Genotoxic effects of Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir, Fabaceae, were investigated by using both micronucleus test and bacterial reverse mutation assay in Salmonella typhimurium TA97, TA98, TA100, TA102 respectively. In respect of Ames test results show that the extract does not induce mutations in any strains of Salmonella typhimurium tested since the mutagenicity index is less than 2. In the antimutagenic effect was observed that the extract at the concentrations tested significantly decreased the mutagenicity index of all strains tested which characterized the extract as antimutagenic in these conditions. In the micronucleus test in vivo, we observed that the concentrations used did not induce an increase in the frequency of micronucleus in normochromatic erythrocytes of mice. Therefore, we concluded that the extract of M. tenuiflora is not mutagenic in the absence of exogenous metabolizing system and does not induce an increase in the frequency of the micronucleus characterized as an agent not mutagenic in these conditions. Further studies of toxicity need to be made to the use of this plant in the treatment of diseases to be stimulated.
The healing power of plants is as old as the emergence of the human species on earth. Early, the first civilizations noticed that some plants contain in their essence, the active ingredients which are tested in combating disease empirically proved its healing power (Badke et al., 2011). On this basis, it is very important to carry out toxicity studies on plant-based extracts, as some of its biologically active constituents may be toxic to the body and contain chemicals known to be mutagenic or carcinogenic.
The lack of adequate information on the medicinal properties of plants (mainly exotic), its concomitant use with traditional medicines (allopathic) without notice to the doctor, and finally the loss of knowledge about the effects of medicinal and toxic plants, as well as the ability to identify them by the migration of rural population to cities are worrying factors in the use of medicinal plants without previous studies (Veiga Júnior et al., 2005; Albuquerque & Hanazaki, 2006).
Genetic toxicology tests are assays designed to detect direct or indirect genetic damage induced by chemical compounds. Fixation of DNA damage can result in gene mutations, loss of heterozygosity, chromosome loss or gain, and chromosome aberrations. These events may play an important role in many malignancies. Thus, identifying genotoxic/mutagenic effects is important for the risk/benefit assessment of substances, in particular those which are part of the dietary habits of any populations (Doppalapudi et al., 2007).
Examining the mutagenicity of plant extract or chemical(s), Ames test, or the so-called Salmonella/microsome test, is widely used (Konuk et al., 2008; Uysal et al., 2010; Liman et al., 2010). This test can be carried out rapidly and cheaply and it is also one of the most reliable short-term bacterial test systems (Maron & Ames, 1983; Mortelmans & Zeiger, 2000). A compound is considered mutagenic when the increase in dose is directly related to the increase in number of colonies mutated in one or more strains of Salmonella typhimurium dependent histidine (Mortelmans & Zeiger, 2000).
Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir., Fabaceae, is a perennial evergreen tree or shrub native of Northeast Brazil where is popularly known as "jurema-preta". It is used in folk medicine against bronchitis, coughs, fever, headache and external ulcers, and in Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cults as entheogen (Albuquerque et al., 2007; Agra et al., 2008; Souza et al, 2008). Phytochemical investigations of M. tenuiflora resulted in the isolation of several classes of compounds, including indole alkaloids, tannins, chalcones, steroids, terpenoids and phenoxychomones (Rivera-Arce et al., 2007; Souza et al., 2008).
Considering the absence of studies on the toxic effects of this plant, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the mutagenic /antimutagenic and genotoxic activities M. tenuiflora using the Ames test and the micronucleus test on peripheral blood cells.
Ethanol, methanol, D-glucose-6-phosphate disodium salt, magnesium chloride, L-histidine monohydrate, D-biotin, sodium and 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co (St. Louis,USA). Nutrient Broth medium (Difco/USA) was used as bacterial media. Agar (Difco/USA) was used in the Ames test.
The steam bark of Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir, Fabaceae, was collected in March 2010 at the Center for Rural Health and Technology, Patos Campus UFCG-Paraíba, Brazil and identified by Denise Aline Cassimiro Bezerra (UFPB). The voucher specimen (#3274) of the plant was deposited in the Herbarium Caririensis Dardanus de Andrade Lima, the Cariri Regional University - URCA, Crato-CE, Brazil.
The use of animals was approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Research Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology UFPB under registration number 0206/11. For the realization of experimental models were used five to six-week old albino Swiss mice (Mus musculus), weighing approximately 30 g from the Biotery Prof. Thomas George UFPB. The animals were acclimated to the bioterium local conditions for about seven days before the experimental tests under temperature (21±2 ºC) and controlled light-dark cycle of 12 h. The animals were fed chow and water ad libitum and were distributed in the different experimental groups at random.
The steam bark of M. tenuiflora were dried in an oven with circulating air average temperature of 45 ºC for 3 to 4 days, and then subjected to a process of spraying in mechanical mill, reducing it to powder. The dried and powdered plant material, weighing 430 g, was subjected to exhaustive maceration with 2 L of EtOH at 95% for 72 h, this process being repeated three times to obtain maximum extraction of chemical constituents. The resulting extraction solution, after filtration, was concentrated with the aid of a rotary evaporator under reduced pressure at a temperature not exceeding 40 ºC, resulting in a 22% income.
Initially, the extract was analyzed by phytochemical screening for the identification of several classes of secondary metabolites. It was subsequently analyzed by thin layer chromatography for the detection of phenols. Chromate aluminum silica gel plates F 254 (Merck®, Darmstadt, Germany) were used. Flavonoids were analyzed using ethyl acetate:formic acid:water (8:1:1, v/v) as mobile phase natural and reagent A (1%) and UV 365 nm as developer. For tannins, were used as mobile phase ethyl acetate:formic acid:water (9:0,5, 0.5 v/v) and toluene:acetone:acetic acid (6:2:2, v/v) , ferric chloride (5%) for visualization of the spots. We used chromatographic standards of tannins gallic acid, ellagic acid, tannic acid, catechin and epicatechin and flavonoids isoquercetina, isovitexin, quercetin, rutin and vitexin (Extrasynthese and Sigma) (Wagner & Bladt, 1996).
For phytochemical analysis, it was used the methodology proposed by Matos (1995) which consists of a phytochemical semi-quantitative, based on color and precipitation reactions specific for each class of constituents being analyzed. The crosses classification proposed by the same author is the intensity in rate of reaction and correlating the amount of constituents present, and thus a semi-qualitative estimation. Example: For detection of the reaction of tannin was used the technique of precipitation of gelatin. The presence of light (+), moderate (+ +) or severe (+ + +) tannin is represented fairly according to the intensity of these reactions (formation of precipitate).
The mutagenicity was evaluated using part of the methodology described by Maron & Ames (1983). Selection of the strains was based on the testing and strain selection strategies of Mortelmans & Zeiger (2000).
Suspensions in Nutrient Broth medium (DIFCO) of mutant strains of S. typhimurium TA97, TA98, TA100, TA102, in stationary phase, which carry different mutations in various genes of the histidine operon (His-) were incubated with concentrations of 100 and 50 µg.mL-1 of extract of M. tenuiflora at a temperature of 37 ºC in the absence of exogenous metabolizing system S9 (-S9). These concentrations were used (below the minimum inhibitory concentration) because the extract showed antibacterial activity against Salmonella strains tested with MIC of 250 µ/g.mL-1.
After 30 min, the samples were plated on minimal agar medium, 20 mL Vogel-Bonner medium (10 g MgSO4.H20, 100 g citric acid monohydrate, 500 g K2HPO4, 175 g Na2NH2PO4.4H2O to 1 L), 50 mL glucose 10% v/v, 15 g agar to 1 L) and incubated at 37 ºC for 48 h. Mutant colonies (His+) that restored its capacity to synthesize histidine (revertants) were counted. Suspensions were plated S. typhimurium as a negative control and suspensions of S. typhimurium incubated in the presence of 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide (NQNO) (0.5 µg/plate) (Sigma), as positive control.
To investigate whether the extract of M. tenuiflora has antimutagenic activity, suspensions of S. typhimurium (TA97, TA98, TA100, TA102) were subjected to two concentrations of the product (100 and 50 µg.mL-1) at 37 ºC for 30 min. Then the samples were incubated in the presence of 4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide for 30 min, plated on minimal agar medium and maintained at 37 ºC for 48 h.
All experiments were performed in triplicate and results expressed as mutagenicity index. The mutagenicity index (MI) was also calculated for each dose. MI is the average number of revertants per plate divided by the average number of revertants per plate from the negative (solvent) control. A sample was considered positive when the MI>2 for at least one of the tested doses and if it gave a reproducible dose-response curve (Varella et al., 2004; Santos et al., 2008). Extracts that presented concentrations that induces significant difference in comparison to negative control revertants frequency and MI higher than 1.5 and lower than 2 were considered as a weak mutagen (Mortelmans & Zeiger, 2000).
To perform the micronucleus test, the animals were sacrificed with xylazine (5 mg/kg) in accordance with existing regulations to prevent anxiety or fear (stress) (Andrade et al., 2006) and then blood samples were collected from the caudal vein of mices.
The micronucleus test on peripheral blood cells was carried out as described by Hayashi et al. (1994), who concluded that bone marrow cells can be replaced by peripheral blood as material for the micronucleus assay. This is allowed because, alternatively in mice, the micronuclei can be analyzed in circulating normochromatic erythrocytes (NCE, erythrocytes), whereas the spleen of mice did not hijack the blood micronucleated erythrocytes.
Groups of three mices males and three females received, by gavage, the crude extract of M. tenuiflora in dose of 100 to 200 mg/kg of animal weight because according to Pereira (2010) the extract of M. tenuiflora has LD50 500 mg/kg. The negative control group received only the dispersant of the sample (distilled water) and positive control received Cyclophosphamide 50 mg/kg of animal weight. Twenty-four hours after treatment, the animals were sacrificed, blood was collected from the caudal vein and made a smear on the slide.
The slides were stained with Panotic and observed under an optical microscope (Zeiss) increasing 1000x (objective 100x with eyepiece 10x) for counting the micronucleus. Were assessed at least 2,000 NCE per slides (Hayashi et al., 1994).
In this study, the presence of micronucleus in erythrocytes of mice in the positive control was not influenced by gender (p>0,05), so data were pooled to determine the average number of micronucleus to calculate the standard error of the mean and to assess differences between groups.
The data from the micronucleus assay were statistically analyzed using Student's t-test, comparing the treated groups with controls (Pereira, 1991). The significance level considered was p<0.05. Results were expressed as mean±SEM.
Living organisms are often exposed to mutagenic substances, and many of them may have a natural origin, such as example of herbal medicines. Since many extracts and active principles of plants already described have been used as therapeutic agents for considerable interest in determining the risk they may cause health, leading to diseases or even death in animals and humans. Thus, evaluation of mutagenic and/or genotoxic potential were required to ensure the use of relatively safe plants man medicinal as is the case of Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir, Fabaceae, (Surh & Ferguson, 2003).
Through phytochemical prospecting of the extracts, it was possible to determine the presence of diverse classes of secondary metabolites. The results revealed a wide variety of chemical constituents highlighting the presence of saponins, gums, resins, and particularly phenols (among the flavonoids and tannins) supporting the studies pharmacochemical of Camargo-Ricalde (2000) and Bezerra (2008). The extract of M. tenuiflora also showed moderate presence of alkaloids, flavonoids and pyrogallic tannins; thioglycosides traits were observed and the absence of mucilage, quinones, coumarins, lactones, steroid, carotenoids, catechins and resins. These results corroborate the studies of Meckes-Lozoya et al. (1990a).
Some studies confirm the presence of saponin in the stem of M. tenuiflora. Antón et al. (1993) have isolated and identified three new triterpenoid saponins and three steroidal saponins. Total saponin concentration in the whole extract of M. tenuiflora was ca. 0.15% (being 0.10% for mimonoside A; 0.032% for mimonoside B; and 0.016% for mimonoside C). The three steroidal saponins were 3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl campesterol, 3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl stigmasterol and 3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-β-sitosterol) of the stem of M. tenuiflora.
Meckes-Lozoya et al. (1990b) also claim that the abundance of tannins and flavonoids found in the extract of "jurema-preta" factor is probably responsible for the observed antimicrobial activity in Staphylococcus epidermidis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter calcoaceticus.
The Ames test is widely used as a screening method to determine the mutagenic potential of new chemical compounds and drugs since there is a high correlation between positive response in test genetic toxicity and carcinogenicity, both in rodents and in humans (McCann et al., 1975; Purchase et al., 1978; Mortelmans & Zeiger, 2000).
The crude extract of M. tenuiflora in the concentration of 100 and 50 µg.mL-1 did not induce mutations in strains of S. typhimurium tested since the mutagenicity ratio is less than 2 (Table 1), so the extract of M. tenuiflora is not considered mutagenic in these conditions evaluated.
The treatment of strains of S. typhimurium with crude ethanol extract of M. tenuiflora before incubation with the mutagenic agent (4-nitroquinoline 1-oxide) showed an antimutagenic effect on strains TA97, TA100 and TA102 since the mutagenicity ratio is less than 2 (Table 2). In strain TA98, even the mutagenicity index was greater than 2, it is observed that there was a large reduction of mutagenicity index what characterizes an antimutagenic effect.
The antimutagenic activity of the extract of M. tenuiflora is certainly related to the abundance of tannins present in this species (Meckes-Lozoya et al., 1990a) that, according to Dauer et al (2003), has antimutagenic activity.
The assessment of micronucleus induction is the primary in vivo test in a battery of genotoxicity tests and is recommended by law enforcement agencies worldwide as part of the safety assessment of chemicals and natural. The test, when performed correctly, detects both effects: clastogenic and aneugenic (Krishna & Hayashi, 2000).
According Cammerer et al (2007) the micronucleus assay done in peripheral blood has further advantages, such as the easy preparation of the sample small amount of blood, the speed in obtaining results, the ability to obtain repeated samples of the same animal, and the possibility of obtaining samples studies chronic.
Micronucleus in young erythrocytes emerge primarily from acentric fragments or chromosomes that are unable to migrate following the mitotic spindle during cell division of hematopoietic tissue (Salamone & Heddle, 1983; Ouanes et al., 2003). An increase in frequency micronucleus test animals treated with different substances is an indication of chromosomal damage induced (Krishna & Hayashi, 2000). Micronuclei are indicative of numerical and/or structural chromosome aberrations during cell mitosis. Other authors have used the micronucleus test as a biomarker for chromosome instability and malignancy, observing higher frequencies of micronucleated cells among cancer patients than among healthy individuals (Kamboj & Mahajan, 2007; Lou et al., 2007).
The results showed that both at the dose of 100 to 200 mg/kg of the extract of M. tenuiflora did not induce a significant increase in the numbers of micronucleus in relation to the negative control (p>0,05) not presenting, therefore, clastogenic and aneugenic effect. Only cyclophosphamide (positive control) induced a significant increase in the amount of micronucleus (p<0,05) (Table 3).
Della Torre (2011) investigated the mutagenicity of the extract of Plathymenia reticulata Benth (Leguminosae) against strains of S. typhimurium TA100, TA98, TA97a, and TA102. Species of this family are known to have high levels of flavonoids and tannins in its constitution. The extract was mutagenic for strain TA98 and showed signs of mutagenicity for TA102 and TA97.
Through the results obtained it can be concluded that the extract of M. tenuiflora is not mutagenic in the absence of exogenous metabolizing system and does not induce an increase in the frequency of the micronucleus characterized as an agent not mutagenic in these conditions. Further studies of toxicity need to be made to the use of this plant in the treatment of diseases to be stimulated.
VAS (PhD student) contributed in collecting plant sample and identification, confection of herbarium, running the laboratory work, analysis of the data and drafted the paper. GFG, AFRF and MFFMD contributed to biological studies. MSVP contributed in plant identification and herbarium confection. IFG contributed to chromatographic analysis. MFFMD and HLFP contributed to critical reading of the manuscript. MSVP contributed to plant collection. HLFP designed the study, supervised the laboratory work and contributed to critical reading of the manuscript. All the authors have read the final manuscript and approved the submission.


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"Bush Stationers plans to close at least six of its seven stores by Labor Day, the company's founder and president said Thursday. The retailer, which at its peak had 11 stores around Charlotte and the S.C. coast, has suffered losses for several years and has been looking for a buyer since last fall, Harry Bush said. While a Charlotte business that Bush won't name is considering buying two or three stores, Bush has begun to sell off store merchandise with the intention of closing them as soon as possible. 'Rather than trying to struggle through the balance of the year, we've decided to liquidate,' Bush said. The only store Bush hopes to keep open is his newest one, in Cotswold Mall. The Charlotte stores that would close are in University Place, SouthPark mall, Eastland mall, Quail Corners Shopping Center and Park Road Shopping Center. The chain's seventh store, called The Christmas Cottage in Surfside Beach, S.C., will close, too. The recession, new competitors and changing customer buying habits combined to push Bush Stationers into the red, Bush said. 'People seem today, they don't have time to go from store to store to store,' Bush said.
"Large retailers such as grocery stores, discount chains and drug stores have recognized this, and added some office supplies and greeting cards. And large office supply stores such as Office Warehouse and Office Depot, with huge buying power and strong financial backing, have been formidable rivals as well. It was different in 1961. Bush was a 21-year-old graduate of Indiana University with all of six months in F.W. Woolworth's management program when his father, Harry, called. His father, who updated old stores for a living, had failed to get two uptown retailers to open an office supply store in the suburbs. 'Why don't you come on home' and open one, he remembers his father suggesting. So Bush, whose assets consisted of $750 and a 1957 Mercury convertible, opened a store at Park Road Shopping Center next to the post office. He later traded in the convertible for Bush Stationers stock, but otherwise his father was the major investor.
"As the city crept toward Park Road Shopping Center, Bush Stationers expanded into Cotswold, SouthPark, Eastland and beyond. At one point, the chain had three stores at the S.C. beaches and one in Gastonia. But near the end of the 1980s, the business started losing money. Bush lacked the cash to improve stores, such as adding computers and cash registers to track quick-selling items. 'We came out of Christmas not able to meet our obligations,' Bush said. 'Every time you turned around, it seemed that there was another impediment or obstacle to get around.' Among the more recent obstacles: Construction around Quail Corners that hurt business. Carolina Place mall lured some customers. The economy stayed moribund. On Aug. 4, Bush told his managers to start preparing for liquidation. On Tuesday, he sent a letter to his creditors, telling them of his intention to liquidate and pay as many of his debts as he can - 'the hardest letter I've ever had to sign in my life,' he said. Bush won't reveal other financial information, except to say sales last year ran about $5 million. Now, he hopes that either the Charlotte buyer or another might still emerge to rescue a few stores. Failing that, he hopes his liquidation sale, which will offer 40 percent discounts beginning today, is successful enough to keep the Cotswold store open. 'It had always been a goal of mine to retire when I got to 55, " said Bush, 53. "That's not going to happen.'"
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AURORA, Colo. — Jeffrey Dean Gnadt, 57, of Aurora, Colo., and formerly of Grand Island, died Aug. 20, 2019, in a car accident in Gunnison, Colo. while on vacation with family.
A family service and burial will be at later date.
Jeff was born on April 27, 1962, in Dodge City, Kan. to Ken and Bonnie (Brannagan) Gnadt and confirmed in the Lutheran faith at St Paul's Lutheran Church in Grand Island.
Throughout his younger years the family lived in Kansas, Texas, Minnesota and Iowa before settling in Nebraska. When Jeff was 12 years old the family moved to Grand Island where he attended Barr Junior High and then Grand Island Senior High, graduating in 1980.
After graduating Jeff joined the United States Navy and served aboard the USS Carl Vinson Supercarrier from its maiden voyage and throughout his career with the Navy traveling around the world.
In 1986, after his time in the Navy and later in the Naval Reserve, he attended college at the University of Nebraska in Kearney, graduating in 1990. After college Jeff moved to Denver, Colo., settling in Aurora.
Throughout Jeff's career, he was a graphic artist in Denver and surrounding cities.
Jeff enjoyed traveling everywhere, especially with his dad, Ken, when in 1989, they backpacked through China and eastern Europe. Jeff always enjoyed family holidays and was always ready to plan the next event. Jeff loved riding his motorcycle and enjoyed fixing up his home and working in his yard.
Survivors include his brothers and sister, Jim and Christy Gnadt of Grand Island, John and Jayne Gnadt of Highlands Ranch, Colo., Jerry and Amy Gnadt of Englewood, Colo., and Chris and Janet Gnadt Ringel of Fort Worth, Texas; four nieces and nephews, Brittany Ringel Walton of Houston, Texas, Jordan Ringel of Crested Butte, Colo., Eli Ringel of Fort Worth, Texas, and Chelsea Ringel Cox of Grapevine, Texas; six great-nieces and nephews, Heidi, Camille, Allison, Catherine, Henry and William and another baby on the way.
Jeff was preceded in death by his parents, Ken and Bonnie Gnadt of Grand Island; and grandparents, Vern and Louise Brannagan of Lake Elbo, Kan., and Clarence and Edna Gnadt of Alma, Kan.
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Welcome to the Independent Art Series, Episode 9, Panel!
So, I didn't meet my goal.
However, I do have 20 finished pages. 20 pages! I'm so close to the end of this issue that I can almost taste it. munches on graphic novel issue Mmm, it tastes almost finished.
Only two pages left. Yay.
Something interesting happened in the past week. All this time I've been carefully arranging and sizing each panel to fit the text flow. Then it hit me. Panel size is not relative to text flow. Shocking, I know.
I'll use Page 16 of Cottonseeds Issue 3 as an example.
When I first set up the panel layout for this page, it looked odd. How the hell am I going to fit the text in this complicated nine panel layout?
Nine panels are a lot, and they're all awfully close together. However, the layout made sense to me, so I kept working on it until the page made sense.
Then, I saw it. I knew exactly the right text flow.
Behold, text flow superimposed on the layout.
In conclusion, I'm cutting the amount of time spent on each page in half by saying, to hell with the panel layout. The text will flow no matter what.
The trick to text flow in a graphic novel is just don't make it obvious. Less is more.
I made a ghost explode, and it was SO much fun. Since my ghosts in the Cottonseeds series look the same as when they died, that means a blood explosion.
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Tim Cook to shareholders: It was the 'mother of all years'
Apple's CEO addresses shareholders at the company's headquarters at a time when things are lot less upbeat than a year ago.
Josh Lowensohn
February 27, 2013 9:32 AM PST
Apple headquarters this morning Josh Lowensohn
CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Apple CEO Tim Cook tried to reassure shareholders today, saying that the company was disappointed by its falling stock price but also that Apple is committed to its long-term strategy.
The meeting itself, which took place here this morning, was business as usual.
As expected, shareholders voted to re-elect all eight of Apple's board members. That includes Andrea Jung, Apple's only female board member, who was forced to resign as the chief executive of Avon last year and now serves as a senior adviser for the beauty products company.
The stakes were a bit higher this year for board members who did not manage to secure a majority vote from shareholders. A new provision, approved by shareholders last year, required board members who did not make the cut to voluntarily resign their position.
"We had the mother of all years."
--Apple CEO Tim Cook
The company was also mum about the stock split rumor that surfaced yesterday.
In addition, shareholders voted down two shareholder-created proposals: one that dealt with executives holding a certain amount of company stock, and another asking for Apple's board to create a human rights committee.
The one dealing with executive stock asked for Apple's top executives to hold onto at least 33 percent of their shares until they reach the age of retirement, a requirement the proposal's creator says would "focus our executives on our company's long-term success."
In a filing ahead of the meeting, Apple called the initiative "unnecessary," given that the company's board already had a compensation committee, and warned that it would "restrict the executives' ability to diversify their portfolios."
The other failed shareholder initiative called for Apple to create a board committee on human rights that would evaluate the company's supply chain and its overall operations, something Apple's board also rallied against. In a filing, Apple's board argued that it already has a Supplier Code of Conduct that's policed by an internal auditing team, and that the creation of such a venture would "distract" Apple's board.
Apple's struggling stock
What was on the minds of shareholders, of course, was the stock price, which has tumbled roughly 37 percent since reaching a high a few months ago.
"I don't like it either," said Cook, who didn't take any action when it came to returning cash to shareholders. Nor does the board and management, he said.
Cook said that the company is focused on the long term and making the very best products, and that Apple is working harder than ever and "has some great stuff coming." He went over the company's launches from last year -- "We had the mother of all years," he said -- including the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which Cook says he uses every day.
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Cook said that Apple would enter Turkey later this year. And, not surprisingly, he didn't give details about new products. "Obviously we're looking at new categories, but were not talking about that," he said.
During the Q&A part of the meeting, one shareholder asked why Apple doesn't use some of its cash hoard to go to war and capture more market share in the smartphone market.
Cook replied that Apple's not constraining its investment in research and development to grow a cash pile: "We invest in things we think are great to do. We invest in just a few things. We will add things but will do so deliberately." Regarding Android, he said that the market share numbers are hard to come by because Google doesn't release numbers, but it's clear that Android is on a lot if phones and tablets.
For Apple, Cook said, winning isn't about making the most. Apple wants to make the best, he said, pointing to Dell as an example of what can happen going the make-the-most route. Dell want to make the most PCs, he said, and Apple never wanted to do that. Where market share is important, he said, is to attract a platform and an ecosystem, and if you look at Apple's numbers, the iPhone was up 70 percent year over year, and "we've paid out billions to developers."
"We're cognizant of the competition," he said. "We don't have our head stuck in the sand." He said there's no one you'd rather be in a bunker with than these folks here, referring to Apple employees. There's a button Apple could push here to make the most, Cook said, but that's not good for Apple.
Cook also reiterated that he wasn't worried about the iPad Mini cannibalizing sales of the larger iPad.
The CEO noted that he's been at Apple for 15 years and has heard that same question about the iBook and the PowerBook and the iPod line. "My belief is that if we don't cannibalize, someone else will," he said.
Cook was also asked about human rights issues and working conditions. Last year Apple did about 400 audits on safety, the environment and human rights, he said. When Apple finds things, he said, the company reports them and fixes them. If everyone is paying attention, he said, "more companies will step forward."
That 'silly' lawsuit
The elephant in the room was, of course, a provision that was barred from voting following a successful shareholder lawsuit against Apple. The company had bundled together a handful of issues, including one that would eliminate "blank check" preferred stock into a single proposal, something Greenlight Capital filed suit against. A Manhattan judge last week sided with Greenlight, ultimately forcing Apple to pull the proposal entirely.
Cook was asked if he still thought hedge fund manager David Einhorn's lawsuit was silly.
"I do," said Cook. The lawsuit was not about whether Apple should return cash or how it should, he said. It was about shareholder rights. It was about whether, if Apple returned money, everyone should get a vote. In Apple's thinking, yes, you should get a vote, he said. "I strongly believe it was a silly slideshow."
That doesn't mean the discussion about cash allocation is silly, said Cook. It's something the board and management team discuss. Earlier at the meeting, Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, noted that shareholders could not vote on the court-enjoined proposal about preferred stock, but said the company would provide more information about it at a later date.
At the end of today's meeting, Cook assured shareholders that they are on his mind. "We think about you a lot -- probably more than you know," he said.
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package net.java.sip.communicator.impl.gui.main.call;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.util.List;

import javax.swing.*;

import net.java.sip.communicator.impl.gui.*;
import net.java.sip.communicator.impl.gui.utils.*;
import net.java.sip.communicator.plugin.desktoputil.*;
import net.java.sip.communicator.service.protocol.*;
import net.java.sip.communicator.service.protocol.event.*;
import net.java.sip.communicator.util.*;
import net.java.sip.communicator.util.skin.*;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

/**
 * The dialog created when an incoming call is received.
 *
 * @author Yana Stamcheva
 * @author Adam Netocny
 */
public class ReceivedCallDialog
    extends PreCallDialog
    implements ActionListener,
               CallListener,
               Skinnable
{
    /**
     * The incoming call to render.
     */
    private final Call incomingCall;

    /**
     * The list of resolvers.
     */
    private List<DisplayNameAndImageChangeListener> detailsResolvers
        = new ArrayList<DisplayNameAndImageChangeListener>();

    /**
     * Creates a <tt>ReceivedCallDialog</tt> by specifying the associated call.
     *
     * @param call The associated with this dialog incoming call.
     * @param video if the call is a video call
     * @param existingCall true to answer the call in an existing call (thus
     * obtaining a conference call)
     * @param desktopStreaming whether the incoming call is desktop streaming
     */
    public ReceivedCallDialog(
        Call call,
        boolean video,
        boolean existingCall,
        boolean desktopStreaming)
    {
        super(GuiActivator.getResources()
            .getSettingsString("service.gui.APPLICATION_NAME")
            + " "
            + (desktopStreaming ?
                GuiActivator.getResources()
                    .getI18NString("service.gui.INCOMING_SCREEN_SHARE_STATUS")
                    .toLowerCase()
             : GuiActivator.getResources()
                    .getI18NString("service.gui.INCOMING_CALL_STATUS")
                    .toLowerCase())
            , video, existingCall);

        this.incomingCall = call;

        OperationSetBasicTelephony<?> basicTelephony
            = call.getProtocolProvider().getOperationSet(
                    OperationSetBasicTelephony.class);

        basicTelephony.addCallListener(this);

        initCallLabel(getCallLabels());
    }

    /**
     * Initializes the label of the received call.
     *
     * @param callLabel The label to initialize.
     */
    private void initCallLabel(final JLabel callLabel[])
    {
        Iterator<? extends CallPeer> peersIter = incomingCall.getCallPeers();

        String textAddress = "";
        String textAccount = "";

        ImageIcon imageIcon =
            ImageUtils.scaleIconWithinBounds(ImageLoader
                .getImage(ImageLoader.DEFAULT_USER_PHOTO), 40, 45);

        // we use a table to store peers and so far resolved names
        // in order to be able to reconstruct the text to display if we
        // receive the display name later
        Hashtable<CallPeer, String> peerNamesTable
            = new Hashtable<CallPeer, String>();

        while (peersIter.hasNext())
        {
            final CallPeer peer = peersIter.next();

            String peerAddress = getPeerDisplayAddress(peer);

            textAccount = peer.getProtocolProvider().getAccountID()
                .getDisplayName();

            DisplayNameAndImageChangeListener listener
                = new DisplayNameAndImageChangeListener(peer, peerNamesTable);
            detailsResolvers.add(listener);

            String displayName =
                CallManager.getPeerDisplayName(peer, listener);

            if(displayName != null)
                peerNamesTable.put(peer, displayName);

            if(StringUtils.isNotEmpty(peerAddress))
                textAddress = callLabel[2].getText()
                    + trimPeerAddressToUsername(peerAddress);

            // More peers.
            if (peersIter.hasNext())
            {
                textAddress += ", ";
            }
            else
            {
                byte[] image = CallManager.getPeerImage(peer);

                if (image != null && image.length > 0)
                    imageIcon = ImageUtils.getScaledRoundedIcon(image, 50, 50);
            }
        }

        // will update callLabel[1] with the already found names
        updateTextDisplayName(peerNamesTable);

        callLabel[0].setIcon(imageIcon);

        callLabel[2].setText(textAddress);
        callLabel[2].setForeground(Color.GRAY);

        if(textAccount != null)
        {
            callLabel[3].setText(
                GuiActivator.getResources().getI18NString("service.gui.TO")
                + " " + textAccount);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Uses a table mapping peer to name to update call label display name.
     * @param peerNamesTable the peer to name mapping
     */
    private void updateTextDisplayName(
        final Hashtable<CallPeer, String> peerNamesTable)
    {
        if(!SwingUtilities.isEventDispatchThread())
        {
            SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
            {
                @Override
                public void run()
                {
                    updateTextDisplayName(peerNamesTable);
                }
            });
            return;
        }

        boolean hasMorePeers = false;
        String textDisplayName = "";

        Iterator<? extends CallPeer> peersIter = incomingCall.getCallPeers();

        JLabel label = getCallLabels()[1];

        while (peersIter.hasNext())
        {
            final CallPeer peer = peersIter.next();

            // More peers.
            if (peersIter.hasNext())
            {
                textDisplayName = label.getText()
                    + peerNamesTable.get(peer) + ", ";

                hasMorePeers = true;
            }
            // Only one peer.
            else
            {
                textDisplayName = GuiActivator.getResources()
                    .getI18NString("service.gui.IS_CALLING",
                        new String[]{ peerNamesTable.get(peer) });
            }
        }

        if (hasMorePeers)
            textDisplayName = GuiActivator.getResources()
                .getI18NString("service.gui.ARE_CALLING",
                    new String[]{textDisplayName});

        label.setText(textDisplayName);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * When the <tt>Call</tt> depicted by this dialog is (remotely) ended,
     * close/dispose of this dialog.
     *
     * @param event a <tt>CallEvent</tt> which specifies the <tt>Call</tt> that
     * has ended
     */
    public void callEnded(CallEvent event)
    {
        if (event.getSourceCall().equals(incomingCall))
            dispose();
    }

    @Override
    public void dispose()
    {
        // no more queries needed, if they are still running
        for(DisplayNameAndImageChangeListener listener : detailsResolvers)
        {
            listener.setInterested(false);
        }

        try
        {
            OperationSetBasicTelephony<?> basicTelephony
                = incomingCall.getProtocolProvider().getOperationSet(
                        OperationSetBasicTelephony.class);

            basicTelephony.removeCallListener(this);
        }
        finally
        {
            super.dispose();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Indicates that an incoming call has been received.
     */
    public void incomingCallReceived(CallEvent event) {}

    /**
     * Indicates that an outgoing call has been created.
     */
    public void outgoingCallCreated(CallEvent event) {}

    /**
     * Answers the call when the call button has been pressed.
     */
    @Override
    public void callButtonPressed()
    {
        CallManager.answerCall(incomingCall);
    }

    /**
     * Answers the call in an existing call when the existing call
     * button has been pressed.
     */
    @Override
    public void mergeCallButtonPressed()
    {
        CallManager.answerCallInFirstExistingCall(incomingCall);
    }

    /**
     * Answers the call when the call button has been pressed.
     */
    @Override
    public void videoCallButtonPressed()
    {
        CallManager.answerVideoCall(incomingCall);
    }

    /**
     * Hangups the call when the call button has been pressed.
     */
    @Override
    public void hangupButtonPressed()
    {
        CallManager.hangupCall(incomingCall);
    }

    /**
     * A informative text to show for the peer. If display name and
     * address are the same return null.
     * @param peer the peer.
     * @return the text contain address.
     */
    private String getPeerDisplayAddress(CallPeer peer)
    {
        String peerAddress = peer.getAddress();

        if(StringUtils.isBlank(peerAddress))
            return null;
        else
        {
            return
                peerAddress.equalsIgnoreCase(peer.getDisplayName())
                    ? null
                    : peerAddress;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Removes the domain/server part from the address only if it is enabled.
     * @param peerAddress peer address to change.
     * @return username part of the address.
     */
    private String trimPeerAddressToUsername(String peerAddress)
    {
        if(ConfigurationUtils.isHideDomainInReceivedCallDialogEnabled())
        {
            if(peerAddress != null && !peerAddress.startsWith("@"))
            {
                return peerAddress.split("@")[0];
            }
        }

        return peerAddress;
    }

    /**
     * Listens for display name update and image update, some searches for
     * display name are slow, so we add a listener to update them when
     * result comes in.
     */
    private class DisplayNameAndImageChangeListener
        implements CallManager.DetailsResolveListener
    {
        /**
         * The call peer we are interested in.
         */
        private CallPeer peer;

        /**
         * The table with all discovered peer names.
         */
        private Hashtable<CallPeer, String> peerNamesTable;

        /**
         * By default we are interested in events.
         */
        private boolean interested = true;

        /**
         * Constructs.
         * @param peer
         * @param peerNamesTable
         */
        private DisplayNameAndImageChangeListener(
            CallPeer peer,
            Hashtable<CallPeer, String> peerNamesTable)
        {
            this.peer = peer;
            this.peerNamesTable = peerNamesTable;
        }

        @Override
        public void displayNameUpdated(String displayName)
        {
            if(displayName != null)
            {
                peerNamesTable.put(peer, displayName);

                updateTextDisplayName(peerNamesTable);
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void imageUpdated(byte[] image)
        {
            if(image != null)
                ImageUtils.setScaledLabelImage(
                    getCallLabels()[0], image, 50, 50);
        }

        /**
         * Are we interested.
         * @return
         */
        @Override
        public boolean isInterested()
        {
            return interested;
        }

        /**
         * Changes the interested value.
         * @param value
         */
        public void setInterested(boolean value)
        {
            this.interested = value;
        }
    }
}


Subscriptions are now due. Only 4 weeks to go before the first SWBAR race of 2019, The City Cycle Couriers Open 10 miles TT on the s4/10. The other counting races for 2019 are listed on the website at http://www.southwesttimetrials.org/calendar.php and the rules can be found at http://www.southwesttimetrials.org/swbar_rules.php.
If you wish to take part in this competition, please remind your club TT secretary to make sure that your club is affiliated by either sending a cheque for £15 payable to Antony Farnell at Flat 1, Trevethan Court, Mitchell Road, Falmouth, TR11 2UQ or making a bank transfer (email or message me for details).
Presentation will take place on Sunday 1st April at the St Austell Wheelers Open 25 Miles Time Trial.
Club affiliations for the 2018 competition are now due. The fee is £15 per club. Clubs may pay by cheque, payable to AK Farnell and sent to 3 Lambs Lane, Falmouth, TR11 2JL, or by bank transfer (message me for details), deadline 28th February. If you are a competitor, please remind you club treasurer/secretary to do this promptly, and check that they have done it.
As many of you know, Ian has been struggling with health issues for several years, and has been forced to relinquish his role in the administration of the SWBAR.
Ian has been a stalwart of the SW time trialing scene for many years, as a competitor, an organiser, a timekeeper, a clubman, a coach and as the treasurer of the SWBAR competition. As I am sure that you would have wanted me to do, I passed on our thanks and gratitude to Ian today, when I met him at the SAW TT.
Personally I am indebted to Ian for timekeeping at most of the open TT races that I have organised in the past and also for his efficiency in collecting affiliation fees and organising the awards for the SWBAR.
On your behalf, I would like to convey to Ian and his wife Pat all our best wishes for the future.
If you wish to take part in the SWBAR in 2017 you need to make sure that (a) your club is affiliated to the SWDC for 2017 AND (b) your club TT secretary has paid the £12 SWBAR fee. The SWBAR fee should be sent to Tony Farnell, 3 Lambs Lane, Falmouth, TR11 2JL, cheques payable to A K Farnell or you can make a BACS transfer (my preference - message or email me for bank details). The first race is on Sunday 19th February, where the awards for 2016 will be presented. For winners who cannot make this date, there will be an alternative presentation at the St Austell race on 5th March.
Please note that any races that you do while your club is not affiliated will not count towards your final SWBAR result, so fees are required promptly before 19th February. Please check that your club secretary has done this.
After a record breaking season, both in terms of times and number of participants, the leading riders have really earned their awards. Congratulations, too, to all you other riders who completed the required qualifying races. Thanks to you, this annual competition has really come alive in 2016. It is particularly gratifying that so many teams qualified this year, with some clubs having multiple teams represented.
As usual, the award presentation will take place after one of the 2017 early season open races, to be decided when the race list is finalised.
SWBAR club affiliation fees for 2016 are now required if you want to participate in the competition. Club secretaries please send cheque for £12 payable to Ian North. Current affiliations are shown below.


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › New York Case Law › New York Appellate Division, Fourth Department Decisions › 2015 › Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd. v GML Tower LLC
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Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd. v GML Tower LLC
Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd. v GML Tower LLC 2015 NY Slip Op 04952 Decided on June 12, 2015 Appellate Division, Fourth Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.
Decided on June 12, 2015 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department
PRESENT: SCUDDER, P.J., LINDLEY, VALENTINO, AND DEJOSEPH, JJ.
286 CA 14-01113
[*1]ALTSHULER SHAHAM PROVIDENT FUNDS, LTD., PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT,
GML TOWER LLC, ET AL., DEFENDANTS, THE PIKE COMPANY, INC., L.A. PAINTING, INC., THE HAYNER HOYT CORPORATION, SYRACUSE MERIT ELECTRIC, A DIVISION OF O'CONNELL ELECTRIC CO., INC., AND TAG MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, INC., DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS. —————————————————————- SYMPHONY TOWER LLC, RESPONDENT.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (Deborah H. Karalunas, J.), entered March 18, 2014. The order denied plaintiff's motion seeking, inter alia, to modify the judgment of foreclosure and sale.
D'AGOSTINO, LEVINE, LANDESMAN & LEDERMAN, LLP, NEW YORK CITY (BRUCE H. LEDERMAN OF COUNSEL), AND HANCOCK & ESTABROOK, LLP, SYRACUSE, FOR PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT.
PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP, ROCHESTER (MARK J. MORETTI OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT THE PIKE COMPANY, INC.
HAHN LOESER & PARKS LLP, SARATOGA SPRINGS (ANDREW AGATI OF COUNSEL), AND GILBERTI STINZIANO HEINTZ & SMITH, P.C., SYRACUSE, FOR DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT THE HAYNER HOYT CORPORATION.
BYRNE, COSTELLO & PICKARD, P.C., SYRACUSE (JORDAN R. PAVLUS OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS SYRACUSE MERIT ELECTRIC, A DIVISION OF O'CONNELL ELECTRIC CO., INC. AND TAG MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
GOLDBERG SEGALLA LLP, BUFFALO (MARC W. BROWN OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT.
It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from is reversed in the exercise of discretion without costs and plaintiff's motion is granted, the judgment of foreclosure and sale is modified by granting plaintiff priority in the amount of $5,500,000, plus interest from March 29, 2007, the order confirming the Referee's report of sale is vacated, the Referee's deed is set aside and a new foreclosure sale for 101-131 Onondaga Street, Syracuse, New York is ordered.
Memorandum: Plaintiff, formerly known as Perfect Provident Fund Ltd., commenced this mortgage foreclosure action against defendants related to several properties that, together, make up the Hotel Syracuse complex in downtown Syracuse. The parties disputed the priorities of their respective claims to the proceeds of the impending foreclosure sales. Following extensive litigation, a judgment of foreclosure, a foreclosure sale and, ultimately, a remittitur from the Court of Appeals (Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd. v GML Tower, LLC, 21 NY3d 352, 357, rearg denied 21 NY3d 1047), plaintiff filed the motion that is the subject of this appeal seeking, inter alia, to modify the judgment of foreclosure and sale, to vacate the order of Supreme Court confirming the Referee's report of sale of the property known as 101-131 [*2]Onondaga Street, Syracuse NY, to set aside the Referee's deed for that property and to order a new foreclosure sale of that property. That motion was denied, and we now reverse.
In 2005 defendants GML Tower LLC, GML Syracuse, LLC and GML Addis LLC (GML defendants) purchased three properties: a hotel with garage, a 15-story tower addition to the hotel, and a building that once housed a department store. The purchase was financed by a duly recorded mortgage held by a "now-defunct Illinois-based bank" (id.). In 2007, plaintiff loaned approximately $10 million to defendant Ameris Holdings, Inc. and one of its subsidiaries, defendant GML Tower LLC, for the purposes of repaying the bank for the outstanding principal ($5.5 million) and financing the construction of improvements to the property known as the tower building ($4.5 million) (see id. at 357-358). Plaintiff did not, however, file the 2007 loan agreement or the 2008 amendment to that agreement in the county clerks' office, as required by Lien Law § 22. In December 2008, plaintiff commenced this mortgage foreclosure action against defendants, some of whom had mechanic's liens on the properties. Plaintiff also filed a notice of pendency on the properties pursuant to CPLR 6501. Following motions and cross motions for summary judgment, the court determined that, although some of plaintiff's mortgage was for the purpose of acquiring the property, the entirety of plaintiff's $10 million mortgage was subject to the subordination penalty of Lien Law § 22 and was therefore subordinate to the mechanic's liens (Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd., 28 Misc 3d 475). We affirmed Supreme Court's order for reasons stated (Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd., 83 AD3d 1563).
While plaintiff attempted to appeal to the Court of Appeals, the parties consented to entry of a final order for judgment of foreclosure, which was stayed pending certain action of the Court of Appeals or further order of the court. Meanwhile, plaintiff's notice of pendency expired by its terms, and plaintiff did not seek to extend it (see CPLR 6513). Ultimately, the Court of Appeals dismissed plaintiff's motion for leave to appeal "upon the ground that the order sought to be appealed from d[id] not finally determine the action within the meaning of the Constitution" (Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd., 18 NY3d 892, rearg denied 19 NY3d 837).
Following the Court of Appeals' determination, defendant The Hayner Hoyt Corporation (Hayner Hoyt) moved to vacate the stay of the foreclosure judgment. With the consent of all parties, the court vacated the stay and, on June 6, 2012, the tower building was sold to Hayner Hoyt at a public auction. Twelve days later, Hayner Hoyt sold the property to respondent, Symphony Tower LLC (Symphony), which is a domestic limited liability company that lists Gary V. Thurston as its registered agent. Thurston is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Hayner Hoyt, and Symphony's initial Department of State filing was on May 24, 2012.
An order confirming the Referee's report of sale was entered on July 13, 2012, and plaintiff thereafter again sought leave to appeal this Court's decision to the Court of Appeals. On June 11, 2013, the Court of Appeals modified our decision by concluding that the $5.5 million used by plaintiff to pay off the existing mortgage "was not subject to the subordination penalty" of Lien Law § 22 and that plaintiff was entitled to priority for that amount (Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd., 21 NY3d at 368). In its remittitur, the Court of Appeals ordered that the order of the Appellate Division be "modified, without costs, . . . and, as so modified, . . . affirmed." The Court further ordered that "this record of the proceedings in this Court be remitted to Supreme Court, Onondaga County, there to be proceeded upon according to law."
Plaintiff thereafter filed a "Successive Notice of Pendency in Foreclosure Action" (see CPLR 6516 [a]; RPAPL 1331), and moved in the Court of Appeals for clarification of the remittitur to determine whether the Court of Appeals was "precluding the Supreme Court from potentially exercising its inherent equitable discretion to vacate its judgment [of foreclosure] and order a new foreclosure sale." In the alternative, plaintiff sought to modify the decretal portion of the Court of Appeals' decision "to specifically provide that the judgment confirming the [R]eferee's report of sale . . . is remanded for further proceedings." Plaintiff's motion "for clarification or reargument" was denied with costs (Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd., 21 NY3d 1047).
Relying on the "well-established equitable power of the Court to modify foreclosure orders and vacate referee's deeds where a mistake and/or change in the law casts doubt upon the fairness of the
sale,' " plaintiff moved to vacate the order confirming the Referee's report of sale and the [*3]Referee's deed and to direct a new foreclosure sale. The court denied the motion, determining that there was no "oppression, injustice or fundamental unfairness" to justify the court's exercise of its discretionary equitable powers to undo the foreclosure sale or otherwise modify the judgment of foreclosure (Altshuler Shaham Provident Funds, Ltd., 42 Misc 3d 1232[A], 2014 NY Slip Op 50311[U], *3).
It is well settled that, even after a judicial sale to a good faith purchaser, "[a] court may exercise its inherent equitable power over a sale made pursuant to its judgment or decree to ensure that it is not made the instrument of injustice . . . Although this power should be exercised sparingly and with great caution, a court of equity may set aside its own judicial sale upon grounds otherwise insufficient to confer an absolute legal right to a resale in order to relieve [a party] of oppressive or unfair conduct" (Guardian Loan Co. v Early, 47 NY2d 515, 520-521; see Fleet Fin. v Gillerson, 277 AD2d 279, 280). Generally, such discretion, "which is separate and distinct from any statutory authority" (Wayman v Zmyewski, 218 AD2d 843, 844), is exercised where fraud, mistake, exploitive overreaching, misconduct, irregularity or collusion "casts suspicion on the fairness of the sale" (Fleet Fin., 277 AD2d at 280; see Guardian Loan Co., 47 NY2d at 521; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v IPA Asset Mgt. III, LLC, 111 AD3d 820, 821-822). It may also be exercised where "the price is so inadequate as to shock the court's conscience" (Polish Natl. Alliance of Brooklyn v White Eagle Hall Co., 98 AD2d 400, 407; see Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 111 AD3d at 822; Harbert Offset Corp. v Bowery Sav. Bank, 174 AD2d 650, 651) or where the judicial sale has been "made the instrument of injustice" (Guardian Loan Co., 47 NY2d at 520).
While we agree with defendants that there has been no showing of fraud, mistake, exploitive overreaching, misconduct, irregularity or collusion, and the price is not so inadequate as to shock the conscience, we agree with plaintiff that, under the circumstances of this case, the judicial sale has been made the instrument of injustice.
There can be no dispute that plaintiff's failures have contributed to its current predicament. First, plaintiff failed to file the loan documents pursuant to Lien Law § 22 and, second, plaintiff failed to protect its rights by, inter alia, failing to extend the notice of pendency pursuant to CPLR 6513. Inasmuch as equitable relief should be invoked to " aid[] the vigilant and not those who slumber on their rights' " (Kansas v Colorado, 514 US 673, 687), defendants' contention that equity should not intervene is not without merit (see Da Silva v Musso, 76 NY2d 436, 439). Had those failures not occurred, plaintiff would have had an absolute legal right to relief and would not need to rely on equity's intervention.
Despite plaintiff's failings, we conclude that a balancing of the equities in this case favors plaintiff. The Court of Appeals declined to review this Court's order until after the foreclosure sale and order confirming the Referee's report of sale. Had plaintiff been able to appeal this Court's order initially, as in Da Silva (76 NY2d at 439), the priorities would have been established before any judicial sale occurred, and there would have been no need for subsequent litigation to set aside the sale. Moreover, Hayner Hoyt and Symphony, through its agent, had actual notice of the ongoing litigation and the potential risks in buying the property. While defendants correctly contend that actual knowledge of a pending appeal is "not legally significant and that, in the absence of an outstanding valid notice of pendency, the owner's ability to transfer clear title to the disputed property remains unimpaired" (id. at 438; see Aubrey Equities v Goldberg, 247 AD2d 253, 253, lv denied 92 NY2d 802), we nevertheless conclude that such knowledge may be considered when balancing the equities in this case. Symphony's agent is Hayner Hoyt's chairman and CEO, and Symphony's initial filing with the Department of State was less than one month before the judicial sale. Hayner Hoyt transferred title to the property to Symphony only 12 days after purchasing it at the judicial sale. We thus conclude that the prejudice sustained by Symphony does not outweigh the prejudice sustained by plaintiff (cf. Da Silva, 76 NY2d at 438; Aubrey Equities, 247 AD2d at 253). Here, the judicial sale has been "made the instrument of injustice" and must be set aside (Guardian Loan Co., 47 NY2d at 520).
All concur except Dejoseph, J., who dissents and votes to affirm in the following memorandum: I respectfully dissent. In my view, Supreme Court properly exercised its discretion in denying plaintiff's motion to set aside the underlying foreclosure sale.
It is well established that "[a] court has the inherent equitable power to ensure that a sale [*4]conducted pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure is not made the instrument of injustice' " (Alkaifi v Celestial Church of Christ Calvary Parish, 24 AD3d 476, 477), and "a court of equity may set aside its own judicial sale upon grounds otherwise insufficient to confer an absolute legal right to a resale in order to relieve [a party] of oppressive or unfair conduct" (Guardian Loan Co. v Early, 47 NY2d 515, 520-521). As the majority properly notes, however, this power "should be exercised sparingly and with great caution" (id. at 520).
The majority acknowledges that plaintiff's failures have contributed to its current predicament, but ultimately concludes that, "under the circumstances of this case, the judicial sale has been made the instrument of injustice." In my view, the majority has failed to explain how this sale, under these circumstances, has been made the instrument of injustice and, in any event, I cannot agree with that conclusion. As Supreme Court observed, plaintiff "failed to avail itself of the most basic step in preserving its claim, [namely,] maintaining a valid notice of pendency on the property," and I cannot look past that failure. In addition thereto, plaintiff did not file the loan documents pursuant to Lien Law § 22 and did not seek a CPLR 5519 stay following entry of the order confirming the Referee's report of sale. Lastly, while I acknowledge the inherent risks associated with doing so, plaintiff also failed to bid at the June 2012 foreclosure sale.
In my view, equity is available only to the "vigilant and not those who slumber on their rights" (Kansas v Colorado, 514 US 673, 687 [internal quotation marks omitted]). There is no dispute here that plaintiff had options to protect its interests. Plaintiff created this current predicament by its own disregard of basic real property practice. I am unwilling to engage in a balancing of the equities because I see no equities to weigh. I therefore would affirm.
Entered: June 12, 2015
Frances E. Cafarell


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Five years ago I began the never ending apprenticeship of motorcyclist. The summer before I had a chance to ride a dirt bike at a friend's farm and got bitten. My mother had always been adamant about me not riding, so I didn't, but she had died the year before and I was suddenly able to do something I'd always wanted to try. That same summer I also became qualified as a technology teacher and was interested in dusting off my hands-on repair skills. Motorcycling offered a perfectly timed riding and technical renaissance one-two punch.
When I was eighteen and looking for my first car I realized I couldn't afford it and started looking at motorcycles. My parents ponied up the difference to keep me out of the saddle. Living in Canada meant bikes aren't a year round transportation solution anyway. I ended up getting so deep into cars that I never found my way back to bikes, but the urge had always been there. When I had my highest amount of disposable income in my early twenties while working full time before university, I was thinking about a bike again when a co-worker ran a red light on his bike and killed himself in front of all of us as we were coming in for our shift. That put the brakes on getting a bike yet again.
Things moved quickly as the snow melted in 2013. I walked in to the Drivetest Centre and got my learner's permit after a long winter spent buying magazines, watching TV shows and reading books on motorcycles; I was rearing to go. A couple of weeks later I was taking the introductory motorcycle course at Conestoga College. There was nothing better than high speed passes through the cones, leaning the little learner bike to and fro. A few days after that I'd found a poorly used Kawasaki Ninja in town and had it in the garage less than a week later. Meanwhile it was still snowing outside (oh, Canada).
Soon enough the weather turned and I was out on the road. It was only a 650cc twin cylinder Kawasaki, but it went 0-60 faster than anything I'd ever owned and looked like a rocket ship. The time I was sat at an intersection and a Ferrari pulled up next to me and started revving its engine was the first time I explored the Ninja over 6000rpm, and I was gobsmacked. With the Ferrari car lengths behind me I dropped the bike into top gear and gave my head a shake. Leaning into corners is still my favourite aspect of motorcycle dynamics, but the acceleration of even a mid-sized motorbike is a thing to glory in, and they brake like mad things too. In addition to being out in the world on a bike, you're on an athletic machine that can embarrass anything else you're likely to meet. It was my mission to come to grips with this wonderful machine.
By May I had my M2 and could carry passengers and go on big highways, so I immediately spent all of July commuting solely on the bike to a summer course seventy kilometres each way including a blast down the biggest highway in Canada. The first time I pulled out on the highway I eased up to 90km/hr and followed the slow lane. That lasted for about ten seconds and then I was gone. The next morning I indicated onto the highway, shoulder checked and was at a buck twenty in the fast lane a second later; what a rush.
What typified my first year of biking was my commitment to using the thing. Rather than take the car if it was raining, I put on rain gear. Rather than take the car when I had to go shopping, I found a way to carry what I was getting home on the bike. That commitment was what got me racking up over five thousand kilometres on the Ninja, which isn't easy in Canada with its short riding season.
The mechanical side of things had me taking care of basic maintenance, but the Ninja was my first choice of bike because it was a mid-capacity machine that was relatively new and in ready to ride shape – the idea was to learn how to ride. I'd leave the deep mechanical work for future years. Most of the repair energy on the Ninja was spent on un-blacking it and making it colourful again. When I eventually sold it I got pretty much what I'd paid for it even though I'd added over ten thousand kilometres to it, so the painting paid off.
Future years would have me diversifying my bikes and rescuing a basket case that would challenge my technical skills and have me knee deep in mechanics, but the early years were all about riding as much as possible.


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Pain Researchers Get a Common Language to Describe Pain
Pain researchers around the world have agreed to classify pain in the mouth, jaw and face according to the same system; according to a Danish participant, this means more precise diagnoses and improved treatment
For the first time, an international collaboration of researchers have succeeded in creating a complete overview of all pain conditions in the face, mouth and jaw and classifying them in the same way.
This means that medical doctors and dentists will have a common language and the same understanding of this pain. In turn, this will benefit the diagnosing of patients and thus the patients themselves, says professor of pain research Peter Svensson from the Department of Dentistry and Oral Health at Aarhus University, Denmark.
He has worked with pain researchers from all over the world to bring the overview together.
"We prevent misunderstandings when we use the same criteria, and this provides a better basis for making the right diagnosis. Patients benefit directly because a correct diagnosis is the basis for correct treatment," says Peter Svensson.
To understand the significance of the classification, Peter Svensson uses the example of the concept of 'heart disease', which covers many diagnoses.
"I don't imagine anyone would be satisfied if they were diagnosed with 'heart disease', as there are many specific variants of heart disease and they require different treatment. In the same way, pain in the mouth, jaws and face, which we call orofacial pain, isn't one type of pain, but covers many different types of pain that are also treated differently," he adds.
The inspiration for the combined classification of orofacial pain comes from a similar classification of headaches. Peter Svensson elaborates:
"The headache classification was an important reason for improving and strengthening research into the background for and treatment of headaches, and we hope that the international classification will do the same for the professional environments within orofacial pain."
It is estimated that twenty per cent of the population suffer from chronic pain, and for many sufferers, this pain is severely disabling. "The recognition of pain as a disease followed by a systematic registration of pain conditions is therefore of great importance for research, which is becoming more targeted," says Peter Svensson.
"Research into orofacial pain has lagged behind in general pain research. The new classification – the common language for pain – can contribute to new studies which identify more precisely how common orofacial pain is and the factors which come into play when people are afflicted by chronic orofacial pain," he says.
The classification has just been published as the ICOP International Classification of Orofacial Pain in the professional journal Cephalalgia and builds on the previous classification work that led to chronic pain going from being symptomatic of a disease to being a disease in itself.
According to Peter Svensson, being included in the WHO's manual of diseases is a seal of approval, and he anticipates that the new classification will have just as much value.
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The Suomi NPP satellite provides a view of Earth showing the Arctic, Europe and Asia. The NPP satellite records key data that are critical for climate change science.
By James E. Hansen, Special to the BDN • August 6, 2012 4:15 pm
Updated: August 7, 2012 5:35 am
When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988, I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet. I painted a grim picture of the consequences of steadily increasing temperatures, driven by mankind's use of fossil fuels.
But I have a confession to make: I was too optimistic.
My projections about increasing global temperature have been proved true.
But I failed to fully explore how quickly that average rise would drive an increase in extreme weather.
In a new analysis of the past six decades of global temperatures, which will be published Monday, my colleagues and I have revealed a stunning increase in the frequency of extremely hot summers, with deeply troubling ramifications for not only our future but also for our present.
This is not a climate model or a prediction but actual observations of weather events and temperatures that have happened. Our analysis shows that it is no longer enough to say that global warming will increase the likelihood of extreme weather and to repeat the caveat that no individual weather event can be directly linked to climate change. To the contrary, our analysis shows that, for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is virtually no explanation other than climate change.
Twenty-four years ago, I introduced the concept of "climate dice" to help distinguish the long-term trend of climate change from the natural variability of day-to-day weather. Some summers are hot, some cool. Some winters brutal, some mild. That's natural variability.
But as the climate warms, natural variability is altered, too. In a normal climate without global warming, two sides of the die would represent cooler-than-normal weather, two sides would be normal weather, and two sides would be warmer-than-normal weather. Rolling the die again and again, or season after season, you would get an equal variation of weather over time.
But loading the die with a warming climate changes the odds. You end up with only one side cooler than normal, one side average, and four sides warmer than normal. Even with climate change, you will occasionally see cooler-than-normal summers or a typically cold winter. Don't let that fool you.
Our new peer-reviewed study, published by the National Academy of Sciences, makes clear that while average global temperature has been steadily rising due to a warming climate (up about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the past century), the extremes are actually becoming much more frequent and more intense worldwide.
When we plotted the world's changing temperatures on a bell curve, the extremes of unusually cool and, even more, the extremes of unusually hot are being altered so they are becoming both more common and more severe.
The change is so dramatic that one face of the die must now represent extreme weather to illustrate the greater frequency of extremely hot weather events.
Such events used to be exceedingly rare. Extremely hot temperatures covered about 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent of the globe in the base period of our study, from 1951 to 1980. In the last three decades, while the average temperature has slowly risen, the extremes have soared and now cover about 10 percent of the globe.
This is the world we have changed, and now we have to live in it — the world that caused the 2003 heatwave in Europe that killed more than 50,000 people and the 2011 drought in Texas that caused more than $5 billion in damage. Such events, our data show, will become even more frequent and more severe.
There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate, but we are wasting precious time. We can solve the challenge of climate change with a gradually rising fee on carbon collected from fossil-fuel companies, with 100 percent of the money rebated to all legal residents on a per capita basis. This would stimulate innovations and create a robust clean-energy economy with millions of new jobs. It is a simple, honest and effective solution.
The future is now. And it is hot.
James E. Hansen directs the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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New Release Review and Giveaway! COWBOY SEAL REDEMPTION by Nicole Helm (Navy SEAL Cowboys #2)
Published by beckymmoe on June 9, 2018
Three former Navy SEALs
Injured in the line of duty
Desperate for a new beginning…
Searching for a place to call their own.
Jack Armstrong's been slowly piecing his life back together after a career-ending injury bounced him from the SEALs. The only trouble is, his family's on their way to his new haven in Montana…and Jack refuses to let them know he's still hurting. Desperate, he makes a deal with local bad girl Rose Rogers: in exchange for some extra security, she'll play the perfect loving girlfriend.
Rose doesn't trust any man, much less some tough-as-nails former SEAL. But the more they settle into their ruse, the more things start to feel real, and the more Rose's true fear surfaces—that she'll never be good enough for love. But Jack isn't about to lose Rose. He's done running when things get tough, and he's determined to prove—once and for all—that even the most troubled hearts can find their way to redemption.
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No man had ever held her close like this. Like you just held a person because you woke up together. And okay, maybe she'd never really spent the night with a guy. The few times she'd allowed herself to be charmed into sex, she'd always vamoosed either once the act was done or once the guy dozed off.
She didn't stay. She didn't do it again. And she did not, God forbid, cuddle. Someone holding her was supposed to be stifling. It was supposed to feel awkward. She was supposed to want to make fun of an act as soft and pointless as this.
Mostly she wanted to cry again and stay here forever. What was this man doing to her? And why him? Was it the scars—internal and external? The sob story? Or just those eyes?
"Do you have nightmares?" he asked out of nowhere.
She shifted in his arms. "Why would I have nightmares?"
He kissed her bare shoulder. "PTSD."
"Hate to break it to you, sailor, but I never went to war."
"You survived your own hell," he said so matter-of-factly, she couldn't even think up a response. "War isn't the only thing that stamps itself on you, and death isn't either. You know, when I was in the rehabilitation center, someone told me foster kids suffer from PTSD at a higher rate than military veterans."
"What asshole said that to you while you were in a rehabilitation center?"
He shrugged. "Mike."
"I'd like to wring that little fucker's neck."
Jack's mouth curved into a smile. "I'd rather you didn't. My mother likes you, but she wouldn't approve of that."
"Your sister likes me too." Which she shouldn't have said or even thought. What did it matter what his family thought? It was a fake like, for a fake her…but she liked them in return.
Except Dick Bag Mike.
"My sister worships you and might not care if you wring Mike's neck."
She laughed. Oh, damn him for having half a charming family. Vivian was adorable, and his parents were…
Well, she didn't want to think about how lovely they were.
"You had your own trauma, Rose. I just wondered if it still bothered you. Nightmares. Panic attacks. I've done it all, so…"
Trauma. As though she were a victim. She had been, in a sense, but not like her sisters. They'd all looked after each other. They had put each other first at great risk to themselves. Only Rose had ever taken their father's teachings to heart.
Always look out for number one.
"Just tell me the truth," he said, and it was all gentle and impossible to fight him off.
The truth. She didn't want to acknowledge the truth, but lying to Jack seemed so impossible. "S-sometimes. I've had nightmares. Rarely, but sometimes."
"Mine have gotten fewer ever since I started talking. I told my sister I loved her last night." He paused, rubbing his lightly stubbled chin against her temple. "I don't think I've ever done that. And it was something. Telling Madison how much she hurt me changed something. I've still got scars, Geiger is still dead, Madison is still married to my brother, but…"
"But what?"
"See, that's the thing. There didn't used to be a but. It was a list of horrible, dark things, and it ended there. Everything was awful. Now? I still feel beat down by those things, by those hurts and scars, but…there's a but. There's more."
She wanted to cry. For him. Because of him. She knew what it was like to have a but. Her sisters had always been that. It was so strange to realize that, over the past year as her sisters had been building their lives, she'd lost that but for herself.
She had her bar, her power, and her freedom. It should have been enough, but the list of bleak was holding her down, and she didn't know how to be as brave as Jack and believe in a but.
"I'm not your happy ending, Jack," she rasped.
"I don't believe in happy endings anymore, Rose. Maybe I never did. I do know we don't get what we deserve, and hard work doesn't always pay off. That doesn't change the beauty and hope of having a but." He smiled then, so open and perfect and beautiful. "I care about you, Rose." A gesture she didn't deserve.
"I wish you wouldn't," she whispered.
"I know." He sighed and brushed his lips across hers, light and quick. "I have to go do my chores before the family wakes up. Why don't you come with me?"
"Come with?"
"Yeah, you can watch me do manly chores, we can eat breakfast with my family, and then you can head home and get some rest before you have to open the bar."
She should refuse, stop diving deeper into this thing that was going to end so very badly if she let him get more attached.
If you let yourself get more attached.
"Say yes," he murmured against her neck, nuzzling there.
And she was a very, very stupid woman, because that's exactly what she said.
Loved! (Even more than the first book in the series– Cowboy SEAL Homecoming –and that's saying something!)
Jack and Rose (the Titanic joke made me LOL–up until that point I hadn't even made the connection) were a wonderful couple. They both had so much to work through on their own before they could become a real couple, though, and I loved that it was Jack who was the first to really make progress in that direction and that it was also him who saw their not realrelationship as something more.
Rose, Rose, Rose–oh goodness, that girl's issues had issues. She took us right to the end there–even while I was yelling at her not to believe what she believed, Ms. Helm made mebelieve that Rose's errors in thinking had genuine roots in her past–and yep, when her big crisis came there were tears over here, I'll freely admit. But that HEA–wonderful!
If you've read the first book in this series, seeing Alex and Becca here will reassure you that things are going well for them, and if you've read Ms. Helm's Big Sky Cowboys series, you'll see many of its characters playing roles here as well (Rose is Outlaw Cowboy Delia's sister). If you haven't read all–or any!–of those books, though, this really is Rose and Jack's story and would work just fine on its own.
I can't promise you won't want to read the others ASAP, though–goodness knows I'm counting the days until Gabe's book ( Cowboy SEAL Christmas ) is released 🙂
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General Cannabis d/b/a TREES Closes Acquisition of TREES Portland, TREES Waterfront & TREES Mlk; Acquisition Adds to the TREES Retail Footprint With Expansion in Oregon
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General Cannabis Corp d/b/a TREES (OTCQB: CANN) ("TREES" or "the Company") is pleased to announce the closing of the acquisition of the "TREES" Oregon dispensaries. Total consideration for the acquisition of the three licenses and related assets in Portland, Oregon was $1,470,405 in cash and 11,394,229 shares issued at $0.89 per share.
This acquisition is part of the Company's continuing disciplined retail expansion plan in both Colorado and Oregon. TREES is vertically integrated in Colorado, led by its flagship dispensary in Englewood and its greenhouse facility in Boulder, SevenFive Farm. The closing of the three Portland dispensaries gives the Company meaningful exposure to the fastest growing city in Oregon(1).
"We continue to work closely with the OLCC and local leadership as we expand our footprint in the Portland, Oregon market. We are looking forward to serving our communities and helping to create jobs in the state," said Trevor Hoffman, President of Retail Operations.
TREES anticipates opening an additional dispensary in Denver in the coming months, which would expand the multi-state operator's footprint to five retail locations. Adam Hershey, Interim CEO, said, "The closing of the TREES Oregon assets marks a critical milestone in our journey towards creating a focused, profitable vertically integrated operator in both Colorado and Oregon."
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TREES is the parent company of a vertically integrated cannabis company and multi-state operator in the U.S., operating in Colorado and Oregon. TREES is pursuing a roll-up strategy of licensed assets in mature markets, while maintaining loyal, local customer bases. TREES currently owns and operates a 17,000 square foot light-deprivation greenhouse cultivation facility in Boulder, Colorado, a dispensary in Englewood, Colorado and three dispensaries in Portland, Oregon. TREES trades on the OTCQB market under the symbol CANN. For more information, please visit treescann.com.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate", "believe", "expect", "estimate", "plan", "outlook", and "project" and other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance and is based upon a number of estimates and assumptions of management in light of management's experience and perception of trends, current conditions and expected developments, as well as other factors relevant in the circumstances. Although TREES believes that the expectations and assumptions on which such forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, caution must be exercised in relying on forward-looking statements because TREES can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by these statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, current and future market conditions; the expected or potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TREES's business operations, financial results and position, as well as world economy and volatility, risks related to federal, state, local and foreign government laws, rules and regulations, including changes in the regulation of medical and recreational cannabis use; as well as those risks and uncertainties discussed from time to time in TREES's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q under the heading "Risk Factors" and in subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statements in this press release are made as of the date of this release. TREES undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements made herein.
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Taxigramma är ett släkte av tvåvingar. Taxigramma ingår i familjen köttflugor.

Kladogram enligt Catalogue of Life och Dyntaxa:

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Taxigramma