Photo by Alexander Grey / UnsplashWelcome news to those of us in the “Flyover Zone”: our reading habits are healthy and well served. The Jackson Madison County Public Library in Jackson, Tennessee, is one such example. Possessing 115,799 physical items and over one million electronic books, it is one of the larger West Tennessee libraries, and it purports to encourage communicating information, developing technology literacy, and connecting people. It has a total physical circulation of 216,807 and 71,885 patrons (Madison County has a little over 100,000 residents). Digital circulation has gone up since Covid and stands today at 143,709. The…
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could â€Åspill the teaâ€Â on their weekly show â€ÅIf These Walls Could Talk†live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride. Mac Gollehon will be a featured guest on â€ÅIf These Walls Could Talk†with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 at 2 PM ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant. Wendy Stuart is an…
Liverpool’s Curtis Jones celebrates scoring their side’s second goal of the game during the Premier League match at the King Power Stadium, Leicester. Picture date: Monday May 15, 2023.Tim Goode | Pa Images | Getty ImagesFor U.S. investors looking to score an investment in a European soccer club, some of the focus is shifting toward the clubs with lower valuations and typically not in the marquee tier of the sport overseas.Some investors, particularly in the U.S., are shifting toward a so-called multi-club model, or investing in smaller clubs with lower valuations, as they try to take a piece of the…
Formed within wells indented into the stack of two different layered materials (a monolayer semiconductor and an anti-ferromagnetic crystal), the chiral quantum light emissions rise up out of the material and could be used for quantum information and communication applications. (Courtesy: Los Alamos National Laboratory) A new nanoscale device based on stacks of two-dimensional materials can not only generate a stream of single photons but can also control their chirality, or circular polarization, without the need for an applied magnetic field. Since manipulating a photon’s polarization state is a way to encode information in it, the advance could be important…
Refresh for latest…: Just as it came in lower than hoped for domestically, Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: Believer didn’t fully convert overseas audiences, summoning a $17.9M international box office debut for $45.1M global. The R-rated David Gordon Green-directed reboot/sequel did see some of its 52 launch markets give it a No. 1 start, while in like-for-likes, the bow is above M3GAN, Evil Dead Rise, Scream VI and Smile. (As regards the latter, recall that it legged out with terrific holds, so the comparison may not stick down the line since scores on Believer are not good, and Taylor Swift is…
by Trevor Kimball, October 7, 2023(Photo: Michael Lavine/FOX) The residents of a certain small town are moving on. FOX has cancelled Welcome to Flatch so there won’t be a third season. The second season finished airing in February. A mockumentary comedy series, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Holmes, Sam Straley, Seann William Scott, Aya Cash, Jaime Pressly, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up of…
WASHINGTON — The head of the Space Development Agency — a U.S. Space Force organization that uses unconventional procurement methods to acquire satellites and build a space network — is pushing back at critics who presumably don’t want the military acquisition culture to change, SDA’s director Derek Tournear said in a recent social media post. “Recently, I was told to stop playing the role of ‘bad cop’ on behalf of the Space Development Agency and our mission. It was suggested that I might damage relationships among my peers,” Tournear wrote. Established just four years ago, SDA is moving ahead with an…
Vivo has launched its new software update, the Funtouch OS 14, which is based on the recently launched Android 14. The company has also confirmed a list of smartphones that are scheduled to receive the update over the coming few months – including both Vivo and Iqoo handsets. The update introduces a significant number of upgrades and new features over the preceding software. Starting in October, the rolling out of the Funtouch OS 14 Beta version is spread over the next few months leading up to April 2024.Smooth Envision is a new feature introduced with Funtouch OS 14 that claims…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 22, 2023 in Washington.Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that it is not clear there was any involvement by Iran in the weekend attack by Hamas on Israel.Iran has long been a supporter of Hamas, the group designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, whose attack on Saturday left at least 250 in Israel dead.”We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a…
Play video content Everybody wants a piece of Maluma these days — but that doesn’t mean he wants folks going for a handful of the goods … evidenced here in this video. Check out this clip of the Colombian singer that made the rounds this weekend — it shows him walking through a lower-level crowd during his concert at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Montville, CT … getting pretty close to adoring fans, and maybe even too close. As you can see, as people reach out to touch him … somebody appears to reach for his crotch — and it…
Passengers look at a departure board at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 7, 2023, as flights are canceled because of the Hamas surprise attacks. Gil Cohen-magen | AFP | Getty ImagesSeveral airlines suspended service to Israel this weekend after surprise attacks by Hamas and Israeli retaliation left hundreds dead.United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines each scrubbed service to Tel Aviv. United Flight 954, which departed San Francisco Friday night for Israel, turned back near Greenland, according to flight-tracker FlightAware.Lufthansa Group said all of its flights, including those on Swiss International Air Lines and Austrian Airlines,…
One of Hollywood’s most beloved couples, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, seem to have a perfectly-balanced relationship—particularly when they take turns lovingly roasting each other on social media. The pair began dating in 2011 and were married about a year later. That might seem fast, but they’d been friends for a while and could simply no longer deny the chemistry between them.More than a decade later, Lively and Reynolds remain happily married and share three daughters—James, Inez, and Betty—and their fourth baby, whose name and gender haven’t been shared yet. Here, the complete history of Lively and Reynolds’ love story.July…
If something doesn’t seem right, Mercer is on it and will uncover the truth come rain or come shine. If there’s anything The Irrational has proved in the two episodes it has aired, it’s not dull as far as the cases it tackles are concerned. One can expect an exciting premise for every case, and the investigation until a solution is found is also quite interesting. The show doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to flesh out most of its characters, but as long as they keep delivering these kinds of cases, it is worth dedicating someone’s 10 p.m.…
The U.S. Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C.The Washington Post | The Washington Post | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Labor is poised to issue a rule in coming weeks that’s likely to raise protections for investors who roll money from a 401(k) plan into an individual retirement account, according to attorneys who specialize in retirement law.The stakes are high: Millions of people roll their nest egg from workplace retirement plans into IRAs every year. It’s a common move when workers switch jobs or retire.But current rules can expose them to poor investment advice from brokers, insurance agents and…
In this articleSTLAM-ITFGMFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTStriking United Auto Workers (UAW) members from the General Motors Lansing Delta Plant picket in Delta Township, Michigan September 29, 2023.Rebecca Cook | ReutersDETROIT – The United Auto Workers will not expand strikes against the Detroit automakers this week amid progress in the talks, including General Motors agreeing to cover battery cell workers under the company’s national agreement.This is the first week since targeted strikes by the UAW started on Sept. 15 that the union will not expand the work stoppages at GM, Ford Motor or Chrysler-parent Stellantis.Fain said the union was planning…
Augustus Meleo Bernstein’s new movie At the Gates is getting a November 3 theatrical release date in New York and Los Angeles from Picturehouse. The Beacon Pictures and Five Towers production stars Miranda Otto, Noah Wyle, Ezekiel Pacheco, Vanessa Benavente and Sadie Anne Stanley. Bernstein wrote and directed in his feature debut. In the movie, Ana (Benavente), a housekeeper from El Salvador, brings her teenage son Nico (Pacheco) to help her clean an affluent family’s Los Angeles home. But after being told by her employers Marianne (Otto) and Peter Barris (Wyle) that immigration officers are searching for her, she accepts…
WASHINGTON — When Russia launched the Luch Olymp K-2 geostationary spy satellite in March, analysts expected it would carry out signals intelligence-gathering missions much like its predecessor Luch Olymp-K-1 that has been in orbit since 2014. Slingshot Aerospace, a space data analytics firm focused on spaceflight safety, this week unveiled data that shows that Russia’s new spy satellite, also known as Luch-2, is conducting operations akin to those of its predecessor Luch-1, raising fresh concerns about espionage in space. The company’s space tracking software identified multiple maneuvers by Luch-2 that are highly reminiscent of the behavior exhibited by Luch-1, which…
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is dropping in November and before that, Activision has unveiled a brand-new map coming to its battle-royale counterpart. Dubbed ‘Urzikstan,’ the large-scale metropolis will be available in Warzone 2.0, sometime in December, as part of season 1 content. The region was first featured in the reimagined 2019 MW game and is playable on the endless respawn-enabled Plunder mode, as well. Set on the eastern border of the Black Sea, this map comes with 11 unique points of interest, peppered with horizontal ziplines and drivable trains for better traversal.Activision describes Urzikstan as the point where…