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Planned fire prompts resident complaints
A planned fire that generated complaints from Barbour County residents has been extinguished, but the company responsible for the fire lacked the necessary permits prior to starting the blaze, officials with the state Department of Environmental Protection said Wednesday.
Kathy Cosco, the communications director for the Department of Environmental Protection, said the DEP was notified of the Ford Run Road fire near the Industrial Park area of Philippi on Sunday by at least one area resident complaining about the smoke. A company was burning debris from Superstorm Sandy in the form of chipped wood, Cosco said.
"The smoke was horrendous was what we were told," Cosco said. "It turned out to be that that was what our inspector found. The way he described it to me was if you're barbecuing and you want to smoke whatever it is you're cooking, you wet the wood chips. The smoke that emanates from that is similar to what was taking place at this site."
Rudy Williams, a regional forester for Region I of the state Division of Forestry, said the Hamlin-based construction company, Lincoln Leasing, was responsible for the fire.
"I believe it started last week, although they obtained the permit April 1," Williams said Wednesday.
Philippi fire chief John Green said Tuesday that the company had obtained a permit for the controlled fire; however, Cosco noted the issued permit had been obtained through the Division of Forestry – not the DEP's Division of Air Quality.
Cosco indicated that Lincoln Leasing should have also contacted the Division of Air Quality, which would have issued a separate permit – something the company failed to do. Cosco said it is important that companies try to make sure they have obtained all required permits because one permit alone may not be all that is needed.
"The important message here is that this is good work that the company is doing," Cosco said. "They worked very willingly and diligently with us to handle this situation. It's important that when companies seek out permits, they make sure they obtain all of the permits that they need.
"What our permit covers is the process that they use for burning. We get a little more specific as to what they're burning," Cosco continued. "If it's something that's going to produce a lot of smoke, typically, we ask the companies to find another way. Often that's finding a business that can use that material for their processes."
After receiving the first complaint, Cosco said an inspector visited the site on Monday and issued a request to extinguish the fire. The most recent word Cosco received on the fire was that it had been extinguished by Wednesday morning through efforts started on Tuesday. Cosco said the process was delayed because there was not a water source immediately available.
Although the fire has been extinguished, Cosco said it has to be watched closely because there is potential for it to rekindle.
Cosco also said there are mulching companies that are usually willing to take the type of chipped-wood material that Lincoln Leasing was burning.
"So that's often how we encourage those companies to handle that, rather than burning it, because it does (create) a good deal of smoke," Cosco said.
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The project will design, develop, test, evaluate and disseminate new innovative methods, online tools and multimedia-rich content eContent to be used for training teachers and VET trainers in the "environmental" education and training sector. The project team from the UK, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy and Finland will conduct a SURVEY ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, develop ENVIRONMENTAL E-TRAINING CONTENT (e-book), construct an ENVIRONMENTAL DATABASE and conduct PILOT VALORISATION (Dissemination and Exploitation) EXPERIENCES.
As complimentary aims, the project will teach "environmental" teachers and VET trainers to teach online and support them using ICT-based learning techniques.
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Brambletye Hotel - Forest Row
Lowest price$85
Brambletye Hotel offers 3-star Forest Row hotel accommodations 1 mi (1.7 km) from Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club and 2.6 mi (4.2 km) from Sackville College. Ashdown Forest Llama Park and St Swithun's Church are also within 3 mi (5 km).
This hotel has its own restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where you'll find a selection of items to try. Guests wishing to enjoy a drink will surely want to visit the bar/lounge. Free WiFi is provided.
This hotel has its own restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where you'll find a selection of items to try. Guests wishing to enjoy a drink will surely want to visit the bar/lounge. Free WiFi is provided.
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Great location
Tasty breakfast
Fantastic service
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TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 4
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Brambletye Hotel - Forest Row
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $85
- Standard Twin Room
- Standard Double Room
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- Deluxe Double Room
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 19 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 2:00 PM-10 PM
- Check-out time is 11:00 AM
If you are planning to arrive after 11 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation. Check-in after 11 PM is not possible. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
In the hotel
Food and drink
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
Things to do
- Golfing nearby
Working away
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Meeting rooms
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Wedding services
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
In the room
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- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
Freshen up
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
Stay connected
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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DiningRestaurant and Bar - This restaurant specializes in British cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
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- Brambletye Hotel Forest Row
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Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for GBP 25 per night
Cribs/Infant beds are available for GBP 10 per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.3 /5 from 44 reviews
Brambletye Hotel - Forest Row
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A brand new PCIe NVMe SSD from ... Zotac
Subject: Storage | July 11, 2016 - 06:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: NVMe, PCIe SSD, zotac, Sonix
Yes, you read that correctly the 480GB Sonix NVMe PCIe SSD is indeed a Zotac product, the internals will be a bit less surprising to you however. Inside is a Phison PS5007-11 controller, paired with Toshiba MLC NAND and a 512MB DDR3 cache. Along with benchmarking the drive, eTeknix exposed its innards for your viewing pleasure in their full review. The price is a hair under $1/GB, perhaps a little less expensive than other PCIe SSD cards but still far above SATA based SSDs.
"We have finally entered the new storage era and it is no longer just a few selected manufacturers that have NVMe drives on the market. More competition and more options are great for us consumers and it is a pleasure for me to take Zotac's Sonix PCIe-based NVMe SSD with 480GBcapacity for a test drive here at the office today."
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- Samsung 850 EVO @ The SSD Review
- Micron 9100 MAX Enterprise NVMe @ The SSD Review
- Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB PCIe NVMe @ Custom PC Review
- OCZ RD400 (512GB) PCIe MVM2 M.2 SSD @ Bjorn3d
- Synology DiskStation DS916+ @ Legion Hardware
- Asustor AS3202T 2-Bay NAS @ techPowerUp
- Samsung EVO Plus microSDXC UHS-I Card @ The SSD Review
Yes it's Apple but OWC does good work, meet the Aura 1TB PCIe SSD
Subject: Storage | April 20, 2016 - 05:40 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: owc, apple, PCIe SSD, Aura, 1TB, mlc
It has been a while since we heard from OWC, over a year since Al saw their offerings at Storage Vision, so it is interesting to see a new PCIe SSD from them. Their days of Sandforce are over, two SMI 2246 XT 4-channel controllers are paired with a Marvell 9230 RAID controller which allows the four unbranded 256GB MLC flash chips to act as a 1TB RAID 0 drive. The SSD Reviews found the Macbook Air upgrade drive to run slightly slower than the original 256GB SSD but with quadruple the storage the slight slow down is offset by the extra space. Check out the Aura drive if you have a Mac in need of upgrade, or if you are simply interested in a tiny 1TB SSD.
"Because of its limited storage capacity and Apples horrendous cost for upgrades, it was very close to being replaced, at least until OWC contacted me a week ago asking if we might like to review their latest 1TB Aura PCIe SSD replacement for mid-2013 and later MacBooks."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- PNY CS2211 XLR8 240GB @ eTeknix
- Kingston DataTraveler Micro 3.1 128GB USB 3.1 Gen 1 Flash Drive Review @ NikKTech
- Synology DiskStation DS216+ NAS @ Modders-Inc
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Behold, the spectrum of storage
Subject: General Tech | April 5, 2016 - 12:47 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: NVMe, SAS, sata, PCIe SSD, low latency
The Register have put together a nice graphic and table displaying current storage technologies and how they relate to each other. They constructed the graph to demonstrate the major boundaries in storage, between cache/memory, local storage and external storage and how these are going to move thanks to new technology. NVMe-over-fabric will enable companies to utilize external storage at latencies lower than internal storage that still uses SATA or SAS, with only pure PCIe local storage outpacing its potential. X-Point, assuming it lives up to the hype, will blur the line between local storage and memory/cache storage, offering latency previously only seen in system memory or on-die cache.
They also provide a table to give you some rough ideas how this translates between storage media, normalizing it a theoretical task which would take L1 cache 1 second to access, this can make it somewhat easier to comprehend for some than nanoseconds.
"Two technology changes are starting to be applied and both could have massive latency reduction effects at the two main storage boundary points: between memory and storage on the one hand, and between internal and external, networked storage on the other."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Alphabet's Nest To Deliberately Brick Revolv Hubs @ Slashdot
- Meet Jide's Remix OS: Android on the desktop done right @ The Inquirer
- Google pushes April Android security update to Nexus devices @ The Inquirer
- FreeBSD 10.3 lands @ The Register
- Quinones and graphite make green battery @ Nanotechweb
- A One Year Redux On The Basement Computer Room For Benchmarking 50+ Systems Daily @ Phoronix
- AMD Details Bristol Ridge AM4 Performance @ Hardware Canucks
- Samsung starts mass producing 10nm-class NAND chips @ The Inquirer
10GBps of Non-Volatile Memory Express based storage from Seagate
Subject: General Tech | March 8, 2016 - 01:23 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Seagate, PCIe SSD, NVMe
Seagate is rightfully bragging about their new PCIe SSD line up, the fastest currently available. The drives come in two types, a 16 lane and an 8 lane model, using a standard PCIe interface. The 16 lane version provides the full theoretical speed of 10GBps while the 8 lane model is less expensive and offers a mere 6.7GBps of throughput. These drives are designed for enterprise usage but if you can afford the steep price tag which will come with these drives you could certainly using them for an impressive upgrade. Check out more at The Inquirer.
"SEAGATE HAS announced what the firm claims will be the world's fastest solid state drive (SSD). The 10GBps device is already production-ready and has been built to Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications, making it suitable for hyperscale data centres."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Talking Soft Machines with David Kanter: The TR Podcast 189
- Reviving The Best Keyboard Ever @ Hack a Day
- Windows 10: Microsoft delays Redstone update for another year @ The Inquirer
- Qualcomm scores points in promoting Snapdragon 820 chips @ DigiTimes
- Flash is too fat. A glut of supply means growth is slower and slower @ The Register
- AMD to fix slippery hypervisor-busting bug in its CPU microcode @ The Register
- Zorin OS: The Linux Distribution for Windows XP and 7 Fans @ Linux.com
- Raspberry Pi 3 @ The Inquirer
- For A Few Dollars More Than The Raspberry Pi 3 You Can Have A Much Faster Board @ Phoronix
- Microsoft tells Windows 10 Insider Fast Ring users to turn it off and on again @ The Inquirer
- Passive WiFi could be 10,000 times more energy efficient @ The Inquirer
- Video Capture & Edit Guide @ OCC
- Sony FDR-X1000V 4K Action Camera @ Tech ARP
Plextor to Introduce Company's First NVMe SSD at CES 2016, the M8Pe
Subject: Storage | December 28, 2015 - 04:44 PM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: ssd, plextor, PCIe SSD, NVMe, M8Pe, M.2, CES 2016
Plextor is set to announce their first NVMe SSD at CES 2016, and the new M8Pe uses 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 to provide up to 270,000 IOPS read and 150,000 IOPS write performance (4K random). Throughput numbers were not revealed.
Image credit: PC World
The drive is in the M.2 form factor though the image indicates it will include a PCIe adapter and heat sink.
"The new drives also feature Plextor's specialty features, such as PlexTurbo RAM caching, compression technology for maximizing storage capacity, and PlexVault, which allows you to hide private data from others on a shared computer."
No details have been announced yet on capacity, release date, or (of course) pricing. We'll have to wait until CES to find out more.
ASUS Announces New N Series Laptops with Intel Skylake and 4K IPS
Subject: Systems, Mobile | November 22, 2015 - 01:30 AM | Sebastian Peak
Tagged: Skylake, PCIe SSD, notebook, N752, N552, laptop, ips, Intel Core i7, GTX 960M, asus, 4k
ASUS has added two new laptops to their N series line up premium, entertainment-focused laptops. The new models offer Intel's 6th-gen (Skylake) Core i7 processors and high resolution IPS displays, as well as fast PCIe storage and discrete NVIDIA graphics.
The new models are the 15.6-inch N552 and 17.3-inch N752, and both sizes offer wide-gamut IPS display options up to 3840x2160 with 100% sRGB coverage. The displays are powered by graphics up to a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M. Quad-core Intel Core i7 processors power both models, with a generous 16GB of RAM standard. Storage is provided via PCIe x4 storage with speeds of 1500 MB/s with capacities up to 512 MB, and external connectivity includes a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C port.
While boasting powerful specs these N-series laptops are also geared toward entertainment, with ASUS drawing attention to the sound from their "SonicMaster" audio system, which boasts powerful B&O ICEpower class-D amplification for the laptop's front-facing speakers. Other features include backlit keys which offer 1.8 mm travel, and aluminum covering the keyboard area and lid.
The new models haven't shown up on the U.S. product pages just yet, so pricing and availability are not yet known.
Samsung's M.2 SM951 PCIe SSD appears for sale and is worth every penny
Subject: Storage | June 25, 2015 - 03:42 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: SM951, Samsung, PCIe SSD, M.2
Samsung's M.2 SM951 PCIe SSD was never originally intended to be sold on its own but thankfully the 128, 256 and 512GB models are showing up on Newegg and other sites and the speeds it can reach are very impressive. The Tech Report tested the 512GB model and saw it beat the Intel 750 Series in IOMeter at a queue depth of one, though the Intel SSD still shows off its prowess at higher queue depths. Their testing showed that the speed of the flash produces enough heat that the drive throttles itself so you should consider rigging an active cooling solution if you do pick up this drive. Check out their full review to see some very impressive numbers and boot times.
"Samsung's SM951 SSD squeezes a quad-lane PCIe Gen3 interface onto a diminutive M.2 form factor. It offers incredible performance under the right conditions, but it also struggles in some scenarios. Our in-depth review explains the drive's strengths, weaknesses, and unique enthusiast appeal."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- House of Cards: PCIe SSD Performance Roundup @ [H]ard|OCP
- Intel 750 PCIe SSD @ The SSD Review
- Patriot Ignite M.2 SSD @ The SSD Review
- OCZ Vector 180 480GB SSD Review @ NikKTech
- 240 GB Kingston HyperX Savage SSD @ Tech ARP
- ADATA Premier SP610 512GB SSD Review @HiTech Legion
- QNAP Turbo NAS TS-453 Pro 4-Bay Enthusiast and SMB NAS @ eTeknix
Checking out PCIe SSDs, both the full sized version and the bite sized ones
Subject: Storage | April 7, 2015 - 02:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Plextor M6e, XP941, Samsung, DC P3700, Intel, PCIe SSD, M.2
The Tech Report have updated their storage testbed to properly benchmark PCIe SSDs, the M.2 versions as well as ones such as Intel's DC P3700 which takes up a full slot. They contrast the performance with 10 popular SATA drives to give you an idea of the difference performance a PCI SSD will give you. The rather expensive DC P3700 dominates almost every test they performed, apart from boot times in Windows 8.1 which are still well under 1 minute. Read through the review with your own usage patterns in mind, in many cases a SATA SSD is still a great choice for many gamers and are much more affordable. Then again, if you can afford a $2500 SSD, Intel's offering is definitely king.
"SSDs have been bumping up against the limits of the Serial ATA interface for a while, but they don't have to be stuck behind the 6Gbps link. Native PCIe drives with way more bandwidth have made their way onto the market over the past year. We've tackled a trio of them—Plextor's M6e, Samsung's XP941, and Intel's server-grade DC P3700—with a fresh slate of benchmarks to see how the new breed stacks up against the SATA incumbents."
Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Intel's 750 Series @ The Tech Report
- The Intel SSD 750 Series Performance Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Intel 750 PCIe @ The SSD Review
- Intel SSD 750 Series 1.2TB PCIe NVMe @ Kitguru
- Samsung 850 EVO mSATA @ The SSD Review
- Samsung SSD 850 EVO mSATA @ Benchmark Reviews
- Silicon Power S80 240GB SATA @ The SSD Review
- Seagate Seven Steel External USB 3.0 Drive Review @ NikKTech
Samsung is releasing new PCIe SSDs
Subject: General Tech | September 26, 2014 - 01:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: PCIe SSD, Samsung, NVMe, SM1715, 3d nand
Samsung's new SM1715 NVMe PCIe SSD will use their new 3D V-NAND and come in a 3.2TB card, double the previous model and perhaps the smallest of the new line of SSDs they are working on. The stats are fairly impressive at 750,000/130,000 random read/write IOPS or 3GB/sec read bandwidth and 2.2GB/sec write bandwidth if you prefer that measurement. Samsung offers a nice mix of bandwidth and size with the new model and you can expect the competition to start releasing new models with increased capacities and speeds in the near future. The Register was not provided the full set of specifications for the drive but those should be forthcoming in the near future.
"Faster, fatter flash cards that speed up server applications are in demand, and Samsung has announced it is mass-producing a 3.2TB NVMe PCIe SSD using its 3D V-NAND technology. It says higher capacities are coming."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- TSMC releases networking processors based on 16nm FinFET @ DigiTimes
- China market: SSD prices drop sharply, say memory module makers @ DigiTimes
- 6 IT Certifications for SysAdmins to Consider @ Linux.com
- Outage fears as Amazon's always on elastic cloud gets rebooted @ The Inquirer
- The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy @ Slashdot
Plextor's M.2 PCIe SSD, the M6e
Subject: Storage | June 17, 2014 - 06:48 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: plextor, Plextor M6e, M.2, PCIe SSD
The Plextor M6e M.2 SSD Series comes in 128, 256 and 512GB models and for those lacking a M.2 slot you can opt for the model below which ships with a PCIe 2.0 adapter for an additional $60. One caveat that Legit Reviews offers immediately is that for many models of motherboards you must manually enable the M.2 slot in the UEFI, otherwise your drive may not be detected. Once enabled properly and benchmarked the performance was found to be in line with the advertised speeds of 770MB/s sequential read and 580MB/s sequential write speeds for the 256GB version. It would seem that the SATA 6Gbs limitation can indeed be overcome but of course that was not enough for the crew at Legit Reviews, they picked up a second M6e and RAIDed them to reach 1408MB/s read and 1098MB/s write!
"Are you wanting to get beyond 550MB/s without having to do a RAID setup? Are you willing to try a new interface? Meet the Plextor M6e Series of PCI Express SSDs! Plextor is leading the charge for native PCIe SSDs and has come up with the first readily-available M.2 PCIe SSD on the consumer market. Other drives like the Samsung XP941 series have been around much longer, but they are OEM only and aren't really meant for end users. Plextor has stepped up to the plate with a drive that had end user firmware updates, an impressive 5-year warranty and mouth watering speeds."
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- Crucial MX100 256GB SSD @ Custom PC Review
- Kingston SSDNow E100 200GB Solid-State Drive Review @ NikKTech
- SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD Review - Wicked Speed & 10 Year Warranty @ The SSD Review
- Crucial MX100 512GB @ eTeknix
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- Crucial MX100 @ The SSD Review
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- Samsung 840 Pro @ Benchmark Reviews
- Seagate Surveillance 3TB SATA III HDD Review @ NikKTech
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Lindner Hotel BayArena - Leverkusen
The Lindner Hotel BayArena is located in Leverkusen, within the BayArena Sports and Conference Center complex at Leverkusen Stadium, Germany.
This 4-star sports and business hotel features a health and leisure area with fitness center, sauna, steam bath, and solarium. Just the thing for a sporty stay in Leverkusen. Eight multimedia conference rooms, with a direct view over the stadium, hosting up to 180 people, and an additional 500-sq-meter event space are available.
Guests will be pampered at the Winners' Place restaurant, where they'll find a remarkable variety of à la carte specialties, themed-buffets, and brunch events. Free WiFi is provided.
Lindner Hotel BayArena - Leverkusen
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $76
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Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 121 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 6 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Pets allowed (dogs and cats only) *
- 1 per room
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Self parking *
In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Fitness facilities
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 8
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 8
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 1999
- Elevator/lift
- Television in common areas
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Pillowtop mattress
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Pay movies
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Free international calls
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
Lindner Hotel BayArena - Leverkusen's small print
Also known as
- BayArena Hotel
- Lindner Hotel BayArena Leverkusen
- Lindner Hotel Leverkusen
- Lindner BayArena Leverkusen
- BayArena Hotel Lindner
- BayArena Lindner
- BayArena Lindner Hotel
- Hotel BayArena
- Hotel Lindner BayArena
- Lindner BayArena
- Lindner BayArena Hotel
- Lindner Hotel BayArena
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- The city of Cologne imposes a culture tax (Kulturförderabgabe) of 5 percent. Business travelers may be exempt from this tax. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Optional extras
Early check-in can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 65
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of EUR 80
Self parking costs EUR 20 per night with in/out privileges
Rollaway beds are available for EUR 39 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 20 per person (approximately)
Cribs/Infant beds are available for an extra charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 19 per pet, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.0 /5 from 95 reviews
Came in late in the evening - without a GPS, I think it would have been hard to find. Very accommodating staff; great parking; an elevator!; very, very clean room - seemed new; comfortable enough bed. Pillows were not good and Wifi and breakfast buffet were marginal. Would stay again as it was located near the Autostrade and a good price for the quality room, parking and breakfast.
We went to Leverkusen for a football match and the hotel was attached to the ground. Perfect location, good breakfast and comfortable room.


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Made of forged steel with a black finish. Sold in pairs. Leather wrapped handles. Cylindrical in shape with a cylindrical end.
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Breyner's path to mobility
Fabiola, a prosthetic technician for Range of Motion Project (ROMP), welcomes Breyner with a warm smile as he walks through the doors. A year prior, seven-year-old Breyner's leg had been removed during his battle with cancer. Breyner and his mother Gabriela had made the two and a half hour trip to ROMP three months earlier after hearing that the organization provides free prostheses to children in need. For three months, Breyner used the prosthetic leg provided by ROMP to walk, run and jump. But as Breyner continued to grow, his prosthesis became uncomfortable, and he was forced to begin using crutches again to help with his mobility.
Fabiola measures Breyner and finds he has grown two centimeters in the last three months. His prosthesis will need to be lengthened slightly to enable him to walk comfortably again. Carlos, a prosthetic assistant, adjusts Breyner's prosthesis in the ROMP workshop, changing out the rod that serves as Breyner's lower leg for a slightly longer one. With his newly adjusted prosthesis, Breyner strolls confidently through the parallel bars and proudly shows off his mobility for the ROMP team.
TripAdvisor employee engagement: the beginning of a partnership
Though Breyner and his mother had to travel long distances to receive help from ROMP, the time investment came with a significant reward—realization of Breyner's potential for mobility.
Patrick Mathay, former TripAdvisor Team Lead for Owner Support, also invested heavily in ROMP, though in a different way. In 2009, Patrick began volunteering with ROMP, conducting effectiveness surveys and providing fundraising support. During that time, he met patients like Breyner, whose lives have been altered by ROMP's services. Seeing ROMP's impact for himself inspired Patrick to take action through the TripAdvisor Charitable Foundation, which accepts grant proposals from nonprofit organizations that have been engaged with a TripAdvisor employee on a volunteer basis for at least six months. Patrick supported the ROMP team as they applied for the funding that would allow their organization to maximize its potential and reach more patients like Breyner. His initial support resulted in a significant reward for ROMP— multiple grant awards from the TripAdvisor Charitable Foundation and GlobalGiving over six years.
GlobalGiving partners with the TripAdvisor Charitable Foundation to vet, moderate, and manage all grants made through TripAdvisor's Employee Grant Program. GlobalGiving has awarded more than a hundred grants in excess of $7 million in partnership with the TripAdvisor Charitable Foundation.
Employee engagement grants: Investment in ROMP's growth
The grants that the TripAdvisor Charitable Foundation has awarded in partnership with GlobalGiving have helped ROMP become a prosthetic industry leader in underserved communities. The ROMP clinic in Zacapa, Guatemala started as a single room where prosthetic technicians saw patients and built prosthetic molds. Today, ROMP is a full-service rehabilitation center that's served more than 3,000 patients. It now boasts two patient rooms, a waiting area, parallel bars, a workshop, and a 3D printing lab.
Investment in ROMP has strengthened its operational foundation, helping it to transform from a volunteer-based organization to one with a strong team of professionals. ROMP is lead from their office in Quito, Ecuador by Patrick Mathay, a familiar face to ROMP who now serves as Executive Director, and Diana Antony, who serves as Operations Officer. Employee engagement with TripAdvisor is still ongoing following Patrick's departure, and ROMP has continued to benefit from the skills of TripAdvisor employees, who have helped in areas such as social media and branding strategy. TripAdvisor's volunteer engagement and support, recognized through a GlobalGiving grant, is allowing ROMP to make the adjustments needed to realize its potential.
ROMP's mission is to provide high quality prosthetic care in underserved populations, which enhances mobility and unlocks human potential. ROMP believes in equal access to prosthetic and orthotic services that facilitate independence through mobility.]]>
The hardest part is over. You've emailed your friends and family inviting them to support your fundraiser. Hopefully, those first donations to your fundraiser have started trickling in, but now what? How can you keep that momentum going?
Now that you've shown your friends and family that you're serious, it's time to start thinking about promoting your fundraiser to a larger audience. Thanks to the power of social media, reaching out to your vast network has never been easier!
The trick to keeping your networks engaged with your fundraiser is creating a campaign. Give yourself a deadline and let everyone know about your fundraising goal. Then, use Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram to build momentum around your campaign. Do more than ask people to give; tell a story! Share your milestones, send your supporters shout-outs, and give ongoing updates about the project you support.
Check out our favorite tips below to get your social media followers to engage with your campaign:
Twitter: Twitter has a strict character limit, but there's no limit to the good you can do with just 140 characters. Since Twitter is such a fast-moving platform, don't be afraid to post 3-5 times per day about your campaign. Be sure to include intriguing facts and information about the project you're supporting!
Pro-tip: Always use shortened links on Twitter to optimize space. Bit.ly is a great tool to shorten your links and you can track how many clicks your link has gotten.
Instagram: Did you know that the human brain processes images 60,000 times fast than text? Use this to your advantage when you showcase pictures from your chosen project. Sharing a photo on Instagram will help your friends and family feel more connected to the cause.
Pro-tip: Make sure you put the short link to your fundraiser in your Instagram bio. This gives your supporters easy access to your page from their phones.
Facebook: Out of all forms of social media, our most popular fundraisers have had the most success with Facebook. Since there is no strict character limit, you have the opportunity to tell the story of what inspired you to start your fundraiser. We recommend writing a 4-5 sentence paragraph about your story, the cause—and most importantly—asking people to give.
Pro-tip: If you share a link to your page on Facebook, it will automatically pull through the default image from your fundraising page. Make sure you're using a good one!
So what are you waiting for? Get sharing! Be sure to tag @GlobalGiving on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so we can cheer you on!]]>
Until now, the social sector hasn't had this basic building block for an information system. In order to easily share details about an organization's social impact, financial performance, or eligibility, we must be able to firmly differentiate one organization from another.
This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). Publicly launching today, BRIDGE is a system that assigns a unique identifying number—a "numerical fingerprint"—to philanthropic organizations across the globe.These can be non-governmental organizations, programs, and projects or other entities in the social sector, including schools and churches.
The BRIDGE project aims to revolutionize information sharing in order to better understand and track the flows of philanthropic dollars and thereby enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. Funded by Google Inc., the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and with support from the Markets for Good community, the BRIDGE project has reached a major milestone: the launch of a lookup tool.
Already there are nearly three million BRIDGE numbers assigned worldwide, a result of synchronizing information from the databases of founding partners Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup. Ongoing synchronization makes it easier to share and compare data among databases.
This week, BRIDGE launched a search tool at bridge-registry.org where anyone can look up an organization's name, location, or BRIDGE Number. If you work with an NGO, it means that donors will be able to find your organization more easily to support your cause. If you're a donor, it means you'll be able to more easily find partner organizations that work in the fields you most care about. If you work with an intermediary organization, you'll be able to find members or partners that work in your space and better serve your clients. Everyone, including NGOs, institutional funders, aid transparency organizations, and other NGO service providers can now have a more accurate and holistic picture of what's happening in the nonprofit and international development sector.
The founding partners intend to grow the collaborative BRIDGE project so that it can strengthen other philanthropic collaborations and create a more structured, transparent, and measurable philanthropic market. The knowledge derived from the BRIDGE project will also facilitate more strategic decision making by those who are working to create positive change across the globe.
This launch is an important milestone for the world of transparency, impact measurement, philanthropy, and nonprofit and social enterprise performance. In the same way that no one involved in the creation of Universal Product Codes (UPCs) in the 1970s could have anticipated the current crop of smartphone scanner apps, we expect BRIDGE to provide a foundation for future innovation that we can't yet predict. We know BRIDGE will have far-reaching implications for philanthropic information sharing, but we can only begin to imagine the breadth of the project's ultimate impact.
You can access the lookup tool at bridge-registry.org. For more information, contact the BRIDGE organizers or sign up to receive future milestone announcements from the BRIDGE project.
As a former collegiate dance marathon fundraiser: I get it. Asking people to give to your fundraiser can be intimidating. However, reaching out to friends and family is one of the best ways to garner support for a cause that's important to you! Starting out by asking your "inner circle" of close friends and family will help build momentum toward your fundraising goal.
One of my favorite ways to get started is to look at other successful fundraisers for inspiration! Check out Alison's fundraising page that raised an incredible $2,474 for the Kupona Foundation. Let's break down the email that helped her quadruple her goal:
1. Start with your connection to the cause. Odds are the people you are reaching out to care about YOU. Your personal connection is what will drive them to give. Providing your supporters with the story behind what motivated you to start fundraising will help motivate them to give to your fundraiser. Let's begin with Alison's awesome email opener:
Dear friends and family,
On July 22, 2013 I went into labor, never guessing it would be 5 days/6 nights until I delivered my baby girl! But not for a second did I worry about access to medical help if I needed it. One year later, I can't help but think of other moms—those with high-risk pregnancies—who don't have access to the life-saving care they need…
2. Introduce the project or organization. On GlobalGiving, all projects already have descriptions of what they aim to accomplish. Take advantage of the information at your fingertips! Help your supporters understand the earth-changing work of the project you're looking to support:
Tanzania is one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth. The goal of the Make Motherhood Safe for Tanzanian Women project on GlobalGiving is to provide a safe space for women in Tanzania to give birth. Thousands of women do not have access to the quality care that they need and the Kupona Foundation is committed to changing that.
3. Demonstrate the potential impact. Let your supporters know how their donation will make an impact. The easier is it for your friends and family to see how their support will make a tangible difference, the more compelled they will be to give.
Your donation can make the difference in the life of a mother and her baby. Did you know that for just $10 the Kupona Foundation can provide an ultrasound for woman with a high-risk pregnancy in Tanzania?
4. Ask them to give. Be as clear as possible about what you are asking for: their financial support. Use one sentence to make a powerful, straightforward message to ask your friends and family to join you in supporting the cause. Always be sure to link it back to your page!
Join me by donating $1 for every hour you (or a loved one) were in labor. Motherhood comes in all shapes and sizes, but one thing we have in common is that most of us have access to emergency medical help if we need it during pregnancy and parenthood. Let's make sure other moms and babies do too.
There isn't just one perfect formula to ask people to donate to your fundraiser. But if you need a place to start, try describing your connection to the cause, introducing the project or organization that's making a difference, sharing about the potential impact of a gift, and making a specific ask. Chances are, you'll be surprised to see how your community will respond!
This is part one of a five-part series of tips, tricks, and tools to help GlobalGivers make the biggest impact possible with their fundraiser page.]]>
GlobalGiving was founded to democratize aid and philanthropy, and in 2008, we launched the first Open Challenge campaign, making it easier for any nonprofit in the world to share its idea about how to make their community a better place. Organizations were given a specific time period to reach a set fundraising goal, and those that were successful in reaching that goal were welcomed as permanent members of the GlobalGiving community.
Thousands of nonprofits from almost every country on the map have participated in Open Challenge campaigns since then, many of whom are still active partners of GlobalGiving, continuing to access the training, support, and resources to improve their communities. Nevertheless, we often received feedback that the time restrictions created by the Open Challenge were too rigid to accommodate busy calendars. We also heard that some wonderful organizations weren't able to qualify for permanent membership in the time allotted, even though they were committed to learning, improving, and doing great work in their community.
Last year we took a long, hard look at the way new potential partners interact with GlobalGiving, and we challenged ourselves to think creatively about how we could provide more value and greater opportunity to nonprofits around the world. We've decided to implement some changes in 2016 that will hopefully make joining GlobalGiving faster, easier, and more flexible for potential partners.
As of February 1st, if a nonprofit wants to join the GlobalGiving community, there are just two steps:
1. Submit an application (so we can verify that it is a legitimate nonprofit).
2. Share an idea to make the world better by posting a project.
That's it; then welcome to the GlobalGiving community! After an application is approved, it is up to each organization to decide how they want to interact with the community. They can take part in virtual training programs and access GlobalGiving-built and third party learning tools, all while earning GG Rewards points for their efforts. They can use our fundraising and donor management tools to grow their donor base or participate in matching and bonus prize campaigns to motivate donors and earn extra revenue for their projects. Best of all, they can do any or all of it, in any order, at any time they want!
Whether an organization is actively fundraising on GlobalGiving or not, we believe they can benefit from joining a community of like-minded organizations interested in becoming better at what they do. And in the case that they do decide to start fundraising using our tools, we can reward the organizations that have shown a commitment to learning with increased visibility and the chance for more funding from individuals and corporate donors in the GlobalGiving network.
We are excited to see if this new, simplified process for joining the GlobalGiving community helps us support more earth-changing ideas and organizations. If you work with a nonprofit and have not yet joined GlobalGiving, now is a great time to try us out.]]>
A Forbes contributor defines employee engagement as the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals. But on corporate employee engagement strategies, Gallup Business Journal contributors note, "Many make the mistake of prioritizing the easy, shiny stuff — hip office space, remote work arrangements, and inventive benefits — over the elements that will strengthen emotional ties and connect employees more deeply to their managers, teams, and companies."
This may be part of the reason why a low 13% of employees worldwide are engaged.
Gallup estimates that employees who fall into the "not engaged" and "actively disengaged" categories collectively cost $319 to $398 billion annually in the U.S. alone. And two important CSR target groups, managers and millennials, have low levels of engagement: Millennials, who are set to make up 75% of the global workforce by 2030, are the least engaged generation, and only 35% of managers are engaged in their jobs.
Implementing strategies that reach the individual emotional level can be a logistical challenge, especially for global companies with diverse workforces. Luckily, with companies' increased prioritization of employee engagement, there has been a flood of research on the topic.
1. Recognize your employees, with a focus on values-based recognition
The O.C. Tanner Institute finds that recognition has a direct impact on causing great work, increasing engagement, encouraging innovation and productivity, improving trust and manager relationships, and attracting and retaining talent. In particular, HR leaders and practitioners reported in the 2015 SHRM/Globoforce Survey that values-based recognition programs significantly contribute to bottom-line organizational metrics – engagement, retention, safety, wellness, employer brand, and even cost controls – and help employers create a stronger culture and more human workplace.
EMC, a global leader in information technology as a service, has aligned its recognition program with its overall CSR strategy. Each month, new hires and employees celebrating a service anniversary are sent a $25 GlobalGiving e-gift card that can be redeemed in support of global projects aligned with EMC's Giving Back strategy supporting causes such as education, food, water, and disaster relief.
2. Offer year-round workplace giving opportunities
For the past three years, the America's Charities Snapshot Series has tracked changes in workplace-centered philanthropy and employee engagement. Snapshot 2015 – The New Corporate DNA: Where Employee Engagement and Social Impact Converge finds dramatic shifts in employee-giving models from past years. This year, almost two-thirds (60%) of corporate respondents say they offer year-round opportunities for employees to give.
In 3BL Media's webinar on the report, Heather Lofkin Wright, Director of Corporate Responsibility at PwC US spoke to this change, "There's no shortage of experiences, news items, interactions that move someone to want to give back. And we as a corporate entity are not in the position to put a time frame on that. So having things available 365 days a year for our people to do is really critical for giving through the workplace to be a significant onramp and opportunity that our people will take advantage of."
3. Provide your employees with skills-based/pro-bono volunteering opportunities
The BCCCC's 2015 Community Involvement Study found that among companies that measure the connection between volunteering and employee engagement, 89% found a positive correlation between participation and high engagement scores. Company representatives also report that volunteering helps to establish positive brand within operating communities and displays organizational values in action.
Tech companies are increasingly encouraging their employees to volunteer tech skills to organizations that lack proper funds and staff. For example, the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Advising program allows HPE employees to offer their professional expertise and advice to nonprofits and entrepreneurs at no cost. In the past, HPE employees have helped in a variety of key business areas, including branding and marketing, IT, business planning, managing staff, and recruiting volunteers. Through its partnership with GlobalGiving, HPE has been able to provide support to more than 200 international nonprofits.
Rethinking your employee engagement strategy in 2016? Reach out to our Business Partnerships Team to learn what other companies are doing to build a more motivated workforce: https://www.globalgiving.org/companies/contact-us/]]>
No one likes worrying about the overhead costs associated with nonprofit work, and rightly so! For years, overhead ratio has been of the only metrics that donors could use to compare philanthropic choices. More recently, conversations like The Overhead Myth have pointed out that the world's best businesses need operating capital to innovate and succeed, so why should nonprofits be any different? Even though better measures of impact and effectiveness are increasingly available and accepted, a typical donor's natural reaction when they see a percentage come up in a conversation about nonprofit fees is to interpret it as an overhead ratio. And most donors still don't like overhead.
For us at GlobalGiving, this presents a challenge. While we retain a 15% fee on donations through our website, our actual administrative overhead ratio is around 2%. Despite testing several different ways of demonstrating and explaining the difference between our fee and and our overhead, we still get lots of questions about our fees from users who assume that the two are the same. To help fix this, we recently asked ourselves: what if it's not the explanation text that's the problem, but how users are experiencing and processing the information it contains?
For inspiration, we turned to the world of cognitive psychology. In his famous Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman describes how we all have two systems at work in our brains. System 1 is our intuitive, quick-reacting, subconscious mind, while System 2 is analytical, logical, and methodical. He mentions a 2007 study that tried to use the interaction between these two systems to improve scores on the "cognitive reflection test". This short quiz consists of questions that seem simple at first, but have a "wrinkle" that makes them more complex than they appear (try them yourself). Half the participants in the study took the test normally, while the other half took the test under a cognitive load, meaning the questions they received were written in a lighter font that made them slightly harder to read. The researchers found that the second group performed much better on the test, presumably because the cognitive load caused their analytical System 2 processes to take over from their more reactionary System 1 minds. Once in this "more logical" frame of mind, they were much better equipped to tackle the tricky problems.
After reading about this study, I wondered if we could replicate the results on GlobalGiving to help donors process the explanation of our fee and the accompanying invitation to 'add-on' to their donation to cover this fee on behalf of their chosen nonprofit. Our hypothesis was that donors usually use System 1 when thinking about our add-on ask; they quickly assume that the 15% represents overhead and they're less inclined to donate additional funds to cover it. But, if they engage their System 2 mindset that makes them process the text more analytically, hopefully they'll find the explanation more convincing and be more likely to add-on. To find out if this would work, we planned a simple test in which a subset of users would be randomly chosen to see a slightly modified version of the add-on page during their checkout process. This page would have exactly the same text, just shown in a slightly lighter font that, we'd hope, would trigger the cognitive load and drive extra add-on contributions.
The plan made sense in theory, but we had to be careful as we put it into practice. First, we needed to make sure that the random assignment process, made possible by our Optimizely A/B testing framework, was running correctly and that all the data we would need to analyze the results was logged properly in our database. Even more importantly, we have an obligation to our nonprofit partners to make sure we're doing everything possible to maximize the funds they can raise by offering a seamless website experience for donors. If this experiment caused users in the treatment group to become less likely to complete their donation, we'd need to know right away so we could stop the test.
We set up a pilot study where we closely monitored whether the cognitive load caused by the change in font color would cause potential donors to leave the checkout process prematurely. We also kept a close eye on post-donation survey feedback to see if anyone mentioned the changed font color. Fortunately, there was no difference in donation rates or feedback during this initial test, and we felt comfortable continuing with the larger experiment, which ran two weeks at the end of July (just before the launch of our new website). In the end, we collected results from about 700 eligible users.
So what did we find? 49.4% of our control group chose to contribute towards the fee, compared to 56.8% of users who saw the lighter font. This sounds like there's reason to believe users were engaging their System 2 brains and processing the request for an additional donation. But, it would be premature to declare success without additional analysis. Specifically, we wanted to make sure there wasn't another explanation for the difference in add-on rates.
For example, it's possible that users who were new to GlobalGiving would be less familiar with our fee and therefore less likely to want to add-on to their donation to offset it. Similarly, donors contributing during a matching campaign might be especially inclined to make sure that the most money possible went to their favorite organization and, as a result, would add-on more often. So, in our analysis, we statistically controlled for these factors, along with the size and geographic origin of each donation, to get our most pure estimate of the effect of the cognitive load.
The final result was a 7.8 percentage point increase in add-on rates with a P-value of 0.046. This means that we have only a 4.6% chance of seeing results at least as large as these purely by chance. If we take this increase and estimate what might happen if we made the change on the whole site, we expect we'd see around another $27,000 in additional funding created for our project partners over the course of a year. That may not sound like much in the context of the $35M+ that will be donated through the site in 2015, but it's not a bad return for our partners for just changing a font color!
These are exciting results that suggest the possibility of a new way of thinking about how we present our fee, and there's still plenty of work to be done. Longer runtimes and larger sample sizes would give us even more confidence in our results and let us explore other potentially important factors, like seasonal effects. Thinking about how we might integrate these results into our new website also presents opportunities for follow-up experimentation as we continue to Listen, Act, Learn, and Repeat on behalf of our nonprofit partners around the world.
Special thanks to my classmates Vincent Chio and Wei Shi in the UC Berkeley Masters of Information and Data Science program for their help with this analysis and to Kevin Conroy for his support throughout the project.]]>
The Millennium Development Goals, the predecessors to the SDGs, shaped the international development agenda over the past three decades. Since 1990, more than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, cutting the rate of poverty in half worldwide. But there is still much work to be done, and this time, the new SDGs aim to foster a more inclusive effort by governments, the private sector, and civil society to finish the job. GlobalGiving is supporting thousands of vetted nonprofit organizations around the world that have long been working to address the issues laid out by the SDG agenda.
The new GlobalGiving Global Goals initiative features sustainable development projects that address each of the 17 Goals. GlobalGiving has vetted each of the featured nonprofits, and they are among GlobalGiving's highest-ranked organizations; those that are committed to learning and effectiveness.
"We believe that locally-driven organizations committed to listening to their communities are in a powerful position to make lasting change in regard to poverty, climate change, and inequality. The launch of the SDGs is a great opportunity to raise the profile of those local changemakers, whose voices are vital in this conversation, and also to help individual and institutional donors identify opportunities to make meaningful contributions toward the goals," said John Hecklinger, Chief Program Officer at GlobalGiving.
It is not only individuals who are interested in new ways to make strides toward the SDGs. Private companies, grantmakers, and other philanthropic organisations are also working with GlobalGiving to channel funding toward local projects addressing the goals. The SDG Philanthropy Platform aims to build a means for philanthropy to engage with, and participate more effectively in the Post-2015 Agenda, and amplify the voice and action of grant makers and grantees in determining and achieving international targets and strategies. GlobalGiving is proud to partner with the SDG Philanthropy Platform to help philanthropists support effective development outcomes around the globe. Visit SDGfunders.org for more information.
Learn how you can get involved with the GlobalGiving Global Goals at GlobalGiving.org/sdg.
We've learned a lot from running campaigns on this topic, like the highly successful CHIME FOR CHANGE campaign, founded by Gucci and partners Salma Hayek Pinault & Beyonce Knowles-Carter. Here are five things that have made this cause marketing effort stand out.
When Gucci and its partners launched CHIME FOR CHANGE, there was a clear connection between the business and the campaign's focus on education, health, and justice for girls and women. They chose to support a cause their customers and ambassadors can easily connect with and join, which increases any campaign's chance for success.
Key Takeaway: It should go without saying that the cause a company decides to champion should be relevant to its business. Marketing an unfocused idea that leaves the public wondering "Why?" can be a costly distraction that won't do much to benefit your cause, so double and triple check that the focus is intuitive to your audience and relevant to your business.
When CHIME first launched with Catapult, and subsequently partnered with GlobalGiving, Gucci and its partners were looking for locally-driven projects they could impact through the campaign. Focusing on their chosen themes of education, health, and justice for girls and women, we're using our expertise in crowdfunding and international vetting to source local projects from around the world to be featured on the CHIME FOR CHANGE website. Through its efforts to date, the campaign has raised more than $7 million to fund more than 420 projects run by 144 nonprofit partners in 88 countries.
Key Takeaway: It may seem daunting to go global and local at the same time — from reputational risk to tax law, there's a lot to consider. Luckily, there are organizations that have expertise in navigating the international nonprofit sphere and measuring local impact. They do it so you don't have to and so your company isn't left behind in the race to be both global and local with giving.
Telling stories has been central to the CHIME FOR CHANGE campaign. From Erin Helfert's triumph in gaining a conviction in her rape case in Moroccan court to Razia Jaweed's journey in learning to speak up, www.chimeforchange.org features stories of women who have been empowered to make changes in their lives and communities. Managing Editor Mariane Pearl explains: "Their stories are shaping a different story for mankind, a new narrative built from the heart and made of hope."
Key Takeaway: With so many great causes around the world worth supporting, we all wish we could just say "Please help!" and that would be enough to mobilize the world. But let's be honest: in the fight for the global consciousness, persistent humanitarian issues don't have it easy. Using stories can help you draw emotional connections with your audience, making your cause feel more personal and real. For tips on how to tell a great story, visit http://stillmotionblog.com/storyfirst/.
On the CHIME website, users aren't in danger of clicking themselves into a confused frenzy trying to figure out how they can be a part of the cause. The first thing you see on the homepage is a Take Action link that, when clicked, prompts you to either #CHIMEIN on Facebook or Twitter or donate to support a project. Powered by GlobalGiving's API services, anyone can easily donate to featured projects such as "Help Young Women Rebuild Nepal" or "Healing for Sexual Violence Survivors in Colombia."
Key Takeaway: "This story really hit home for me. How can I help?" If there's one question any cause marketing manager can expect from the public, it's this. Just take a look at the comments section of this recent New York Times piece. Readers were touched by the compelling story of a mother separated from her son and wanted to know how to take action. Don't make your audience do the heavy lifting. You've already inspired them to want to help your cause, so all that's left is to give them an easy way to do it.
CHIME FOR CHANGE certainly didn't waste time waiting for the spotlight to fall on their campaign. Team CHIME has been busy since the start using a variety of mediums to reach different target audiences. Just last week it was announced that CHIME has partnered with Global Citizen to present the September 2015 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park. As a result, a tremendous amount of attention is being paid to the issues surrounding girls and women worldwide. How do they do it?
Key Takeaway: Build it and they will come…right? Not so much. During a time when the public is constantly bombarded with information, commanding the attention of your audience is crucial. Take a leaf out of CHIME's book by trying different modes of communication to reach a broader audience.
To donate to a project through CHIME FOR CHANGE or learn more about the campaign's work with girls and women, visit: www.chimeforchange.org
If you need help with your cause marketing campaign give GlobalGiving a call at 877.605.2314 or visit us at: www.GlobaGiving.org/corporate-partners]]>
We all want our donations to have the most impact possible. But how do we choose which nonprofits to support? And how does an organization like GlobalGiving, working with nonprofits in 165 countries, measure, compare, incentivize, and reward effective nonprofits doing everything from providing affordable housing in Nicaragua to restoring buffalo on Lakota land, to teaching organic farming to at-risk teens in Indonesia?)
Well, we've made a Big Bet about how we can do just that, and today marks a major milestone as we're working to drive more money to more effective organizations. Starting today, the organizations on GlobalGiving that we believe are more effective—those nonprofits that are committed to learning—will be rewarded with more visibility and the chance for more funding through the crowdfunding community.
We're using gamification, incentives, and behavioral economics to encourage organizations to listen to the people they serve, to act on what they hear by testing new ideas, and to learn faster and more efficiently. (We call this the Cycle of Progress: Listen, Act, Learn. Repeat.)
We've created a new ranking system, which we're calling GG Rewards, that helps us identify which nonprofits are climbing the GG Rewards ladder as Partners, Leaders, and Superstars. We've developed this system in collaboration with our nonprofit partners, with researchers, and peers. We'll continue to improve as we learn more in the coming months. (In case you've been following our progress, the GG Rewards system is a big improvement on the Effectiveness Dashboards and Partner Rewards rankings we've been experimenting with for several years.)
When our partners log on to GlobalGiving today, they'll see their GG Rewards Status, a list of benefits their status affords them, and then they'll have immediate access to tools and resources that can help them log more Effectiveness and Engagement points that will help increase their scores. Nonprofits not only get points for reporting to their donors, but they can also earn points for interviewing stakeholders, collecting community stories, or collecting feedback from the people they intend to help, for example.
We know that 40% of our partners log into our system every week, and we have data that demonstrates that they'll take actions to improve their ranking because it leads to more funding, so we're making sure those actions will help the nonprofits not only become better fundraisers but also more effective at meeting the needs of their communities.
As nonprofits demonstrate their commitment to learning and improving, they'll now have increased visibility on GlobalGiving, and we're confident that Superstars will reap tangible rewards. Stay tuned as we roll out ways for donors to search for and find effective organizations!
Versions of this article have also been published by GuideStar and Markets for Good.]]>


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Rejecting 'analysis by checklist' and 'skill absolutism' since Dec '09
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Scorecard Draft (2010) V Sehwag, D Amiss, D Bradman (c), C Cowdrey, P Umrigar, A Faulkner, R Marsh +, M Marshall, W Hall, M Hughes, B O'Reilly
Alphabetical Draft (2011) S Watson, G Kirsten, D Bradman (c), K Sangakkara +, C Cowdrey, K Pietersen, A Flintoff, M Marshall, B O'Reilly, F Trueman, T Alderman
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After a five-year absence from its lineup, Harley-Davidson has brought the Low Rider back as a mid-year 2014 model. And the newly restyled Dyna cruiser returns with increased performance and improved ergonomics.
The revived Low Rider received an upgrade from its Twin Cam 96 to the now standard Harley-Davidson Twin Cam 103, a powerplant that is rated at 99 foot pounds of torque at 3500 rpm. It also comes with Harley's Electronic Sequential Port Fuel Injection (ESPFI), Automatic Compression Release (ACR), and a six-speed Cruise Drive transmission.
In addition to increasing the Low Rider's performance, Harley-Davidson's engineers also focused on improving its ergonomics to fit a wide range of riders. So they outfitted the Low Rider with the added features to achieve what Harley refers to as the "perfect fit" rider position: A two-position seat, an adjustable handlebar riser, and foot pegs that are two inches farther forward from its mid mount position.
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The Little Man of Nuremberg
March 17, 2016 | by Erik Morse
Wonder in the age of Matthias Buchinger.
Though he had neither arms nor legs and was only twenty-nine inches tall, Matthias Buchinger spent his sixty-five years variously as a magician, a musician, a carver, and an inventor, among other vocations. But his most astounding talents were in micrography—that is, literally, small writing. Since his death in 1740, his renown has been relegated to an obscure niche between print design and outsider art. "Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger's Inventive Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay," showing now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, rescues him from a seventeenth-century German wunderkammer of conjurers, carneys, witches and "freaks" endemic to early modernity. Accompanying the exhibition is the equally eccentric art-history and antiquarian memoir Matthias Buchinger: The Greatest Living German by Ricky Jay, Whose Peregrinations in Search of the "Little Man of Nuremberg" are herein Revealed, in which Jay, something of a sleight-of-hand artist, reconstructs Buchinger's exotic life and oeuvre. Read More »
Tuesday's Child
October 29, 2015 | by Micah Nathan
In early fall of 1989 my friends Craig, Mick, and I tried to summon a demon—Astaroth, the crowned prince of Hell, if I'm remembering right—to the driveway of Craig's suburban home. Months earlier I'd found a book on summoning spells hidden in a box in my attic, underneath a bunch of Lovecraft anthologies and old Hanukkah decorations.
We'd planned the evening a few days before: once Craig's parents left for dinner at the country club, I'd draw a magic circle beneath the basketball pole, Mick was on candle duty, and Craig would read, in Latin, the requisite incantations. The translated Latin was a series of threats and commands, invoking Jesus Christ and various angels, along with reminders that the magic circle was impenetrable, that as long as we were within its boundaries Astaroth held no sway. That we were all good Jewish boys didn't seem to matter—we held Jesus in high regard, the way Pistons fans must have felt about Michael Jordan; even though he wasn't one of ours, you still had to respect the guy's game. Read More »
Disagreeable Tales
July 14, 2015 | by Erik Morse
In his fiction, Léon Bloy strove "to disclose the universal villainy of respectable people."
In his first homily as Pope Francis, in March 2013, the Pontiff included an obscured voice of the French fin de siècle. Restating one of the most entrenched principles of Catholic dogma, Francis declared, "When one does not profess Jesus Christ, I recall the phrase of Léon Bloy—'Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.' " Though it may have struck religious scholars as unusual, the reference to Bloy indicated the Church's cautionary role against the millennial idolatry of technology and humanism. Bloy, who wrote a series of pamphlets, novellas, and essays during the increasingly scientific climate of the Second Empire and the Belle Epoque, included himself among the cabal of symbolists and decadents who had taken Satan as the object of their literary obsessions—specifically, the resurgence of the devil in the popular French imagination. Read More »
Charlie, Charlie, Are You There?
June 9, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
I like to root for the underdog, so I'm always comforted to find Satanism in the news. There are, after all, some two billion Christians in the world, and only about a hundred thousand Satanists; if the eternal war between good and evil is a numbers game, then it would seem the good guys have this one in the bag. And yet Satanism persists—pure evil's got moxie.
The latest coup from the dark arts is Charlie Charlie Challenge, a Ouija Board-ish pursuit in which players—who tend to be, let's face it, kids and teens—cross two pencils over a piece of paper and attempt to summon a Mexican demon. According to no less reliable a source than the Daily Mail, four Colombian high school students were hospitalized for "hysteria" after playing the game, which set off an international pandemic of DIY voodoo: Read More »
Divine Ordure
February 5, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
A master class in hailing Satan.
"The odor from those incense burners is unbearable … What do they burn that smells like that?"
"Asphalt from the street, leaves of henbane, datura, dried nightshade, and myrrh. These are perfumes delightful to Satan, our master."
When J. K. Huysmans published Là-Bas (Down There) in 1891, it caused an immediate scandal in France. Huysmans serialized the novel in L'Écho de Paris, a newspaper; readers wrote in early and often to express their revulsion, threatening to cancel their subscriptions if the serialization was not halted posthaste. Not long afterward, when the book itself came out, it was banned from sale at railway kiosks, thus ensuring that it loomed all the larger in the public imagination. Controversy followed the book abroad, too—no one bothered to attempt an English translation for more than thirty years, and even then, the U.S. Society for the Suppression of Vice ruled that it was simply too immoral to see the light of day.
The outrage stemmed from the book's frank depiction of Satanism—it culminates in a Black Mass, vividly described. Its protagonist, a novelist named Durtal, has pursued his interest in the occult to its logical conclusion, and he's startled to learn that a thriving underworld persists in contemporary Paris. Huysmans conducted extensive research for the novel, basically embedding himself among a group of Satanists; he was disenchanted with ordinary life, and he wanted literature to present a thrilling alternative to quotidian reality. But he went too far. He grew so distressed by the darkness and evil in Là-Bas—and, perhaps, in his own soul; the novel's subtitle is "A Journey into the Self"—that he came to regard it as a black book; he wrote a white book, En Route, to cancel its negative energy. (It's sort of the same way that Prince, a century later, recorded Lovesexy to exorcize the demons of The Black Album.) Later in life, Huysmans converted to Catholicism. Read More »
Satan Comes to Oklahoma City
October 30, 2014 | by James McGirk
Facing fears in the Sooner State.
My ailing wife, Amy, had demanded that I take her to a Black Mass, a well-publicized one that would have meant aligning myself with Satan on local television. These people aren't really Satanists, Amy explained. They're blue-collar subculture types who've grown up and know their rights and want to thumb their noses at the judgy creeps who persecuted them growing up. Amy, who had seen more than her fair share of those creeps in her own youth, wanted to lend her support.
"Understand that this is all they've got," she told me. "It may seem stupid, but after twenty years of getting shit it's all they've got."
Despite protests from the local Catholic community, the [Satanic] Church of Ahriman held a Black Mass at the Civic Center in Oklahoma City on September 22. The Catholics had also attempted to file an injunction against them, claiming they had stolen the Holy Sacrament they intended to defile in an unholy consecration. This was their fourth mass, but this time it was for real. The Satanists had won permission to build a monument to Satan on the grounds of the State Capitol, and the wild bad reverend in charge of the Church of Ahriman (also known as the Dakhma of Angra Mainyu) was new and media savvy. He basked in the attention, held interviews and press conferences, did all he could to whip his antagonists into a righteous froth. Those antagonists arrived by the busload and dug in, singing songs and passing out leaflets.
Much of the south refers to itself as the buckle of the Bible belt, but Oklahoma has a special claim to bucklehood: there's the hard-line Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, and everywhere you turn there seems to be a crucifix; pricey little Amish general stores line the highways and tens of thousands of churches are sprinkled throughout the state, from hippieish splinter sects nestled in the foothills of the Ozarks to goliath megachurches with media teams and television studios and lobbying groups. Life in the Sooner State has a churchy feeling—the stickiness of Kool-Aid soaking through the seams of a waxed paper cup, bake sales manned from behind rickety card tables, devotional sing-alongs, gymnasium lock-ins—and there's a creeping sense of menace for outsiders. Read More »


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post8939247456309141012..comments2016-10-22T05:05:55.956-06:00Comments on Kalyn's Kitchen®: Crockpot Pumpkin Chili with Ground Beef, Black Beans, and Kidney Beans Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-55774927991171307772015-10-03T14:08:25.450-06:002015-10-03T14:08:25.450-06:00Funny, it's cold here in the Northern Colorado...Funny, it's cold here in the Northern Colorado Mtns today and I'd JUST pulled out your Black Bean and Beef Chili and the Crockpot Black Bean Chili w/Lime/Cilantro and this recipe popped into my feed. This is probably a stupid question, but if I just cook this on top of the stove, would I go four hours at low heat? I hate my crockpot....it doesn't seem to HAVE a low (it has a button for Low) setting, and everything just boils all the time. Thanks!yawningreyhoundhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-40042563606909755012015-10-03T07:23:12.163-06:002015-10-03T07:23:12.163-06:00I think that would be good, just a bit spicier. Le...I think that would be good, just a bit spicier. Let me know what you think if you try it!Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-43357339313249770812015-10-03T07:00:35.406-06:002015-10-03T07:00:35.406-06:00Sounds delicious! Wondering how it would taste wi...Sounds delicious! Wondering how it would taste with a chipotle pepper instead of Anaheim chile . . . email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-58391494246633064132015-10-02T09:21:35.488-06:002015-10-02T09:21:35.488-06:00Michelle, you must try it! Hope you enjoy.Michelle, you must try it! Hope you enjoy.Kalyn Dennyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-62108606358484796502015-10-02T08:33:00.472-06:002015-10-02T08:33:00.472-06:00I have a confession to make, I've never even t...I have a confession to make, I've never even tried chili before! However this looks like THE recipe I should try for the first time. Having pumpkin in anything intrigues me!

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www.borncreativeblog.comMichelle Grayhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-47929957773869899262011-11-27T23:58:46.718-07:002011-11-27T23:58:46.718-07:00Lianna, I am intrigued by the idea of refried blac...Lianna, I am intrigued by the idea of refried black beans, hope you like it!Kalynhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-7413220857293986862011-11-27T23:21:47.523-07:002011-11-27T23:21:47.523-07:00I'm trying this recipe right now! I had to hal...I'm trying this recipe right now! I had to half it, because my crockpot is teeny tiny, and ended up making some adjustments based on my taste preferences, and the accidental purchase of re-fried black beans... I hope it still turns out okay!
I'll let you know, but this is such a fun recipe. I love pumpkin anything, and spicy chili sounds so delicious with all this nasty winter weather.Liannaliveshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-60432741069383786462011-10-30T16:55:22.519-06:002011-10-30T16:55:22.519-06:00Lisa, so glad you enjoyed it. And it sounds like ...Lisa, so glad you enjoyed it. And it sounds like you had fun experimenting with the recipe too!Kalynhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-61423064136971002302011-10-30T16:19:23.916-06:002011-10-30T16:19:23.916-06:00Kalyn, I took the plunge and made this for the fir...Kalyn, I took the plunge and made this for the first time with COMPANY COMING for our family Halloween party! Talk about SCARY!
So I couldn't find the peppers, and left them out, compensating with the chili powder. I doubled the recipe and it didn't all fit in my crockpot. lol. I cooked it in my big stockpot. I was scared of all the spices, and was concerned about the strong taste of pumpkin initially. But tasting periodically had me adding spices. I liked the tip about cooking the beans. My husband appreciated it! :-) Everyone LOVED the chili. My sister brought Comedian's Corn Bread: a little cheesy and a littly corny! You don't have to post this. Just wanted you to know and say thanks!Lisa Michnickhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-79862032413588165502011-10-29T08:24:23.023-06:002011-10-29T08:24:23.023-06:00So glad you guys enjoyed it! (And if you think 65...So glad you guys enjoyed it! (And if you think 65 degrees is chilly, don't ever move to Utah!)Kalynhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-17866233945266427112011-10-29T07:57:50.811-06:002011-10-29T07:57:50.811-06:00Made this for dinner last night to celebrate our f...Made this for dinner last night to celebrate our first cold front of the season in here in Houston (it was a chilly 65 degrees!) and it was delicious!!! Will definitely make it again :)Kyle and Alihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-63053926470512233622011-10-11T11:56:49.400-06:002011-10-11T11:56:49.400-06:00Julia, so glad you like it.Julia, so glad you like it.Kalynhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-43389735329249331502011-10-11T11:39:16.319-06:002011-10-11T11:39:16.319-06:00I started making this last night, and it's in ...I started making this last night, and it's in the crockpot as we speak. I made a few adjustments based on what I had on hand, but only to a little bit of the seasonings. It's a WONDERFUL recipe!!!! Perfect ratio of meat/beans/sauce. Not to thick, or thin. Just perfect! Thanks Kalyn!Juliahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-16906355770547076382010-12-08T20:16:08.826-07:002010-12-08T20:16:08.826-07:00I made something just like this and loved it! http...I made something just like this and loved it!
http://damegoodeats.blogspot.com/2010/12/chili-week-pumpkin-turkey-chili.htmlMiss. Tarrah Damehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-84440015424626316262010-10-31T13:26:05.998-06:002010-10-31T13:26:05.998-06:00Lynne, I think it will still be good without the S...Lynne, I think it will still be good without the Spike. If you have another type of all-purpose seasoning blend that you like, you could use a little of that.Kalynhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-19310347423653719632010-10-31T13:01:51.670-06:002010-10-31T13:01:51.670-06:00Argh! No Spike seasoning at our local grocery stor...Argh! No Spike seasoning at our local grocery stores. I guess they didn't restock after the recall. I don't have any other spice blends; do you think it will be okay without it, or do you have other suggestions? firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-6633666270733336622010-10-22T16:17:31.262-06:002010-10-22T16:17:31.262-06:00Katie, I think butternut squash would be great in ...Katie, I think butternut squash would be great in this.Kalynhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-84611424359348523202010-10-22T12:44:01.186-06:002010-10-22T12:44:01.186-06:00What a great idea! I'll have to use butternut...What a great idea! I'll have to use butternut squash, tho. I put pureed zucchini into my white chili last year to thicken it and it was delicious!katiezhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-56377038206158672022010-10-20T13:37:59.249-06:002010-10-20T13:37:59.249-06:00So glad you enjoyed the chili with a touch of pump...So glad you enjoyed the chili with a touch of pumpkin and cumin flavor added to the mix.Kalynhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-2962431218931669432010-10-20T12:28:41.091-06:002010-10-20T12:28:41.091-06:00Thanks for the great recipe. A good way to get pum...Thanks for the great recipe. A good way to get pumpkin's benefits into your diet without sugar, and even though it adds flavor to the chili, it's subtle enough that no one would even guess that's the mystery ingredient. I don't normally add cumin to my chili, so it was a good variation to my usual and quite email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-50655138197773962192010-10-17T20:16:30.865-06:002010-10-17T20:16:30.865-06:00Melody, I did eat it with cheese and sour cream, j...Melody, I did eat it with cheese and sour cream, just didn't think about the sour cream until after I took the photos.Kalynhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-53919381114120723102010-10-17T19:58:41.730-06:002010-10-17T19:58:41.730-06:00I would love to try this chili recipe. I love pum...I would love to try this chili recipe. I love pumpkin and might try to add some croutons and sour creme as a way to splurge and have fun with it.Melodyhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-53498175192665006332010-10-17T13:36:03.414-06:002010-10-17T13:36:03.414-06:00PJ, thanks; so glad you liked it. I love winter s...PJ, thanks; so glad you liked it. I love winter squash, especially butternut!Kalynhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-66362784864549224332010-10-17T13:21:42.105-06:002010-10-17T13:21:42.105-06:00your pumpkin article on blogher was so resourceful...your pumpkin article on blogher was so resourceful, Kalyn! This year, I have been buying atleast one pumpkin/winter squash a week and trying something new with it.. and that article gave me so many ideas. thank you!PJhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-17605113660119630442010-10-17T11:24:46.478-06:002010-10-17T11:24:46.478-06:00I think this would be very flavorful without the b...I think this would be very flavorful without the beef. Of course you'd want to use vegetable broth, and I might cut down the liquid just a little because of less volume in the solid ingredients.Kalynhttp://email@example.com


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