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OTTAWA ? Just in time for Halloween, Canada?s most decorated literary doyenne ? Margaret Atwood ? has co-written a serialized zombie novel with a promising British author that will be posted chapter by chapter on the Canadian-based story-sharing website Wattpad.
Atwood, the Booker- and Giller-prizewinning author of such renowned works as The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake and Alias Grace, was scheduled to upload the first chapter of the new comic-horror novel ? titled The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home and co-written by 37-year-old U.K. writer Naomi Alderman ? on Wednesday to www.wattpad.com.
Alderman?s first chapter and Atwood?s second instalment are also expected to be available Wednesday, with other chapters to appear weekly until early January.
In an excerpt of the story made available to Postmedia News, Atwood?s narrator sets the scene of an apparent zombie infestation in Toronto, where the risen undead roam about the city in search of living humans to devour.
(Note to Canada: Let the metaphorical interpretations of Hogtown?s night of the living dead pour forth.) ?I for one am not about to allow my arm be chewed off just because another person ? another former person ? is feeling like a snack,? Atwood?s unfazed, rhubarb-growing, zombie-killing retiree, Clio, a cucumber-cool, garden-tool-wielding resident of upscale Rosedale, states.
Although Atwood has made celebrated and chilling forays into the world of science fiction ? or what she has preferred to label ?speculative fiction? ? with novels such as The Handmaid?s Tale, her embrace of pop culture?s ongoing fascination with zombies (in films such as Dawn/Shaun/Juan of the Dead, and in annual, pre-Halloween corpse parades in towns and cities everywhere) may come as a surprise to her millions of fans in Canada and around the world.
But as a writer who gained national prominence in 1969 with a first novel titled The Edible Woman, the 72-year-old Atwood has evidently been intrigued by cannibalism ? at least on a figurative level ? for decades.
?We are so proud that Margaret and Naomi chose Wattpad as a way to quickly and easily share this work with a global audience of millions,? Wattpad CEO Allen Lau, the Canadian high-tech entrepreneur who launched the storytelling website in 2006, said in announcing the authors? new zombie novel.
?They both understand the new patterns of engagement that are happening around serially published stories,? he added.
?The majority of people on Wattpad are reading on their mobile phones, so we believe there is a great fit between serialization and today?s mobile-first, social networked culture. The chapter-by-chapter model is something that is helping many writers connect with readers to find success.?
The two writers embarked on the zombie project after Atwood selected Alderman ? who already has several published works ? as her apprentice wordsmith through the Rolex Mentor and Prot?g? Arts Initiative, described as ?an international program that pairs established artists with emerging artists in the fields of literature, architecture, dance, film, music, theatre, and visual arts for a year of creative collaboration.?
In a statement about the zombie tale issued by Wattpad, the two writers are said to have enjoyed ?setting each other up? by ending instalments in a way that requires the other author to ?write her way out of an emotionally heavy scene? or ? in one case of retaliation by Alderman ? ?leaving frightful problems for Atwood to solve? following an ?insanely action-packed? sequence of events.
?The whole process kept me on my toes; it was a lot of fun,? Atwood said in a statement. ?We shared interests in technology, the history of religion, and little-known monsters.?
Alderman acknowledged that ?it was pretty daunting to know that my words would be sitting next to those of my personal writing hero. But once I managed to swallow that ? like a zombie chewing on delicious brains ? it became gleefully joyful to think of some interesting challenges and new wrinkles on what we?d done already.?
This year, Atwood agreed to lend her name to a new online poetry prize ? ?The Attys? ? sponsored by Wattpad, which claims a global community of about 10 million users.
Atwood, as part of an online collection titled Thriller Suite, has posted original poems of her own at the Wattpad website. And she has promoted the social media tool for writers as an important new incubator of literary talent.
Atwood told Postmedia News in August that Wattpad ?allows people in developing countries who may have no books, no libraries, no schools and no infrastructure ? but who may have a cellphone ? to have access to both reading and writing. And it allows early writers to practise their skills with a sympathetic audience.?
Atwood, who won the 1966 Governor General?s Award for her poetry collection The Circle Game, has a track record of embracing new publishing-related technologies.
She invented a device called the Long Pen to allow her to conduct virtual book signings around the world. She was also an early adapter to Twitter and recently published the short story I?m Starved For You as a $2.99 e-book with a U.S.-based digital publisher.
?I like to try things out for myself to see how they work ? fuller report later,? Atwood said in August. ?A lot of earlier publication modes are making a comeback via the Internet, serial publication among them.?
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Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/books/Atwood+tales+from+netherworld/7436141/story.html
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He?ll have to wait until 2019 to open it, but it looks like Crown Ltd. boss James Packer will realize his dream of having a casino in Sydney, Australia. Packer has long desired to build a $1b hotel-casino in the Barangaroo redevelopment in Sydney Harbor, but rival operator Echo Entertainment?s Star Casino holds a monopoly license on casinos in Sydney until 2019. Packer already had the support of New South Wales? ruling Liberal party and Premier Barry O?Farrell, but the opposition Labor party has now agreed to back Packer?s casino aspirations, subject to certain conditions.
Chief among these conditions is maintaining Echo?s monopoly until 2019 so as to avoid requiring the state to pay hefty compensation. Crown also won?t be able to install any video poker machines on the premises, but the focus of Crown?s new venue will be on the Asian VIP gambling market, and whales don?t play the pokies, so no big whoop. Labor also insisted on the development providing ?a fair rate of return for the state,? which is sufficiently vague to allow room for haggling down the road.
The project is expected to be formally accepted by O?Farrell?s cabinet on Monday but will still face a lot of legislative i-dotting and t-crossing, and there is some grumbling that NSW should put the second casino license out for public tender lest it miss out on extra revenue that a bidding war could provide. But no tender would be required if Crown could demonstrate that its facility would offer a ?unique service.?
Earlier this year, Packer had applied to increase Crown?s roughly 10% stake in Echo to 25%, reportedly for the purpose of installing enough friendly votes on Echo?s board to compel Echo to share its monopoly license via a joint venture with Crown. The Australian reported that newly installed Echo chairman John O?Neill admitted having a ?preliminary? and ?informal? discussion with Crown on a potential JV. However, Packer?s gambit was complicated after Asian gambling outfit Genting took its own stake in Echo with an idea toward entering into its own JV. Whether either party will now follow up on those share purchase applications remains to be seen.
ONE GAMBLER DEALS, ANOTHER DISAPPEARS
David Walsh, founder of Tasmania?s popular Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) and member of the Punters Club mega-whale sports betting outfit, has reached a settlement on his $37m back-tax court fight with the Australian Tax Office (ATO). The ATO went after Walsh for years of unpaid taxes on his share of the Punters Club?s winnings, based on the ATO?s opinion that the Club was a business and thus the winnings represented taxable earnings. From the start, Walsh maintained that he was willing to pay taxes on his winnings going forward, but resented the ATO?s obsession with the past. Neither party has revealed the size of the check Walsh wrote to end the matter, but Walsh issued a statement saying the matter had been ?completely resolved.?
Yet to be resolved is Aussie betting outfit Sportsbet?s case against Eddie Hayson, owner of the Stiletto brothel in Camperdown, a suburb of Sydney. Hayson ran up a $1.7m marker with Sportsbet and the two parties had worked out a deal for Hayson to pay it off via installments, with the understanding that the authorities would be involved if Hayson didn?t honor the agreement. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Hayson owes a further $1m to bookie Tom Waterhouse, but at least that debt is covered by caveats attached to Hayson?s properties. (Waterhouse gets the cathouse!) When Hayson failed to make his Sportsbet payments, a date was set this Tuesday in NSW Supreme Court, but Hayson failed to appear. It?s not known whether Hayson appeared Wednesday in a separate court hearing regarding a request for a restraining order made by Hayson?s ex-wife. Stay classy, Eddie?
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Army leaders announced Monday they will open the Rifleman and Manpack Radio competitions Monday with the defense industry eager to tackle a contract that could yield a multi-billion dollar purse as the Army looks to reinvigorate their aging communications architecture.
The Army has listed its Network and communications systems as the service?s top modernization priority. The Pentagon canceled the Joint Tactical Radio System. Army officials, however, look to salvage the Rifleman and Manpack Radio systems that fell under JTRS.
General Dynamics has received an order from the Army for 3,726 Manpacks. Army officials have ordered another 19,327 Rifleman Radios splitting the order between General Dynamics and Thales.
Despite the orders, the Army chose to open the competition to bidders. Army leaders said on the floor at the Association of the U.S. Army that they have not lost faith in either General Dynamics or Thales to build the radios, but its in the best interests of the Army to review as many offers as possible.
Heidi Shyu, the Army?s acquisition chief, has made clear her desire to instill as much competition as possible in order to save money.
The Manpacks have also already run into problems in testing at the White Sands Missile Range where the Army holds the Network Integration Evaluation. Independent Pentagon testers found the Manpacks didn?t hold up in simulated combat conditions. General Dynamics contends the conditions were too extreme with the multitude of radios in the desert causing problems with all radios in the area.
A host of companies are expected to bid to build the two radio systems to include BAE Systems, Harris as well as General Dynamic and Thales. With so few defense contracts up for bid, this one will draw a considerable amount of attention.
Source: http://defensetech.org/2012/10/22/army-opens-manpack-and-rifleman-radio-competitions/
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Some 14,000 patients who received tainted pain shots tied to a growing outbreak of fungal meningitis soon could have better clues about whether they?re likely to get sick, health officials said. The outbreak has caused 297 infections and 23 deaths in 16 states.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/vp/49509476#49509476
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The Woodfuel Woodland Improvement Grant
The Woodfuel WIG is a great opportunity for owners, managers and agents to start to manage woodlands and access the growing woodfuel market. You can take advantage of this time-limited opportunity to fund projects worth anything up to ?250,000. The grant can cover 60% of your costs. But there is a deadline for applications. You will need to have an approved application in place by the end of December 2013.? Attend one of the FREE training days which will leave you equipped to successfully make a Woodfuel WIG application, details of the events and links to the booking site are below:
If you can?t make one of the above events, then a quick search on the Woodfuel WIG Hub page will provide you with the relevant information.
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u will find a useful checklist for making an application, and you can read about how the Clinton Estate improved the road access on their estate through succesfully applying for the Woodfuel WIG.
Source: http://www.sylva.org.uk/blog/woodfuel-woodland-improvement-grant-upcoming-training-days/
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?I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. ? ~Jane Wagner
Complaining?we all do it. Sometimes we do it a lot. Mostly we don?t recognize just how much we do it.? Personally I sometimes think that complaining is sort of like anger, but without real enthusiasm.
We complain about the weather (as if we could change it), we whine about the price of gas, we grumble about our bosses, other drivers, shoddy workmanship, poor service.? If you can name it, we complain about it.
A number of years ago while a presenter at a weekend wellness retreat, one of the other organizers offered all of us a challenge : Would we, could we, go without complaining for our time together?
For her model, she followed a program outlined in the book ?Complaint Free World? by Will Bowen.? The practice began with wearing a purple rubber bracelet on your wrist.? Simple enough.? Each time we caught ourselves complaining we were to switch the bracelet to the opposite wrist.? Oh yes, if we noticed someone else complaining, we were to point it out to them so they could move their bracelet.? And yes too, if we complained that THEY were complaining, WE had to move our bracelets as well.
And how exactly did Bowen define complaining?? He said it was ?expressing discontent, pain or grief with the way things are?.
The practice also included? criticizing or gossiping.
In Bowen?s book, he would have us follow the program for 21 days, restarting the clock each time we found ourselves needing to ?switch wrists?.
If you find yourself wondering what?s so bad about complaining you first need to take a step back and recognize the power that words have to shape the reality we experience.? When we change the words we use, we can also change the way we think and act.? This is an amazing concept I know, but just consider the following statements:
It?s pretty obvious which statement feels more positive, more ?in charge? of life as it?s happening,? less reactive, more proactive.
Bowen reminds us that complaining, can become a habitual practice and lead to ?focusing on what we don?t want?.? In doing so we direct more energy and more attention to the negative than the positive.
When it comes to making changes which make life better, dissatisfaction is an necessary first step.? But if we stay there, says Bowen, ?we never move forward to brighter vistas. Were the great leaders of the United States also great complainers? I?d have to say no. These important men and women allowed dissatisfaction to drive them to great visions, and their passion for these visions inspired others to follow them.?
In dialing down the quantity of our complaint factory output, we go through stages:
All ideas have power, and this one certainly does.? More than 10 million ?Complaint Free? bracelets have been delivered to folks in over 106 countries. Here?s the link for the ?Complaint Free World? site, and a link to purchase your very own purple bracelets for a buck each.? What?s to complain about that?
Peace- Judi England, RN, LMT, Kripalu Yoga Instructor ? yogajudi@aol.com ? 10/22/2012
Source: http://blog.timesunion.com/holistichealth/enjoy-the-donut-not-the-hole/10146/
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