(The Center Square) – More than a dozen individuals and small businesses located inside the Capitol Hill Occupying Protest (CHOP) zone in Seattle filed a 56-page class action lawsuit against the city.
The lawsuit comes a few days after three people were shot in the occupied area.
Residents’ livelihoods and businesses have been directly impacted by CHOP violence since Memorial Day weekend when rioters in Seattle set several cars on fire, including police and transit vehicles, used incendiary devices, including Molotov cocktails, and broke into stores downtown.
On June 8, protesters took over a six-block area, blocking it off with concrete barriers, prohibiting traffic or entry, and issued a list of demands to government officials, including abolishing the police. The Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct located inside of CHOP was also abandoned.
By June 20, two people were shot, one fatally inside CHOP; on June 21, a teenager was shot in the arm on the edge of the area, according to local news reports.
Police Officers Guild President Michael Solan told Fox & Friends Saturday that “police are still not allowed into that area and were prevented from providing that police service to the area to locate victims and/or render aid. [It’s] very troubling what’s going on.”
On Monday, Mayor Jenny Durkin said that Seattle Police Department officers would return soon to their precinct inside CHOP.
On Wednesday, the plaintiffs, represented by the Seattle law firm Calfo Eakes LLP filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
The plaintiffs argue that the city of Seattle has violated their constitutionally protected property rights, as defined by Washington state law. The law protects property owners’ use and access to their property, quiet enjoyment of their property, and ability to access their property via public rights-of-way.
The city has infringed on those rights, the lawsuit says, by “creating, assisting, endorsing, and encouraging an indefinite, unpermitted occupation and blockade of the public streets, sidewalks and parks in and around CHOP,” thereby denying plaintiffs' access to their properties, among other grievances.
The plaintiffs emphasize that they support the free speech rights of many of the people who have gathered on Capitol Hill.
The lawsuit is not about the protesters’ right to assemble but rather “the constitutional and other legal rights” of the plaintiffs whose neighborhood has “been overrun by the City of Seattle’s unprecedented decision to abandon and close off an entire city neighborhood, leaving it unchecked by the police, unserved by fire and emergency health services, and inaccessible to the public at large,” according to the complaint.
The city’s decision has subjected businesses, employees and residents of the neighborhood to extensive property damage, public safety dangers, and an inability to use and access their properties, the plaintiffs argue.
Durkan has provided CHOP participants “with a de facto stamp of approval,” the lawsuit claims.
“Her tweets, interviews, and other statements have made it clear that the City is fully aware of what is happening, has no plan or timeline for remedying the ongoing harm, and in fact views the occupation of Capitol Hill as something akin to a perpetual block party,” the complaint reads.
“Rather than seeking to restore order and protect the residents and property owners within CHOP, the city instead chose to actively endorse, enable, and participate in the occupation of CHOP,” the plaintiffs argue.
The plaintiffs say they have been subject to “acts of violence, harassment, trespass and vandalism; denial of access to their property; loss of police protection and public services, including trash, medical, and fire services; loss of business revenue; loss of the use of public streets, sidewalks, and parks near or adjacent to their property, residence, or premises; reduction in property value; destruction of property; and other economic and non-economic injuries.”
On Wednesday, the de facto leader of CHOP tweeted, “the CHOP project is now concluded.”
“It is time we shift to the next phase of our organizing and move from direct action to virtual activism,” the group’s statement reads. “While we expect a very small handful of holdouts may try to remain in the CHOP, no further organizing will be occurring to support this presence and the number on-site will be too small to be more than an annoyance for pedestrians rather than a zonal blockade.”
The group said we “believe Jenny Durkan has stepped up and shown … leadership…”
Solan, who has vocally criticized the mayor, said that the city’s elected officials “have removed our ability to have less lethal chemical munitions that are effective for us to disburse unruly, violent crowds to protect those police facilities, let alone ourselves."
Durkan referred to the CHOP area as “a block party atmosphere,” on CNN. “It’s not an armed takeover. It’s not a military junta. We will make sure that we can restore this. But we have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time. It’s known for that.”


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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia University Hearts of Gold program will host a “Puppy Party,” a free community event, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. March 21 at the Animal Science Research, Education and Outreach Center.
Drop by between 10 a.m. and noon to pet puppies and watch service dogs in training perform recently learned commands. There will be information available on community fostering, a program in which people from the community house a service dog in training.
The community foster program is free to participants with all pet essentials, toys, grooming care, veterinary care, food and more provided by Hearts of Gold. Community fosters are taught how to train their foster placements to do basic commands until the dogs are old enough for the next step of their training program.
Once the dogs have completed the training program, they are matched with a veteran in need at no cost to the veteran.
“Puppy Party” attendees will also have the opportunity to speak with Hearts of Gold trainers and community fosters in addition to playing with the puppies.
The Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design envisions a world sustainably fed, clothed and sheltered. To learn more about the Davis College, visit davis.wvu.edu. Keep up with the latest updates and news on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram by following @WVUDavis.
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A Helena District Court affirmed this week that the Public Service Commission ruled correctly when it authorized Bull Mountain Sanitation to operate a garbage-hauling business in Musselshell County.
“Montana’s towns depend on reliable service, and this case shows that,” said Roger Koopman, Public Service Commissioner for the district that includes Musselshell County. “The level of demand made it clear that the people really wanted competition in the marketplace.”
In 2013, Bull Mountain began a solid-waste hauling business in Musselshell County on the belief that it would not need PSC authorization to do so. When it became clear that they did need a Certificate of Public Convenience from the PSC, they sought such a certificate. Republic Services of Montana and Bayside Disposal protested the application. Both companies had Certificates of Public Convenience covering all or part of Musselshell County.
On March 2, 2015, the PSC held a hearing in Roundup on the matter, at which Commissioner Koopman presided. The commission subsequently voted 5-0 to grant Bull Mountain Sanitation its certificate. Republic and Bayside asked the court to review the commission’s decision, alleging a number of errors.
Judge James Reynolds ruled on Monday that the PSC acted correctly in granting the certificate to Bull Mountain Sanitation.

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We recently revealed Samsung's plans to launch three new devices in its new A series of smartphones following the Galaxy Alpha, along with some info on one of those devices, carrying model number SM-A500. The SM-A500 will be the next phone to launch in the lineup, and today, we've got detailed information on the device's hardware. The most interesting thing we've learned from our source is that the SM-A500 will have a full metal body, without a removable back cover. If true, this means the phone won't have the new faux leather back that Samsung has been using on most of its recent devices, and hence might feel more premium than even the Galaxy Alpha despite its mid-range specs.
Talking of specs, the SM-A500 will have a 5-inch HD (1280×720) Super AMOLED display, a quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 8-megapixel and 5-megapixel rear and front-facing cameras, 16GB of internal storage, and a 2,330 mAh battery. Unlike the Galaxy Alpha, the SM-A500 will have a microSD slot – the phone will feature a hybrid slot in which both a microSD card and a nano SIM can be inserted. Also, the phone won't have fingerprint and heart rate sensors nor will it be water and dust-resistant, though it will feature the Ultra Power Saving Mode option that debuted on the Galaxy S5.
The SM-A500 specs reiterate the fact that Samsung is finally putting attractive hardware in mid-range devices, a move that has been made necessary by the onslaught of feature-packed low-cost Chinese smartphones. Samsung is also going a step further by finally using metal to offer a more premium feel, though it remains to be seen if a metallic back will offer the same ergonomic grip as the faux leather material the company uses nowadays.


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Clarksons: 147 ports offer LNG bunkering as LNG capable newbuilds hit 37 Pct
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Russian container market has been living in an absolutely new reality from February 24. Major marine operators have exited and the local players join hands with other foreign companies to launch new services and look for alternative ways of their container fleet expansion. FESCO, Novomorsnab and Ruscon told about the new export and import routes at the YugTrans Forum.
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Is The Ghanaian Media Losing Its Vibrancy & Respect?
The media refers to communication channels through which information can be disseminated and it is broken down into two main categories, namely broadcast and print media. The Internet has also emerged as a major player, with rapidly growing number of people getting their news online.
In recent times the media has become an endangered career with no respect accorded to it. The number of documented incidences of abuse of journalists has increased dramatically over the last decade. What is surprising is the lack of prosecution against people who perpetrate these crimes against the practitioners of the fourth estate of the realm.
Arbitrary arrests, torture, assault, verbal abuse and destruction of journalistic material have become commonplace, with journalists as the primary victims.
When are these assaults going to stop? When is the media going to be accorded some respect?
Well, it looks like we have all forgotten the role played by the media. The media plays an important role in society as a source of information and also as a “watchdog” of the society.
The media plays a significant role in reporting on the happenings in the world in general and nations to be specific. It is also responsible for furnishing the public with necessary information to achieve developmental changes through the print or electronic media.
It is rather unfortunate that some people still hold the view that the media only engages in gossip. Much as the media ‘gossip mill’ exists to satisfy a certain part of the infotainment market, a lot of what the media churns out daily is serious business that feeds the minds and hearts of consumers of information.
How do you know what is happening in the world or in your country without the media? It is high time the media is given its due respect.
Despite Ghana’s international reputation for holding press freedom in high esteem, her journalists’ rights have been frequently violated.
Just recently, journalists who were assigned to cover Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah’s alleged assault case at the Accra Circuit Court were ejected from the court room by police officers and denied the right to report on the case.
We must bear in mind that at the end of the day it is the masses who will suffer because they will be deprived of information.
Can’t journalists take up their duties in peace? If the Police, which is supposed to help uphold the right of the journalist to report news, is engaged in such atrocities, how then do we accuse the public when they also turn against the media?
The Ghana Police has no respect for the media. Even if the media is not supposed to cover the proceedings, there is a nice way of communicating rather than this cruel act.
It is enshrined in clause one of Article 162 of the 1992 constitution that freedom and independence of the media are guaranteed. Where is this freedom and Independence? Maybe I cannot see it. Where is it?
Do the Ghana Police always have to wait for such incidents to happen against journalists before they issue an apology? Can’t something be done to prevent these attacks on media persons?
This isn’t the first time that there have been attacks on journalists and also it is not only the police who assaults journalists.
There have been so many write-ups about the attacks on journalists but deaf ears have been paid to it. If the media is treated like this by the National security then how will the public respect the media?
Another thorny and unresolved issue is the role of National Media Commission. One of its functions is to promote and ensure the freedom and independence of the media. Even though it’s existed since 1993, it has been incapacitated by a weak enforcement framework and also has been a lot of foundations set up to protect the freedom and independence of the media and they are doing great in protecting media freedom but it still doesn’t change the fact that the media is not accorded respect. Surprisingly, despite all this happenings, it doesn’t discourage the media from performing their duties. It is high time media is accorded some respect.
The latest report by Reporters without Borders saw Ghana ranking 30 out of 180 countries assessed of media freedom, the same position it attained in the 2020 report, although its indicative points improved. Though Ghana’s constitution recognises media freedom, the passage of the Right to Information Law (RTIL) has not helped much due to bottlenecks in its implementation.Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest

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The drawing of lots could be used to decide which of England and Belgium wins World Cup Group G if they draw Thursday’s head-to-head in Kaliningrad.
But Gareth Southgate on Sunday ruled out trying to finish second deliberately after his side’s 6-1 thrashing of Panama drew them dead level with their closest rivals on points, goal difference and goals scored.
Only their disciplinary records separated England and Belgium, with the former topping the group after accruing two yellow cards to the latter’s three.
If Thursday’s match ends in a draw and England do not pick up more cards than their opponents, the two sides will finish in that order.
If even their disciplinary records cannot be used to separate them then tournament regulations dictate a random draw would take place at one of the media centres at the Luzhniki Stadium or Spartak Stadium shortly after the match in a ceremony that would be open to the media and streamed live.
Perversely, it could be in each of their interests to finish second given that the side topping the group is scheduled to play the winner of Group E – currently led by Brazil – if both reach the quarter-finals.
The runner-up, meanwhile, is on track to face the winner of Group F – currently led by Mexico, who only need a draw against Sweden to cement that place.
Before the tournament, it was widely expected that group would be won by defending champions Germany – and it might still be.
England would be leading Group G on goal difference had Panama not scored a late consolation on Sunday and Southgate said: “The only downside was the goal at the end. We wanted to control the group with our goal difference, and we’ve missed out on that opportunity.”
He added of Thursday’s game: “We would want to keep momentum and keep progressing as a team. I’ve heard talk of it being better finishing second, but how do you work all that out, really?
“Let’s go and enjoy it again. It’s nice it’s a game where we’re not up to our neck in pressure.”
England made wholesale changes for their final group game at the last European Championship, a decision that arguably backfired when they then lost to Iceland.
Southgate said: “I think that’s what we’ve got to do over the next 36 hours or so, to decide what our priority is.
“For me, the harmony of the group is high on that list. I think we’ve had good [pre-World Cup] performances against Costa Rica with a different XI who played against Nigeria.
“I have complete trust in all the players. We look a bit different because of the profile of players in certain positions, but I know we’ll get a high level of performance.
“At this moment, my thoughts are with the players who haven’t played as much, but I have to consider everything before I decide upon my team.”
Belgium manager Roberto Martinez announced after his own side thrashed Tunisia on Saturday that he would make “major changes” for Thursday’s game.
Although there is no suggestion either side would do anything this week other than try to win the group, it is not unprecedented for teams to attempt to throw a match if in their interest to do so.
The 1994 Caribbean Cup qualifier between Barbados and Grenada has become the stuff of legend in that regard.
It would also not be unprecedented for an England player to pick up a deliberate yellow card when it was in his and his team’s interests, with David Beckham having admitted to doing so in a World Cup qualifier against Wales in 2004.
He controversially escaped punishment by the Football Association due to “insufficient evidence”.

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The Mechonoids (also known as Mechanoids or Mechons) are an intelligent race of nearly-spheroid robotic servants created by Human colonists. At least one group of Mechonoids is known to have been abandoned and went on to create their own civilization on the planet which they went to call Mechanus. Despite their unimpressive appearance and humble origins, they are known as extremely robust warriors, as evident by their ability to withstand a Dalek invasion on their own right.
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It's always a risky proposition to adapt a beloved book into a movie. You not only have to keep it faithful for the fans of the book, but you also have to figure out how to take a massive collection of words and make it into a 2-hour movie. Some adaptations turn out great, but these 12 are not among them.
David Lynch tried to adapt one of the most sprawling, influential science fiction books of all time, and the result is a mess of a movie where all the dialogue is exposition.
The Cat In The Hat (2003)
After the success of Jim Carrey's run in How The Grinch Stole Christmas, they decided to cast Mike Myers as Dr. Seuss' other most prolific character. The results are unintentionally terrifying.
The beloved young-adult fantasy series got a film adaptation that had barely anything to do with the books, and featured awful performances from normally great actors.
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Anne Rice's vampire trilogy got a great movie adaptation with Interview With The Vampire, but the studio struggled to put anything else out before the rights would expire. The result was this awful adaptation that would prove to be Aaliyah's last project.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
The original graphic novel is a fun mixup of famous literary characters by legendary comic writer, Alan Moore. The movie is an awful action flick that caused Sean Connery to quit acting.

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Leaders of Symantec
met with investors Wednesday to convince skeptics of the wisdom of the marriage between the industry giants.
Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson said a combination of the leading security software and back-up software makers will help solve problems many CIOs face: preserving information integrity while making it highly available.
Thompson said customers have told Symantec and Veritas that some of their major challenges include reigning in the complexity, cost and compliance factors of information technology.
This comes as security threats such as viruses and other malicious intruders are more pronounced and a glut of data threatens to clog corporate infrastructure. To make matters more challenging for CIOs, they are faced with stringent compliance regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.
But Thompson, who was joined by Veritas CEO Gary Bloom, said the merger will yield a $5 billion company at the close of the merger with $5 billion in cash. The market opportunity according to IDC will be approximately $56 billion by the end of 2007.
This would forge a powerhouse of security and storage its leaders believe will be well equipped to address the challenge of managing infrastructure complexity with a one-stop shop.
That both companies support as many heterogeneous platforms as exists on the market is no small feat either, Thompson said, noting that Symantec’s and Veritas’ combined attention to Windows, Unix and Linux systems give customers a deep well to draw from.
Specific details on the integrated product roadmap were scant, but Thompson noted that lack of overlap will likely clear any hurdles the U.S. Justice Department might impose on a merger of this magnitude. He said he expected the deal to be consummated in the second quarter.
Bloom said one example of products complementing each other could be the provisioning technology each acquired in acquisitions. Veritas acquired Jareva provision servers while Symantec nabbed On Technology to provision desktops.
In an example of how core Symantec products might work together, Bloom said Symantec’s intrusion detection and prevention software could be tied to Veritas’ back-up products, making the combined offering more proactive than reactive.
For example, Symantec’s antivirus software would protect users against an attack. Veritas, through its acquisition of KVault Software, would provide the e-mail archiving software to back up the e-mail server for Microsoft Exchange systems should a virus enter the system.
This would ensure data availability. Security, plus availability, Bloom argued, makes a compelling value proposition.
“We want to offer a preemptive environment,” Bloom said via Webcast. “It’s a lot cheaper to provide preventative medicine.”
As for the competition, such as Microsoft’s entrance into the antivirus and antispam space, Thompson pointed out that Symantec is already well established in this market. He said he expects Microsoft’s presence to have minimal impact on Symantec’s results this year.
Shares of Symantec and Veritas fell 7% Thursday after analysts from CS First Boston and Morgan Stanley expressed skepticism about the merger and concern about antivirus competition from Microsoft.
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The print servers are controlled by the machine control system and do not need to communicate with each other.
Often the print server and the overall control are run on the same PC.
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Robert Falk. Man in a Bowler Hat. Source: Press Photo
Two of the top lots that were to be put up for sale at an upcoming Russian art auction in London have been sold privately to an unnamed Russian art collector. The price paid is said to have been well in excess of the auction house's estimates.
Two famous Russian masterworks - Robert Falk’s Man in a Bowler Hat (Portrait of Yakov Kagan-Shabshai) and Petr Konchalovsky’s monumental Family Portrait in the Artist’s Studio - both painted in 1917, have been bought privately ahead of Sotheby’s Russian art auction scheduled for November 25.
“At this time, collectors are especially interested in the kind of masterpieces that both paintings undoubtedly are,” said Mikhail Kamensky, head of Sotheby’s Russia.
Petr Konchalovsky. Family Portrait in the Artist’s Studio. Source: Press Photo
“Another important factor was that both of these masterworks were painted by prominent representatives of the Jack of Diamonds group of Russian artists, which is extremely popular among our compatriots," Kamensky told Kommersant newspaper.
The painting by Robert Falk is a portrait of Yakov Kagan-Shabshai, a famous 20th century Jewish art collector who was also Marc Chagall’s patron. The man had long worked on (and very nearly brought to fruition) the idea of creating a museum of Jewish art.
Man in a Bowler Hat was part of Kagan-Shabshai's collection; before his death he sent it to his brother Alexander, who lived in Paris. While the artist was still alive it was showed to the public on three separate occasions, including during a biennale in Venice.
The portrait was valued at £2.5-3.5 million by the auction house. The actual sale price has not been disclosed, but it is said to be "many times the original estimate”.
Petr Konchalovsky’s Family Portrait in the Artist’s Studio, which was estimated at £3.5-4.5 million, has been bought for about £4.68 million. In 2010 the painting was one of the central exhibits of the "Petr Konchalovsky. To the Evolution of Russian Avant-garde” display at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
It is the largest of the three family portraits created by the artist; the other two are part of the Tretyakov Gallery and Russian Museum collections.
This has been only the third case of lots being sold privately ahead of an auction; both the previous cases were also at Sotheby’s and involved Russian buyers. In 2004 Russian tycoon Viktor Vekselberg bought a collection of Faberge eggs and other items from the Forbes family for $100 million. The collection is now displayed at the privately owned Faberge Museum, which opened recently in St Petersburg.
In 2007 Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov paid a similar sum of money for the entire collection of paintings and other art pieces previously owned by legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya.
First published in Russian in Kommersant.
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Callon Petroleum Company (CPE) is one of the smaller players in the big league considering global energy giant Chevron which governs a $160 billion market capitalization in contrast to Callon’s $450 million or so. However, CPE stock is fairly volatile and is quite an attraction for day traders. Callon Petroleum stock slumped to $0.42 at the height of the Covid-19 outbreak in March, and within 8 weeks the share rose to a high of $2.51 (which is a 498% gain). The stock currently trades at $1.29-$1.42 range and could still be disputed as a good pick for value investors.
Now, if you ask me whether I would bet my hard-earned money on going long CPE, I would not recommend it because of two major concerns.
A – Glut in the world oil market
B – Will Callon fade away?
A – Glut in the world oil market
Who can forget? Right!
Oil prices went subzero during the peak of Covid-19 when both supply and demand-side developments “shocked” the market simultaneously. Demand shock followed when countries went on lockdown and barred traveling as a measure to contain Covid-19 from taking over the reins. At the same time, while the world was living in a bubble, Russia and Saudi Arabia flooded the market with excess supply creating a glut of oil in the world market. On April 20, crude oil prices plummeted to historic lows with WTI Crude closing at -$37.63/ a barrel.
Domino effect at play
With economies gradually opening for business, the real reflection of destruction caused by Covid-19 came to light. In line with markets trying to stay open with the “new normal’ which in essence is to work around Covid-19 and to stay in business (also researching for a vaccine so to be rid of this torment), crude oil demand has risen and price per barrel has started to tick up and now floats at a price range of $41.26-$41.34, which is much more comforting considering the daunting prices when the market crashed.
However, despite crude oil prices recovering, the damage has already been done. To date, at least 24 oil companies have declared bankruptcy owing to the fact that most of these companies had taken on too much of debt during the good times (Callon is no exception to this) and with crude oil plunging to dirt cheap prices these companies couldn’t weather the storm.
Covid-19 is here to stay and test businesses’ strong point
Despite economies trying to stay afloat, demand and supply still have not converged, global and domestic travel is not the same as they once were, people are not yet confident about traveling so freely without a vaccine to combat Covid-19. Even cruise line businesses were given the red alert with the no sail order being extended to September 2020. According to a survey of GlobalData, a third (32%) of U.S. respondents have stated that they will reduce domestic and international travel, while also almost half (48%) revealed that they will also now dine at home, instead of at restaurants.
These significant changes in consumer preferences are alarming for the domestic tourism and hospitality industries in the U.S. America’s attempts to flatten the curve is not yet fruitful. Last week, the U.S. reported a daily record of more than 77,000 new infections, illustrating that the effects of the virus will continue to impact domestic tourism flows in the U.S. for months to come.
B – Will Callon fade away?
Callon started the year with a strong footing which was witnessed in the first-quarter earnings, yet, when things went all doom and gloom with Covid-19 taking over the world and bringing global industries to its knees, Callon acted out swiftly with a contingency plan without delay.
|A material reduction in general and administrative costs
|35% compensation reduction for board members. 35% reduction in CEO target cash compensation.Minimum 25% reduction in target cash compensation by all other officers.
|Credit Facility & Liquidity ($1.7 billion)
|Suspension of the total leverage ratio test until March 31, 2022.Addition of a secured leverage ratio test of 3.0x.Temporary waiver of the current ratio test.Allowance for $400 million of junior secured debt without any reduction to the borrowing base.
|Reduced 2020 capital program by >40%
|Restructured hedges to protect cash flow with an MTM value of $245 million.Meaningful basis and “roll” hedge portfolio.
|Planned curtailments since May 2020 (Down from 9 rigs to 2 rigs in 27 days, dropping to 1 rig as of mid-May)
Expanded debt in December
Callon took on $1.7 billion of debt in December 2019, where Callon acquired E&P Carrizo Oil and Gas, another shale company. Currently, Callon’s financial debt/equity ratio is at 9.7 times but then most of Callon’s debt does not mature until 2023. However, the company is still cash-poor and its credit rating was lowered to B- with a negative outlook. This reflects the S&P Global Rating agency’s view that oil and gas prices will remain challenged in the next few years, oil and gas companies will have limited access to capital markets and liquidity may be constrained owing to lower bank price decks.
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The easing off of debt pressure on Callon is heavily dependent on the price gains in oil. The higher the oil price the greater the comfort for a highly leveraged company like Callon. Furthermore, Callon is heavily invested in shale production, which is one of the most expensive ways to extract oil. Deloitte accounting firm states a clear warning – “if oil prices remain around $35/bbl, more than half the companies in the shale business are either technically insolvent or financially stressed. The pace of change will depend on how long those weak players can continue making payroll and paying the bills.”
The outlook for the oil industry altered within one day in March 2020, and a number of oil companies filed for bankruptcy in the months that followed. The peak in bankruptcies after the 2014 oil price crash was in 2016, the lag this time could be shorter. During the first half of the year, 18 oil companies filed for bankruptcy protection, which is well behind the pace in 2016, when 70 cases were filed, according to the Oil Patch Bankruptcy Monitor compiled by Haynes and Boone. However, we believe it is better to offer a stern warning and put off any action driven by hopes that oil prices and improved management will fix things. For now, we recommend steering clear from a long term investment perspective on Callon as it is still unclear “who will remain and who will fade away.”
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Parades, fireworks, watermelon, children running barefoot in the grass — these rites have continued uninterrupted from at least as far back as the childhoods of Winslow Homer and Mark Twain.
Nothing embodies the tradition of a childhood Fourth better than the concert band, that staple of recreational parks and seaside gazebos that reached the apex of its popularity probably 100 years ago.
The Blawenburg Band is the living embodiment of another era, a musical time machine to halcyon days before booming subwoofers rocked even the most remote neighborhoods. It was a time when members of a community relied not on records or radio, but on themselves and their neighbors for musical entertainment.
Jerry Rife has directed the Blawenburg since 1985.
“It’s a band of about 65 members,” he says, “a full concert band, with flute and clarinets and oboes and wooden instruments.”
The band was founded in Blawenburg, a section of Montgomery Township, in 1890. It is the oldest continuously performing community band in the state, and one of the oldest in the country.
A piece of living history, the band plays roughly 30 concerts a year, an all-occasions ensemble, with appearances at parades, church socials and community events. A number of the concerts are annual occurrences, some extending back more than a century.
Rife mentions a flier that surfaced recently advertising the band’s appearance at one of its current venues. The handbill dates from 1911.
The band will appear in Yardley, Pa., on Wednesday for its annual Fourth of July concert, which Rife describes as “pure, blatant Americana at its best.”
The indoor event will include such hits of yesteryear as the overture to Sigmund Romberg’s “The Student Prince,” the World War II song “I’ll Be Seeing You,” and a medley of patriotic standards by George M. Cohan. John Williams’ “Midway March” will be featured, along with a selection of Leroy Anderson’s popular encore pieces, “America the Beautiful,” and of course plenty of marches by the likes of Karl King, Henry Fillmore and John Phillip Sousa.
“And it will be air-conditioned,” Rife adds.
The Blawenburg plays its share of outdoor concerts — in fact, it is more the rule than the exception, with appearances at carnivals, train stations and gazebos — although the band does play indoors at a number of continuing care retirement communities and assisted living residences, bringing cheer to audiences that have limited mobility.
“The spirit and mission of the Blawenburg Band is to bring music to our community,” Rife says. “Our members and I feel these are the most important performances.”
Rife is excited about the band’s Fourth of July concert, and thinks the venue couldn’t be any more appropriate.
The Yardley Community Centre has been a meeting place for area residents since 1851. Once used as a private school (tuition was 35 cents a week), it also served as a center for “The Sons of Temperance” and one of the country’s first Odd Fellows lodges. In 1878, the center was expanded to accommodate church services, fire company suppers and theatre productions.
“The hall will be fully decked out in red, white and blue,” Rife says. “You will think you walked off Main Street and right into a concert in Yardley in 1922. This music is from the golden age of bands, a time when communities relied on live band concerts as their primary entertainment.
“The Blawenburg Band perfectly recreates this feeling of nostalgia. It recaptures a time long past. It transports an audience back to its roots. This truly is the best way to experience the holiday of independence, with a parade, barbecue, fireworks, and a stirring band that guarantees to have you marching in your seats.”
The band has a full roster of summer concerts, including three appearances at the Hopewell Train Station, on July 9, July 23 and Aug. 6.
“It’s a real hoot,” Rife says of the popular concerts. “The train blows through during a number. It’s just pure Americana.”
Further concerts take the band to the Hunterdon County Library on July 25, Pennswood Village in Newtown on July 30, Rosehill Assisted Living in Robbinsville on Sept. 9, Hunterdon Care Center in Flemington on Sept. 23 and Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman on Oct. 7.
The Harvest Home festival at Griggstown Reformed Church (Aug. 18) is an annual tradition.
“It’s right on the canal,” Rife says. “It’s a huge carnival, with lots of home-baked food, corn on the cob, shortcake … It’s a really fine concert.”
While most of the band’s appearances are free of charge, there will be an admission fee for the Fourth of July and Harvest Home appearances, to benefit the host venues.
The Blawenburg Band is a wholly volunteer ensemble, made up of musicians from all walks of life — scientists, lawyers, homemakers, computer specialists and active retirees. Players range in experience from dedicated amateurs, who discovered a love for music as schoolchildren, to those who have had years of training and professional opportunities. Musicians in their teens play cheek by jowl with colleagues in their retirement years.
Says Rife, with pride, “The Blawenburg Band is part of the fabric of central New Jersey, and has been so for well over a century.
“The kind of stuff that we play is golden age concert band music — a lot of transcriptions, opera overtures, some solos, Herbert L. Clarke, Arthur Pryor, a ton of Sousa marches. A lot of small, short, accessible pieces that are fun to listen to.”
Rife is on the faculty of Rider University, where he has been chairman of music in the fine arts department since 1984.
In addition to directing the Blawenburg Band, he is an active performer himself, playing clarinet with his jazz ensemble, The Rhythm Kings, for the past 25 years. He remarks dolefully (as if anything about Rife is doleful) that since the economy has taken a downturn, the Kings play “only” about 150 concerts a year.
The Blawenburg Band rehearses nearly every Monday evening, year-round, mostly at the Princeton Junior High School on Fackler Road.
More information on the band may be obtained by contacting Rife, at (609) 882-4148 or firstname.lastname@example.org, or the ensemble’s vice president and booking manager, Sharif Sazzad, at (609) 475-2831 or email@example.com.
For a full roster of the band’s summer activities, visit its website, princetonol.com/groups/blawenburgband.
Blawenburg Band Independence Day Concert
When: 4 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Yardley Community Centre, 64 S. Main St., Yardley, Pa.
Admission: $15; (215) 493-5014


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Article 48 allows designated market makers on the NYSE to refrain from disseminating indications of prices before the market opening. The procedure makes it easier and faster to open stocks on that trade could be difficult.
NYSE invoked the rule on multiple occasions last month amid the turbulent conditions in the markets, a time when the Dow Jones Industrial Average scored four straight points to 400 swings the first time in its 115 year history.
Before August, Grand Council of the parent NYSE Euronext (NYX) last bring section 48 into force on 27 January.
On Tuesday, U.S. stocks are about to open sharply lower on sharp falls in European markets and fears of a global recession are driving investors out of assets seen as risky.
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It's about to get safer at the South Regional Courthouse. But visitors will pay the price _ with longer lines.
The courthouse is scheduled to get metal detectors and X-ray scanners in two months. This means the public will enter through only one entrance. Their belongings will be checked for weapons.
"Sure, whenever you increase security, you give up convenience," said Pete Corwin, assistant to the county administrator. "But this is an important preventative measure."
No serious incidents have affected security in the south satellite courthouse, Corwin said. But the central courthouse in Fort Lauderdale has had the equipment for years. So have the satellites in Deerfield Beach and Plantation.
Employees can't wait for the reinforced security.
County Court Judge Sharon Zeller said she periodically encounters irate defendants. Her secretary received a death threat.
"Considering that this is the only courthouse in the state of Florida that doesn't have the equipment, I am welcoming this with open arms," Zeller said.
It will cost the county $113,000 to install the equipment, Corwin said, and $75,000 a year to hire two or three Wackenhut guards as monitors.
The east entrance will open for an hour each morning so employees can pass through a metal detector.
But the public will enter only through the west entrance off the parking garage. They will have to walk through a metal detector and allow an X-ray machine to scan everything they're carrying. Security cameras will monitor the exits.
"There are peak times when there are more people, and you plan for it," Corwin said. "We can budget more help at those times to make it easier for everybody."


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Faces of Open Government – Scott Miller, Volunteering New Zealand
How did you get involved in open government – what is your personal story about why you joined the movement?
While the principles of open government have existed for as long as democracy has been championed as the rule of the people, my journey to open government, like most others, has not been linear.
It was several years ago, as the Chair of ComVoices, a national network of NGOs in New Zealand, that I had the privilege of hosting a Parliamentary breakfast on OGP, attended by the OGP Support Unit. This breakfast, a meeting of MPs and civil society representatives, was a seminal moment of a maturing understanding of OGP in New Zealand. It solidified a narrative of engagement that went wider than just an exclusive set of interested parties and government representatives, to a conversation that connected our (civil society) aspirations for a partnership with government that could drive innovation, transparency and participation at both a domestic and international level.
Aside from my time as Chair of ComVoices, I hold roles as the Chief Executive of Volunteering New Zealand, as an Expert Advisor to the New Zealand government on Open Government, and as a Consultant to the Kettering Foundation, a US-based democracy think-tank doing brilliant work on community-led democracy, which is strongly aligned with open government principles.
What’s your pitch to get novices involved in open government? How do you pique interest in the process? What’s the best way to get involved?
To many novices, I feel the words “open government” sound elitist. These words virtue-signal an intention or an aspiration to disrupt the status quo, which for many citizens and CSOs is either too disconnected from daily life, or too risky to personal or organisational well-being.
Yet, from a volunteering perspective, I see volunteers’ effort as analogous to creating the context for social change in our communities. That is, formal volunteering is in itself is a civil act of politics, where individuals meaningfully take time to advance some social outcome or impact through an NGO. However, this work is often reassigned by NGOs and governments as ‘service delivery’, which benignly removes the political agency and makes volunteering a function of an NGO’s agency, which I believe is increasingly becoming disconnected from community interest.
Therefore, my pitch to novices is to reframe people’s volunteering as a means of participatory democracy, building their skills and understanding of how they are making open government work as it should. Volunteering then becomes a deliberative process, conscious of the power and process required to truly emancipate people from the narrative that they are “just voters” that express their democratic agency every 3-4 years at general elections.
What does OGP mean in a country like New Zealand, with its high-income status and with high scores on governance and freedom indices? What do you see as the benefit of using the OGP platform?
New Zealand (population <5 million) regularly takes pride in international rankings of being among the world’s:
- least corrupt (first),
- free (third-equal), and
- open with our state budgets (first).
We also take pride in our clean, green image, and what often appear to be progressive values. While these plaudits often acknowledge the work of our civil society, public officials, and MPs over many years, there is a great deal more to achieve.
For example, New Zealand citizens, like those in a lot other high-income status nations, need to acknowledge that, for as much as we enjoy the fruits of freedom of speech and association, we should never take such liberties for granted. We, like both high and low income countries, are experiencing decreasing trust and confidence in our public institutions, increasing inequality, and degradations to our environment that make frameworks like the OGP more vital than ever before.
And perhaps this is the true transformational potential of the OGP platform – for citizens and governments to come together to identify, deliberate and decide upon commitments every two years, while also seeking to stretch targets for starred commitments – we’d like to see at least two in our next National Action Plan!
Following on that – what’s the next generation of reforms for a place like New Zealand?
At the end of 2017 New Zealand shifted from nine years of a centre-right government to a coalition government of centre-left parties. For many civil society organisations, this transfer of power has provided a sense of optimism that things might get better, both economically and legislatively.
On one hand, early examples have included:
- the introduction of a new Ministerial warrant for Open Government (as an Associate Minister for State Services),
- discussions on a review of punitive advocacy legislation for charities, and
- some high-level policy work done on including the country’s human, social, natural, and financial/physical capitals in a wider assessment of our GDP assessments.
Additionally, our NZ Independent Research Mechanism reporter, Keitha Booth, produced a very well-considered and articulated mid-term report that has done justice to both government and civil society. Her recommendations for reform have received widespread support, and included:
- adding anti-corruption commitments to the next action plan, covering whistle-blower protection and a public register of company beneficial ownership
- standards for public consultation on policy initiatives, and
- introducing citizenship education to increase democratic participation.
These recommendations, and the current engagement process on our third National Action Plan, are shaping up to be our best yet, and will inevitably drive more people to speak up and out on how to make a better New Zealand in 2018 and beyond.
However, at an institutional level, New Zealand’s public service, and increasingly, our NGO sector, remain uncritically committed to ‘new public management.’ This propensity to view citizens as customers has many uncomfortable implications for how we organise in the future, which is where I see the emergence of digital era governance as an opportunity worthy of further exploration.
Civic space is on the decline around the world – even in high-income countries. How can citizens and civil society act to protect it?
Citizens in the digital age have new means of organising themselves, without being tied to conventional activist organisations or approaches, which allows different forms of expression and association. However, there are also efforts by governments and corporations to reduce and marginalize civil society organisations, both in person and digitally.
This tenuous relationship is complex and requires people to remember that organisation, whether it is between peers, neighbourhoods, or communities, still fulfils a vital function of civil society. The work of the Kettering Foundation, through their six principles of democratic practices, is perhaps most relevant to maintaining and rebuilding civic space. That is, that people, together, can solve shared problems. This process, however, requires people to be brave, own their agency, and realise that like Margaret Mead once said: “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
What’s a story of open government that sticks with you?
What I love about the Open Government Partnership is its ability to transcend institutions, communities, and citizens. The too-often espoused narrative of “government and civil society should work together” is replaced with a concrete expectation and commitment that these two sectors will (and do) complement each other’s work. This gives credence to a future state of society that enables our citizens to hope, believe and achieve in the real potential of society. This sticks with me daily, and is the story I share where I can whether with volunteers, public officials and my family.

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The free-living amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, can cause a rare yet usually lethal infection of the brain called primary amebic meningoencephalitis. Because of poor diagnostics and limited treatment options, the mortality rate associated with the disease is >97%. Due to our finding that glucose is critical for trophozoite growth in culture, we have been interested in exploiting amoebae glucose metabolism to identify new potential drug targets. We have characterized the first enzyme of the glycolytic pathway, glucokinase (Glck), from N. fowleri and two other pathogenic free-living amoeba, Acanthamoeba castellanii and Balamuthia mandrillaris. We have assessed their biochemical properties and tested potential inhibitors on the recombinant Glcks, which revealed that these enzymes are sufficiently different from one another that developing pan-amoeba inhibitors may be challenging. However, their individual differences from the human host enzyme suggests that species-specific Glck inhibitors could be identified. We have also explored targeting the glucose metabolizing enzyme enolase in N. fowleri using a series of phosphonate human enolase 2 (ENO-2) specific inhibitors that were developed to treat human cancer. These compounds are curative for ENO-1 deleted glioblastoma in a rodent model, can cross the blood-brain barrier, and are of limited toxicity to non-human primates. The phosphonate inhibitors were toxic to N. fowleri in vitro with (1-hydroxy-2-oxopiperidin-3-yl) phosphonic acid (HEX) being the most potent, with an EC50 value of 0.21 ± 0.02 µM, almost 1500-fold lower than the concentration required to impact human cells. Unbiased metabolomics indicates that glycolytic intermediates upstream of NfENO accumulate in HEX treated amoebae. In an effort to genetically validate new targets for therapeutic intervention, we have initiated efforts to develop molecular tools for use in N. fowleri. We have designed a vector for transient transfection of the amoebae that harbors portions of the 5’UTR of actin 1 (NF0111190) upstream of both eYFP and a hygromycin resistance gene, termed pJMJM1. We have tested a variety of approaches used in other parasite systems for plasmid delivery including the transfection reagent SuperFect, Amaxa Nucleofector technologies, and various electroporation settings. Transfection of N. fowleri flagellates with 5 µg pJMJM1 by electroporation (100 V, 500 µF, 400 Ω) yielded a population of fluorescent cells seven days after being treated with 300 µg/mL hygromycin, but this expression of eYFP was lost over time. More recently, we have used CRISPR/Cas9- mediated gene editing to successfully introduce an eYFP repair template into a predicted protein locus. While fluorescent cells were not noted in the culture, editing was confirmed by PCR analysis. Development of these molecular techniques will provide an important tool for uncovering potential target genes and allow for a better understanding of amoeba biology.
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Kenneth Walker III has great outing in first NFL start with Seattle Seahawks
Kenneth Walker III had a solid performance in his first NFL start as a rookie. The Seattle Seahawks went to him after a season ending injury to Rashaad Penny in Week 5.
Walker finished the game with 97 yards rushing and 1 touchdown. He played a big role in the win over the Arizona Cardinals. Walker scored Seattle’s only TD of the game in the fourth quarter. The rookie had an 11-yard scamper for a score in the 19-9 win.
There’s something special about @Kenneth_Walker9.
— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) October 16, 2022
Seattle is now 3-3 in what is once again a very close race in the NFC West. The San Francisco 49ers lost to the Atlanta Falcons and the L.A. Rams beat the Carolina Panthers. The Seahawks should now have the division lead after beating the Cardinals thanks to their record against NFC West teams.
With Penny now out for the season, Walker should continue to be the starter unless something drastic happens. Walker now has 243 yards rushing and 2 touchdowns on the season.
Seattle faces the L.A. Chargers in Week 7.

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Portland’s Dakota King rolls through her home town’s galleries on a red carpet. “She has such a great eye,” art dealer MaryAnn Deffenbaugh told the Wall Street Journal.
Dakota is 9. According to the Journal, the grade school student picked out a $5,5000 porcelain sculpture shaped like a basket and covered in tiny, platinum elephants.
That would be a basket by Jeffry Mitchell, whom the Journal declined to identify. He’s showing at Pulliam Deffenbaugh through Sept. 29.
A photo of Dakota graces the front of the Journal’s art page, but she is hardly alone in her youthful avidity to own art. Writer Kelly Crow found children all over the country who pick out and pay for their own Warhol, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns and even Rembrandt. (Story here)
And the Republican Party tries to tell us that there is no ruling class.


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A local man was one of those killed by an Islamic extremist this month at Frankfort International Airport in Germany. The German-born Kosovo Albanian was targeting American servicemen on their way to Afghanistan.
Airman 1st Class Zachary Cuddeback, 21, was at the wheel when the religious fanatic boarded the military bus, cried “God is great” in Arabic, and opened fire. Two airmen died and two more were injured before the shooter’s gun jammed.
I say, local “man,” but Zac Cuddeback still had those boyish good looks of someone fresh out of high school. Someone still trying to find himself, and hoping the Air Force would aid him in that all-important quest.
It was no surprise that Zac was behind the wheel. Friends say he spent half his time fixing cars. Driving, playing hockey (he played for a season on Old Dominion University’s hockey team), and serving his country were all he ever wanted to do.
At the local newspaper, we argued over the wording of the headline, and whether to label this an act of terror, as in “Terror Strikes One of Our Own.” Was this an act of Islamic terror, a religious killing, or simply cold-blooded murder? Later, at the memorial service, the local pastor called Zac’s killing a “senseless act of misguided religion.” I guess that’s one way to put it.
A week later, Zac’s remains were returned home to Scott Air Force Base. Zac was an Army brat, and his family asked he be buried, with full military honors, next to his grandfather, at the air force base where Zac had been born just 21 years before.
HERE, IN THE TOWN of O’Fallon, Illinois, each time a fallen soldier returns home you find the same reaction: hundreds of people come out of their homes to honor the airman and his or her family. Those who don’t turn out are the ones who never do, those who are too busy at the office, or too tuned into the television, or too wrapped up in the chaos of their own lives.
The turnout was even greater than usual for Zac. It was easy to see why.
O’Fallon is a military town. Almost everyone you meet is ex-military. So it was no surprise that thousands of people turned out as Zac’s coffin was transported along the highways, through the residential streets, and down the flat country roads, all lined with American flags, thousands upon thousands of them, stretching on to the horizon. The day was windy and warm, the only sound the March wind snapping through the flags. Zac’s procession was escorted by the local fire department, police, and 200 Patriot Guard Riders from across the Midwest, the mufflers on their Harley Davidson motorbikes respectfully muffled for the occasion.
There was a secondary reason for the big turnout.
Along the parade route, relegated to a patch of weeds cordoned off with yellow police tape and surrounded by Illinois state troopers, stood six members of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka, Kansas. I counted one man, two women and three clueless small boys. One of the boys held a sign that read, “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.”
The employees of the nearby Circle K gas station had erected a banner next to the Westboro bunch that read: “God Bless Our Troops.” Across the highway, about 100 people had gathered for a counter-protest. They too had signs, only theirs read “God and hate don’t mix.”
One counter-protester seemed to speak for all her neighbors when she jerked her thumb at those across the street and said, “This funeral is for a man who died for their right to be ignorant.”
That’s basically what the Supreme Court said in its recent decision in Snyder v. Phelps. We have a guaranteed right to be stupid. In the long run, it is probably best we don’t make a crime of being ignorant.
After the procession passed, I climbed in my truck and started back to the office. I was thinking about the obvious parallels between the Muslim extremist and the Westboro bunch, and trying not to sink to their level by hating them. It wasn’t easy.
I got back to the office late and filed my story and punched out for the day. Immediately I began thinking about my next story, a piece about two dozen teachers being laid off. I suppose it is natural and expected that we move on with our lives and don’t think about the daily sacrifices these young men and women make. That is, until the next parade.


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Time's Up for NBC's 'Timeless' as Network Cancels Series for Second Time
Appears time's run out on Erik Kripke and Shawn Ryan's Timeless, with NBC cancelling the time-travelling drama/action series for a second – and seemingly final – time. The network postponed making a decision on the show's fate until after the May upfronts; and the announcement comes eight days before cast's options were to expire. NBC and series producer Sony Pictures TV are currently negotiating a deal for a two-hour movie finale that would give Timeless fans a proper ending. Both sides are still trying to hammer out both production costs and the possible logisitics to getting the cast under new contracts for the movie.
Only time will tell if this being the show's second cancellation makes it easier for Timeless fans to take – but it's pretty doubtful: fans have been taking to Twitter with #RenewTimeless tweets. Timeless also took the top spot on USA Today's Save our Shows poll, for a second year in a row. NBC first canceled Timeless in May 2017, with the series unable to secure a wide audience or ratings above the average range. But while it's audience wasn't huge, it was passionate, motivated and mobilized to bring the series back; leading NBC to reverse its decision and bring the show back for a 10-episode second-season. Season 2 of Timeless returned on March 1; but the series would never be able to boost its ratings enough, even with the cast and creative taking to social media to promote the series.
Launched with a mysterious criminal stealing a secret state-of-the-art time machine to destroy America by changing the past, Timeless focused on the soldier (Matt Lanter), the history professor (Abigail Spencer) and the scientist (Malcolm Barrett) assigned to use the machine's prototype to travel back in time and make things right. Series cast also includes Goran Visnjic, Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey and Claudia Doumit co-star.
Timeless is produced by Davis Entertainment, Kripke Enterprises and MiddKid Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television; and exec produced by Kripke, Ryan, John Davis, John Fox, Marney Hochman and Neill Marshall.


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“Kitten season has gone on really long this year and people out there seems unable to cope with the extra kittens and their way of dealing with them is very simple..off load the problem on to someone else,” said a Animals In Need spokeswoman.
“This week alone we had five full litters abandoned, two of them on other people’s property and the rest “just” dumped on deserted roads.
“The youngest litter is only about 3-4 weeks and unable to drink from a bowl. These were dumped on a doorstep in a box, covered in excrement.
“The man who found them, washed them and bought formula for them but they failed to drink and got very weak. By the time we got them one was very near dying, unable to swallow or move but with intensive care we got him turn around and he is now playing with his brothers and sister.”