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AVAST Referral Campaign brings 145,000 new members to the community
More than 20,000 people entered our Referral Program last month, giving us a lot of entries to go through and a lot of data to tally. In the end, our grand prize winner came from Brazil, bringing in the largest share of the more than 145,000 new people who joined the AVAST community as a result of your efforts.
We also had winners from Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, the U.S.A, and Vietnam. All of these winners have been notified by email, so please make sure that any messages from AVAST are not in your Junk, Spam, or Bulk mail folder.
We created this infographic to show the impact of the program worldwide. As you can see there were a large number of participants, consequently we are still evaluating the creative entries. Part of the challenge involves translations of more than two dozen languages so that the judges can evaluate each entry fairly. We will be posting those winners as soon as we can.
While the contest is over and the ruling of the judges is final, anybody can still win free Internet Security licenses for recommending AVAST to your friends. Remember that every time anybody joins the AVAST community, it helps all of us by increasing our network of malware sensors.
Congratulations to all of the winners. We wish we could have declared everybody who entered a winner, but that's not really practical. So we offer a hearty thank you to everybody who participated. AVAST is grateful for all of your support.
Thank you for using avast! Antivirus and recommending us to your friends and family. For all the latest news, fun and contest information, please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Business owners – check out our business products.
AVAST team at FETC 2014 conference in Orlando.
While most of the AVAST team is located in freezing Prague, some of us are enjoying sunshine in Florida. The AVAST Free for Education team is excited to be attending FETC 2014 in Orlando, Florida for the first time! Check out the preparation progress and don't forget to follow AVAST on Instagram and stop by at the Booth 356!
AVAST Free for Education team is FREEking awesome!
Getting ready: booth 356 already looks pretty!
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Recommend avast! Antivirus and win…CASH!
Creativity takes courage ~ Henri Matisse
When in 2001 AVAST Software co-founders, Mr. Eduard Kučera and Pavel Baudiš, decided to offer avast! Antivirus for free, it was one creative and brave decision. No one expected that this would change the future of the entire company and that 12 years later avast! Antivirus would protect 200 million devices. It is a marketing and business phenomena, and the AVAST "freemium" model has been outstandingly successful.
However, the key to our success is YOU: The AVAST Community. By recommending our products to your family and friends you have helped us to establish the largest antivirus community globally. So to say thank you we launched the AVAST recommendation system. Every user can register via my.avast.account.com, generate their own individual link and start recommending avast. Each successful installation with that link is awarded one point and once 7 points are collected, the user receives a free license of avast! Internet Security.
Putting our money where our mouth is
Now we take it a step further and offer special rewards for the best AVAST recommenders. For the next month or so, those avast! Antivirus users who help us get new users globally, and on each continent, will receive cash prizes! This is the time to get your whole family, work colleagues, or classmates protected with avast! Free Antivirus.
How California's gone FREE for Education
Recently we announced reaching 3 million issued licenses under the AVAST Free for Education program. From all the US, California ranked first in terms of free licenses.
California, the third-largest state by area and number one by population, also seems to want to be number one in terms of education. Since our AVAST Free for Education program launched in November, 2012 (yes, it will have its 1 year anniversary soon!), almost 200 California schools, districts, colleges, universities, libraries, and other education institutions have obtained over a quarter million FREE licenses.
3 million licenses issued for AVAST Free for Education
We're really excited to announce that we've just reached the 3 million mark for number of licenses we've issued on the AVAST Free for Education program!
Some 2500 schools, libraries, universities and other educational institutions in the USA are benefiting from this program by receiving free business-grade antivirus protection.
The AVAST Free for Education league table
We've produced our very own league table to show which are the top states for number of licenses issued – how well is your state doing?
Rank | State | Number of licenses |
1 | California | 251 887 |
2 | Texas | 237 410 |
3 | Indiana | 172 026 |
4 | Missouri | 167 494 |
5 | Illinois | 152 329 |
6 | Ohio | 113 729 |
7 | Michigan | 107 315 |
8 | Pennsylvania | 100 071 |
9 | Florida | 76 683 |
10 | New York | 71 346 |
Congratulations to California, who have received over a quarter of a million FREE licenses from AVAST.
We love to hear from our customers about how the program is benefiting them. Here are some of the feedback we've had from our schools on this program:
"We appreciate the offer and opportunity AVAST has given to Education. We've been using this product for approximately 1 year now and have to say we are more than thrilled with it. Thank you AVAST!"
Jim Giordano, IT Manager, Anaheim City School District"We have been very happy with the support we have received… Avast is a great product at a great price – it provides the tools administrators need to keep their computers safe."
Jeffrey Such, Director of Technology, Camp Tecumseh YMCAPutnam Schools District are also thrilled to be using our free software. We went to visit them recently, hear what they have to say here:
If you're a school in the US that hasn't benefited from our program yet, why not apply online here: www.avast.com/education
Alternatively feel free to contact me with any comments or questions: email@example.com
96% of US schools facing huge cost of Windows XP upgrades
In a recent survey, we found that over 96%[1] of schools in the United States are likely to face a major technology crisis in the new year when Windows XP will no longer be supported by Microsoft. Educational institutions of all sizes around the world are going to have to foot the bill of upgrading not only their operating system but also their hardware.
Schools that don't upgrade to a new operating system by the April 2014 cut-off could be at risk. The withdrawal of support means that there will be no updates such as security patches, driver refreshes, or bug fixes — all of which are essential for networked personal computers, where protection of children and information is especially important.
At AVAST, we took a closer look at the costs schools will face: The cost of upgrading from Windows XP to a more recent operating system is approximately $200 per computer and it is not likely to stop there. Many schools are also facing the expense of upgrading their hardware as well since hardware older than three years is unlikely to be able to support Windows 7 and beyond. The cost to schools in this situation could run into tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
To help alleviate some of the burden, we created the Free for Education program which provides bullet-proof antivirus protection completely free to schools in the United States. Institutions can save an average of more than $14,000 USD per year by taking advantage of this program.
A great example of how AVAST's Free for Education has benefited a local school system is the ABC Unified School District in Cerritos, California. With the program, they have saved over $40,000 USD. "With AVAST Free for Education we were able to take some strain off of our budget," said Joe, Machado, Network Analyst at ABC Schools. "Our savings in licensing alone will be at least $20,000 USD per year. And, our savings in time from cleaning up outbreaks from unprotected or under-protected systems is easily another $20,000 USD per year."
Since launching in November 2012, the AVAST Free for Education program has protected over 2.8 million computers and servers belonging to over 1,800 education institutions. If you are interested in more information or to participate in the program, please visit: www.avast.com/education
[1] AVAST Software survey amongst 164 educational institutions, July 2013
Avast is now free for schools and libraries in the USA
Starting this week, we have made most of our Avast antivirus products and solutions free for use by schools and libraries in the US. This is just the first step and if it is successful, we will extend it worldwide. We are doing this for a couple of reasons. First, even though schools need security products, in these tough budget times, they need the ability to focus their spending on teaching. A couple of us here at Avast used to run the government and education sales at Symantec some years ago. We know that schools spend a lot on security—money that could be better spent on teaching.
The best just got better
A Google alert just popped up this review from Android Authority titled: "The best just got better". And I just love the writeup from the author Simon Hill…
"After trying a number of Android security apps and comparing their performance in independent tests it is easy to recommend Avast Mobile Security as your best option. The sheer variety of features is more in keeping with a premium app, but it is still completely free."
So if you have an Android phone – and according to the latest data by Gartner there should be about 450 million of you out there – go to Google Play and get the best rated security app. For free.
I'm still having my old Nokia but I guess time has come to get the shiny Galaxy S3 and install as well
Defense center and a piece of luck
One of our users sent us a sample of rogue AV for analysis. He didn't attach further informations and the binary was heavily obfuscated, so I decided to give it a shot inside a virtual machine. A virtual image of clean (freshly installed) Win XP was used to run it and this screen appeared:
Avast! Free Antivirus, Version 5.0: "…nothing short of a miracle"
Virus Bulletin, one of the most respected reviewers of security products, wrote a very detailed review of the Avast 5.0 beta products in their January issue (http://www.virusbtn.com/files/Avast-Jan2010.pdf). This is a lengthy review but to me the best line was their summation of the new free product: "the free version being available to all without charge is nothing short of a miracle". There was also a review of it in the recent AV-Comparatives test of performance/system impact. The product scored the highest rating: A+.
With the new Free Version 5.0, we attempted (and we think succeeded) to raise the bar on free security products. We decided that our new free product needed to be the best antivirus product in the world—not just the best free product. We think we have succeeded, or come darn close. Now you the users (and of course the reviewers) can let us know…. Read more…


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We will take it… but only if it's something you'd feel good about giving to a friend!
Please deliver your new and/or gently-used in-kind donations to the rear of the John and Penny White Volunteer Training Center (Building #3) on our Bethesda campus, 6301 Greentree Road, Bethesda, MD 20817.
We accept donations on the following days:
- Monday ~ Friday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
* *After business hours, please put your items in the donations bin behind Building #3.
Have furniture you'd like to donate that needs to be picked up? Schedule your pick up online or by calling Jermaine Lemons at (240)743-7252.
SORRY! NCCF will not accept any item that is soiled, torn, damaged, or creates a financial or administrative burden to the agency. We do not have funds to repair, clean, or dispose of items that are not usable. Our pick-up area is limited to Montgomery County only!
NOTE: During the months of November and December, NCCF only accepts holiday wish list items for our residents. We cannot accommodate furniture pick up or gently used goods during that time.
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*Items in bold are in high demand.
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Going out visiting? Baby staying with your Mum for the day? Going on holidays with baby in tow? There are plenty of times when a portable cot can come in handy. They're light enough to carry and can fit in the car boot when folded. All-in-all they're a handy addition to your baby arsenal, but no substitute for a regular cot for everyday use because they're not as durable.
Mandatory safety requirements for portable cots took effect in March 2009 - based on some of the clauses from standard AS/NZS 2195:1999. The standard includes requirements for ensuring the folding mechanism is secure, that there are no gaps that could trap a child's head, that the mattress is safe and the cot has adequate warnings about safe use. The full standard also incorporates many voluntary tests that cover entrapment hazards, sharp edges and points and strength of construction. A 2010 version of the standard has been created, however it is yet to be made mandatory. The most important addition to the new standard is a test that observes for adequate breathable zones (in case the baby manages to roll face first against the edge). CHOICE believes this is an important aspect, so we've included a breathability assessment in our latest testing. This mainly involves checking that every wall of the cot is made from a mesh material that allows for air flow through the cot. CHOICE would like to see portable cots comply with the full voluntary standard, in particular the 2010 version which makes reference to breathability of materials.
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TIG can be used to weld copper, titanium, even two dissimilar metals, and is handy for making tricky welds (e.g. s-curves, or welds on round things)..
TIG generates heat via an arc of electricity jumping from a (tungsten metal) electrode to the metal surfaces you intend to weld - usually aluminum or steel.
TIG stands for Tungsten Inert Gas, after the tungsten electrode, and the sheath of inert gas (argon or an argon mixture) surrounding it.
Big thanks to Mose O'Griffin, who narrated, taught, and demonstrated.
Also, If you're interested in MIG welding, see this instructable:
Step 1: Choose the Electrode
For aluminum, the best choice is a pure tungsten rod.
You can alternately choose from any number of tungsten alloys (including thoriated tungsten - which is radioactive!) which are uniquely suited to welding particular alloys of metal.
For reference, this example uses the specific alloy 6061 Aluminum (the "steak and potatoes" or "normal" type of aluminum)
Step 2: Grind the Electrode
Do this, especially if the rod is a brand-new cylinder and doesn't have a pointed or rounded tip yet.
The tip will become rounded due to heat as you weld.
Lincoln recommends a balled tip for AC welding, and a pointed tip for DC welding.
The pointed tip will give a smaller, more directed arc. The arc will tend to dance around, when from a rounded tip.
Step 3: Insert the Electrode Into Its Collet
The tip of the electrode should be about 1/4" away from the protective sheath, but not much more.
Skip this if you already have your electrode ready.
Shown below are two different types of electrode holders.
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Oh god, DO NOT EVER grind a point on a wheel like that, you are a tiny step from a disaster with an exploding wheel and serious injury.
Another tip is to have a brush dedicated for stainless. Only a stainless brush should be used on stainless steel. It you use a steel one it will contaminate the SS and it will rust in the spots you used the brush.
I like to use either pure argon or an argon helium mix for aluminium. The mix for bigger pieces, The theory is it adds more heat. As others have said you will know if you have CO2 in the mix .
Me too. At work we use nothing but argon for our TIG welding. which consists of dissimilar steels joined with 308 stainless.
You don't want/need stick Arc welding gloves for TIG.
Some people don't even wear gloves if welding for small things, NOT that I would recommend that!
Get gloves that are made for TIG welding.
They make thinner but still protective TIG welding gloves that allow you to feel more as you weld which can be helpful for TIG especially for feeding the rod.
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I polled thirty-six game startups about what platform they were basing their companies on. It was a pretty diverse group, representing Ireland, UK, US, Norway, India, Lebanon, Italy and Turkey. Based on this sample, it seems as if Facebook has been completely dropped as the game platform of choice for most new games companies.
Here are the headline results:
- 45% of startups are working on iOS (phone and/or tablet)
- 14% are working on Android (phone and/or tablet)
- Only 11% are working on Facebook


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Video: Shaver's Creek Maple Harvest Festival -- from tree to table
Welcome spring with pancakes, organic sausage and real Pennsylvania maple syrup. Each March, Penn State's Shaver's Creek Environmental Center hosts the Maple Harvest Festival. Visitors enjoy an easygoing day with nature while getting a taste of the maple sugaring process. To watch the video, visit http://bit.ly/hkHYaV online.


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The "Way You Were" Weight-Loss Plan
By Jim Karas
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Step 4: Move it!
When you were 18, I bet you walked a lot more and drove less...and you probably walked much faster, too. Nowadays, maybe you hardly ever break a sweat and that's got to change. Let me be clear: To lose weight, you must exercise as well as diet. You have no choice. Why? Because if you eat much less than you normally would but don't exert yourself more, your metabolism will slow down and your weight won't change. Focus on strength and resistance training moves like push-ups, sit-ups and leg lifts.
Strength and resistance training is key, because after age 20, the average American woman loses half a pound of muscle a year. With the onset of menopause, that number doubles to one pound a year. Muscle is the body's most active tissue it consumes major calories, even when your body is at rest. So less muscle means fewer calories burned, and that means the pounds pile up more quickly.
Step 5: Hit the snooze button
Sleep is critical to your weight-loss program. Without enough zzz's we tend to make poor decisions in many areas of our lives, and food and fitness decisions are no exception. When we're tired, we find all sorts of excuses to avoid exercise. So be sure to get plenty of rest. For starters, try getting into bed a few minutes earlier tonight. (Research suggests that the optimal amount of sleep most women need is eight hours.) Turn off the TV, pick up a book and let yourself drift off. Also, try not to drink caffeine or alcohol too close to bedtime. They can significantly disrupt your snoozetime.
Step 6: Send up a flare
Don't be afraid to ask for support. Call your sister and best friend and tell them you're on a mission to get back in shape. Let's face it: More than 64 percent of Americans are overweight. So the effort to slim down is something other women understand all too well. You may even find them saying, "Wow! I've wanted to do that for years. Can I join you?"
Include your kids in the project, too. Take the family for a hike, switch to low-calorie frozen yogurt, talk about healthful foods. In my home, we don't focus on words like fat, calories or weight loss, but we do discuss eating healthful foods, exercising and drinking lots of water as habits that make us feel good.
Step 7: "Can it be that it was all so simple then?"
When you were young and single, life was probably simpler no kids, no mortgage, no career, no health worries. But don't use life's added responsibilities as an excuse. If you give in to thoughts like, Why even try? I'll never be able to find time in my overloaded schedule, they'll lead you straight to the kitchen for a pint of Häagen-Dazs. Don't do it. Return to your action plan. If you plan intelligently and believe in yourself, you can lose the weight permanently. You can reclaim the body you once loved. It's not just a "watercolor memory" it's right inside you, waiting to get out. You've just got to give the way you were a chance.
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Our Great Estate | Land Lingo | The Assault on Wild America | Red Desert: BLM Public Land | Cabeza Prieta | Chattahoochee National Forest | Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
Chattahoochee National Forest
Deep in the Georgia Woods
by Janisse Ray
Early morning, the southern Appalachians are shrouded in mist. Wisps of clouds like torn blankets roam above, dragging sometimes over the tops of mountains and pierced by shafts of cathedral light that make a gray sky brilliant. It is early October, and the soft hills are painted with golds, greens, reds, oranges, and ochers.
I am following Katherine Medlock down a narrow forest path, walking stooped beneath a 20-foot rhododendron that is a tangle of gnarled sienna trunks topped with dark, evergreen leaves. She is guiding me into Kelly Ridge, near Hiawassee, one of the last roadless areas left in the Chattahoochee National Forest in northern Georgia.
"The going is rough," Katherine had warned. She is an ecologist working for Georgia Forestwatch, an organization begun in 1986 to monitor forest plan changes effected by activists. Katherine is not yet 30, in jeans and leather hiking boots, her long brown hair tied back. "Well be bushwhacking cross-country."
I pick my way through the understory thicketaround a rhododendron with a trunk the circumference of my thigh. A few feet away a wild stream, running whitewater in places over a bed of rocks, scrambles downhill. "How will we not get lost?"
"For a while theres an old logging trail," Katherine says. "Well follow the stream up the cove."
We cross the creek, boulder to boulder, and enter the valley of Ramp Cove, named for the edible wild leeks that grow in secluded hollows, especially high-elevation north-facing coves like this one. When the Ice Age was ending, these valleys stayed much colder, retaining relict plant speciessuch as true hellebore, Dutchmans-breeches, and rampsknown from colder regions.
Everything is wet. Mist collects and drops off leaves, so that the moist, cool ground is carpeted with mosses, ferns, and violets. Fallen leaves, red maple and beech, collect teacups of water on the forest floor, and we pass a bank of fading maidenhair fern, dripping wet. From the dark-brown bank of Pleistocene earth on our left, water seeps, feeding the murmuring stream. Purple asters bloom.
On a map the 8,500 acres of Kelly Ridge form the shape of a raven. Located near Brasstown Bald, Georgias highest peak, it is composed of coves leading to high crests. Next to Kelly Ridge to the south lies Tray Mountain Wilderness, through which the Appalachian Trail passes. An abundance of salamanders are found at Kelly Ridge, including the hellbenderat up to 29 inches long a giant among its kind and known to live nearly 30 years in captivity. Black bears make their way here, as do flying squirrels, and ruffed grouse can be heard drumming their wings against logs.
We climb up and up, through cohosh and poison ivy, into the thick old hardwoods of the cove. The day is breezy and sometimes the autumn leaves sound like scratchy rain. I keep mistaking the traveling leaves for birds, hoping to see the Carolina chickadees that are calling all around. I get a good look at a hooded warbler, black necklace on a yellow flute.
"How could anyone want to put a road through here?" Katherine asks. "Or log this?" She points out chestnut stumps four feet across from a selective cut a century ago. One, so big it couldnt be hauled out, lies in the stream below. Chestnut resprouts, as we see around us in vivid gamboge, but before the tree gets to nut-bearing size, blight kills it, rendering the species functionally extinct. The deciduous forest is multilayered and multiaged, and here and there we see large trunks of old growth. We come upon two majestic buckeyes, knobbed with burls, both over 200 years old and requiring three people to encircle, and then an enormous northern red oak about the same age.
Twelve years ago the mountains of the Chattahoochee were thought not to contain old growth. It was Brent Martin, Georgia native and former executive director of Forestwatch, who began surveys that would locate the 200-acre stand of northern red oaks, reaching 300 years in age, and nearly 30 acres of old-growth pitch pine. Four to five thousand acres of old growth have been identified so far in the Chattahoochee, with 700 to 800 of that in Kelly Ridge.
"Ive walked Kelly Ridge more than any place in the world," Brent would tell me later. "The more you know every foot of a place, the more power you have in defending it."
For seven years Brent worked with the Forest Service, in meetings public and private, to protect two of the
Chattahoochees last roadless areas, Kelly Ridge and Mountaintown, near Ellijay. For both areas the Forest Service recommended wilderness status. When the draft forest-management plan was released in April 2003, however, protection for Kelly Ridge and Mountaintown had been erased. And now the Bush administration has revoked protection for roadless areas. "Theres been a shift in political ideology," Brent says.
For now, thanks to a lawsuit filed by Georgia Forestwatch and other groups, logging is forbidden on the Chattahoochee. An 11th Circuit Court of Appeals judge found the Forest Service in violation of its own mandate to look for endangered species before logging. "The Forest Service said it didnt have the money to do the monitoring," Katherine tells me. "The judge said, Then dont do the cutting."
At our feet, a ghostly saprophytic pinesap springs from humus. These plants grow on decomposing wood underground. Nearby, a huge fallen tree wraps the earth in its mossy disintegration.
"The trees here have had a chance to get old and die," Katherine says, then gazes at the tumbling stream. She explains how its food web depends on material that falls in, and how wood protects stream banks and provides habitat for fish and invertebrates with temporary dams. Guarding these waters from sediment and pollutants is what will keep the vulnerable hellbenders and wild rainbow trout alive in Swallow Creek below.
We hike upwards, the terrain ever steeper, through honey locusts, dogwoods, and sourwoods, until we are navigating the last steep incline of the ridge. The climbing is hard. I come upon a small patch of ginseng, sporting red autumn berries. " Sang," I call out, and admiring it, rest.
As a young college student in the early 1980s, I lived in these north Georgia hills, traveling ten-mile-an-hour mountain roads that have become four-lane swaths rolling through the Blue Ridge. Along one of these roads I once saw an Appalachian family in horse and wagon headed for town. I bought local applesvarieties like Arkansas black you cant find readily in storesfrom hillbilly stands, and filled water jugs at roadside springs. I searched for trilliums and trailing arbutus in these hills; near Amicalola Falls I camped for the first time. Everythings changedthe place that engendered the Foxfire books swarms with residential developments, fast-food restaurants, filling stations, and superstores.
Why do we all have to be so comfortable?
I turn to the slope again, determined to reach the ridge, and move zigzag up it, breathing furiously. I surge over the top and onto the flat spine of Kelly Ridge itself. Around me chestnut oaks grip hard against a dogged north wind. There is no road out, only a finger of wild stream born from the cove that fans out below.
Chattahoochee National Forest straddles the Appalachian Mountains in north Georgia, including Brasstown Baldat 4,784 feet the highest mountain in the state. The Appalachian Trail begins at Springer Mountain in the Chattahoochee, and traverses the forest for 79 miles.
Threats The U.S. Forest Service has proposed eliminating wilderness protection for roadless areas in the forest, leaving them at risk of logging as well as harm from off-road vehicles.
More Information Contact Chattahoochee National Forest, 1755 Cleveland Hwy., Gainesville, GA 30501; (770) 297-3000; or go to www.fs.fed.us/conf. For information on protecting roadless areas, contact Georgia Forestwatch, 15 Tower Rd., Ellijay, GA 30540; (706) 635-8733; www.gafw.org.
Janisse Ray is author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Wild Card Quilt (Milkweed Editions, 2000 and 2003). She is Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.


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"When she came to my work for an interview, I almost spit in her face," said an Asian American mom about Amy Chua. This week on Apex Express, we explore the Tiger Mom phenomenon. Hear excerpts from Amy Chua's talk with KPFA's Aimee Allison (http://www.kpfa.org/events/evening-amy-chua-%E2%80%9Cbattle-hymn-tiger-mother%E2%80%9D-hosted-aimee-allison). We also bring on professor and Hyphen.com blog editor erin Khue Ninh, who wrote "Amy Chua's Recipe for Disaster and the Externalized Cost of Book Sales" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erin-khue-ninh/amy-chuas-recipe-for-disa_b_810607.html) on the Huffinton Post, and KK Aoki Izu, a young Asian American raised in San Francisco by two parents involved in Asian American cultural work. Tune in to a discussion on Asian American parenting and the Tiger Mom.
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The most insane and overpowered build I've used yet on my Elementalist. Hurry before the Guild Wars … [Read more...]
Powerful Guild Wars 2 Elementalist PvP Build | Use it before they nerf this!
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PUBLISHED: 26 Jul 2012 00:02:35 | UPDATED: 26 Jul 2012 07:57:58PUBLISHED: 26 Jul 2012 PRINT EDITION: 26 Jul 2012De Ville's Lamentation made of lamb, rubies, uncut diamonds and sterling silver; Photo: Terence Bogue
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Melbourne artist Julia deVille is getting traction with collectors, with five of her sculptures selling ahead of Tuesday night's opening at Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne.
Such pre-sales were the norm during the boom, but have been much harder to come by in recent years. Gannon's is, however, one of a number of galleries which, while finding trade tough overall, have pockets where demand is still high.
This is the third exhibition over six years that deVille has had with Gannon, and it appears interest in the jeweller-turned-artist's work has consolidated over that period.
DeVille, a vegetarian, uses animals that are already dead – roadkill, stillborn or donated by farmers – to create irresistibly cute works that she hopes will force people to think about the very un-cute way animals are treated.
Mostly priced from $5000 up to $80,000, Gannon says the more substantial pieces were the first to sell, grossing $40,000 to date. "The shock value seems to have reduced a lot over the time we've shown her," Gannon says. "People who bought smaller works at the conservative end of the scale are now buying larger works and, rather than seeing them as play things, are seeing them as serious sculptures."
Perhaps animals are a safe sell in tough times; new Sydney outfit MiCK Gallery has had success with its show of 53-year-old Tasmanian artist Michael McWilliams, which is all but sold out ahead of its closure on July 29. Many of McWilliams's paintings also feature animals – sheep, cows, lions – although they do appear to be alive.
McWilliams has shown with Bett Gallery in Hobart and Lauraine Diggins in Melbourne but has not shown in Sydney before. MiCK owner Megan Dick says 19 of the 20 works in the show have sold, priced up to $22,500, most at $17,000. MiCK opened in November in the Paddington gallery space vacated by Sullivan + Strumpf, which moved to Zetland last year.
At the risk of pushing the animal theme too far, Michael Reid's recent Danie Mellor show, whose work often includes kangaroos and birds, also sold well. Sydney-based Reid says 18 of the 19 works now have new homes, with the final work on hold for the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Mellor has been an art market darling since winning the 2009 Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. The work in Reid's show, which closed on the weekend, was mostly priced between $2500 and $40,000.
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Lest anyone think that rule cast in concrete, however, Sarah Hetherington from Sydney's Liverpool Street Gallery says she had a strong response in January to the abstract work of Daniel Hollier.
Geometrical, and without a cute animal in sight, eight of Hollier's nine artworks sold, all at a less than $10,000 price point. Half of this month's Suzanne Moss show sold in the first week, all at less than $5000, all abstract, and there are already holds on some new paintings by Aida Tomescu, which will show at the Melbourne Art Fair and then Sydney in August. "Month to month it's fairly unpredictable, but I'm ever optimistic," she says with a laugh.
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It has four working gas lamps, a hand-operated elevator, stained glass windows, carved chandeliers, and 140 years of history. All that's missing is a group of artists to move in and give this ancient mansion a second life.
Ian Christmann, the photographer who owns the 1875 mansion at 154 East Grand Ave., has reached what may be the last phase of his quest to revive the old home, dubbed Chetstone.
Christmann has teamed up with the Grove co-working organization on Orange Street to try to launch Grove Studios at Chetstone.
At the Grove's downtown space, freelancers and small organizations have a place to work together, to get out of their home offices and work alongside other people. Christmann and the Grove's Slate Ballard envision a similar operation at Chetstone, but for artists and musicians and writers.
Christmann, who lives with his wife and two small children nearby on Quinnipiac Avenue, wants to turn the unoccupied Victorian Gothic house into shared studio space. Think Erector Square, except it's a historic mansion with exquisite woodwork, not faded old factory made of bricks and steel.
Christmann, who's 35, said he has about a month to fulfill his dream. He and his wife can't afford to pay the mortgage on their own. They need to find some artists to rent studio space in the house—immediately.
Since he bought the house in 2003, Christmann has dreamed of filling it with artists.
He and his wife had been looking for a house to invest in, when she happened to be running by the mansion as a for-sale sign was going up. The couple began to investigate the possibility.
The house was owned at that time by Gordana Lam, an elderly widow who'd lived there for 40 years. She was moving into a nursing home and sold the house to the Christmanns for $222,000.
"As soon as we closed on it, it felt like, 'This is such a cool house, it's not really an investment,'" Christmann said. He realized the house was something special, not simply a property to flip.
The Christmanns decided to try to create an artist community with the house as its new home. The first order of business was to deal with all of Lam's stuff. The woman who owned it had no next of kin and had sold the house with most of her worldly possessions still inside it—40 years of memories.
"It was fully loaded," Christmann said. The house was filled with furniture and personal belongings. Before she moved out, Lam (pictured) "had started to turn inward; everything was closed in," Christmann said. The front yard was completely overgrown; the house wasn't visible from the street. Inside, the curtains were drawn and pinned with safety pins that had rusted over.
In Lam's husband's old office, it was clear she had simply shut the door after he died in the '80s. Christmann found the man's pipe still sitting on his desk as though he'd just gotten up.
One blessing of Lam's apparently reclusive lifestyle was that she "never opened her door to the formica people in the '70s," Christmann said. The house still has all original hardwood floors, with inlaid designs, along with countless other architectural details—carved moulding around all the doors and windows, stained glass, painted chandeliers, several working gas lamps.
As Christmann dug into the history of the house, he discovered more and more. The house was built in 1875 by Lucius Moody and his wife Dr. Mary Blair Moody, the first female physician in New Haven. It was one of four Victorian mansions at the top of the hill. At the time, the house looked down on farmland around the Quinnipiac River, commanding from it's fourth-story tower what was likely one of the best residential views in the city (pictured).
The house changed hands only three times before he and his wife bought it, Christmann said. In the '20s, it was owned by an art collector named Albert Haasis, who dubbed the property "Chetstone."
After the Christmanns bought the house, Home and Garden TV came and did a show about some of what they found inside: several old guns and a lot of paintings. They also ended up with some beautiful old furniture, including a grand piano.
In the attic, they found an old Zenith television with a circular screen ...
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... and ringing the ceiling—hand-painted images of a gentleman rabbit.
Christmann, who grew up building houses with his carpenter father, dove into restoration work, including fixing leaks in the original slate roof. He worked from a rock-climbing harness roped to the chimney. The Christmanns cut down the overgrowth around the house and painted it inside and out.
Christmann found some artist tenants to move in: a photographer and five musicians, including Jonny Rodgers and Chuck Costa, the state troubadour. But they all moved out in November 2012, leaving Christmann with his artist-community dream still unfulfilled.
He's teamed up with Ballard, one of the founders of the Grove, to now try a different tack: Not a live-in artist community, but shared artist studio space. Christmann said he envisions a creative space for writers, photographers, filmmakers, and musicians. Messier artists like painters and sculptors might work there, but Christmann said he's mindful that the Chetstone is a more delicate environment than studio-space buildings in former factories like Erector Square.
The rates are also more expensive than Erector Square's. "Membership" goes for $350 a month for a shared studio to $525 to $675 for a private room. Day rentals are also available. Christmann uses the house for portrait work.
Just maintaining a 140-year-old mansion is an expensive proposition. The house is heated by an oil-fueled steam boiler. "You can almost watch the tank drain when you fire it up," Christmann said.
Christmann said he wants to tap into the Grove membership to find artists for Chetstone. "Lots of artists come into the Grove looking for space to create," said Ballard.
Whether those artists will take root at Grove Studios at Chetstone remains to be seen. Christmann said he's not sure what he'll do if the studio plan doesn't work out.
"We want to see it come to life," he said of the old house.
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posted by: Wildwest on January 4, 2013 9:09am
I bet that 222K seemed like a bargain back then huh? This house looks like it could employ one person year round to maintain it. What an incredible property, it is high on my list of most beautiful houses in New Haven/CT. Good luck.
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Host murder mystery dinner parties to help pay rent!
posted by: anonymous on January 4, 2013 10:20am
I agree with MikeM. The house is beautiful and the Grove is an amazing place. I hope that the project succeeds.
I know that more people would be interested in renting the space if it were easier to get to.
For instance, there's currently no way to bike from Wooster Square to Fair Haven without risking death, even though the City just spent tens of millions of dollars re-doing Grand and Quinnipiac Avenues using regressive, 1960s-era design standards that, by failing to address speeding, make the roads even more dangerous than they were.
Furthermore, bus service used to be regular, but due to lack of oversight and willful neglect from our City and State elected officials, it has become sporadic.
Maybe we should import the engineers from NYC (a city which imported Copenhagen's engineers). When roads are safe, economies boom.
posted by: FairHavenRes on January 4, 2013 11:20am
Anonymous, I cycle from the train station to Fair Haven every day, with multiple routes available, so I know it's entirely possible. From Chapel St you can cut north on any of the streets (I frequent Blatchley) and then take Grand across the river. Or you can take Chapel St all the way around to Front and then head east on Grand, although Chapel's a little more dicey in general. It's totally feasible, I promise!
posted by: anonymous on January 4, 2013 12:09pm
FairHavenRes, I agree there are some great routes in Fair Haven, but they certainly aren't of the quality that most people would allow their children to ride on. And putting these aside, the Grand Avenue bridge, the corner of East and Chapel, and a few other spots can be very frightening even to our city's most experienced cyclists.
posted by: FairHavenRes on January 4, 2013 1:08pm
For cycling I certainly try to avoid that stretch of Chapel, yes, and use Grand Ave instead. As for children (?), no, I wouldn't allow my child to cycle most of the roads, but I wasn't aware that was a criteria for getting to a studio space on E Grand Ave. New Haven has a ways to go in terms of making roads cycle friendly enough for children, but adults are more visible and it's certainly feasible for them to get from Wooster Sq to Fair Haven (Heights) on a bike. Happy cycling!
posted by: anonymous on January 4, 2013 1:55pm
FairHavenRes, Fair Haven is a wonderful place and certainly more accessible than most places, but we can do better.
"Feasibility" is not the goal of any city that wishes to be financially competitive and socioeconomically integrated. Rather, the goals for competitive cities should include being very pleasant, extremely safe, and accessible to people of all ability levels or age. Children are simply an indicator species.
Cities that do not follow the principles of "universal design," particularly in our world of changing demographics, are destined to fail.
posted by: Lallements Ghost on January 4, 2013 2:31pm
I worked downtown on Broadway for 4 years while living in Fair Haven Heights and biked to work 5 days a week year round; rain, snow, whatever. No traffic issues to speak of, the only problem I had was that I enjoyed biking on River Street and caught my front wheel in the old trolley tracks on one occasion (that I recall). The city has of course since redone River Street with new smooth pavement and traffic calming measures like speed bumps and jersey barriers to prevent drag racing. I'd love to see more bike lanes in general everywhere (I'd actually prefer New Haven's streets to look like cities in Asia with bicycles from curb to curb) but I think the sharrows have since improved this commute, and the share the road signs on Quinnipiac Ave that went up 10 years or so ago were a great step. Neither of these things existed when I started the commute and since we've seen additional signage, sharrows, repaves, and traffic calming. Furthermore, having grown up in the heights, my family regularly rode bicycles together to Lighthouse, Long Wharf, and Downtown recreationally. I started in a baby seat on the back of my mothers bicycle. The only accidents my family had were getting Tomlinson bridged (everyone but me, to date). I also knew numerous cyclists who lived on both sides of the bridge who regularly commuted to their various jobs, some as far as Hamden. This was all before any of the aforementioned measures on the city's behalf.
I sincerely appreciate your intention, Anonymous, but when you make these garish blanketing statements about how atrocious and antiquated the city is you end up alienating people like myself and others who have posted here who actually know that you're inaccurate from lifetimes of first hand experience. Yes, more bike lanes. Yes, more traffic calming measures. Please hold the inaccurate, nonconstructive, and undue depreciation.
posted by: yousaidwhat on January 4, 2013 2:53pm
yes, erector square is an old factory but hardly vacant and tired. I have been here
27 years and it is a vibrant place. Knocking your competition belittles your intent.
posted by: anonymous on January 4, 2013 3:38pm
Mr. Lallement, you have spoken like a true bicycle advocate. You are correct that some people will ride in just about any condition (even over conditions like the Tomlinson tracks, which have recently hospitalized more than a dozen people with severe injuries). But not everyone is as proficient, and I'm sure you'll agree that a sharrow in the truck travel lane is not the most effective advertisement.
Anyhow, I love biking in Fair Haven, even if commuting there every day would be difficult. The bottom line is that if we want more jobs, citywide infrastructure and safety need to be improved, and we are missing out on key opportunities to do so (see above).
posted by: David S Baker on January 4, 2013 3:38pm
I bombed between Downtown and Fair Haven Heights on a bicycle for years with a baby strapped on the back. No problems. Take Humphrey… If you are intimidated by ethnic diversity you should probably look at other parts of town to commute through. In the past eleven years I have never had any issue commuting from FHH to downtown on any form of transportation as a result of having to pass through Fair Haven. I had PLENTY of issues because of aggressive motorist, but no more or less than any other part of the city.
As for the FHH bashing: since neighbors worked with the city to repair the bridge and street I have not had to mop up one injured motorist in front of my home on Q-Ave. The old average was 2 to 3 per year. Our sidewalks are not trip hazards, neighbors are throwing parties, people are proud to live there. We have people from every corner of the globe. We joke that we are the overflow for East Rock. It's a gem set in some rough stone but well worth the commute. Most of this progress is due to people like the Christmanns and their tireless efforts to save the old gems that dot the river and hillside and create a community. While most of these projects are not anywhere NEAR the scale of his endeavor, this sort of penicillin is sprouting up everywhere in this neighborhood. Sadly, being the step child of the city, the reputation of the area is about five years behind the reality. Most people dont even know we are here.
Ian's continued support of the arts, his moral fiber, and his drive to create a community speak for themselves, but if I can reinforce this by saying something that is not made obvious by this article; You will NOT find a better landlord who is more accommodating or kind. You will also be hard pressed to find a more practical setting for creative endeavors. The place is a time capsule. You essentially are being offered a chance to run your organization from a museum in an ivy league town with ample parking minutes from I91 and I95. Seems like a deal to me.
posted by: OccupyTheClassroom on January 4, 2013 11:37pm
$125 for a few hours or $375 a month? Many artists are employed yet struggling
Little steep for artists. I could do like $25 a day or $75 a week possibly. $200 a month. I would probably use it 10-15 days a month for a few month.
posted by: Stephen Harris on January 5, 2013 12:25pm
Maybe turning it into a gallery would work. A bed and breakfast might work too. Or maybe rent it out to Hollywood for period movies. It would be a shame to lose such a beautiful home.
posted by: anonymous on January 5, 2013 12:38pm
David, let's be honest. "Take Humphrey" is not a solution. Unlike the misguided officials and reps who constantly proffer it as one and who drive everywhere, most people are not powered by motors. They use more or less direct routes, or use none at all.
In a world of skyrocketing energy costs and eroding incomes, until the City elites realize simple truths like this, the local economy is going to keep sliding downhill and more spaces will sit empty.
posted by: David S Baker on January 5, 2013 10:16pm
anonymous, HONESTLY, I don't disagree with your stance on improved public transportation bolstering the city infrastructure. I've been screaming to get a Shoreline East stop / union shuttle train stop where it intersects Grand out here for years. God forbid a train platform walking distance from a residential area, right? People who commute to Manhattan or points in between might start to buy houses out here and some stores might open, right!?
What I don't understand is what any of this safe streets soapboxing has to do with the article. This is a VERY accessible location. Three bus lines stop a block down the hill. Parking out here is free. All the bridges, roads, and lights are currently 100% operational. You can get here on a bicycle AS SAFELY as any other part of the city. Heck, you can take a canoe here from Long Wharf. Did you suffer some trauma on a bike specific to this part of town? Were you horribly maimed and that is why you don't use your real name? Whats the dilly?
BTW, don't actually answer these questions for my benefit. I'm done with this thread…
posted by: anonymous on January 6, 2013 10:27am
David, I agree. New Haven can easily improve its commuter rail system. There should be a small station near Humphrey Street to serve East Rock/Fair Haven, and a platform to serve Fair Haven Heights as you point out. Once NHHS opens, it can stop at the former, and also at a new stop serving the Cedar Hill/Southern Hamden neighborhood. Like other cities, the projects can be funded through a special tax that captures the increase in surrounding land value once a station opens. Instead of just doling out new stations based on politics, construction should be prioritized based on which areas are "shovel ready" for high-density, tax-producing development surrounding the station. Accelerating this type of development should be a priority for Connecticut, if it wants to compete with other parts of the globe.


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Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE: TMHC) announced today financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. Our results for the first quarter represent the combined results of our subsidiaries Taylor Morrison Communities, Inc. and Monarch Communities Inc. (collectively "the Company"). Net income for the quarter was $24.3 million, compared to net income of $10.3 million for the first quarter of 2012.
"We started the year in a position of strength, with a 136% increase in net income, continuing our track record of solid financial performance and adding to our trend of more than three consecutive years of profitability," said Sheryl Palmer, President and CEO. "We are pleased to demonstrate continued quarter-over-quarter improvements in key operational and financial metrics. The results we're releasing today are the manifestation of years of preparation and demonstrate the value around the Company's land strategy during the downturn. Our opportunistic land strategy continues to be conscious and calculated and the foundation of our success."
Net sales orders increased 52% to 1,681 in the first quarter of 2013 as compared to 1,106 in the first quarter of last year. Net sales orders in the Company's U.S. operations increased 68%, partially offset by a 29% sales order decline in its Canadian operations. As expected, community count increased 31% to 167 from 124 in the first quarter of last year, primarily due to our acquisition of Darling Homes based in Texas. The Company's overall monthly absorption pace increased to 3.4 net sales orders per community in the first quarter of 2013 compared to 3.0 for the first quarter of 2012.
The Company's sales order backlog of homes under contract increased 45% to 3,872 homes with a sales value of $1.4 billion at March 31, 2013 compared with 2,669 homes with a sales value of $884 million as of March 31, 2012. The Company's U.S. backlog of homes under contract increased 109% to 2,506 homes with a sales value of $993 million at March 31, 2013 compared with 1,199 homes with a sales value of $398 million at March 31, 2012. The first quarter 2013 cancellation rate, representing cancelled sales orders divided by gross sales orders, was 11% in both the first quarter of 2012 and 2013.
Home closings revenue totaled $366.8 million in the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 66%, benefiting from a 63% increase in homes closed to 1,012 during the quarter. Gross profit margin on home closings in the first quarter of 2013 improved to 21.2%, compared to 17.6% in the first quarter of 2012. Adjusted gross profit margin on home closings in the first quarter 2013, excluding interest expense, improved 340 basis points to 23.4% compared to 20.0% for the first quarter 2012.
For the first quarter, the Company's mortgage and title operations reported gross profit of $2.4 million. The mortgage capture rate for the Company's U.S. operations for the quarter was 81%.
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $46.3 million, or 12.6% of home closing revenues for the 2013 first quarter compared to $32.4 million, or 14.7% of home closing revenues for the first quarter of 2012. Equity in income of unconsolidated entities, which represents the Company's investments in home building joint ventures, was $3.2 million in both the first quarter of 2012 and 2013.
The Company ended the first quarter of 2013 with $251.2 million of cash, including $13.2 million of restricted cash. Homebuilding inventories at the end of the 2013 first quarter totaled $1.7 billion. The Company owned and controlled approximately 45,100 lots at March 31, 2013 compared with approximately 31,000 lots at March 31, 2012.
Financing Activities
On April 12, 2013, we completed our initial public offering ("IPO") and sold 28,572,000 shares at $22.00 per share for a total of $628.5 million. Subsequent to the offering, the underwriters exercised their over-allotment option of 4,285,800 shares at $22.00 per share for $94.3 million. Approximately $204.3 million of the proceeds from the IPO were used to redeem $189.6 million of the 7.75% senior notes due 2020, issued by two of our subsidiaries at a price equal to 103.875% their principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest. The remainder of the IPO proceeds was used to purchase equity interests from the principal equity holders and pay IPO-related fees.
Concurrent with the IPO, our subsidiaries entered into a new $400 million unsecured revolving credit facility, maturing in April 2017, replacing an existing $225 million secured revolving credit facility. In addition, two of our subsidiaries issued $550 million aggregate principal amount of 5.25% senior notes due 2021, the proceeds of which will be used for general corporate purposes.
Earnings Conference Call
A conference call to discuss our first quarter 2013 earnings will be held at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. The call will be broadcast live on the Internet and can be accessed through the Company's website at www.taylormorrison.com. If you are unable to participate in the conference call, the call will be archived at www.taylormorrison.com for 30 days. A replay of the conference call will also be available later today by calling (888) 843-7419 or (630) 652-3042 and entering 3477 4239# as the confirmation number.
Forward-Looking Statements
This earnings summary includes "forward-looking statements." These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities, as well as those of the markets we serve or intend to serve, to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate to matters of a strictly factual or historical nature and generally discuss or relate to forecasts, estimates or other expectations regarding future events. Generally, the words "believe," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "project," "may," "can," "could," "might," "will" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, including statements related to expected operating and performing results, planned transactions, planned objectives of management, future developments or conditions in the industries in which we participate and other trends, developments and uncertainties that may affect our business in the future.
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among other things: interest rate changes and the availability of mortgage financing; continued volatility in the debt and equity markets; competition within the industries in which Taylor Morrison operates; the availability and cost of land and other raw materials used by Taylor Morrison in its homebuilding operations; the impact of any changes to our strategy in responding to continuing adverse conditions in the industry, including any changes regarding our land positions; the availability and cost of insurance covering risks associated with Taylor Morrison's businesses; shortages and the cost of labor; weather related slowdowns; slow growth initiatives and/or local building moratoria; governmental regulation directed at or affecting the housing market, the homebuilding industry or construction activities; uncertainty in the mortgage lending industry, including revisions to underwriting standards and repurchase requirements associated with the sale of mortgage loans; the interpretation of or changes to tax, labor and environmental laws; economic changes nationally or in Taylor Morrison's local markets, including inflation, deflation, changes in consumer confidence and preferences and the state of the market for homes in general; legal or regulatory proceedings or claims; required accounting changes; terrorist acts and other acts of war; and other factors of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business and competitive nature. Taylor Morrison undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or changes in Taylor Morrison's expectations. In addition, other such risks and uncertainties may be found in Taylor Morrison Home Corporation's Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the heading "Risk Factors." Such registration statement has not yet been declared effective by the SEC and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described therein.
About Taylor Morrison
Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, Taylor Morrison Home Corporation (NYSE:TMHC) operates in the U.S. under the Taylor Morrison and Darling Homes brands and in Canada under the Monarch brand. Taylor Morrison is a builder and developer of single-family detached and attached homes serving a wide array of customers from first-time buyers and move-up families to luxury and active adult customers. Taylor Morrison divisions operate in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida and Texas. Darling Homes serves move-up families and luxury homebuyers in Texas. Monarch, Canada's oldest homebuilder builds homes for first-time buyers and move-up families in Toronto and Ottawa as well as high rise condominiums in Toronto.
For more information about Taylor Morrison, Darling Homes or Monarch, please visit www.taylormorrison.com, www.darlinghomes.com and www.monarchgroup.net.
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(A) Includes only our proportionate share of unconsolidated joint ventures.
(B) Includes only our proportionate share of unconsolidated joint ventures.
(C) Includes our proportionate share of unconsolidated joint ventures.
(D) Represents the average number of total communities in which our joint ventures were actively selling over such time period.
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The below measure is non-GAAP financial measures and other companies may calculate such non-GAAP measures differently. Due to the significance of the GAAP components excluded, such measures should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to operating performance measures prescribed by GAAP. We urge investors to understand the methods used by other companies to calculate these measures and any adjustments thereto before comparing our measure to those of such other companies.
The following table sets forth a reconciliation between our home closings gross margin and our adjusted home closings gross margin. Adjusted gross margins are non-GAAP financial measures calculated based on gross margins, excluding impairments and capitalized interest amortization.
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