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An alkylation unit uses refining byproducts to make octane-boosting components that are added to gasoline.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board and U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating an HF acid leak earlier this month at Citgo Petroleum Corp’s 163,000-bpd Corpus Christi, Texas refinery.
With the acquisitions, UTA will launch an esports group which will include more than 90 esports athletes and streamers, including League of Legends stars Aphromoo and sOAZ. The roster also includes streamers Imaqtpie, Pokimane and Disguised Toast, among others.
Press X and Everyday Influencers co-founder Damon Lau will head the new unit and report to UTA Games head Ophir Lupu and UTA Ventures head Sam Wick.
Over the past few months, the agency has acquired Circle Talent Agency, an electronic music specialist, as well as the Greater Talent Network, an influential speaker bureau operator. It bought news and unscripted power N.S. Bienstock and independent music booker The Agency Group in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
While competitors have jumped into the esports market, UTA said it will be the only talent and entertainment company representing both esports talent and streamers, in addition to game developers. The sector is growing rapidly — Twitch users have already logged over 2 billion hours of viewed content in the first quarter of 2018 alone, and analysts see the esports industry reaching $1.5 billion in value by 2020.
UTA Games has advised on more than $350 million in transactions and has a deep roster, including creators of games such as Bioshock: Infinite, The Last Guardian and many more. The game plan is for that roster to plug into the expertise in digital marketing and branded content development at Press X and Everyday Influencers.
Negotiating for UTA were entertainment partner David Eisman and associate Allison Hunter of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Ned Sherman at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips negotiated on behalf of Press X and Everyday Influencers.
THE GOVERNMENT IS planning to hold a referendum on whether the voting age should be lowered from 18 to 16.
Youth groups have argued that allowing 16-year-olds to vote in local, national and European elections would give young people a greater say in decisions that affect their lives. Opponents argue that 16-year-olds are too young or may not have enough information to decide who to vote for.
The majority of countries allow people to vote at the age of 18 although a small number have already lowered the age to 16, including Brazil, Argentina, Austria and Estonia.
So today we’re asking: Should the voting age be lowered to 16?
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Nestled on .67 of an acre in the very desirable Hillair Circle neighborhood sits this beautifully maintained stone front expanded Cape Cod. The large living room features a stone fireplace & door to the covered patio. The formal dining room contains a sliding glass door to the patio that overlooks the yard. The country kitchen/family room features a Cathedral ceiling that highlights two sliding glass doors and an impressive wall of windows. The conveniently located first floor master suite includes a large bath and walk-in closet. The second level has two large bedrooms, a hall bath and storage areas. The kitchen includes a five burner stove, double oven, granite counters, Sub-Zero refrigerator, built-in work desk, tile backsplash and tile floor. Other highlights of this lovely home include hardwood floors, hi-hat lighting, crown molding, attached two car garage, finished lower level (additional 550 square feet), lawn sprinkler system, first floor laundry/mud room and central A/C.
LABOUR must be hoping their Brexit supporting voters aren’t following their party conference.
Otherwise they’d have heard Corbynista MP Clive Lewis brand them as racists for wanting to end freedom of movement.
And they’d have heard him essentially trash Labour’s manifesto which he stood on in June that committed Labour to, um, well, leave the EU.
He must’ve forgotten that 35 per cent of Labour supporters voted Leave.
Jeremy Corbyn’s party has also bottled debating Brexit during the Brighton conference.
What kind of party can’t have a conversation about the single biggest issue we face?
Earlier this month, Brexit chief David Davis accused Labour’s Brexit policy as being motivated by “the pursuit of chaos.” He was spot on.
But we doubt he realised they’d end up causing quite so much chaos for themselves, though.
THE 50 Tory MPs reportedly plotting to oust Theresa May should ask themselves whether they want Jeremy Corbyn in No10.
Because if they insist on forcing a vote of no confidence — which requires just 48 rebels — then that’s likely.
The amount of flak Boris Johnson has copped from David Davis, Amber Rudd and Philip Hammond shows that a leadership contest will be bloody.
It’ll open massive splits in the party and run the risk of causing a General Election, which Labour could win.
The Tories have a workable majority, so why risk it? Mrs May showed in Florence she’ll unite all sides and get us a decent Brexit deal.
Since the disastrous election, keeping her in power might’ve seemed like the least bad option . . .
IT would be a game-changer if Philip Hammond slaps bigger taxes on foreigners buying properties.
Alongside house building, it’s a vital way of solving our shortage of affordable homes — and it’ll help the Tories win back young voters.
Foreign investors bought 3,600 of London’s 28,000 newly built homes between 2014-2016. It’s dead wrong that young, aspirational hard-workers are priced out of the market and forced to rent.
Owning your home shouldn’t be an exclusive privilege for the middle aged and the loaded.
So, where better to start than by stopping prices shooting up out of an entire generation’s reach?
LONDON (Reuters) - British police on Tuesday were investigating two attempts to disrupt the rail network that they said were linked to Britain’s exit from the European Union.
“This was a serious and deliberate attempt by someone to cause significant sabotage and disruption to Britain’s rail network,” Sean O’Callaghan from British Transport Police said in a statement.
“We’re are currently keeping an open mind on why someone would put their life at risk to place these items on a live railway, however our early assessment has led us to believe it relates to Britain’s exit from the European Union,” he said.
O’Callaghan said the intent was only to delay services rather than cause damage to the rail infrastructure.
A BBC reporter said both devices - left near Yaxley in Cambridgeshire and Netherfield in Nottinghamshire - had notes attached to them. One note said “Leave means leave” and “The other had words to the effect of “We’ll bring Britain to a standstill”.
There have been warnings from a number of pro-Brexit supporters that failing to deliver on the outcome of the referendum could lead to civil unrest.
Transportation LA: When Boring Ain't Boring!
ALPERN AT LARGE--Despite the attempts of sneaky and agenda-driven idiots, ideologues, and creepy developers to ruin the good that transportation does for an economy, and for civilization, we're now getting into the BORING, the TUNNELING portion of our mass/rapid transit efforts for 21st-Century Los Angeles.
To be sure, the $5 billion approved by the LA City Council to design and operate the elevated LAX People Mover (connecting Metro Rail to LAX ... finally!) isn't small money and isn't insignificant.
And the surface/elevated rail extensions to the eastern, southwest, and southeast portions of L.A. County aren't exactly insignificant, either. In fact, they're huge.
Yet the BIG, and very expensive, projects, have still yet to be resolved.
Yes, we've fast-tracked the Wilshire Blvd. Subway, a project discussed LITERALLY for over 100 years. It will happen, and it will carry up to hundreds of thousands of commuters a day. It will be preferable to many forms of transportation, but it involves deep digging, which is both expensive and fraught with environmental and engineering challenges.
The Sepulveda Pass Subway, with the potential to connect the Valley with the Westside, and even with LAX.
Both Metro and the Los Angeles City Council are using their own resources and those of Elon Musk to best figure out how to do this once-dismissed, once-impossible-to-hope-for project.
We need to learn how to dig inexpensively, and efficiently, and the people/commuters/taxpayers just don't want to wait another 20-30 years.
Things are getting interesting, with Metro's efforts primarily focused on moving people while Elon Musk's approach is predominantly for cars (but also for pedestrians).
There will be words thrown around like "skates", and "capacity" and "private/public partnerships", but Elon Musk's Boring Company, and Metro's boring efforts, will be anything BUT boring.
And when our commutes have become a living hell, the idea of improving our commutes, and raising the stakes to 21st-century technology, will be anything BUT boring.
Things are again getting interesting in the world of transportation.
Each passing day brings A Tribe Called Quest's new and final album that much closer, and after sharing the guest features yesterday (Nov. 2), the artwork for We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service has dropped today and can be seen above. The cover art was created by photographer and painter Richard Prince and features the illustrated woman from the cover of Tribe's 1991 album Low End Theory as well as a separate naked woman who is taking a selfie.
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service drops on Nov. 11 and will be the group's first album in over 18 years. In a New York Times story yesterday, it was revealed that Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Elton John, Jack White and Busta Rhymes will all be featured, as will all four members of the group. Q-Tip announced the album in late October, saying that their performance on The Tonight Show in November of last year and the passing of Phife Dawg in March inspired the release. "It was coming together nicely and as you may know we lost our BROTHER may GOD REST HIS SOUL on March 22nd. But he left us with the blueprint of what we had to do," he wrote.
Check the cover art above and the tracklist below. They've even got a song called "The Donald" on there.
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service is out next Friday, Nov. 11, and Tribe is will be performing on SNL Saturday, Nov. 12 with Dave Chappelle hosting.
4. "Solid Wall of Sound"
LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) - With stunning scenery of Africa and some talking wildlife, Disney dropped its first full length trailer for its realistic-looking remake of "The Lion King" on Wednesday, offering a glimpse of the highly anticipated film.
Counting down 100 days until the film's July release, the trailer begins with Scar, surrounded by hyenas, telling Simba: "Life's not fair, is it, my little friend? While some are born to feast, others spend their lives in the dark, begging for scraps."
Under 2 minutes long, it shows off the Pride Rock setting, with glimpses of Simba's childhood friend and love interest Nala as well as new pals Timon and Pumbaa. As well as Scar, Mufasa's voice is also heard in the trailer.
"The Lion King" was an instant hit with audiences around the world when it was released, and a hugely successful musical theatre version still runs on New York's Broadway and in London.
It's time to stop wasting energy, effort, and food. The old-fashioned ways of doing things don't always cut it when you're baking, cooking, or just plain trying to eat! These 20+ tips step up your game in the kitchen, so you can basically be a jedi cook.
Can ASEAN Continue to Improve Cybersecurity in the Region and Beyond?
Singapore holds the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 2018 and wants to make cybersecurity a priority. How well will it fare?
How Has the Rebalance Affected Security Assistance to Southeast Asia?
Michael MacMillan and Alison Loat, co-authors of Tragedy in the Commons.
This summer will be busy with nomination races in ridings across the country, as all of the major parties plan to have their candidates in all of the new riding boundaries in place by the fall, with the intention of getting teams ready for the inevitable election – just in case it happens to be called sooner than the “fixed” date next fall. This leaves candidates plenty of time to do a very important thing: learn about what it means to be an MP.
In reading Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan’s Tragedy in the Commons, we found most of the former MPs they interviewed felt unprepared for their roles, and only one or two were able to correctly identify the proper Westminster role of an MP – that is, to hold the government to account. And while there was some effort here and there to find mentors within the parties, most of these MPs felt they had no guidance when they were first elected.
The other thing the interviews showed, however, was that almost none of these new MPs took any personal responsibility when it came to learning about the job of an MP. They all blamed the Commons’ administration and the parties for not providing that guidance or training for them. This appears to be a growing problem when you consider the degree to which MPs have since become scripted automatons on the floor of the Commons, and only when they start to rub up against the party the wrong way do they start learning more about their actual role within a Westminster, Responsible Government system, as we saw with Brent Rathgeber.
2015 will also be a particularly brutal year because it is likely to be one where the incumbency rate is going to be low. A lot of long-time MPs aren’t running again, and we can be sure to see a lot of changeover in seats if the polls continue along their current trends. Add to that, the Liberals have kicked their senators out of caucus, which was a great source of institutional memory that they no longer have ready access to. That means a lot of new faces without a lot of guidance to draw from, and that also means that these new faces will be vulnerable to much more control from leaders’ offices – again, something we have seen to an increasing degree in the past several parliaments.
So what can they do about it? First and foremost, every candidate running should start reading up on Parliament now, before the race really starts to heat up. This means learning about things like how Responsible Government works, about the oversight role of MPs – especially when it comes to the Estimates and the Public Accounts – and about the constituent elements of Parliament, including the role of the Senate and the Crown. They need to learn about the different roles between government (meaning Cabinet) and backbenchers within the governing party so as not to blur those lines. They need to know the important role that the opposition plays within our system of politics when it comes to accountability, and that it’s not just “being negative,” as we often hear people construe it, but that there is a real purpose to it.
Candidates should also probably start thinking about what kinds of committees they would like to sit on if they get elected, and should probably have two or three choices in mind, as one can imagine that all of the cool kids want to sit on some of the high-profile committees like justice or ethics. They should learn that they need to tell the whip where their areas of interest lie for committee assignments, rather than to meekly take what is assigned to them. They also need to know that even if they are a member of the governing party, that their role on the committee remains one of oversight, and not being a “team player” to shield their government from criticism. After all, no government is perfect, and it’s their job to help them do better.
There are any number of good books out there on how Parliament functions, and I would highly recommend that candidates start with those written by David E. Smith, Canada’s pre-eminent parliamentary scholar. And we, as voters, should be encouraging these candidates to demonstrate that they are taking these lessons to heart rather than just feeding us platitudes about how they just want to work together to get things done.
We depend on our MPs to know their roles if we want Parliament to function. Now more than ever, at a time when civic literacy among MPs themselves is apparently at an all-time low, we need to start demanding better, and there’s no better time to start than today.
Dale Smith is a freelance journalist in the parliamentary press gallery.
After James Freeman finally had his long-awaited return home to fight in the Pensacola Bay Center, he left the ring with apologies ... and a win.
Freeman, 37, an Escambia High graduate, who now lives in California, scored an early TKO in the second round of his MMA lightweight, co-main event bout Saturday night against Ocala's Charles Bennett in Island Fights 48.
But he lamented not being sharp in an event aired on UFC Fight Pass.
"I was feeling bad about the whole fight," said Freeman, now 6-1, who trains at Millennia MMA in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. "There were some major issues with me and my family that I don't want to go into detail, but I probably had a four day (training) camp for this fight."
He made his pro debut nine years ago at the Bay Center as the first bout on a card that featured boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. against Omar Sheika. Since then, after alternating travel between California and Pensacola, he has not fought on another hometown card.
"This is hard," he said. "...there are a lot of trials and tribulations. I have a lot of growing to do in this sport, but I am here to stay."
A similar feeling was experienced by Devin Cushing, the hometown headliner for the boxing portion of this event, which was broadcast on UFC Fight Pass to a worldwide, audience via live stream.
Cushing took out Dylan Blakesley, also from Ocala, in a second-round TKO, but wasn't wowed by the victory.
His original welterweight bout was supposed to be against a veteran Tallahassee fighter, but the opponent pulled out and Blakesley was a literal, last-minute replacement.
He learned of an opening to fight Cushing through a Facebook post earlier in the week.
"Honestly, It kinda disappointed me, because I was training for an opponent for a hard eight weeks and it got switched up on me at the last minute," said Cushing, 21, who improved to 8-0 in his hopeful rise in pro boxing. "Kinda threw me off. But I always do what I have to do. I adjust, I work hard and it shows off."
As Cushing explained, studying one opponent, then trying to prepare for another who is a relative unknown is a difficult task.
"It was kinda aggravating when you have a fight arranged for almost three months and then another guy steps in on three days notice," he said. "It just flips the gear, switches it up so much. It puts me in position where I feel like I have to do."
There were nine fights on the Island Fights 48 card, which was a mix of boxing and MMA bouts. Only three fights went the distance.
One of those involved Island Fights and MMA veteran Elvin Brito, a Puerto Rico native, who trains in Gulf Breeze. He seemingly stayed in control of opponent Jacob Kilburn, bloodying Kilburn's face in the third round as he landed punches while on top.
The crowd of several thousand booed loudly. Brito reacted in anger, throwing his hat to the ring and screaming at all three judges before exiting.
The Bay Center crowd also booed in the following bout when Cushing's opponent beat the count in a stand-up position and nodded he wanted to continue.
"He was definitely taking some hard shots," Cushing said. "I know a lot of people don't know too much about the fight game. I was hitting him with some crucial body shots. He's a tough kid. He was just trying to survive as long as he did."
Cushing, who is trained by Roy Jones Sr., along with others, said he will now look ahead to his next step.
"I will go back to the drawing board with my team," he said. "I don't know who is next ... but 9-0 is next."
The night opened with two fighters trained by Roy Jones Jr., Shady Gamhour and Fez Batista, both winning. In the third boxing bout, Michael Williams was in brief trouble against Justin Ramer of Atmore, Ala. when Williams dropped him with a punch to score a second-round knockout.
Freeman, who played football as a wide receiver at Escambia High, said he was mostly a "street fighter" until a friend one day suggested he try Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
"I fell in love with it," he said. "I fell in love with everything about (MMA) fighting."
He had a group of friends, former teammates watching his return.

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