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HPD reports the car is now upright. |
There is no word of any injuries at this time. |
The Martins looked under every rock and leaf in State College until one day when Lynelle checked Craigslist’s business section. |
Since then, they say, it’s been the wildest eight weeks of their lives. |
They leased what was already a cafe — College Town Cafe to be exact — renovated the inside to match their vision of a communal space and put together a menu that stresses local, healthy sourcing. |
The Martins know a thing or two about running a business. They are partners in Tussey Mountain Mulch Landscape Center, a business his father founded in 1988. |
The cafe, Bryant Martin said, has offered him a new perspective, particularly as he experiences the melting pot of a town-and-gown community. |
A goal of the Martins, aside from serving the best food they can, is to make their 2,500-square-foot, 40-seat eatery a place of cohabitation for students and locals. |
Sowers Harvest Cafe is open 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to Wednesday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. The cafe may expand its hours with a larger staff, which is now at 10 employees. The Martins would like to hire five more people. |
Coupe life can be fun but rarely practical: if you love the Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe, but need more space to transport friends, family, or sports equipment, the 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe may well fit the bill. While you may or may not be down with the recent trend of calling cars with four doors “coupes,” there’s ... |
Your attention naturally goes to the most extreme version, the 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 63 4-Door Coupe. Under the hood is a handcrafted AMG V8 motor that churns out 577 horsepower and 590 lb-ft of torque. The GT 63 S gets even more outrageous, with 630 horsepower and 664 lb-ft. No word yet on official pricing for this 600... |
When you’re letting around 600 horses out to play, you’d best have plenty of space to do it. Mercedes-AMG opted to take the GT 63 S to Circuit of the Americas (COTA) so that we could test out its talents. It’s a course with plenty of twists and turns, along with major elevation changes that challenge both professional ... |
The power is certainly there, as you’d hope, but there’s a surprising degree of control, too. Keeping the basic concept of slow-in, fast-out in mind, with the long back straight approaching I variously tried coming in hard, soft, and “just right” to see how the AMG would handle it. 0-60 mph arrives in a mere 3.1 second... |
That’s partly down to how AMG constructs the V8 engines, putting the twin-scroll turbochargers in-between the cylinder banks rather than outside of them. It means they’re closer, and that makes them more responsive: there’s less tubing for the exhaust gases to travel down, and by putting the catalytic converters within... |
Going fast, then, isn’t going to be a problem. With a curb weight of over 4,460 pounds wet, though, making sure the GT 63 S would stop at the other end did give me a moment’s pause. For that, Mercedes-AMG opts for internally-vented, perforated 15.4-inch x 1.4-inch carbon ceramic brake discs at the front, with 6-piston ... |
Michelin, meanwhile, delivered some specially formulated rubber, giving the GT 63 S a set of 265/40/ ZR 20 tires on the front and 295/35 ZR 20 for the rear. What’s important is that they’re not just track-day specials. The AMG GT 4-Doors may be fast, but they’re also meant to be family haulers. That meant the tires had... |
The last part is aero. Most noticeable is the active rear spoiler, integrated into the trunklid. Not only does it extend when required and retract when not, it has five different stages of deployment, all controlled automatically depending on vehicle speed. At up to 49 mph, for example, the spoiler rises to improve on ... |
Stage 4 comes in at 112 mph, when you want the perfect combination of airflow and stability for high-speed cruising – not that you should ever see it, legally at least, on US roads. Finally, Stage 5 delivers the maximum extension to act as an airbrake, helping you when you’re slowing aggressively. |
I may not have seen Stage 3, but COTA still offered a variety of challenges and obstacles to put the GT 63 S through its paces overall. One of my favorite sections – and a part that can be particularly cruel in highlighting any balance questions a car might be suffering – is the performance handling section. You enter ... |
At lower speeds, the rear wheels turn in the opposite direction to those at the front, reducing the turning circle. It’s particularly useful for maneuvering around tight parking lots. At higher speeds, though, the rear wheels turn in tandem with the front, adding to the feeling of stability and helping the GT 63 S feel... |
It is, you could argue, easier to make a super-expensive performance car with no compromises than it is to craft a more affordable version that still doesn’t stint on track talent. With that in mind, I turned my attention to Mercedes-AMG’s other GT 4 Door option, the new GT 53. Gets a 3.0-liter turbocharged inline-six,... |
Sure, those prices still aren’t “cheap” by any means. It’s also unclear if the GT 43 will make it Stateside, either. Yet in the context of the rest of the performance market, these could be bonafide bargains. |
The obvious competition is the Porsche Panamera Turbo and the BMW M6 Gran Coupe. The fastback silhouette of the Mercedes looks strikingly similar to the enhanced styling of the 2019 Porsche Panamera. However, the Mercedes has a more aggressive fascia than both the BMW and the Porsche. I suspect the Audi RS7 might be lo... |
Then there’s Mercedes’ very own CLS Coupe. Based on looks alone, it’d be easy to assume the GT 4-Door is based on the CLS platform, but you’d be wrong. In fact, the new car uses the MRA architecture of the current E Class sedan. To that, the Mercedes-AMG team adds a sleek and sporty body, with a ridiculously raked wind... |
The GT 43 and GT 53 don’t have a “V” to put their turbochargers in, but they do get a mild hybrid system. EQ Boost uses an electric motor that doubles as the cars’ alternator and starter. Mounted between the engine and the transmission, it feeds the AMG’s 48 volt electric system, but can also contribute a short-term bo... |
It works in tandem with the two-stage turbocharging, with the mild hybrid system kicking in as the turbo spools up. The outcome is an immediate rush of torque with no perceivable turbo lag, but also a turn of raw speed that befits the AMG badge. In the GT 53, it pushes maximum torque to 384 lb-ft and helps deliver a 0-... |
With all that focus on power and speed, it seems a little perverse that one of the biggest selling points of the Mercedes-AMG GT 53 is its fuel consumption. Even when equipped with the standard 4MATIC+ all-wheel drive system and the AMG SPEEDSHIFT 9G automatic transmission, it’ll apparently manage around 25 mpg on the ... |
Nice as it might be to stay on the track all day, eventually the 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door has to venture onto more humdrum asphalt. It’s down to the AMG Dynamic Select Function to bring the beast in line, adjusting the engine, transmission, suspension, and exhaust behaviors accordingly. Switching to Comfort, the sus... |
For a little more enthusiasm, there’s Sport mode. Shift times are trimmed, and the engine tuning and throttle response are more aggressive. The ECO start/stop function is disabled, too, while the AMG Dynamics control shifts to Advance mode to strike a balance between ride, handling, and agility. Stiffer suspension sacr... |
The end result is that performance on the road is as good – or indeed better – than you’d imagine for a sports car with four doors. That’s a big enough differentiator as it is, between the AMG GT 63 S and the C63 S. Minimal road and wind noise, combined with a smooth ride, leave a sense of luxury whether you’re behind ... |
If you’re in the enviable position of shopping for a potent four-door sedan, as much at home hauling people around in style as it is being let loose for a track day, it’s worth your while considering Mercedes’ latest offering. Although rear-wheel drive fans may still want to look to the AMG C 63 S, anybody with the Por... |
Exclusive: Though President Obama likes to present himself as a regular guy, he acts like an elitist when he unnecessarily withholds information from the American people. At this critical juncture of his presidency, he might finally take a chance on trusting the public with facts, writes Robert Parry. |
If President Barack Obama is ever to take control of his foreign policy and move the United States into a more peaceful and pragmatic direction he will need to shake his obsession with secrecy and bring the American people into his confidence by sharing with them information about key events that have shaped recent cri... |
Right now, the American people are deeply confused about what is transpiring in the Middle East and eastern Europe — and Obama appears satisfied that they stay that way. He doesn’t seem to understand that one of the president’s greatest advantages is his power to release information to the public, thus changing the nar... |
Instead, Obama has behaved as if he’s still trying to prove to the national security establishment that he can hoard secrets as compulsively as anyone, that he’s not the wild-eyed radical outsider that the Right has made him out to be. At a news conference on March 24, Obama even made a joke about his record of keeping... |
But Obama’s lack of transparency after promising in 2008 to run a transparent administration has left him at the mercy of Washington’s closed club of insiders, while alienating him from the broad American public. With neoconservatives and other opinion leaders dictating the dominant narrative on topic after topic, Obam... |
Thus, even if a framework agreement on limiting Iran’s nuclear program is reached, it is likely to get battered in Congress, where Israeli clout is overwhelming. The President will have to fend off repeated attempts to sabotage the deal. |
For one, Obama could provide an historical accounting of U.S. relations with Iran, including the CIA’s role in ousting the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossaddegh in 1953, the U.S. support for the autocratic Shah over the ensuing quarter century (including helping to start Iran’s nuclear program), Amer... |
While some sensitive data is appropriately protected for national security reasons, excessive secrecy is a form of elitism showing disdain for the many millions of us who aren’t special enough to be inside the club. Secrecy also empowers an unscrupulous leader to mislead and to scare the people with selective leaks and... |
But like much else Obama mostly chose continuity, not change. After a few promising document releases in the first days of his presidency, including President Bush’s “torture memo” arguing the tortured legality of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” Obama reversed course and turned his administration into one of the m... |
In his second term, Obama has further slid into a pattern of deception embracing the Orwellian concept of “information warfare” in which propaganda themes are created and maintained even when the evidence goes in a different direction. The Syrian-Sarin gas incident is one such case when the early Assad-did-it claims we... |
Instead of refining or correcting the record, President Obama has let the hasty early judgments stand all the better to smear the adversaries and manipulate the public. |
For instance, regarding the MH-17 crash, the office of the Director of National Intelligence told me recently that the U.S. intelligence assessment of that shoot-down, killing 298 people, had not been refined since July 22, 2014, five days after the incident. The statement was not credible. Indeed, I have been told tha... |
Yet, in a healthy democracy, leaders would immediately update the public with relevant information and dispel any misunderstandings in recognition and respect for the people’s fundamental right to know, especially on issues of war or peace. |
Instead, Obama has joined in keeping the new assessments of all these key moments hidden from the American people. That secrecy suggests that Obama holds the public in contempt and thus he shouldn’t be surprised when that contempt is returned to him. |
What America needs now more than ever is an old-fashioned presidential speech from the Oval Office with Obama looking directly into the camera and leveling with the nation, much like President Dwight Eisenhower did in his farewell address in 1961 with his famous warning about the influence of the Military-Industrial Co... |
If Obama were to explain the opportunities and the challenges facing the country in stark and truthful terms there might still be a chance to avert the looming catastrophes ahead. |
” . . . in a healthy democracy leaders would immediately update the public . . .” seems to be the emphasis here, as Robert surely knows full well all the objections in the comments following so far. It is pathetic that the sly emphasis in this essay is “way it ought to be” as though there were any feasibility of this p... |
If Obama were to come before the American people to tell them the facts, he would be assassinated before he ever got to the microphone. Obama knows who is masters are, and he dares not to expose them. |
We, the ruled, apparently believe that President cannot respect the Constitution and be loyal to the American people for fear of death. |
The American people are check mating themselves with constantly devolving expectations and I see no end to how far we will lower ourselves. |
How would it even occur to him to expose “them.” Presidents are products of multinational corporations now and likely for the remainder of the United States. |
But rather than continuing his CIA cant, Barry-0’s “candor” would commit his Bush COMPANY’S twin Cardinal sins of admitting their error and expressing a modicum Of CONTRITION! |
Soon Obama will be a glorious, wealthy, revered ex-president. Why would he care about an informed electorate? Verbiage to the contrary notwithstanding, an informed electorate is something that all tyrants have always striven to prevent. Obama is no different. |
The BIG problem is that Barack H. Obama is no paramount leader of the Great and Grand United States and therefore he can NEVER be regarded as a trustworthy leader or one who possesses real clout. As such, he merely operates through an ultra big charade or big lie as he is constantly restricted by a super powerful and e... |
Theres a blurb out from ‘Salon’ on Barney Frank’s new book. He talks about the failure of the incoming President’s transition team to have Treasury demand that, as the TARP legislation specified, banks would concede mortgage relief as a condition of the $700 Billion taxpayer funded bailout. The response Frank got was, ... |
$imply one of his perpetual $erial RENEGES! |
The last American president that was honest with the American people, John F Kennedy, was assassinated in broad daylight, and the American people did well, nothing, to get at the root of the matter (Jack Rubenstein). What’s going to motivate any president to be honest with people who are not going to have his/her back ... |
At least a day before Ruby was allowed to kill him, Oswald had a press conference while in police custody, where he made very clear he had nothing to do with shooting the president. And that he’d be set up. |
Jack Ruby’s action made it look like the root of the matter had be addressed was then shut up by Ruby. |
Would be nice if there were a correct/edit option open for a few minutes. |
In 2012 the CIA set up an station in Benghazi, Libya with help from Saudi Arabia and Turkey to ship weapons from Quadaffi’s old arsenal to Islamic terrorists in Syria– these terrorists included Al Qaeda and the precursors to ISIS. This weapons smuggling to Islamic terrorists was done with the approval of the highest le... |
Mr Stevens, and others, were killed because they were part of a civil war the US had a lot to do with starting in Libya. |
The Amen was meant for Dave. I think it is naive to think that Obama and Clinton only knew from a distance. If one studies the history of the Al Qaeda movement, it began to be seeded through CIA sponsored training center ‘madrassas’ set up during the Clinton Adminstration in the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia, and ... |
Indeed, Ambassador Chris Stevens was deeply involved in the program to transfer arms to Syrian mercenaries, and with Hillary’s policy agenda (and her public statements about Qadaafi and Assad), it would be more unlikely to assume that she knew but was NOT part of it from the start. |
The approach of “Patience, he may yet redeem himself in the view of history” has commendable potential to influence, but of course faces many contradictory indications. At last the young wife often convinces the misguided overgrown teenager to mend his ways. But she knows his thinking and has his attention and sympathy... |
I would like to hear from Obama every detail of how he came around to giving the MIC and dark agencies and financiers everything they wanted. If it was sheer coercion or blackmail any courageous leader would blow the whistle any time. Woodward’s The War Within suggests that they simply gamed him and controlled all his ... |
How long can failures persist before he begins looking for a way out? If he has courage, he slowly dissociates himself from bad influences and cultivates better ones. The gentle voice of moral and ethical principle may become audible. |
Sadly, Obama has been thoroughly compromise by special interests. He’s empowered the neocons to start another cold war and is a corporate puppet. |
Robert Kagan, the uber neocon, wrote an article not long ago that was critical of Obama, which deserved to be ignored. Instead, Obama invited him to lunch. I’m surprised that the warmonger Bolton, who wants the U.S. to go to war with Iran, wasn’t also invited. |
Also, look at Obama’s position on TPP. In the past drafts of trade agreements were placed online for the public to see. The only people to view the contents of the TPP are the corporations that drafted the content of the agreement. And Obama wants the TPP to be Fast Tracked, not allowing Congress any actual input. On t... |
I appreciate Parry’s articles and the information he provides, however, he gives Obama too much credit. Obama is a marketing campaign not an independent politician/president and the authors of the campaign are in charge. |
It’s one thing for the Democratic Party faithful to dream about Obama being the good guy they hoped he would be, but when people who know the score start doing it, it becomes unseemly. Obama has demonstrated through his actions who he is, by appointing neocons and corporate hacks to lead his administration, by militari... |
Eisenhower farewell, and “farewell” is a significant difference. |
Also helps that Eisenhower was a former general. |
And Eisenhower helped inflict Nixon on the world. |
TOWSON, Md. (AP) - Ernie Duncan scored 28 points and Isaiah Moll 20 to lead Vermont to a 70-64 victory over Towson on Friday night. |
The Catamounts will look to complete a three game sweep of their current road trip when they visit George Mason Monday night. |
Waters’ convention appearance is just the latest tie to emerge between Democrats and the Nation of Islam. |
Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters attended a Nation of Islam convention where the hate group’s leader, Louis Farrakhan, defended Palestinian suicide bombers. |
The convention, which took place in California in 2002, is just the latest tie to emerge between Democrats and the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist group known for being viciously anti-Semitic. |
Later in his speech, Farrakhan excused Palestinian suicide bombers and defended Iran for arming Palestinian terrorists. |
Farrakhan criticized the United States for providing Israel with planes and other weapons, which he indicated was to blame for Palestinian suicide bombers. |
“The Palestinians have nothing to defend themselves with, so they’re so exhausted and exasperated, think about that, strapping bombs to themselves, making themselves a weapon,” Farrakhan said. |
Waters’ office did not return repeated requests for comment. An interview request submitted to the Nation of Islam was not returned. |
Waters’ appearance at the Nation of Islam convention is just the latest tie to emerge between the hate group and Democratic members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). |
The CBC in 2005 held a meeting with Farrakhan, where then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama took a smiling photo with the hate group leader. |
Both the photo and the meeting remained secret until last month. The man who took the photo, a journalist for a Nation of Islam publication, said CBC members asked him to suppress it in order to protect Obama’s political future. |
A year after the Obama-Farrakhan photo op, Waters and several Democratic members of the CBC met Farrakhan and were seen embracing him, recently resurfaced video shows. |
Twenty-one current CBC members were part of the caucus at the time of the 2005 Farrakhan meeting. TheDC asked all 21 members if they would condemn Farrakhan. Zero of the 21 condemned Farrakhan. |
One of those members, Illinois Rep. Danny Davis, defended Farrakhan as an “outstanding human being” in an interview with The Daily Caller. Davis said he has a personal relationship with Farrakhan and has visited him at his house. |
The clearest ties between Democrats and the Nation of Islam run through Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee. |
Ellison worked with the Nation of Islam for 18 months organizing a Minnesota delegation to Farrakhan’s 1995 Million Man March. Ellison admitted to his work with the Nation of Islam when he first ran for Congress in 2006, but assured the public that he had since cut ties with Farrakhan. |
But Ellison’s ties with Farrakhan continued while in Congress. Ellison attended at least three meetings with the hate group leader since taking office, according to photos, videos and witness accounts reviewed by TheDC. |
One of those meetings was a visit with Democratic Indiana Rep. Andre Carson to Farrakhan’s hotel room. Farrakhan said in Dec. 2016 that the meeting had taken place recently and that the three men had an enjoyable time together. |
Ellison’s office refused to deny or confirm that the meeting took place and instead attacked the media for reporting on it. |
Beyonce gives credit to motherhood for making her feel beautiful. |
Editor's note: Read here to explore how beauty standards across cultures affect perceptions of beauty in the United States. |
People magazine has named Beyonce as this year's most beautiful woman – and she's sharing the spotlight with her infant daughter, Blue Ivy. |
"I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth," the 16-time Grammy winner and new mom told the magazine. |
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