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- A 10-year employee accounting manager systematically transfers amounts via ACH to her personal checking account.
- A high-ranking director takes thousands of dollars in insurance proceeds over a period of several years.
- An escrow officer creates false invoices and cuts checks from escrow funds payable to herself.
These situations are common employee embezzlement examples. Each year companies lose millions of dollars to employee embezzlers. The sad truth is that white-collar embezzlement DOES pay.
Unfortunately, the overburdened state and federal criminal justice systems provide little relief to businesses victimized by thieving employees. In most circumstances, district attorneys will not prosecute embezzlement under $100,000 simply because of the amount of time these cases take to pursue and the number of cases burdening major fraud divisions. Many district attorney offices prefer that the victim provide most of the evidence needed to prosecute, rather than depend on a police department or DA investigators to gather evidence. Federal prosecution is even more difficult. Most cases taken by the U.S. Attorney's Office involve embezzlement over $1 million. Even multi-million dollar embezzlement federal cases can take several years to develop. As a result, companies must often wait years for relief from the criminal courts.
Immediately upon discovering embezzlement, a company's initial actions can be critical in the outcome of both whether criminal charges are ever brought and whether the company can recover any of the funds.
Gardere attorneys have significant experience in guiding clients through this initial moment of crisis. We can assist in forming a strategy, which may include instituting a civil lawsuit to 1) obtain a judgment against the embezzler and recover any funds that have not been spent; and/or 2) gather evidence to be used by a prosecuting authority, thereby expediting the criminal proceeding. Depending on the size of the loss, a publicly held corporation's audit committee or chief financial officer may need to be advised of the loss to ensure compliance with the mandatory disclosure requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Also, if applicable, the company should contact its risk manager or insurance agent to determine its rights under any insurance policies that it may have. Most policies require that a notice of claim be filed within a short time after discovery of a loss.
What to Do When Current Employees Are Caught Stealing?
A company should proceed cautiously upon discovering a current employee is embezzling money. In most circumstances the employee has spent most of the stolen funds; however, it is sometimes recoverable. Below are important steps to take in recovering some of the misappropriated funds and in gathering evidence to provide to the prosecutorial authority.
1. Consider waiting to fire the employee until legal action can be taken. Although the initial instinct might be to have the employee escorted off the property, there may be significant benefit in not letting the embezzler know you are on to them. Additionally, there may be multiple persons acting in concert. Firing one person could tip off the others.
2. Start ex-parte civil proceedings immediately … and quietly. If the money can be easily traced to the employee's own bank account or assets, civil law provides companies with an opportunity to obtain Temporary Restraining Orders and Writs of Garnishment without notice to the employee. These orders will ensure that any property or monies available are "held" and not immediately spent or hidden once the employee is exposed.
3. Investigate. Keep the investigation as confidential as possible. Search the employee's computers and office for documentation or external drives containing data regarding their personal spending. The company may consider engaging forensic accountant computer data retrieval specialists or other experts to assist in the investigation. It is crucial that the company consult with counsel regarding the investigation. If a goal is to compile evidence to give to the DA's office or the FBI, there are certain evidentiary guidelines that must be adhered to in order to preserve chain-of-custody protocols and ensure the admissibility of the evidence.
4. Confront the employee with several witnesses in attendance. Attempt to obtain a confession or any type of written admission.
5. Have the employee's office searched during the final meeting. Pack up his/her personal belongings and escort the employee out of the building.
What to Do When You Discover Embezzlement by a Former Employee?
A company's steps following the discovery of embezzlement by a former employee will be similar to those taken when the embezzler is a current employer. However, there are additional considerations to keep in mind when dealing with the criminal activity of a prior employee.
1. Be aware that the employee may have continued relationships with your current employees. Minimize water-cooler talk by keeping things on a need-to-know basis whenever possible.
2. As with a current employee, the company should take immediate steps to secure all devices, documents, and items used during the employee's tenure. If any of the former employee's electronic devices are being used by other employees, maintain discretion when confiscating the items.
3. If the former employee is job searching, be careful how you respond to requests for a reference, as negative comments may trigger a defamation suit. If you wish to provide the potential employer with more information than the former employee's dates of employment and job responsibilities, report only the facts that have been documented and avoid giving commentary or opinion.
What Can You Do to Prevent Employee Embezzlement?
1. Have clear accounting procedures, good supervision of employees and a strict policy about employee dishonesty.
2. Require employees to sign authorizations allowing the company to search personal items, computers, email and Internet on company property.
3. Train employees how to recognize fraud.
4. Offer an anonymous fraud hotline so that employees can report suspected fraudulent activity.
5. Be on the lookout for dramatic changes in spending or gambling habits, or other signs of new wealth among employees. The employee may claim to have a rich new boyfriend or a sizeable divorce settlement but, in reality, be embezzling from the company.
6. Have information on all employee bank accounts.
7. Maintain adequate insurance coverage to cover employee embezzlement cases.
8. Schedule surprise audits by third parties.
9. Segregate accounting and invoicing functions.
Employee embezzlement is a serious and, in recent years, growing threat to all companies. The likelihood that a company can recover embezzled funds — and deter other employees from engaging in similar behavior — depends in large part on the swiftness and appropriateness of a company's actions immediately following the discovery of the theft.


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In a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk – Mark Zuckerberg, Founder/CEO, Facebook
In today's fast-paced world of, 'Customer First in Digital Age', the Experiences, Expectations, and Perceptions of Customers backed by technological advances and business model mindset shifts have a paved avenue for competitive market space to Businesses.
A lot is being heard these days about Digital Transformation, DX Economy, Disruption, and Disruption to the extent of Disruptive Innovation, Speed of Change, Mobility, IoT, SMAC, EXOs. We are getting to the point of XaaS(Anything/Everything-as-a-Service) to the magnitude of MLaaS (Machine Learning-as-a-Service) and AIaaS (Artificial Intelligence-as-a-Service), PMaaS (Project Management-as-a-Service), IOT-as-a-Service, etc as buzzwords in the industry.
Sounds challenging, isn't' it? And gets us to the point of specific queries throwing food for thought for a strategy on the road ahead –
Prediction from Analysts
|IDC's Future Scape for Worldwide Digital Transformation (DX) [1]
|Below mentioned two predictions are amongst a list of 10 from the report:
Prediction 1: By the End of 2019, DX Spending Will Reach $1.7 Trillion Worldwide, a 42% Increase from 2017
Prediction 2:By 2019, All Digitally Transformed Organizations Will Generate at Least 45% of Their Revenue from "Future of Commerce" Business Models
|IDC on Service Management Software market [7]
|"The worldwide IT Service Management software market achieved a level of $4.69 billion in 2017, according to IDC estimates. The market as a whole is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.1% during the 2017–2022 period."
|Gartner's Magic Quadrant for ITSM Tools – 2017 [2]
|Gartner's Magic Quadrant for ITSM Tools, which assesses the viability of vendors and their competitive strength in the ITSM tool marketplace has indicated ServiceNow and BMC emerging as Leaders through the exhibition of their levels of product, marketing and sales capabilities required to drive market acceptance.
|On Why The 'As-A-Service' Model Works So Well for Digital Transformation [3]
|"The global XaaS market will grow at a compounded annual growth rate of nearly 40% from 2016 to 2020, with services ranging from storage to pet-sitting to food delivery … XaaS is becoming a mindset as much as it is a strategy."
|Two approaches to Digital Transformation [4]
|In this article, Forbes talks about two approaches to achieving Digital Transformation-
1. Linear
2. Exponential
When we look at these predictions, we see a convergence of DX (Digital Transformation), EXO (Exponential Organization) and SM (Service Management). A convergence abled by Service Thinking further compounded by an Integrated framework of Best Practices involving not just delivery, quality, lifecycle approaches etc, but also, on Governance and checks on compliances.
"We are experiencing history's highest rate of change. So push harder, act sooner and never give up" ~ Ray Kurzweil, Founder of Singularity University
Towards Convergence of the Worlds of DX Economy, EXOs and Service Management.
Lets' look at each of these three dimensions for a conclusion on the road ahead.
From an article on CIO.com – "Digital Transformation is on top of every CIO's agenda these days. However, the increasing level of complexity that accompanies the fast-paced, cloud-based world of digital requires going back to basics, i.e., that is, implementing a solid, modernized IT Service Management strategy (ITSM), to make sure that digital transformation coincides with Operational Excellence, Customer Satisfaction and IT Agility".
As we look to the future and an aspired convergence on these dimensions for businesses, a logical deduce could thus ensue –
In the world of EXOs – Everything will become Digital. Yuri Van Geest
With Digital Transformation, the Consumer rather than the technology is in the driver's seat. And these matters – Forbes
A robust ITSM strategy for an Organization is vital for Digital Transformation – cio.com
Being on par regarding Price and Quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game ~ Tony Allesandra
Digital technology is enabling completely new operating models [9]. They've equipped Uber's 2,000 internal employees to manage the complex logistics of 200,000 drivers. And they've enabled WhatsApp to grow to over 450,000 users with fewer than 30 employees. A service-oriented approach to managing the business backed by mindset shift to obtaining exponential growth would significantly enable the much-needed transformation.
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Road Ahead
– "in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning)." [10]
What the future will bring is always open to interpretation. As the march to becoming a digital native enterprise continues [11], organizations and industries will be destroyed and rebuilt.
Exponential Organizations present an unprecedented opportunity for innovation and growth on one end, as work is getting reshaped, customers are getting engaged in different technologies, and competition is being reimagined.
IoT involving digitization of physical world, with Customer Service Considerations key for IoT, it offers a great avenue for application of Service Management practices.
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1. Better have a good lock on your camera, unless you really want to broadcast your ablutions.
2. If you must be constantly connected, how do you sleep?
3. Who has enough hot water to be doing anything in the shower besides washing?
On further thought, I can see someone watching a movie while taking a long relaxing bath. It might also be handy for elderly people who could call for help if they fell. Still, the marketing for this product seems a bit nuts.
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Company Overview:
Fountain House successfully addresses the devastating impact of serious mental illness. We were founded in New York City in 1948 with the belief that people living with mental illness can be active participants in their own and each other's recovery. Each year, over 1,300 members come to Fountain House to contribute their talents, learn new skills, access opportunities and forge new friendships.
Fountain House creates a culture that transforms lives. Our members, in partnership with staff, operate employment, education, housing and wellness programs. They perform all activities, including advocacy, administrative support, building maintenance and food preparation that keep our community going. Members hold jobs, graduate from schools, develop social networks and experience fewer hospitalizations and improved overall health. Increased fulfillment, sense of purpose, and stability inevitably follow.
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We've decided to make a change in our online giving portal. We are changing to a local provider who fully supports this ministry. You may know that the portal we had been using was called eGiving. We are no longer using eGiving, and now we'll be transitioning to Magothy Payments.
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Inspired by a Raleigh-based group called the Voter Integrity Project, a team of local conservatives has been scouring registration rolls and knocking on doors to root out what they believe is potential voter fraud in Henderson County.
Inspired by a Raleigh-based group called the Voter Integrity Project, a team of local conservatives has been scouring registration rolls and knocking on doors to root out what they believe is potential voter fraud in Henderson County.
So far, they've pushed the Henderson County Board of Elections to remove 132 voters from registration rolls after finding that they no longer live where they were registered to vote. Another 33 could be removed by the board at a hearing Oct. 15, according to election officials.
Jay DeLancy, an Air Force veteran who launched the Voter Integrity Project in 2011, says teams of "challengers" in Buncombe and Henderson counties have uncovered hundreds of incidents of voter irregularities through their research, discrepancies that erode fair elections.
"We would like to find anybody who is illegally registered and get them off the rolls," DeLancy said. "In that process, we've got to weed through a bunch of people who've moved."
The Henderson County team — including local Republican Party Chairman Glen Englram, Blue Ridge Tea Party Patriots member Judy Evans, and Ed Joran and Michael Eberhardt — followed a model used by VIP volunteers in Buncombe County.
First, they dug through voter rolls looking for addresses that had eight or more voters registered there. Then last spring, volunteers with the Blue Ridge Tea Party Patriots canvassed those addresses to see if the registered voters still lived there.
"They had something in the neighborhood of 300 names where the person who answered the door said, 'No, he doesn't live there anymore,' or 'No, he doesn't live here anymore,'" Englram said.
Armed with that list, the Voter Integrity Project mailed letters to those voters from its Raleigh office, asking them to respond. If one of those letters was returned as undeliverable, "that's really what allowed this team to go forward with these challenges," Englram said.
Using a search engine tool developed by DeLancy's group, Englram discovered three unknown people were still registered to vote at his address on Millard J Drive in Hendersonville, more than three years after he and his wife, Ruth, moved there from Illinois.
With guidance from DeLancy, Englram challenged the registrations of 32 county voters, including two registered at his address. DeLancy calls these "phantom voters," some of whom he believes are fictitious registrations designed to subvert honest elections.
In July, the Voter Integrity Project reported finding 739,041 registered North Carolina voters who are considered "inactive," or missing a known address. DeLancy said the discovery confirmed that voter rolls have been "corrupted, and that conditions are ripe for wholesale voter identity theft."
However, county election officials say inactive voters are not illegal or uncommon. Beverly Cunningham, director of the Henderson County Board of Elections, said about 6,000 of the county's 79,000 registered voters are considered inactive.
"We have hundreds of people who don't update their addresses when they move until they show up again to vote," she said. Even on Election Day, they are allowed to vote after updating their addresses, though perhaps at a different precinct.
"They're a completely legal class of voter in every way," agreed Election Specialist Cliff Marr. "When they come to the polls, we'll be asking them to update their addresses. Lots of people move from one (county) address to another. That doesn't disqualify them from voting."
By law, if a county Board of Elections has not had any contact with a voter for a period of two federal election cycles, the voter is sent a non-forwardable mailing. If it doesn't come back as undeliverable by the Postal Service, the voter remains an "active voter."
But if the mailing is returned as undeliverable by the Postal Service, the voter is sent a forwardable address confirmation mailing. The voter is required to return the confirmation mailing within 30 days or they're marked as an inactive voter.
Should an inactive voter not contact the county or participate in an election within two more federal cycles, they are removed from county rolls. The law allows citizens such as Englram and Evans to challenge registrations by presenting evidence the voters no longer reside in their registered voting precinct.
The system is far from perfect, though.
By focusing on addresses with multiple registrations, VIP volunteers have targeted voters at area assisted living facilities and retiree villas, including Golden Living Center on Hebron Road, Soundview Family Care on Kendrick Court and The Village of Wildflowers resort on Empire Lane.
"We've had at least two people call us and say, 'Our parents are still alive and living here at Lake Pointe Landing'" after receiving letters from the Board of Elections notifying them their parents' voting status was being challenged, Cunningham said.
She said those voters' street addresses were correct, but were "missing the unit number," so it was returned as undeliverable to the Voter Integrity Project. Both voters were able to update their addresses before a second Board of Elections hearing removed them from the rolls.
But Ray and Virginia Eads weren't so lucky. The World War II veteran and his wife have lived in the same residence in Flat Rock for 14 years, but recently learned that their names had been removed from county voter rolls after Evans and Englram challenged their validity Aug. 7.
After receiving a mailed notice from Cunningham, the Eads showed up at the Board of Elections office Tuesday to re-register. They were just in time, as anyone removed from the rolls who doesn't re-register by Friday, Oct. 10 cannot vote in November's election.
The Eads, who've voted in every general election since 1996, said they never received any letter from the Voter Integrity Project and can't understand why they were removed. They suspect they were targeted because their street was renamed from Empire Lane to Daydreamers Lane by the county and the VIP test letter wasn't forwarded correctly.
"I'm a rabid Republican," said Ray Eads. "They done messed up."
Cunningham said any county voter can check their registration status online by visiting www.ncsbe.gov/webapps/voter_search.
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3 Communication Skills with Authentic Power and Positivity!
Excellent communication skills will transform your impact on others. Most managers, and employees are unaware of the concept discussed in this communication skills training video. Consequently, those who communicate well have the power. Also, communicating with positivity can change people's life's for the better and motivate them to higher performance. As a result, good leaders, not bad bosses, learn what is discussed in this leadership communication skills training.
Avoid these Communication Skills
Too often people let these behaviors get in the way of good communication: skills:
1. Prejudice
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9. Initiating conflict
10. Lies, or half truths
11. Stupid uneducated remarks
12. Poor listening
3 Steps to Authentic Power and Integrity
How do you breakthrough this? First, value other people. You have to genuinely want to help them succeed. In addition, consider three key communication skills:
1. Words-what you say!
2. Voice tone-how you say it!
3. Body language-what you do about what you say!
Words account for 7% of your communication skills impact. Although, words are important. Build people up not down, and your words will have positive results. Voice tone is 38% of the impact. This is how you say things. It's your quality and strength of what we say. For example is your voice loud, soft, angry, caring, sarcastic or ridiculing. Voice tone is to your words is like making letters bold when you type.
What's left? 55% of the impact of your communication is how you act about what you say. It's about your behavior and body language. Do you sit up, look people in the eye, turn your back to someone, focus on your phone while talking, or follow-through on a commitment? Let's say you tell an employee that customer service is important. However, you are rude when you talk to customers. You actions tell the truth not your words. Then, of course, that person trusts you less. If you keep up that behavior the person won't believe in you.
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If you've been having trouble getting rid of the holiday weight gain and sticking with your first-of-the-year diet, review my top five tips I share with clients to keep them motivated and on track.
1. Keep it Simple
2. Eat on a Regular Schedule
3. Reduce Starchy Carbohydrates
4. Don't Drink Your Calories
5. Rely on Balance Bar
1. Keep it Simple
When following The Formula's 40-30-30 meal plans, avoid spending a lot of time calculating carbohydrate, protein, and fat grams. Rather, use the meals we have prepared and personalized for you. It's best to choose one or two meals you like from the breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner categories and make them often. I make the orange smoothie nearly every morning and have tuna, salmon, or chicken salad with an apple for lunch. Balanced meals become easier to stick with when you like them, they are easy to make, and they have you feeling balanced and hunger-free for four hours at a time. Once you have mastered making your favorite few meals, you can choose from a wider variety of meals or begin to design your own. Balanced meals can become a lifestyle when you remember to keep it simple.
2. Eat On A Regular Schedule
40-30-30 Formula meals should be eaten every four to five hours to help maintain steady blood sugar, eliminate hunger, and keep you in your fat burning zone. You may need to adjust your meals according to your schedule. For example; breakfast at 8:00 a.m., lunch at noon, a snack at 4:00 p.m. and dinner at 6:00 p.m. is ideal for my schedule. Meals are four hours apart, with two hours between a snack (smaller meal) and dinner. You can simply adjust meals to fit your schedule or add a snack whenever necessary.
3. Reduce Starchy Carbohydrates
If you want to see the fastest fat loss, follow The Formula Fat Flush program. This program is ideal for those who want to accelerate fat loss to near genetic maximum rates by eliminating starchy carbohydrates and replacing them with medium to low-glycemic carbohydrates. Your 40-30-30 balanced meals will contain plenty of high-fiber foods that are easy to prepare and taste great. You will experience even tighter control of insulin and glucagon and begin to burn unwanted body fat even faster.
4. Don't Drink Your Calories
Avoid getting stuck in the habit of drinking unwanted carbohydrate calories from juice, soft drinks, sweet tea, coffee drinks, lemonade, beer and alcoholic beverages. Cut way back and eventually eliminate these high-calorie beverages completely. Create new beverage habits with pure water, green, white or black unsweetened tea. If you drink a beer or glass of wine, have it as part of your meal and limit your consumption.
5. Rely on Balance Bars
Balance bars are a convenient tool as a snack or before exercise, when you don't have time to make a balanced meal, They contain the 40-30-30 ratio of carbohydrate, protein and fat with vitamins and minerals and can keep a sweet tooth in check. I recommend using one or two per day. Gene and I have been using the Balance Bar for more than 20 years.
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2016 August 27: Jump 369: First 3+ way (5 way) Formation Skydive!
Posted on 21. Mar, 2017 by Paul in Formation Skydiving
At Skydive Burnaby, Wainfleet, Ontario.
AC: Cessna Caravan (208) Exit: 13550′ AGL
5 way with Boz, Brett G., Erno C., Paul, 6 points
Pool: Half compass, Double Donut, Unipod Flake
My first 3+ way was the day before (jump 366) and I sank below formation after second point.
This one was mostly successful except for funneling the exit.
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Throwing out two options for this week's SBUX run. Please vote your choice by 6:00pm Saturday night. I'll post the winning choice then, so people know where to go.
OPTION #1: Run the dirt roads on Sauvie Island. Great surface, shaded parts. Meet in the main parking lot off the bridge at 8:00am. Carpool/caravan out to the start from there.
OPTION #2: Run from SBUX on NW 23rd & Overton. Meet at 8:30am. Proposed route: https://www.mapmyrun...view/1364014090
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Who really benefits from IPOs?
If you think the average investor benefits the most from IPOs, you're dead wrong.
IPOs are known as a great way for investors to diversify their investment portfolios and participate in value-creating entrepreneurship. When a new company goes public, many investors get excited about the chance to make more money overnight — if the stock takes off.
But when it comes to actually seeing the big returns investors hope for, only a select few actually benefit from a company going public. The retail investor is distinctly excluded here — they are the last people who get access to shares for sale, and the last people to squeeze out some semblance of value.
We see the IPO as a flawed investment opportunity because of its exclusivity and high barriers to entry. The everyday investor is locked out from ever gaining access to the value that so many elites enjoy with every IPO.
So who actually benefits from the current structure of the IPO landscape?
- Investment banks typically get a percentage of shares to distribute to their clients, and will keep a percentage of the total amount of money raised from the IPO.
- Angel investors get in during early funding rounds and typically want to help the company in exchange for their investment, which may translate to a seat on the Board of Directors.
- Venture capitalists also invest in a company early in its operations in exchange for an equity stake. They will typically cash out their investment during the IPO with help from investment bankers.
- Company founders already possess shares of stock in their company, and stand to make huge returns if the price goes up during an IPO.
IPOs can be profitable, but they're extremely expensive
It can cost as much as $1.9 million to launch an IPO. This cost comes from a number of places: underwriting fees, regulation and compliance concerns, and lawyers all come together to add up a huge bill.
These aren't one-time costs, either. There are ongoing disclosure requirements — at the expense of time, money, and privacy. And you can't forget the fees tied to auditors as well as the regulators that comb through all public-facing documents and quarterly reports a company is required to distribute.
But some companies still go through this costly process because they stand to make much more money on the other side. Successful IPOs generate the money that helps companies build infrastructure, expand R&D, and pay off debt. With access to shares of stock, companies can offer stock packages to their employees or potential candidates to make a job offer more enticing.
The average business is left out of the IPO process
There are over 32 million businesses in the US, but only 4,000 of them are public. That being said, there are a lot of profitable companies a retail investor will never have a chance to invest in.
The reality is that small and medium-sized businesses don't have the resources to go (and stay) public. Instead of raising capital via a public offering, they use traditional methods to raise capital, like bank loans or a new line of credit.
Numerous businesses have found alternative routes for raising capital, like private funding. Consider that private assets under management totaled over $5 trillion in 2017, up from just $1 trillion in 2000. Initial coin offerings (ICOs) were also a popular crowdfunding method in the crypto space, but they fell out of favor due to their unregulated nature.
The average investor gets shut out too
Early funding rounds aren't accessible to the average investor. These people are shut out from participating alongside accredited investors and investment powerhouses.
A company will typically go through a series of funding rounds before its IPO, and the first of these is called the seed round. A company decides how much it needs to raise, and will determine how much that amount is worth in their company. If $1 million in funding is worth ten percent of the company, then the company has a $10 million valuation. But what if that funding isn't enough for them to truly gain momentum? Then they start another round of funding if they have the traction and revenue to support it.
If the company is lucky enough to make it to the next round (called Series A), investors will determine the company's total worth based on valuation models like the market multiple or cost-to-duplicate. Then they invest money based on their projections and the company's potential for growth.
So where's the value-add? Suppose you invested early in a company and took a 10 percent stake for $1 million. The company grows tremendously and shows huge potential for the future. With such strong projected growth, their valuation is now at $50 million. Your initial investment of $1 million turned into $5 million, an impressive return on your initial investment.
So how would you cash out? Through an IPO!
After seed funding, these rounds progress to Series A, B, C, D, and E. It's one of the ways that investors can get a major return on their initial investment, especially if they got in early with the company — that's when potential for growth is biggest.
But early investing isn't free of downsides. It is very risky to invest in a company that may not deliver — a risk many angel investors and VCs are willing to take a chance on.
By the time a company files for an IPO, this growth is nowhere near as large.
There needs to be better access to investment opportunities
Early investors get a round of private funding before the IPO ever takes place. They get to buy shares at a lower price than retail investors, who can only purchase stocks on the day of the IPO.
At 81-c, we believe that everyone should have access to value in order to create the life that they deserve. For businesses, this means giving them the opportunity to reach investors they wouldn't normally be able to reach. For investors, this means opening up the borders and lowering the barriers so everyone can invest. That's where IPOs fall short — private investors get all the perks.
We think that financial inclusion is better achieved through security token offerings (STOs) than initial public offerings. STOs have a low barrier to entry, so anyone with an internet connection and the will to invest can participate. STOs use the power of blockchain technology to make investing a secure, compliant, and highly liquid process for everyone, regardless of affiliation or accreditation.
In the next chapter, we'll cover why IPOs aren't the best decision for companies, and why many companies get burned when they go public.


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Address the slaughter
I am angry and in pain with what has taken place in El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy recently, and with what has happened to our nation these past few years with all this senseless slaughter. I have followed the calls by "liberals" for more control over guns, ranging from outlawing them altogether or to aspects of certain guns such as high-capacity magazines. These calls have been met with derision and disdain by gun advocates who say that they need these to protect their families and to hunt.
Well, I have a few questions for you gun folks: Where were the gun advocates in El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy? There must have been a few of you in the crowd or who lost loved ones. Why weren't you there with your guns? It's legal to carry loaded long weapons in Texas, so why weren't you armed and ready to protect your families?
A question for the NRA: What is your solution to this slaughter? I would love to hear a concrete suggestion from you.
I am not against the Second Amendment. I have no problem with pistols and hunting rifles. What appalls me is the ability of a person to kill and wound dozens in a single incident. We have to use what little common sense we have to find a way to keep weapons with these high-capacity magazines off the market. We may not stop the killing, but maybe, just maybe, we can slow it down! We need to elect people of conscience who are willing to risk it all (including NRA funding) to change our current laws and address this horrible situation.
White Hall
Start with behavior
First, let me thank you for continuing to put the printed version of your newspaper on the rack.
Lives have been lost once again by the bad behavior of a few, and we immediately want to rewrite laws to restrict the law-abiding citizens. Always, the subject is guns, and second to that is mental health. No matter how you rewrite it, there is no way to predict which person suffering from mental illness will actually turn into an active killer. Even with today's supposed criteria, it is a dangerous thing to our individual freedoms to start trying to define someone's mental health as stable or not.
Instead, maybe we should be asking ourselves and our educational system if we have in place and in play the standards to be raising good, responsible, respectful citizens. Yes, it starts at home, but at this point that's been lost due to numerous influences. Now more than ever there must be a standard of moral behavior set in the public school system. To have self-discipline, one must be disciplined. Until we actively affirm good behavior and punish bad behavior, this will not change.
Our populace has multiplied, our influences have multiplied, our visibility has been multiplied ad nauseam.
If I could change one thing in the current situation, it would be that the media could only report on it for one day--the day of. After that, they should talk about the victims and the punishment of the perpetrators.
Finally, evil exists. Let's teach goodness and godliness. That any place in this country would allow satanists to erect a monument is insanity.
On punitive damages
I thought punitive damages were to deter bad behavior and thus punish those guilty. It should not make someone or some entity rich at the expense of the product user. It is like a lotto with all the rest of us paying the bill.
Why shouldn't the punitive damages go to the U.S. Treasury, thus benefiting us all? Maybe designate it to be used for debt reduction.
Inaccurate definition
While reading "The leftist lexicon" by Bradley Gitz, I noted some inaccuracies in his description of intersectionality theory.
This term was coined in 1989 by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights activist and legal scholar, who wrote that traditional feminist ideas and anti-racist policies exclude black women because of the overlapping discrimination unique to them: "Because the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which black women are subordinated." This is the intended definition.
The term was later put in the dictionary to mean interconnected categorization of social categories, i.e., race, class and gender. Since then it has been adopted to mean just social justice and, hence, given an unintended connection to Marxism.
In an Oct. 23, 2018, article by Merrill Perlman, she says now it is used as "a label like 'liberal' or 'alt-right,' which can then be 'weaponized' in the polarity wars" (such as seen in Bradley Gitz's column), and becomes something to be either for or against.
In Perlman's article, she suggests that a journalist should not use this term without an explanation of its true meaning because they are probably looking for another term (unless they are trying purposefully to weaponize the word to create division). It has nothing to do with white, Christian males, although there is no dispute that white males and many others have perpetuated racism, sexism, class and gender division.
Doesn't understand
After reading Bradley Gitz's column on "The leftist lexicon," I was almost speechless. His seemingly humorous attempt at defining these "leftist" terms was actually a stellar example of the unwoke, cisgender, white privilege objectification that those who hold racist views project onto those of us who promote social justice in our wonderfully diverse U.S. society.
Was Gitz purposely trying to alienate every person who is working to create an equitable society for all people, or did he do that on accident? I have higher expectations for someone of his education and influence. A college class on multiculturalism might improve his understanding of the world around him and might help his students feel more validated as well.
Just a thought.
Little Rock
Said what was needed
Alexandra Gladin's letter in the Aug. 5 paper should not only be the letter of the month, I nominate it for letter of the year. Ms. Gladin, you say it well!
Little Rock
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Removal of Japanese Knotweed in Rushden
Removal of Japanese Knotweed in Rushden is required due to the epidemic throughout the UK from this invasive weed.
Removal of Japanese Knotweed in Rushden
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The Friday Night Swing Dance Club Newsletter for Monday January 1, 2018 to Sunday January 7, 2018:
Happy 2018 Here is What's Happening:
1. Start Your 2018 Resolution to return to Partner Dancing This Friday January 5. It's Our First Friday of the New Year Big Band Dance with "Crabtowne Big Band" Join us and dance in Our 27th Year of Dancing!
2. Hooray, January Dance Classes Start Next Week. We are hoping that one of your resolutions this year will be to Start or Improve your PARTNER dancing in 2018. What better way to get started than Come to The Friday Night Big Band Dance January 5, then take the Dance Class of your choice starting, January 8, 9, 10, & 11.
Please check the quick list below and see more details on our web page calendar. http://fridaynight.rcsandbox.net/classes-dances/calendar/ If you have questions Please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call us 410-663-0010
Don't miss your very Best opportunity to receive this Inexpensive Miracle Cure to From The Terrible TOO'S, and The Messed Up My New Year's Resolution Blues.
See You All This Friday January 5 It's Our First Friday Big Band Dance with "Crabtowne Big Band"
Kick Off Our 27th Year of Dancing! Let's welcome the New Year in style, so glam it up for this very special Big Band night to celebrate the first Dance of 2018! Here's the Big Band that so many of you have been waiting for, so please come out to show your support for these unique ensembles that are synonymous with the Swing Era. Even non-dancers will be impressed and entertained by Crabtowne's 18-piece band and theme on the big screens, so bring your friends!
7:30 to 8:30: EZ Beginning Swing Workshop to welcome our new Dancers and their Friends.
Meet new people and build your confidence by taking the workshop. Bring Your Friends- Workshop is included with admission
8:30 to 11:30 "Crabtowne Big Band"
Fees For Friday Dances, Always With Bands: $15 or $12 with purchased discount Card or Full Time Student with ID
Fees Include: Beginning Swing Workshop, Dance with Band, and Light Refreshments.
Note: There is a very inexpensive Legion Bar downstairs. Be our Guests.
BTW…All Dances, Classes, and Private Lessons are held at the
American Legion in Towson, 125 York Rd, Towson MD, 21204
January Dance Classes Start Next Week Resolve to dance with a partner in 2018!
Classes Start Next Monday January 8, Next Tuesday January 9 Next Wednesday January 10 & Next Thursday January 11.
January Classes posted on the web page: http://fridaynight.rcsandbox.net/classes-dances/calendar/
Questions: Please e-mail us email@example.com or Call 410-663-0010
Starting NEXT MONDAY January 8, Continuing Jan. 15, 22, & 29
7:00 to 8:00: BEGINNING SWING with Chuck & Friends Learn the most popular dance done on Friday nights! Basic Triple-Step East Coast Swing is the foundation of all styles of Swing, and you'll be dancing after just four classes! We love beginners, have boundless patience, and enjoy making your first dance experience fun! ALL Dancers are Welcome No Partners or Experience necessary however, a balanced class means more practice opportunities, so please consider inviting Your friends!
NEW! If you have questions or wish to practice and review, please come 10 to 15 min. early and we will answer questions you have and we will play music for you to practice Your Swing.In order for this early practice to work both men and woman must arrive early. Yes, this is included in your fee
8:00 to 9:00: BEGINNING/CONTINUING & Up RUMBA with Helmut Licht
ALL Dancers are Welcome. NO Experience, No Partners Necessary: Don't sit out another Rumba on Friday nights! Rumba is most women's Favorite Dance! Here's your chance to learn, practice, and enhance Your Rumba so that you're cool and confident on Friday nights! Remember, more people means more practice and more fun so please invite friends!
Note: If you're tired of sitting out during the DJ'd breaks on Friday nights and would like to Review, and Add to Your basic Ballroom dances, please take our Special Ballroom Survival Class Starting Tuesday Jan. 9 at 7:00 pm.
Starting NEXT Tuesday January 9, Continuing Jan. 16, 23, & 30 **
6:00 to 7:00 Fresh Start Fitness: ZUMBA Tuesdays:
Rock your Resolutions and recover from the holidays as we ease back into shape with Low-Impact ZUMBA. Try a fun, friendly class with 10-15 people who love this upbeat but low-impact Zumba dance workout in the spacious Legion ballroom with a magnificent easy-on-the-knees maple floor.
7:00 to 9:00: Very Special BEGINNING/REVIEW Ballroom Survival Class: Start Dancing with a/your partner in 2018
Check Out This NEW Format That Makes This BEGINNING &/or REVIEW SOCIAL BALLROOM SURVIVAL Class Special!
Add to and/or review the most popular Ballroom dances and start enjoying the DJ'd breaks at Friday Dances and other events! Sample Fox-Trot, Waltz, Cha-Cha, Rumba & Tango! All that is required is that you have a Desire to learn how to comfortably Dance with a Partner to these Ballroom Dances. We will add many moves. Social Dancing Classes are easy, fun and enjoyable NO Partners and Little or NO Experience Necessary, however, a balanced class means more practice opportunities, so please consider inviting friends!
HERE'S WHAT'S NEW! If you have questions or wish to practice and review, Please Stay until 9:00. We will answer questions you have and we will play music for you to practice Your New Dances With A Partner.In order for this practice to work both men and woman must stay. Yes, this is included in your inexpensive fee.
Starting NEXT Wednesday January 10, Continuing Jan. 17, 24, & 31
7:00 to 8:00: INTERMEDIATE HOT CHA-CHA with Chuck & Friends
Everybody Knows a Little Cha-Cha So Join Us & Add More to Yours
NEW: If you have questions or wish to practice and review, please come 10 to 15 min. early and we will answer questions you have and we will play music for you to practice. In order for this early practice to work both men and woman must arrive early. Yes, this is included in your very reasonable fee.
OK, Several of you said you knew the basics! So, here is a class that is designed to add danceable and leadable moves to YOUR Cha-Cha
Ladies: We have some good leaders and you will be surprised what styling and excitement you can add to YOUR Cha-Cha.
Men: More moves mean more fun for you & your partners. Join us and lean how to smoothly lead a dance worth of NICE moves!
No Partners and Just a Little Experience Necessary, however, a balanced class means more practice opportunities, Just Bring your Friends and we will CHA CHA.
8:00 to 9:00: INTERMEDIATE to ADVANCED SWING with Chiles
Back By Popular Demand! Instructor: Chiles VandenBosche
Many of You Asked for an More Advanced East Coast Swing Class Well, Here it is! Chiles will add Great Moves and styling to your Swing Every Week! If YOU are good good Swing Dancer and want to to be a Better Swing Dancer Join Us and enhance YOUR East Coast Swing! Take your Swing to The Next Level. Chiles will teach New Moves Every Week to spice up your swing and maybe add a little Lindy. As many of you requested the goal of this class is to make YOUR swing much more interesting.
Requirement for this class is completion of a Level 2 East Coast Swing Class anywhere. It would also help if you have been dancing regularly for a while. No Partners Necessary, however, a balanced class means more practice opportunities, so please consider inviting friends
If you need to start or refresh Swing basics, please join Our Beginning Swing Class Starting Monday January 8 at 7:00
Starting NEXT Thursday January 11, Continuing Jan. 18, 25, & February 1
6:00 to 7:00: Fresh Start Fitness: ZUMBA Thursdays
Rock your Resolutions and recover from the holidays as we ease back into shape with Low-Impact ZUMBA.
Try a fun, friendly class with 10-15 people who love this upbeat but low-impact Zumba dance workout in
the spacious Legion ballroom with a magnificent easy-on-the-knees maple floor.
Questions: Please e-mail us Mailto: email@example.com or Call 410-663-0010
BTW… We also teach inexpensive private lessons please contact us and make an appointment.
The Friday Night Swing Dance Club has been teaching Baltimore the basics of most partner dances for over 27 years.
We offer the best combination of experienced instructors, price, location, and friendly atmosphere. We emphasize Fun. Your Class is the only class in a big, beautiful ballroom where you can hear the music and the instructor without being distracted by many concurrent classes and posts in the floor.
Remember to Practice: We host fantastic Dances, always with bands, Every Friday night (Only $15 Yes, Live Music).
All dances and classes are held in the American Legion Towson big, beautiful, air conditioned, wood floor ballroom,
where you can hone your skills and meet other friendly and helpful dancers and Just Have FUN.
Thanks to all of you who attended dances and classes, volunteered your time on Fridays, and donate very helpful funds in 2017.
Your attendance is what kept the FNSDC going through a very difficult year. Through the adversity we still invested heavily in trying to get more people into dancing.. New web page, New music, classes you requested, time change, Meetup group,and just recently replacing our 12 year old sound system.
As you have noticed, 2018 will most likely be the most important in our 27 year history. Your attendance in the first months of 2018 will be Very important to our continuing survival. We Hope you have a superior 2018. Look forward to seeing you all Friday January 5, for "Crabtowne Big Band" and at our fantastic dance classes starting next week.
Resolve to Actually Dance With A Partner in 2018
Your Attendance and support is all that keeps us dancing.
Join Us and Keep The Friday Night Swing Dance Club Dancing.
Resolve to Dance Every Week in 2018,


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Registration for Alternative Spring Break 2012 was postponed until 7 p.m. Sunday night after overwhelming traffic caused the host website to crash early on Sunday. While Boston University students resumed registration, spots filled up within minutes and left many without program options.
ASB registration, originally scheduled for 8 a.m. on a site hosted by the Student Alumni Association's website, was moved to an alternative host site, according to the Community Service Center's website.
The alternative host site was part of the backup plan developed in December, said Student Union President Howard Male.
"It was very important that we moved to our backup plan," the School of Management and School of Hospitality Administration senior said. "If we had not implemented the backup system, we still wouldn't have completed registration."
Male said registration was moved to the evening to accommodate students who had work and other commitments.
"The backup system worked very, very well," he said. "I don't know if it's quite a record number, but we had an extremely high traffic amount."
The CSC offered an online wait list for those who were unable to secure spots after registration resumed.
"The people on the wait list do have some opportunity, and we'll be contacting them over the next few weeks."
Male said ASB program managers are exploring a number of options to provide said opportunities to those on the wait list, but could not comment on what those were.
Micky Bedell, who worked as program manager for CSC last year, said ASB program managers have a lot of work to do with more than 30 trips to plan and only two coordinators for each trip.
"I can't imagine they didn't spend the last 11 hours trying to make sure that everything would be alright this time," Bedell, a College of Communication junior, said in an email interview. "It's not exactly easy to secure another server in such a short period of time, and I think they did a great job handling the situation."
However, not all students agree, including COM freshman Ariel Bernberg.
"I feel really cheated," Bernberg said in an email interview. "The trip I had selected, along with all the other trips, were completely sold out."
Bernberg, who tried to sign up for ASB in Chicago, said she had been looking forward to the trip since her First-Year Student Outreach Project leaders told her about it last fall.
"I haven't made loads of friends and have had a difficult time meeting people, so I was really excited about the opportunity that ASB presented," she said.
SMG freshman Allison Siglinger was placed in her first-choice program in Cumberland Island, Ga., which she said was surprising, as she doubted the process would run smoothly Sunday evening.
"I knew they would try their hardest to get it up and running, but I still had my doubts," she said.
Josh Crampsey, a sophomore in COM, secured a spot on the trip to Natchez, Miss. He said he would have felt as critical of the CSC if he hadn't gotten a spot, but the program managers seemed to be doing everything they could.
"People were freaking out, but I'm happy because I got a trip," he said. "I know that if I didn't, I would probably be doing what all my friends are doing, which is hating on the CSC hardcore."


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church a building for public Christian worship.
- Calvary Church (0.7km)
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cemetery a burial place or ground.
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reservoir(s) an artificial pond or lake.
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dam a barrier constructed across a stream to impound water.
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stream a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.
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post office a public building in which mail is received, sorted and distributed.
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Kaila Powell has been selected to participate on Team Manitoba in the upcoming 2017 National Aboriginal Hockey Championship (NAHC). "It has been a pretty big feat to make this team out of Manitoba." said Tanya Powell (Kaila's mom), adding "She's pretty excited."
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For the past 2 semesters, Kaila has been attending school in Morden, MB in order to pursue opportunities in hockey not available at home. Balancing her active hockey schedule with a full academic course load, the busy 15 year old remains committed to her studies and continues to do well in school. She is hoping to return to the Valley after hockey season to complete the school year at home.
Kaila plays with the Pembina Valley Hawks AAA Midget team who will also be participating in the 2017 Esso Cup, Canada's national female midget championship. Pembina Valley opens the 2017 Esso Cup against the West Region champions on April 23, 2017.
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|Legendary US Death/Doom band Avernus are back on the circuit (again), and even threatening some new recorded material by the end of the year. Band mainstay Rick McCoy talks to Michael about that, and more...
|"Avernus has been an underground staple for decades now and after a brief hiatus they're back. I was fortunate enough to get singer Rick McCoy to tell me about what is happening in the underground realms of the Averni."
In the hot seat: Rick McCoy from Avernus.
Hello Rick, thanks for agreeing to this interrogation. Would you tell us who you are and where you're from?
My name is Rick McCoy. I was born and raised in the Western Suburbs of Chicago, and have pretty much lived here for most of my life. I lived in Colorado for almost three years before moving back to Illinois. I currently work in the mental health field, providing treatment and forensic testing.
I currently live in Woodstock, IL. The town is famous for a few different reasons. Orson Welles was born here as was the guy who created the Dick Tracy comics. The movie "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray was also filmed here. Outside of that, it's pretty much a strange mixture of art people and rednecks who compensate for their shortcomings in over sized trucks with confederate flag stickers on them.
According to the internet Avernus was founded in 1992, how did it all begin?
Rick Yifrach and I both met at a Milwaukee Metal Fest in 1991. We just happened to be standing in line next to each other and I noticed he had a Paradise Lost shirt. Standing in line for three hours waiting to get in was part of the fest experience, and we ended up talking and finding out we had similar musical interests and both played an instrument. I ended up leaving before we had a chance to exchange numbers.
We ran into each other at a metal show later that year and finally exchange information. We ended talking on the phone and I believe we had a name and t-shirt design even before we ever attempted to write a song. We eventually got together and wrote a badly out of tune song with a singer whose eyes crossed when he sang. The guy was like a body builder or something so we made sure to laugh at him behind his back like the assholes we were back then.
Anyways, that band ended up falling apart. Rick Yifrach, the guitar player from this band, Jason, and myself got together again about a year later and formed the first incarnation of Avernus. This first incarnation originally sounded more like old school European death doom in the vein of Paradise Lost, etc.. Jason eventually wanted to go more in a brutal death metal style and move away from the "doom" elements. The rest of us didn't want to go that direction and we parted ways after recording and releasing our first demo.
Looking back on that demo, the best part of that demo was that the engineer gave up due to his frustration with trying to work with us and let us mix the songs ourselves (which is not a good idea being that none of us knew how to properly mix anything) and you can tell who mixed what...:)
I remember mixing the first song, which is telling since the vocals are way louder than the instruments! After we parted ways with Jason we decided to incorporate the guitar synth I had lying around since we thought keyboards sounded cool in metal when done tastefully.. I know Mike Ventura agrees with me on this despite what he says...
We eventually wrote and recorded 4 or 5 songs which became the Sadness demo and it took off from there...
Avernus in the early years.
It sounds like you and Rick hit it off rather quickly. How long did it take you to find the members who would eventually be on the demo? Did you and Rick write the 'Sadness' demo exclusively or did the rest of the band help?
Our long time and current guitarist, Erik Kikke joined us in 1993 before we recorded our first demo. He replaced the guitarist we had at the time who quit due to the difficulty of working with Jason. Our bassist back then, Tony Volpe joined the band in early 1993 if I remember correctly. When Jason left in late 1993, Roberto Franco joined to fill the open guitar spot. Everybody in the band contributed to the music on the Sadness demo. It seemed like it took a long time to complete those 4 songs that made Sadness , but we just clicked really well together, and our individual styles complemented each other nicely.
How did Kim Goss get involved in the project?
I know we were wanting to try out the whole "female vocals" thing that became trendy with this style in the 90's. I believe Tony Volpe found her. Where he found I don't know, but I wish he would have left her there.
Agreed. I'll never understand how she became popular. Your first proper release saw you move from doom/death to goth metal, it was also your first and only release via a record label. What precipitated that change? Did being on a label change how you operated?
I think a lot caused us to make a drastic change to our style like we did. As much as we enjoyed writing and performing the songs from Sadness , every song on that demo took so long to write..Spending a majority of three to four months per song in attempts to make it "perfect" (this is how we thought at the time) was really draining. Also, I think some of the other guys in the band were becoming disenchanted with heavy music in general and wanted to try other things. like incorporating clean vocals (which I struggled with), and shorter songs that we would sometimes write within two practices. Looking back, we could have kept the heavy vocals mixed with shorter songs and simplified song structures, but I think we were really stuck in our own heads at the time and didn't see the bigger picture and maybe too worried about trying to create something new in our eyes and ears.
I have always been a fan of "goth" bands like Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, The Wake, etc. but we didn't have to get rid of the "death/doom" template we established on the Sadness demo. For your information, about 90% of the music I wrote for the Sadness demo was influenced by Lycia, The Cranes, The Cure, Tangerine Dream, and Patrick O'Hearn. So, I believe you can mix different influences but keep it heavy.
The label didn't have much bearing as far as our style or the way we operated. I do recall the label wanted to remix and redo vocals for ...of the Fallen.. most of the songs on that turd were taken from demos we recorded prior to being signed to Olympic/MIA.
Main discography: 'A Delicate Tracery Of Red' (Demo, self-released 1993), 'Sadness' (Demo, self-released 1994), '...Of The Fallen' (MIA 1997), 'Where Forgotten Shadows Die' (Live, self-released 2000), 'Where The Sleeping Shadows Lie' (Compilation, Cursed Productions 2000), 'Bury Me In Fire' (EP, self-released 2003).
I recall thinking the demo versions were better than the album, but I like them all. It sounds like everyone wanted the change. That album was released in 97. You seemed to reintroduce heavier elements back into the music with 98's Downpour, were these leftovers from ...of the Fallen or were they new songs?
I agree with you on that. The label wanted to transfer the songs from the demo, which we recorded digitally, to analog for a "warmer" sound. During the process, they somehow lost a couple guitar tracks, and some other things that, in the end, changed the dynamic of the songs when they appeared on the album. I had to redo my vocals which I thought was a good thing as I had just started taking lessons prior to redoing them, and was planning on bringing my vocal teacher into the studio, but the label would not allow that for some reason.
As far as Downpour, we wrote that song after James Genenz joined the band, and both Rick Yifrach and Roberto Franco left to pursue other styles of music.
The two song demo, which has your two heaviest songs, showed Avernus going funeral direction. What brought this on?
Are you referring to the 'Isolationist' and 'Rift in the Aura'? Around 1999-2000 I believe, I was the only original member left in the band. James had been in the band for a couple years, and we brought in Brian Whited (Novembers Doom, Dead Serenade, Eve of Mourning) on bass, Jeff Joseph on keyboards, and Bill Hamning on drums. Everyone in the band at this point agreed to go back to the heaviness and atmosphere of our early work which was great for me as I truly missed it. As far as the "funeral" aspect, I feel confident in saying that James had a part in that, being he is fan of "Funeral Doom" and was our main guitarist at that time, and he incorporated his influence, as did everyone else, into the music. I actually did not write any music during this particular time. I found that Jeff was able to replicate my parts perfectly, and had such an intense playing style that added a new element to the band that there was no need for me to try and compete with him. I was fine keeping to just vocals and lyrics.
Yes, I was referring to those songs. I had no idea you focused on just the vocals and lyrics at that time. The music's quality never changed to me. It wasn't long afterwards that you released a compilation, 'Where Sleeping Shadows Lie' comprising most of your earlier works. How did that come about?
Yes, at that time, it was apparent that Jeff was a total machine on the keys, and again, I didn't see a reason to try writing along side of him as he was able to play multiple parts at the same time and I did not want to saturate the songs with tons of synth and keys. One thing I can admit to is that I feel we have overused keyboards or the guitar synth at times, but this is how you learn what works and what doesn't.
The compilation came about when our friend Ray Miller of Cursed Productions inquired about the possibility of re-releasing the Sadness demo on CD. We have known Ray as a friend as well as the person behind Metal Curse 'Zine. Our bands both played together numerous times and we felt we could trust him. We decided to throw a bunch of unreleased or limited released material on there to fill it out.
The last official release was back in 2003, are you planning on releasing a new album?
We have been writing here and there throughout the last couple of years. We have plenty of riffs and ideas, it's just a matter of getting everyone together in one place at the same time, which is proving to be difficult as we have band members with children and families, careers, other bands,etc. I can say with confidence, we have definitely become better at knocking out quality material in a shorter amount of time. Part of this is I believe is due to the fact we are more interested in having fun and enjoying music rather than trying to reinvent some music wheel like we used to.
Is it safe to assume there's no time table? Musically what should we expect from you on your next release? Would you try to secure a label deal again?
Possibly, but there should be a time table. It's been way too long since we released anything new. The new material does reflect back to how we sounded on Sadness, but not a direct copy. We really just went back and identified what we liked best about our music and just made a decision to have fun and write what we want without worrying if people will think it's retread of our old stuff or whatever. We are well aware we are not going to be leaving our careers, day jobs, families, or going on world tours. We do this because we like working together, and have a strong musical chemistry, especially with this lineup. As far as labels, we have had some interest despite not putting anything out in a long time. I'm down for working with a label if I feel we can trust them, and they don't tell us to change anything about our music, or want us to change our appearance. For example: Prior to signing with MIA/Olympic, one label showed interest, but felt we needed an "image." The notes we got from the rep was "They should wear capes." Since it was the 90's, and there was a weird mixture of goth and black metal stuff happening in the scene, I assumed they wanted to market us to those fans. Sorry, but no one needs to see us dressed up as Count Chocula. No thanks.
It would've been a hilarious gimmick. I don't know how well it would've translated live. The band has existed in one form or another for more than 20 years at this point. Are you planning on doing or have you done something to celebrate this?
It would have been funny, but I'm sure it would have somehow led to someone catching on fire somehow, because that's how shit rolls in this band. We kind of did a celebratory reunion show in 2012 to mark our 20th anniversary.I think at this point we just want to put out new music and go from there.
I can't wait for something new from Avernus. I know there are many others who feel the same way. Thank you for letting me waste your time. Is there anything you'd like to add?
Not a waste of time at all, I really enjoyed this. Thank you to everyone who continues to support us. I really am hoping we can have some new material out by the end of this year. Cheers!
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In the fruit bowl
I am a fumblin'
Because this mornin'
My stomach is a grumblin'.
I really fancy something sweet
The perfect choice is a plum,
So I give them all a good squeeze
Using my forefinger and thumb.
My fruit is very tense today
And also quite large.
I think they need to relax a little
Maybe I should give them a massage?
I pick out the softest plum
And roll it roughly in my hands,
But I slip and do a little juggle,
So on the kitchen tiles, it lands.
I brush the dust off my plum
I soon need to be fed,
But it's just as hard as before
So I go for some chocolate instead.