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Trump’s infrastructure plan hits early roadblock

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(TNS) Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke to a crowd April 30, 2015, during an event at Tesla’s plant in Hawthorne, Calif.

Elon Musk wants to sell you a flamethrower for $500

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Elon Musk, the mastermind behind PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, has another innovative product up in his sleeve: a $500 flamethrower.

Musk announced the flamethrower Saturday, after weeks of teasing a possible flamethrowing product for his newest venture, The Boring Co. The Boring Co.’s mission is to excavate a low-cost but fast-digging tunnel through Los Angeles to help alleviate its notorious car traffic.

Musk’s announcements on Instagram and Twitter about the flamethrower has all been in tongue-in-cheek tone, but his legions of followers have lapped up the chance to buy a flamethrower from The Boring Co. More than 2,000 people have pre-ordered the device so far, according to Musk on Twitter.

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The Boring Co.’s website.

“When the zombie apocalypse happens, you’ll be glad you bought a flamethrower,” tweeted Musk. “Works against hordes of the undead or your money back!”

The California Health and Safety Codes 12750 to 12761 outline that owning or selling flamethrowers is illegal without a permit granted from the state fire marshal, joining Maryland as the only two states in the country to have flamethrower regulations.

The state has defined flamethrowers as “any nonstationary and transportable device designed or intended to emit or propel a burning stream of combustible or flammable liquid a distance of at least 10 feet.”

But since The Boring Co.’s flamethrower emits fire less than the defined 10 feet, it did not have to get a permit to sell, according to the company’s spokesman.

“Flamethrowers that shoot a flame over 10 feet long require a permit in (California),” the spokesman said in an email.

“This flamethrower projects a flame that is shorter than 10 feet and as such does not require a permit.”

The state fire marshal’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

From The Boring Co. – which began after Musk’s Twitter rant about Los Angeles car traffic – and selling 50,000 company hats, Musk has built a reputation for spouting tomfoolery and then following through on it.

But some on social media are speculating this is a mere April Fool’s joke, considering the flamethrower is expected to ship in spring.

On last year’s April Fool’s Day, Musk tweeted that chemtrails were actually a “message from time-traveling aliens describing the secret of teleportation.”

When asked whether the flamethrower is a joke, the spokesman said this is no practical joke.

“It is real,” he said. “You can place an order on the website and we will start shipping in the spring.”

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Top Democrats are questioning President Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan even before it’s released, raising doubts about whether the administration’s approach can win bipartisan support.

Trump has long touted his plan to upgrade U.S. public works as something that can win Democratic backing, and he will appeal to Democrats on infrastructure in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. He’s offering at least $200 billion in federal money over 10 years to spur states, localities and the private sector to spend as much as $1.6 trillion.

Democrats say that’s not nearly enough. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats have called for $1 trillion in federal investment.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has said more than $2 trillion in additional funding is needed by 2025 to upgrade conditions of everything from roads, bridges and airports to mass transit and drinking water.

“It’s a ‘nothing burger,’” Oregon Representative Pete DeFazio, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said of the administration’s proposal in a Jan. 9 interview. “It has to have real investment, not just a bunch of polemics and ideology pretending to be taking major steps to rebuild our infrastructure.”

Infrastructure is the next big item on Trump’s legislative agenda, after a failed attempt to overhaul health care and passing a tax bill last year. But Democrats’ call for more funding comes in addition to the tax measure costing $1.5 trillion over 10 years, and Republican leaders say they don’t want a big spending bill. The push also follows the acrimonious government shutdown, and law-

makers are already fighting about budget spending with mid-term elections looming in November.

Trump is expected to tout his infrastructure plan in his State of the Union speech, and detailed principles will be transmitted to Congress a week or two after that to start the legislative process, adviser DJ Gribbin said.

With Republicans controlling the Senate by only a 51-49 margin, Trump needs Democratic votes. It’s unlikely an infrastructure bill can pass on a simple, party-line majority, the way the tax overhaul was enacted last year, using what’s known as budget reconciliation.

Delaware Senator Tom Carper, the leading Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and a former governor, said he supports encouraging states and localities to generate funding for projects.

But he returned from a meeting with administration officials earlier this month skeptical about their approach.

“Can we do a better job using scarce resources to leverage state and local monies? Yes,” he said.

“But I’m still not sure how you transform $200 billion into $1 trillion. You’ll have to show me.”

Representative Bill Shuster, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said he has told Trump that any bill must be bipartisan and fiscally responsible.

Democrats will want to address the Highway Trust Fund, which uses primarily federal fuel taxes to help fund state and local projects but is projected to become insolvent by 2021, Shuster said. Republicans don’t want deficit spending, he said.

“So we have to find a path forward that satisfies both the Democrats and Republicans,” Shuster said. “But I believe there is a path forward.”

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Trump will appeal to Democrats, in his State of the Union speech, that a bipartisan approach is needed to rebuild the country, according to Marc Short, the White House legislative affairs director, said on “Fox News Sunday.” Trump has eyed Democratic support for his public-works plan, in part because it means jobs for the Democrats’ traditional allies in labor unions.

There’s no doubt that Democrats in Congress will want more federal dollars, but there’s a significant debt problem in the U.S., Short said. “This can’t just be all federal largess that pays for this,” he said.

Some governors and mayors have said they’re already paying their fair share and that they need a better federal partner.

But Trump wants to allow communities to keep more of their funds, make their own decisions and “simplify the federal bureaucratic maze,” White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said.

“The Washington establishment still thinks that infrastructure can only be built correctly if they make all the decisions and control the purse strings, but one look at the crumbling bridges and roads across America shows that approach has failed,” Walters said in an email.

Still, allocating $200 billion in federal funds is “a drop in the bucket” compared with the cost for slashing taxes for corporations and the wealthy in the tax bill, said Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

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(TNS) President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 during an event on Dec. 12 in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

It appears Trump also wants to shift the funding burden to states and cities already strapped for cash, he said.

“This is not a formula to pull our infrastructure out of disrepair,” Wyden said in a statement.

Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said “a token GOP infrastructure plan” that guts environmental protections, privatizes assets and increases tolls won’t work, and that Democrats “will continue to fight for broad, bold federal investment.”

Trump’s White House wants to change the approach to funding projects to reduce over-reliance on federal money and get more public works built and maintained.

A leaked draft of principles that emerged this week said half of the federal monies would go toward incentives in a competition to encourage non-federal entities that

own most assets to secure their own funding for projects.

Tax-exempt bonds also would be expanded to help attract private investment, according to the draft.

White House officials have said the plan being developed also would allocate funding for rural projects, money for federal lending programs and “transformative” projects that can’t secure private financing.

Streamlining environmental reviews and permitting to get project approvals in an average of two years also will be part of the plan, officials have said.

Gribbin said the White House is “open to conversations” with lawmakers about increasing the $200 billion, and the administration is purposely not including new revenue in its proposal to allow those details to be negotiated with Congress.

Republicans are considering attaching more of Democratic leaders’ must-pass legislative items to stopgap spending measures to avert additional government shutdowns and close out funding for this fiscal year, a senior White House official said.

The possible strategy is, in part, a lesson from the most recent Washington funding fight, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short said Monday.

Attaching a six-year extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program to the continuing resolution Congress passed last week and President Donald Trump signed into law ending a three-day shutdown put pressure on Senate Democrats to relent.

For months, White House officials, congressional leaders and members of the Appropriations committees have said a deal on defense and domestic spending caps is close. The federal apparatus is operating on a stopgap, with more short-term measures likely to come.

Short, a Washington veteran who is a cool and calm messenger for Trump on Capitol Hill and in national television appearances, grew a bit animated when asked what is holding up a deal.

“The budget deal’s there.

The budget deal’s there,” Short

told Roll Call in an interview in his second-floor West Wing office.

“The holdup is we cannot move to it until we get 10 votes from (Senate) Democrats.

There’s not enough votes on a motion to proceed to it until Democrats are willing to say we can do that,” Short said, referring to Senate rules designed to encourage consensus that require 60 votes to cut off debate.

Short, a former congressional aide who was chief of staff of the House GOP conference when Vice President Mike Pence was its chairman, said it was the fault of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y. “What Schumer and Pelosi have said to their conference is, ‘We need four things done all at once: We need SCHIP; we need (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals); we need budget caps; and we need the disaster-relief package.’”

White House and congressional GOP leaders believe “in essence, on the last CR, we peeled off the CHIP bill,” Short said. “I think we might have to start picking them off one-byone.”

The possible strategy could come into play as soon as Feb. 8, when the existing stopgap expires. “My worry is that they’re (Democrats) not looking to shut down the government next time – they’re just looking to do CRs,” Short said.

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Millennials like short-term rentals but prefer extras offered by hotels, survey finds

By HUGO MARTIN Los Angeles Times TNS

Short-term rentals such as Airbnb are hugely popular, particularly with millennial travelers, who are looking for a new experience.

But a new survey suggests that many younger travelers still prefer the safety and amenities of a hotel over a short-term rental.

And with more millennials having children, that generation is likely to turn to hotels even more in the future, the study said.

When asked the type of accommodations they prefer, 35 percent of millennials who have traveled more than 75 miles in the past year chose upscale and luxury hotels and resorts, according to a report by Resonance Consultancy, which questioned 1,548 Americans between the ages of 20 and 36.

The second most preferred accommodation was camping with 33 percent, followed by short-term rentals in apartments or condos with 23 percent, the study found.

(TNS) Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe stepped down Monday, according to reports.

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe steps down

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(TNS) The lobby of the Ace Hotel in downtown Portland showed the edgier, younger look and feel July 30, 2013.

Another millennial preference: They like to avoid interacting with humans when arranging a trip.

That may explain why Airbnb and other short-term rental sites are so popular. Hotel operators have noticed the proclivity and many have sped up the booking and check-in process, even replacing hotel lobby workers with kiosks.

Nearly two thirds of the millennials in the survey said they

prefer booking on a travel website, with 47 percent preferring to book directly on a hotel or airline website. Only 24 percent say they prefer booking with a real-life travel agent, the study said.

“The less-human-interactionthe-better booking experience is now evolving to front desks,” the study said. “In fact, some hotels are eliminating the front desk altogether.”

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Andrew McCabe on Monday left his job as deputy director of the FBI after enduring withering attacks from President Donald Trump and other Republicans.

McCabe went on leave from the FBI on Monday, pending the effective date of his retirement in March, said two government officials familiar with the move.

McCabe already had intended to retire this spring, but his presence at the bureau had increasingly become a focal point of anger for Trump, who continues to fume about the special counsel investigation into his campaign’s dealings with Russia. The earlierthan-expected departure was first reported by NBC. Last month, Trump gave a push to McCabe, questioning reports that he would stay in the job until the spring: “90 days to go?!!!”

Trump tweeted.

He has highlighted the fact that McCabe’s wife, a Democrat, ran a losing campaign for the state Senate in Virginia and received contributions with help from Hillary Clinton allies, or what he termed “Clinton puppets.”

Earlier this month, reports

said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions pressured FBI Director Christopher Wray to push McCabe out, and a report in The Washington Post said that Trump, after firing former FBI Director James B. Comey, asked McCabe how he voted in the 2016 election. Comey also has asserted that Trump in private conversations insisted on loyalty.

“The president wasn’t part of this decision-making process and we would refer you to the FBI where Christopher Wray serves as the director,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday. The president has “full confidence” in Wray, Sanders said.

McCabe ran the bureau for several months after Trump fired Comey last May, and he notably refused to go along with Trump’s assertions that the rank and file in the FBI had lost faith in the former director. During a Senate hearing, he testified that Comey still had “broad support” within the bureau and said he had “the highest respect for his considerable abilities and his integrity.”

After Wray, the next in command in the FBI is now David Bowdich, who earlier in his career was the agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.

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Universities have nowhere else to hide

(TNS) Michigan State University Athletics Director Mark Hollis allegedly knew about Larry Nassar’s sexual misconduct.

Over the past several months, the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have transformed our society. Empowered women have stepped forward and shared their harrowing stories of sexual abuse.

Powerful men have been taken down by the movements, including Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey and Matt Lauer, to name a few.

But perhaps the most troubling case so far has involved a man many people surely had never heard of until recently: Dr. Larry Nassar. The former physician for the American gymnastics team, Nassar, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison

for his repeated acts of sexual abuse toward young women and teenagers in the gymnastics program.

Nassar’s predatory acts spanned decades. According to a Thursday article in The New York Times, the women and teens were sent to Nassar at various locations – gymnastics camps, his clinic at Michigan State University and even his own home.

Nassar then molested these women, using medical treatment as his excuse.

All of this transpired under the watch of Michigan State, Nassar’s employer, which allegedly received reports of his sexual abuse as early as the 1990s, according to a Saturday article in The New York Times.

Although the university did internally investigate Nassar about a year ago, it claims it did not find any evidence of wrongdoing.

“Michigan State led the public to believe that there had been an independent investigation,” Tom Leonard, the Republican speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, said in a Friday interview published in the article. “And then, as we continued to dig into this, we found out it was not an independent investigation. It was an internal investigation to shield them from liability.”

Patrick Fitzgerald, a formal federal prosecutor, oversaw the investigation and said officials at MSU were unaware of Nassar’s behavior.

“While many in the community today wish that they had identified Nassar as a predator, we believe the evidence in this case will show that no one else at MSU knew that Nassar engaged in criminal behavior,” Fitzgerald wrote in a December letter to the Michigan attorney general.

As expected, the fallout at MSU has been swift.

Mark Hollis and Lou Anna Simon, the school’s athletics director and president, respectively, have resigned. Three members from the USA Gymnastics board have resigned, too, and more could be on the way.

One might read about this case and compare it to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University in 2011. While the horrifying details of these scandals differ, the bigpicture similarities cannot be denied.

How do these officials at large universities believe that these reports can be swept under the rug?

And, perhaps more disturbingly, why do they stay silent in the first place? With scandals as troublesome as these, university officials should be reminded one thing: The truth will find a way to come out.

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(Facebook) Clockwise from top right: Bruno Mars, Kendrick Lamar and Logic were the big stars of the night.

Stars shine on music’s biggest night

By RYAN DILLON and CHRIS HAYES The-Penn@iup.edu

The biggest night in music was Sunday night as the 60th Annual Grammy Awards took center stage. Comedian James Corden hosted the show in New York City’s Madison Square Garden.

The red carpet was gleaming, as music’s biggest names pulled out all the stops to wow the paparazzi. Some artists, such as Lil Uzi Vert, who was nominated for Best New Artist, kept it casual with the hoodie-and-jeans look.

On the other hand, nominees like Tyler, The Creator and DJ Khaled, went with more color to separate themselves from the rest

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of the pack.

The show opened up with a performance from 12-time Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar. The Compton, Calif., rapper brought a political message to accompany his set list, most of which was tracks from his Grammy-nominated album “DAMN.” Lamar took home five awards, sweeping the hip-hop/rap category.

As is popular at awards shows, celebrities made social statements in their performances and attire.

Many who walked the red carpet wore white roses in support of the #TimesUp movement, just as celebrites wore black to the Golden Globes for the same reason.

Additionally, performers wore white ensembles when they took the stage to back-up sing for

Kesha, who faced a legal battle with her abuser and whose song, “Praying,” was about her experiences.

Some of the other performances included a ballad from Lady Gaga and Mark Ronson, a flashy performance of “Despacito” from Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee and an unexpected collaboration between Sting and reggae star Shaggy.

Although many different artists took home awards in various categories, the night undoubtedly belonged to pop star Bruno Mars. Mars won the three biggest categories of the night: Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “24K Magic” and Song of the Year for “That’s What I Like.”

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Sheeran and Chris Stapleton.

Sheeran’s “Shape of You” won for Best Pop Solo Performance, and his album “Divide” took home the award for Best Pop Vocal Album.

Stapleton ruled the country category, winning Best Country Album for his “From a Room, Vol. 1” and Best Country Solo Performance for “Either Way.” Other groups who left with victories included Foo Fighters, The War on Drugs, The National, Childish Gambino, The Weeknd, Little Big Town and Portugal. The Man. One of the more emotional points of the night came when Logic, Alessia Cara and Khalid performed their hit “1-800-2738255,” a song that promotes

suicide awareness. After the performance, Logic used the platform to speak out against various societal issues, saying: “On behalf of those who fight for equality in a world that is not equal, not just and not ready for the change we are here to bring, I say unto you, bring us your tired, your poor and any immigrant who seeks refuge.

For together, we can build not just a better country but a world that is destined to be united.”

Corden ended up not being a big draw, as ratings were down 24 percent from last year’s show. The 19.8 million viewers was the worst for a CBS-aired ceremony since 2009. The good news for CBS? The show was the mostwatched primetime awards show since the 2017 Academy Awards.

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Chris Stapleton sets pace for American musicians

By SETH WOOLCOCK Culture Editor S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

This article contains opinion.

Fresh off winning three Grammy Awards, country musician Chris Stapleton has gone from unknown songwriter to one of America’s leading musical talents seemingly overnight. But the road to the Grammys and collaborating with the likes of Justin Timberlake has not been all “biscuits and gravy” for this Kentucky native.

Stapleton, 39, moved to Nashville, Tenn., in 2001, at age 22, to pursue a career in songwriting.

Over the years, Stapleton had quietly written hit songs for many musicians of all genres.

“I didn’t know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people,” Stapleton said in a 2016 interview with CBS news. “I always thought that George Strait was singing a song; he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought ‘That’s the job for me. I got to figure out how to

do that.’”

Thomas Rhett, one of today’s biggest country stars, began his career by releasing his first-ever single “Something To Do With My Hands” in 2012. Stapleton wrote the single that came from Rhett’s album “It Goes Like This.”

Stapleton also wrote Rhett’s first single “Crash and Burn” from his sophomore album, “Tangled Up.” Since moving to Nashville, Stapleton has written six No. 1 country songs for other artists. These songs include Kenny Chesney’s “Never Wanted Nothing More,” Darius Rucker’s “Comeback Song” and even one of Luke Bryan’s alltime most popular songs,“Drink a Beer.”

“I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens,” Stapleton said in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone Magazine. “But the things that I’ve written for people that have been hits, I don’t know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.”

Even though the writing business has always seemed to be

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6 Whiskey and You

Traveller

7 Millionaire

From a Room Vol. 2

8 Scarecrow in the Garden

From a Room Vol. 2

(Facebook) Chris Stapleton, right, received three Grammy Awards this year.

there for Stapleton, the performing business was not. Stapleton

was in and out of two different bands that each had mild success

in less than three years.

In 2013, Stapleton signed with Mercury Nashville as a solo artist.

Since going solo, Stapleton has released three studio albums.

“Traveller,” Stapleton’s debut album, inspired by a 2013 road trip after his father passed away, won the Grammy for Best Country Album and Best Solo Performance, while selling more than two million copies.

Stapleton released two albums last year: “From a Room: Volume 1” on May 5 and “From a Room: Volume 2” on Dec. 1.

Last night at the 60th Grammy Awards, Stapleton won Best Country Album for “From a Room: Part 1.” He then received the Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance for “Either Way” and the Grammy for Best Country Song for “Broken Halos.”

Stapleton recently wrote three songs that will be in Justin Timberlake’s upcoming album “Man of the Woods.”

“Say Something,” the album’s most recent single, is a duet between Timberlake and Stapleton.

Stapleton successfully brought the old-time rock style back into American music and may just be the musician our time needs.

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(Facebook) “The Maze Runner” and “The Post” are two of the hottest movies at the box office right now.

Box office: ‘Maze Runner’ trilogy ends; Oscar contenders continue to perform

By SONAIYA KELLY Los Angeles Times TNS

Fox dominated the box office chart this weekend with three vastly different films placing among the top five: “Maze Runner: The Death Cure,” “The Greatest Showman” and “The Post.”

“I think it’s a testament to the diverse types of films that Fox is known for and having the ability to appeal to so many different segments of the moviegoing audience,” said Chris Aronson, the studio’s president of domestic distribution.

The only new wide release among the top five, “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” debuted at No. 1 and performed at the high end of analysts’ predictions, bringing in an estimated $23.5 million, according to figures from measurement firm ComScore.

The release of the final installment in the “Maze Runner” trilogy was delayed a year following an on-set injury suffered by star Dylan O’Brien.

“I give a lot of credit to Wes Ball who has directed all three of these films, and his ability,” Aronson said, “to keep the fan base engaged even through the production delays that everyone is aware of.”

“Death Cure” earned a B+ rating

on CinemaScore and a 44 percent “rotten” rating on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.

The original “Maze Runner” opened with $32.5 million in 2014 and its sequel, “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,” premiered with $30.6 million the following year.

After spending four weeks at the top of the box office chart, Sony’s “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” dropped to second place, raking in $16.4 million (a 16 percent decline) for a cumulative total of $338 million.

In third place, Entertainment Studio Motion Pictures’ “Hostiles” added 2,697 locations and $10.2 million to its earnings in its first widerelease weekend for a cumulative $12 million.

“The reason we saw such a huge uptick is because of that increase from 119 theaters last week to a wide release this weekend,” said senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “And that’s why we saw it jump so dramatically on the chart from outside of the top 20 way up into the third-place spot.”

“I knew the movie would do well once we put it in theaters across the country,” said Byron Allen, the studio’s founder and CEO. “America is that country that’s in between L.A. and New York. And what I always knew was that when we got this quality, unbelievable western to the American people,

you would hear them roar.”

The western drama, which stars Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Ben Foster and Timothee Chamalet, outperformed low expectations despite failing to secure a single nomination during awards season.

“Nonetheless they’re getting love from audiences that are not Oscar,” said Dergarabedian. “So it definitely paid off for them to expand the movie this weekend. Unfortunately westerns in general have a tough time connecting with mainstream audiences, though when they’re really good (as this one is), they do find an audience.”

“I have a hard time believing the Academy members took a look at this film,” said Allen. “I always said, ‘This movie will get zero nominations or five plus.’ And zero would be because they didn’t watch it.”

“With such a really strong crop of movies this year there were definitely going to be some films left out of that [Oscar] mix that a lot of people thought should’ve been included,” said Dergarabedian.

“At least ‘Hostiles’ can find solace in a very solid expansion in its first weekend of wide release.”

The film earned a B rating on CinemaScore and a 72 percent “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Rounding out the top five were two more Fox films in their sixth weeks: In fourth place, “The Great-

est Showman” added $9.5 million (an 11 percent decline) for a cumulative $126.5 million. And in fifth, “The Post,” a best picture nominee for the upcoming Oscars, added $8.8 million for a cumulative $58.5 million.

Among the other Oscar contenders, which were announced Tuesday, Fox Searchlight’s “The Shape of Water” (which led the nominations with 13) added 1,001 theaters and $5.6 million in earnings, boosting its cumulative earnings to $37.7 million.

“Our widest expansion [until this weekend] had been 853 theaters so we didn’t quite have the outreach theater-wise, but now we do,” said Frank Rodriguez, the studio’s distribution chief.

“But there’s no doubt that getting 13 nominations tore down any resistance, if there had been any at all, with going to see a film described as a [love story between a] cleaning lady and a fish creature. Obviously now with those noms it validated the picture and I think that resistance is being knocked down.”

The studio also added 503 engagements to seven-time Oscar nominee and SAG ensemble award winner “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” which took in $3.6 million for a cumulative of $37 million.

Up for six Academy Awards each,

Focus Features’ “Phantom Thread” and “Darkest Hour” also continue to do well.

“Phantom Thread” added 125 theaters in its fifth weekend and $2.9 million to its earnings, for a total of $10.6 million.

“Darkest Hour,” in its 10th weekend, earned $2.9 million for a total of $45.2 million.

Up for four Oscars, A24’s “Lady Bird” added 497 theaters in reaction to its five Oscar nominations, bringing in $1.9 million in its 13th weekend for $41.6 million in total box office earnings.

Sony Classic’s “Call Me By Your Name” brought in $1.3 million in its 10th weekend across 815 locations for cumulative earnings of $11.3 million.

While “Get Out” and “Dunkirk” were bona fide box office phenomena earlier in 2017, none of the year’s fall contenders are on track to top 2016’s “La La Land.”

That best picture-nominated film had already grossed $90 million by the time Oscar nods were announced; it ended at $151 million.

However, most of this year’s contenders are already ahead of the $27.9-million final domestic gross of the eventual winner, “Moonlight.”

This week, Lionsgate opens the Helen Mirren-led horror film “Winchester.”

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STATIC returns for a rocking spring semester

By SETH WOOLCOCK Culture Editor S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

With another spring semester comes more events brought to IUP students by STATIC (Student Activity Committee). STATIC released its spring events schedule Monday.

Netflix and Chill will return this semester when STATIC shows “Wonder Woman” on March 1 and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” on May 4. STATIC will also be showing “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” on April 12 as part of its new VHS & Chill event.

(Facebook) PnB Rock and The Maine will perform at IUP this semester.

“We always try to show the new Star Wars movies on May 4,” said STATIC board member Cohen Wildeson (junior, nursing), “and we’re showing ‘Wonder Woman’ as a part of Women’s

History Month. As far as the throwback movies go, it was the only base we haven’t covered so far.”

Free events will also be returning to IUP this semester. Free

events hosted by STATIC this semester include Masterpieces and Mocktails, roller skating, laser tag, a finals study break, an endof-the-year glow party, STATIC’s annual end-of-the-year cookout

and The Free Hugs Project: Ken E. Nwadike Jr. STATIC will also be offering bus trips to The Pittsburgh Zoo on April 21 and a Pittsburgh Pirates game on April 28.

The headlining events for the semester include The Maine on Feb. 28 and PnB Rock on March 22 and comedian Lana Glazer on April 6.

“People were always suggesting that they wanted to see PnB Rock. So we gave them what they wanted,” said STATIC board member Maren Fadley (seinor, human resouce management).

“So booking The Maine was STATIC trying to appease more than one audience.”

(Facebook) The Las Vegas shootings took place Oct. 1.

Maren Morris, Eric Church and the Brothers Osborne perform ‘Tears in Heaven’ for Las Vegas victims

By RANDALL ROBERTS Los Angeles Times TNS

In one of the most emotional performances of the night, country artists Maren Morris, the Brothers Osborne and Eric Church sang “Tears in Heaven” in honor of the victims of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas.

Each of the performers onstage was on the roster of the festival, which was interrupted by gunfire on Oct. 1. Fifty-seven people and the gunman died in the shooting.

The four singers performed the Eric Clapton weeper “Tears in Heaven,” written by the artist after the death of his son. Before doing so, they acknowledged

the tragedy but sound issues garbled some of the comments.

Morris dedicated the song to music fans who lost their lives in Las Vegas, and added that “a continent away, the same was true in Manchester, England.”

She said, “The painful truth is that this year, in just those two events, 81 music lovers, just like

us, went out to enjoy a night of music and never came back home ... So tonight, for those we lost, Eric, Brothers Osborne and I, who all performed in Las Vegas that tragic weekend, wanted to come together and honor the memory of the beautiful, music-loving souls so cruelly taken from us.”

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By DARNELL TURNER Staff Writer

D.M.Turner4@iup.edu

The IUP men’s basketball team took on Mercyhurst University this weekend in Erie and became the first team this season to knock off the Lakers at home.

The Lakers entered the game undefeated at home (80), dominating opponents by 16 points per game.

The Crimson Hawks defeated Mercyhurst, 67-65, thanks to a game-winning bucket by Malik Miller (sophomore, communications media) with 2 seconds remaining in the game.

“We knew we were going to have a challenge on our hands,” head coach Joe Lombardi said.

“We had some health issues and some different things going on with the team prior to the game.

So the guys really responded well to what I think was one of the bigger challenges of the year.”

The Crimson Hawks struggled generating points in the first half despite getting good looks.

The team managed only 23 firsthalf points but played a much better second half, knocking down 50 percent of its shots.

IUP led, 65-62, with 22 seconds left before Mercyhurst’s leading scorer, Lorenzo Collier, tied the game up with a field goal while getting fouled, earning him a freethrow at the line.

In the final offensive possession

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for IUP, guard Anthony Glover’s (senior, marketing) shot was blocked.

Miller, who was in the right place at the right time, grabbed the loose ball and scored the gamewinning basket.

Miller finished the game with 14 points on 6-of-12 shooting.

The second-year player was hot in the second half, scoring 12 of his 14 points.

Miller has scored double figures in 13 games this season, only his second year with the team.

“Malik works really hard and has made big strides,” Lombardi said.

“The biggest thing in his progression is he’s playing the game with greater maturity.”

Dante Lombardi (junior, finance and legal studies) had another 20-point performance to go along with five assists.

He shot 7-for-12 from the field and knocked down two of his four attempts from 3-point range.

Glover added 10 points in 33 minutes of action.

Glover scored in double-figures in all but one game so far this season.

With the win, IUP has now won five games in a row and 11 of its last 12.

In recent years, the month of January has been a strong month for the Crimson Hawks.

The team has gone 55-6 in January since the 2011-12 season, including 8-1 this year.

The Crimson Hawks are now 16-5 and remain in first place in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) West Division.

They have a 12-2 league record.

IUP will hit the road again to take on Slippery Rock University (17-4) at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

(IUP Athletics) Malik Miller (sophomore, communications media) hit the game-winning shot with just 2 seconds remaining to propel the Crimson Hawks to their fifth straight win.

(IUP Athletics) IUP guard Dante Lombardi (junior, finance and legal studies) was named PSAC West Co-Athlete of the Week following back-to-back 20-point performances.

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Crimson Hawks drop second game of season with loss to Mercyhurst

(IUP Athletics) Lauren Wolosik (redshirt junior, business) led the Crimson Hawks defensively with six of the team’s 12 steals in Saturday’s loss to Mercyhurst University.

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

The IUP women’s basketball team fell to Mercyhurst University, 66-61, on Saturday.

With the loss, IUP’s record is now 17-2 with both losses coming within the last four games.

Offensively, the Crimson Hawks were led by guard Carolyn Appleby (junior, safety science), who finished with 21 points in 34 minutes.

Despite playing 24 minutes Saturday, IUP’s leading scorer was contained with a single-digit effort as forward Megan Smith (senior, management) was held to 9 points.

Despite a weak offensive output, the Crimson Hawks’ defense kept IUP in the game.

The Crimson Hawks were able to keep Mercyhurst quiet from the field, and the Lakers had a .382 field-goal percentage.

The Crimson Hawks’ defense also forced 12 steals, with guard Lauren Wolosik (redshirt junior, business) leading the way with six.

The Crimson Hawks managed to take a 1-point lead into halftime at 45-44, but the Lakers controlled the second half.

The Crimson Hawks spent most of the second half trailing until Smith hit a go-ahead layup with just more than 4 minutes to play.

After both teams exchanged the lead three times, Mercyhurst pulled away with a late 3-pointer.

Appleby cut the Lakers’ lead down to 2 points, but Mercyhurst finished the game from the freethrow line to hand IUP its second loss, 66-61 Moving forward, the Crimson Hawks will continue to play on the road as IUP will travel to Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) rival Slippery Rock University.

Slippery Rock holds a 10-10 record and lost to the Crimson Hawks, 76-50, earlier in the season.

The Crimson Hawks will tipoff at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday before returning home to host Gannon University at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the KCAC.

(IUP Athletics) Guard Carolyn Appleby (junior, safety science) led IUP in scoring with 21 points in Saturday’s loss at Mercyhurst. Appleby is averaging 14.5 points per game and has shot 44 percent from the floor as well as 35 percent from 3-point range this season.

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Pacific Division shines at 2018 NHL All-Star weekend

By BRAD O’HARA Staff Writer

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With the NHL All-Star weekend wrapped up from Tampa, Fla., the Pacific Division reigned supreme.

The Pacific won the three-onthree-tournament-style All-Star game and also had players who won four of the six skill competitions.

The weekend kicked off with Connor McDavid taking home fastest skater honors for the second year in a row.

McDavid, of the Edmonton Oilers, won by a close margin in his first year in the competition, beating out the second-place competitor by 0.4 seconds.

Tampa Bay Lightning forward Brayden Point made McDavid work for it this year, clocking in at 13.579 seconds.

Point’s time remained at the top of the leaderboard until the final competitor, McDavid.

McDavid landed a time of 13.454 second, which was a mere 0.152 seconds faster than Point to keep the fastest skater crown.

Other skills contest winners from the Pacific were Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who won the Save Streak competition; Calgary Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau, who won Puck Control Relay; and Vancouver Canucks rookie Brock Boeser, who won the Accuracy Shooting competition.

Boeser beat out NHL greats, such as Sidney Crosby, Steven Stamkos and James Neal, on his path to the crown.

The other two skills competitions went to Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals and Alex Pietrangelo of the St. Louis Blues.

Pietrangelo won the Passing Challenge, beating out his secondplace competitor by 9 seconds.

Ovechkin became the first forward since 2002 to win the Hardest Shot competition.

Ovechkin also was this year’s only player to break the 100-mph barrier with his shot in the second round that clocked in at 101.3 mph.

As for the actual All-Star games, the Pacific easily took both games, beating both the Atlantic Division and the Central Division by a score of 5-2.

In the Pacific’s first-round game against the Central, the Central took the early lead.

At the end of the first period, the Central All-Stars had a 1-0 lead over the Pacific, coming off the stick of Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon.

The second period, however, was all the Pacific.

The Golden Knights’ James Neal netted two goals, and McDavid picked up four assists in the Pacific’s win.

The Atlantic’s trip to the final round was a lot more of an offensive effort.

The Eastern Conference matchup went almost identical to the west.

The Metropolitan Division ended the first period with a 1-goal lead.

However, the Atlantic bounced back in the second period, outscoring the Metropolitan, 5-1.

Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov scored a hat-trick in the Atlantic’s winning effort.

The final game of the night was entirely in the Pacific’s favor.

They got the lead 59 seconds into the game from a goal by Anaheim Ducks forward Rickard Rakell and held that lead for the rest of the game.

The Pacific won the final game by a score of 5-2.

Boeser won the MVP award for the game in his first career All-Star Game.

The Pacific may have held the spotlight throughout NHL this weekend, but now, as every player’s focus shifts toward the postseason, we wait to see whether a team from the Pacific Division can also reach the true goal of every season and win the Stanley Cup.

(TNS) Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers was named captain of the Pacific Division team in the 2018 All-Star Game. The Pacific Division won the three-on-three-style tournament Sunday evening in Tampa, Fla.

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