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Tips to prepare for ski season in Colorado

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Ski and snowboard season has officially begun, and skiers around Colorado are preparing to hit the slopes.With so many things to prepare, such as equipment, gear and physical conditioning, it can be easy to miss something. How do ski areas make snow? Experts at the University of Colorado Boulder compiled a guide for skiers and snowboarders, whether experienced or trying it for the first time, to be completely prepared for this season. Here are some basic tips and resources to get started with.Get necessary gearHaving everything you need in advance can help maximize your time on the slopes and keep you safe and comfortable.Properly fitting helmetNeck gaiterGogglesSunscreenWater bottleLayersWaterproof clothing GlovesHand and foot warmersSki pass How long does ski gear last? Inspect existing gearIf you have equipment already, make sure it's ready for another season. Make sure there are no holes in your snow pants, boots or coats and that they fit right.Double-check...

What to know before heading to DIA for Thanksgiving travel

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Around 840,000 people are expected to pass through security at the Denver International Aiport in the 12 days between Friday, Nov. 17, and Tuesday, Nov. 28.Because of this, the Transportation Security Administration is warning Denverites of what they can expect and things they should know ahead of time.What you can expect at DIATSA gave some information on what you can expect when you travel through DIA. 5 tips for surviving holiday travel at DIA Security at DIA is usually busiest between 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.However, TSA said there are more flights leaving after 8 p.m. than usual, so travelers should expect the security lines to be busier at that time as well.There are two primary checkpoints at DIA that people can choose from, and both offer different types of screening.The North Security Checkpoint is primarily for TSA PreCheck passengers and is open from 4 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. There are only a small number of standard lanes for people withou...

China’s Xi tells Biden as talks open: ‘Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping plunged into their first-face-to-face meeting in more than a year Wednesday pledging to work to stabilize fraught relations in talks with far-reaching implications for a world grappling with economic cross currents and wars in the Middle East and Europe.“Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed,” Xi told Biden.The U.S. president told Xi: “I think it’s paramount that you and I understand each other clearly, leader-to-leader, with no misconceptions or miscommunications. We have to ensure competition does not veer into conflict.”The two warmly shook hands as they met and made a red carpet entrance to a bucolic Northern California estate for what was expected to be hours of work on detangling a multitude of tensions.Xi, speaking through a translator, said the relationship between China and the U.S. has never been smooth but has kept moving forward. “For two large countries like China and the...

Keir Starmer hit by major rebellion as 10 of his frontbenchers back Gaza cease-fire

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

LONDON — A wave of Labour frontbenchers backed calls for a cease-fire in Israel and Gaza Wednesday night, in direct defiance of an order from the party’s leader Keir Starmer.Labour MPs were ordered to abstain on a parliamentary motion Wednesday night calling for a cease-fire. But 56 MPs — including 10 of Starmer’s top team who have now left their positions as a result of their defiance — said they could not follow the order. Most cited concerns about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza to explain their rebellion. The vote in the House of Commons was comfortably defeated, by 125 votes to 293, reflecting that Westminster is yet to fully row behind cease-fire calls made by the United Nations and some European nations among others.However, the vote is a major blow to Starmer’s authority as he seeks to unite his party behind a common position on the conflict in the Middle East. Labour figures as senior as Jess Phillips, a former leadership contender an...

America’s top-selling car will soon come only as a hybrid

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

(CNN) — The Toyota Camry, the best-selling car in America, is going hybrid-only.The Camry is available in a hybrid version now, but the redesigned 2025 Camry will be offered only as a hybrid car combining a gasoline engine with electric motors.It will join a number of other Toyota models, such as the Sienna minivan, Venza SUV, the Sequoia full-sized SUV and others in being available only as a hybrid. And, of course, there’s still the Prius.The decision to go hybrid-only on the Camry points up how accepted the technology has become. Once a novelty found on only a few models – and mostly of interest during gas price spikes – it’s become much more mainstream. So much so that Toyota, a company not known for taking big risks, feels customers are ready to go hybrid-only on this very mainstream sedan.“We’ve been putting electric motors and batteries in vehicles since the first Prius back in 2000, so it’s a space that we know and love,” Mike Tripp, group vice president f...

Plane turns back to JFK after horse escapes on board

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

(CNN) — A Boeing 747 en route from New York JFK to Liege, Belgium, was forced to turn around on November 9 after a horse got loose in the cargo hold.The cargo flight operated by charter airline Air Atlanta Icelandic had climbed to around 31,000 feet when the crew contacted Air Traffic Control in Boston to report that the horse had escaped from its stall.“We don’t have a problem (…) flying-wise,” one of the pilots says in a video reconstruction by YouTube channel “You Can See ATC,” but “we cannot get the horse back secured.”In the recordings, Air Traffic Control can be heard granting the pilots’ request to return to JFK Airport and, because the plane was too heavy, to dump 20 tonnes of fuel east of Nantucket.The pilot also asks for a veterinarian to meet the plane upon landing, because “we have a horse in difficulty.”A representative from Air Atlanta Icelandic told CNN that the information in the “You Can See ATC” video is correct.The flight history on tracking si...

Fantasy Fixer: Week 11

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

7’s Morey Hershgordon has the inside scoop on who to start and sit this week in Fantasy Fixer. Go set your lineups!

Review: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ is a prequel for pre-sold fans only

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

Michael Phillips | Chicago Tribune (TNS)Like its title, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” takes its sweet time getting where it’s going. Seriously, I would’ve gone with just songbirds, or snakes. As is, it’s two-fifths of the way to “The Ballad of Songbirds, Snakes, Presidential Origin Stories, Katniss Everdeen Wannabes and Problems with Pacing.”Running times are relative, of course. In a separate division, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is an hour longer and twice as compelling. But “Songbirds and Snakes” takes its job super seriously, with more solemnity than imaginative excitement.The “Hunger Games” prequel asks: How did future dystopian hellhole president Coriolanus Snow (played by Donald Sutherland in the previous “Hunger Games” movies) tip over to the dark side, where all the cool, misunderstood kids from Darth Vader to Elphaba to Cruella de Vil hang out? Pre-invested fans of the “Hunger Games” franchise, intrigued by the rising politico Snow’s young adult...

Boston College freshman split end Jaedn Skeete making an impact

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

True freshmen have a hard time making an immediate impact at the Power-5 level in the age of redshirts, fifth-year graduate students and the open transfer portal.Boston College wide receiver Jaedn Skeete is one of the few exceptions. The 6-1, 176-pound speedster from Hyde Park has become a fixture in quarterback Thomas Castellanos’ progressions despite a crowded field of receivers.Freshman WR Jaedn Skeete. (BC Athletics photo)“We need the next guy to step up and do the best that he can and we have a lot of young guys playing right now,” said BC head coach Jeff Hafley. “Guys that step up have to play and Skeete is one of those guys.“If you look at what Skeete did the last two weeks, he is a young guy that is starting to play really well. He has started now in multiple games and he is seeing significant playing time.”Skeete will compete in his fifth game since replacing Ryan O’Keefe at the X-receiver slot when BC (6-4, 3-3) encounters the Pittsburgh Panthers (2-8, 1-5) on Thursday nig...

Novelist Tess Gerritsen’s neighbors are retired spies. So she wrote about it.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:16:16 GMT

A mystery writer moves into a town full of spies.It sounds like the plot of the latest streaming series, but that’s really what happened to the internationally bestselling mystery writer Tess Gerritsen, best known for her police procedural series featuring Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles (which inspired the TNT television series, “Rizzoli & Isles”).Originally from San Diego, Gerritsen moved with her husband to a 5,000-person town on the rocky coast of Maine some 33 years ago – and what happened next eventually ended up inspiring her most recent novel, “The Spy Coast.” This novel also launches a whole new series for the author about a group of retired spies who called themselves The Martini Club.Gerritsen makes a recorded appearance on Friday’s episode of “Bookish,” the virtual program produced by the Southern California News Group that goes live at 5 p.m. via Zoom with fellow guests David Ulin talking about his noir thriller “Thirteen Ques...