Updated 2:05 AM ET, Sun May 16, 2021 (CNN)Elizabeth Skipper, a freelance copywriter in Cincinnati, has done something that might make a lot of people jealous.
She s gone to bed with Idris Elba dozens of times.
No, not in the flesh. Skipper drifts off to sleep at night listening to Elba s deep baritone narrating a story via the Calm app on her phone. Not much happens in the story, a leisurely travelogue about the African country of Lesotho which slackens into descriptions of alpine valleys and caves with ancient rock art.
But Elba s tale and other glacially paced narratives, most commonly called sleep stories, have become increasingly popular during the pandemic among people looking to quiet their minds and soothe their jangled nerves at bedtime.
Sideswipe: May 12: Overboard?
3 minutes to read Jim spotted this scene at Army Bay off the Whangaparaoa Peninsula. The word on the street is that it fell off a barge, possibly army doing training manoeuvres off their base? he writes. It s an expensive bit of kit though.
Look guys, a jellyfish
A popular TikTok user posted a video showing himself prodding, picking up, and even licking a strikingly coloured blue jellyfish that lay on the beach. Alexa reed2, who has almost 1 million followers said: Look guys, a jellyfish is still here, he states in the short clip. I m going to pick it up. This is how it looks like – yes, it is a jellyfish, look how big it is. It s still moving! I m going to lick it. Unbeknownst to Alexa, a makeup artist and self-proclaimed CEO of eating bugs , his new jelly friend is actually a Portuguese Man o War (or Bluebottle), one of the most dangerous jellyfish in the ocean. Known for their intensely painful sting
Housing and Development Newsletter
Through their refusal to enforce immigration laws, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris actively protect illegal immigrants, and encourage criminal human trafficking. A U.S. Attorneys’ Annual Statistical Report concluded that illegal immigration leads to myriad other federal felonies, including more trafficking.
From the 2010 report: “Illegal immigration provides the initial foothold which criminal elements, including organized crime syndicates, use to engage in a myriad of illicit activities ranging from immigration document fraud and migrant smuggling to human trafficking.”
Whenever Biden lectures the nation about its humane immigration policies, or hectors that enforcing immigration laws “isn’t who we are,” remember Point Loma, the tragic, avoidable loss of life, and the flagrant disregard a U.S. citizen had for following federal laws Congress passed, and a U.S. president signed.
David Hernandez and Kristina Davis
San Diego Union-Tribune
Maria Eugenia Chavez Segovia boarded the 40-foot trawler-like boat with few items: identification, prayer cards, rosary beads and some Mexican pesos.
The 41-year-old single mother from a small town in central Mexico hoped to work in agriculture in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Her aspiration rested on the boat, which she and 31 other migrants with their own ambitions crowded aboard.
In the U.S., her sister and two brothers who live in Stockton and Salinas awaited her arrival, according to Luis Magaña, an advocate of agricultural workers in San Joaquin County and the Valley at large.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Searching for hope, 32 migrants were pushed to extremes in an attempt to enter the US [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-CALIF-CAPSIZED-BOAT-MIGRANTS:SD]
SAN DIEGO Maria Eugenia Chavez Segovia boarded the 40-foot boat with few items: identification, prayer cards, rosary beads and some Mexican pesos.
The 41-year-old from a small town in central Mexico hoped to work in agriculture in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Her aspiration rested on the boat, which she and 31 other migrants with their own ambitions crowded aboard.
But none of them made it to their intended destinations. The boat crashed into a reef off Point Loma and splintered.