Wedding Plans Dampened By Government Shutdown

A Fayetteville couple is scrambling to find a new place to say the I-Do?s after the government shutdown closed the Lodge where they were going to get married.

Bride-to-be Kelli Medearis and her fianc? Riley Gilbert are getting married in 10 days (Oct. 19).

?I am basically crying my eyes out,? Medearis said.

The Lodge at Lake Wedington is run by the U.S. Forest Service and its employees have been furloughed and the venue is closed until further notice. Medearis said the lodge was the perfect spot for them to have an intimate wedding with close friends and family.

?Our families are calling us constantly, our friends are calling us constantly asking us, What?s going on?? Medearis said.

The U.S. Forest Service has a voice mail announcing their closure and their website is down. Lake Wedington?s gates are locked and they have signs explaining why they are closed.

?We still have a few options that could possibly work out that way but I?ve just found the whole thing to be very frustrating,? Gilbert said.

Medearis said she?s even looking at parks as an option to something that?s not booked and in the couple?s budget.

?I mean I could get married at a pavilion in a park but if it?s pouring down rain or 40 degrees that?s not going to work,? Medearis said.

Medearis story echoes a wedding crash phenomenon across the U.S.

?It?s brides all over the country, I mean it?s everybody and so its been really hard to figure out where we are going to married and deal with that emotional pain,? Medearis said.

Medearis and Gilbert met at Mojo?s, a pizza spot in Fayetteville, and hit it off right away after talking football and Razorbacks. They got engaged on Christmas Eve 2012.

The couple said their love is far greater than any place they decide to tie the knot.

?Our love is special enough, I know that no matter what we will get married that day but it definitely ruins what I envisioned as my wedding,? Medearis said.

Gilbert said, ?But what most important is we?re going to get married that day no matter what.?

The couple will get a refund but have to wait until furloughed workers with the U.S. Forest Service return work.

Source: http://5newsonline.com/2013/10/09/wedding-plans-dampened-by-government-shutdown/

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Chinese journalist Shi Tao released

A Chinese journalist jailed for eight years for leaking government restrictions on reporting is now free.

Shi Tao's early release was announced by the writers' organization PEN International on Saturday -- 15 months before he was scheduled to be freed. Shi is a member of Independent Chinese PEN Center, which advocates for freedom of speech.

Shi made headlines in 2004 when he sent the media restrictions to a human rights group -- an act that China said amounted to "leaking state secrets," PEN said.

What's more, Internet giant Yahoo played a part in his conviction.

In a widely criticized move, Yahoo handed over Shi's e-mail account information, which the Chinese government used in the case against Shi, according to court documents.

The reporting restrictions were over the coverage of the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, in which hundreds of pro-democracy protesters were killed in a government crackdown. Chinese soldiers followed orders to open fire on unnarmed civilians.

Official Chinese government figures said the death toll was 241, including soldiers, with 7,000 injured. Rights groups have said the number of dead was likely in the thousands.

Early release

Shi was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2005. It's not clear why he was let go early.

The U.S. Congress led a probe into the case after his conviction.

Source: http://www.wdsu.com/news/national/Chinese-journalist-Shi-Tao-released/-/9853500/21836752/-/w3riid/-/index.html?absolute=true

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U.S. counterintelligence targets Israel with Iran and China, secret budget reveals

September 4, 2013

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The $52.6 billion ?black budget? for fiscal 2013 for the 16 U.S. spy agencies was obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the newspaper reported on Aug. 29.

The budget summary, formally known as the Congressional Budget Justification for the National Intelligence Program, revealed that counterintelligence operations ?are strategically focused against [the] priority targets of China, Russia, Iran, Cuba and Israel,? according to The Washington Post.

Snowden, who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, was a former technical contractor for the National Security Agency and employee of the Central Intelligence Agency who revealed the existence of mass surveillance programs by the United States and Britain against their own citizens and citizens of other countries.

The budget summary also revealed that the CIA and NSA became more aggressive in efforts to hack into the computer networks of other countries to steal information or to sabotage the computer systems of enemy countries.

It also showed that the NSA planned to investigate at least 4,000 personnel with high security clearance suspected of compromising sensitive information. In addition, terrorism is shown in the budget to be considered the most serious threat to U.S. national security.

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Good android phone for media only rom?

Been there and done this with the LG Optimis 2X

http://forums.overcl...howtopic=194168

The relitively good DAC/AMP, the direct HDMI out and the FM tuner make it good.

However quite a few new flagships have awesome features for media focused phones.

So I would say if you can find an Xperia ZL for the $4-500 mark go with that. I have had it the last year and I can stream spotify over HSDPA+, playing it at Max volume through the loudspeaker and at the end of an eight hour work day retain more than 50% battery. With data disabled and using the FM radio I can get 4 days of continuous play.

The stock media apps are increadably well put together. All i have found that needs to be added to the already included, Album, Movies Walkman, FM Radio and Track ID apps is Spotify.

If you have a Sony TV you can mirror the content of your phone to it with ease with a MHL adaptor you can plug in a HDMI cable. Also USB DACs work with it if you are so inclined. I am still running stock on mine with only a custom stock based launcher that allows me to hide apps, customize grids and the amount of pages/dock bars I have on the home screen.

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Christopher Lane Update: Teens charged with murder after police say they killed Australian baseball player "for fun"

Mug shots of James Edwards, Chancey Luna and Michael Jones, charged in connection with the death of Christopher Lane.

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Updated 6:37 p.m. (CBS/AP) OKLAHOMA CITY -Prosecutors in Oklahoma have charged two teens, 15 and 16, with first-degree murder in the death of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane, 22, reports?CBS affiliate KOTV.??A third boy, 17, is reportedly charged as a youthful offender with accessory to first degree murder.

PICTURES: Australian baseball player fatally shot in Okla.

Prosecutors say the teens shot and killed Lane, a student at East Central University who was jogging near his girlfriend's home in Duncan, Oklahoma, "for fun."

Chancey Allen Luna, 16, and James Francis Edwards, Jr., 15, of Duncan were charged with first-degree murder and, under Oklahoma law, will be tried as adults. Michael Dewayne Jones, 17, of Duncan was accused of using a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and accessory to first-degree murder after the fact. He is considered a youthful offender but will be tried in adult court.

Lane, 22, of Melbourne, died Friday along a tree-lined road on Duncan's well-to-do north side.

Luna and Edwards were ordered held without bond Tuesday.?Police have said Jones told them the details of the crime in a series of interviews.

"They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: 'There's our target,' Police Chief Dan Ford. "The boy who has talked to us said, 'We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.'"

Christopher Lane, in an undated photo

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Tuesday, the boy said in open court "I pulled the trigger," but the judge directed him to remain quiet and said was not the day to discuss the facts of the case.

The boy cried. His bond was set at $1 million.

Prosecutor Jason Hicks called the boys "thugs" as he told Stephens County Judge Jerry Herberger how Christopher Lane, 22, of Melbourne, died on a city street.

"I'm appalled," Hicks said after the hearing. "This is not supposed to happen in this community."

In court, Hicks said Luna was sitting in the rear seat of a car when he pulled the trigger on a .22 caliber revolver and shot Lane once in the back. Hicks said Jones was driving the vehicle and Edwards was in the passenger seat.

Edwards has had run-ins with the law previously and had been in court Friday, the day of the killing, to sign documents related to his juvenile probation.

"I believe this man is a threat to the community and should not be let out," Hicks said as he requested no bond for Edwards. "He thinks it's all a joke."

Meanwhile, family and friends on two continents mourned Lane, who gave up pursuit of an Australian football career to pursue his passion for baseball, an American pastime. His girlfriend tearfully laid a cross at a streetside memorial in Duncan, while half a world away, an impromptu memorial grew at the home plate he protected as a catcher on his youth team.

"We just thought we'd leave it," Sarah Harper said as she visited the memorial. "This is his final spot."

Flowers, photos and an Australian flag already adorned the roadside in a tribute to the 22-year-old.

"I don't know anybody who's left this. It means a lot," Harper said.

One of the suspect's mothers told CBS affiliate KWTV in Oklahoma City her son and his friends were in a "wannabe gang." Police told KWTV the suspects may have killed an animal prior to shooting Lane, and that they planned on killing more people.

Source: http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/cbsnews/feed/~3/qMccL3BX0dQ/

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NKorea criticizes SKorea-US drills in milder tone

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? North Korea on Tuesday criticized South Korea-U.S. military drills with milder-than-usual language that's seen as a sign of its interest in keeping up diplomacy.

North Korea typically speaks with warlike rhetoric against any South Korea-U.S. exercises because it considers them as a rehearsal for invasion. But it has not made any harsh statements against the annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills the United States and South Korea began Monday.

On Tuesday, Pyongyang's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea broke the country's earlier silence and called the training "big anti-(North Korea) war drills" and warned South Korea could face unspecified "uncontrollably catastrophic consequence."

An unidentified North Korean committee spokesman also accused South Korea's President Park Geun-hye of making "bellicose remarks" Monday by calling for a military readiness to ensure peace. The spokesman said via state media that Park's comments "chill the hard-won atmosphere for dialogue" between the Koreas. Park's office didn't immediately confirm those comments.

North Korea has made similar threats in the past, and Tuesday's language is not as intimidating as its previous rhetoric such as threats of nuclear wars the country made during springtime drills between the allies.

"It's not something that overturns its current policy on South Korea," said Chang Yong Seok, a senior researcher at Seoul National University's Institute for Peace and Unification Studies.

After high tension earlier this year, there have recently been signs of easing tension on the divided peninsula, with Pyongyang ratcheting down its rhetoric and perusing dialogues with Seoul and Washington.

The two Koreas last week agreed to work toward reopening a shuttered jointly run factory park, and Pyongyang on Sunday accepted South Korea's offer for talks on reuniting families separated by war. Four North Koreans were to visit South Korea this week to attend a U.N.-organized youth leadership program.

Despite the recent conciliatory gestures, some analysts in South Korea are wary of the North's intentions, saying Pyongyang often follows provocations and threats with a charm offensive meant to win aid.

North Korea agreed to South Korea's offer for talks on the family reunions but proposed another set of talks Thursday on resuming lucrative tours of Diamond Mountain, implying it wants the tourism restart in return for allowing the reunions.

The mountain tours had provided a legitimate source of hard currency to North Korea before they were suspended after a 2008 shooting death of a South Korean tourist in the resort.

The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills that continue until Aug. 30 are computer-simulated war games involving 30,000 American and 50,000 South Korean troops, according to South Korea's Defense Ministry and the U.S. military command in Seoul.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nkorea-criticizes-skorea-us-drills-milder-tone-032846064.html

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