“We’re making a serious impact in the supply chain,” said Nunnallee. “This year alone, in these first three months of 2026, here in San Diego, we seized 6 million deadly doses, that’s enough to kill every San Diegan three times.”
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One of the biggest gripes I hear about people’s ski boots is that they wish they were stiffer. In fact, in our season-long boot preference poll, 18 percent of respondents said that’s the most important thing they would change about their ski footwear.
Boot stiffness is characterized by a “flex index,” which typically runs from about 65 to 130. The thing is, that flex index isn’t based on a standardized set of measurements. Even within a single brand’s boot portfolio, a 130 flex will feel different between models. If you’re looking for the absolute stiffest boot from a brand, you’re going to want to look at their fixed-cuff race or race-style boots made from heavy polyurethane plastic. Skip the walk mode, and skip anything billed as lightweight. When it comes to stiffness, more material is key.
However, what if you’re happy with the fit of your current boot, and want to add a little extra stiffness? The good news is that it’s definitely possible. The bad news? It might cost you some cash in the form of a new liner, or some serious garage time tinkering with some aftermarket mods. If you’re looking for some quick fixes, or are ready to dive into some serious boot surgery, read on below.
Booster straps are quick and easy way to add some power to any kind of ski boot.
1. Add a Booster Strap
This might be the quickest and easiest way to add some additional performance to your boot. It works well for everything from lightweight touring boots to full-power race boots–and it’s the dirty little secret most pro athletes use to improve their boots’ power. Booster straps are elastic straps designed to close the top of your boot cuff tighter around your shin. They replace the stock velcro or buckle-style power straps that come with your boots. By closing the cuff of your boot closer around your leg, it removes some of the free play (some call it “slop”) from your boot’s flex. The elasticity also adds some additional rebound and damping to the boot, further adding power.
Booster Straps come in a few different stiffnesses, so choose wisely. If you’re looking to max out the stiffness, I’d recommend going straight for the World Cup strap. Booster Straps are available at most ski shops, or online.
2. Add A Bolt Into The Spine
This modification isn’t possible on all boots, but can add some serious rigidity to those where it does. Many traditional high performance 4-buckle overlap race-style boots (especially those listed as having a 130 or higher flex) have two holes on the rear spine of the boot to connect the upper cuff to the lower part of the shell (called the “clog” or “scafo”). That’s the most important part of the boot for power transmission and stiffness–and is where the stiffness can be adjusted easiest.
Boots like the Atomic Remedy 130 actually come out of the box with just one bolt installed, with the option to install a second one. Drill out the second hole, install the second T-nut and bolt, and get ready for an instant power upgrade.
NOTE: On boots that come stock with two bolts, this is actually an easy way to soften your boot up. Simply take out the top one (and save the hardware) to give yourself a little more forgiving of a flex–it’s kind of nice on those blisteringly cold days, or when your shins and legs need a break midway through the season.
Adding extra plastic to the cuff of the boot is a pretty involved way of adding stiffness, but it works.
Max Ritter
3. Add Extra Plastic
Perhaps the most involved mod on this list, it’s possible to add stiffness to your boot by simply adding more material. Of course, this will take quite a bit of MacGyvering, but the basic principle is more plastic=stiffer boot. I’ve seen all kinds of strange things to come from this method, but perhaps the most refined comes from K2 and Salomon’s highest-performing boots. On the K2 Recon 140 freeride boot, the boot engineers added a thin plastic “PowerPlate” piece under the top buckles that makes the cuff taller and stiffer. Salomon does something very similar to their newly-updated Shift Alpha BOA 130 boot, adding a piece of plastic over the instep for added power.
If you’re going to try this at home, I’d recommend finding an old pair of boots that you can cut up and harvest plastic from. Traditional injection-molded polyurethane (PU) plastic is what you want here–it’s dense and stiff, but still retains better energy absorption qualities than lighter-weight Pebax or Grilamid. Using a Dremel or hot knife, cut a piece off the old boot wherever makes the most sense, and either epoxy or bolt to the front of the cuff of your new boots. Please wear a respirator…plastic fumes and dust are NASTY. This will definitely take some trial and error, but it’s possible.
Intuition’s magic bullet for boot performance.
4. Upgrade The Liner
In general, I’ve never been a fan of stock liners in ski boots. They might be comfortable out of the box, but for the most part, they don’t retain performance for more than a few days. Of course, there are a few exceptions here, but most pro bootfitters will agree on this point.
A quick way to add more stiffness to your boot is by swapping that crappy stock liner with either an Intuition PowerWrap (or DH Wrap) liner or a lace-up style liner from ZipFit. These have a ton of natural stiffness on their own, and both the wrap and lacing systems will help keep your foot locked into your boot much better than a stock liner ever could. Intuition liners in particular tend to add some height to your boot, which, while adding stiffness, also makes them flex more naturally because there’s smoother leverage along your leg.
An added bonus is that these are designed to be custom-fit, so you’ll get some extra comfort on top of the performance boost.
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Rob and Michele Singer Reiner were remembered Saturday night during this year’s Human Rights Campaign gala dinner in Los Angeles.
Kelley Robinson, president of the LGBTQ+ civil rights organization, recognized the late couple’s work in the fight to legalize same-sex marriage. “When Prop 8 passed in 2008, Rob and Michele stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a real-life league of queer Avengers,” Robinson said. “I’m talking about Chad Griffin and Christina Schocky, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami, Justin Mikita and Adam Umhoefer, who’s here tonight.
“And from that moment when they locked arms, they decided to launch the American Foundation for Equal Rights and that legal team took the fight all the way to the Supreme Court and won for our rights and for our lives,” she continued. “Rob and Michele were and are superheroes. They showed us what real allyship is. They were courage embodied and most importantly, they never stopped giving a damn – not for themselves or for self-image but for the good of all of us.”
Rob and Michele were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on Dec. 14. Their son Nick Reiner was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in their deaths. He pleaded not guilty on Feb. 23, and is being held without bail. He is facing two counts of murder with an enhancement that could carry the death penalty or life without parole if he is convicted.
At the start of the HRC program, gala chairman Todd Hawkins dedicated the night to the Reiners. “They helped make it possible for LGBTQ+ people to marry the person they love,” he said, adding, “I remember looking out from this very stage last year. Rob and Michele were right there cheering us on with everything that they had. We may have lost them in the physical sense, but we have never lost their spirit, their fire, their fight, their energy, their friendship, their influence and their everlasting impact. So tonight, we dedicate this evening to them. We remember them, we honor them.”
Lisa Kudrow and RuPaul presented writer, director and producer Michael Patrick King with the Visibility Award.
The television impresario, a mastermind behind “Sex and the City,” “And Just Like That,” “The Comeback,” and “2 Broke Girls,” among many other projects, talked about not coming out as gay until he was 36. “To be clear I was never confused who I was. I knew who I was from a very young age,” King said.
He described a photo of him taken when he was three years old. “This toddler, me, is looking straight into the camera wearing my mother’s sheer summer curtains wrapped around me as a gown…and one with a veil over my head,” King said. “And I am holding a bouquet of plastic flowers that I took from the vase on the top of the TV…On the back of this photo in my mother’s handwriting, it says, ‘Michael being the bride. 3 years old. Favorite outfit.’ And yeah, my mother was shocked when I told her I was gay 33 years later.”
King wondered aloud why it took him as long as it did for him to come out. “Every single thing I learned about how society hated gay people, maybe,” he said. “And even in a family as filled with as much love as mine, the societal shame got in and told me not to be vocal, not to be meek. All those years, I was letting society hold me back from becoming who I was meant to be.”
See photos from the Human Rights Campaign gala below.
RuPaul and Michael Patrick King
Christopher Polk
Lisa Kudrow, Michael Patrick King and Kristin Davis
Christopher Polk
Dan Bucatinsky and Malin Akerman
Christopher Polk
Jessica Betts, Karen Bass and Niecy Nash
JC Olivera
Kelley Robinson
JC Olivera
Todd Hawkins
JC Olivera
Camryn Manheim and Marcia Gay Harden
JC Olivera
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A small plane crashed around Lake Tahoe on Sunday, killing one person on board, local authorities say.
The plane, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Office, was heading to Truckee Tahoe Airport.
It went down southwest of Olympic Valley, the home of Palisades Tahoe ski resort. At approximately the same time the aircraft disappeared from radar, the Sheriff’s Office’s dispatch center received an Apple crash alert.
The Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Team said its team was deployed to the Five Lakes area in the afternoon following reports of a white plane experiencing engine trouble.
Some responders were flown to the crash site, while more than 20 travelled on foot, with skis on their backs, TNSAR said.
The Sheriff’s Office said one person was located deceased inside the plane. They are believed to be the lone occupant.
TNSAR’s PistenBully 100 snowcat also travelled up Palisades Tahoe’s KT access road, reaching the Five Lakes area for the first time and helping with the transport of the pilot. TNSAR called the effort “remarkable.”
TNSAR thanked Palisades Tahoe for the support.
“We are deeply appreciative of the strong collaboration that made this response possible,” the organization said in a news release.
“Our hearts are with the pilot’s family and friends during this incredibly difficult time,” TNSAR added. “The aviation community here in Truckee is a close-knit one, and this loss is felt deeply by so many across our town.”
The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration will investigate the crash, the Sheriff’s Office said, noting, “Our hearts are with the family, friends, and loved ones impacted by this tragic loss.”
Following the crash, the Tahoe National Forest issued a closure of the Five Lakes area. Officials said the closure was because of unknown hazards from the wreckage and to facilitate the investigation, 2 News Nevada reported.
The closure lasts through April 7, but could end sooner if conditions improve.
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Screening in the International Panorama at Series Mania, Europe’s largest TV showcase running March 20–27 in Lille, France, RTÉ comedy-drama “These Sacred Vows” arrives as part of a more assertive push by Irish producers toward ambitious, export-minded scripted series.
Created by writer-director John Butler (“Handsome Devil,” “Papi Chulo,” BBC-Amazon’s “The Outlaws”), the six-part ensemble opens on a destination-set mystery: the morning after an Irish wedding on a Spanish island, a priest is found dead in a swimming pool. Each episode unfolds from a different character’s perspective, assembling a fractured portrait of middle class Irish life under pressure.
Produced by Irish publish broadcaster RTÉ with Dublin-based Treasure Entertainment, backed by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and with Banijay Rights swooping on internatioanl distributon, the series blends genre mechanics with culturally specific social observation, using the murder framework to probe generational tensions around faith, status and identity in a society still reckoning with the Catholic Church’s diminished authority.
The show also lands at a moment of intensifying international demand for distinctive ensemble dramas rooted in strong local milieus but built around recognisable genre engines. It’s a space where recent European titles, such as France’s “Lupin” and Germany’s “4 Blocks Zero,” have found traction with global buyers and platforms seeking character-driven series capable of travelling beyond their home markets.
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (“Love/Hate,” Marvel’s “Avengers” films) is who we meet first as Fr. Vincent O’Keeffe, the uneasy officiant whose arrival in sun-drenched Tenerife sets the story in motion. He is joined by Justine Mitchell (“Derry Girls”), Jason O’Mara (“The Man in the High Castle”) and India Mullen (“Normal People”), alongside Adam John Richardson, Jade Auguste and Irish stand-up performers Shane Daniel Byrne and Catherine Bohart.
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
The tightly subjective storytelling reflects Butler’s experience on Stephen Merchant’s crime comedy-drama “The Outlaws,” where he worked as writer and director of multiple episodes. Here he pushes further, locking each instalment to a single viewpoint and foregrounding how competing personal narratives shape the perception of shared events.
Launched Feb. 1 in RTÉ One’s flagship Sunday drama slot, “These Sacred Vows” has already begun to travel, with Banijay Rights closing early international sales including recently to VOD service Binge in Australia.
Butler talked to Variety ahead of Series Mania:
You’ve wrapped the story in the frame of a destination-set murder mystery. What did that genre setup allow you to smuggle in, emotionally, culturally and thematically, that might otherwise have been harder to mount?
The trope of the hooker-in-the-dumpster is as old as TV itself. I wanted to tell a story about the Irish middle class that would ask uncomfortable questions and not offer the relief of seeing these characters as “other people”. In order to tell that story, it had to come into the world wearing the clothes of genre. I needed to sugar the pill, so who best to put in that dumpster?
Fr Vincent is a striking lead, not an authority figure so much as a damaged man shaped by repression, loneliness and desire. Why was he the right way into this story?
He’s not so much the lead as the first main character we meet. Each episode has a new main character, all with equal value. That said, in 2026, the hooker-in-the-dumpster really ought to be a man (!), and the avatar of Irish Priest is charged with such symbolic value. The Catholic faith has been removed from the centre of Irish life, and priests can be viewed with apathy, ignored, and even reviled, because of the awful stories of clerical sex abuse that have dominated our cultural landscape for the last few decades. Beyond the cold open, every character in the show is struggling for meaning and more than many, an Irish priest now has to wonder about his utility. I wanted the first of the individual perspectives also to be an outsider, a man at sea in a foreign land, a pale man in black wandering around in the blazing sun…
John Butler on set
The series is deeply local in its understanding of Irish social codes, middle-class hypocrisy and Catholic afterlife, yet it is also clearly well placed to travel. Where were you determined not to dilute its Irishness for international audiences?
Audiences love specificity! The viewer in me goes to European film and TV drama for exactly that reason – to be brought to somewhere entirely new and to begin to understand it. That is the magic teleportation of art. Also, I become much more Irish when I am abroad. When you take a fish out of water you can see its gills more clearly…
After “The Outlaws,” what did working at that scale teach you about ensemble, structure and pace that you wanted to bring back into an Irish project of your own?
Unifying disparate people in a single place in time creates sparks, and although “The Outlaws” was told from God’s POV, at the monitor I began thinking about how you could play with what a character does and doesn’t know, how tightly you could maintain a single point-of-view throughout an episode, and then jump to another character the next week. The truth is, we all have main character energy. We’re all the lead in our own life story. You could be sitting on the train beside a murderer and not have a clue about it. That singular point of view fascinates me. It’s a great lens.
Was there anything you wanted “These Sacred Vows” to prove, not just about your own work, but about how ambitious, stylistically confident and exportable Irish drama can now be?
Ireland is viewed internationally with great affection, and Irish people place great stock in that likeability. But we are complex, flawed and multi-faceted too, and I felt there was room on TV screens around the world for a bold representation of our complexities. The confidence is not a matter of style (although I will pass on any compliments about the wonderful design, costume and photography!) – it’s more a matter of showing multiplicity. What does it mean to be Irish? It means everything and nothing!
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Stock your teen’s Easter basket with these gifts, and they might think you’re cool.
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A 61-year-old woman died in an accident at the Swiss ski resort Engelberg-Titlis on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, when a gondola cabin detached from its cable and rolled down the mountain.
Local police said the victim was the only person riding in the gondola cabin at the time.
The outlet added that between 100 and 200 people were safely evacuated from about 40 other cabins on the gondola, which stopped after the accident.
Strong winds were reported in the area on Wednesday, closing several local lifts, swissinfo.ch reported. A video shared by Blick appears to show the cabin rolling through the snow as winds howl in the background.
Asked about why the gondola was operating in the winds, police said, “We can’t provide any information on this at the moment,” according to bluewin.ch.
More details about the accident and its cause are scant.
Norbert Patt, CEO of the lift company Titlis Bergbahnen, said it was an extraordinary event that “came out of the blue.” He extended his condolences to the family of the victim and said, “We hope to obtain verified facts quickly.”
An investigation into the accident is underway.
The gondola, the Titlis Xpress, climbs in two stages from Engelberg to an altitude of almost 8,000 feet.
Fatal ski lift accidents are rare. According to a fact sheet published by the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA), which covers the U.S. ski industry, “There have been 16 fatalities stemming from 9 mechanical malfunction incidents from 1973 to January 31, 2024.“
The fact sheet added that most of these accidents happened in the 1970s and 1980s.
Related: Two Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts To Close Amid Unprecedented March Heat Wave
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Applause Entertainment, the Aditya Birla Group content studio behind “Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story” and “Criminal Justice,” has struck an exclusive partnership with Indian microdrama platform Story TV to co-produce and distribute a new slate of short-form content for mobile audiences.
The collaboration will span multiple genres, with Story TV also acquiring rights to Applause’s romantic-thriller series “Hello Mini” to adapt into a vertical microdrama format.
Launched in July 2025 by the Eloelo group, Story TV has grown rapidly in India’s nascent microdrama sector. The platform, which publishes episodes roughly one minute in length, says it has drawn more than 50 million users and built a catalogue of over 1,000 titles in the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu languages. Sensor Tower data cited by the company places it second among entertainment apps by global downloads.
“As an early entrant into microdramas in India we are at the forefront of blending storytelling and technology to expand this emerging format into mainstream territory,” said Saurabh Pandey, founder and CEO of Story TV. “Our partnership with Applause Entertainment will further expand the audience of microdramas with a focus on premium storytelling that is yet to be seen in the India microdrama and entertainment industry.”
Prasoon Garg, chief business officer at Applause Entertainment, described the tie-up as a measured entry into a format the studio is still evaluating. “As newer storytelling formats like microdramas gain momentum, we see value in engaging with them through meaningful collaborations,” he said. “Our unique partnership with Story TV enables us to explore this emerging space alongside a platform that has demonstrated strong understanding of the format and its audiences, while we continue to assess its creative and viewer potential.”
Applause, led by media veteran Sameer Nair, has established itself as a premium drama producer for platforms including Netflix, JioHotstar, Prime Video, Sony LIV and ZEE5, with credits including “Black Warrant,” “The Hunt” and “Undekhi.” The studio has also moved into theatrical films and documentaries, and recently launched a children’s animation channel, “ApplaToon,” on YouTube.
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Employees at an East Texas manufacturing company, EFG TieTek, held a protest after claiming they have not been paid in months and are being retaliated against for filing claims with the Texas Workforce Commission.
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