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Athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will sleep on beds made from recycled cardboard and customisable mattresses by Japanese bedding company Airweave. Airweave has created 18,000 beds and mattresses for athletes at this summer's Olympics, 8,000 of which will be repurposed for use by athletes at the Paralympics. The bed frames are made from recycled cardboard, while the modular mattresses are made from polyethylene fibres that the brand says can be recycled an unlimited number of times. The sleeping equipment had to align with the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games' sustainability plan, which aims to deliver a more sustainable event and...

FOLSOM (CBS13) – A restaurant owner in Folsom posted a “slow service sign”, asking customers to be patient with the short-staffed taqueria desperate for employees to come back to work.Taco Loco is a popular eatery here in Folsom and posted a sign explaining to customers why service might be slow.The sign reads:“To our loyal customers. Sadly, due to government and state handouts no one wants to work anymore. Therefore, we are short staffed…“Please be patient with our staff that did choose to come to work today.”John Voels owns a restaurant down the street from the Tacqueria. He says he understands...

Gyms in South Korea's capital Seoul and its surrounding region have been told not to play music with a tempo higher than 120 beats per minute (bpm) in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Treadmills will be limited to a maximum of 6km/h (3.7 mph). A quick look at K-pop bpms suggests Blackjack fans might suffer a bit more than followers of BTS. South Korea is battling a new outbreak of the virus, with 1,100 new cases recorded on Sunday. Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum warned on Friday that the country had reached "maximum crisis level". Those attending exercise classes...

Team USA might indeed win its fourth consecutive Olympic gold next month in Tokyo. But if they do, it will be a story of overcoming adversity. The Americans lost their second consecutive exhibition Monday, this time bested by Australia 91-83 in Las Vegas. Dating to the 2019 World Cup, where they finished seventh, Team USA has lost four of their past five games. They've also lost two in a row now to Australia, a team expected to contend for the gold in Japan. It was a better showing than the loss to Nigeria on Saturday but just reading those words...

It went from “restaurant of the summer” to “not woke enough” in just 24 hours. One day after celebrated Brooklyn rooftop restaurant Outerspace received a glowing review in the New York Times, the chefs and general manager all walked out. One chef issued a scathing denunciation of the eatery’s fashion-world owners, accusing them of misogyny, a “colonial” attitude toward the food and their employees, and “skimming” bar proceeds. SNIP Under her Instagram handle Kreung, the name of her Cambodian food business, Un denounced “culture vultures dressed in normcore” who practiced “dated power dynamics” and “internalized misogyny.”

U.S.—Popular plumbing and bath products manufacturer Kohler Co. has introduced a new shower tap that gets the water hot enough to literally melt the flesh from your bones. Known as the "wife" setting, the shower gets up to 800 degrees Fahrenheit, enough to make men literally melt where they stand, since they are pansy babies who can't take a little pain. Wives who have tested the product so far, however, say they "can't get enough" of the heat level and aren't sure what their husbands are complaining about. "Honestly, it's still a little too cold," said Destiny Hombre of San...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says she welcomes federal help in addressing gun violence in the city, but she pushed back Monday against the idea of having the National Guard come into the picture in a law enforcement capacity. Lightfoot, speaking at a press availability, says that she supports a variety of federal responses to the problem of gun violence, including additional “strike force” teams offered by President Joe Biden, along with resources from the FBI and other agencies. “We’ve been in conversation with them about our sense of urgency around getting these resources up and activated,” she said. “I think...

Awoman who worked for the Loomis armored car company is on the run after disappearing with nearly $10 million in cash. Yasemin Gundogan of Bremen, Germany worked as a currency-packaging assistant. She fled in late May, police say, with stacks of money she stole from the company. After failing to locate the woman for several weeks, police issued an arrest warrant this month and filed a notice with Interpol. Gundogan's job was to pack stacks of paper money into cases for delivery to Loomis customers including banks, cash-counting companies and betting parlors. She allegedly put the stolen loot in locked...

Democratic lawmakers in Texas fled the state on Monday, potentially torpedoing an ongoing special session called by Republicans to take up new voting restrictions and other GOP priorities. At least 50 House Democrats landed in Washington late on Monday. The exodus denies Republicans the required two-thirds attendance level to conduct business, calling into doubt whether plans to take up voting legislation this week could proceed. In the statement, Democratic leaders said they planned to pressure Congress to pass new federal voting legislation. “Today, Texas House Democrats stand united in our decision to break quorum and refuse to let the Republican-led...

Conor McGregor underwent successful surgery on his leg on Sunday and shared an update on his status a day after suffering the gruesome injury at UFC 264 against Dustin Poirier. McGregor and his agent Audie A. Attar, of Paradigm Sports, released statements on Twitter. "Just out of the surgery room guys! Surgery went excellent! Feeling tremendous! 6 weeks on crutch and we build back! Let’s go! God bless," McGregor tweeted.

“Check on your grandparents, there’s a killer on the loose,” tweeted actor James Woods, in reaction to NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announcing that he will combat “gun violence” in the same way he attempted to take on the Chinese coronavirus. Cuomo recently announced, “We want to do with gun violence what we just did with COVID.” “Check on your grandparents, there’s a killer on the loose,” Woods reacted, referring to how Cuomo’s administration handled the state’s nursing homes during the Wuhan virus pandemic. A directive Cuomo made forced nursing homes to accept coronavirus-positive patients in order to free up hospital...

A rising number of economist have warned Joe Biden’s policies could turn the U.S. into a Latin American type of economy. On Monday, Former International Monetary Fund Deputy Director Desmond Lachman said Biden’s inflation, money printing and high government spending posed a problem for the U.S. economy. Lachman said Biden’s policies could push the U.S. budget deficit up to 15 percent per year. He warned this was not a sustainable level of deficit spending, which may bankrupt the U.S. Lachman went on to point out such policies lead to devaluation of the national currency and fuel poverty, as seen in...

A London library has apologised for holding an event to encourage children to read during which an actor dressed in a bare-bottomed monkey costume with a fake penis. Footage shared on social media on Saturday showed members of the Mandiga Arts Group at Redbridge Libraries Summer Reading Challenge event at Goodmayes Library in east London. Three performers were filmed outside the event, with one dressed in an ‘inappropriate’ rainbow monkey costume, raising concern from residents. Writer Janice Turner wrote: “I would really love a detailed breakdown of the commissioning process whereby Redbridge council commissioned the Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey as...

The search continues for Philip Kreycik, a man who went missing while he was running in the Pleasanton Hills Saturday morning. His car, with his wallet and phone inside, was found in the parking lot. Kreycik came out for what was supposed to be a 6-8 mile-run, somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour. Police found his planned route on an app on his phone – that phone was in his parked car in the parking lot. So far, they’ve searched that route multiple times and haven’t found him or anything that might lead them to him. Pleasanton police are...

Yesterday we were uncertain if it was US Attorney William M McSwain who notified President trump of Bill Barr’s corruption and blocking of election investigations. {Go Deep} Today President Trump released the letter confirming it was McSwain. [pdf HERE] In previous comments attributed to AG Bill Barr, he claimed to have seen no evidence of election fraud. The Atlantic Article cites Bill Barr stating to an AP journalist December 1st 2020: ” To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” and then the article covers the fallout with...

LOS ANGELES -- Conservative radio talk show host Larry Elder entered California's Sept. 14 recall election on Monday, bringing a well-known voice on the political right to a muddled Republican field trying to oust first-term Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Elder, whose show is nationally syndicated, is a regular guest on Fox News. He's dubbed the "sage from South Central" on his website, a reference to the area of Los Angeles where he grew up.

A World Health Organization (WHO) official said that the organization is working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine “digital wallet” and is also seeking to “increase the distribution” of an international certificate for those who’ve been vaccinated. Dr. Michael Ryan, an Irish epidemiologist who is head of the WHO health emergencies program dealing with COVID-19, made the remarks during a daily news briefing on July 12 in Geneva. “We have encouraged countries that want to, they may use the international certificate for vaccination and prophylaxis … that requires other countries to recognize that certificate of vaccination,” Ryan said, adding that WHO...

Israel's coronavirus czar Nachman Ash admitted Monday that the coronavirus data released by the Health Ministry in recent weeks was incorrect, and added that the number of negative COVID-19 tests conducted at Ben-Gurion International Airport had been mistakenly counted twice. Ash said that the Health Ministry intends to correct the data in the upcoming weeks, and stressed that "the rate of positive COVID tests isn’t surging. There has been a gradual increase in recent days."

Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira---The Miraculous Story of the Patroness of ColumbiaLarry Peterson | 09/09/2018Last September, Pope Francis visited Columbia, South America. Before leaving on his trip, he asked that the miraculous painting of the Patroness of Columbia, Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquira, accompany him on his journey. The Pope planned to spend time in front of the painting which had received a Canonical Coronation from Pope St. Pius X on January 9, 1910. The story behind this magnificent painting is quite remarkable. If you are an artist in the 21st century and you need paints...

A disturbing report by the Justice Department Inspector General has revealed that incarcerated terrorists associated with international jihadist groups like al-Qaida, ISIS, and al-Shabaab have been allowed to lead religious services in Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) chapels. "We found that some institutions permitted inmates with a known nexus to international or domestic terrorism to lead religious services," said the report, which was issued earlier this month. The Inspector General investigated the BOP's overall Chaplaincy Services Program (CSP), and how it balances inmates' rights to faith-based activity with security risks. Not only did prison administrators allow terrorists to run religious services,...