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Sheffield Theatres 2020 season to include Tom Bateman and four world premieres – WhatsOnStage.com

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Sheffield Theatres' new spring/ summer 2020 season will feature a world premiere by Chlo Moss, Tom Bateman in his Sheffield Theatres' debut and two plays by Bryony Lavery.

Artistic director Robert Hastie's new season opens with the world premire of Chlo Moss' Run Sister Run, a co-production with Paines Plough and Soho Theatre and directed by Paines Plough's new co-artistic director Charlotte Bennett. Run Sister Run will play from 27 February to 21 March.

Tom Bateman makes his Sheffield Theatres debut in the title role of Coriolanus. Adapted and directed by Hastie, the production sees the artistic director return to Shakespeare's political plays after his inaugural Sheffield Theatres production of Julius Caesar. Coriolanus will play from 6 to 28 March.

Additional co-productions include Everybody's Got to Leave Sometime with Dante or Die and playing in May 2020 and This is What She Said to Me with Utopia Theatre, conceived and directed by Moji Elufowoju and written by Oladipo Agboluaje. This is What She Said to Me plays from 18 June to 4 July.

As previously announced, the theatre play host to a new production of Oliver Twist, in a co-production with Leeds Playhouse and Ramps on the Moon and one of two plays in the season by Lavery. Amy Leach will direct the show, which plays from 13 to 23 May.

Completing the season is Justin Martin's production of Oscar and the Pink Lady by Lavery, adapted from the novel by ric-Emmanuel Schmitt. The show will run from 26 June to 18 July and is directed by Justin Martin.

Artistic director Hastie said of the season: "Next season sees us continue this commitment to new writing with four world premires across our stages Run Sister Run, Here's What She Said To Me, Oscar and the Pink Lady and Everybody's Got to Leave Sometime. Three are by British writers whose heart and humour leap off the page, and one co-created with Sheffield People's Theatre, our company of Sheffield citizens whose determination to break new ground with every project is inspirational.

"We compliment the new, with one of Shakespeare's greatest plays Coriolanus, and a society in turmoil. The old ways are being challenged by a new breed of political player, and caught in the middle is a famous soldier whose ambition clashes with his contempt for the people he wants to lead. Beginning my tenure at Sheffield by directing Julius Caesar showed me the power of big Roman plays in the Crucible's forum-like auditorium. It's a public stage for big ideas and bold performers, and I'm thrilled to be working with Tom Bateman on Coriolanus as he returns to the stage to play the title role."

Powers Of X: 10 Things Fans Should Know About The X-Men 100 Years In The Future – CBR – Comic Book Resources

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Jonathan Hickman'sHouse of X/Powers of X event has been reshaping the X-Men and their place in the Marvel Universe, as the line heads towards the "Dawn of X" relaunch. To do this, each issue released weekly has been telling an oddly linear non-linear story that takes place across different timelinesduringdifferent time periods withinthose timelines.

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Thanks to the newly-revealed abilities of Moira X, she has had lifetimes tosee if and how the mutant race can survive. So far, sadly, the answer she's found is that they can't survive. This was shown perfectly by the brief look at the X-Men from 100 years in the future, which revealed some interesting information about the team, Moira, and their place in the Dawn of X.

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Technically, we've seen what the X-Men might look like a hundred years in the future already, when Marvel launched their2099 line of comics. This series introduced new characters based on present-day heroes, as they existed about a hundred years in the future.

The X-Men 2099 were mutants who followed in the same footsteps as Xavier, though their members were not connected to the present-day team beyond serving as inspirations. With the 2099 characters set for a return in upcoming Marvel storylines, it seemed important to specify that these are different X-Men from the future.

Given that this team of X-Men appears 100 years in the future, it would be nice to think that they are flourishing and co-existing with humanity in Xavier's dream utopia. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. Earth has been taken over by Nimrod and the Sentinels, who work together with enslaved humans to wipe mutants off the face of the Earth.

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Theyhave almost succeeded in this mission: the majority of mutantkind escaped to the Shi'ar Empire, while the remains of the X-Men stayed behind to continue the fight. The total population of mutants left on Earth whenreaders were introduced to the X-Men of the future? Eight.

Our first introduction to the X-Men of the future comes during one of their final battles, as a team of familiar but different mutants fight against cybernetically-enhanced humans and Sentinels from the Man-Machine Ascendency.

The mutant known as Rasputin is an amalgamation of mutantgenes from Colossus, Quentin Quire, Shadowcat, X-23, and Unus the Untouchable. Her partner is the pacifist known as Cardinal, who resembles a red-tinged Nightcrawler and is also made from multiple strains of mutant DNA.

The hybrid mutants Rasputin and Cardinal were actually the third attempts at genetically engineering a new race of mutants using thecombined DNA of multiple mutants, and they were known as Chimaera mutants. We saw the beginnings of Sinister's DNA database inPowers of X, whichwas originally requested by Xavier and Magneto.

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As revealed by the additional information included in the issues, following the decliningmutant population and constant threat from humanity, Sinister set up breeding pits on Mars and went about constructing mutant combinations based around military operations. The Man-Machine Ascendency would replicate this process with its less successful HOUND program.

Asteroid K serves as the last bastion of the mutant race on Earth and is a remnant of Krakoa that floats above the Earth in orbit. The remaining X-Men were forced to relocate there after the fall of Krakoa on Earth, which was followed by the destruction of the breeding pits on Mars.

While the majority of the mutant race then left for the safety of Shi'ar space, the X-Men set up shop on the space-bound Krakoa, which is fitting considering that a chunk of Krakoa was hurled into space during the legendaryGiant-SizeX-Men #1, which rebooted the team back in 1975.

While our first introduction to the team is through the Chimaera mutant hybrids, when they reach Asteroid K the remaining mutants are revealed and they include a couple of familiar faces. Leading the team is Wolverine, who appears to have shrunk a bit in his older age but is still the same old Logan.

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He is joined by the powerful mutant Xorn, whose abilities derive from a singularity that is housed within his head. Joining the present-day members is a Groot-like being that is revealed to be Krakoaand Cypher in a merged state, though his dialogue indicatesthat Cypher is no longer with them.

The team is revealed to be discussing their plans with none other than Apocalypse himself, who (up until this point in the comics) was always more of an enemy than an ally. His role as the leader of this future team of X-Men gave readers a few clues about these characters and their role in the timelines ofHoX/PoX.

The mutants we previously discussed are actually Apocalypse's Four Horseman, along with North, a Chimaera mutant with the abilities of Lorna Dane and Emma Frost. As revealed by the info sheets, Wolverine is War, Xorn is Death, North isPestilenceand Krakoa/Cypher is Famine.

Apocalypse led his Four Horseman on a final mission into the Man-Machine Ascendency's archives, while the Chimaera mutants (and Xorn) distracted Nimrod's forces. Their mission was to locate the date that Nimrod would come online in the past, which proved to be incredibly important given all the sacrifices made.

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Not only were the Chimaera mutants wiped out when Xorn's mask was removed and his singularity exposed, but Apocalypse and his Horsemen were also taken out by Nimrod. Wolverine was the only survivor to make it back to Asteroid K with the recovered information.

The Chimaera mutants' distraction was simply an attempt to buy Apocalypse and his Horsemen time in the archives. While Rasputin, North, and Xorn were more than eager to fight, Cardinal was genetically cursed with pacifism and usually unable to join in the battle.

However, he revealedthat he had taken a "terminal apocalypse seed" to deal with his usual peaceful nature. Apocalypse has used Death and Life seeds of Celestial origin before, but given his connection to Krakoa and the role the plants are playing inHoX/PoX, we have to wonder what other kinds of seeds the X-Men are using to amp up their powers.

As we previously mentioned, Moira X's mutant abilities allow her to live her life beginning to end multiple times, and she retains the memories from each lifetime. She has spent these lives on various paths that explored the options available to mutant-kind, with each action usually resulting indisastrous consequences for mutants and/or humans.

When the Wolverine of the future escaped back to Krakoa after the X-Men's final mission, he awakened Moira from her stasis, which revealed that this was the version of Moira who had attempted to follow Apocalypse's way to save mutantkind, apparently to no avail. The information about Nimrod's beginning in the past was downloadedby Moira and she was killed by Wolverine, ending her ninth life alongside Apocalypse's X-Men and beginning the timeline ofHouse of X.

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NPRs Aarti Shahani tells her familys immigration nightmare in Here We Are – San Francisco Chronicle

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Aarti Shahani, NPRs Silicon Valley correspondent, has a new book coming out, Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares. Photo: Michael Short / Special to The Chronicle

Aarti Shahani opens the door to her Oakland home in Fruitvale with a wide smile, asks her 20-year-old nephew Akshay to please keep the noise down as he fires up a blender in the kitchen and then sits down in a comfy chair in the living room with her legs and bare feet tucked casually beneath her.

Its 9/11 today. How fitting, she says.

It does feel like a meaningful coincidence that Shahani, NPRs technology correspondent, whose voice is familiar to public-radio listeners from her on-air interviews with Silicon Valley tech titans, is discussing her new memoir, Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, on the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a flash point for the United States complicated view of immigrants.

Shahanis heartfelt, galvanizing new book charts the protracted criminal justice nightmare her own immigrant family endured after her father was arrested for mistakenly selling electronics to the infamous Cali cartel in the mid 90s. He suffered under threat of deportation for a decade after that. Shahanis deep, personal commitment to advocating for immigrant rights was profoundly shaped by those events, as well as the unfortunate aftermath of 9/11.

I write in my book about being on the front lines of a history thats really important to remember, and it includes aspects of post-9/11 life in America which were toxic and awful, and which we have to watch out for, like the near-immediate roundups of brown men, Shahani said. But seeing President Obamas tweet this morning about veterans volunteering to clean up Ellis Island, I found myself thinking that this day also reminds us of the sense of unity were capable of, the good things we find in service and in loyalty to each other.

That duality Shahanis abiding love for an adopted countrys inclusive ideals, and her scorn for those ideals being debased through policies that discriminate against immigrants and the poor is at the heart of the provocative book she says she ran away from writing for a number of years.

Here We Are begins in 1981 when 1-year-old Aarti, her two older siblings and her parents, both Indian refugees who had been displaced by the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh partition, arrive with just a few thousand dollars in teeming, multiethnic Flushing, Queens (one of the most diverse tracts of land on the planet), from Morocco, where Shahani was born, to start a new life.

Undocumented at first, the Shahanis received their green cards a few years later, but carving out a new life remained a steep uphill climb. Shahanis mother found work in a bridal sweatshop. Her father, Namdev, an introvert with a head for numbers, resigned himself to manual labor, until he was eventually able to start a wholesale electronics store with his younger brother in Manhattan.

Utopia was so close, Shahani, 39, writes in a chapter describing how that vision fizzled in 1996, the moment she arrived home from high school (she had won a scholarship to the prestigious Brearley School) to find that her father and uncle had been arrested for unwittingly selling watches and calculators to Colombian drug lords.

Led astray by a lawyer who convinced him a trial would be too risky, Shahanis father pleaded guilty to money laundering and was sentenced to eight months at Rikers Island. His conviction, followed by a rapid decline in his health and spirits, transformed teenage Aarti overnight from a brainy 12th-grader focused on Model U.N. and wanting to be supernormal into a tenacious young activist attuned to the injustices of a broken immigration system.

Shahani spent the next 15 years doing everything she could think of writing letters to the judge, speaking out publicly, lobbying Congress to exonerate her father and avert his deportation. In 2002, she founded the nonprofit Families for Freedom to defend other families facing deportation.

I spent my 20s regurgitating legal facts and talking points first time, nonviolent offense, eight-month sentence, the judge said on the record hes paid an inordinate price, et cetera because I was campaigning to make my father stay here, Shahani said. I had that rap down. What I had never explored was, What was it doing to our father-daughter relationship?

Her fathers residency in the U.S. was secure only after he became a U.S. citizen in 2009. He died not long afterward. Shahani herself became a citizen at 21 during the year she took off from the University of Chicago to work on her dads case.

Here We Are is a persuasive critique of the impossibly stacked deck against poor immigrants like Namdev Shahani who are pressured to take plea bargains (Aarti Shahanis explanation of the trial penalty he faced is indispensable), but its also a coming-of-age story of an ambitious, whip-smart daughter getting to know herself better as her Old World father comes into clearer view.

Its about me exploring, how did this guy who was basically a stranger growing up become my best friend in the context of the case that destroyed his life? Shahani said.

In conversation, Shahani is a sharp thinker and articulates with matter-of-fact candor the ins and outs of her fathers prolonged legal jeopardy. But her voice slows and grows quieter when she reflects on the deeper reason she wrote the book: I needed to give him a proper eulogy, she said. I think that he lived an extraordinary life, but the kind of life that often goes uncelebrated.

She admits she put off the idea of writing about her familys painful past for years, out of fear of being engulfed by emotion. But in 2015, after she had transitioned to journalism and moved to the Bay Area (she decided to stay in California following a three-month fellowship at KQED) and started working for NPR, she decided to report New York v. Shahani (her fathers case) like any other assignment.

She dug into the facts and wrote a first draft over the summer of 2017, in the solitude of two separate Buddhist retreats. It felt very, very cathartic, she said.

It also felt like a timely act of resistance to President Trumps anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Following the 2016 election, many Americans were asking themselves, What am I doing for my country besides complaining? Well, Im a writer, and whether or not I wanted to admit it, I had become a person of some privilege, with a megaphone I never could have imagined having. How did I want to use it?

Sharing her familys embattled immigration story became my unique contribution at a moment when people like us, who are the essence of America, are under attack.I believe we have a president who wants to erase the fact of people like me, and its not accurate and its causing harm.I know Im not alone in having a sense that were in ahistoric moment where every voice counts.

Shahani said she hopes that by telling the heartbreaking details of her familys tortuous path to citizenship, shell open readers eyes to the fact that while policy debates put issues into separate buckets, immigration and criminal justice, for instance, our story is proof that theyre all interwoven. Working-class immigrants get caught up in these systems because of the things you dont know, cant access or cant afford.

I hope people read Aartis story and get a much better understanding of what immigrant families really go through, and are able to see how connected and at times arbitrary the criminal and deportation systems are, said Benita Jain, an Oakland attorney for the Immigrant Defense Project whos known Shahani since 2001.

Theres an unfairness to both of those systems that people are often not aware of unless theyre inside it. Aartis never-back-down approach, that she would cross any bridge to keep her dad here, is an inspiration.

Shahani didnt expect to be a journalist (as a young girl, she wanted to be a prosecutor), but has found an obvious talent and satisfaction chronicling Big Techs advances and misdeeds. She has reported on Mark Zuckerbergs congressional testimony, and recently interviewed Microsofts president, Brad Smith, on the need for regulation.

I chose tech as a beat because it felt like a safe distance from everything I had come from, she said, And yet its amazing to me how some of the issues I cover come full circle, for example the protests around companies like Palantir and Google helping with tracking and surveillance tools for the governments immigration enforcement agencies.

Tech reporting also threw into relief forShahanithe double standard of who pays the price in this country, she said. Its just amazing to me that (ousted Uber founder) Travis Kalanick has not been arrested. Reporting on Uber in particular, and Facebook secondarily, has really opened my eyes to how justice works in America. If youre wealthy, at most you face civil penalties. If youre working class, you face criminal penalties.

What impresses me most about Aartis coverage of Silicon Valley is that even when reporting on unhuman technologies, whether big tech or small startups, she manages to always tie her stories back to people, said NPR CEO Jarl Mohn. I didnt know her personal story when I first got to know her, but now that I do from reading her riveting book, I understand how her life experiences deepen her reporting.

Talking with Shahani, who has sharp observations about everything from the jail-to-deportation pipeline and tech industry malfeasance to the shared sense of humor that kept the Shahani family together through dark times, its clear why she describes her outlook on America in Here We Are as rage in the moment and hope in the long term.

I think its funny that Trumps family and mine both come from Queens, she said. We have very different lessons from there, and I would say mine is correct. Growing up, I had the United Nations working-class style. I was constantly being exposed to people from different countries, with different accents. My parents fled the partition of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh because you had Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs killing each other. They moved into a building where those same people were exchanging milk and sugar, and babysitting for each other.

What more can I say?

As for Aartis lanky nephew, Akshay, who finally took his smoothie into his room to give his aunt privacy to talk about her familys saga? Hes her older brother Deepaks son, and he figures into Here We Are too, as an infant caught up in a dramatic residency struggle of his own after his mother kidnapped him to India and, yes, his tenacious aunt Aarti spearheaded working with lawyers in New Jersey and London, even Interpol, to secure his return.

Akshay now lives with his proud aunt and attends college. Hes hardworking, like us, Shahani writes in her books poignant epilogue, Dear Dad.

Life is just fascinating, she said. I think if youre open to what might happen, man, things can really happen.

Aarti Shahani: Author appearance. 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17. Books Inc. 317 Castro St., Mountain View. http://www.bookinc.net

1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19. Book Passage. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera. http://www.bookpassage.com

In conversation with Nellie Bowles. 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21. The Commonwealth Club. 110 The Embarcadero, Taube Family Auditorium, S.F. http://www.commonwealthclub.org

In conversation with Ezra Klein. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7. The Battery. 717 Battery St. S.F. http://www.thebatterysf.com

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The Far Rights Apocalyptic Literary Canon – The New Republic

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Politico has reported recent discussions among White House staff of a self-published, rambling essay called Bronze Age Mindset. The book is a dizzying 198-page treatise, written under the pseudonym of Bronze Age Pervertshorthanded to BAP by his ardent fans. And they are legion. Its a smash hit with the right, and is currently ranked #3 on Amazons bestseller list in Ancient Greek History, and #174 in Humoran inarguably more competitive category.

The authors Twitter presence is a post-post-post-ironic blend of jokey homoerotic photos of bodybuilders and boorish far-right memes. But while BAPs prose is rather artfully penned, Bronze Age Mindsets arguments are fractured and incoherent. Imagine the opinions of Jordan B. Peterson, as expressed by Ayn Rands Superman, in the playful vernacular of Donald Barthelme. The essay nevertheless manages to exert a sneaky power on the reader, despite being so chopped and screwed. BAPs introduction to the book is an incantation of sorts, the haunting final sentence of which ends without a terminal period; a detail that is unlikely to have been omitted by mistake:

I want to prepare you to receive this old spiritold spirits are moving from behind the reeds... the silhouette shimmers against a river in late summer, and I see already men who know how to honor such uncanny old friends. May they inhabit us again and give us strength to purify this world of refuse

The far-right literary oeuvre provides ample opportunities for such spirits to be conjured. In the years since Trumps election, one particular workGerald James McManuss 2001 political thriller Dark Millennium: A Visionary Talehas felt eerily prescient. Its protagonist, U.S. President Alexander McGrail, is presented as both a hero and a beloved villain. Hes a narcissistic sociopath and a racist. He treats women badly. He betrays trusted allies. As the story progresses, he enlists a top military officer, General Brandt, to help him put a diabolical secret plan into action: Together they fake a terrorist attack that kills every Democrat in Congress. McGrail blames Muslim extremists for the tragedy, but the press doesnt buy his explanation. Their offices are thus raided and the media is eventually shut down completely. Then, as is the case in many of these authors fantasy scenarios, things spiral into race war.

Incited by the medias accusations against the president, Americas black ghettos ran red with blood and flame. Uprisings broke out first in the eastern cities. ... In Manhattan, Brandt oversaw the execution of thirty thousand captured blacks. They were dragged kicking and screaming to the edge of a huge pit that was dug out of Central Park. Some blacks demanded their rights, most begged for mercy, but they were all thrown into the pit and remorselessly machine-gunned by Brandts men.

The violence spreads throughout the country as McGrails America systematically murders all people of color, feminists, socialists, and, of course, Jews. The story ends years into a future wherein McManuss fictional leader is, despite his personal flaws, venerated as the herofounder of a pure and enduring whites-only ethno-utopia.

The point is not to say that the harrowing plot of Dark Millenniumis about to come true. It is, rather, to acknowledge that there exists a broad, far-right subculture, which is actively posting, plotting, and praying that it will. Charlottesville was an attempt to galvanize this very movement. Its organizers sought to Unite the Right, and bring together the various outlier factionsmens groups, paleo-libertarians, sovereign citizens, and the likethat constitute the nebulous Alt Right and Alt Light. Instead, things quickly devolved into hooliganism, as the same old clowns rolled up, united only by the same old hatreds of the same old groups that have been targeted for decades, as codified in books like The Turner Diaries, The Camp of the Saints, and Dark Millennium: people of color, feminists, socialists, and Jews.

Despite this movements failure in Virginia, the right has since become increasingly unified online, emboldened by evidence of their influence on Trump, and a mounting sense that they are gearing up for something big. The neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer recently featured a homepage header image of cartoon machine guns circling the Constitution. The sites publisher, Andrew Anglin, posts multiple times daily, revving up his followers, and has called for a soon-to-come age of ultraviolence, followed by a forceful solicitation of compliance with leadership:

There will be leaders. You need to be prepared to recognize them for who they are, and you need to be prepared to do whatever they tell you to do, exactly as they tell you to do it. You are going to be required to do things that you cannot possibly imagine yourself doing right now. And if you do not do these things, you will die.

If Donald Trump loses the presidency next fall, we all know hell tweet up a storm on election nightrailing against the corrupt media, decrying rigged elections, shrieking about socialism. But then what? What if he takes it to the next level and calls for violence or declares martial law? One hopes that those to whom we entrust the power of state violencecops, soldiers, spieswould keep the oaths of a constitutional order. Or, might they instead take us down a new path; a darker one, snaking though clearings felled by norm-breakers like Mitch McConnell and Devin Nunes: hearkening to the paeans to the great replacement of Tucker Carlson, the fragmented agitations of BAP, or the fascist violence of Andrew Anglin? All of these folktales could quickly come into competition, with the winner determining whether or not a Trumpian crie de guerrewill accomplish what Charlottesville could not: calling the lone wolves to the hunt, bolstered by a newly-unified army of Bronze Age Mindsetsuncanny old friends.

What if the next Democratic debate kicked off with this question from the moderators: Senator Warren, lets say you win the election in a narrow victory. Rather than concede, President Donald Trump goes on live television and whips his crowd into a frenzy, exclaiming, Theyre trying to steal the presidency from us! The time is now! Rise up and fight! How would you, as president-elect, respond?

The Beltway set may yet believe this question to be crazy. But in Trumps Americawhere Greenland is for sale, weather is changed with the swish of a Sharpie, and tanks roll down Pennsylvania Avenue on July 4they should know that crazy people are seriously contemplating these questions, and looking to the books theyve spent a lifetime reading and sharing for prophecy, if not instructions. We so-called normies must be prepared to answer.

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The best recent SF, fantasy and horror review roundup – The Guardian

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

In Lois Murphys atmospheric debut, Soon (Titan, 7.99), something very strange is happening in the remote Western Australia township of Nebulah. It was once a thriving mining town, but now its population has been reduced to 500. One day a convoy of grey vehicles arrives, only to mysteriously vanish. They are followed by a creeping mist haunted by the ghosts of the towns dead; citizens who venture outside in darkness are taken by the mist, never to be seen again. Soon the population of Nebulah stands at a mere six benighted souls, the derelict and downtrodden, who have their own reasons to remain. Narrated by Pete McIntosh, a flawed but likable washed-up ex-cop, this story of low-key horror and creeping paranoia follows the fate of the last half dozen to its devastating climax. Winner of the prestigious Australian Aurealis award for the best horror novel of 2017, Soon is a penetrating psychological study of desperate characters existing on the edge of society, and their struggle to retain a semblance of humanity in the face of an unknown terror.

In Kassandra Montags first novel, After the Flood (Borough, 12.99), its the year 2130 and global heating has taken its inevitable toll. Rising sea levels have inundated the continents and what was once the US is now a string of small islands. Some survivors eke out a subsistence living on land, while others have taken to the seas, where life is even more precarious. Myra and her daughter Pearl are among the latter, trading the fish they catch while attempting to avoid pirates, who treat women like cattle. Seven years earlier, Myras husband abducted her younger daughter Rowena, and Myras life since then has been a constant, heartbreaking search for the girl. When Myra hears a rumour that Rowena might be living in remote Greenland, she persuades a ships captain to take her on the long voyage north. Montag balances graphically rendered set-piece adventures with a moving account of a mothers love as Myra, resilient yet vulnerable, faces triumphs and setbacks on her perilous quest to reclaim her daughter. By turns bleak and uplifting, this is a refreshingly original take on the dystopian post-apocalyptic subgenre.

Alex Stern, protagonist of Ninth House (Gollancz, 16.99), Leigh Bardugos first novel for adults, is not your average Yale student. The wayward daughter of LA hippies, Alex is a vulnerable high-school drop-out with a history of drug abuse. She also possesses unique supernatural abilities, which is why she was offered a place at the university. Alex becomes one of the guardians of Lethe House, a secret society monitoring the dark goings-on in the eight other Houses, which are run by a privileged elite inclined to occult excess. When a student is murdered, she uncovers a web of terror and abuse. Ninth House is a timely exploration of the use and abuse of power and a gut-churning thriller that pulls no punches, with a strong female lead and a headlong plot.

In the first book of the Salvation series, Peter F Hamilton introduced a large cast scattered across a sprawling galaxy-wide utopia threatened by an enigmatic alien race. In Salvation Lost (Macmillan, 20), he ratchets up the tension and splits the narrative between the 23rd century and the far future. We follow many characters from volume one, as well as a host of new faces, as the human race joins forces with benevolent extraterrestrials, the Nena, and works to save itself from the malign Olyix, who are intent on harvesting Homo sapiens as offerings to their god. Hamilton excels at interweaving the narratives of multiple viewpoint characters without once relaxing narrative impetus, combining time-lines to great dramatic effect and telling a tense hi-tech story that never loses sight of the human element. Best read after the opening volume, Salvation Lost is action-oriented hardcore science fiction at its page-turning best.

Loosely based on the killings of a mother and daughter accused of witchcraft, Clay McLeod Chapmans The Remaking (Quirk, 9.99) retells and recasts the real events in a series of connected episodes. When Ella Louise Ford and her daughter Jessica were burned as witches in Pilots Creek, Virginia, in 1931, the murders and the stories of the subsequent ghostly hauntings echoed down the years. In 1971 the story is made into a low-budget horror film starring nine-year-old Amber Pendleton in the part of Jessica, a role that will haunt her for the rest of her life. In 1995 the original film is remade, with a washed-up, drug-addicted Amber this time playing the part of Jessicas mother. The story jumps to 2016, when the director of a podcast travels to Pilots Creek to track down Amber and investigate the events of 1931. Chapman uses an array of narrative techniques in an ambitious mosaic novel exploring the power of urban myth and superstition.

Eric Browns latest novel is Murder Served Cold (Severn House).

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He fell in love with Oz – The Age

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Santa Cruz was an epitome of the lavish optimism and creativity of the times and attracted international attention. Ray found it permanently liberating. He played major roles in Santa Cruzs attempt to build an academic utopia among the redwoods, emulating the best of Oxbridge, creating a college system which sought out talent and held it to high standards, and emphasising inter-disciplinary studies.

But Santa Cruz soon encountered the darker side of the 60s escalating frenzy and violence from both left and right. With Ronald Reagan as new governor of California, suppressing academic meetings and civil liberties, and Richard Nixon as new president of the US, threatening worse oppression, America lost its charm, and Ray undertook a new adventure in the department of politics of the young Monash University, in Australia, the home of his exceedingly homesick then wife.

Professor Nichols.

The move failed to save his marriage, but as Ray put it, he fell in love with Oz, and became an Australian citizen.

Experiencing Monashs enormous expansion, he defended the pre-eminence of undergraduate education, faced down efforts to impose behaviourism and to dilute standards, and championed new academic enterprises and greater academic self-government.

In addition to running the department, he directed its honours program throughout his years at Monash, was much involved in faculty governance, was vice-president of the academic union and ran the universitys first general strike, broadcast frequently on the ABC and Radio Singapore, served as a consultant to various government operations, and led community action groups in Carlton and the eastern suburbs, blocking inappropriate development and becoming increasingly involved in green causes.

He was a celebrated lecturer, but most relished the spontaneous cut and thrust of seminars. His greatest joy was seeing his students become independent. He was distinguished by his scholarly works on political action, ideology, and language, with frequent reference to France and America.

He negotiated early retirement from Monash when he couldnt stop staff cuts and forced mergers of departments.

Ray was both an idealist and an ironist. He was a committed secular humanist and democrat but declined to embrace any grand ideology. He opposed instrumentalism (domination by means/end efficiency) and post-modernism (logocentric relativism), as threats to political progress and intellectual rigour.

He was dismayed by the rise of right-wing irrationality in America and infuriated by intellectual laziness and parochialism everywhere. He was convinced that political calamities were largely because most people dont think much about most things.

He believed passionately in education, participation, and intellectual leadership and that the parlous nature of organised intellectual life made its defence all the more essential. His numerous long-time friends, many of them former students, are some tribute to those beliefs.

Ray was a member of Melbournes Boobooks and of Trinitys William Pitt Society and a life member of the Oxford Union.

He is survived by his beloved wife his partner of three decades the painter and illustrator Francisca (Sisca) Verwoert.

Paul Verwoert was Ray Nichol's student at Monash University, studying politics.

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Bitcoin Cash ABC, Litecoin and Ripple Daily Analysis 06/10/19 – Yahoo Finance

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Bitcoin Cash ABC Sees Red Again

Bitcoin Cash ABC fell by 0.04% on Saturday. Following on from a 0.40% decline on Friday, Bitcoin Cash ABC ended the day at $221.64.

A bearish start to the day saw Bitcoin Cash ABC slide from an early morning high $221.73 to a mid-morning low $219.22.

Steering clear of the major support and resistance levels, Bitcoin Cash ABC recovered to $220 levels. A second sell-off saw Bitcoin Cash ABC fall to an early afternoon intraday low $219.03 before finding support.

Holding above the first major support level at $218.26, Bitcoin Cash ABC bounced back to a late intraday high $222.31.

A final hour pullback left Bitcoin Cash ABC back at $221 levels at the day end.

At the time of writing, Bitcoin Cash ABC was down by 0.80% to $219.87. Another bearish start to the day saw Bitcoin Cash ABC fall from an early morning high $222.09 to a low $219.87.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $222.96, Bitcoin Cash ABC came within range of the first major support level at $219.68.

For the day ahead, a move back through to $221 levels would support another run at the first major resistance level at $222.96.

Bitcoin Cash ABC would need the support of the broader market, however, to break out from the morning high $222.09.

Barring a broad-based crypto rally, we would expect Bitcoin Cash ABC to fall short of the second major resistance level at $224.27.

Failure to move back through the $221 levels could see Bitcoin Cash ABC slide through the first major support level at $219.68.

Barring an extended sell-off through the day, however, we would expect Bitcoin Cash ABC to steer clear of sub-$218 support levels.

Litecoin rose by 0.69% on Saturday. Following on from a 0.12% gain on Friday, Litecoin ended the day at $56.85.

Tracking the broader market, Litecoin fell from an early morning high $56.81 to an early afternoon intraday low $55.68.

Holding above the first major support level at $55.33, Litecoin bounced back to an early afternoon intraday high $57.45.

The afternoon rally saw Litecoin come within range of the first major resistance level at $57.59 before easing back $55 levels.

Finding support late in the day, Litecoin moved back to $56 levels to end the day in the green.

At the time of writing, Litecoin was down by 1.99% at $55.72. A particularly bearish start to the day saw Litecoin slide from an early morning high $56.96 to a mid-morning low $55.50.

Falling short of the major resistance levels, Litecoin fell through the first major support level at $55.87.

For the day ahead, a move back through the first major support level to $56.70 levels would support a bullish move.

Litecoin would need the support of the broader market, however, to break back through the $57 levels.

Barring a broad-based crypto rebound, we would expect Litecoin to fall short of the first major resistance level at $57.64.

Failure to break back through the first major support level to $56.70 levels could see Litecoin fall deeper into the red.

A fall through the morning low $55.50 would bring the second major support level at $54.89 into play.

Barring a crypto meltdown, we would expect Litecoin to steer clear of sub-$54 support levels on the day.

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Ripples XRP rose by 0.36% on Saturday. Following on from a 2.27% rally on Friday, Ripples XRP ended the day at $0.25434.

A mixed start to the day saw Ripples XRP rise to an early morning high $0.25620 before falling to a late morning low $0.25151.

In spite of the choppy start, Ripples XRP left the major support and resistance levels untested through the morning.

In the 2nd half of the day, Ripples XRP rallied to a late afternoon intraday high $0.25771.

Falling short of the first major resistance level at $0.2592, Ripples XRP slid to a late intraday low $0.24552.

The pullback saw Ripples XRP fall through the first major support level at $0.2467 before recovering to $0.25 levels.

At the time of writing, Ripples XRP was down by 0.41% to $0.25329. A relatively choppy morning saw Ripples XRP fall to an early morning low $0.25161 before finding support.

Steering clear of the major support levels, Ripples XRP bounced back to a mid-morning high $0.25636.

In spite of the morning rally, Ripples XRP fell short of the first major resistance level at $0.2595 early on.

For the day ahead, Ripples XRP would need to steer clear of sub-$0.2530 levels to support an afternoon recovery.

A move back through to $0.2550 levels would bring the first major resistance level at $0.2595 into play.

Barring a broad-based crypto rally, however, Ripples XRP would likely fall short of $0.26 levels for a 4th consecutive day.

Failure to steer clear of sub-$0.2530 levels could see Ripples XRP struggle throughout the day. A fall through to $0.2510 levels would bring the first major support level at $0.2473 into play before any recovery.

Barring an extended sell-off through the day, Ripples XRP should steer clear of the second major support level at $0.2403.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripples XRP, Litecoin, And EOS Suddenly Roar Back – Forbes

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Bitcoin, along with other major cryptocurrencies ethereum, Ripple's XRP, litecoin, bitcoin cash, and EOS, have suddenly roared back after a sharp sell-off last week.

The bitcoin price has added almost 8% in the last 24-hour trading period to climb over $8,500 per bitcoin on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange, with rival blockchain platforms ethereum and EOS both jumping around 10% over the same period.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets, including the likes of ethereum, litecoin, Ripple's XRP and EOS, have been swinging wildly over the last week, leaving traders and investors with whiplash.

Ripple's XRP, litecoin, and bitcoin cash meanwhile, all added around 8%, adding some $15 billion to the value of the world's combined cryptocurrencies in a matter of hours.

The reason for today's sudden market bounce-back were not immediately clear, though bitcoin industry giants coming together to rate different popular digital tokens may have boosted investor confidence.

"Investors will be pleased to see that October has started on a positive note with buyers coming to the market," Marcus Swanepoel, chief executive of London-based bitcoin and crypto exchange Luno, wrote in a note.

"There is a growing consensus that the recent loss in value was directly linked to the physical contracts being offered through Bakkt. As the cryptocurrency market develops, changes to structure or new products will always have the potential to upset the price, but this is all part of the growing process."

Last week, the bitcoin price plummeted, dragging down ethereum, Ripple's XRP, litecoin, and bitcoin cash, after a disappointing early trading session for the closely-watched Bakkt bitcoin futures platform.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency watchers had hoped Bakkt's launch, a much-hyped platform that boasts software giant Microsoft and coffee chain Starbucks among its partners, would herald the next big leap higher for bitcoin.

Bakkt, owned by New York Stock Exchange parent company Intercontinental Exchange, allows traders and institutional investors to swap so-called "physically" settled bitcoin futures contracts, meaning traders and investors are not able to sell more bitcoin than they actually have.

The bitcoin price has added around $500 per bitcoin over the last few hours.

The bitcoin price has rallied hard so far this after a disastrous 2018, adding over 150% since January as some of the world's biggest technology companies eye bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain.

Social media giant Facebook set the bitcoin and crypto industry alight earlier this year when it revealed plans for its own bitcoin-rival, libra.

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Litecoin-Bitcoin Correlation Recovers Two Months After the Halving – BeInCrypto

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Litecoin, the silver to Bitcoins gold, had recently gone through the block halving event, resulting in extreme price swings.

The cryptocurrency market, in general, is highly correlated, with most crypto assets following Bitcoins price movements. However, network-specific events like the block reward halving introduce individual price variation action.

If the block halving saw Litecoin deviate from the rest of the market, it looks like its correlation to Bitcoin is increasing once again.

For Litecoin, the halving took place in August when the block reward for miners dropped 25 to 12.5 LTC. Built into the code of Litecoin, Bitcoin, and other Proof-of-Work coins, the event creates forced scarcity in the market.

With less LTC to go around, and less being rewarded to miners, the value of each individual asset should increase. Investor interest in the coin peaked in the lead up to the event. If at the beginning of 2019, LTC was around $30, prices hit $150 in late June as investors speculated on the coming reduction of the supply emission.

However, rather than a further price spike, the market for LTC reversed, sending both its price and hashrate into a downward spiral, as BeInCrypto has previously reported. As data suggests, the halving speculation ride has sent BTC and LTC different ways, and the correlation between the two assets has decreased significantly.

Two months after the halving, most recent data points indicate that over the past week, the correlation between Bitcoin and Litecoin has picked up again, increasing from 0.7 to 0.93.

If the block reward halving has thrown the Litecoin network into a rollercoaster, it looks like it is starting to stabilize alongside hashrate and price.

Prices in the cryptocurrency space are susceptible to major milestones and events around individual networks. With the Bitcoin halving right around the corner, everyone will be closely monitoring how the price action develops, and whether altcoins like Litecoin will be able to follow the market leader.

What do you make of the increase in the correlation between the two assets? Did the Litecoin network stabilize, or is this only temporary? Share your thoughts in the comments!

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Litecoin price analysis: LTC/USD bulls reclaim $56 support amid growing demand across the market – FXStreet

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

The cryptocurrency market is currently reviving the trend following minor corrections from what analysts regard as a fake. Litecoin is flexing its bullish muscles after failing to impress the investors over the last couple of days.

On Wednesday, Litecoin is up 1.61% after opening the session at $55.78. A bullish action touched highs around $56.74. At the time press, LTC/USD is trading at $56.66 while the bulls look forward to blasting through $60. Still pressing down on the price is the descending trendline resistance.

Although LTC is still trading below the simple moving averages, the double-cross of the 50 SMA on the hourly chart under the 100 SMA signals that the technical picture is improving gradually. Moreover, the relative strength index (RSI) is also above the oversold levels (70) and pointing upwards. In the event, a breakout above $60 fails to materialize and a reversal occurs, the recent support at $50 will come in handy.

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Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Stellar (XLM) and Litecoin (LTC) Cryptocurrency Price Analysis and Prediction – The Merkle Hash

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Cryptocurrency markets are resembling the stock market these days. Trading sideways all through last week and this weekend. Lets take a look at Bitcoin Cash, Stellar and LTC and see if their charts tell us whats to come ahead.Bitcoin Cash Price Analysis (BCH/USD)

The fifth-ranked cryptocurrency has today faced a mixed reaction that formed a sideways trend. Besides, the pairs price volatility was very low that stood the current price at $221.9, having escalated it from where it opened the session at $222.1. That showed a slight drop of 0.09% over the last24hrs.

The horizontal movement defined vital resistance and support level at $223.6 and $218.6. The consolidation phase between $223.6 and 218.6 may proceed until the market showcase a potential breakout either on the downside or upside.

However, the parabolic SAR is giving a sell signal, while the moving averages that are currently below the prices, signal an increase in bullish momentum. In addition, the RSI is heading north that suggests positive outcomes.

An upside correction above $223.6 may trigger strong Bull Run near $300.0. However, a downside rally below $218.6 could extend a bearish momentum near $200.0.

XLM/USD pair has lacked dominance, as reflected by the RSI indicator that hovered between the midpoints over the last 24hrs. The famous crypto began the session trading at $0.0593, unfortunately, is at the press time exchanging hand at $0.0593 that showed the indecisive mode in the market momentum.

The pairs price failed to break above $0.0595 but later found a strong support near $0.0578 level. Afterwards, both support and resistance level was tested severally. However, during the last few hours, a price recovery was seen as bullish engulfing candles pushed the price a bit higher. This shows high interest on the upper sides of the price.

Also, the short-term SMA has crossed above the long-term SMA, the parabolic SAR is below the candles, and the RSI is heading north. All these are positive signs of incoming robust bullish outbreak.

A break above $0.0578 could result to further upside rally near $0.0650. Therefore, investors should wait to take a long position in the short-term.

LTC/USD pair has expressed a bullish outlook, with an intraday gain of 2.5%. It escalated from $55.6232 to now trading at $56.9726. Besides, the ascending channel formed reflected the bullish performance with support level being held near $55.5718. The pairs price is currently struggling to breach above $57.2742 resistance level, so is for the bulls to up there game.

Looking at the technical, the short-term SMA has currently crossed above the long-term SMA that suggests unbeatable outlook. The RSI is above level 50 that also foreshadows a positive sign. Besides, the RSI also showed an increase in buyouts that indicates that buyers are dominating the momentum. Investors sentiments are thereby likely to increase since they are optimistic for better prices in the near term.

A long position should be taken, if the price manages to break above $57.000. New targets should be set near $60.000 and $61.000.

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Disclaimer: This is not trading or investment advice. The above article is for entertainment and education purposes only. Please do your own research before purchasing or investing into any cryptocurrency or digital currency.

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XRP, Litecoin in the green while crypto market struggles – Decrypt

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

XRP (XRP) and Litecoin (LTC) have seen modest returns of 1.5% and 1.8% in the last 24 hours, while the broader crypto markets is on the decline.

After XRP made a low of $0.24 yesterday, the cryptocurrency rallied to hit its current price of $0.25. Similarly, Litecoin's price increased somewhat, up to its current price of $57. Despite the recent rally, however, both XRP and Litecoin are down by more than 20% from their mid-September highs.

But the rest of the market isn't faring well. Over $3 billion was wiped off the industry's total market cap in the last day. Bitcoin has traded down by 1.4% on the dayagain failing to recover after a long bearish week. Also down by 1% today is Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Coin (BNB).

According to data from Coinpaprika, Bitcoin's dominanceits market cap in relation to the market cap for all other cryptocurrencies has dropped significantly from its highs of 70%. It is now at just 66.4%, taking up two-thirds of the entire market.

While Bitcoin might have a smaller share of the pie, the pie itself has grown. During its low in February 2019 the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies hovered around $110 billion. It's now sitting at nearly twice that amount.

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Litecoin technical analysis: A catalyst will help speed up the falling wedge pattern breakout – FXStreet

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

Spot rate: $0.2488

Relative change: 0.001596

Percentage change: 0.65%

Open: $0.2474

High: $0.2500

Low: $2455

Trend: Bearish

Volatility: Shrinking

Litecoin lower high price pattern takes precedence with the upside limited by the descending trendline resistance.

The only hope to leave the crypt is to break out of the falling wedge pattern whose target is at $80.

Litecoin price consolidates above the major support in a range between $50 and $55.

The sellers are relatively in charge as signified by the increasing gap between the 50 simple moving average (SMA) and the 100 SMA.

LTC/USD 60 chart

In spite of the consolidation, Litecoin price is relatively trending upwards above the bullish trendline.

The price is above the SMAs show a bullish momentum in the short-term. However, no rapid movements towards $60 expected in the near-term.

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Crypto Market And Bitcoin In Correcting Increase: BCH, Litecoin, EOS, XLM Analysis – newsBTC

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

The crypto market cap and bitcoin are currently correcting higher. Ethereum (ETH), LTC, ripple, bitcoin cash, EOS, TRX, and stellar are recovering nicely.

After consolidating above the $210 level, BCH price started a decent upside correction against the US Dollar. The BCH/USD pair broke the $225 and $230 resistance levels. The price is now up more than 6% and it is currently trading near the $233 level.

If there is an upside break above $235, the price could continue to rise towards the $250 resistance. On the downside, the previous support near the $220 level might provide support.

Litecoin price found support above the $50.00 level and it recently climbed above the $55.00 resistance area. LTC price is now trading above $57.00 and it may soon test the $60.00 resistance area in the coming sessions. On the downside, the $55.00 level may now act as a support.

EOS price performed really well and it broke the $2.850 and $3.000 resistance levels. The price is up more than 10% and it is trading near the $3.050 level. If there are more upsides, the price could test the $3.200 resistance level in the coming sessions.

Stellar price started a decent upside correction after it broke the $0.0585 resistance level. XLM price even broke the $0.0600 resistance and it is currently testing the $0.0620 resistance level. If there are more upsides, the price might test the $0.0650 resistance area.

Looking at the total cryptocurrency market cap 4-hours chart, the $200.0B support area is acting as a strong barrier for sellers. The market cap is currently correcting higher and it recently broke the $210.0B and $215.0B resistance levels. Moreover, there was a break above a connecting bearish trend line with resistance near $212.0B level. It seems like there could be more upsides towards the $220.0B and $225.0B resistances in the coming sessions. Therefore, there are chances of more upsides in bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, litecoin, ripple, XLM, BCH, ADA, BNB, TRX, ICX, and other altcoins. Only a close below the $200.0B level might negate the current bullish move.

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Litecoin Records 15% Dip in the Last One Month Trading at $56 Now – CryptoNewsZ

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

The current market performance of LTC token may seem to be sluggish, but LTC has recorded some good surging moments in this year. There was a time when LTC was trading at $143 and it may cross this value again by early next year. Litecoin continues to be in the limelight for its profitable nature and may cross $100 mark very soon.

Litecoin records 15% dip in the last one month slumping from $67.40 to its current value at $56.70 as on October 4, 2019, at 07:59:46 UTC. The coin first moved from $67.40 to as high as $79.87 in the initial few weeks of the month, but then it started the downward ride and slumped up to $51.34 towards the end of last month. LTC has recovered somewhat since then, but may not be able to cross $60 in the next 7 days.

As for this week, LTC can be expected to move between $55 and $70 for the next few days. This is a good time to plan long-term investments in the LTC token, which may benefit in the coming months.

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Litecoin Price Changed by -0.63 percent – ICO Brothers

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

As at 2019-10-05 average Litecoin price is 56.86279574 USD, 0.00698015 BTC, 0.32311539 ETH.

In this regard, 24 hour trading volume is 1625071470.63910000 USD or 199484.43403395 BTC. At the same time Litecoin market capitalization is 3605284177 USD or $442563 BTC.

Its noteworthy that is issued into circulation Litecoin.

Litecoin LTC/EUR on Kraken exchange is 56.66. The trading volume on Kraken is 383649.00.

At the same time Litecoin LTC/USD on Bitfinex exchange is 56.70. The trading volume on Bitfinex is 1848597.00.

Litecoin LTC/BTC on KuCoin exchange is 56.49. The trading volume on KuCoin is 260041.00.

Litecoin LTC/BTC on Bittrex exchange is 56.45. The trading volume on Bittrex is 139838.00.

Litecoin LTC/BTC on Poloniex exchange is 56.55. The trading volume on Poloniex is 196494.00.

Litecoin average change within 24 hour is -0.63 against USD, 0.1 against BTC, 0.74 against ETH. Weekly report: 2.11 against USD, 2.89 against BTC, 1.31 against ETH. Monthly report: -12.4 against USD, 13.58 against BTC, -14.16 against ETH.

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Litecoin Price Changed by 1.83 percent – ICO Brothers

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

As at 2019-10-04 average Litecoin price is 57.22508521 USD, 0.00697321 BTC, 0.32074174 ETH.

Litecoin LTC/EUR on Kraken exchange is 57.16. The trading volume on Kraken is 391790.00.

At the same time Litecoin LTC/USD on Bitfinex exchange is 57.15. The trading volume on Bitfinex is 2628332.00.

Litecoin LTC/BTC on KuCoin exchange is 56.94. The trading volume on KuCoin is 197090.00.

Litecoin LTC/BTC on Bittrex exchange is 56.86. The trading volume on Bittrex is 287966.00.

Litecoin LTC/BTC on Poloniex exchange is 56.95. The trading volume on Poloniex is 595844.00.

Its noteworthy that is issued into circulation Litecoin.

Litecoin average change within 24 hour is 1.83 against USD, 1.48 against BTC, -0.96 against ETH. Weekly report: 3.14 against USD, 1.82 against BTC, -0.87 against ETH. Monthly report: -15.59 against USD, 9.56 against BTC, -16.41 against ETH.

In this regard, 24 hour trading volume is 1974319181.46510000 USD or 240582.29374167 BTC. At the same time Litecoin market capitalization is 3627836752 USD or $442073 BTC.

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Litecoin Creator Agrees with Greg Maxwell’s Take on Bitcoin’s Susceptibility to 51 Percent Attack – U.Today

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Danzig

In his recent tweet, which addresses a Reddit postby Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell, Charlie Lee claims that one cannot fix the 51 percentflaw without making the Bitcoin network more centralized. According to the Litecoin creator,this is essential to understand for those who want to understand the O.G. cryptocurrency and the concept of decentralization.

The OP who started a heated discussion asks whether it is possible to make the Bitcoin network less vulnerable by rewriting the software to cap a miner's percentage of the hash rate.In his lengthy comment, Maxwell explains why it's impossible to eliminate the possibility of a 51 percent attack without turning Bitcoin into a centralized system like Ripple, EOS, or IOTA. Using computing power to vote (instead of relying on a centralized party) makes it possible to achieve decentralization.

A decentralized system like Bitcoin uses a public election. But you can't just have a vote of 'people' in a decentralized system because that would require a centralized party to authorize people to vote. Instead, Bitcoin uses a vote of computing power because it's possible to verify computing power without the help of any centralized third party.

As reported by U.Today, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao suggested reorganizing the Bitcoin Blockchain after a $40mln hack in May, but he quickly backpedaled on his plan after facing relentless criticism from the crypto community.

Nearly 70 percent of the hash rate is controlled by China. Considering that its authoritarian government has already banned Bitcoin, this concentration of power raises many questions about the future of Bitcoin.

However, according to Maxwell, a hypothetical attack on the Bitcoin Blockchain by a group super-powerful miners is not the biggest problem faced by the top cryptocurrency. He states that it would be far riskier if the coin's users never cared to protect its decentralization properties.

A far bigger risk to Bitcoin is that the public using it won't understand, won't care, and won't protect the decentralization properties that make it valuable over centralized alternatives in the first place.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin's hashrate continues to print new highs, thus making the network more robust.

Numerous cryptocurrency projects have tried to solve the so-called "ScalabilityTrilemma" to no avail. IOTA has moved there a tad further by managing with the Coordicide upgrade, but it's not clear when exactly it will implement this solution and completely get rid of the centralized Coordinator.

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How Hard Is It To Get Into Medical School In 2019? – Forbes

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Danzig

How difficult is it to get into medical school in 2019 compared to the previous years? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

Answer by Kristen Moon, Founder & CEO at Moon Prep, on Quora:

Medical schools, which are already hard to get into, are getting harder each year.U.S. Newsdid its annual survey of the 118 ranked medical schools that reported their acceptance rates and found that the average was only 6.8% in 2018. However, the average acceptance rate of the most competitive medical schools was at just 2.4% this past application cycle.

Datafrom the 2018-2019 cycle showed that most colleges had higher than average MCAT and GPAs, showing that colleges are becoming so selective. The average GPA for all U.S. MD schools was 3.79, which is an increase of .02 points compared to the previous year. The average MCAT score was 512.0, which was .72 higher than the past year. However, the MCAT change was more significant in the Top 50 MD schools, where the average MCAT was 515.4, which was one full point more than last year.

Some schools, like Mayo, Arizona - Phoenix, Rosalind Franklin, Washington State (Floyd), Missouri - Kansas City, and Central Michigan, all become much more competitive this year. Each school had the biggest single-year increase in MCAT, with an average jump of three points.

The good news: some allopathic medical schools did get easier to get into. Schools like Kentucky (whose average MCAT score dropped by 3 points), Medical College of Wisconsin, SUNY-Buffalo, Albany, and a few others were ones that were slightly easier to get into this year. The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences had the highest admittance rate and accepted20.5% of its applicants. However, all the other MD medical schools were roughly the same level of competitiveness as they have been in previous years.

Thedatashows that there are more applicants, but the number of spots at the schools hasnt increased. This is why only41% of all applicantswere accepted into a medical school, with the MCAT score the main reason why people were rejected.

The admission rates for becoming an MD are tough, and that is why more people are turning to osteopathic medical schools. The osteopathic field is growing at a rate of about 5% per year, and currently,25% of all medical studentsin the U.S. are studying to earn their DO degree. In fact, I recommend that students who have a lower than average MCAT score or GPA consider osteopathic medical schools instead. While it is still competitive to get into an osteopathic school, it can be a good strategy for premed students to consider both allopathic and osteopathic medical schools to help them earn the title of doctor.

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In the Spotlight: ‘You’re never going to get into medical school’ – Scope – Scope

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Danzig

Omar Sahak failed his first college biology class. The second time, he got a C. And by the end of college, he was pretty sure medicine was a failed dream. But thanks to a few people who believed in him, he eventually did get that MD -- along with a master's degree in public health -- and he's now a second-year resident in psychiatry at Stanford.

Sahak shared his story with me:

Where did you grow up?

I lived in Flushing, Queens until I was about 10 years old. My parents had escaped Afghanistan, and they had one friend in New York. Everybody was an immigrant in our neighborhood. My dad got a coffee truck and sold coffee and bagels on the street from 2 a.m. to 2 p.m. Then we moved to California -- Marin County -- and I totally stood out. That was uncomfortable.

When did you get interested in science and medicine?

When I was a kid, I loved memorizing things because I could do it really quickly. I remember being excited to read that the sun was 93 million miles from the earth.

By the end of high school, my intuition was to study film, but I wanted to do something that helped other people. I listened to my family and my parents, who told me I could study science and have a good career. My mom was a nurse and one of my aunts was a pharmacist, and they said medicine could be a good fit for me.

Ultimately, they were right, but when I tried to actually do pre-med at the University of California, Santa Cruz, I didn't know how to study or ask for help. I was trudging through the mud in my science classes, getting an F and then taking it again and getting a C. My guidance counselor told me, "You're never going to get into medical school." He saw me as a failure.

By the time I was a senior, I was getting B's and A's in my science classes, but I didn't have the GPA to apply to medical school.

So how did you get in?

After graduation, I was doing community organizing work for a nonprofit in Sacramento, and doing really well. My boss, who was always looking out for me, gave me a flyer for a master's of public health distance-learning program at San Jose State University. The director looked at my college transcript and said, "It looks like when you wanted to do well, you did well." I thought, here was this man really seeing me.

I never worked that hard in my life. I was working full-time and writing these papers I didn't feel qualified to write. I would spend hours and hours writing one page, but after each paper, I kept getting better. It was very validating. I got straight A's. I left that program with a totally different brain and attitude. I felt like I could do anything I want -- I just had to figure out what I want to do.

So then I thought about medicine again. I knew in my bones I could be a really good doctor.

I had done a ton of volunteer work and public health policy work, but I had to prove myself academically. I enrolled in an organic chemistry class -- which I had failed many times -- and for the first time, it made sense. I took one class after another and was getting A's and finally finding mentors.

I was accepted at University of California, Davis, where my mom was a nurse. The year I graduated was the year she retired. It was kind of like passing a baton.

Why did you choose your specialty, psychiatry?

Psychiatry brought together a lot of interests I had. I naturally think about people's inner worlds and how their life experiences affect them.I could see myself being motivated over decades to go to work.

What do you do for fun?

What I really like is unstructured time. Once the weight of expectation comes off, other things start to come up --like general musings about life and what I'm seeing around me. Medical school gave me so much to think about and worry about, so when I have unstructured time, I take it.

Where do you see yourself in the future?

I'd like to go to an urban, underserved area that's associated with an academic center, where I can live in that community and also serve as an advocate for it. I want kids coming home from school to be like, "Hey Doc," and come up to me and ask me for help.

Photo by Daphne Sashin

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