or childish. In fact, he argued that fantasy can fulfil humanity's 'profounder wishes', providing readers with a fresh perspective and a world stripped of its dull familiarity. Tolkien continues to dominate the genre in prose and film, setting the standard not only in fiction with The Lord of the Rings, but also in critical commentary with his 1939 lecture 'On fairy-stories', which remains a definitive piece of criticism.
In this course we will examine Tolkien's life, his literary influences and source materials, the major works of fantasy, and selected critical responses, both positive and negative. For example, though Middle-earth was his attempt to create an authentic mythology for England, it has been criticized for its seeming lack of ethnic and gender diversity. Tolkien was shaped by his education, his traumatic experiences in the First World War, and a life spent in what was then the predominantly white, upper-class, male environment of Oxford. Sessions will therefore include discussion of the biographical, historical, and cultural contexts of his writings and their effect on the racial, gendered, regional, and socio-economic elements in his characterization and created world.
Notwithstanding, why does the Middle-earth legendarium continue to fascinate readers and to inspire new generations of fantasy writers? Are the wildly successful film adaptations of these books a testament to Tolkien's vision or is Christopher Tolkien correct when he claims that the 'commercialisation has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing'? These are some of the questions we will consider.
Intellect and Imagination: the Rational Religion and Theological Stories of C.S. Lewis
Dr Meriel Patrick
Reading list: Intellect and Imagination
C.S. Lewis is known to millions around the world as a writer of fantasy literature (most famously The chronicles of Narnia), and as someone with a gift for presenting Christian theology to a large popular audience, through works such as Mere Christianity and The problem of pain.
On the face of it, these two aspects of his writing – the imaginative and the intellectual – may seem quite different. But in this course, we'll explore how the two work together and harmonize, and how fiction can in fact be an ideal vehicle for conveying complex concepts. We'll look at a number of key strands of Lewis's theological writings, examining both what he said and how he said it: we'll delve into the arguments advanced and the claims made, and we'll also consider what difference the form of the writing makes.
You'll have the opportunity to investigate a variety of themes: Lewis's trilemma (otherwise known as the 'mad, bad, or God argument'!), his argument from desire (which suggests that the yearning we find within ourselves is an indication we were made for another world), his views on Christianity and myth, the problem of suffering, and heaven and hell. We'll look at both his non-fiction books and essays, and his imaginative works, such as The great divorce.
You'll be encouraged to apply your own analytical skills to Lewis's writings and to some of the various responses to him (both positive and more critical), as we investigate his claim that religious truth requires a response from the whole person: that it must be both assented to with the reason and embraced by the imagination.
C.S. Lewis and the Classics
Dr Jonathan Kirkpatrick
Reading list: C.S. Lewis and the Classics
When C.S. Lewis arrived in Oxford in 1917, he came to study Classics: the literature, history, and thought of ancient Greece and Rome. He was an atheist, and was fascinated by the pagan mythology of the classical world, and this was a fascination that never left him. In fact, it was through this love of mythology that he finally became a Christian, and he drew on this rich classical heritage throughout his career and a teacher and writer.
Lewis was a star student, and earned a prestigious 'double first' degree before moving on to a career in English literature. (Tolkien, by contrast, also studied Classics at Oxford, but earned mediocre grades and dropped out of the course.) Lewis's classical education formed him: one cannot read far in his books without coming across a reference to an ancient Greek story, or a Latin quotation, and in this course we will be examining the enormous influence that Classics had on Lewis's life and thought.
The only classical god to appear in Narnia is Bacchus, the god of wine and license (in Prince Caspian); why did Lewis let him in? This is one of many intriguing questions we'll be addressing. In fact, Bacchus (or Dionysus) was deeply interesting to Lewis, and closely connected to his views of Christ; and there are many other classical elements in the Narnia books, such as fauns and centaurs, that we'll investigate. We will consider the role mythology played in Lewis's understanding of the world, and, particularly, in his conversion to Christianity. We will look at one of Lewis's favourite poems, Virgil's epic Aeneid, and consider how its picture of wanderings in search of a home related to Lewis's ideas of the Christian experience. We will examine Lewis's final novel, Till We Have Faces, in which he retold the myth of Cupid and Psyche, a task which he had been trying to do for most of his life.
Lewis's love of the Classics pervaded his thought, and in this course we will be looking at its influence in his fiction, his literary criticism, his poetry, his letters, and his Christian apologetics. Equally exciting is the chance to examine the Classical world through Lewis's eyes. There is a great deal of pleasure to be derived both from reading Lewis and from investigating the classical world, and in addition to this students will gain a much deeper understanding of Lewis as a writer and as a Christian.
Science and the Christian Tradition
Dr Peter Jordan or Dr Megan Ulishney
Reading list: Science and the Christian Tradition
Science and religion are two of the most powerful forces that shape contemporary life. Yet, a popular perception persists that these disciplines are necessarily in conflict with one another. As Alister McGrath notes, some scientists and religious believers view science and religion as 'locked in mortal combat'. Those who subscribe to this 'conflict model' to depict the relationship between scientific and religious modes of thought often reference historical events such as the persecution of Galileo by the church, the debate in 1860 between Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, (which took place in Oxford!), or the Scopes trial of 1925 as evidence to support their position. Some vocal dogmatic scientists today call for the cessation of religion in light of the developments of modern science.
There are complicated questions to address here: must science and religion be viewed as necessarily in conflict with one another? Are there other models to help us understand how these disciplines ought to relate to one another? Does science raise questions that point beyond itself? Can theological questions be informed by scientific disciplines?
This course draws on historical and theological scholarship to investigate key issues in science and religion. We begin the course by examining the historical events often used to support the notion that science and religion are in conflict—Galileo, Darwin, and the Scopes trial. As we will see, studying these events in more detail makes it more difficult to interpret them as straightforward examples of science and religion at war with one another. The course will also provide an opportunity to examine more recent questions at the intersection of science and religion: does evolution undermine the biblical notion that humans are 'made in the image of God'? Does the concept of original sin need to be reformulated in light of developments in evolutionary biology? Can God act in a world increasingly predictable to science?
Psychology and Literature: from Margery Kempe to Sylvia Plath
Dr Richard Lawes
Reading list: Psychology and literature
It has often been said that there is a fine line between genius and insanity and the relationship between literature and mental health has been of intense interest to both literary scholars and psychologists.
This seminar will explore mental illness and instability in several major authors, focusing on Margery Kempe, a medieval housewife and mystic who became the first autobiographer in English; John Bunyan, the seventeenth-century author of Pilgrim's Progress; John Clare, a nineteenth century nature poet who became incarcerated in an asylum; and two key twentieth-century female authors, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. Both iconic figures in the history of women's writing, Woolf and Plath each struggled with extremes of mood and ultimately committed suicide. We will read their writings in the light of psychological theory and of cultural and feminist contexts.
Complex questions will emerge as we study these authors; what is the true nature of 'mental illness'? To what extent is it valid or helpful to apply modern psychology to writers from a very different age? How is emotional disorder expressed within the texts themselves? To what extent can other modern theories, especially feminism, help us in encountering these key authors, their lives and their legacies? Led by a literary scholar who is also a psychologist and psychiatrist, this seminar will bring unusual insights to the study of these distinctive texts.
Jane Austen in Context
Reading list: Jane Austen in Context
Since the publication in 1811 of a novel called Sense and Sensibility, 'by a lady', the works of Jane Austen have enjoyed both popularity and critical acclaim, and scholarly interest shows no sign of waning.
Nor does what can be described as a popular mania for all things Austen, especially in film and television: the so-called 'Austen brand' is thriving. In this course will find out why, examining Austen's life and writings to assess her novelistic technique and development and her place among women writers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition to studying the major novels, we will look at Austen's juvenilia and place each text in its literary and historical context, examining, for example, the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility when we discuss Sense and Sensibility and the contemporary vogue for gothic novels when we study Austen's burlesque of the gothic genre, Northanger Abbey.
Other themes that will be covered include Austen's treatment of class, economics, education, female friendship, courtship, and politics. Finally, students will be given the opportunity to assess selected screen adaptations of the novels to decide if they testify to the timelessness of Austen's wit and the ongoing relevance of her social satire, or damage her reputation as a writer with the addition of romantic elements that distract from the commentary and limit Austen's appeal to a female audience.
Prohibition and Transgression: the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Gothic Novel
Dr Alice Stainer
Reading list: Prohibition and transgression
The eighteenth-century gothic movement was a reaction to the dominance of the Enlightenment emphasis on reason and rationalism. The Marquis de Sade saw it as the natural literary result of the violence and terror of the French Revolution. Its conventions included aristocratic villains and persecuted maidens, the supernatural, the victory of nature over man's creations and of chaos over order, and the theme of imprisonment with the consciousness forced back upon itself.
As a transgressive sub-genre of the novel, it was anti-Catholic, anti-nostalgic, and anti-aristocratic. It evolved in the Victorian age to reflect nineteenth-century concerns about religion, race, gender, imperialism, and cultural degeneration. This course will trace its development from the first gothic novel, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), to Bram Stoker's presentation of fin-de-siècle anxiety in Dracula (1897).
Other novels to be discussed include Ann Radcliffe's highly influential novel of 'sublimity', A Sicilian Romance (1790), Jane Austen's witty and complex parody of the genre, Northanger Abbey (1817), and Charlotte Brontë's domestic re-imagining of the gothic romance in Jane Eyre (1847). Students will also have the opportunity to read gothic fiction by Mary Shelley and Oscar Wilde and each piece of fiction will be placed in historical and cultural context.
Students can explore how gothic themes caught the imagination of contemporary artists and architects and how they translated them into paintings and drawings, many of which acted as inspiration for the writers themselves. Why does the Gothic genre refuse to die? Why do we remain fascinated with the forbidden and enjoy being terrified? What is the difference between terror and horror and why did Romantic poets like Coleridge, Byron, Shelley view the former as such a rich source of inspiration? These are some of the questions we will address.
Faith and Reason in the British Enlightenment
Reading list: Faith and Reason in the British Enlightenment
The Enlightenment saw the rise and triumph of reason as the supreme power in many spheres. One area which – perhaps inevitably – provoked much discussion was religion. For some, this provided an opportunity to attempt to demonstrate a sound rational basis for religious belief; for others, it led to the challenging of old certainties.
In this course, we'll examine the application of reason to matters of faith during this period. Our focus will be on the work of three British philosophers in the empiricist tradition, who were at work during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume.
We'll begin by exploring the key relationship between faith and reason. The two are sometimes contrasted with each other, but philosophers such as Locke argued that in fact they are complementary concepts, and need not be seen as in opposition to each other. A major question which exercised many thinkers was whether God's existence can be proved, so we'll also examine Locke's version of the cosmological argument, Berkeley's idealist philosophy (which he believed offered an antidote to atheism and irreligion), and the sceptic David Hume's criticisms of the argument for design. There will also be a chance to look at some responses to these authors, from both contemporary writers and more modern ones.
Although written over two centuries ago, these texts raise crucial questions which remain just as relevant today, and this course provides an opportunity to harvest some of the riches of insight offered by great thinkers of the past.
Dr Kieron Winn and Dr Alice Stainer
Reading list: Creative writing
If you study creative writing at OSP, you will read canonical writing with an eye to techniques you can make your own in writing that will be workshopped, one-to-one, with the tutor. In the prose section of the course you'll read a short story by James Joyce, noting his stealthy satire of society and literary convention, then take a boat out on the stream of consciousness of Virginia Woolf. Can you pick up her knack of jumping from one person's point of view to another's on the turn of a comma?
The poetry section includes looking, though T.S. Eliot's 'The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock', at ways of communicating through music and repeated sounds. (How do you feel different saying 'is it/visit' compared to 'go/Michelangelo'?) You'll also, through reading the work of Philip Larkin, learn the right way to use metre and rhyme; the lines round a repeated stanza form make the shape not, as many think, of a 'constricting' container, but of a fabulous tennis court at Wimbledon.
The one-to-one tutorials are fundamentally a conversation, with a great deal of flexibility in what is discussed. Throughout the course, the emphasis will be on the pleasure of reading and the craft of writing, and on the triple literary aims of teaching, moving, and delighting both writer and reader.
Oxford and the Pursuit of Beauty: Art and Criticism in the Nineteenth Century
Reading list: Oxford and the Pursuit of Beauty (forthcoming)
Two of the greatest Victorian art theorists, John Ruskin and Walter Pater, studied and taught at Oxford, and their influence both in the city and further afield was immense. While Ruskin sought to link the visual arts to a serious moral vision of society, based in his evangelical upbringing, Pater preached the gospel of Aestheticism, pursuing beauty as an end in itself and advocating art for art's sake. Their writings are theoretically challenging and controversial, as well as being masterpieces of prose, and we will examine their ideas and put them in their wider context.
We will examine the influence of these ideas as well. Ruskin's love of medieval society and gothic architecture influenced buildings and painting in Oxford, where the battle between the classical and gothic styles was seriously and bitterly pursued. His ideas spurred revolutionary young painters: the original PreRaphaelites; and subsequently William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, both undergraduates at Oxford, whose work laid down the foundations of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Walter Pater's elevation of beauty made him a pariah in conservative Oxford, but his shocking ideas enraptured young people looking to break free from stuffy social expectations. Oscar Wilde, another Oxford undergraduate, was captured by his spell, and worked out his philosophy in masterpieces of creative literature.
We will study at the buildings in Oxford whose design reflects competing ideologies about art: the Martyrs' Memorial, the Ashmolean Museum, the University Museum, and Keble College, among others. We will examine the artists who worked in Oxford, from professionals such as Dante Gabriel Rosetti to amateurs such as the passionate photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (otherwise known as Lewis Carroll). We will also consider patrons, such as Thomas Combe, printer to the university, whose love of PreRaphaelite art combined with his commitment to the High Church and whose prize painting, Holman Hunt's "Light of the World", hangs today in Keble Chapel.
In this seminar we will look at revolutionary texts about the place of visual art in society: texts which propose opposing views about what is valuable in art and which still have an impact on the way we look at art today. We will also look at the art that inspired and was inspired by these writings, aiming to enjoy it, understand it, and place it in its historical context.
Contemporary British Culture: History, Politics, and Society
Dr Elizabeth Baigent
Reading list: Contemporary British culture
Britain in the twenty-first century is a country looking for an identity. Having left the European Union in January 2020 Britain needs to find new policies at home and a new role abroad. Having 'regained our national sovereignty', as Brexit supporters put it, Britons now need to decide how to make use of that sovereignty. Covid-19 has forced further reappraisal of what matters to Britons: should the country return as soon as possible to how things were before, or is this a singular opportunity to reimagine polity and society, giving priority to the things which lockdown showed us were valuable?
This course takes a succession of British tropes to probe what they tell us about contemporary Britain and how they shape discussions of the nation's future. What, for example, does the Union Jack (strictly speaking the Union flag) reveal about the constituent parts of the United Kingdom and their relationship with the whole? What does the British cup of tea tell us about the nation's role in global trade and colonisation? What does the queen tell us about Britain's version of democracy? What can we learn from the James Bond novels and films about Britain's fear of international decline and its sense of superiority? In what way are soccer, cricket, and Wimbledon windows on to British class, ethnic, and regional cultures? What does Britain's 'green and pleasant land' reveal about conservation, rural life, and leisure in Britain? What does Westminster Abbey, the national pantheon, reveal about Britons' relationship to the past? What does a country church tell us about religion in Britain? Why on earth do Britons talk about the weather all the time? What does the BBC reveal about the English language, Britain's role in the world, free speech, and British values? What does the Channel Tunnel tell us about Britain's relationship to Europe?
With these and other tropes we explore Britain and its inhabitants, searching for explanation rooted in the past, and considering what the nation might look like in the future.
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Dyersville, Iowa: More Than a Baseball Diamond in a Cornfield
Outside of Iowa, Dyersville is mostly known for its "Field of Dreams," the baseball diamond cut out of a cornfield and the centerpiece of the 1989 film starring Kevin Costner.
However, after we decided to make the baseball pilgrimage to Dyersville, we learned that the community of 4,000 founded in 1848 offers much more than a movie icon to draw travelers to the self-proclaimed "Farm Toy Capital of the World."
Dyersville 's map – image by weather-forecast.com
First thing you need to know about visiting Dyersville is to take the Dyersville exit off of U.S. 20 on the south side of the town onto Iowa 136 (Ninth Street Southeast locally).
If You Build It They Will Come
To get to the Field of Dreams, follow 136 north through town, turning east on Third Avenue Northeast, which in turn becomes 12th Avenue Northeast, then Dyersville East Road. Follow it to Lansing Road, which will take you to the movie site. Admission is free.
Field of Dreams Movie Site in Dyersville – image by pinterest.com
A piece of trivia we learned while at the baseball field is that the famous scene from the movie with the dialogue: "Is this Heaven?" "No, It's Iowa." was a spur-of-the-moment idea that occurred after fog enveloped the field. It was not in the original script. Some improv, eh?
Don't forget to take your baseball bat, a ball and glove when you go. Several families were playing on the field when we arrived. Dads were pitching to sons or daughters, while other family members stood out in the field shagging fly balls.
People playing in this place – image by pinterest.com
After stocking up on souvenirs at one of the two concession stands, return to Dyersville the way you came.
Historic House of Worship
Only about 50 exist in the United States and one is in downtown Dyersville: the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier at 104 Third Street Southwest. The twin-spired church of Gothic architecture features 64 stained glass windows. The church was named a basilica by Pope Pius XII in the late 1950s.
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral – image by zeiseconstruction.com
Built in 1888, the basilica is on the National Register of Historic Places. The two steeples stand more than 200 feet tall and the crosses on the top are another 14 feet.
Toy Museums for Both Boys and Girls
Dyersville is home to a pair of museums that should interest both the young and the young-at-heart.
One is the Dyer-Botsford Doll Museum at 331 First Avenue East. Housed in the historic home of Dyersville founder James J. Dyer, the museum exhibits more than 1,200 dolls and includes a rare revolving German Christmas tree. The museum is open seven days a week May through November.
Dyer-Botsford Doll Museum – image by roadtrippers.com
The other is the National Farm Toy Museum at 1110 16th Ave. Court SE, which is just off the U.S. 20 exit on the south end of town.
The farm toy museum houses more than 30,000 toys on its two floors. It is open seven days a week. Admission is charged.
National Farm Toy Museum – image by atlasobscura.com
This museum, along with no less than three farm toy manufacturers calling Dyersville home, gives the town the undisputed title of the "National Farm Toy Capital of the World."
RC2 (formerly Racing Champions Ertl), Scale Models and SpecCast all have facilities in this Iowa community and at least four outlet shops are available to pick up a small tractor as a memento of your visit to Dyersville.
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