Olympian Relationships

The Olympian Academy, a safe haven for a large number of demi-gods, works to instruct young demigods in all major subjects, teaches them defensive skills, and helps them become demigods worthy of the godly blood that runs through their veins.

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[center][size=200]Your character's name here, please[/size]

[img]Gif of your character. That means a moving image, yes.[/img]
[size=95]Godly Parent - Age - Three adjectives to describe your character's personality[/size]

? = Romantic Interest || ? = Friends || ? = Neutral || ? = Enemies[/center]

[size=110][u]Students[/u][/size]
[size=90][list][*] [b]Abel Francis:[/b] Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
[*] [b]Bailey Cobra:[/b]
[*] [b]Bella Williams:[/b]
[*] [b]Christian Shaddix:[/b]
[*] [b]Dixie Wyatt:[/b]
[*] [b]Dresden Giancarlo:[/b]
[*] [b]Dylan Beckett:[/b]
[*] [b]Elizabeth Blaire:[/b]
[*] [b]Elliot Russell:[/b]
[*] [b]Gemma Strain:[/b]
[*] [b]Jezebel Judeka:[/b]
[*] [b]Joel Joseph:[/b]
[*] [b]Lily Davidson:[/b]
[*] [b]Myra Lestwood:[/b]
[*] [b]Natalia Constantine:[/b]
[*] [b]Phoebe Everton:[/b]
[*] [b]Ravielle Gullory:[/b]
[*] [b]Scarlett Lane:[/b]
[*] [b]Skah Morning:[/b]
[*] [b]Wesley Roberts:[/b][/list][/size]

[size=110][u]Faculty[/u][/size]
[size=90][list][*] [b]Charlie Shepherd:[/b] Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
[*] [b]Fion Atreus:[/b]
[*] [b]Nathan Hensleigh:[/b]
[*] [b]Vanessa Tate:[/b][/list][/size]

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Nathan Hensleigh

Poseidon - 27 - Womanizing, Approachable, Patient

? = Romantic Interest || ? = Friends || ? = Neutral || ? = Enemies

Students

• Abel Francis: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Bailey Cobra:
• Bella Williams:
• Christian Shaddix:
• Dixie Wyatt:
• Dresden Giancarlo:
• Dylan Beckett:
• Elizabeth Blaire:
• Elliot Russell:
• Gemma Strain:
• Jezebel Judeka:
• Joel Joseph:
• Lily Davidson:
• Myra Lestwood:
• Natalia Constantine:
• Phoebe Everton:
• Ravielle Gullory:
• Scarlett Lane:
• Skah Morning:
• Wesley Roberts:

Faculty

• Charlie Shepherd: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Fion Atreus:
• Nathan Hensleigh:
• Vanessa Tate:

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Phoebe Everton

Iris - 19 - Na?ve, Excitable, Caring

? = Romantic Interest || ? = Friends || ? = Neutral || ? = Enemies

Students

• Abel Francis: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Bailey Cobra:
• Bella Williams:
• Christian Shaddix:
• Dixie Wyatt:
• Dresden Giancarlo:
• Dylan Beckett:
• Elizabeth Blaire:
• Elliot Russell:
• Gemma Strain:
• Jezebel Judeka:
• Joel Joseph:
• Lily Davidson:
• Myra Lestwood:
• Natalia Constantine:
• Phoebe Everton:
• Ravielle Gullory:
• Scarlett Lane:
• Skah Morning:
• Wesley Roberts:

Faculty

• Charlie Shepherd: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Fion Atreus:
• Nathan Hensleigh:
• Vanessa Tate:

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Elizabeth Blaire

Hephaestus - Sixteen - Tomboy, Optimistic, Blunt

? = Romantic Interest || ? = Friends || ? = Neutral || ? = Enemies

Students

• Abel Francis: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Bailey Cobra:
• Bella Williams:
• Christian Shaddix:
• Dixie Wyatt:
• Dresden Giancarlo:
• Dylan Beckett:
• Elizabeth Blaire:
• Elliot Russell:
• Gemma Strain:
• Jezebel Judeka:
• Joel Joseph:
• Lily Davidson:
• Myra Lestwood:
• Natalia Constantine:
• Phoebe Everton:
• Ravielle Gullory:
• Scarlett Lane:
• Skah Morning:
• Wesley Roberts:

Faculty

• Charlie Shepherd: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Fion Atreus:
• Nathan Hensleigh:
• Vanessa Tate:

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Wesley Roberts

Aphrodite - Seventeen - Arrogant, Charming, Clever

? = Romantic Interest || ? = Friends || ? = Neutral || ? = Enemies

Students

• Abel Francis: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Bailey Cobra:
• Bella Williams:
• Christian Shaddix:
• Dixie Wyatt:
• Dresden Giancarlo:
• Dylan Beckett:
• Elizabeth Blaire:
• Elliot Russell:
• Gemma Strain:
• Jezebel Judeka:
• Joel Joseph:
• Lily Davidson:
• Myra Lestwood:
• Natalia Constantine:
• Phoebe Everton:
• Ravielle Gullory:
• Scarlett Lane:
• Skah Morning:
• Wesley Roberts:

Faculty

• Charlie Shepherd: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Fion Atreus:
• Nathan Hensleigh:
• Vanessa Tate:

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Ravielle Gullory

Demeter- 18 - Lazy, Aloof, Lackdasical

? = Romantic Interest || ? = Friends || ? = Neutral || ? = Enemies

Students

• Abel Francis: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Bailey Cobra:
• Bella Williams:
• Christian Shaddix:
• Dixie Wyatt:
• Dresden Giancarlo:
• Dylan Beckett:
• Elizabeth Blaire:
• Elliot Russell:
• Gemma Strain:
• Jezebel Judeka:
• Joel Joseph:
• Lily Davidson:
• Myra Lestwood:
• Natalia Constantine:
• Phoebe Everton:
• Scarlett Lane:
• Skah Morning:
• Wesley Roberts:

Faculty

• Charlie Shepherd: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Fion Atreus:
• Nathan Hensleigh:
• Vanessa Tate:

Joel 'JJ' Joseph

Hermes - 18 - Charming, Talkative, Deft

? = Romantic Interest || ? = Friends || ? = Neutral || ? = Enemies

Students

• Abel Francis: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Bailey Cobra:
• Bella Williams:
• Christian Shaddix:
• Dixie Wyatt:
• Dresden Giancarlo:
• Dylan Beckett:
• Elizabeth Blaire:
• Elliot Russell:
• Gemma Strain:
• Jezebel Judeka:
• Lily Davidson:
• Myra Lestwood:
• Natalia Constantine:
• Phoebe Everton:
• Ravielle Gullory:
• Scarlett Lane:
• Skah Morning:
• Wesley Roberts:

Faculty

• Charlie Shepherd: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Fion Atreus:
• Nathan Hensleigh:
• Vanessa Tate:

Dresden Giancarlo

Khione - 19 - Intense, Passionate, Moody

? = Romantic Interest || ? = Friends || ? = Neutral || ? = Enemies

Students

• Abel Francis: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Bailey Cobra:
• Bella Williams:
• Christian Shaddix:
• Dixie Wyatt:
• Dylan Beckett:
• Elizabeth Blaire:
• Elliot Russell:
• Gemma Strain:
• Jezebel Judeka:
• Joel Joseph:
• Lily Davidson:
• Myra Lestwood:
• Natalia Constantine:
• Phoebe Everton:
• Ravielle Gullory:
• Scarlett Lane:
• Skah Morning:
• Wesley Roberts:

Faculty

• Charlie Shepherd: Your symbol first, and then a little about the relationship.
• Fion Atreus:
• Nathan Hensleigh:
• Vanessa Tate:

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Snagit 11

Sooner or later, almost everyone needs screen captures?images of all or part of a computer screen?to use in presentations or Web pages or printed documents, and writers for PCMag.com typically make hundreds of screen shots a year. Our favorite screen capture, for a very long time, has been SnagIt, which combines traditional image-capture with video-capture functions. The latest version, SnagIt 11, preserves all the ease-of-use of the earlier versions, while adding features like the ability to capture audio output when recording a screen video. Once again, SnagIt snags our Editor's Choice award for its unrivalled flexibility, power, and ease of use.

What I like most about SnagIt is its quick, intuitive, no-nonsense way of performing simple tasks like getting screen shots into a software review like this one, combined with its enormous range of options that I can use when I need special effects like grayscale images of full-color screens or when I want to add borders to images. And I like the way its built-in image editor lets me add text or arrows to images, and make other basic modifications, without pretending to be a graphic-designer's tool like Photoshop. I also like the way its video-recording feature lets me include sound input from either a microphone or Windows' own audio-output, for example, from an MP3 recording on disk or a YouTube video.

Start Snagging
When you start up SnagIt it displays a dialog with a big red button for taking a screen shot and smaller buttons for settings options such as a timed countdown before capturing an image, whether or not to include the mouse pointer in the image, and whether or not to open the image immediately in SnagIt's image editor. Other buttons let you select whether SnagIt will capture an image in the traditional way, or "scrape" text from Web pages or any other document, or start recording a screen-cam video. The text-scraping option, by the way, only works with documents with actual text data, such as web pages, not with scanned images of printed pages. The big red screen-capture button is only one of many possible ways to start a screen capture; by default, SnagIt also lets you press the PrtSc key (or any other key that you prefer) to start a capture.

I use SnagIt's timer feature, so that I have a few seconds after clicking the Capture button or pressing PrtSc to open drop-down menus or anything else that I want to appear in a screen shot. If you've tried other screen-capture apps in the past, you know that it isn't easy to find an app that can capture drop-down lists and other Windows features that tend to disappear when you press a key. SnagIt is the app that I can rely on to capture almost anything on screen, and it's far better than anything else I've tried over the years.

Profiling Captures
SnagIt comes with a small set of capture "profiles" which determine exactly what gets captured when you take a screen shot. The default profile displays a brightly-colored pair of cross-hairs on the screen, and you maneuver these with a mouse until you've selected the part of the screen that you want to capture. The cross-hairs automatically snap to enclose a window, toolbar, menu, or other screen element as you pass over it. Just double-click or press Enter, and your selection gets captured. Other profiles include one that inserts the screen capture into Word with a border, or records a video and sends it to ScreenCast. Similar profiles can be downloaded from inside the app itself, so you can use a profile that sends a screen capture to Twitter or Facebook, or posts a video capture to YouTube. A built-in feature lets you save images or videos to an FTP site, but this feature doesn't support Secure FTP so it won't work with any of the sites I use.

Image Editing
By default, after capturing an image, the image opens in SnagIt's editor and gets saved in SnagIt's image library. From the editor, you can save images to disk in any standard format, including PDF and Flash. The editor also lets you apply borders, add arrows and text call-outs. If you save an image in Adobe .SWF format, you can add hotspots that act as hyperlinks. One essential feature for anyone making screenshots of Internet applications is the Blur tool which lets me mask e-mail addresses or any other personal detail that I don't want to publish in a screen shot. Earlier SnagIt versions recorded video in AVI format, but SnagIt 11 uses the more efficient and up-to-date MPEG-4 format. You can preview captured videos in SnagIt's video editor, and capture individual frames from a videos, but you can't make any modifications to the video itself. You'll need a separate video editor if you want to trim a video or add titles or apply special effects.

SnagIt assigns some keystrokes for its own features, such as Shift-F9 and Shift-F10 to start and stop video capture. If you use those keys in any other applications?for example, Microsoft Word uses Shift-F10 as the equivalent of a right-mouse-click?then you may be puzzled when those keystrokes seem to stop working the way you expect. The solution is to go to SnagIt's Tools menu and change or disable these keystrokes in the app's Program Preferences dialog.

A Little Room for Improvement
Our only serious complaint when we reviewed SnagIt 10 was the lack of a Revert feature that would let you undo all your modifications to a saved image, without pressing Ctrl-Z repeatedly until you're back where you started. That's still my one complaint about the current version. You can close an image without saving, then reopen it, but it would be easier to have a Revert feature. Other than that, SnagIt is beautifully-designed, reliable, and efficient app that does just about everything a screen-capture app should do.

Beats the Competition
Rival screen-capture products include FastStone Capture ($20 direct), FullShot ($49 direct), PicPick (free for personal use), and ScreenShot Magic ($20 direct), but none matches SnagIt's flexibility and power. Of course, if you're using Vista or Windows 7, you can find a built-in Snipping Tool under Accessories in the Windows Start Menu, and use it for fast-and-easy screen captures, but that won't be enough for most serious screen-shot creators. For me, and for many of my PCMag.com colleagues, SnagIt is our personal choice, and it's also our Editor's Choice.

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Cash payouts to fall as banks squeeze bonus pots

LONDON (Reuters) - Many European banks are likely to limit the cash portion of this year's staff bonuses as rocky markets, tighter capital rules and costly scandals take their toll.

Under pressure from politicians, regulators and shareholders, firms are shifting further away from the big upfront handouts of the boom years. Some are expected to opt for a mixture of shares and risky assets - the kind which provoked the global financial crisis in 2008 but in some cases are now regaining value.

Britain's Barclays already capped cash awards at 65,000 pounds ($105,000) for 2011 payouts, and those types of limits will feature again at several firms, bankers and headhunters said.

In total, 2012 bonuses could be down by as much as 30 percent on 2011 levels, senior managers believe, and the structure of awards is changing as regulators press the banks to clamp down on short term rewards.

"I'm sure there will be lots of different structures this year with different products, and attempts to cap the cash element. Either way bonuses will be down," said Stephane Rambosson, managing partner of executive search firm Veni Partners.

In the past year the industry has been caught up in a series of scandals ranging from mis-selling of financial products and a failure to prevent money laundering to the rigging of the Libor interest rate. Regulators have slapped heavy fines on a number of banks and disgruntled customers are following up with civil law suits.

All this is affecting the size and shape of bonuses.

"It's a mix of politicians and regulators wanting (pay) to be down and wanting to see an impact in the media, and also banks' new business models, which will mean that people will get paid less in future," Rambosson said.

During the crisis, many assets such as sub-prime mortgages became essentially worthless as no one would buy them, fearing that the borrowers would default. But as the crisis eased, some have begun to regain value - albeit from near zero levels - and banks are now using these assets and other risky type of bonds to reward their staff.

Credit Suisse is examining yet more ways to include different types of products as part of its 2012 bonus round, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The bank declined to comment.

As long as four years ago, the Swiss bank paid a group of employees with some of the riskiest assets on its balance sheet as their bonus, and unveiled a similar program for 2011 awards. Know as PAF2, the plan linked bonuses for 5,500 senior bankers to about $5 billion in illiquid assets that fell in value in the crisis.

This form of payout can be attractive, and the value of some of the assets has grown again, netting paper gains for the bankers - some of whom even jumped at a chance to buy more of the risky assets in the past year.

But this program and others like it, where bankers are paid in shares, make it harder to cash in straight away, with stock rewards for instance deferred for several years, or in some cases such as at HSBC , until certain employees leave or retire.

European Union rules force banks to defer at least 40 percent of a bonus for at least three years, though many firms are now going further than this, partly trying to counter the public outcry over big bonuses after the crisis.

NO EXCITEMENT THIS YEAR

Expectations over bonuses are already low as banks put the final touches to bonus pots and decide how they will be allocated in the first quarter.

Only at a handful of firms are some bankers hopeful of doing slightly better. Goldman Sachs , for instance, put aside more money for pay in the first nine months of 2012 than in the year before. Staff there are due to find out about rewards at the end of January.

But most top investment banks have been cutting back drastically this year to cope with stricter capital rules and weak revenues, leading to mass layoffs this year and prompting some such as UBS and Royal Bank of Scotland to ditch entire businesses.

That will force pay levels down too, as well as bring more changes to bonus structures, while many banks will also be concerned about appeasing shareholders who rebelled against reward plans for 2011.

"No one is very excited this year," said one banker in London, who wished to remain anonymous. "Bankers still do a lot better than most people but pay is very different today than it was five years go. It is not as attractive career as it was."

Germany's Deutsche Bank decided earlier this year to defer any part of an employee's bonus above 200,000 euros, and further restricted how much of that payout would be in cash.

Since then, its new chief executives Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen have warned that pay will drop as they crack down on a risk-taking culture driven by short-term gain - possibly signaling further tweaks to pay structures.

Others like Barclays, fined in the Libor rate rigging scandal this year which forced the departure of boss Bob Diamond, will also be keen to show a fresh attitude to pay.

Few bankers are likely to collect their 2012 rewards and jump ship as they might have in fatter years, however, or quit if they don't get what they had hoped for as more job cuts loom.

"We are just expecting zeroes," said another investment banker in London. "But this doesn't make me rethink my career as there is nowhere else to go right now."

(Additional reporting by Katharina Bart in Zurich; editing by David Stamp)

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Money from Sandy relief concert being put to work

In a Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 photo, Joseph O'Grady, left, with Rockaway Reach, talks with Kevin Murphy as they discuss the renovation of Murphy's home in the Belle Harbor neighborhood of New York. Murphy's house was heavily damaged by flooding sea water during Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012. More than 160 organizations and counting have gotten shares of the Sandy relief funds collected so far by the Robin Hood Foundation. Rockaway Reach works on behalf of Catholic Charities of San Diego, which has received funding from the Robin Hood Foundation. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

In a Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 photo, Joseph O'Grady, left, with Rockaway Reach, talks with Kevin Murphy as they discuss the renovation of Murphy's home in the Belle Harbor neighborhood of New York. Murphy's house was heavily damaged by flooding sea water during Superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012. More than 160 organizations and counting have gotten shares of the Sandy relief funds collected so far by the Robin Hood Foundation. Rockaway Reach works on behalf of Catholic Charities of San Diego, which has received funding from the Robin Hood Foundation. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

FILE- In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo provided by Starpix, Eric Clapton performs on stage at the 12-12-12 The Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden in New York. The over $50 million in proceeds from the show were distributed through the Robin Hood Foundation to largely small, grassroots groups on the storm-devastated New York and New Jersey coastlines. (AP Photo/Starpix, Dave Allocca, File)

FILE- In this Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 file photo, case manager Beth Wolff, right, conducts an interview at the Ali Forney Center, relocated inside the The LGBT Center because of Superstorm Sandy, in New York. More than 160 organizations and counting have gotten shares of the Sandy relief funds collected so far by the Robin Hood Foundation. The Center is one of the charities that receives money from the Robin Hood Foundation, which raised $30 million from a rock concert in New York?s Madison Square Garden which will go to Superstorm Sandy relief. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

FILE- In this Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012 file photo, Victor Rose, site manager of the Ali Forney Center, relocated inside The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center because of Superstorm Sandy, unpacks supplies, in New York. The Center is one of the charities that receives money from the Robin Hood Foundation, which raised $30 million from a rock concert in New York?s Madison Square Garden which will go to Superstorm Sandy relief. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Some of the biggest names in rock 'n' roll were on the bill for the nationally televised "12-12-12" concert benefiting victims of Superstorm Sandy, but the charity in charge of distributing donations has been thinking small when it comes to doling out the $50 million-plus raised by Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and other stars.

More than 160 organizations and counting have gotten shares of the Sandy relief funds collected so far by the Robin Hood Foundation, and many have been the type of small, grass-roots groups that seemed to be everywhere on the devastated New York and New Jersey coastlines in the initial weeks after the storm.

Some of the grants have been small, too, but the foundation's staff said each has been designed to make a difference on a human scale.

The list of grant recipients includes places like the Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church, of Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., which got $25,000 so it could install showers and beds for the stream of volunteers it has been deploying to help rebuild damaged homes.

Numerous food pantries got grants to help serve thousands of hot meals. Another group got $25,000 for making storage space available to families that need a temporary place to put salvaged possessions.

Robin Hood gave a $100,000 grant to an operation called Rockaway Relief, hastily put together after the storm by James Brennan, a San Diego nightclub and restaurant owner who grew up on New York City's flood-ravaged Rockaway peninsula.

In the days after the catastrophe, Brennan hired tractor-trailers to send space heaters, water pumps and generators into the disaster zone. Then, he rallied volunteers to help rip out soggy walls and furniture. Since then, the group has repaired plumbing, electrical and heating systems in close to 100 homes, he said.

"This was really way over my head," Brennan said. "But there is so much more that these people need. I could probably rattle off 500 families right now that don't have washer and dryers and have no way of paying for them."

The foundation gave another $150,000 to the Mennonite Disaster Service, which has been dispatching home builders almost daily to New York City's Staten Island and the Rockaways all the way from Pennsylvania.

Volunteers, mostly rural farmers, leave Lancaster County, Pa., at 4 a.m., put in a full day mucking out homes and hanging drywall in the city, and then make the 170-mile drive back to Pennsylvania at night, said MDS Executive Director Kevin King. So far, they have worked on 117 houses.

"We are looking to set up a long-term camp," King said.

Founded in 1988 by a hedge fund manager, Paul Tudor Jones, the Robin Hood Foundation is one of New York City's premier anti-poverty charities. It spends about $125 million per year funding a wide array of food banks, schools, medical clinics, and other programs.

Still overseen and financed by big names on Wall Street, the charity is considered a pioneer in "venture philanthropy." The programs it funds are put through rigorous performance evaluations, with a goal of rewarding nonprofit groups that achieve the strongest result per dollar spent.

The foundation's executive director, David Saltzman, said it has tried to apply some of those concepts to the Sandy relief effort.

"Our general strategy is to get out to the hardest-hit communities ... and see with our own eyes who is doing good work, and then be able to pump money into the strongest organizations doing the most needed work in the toughest-hit communities," he said. "That is the kind of grant-making you can't do from behind a desk."

Robin Hood had also been in charge of distributing the $65 million raised by the Concert for New York after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Saltzman said that in the weeks ahead, he anticipated that the foundation would focus on housing ? still a critical concern in neighborhoods where many houses are still uninhabitable, or lack power and heat.

"We need to make sure nobody is freezing this winter in New Jersey, or New York or Connecticut," he said.

That effort has included making a $1 million grant to the Affordable Housing Alliance, in Monmouth County, N.J., which is using the money to buy and install manufactured homes for people displaced by the storm. Legal aid groups have also gotten donations to help storm victims maximize FEMA benefits and deal with banks and insurers.

Robin Hood has also made a $2 million grant to a program, administered by the Fund for the City of New York, that will make interest-free loans to nonprofit groups that suffered losses in the storm.

"Not one single penny will be diverted to anything other than helping people who were hurt by this storm," Saltzman said.

Associated Press

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Milk Price Jump Doesn't Seem Likely, Lawmakers Say - Fox 4

Posted on: 5:14 pm, December 30, 2012, by Barrett Tryon, updated on: 05:16pm, December 30, 2012

WASHINGTON (CNN) ? Following increased pressure to pass farm legislation by the end of the year, Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow said Saturday that the House and Senate have developed a short-term farm bill extension to prevent dairy prices from soaring in the new year.

The bill ?also prevents eventual damage to our entire agriculture economy,? Stabenow, who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, said in a statement.

Rep. Frank Lucas, Stabenow?s Republican counterpart in the House, said the extension would last one year, but GOP leadership aides tell CNN there has been no decision on whether to bring the stopgap measure for a vote by January 1.

If the House does decide to take up the bill, lawmakers could vote as early as Sunday night.

The news on the possible extension came as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack issued sharp warnings in an interview that aired Sunday morning on CNN, saying if Congress fails to act in the next two days, consumers could face a spike in the price of milk, along with other products, after the government?s dairy subsidy expires at the start of the year.

The overall five-year farm bill, which aids farmers with price protections and subsidies, expired on September 30 after the House faced GOP division over extending the bill. Some conservative lawmakers said the newer version didn?t go far enough in reform, while others said the price tag was too high, especially in provisions dealing with food stamps.

The recent expiration doesn?t affect existing federal support for the remainder of 2012, but Vilsack cautioned that Americans could see stark changes come 2013.

The reason: If a new bill isn?t passed or the most recent one extended, the formula for calculating the price the government pays for dairy products defaults back to a 1949 statute. Under that formula, the government would be forced to buy milk at twice today?s price ? driving up the cost for everyone, CNNMoney reports.

The absence of farm legislation will also hurt agricultural exports, farmers markets, hunting grounds and farming families, Vilsack added.

?Across the board, in virtually every aspect of our economy and society, there is an impact.?

Reiterating Vilsack?s remarks, Stabenow said in her statement that it was ?critical? for Congress to eventually pass a broader, five-year farm bill to give farmers and ranchers a better sense of security.

?If a new farm bill doesn?t pass this Congress we?ll soon hold another mark-up and just keep working until one is enacted next year,? she said.

Source: http://fox4kc.com/2012/12/30/milk-prices-wont-soar-thanks-to-last-minute-deal/

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Lloyd Charmers Dead: Reggae Singer Dies at 74

Michael Clarke Duncan

"The Green Mile" actor Michael Clarke Duncan died at the age of 54 on Sept. 3, 2012 in a Los Angeles hospital after nearly two months of treatment following a July 13, 2012 heart attack.

Jerry Nelson

"Sesame Street" puppeteer Jerry Nelson, shown here with "Sesame Street" character Count von Count in New York in June 2012, died at age 78 on Aug. 23, 2012, in Massachusetts after battling emphysema.

Phyllis Diller

Actress/comedienne Phyllis Diller, who was best know for her stand-up act, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/phyllis-diller-dead_n_1812818.html">died at the age of 95</a> on Aug. 20. 2012 in Los Angeles.

Tony Scott

Director Tony Scott, whose projects include "The Hunger," "Top Gun," "Enemy of the State," died after jumping off a bridge in Los Angeles on Aug. 19, 2012.

Scott McKenzie

"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" singer Scott McKenzie, seen here in the center with "The Mamas And The Papas" 1967, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/20/scott-mckenzie-dead-dies-san-francisco-73_n_1809989.html">died on Aug. 18. 2012</a>, after battling Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease that affects the nervous system.

William Windom

A 1980 file photo provided by CBS shows actor William Windom, who won an Emmy Award for his turn in the TV comedy series "My World And Welcome To It," died Aug. 16, 2012, of congestive heart failure at his home in Woodacre, north of San Francisco. He was 88.

Ron Palillo

This June 8, 2008 file photo shows actor Ron Palillo at the TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. Palillo, best known as the nerdy high schooler Arnold Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter," <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/ron-palillo-dead-dies-welcome-back-kotter-heart-attack_n_1776155.html">died Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012</a>, in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., of an apparent heart attack. He was 63.

Lupe Ontiveros

This Oct. 7, 2008 file photo shows actress Lupe Ontiveros at Padres Contra El Cancer's 8th annual "El Sueno de Esperanza" benefit gala in Los Angeles. Ontiveros, the popular Texan actress known for her portrayal of Yolanda Saldivar in "Selena," <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/27/lupe-ontiveros-dead-star-_n_1709783.html">died Thursday, July 26, 2012</a>, of cancer at the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of Whittier, Calif., according to friend and comedian Rick Najera. She was 69.

Sherman Hemsley

In this Aug. 11, 1986 file photo, actor Sherman Hemsley poses for a photo in Los Angeles. The manager for Hemsley says the late star of the television sitcom ?"The Jeffersons"? refused treatment for lung cancer in the weeks before he died of what a coroner says were complications from the disease on July 24, 2012. (AP photo/Nick Ut, File)

Frank Pierson

In this Feb. 14, 2004 file photo, Academy President Frank Pierson arrives at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Scientific and Technical Achievements Awards dinner in Pasadena Calif. Pierson's family announced that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/frank-pierson-dead-dog-day-afternoon-dies_n_1696126.html">he died of natural causes on Monday, July 23, 2012</a> in Los Angeles after a short illness. He was 87.

Jon Lord

Deep Purple's Jon Lord, seen here in 2004, died at age 71 on Monday, July 16, 2012, after battling pancreatic cancer.

Kitty Wells

This May 1986 file photo shows country music singer Kitty Wells in Nashville, Tenn. Wells, the first female superstar of country music, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/kitty-wells-dead-queen-of-country-dies_n_1677532.html">died at the age of 92 on Monday, July 16, 2012.</a> The singer?s family says Wells died at her home Monday after complications from a stroke. Her recording of "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" in 1952 was the first No. 1 hit by a woman soloist on the country music charts. Other hits included "Making Believe" and a version of "I Can't Stop Loving You." (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)

Ernest Borgnine

Perhaps best remembered for his<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/08/ernest-borgnine-movies-films_n_1657787.html" target="_hplink"> Oscar-winning performance in the film "Marty",</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/ernest-borgnine-dead-remembered_n_1658937.html" target="_hplink">Borgnine</a> continued to act until his death, voicing a character on "SpongeBob SquarePants" and earning an Emmy Nomination on the TV series "ER." He was 95 when he passed away on July 8 due to renal failure.

Andy Griffith

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/andy-griffith-dead_n_1645969.html" target="_hplink">Andy Griffith,</a> the star of beloved television programs "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Matlock", <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/andy-griffith-cause-of-death-heart-attack_n_1652599.html" target="_hplink">died of a heart attack</a> on Tuesday, July 3. He was 86.

Don Grady

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/don-grady-my-three-sons-obituary_n_1633047.html" target="_hplink">The multi talented musician, composer, and actor</a> who memorably starred on the television series "My Three Sons" lost his battle with cancer on June 27. An original Mouseketeer, Grady was 68 he passed away.

Nora Ephron

Director, author, journalist, playwright, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/" target="_hplink">HuffPost blogger</a>, and three-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/nora-ephron-dead-dies-age-71_n_1627757.html" target="_hplink">Nora Ephron passed away</a> on June 26 after a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/nora-ephron-leukemia-cancer-illness-death_n_1629152.html" target="_hplink">secret multi-year battle with acute myeloid leukemia</a>. With genre defining films like "Sleepless In Seattle", "You've Got Mail", and "When Harry Met Sally", Ephron, 71, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/nora-ephron-influence-movies_n_1628700.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment" target="_hplink">left an indelible mark on the film industry.</a>

Yvette Wilson

Comedienne most famous for her hilarious roles on TV shows "Moesha" and "The Parkers", Wilson <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/yvette-wilson-star-of-moe_n_1600037.html" target="_hplink">lost her battle with cervical cancer</a> on June 14. She was 48.

Ann Rutherford

This Nov. 5, 1971 file photo shows actress Ann Rutherford in New York. Rutherford, who played Scarlett O'Hara's sister Carreen in the 1939 movie classic "Gone With the Wind," <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/12/ann-rutherford-dead-gone-_n_1589753.html">died at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Monday, June 11, 2012</a>. She was 94. (AP Photo/HF)

Robin Gibb

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/barry-gibb-tribute-video-robin-gibb-bee-gees_n_1539954.html" target="_hplink">Co-founder of The Bee Gees</a>, Gibb was 62 when he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/20/robin-gibb-dead-bee-gees_n_1531648.html" target="_hplink">lost</a> his battle with colon cancer on May 20.

Bob Welch

From AP: Bob Welch, a former member of Fleetwood Mac who went on to write songs and record several hits during a solo career,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/07/bob-welch-dead-fleetwood-mac-gunshot_n_1579166.html"> died June 7, 2012</a>, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. He was 65.

Donna Summer

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/donna-summer-queen-of-disco_n_1526799.html" target="_hplink">The Queen of Disco</a> lost her <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/donna-summer-dead-queen-of-disco-dies_n_1524410.html" target="_hplink"> battle with cancer</a> on May 17. Summer, 63, earned that title with dance hits like "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", and "Hot Stuff".

Chuck Brown

In this Feb. 13, 2011 file photo, Chuck Brown arrives at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. Brown, who styled a unique brand of funk music as a singer, guitarist and songwriter known as the "godfather of go-go," <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/chuck-brown-dead-godfather_n_1522375.html">died Wednesday, May 16, 2012</a> after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75.

Mitchell Guist

Mitchell Guist, who appeared in segments of the "Swamp People" with his brother, Glenn, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/mitchell-guist-dead-swamp-people_n_1515423.html">died after collapsing Monday, May 14, 2012</a> while working on a houseboat he was building on Belle River.

Adam Yauch

Best known as one of the founding members of the<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/mca-ad-rock-adam-horovitz-beastie-boys-interview_n_1539705.html" target="_hplink"> trailblazing hip-hop group the Beastie Boys</a>, Yauch, also known by his stage name MCA, was also a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/adam-yauch-films_n_1478993.html" target="_hplink">film director</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/adam-yauch-dead-tibet_n_1478359.html" target="_hplink">human rights activist</a>. At age 47, Yauch unfortunately lost his almost three year battle with cancer on May 4.

George Lindsey

George Lindsey, seen here in character as Goober Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1982,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/06/george-lindsey-dead-andy-griffith-show-goober-pyle-dies-83_n_1490083.html"> died early Sunday, May 6, 2012.</a> He was 83.

Levon Helm

In this May 15, 2010 photo, Levon Helm performs on the mandolin during a Ramble performance at Helm's barn in Woodstock, N.Y. Helm, who was in the final stages of his battle with cancer,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/levon-helm-dead-the-band-cancer-battle_n_1434772.html"> died Thursday, April 19, 2012 in New York.</a> He was 71. He was a key member of The Band and lent his distinctive Southern voice to classics like "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."

Dick Clark

Radio personality, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/dick-clark-quotes_n_1435713.html" target="_hplink">TV host</a>, and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nelson-davis/dick-clarks-business-less_b_1466150.html" target="_hplink">beloved producer</a>, Dick Clark died of a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/dick-clark-heart-attack-death_n_1435551.html" target="_hplink">massive heart</a> attack on April 18. The host of classic programs such as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120418/us-dick-clark-highlights/" target="_hplink">American Bandstand</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/dick-clarks-new-years-eve_n_1437040.html" target="_hplink">Dick Clark's Rocking New Years Eve was 82.</a>

Davy Jones

Lead singer of hit 60's band <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/davy-jones-dead-monkees-moments-video_n_1310837.html" target="_hplink">The Monkees</a>, Jones' <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/monkees-davy-jones-obituary_n_1312799.html" target="_hplink">heartthrob status</a> was cemented with hits like "Day Dream Believer" and "I Wanna Be Free". He died at age 66 on February 29 after <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/davy-jones-autopsy-report_n_1406273.html" target="_hplink">suffering a heart attack</a>.

Whitney Houston

With perhaps one of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/whitney-houston-celebrate-jordin-sparks-sparkle_n_1532870.html" target="_hplink">greatest voices</a> of her generation, Houston was a multi-Grammy winning singer and actress left an indelible mark on both the pop and R&B genres. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/whitney-houston-xanax_n_1279947.html" target="_hplink">Houston's well documented struggles with drug addiction</a> are thought to have contributed to her unexpected and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/11/whitney-houston-dead-sing_n_1270889.html" target="_hplink">untimely demise</a> at age 48 on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/whitney-houston-death-report-last-day_n_1405206.html" target="_hplink">February 11</a>.

Don Cornelius

<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/don-cornelius-dead-soul-train_n_1246642.html" target="_hplink">Cornelius</a>, creator and host of the long-running, groundbreaking<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/don-cornelius-dead-celeb-tweets_n_1247021.html" target="_hplink"> TV dance show "Soul Train,"</a> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/don-cornelius-autopsy-depression_n_1450184.html" target="_hplink">unfortunately committed suicide </a>Wednesday morning, Feb. 1. He was 75.

Ian Abercrombie

In this Sept. 17, 2005 file photo, actor Ian Abercrombie is shown during the British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences third annual Emmy Nominees Tea Party in Los Angeles. Abercrombie, a veteran British stage and screen actor whose TV roles included Elaine?s boss Mr. Pitt on "Seinfeld" and Professor Crumbs on ?Wizards of Waverly Place,?<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/ian-abercrombie-tv-moments_n_1239120.html"> died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2012</a> at a Los Angeles hospital from complications of kidney failure. He was 77.

Etta James

The "At Last" crooner <a href="http://http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/etta-james-dead-legendary_n_1219083.html" target="_hplink">passed away</a> on January 20 due to complications from leukemia. James, also known as <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/etta-james-singers-passio_n_1222010.html" target="_hplink">The Matriarch of R&B</a>, was 73.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/30/lloyd-charmers-dead-reggae-singer-dies-at-74_n_2385080.html

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when i use USB flash drive Sony NSZ-GS7 it crashes, it just reboots on its own

After the most recent update my Sony unit started doing this also. Whenever a FAT32 USB HDD or memory stick was plugged in it will crash, reboot, crash, reboot, etc. Remove the drive and it works fine. I reformatted my USB HDD to NTFS which fixed the crash and reboot problem however now I can't write to the drive.

I even called Sony who walked me through a complete data wipe of the unit and the problem was still there. They had me return the unit for exchange and when the new unit came it had the same problem after the update was applied.

Source: http://www.googletvforum.org/forum/google-tv-major-issues/6950-when-i-use-usb-flash-drive-sony-nsz-gs7-crashes-just-reboots-its-own.html

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