By Silvia Marchetti

(CNN) — Not long after Charly Oliver and Michelle Denton met in the 1990s, they found they had the same dream — to live on a sailboat and explore the world.

It took many years for that goal to be realized, but the couple were finally able to sell their home in Boulder, Colorado, a decade ago and buy a sailboat named “Rascal.”

Since then, they’ve spent November through April each year sailing across the clear waters of the Bahamas, admiring striking sunsets and tropical shores from their 41-foot floating winter house.

The summer months are spent globetrotting — the couple have so far visited 36 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Freeing lifestyle

“What pretty much sums up the sailing lifestyle is the freedom and just working and living with nature,” says Denton, who couldn’t be happier to be living the life she first imagined when she learned to sail as a child.

Their lifestyle at sea didn’t come easily. Back when she was a law student, Denton had put together a 40-year plan that involved living frugally and saving as much as possible so that she could retire early.

When she and Oliver married in 2004, Denton laid out her plan to him and found he was willing to pursue it with her.

“For me, retirement has always been about traveling and doing the things I want to do like climbing, motorcycling, sailing,” he says. “Settling down in one place and not going anywhere is not in the cards for me.”

Life on land felt fast-moving and uninspiring at times, adds Denton, who explains that they’d traveled all around the US, visiting most of their bucket-list places, and the prospect of exploring new shores and hard-to-reach spots was hugely appealing to both of them.

After 33 years of saving they were finally able to retire in 2016, three years earlier than they’d initially projected.

That same year, they took their first sea trip, from Galveston Bay in Texas, where they bought the vessel, along the Gulf Coast to Florida and then from the Florida Keys to the Bahamas.

For the past 10 years, their winters have been spent exploring the more than 700 islands of the Bahamas, such as the Abacos, the Berry Islands )a 30-island chain), Conception Island, and Mayaguana, its most remote isle.

Challenging times

During the summer months, they usually leave the vessel behind to continue their travels on land.

While they say there are many pros to life at sea — such as the freedom, the affordability, and the boating community — there are also many cons.

“It’s not just sunsets and cocktails,” says Oliver, who previously worked in the industrial safety sector.

Maintaining a sailboat can be hard work and constantly being at the mercy of sea conditions requires a lot of preparation, forward planning and patience, they say. Anything that goes wrong with the boat, they have to fix themselves.

“You don’t go anywhere fast,” says Oliver. “Dealing with weather can be problematic both at sea and when anchored.”

The couple have had many challenging days at sea, including a bad-weather crossing of the Gulf Stream, an ocean current that flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States.

They live simply onboard. The kitchen contains only a small oven and all digital comms are via a limited satellite internet link. However, th

By Silvia Marchetti

(CNN) — Not long after Charly Oliver and Michelle Denton met in the 1990s, they found they had the same dream — to live on a sailboat and explore the world.

It took many years for that goal to be realized, but the couple were finally able to sell their home in Boulder, Colorado, a decade ago and buy a sailboat named “Rascal.”

Since then, they’ve spent November through April each year sailing across the clear waters of the Bahamas, admiring striking sunsets and tropical shores from their 41-foot floating winter house.

The summer months are spent globetrotting — the couple have so far visited 36 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Freeing lifestyle

“What pretty much sums up the sailing lifestyle is the freedom and just working and living with nature,” says Denton, who couldn’t be happier to be living the life she first imagined when she learned to sail as a child.

Their lifestyle at sea didn’t come easily. Back when she was a law student, Denton had put together a 40-year plan that involved living frugally and saving as much as possible so that she could retire early.

When she and Oliver married in 2004, Denton laid out her plan to him and found he was willing to pursue it with her.

“For me, retirement has always been about traveling and doing the things I want to do like climbing, motorcycling, sailing,” he says. “Settling down in one place and not going anywhere is not in the cards for me.”

Life on land felt fast-moving and uninspiring at times, adds Denton, who explains that they’d traveled all around the US, visiting most of their bucket-list places, and the prospect of exploring new shores and hard-to-reach spots was hugely appealing to both of them.

After 33 years of saving they were finally able to retire in 2016, three years earlier than they’d initially projected.

That same year, they took their first sea trip, from Galveston Bay in Texas, where they bought the vessel, along the Gulf Coast to Florida and then from the Florida Keys to the Bahamas.

For the past 10 years, their winters have been spent exploring the more than 700 islands of the Bahamas, such as the Abacos, the Berry Islands )a 30-island chain), Conception Island, and Mayaguana, its most remote isle.

Challenging times

During the summer months, they usually leave the vessel behind to continue their travels on land.

While they say there are many pros to life at sea — such as the freedom, the affordability, and the boating community — there are also many cons.

“It’s not just sunsets and cocktails,” says Oliver, who previously worked in the industrial safety sector.

Maintaining a sailboat can be hard work and constantly being at the mercy of sea conditions requires a lot of preparation, forward planning and patience, they say. Anything that goes wrong with the boat, they have to fix themselves.

“You don’t go anywhere fast,” says Oliver. “Dealing with weather can be problematic both at sea and when anchored.”

The couple have had many challenging days at sea, including a bad-weather crossing of the Gulf Stream, an ocean current that flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States.

They live simply onboard. The kitchen contains only a small oven and all digital comms are via a limited satellite internet link. However, th

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN

(CNN) — An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 91,593 kilometers (56,913 miles), according to the European Space Agency — equivalent to about one quarter of the distance between Earth and the moon.

Astronomers at the Mount Lemmon Survey in Tucson, Arizona, discovered the asteroid on May 10 and named it 2026JH2. The object belongs to a class of asteroids called Apollo, which orbit the sun on trajectories that intersect with Earth’s own orbit around the sun.

At its closest pass, 2026JH2 will be about 24% of the average distance between Earth and the moon, and about two and a half times the distance at which hundreds of geosynchronous satellites orbit, providing services such as telecommunications and weather forecasts. The close pass is expected to occur on Monday just before 6 p.m. ET, according to NASA’s JPL Small-Body Database.

Despite the proximity, the space rock poses no danger, according to Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the inventor of the Torino Scale, a tool for categorizing potential collisions of space objects with Earth.

“2026JH2 will pass safely by the Earth,” he said in an email. “This is actually a rather normal occurrence, car-sized objects pass between the Earth and the Moon every week. At the size of a school bus, these pass through our neighborhood several times per year. We are only recently developing surveys that are sensitive enough to see them,” he added, noting that before these surveys, objects of this kind would simply zoom by completely unnoticed.

Exact size unknown

The asteroid originates from the asteroid belt, an area between Mars and Jupiter, Binzel explained. “Occasional collisions in the asteroid belt, plus gravitational tugs by Jupiter, can send small asteroids into Earth’s vicinity. This fact has been known for many decades and many thousands of asteroids that can pass near the Earth are already known.”

Even though astronomers have directly observed the object hurtling toward Earth, its exact size is unknown. The uncertainty is due to the fact that when an optical telescope sees a new object, the only information it gathers is the object’s luminosity in visible light. There is no way to know how much light the object absorbs or reflects, according to Patrick Michel, an astrophysicist and director of research at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France.

“Thus, at the same luminosity, an object can be bigger and darker, or smaller and more reflective,” he said in an email. “To know the size, we would need observations in the infrared, because the luminosity in the infrared is directly proportional to the size. But such observations are more difficult to do from the Earth and are not used to discover new objects.”

Based on assumptions about how much light is reflected, 2026JH2 is currently estimated to be between 15 and 30 meters (49 and 98 feet) in diameter. At the smaller end of that range, Michel said, it would be similar in size to a bolide, or fireball, that exploded in the atmosphere over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, shattering windows and injuring 1,000 people. At the highest end of the range, it would be closer in size to an object that exploded near the Podkamennaya Tung

Por Brian Stelter, CNN

Stephen Colbert se despide con una sonrisa; y con muchas bromas a costa de CBS y su empresa matriz, Paramount.

Colbert se despide de “The Late Show” esta semana, ya que CBS pone fin a la icónica franquicia de televisión nocturna.

Muchos aficionados de “The Late Show” están decepcionados, incluso enojados, por la cancelación, dudando de la justificación de CBS para la decisión y creyendo que hay una política de apaciguamiento hacia Trump en juego.

“Tengo todo el derecho de estar molesto”, dijo el predecesor de Colbert, David Letterman, durante una visita de despedida al programa la semana pasada.

Pero mientras otros están indignados en su nombre, y la audiencia sigue debatiendo el final del programa, Colbert se mantiene positivo y transmite gratitud.

“Realmente me ha gustado trabajar con CBS”, dijo recientemente al The New York Times. “Han sido grandes socios. Y me gustaría terminarlo de esa manera… Me siento mucho mejor estando ‘agradecido por’ que ‘enojado por’”.

La principal preocupación de Colbert, como ha indicado en otras entrevistas, es el personal de “The Late Show”, que se quedará sin trabajo después del final de este jueves por la noche.

Las listas promocionales para la última semana contienen algunas pistas sobre los planes del programa.

El episodio de este lunes será “lo peor de ‘The Late Show’ con Stephen Colbert”, según el comunicado de prensa de CBS, que señala que “no es un programa de clips”, lo que significa que Colbert tiene material nuevo preparado.

El episodio de este martes contará con dos estrellas de primera línea, Jon Stewart y Steven Spielberg, además de una “actuación especial de David Byrne y Stephen Colbert”. Spielberg está comenzando una gira de prensa para su nueva película “Disclosure Day”, y Stewart es un amigo de toda la vida y socio productor de Colbert.

El episodio de este miércoles incluirá una actuación de Bruce Springsteen y una edición especial de “The Colbert Questionert”, un segmento recurrente de preguntas y respuestas en el programa.

Y el final de este jueves será una sorpresa: no se están promocionando invitados ni segmentos con anticipación.

Los principales rivales de Colbert, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” de ABC y “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” de NBC, emitirán repeticiones este jueves por la noche.

En una grabación de podcast con Kimmel, Fallon, Seth Meyers y John Oliver la semana pasada, Colbert alternó entre lo sentimental y lo sarcástico sobre el final de su programa.

También compartió que “mi hijo se gradúa de la universidad el 18; mi programa termina el 21; mi hermano se casa el 23. Así que, estoy como entre cosas que son, digamos, un poco más importantes; como, ya sabes, un poco de perspectiva”.

Colbert, de 62 años, ha dicho poco sobre sus planes públicos después de “The Late Show”, aunque está vinculado como guionista de una nueva película de “El señor de los anillos”, un trabajo soñado para uno de los mayores fanáticos del escritor J. R. R. Tolkien en la televisión.

En cuanto al aspecto de “quién lo hizo” respecto a la cancelación de su programa, Colbert dijo a The Times: “Es posible que dos cosas sean ciertas”.

Cuando CBS anunció el pasado jul

By Oscar Holland, CNN

(CNN) — One company sells millions of low-cost watches a year, the other makes luxury watches that have sold for millions. Together, Swatch and Audemars Piguet have sparked a “high-meets-low” retail frenzy that saw scenes of mayhem unfold in cities around the world over the weekend.

From Paris to Kuala Lumpur, long lines formed outside Swatch stores ahead of Saturday’s launch of “Royal Pop,” a series of cheerfully colored pocket watches modeled on AP’s iconic Royal Oak. Billed by the companies as “a disruptive collaboration between two icons of Swiss watchmaking,” hype around the long-anticipated collection exploded online after the designs were revealed last week.

But scenes turned ugly in several locations, with videos shared online showing fights breaking out and security guards struggling to contain large crowds.

In the US, 19 Swatch outlets were closed over safety concerns, and a police officer in Long Island, New York appeared to use pepper-spray on a crowd. Stores in several European cities were also temporarily shuttered, while Swatch preemptively canceled launch events in India and Dubai. Police in both the UK and US reportedly made arrests after crowds failed to disperse.

On Sunday, Swatch issued a social media statement urging customers “not to rush to our stores in large numbers,” citing concern for the safety of staff and shoppers. It added: “In some countries, queues of more than 50 people cannot be accepted, and sales may need to be paused.” On its website, Swatch meanwhile assured customers that the collection will “remain available for several months.”

Why the fuss?

The viral timepieces are designed in eight different colorways (from the monochrome “Ocho Negro” to the bright pink, yellow and teal “Otg Roz”) — a number referencing the Royal Oak’s distinctive octagonal case and eight-sided bezel. The pocket watches come with a calfskin lanyard, rather than a wrist strap, making them better suited to being worn around the neck or attached to a bag (earning them obvious comparisons to another recent viral craze: Labubu). In a joint press release, the two Swiss watchmakers boldly claimed the collection would “change the way we wear watches.”

Swatch’s policy of limiting purchase to one per customer did little to deter scalpers. The items immediately flooded resale sites over the weekend, with prices on watch marketplace Chrono24 ranging from around $1,200 to almost $6,000, at the time of writing.

Like other “high-low” collaborations — from Stella McCartney working with H&M to JW Anderson’s Uniqlo collections — the pitch to customers is clear: A chance to own an exclusive brand that might otherwise be out of reach. Costing either $400 or $420, depending on the model, Royal Pop offers an affordable take on an AP watch that typically costs — on the lower end — tens of thousands of dollars.

The appeal for Swatch is also self-evident. As well as attracting huge foot traffic to its stores, the company’s brand benefits from its association with one of the Switzerland’s most storied watchmakers. Parent company Swatch Group’s share price has jumped 15% in the last two weeks.

But what does Audemars Piguet stand to gain from the partnership?

Founded in 1875, AP is known for producing highly complex horo