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- It's the fall of 1920, and the Chatterleys are settling in at their ancestral home, Wragby. Like its name, Wragby is not beautiful.
- It starts off badly and gets worse. The house itself is boring and inoffensive, but the view is totally spoiled by a really dreary village next to an even drearier coal mine: Tevershall. Welcome to the Midlands. We hope you don't mind that the air is constantly full of"quaver[ing], dappling and swelling and contracting"coal smoke (2.1).
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Check out: 8-10.30
Breakfast: € 9,00/person, from 8-10 am
Our Reception is open from 8 am till 7 pm.
If you would like to arrive or depart outside check-in and out-hours, please get in touch with us: +43 662 874776
Please have a look on the arrival information below and
Have a nice stay at ***Cityhotel Trumer Stube!
Yours, Vivienne and team
The flower-decorated house offers 20 nice and clean rooms, all with fans, free WIFI, safe, tea equipment, IPod-docking station aswell as cable connected flat TVs. The bathrooms are equipped with shower, toilet, hairdryer and cosmetic articles
Standard Double Room (also for single use): 15 sqm, one large double boxspring-bed, some with extra sofa bed
Premium Double Room: 15 sqm, one large double boxspring-bed, new renovated comfy room with a nice design
Small Room on the ground floor: 12 sqm, one large double boxspring-bed
Triple room: 20 sqm, one large double boxspring-bed, one single boxspring-bed, evt. one sofa bed
Family room: for 4 or 5 persons, 25 sqm, one or two large double boxspring-beds, add. 1-2 single beds
We will be happy about your notice regarding special wishes or extra beds.
We are also delighted to organize tours and concerts for you, aswell as to give you information and recommendations for your stay in Salzburg. We are looking forward to welcoming you as our guests!
Please note that due to our central location in the middle of Salzburg's old town (pedestrian zone) it is not possible to guarantee calm rooms.
*Please note that the Citytax (€ 1,55/adult from 15 years/night) is charged additionally to the nightly fee.
We are happy to welcome you in our cozy breakfast room for a small healthy and fresh breakfast from the buffet including coffee, creamy cappuccino, Espresso or Café Latte aswell as Chai latte, 8 sorts of tea and hot chocolate. We bake different kinds of fresh bread for you in the morning which you can have with ham, cheese or something sweet. Would you like to start a healthy day? Try our cereals, fresh fruits, juices and compots! You can enjoy the full breakfast including drinks for only € 9,00 per Person, from 8-10 am.
By car
Leave the motorway in direction of Salzburg city center and drive in via Schwarzstraße or Imbergstraße. Then drive up to Makartplatz, turn left and take the first to the right – this is already "Bergstraße". Follow up until you reach the "bollard" (photo 1), call us or press "Hotel Trumer Stube" (photo 2) in order to receive a pin for driving directly in front of the hotel. Unload at the hotel and receive information how to drive to the public Mirabell-Garage in order to park your car safely during your stay.
For parking your car we recommend the nearby public parking garage "MIRABELLGARAGE". Just drive down to the lower floor, take the ticket and at our's you will additionally receive a discount. Including our discount, you will only pay € 15,--/24 hours.
By plane or train
Arriving at Salzburg Airport, take a taxi to our hotel or go by bus No. 2 or 10 in direction of Mirabellplatz or Hanuschplatz. From there it is only a short walk along Bergstraße to our hotel.
Arriving at Salzburg Hauptbahnhof, take a taxi or the bus to Mirabellplatz, get off, follow the street until you can turn left into Bergstraße and here we are. On foot it will be around 20 minutes walk from the trainstation.
We are looking forward to welcoming you as our guests!
Cityhotel Trumer Stube
Inh. Mag. Vivienne Kaier
Bergstraße 6
5020 Salzburg
Tel +43 662 874776
Fax +43 662 874326
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.trumer-stube.at
Your's, July, Julia, Galina, Jenny, Vivi and Vivienne
with our housekeeping-team Lucia, Ljiljana and Leticia


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At the time he had just been demoted to third fastest by team-mate Jorge Lorenzo, having previously spent much of the session in second behind eventual poleman Dani Pedrosa.
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The consequence of that crash was worsened by the lack of previous practice running, which prompted most riders - Spies among them – to focus the majority of their set-up efforts on just one bike.
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Asset Acceptance LLCInternet United States of America
Asset Acceptance LLC Fulton Friedman & Gullace, LLP Being sued by FF&G for debt outside Statute of Limitations. Internet
*Consumer Comment: What is happening?
*Consumer Comment: These idiots are scum
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At the first court date (December 2012), I spoke with their attorney and informed him that not only was I not aware of any such debt, but also that if it did exist, it's outside the statue of limitations, as I haven't dealt with any credit card company (except for 1, a different one) since 2006.
The attorney said that if it's outside the SOL they'd just drop it, and that he'd look into it and follow up with me. The case was reset to March 21, 2013 (2 days from now) and I never heard anything further about it (they never followed up). I also just called the court, and they confirmed that nothing has changed, they have no new filings since that first court date, and the case has not been dropped.
So, as it stands, I'm going back to court again in two days and it seems I'm right back in the exact same position I started in. I'm trying to get the specific attorney I dealt with to call me back. After my last court date, I attempted to follow the advice given in this thread: http://www.ripoffreport.com/collection-agency-s/asset-acceptance/asset-acceptance-taking-me-to-24x77.htm
Specifically, I tried to follow the advice given by Tom- Marquez (USA) regarding filing a "Motion for a more definite statement" or asking for a "Bill of Particulars", but the clerk looked at me like I was crazy, and had no idea what I was asking for.
So, I'm not sure what my next step should be. I know that I want to fight their claim, and go to trial if necessary, and I'm sure that involves formally denying their claim and possibly a motion or two, but I'm not sure if that needs to happen in court before a judge, or in writing submitted to the clerk, etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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What is happening?
AUTHOR: Docker - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, October 15, 2015POSTED: Thursday, October 15, 2015
Hello Lampshade:
How did this end for you? I can probably help you through this issue, but I get it is 2015 and this occured in 2013. I wish to figure out how to contact you directly and not put something on a BB that you will never see. If interested let us figure this out via email. I am not selling you anything. I am someone that can provide you with useful information. FYI I just signed up on this site to reach out to you, if that means anything.
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#2 Consumer Comment
These idiots are scum
AUTHOR: Stacey - ()
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, March 19, 2013POSTED: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
For Release: 01/30/2012
Under FTC Settlement, Debt Buyer Agrees to Pay $2.5 Million for Alleged Consumer Deception Firm Also Will Notify Consumers with "Time-Barred" Debt That It Will Not Sue to Collect
One of the nation's largest consumer debt buyers has agreed to pay a $2.5 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it made a range of misrepresentations when trying to collect old debts. In addition, the company, Asset Acceptance, LLC, has agreed to tell consumers whose debt may be too old to be legally enforceable that it will not sue to collect on that debt.
The proposed settlement order resolving the agency's charges also requires that when consumers dispute the accuracy of a debt, Asset Acceptance must investigate the dispute, ensuring that it has a reasonable basis for its claims the consumer owes the debt, before continuing its collection efforts. The proposed order also bars the company from placing debt on consumers' credit reports without notifying them about the negative report. The U.S. Department of Justice filed the proposed settlement order this week at the FTC's request.
Most consumers do not know their legal rights with respect to collection of old debts past the statute of limitations, said David Vladeck, Director of the FTCs Bureau of Consumer Protection. When a collector tells a consumer that she
owes money and demands payment, it may create the misleading impression that the collector can sue the consumer in court to collect that debt. This FTC settlement signals that, even with old debt, the prohibitions against deceptive and unfair collection methods apply.
The FTC's action alleging that Asset Acceptance violated the FTC Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act is part of the FTC's continuing efforts to protect consumers adversely affected by the struggling economy. The agency today also issued a new publication for consumers, "Time-Barred Debts: Understanding Your Rights When It Comes to Old Debts".
Michigan-based Asset Acceptance buys unpaid debts from credit originators such as credit card companies, health clubs, and telecommunications and utilities providers, as well as other debt buyers, and attempts to collect them.
Asset Acceptance has purchased tens of millions of consumer accounts for pennies on the dollar. It targets accounts that other collectors have pursued and are more than a year past due, and in some cases attempts to collect debt that is
more than 10 years old. Some of this debt is too old to be legally enforceable state statutes of limitations cut off the right to sue to collect the debt after some period of time has passed, depending on the state and the type of debt. And many consumers do not know that making a partial payment of a debt may reset the state law's clock on the collector's ability to take legal action.
The FTC's nine-count complaint charged Asset Acceptance with:
misrepresenting that consumers owed a debt when it could not substantiate its representations;
failing to disclose that debts are too old to be legally enforceable or that a partial payment would extend the time a debt could be legally enforceable;
providing information to credit reporting agencies, while knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the information was inaccurate;
failing to notify consumers in writing that it provided negative information to a credit reporting agency;
failing to conduct a reasonable investigation when it received a notice of dispute from a credit reporting agency;
repeatedly calling third parties who do not owe a debt;
informing third parties about a debt;
using illegal debt-collection practices, including misrepresenting the character, amount, or legal status of a debt; providing inaccurate information to credit reporting agencies; and making false representations to collect a debt; and
failing to provide verification of the debt and continuing to attempt to collect a debt when it is disputed by the consumer.
The proposed settlement requires that when Asset Acceptance knows or should know debt may not be legally enforceable under state law often referred to as "time-barred" debt it must disclose to the consumer that it will not sue on
the debt and, if true, that it may report nonpayment to the credit reporting agencies. Once it has made that disclosure, it may not sue the consumer, even if the consumer makes a partial payment that otherwise would make the debt no longer time-barred.
The order also prohibits the company from:
Making any material misrepresentation to consumers and making any representation that a consumer owes a particular debt, or as to the amount of the debt, unless it has a reasonable basis for the representation. To ensure it has such a basis, the order requires Asset Acceptance to investigate consumer disputes before continuing collection efforts;
"Parking" or placing debt on a consumer's credit report when it has failed to notify the consumer in writing about the negative report, and;
Violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, in the ways alleged in the complaint.
The FTC has issued a new publication to help consumers understand how debt collectors attempt to collect old debts, along with their rights in these cases.
"Time-Barred Debts: Understanding Your Rights When It Comes to Old Debts" provides information on when a debt is too old for a collector to sue, what consumers should do if a debt collector calls about a time-barred debt, and whether a
consumer should pay a debt that's considered time-barred. It also provides advice on what consumers should do if they are sued for a time-barred debt, including defending themselves in court and asserting their rights under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Finally, it has links to other FTC publications and videos about dealing with debt.
The Commission vote authorizing the staff to refer the complaint to the Department of Justice was 4-1, and the vote to approve the proposed consent decree, was 3-1, with Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch voting no for both. The DOJ filed the complaint and proposed consent decree on behalf of the Commission in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida today. The proposed consent decree is subject to court approval.
NOTE: The Commission authorizes the filing of a complaint when it has "reason to believe" that the law has been or is being violated, and it appears to the Commission that a proceeding is in the public interest. The complaint is not a finding or ruling that the defendant has actually violated the law. This consent decree is for settlement purposes only and does not
constitute an admission by the defendant of a law violation. Consent decrees have the force of law when signed by the District Court judge.
The Federal Trade Commission works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish, visit the FTC's online Complaint Assistant or call 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357). The FTC enters complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 2,000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. The FTC's
website provides free information on a variety of consumer topics. Like the FTC on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
Mitchell J. Katz,
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J. Reilly Dolan,
Bureau of Consumer
Tracy S. Thorleifson,
FTC Northwest
206-220-4481(FTC File No.
(8:12-cv-182-T-27EAJ. Judge Whittemore)
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The Temple Owls and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have scheduled a three-game football series beginning with the 2014 season, Temple announced Thursday afternoon.
Notre Dame will make its first ever appearance at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on October 11, 2014 in the first game of the series. The match up will mark the first game between the schools. Temple will visit Notre Dame Stadium on September 26, 2015 in the second game of the series.
The third and final game will be at Notre Dame Stadium with the date to be determined.
With the addition of Notre Dame to Temple's future football schedules, the 2014 and 2015 non-conference schedules are now complete.
In 2014, the Owls will play at Penn State (8/30) and host Navy (9/6), Maryland (9/20) and Notre Dame (10/11). In 2015, the Owls will travel to Rutgers (9/12), Notre Dame (9/26) and Navy (10/31) and will host Penn State (9/17).
Notre Dame now has eight games scheduled for 2014 with road games against Navy (date TBA), vs. Syracuse at the New Meadowlands (9/27), Temple (10/11), Arizona State (10/11) and USC (11/29). Notre Dame currently has home games vs. Purdue (9/13), Michigan (9/20) and Pitt (11/8).
For 2015, Notre Dame will host Texas (9/5), Temple (9/26), Wake Forest (11/7), Syracuse (11/21) and USC. The Irish will visit Purdue (9/19), Pitt (11/14), Boston College, Michigan and Oklahoma.
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Looks like some tweeking to be done. Both are scheduled to play Navy on 9/6/14.
Good to see Temple football rebound a bit…think Golden should have stayed….
Army would be a natural for the MAC…
I agree, Army would be a good fit for the MAC
notre dame is trash
Watch out this year for Notre Dame. They have a good chance to be the sleepers of 2011
I think you're right…..Norte Dame will be a much better team this year. They're getting good players again and after the first 4 games,the schedules have been a bit softer outside USC…
i think Army is good enough to play in the MAC
Army can give ANY team in the MAC a run for their money. Even Nortern Illinois and Miami of Ohio.
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The Jimmie Rodgers Foundation has announced plans for its first event of 2009, a gospel talent contest and concert.
The gospel talent contest will be held Jan. 17 at the Temple Theatre, prior to the performances of The Whisnants and The Isaacs, which begin at 7 p.m. Pre-registration for the contest starts at 8:30 a.m.
"And if you have any questions, go to jimmierodgers.com and call. There's like six numbers on there. And you can call someone that will direct you into where you can pick up an application or we can mail you an application," said gospel talent contest coordinator Cathy Monsour. "We've mailed out around 200 applications so far to the people that have participated before. So if you don't get your application be sure and contact us and we will get you one."
There will be competition for ages 3-15, 16 and over, and a new category for groups. The top 3 will perform in the finals.
Click on the link below to visit the official Jimmie Rodgers Web site for more information about entering the gospel talent contest.


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As we roll closer to the cuts lined out in the sequestration plan, remember that it was Obama's negotiating team that authored the idea in 2011(Politifact). Lew, Nabors, Sperling and Bruce Reed, Biden's chief of staff, decided to propose using language from the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law as the model for the trigger. It seemed tough enough to apply to the current situation. It would require a sequester with half the cuts from Defense, and the other half from domestic programs (Bob Woodward).
And as we hear from our Dear Anti-leader yesterday, that his new idea is "Hey, let's just kick the ol' can down the road a little further, eh boys?", let's remember his admirable and honorable strength with regard to these automatic cuts back when he put them in place:
"My message to Congress is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off-ramps on this one." (Obama, November 21, 2011)
Pathetic, tetherless, unethical, lying, flipping, flopping, flailing, TYPICAL liberal trash, saying anything to get elected and then manage poll ratings. He knows that his adoring low-information voters that get their daily news from Oprah, The Daily Show, The DailyKos, and MSNBC don't know which side of what issues he chose to be on last month, much less a year ago.
The automatic cuts are the only way to go. Congress will NEVER decide on ANYTHING!
OB is destroying USA economy + freedom + military + wealth + ethics etc....
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Did Weird "Al" write YOUR Mission Statement?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Is this new music video a comedy or a tragic cautionary tale to corporate leaders, strategists and consultants?
Music parody master, Weird "Al" Yankovic, has loosed his incisive wit on corporate-buzz-speak, in a video from his just-released album, Mandatory Fun.
Mission Statement, is composed in the style of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, playing against an RSA-like whiteboard animation (which apparently took 10 months to produce!). The production quality is brilliant, and I found myself smiling and wincing in equal parts.
WARNING: This video is NOT recommended for anyone who has written a mission statement in the past decade. Showing this to your CEO or board chair may shorten your career.
But seriously, Ann and I are not fans of mission and purpose statements, even though we've had a hand in creating more than one in our day.
Our friend, colleague and mentor, Robert Fritz, writes:
"Which would we rather work for, a company that had a purpose statement but didn't have a purpose, or a company that had a purpose but didn't have a purpose statement?
Of course we would all choose the real thing over the propaganda. But even an organization that has a true purpose can rob that purpose of its power by reducing it to a slogan." *
So please, enjoy the video, and then commit yourselves to eradicating corporate-buzz-speak wherever you can – we promise to do the same!
– Gary Ralston
© 2014 Ralston Consulting Inc.
 A special thanks to Jerry Marselle at our client, SMBH, for turning us on to this gem!
*Â Fritz, Robert (2011-01-04). The Path of Least Resistance for Managers. Newfane Press. Kindle Edition.
More Weird "Al":
- Great background info in this post on the Wall Street JournalÂ
- Video: Word Crimes – a cry against bad spelling and grammar. (I liked this video even more, but then, my mom is an english teacher and editor -G)
Leadership Lessons from the Craft Beer World!
'Brewing Up a Business' by Sam Calagione, the owner of DogFish Head Brewery, was recommended by one of my sons, so I downloaded the audiobook. He brews his own beer as a hobby, and I thought – at best – I was getting into a book about craft beer counter-culture and start ups.
What I found was a fun, fast listen chock-full of lessons on the leadership required to build and run a successful business:
- about dedication and belief in what you are creating,
- of commitment to your people,
- of how the personality of an individual can shape a culture of innovation.
The company was built on creating innovative (and sometimes bizarre) products – which with craft beer means a combination of distinctive taste and ingredients, an evocative name, and a great story. (Liquid Breadfruit Ale, anyone?).
They maintain a constant awareness (and openness to) ideas that may be the germ of a new offering – and in some cases, rescue offerings in trouble.  Sales for the then-failing DFH Beer Shampoo Bar only turned around after they discovered that professional dog groomers loved it, and so repositioned it as a pet care product!
I think the thing that most struck me was their connection to and understanding of their customers. We all talk about knowing our customer, but how does that translate to action throughout a company? Calagione sets a great example, and I could see and feel his commitment to this principle, woven through every story he tells.
If you are looking for a down-to-earth and delightfully "off-centered" point of view on leadership, you are in for a great read (or listen!)!
– Ann Ralston
© 2014 Ralston Consulting Inc.
We believe… (part 1)
A TEDx video featuring Simon Sinek, author of the book: Start with Why, came to my attention as we were scanning for engaging pre-session material for a client project. From TED.com:
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers …
In essence, he observed that while most will tell you first WHAT they do, HOW they do it, and then WHY, great leaders reverse the order. He asserts this works because our brains evolved that way. While I'm not all the way on board with that part of his theory, Simon is a great storyteller – upbeat, interesting and thought-provoking. Really, really thought-provoking.
After taking the video in, Ann and I set out to re-draft the story of our company, starting with Why, and were surprised at the result. We hope you enjoy the video, and then invite you to part two, where we share our latest draft message and ask you for candid feedback!
Strategy Offering Turbo-Charged with Advanced Scenario Planning
At a recent strategy update retreat with one of our clients, we introduced scenario planning as a front-end to their strategy process. The improvement was dramatic! One of the partners even queried us if we had been actively using scenario planning at the time we'd done their original strategy session. (We assured him that we hadn't, that it was a new offering, and we had NOT been holding out on him!) He thought it added tremendous value and insight, and maintained that it should be part of their strategy process from here on out.
Much credit for the tremendous improvement between the two sessions goes to our associate, Nicole-Anne Boyer, founder of Adaptive Edge LLC. Since 2009, Ann, Charles and I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Nicole. From the start of our association, our strategic planning offering has been turbo-charged with the addition of robust scenario planning, strategic foresight and futures thinking. While I had thought I knew something of scenario planning before, I have been learning at a furious pace to come up-to-speed on the state of the art in scenario planning.
Scenario planning has been around for a very long time, but took significant strides forward, notably in the planning department at Royal Dutch Shell, and at the Global Business Network. It is now used widely in planning processes in business.
"According to Bain & Company's annual survey of management tools, fewer than 40% of companies used scenario planning in 1999. But by 2006 its usage had risen to 70%."
– The Economist, September 1st, 2008
I have been learning that there are as many forms and methods of scenario planning as there are practitioners, but there has been a clear evolution in the purpose and motive for scenario planning.
- Inform Planning: Use the output of a scenario planning exercise to inform a conventional "out-think the future" strategy session.
- Adapt to Future: Scenario planning becomes part of 1) a way of thought for leadership, and 2) an early warning system to help a company to adapt to future changes. One of the funders of modern scenario planning framed it so:
"The test of a good scenario is not whether it portrays the future accurately but whether it enables an organization to learn and adapt."
– Peter Schwartz, The Art of the Long View
- Shape the Future: The scenario planning process might be taken beyond the walls of the organization and involve the wider system we are trying to influence. The scenario planning process is then a catalyst in a broader, generative effort to shape our desired future. Put another way:
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
– Alan Kay, Scientist and Apple Fellow
In our work at Ralston Consulting Inc., we have always focused on helping our clients develop the orientation and capacity for generative change to create their desired future. Our collaboration with Nicole has given our mission a tremendous boost!
Scenario Planning Helps Profit From Uncertainty
In Profiting from Uncertainty: Strategies for Succeeding No Matter What the Future Brings, authors Paul J. H. Schoemaker and Robert E. Gunther make a point about the discrepancy between the forces shaping a sector's future, and where management tends to focus. Their claim is that about half the forces shaping the future value of a business – developments in the industry, and in the larger global environment –  are not monitored by management, and thus, "left to fate".
Instead, management is compiling backward-looking internal and industry trend data to forecast future conditions. This is backed up by informal surveys by Gary Hamel & C. K. Prahalad, suggesting that senior management devote less than 3 % of their time and energy to building a collective vision of the future. (Competing for the Future, Harvard Business Press, April 1, 1996, p 4)
We need a working understanding of our external environment and the many possible futures that may emerge, as making plans based on a single notion of the future can increase risk even as, paradoxically, it reduces our sense of conflict about an unknown future. The world is simply too uncertain and complex for such single-point predictions; and they give a false, sometimes dangerous, confidence that we are in control more than we really are. At the other extreme, we cannot become paralyzed by what we perceive as too much uncertainty, as we become obsessed with avoiding risk. We must plot a course between prediction and paralysis, thinking about the future in terms of multiple possibilities in order to better create our desired future.
Action Plan: Make a practice of 'learning from the future'. To kick off your 2011 strategic planning cycle, take your leadership team through a facilitated scenario-planning process. In the course of co-exploring 3-4 possible futures, defining a 'desired future' and gleaning strategic insights, your team will develop a much deeper capacity to mine profit in areas of high uncertainty – an area your competitor is likely spending 3% of their focus on!


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ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $422,000 from a northwestern Pennsylvania animal shelter and one of his private clients has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison.
Forty-nine-year-old Richard Danz of Matthews, North Carolina pleaded guilty in April 2013 to stealing money from the Elk County Humane Society in St. Mary's, where he volunteered as an accountant and treasurer until June 2012. Authorities said he then stole from a private accounting client to cover up the shelter thefts.
The Erie Times-News reports that Danz apologized Monday in Erie County Court, saying "My heart is contrite." But U.S. Attorney Christian Trabold said he acted out of "personal greed" and hasn't paid anything back. The judge ordered nearly $420,000 restitution and forfeiture of an expensive car.
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Wrap my fist in paper and punch it, then unwrap the paper, wrap the spider corpse in it and bin it. I hate the little bastards. This one time I caught one in a glass, put it in a tin of Celebrations and gave it to my mum. She wasn't impressed.
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If it's a big one that moves - run out of room, attempt to kill it as cautiously as possible when I re-enter.
If it's a small one thats chilling in a web - go back to sleep.
Well my mum is normally just as scared as me....so my little brother (who is 10) ends up killing it for us
If it's a small or mediumish one I'll just pick it up and take it outside.
If it's a big one with long legs I freak out, run away and make my parents rescue it.
They aren't allowed to kill it though, it hasn't done anything wrong
I just ignore them, had one in my room for the last two weeks and I've become quite fond of it
Panic attack!
I make sure his humidity's okay and that he has enough water in his bowl. His name's Anansi and he's a Mexican Fire Leg.
catch it in my hands and put it outside under a bush or somewhere nice where it can live.
I'm pathetically soft when it comes to animals. Couldn't kill it!
Run around flailing and squealing like a little girl, then calmly put it in a cup and chuck out of the back door.
The other night I rolled over in bed and there was one crawling up the wall.
I sorted it out with some tissue. I used to try to move them out with a glass and piece of cardboard, but I'd often end up panicking if it moved and end up taking of a leg or something. I feel less guilty if I kill it quickly than if I end up injuring it.
Trap it with a cup and then get family member to remove it (although usually they won't), then I have to do the old piece of paper under the cup and chuck it out the window. If it escapes before I can trap it though I won't sleep in my room..
I adjust my monocle, he doffs his top hat and we continue about our business
Have my boyfriend remove it, it's his bedroom as well as mine! I keep finding small spiders in our room though that vanish, and then a few months later return much much bigger
I shout my mum to get the fly killer and wait until it drops off the wall then stamp on it and put it in the bin
I usually try reasoning with it to begin with, and tell it that if would be better for both of us if it left. It usually ignores me, so I take it outside on a magazine or something. If it doesn't want to go, I drown it in the sink.
Thank you London Zoo for destroying my arachnophobia. If it's somewhere reachable, glass (for big ones) or tissue (for little ones) and out the window. Far away, don't bother trying to get it.
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Scream my head off & get mummy to remove it I know I'm a 20 year old man but oh well
I don't do anything... I just let it roam free. The spiders in my room hunt the woodlice in my room, and since there are more woodlice than spiders then they're all right in my mind.
Well I actually had to psych myself up for opening this thread because I could see there were attachments
I don't know what I would do. Definitely scream and run out of the room. Probably would have to go and ask the neighbours to get rid of it for me. Even then I'd probably sleep on the sofa just in case. I'm absolutely terrified of the things.
My Mum had a spider remover, that was like a long tube with a little vacuum that you use to suck them into the tube, hold it out the window and turn off the vaccum so they fall out. I couldn't use it, because I can't even stand to be in the same room
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Council head's murderer given life sentence
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A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death with a Swiss Army knife when she tried to end their relationship has been jailed for life.
Jealous Jonathan Tebbs stabbed partner Kate Dixon 29 times with a pocket knife after she moved to break up their 12-year relationship in June last year.
Jurors at Tebbs' trial hear that Ms Dixon, who was joint head of strategy at Islington Council, had told friends that she was frightened of her partner and that he intimidated her.
Tebbs denied that he was aggressive or possessive towards his girlfriend and pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
But the jury at Southwark Crown Court did believe Tebbs and he was found guilty of murder.
After killing Ms Dixon, Tebbs carried the body into the shower to wash the blood off of it.
Detective inspector Louise Knipe, homicide and major crime command, said: "What was clear to us throughout this investigation was that Kate Dixon had finally summoned the courage she needed to leave Tebbs.
"However, he was of the mindset that if he couldn't have her, no one else would. He wouldn't allow her to leave and he made sure of that by brutally stabbing her to death.
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UNICOI — The Joint Economic Development Board of Unicoi County voted Friday to join Washington and Carter counties in the newly created Northeast Tennessee Regional Economic Partnership.
Johnson City police arrested a Kingsport man Thursday night after officers say he broke the glass door at a business on the north end, later returned to the scene to inflict more damage and then rammed the vehicle of a person posted to protect
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A three-county regional economic development group expected to be formed in October will operate similarly to Washington County's council, but with more classes of contributing members, according to the draft bylaws obtained by the Johnson City
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With all due respect to Johnson City's recreation and entertainment offerings, there's nothing comparable to the cavernous playground for the young at heart set to open here in a few weeks.
DETROIT — The U.S. is seeking to forcibly limit how fast trucks, buses and other large vehicles can travel on the nation's highways.
MARYVILLE, Tenn. — A police officer responding to a dispute between a father and son in eastern Tennessee was shot to death after helping get the elder man to safety, authorities said Friday.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Two nonprofits will donate $100,000 to fight a fungus that is killing cave bats in many places, including Tennessee.
The Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency voted 8-0 Wednesday to grant a certificate of need for Mountain States Health Alliance and East Tennessee State University's jointly operated addiction treatment clinic in Gray.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority has approved a $10.37 billion budget for fiscal year 2017.
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump has unleashed the "radical fringe" within the Republican Party, including anti-Semites and white supremacists, dubbing the billionaire businessman's campaign as one that will "make America hate
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THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE CONTRIBUTIONS; Memo Linking Political Donation And Veto Spurs Federal Inquiry
By DON VAN NATTA Jr. with RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
Published: September 14, 2000
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13— Vice President Al Gore attended a Houston dinner in November 1995 to promote a budding relationship between the Democratic Party and a handful of powerful Texas trial lawyers. The relationship blossomed, producing $4 million in donations from the lawyers' firms since 1996. But it also produced some heavy-handed fund-raising that has recently drawn the scrutiny of federal campaign finance investigators.
At the time of the dinner, the lawyers were deeply troubled by a bill passed by the Republican-led Congress that would have drastically overhauled the nation's litigation system by restricting the amount of money that people injured by faulty products could win in lawsuits. Two days after the dinner, Democratic officials asked Mr. Gore to call several lawyers who attended the dinner to ask each to give $100,000 to the party.
Mr. Gore was asked to call Walter Umphrey, a prominent plaintiff's lawyer in Beaumont, Tex., but his aides say he did not make the call. Two weeks later, Donald L. Fowler, then Democratic national chairman, was asked to call Mr. Umphrey to press him for a $100,000 check. On a briefing memorandum for the Fowler call, a Democratic Party aide, wrote these words for Mr. Fowler to tell Mr. Umphrey as the reason for the phone call, ''Sorry you missed the vice president,'' and then, ''I know'' you ''will give $100K when the president vetoes tort reform, but we really need it now. Please send ASAP if possible.''
Almost always, the memorandums, known as call sheets, were careful to avoid any mention of executive branch actions or donors' legislative wishes. Soliciting contributions and explicitly linking campaign donations to official actions is improper and, in some cases, illegal.
In an interview, Mr. Fowler said that he never would have used the language on the call sheet and that he could not recall speaking with Mr. Umphrey about campaign gifts. But he acknowledged that at least one conversation with the lawyer was ''possible, maybe even probable.''
Mr. Fowler criticized the call sheet's message, which was written by a young party aide named Erica Payne. ''I don't know why that language was on the call sheet,'' said Mr. Fowler, who is now chairman of Fowler Communications in South Carolina. ''I'm sure I never said anything like that to him or anybody else. It's unwise.''
The call sheet's unusual mention of a veto as part of a solicitation of a $100,000 donation has attracted the attention of Robert J. Conrad Jr., the head of the Justice Department's campaign finance task force, who has opened a preliminary investigation into the matter, several law enforcement officials said.
Jim Kennedy, a spokesman for Mr. Gore, said today: ''The Republicans and others have had this for more than 1,000 days and no one found it interesting until 1,000 hours before the election. That's curious, isn't it?''
Although it was well known in late 1995 that the president was likely to veto the tort reform bill, its passage by the Republican-controlled Congress greatly concerned trial lawyers.
On May 2, 1996, President Clinton vetoed the bill, which would have set strict limits in both state and federal courts on punitive damages, the money juries may give beyond awards to compensate victims for their losses. Supporters of the measure, including Democrats who lobbied for almost a decade for legislation to limit liability damages, argued that it would put a cap on multimillion-dollar jury awards that they said added to consumer costs. But the opponents said large jury awards were needed to prevent companies from selling unsafe products.
Congressional Republican leaders -- and even a few Democratic senators -- angrily criticized the president, saying the veto was intended to placate donors to the Democrats. Representative John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, said Mr. Clinton was handing a gift to the generous trial lawyers who were supporting his re-election bid. Donations from those lawyers, he said at the time, ''can buy you a Bill Clinton veto.''
Among those who criticized the veto was Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, who had pushed hard for the legislation. In a Wall Street Journal interview that year, Mr. Lieberman, now Mr. Gore's running mate, described the trial lawyers as ''a small group of people who are deeply invested in the status quo, who have worked the system very effectively and have had a disproportionate effect.''
In the months after the president's veto, Mr. Umphrey's law firm contributed a total of $40,000 to the Democratic National Committee. And in the four years since then, Mr. Umphrey and his firm, Provost & Umphrey, have given more than $700,000 to the Democratic Party, Federal Election Commission records show.
This year, Mr. Gore has continued to woo the Texas trial lawyers, a strategy that has paid enormous dividends to the Democrats. In the years before the May 1996 veto, five prominent Texas lawyers -- Mr. Umphrey, John Eddie Williams Jr., the host of the dinner attended by Mr. Gore on Nov. 28, 1995, John O'Quinn, Wayne Reaud and Harold Nix -- and their law firms had given $747,700 to the Democrats. Since the veto, the five men and their firms have given a nearly $4 million to the Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group in Washington that monitors campaign finances.