Valhalla

• Further opportunities for value creation continue at pace, to drive the recovery of the business and its transition back to sustained growth.
• MPC: In the first half of the year, MPC contributed to the successful release of highly anticipated movies and major franchise productions.
• Under the leadership of Andy Emery, appointed President of Technicolor Games in the first quarter 2023, the Brand is further developing Technicolor Creative Studios’ gaming business, at a time of increasing demand for higher quality graphics and greater complexity of games.
• Technicolor Creative Studios also continues to invest in innovation and technology to further enhance creativity.

• Review: Wall – Jen Craig (Puncher & Wattmann) Wall is the third short novel Craig has published over the past 13 years.
• I only managed to get a copy when her agent Martin Shaw noted on Twitter that Craig herself would individually mail copies to interested readers.
• Craig even managed to secure an interview on Michael Silverblat’s KCRW radio show Bookworm – the on-air Valhalla of contemporary experimental novelists.
• Read more:
  In Bon and Lesley, Shaun Prescott has written an Australian horror story of uniquely local proportions

Whirling monologue

• The unnamed narrator is an Australian artist,
  who moved to London in the late 1980s to escape her difficult, estranged family in Sydney.
• Teun holds strongly critical views – at least, in the narrator’s account – of her family and old friends.
• The plot is more complex than it seems at first, because virtually all of its major events occur in the background and are reported second-hand in the narrator’s anxiously whirling monologue.
• She ultimately protests a public lecture by Lord, staging a “splattered body intervention”, which seems to be a decades-delayed response to the undergraduate happening.
• Read more:
  Enraged, tragic and hopeful: Alexis Wright's new novel Praiseworthy explores Aboriginal sovereignty in the shadow of the anthropocene

Trans-generational effects

• Craig’s exegetical writing on her own work is about anorexia, trauma, and trauma’s durational and trans-generational effects.
• For these characters, past trauma lives in the present and can only be repeated and responded to.
• This becomes clear when Eileen (yet another punning name) disappears and the narrator visits her family to track her down.
• It also invokes material that recalls, but does not quite replicate, the key scenario of Since the Accident.

• Valhalla Private Capital is holding Vantage, Early-Stage Investing 2023 Summit on March 22, 2023.
• “There is an immense opportunity regionally for local and national private firms and individual investors to thrive.
• It is the smaller deals, startups, and pre-seed asset class of investors who are fueling the next generation of companies, founders and deal flow.
• Valhalla Private Capital ’s ‘Vantage: Early Stage Investing in 2023, from the comfort of Aspen Properties’ The Ampersand on 22 March.

• CALGARY, Alberta, Feb. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CSV Midstream Solutions Corp. (“CSV” or the “Company”), an independent midstream company based in Calgary, is pleased to announce the acquisition of KANATA Energy Group (“KANATA”).
• The gas plants are strategically located near CSV’s greenfield Albright sour gas processing project, and the Company’s Resthaven Gas Plant, respectively.
• The KANATA assets will add over 150 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) net processing capacity to CSV’s currently forecasted capacity of 470 MMcf/d.
• CSV expects the deal to enhance its ability to provide reliable gas processing services to an expanded customer base.