U.S. officials clamped a tight lid on the incident. They said only that U.S. Army S/Sgt. Frank Ronghi of Niles, Ohio, was charged with premeditated murder and indecencies to a minor. The Army has moved him to Germany pending a pretrial inquiry to decide if he will face a court-martial. Ronghi himself has made no public comment, but his friends and family say there must be some mistake. Their Frank was a gentle, decent guy, not a killer....
Software metrics enable project stakeholders to track the productivity of the developers, measure software performance, and plan for a software project. These are among the many benefits of tracking software metrics. Follow through this article to learn how you can use software metrics. How Do You Determine a Metric to Use? First, you need to know how measurement works. Measurement is the process of assigning value to an attribute of an entity....
To understand Argentina’s ardor for Pitt is to understand not only the actor’s celebrity but also the paucity of movie stars who ordinarily pass through. As executive producer David Nichols puts it: ““Anthony Quinn was mobbed here a couple of years ago.’’ (Madonna, as we know, barely made it out alive.) In September, Pitt flew into Buenos Aires International, where there was pandemonium despite the best intentions of the Ministry of the Interior....
An NBC News/SurveyMonkey survey released Friday showed that 53 percent of independent voters supported impeaching Trump while 44 percent said he shouldn’t be impeached. Among the voters polled who identified as independent, an overwhelming 96 percent disapproved of how Trump is doing his job in the White House and just 3 percent approved. But job disapproval doesn’t necessarily correlate to support for removing Trump from office for independent voters. Nearly a quarter of the independents who don’t think Trump should be impeached still don’t like how he’s handled being president....
But there is a more fundamental issue at work. The antiwar majority in Western Europe, and elsewhere, believes instinctively that this U.S. initiative is nothing more than a naked demonstration of military power. It is not predicated on self-defense (Afghanistan) or on the protection of others (Bosnia, Kosovo). Rather, it is a crude attempt to impose U.S. hegemony on a strategically important region–and, if it succeeds, the invasion will establish a dangerous new precedent for the 21st century....
Despite our tendency to focus on the extremes of the abortion debate, many Americans—including those who say they are pro-choice or pro-life—have come to realize that the issue won’t be settled any time soon. In a national poll to be released this week by the influential Democratic think tank Third Way, nearly three quarters said they wish elected leaders would look for common ground on abortion. The country is pretty evenly divided on their standing view of the question: 40 percent of registered voters say they’re pro-choice, 39 percent pro-life and 18 percent volunteered the response “neither....
CLARK: It’s worse. We’re seeing the same institutional infighting as in the past, with the Pentagon pushing its own interests and no clear vision of where it is going in terms of U.S. leadership in the world. We hear a lot of talk of preparing for the “next threat,” whether that’s rogue missiles or new enemies. The cold war is over. But we haven’t come to terms with this. Our new world is not dominated by one hostile ideology that seeks, as Khrushchev put it, to “bury us....
In this boom period for country music, Yearwood makes an attractive package. She has a strong, warm voice, driving ambition and videogenic good looks. “In the early stages I felt that one of the most important things she had to offer was that she was a beautiful woman,” says her manager, Ken Kragen. “We should use that asset.” Kragen, 55, is himself one of her more potent assets. A music-industry power manager, he has represented such highprofile stars as Lionel Richie and Kenny Rogers, and organized both the USA for Africa project that produced “We Are the World” and the 1985 Hands Across America fund-raising event....
The issue? Whether the president should greenlight plans for limited U.S. missile defenses. The White House has promised a decision by June, and pro-defenses GOP leaders in the Senate are determined to make him stick to this timetable. But even limited defenses would require revisions in the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, changes which Clinton insists must be negotiated with Moscow. Russia, however, has refused to play ball. And last week following the Senate vote against the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Moscow and Beijing raised the stakes, drawing up a U....
Geographical agreements kept the peace in the early years. But the business has grown more international, and in the 1990s Anheuser-Busch has tried buy its rival, or at least the trademark, from the Czech state. No sale. Anheuser-Busch still can’t sell its flagship brand in much of Europe, where Budvar’s Budweiser is a popular brew. But here’s a new twist. Nomura, the Japanese investment bank, may soon sell a big stake in its Czech beer holdings–which include a brewery in Ceske Budejovice that has won court battles to call its product a Budweiser beer at home and in Germany....
Most fans of Phasmophobia are likely appreciating how the development team remains consistent in providing new content for the game. Two new ghosts, the Yokai and Hanyu, were recently added to the beta version of the game. The terrifying ghost hunting experience keeps being improved for all players, with additions of new ghost interactions, gameplay features, and upgraded Phasmophobia ghost AI. RELATED: Phasmophobia is Introducing New Ghosts In a recent post on the official Kinetic Games Twitter account, the devs shared an unclear update on an upcoming beta patch for Phasmophobia....
Red Dead Redemption highlights an issue with video game preservation, and how easy it is for even beloved titles to become obscure if developers don’t take steps to make their games accessible. There have been rumors that a remaster of the game may be on the way, but there have been just as many reports claiming the opposite. Judging by Rockstar’s recent actions, it appears that the company’s focus is on GTA 6, making a Red Dead Redemption remaster unlikely in the near future....
“Funny Games” is a postmodern variation on William Wyler’s once famous 1955 movie “The Desperate Hours,” in which a middle-class suburban family is held hostage and brutalized by a gang of escaped convicts led by Humphrey Bogart (Michael Cimino remade it in 1990 with Mickey Rourke). In Haneke’s excruciatingly intense new Hollywood version, Naomi Watts and TimRoth play a cultured, tasteful bourgeois couple who arrive at their lakeside vacation home with their adorable son (Devon Gearhart) and frisky golden retriever in tow—the latter an ill-fated canine dangerously named Lucky....
Typically getting 5 for 1 is a good thing. When you are a Major League Baseball team and those 5 are hitting coaches and the 1 is a calendar year, something is dreadfully wrong. That is what happened today. Dale Sveum became the 5th person in 364 days to try and “fix” this offense. The man he will be replacing, Pedro Grifol (who was hailed as a hitting guru, and the person responsible for fixing Eric Hosmer last year, and in charge of getting Mike Moustakas back on track), will now be the Royals catching coach....
The broadcast format of satellite radio is more or less the same as terrestrial, but because it’s offered through a subscription model most stations are available without commercial interruption. Like satellite television, you need special equipment to listen to satellite radio. A key benefit of satellite radio is that the signal is available over a much broader geographical range than terrestrial radio. A handful of satellites are capable of blanketing an entire continent, and each satellite radio service provides the same set of stations and programs to its entire coverage area....
This is obviously a fanciful ambition. Bin Laden operates more like a venture capitalist than the head of a conquering army. Think of him as the chairman of Jihad Inc., together with its subsidiary, Jihad.com. The question is how powerful this multinational force has become. In the occupied West Bank, in devastated Chechnya and embattled Kashmir, in parts of Indonesia and the Philippines, even in areas where Muslims make up large majorities, Islamist extremists are on the move and in contact with each other, however tenuously....
A casual reader, glancing through Clark Clifford’s memoirs, might think the subject served as a high government official throughout the entire cold-war era. Clifford’s White House pass never expired, at least during the days when the Democrats still owned the executive branch. He always seemed to be on the inside, playing poker with Harry Truman on the presidential yacht, sunning with John F. Kennedy in Palm Beach, careering around the LBJ Ranch in the presidential Cadillac....
If they do indeed focus only on the performance, the panel will be looking at the details: the degree of difficulty of the routine, how gracefully it is executed, the compatibility of movement and music. Figure skating may be the most popular sport at the Olympics because its beauty is accessible to just about everyone. But the standards judges use to rate these performers can seem mysterious. While it may be easy to understand why they faulted Kurt Browning for his performance in the men’s competition, it is often hard for lay viewers to see why a seemingly passionless but technically perfect display earns a gold while a performance that brings the audience to its feet merits only a silver or a bronze....
Pitchford confirmed the game’s development during an appearance on the AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook podcast back in April, but was not released on YouTube and free podcast services until September. The subject came up while Pitchford was speaking on Gearbox waiting to announce Borderlands 3 until it was already in beta and development was nearly complete. He followed this by saying Gearbox is “working on another Brothers Arms game” but he wouldn’t say more until the game was far enough along in development....
