Rick Rizzs and Shannon Drayer host live from the Salty Seniorita in Peoria. Mariners bench coach Robby Thompson talks about working with the infielders and newcomer Munenori Kawasaki. Mariners pitcher Shawn Kelley tweets during his live segment and talks about his aspirations to be a broadcaster. He sticks around to interview other players. 2011 1st round draft pick Danny Hultzen joins the show to talk about his first spring outing. Forrest Snow talks about the originations of the nicknames of some of his pitches (Forest Fire and Snowflakes) and the strides he's making to get to the majors.
Dave Sims joins Rick and Shannon as they talk to infielder Kyle Seager who talks about his big offseason (getting married) and how he handled his first taste of the big leagues. Special assistant to the GM Tony Blengino talks about his experience on an MLB Network game show and the stock of Mariners prospects as they go through camp. Larry Stone of the Seattle Times joins the show to talk about some of the stories of the spring.
Shannon Daryer and Matt Pitman revisited a conversation Mike Carp had with the Brock and Salk show letting people know about the special t-shirts he made in memory of Greg Halman. Also hitting coach Chris Chambliss talked about what he does to get the team ready for an earlier start than 28 other MLB teams. Mariners catch Miguel Olivo talks about taking Jesus Montero under his wing and catching some new arms in camp. M's outfielder Casper Wells talks about his Twitter experiences and what he's been doing in the offseason.
Shannon and Matt talk to Joe Stiglich of the Oakland Tribune about the surprsing signing of free agent Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to a 4-year contract today. Mariners pitcher Aaron Heilman talks about his first brief experience with Seattle, participating in Fanfest and never even making to spring training with the team. Jim Caple of ESPN.com talks about his take on the move Moneyball and a new game he's created for box score fans. M's marketing director Kevin Martinez talks about some upcoming moments this year and former Mariners making an appearance in celebration of the 35th anniversary.
Rick Rizzs, Shannon Drayer and Matt Pitman talk to Mariners director of player develpoment Chris Gwynn about his role with the team and getting to know all the talent in the farm system. Senior baseball writer Paul White with USA Today joined the show to talk about the new arms the Mariners picked up Shawn Camp and Hong-Chih Kuo. He says Kuo has a chance to be electric if he can get back to his 2010 performance level.
Rick, Shannon and Matt talk to Mariners 3rd base coach and spring training camp coordinator Jeff Datz who will be working a lot with new M's catcher Jesus Montero and explains the process of a catcher doing the pitch calling on his own. Infielder Kyle Seager joined the show to talk about his first trip to the big leagues and getting ready to start the 2012 season. Pitcher Steve Delabar talks about his journey from substitute teacher to the show and having success immediately upon his callup and he says the season ended so fast for him.


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Dionisyan Interviews
Dionisyan's Tregor Talks of Nothing BUT the Music!
Symphonic baroque, atmospheric doom metal act Dionisyan, is an act of its kind, having been around for some time now, they have released some content, over the years, as well as done other forms of activity. Tregor Russo (composer, arranger, multi instrumentalist, lyricist) is the one who did the talking about all things music!
1. Give a brief history of your Band, and the members.
I created DIONISYAN in 2010 with the intention of making music from deep feelings, full of pathos, emotions dark and melancholic, mix in complex arrangements leaden, very different from anything that I wrote the concept lyrics, created and arranged all the compositions with all my other musical projects in the past like GATES OF EDEN, SORTILEGIUM, LEPER DIVINE AND ERIAMINELL. The current 2018 line up is me (Tregor Russo): all instruments in the studio, Silvia Balistreri: lead and backing vocals, Alessandro Basso; bass.
DIONISYAN is the dark side of my spiritual soul, of my artistic creativity always changing, time introspection of being and catharsis redeemer.
3. What genre does the Band play and why did you want to play this particular genre?
My second DIONISYAN's opera "Delirium and Madness – Concerto Grosso Opera °2 in G Minor", in which I reinvented and renewed the polyrhythmic counterpuntic polyphony of baroque music in metal style. It's my 6th career album and it's my absolute masterpiece, where I've surpassed myself, in every detail, compared to the first album of DIONISYAN "The Mystery of Faith" which is already very complete and intricate album. With "DELIRIUM AND MADNESS" I wanted to give a strong and impactful identification with spirituality coupled with philosophy, completely switched to female opera and modern vocals. Certainly it is a pioneering album of a new genre; the symphonic baroque/ atmospheric doom metal.
4. Did you know each other before the band was formed?
Well.... Since I created DIONISYAN as solo project. I am a teacher of music, composer, singer, author, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, (electric guitars 7 strings, classical guitar, bass 5 strings, drums, folk percussion, keyboard and singer), producer and sound technician. I studied at two academies of music and singing where I graduated, majoring in composition, arrangement, virtuosism with electric guitar, drums, bass, classical guitar, singing and music history. In the past I taught for three years history of music, with specific address from the middle ages to the present day, at the Regional Academy in the province of Palermo. Currently I also teach privately.
5. Do you write your own songs?
I wrote, composed, arranged, orchestrated and performed the whole album. From the first to the last note of the whole opera, there is a continuous harmonizing guitars duel line of reasoning made of scales in Hungarian style, of Baroque German polyrhythm polyphonic contrapuntal, with harmonic major and minor and chromatic scales tonal and tonal harmonies on various degrees of ascending octaves and descendants, who make my DIONISYAN an original band and differentiated for his musical and technical baggage for it's sound captivating, dark, powerful, melodic, sweetly sad and melancholy, in all it's variations.
6. What are the songs about?
All the songs that are on the album, are absolute melodies, harmonies, from the very first to the last note of the opera, lyrical and modernized female singing, alternating baroque music with progressive metal and atmospheric doom metal, in my original and innovative blends.
My influences are all the philosophic and spirituals elements, nature, art and cemetery. I wrote a novel for the second opera "Delirium And Madness" talking about the sacred concept of human beatification, the earthly life of a man who receives from God the gift of stigma and then becomes saint, but must grieve, make many sacrifices and renounces, including suffering for the love of his own woman who is dying and he cannot do anything to save her.
8. What releases do you have under your belts thus far into your career as musicians?
In my 21 years of career, I have always been very important to the compositions, arrangements, orchestrations, lyrics and artworks of my albums of my bands; SORTILEGIUM, GATES OF EDEN, LEPER DIVINE, ERIAMINELL and of course DIONISYAN. As for DIONISYAN's first EP "Land of Dreams", the first album "The Mystery of Faith" and the second album released a month ago, "Delirium of Madness", I wanted to give a strong and impactful identification with spirituality coupled with philosophy. I am an academic teacher of music, composer, arranger, singer, author, multi instrumentalist, musical producer and sound technician.You know, having created a masterpiece, light years compared to what exists in the trade of metal music in general, people are still not culturally and musically prepared for this type of opera that is so structurally complex, intricate, complicated and full of details. Normally only another music teacher who studied classical composition and orchestration could understand it. All in all I am satisfied, both of the very beautiful and crystalline production, of which I meticulously edited the sound of the album, exalting every single note of every single musical instruments.
9. Do you have any new music in the works at this time?
This period is full for me as I'm dedicating to an old project of mine that I have exhumed GATES OF EDEN, here I propose a very powerful musical invention; progressive metal with Mediterranean, jazz, ethical and traditional middle eastern music. From January 2018 until last week, I returned to the recording studio to perform and record "ENTIRELY ONLY" the first album of the GATES OF EDEN; (electric guitars 7 strings, 5 strings bass, drums, and other ethnic and traditional Middle Eastern instruments), one of my solo musical projects that in 2008, I released the first professional EP, printed in worldwide 1,000 copies sold out!
The album that I conceived as a new pioneering metal genre, also has the intent to be music for the masses, direct, catchy, for the very first listening experience, that is easy to understand even for those whose music compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations, that they do not have technical and cultural backgrounds to be able to understand it.
With this first album of the GATES OF EDEN, in which I propose an innovative and original Middle Eastern progressive metal, in it's interior I amalgamated different styles of music in the "technical-arranging-compositional-orchestration" phase.
The result of my careful research, studies, and deep thoughts, finding a way that unites different stylistic tastes that attract the mass and are struck by direct, catchy and easy to understand melodies without going crazy trying to understand them!
10. What other plans do you have for this year?
I take this chance to thank you and the large community of your webzine, for the kind interview and the opportunity to make known both me and my DIONISYAN. I also invite anyone who wants to know the second album "DELIRIUM AND MADNESS – CONCERTO GROSSO OPERA°2 IN G MINOR", can see "Blood Prophecy" and "In The Mirror Of My Soul" lyrics video and the last audio video "Guardian Angels" with Sarah Eick as special guest from the band Funeral. Our Album is still available for sale. Anybody willing to buy a copy please contact me at castellus@tiscali.it and with the copy, I will do an autographed postcard! Thanks again for everything.
6:26 AM Natalie
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I Am Setsuna is a Japanese role-playing game for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita. It was developed by the studio Tokyo RPG Factory of Square Enix and released on February 18, 2016 in Japan and July 19 of the same year internationally for Sony platforms, and the Nintendo Switch March 3, 2017 internationally. The original Japanese title is Ikenie to Yuki no Setsuna (いけにえと雪のセツナ), which means Setsuna of Sacrifice and Snow.
The inhabitants of an island are regularly harassed by a fiend, but they appease the fiend by providing a sacrifice every decade. However, as the story of I Am Setsuna starts, the fiend is impatient and cannot wait for the next ceremony. To calm it down, Setsuna is chosen as a new sacrifice.
As Setsuna accepts her fate and leaves for the Last Lands, she is joined by the mercenary protagonist Endir, and other characters Nidr, Aeterna, Julienne and Kir.
The concept of I Am Setsuna was written in September of 2014 under the working title Project SETSUNA. Tokyo RPG Factory started developing it in the next month, until they completed the Japanese alpha build in August 2015.
The player starts out with Endir in Hymncott Forest, where he meets the old masked man Hapsper. Together, they have to complete a mission to find a girl and rescue her from monsters. Hapsper and Endir complete the mission and part ways. Then, a Mysterious Man shows up and gives Endir a new mission: to kill Setsuna.
Endir sails to Nive Island on his new quest to find Setsuna. Upon enquiring in the village, he finds out that she can often be found at the Falling Snow Monument, so he goes there to complete his mission. He talks shortly with Setsuna, but cannot kill her as Aeterna and Raishin show up and defeat him.
Endir wakes up in the house of a villager, tied down with magic. The villager leaves Endir behind when Nive Village is attacked by monsters, but Setsuna comes to release him. Endir and Aeterna go to clear the village of monsters, after which they invite Endir to be in Setsuna's guard for the sacrificial pilgrimage.
↑ As displayed in the opening credits of I Am Setsuna.


Any bourbon lover will love this bourbon themed gift box! Includes a delicious and sweet Kentucky bourbon based BBQ sauce and a pair of fun bourbon socks!
Heading to the St. James Art Fair in Louisville this weekend? Visit us! We will be in the Pavilion at 3rd and Hill Streets, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm daily.


The penetration of a monotonically time-increasing magnetic field in high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) slabs with the power law dependencies of the critical current density and resistivity on the magnetic field is investigated theoretically. It is shown that the asymptotic solutions of the extended critical state model correspond to the cases of the classical critical state model and the model of viscous flux flow without pinning. The ranges of the applicability of these models and the conditions for the transition from one model to the other are determined. These theoretical conclusions explain experimental data presented in scientific literature.


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Q: What exactly is cacert.pem for? In my PayPal Pro payment page I use the cURL function curl_setopt_array() with the following option : cUIn CURLOPT_CAINFO => dirname(__FILE__) . '/cacert.pem'.
Works fine, however even after some research I don't understand what exactly is cacert.pem for. I don't understand the concept of "verification against" that is mentioned everywhere. And what is the relationship between this file and the .csr/.crt certificate I bought to my provider?

A: cacert.pem is a bundle of CA certificates that you use to verify that the server is really the correct site you're talking to (when it presents its certificate in the SSL handshake). The bundle can be used by tools like curl or wget, as well as other TLS/SSL speaking software. The bundle should contain the certificates for the CAs you trust. This bundle is sometimes referred to as the "CA cert store".
Example:
curl --cacert cacert.pem https://example.com

In the curl project, there's a cacert.pem being provided that is converted from the ca certs Mozilla ships for Firefox.
It is done by the use of digital signatures. For the full explanation of what a CA (certificate authority) is, I refer to wikipedia.

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Vancouver, B.C… Corvus Gold Inc. ("Corvus" or the "Company") - (TSX: KOR, OTCQX: CORVF) announces the final assay results from the last 10 core holes drilled during the 2013 campaign at its 100% controlled North Bullfrog Project in Nevada. Exceptional high-grade results from the northernmost holes in the Yellowjacket vein system include: NB-13-372, a step out of 89 metres along strike from NB-13-370, with 27.8 metres @ 2.9 g/t gold, including 3.3 metres @ 3.9 g/t gold and 33.3 g/t silver, and NB-13-369, a step out of an additional 41 metres along strike from NB-13-372, with 37 metres @ 3.2 g/t gold including 12.9 metres @ 4.1 g/t gold and 60.6 g/t silver (Table 1, Figure 1). The Yellowjacket system now has a drill defined strike of nearly 800 metres and remains open to the north and at depth (Figure 1).
Hole NB-13-370 returned the deepest intersection to date on the Yellowjacket system (170 metres down dip), which has shown a marked increase in the grade of the system. The vein/stockwork intercept in this hole was 41.7 metres @ 4.9 g/t gold and 29.7 g/t silver, including 4.9 metres of 21.2 g/t gold and 117 g/t silver, surrounded by over 60 metres of disseminated low-grade gold-silver mineralization. The hole terminated in mineralization. This drill intercept is 125 metres down dip from the intersection in NB-13-358 (24 metres @ 1.3 g/t gold) and 73 metres down dip from NB-13-359 (65 metres @ 3 g/t gold), both of which were reported in NR13- 32, December 5, 2013). This new deeper hole opens up significant potential to extend the depth of the deposit into what appears to be a higher grade portion of the system.
An important geological feature, called the NE30 fault, intersects the Yellowjacket vein in this northern area. The fault is mineralized and, as it approaches the Yellowjacket vein structure, a thick zone of stockwork is developed between the structures as indicated by the thickness of peripheral stockwork in the hangingwall of the vein zone in hole NB-13-370 (60 metres @ 0.37 g/t gold, Table 1). Hole NB-13-371, with 10 metres of 0.63 g/t gold, was drilled to confirm the location of this structural zone so it can be targeted for future high-grade veins outboard of the main Yellowjacket. The NE30 structure is consistently mineralized in holes 369, 370, 371 and 372, forming a large target (Table 1).
At North Sierra Blanca, hole NB-13-375 returned 138 metres of oxide material averaging 0.26 g/t gold, thereby continuing to expand the bulk tonnage deposit and improve the confidence in the results to date. In addition, high silver intersections in hole NB-13-376 and the bottom of hole NB-13-375 have emerged as future targets for more Yellowjacket type veins at depth.
Holes NB-13-362 and NB-13-363 are PQ diameter holes drilled in the Yellowjacket deposit to confirm continuity of high-grades in larger diameter core and to acquire material for coarse crush metallurgical testing. Hole NB-13-362, with 35 metres of 4.0 g/t gold, was drilled in the center of four holes (NB-13-353, 354, 355 and 356) and has returned a similar average grade and thickness as the 4 surrounding holes. Hole NB-13-363, with 19 metres @ 3.4 g/t gold, is the twin of hole NB-12-347 which reported 14 metres @ 7.1 g/t gold. The consistency of the zone thickness is good and the variations in the grade reflect the typical variability associated with high-grade gold and silver systems and are encouraging in establishing continuity of grade with larger diameter core.
*Intercepts calculated at a 0.1g/t gold cutoff and with up to 1 metre of internal waste.
Three core holes were drilled on the crest of Sierra Blanca North to evaluate quartz stockwork mineralization found in RC holes NB-13-242 and 246 (41m @ 0.7 g/t gold and 21m @ 0.5 g/t gold). Core hole NB-13-373 undercut hole NB-13-242 and returned an interval of 17 metres of 0.58 g/t gold inside of an overall intercept of 78 metres of 0.26 g/t gold, establishing the continuity of the zone (Table 2). The difference in the thickness of the higher grade zone reflects a less oblique angle of intersection in the angled core hole compared to the vertical RC holes. Hole NB-13-375, with 138 metres @ 0.26 g/t gold, was designed to test the stockwork and define the location of a key fault along the north-easterly flank of Sierra Blanca North. Hole NB-13-376 was drilled to establish the location of the NE40 fault and confirmed that it is mineralized, thereby outlining a deeper exploration target for potential high-grade veins for the 2014 program.
Hole NB-13-365, drilled at Air Track Hill to follow up the high tellurium mineralization found in the area, encountered the tellurium enriched structure but with only moderately anomalous gold grades. The hole will help define the orientation of the structure that hosts the tellurium-rich gold mineralization in hole NB-13-364 (NR14-01, January 9, 2014).
Table 2: Significant intercepts* from recent core holes at North Sierra Blanca.
Figure 1: Location of drill hole discussed in this news release. Red collars and traces indicate holes reported in this news release. Blue indicates holes for which assays are pending. Black indicates previously released results. Significant mineralized faults are shown in dark red. Grey hachured lines show outlines of present proposed pit designs. Topographic contour interval is 2 metres.


Can you show me a sample (or 4)? If you're shooting a corporate video, whether for a website or for television, you'll want to see samples of their work. In fact, you should ask to see a portfolio of their work so you can get a feeling for their style and skill level.
Would you describe the personality of our business? Because your company has a personality and culture, you'll want to find a production company that fits into that culture and personality. In fact, they should be able to identify and describe the culture and personality of your company during your first meeting. If they can't, they are not paying attention to the details, and will not when you hire them.
What ideas can you provide for this video? When meeting with them, they should be able to give you a couple of creative thoughts of what they visualize in the video they want to shoot for you. Additionally, if you have some ideas of what you want the video to look and feel like, that can be both a help and a hindrance. This can be a dream or a nightmare for the producer. Regardless of whether the vision is right or not, a good producer should provide some insightful feedback about why the vision will work, will not work, and how to improve it.
Do you stay in budget? And, what happens if it goes over budget? If you are focused on the budget prior to calling the meeting, you may be considering the wrong factor. Budget should be a factor, but not the deciding factor. Because a poorly planned and executed shoot creates a subpar video; therefore, a little bit extra can make a big difference. Weigh and balance the budget accordingly.
Can you deliver on quality that matches my expectations? Remember the creative is always subjective, but the quality of the video should be in line with your expectations. Quality also means having the proper sound equipment, the proper lighting, the proper framing, and an attention to detail (such as the background) can all make an impact on the final product. Look at the samples to determine if they have what it takes.
What happens if you miss the deadline? A good producer can describe the timeline associated with the shoot. If he or she cannot map this out for you, your follow up question should be, 'how many deadlines do you miss?' A good producer can miss a few, but a great producer rarely misses. When you ask this question, look for their reaction. You'll know if they can hit a deadline by their answer.
These six questions are a good start to helping you decide on the proper corporate or web video production company. By asking these questions, you'll begin to get a feel for the quality of their work and their ability to perform.


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Using Affinity Designer 1.3.2, Apple's new Photos for Mac app version 1.0.1, running on OS X 10.10.4. Designer's Media Browser shows thumbnails for the top level Photos for Mac items like Moments, Collections, Years, Places, & Albums; but not for their sub-folders, like specific years or places. See attached screen shot for one example.


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Ok, I've read all the posts about pitcher training and I've basically figured out a autotraining system once I've found my pitchers. I plan on training daily as often as I can, but if I do that will the autotrainer break up the existing portion of the pie of those on the bench equally, or will it use one-tenth of the pie for each baseball I assign on the autotrainer, regardless of how much TP they have?
Does that make sense? If anyone can answer my question I'd appreciate it. Thanks all, you've been a big help getting started.
"If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you always got."


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Q: How can I print a character in CMD using assembler (Windows 64 Bits) I would like to know how to print a character in CMD (Windows 8.1 64 bits).
I would like to do this without using GCC (I would like to use only NASM) or without using DosBox.


Following the completion of 432 Park Avenue in New York City in the USA there are now officially 100 supertall (300-plus-metre) skyscrapers in the world.
The first 50 supertalls took 80 years to complete between 1930 and 2010, however in the last five years alone another 50 have been added to the list.
The majority of new supertall skyscrapers can be found Asia and the Middle East, mirroring construction trends that have emerged over the past decade, but New York has remained an active centre for supertall construction in the Americas. With the completion of 432 Park Avenue – the city's seventh – New York now has the second-highest number of supertall skyscrapers in the world. Meanwhile, Dubai leads the list with 18.
The Council on Tall Buildings Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a non-profit based at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the USA, officially confirmed 432 Park Avenue's completion date to be December 23, 2015. At 425.5 metres, it is the tallest all-residential building in the world and the 14th-tallest overall. With a 1:15 slenderness ratio, the tower typifies the 'superslim' typology that has been made possible by advances in lateral resistance technology. These buildings are particularly prevalent in dense urban areas such as New York, where limited land availability and soaring luxury residential prices justify their development.
Supertall construction is poised to remain strong in the coming years. According to CTBUH data, there are well over 100 supertall skyscrapers topped out or under construction that are scheduled to be completed in the next five to six years. That includes Jeddah Tower, which will become the world's tallest building and the first kilometre-high building upon completion.
With supertall skyscrapers becoming increasingly common, many look to the megatall (600-plus-meter) distinction as the new frontier for the world's tallest buildings. There are currently only three completed megatall buildings in the world, but that number is set to more than double in the coming years as four more – including Jeddah Tower – complete.
Utopia or total transport breakdown?


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William McDonough is an architect and globally recognized leader in sustainable development and design. He is a pioneer of the concepts of Cradle to Cradle Design™, the Circular Economy and the Circular Carbon Economy, notably co-authoring Cradle to Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things.
Work with William McDonough
Ralph Lauren Introduces Industry's First-Ever Cradle to Cradle Certified® Gold Cashmere Sweater
McDonough Innovation and MBDC share their Sustainable Brands '22 Takeaways
McDonough to Deliver Keynote on Cradle to Cradle Design™ Framework at Sustainable Brands '22
William McDonough Presents with Keynote Panel at the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2022
William McDonough Engages and Leads Circular Economy Conversations at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
McDonough Innovation Presents the ICE Hub during COP26 in Glasgow
William McDonough articulates Circular Carbon Economy Framework for the G20
Ralph Lauren partners with McDonough Innovation on their circular strategy
Amazon announces 'Climate Pledge Friendly' badge featuring Cradle to Cradle Certification
Fashion for Good, co-founded by William McDonough, announces latest Accelerator Program innovations
William McDonough collaborates with Starbucks on 'Resource Positive' goal
William McDonough invited to give G20 opening speeches on Circular Carbon Economy
William McDonough's interests, activities and influence range widely, as he works at scales from the global to the molecular. Click here to read William McDonough's Biography.
Cradle to Cradle®
The New Language of Carbon
The Five Goods™
Stanford University's Living Archive of William McDonough
Carbon Is Not The Enemy (2016)
Design with the natural cycle in mind to ensure that carbon ends up in the right places, urges William McDonough in the journal Nature.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (2002)
Published in 2002, Cradle to Cradle is widely acknowledged a one of the most important environmental manifestos of our time.
Designing The City Of Tomorrow (2017)
Scientific American July 2017 cover story. Urban areas can improve the planet as well as people's lives if they become much more resourceful with energy, water, food and minerals
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance (2013)
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance is the follow-up to Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, the 2002 book that is widely acknowledged as a seminal text of the sustainability movement.
The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability (1992)
Prepared in 1992 by William McDonough Architects and Dr. Michael Braungart; commissioned by the City of Hannover, Germany, as design principles for Expo 2000, The World's Fair.
Fashion is a Verb (2015)
Foreword by William McDonough for Sustainable Fashion: What's Next, 2nd Edition
Investing in Innovation for the Common Good (2015)
An appreciation and sharing of Thomas F. Darden's speech on low energy nuclear reaction at The 19th International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, Padua, Italy, April 13, 2015
Building for a Better World and Making People Smile (2014)
Newsweek asked William McDonough and Coert Zachariasse to discuss their Park 20|20 project, and why it might be seen as a model for similar environmental design all over the world.
Building Cities that Celebrate Life (2014)
ASU Global Institute of Sustainability News, Thought Leader Series
Clean Machine (2014)
Published by Huffington Post, September 10, 2014
Climate change and circular economy take centre stage at Davos (2014)
After leading a design and sustainability workshop at this year's World Economic Forum, William McDonough reflects on why he is hopeful for sustainable change
Designing cities and factories with urban agriculture in mind (2014)
The Netherlands offers inspiration for designers looking to create environments that harvest water, energy and nutrients
Foreword: Second Nature Urban Agriculture (2014)
Foreword written by William McDonough for Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing Productive Cities (eds. Andre Vilijoen & Katrin Bohn, published by Routledge, 2014)
The Future of Small-Scale Wind Power (2014)
Wind power is one renewable energy source that's fixing its flaws and being used for small-scale production.
Driving sustainable transformation via the power of design (2013)
Inspiring goals, combined with good design, can help companies do more good, instead of just less bad, argues William McDonough
Earth Days (2013)
Written by William McDonough and Wendy Schmidt in honor of Earth Day 2013
'Upcycling' business: honouring nature while meeting society's needs (2013)
A new fellowship seeks to bring young designers and engineers together to reinvent the economy with a sustainable philosophy
Let's save 'endangered technical species' (2013)
Excerpted from The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
The 1.4 billion pound pet-stained global menace (2013)
Excerpt from The Upcycle, published on CNBC, August 6, 2013
A 21st Century View of Architectural Graphic Standards (2005)
Foreword: Architectural Graphic Standards
Foreword: The Natural Advantage of Nations (2004)
Foreword by William McDonough for The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovations and Governance in the 21st Century by Karlson Hargroves and Michael Harrison Smith
The Elephant in the Living Room (2004)
How Addressing the Trade Deficit Can Re-Invigorate American Industry
The Cradle-to-Cradle Alternative (2004)
Imagine a world in which all the things we make, use, and consume provide nutrition for nature and industry—a world in which growth is good and human activity generates a delightful, restorative ecological footprint.
A New Era for Manufacturing (2004)
The reopening of the Ford River Rouge plant as the Ford Rouge Center, and its availability for public tours, represents more than just the rebirth of a cultural opportunity in Detroit; it hearkens a sea change in the future of manufacturing in America, and indeed, throughout the world.
A Field of Dreams (2003)
Green Roofs, Ecological Design and the Future of Urbanism
Address to the Woods Hole Symposium (2003)
Between Technology and Culture (2003)
Building a Framework for the Biotech Debate
Celebrating Human Artifice (2003)
Design is the fundamental shaping of the human world, an essential aspect of culture.
Foreword to the Chinese Edition of Cradle to Cradle (2003)
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Foreword: Leading Change Toward Sustainability (2003)
William McDonough's foreward to the book by Bob Doppelt.
From Principles to Practices (2003)
Written for The Hannover Principles 10th Anniversary Edition by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
Principles, Practices and Sustainable Design (2003)
Toward a New Context for Building Codes, by William McDonough
Regulation and Re-design (2003)
Tapping Innovation and Creativity to Preserve the Commons, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Something Lived, Something Dreamed (2003)
Urban Design & the American West by William McDonough
Toward a 21st Century Renaissance (2003)
Education, Design and a Hopeful Human Prospect, by William McDonough
Toward a Future of Energy Effectiveness (2003)
As more and more evidence suggests that the traditional ways of doing business may not be sustainable over the long term, many of today's leading industrialists are practicing a curious maneuver; they are trying to put the brakes on without taking their foot off the accelerator.
Toward a Sustaining Architecture for the 21st Century (2003)
The Promise of Cradle-to-Cradle Design, by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
A Building Like a Tree, a Campus Like a Forest (2002)
Sustainable Design, Ecological Literacy, and the Legacy of the New England Campus
A New Geography of Hope (2002)
Landscape, Design, and the Renewal of Ecological Intelligence
Beyond the Triple Bottom Line (2002)
A New Standard for 21st Century Commerce
Buildings Like Trees, Cities Like Forests (2002)
©2002 William McDonough & Michael Braungart, The Catalog of the Future, Pearson Press
Dear Conscious Choice (2002)
A letter from William McDonough
Design for the Triple Top Line (2002)
New Tools for Sustainable Commerce
How Much Can I Give for What I Get? (2002)
It's a question with transformative power. Used as a tool to drive design it can generate a dynamic field of economic inquiry and a new direction for business.
Redefining Green (2002)
A New Definition of Quality Empowers the Next Wave of Design
The Guardian Reborn (2002)
A New Government Role in Environmental Protection
The Living City (2002)
Nature, Design and the Greening of Chicago by William McDonough
Waging Peace With Intelligent Design (2002)
In early October 2002, The New York Times reported that the United States was preparing to launch a $94 million counter-insurgency program to help the Columbian military protect a 500-mile oil pipeline...
Beyond Efficiency (2001)
Adapted from Cradle to Cradle, a new book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, forthcoming from North Point Press.
Hope and Human Enterprise (2001)
A Statement of Purpose for the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development by William McDonough
The Extravagant Gesture (2001)
Nature, Design, and the Transformation of Human Industry
A Boat for Thoreau (1997)
A Discourse on Ecology, Ethics, and the Making of Things, By William McDonough
A Centennial Sermon: Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things (1993)
Delivered by William McDonough at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City February 7, 1993
William McDonough Attends the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2022
William McDonough attends the GFS in Copenhagen with the theme, Alliances for a New Era, and takes part in a panel discussion titled, "Global Alliances and Circularity: How Close Are We?" Additionally, Ralph Lauren unveils their new Cradle to Cradle Certified® cashmere sweater.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, William McDonough facilitates conversations around Cradle to Cradle, Circular Economy and the Circular Carbon Economy, in addition to the ICEHouse being assembled for the sixth year in a row.
The ICE Hub features Innovation for the Circular Economy and opens October 31 in Glasgow.
Ralph Lauren partners with McDonough Innovation on their circular strategy, including their commitment to achieving Cradle to Cradle Certified® for 5 of their products by 2025.
William McDonough Gives G20 Opening Speeches on the Circular Carbon Economy
William McDonough speaks at G20 workshops on the potential of the Circular Carbon Economy to serve as a framework for effective systems for carbon management.
William McDonough Accelerates Circular Economy During World Economic Forum
During his 19th attendance to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, William McDonough speaks at several events to promote a Cradle to Cradle Circular Economy.
William McDonough Launches The Circular Carbon Economy During COP 25
William McDonough joins Professor Carlos Duarte onstage at the BBVA Foundation to encourage a Circular Economy which recognizes the importance of reusing, recycling and recovering carbon-containing materials from the environment and removing them from the atmosphere.
William McDonough Addresses Fortune's Global Sustainability Forum
While delivering A Cradle-to-Cradle Solution, William McDonough focuses on the importance of CEOs operating as Chief Sustainability Officers
William McDonough Sets A New Framework for Plastics and Packaging at Sustainable Brands
Onstage, William McDonough shares the potential to rethink and redesign packaging which is reusable, recyclable, compostable and — importantly — recoverable
William McDonough named by Fortune Magazine as one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders
William McDonough is named on Fortune Magazine's 2019 World's 50 Greatest Leaders List at #24 amongst 49 others who are "transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same."
Cradle to Cradle released as part of the Penguin Patterns of Life series
Penguin Books UK released the five books they feel best explore how humans have shaped the planet, including Cradle to Cradle and The Origin of Species
William McDonough joins Circulate Capital advisory board
William McDonough brings his experience with packaging innovation and circular economy thinking to Circulate Capital, a venture capital fund focused on stemming the flow of plastics in the ocean
William McDonough headlines The Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) on Safe & Circular: Cradle to Cradle Design™ for the Circular Economy
Joe Murphy interviews William McDonough about Cradle to Cradle Design's™ foundational role in Circular Economy thinking and why safe and healthy materials are important to circularity
Fashion for Good, co-founded by William McDonough, opens museum in Amsterdam
Fashion for Good's Experience, an interactive museum which celebrates innovation in fashion, highlights William McDonough and Cradle to Cradle Certified™ T-shirts
William McDonough keynotes Emerson Collective's Do-Fest at Cavallo Point entitled Cradle to Cradle Oceans
William McDonough outlines a new framework for the global plastics crisis which goes beyond single use to design materials which are recyclable, reusable, compostable and recoverable
C&A launches Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Gold-level jeans developed with McDonough Innovation and MBDC
The first fully Cradle to Cradle Certified™ denim garments which utilize Design for the Circular Economy™ hit the market with assessment from MBDC and support from William McDonough
William McDonough keynotes GreenBiz 2018
William McDonough, recently returned from Davos and presented The Creation of the Perception of Scarcity Where Nothing Exists – the latest findings on the size of current financial markets related to global GDP and the potential of The Circular Economy.
William McDonough receives 2017 Hanley Award
William McDonough is honored with the 2017 Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainability during the annual HIVE conference.
William McDonough presents "Towards a New Language of Luxury" at the New York Times International Luxury Conference
Presentation by William McDonough, C.E.O., McDonough Innovation and Co-Author, "Cradle to Cradle," at The New York Times's International Luxury Conference, followed by a conversation with Vanessa Friedman, Fashion Director and Chief Fashion Critic.
William McDonough & Michael Braungart honored with WorldGBC Award
McDonough & Braungart received the 2017 David Gottfried Award for their unique approach to a business-led green building strategy.
Shaw Contract relaunches A Walk in the Garden
William McDonough's first carpet tile design collection with Shaw is re-released in new colors and sizes.
Scientific American publishes "Designing the City of Tomorrow" by William McDonough
Urban areas can improve the planet as well as people's lives if they become much more resourceful with energy, water, food and minerals
William McDonough keynotes Sustainable Brands 2017 in Detroit
William McDonough delivers a keynote speech: "In Search of More Good How and Why 'Getting the Frame Right' is Essential in Design" at Sustainable Brands 2017 in Detroit.
William McDonough speaks at the 2017 Copenhagen Fashion Summit
William McDonough was a featured speaker at the 2017 Copenhagen Fashion Summit, in a segment titled: "Cradle to Cradle, the Circular Economy and The Five Goods".
C&A Announces First Cradle to Cradle Certified™ GOLD T-Shirts in Partnership with MBDC and McDonough Innovation
C&A, one of Europe's leading fashion retailers, debuted the first Cradle to Cradle Certified™ GOLD T-shirts, marking an achievement level not seen before for a fashion garment. The nine-month development began in 2016 where MBDC served as assessor for the Cradle to Cradle Certified Products Program to help C&A, Fashion for Good, and McDonough Innovation achieve their goal of supporting two India-based garment manufacturers—Cotton Blossom and Pratibha Syntex—to develop and produce two Cradle to Cradle Certified T-shirts.
Plantronics, Park 20|20
With offices in 20 countries, Plantronics, the pioneer of lightweight headsets, selected Park 20|20 and William McDonough + Partners for their new European Office in The Netherlands.
Fashion for Good Launches in Partnership with McDonough Innovation
Fashion for Good is a worldwide laboratory of innovation and practical action based in Amsterdam. Fashion for Good was created with an initial grant from founding partner C&A Foundation, and prior to launch the partners that built the foundation of Fashion for Good include: the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, IDH – The Sustainable Trade Initiative, Impact Hub Amsterdam, McDonough Innovation, The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), Plug and Play, C&A and Kering.
William McDonough Announces The Five Goods
William McDonough announces The Five Goods, inspired by Cradle to Cradle®.
ICEhouse returns to Davos
At the 2017 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, McDonough's iconic ICEhouse™ (Innovation for the Circular Economy House) returned as a meeting place for a second year in a row. ICEhouse offers a curiosity to visitors to Davos of the opportunities of WonderFrame™, McDonough's broader vision for a simple, flexible, and affordable floor and roof structural system that can be erected quickly with the simplest of tools. The ICEhouse was commissioned by Hub Culture and supported by SABIC. This special Davos edition is made of technical materials (durable polymers, aluminum and aerogel) which will be returned to industry at the end of their use cycle. These durable elements can be endlessly used and reused in new products across generations.
The Circulars 2017 Winner of The Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership
William McDonough received the 2017 Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The award recognizes leaders who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of a prosperous and sustainable economy. In recognizing McDonough, the committee singled out his lifetime of visionary work, furthering innovation in design – both in theory and in practice.
William McDonough Announces a New Language of Carbon
During the COP22 events in Marrakech, William McDonough gives a speech called "The New Language of Carbon" and Nature magazine publishes his essay titled "Carbon is not the enemy".
William McDonough keynotes SXSW Eco
William McDonough delivered a Keynote address at SXSW Eco in Austin, Texas, in which for the first time he presented a new concept called the Carbon Positive City.
2016 USGBC Leadership Award
William McDonough receives the 2016 USGBC Leadership Award from the US Green Building Council during the 2016 Greenbuild Conference and Expo. The Leadership Awards recognize outstanding individuals and organizations that embody vision, leadership and commitment to the evolution of green buildings and communities as a vehicle to enhance our quality of life.
William McDonough speaks at the last CGI Annual Meeting
William McDonough speaks about Cradle to Cradle design, the Circular Economy and Global Shared Prosperity during the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting session: "Turning Landfills into Goldmines: Can We Make the Circular Economy a Reality."
Ambassador J. William Middendorf ll Award
William McDonough receives the Ambassador J. William Middendorf ll award from the Netherland-America Foundation
ICEhouse is reassembled in the Netherlands
The ICEhouse™ (ICE = Innovation for the Circular Economy) was reassembled at the Circular EXPO at The Valley, the Netherlands' national hotspot for the circular economy. The reusable building was first assembled in Davos in January 2016 for the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting, where William McDonough is the Chair of the Meta-Council for the Circular Economy.
Hero Global Center for Innovation and Technology Opens
Hero MotoCorp, the world's largest manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles, celebrated the opening of its new research and development campus in Jaipur, India, designed by William McDonough + Partners.
ICEhouse is unveiled in Davos
William McDonough + Partners and McDonough Innovation showcased a new structure in Davos in conjunction with the 2016 World Economic Forum annual meeting. ICEhouse™ (Innovation for the Circular Economy house) was designed to demonstrate the positive design framework described in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, the sustainable development goals of the United Nations, and the reuse of resources implicit in the circular economy.
National Wildlife Federation Conservation Award
William McDonough received the J.N. "Ding" Darling Conservation Award from The National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
Method Southside Soapbox Grand Opening in Chicago
Designed by William McDonough + Partners, the facility is the first LEED Platinum manufacturing facility in the cleaning product sector, and features the world's largest roof greenhouse.
William McDonough speaks on the National Mall for Earth Day
William McDonough announced a new design effort at Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day, the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, held at the Washington Monument Grounds on the National Mall.
Dropbox Headquarters Opens
William McDonough + Partners designed 333 Brannan, now fully leased by Dropbox, to be resource effective, to support human and ecological health, and to respect the South of Market historic district character.
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
William McDonough + Partners, Stantec (formerly Anshen + Allen), and Arup recently collaborated on the new UCSF Medical Center complex at Mission Bay—the first hospital built from the ground up in San Francisco in several decades.
Hero MotoCorp's Garden Factory in Neemrana opens
Hero MotoCorp's Garden Factory, designed by William McDonough + Partners, opens in Neemrana, India.
World Economic Forum, China
William McDonough delivers a key speech, "Resource Abundance by Design," at the eighth Annual Meeting of the New Champions, convened by the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, China.
World Economic Forum, Davos
McDonough speaks at the World Economic Forum about the circular economy and Cradle to Cradle, and is named Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Circular Economy.
United Nations' Sustainable Development Working Group
McDonough presents at the United Nations' Sustainable Development Working Group
Bluewater Energy Services, a leading Dutch engineering firm, chose Park 20|20 as the home for its new headquarters. Designed by William McDonough + Partners, the 8,000 square meter building, rated BREEAM Excellent, consolidates approximately 600 employees in one facility, creating an inspirational workplace that supports collaboration, well-being and productivity.
Rachel Carson Environmental Award
William McDonough receives the Rachel Carson Environmental Award from the Natural Products Association.
FIFPro world headquarters opens at Park 20|20
FIFPro's new headquarters, designed by William McDonough + Partners, opens at Park 20|20, the first Cradle to Cradle inspired development in the Netherlands, designed and master planned by William McDonough + Partners.
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance is released
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, The Upcycle draws on a decade of lessons in putting Cradle to Cradle concepts into practice.
Karachi School for Business & Leadership
This newly established business school in Pakistan takes ethics as a generating theme for the educational curriculum. Consequently, the building was designed to reinforce the idea of integration between the human and natural environment; embodying concepts of environmental responsibility and sustainability. Designed by William McDonough + Partners
William McDonough gives Closing Plenary at Greenbuild
William McDonough speaks at the 2012 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in San Francisco, California.
Stanford University Libraries acquire the archives of William McDonough
William McDonough and Stanford University Libraries announce that they will create a comprehensive, real-time approach to archiving the McDonough collections.
William McDonough Day
Mayor Lee of San Francisco declares November 15, 2012, William McDonough Day.
Biological Nutrient Pavilion (Parkcafé Groen), Park 20|20
Sited on opposite ends of Park 20|20, William McDonough + Partners designed two pavilions that are connected by greenhouses to be part demonstration area and part community space.
Technical Nutrient Pavilion, Park 20|20
With half of its interior space dedicated to educational exhibits, William McDonough + Partners designed the Technical Nutrient Pavilion to directly engage the public through the 20|20 Experience Center that stimulates ideas and strengthens networks while showcasing the latest in Cradle to Cradle® and sustainable innovation.
NASA Sustainability Base grand opening
Sustainability Base, NASA's first space station on earth, designed by William McDonough + Partners, opens at Moffett Field, California.
Fox Vakanties, Park 20|20
Occupying a prominent site at the entrance to the William McDonough + Partners designed Park 20|20 development in the Netherlands, Fox Vakanties, a Dutch internet travel booking organization specializing in distant, exotic destinations, is the latest company to take up residence.
William McDonough + Partners brings Cradle to Cradle thinking to Italy with Isola, a ten-story office building now home to Google Italia and Pandora.
Bosch Siemens is the first building to open at Park 20|20
Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte (B/S/H/) brings five of the top brands in household appliances together under one roof in the first building completed at Park 20|20, The Netherland's first Cradle to Cradle®-inspired development.
Cradle to Cradle Day
Ed Lee, Mayor of San Francisco, declares June 9, 2011, Cradle to Cradle Day.
The non profit Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is established
William McDonough and Michael Braungart announce the formation of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.
American University School of International Service
Serving as a symbol of the school's tradition of global service, the LEED Gold certified building provides a vibrant setting for teaching, research and public dialogue. Design strategies, including on-site generation of renewable energy, Cradle to Cradle material specifications, and abundant fresh air and daylight, were developed and prioritized in close collaboration with the School's students, faculty and staff to serve as pedagogical tools capable of demonstrating the highest degrees of environmental responsibility. Design by William McDonough + Partners
McDonough is awarded the Rockwool Prize from the Danish Architecture Center
Fuller Theological Seminary David Allan Hubbard Library
The building is designed to be a place that demystifies the concept of the library and honors the memory of David Allan Hubbard, theological scholar and past president of Fuller. Designed by William McDonough + Partners
VMware Corporate Campus
Designed to enhance people's connection to each other and the outdoors, this 29-acre site, located in Palo Alto's prestigious Stanford Research Park, has beautiful vistas, mature trees and landscaping with generous setback. William McDonough + Partners led the design team through the arduous entitlements process with unprecedented success, due in large part to the design's appropriateness of scale and sensitivity to the natural setting.
Ecourban 22@
Ecourban is an ambitious mixed-use, urban redevelopment project in Barcelona led by William McDonough + Partners. The building is at the center of the urban renewal initiative in the Poblenou District—known as 22@, which plays on both its historic "22a" industrial zoning code and its high-tech future.
McDonough keynotes the U.S. Green Building Council's Greenbuild International Conference and Expo
McDonough keynotes the AIA National Convention
"Industrial Revolution Take Two," a profile of McDonough, is published in Vanity Fair
Why can't a building be as eco-friendly as a tree? What if the concept of waste didn't exist? Having collaborated with such giants as Google, nasa, Ford, and Wal-Mart with his "Cradle to Cradle" philosophy, architect William McDonough wants to usher in a new Industrial Revolution. No sacrifices necessary, just smart design.
Esquire magazine publishes "The Future of Design: Design for Living," by McDonough
McDonough becomes an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary member of ASLA
U.S. EPA awards McDonough the 21st Century Visionary Science Leadership Award
"Waste=Food" documentary released in Europe
How do humans become native to a place? The design for this innovative development responds to civilization's encroachment on the Canadian Rockies National Park by using ecologically responsible development to "bring the park back in." Designed by William McDonough + Partners
Frito-Lay Jim Rich Service Center & Offices
The design of Frito-Lay's primary distribution center in western New York showcases an array of innovative strategies and systems that reduce energy consumption dramatically, circulate and clean air and water, and serve as a prototype for efficient, intelligent, green commercial buildings. Designed by William McDonough + Partners
Visitor Center, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest
This LEED Platinum visitor center embodies the client's mission of "finding new ways to connect nature with people's everyday lives." Nestled into a wooded ridgeline between the plant nursery and an open prairie, the center takes cues from the surrounding forest to become at once unique and at home in this place. Designed by William McDonough + Partners
National Design Award
McDonough receives the National Design Award for outstanding achievement in environmental design.
U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
McDonough receives the U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from President George W. Bush for his work with Shaw Industries.
IBM Corporate Offices, Riekerpolder
These offices provide a healthy, comfortable, and flexible work environment for employees while knitting into the larger urban fabric. Two distinct yet integrated buildings wrap around a central terraced open-air courtyard, providing employees access to abundant amounts of daylight and fresh air, a configuration that connects people to the outdoors and engenders a dynamic, flexible workplace. Designed by William McDonough + Partners
Benjamin Botwinick Prize for Ethical Practice in the Professions
McDonough is awarded the Benjamin Botwinick Prize for Ethical Practice in the Professions from Columbia University Business School.
Woods Hole Research Center Gilman Ordway Campus
Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center study forests and global carbon and nitrogen cycles to determine the effects of deforestation and human activities on the environment. William McDonough +Partner's design for the new campus demonstrates the ability for modern building construction to harmonize with a habitable earth.
Ford Truck Plant
The centerpiece of the 20-year revitalization of Ford's historic River Rouge complex provides workers with abundant natural light and fresh air and restores native habitat to the site. Designed by William McDonough + Partners
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is published
Architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart present an integration of design and science that provides enduring benefits for society from safe materials, water and energy in circular economies and eliminates the concept of waste.
The Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College opens
Described by The New York Times as 'the most remarkable of a new generation of college buildings" and by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of the 30 'milestone' buildings of the 20th century, William McDonough + Partner's design for The Lewis Center aspires to be as bountiful and effective as a tree.
McDonough co-founds GreenBlue
Aspect Communications World Headquarters
The goal of this corporate headquarters expansion in Silicon Valley was transformation—the renewal of a business and the concurrent conversion of a nondescript office building into a vibrant, connected community. Designed by William McDonough + Partners
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment
The renovation of the Samuel Trask Dana Building, by William McDonough + Partners, offers an ecologically intelligent response that signals the SNRE's approach to the challenges of the 21st Century while addressing the needs of a growing world-class science education and research department
McDonough receives I.D. Forty Design Award from I.D. magazine
Ford Rouge revitalization and landscape master plan is completed
The restoration of the Ford Rouge Center transformed the historic manufacturing complex into a model of 21st Century industrial sustainability.
McDonough is named a "Hero for the Planet" by Time magazine and "Designer of the Year" by Interiors magazine
Nike European Headquarters
Nike has crafted one of the world's most readily recognizable corporate identities through its emphasis on world-class athletic performance. William McDonough + Partners furthered Nike's mission by bringing world-class innovation to the Nike European Headquarters.
The Atlantic publishes "The NEXT Industrial Revolution" by McDonough with Michael Braungart
"Eco-efficiency," the current industrial buzzword, will neither save the environment nor foster ingenuity and productivity, the authors say. They propose a new approach that aims to solve rather than alleviate the problems that industry makes.
McDonough becomes a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
Gap's new headquarters opens (currently home to YouTube)
Designed by William McDonough + Partnesr as a build-to-suit for Gap Inc, 901 Cherry is now the home of YouTube LLC, illustrating that a building design as a flexible and adaptable organism can successfully adapt to new user groups.
McDonough becomes the first and only individual to receive the U.S. Presidential Award for Sustainable Development
MBDC is established
Herman Miller's Greenhouse opens
Designed by William McDonough + Partners, the Herman Miller "GreenHouse" office and manufacturing facility has become a case study in how a sustaining approach can enhance the physical and mental health of its occupants—not to mention corporate productivity and profits.
DesignTex introduces the William McDonough Collection of Climatex® Lifecycle™ textiles
William McDonough is Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia
McDonough becomes Dean of the School of Architecture and Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia (1994-1999). William McDonough + Partners moves to Charlottesville, Virginia.
McDonough delivers "A Centennial Sermon: Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things" at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City
McDonough becomes a charter member of the U.S. Green Building Council
McDonough is appointed Special Advisor to President Clinton (1993-1996) and the Presidential Council of Sustainable Development
McDonough is the official representative of the American Institute of Architects at the Earth Summits in Rio de Janeiro and New York
William McDonough Architects authors "The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability"
McDonough's Warsaw Tower design is on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal
McDonough's Warsaw Tower design is a cartoon in The New Yorker
McDonough is a founding member of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment
McDonough designs the first "green office" in New York, for the Environmental Defense Fund
McDonough establishes his architecture firm in New York
Dedicating his practice to design that is native to place. "A building like a tree, and a city like a forest," he says. "Why not?"
While a graduate student at Yale, William McDonough builds the first solar heated house in Ireland
William McDonough graduates from Dartmouth College
William McDonough graduates magna cum laude from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in Visual Arts and is elected to Phi Beta Kappa
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San Francisco Opera to honor general director David Gockley with gala
His remarkable 45-year career comes to an end next month. But not without an operatic bang. For David Gockley it seems like a most fitting celebration.
To celebrate Gockley's successful tenure as San Francisco Opera's general director for the last ten years, a gala concert Celebrating David! is being held at the Ware Memorial Opera House on June 16.
From the SF Opera release:
"Celebrating David! will honor Gockley's enormous impact on opera in America with excerpts from seminal operas from his career, including the Ring cycle, Les Troyens, Nixon in China, Susannah and Porgy and Bess, as well as works by Handel, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Strauss, Verdi and more. Featuring the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus, the gala evening will be hosted by mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and baritone Thomas Hampson (replacing Samuel Ramey), with performances of arias and ensembles by some of today's leading singers and conductors."
In addition the Company has announced the availability of a new book, American Impresario: David Gockley's Life in Opera. Written by Damian Fowler, the 224-page hardback offers Gockley's own words and insights about the future of opera, "the art form that inspired his own, singular journey."
Renée Fleming (SF Opera debut 1991) is one of several featured artists and guest conductors scheduled to perform at a gala celebrating the tenure of general director David Gockley.
Recently, David Gockley sat down with Loni Stark of Stark Insider to talk Opera, and introduce the new Diane B. Wilsey theater space. Located in the newly renovated fourth floor at the War Memorial Opera House, the theater will be used to stage exciting new works and re-imagined classics.
You can watch the David Gockley interview and tour of the new space in the video below.
WATCH: Opera! Inside San Francisco's opera new theater space with David Gockley
Matthew Shilvock succeeds David Gockley and will become San Francisco Opera's seventh general director effective August 1, 2016.
Our best wishes to David Gockley. Thanks for sharing your amazing vision and artistry, and your love for the art form with San Francisco and, indeed, the nation.
With Loni Stark in San Francisco.


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Ashok Patel's art returns us to the spiritual core of India. It leaves aside religion (which, to Patel, has now combined with the same ugliness of modern society) and concentrates on the enhancement of the soul. Critic, Shivaji K. Panikkar states that 'Ashok Patel's work is a pointer to a mammoth art world in the country [India], distinct from the most avant-garde artist/intellectual groups. His work is a return to India's spiritual centre, aiming to lift the soul, give hope and subtract the distrust from our lives.'
Ashok graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art Sculpture (1979-82) and a Post-Diploma in Fine Art Sculpture (1983-85) from the Baroda M.S. University, Gujarat; Studied Kathak dance (1997-9) and Music & Vocal studies (1981) at Baroda M.S. University and is now part of many art collections across the world.
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CHURCH NEWS - October 2001
On Sunday 16th September we held a service in memory of all those who perished in the American terrorist attack of September 11th. Our prayers were for the injured and bereaved. The thoughts of the people of Odell are with our American brothers and sisters
Leading the worship were members of the Anglican Youth Fellowship Band of Uganda who had been staying in Odell and were due to fly to Boston on September 14th.
From the Rectory
I was preparing to continue some thoughts on the finer points of Christianity from my previous letter when the atrocity in the United States occurred. I obviously do not wish to dwell upon the political side of these dreadful occurrences but as Odell Church has so many friends on the other side of the Atlantic, many of whom visit our web-site regularly, it seems appropriate to convey our support from the Church and I am sure that many in the village would wish to join with us in these sentiments.
In the welter of emotion as I was watching CNN as the situation developed, there were several incidents that struck me most forcibly. The first was one of disbelief to see the airliners crash into the side of the WTC building and literally to disappear in a ball of fire and smoke. I could only watch in disbelief. I am not the world's most confident flyer and always nervous about the possibility of a crash. To see planes with a full complement of crew and passengers being deliberately flown into a building filled me with horror at the thought of those innocent lives being wiped out, as well as the office workers suddenly being caught in a maelstrom of exploding fuel, wreckage and rubble.
The second thought occurred as the television cameras focussed on the building on fire when some office workers scrambled out of the smashed windows and then launched themselves into the space some thousand feet above the ground. The horror in the building must have been of such a magnitude that the fear of falling from such a height overcame their natural reaction of self-preservation.
The third incident is of an entirely different nature. It was the sight of the army at the changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. The Guard was drawn up with the Band behind it and the Star Spangled Banner was played. There were obviously many US citizens in the crowd mixed in with the British. This is the first time I understand that such a thing has occurred by order of HM the Queen but for me it expressed a very deep emotion of standing shoulder to shoulder with friends and family over the water.
I was grateful to have had access to CNN because I believe it did a better job of reporting than any of our channels. Words are important as they are windows into our minds. Our reporters used the word tragedy. It was not a tragedy, it was an atrocity, a crime against humanity and an act of undeclared war against the US and the civilised world. Another word being used was vengeance. The correct word is retribution which signifies that the act against the perpetrators of this callous act would be entirely proportionate in punishing those responsible.
One of the British reporters made unpleasant comments about the US President which were entirely inappropriate in the light of the horrendous situation. My thought was that I am grateful that we had a different set of reporters with different values in the Second World War otherwise we would have surrendered to another and earlier attack on civilisation.
Perhaps, the worst element of such an atrocity is its religious foundation. In the history of the world some of the cruellest events have taken place in the name of one religion or another. In the Christian world the Inquisition must rank very highly and Cromwell's destruction of Drogheda cannot be left out. The hijackers were referred to as brave men by one columnist in the Daily Telegraph. They attacked silently and suddenly against unarmed men, women and children. They knew that they were going to die and therefore they would escape an earthly tribunal. If their motivation was the same as the suicide bombers in Israel then they believed themselves to be martyrs and going straight to paradise. That is not bravery. The columnist confused bravery with fanaticism.
For those of us who pray, let us pray for the President of the USA and for his Cabinet. Let us remember those who have been severely injured and many others who have been bereaved, a significant number from our own country. Events of this nature are never neutral. They always have consequences. It may well be in the providence of God that this is a means of waking not only America but its allies as well and there is a turning away from the sleepiness of a wealthy consumer society with a secular outlook to a revival of true values, remembering that 'righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.'
Yours sincerely in Christ David Streater
(I am always ready to discuss any matters arising from what I have written in the magazine.)
Church Opening
Many of you will know that because of the problems of vandalism and theft from Churches generally, the Parish Church is kept locked. Unless there is a specific reason for opening it earlier, it will be opened for Sunday and occasional services half an hour before the Service is due to start.
The Prayer Chain is there if you need prayer for yourself, for others or for members of your family. Please don't ask for prayer outside your own family without people's permission. To have a number of people pray just telephone David (720234) or Dennis (822992).
Harvest Supper.
This will take place on Saturday October 6th in the Village Hall at 7.00 for 7.30pm. A light-hearted quiz will follow the supper. Tickets, costing �50 or �00 for concessions, are available from Jill Cheadle. Everyone is very welcome!
Meeting Point – October
Wednesday 3rd October 10.30am at Catherine Corkery's, Manor Cottage, High St., Harrold.
Tuesday 16th October 10.30am at Jill Cheadle's, Rectory Farm, Odell.
Wednesday 31st October 10.30am at Catherine Corkery's.
19th Harrold Pit Run - Saturday 15 September
The change of date from April did mean the Pit Run was less well supported than usual but about 60 runners took part in the main race which was run at a cracking pace. So much so, that the dog and I were shamed into running more than we had intended and I suffered aches and pains afterwards. However it was all worth it.
Thank you so much if you supported Aid for Romania with your sponsorship. Seven people ran or walked for us, collecting at least �0, which is split between us and the organisers, Harrold Centre. Lucy and I managed to raise over �0 and we once again won the Rose Bowl. Thank you too to the members of Grace Baptist Church who provided delicious teas, giving the proceeds to Aid for Romania and the Centre. Altogether this means we raised enough to sponsor one of our 28 families for a year, which is wonderful since we now have several families without specific sponsors who are supported from central funds. From us and our friends in Romania, a very big 'Thank You'. Liz Dodwell
Other Charities: Bethan Lee won the Middle School girls' race and raised � for Harrold Pre-School whilst at least two people raised more than �0 on behalf of Odell Scouts. There were three entries for the wheelchair race, and several Odell friends were supporting the efforts of Corner Club and other groups.
Well done everybody!
Aid for Romania
The Dodwells are planning their next visit to Romania, for two weeks in October, to hold the AGM of the Romania Foundation and visit all the sponsored families. You may remember that, before last Christmas, we sent more than 100 boxes and items to our 28 families and the school at Suditi. They were delighted with their gifts and we, and the sponsoring families, received many grateful letters and cards. However the transport cost over �000 of which �0 was received in special donations. This year the regulations on taking aid into Romania have become much more complicated, and costs have risen again so we have decided there will be no boxes of clothes and other presents for the foreseeable future. We shall still hope to give them all an extra �+ to spend on food over Christmas, particularly important for those who now are forced to use all their sponsorship as help in paying their domestic bills. Extra help with medical expenses and dental care still continues.
About 30 of our 120+ children with 4 Mums went to the holiday camp at Bisoca organised by the Orthodox Church. We give a donation, paid for transport and sent food and detergents. Our Romanian administrator wasn't so happy with arrangements this year as the age difference was great and even the very young ones spent time at discos, went to bed late and ate too much fruit in the orchards!
While we are in Romania, we shall also go to visit the little school at Suditi, in which the children from Harrold Middle School have always taken a keen interest. Last year we succeeded in working in co-operation with the local council on some very major structural repairs. We paid for the materials and they paid for the labour. Hopefully this co-operation will continue.
Our help in Romania is still certainly needed and we are very grateful for any contributions you are able to send us, especially towards that Christmas gift for the families.
Thank you everyone for your continuing support and prayers. Liz and Tim Dodwell
North Beds Healing Group - Wholeness and Healing
Service of Wholeness and Healing with the Laying on of Hands: Felmersham Church, Sunday 7th October at 6pm – everyone welcome.
Forward in Healing course in Bedford
We still hope there will be a Basic Lay Training Course in the Ministry of Healing run over six weeks, early next year, at St Andrew's Church in Bedford. This will be open to anyone interested from any denomination and deanery. Please contact us if you want to be kept informed or if you can help in any way. Also please tell us what day of the week is best or worst for your church.
Some Enigmas of Healing. Saturday November 3rd
Talk and Discussion led by the Revd Carl Garner at St Andrew's Church, Kimbolton Road, Bedford, from 10am - 12.30.
Looking Way Ahead:
Please note the date for next year's service at St. Alban's: Saturday 9 February, 2002. Celebration of Christian Healing in the context of the Eucharist. Speaker: Dr Gareth Tuckwell, (until recently Medical Director at Burrswood)
For more information about the North Beds Healing Group or any of these meetings please contact Liz Dodwell at Watermead, 41 Odell Road, Harrold, Bedford MK 43 7DH (telephone 01234 720640 and e-mail: TimandLizDodwell@compuserve.com) or Revd D Mason, 2A Devon Road, Bedford (telephone 01234 309737 or e-mail david@devon.powernet.co.uk
Anglican Youth Choir Visit to Odell
Ten members of the Anglican Youth Choir of Uganda came to Odell in September. A five day visit had been planned as an interlude between a tour of England and then of America. Due to circumstances beyond their control the five days became twelve.
A number of local churches and schools were able to enjoy their lively playing and beautiful singing. They wooed all who heard them with their enthusiasm and their love for Christ.
The choir is attached to the Province of the Church of Uganda, which resolved in 1983 that a group should be formed to encourage worship of a more lively nature in the Anglican communion. It began with eleven members and has grown over the years to over thirty five including members who move away and remain as associate members promoting the choir in other parts of the world.
The members of the choir each have their own careers. These include teachers, agriculturalists, personnel officers, accountants, an artist, and even a journalist.
The recent visit was the third the choir has made to this country. A slightly larger number, mostly unmarried, sang to us at the harvest supper of 1993. Now they are all married and all but one with young children. Only two month old Elizabeth refused to be parted from her mother and may well hold the world record as the youngest person to make her stage debut!
At a time of national and international gloom and despondency it was refreshing to have this encouraging and uplifting Christian group in our midst, bringing with them a strong flavour of Africa in the songs written and composed by the members themselves.
Flower Rota
If anyone would like to do the flowers in Church for any Sunday, in memory of a loved one or any other anniversary, please contact Jill Cheadle 720261.
Letter from St Francis of Assissi Theological College, PO Box 1567, Wusasa-zaria, Nigeria
It is a privilege to have completed our first year at St Francis of Assissi. On June 14 we said our farewells to 37 graduating students whom we had come to know and appreciate during the course of the year. The graduation ceremony was a very special moment for them, marking the culmination of 3 or 4 years of study. For some it meant the end of financial hardship, for others the excitement of being reunited with their families. Most of all, it was an awesome moment because it heralded their forthcoming ordination. By the time you read this many will have been ordained and will be starting their new lives in churches spread across Northern Nigeria.
The end of an academic year is a good time for reflection. Here are some of our first impressions.
We have been impressed by the prayerful lives of the students and their devotion to the things of God: all night prayer vigils, frequent days of fasting, numerous early morning praise meetings, enthusiastic singing, clapping and dancing during chapel meetings and an unquenchable desire to preach the Good News at any and every opportunity.
At times we have been distressed by the poverty of the students and their families. Many have struggled to feed themselves, yet have always been willing to share with others what little they have.
Some have preferred to use food money to purchase the theological books they will need in their future ministry, trusting God to provide their immediate needs.
Lack of water and electricity has been a constant theme throughout the year. In the second semester the supply improved, but the increased output led to the collapse of the transformer supplying Wusasa. We were given a smaller transformer which resulted in power only being available once a week. It was impossible to pump enough water to supply the campus for a week. The students managed to clean the college's emergency well, but the quantity of available water was still insufficient. We had to put an extra tank on our house to store enough for the week. Other members of staff stored water in as many buckets as they could lay their hands on.
The College has been given two computers. The members of staff have been undergoing training and some are making good progress, despite lack of power and of a printer.
The generally low educational background with which the students come to the college continues to be a challenge. For historical reasons this has long been a problem in Northern Nigeria. During the last year some measures have been put in place and hopefully will be carried into the new academic year.
Dick is conducting research into theological education in Africa and hopes to tie the training given at St Francis to the mission of the church in Northern Nigeria. Caroline is writing English teaching materials in order to tackle the problem of poor language skills. We would very much like to contribute something to the upgrading of the college.
An additional year has been added to the timetable to give those students who need it a year's intensive English language training. This will give Caroline six courses to teach and Dick will be taking seven.
The pattern of life is very different. 'Early to bed and early to rise' has become our motto. The local mosque can start the early morning prayer call two hours before prayers at 5am!
Cooking has been an interesting challenge. No refrigeration so daily purchasing of foodstuffs is necessary. The simpler lifestyle has nevertheless been a refreshing change.
Communication is another difficulty. Post is notoriously unreliable, phone lines often not working, no external fax machine in Zaria and even email is difficult. When news does get through it is wonderful! As communications are so difficult one always gives and receives a warm welcome to any visitors by day or night.
In addition to the issues already raised we would ask you, please to pray for:
the new students as they start the new enter college year
the new courses we will be running
the Acting Dean who is seeking to further his qualifications
continued peace in Kaduna State, giving thanks for the peace of the past 12 months
that both we and the college will be able to establish an adequate email link
Thank you for your continued prayer and support. Dick and Caroline Seed
Our Giving in October is to : Jenny Ottewell's personal fund at cms.
In July our giving was to the Church Missionary Society for which Jenny works. This month the giving is directly to Jenny for her own needs – please give generously in our collection or in the plate at the back of the church to support this exceptional lady who gives so much of her life to the needs of others
Sponsored Bike Ride Saturday 8th September
Once again, the day of the bike ride dawned bright and fair which undoubtedly played a large part in encouraging so many riders to take part. We had more visitors than ever to All Saints' Church here in Odell, and this year we even managed five riders of our own – many thanks to Tom, Naomi, Caroline, Oliver and Liz Dodwell. Thanks, too, to the ladies who patiently manned the church during the event. Having manned the church myself during several of these events over the past few years I must say that it is a very peaceful and enjoyable "duty".
Amongst Ourselves
We are stunned in disbelief and horror at the terrible events in America, with such evil motives at work causing so many thousands of lives to be innocently lost. It is impossible to understand how anyone could
contemplate such evil thoughts and actions. I am sure that we have all shed a tear or two knowing that the dead and injured are someone's loved ones. Not only is the USA in shock but also so many other countries, who share in their sadness and wish to support them, and the families of those British people who have also lost their lives, with any help they can.
What can we do? Pray, and continue to pray and uphold these dear people in our hearts and minds for the months that lie ahead. Not only do we pray for these, but we must pray for the people who instigated this awful devastating event. Neither must we judge but place them into God's hands – for He will deal with them in the way that He knows best!
We pray that something good will come out of something so bad, for so often this is the way our Lord works. As with all disasters, people look to 'a higher power' for their help. Prayer always works – keep praying!
We are pleased to know that both Edie Surridge and Eileen Shakespeare have settled back in their own homes after being in hospital. We remember these in our prayers as we also remember the sick, the elderly, the housebound and those in nursing homes. We remember too Jenny Cuddeford on 10th October as she undergoes her operation and we trust that all shall go well.
So we pray:
"Dear Father of all we bring all the above people to you in prayer and ask that you would be with them protecting and healing them and giving them your peace. May your guardian angels be with us all. Thank you for the wonderful days of sunshine that we experienced enabling the children to play outside during their summer holidays and thank you for the rain that followed to dampen the dry earth. Father you are so good to us and know our needs far better than we do. Where would we be without your amazing world of nature, especially in Odell where we have local people who grow such wonderful vegetables and flowers in their well stocked gardens.
How we thank you Lord for all that you give to us. In Odell we are so grateful to have a 'safe haven' in Horsefair Lane where the local children have played so happily for year after year. Here they can safely run around and ride their cycles and skateboards – their cheerful voices a pleasure to listen to as they receive such joy and give such joy to us. No wonder that you said "Suffer the little children to come unto me". How much they have to teach us older ones! Give us the same childish joy that they have. Forgive us when we get old and grumpy, and may we remember that we too were children!
As a new term is now well under way we put these children and all scholars in your hands. These youngsters are our tomorrow, and may we never forget that.
Please bless our village, and our church members binding us together in your love. We give you glory and praise for every one and we thank you especially for this special haven of your world in which we live.
Please accept and hear this and all our prayers through your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen." Anne Turner
Remember to put your clocks back 1 hour on Saturday 27th October!
Looking to Jesus
May the Lord show special kindness to Onesiphorus' 2Timothy 1:16 NLT
Remember 'the special people' in your life
Sometimes we just need to pause and remember with gratitude 'the special people' in our lives. Paul did. Listen: "May the Lord show special kindness to Onesiphorous - because he often visited and encouraged me" (2 Tim.1.16.NLT). We all need a friend like that! One of my favourite poems is 'The Friend Who Just Stands By'. Here it is:
'When trouble comes your soul to try, you love the friend who just 'stands by'
Perhaps there's nothing he can do – the thing is strictly up to you;
For there are troubles all your own, and paths the soul must tread alone;
Times when love can't smooth the road, nor friendship lift the heavy load.
But just to know you have a friend, who will 'stand by' until the end,
Whose sympathy through all endures, whose warm handclasp is always yours;
It helps, some way, to pull you through, although there's nothing he can do.
And so with fervent heart you cry. "God bless the friend who just stands by".
Don't just remember the special people in your life today, pray for them and let them know how much you appreciate them. Not only will they feel good, but you'll feel even better!
Taken from "Word for Today" with kind permission of United Christian Broadcasters. Tel 01782-642100
I would like to thank you all for your kindness, help and especially your prayers before my operation and since. Before my operation it was quite a struggle to get to church but with your help I was able to come until the week before I went into hospital and that meant so much to me.
I am pleased to say that my operation was a great success and I am now free from pain. Unfortunately my walking is still hampered by my ankle but I am hoping to have an operation for that quite soon. However, I hope to come to church before I go back to hospital. Thank you for the many letters of good wishes I received from you. Love, Eileen Shakespeare.
Give thanks to The Lord because He is good. His love is eternal.
Birthdays – Happy birthday to anyone who has a birthday in October. Don't forget to let the magazine team know if you would like a birthday to be remembered in the magazine.
October Diary
3rd 10.30am Meeting Point at Manor Cottage, Harrold.
5th 7.45pm "Chairman Mao" at Sharnbrook Mill Theatre.
6th 7.00pm Harvest Supper, Village Hall.
9th 7.30pm W.I. in Village Hall
16th 10.30am Meeting Point at Rectory Farm, Odell.
20th 10.30am Coffee Morning at Rectory Farm, Odell.
31st 10.30am Meeting Point at Manor Cottage, Harrold.
We are always looking for more articles for the magazine – particularly items of special interest to the church, village and people of Odell!
Magazine Deadline
Please send all entries for the November magazine to Tricia Hudson (triciahudson@kbnet.co.uk), Anne Turner or Catherine Corkery by October12th at the latest. May we remind you that the editorial team exercises the right to edit, shorten or alter any items that are submitted. Also, the opinions expressed in the articles are those of the contributors and are not the responsibility of the editorial team.
electronic mail address
triciahudson@kbnet.co.uk
Last revised: September 25, 2001.


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