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Nürnberger Versicherungscup
Saturday at the Nürnberger Versicherungscup
Saturday at the 2014 Nürnberger Versicherungscup was all about the second round of qualifying as 16 players fought to continue their way into the tournament's main draw.
Among them was Katharina Gerlach, the 16-year old wildcard stunned the crowd yesterday by winning her first WTA level match, unfortunately the Cinderella story did not continue today as Czech Tereza Martincova proved to be too big of a hurdle for the young German.
Another local favorite fared much better, as Nina Zander is through to the qualifying finals, beating Sesil Karatantcheva in straight sets. Zander will be the only German player in the final qualifying round as Kristina Barrois lost her match against Petra Martic, Zander's opponent in the qualifying final tomorrow.
The Croat showed a commanding performance in the first set but started to struggle with a wrist injury later in the match. Despite a late-match medial timeout, Martic managed to close the match out in straight sets.
Meanwhile, several main draw players were busy preparing for their start into the tournament on the practice courts. Caroline Garcia was one of them, the French youngster has been enjoying a fabulous season so far and will try to add yet another impressive clay result in Nürnberg, Garcia will be facing one of the qualifiers in her first-round match.
Also busy practicing was Eugenie Bouchard, the Australian Open semifinalist spent several hours on the court, working hard to hopefully improve her somewhat lackluster clay results so far this season.
The four qualifying finals are scheduled for tomorrow morning as main draw action at the 2014 Nürnberger Versicherungscup kicks off in the afternoon.
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We work hard to make Vilfo the best VPN router ever created. Security and privacy are a huge part of that.
We believe that security audits should be performed by a third-party as it's impossible to find all issues in-house. We had read some of the previous articles written by ctrl.blog and appreciated his thorough and critical work and thus decided to send him a prototype.
We don't agree on all his statements and conclusions - but we agree that he found several areas where the security and privacy of Vilfo could be improved. We have already been able to fix most of those areas:
Removing passwords when submitting diagnostics
Diagnostics are stored on a private Vilfo server rather than being submitted to Intercom
Diagnostics are automatically purged
MAC addresses have been replaced with local IP addresses in URIs (eg. 192.168.0.12)
Devices use the DNS servers pushed by the VPN server and DNS lookups are routed through the VPN tunnel
Removed OVPN.com's DNS servers as default. Vilfo now uses the ISP's standard DNS servers unless manually changed
Added a privacy policy on Vilfo.com
Re-organized setup flow so first step is setting a wifi password
We are working on:
Adding HTTPS support
Potentially adding a password prompt for when connecting a screen to Vilfo. Before this, we need to resolve a physical manner to factory reset the unit.
The Ubus API in LEDE is designed in such a way that it requires access to the credentials of a superuser in order to make API requests. Regardless if this password is stored in a database with an encrypted key the password could be decrypted with physical access to the device. We are looking for other solutions, but physical tampering is a concern that applies to all devices and is not exclusive to Vilfo.
During the development process we received a lot of feedback and understood the importance and value of being able to get insights and data to replicate users problems. Eventually, we made the decision that user experience would improve by integrating a robust support system directly into the Vilfo interface to quickly guide users and address any questions or concerns they may have.
On top of integrating Intercom directly into the user interface, we integrated Google Analytics to understand which areas need further development, and to properly understand how Vilfo is used.
Intercom & Google Analytics are used to better know where to focus development, make meaningful improvements, and improve user experience. This is how we have managed to improve the software since November together with our beta testers.
With this said we've tried our best to ensure that what's shared with Analytics is not sensitive or intrusive. Obviously we made a mistake when it comes to the MAC addresses in URLs, which is why we appreciate ctrl.blog found and reported this issue.
We do reckon that not everyone wishes to have Intercom & Google Analytics included, and we now therefore allow users to disable them.
We are very glad with our decision to send a prototype to ctrl.blog, as it resulted in a better and safer product.

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package main.java.com.iceteaviet.chess.network;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.Socket;

/**
 * Created by Genius Doan on 6/15/2017.
 * This class handles the Chess chat session between the
 * user and the opponent.
 *

 * TODO - be able to type a hyperlink
 */
public class ChessChat implements ActionListener {

    /**
     * A socket connection with the opponent to send the chat messages
     */
    private Socket sock;

    /**
     * A buffered input stream from the opponent
     */
    private BufferedReader netIn;

    /**
     * A buffered output stream to the opponent
     */
    private BufferedWriter netOut;

    /**
     * The pane that contains the chat messages in html
     */
    private JEditorPane htmlPane;

    /**
     * The text field that contains the user chat input
     */
    private JTextField chatInput;

    /**
     * The handle name the user wants to use when chatting
     */
    private String userHandle;

    /**
     * The color to use for the local user's handle
     */
    private String localColor;

    /**
     * The color to use for the opponent's handle
     */
    private String opponentColor;

    /**
     * The font to use to display the chat messages in the chat history
     */
    private String font;

    /**
     * Create a new ChessChat session.
     *
     * @param opponent  the socket connection with the opponent.
     * @param chatPane  the chat history pane.
     * @param textInput the chat input text field.
     * @param userName  the handle to use for the user.
     */
    public ChessChat(Socket opponent, JEditorPane chatPane,
                     JTextField textInput, String userName) {

        sock = opponent;
        htmlPane = chatPane;
        chatInput = textInput;
        userHandle = userName;

        // setup i/o streams
        try {
            netIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sock.getInputStream()));
            netOut = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(sock.getOutputStream()));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println("Error: I/O in ChessChat constructor");
        }

        if (!htmlPane.getContentType().equals("text/html"))
            htmlPane.setContentType("text/html");
        if (htmlPane.isEditable())
            htmlPane.setEditable(false);

        chatInput.addActionListener(this);

        // setup default colors and font
        localColor = "ff0066";
        opponentColor = "336699";
        font = "Arial";

        htmlPane.setText("
Welcome to Chess Chat"
                + "
");
    }

    /**
     * Get the color of the local user's handle.
     *
     * @return a String representing the color in html
     */
    public String getLocalColor() {
        return localColor;
    }

    /**
     * Set the color of the local user's handle.
     *
     * @param color a String with the html color
     */
    public void setLocalColor(String color) {
        localColor = color;
    }

    /**
     * Get the color of the opponent's handle.
     *
     * @return a String representing the color in html
     */
    public String getOpponentColor() {
        return opponentColor;
    }

    /**
     * Set the color of the opponent's handle.
     *
     * @param color a String with the html color
     */
    public void setOpponentColor(String color) {
        opponentColor = color;
    }

    /**
     * The method called by MsgRedirector...
     */
    public void receive(String msg) {
        msg = msg.substring(NetworkConstants.MESSAGE_PREFIX.length());

        String username = msg.substring(0, msg.indexOf(":"));
        String message = msg.substring(msg.indexOf(":") + 1);

        String last = htmlPane.getText();

        last = last.substring(last.indexOf("
") + 5,
                last.lastIndexOf("
"));

        // update the html pane with the message (some clever html parsing)
        htmlPane.setText("
" + last + "\n" +
                username + ":" + message + "
");
    }

    /**
     * This method is called when the user hits the enter button when focused
     * on the chat input text field or clicks the "Send" button. It sends the
     * message to the opponent and updates the local chat history pane.
     */
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {

        // send the message to the opponent
        send(chatInput.getText());

        //update the user's html pane to display his/her message
        String last = htmlPane.getText();
        last = last.substring(last.indexOf("
") + 5,
                last.lastIndexOf("
")).trim();

        // some clever html parsing...
        String fontTag = "";

        htmlPane.setText("
" + last + "\n" +
                userHandle + ":" + chatInput.getText() + "
");

        System.out.println(htmlPane.getText());

        // clear the chat input text field
        chatInput.setText("");
    }

    /**
     * This method constructs a chess chat message containing the local user's
     * handle and the message to the opponent.
     */
    private void send(String message) {
        // construct packet
        try {
            netOut.write(NetworkConstants.MESSAGE_PREFIX + userHandle + ":" + message + "\n");
            netOut.flush();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // inform the user of this error
            // implement this....
        }
    }
}

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Julianna Barwick
Composer, vocalist, and producer Julianna Barwick crafts ethereal, largely wordless soundscapes built around layered loops of her voice. Inspired by her early years singing in rural church choirs, she begins most tracks with a single phrase or refrain, then uses a loop station and hints of other instrumentation to build her songs into intricate compositions with a powerful emotional impact. Barwick's transcendent music draws comparisons to ambient legends like Brian Eno and Steve Reich, dream pop luminaries such as Sigur Rós and Cocteau Twins, conceptual artist Meredith Monk, and the soothing sounds of new age music, but the humanity in her approach is unique. She explores the intimate and vast aspects of her sound in continually fresh ways, from the relatively down-to-earth feel of 2011's The Magic Place to 2013's ambitious, polished Nepenthe. Though she added more elements and collaborators on albums such as 2020's Healing Is a Miracle, Barwick's music remained as distinctive as ever. While growing up in Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Barwick fell in love with vocals and the power of natural reverb, whether singing rounds in an a cappella church choir or by herself in a parking garage. Her other formative musical experiences included high school vocal lessons and listening to everything from pop and R&B like Whitney Houston and Lionel Richie to film scores (John Williams' music for Empire of the Sun was a favorite) to alternative music icons like Björk and Tori Amos. Barwick discovered experimental music after moving to New York, where she played DIY shows and recorded exploratory guitar pieces. However, her signature approach to making music began when a friend loaned her a looping guitar pedal in 2005. She used the pedal to record her self-released 2006 debut album Sanguine, which found her discovering the parameters of her sound. Following shows in Lisbon and London, Barwick graduated to using a full-fledged loop station for June 2009's Florine EP, another self-released collection of tracks that embellished her vocals with touches of synth and piano. The growing praise for Barwick's music led her to remix Radiohead's "Reckoner" and sign a deal with Asthmatic Kitty. Recorded in a Brooklyn rehearsal space and named after a giant, hollowed-out tree trunk where she sang as a girl, February 2011's The Magic Place presented a more refined and expansive version of her transfixing sound. In the wake of the album's acclaim, Barwick issued that April's Frkwys Vol. 6, a recording of an October 2010 live collaboration with Ikue Mori, and that October's The Matrimony Remixes, a collection of Magic Place reworkings by Prince Rama, Diplo, Helado Negro's Roberto Carlos Lange, and others. She continued to work on collaborative projects into 2012, appearing on Sharon Van Etten's album Tramp and reuniting with Lange for their project Ombre, which released the album Believe You Me that August. In 2013, Barwick returned to her solo career. She issued the Pacing seven-inch on Suicide Squeeze in March, and in August she released her third full-length Nepenthe on Dead Oceans. To make the album, she traveled to Reykjavík, Iceland to record at Sigur Rós' studio Sundlaugin with producer Alex Somers, marking the beginning of a long-running friendship. Inspired by the death of a relative, Nepenthe's sound was more musically and emotionally complex than Barwick's previous work and featured the string ensemble Amiina as well as members of Múm and a young women's choir. Like her previous releases, Nepenthe earned glowing reviews. Next came June 2014's Rosabi EP, a collaboration with Dogfish Head Brewery that incorporated recordings of the brewery into its pieces. The following year, she performed alongside Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson at the Flaming Lips' reimagining of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at Carnegie Hall and played a pair of shows with Yoko Ono. Meanwhile, she recorded her fourth album in such distinct locations as Asheville, North Carolina; upstate New York; and Lisbon, Portugal. The results were 2016's simpler and more grounded Will, which also featured Mas Ysa's Thomas Arsenault, Dutch cellist Maarten Vos, and Chairlift drummer Jamie Ingalls. After 16 years in New York, Barwick moved to Los Angeles in 2017. Her first project after relocating was a July 2019 performance in Lincoln, Massachusetts that was part of visual artist Doug Aitken's nomadic art project New Horizon, which sent a mirrored hot air balloon across the state. That December, the RVNG Intl. imprint Commend There issued Circumstance Synthesis, Barwick's AI-enhanced score for the lobby of New York's Sister City hotel. Barwick moved to Ninja Tune for her next album, July 2020's Healing Is a Miracle. Based on improvisations she made just for herself, the album's pieces were created with studio monitors given to her as a gift by Somers and his partner, Sigur Rós' Jónsi. Jónsi also contributed to the album, along with two more of Barwick's longtime friends, harpist Mary Lattimore and producer Nosaj Thing.
© Heather Phares /TiVo
16 albums sorted by Most acclaimed
Pitchfork: Best New Music (2)
Julianna Barwick (5)
Dead Oceans (5)
Florid Recordings (5)
Ninja Tune (5)
Commend There (1)
In the past 3 months (1)
$5.00 to $10.00 (11)
Healing Is A Miracle
Electronic - Released July 10, 2020 | Ninja Tune
Hi-Res Distinctions Pitchfork: Best New Music
You only need to listen to a few seconds of Healing Is A Miracle to understand that Julianna Barwick's albums contain the same amount of thoughtfulness that you'd find in a monastery. This American from Louisiana, who's now based in Los Angeles after a long stint in Brooklyn, lets this dreamlike atmosphere seep into everything she composes. Wide soundscapes, infinite layers, loops and repetitive patterns immersed in halos of echo and reverb swirl around her fascinating voice which possesses a similar grace to Liz Fraser's from the Cocteau Twins, despite hardly resembling it. The album is like an ethereal, hypnotic, suspended music session. It's hardly surprising that Barwick has worked with Sigur Rós, among others… Jónsi from the Icelandic band features on In Light. The Californian electronic musician Nosaj Thing (on Nod) and the harpist Mary Lattimore (on Oh, Memory) are the two other guests on this fourth album, which, like previous records, is soaked in a half-New Age, half-ambient feel. Time is suspended. And so are we. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
Nepenthe
Alternative & Indie - Released August 20, 2013 | Dead Oceans
Booklet Distinctions Pitchfork: Best New Music
Over the course of her recordings leading up to third album Nepenthe, Brooklyn-based solo musician Julianna Barwick's vaporous compositions were largely the product of infinite layers of her own voice, looped and processed into misty, near-cosmic realms. Spreading out across a wide range of octaves, her mostly wordless vocalizations found a specific state of emotional transparency that could instinctively communicate by turns feelings of harrowing darkness, contemplation, fear, and confusion -- or even an understated humor. No small feat, being able to say so much without any conventional language, and Barwick pushed her atmospheric songs to new places, adding subtle layers of guitar and piano to her walls of voices on 2011's The Magic Place. With Nepenthe, the depth of her sound expands even further, including more collaboration and experimentation than ever before, without ever losing the direct approach that guided her earlier work. The album was recorded in Iceland with longtime Sigur Rós producer/collaborator Alex Somers, and the same dreamlike shards of glacial production that have enhanced Sigur Rós' best efforts come through here as well. With most of her other albums being recorded in practice spaces or bedrooms, Barwick has never been afforded the spaciousness her billowing vocal loops suggested and at times artificially replicated. Here, with the benefit of cavernous room sounds and natural reverb and delay, each vocal track gets a little more character of its own, dialing the layers back somewhat since each offers more by itself. Tracks like "The Harbinger" and "Labyrinthine" replace what once would have been more of the same voice with both haunting piano lines and the incredibly placed addition of an Icelandic girl's choir. "One Half" sounds almost pop compared to Barwick's previous work, including the closest thing to a discernible English lyric, repeating over cinematic drums and brittle strings. While the heightened production brings a vividness and depth to the album, the advances in songwriting and arrangement are what's truly striking on Nepenthe. While still coming from a deeply insular place, the expanded instrumentation and collaborative element put Barwick in the role of conductor, opening up her very personal song worlds to a supporting cast. While comparisons to the icy beauty of Sigur Rós, the ethereal curiosity of Cocteau Twins, and any number of new age reference points are inevitable and warranted, Nepenthe shows a much deeper side to Barwick's art. In the same way Eno's ambient work was as detailed as it was static, Barwick directs Nepenthe like a slowly unfolding film, burying an arc of storytelling and exploration inside what could just as easily pass by unnoticed. It's not only her biggest and most ambitious production to date, but also the album that best showcases her gift for communicating complex emotional entanglements so simply and clearly they become almost weightless. © Fred Thomas /TiVo
The Magic Place
Electronic - Released February 11, 2011 | Florid Recordings
Circumstance Synthesis
Ambient - Released December 20, 2019 | Commend There
Alternative & Indie - Released May 6, 2016 | Dead Oceans
Alternative & Indie - Released January 30, 2007 | Florid Recordings
Originally released by the artist herself in 2006, Sanguine is Brooklyn-based experimental vocalist/composer Julianna Barwick's first collection of studio recordings, made primarily with loops of her own vocalizations. These dream-like compositions are presented here in snippet form, giving the listener the impression that they've been building up for a long time before the moments we're listening in on. Barwick's later albums were characterized by dense, ethereal layers of mostly wordless singing, but the short (mostly untitled) pieces here get into more playful vocal sounds and devices. Strange lispy pops, beat-box-like rhythmic techniques, and a grating screech on the appropriately titled "Scary Cat" all point to an artist figuring out her sound and having fun trying different approaches. © Fred Thomas /TiVo
Florine
Alternative & Indie - Released June 30, 2009 | Florid Recordings
It's not every day someone comes up with a truly new, undeniably distinctive sound. Certainly not after several decades' worth of restlessly inventive, electronically aided aural explorers have canvassed seemingly every imaginable sonic and textural frontier in the broadly defined realms of ambient, experimental, and electro-acoustic art music. But that's exactly what Julianna Barwick has achieved; first with her 2006 album Sanguine, and even more boldly and assuredly on this release, which is billed as an EP even though its predecessor was equally concise. Barwick's arrival at such a refreshingly original sonic approach is in itself a remarkable feat; that the sound she's developed also happens to be instantly arresting and utterly beautiful is truly a cause for wonder. The sound in question, essentially the only thing we hear on the whole of Florine (with a few small exceptions), consists of a densely layered array of Barwick's own vocals -- murmuring alto hums; full-throated high-register vocalizing (usually wordless), and an even higher, unearthly siren's peals -- always heavily reverbed, and massaged to erase almost any trace of attack and to produce a long, lingering decay. The effect is a blurry, impossibly ephemeral build-up of sound that, despite its palpably human point of origin, feels neither natural nor artificial, but rather more elusive: supernatural, otherworldly, divine; strange and unfamiliar, and yet comforting and reassuring. Even without the apt, unmistakable imagery conjured by Florine's song titles -- "Sunlight, Heaven," "Cloudbank," "The Highest," "Anjos" ("Angels" in Portuguese) -- it would be hard to miss the fundamentally airy, celestial nature of this music, which has the billowing, pillowy softness of a cloud and a haunting, eerie beauty evocative of an angelic choir -- keeping in mind that angels are something decidedly other than human. There's a corresponding (if equally abstracted) spiritual quality to the loop-based, loosely structured compositions themselves: solemn and stately, at least at first, with simple (mantra- or hymn-like, perhaps) elusive melodic fragments repeated cyclically, gradually accreting density and sometimes near-rapturous volume, and then lapsing again into silence. Save for the interlude "Anjos," which swaps the typical all-but-a cappella model for a prominent instrumental undercarriage of glassine piano rills, these six tracks all take a largely similar form, but they create a considerable range of moods and effects via small variations in texture, harmony, and pacing. Florine may be brief, but it is in no way fragmentary or incomplete: this is a thorough, thoughtful, and mesmerizing fleshing-out of a potent and fascinating musical idea. © K. Ross Hoffman /TiVo
Inspirit
Ambient - Released May 20, 2020 | Ninja Tune
Healing Is A Miracle - Extended Versions
Electronic - Released September 22, 2020 | Ninja Tune
Ambient - Released June 18, 2020 | Ninja Tune
Electronic - Released March 5, 2013 | Florid Recordings
Rosabi EP
Alternative & Indie - Released June 3, 2014 | Dead Oceans
Inspirit (Takuya's Ryūteki Dragons)
Electronic - Released December 17, 2020 | Ninja Tune
Matrimony Remixes
Electronic - Released October 4, 2011 | Florid Recordings
Alternative & Indie - Released April 7, 2016 | Dead Oceans
Alternative & Indie - Released March 9, 2016 | Dead Oceans


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Don Newcomb, Founder of ChicaGourmets!, was inducted into
Confrérie de la Chaîne de Rôtisseurs on May 27, 2008.
Beverly Blettner, board member of ChicaGourmets! is honored . . .
Sharon Meyers, Jerry Packer, Beverly Blettner, Mishi Packer.
Presentation of plaque honoring Founder, Don Newcomb on the
Sharon Meyers (L), Taste America Chicago Planner, Chef Charlie Trotter, Event Co-Chair and Julie Pfeiffer (R), Marketing Manager and Special Events, the James Beard Foundation, enjoy a sold out event at the Signature Room at the 95th, the first fundraiser of its kind for the Foundation, September 28, 2007. Photo by anon.
Celebrating the diversity of American cuisine across 20 cities and in honor of the James Beard Foundation's 20th Anniversary, the Taste America dinner event was held as both a fundraiser and friendraiser for the foundation across the U.S. on September 28. In Chicago, Taste America was held at the Signature Room at the 95th, with a sell out crowd of 190 guests. The five-course Harvest-themed dinner with wine pairings by Freemark Abbey was provided by Chefs Alex Cheswick, May Street Market; Bill Kim, Le Lan; Mike Sheerin, Blackbird; Patrick Sheerin, Signature Room at the 95th and Bruce Sherman, North Pond. A portion of the proceeds were also donated to Common Threads.
(L-R) Jim Price, Don Newcomb, Ferran Adria and Sharon Meyers pose at the 20th Anniversary Celebration at Charlie Trotters, October 28, 2007. Photo by anon.
Charlie Trotter's Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary with International Elan
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Charlie Trotter's Restaurant, the namesake chef/owner offered a top chef dinner on October 7, with proceeds going to his culinary foundation. Chef Charlie Trotter and his select world's star toques: Spain's Ferran Adria, California's Thomas Keller, England's Heston Blumenthal and Australia's Tetsuya Wakuda all prepared dishes for this gala event. Through an interpreter, Ferran Adria noted that "Right now Chicago is the center of gastronomy." His El Bulli restaurant has received international attention for innovative cuisine; Chef Adria explained that his invitation from Chef Trotter marked the first time he had cooked outside of his own restaurant in a decade.
(Left) Wilbert Jones with (Right) Wilbert Jones with .
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BELLO Mag
CHINESE POP STAR TO HOLLYWOOD SUPERHERO
Witty. Humble. Beautiful. Modest. That about sums up the very endearing Chloe Bennet.
Even just by looking at her Instagram account, you can already tell that Chloe's a down-to-earth and sarcastic individual. Well, after a long day shooting at the beautiful Phoenix in West Hollywood, we were rewarded with some well-earned margaritas as we sat down to talk about her journey from Chinese pop star to Hollywood superhero.
The Chicago born actress started out as a pop star in China. You might already know that from her many appearances on The Jimmy Kimmel show where she talked about the strange requirements whilst recording out there. "We would be in the studio and they'd be like 'okay so can you do a little bit more Britney Spears on this line to give it a little bit more edge' and then for the next line they'd just be like 'now for this bit we want some Macy Gray.'" She performed a special rendition of those voices for me… You should YouTube her appearance on Jimmy to hear it. Trust me, it's worth it.
Her down-to-earth persona is no doubt from her humbling upbringing and large family. "Being raised with six brothers you definitely have this like, I think I understand things more. Men can be such a mystery so growing up with six of them, nothing about men are mysterious at all to me now! I don't know if that's bad or good but it makes me more confident. It's more of a laid back energy, they would wrestle me all the time."
And not just that, her family is mix from all over the globe. "I have four older brothers and two younger. Two are African American, one is Filipino and the rest are Chinese. I've kind of lived in this bubble of acceptance and diversity growing up so everything that's been happening especially here in America recently, has been so wildly disturbing to me, it hits me hard because you forget that not everybody is like that."
Apparently being part of a family who was a mixture of all these ethnicities was a rare occurrence in Chicago. "I grew up in the inner city of Chicago and my family stuck out like a sore thumb! My dad's Chinese, my brothers are black, my other brothers Mexican/Filipino and we just stuck out. No one knew what we were, it was kind of this ball of energy and people looked at us weirdly. I just want people who are in situations like me to feel like they don't need to worry about it because that's what you should value. Everyone has something different about themselves. Something they should be proud of."
Her Instagram profile literally reads, "Mostly Asian always hungry," so already you know she's proud of her heritage. At a young age she changed her last name from Wong to Bennet but her roots in the Chinese culture are still so important to her. "I'm 50% Chinese, I don't want to get away from that, it's who I am, it's my Dad and he's one of my best friends. My Dad's first name is Bennet, and in the Chinese culture, keeping your fathers last name is a big part of the culture so I wanted to still keep his name, which is why I changed it to Bennet."
Another contribution to her grounding personality is no doubt her long-term boyfriend and fellow actor Austin Nichols, from One Tree Hill and The Walking Dead. They met while working together and the brunette beauty admitted it's something she'd like to do again. "I would love to, he's such a good writer and he's so smart. I would love for him to write something and maybe direct it. It's also fun to play love interests when you're working with the person you love because it's so effortless. It wouldn't feel like work."
Growing up with that many men in the house, I was curious as to how her brothers felt about her budding relationship with Austin at the beginning, which of course is when she proceeded to tell me about her three big fears in life. "I'm scared of sharks, I'm scared of the people who stand outside of grocery stores who make you feel bad because you're not donating any money and I'm scared of bringing the people I'm dating home to my family. Everyone in my family is really incredibly smart and really knowledgeable about current events and sports, especially as I'm from Chicago. If you can't keep up with the pack, it's terrifying. But now we're all on a big text thread so it's all fine! Everyone was great and they loved him. I was like phew I can't be with anyone else now because that was too stressful, I'm done. That was enough!"
Despite being taken, that hasn't stopped her bevy of fans from expressing their undying love for her. I told Chloe about a very interesting admirer of hers who once wrote at the end of an article, "I'm so in love, as childish as it may be to be so attached to a woman that I've never met. Chloe Bennet is my WCW, for now and forever."
She laughed so hard I'm pretty sure she choked a little on her margarita. "Oh my god. It's really funny because if you know me, confidence is a weird thing with me. I'm really confident in who I am, my motto for living my life here in LA is to just be as authentic and as brave as I can be because that's all you can be. And then to have stuff like that said it's super crazy because even Austin before I came to do this shoot he's like, 'you're so sexy and you don't see it in yourself.' I just have a hard time taking myself seriously in that way. The second I start thinking that I'm cool I trip or sit on gum. I'm not even joking."
Despite her quick wit and my British sarcasm we did manage to talk about some things close to Chloe's heart. "I suffer from anxiety and that's something I've been challenged with my whole life. I mean I've had so many panic attacks since I've been here. Mental health is something that should be taken very seriously. I workout so I can stay mentally healthy. You know if I said I have a doctor's appointment I can't make it, everyone would be incredibly lenient but if you say oh I have to go see my therapist, or I have to go see my psychiatrist, people would be like what's wrong with you, are you okay?"
She didn't hold back when talking about how this affects her. "I see a therapist on a regular basis and that has helped me so much. It's helped me as an actor, it's helped me as a person. I'm a huge advocate for people taking care of themselves mentally. I suffer from anxiety, I've had depression, it's hard. Especially with social media, instant gratification of how you look and getting your self worth in likes and hearts and retweets. It's so crazy."
So although her Instagram posts are light hearted and witty, she still worries about them. "All the time. I get anxiety every time I post something. Because I'm like well if they don't like it. Self-deprecation is what I'm about. I can't take myself too seriously. I post something that I think is pretty, I have to be honest about the fact that I think I look pretty and I want you to like this so like this please. I'm going to be completely honest about it."
So of course when explaining her brand and style, her candid wit came out once again. "People try and post this perfect lifestyle and they're selling that as their brand. If my brand is anything it's going to be like yes I go to Target and buy toilet paper and that's part of my life. If I take a selfie, honestly 98% of them look like s*** and I have food in my teeth, I look bad, so I pick the one that maybe looks okay and filtered it and now you see that version of me."
She is a woman of many talents and has been playing the female superhero Daisy Johnson on Marvel: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. since the very beginning. "I'm the only superhero that is ethnic, which I'm proud of." After a dark season three finale with the death of Lincoln Campbell, you can see Chloe's character Daisy coping with the tragedy. The show airs on ABC Tuesdays at 7pm.
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Individuals with a mutation in a gene involved in nervous system development have reduced connectivity between regions of the brain's reward system, finds a study of a four-generation Canadian family published in JNeurosci.
The DCC gene directs axons where they need to go in the developing nervous system. Previous research in rodents has found altered pathways between the limbic system and the cortex in mice with a faulty copy of the DCC gene that results in a reduced response to stimulants such as amphetamine.
Extending these findings to humans, Marco Leyton, Cecilia Flores, and colleagues found similar connectivity differences in 20 DCC mutation carriers compared to two control groups of 16 related non-carriers and 20 unrelated healthy adults. The researchers found that those with the mutation showed reduced connectivity among the substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area, and frontal brain regions as well as reduced volume in the striatum (a finding that was confirmed in mice).
Analysis of personality traits and substance use revealed that the mutation carriers were less impulsive and smoked cigarettes less than non-carriers.


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Les Smertae étaient un peuple de l'ancienne Grande-Bretagne, connu uniquement par une seule mention du géographe Claude Ptolémée vers 150. D'après sa description générale et les emplacements approximatifs de leurs voisins, leur territoire se trouvait dans le centre du Sutherland actuel. Ptolémée ne leur attribue pas de ville ou de lieu principal.

Leur nom se retrouve dans le toponyme de Càrn Smeart, un ancien tumulus situé sur la crête entre les rivières Carron et Oykel.

L'étymologie du nom Smertae n'est pas connue avec certitude. Cependant, l'entrée 1794 de l' soutient que l'élément *smert- se rapproche du verbe gallois darmerth (*do-ɸare-smertā-) signifiant « fournir » et du nom armerth (*ɸare-smertā-s) signifiant « fourniture » ainsi que du vieil irlandais airmert (*ɸare-smerto-m) signifiant « préparation ».

Bibliographie

 Claude Ptolémée, Traité de géographie
 RIVET A.L.F, The Place-Names of Roman Britain, Batsford Ltd, 1979

Histoire de l'Écosse
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Ialari plans a trip into the jungle outskirts to harvest a foul smelling remedy for ingested poisons.
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by Ialari Pythone on February 25th, 2018, 6:11 am
15th Day of Winter in the Year 517 AV
It had been a couple of days since Ialari first saw the strange lights in the sky and the accompanying sounds. Since then, she'd witnessed it twice more noting that there was no real pattern to the timing. While nobody seemed to know why the strange phenomenon was happening, the people of Syka did appear concerned even as they went about their daily lives. This meant that there would always be someone encountering something toxic or otherwise poisonous in which Ialari would then have to figure out how to fix. One thing she realized rather quickly after having offered her services at treating poisonings is that she was in desperate need of readily available treatments, antidotes and remedies to help combat the seemingly countless types of toxic plants, venomous snakes, poisonous spiders as well as the various stings, bites and rashes from just about everything else that lived in and around the surrounding jungle and tropical beaches of Syka.
Even among the small settlement, where she hoped people would quickly learn to watch what they put in their mouths, Ialari realized that far too many people were eating things that were either poisonous or tainted in some way. In such a hot environment, there were dangerous plants that looked like harmless ones, fruits that looked nice and juicy yet caused cramps, diarrhea and possibly worse. Fresh food didn't stay that way long and could turn toxic rather fast. As she wasn't near as familiar with the tropical jungle as she was with more moderate climate forests, she decided that the best first step would be to pay a visit to Uta, the local expert on all things plant.
She decided to get started rather early in the day. With a quick breakfast of fruit and a cup of coconut milk, Ialari prepared for her day trip. Ultimately, her goal would be venturing into the jungle outskirts in search of some ingredients.
Since she'd chose to leave so early in the morning, the heat of the day, a bit milder in winter, would be minimized which allowed for a good layer of clothing to help protect her from the jungle. While her already dense isurian skin would help her fend off the typical cuts and scrapes that she may experience from a romp through the rainforest, clothing would help fend off at least some of the annoying insects and poisonous leaves that could cause irritation from simple contact. Looking through her clothes she realized how horribly unprepared she was. Most of what she had was either designed for colder climates or not for trouncing around the jungle. A lot of it too was frayed, worn and in need of repair. "Ok, so obviously I'll have to make a stop by the mercantile as well." For the time being she settled with her high black boots, skirt and chest wrap. She put on her belt and belt pouch and slid her dagger into one of the pouches loops. When she began sorting through her poisoncrafting kit and first aid kit, she realized again just how unprepared she'd let herself become. Most of her poison collecting gear was also well used and many of the consumable items were gone and/or in serious need of replenishing. Same went for her first aid kit which was also nearly useless. With a heavy sign she muttered to herself, "Looks like I'll be picking up quite a bit at the mercantile." Leaving the two mostly spent kits behind, she grabbed her backpack and left her ranchero for the mercantile.
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Ialari Pythone
I'm Poison.
Joined roleplay: August 13th, 2009, 3:26 am
Race: Isur
With her early start, much of Syka was still asleep or just waking up. Upon arriving at the Mercantile, Ialari spotted Juli out and about setting up for the day. With a smile and casual greeting, Ialari proceeded with some shopping. Going over her mental list of items she needed, she picked out a few simple pieces of clothing. She found a light blue linen shirt that fit pretty well and a pair of darker blue linen trousers that, while a little baggy, still fit well and felt good. She spotted a pair of brown leather gloves that would help protect her hands while she was collecting ingredients and a nice black scarf was folded on a nearby table that would work great as a light head covering.
Moving over to where the various kits were arranged, she looked through what was available. She picked out a first aid kit that looked well stocked and suited more for the jungle surrounds. Ialari even found more than what she was expecting as far as replenishing her poison kit was concerned. Initially she was just hoping to find a few odds and ends to fill it with but instead found basically a new, fully stocked portable poisoncrafting kit. Sitting nearby she also found a philtering kit. Using her old poisoncrafting kit for mixing up simple philters is what wiped it out so fast so having an actual kit devoted to philtering struck her as a wise investment. So, she picked up both kits. With a soft curse under her breath, she said to herself, "This is going to be expensive…" She carried her collected purchases to Juli and from her belt pouch counted out 357 gold mizas to pay for the three kits and the clothing.
When everything was paid for and Ialari had said her goodbye to Juli, she took a few moments to put on her new clothes and strap her kits to her backpack. Making one last stop to fill her waterskin, she was off to see Uta.
Uta's Place was close to the Mercantile. Ialari had heard that the woman knew just about everything there was to know about the plantlife in the area which, as Ialari thought about it more, would be invaluable for her work with poisons. As Ialari approached the small stream that led from the jungle to the ocean, she could see a structure back in the trees. Following a worn path, she came upon the rather unique looking structure Uta called home. Part of the home was suspended over the stream while the rest perched atop a stone foundation. Ialari could see someone moving about in the rather open building. Walking up to the main entrance, she paused and tapped at the door.
"Come in," called a female voice from inside.
Ialari opened the door and entered. Inside, Ialari found herself in what looked to be the home's living room. There was a desk, pillows all around with a little bit of storage. It was minimalistic and the room itself was extremely open to the outside, like much of the structures in Syka. Ialari saw a woman, Uta, sitting at the desk while looking at what appeared to be a collection of different leaves. She was scribbling down some notes in a book when Ialari entered.
Looking up from her notes, Uta ceased her writing and smiled. "Welcome. You are the newcomer, Ialari correct?"
Ialari returned her smile and nodded. "Ialari Pythone. Yes, I arrived not long ago, hoping for something a little different in life." Of course she had other reasons for being in Syka but she wasn't lying. Indeed she was looking for something quite different in Syka compared to the other places she'd been.
Uta had heard that Ialari had sought to help around the settlement in regards to the various poisons that inundated the area. The idea of an isur of all people, living in and around the jungle while delving into poisonous materials was something of an oddity to Uta. However, she'd seen stranger things in her life.
"So, what can I do for you today?" Uta asked as she gave Ialari her full attention.
Ialari moved a bit further in the room and replied in a slow, measured tone as to combat her heavy isurian accent, "In the short time I've been here, I've noticed more than a half-a-dozen different types of plants that bare the qualities of being quite poisonous. While I don't exactly know what they are, I know that some of them look remarkably like others that are non-poisonous. I imagine that is the case with so many more around here."
Uta nodded, "Yes, the list of such things is seemingly endless. Between the snakes, spiders and exhaustive list of plants, the jungle is really quite deadly in that regard."
"I was hoping to help a little with that. I've heard of some different types of roots, at least in other climates, that when processed and consumed, can cause vomiting. This would help combat ingested poisons and purge them from the body before they're able to cause too much damage." Ialari said with hope that such plants could be found nearby.
Uta pondered the idea before looking as though she'd thought of something. Flipping through the book she was writing in, she stopped when she found what she was looking for. "Ah, there it is. Yes, there are a couple varieties of roots that I've identified which could accomplish that. One of them is rather rare and I've only found it rather deep in the forest. The other, while not as common here as it is in more temperate climates, does grow in patches along the fringes of the jungle. It's called, Narnvayt root."
Ialari perked up at the mentioned of the root, "I've heard of that one. I didn't think it would grow here though."
"It does, though only in isolated patches in the jungle fringes. The deeper jungle is too hot and wet for the plant to grow but on the fringes, it does alright." Uta referenced her notes as she spoke.
Ialari replied with a hint of excitement in her voice, "Narnvayt would work perfectly. The oil from the roots is especially foul and will disturb even the strongest stomach."
Uta smiled and gave Ialari some rough directions on the closest patch of Narnvayt that she recalled seeing. "If you could, I would love to have an intact specimen. I used to have a couple plants but they don't do well in pots."
"Of course. My thanks to you, Uta, for the information." Ialari bowed slightly in respect before turning to leave.
As Ialari made her way to the door, Uta spoke up. "Oh, if you're interested in poisons, I know of a place where you can find something quite exciting. She stood up, pulled a piece of paper from her notes and walked over to Ialari. "Here is a map to the place. It's called, Jellyfish Lake. Take a trip there sometime. You'll find an amazing species of jellyfish. Their sting has some rather unique effects. They're highly attracted to humans but I don't know how they will react to you. I could use a few of them if you are so willing."
Ialari took the map and glanced at it before replying with obvious curiosity, "Jellyfish? In an inland lake? I'll check it out after I get the narnvayt. Thank you again, Uta." With that, Ialari left and made her way to the jungle outskirts.
To start, Ialari followed some of the more well used paths that the other Syka settlers had used on the outskirts of the jungle. Such paths however were quickly swallowed by the jungle itself. The jungle floor was covered in slick, wet greenery that hid exposed tree roots. The jungle canopy was still somewhat thin which allowed a bit more light to reach the floor than would otherwise happen deeper in. Ialari's took careful steps while keeping an eye out for signs of her objective. She thought to herself the details of what she was seeking. Ok, the narnvayt plant doesn't grow very tall. It has blade like leaves that are thick and fleshy. She stepped over a large tree root while reaching out for another small tree trunk for stability.
The sounds of the jungle were unique. There were birds singing and calling all around with none of them sounding familiar. Occasionally another call could be heard that Ialari imagined to be that of a monkey somewhere further in. The plants that surrounded her were completely unfamiliar to her and created a scene that felt like another world. Insect sounds filled the gaps between the bird calls. The air was somewhat thick and smelled of a mix of just about everything one could imagine.
As she continued to slowly traverse the area, the thing that drew most of her attention was the mud. Underneath the leaves and tree roots was a thick, ever-present layer of mud. More than once, Ialari found herself stumbling due to her feet getting stuck in the mud. For added effect, an especially annoying fly was constantly trying to find the perfect spot on her body to bite. She smacked at it several times, hitting it a few only to have it fall away and quickly return. The hardened exoskeleton helped it resist her efforts to squash it.
It was hard to keep track of where exactly she was in relation to where she was going. The trees all began looking alike and landmarks were hard to distinguish from one another. After spending more time than she was happy with walking in circles, Ialari tried a different approach. When she wound up back at the point near where she first entered the jungle, she used her metallic fingers to carve into the bark of one of the trees, three slashes. She then did this as she continued on trees that she passed in order to help navigate. This way she could identify where she had already been so that she could proceed in a different direction.
Finally, she began to make progress without doubling back on herself. As wild and diverse the jungle fringes were with life, she didn't see much in terms of larger wildlife. I've probably scared off just about everything with my tromping around.
Eventually, Ialari entered a small clearing. Nearest she could tell she was maybe 50 yards or so into the jungle from the settlement. The clearing was little more than 10 yards across in any direction. Uta's directions had mentioned a clearing but lacked the right details of how to get there easily. Ialari attributed that to the ever growing and changing nature of the jungle. With so much diversity, it inevitable that navigating it would be difficult unless one traveled the same area routinely. As she surveyed the clearing, she caught a promising glimpse. Taking several steps toward what she saw, Ialari realized that she'd found what she was looking for. At first it was just a single fleshy leaf but as she got closer, she saw that there was indeed a decent sized patch of narnvayt. Now in close proximity to the plant, she could smell the pungent aroma that it gave off. It was detectable but not overpowering. If she was remembering correctly, it was the oil extracted from the roots that were the most potent smelling. For now, it smelled like not quite fresh animal dung.
"I forgot how bad this stuff smelled. Well…time to get to work." Ialari unslung her pack, opened the flap and set to harvesting the plants. As she looked around the patch, she noted that there were eight plants that looked mature enough for her purposes while there were several smaller ones. She would leave the smaller ones for possible future harvests. "Ok, I want to be careful with handling this stuff, that smell tends to stick to the skin." In fact, the oily residue on the leaves did stay with the skin for a time. Fabric was a little better off but it would take a bit of cleaning to get the smell out of her pack after putting the plants in it. With her metallic hand and her other hand gloved, she reached for the base of the first plant and felt around to see just how deep the roots went. A shallow-rooted plant, it wasn't difficult to pull it free from the ground while keeping the roots themselves intact. If only the flies would go away. Attracted by the smell of the plant, they were rather thick in the area which made the whole experience rather unpleasant.
One by one, Ialari plucked the narnvayt from the ground and carefully placed the plants in her pack. After collecting all eight of the mature plants and packing them away, she slung her pack back over her shoulder. She then walked over to a nearby tree and carved a deep circle in the bark with her metallic fingers. That way she could identify the area whenever she returned. Quickly she made her way out of the clearing although some of the flies followed.
Following the markings she made on the trees earlier, Ialari made her way back to where she first entered the jungle, cursing the flies the entire way. She returned to her ranchero where, thankfully, the flies thinned out. It was approaching midday when she walked through the door and sat her pack down on the floor next to her worktable. She turned then to her pack and the philtering kit she'd picked up at the Mercantile. She unpacked the kit and began setting up the philtering gear.
The primary tools she would be using were the kit's mortar and pestle. Both were made of carefully carved stone and easily fit in her hands. She sat them on the table before retrieving the first plant. While the plant's roots were the primary source of the oil, the leaves had a bit of their own. Thus, the entire plant could be used to get the most oil possible. With a small bowl of water, Ialari began cleaning the roots of mud and foreign debris. She continued by cleaning the entire plant while changing the water a few times over. When the plant was cleaned to satisfaction, she separated the roots from the rest of the plant. With her dagger, she cut the roots into smaller pieces. Each piece she then used the mortar and pestle to crush. As she crushed the pieces, she extracted the oil and the smell washed over her. The smell alone was enough to make her want to vomit and in fact she was hit with dry heaving.
Holding her breath as long as possible, she continued to crush all of the root pieces as well as the stem and leaves while pouring the crushed mix over a small screen to separate the oil. She then poured the oil from a small bowl to a beaker. Often she had to take a break and step outside for a breath of fresher air before continuing.
When she'd finished extracting the oil from the first plant, Ialari couldn't help but think that consuming the oil would be almost as bad as whatever poison it was meant to combat; the smell was really that bad. This gave Ialari an idea. This horrible smelling foulness…there's got to be a way to… It would require a little bit more work with a different type of plant but Ialari considered making a balm that one could rub under their nose before consuming the oil. There were so many pleasant-smelling flowers all around that they could be turned into a balm that could help with the smell of the oil. Using a bit of balm as a stopper on a vial of oil would allow one to rub the balm under their nose then down the oil. They could purge the poison from their stomach while smelling the scent of flowers at the same time.
For now however, she'd managed to extract the oil…at least from the first plant. She would do the same with five other plants while keeping two for Uta. Although Uta had requested a single plant, Ialari figured two plants would be better especially if Uta was looking to grow some of her own.
Ialari spent the rest of the day extracting the oil from the roots, stems and leaves while taking many breaks from the smell. When she'd finally completed her task, she took time to clean her cloths and implements of the smell. Although it would take a few cleaning sessions, at least the smell had been reduced. The next morning she would make a trip to the Panacea and Uta's to deliver the oil and plants before experimenting with making the balm. She would give the Panacea a total of 12 doses while keeping eight for herself in order to add the balm. Uta would get the two plants and hopefully everyone would be happy.
by Ialari Pythone on February 25th, 2018, 7:48 pm
Thread Grade
Land Navigation: 2 (Jungle)
Wilderness Survival: 1 (Jungle)
Poison: 2
Philtering: 4
Herbalism: 5
Medicine: 1
Lore: Wilderness Survival: The Jungle is filled with poisonous plants and animals.
Lore: Herbalism: Narvayt can be found in the jungle fringes where it isn't as hot or wet.
Lore: Syka: Jellyfish Lake location
Lore: Syka: Jellyfish at Jellyfish Lake have a unique sting.
Lore: Wilderness Survival: Jungle: Experiencing the sights and sounds of the jungle.
Lore: Wildnerness Survival: Jungle: Getting lost and unlost in the jungle outskirts.
Lore: Herbalism: Harvesting Narnvayt
Lore: Poisons: Recognizing the need for protective gear when handling poisonous plants.
Lore: Poisons: Narnvayt smell sticks to the skin and is hard to remove.
Lore: Herbalism: Narnvayt plant and oil smells like animal dung.
Lore: Herbalism: Recognizing the need to not harvest every plant of particular type in a given area.
Lore: Philtering: Using a mortar and pestle to crush parts of a plant and extract oil from it.
Lore: Philtering: Separating oil from plant debris.
Lore: Philtering: Using beakers and vials to collect oil from a crushed plant.
Light blue linen shirt
Dark blue linen trousers
Brown leather gloves
Black head scarf
Philtering kit
Poisoncrafting kit
Cost: 357 GM
20 doses of Narnvayt Oil (8 for Ialari, 12 for the Panacea)
2 Narnvayt plants for Uta


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Out-Law Guide | 18 Dec 2020 | 7:10 pm | 12 min. read
In Australia, certain types of foreign investments are subject to governmental notification or review.
Foreign investments in Australia are regulated by the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 (Cth) (FATA) and Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Regulations 2015 (Cth), and administered by the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB).
Changes to the FATA and FATR ('FIRB changes') will take effect on 1 January 2021. These include:
a new national security test for foreign investment;
tightening of the moneylending exemption;
stronger enforcement powers; and
unwinding of temporary measures introduced in March 2020 in response to Covid-19.
Foreign investment regime
From 1 January 2021, all proposed investments by foreign persons into Australia which raise national security concerns will require FIRB approval, regardless of the value of the transaction or the nature of the foreign investor.
In addition, the monetary threshold for FIRB review is expected to revert to A$1192 million (US$902 million) for Australia's Free Trade Agreement (FTA) partners including the US, China, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam and South Korea. For non-FTA partners, a lower threshold of A$275 million (US$208 million) is expected to apply.
Previously, acquisitions by a 'foreign person' were subject to governmental control for reasons of national interest if they fell in one of two categories: 'significant actions' and 'notifiable actions'.
The FIRB changes introduce a 'notifiable national security action' category, for which foreign persons will need FIRB approval (i.e. a 'no objection' notice). If the Treasurer considers the 'notifiable national security action' to be contrary to Australia's national security, the Treasurer will have powers including the ability to impose conditions on a transaction and the ability to block all or part of a transaction. The powers that the Treasurer will have will be similar to the ones that he currently has for 'significant actions' under the FATA.
Notifiable national security actions
A 'notifiable national security action' will include transactions where a foreign person:
acquires a 'direct interest' (at least 10% or in a position of control or influence) in a 'national security business' or an entity that carries on a 'national security business';
acquires an interest in Australian land that is 'national security land' (which includes defence premises, land which an Australian national intelligence agency has or will have an interest, or land declared by the Treasurer by legislative instrument to be so); or
starts to carry on a 'national security business'.
National security business
'National security business' is defined broadly and includes, among other things, an Australian business that:
is a responsible entity or a direct interest holder in relation to a critical infrastructure asset under the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) – this could include an operator of a water filtration plant or a port;
is a carriage service provider under the Telecommunications Act 1997 (Cth) – this could include an internet service provider or telco;
develops or supplies critical goods, technology or services to Australia's military or a foreign military; or
stores or maintains classified information or personal information relating to Australia's defence and national intelligence, which, if disclosed, could compromise Australia's national security.
Foreign person
The term 'foreign person' is defined broadly in the FATA. A foreign person is:
any individual who does not ordinarily reside in Australia; or
a corporation or trustee of a trust in which an individual not ordinarily resident in Australia, a foreign corporation or a foreign government, holds a substantial interest (at least 20%); or two or more persons, each of whom is an individual not ordinarily resident in Australia, a foreign corporation or a foreign government, hold an aggregate interest of at least 40%; or
a foreign government.
Different, more stringent rules apply to investments by 'foreign government investors' compared to private foreign investors. For example, a foreign government investor needs FIRB approval simply to commence business in Australia. Any entity is a foreign government investor if 20% or more is owned directly or indirectly by a foreign government (which can include, for example, sovereign wealth funds).
Foreign government investor
From 1 January 2021, the definition of foreign government investor (FGI) is expected to loosen so that entities which have more than 40% foreign government ownership but less than 20% from any single foreign government will no longer be a FGI.
Additionally, entities will not be deemed an FGI where the FGI does not have management rights or where the FGI investors do not have influence or control over the investment or operational decisions of the entity or any of its underlying assets. This will enable investment funds to more quickly close deals or acquire sizeable pre-bid stakes below the threshold for private investors without the cost and delay of the FIRB process.
Managing transaction certainty
The FIRB changes allow investors to voluntarily notify FIRB and receive an exemption certificate for a transaction that may be a 'notifiable national security action'. An exemption certificate will provide that a transaction does not constitute a 'notifiable national security action' and is therefore not subject to the FIRB approval and registration requirements.
In order to achieve transaction certainty and minimise closing risk, we expect that investors will require buyers to obtain either an exemption certificate or no objection notice where investors consider that a transaction involves or could involve a 'national security business' or 'national security land'.
Additionally, it will be important for foreign investors to conduct pre-transaction due diligence to determine whether transactions include the acquisition of all or a part of a 'national security business' or 'national security land'. Pre-transaction due diligence, and a comprehensive understanding of whether an exemption certificate or no objection notice should be applied for, will be essential in minimising post-closing review of relevant transactions by FIRB.
The additional due diligence and exemption certificate or FIRB approval conditionality will increase transaction timelines and costs and expenses for affected transactions.
Tightening of moneylending exemption
Taking a security interest in Australian land and certain assets currently requires FIRB approval unless there is an applicable exemption. Under the existing FATA and FIRB regime, secured lenders and security trustees can rely on the moneylending exemption. This exempts them from needing to obtain FIRB approval for secured lending arrangements.
Following substantial industry feedback, the moneylending exemption will remain where foreign secured lenders and foreign security trustees acquire security interests in Australian land that is 'national security land', exploration tenements in respect of 'national security land' or assets of a 'national security business'. As a result, there are no new FIRB notification obligations for foreign secured lenders and foreign security trustees when the security interest is granted.
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The recent changes to the foreign investment regime have certainly had the effect of making foreign investment more scrutinised in Australia but aside from taking a little longer there has been little change to the approval process except in certain areas such as renewable energy. However the proposed national security test in the forthcoming legislation could be significant depending on how it is ultimately framed.
However, FIRB approval is needed if an acquisition occurs by enforcing a security interest over national security land or a national security business, unless the enforcing entity is a receiver, or a receiver and manager.
The changes to the moneylending exemption will mean that:
all secured lenders and security trustees from 1 January 2021 will need to confirm whether they are a "foreign person" under FATA because, if assets of a "national security business" or "national security land" form part of the security interests securing a moneylending agreement, all secured lenders and security trustees will need certainty as to whether the enforcement of such security interests require FIRB approval or not;
for secured loan transactions after 1 January 2021, secured lenders and security trustees that are foreign persons will need to conduct due diligence on the business and assets of the borrower and its subsidiaries to determine whether it owns "national security land" or any part of its business is a "national security business";
if a security trustee or secured lender that is a foreign person enforces a security interest in assets of a "national security business" or "national security land", then such security trustee or secured lender will be required to notify FIRB and have that acquisition approved;
following an enforcement of security interests from 1 January 2021, any foreign person who acquires a legal interest in security comprising "national security business" or "national security land" from a security trustee or secured lender will need FIRB approval.
We expect that from 1 January 2021, secured lenders and security trustees will likely seek:
amendments to existing loan documentation to include representations, warranties and undertakings not to acquire a "national security business" or "national security land" without FIRB approval; and
FIRB approval as a condition precedent to financial close where the security package includes assets of a "national security business" or "national security land", which will impact transaction timelines and expenses.
The expectation is that foreign syndicate lenders that are the beneficiaries of a security trust do not have a 'legal' interest but, rather, have a 'beneficial' interest and so will not require FIRB approval even if the security trust includes security interests in assets of a "national security businesses" or "national security land". In this scenario, only the security trustee will be required to obtain FIRB approval to the extent it is a foreign person. While the Federal Government has indicated that this is the intention, it remains to be seen whether the final version of the regulations will reflect this.
Foreign investment notifications are filed with the Treasurer through the online FIRB applications portal. The role of FIRB is to review and advise the Treasurer as to the national interest implications of the notified proposed foreign investment.
Once an application has been made, FIRB generally reviews the application and provides the applicant with requests for further information where required, however the final decision to grant or refuse FIRB approval for reasons of national interest rests with the Treasurer.
Where the applicant has complied with the provisions of FATA, the Treasurer has 30 days from the date that the application fee is paid to review and make a decision on whether to grant FIRB approval. That timeframe can be extended by up to 90 days with written notice to the applicant. FIRB approval will generally be granted unless the foreign investment is considered a threat to Australia's national interests or contrary to Australia's national security.
The term 'national interest' is not defined in the FATA. However, Australia's Foreign Investment Policy (19-page / 404KB PDF), as updated in April 2020, provides a non-exhaustive list of factors that are typically considered:
type of investment – whether or not the investment is in a sensitive business and its effects;
national security – the extent to which the investment will affect Australia's ability to protect its strategic and security interests;
competition – whether it would promote healthy competition;
impact on the economy and community – the extent to which the investment will develop and provide fair return for the Australian people (e.g. creation of jobs).
character of the investor – corporate governance practice of the investor and the basis of operations and regulations.
The fee payable to FIRB for giving notice of a 'notifiable national security action' will be proportionate to the transaction value, and can amount up to A$500,000 (US$380,000).
Legal consequences
Upon review, it is within the Treasurer's power in relation to significant, notifiable and national security notifiable actions to permit a foreign investment with or without additional conditions, prohibit the foreign investment or, as a last resort, have the investment unwound.
New 'call-in' power
The FIRB changes include a new 'call-in' power which enables the Treasurer to review and make orders in relation to transactions or proposed transactions that are 'reviewable national security actions' under the FIRB changes or 'significant actions' under the current FATA that occur after 1 January 2021 and were not otherwise notified to the Treasurer.
If the Treasurer uses call-in powers with respect to a transaction and determines that such transaction poses a national security concern, the Treasurer may:
require information from the parties, i.e. functionally requiring a FIRB application for no objection;
make orders prohibiting the transaction or requiring the disposal of an interest acquired (if the transaction has closed); or
impose conditions on the transaction.
The FIRB changes impose a 10 year time limit on the ability of the Treasurer to exercise the call-in powers with respect to a transaction.
A 'reviewable national security action' is defined broadly under the FIRB changes and includes the acquisition by a foreign person of an interest in an Australian business, land or securities. The expectation is that the term is intended to capture transactions that do not constitute significant actions, notifiable actions or notifiable national security actions because they do not meet the relevant thresholds but otherwise give rise to national security concerns.
As with notifiable national security actions, the FIRB changes allow investors to voluntarily notify FIRB and apply for an exemption certificate with respect to a transaction that may constitute a reviewable national security action. Obtaining an exemption certificate will prohibit the Treasurer from exercising call-in powers and reviewing the transaction after signing an acquisition agreement or closing.
In order to achieve transaction certainty and minimise closing risk, we expect that the majority of transactions after 1 January 2021 will require buyers to obtain an exemption certificate if there is any risk a transaction may be assessed to be a reviewable national security action. As with notifiable national security actions, pre-transaction due diligence will be key in determining whether an exemption certificate should be sought to remove the risk that conditionality will be imposed, or divestment will be required, after the execution of an acquisition agreement or acquisition closing.
New 'last resort' power
Obtaining a no objection notice or an exemption certificate for a notifiable national security action or a reviewable national security action will not prevent the Treasurer exercising the 'last resort' power also granted under the FIRB changes. The last resort power will allow the Treasurer to review transactions where, since the initial no objection notice or exemption certificate was issued, the nature or circumstances of the foreign person has changed, or there was a material omission or misstatement in the original FIRB application. There is no time period associated with the last resort power, and it is expected that the Treasurer will be able to exercise it at any time.
The explanatory memorandum for the FIRB changes indicates that the last resort power will only be exercised in exceptional circumstances and after good faith negotiations with the foreign person to minimise the national security risk. It will be important for foreign investors that applications for no objection notices or exemption certificates contain accurate and complete information to minimise the risk that last resort powers will be exercised and also that legal advice is obtained before substantial restructurings of the foreign investor.
Imposition of conditions
In the event that an application raises national interest concerns, the Treasurer will impose conditions on the FIRB approval in order to mitigate those risks and concerns. Generally, we are seeing more conditions being imposed on FIRB approvals, consistent with the tightening of the foreign investment regime.
To date, the majority of the conditions imposed on non-residential applications relate to potential tax risks. However, there have been increasing numbers of bespoke conditions drafted and imposed on FIRB approvals which are considered to be sensitive to national interest, such as applications in relation to Australian energy assets.
The increased imposition of conditions together with the 2018 decision by the Treasurer to reject a A$13 billion (US$10bn) proposed takeover bid for Australian gas pipeline company, APA, by Hong Kong's CKI, indicates an increase in the scrutiny of FIRB applications made by foreign investors in relation to Australian infrastructure and energy assets.
Increased penalties
From 1 January 2021, the maximum penalty for a contravention of the FATA will increase ten thousand fold to A$555m (US$420m), and individuals can face up to 10 years' imprisonment.
Criminal and civil penalties may apply if a foreign person:
fails to give a notice before taking a notifiable action or notifiable national security action;
takes a significant action before the end of the determination period;
contravenes a condition imposed on the FIRB approval; or
contravenes an order made by the Treasurer in relation to the significant action or notifiable national security action, which includes imposing conditions, prohibiting the action or requiring the action to be undone.
We note that an officer of a corporation who authorises or permits the corporation to commit an offence or contravene a civil penalty, or fails to prevent a contravention of a civil penalty provision, may also be found to commit an offence or contravene a civil penalty provision. This means that the directors and officers of a corporation may be personally liable if the corporation is found to have breached the provisions of the FATA.
Register of Foreign Ownership
As part of the FIRB changes, the Australian government will introduce a 'register of foreign ownership' that will merge the existing agricultural land, water and residential registers. Foreign persons will be required to register, among other things, legal interests acquired in certain Australian land and notifiable national security actions that occur from 1 January 2021 and within 30 days of the relevant registrable event occurring.
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[S1597] FamilySearch Labs Record Search (LDS) online at http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/, Bap. 29 Nov 1797 Robert s/o Stephen FAIRBARN, Stamfordham, NBL, from England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 batch P00447-1 film 95028, extracted Apr 2012.
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PUBLISHED: 12:15 09 March 2015 | UPDATED: 17:25 09 March 2015
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St Albans City joint manager James Gray has threatened to make changes to the squad in the coming weeks if performances don't improve.
The Saints haven't won a Vanarama Conference South game in seven weeks and have picked up just two wins in their last 14.
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