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Paula Deen

The chef notorious for her comfort food shocked fans by <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/paula-deen-diabetes_n_1210049.html">revealing she has diabetes</a> in January of this year. While the Food Network star had been diagnosed years before, she continued to promote her heavy-on-the-butter recipes until revealing the diagnosis -- <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/paula-deen-diabetes-reveal_n_1299484.html">at the same time she unveiled a partnership with diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk</a>. Since then, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/paula-deen-diabetes-diet_n_1527794.html">she's lost 30 pounds</a> and has been exercising more and loading up on veggies and salads -- but she hasn't given up the mashed potatoes completely. "I'm a Southern girl, and that's who I am, that's what I know," she told ET.

Nick Cannon

Cannon faced a number of health scares in 2012, including <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/nick-cannon-mild-kidney-failure_n_1184069.html">kidney problems</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/nick-cannon-blood-clots-lungs-pulmonary-embolism-enlarged-ventricle_n_1283151.html">blood clots in his lungs</a>. After stepping down from his radio show to focus on his health, he revealed that he was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/nick-cannon-autoimmune-disease-lupus-health_n_1316620.html">diagnosed with the autoimmune disease lupus</a> and a related kidney disorder called <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001512/">lupus nephritis</a>. He has since tuned into what his body needs, and says he feels like he's back on his feet. "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/nick-cannon-kidney-disease-awareness_n_1959105.html">I'm healthier now than I was before</a>, so everything is in tip-top shape," he said on a recent HuffPost Live appearance. "I have to get a lot more sleep, I feel like that was maybe one of the stems of what started all of this, cause I never used to sleep. And fatigue would set in."

Kate Middleton

The exciting announcement of a royal baby on the way came with the unfortunate news that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/03/kate-middleton-morning-sickness-hyperemesis-gravidarum_n_2232015.html">The Duchess of Cambridge is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum</a>, a form of morning sickness characterized by "extreme, persistent nausea and vomiting during pregnancy that may lead to dehydration" and can persist throughout a pregnancy, HuffPost Parents reported. Only about 1 to 2 percent of pregnant women experience such intense symptoms, whereas as many as 80 percent of expectant mothers deal with some type of morning sickness, which typically tapers off after the first trimester.

Jack Osbourne

The former reality TV star and son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne realized something was wrong when he <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20605555,00.html">started having vision problems</a>. "I couldn't see anything in front of me," he told People magazine. After seeking medical attention, he was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/18/jack-osbourne-multiple-sclerosis-diagnosed-ms_n_1605397.html">diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder multiple sclerosis</a>. While he's resolved to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/jack-osbourne-multiple-sclerosis-gma_n_1658662.html">"adapt and overcome,"</a> the new father admits that living with the condition is challenging. "I'm learning that one minute you can be fine, and the next I went blind in my right eye," he said on "The Talk," according to People. <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20605803,00.html">"It?s a completely unpredictable disease."</a>

Robin Roberts

The "Good Morning America" co-anchor announced this year that she has a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/paula-deen-diabetes-diet_n_1527794.html">rare blood disorder called myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS</a>, a condition formerly called preleukemia, which causes the bone marrow to produce too few healthy blood cells. In September, she <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/robin-roberts-bone-marrow-transplant_n_1939635.html">underwent a bone marrow transplant</a> and wrote in a blog post for ABC News that her <a href="http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/robin-roberts-journey-thankful-thursday.html">doctors were pleased with the way her body was responding</a>. While she was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/robin-roberts-health-update-new-beginning_n_2164938.html">briefly hospitalized in November due to a virus</a>, Roberts has called the transplant a rebirth. <a href="http://www.wwltv.com/wwltv-perfect-match-program/Sally-Ann-Robin-Roberts-interview-180054701.html">"It's a new beginning,"</a> she said in an interview with her sister for New Orleans' WWL-TV. "I look at it as a clean slate and how many people can say at this point in their life that they get a do over? That they get a chance to start again? And that's how I feel, that in many ways I am starting again."

Anderson Cooper

While on assignment in Portugal, the TV personality was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/anderson-cooper-blinded-portugal_n_2238027.html">temporarily blinded for 36 hours</a>, after sunlight reflecting off water <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/04/eye-sunburn-anderson-cooper-temporary-blindness_n_2239020.html">sunburned his eyeballs</a>. A <a href="http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/sunburn-and-eye-pain-or-vision-problems">sunburn to the eye</a> can damage the retina or the lens of the eye, causing pain, irritation like something is in the eye and vision loss, according to WebMD. "I wake up in the middle of the night and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/12/05/anderson-cooper-recovers-from-sunburned-eyeballs/">it feels like my eyes are on fire</a>," he said on his talk show, ABC News reported.

Rosie O'Donnell

On August 20, the comedian wrote on her blog that she <a href="http://rosie.com/my-heart-attack/">had a heart attack the previous week</a>. After helping a heavy woman get out of her car, O'Donnell wrote that she experienced chest pains, nausea and clammy skin, highlighting the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/heart-attack-symptoms-women_n_1290952.html">difference in heart attack symptoms for women</a>. She's since started eating more healthy foods, and had <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20635664,00.html">lost 12 pounds</a> by October, according to People magazine. "For the first time, it wasn't hard for me," she said about the changes to her diet. "It took a heart attack for me to learn to take care of myself." Earlier in the year, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/rosie-odonnell-married-michelle-rounds-_n_1833610.html">O'Donnell's wife Michelle Rounds</a> faced a health scare of her own, when she <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/04/michelle-rounds-desmoid-tumors-rosie-odonnell_n_1740270.html">underwent surgery for desmoid tumors</a>, a rare disease characterized by benign tumors that grow quickly in the soft connective tissue of the body.

Jesse Jackson Jr.

The Congressman resigned in November after a medical leave from his position for <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/12/jesse-jackson-jr-house-race-wife-sandi-jackson_n_2283810.html">treatment for bipolar disorder</a>. He was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/bipolar-ii-disorder-jesse-jackson-jr-mood-disorder_n_1773510.html">diagnosed with bipolar II disorder</a>, which is characterized by less severe periods of mania and longer bouts of depression than bipolar I. He was treated at the Mayo Clinic.

Kathy Bates

The actress revealed to People magazine that she had <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20628972,00.html">undergone a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer</a>. "After much consideration, I underwent a double mastectomy," she told the magazine. "Luckily, I don't have to undergo radiation or chemo. My doctors have assured me I'm going to be around for a long time." Bates also survived ovarian cancer nine years ago, People reported.

Brooke Burke-Charvet

In November, the "Dancing With The Stars" co-host announced she had been <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/thyroid-cancer-brooke-burke-charvet_n_2095103.html">diagnosed with thyroid cancer</a>, a less common type of cancer that occurs in the thyroid, a gland near the bottom of the throat involved in hormone functioning. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/brooke-burke-charvet-cancer-free-dwts-reveals-cancer-free_n_2293574.html">Seven days after undergoing surgery</a> for the disease, Burke-Charvet <a href="http://www.modernmom.com/blogs/brooke-burke/thyroidectomy-cancer-results-from-the-bu-great-news">wrote on her blog that she's been deemed cancer-free</a>: <blockquote>"I just got the results back from all of my tests and great news -- the thyroid cancer has been removed from my body and all my lymph nodes are clear. So I'm hoping that this is the end of the story. Woohoo!!! And thank GOD!"</blockquote>

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/26/celebrity-health-crises-2012_n_2303495.html

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Immune system changes may drive aggressiveness of recurrent tumors

Dec. 26, 2012 ? Nearly half of the 700,000 cancer patients who undergo surgical removal of a primary tumor each year suffer a recurrence of their disease at some point, and many of those patients will eventually die from their disease. The traditional view of recurrent tumors is that they are resistant to therapy because they've acquired additional genetic mutations that make them more aggressive and impervious to drugs. Now, however, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania show in an animal model that the enhanced aggressiveness of recurrent tumors may be due to changes in the body's immune response.

The findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Typically when a patient has a tumor recurrence, their oncologist treats them, much like they treated them for the primary tumor -- with drugs aimed at the tumor cells themselves. But we've found that it might be better to attack the tumor cells and knock down the bad immune cells that are protecting the tumor," says senior study author Sunil Singhal, MD,assistant professor of Surgery and director, Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory at the Perelman School of Medicine.

To assess the impact of anti-cancer vaccines on primary and recurrent tumors, the researchers immunized mice that had a primary or a recurrent tumor in their flank. Although both groups of animals developed an immune response to the vaccine, only the primary-tumor animals showed tumor shrinkage in response to the vaccine. The recurrent tumors appeared unaffected by the vaccine response. Moreover, this pattern held for several different vaccines.

Despite the prevailing models of tumor recurrence -- which emphasize genetic changes in the tumor cells themselves -- Singhal and colleagues could not find substantial genetic or behavior differences in the recurrent versus primary tumors that might account for the pattern of response.

By contrast, when the team looked at the types of immune cells in and around the tumor, Singhal's team saw a big difference. The recurrent-tumor mice had a large increase in the number of regulatory T cells, compared with primary-tumor animals. That could be important, says Singhal, because T regulatory cells are responsible for holding other immune cells in check and blocking immune responses.

Additionally, macrophages that protect the tumor cells from immune system also increased in number and activity in the recurrent-tumor animals.

Remarkably, when the researchers treated recurrent-tumor animals with drugs that block macrophage activity, tumor growth slowed significantly. However, the same drugs had no effect on primary-tumor animals.

Singhal says it is not clear exactly what triggers the immune system changes, but whatever it is appears to happen at the time of surgery. His group has already started looking for alterations in signaling molecules.

In the meantime, though, he notes that there are newly approved drugs and experimental agents that block regulatory T cells. Given his team's new results, he thinks testing these agents in patients with recurrent disease -- in combination with drugs that attack the tumor cells themselves -- could be an important advance for patients.

"We could impact the outcomes of as many as 250,000 patients a year, if this strategy works," he said.

Other authors from Penn include first author Jerrod Predina and co-authors, Evgeniy Eruslanov, Brendan Judy, Veena Kapoor, Guanjun Cheng, Liang-Chuan Wang, Jing Sun, Edmund K. Moon, Zvi Gregorio Fridlender, and Steven Albelda.

Funding for the study came from a National Institutes of Health Paul Calabresi Scholarship, the Lavin Family Foundation, and the National Lung Cancer Partnership.

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Christmas Eve avalanches kill 2 in Lake Tahoe area

By NBC News staff and wire services

A 49-year-old snowboarder and a veteran ski patroller were killed in separate avalanches in the Lake Tahoe area on the day before Christmas, authorities said.

Steven Mark Anderson, 49, of Hirschdale, Calif., an unincorporated community outside Truckee, was reported missing at noon PST Monday at Donner Ski Ranch. A search dog found his body about 1:30 p.m. under 2 to 3 feet of snow at the base of an avalanche within the ski area boundaries near the main lodge.

He had been snowboarding with friends, but they had separated before the avalanche, Nevada County Sheriff's Deputy David Lade said, according to a report by The Associated Press.

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Also Monday morning, Bill Foster, 53, was buried when a fellow ski patrol worker intentionally set off a slide with an explosive device during avalanche control work at Alpine Meadows, the resort said in a statement.

Foster, who was a ski patroller for 28 years, was uncovered within eight minutes and efforts were made to resuscitate him, but he died later at a hospital, Reuters reported.

The area was within boundaries in Sherwood Bowl but it was closed to the public at the time. The avalanche broke "much higher and wider on the slope than previously observed in past snow safety missions," the resort said.

Holiday travelers stranded as snow and wild weather heads east

Tahoe-area ski resorts received at least 3 feet of snow in a wind-whipped series of storms from Friday through Sunday, leading to perilous conditions even within ski area boundaries.?

On Sunday, two skiers at Squaw Valley ? a 39-year-old woman and 16-year-old boy ? were treated for non-life threatening injuries after they were swept up in an avalanche, although neither was buried.

"With the extremely heavy snowfall we've gotten over the last three days and the conditions prior to that, it's prime avalanche conditions," Lade said.

The Weather Channel's David Malkoff reports from Fishers, Ind., where snow and wind are expected to increase over the next few hours, with record-breaking snow possible for much of the Midwest.

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Egypt constitution passes, economic crunch looms

CAIRO (AP) ? The official approval of Egypt's disputed, Islamist-backed constitution Tuesday held out little hope of stabilizing the country after two years of turmoil and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi may now face a more immediate crisis with the economy falling deeper into distress.

In a clear sign of anxiety over the economy, the turbulence of the past month and expected austerity measures ahead have some Egyptians hoarding dollars for fear the currency is about to take a significant turn for the weaker.

The battle over the constitution left Egypt deeply polarized at a time when the government is increasingly cash-strapped. Supporters of the charter campaigned for it on the grounds that it will lead to stability, improve the grip of Morsi and his allies on state institutions, restore investor confidence and bring back tourists.

"In times of change, politics are the driver of the economy and not the other way around," said Mourad Aly, a media adviser for the political arm of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, the backbone of Morsi's presidency and the main group that backed the constitution.

But there are already multiple fights on the horizon.

The U.S. State Department bluntly told Morsi it was now time to make compromises, acknowledging deep concerns over the constitution.

"President Morsi, as the democratically elected leader of Egypt, has a special responsibility to move forward in a way that recognizes the urgent need to bridge divisions, build trust, and broaden support for the political process," said Patrick Ventrell, acting deputy spokesman. "We hope those Egyptians disappointed by the result will seek more and deeper engagement. "

He said Egypt "needs a strong, inclusive government to meet its many challenges."

After a spate of resignations of senior aides and advisers during the constitutional crisis, Morsi appeared to have lost another member of his government late Tuesday night when his communications minister posted on his Twitter account that he was resigning.

The minister Hany Mahmoud said he "couldn't cope with the culture of government work, particular in the current conditions of the country." The resignation could not be immediately verified because it came so late at night.

Morsi signed a decree Tuesday night that put the new constitution into effect after the election commission announced the official results of the referendum held over the past two weekends. It said the constitution has passed with a 63.8 percent "yes." Turnout of 32.9 percent of Egypt's nearly 52 million registered voters was lower than most other elections since the uprising nearly two years ago that ousted authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak

Morsi is expected to call for a new election of parliament's lawmaking lower house within two months.

In the meantime, the traditionally toothless upper house, the Shura Council, will hold legislative power. But the chamber is overwhelmingly Islamist-dominated so any laws it passes could spark a backlash from the opposition. Many fear a legal crackdown on independent media, highly critical of Islamists.

In a bid to reach out to opposition, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood said he hoped the charter will be a "good omen" for Egyptians.

"Let's all begin to build the renaissance of our country with free will, good intentions and strong determination, men, women, Muslims and Christians," Mohammed Badie said on his Twitter account.

But the opposition said the passing of the document is was not the end of the political dispute. Critics fear the constitution will usher in Islamic law in Egypt and restrict personal freedoms.

"This is not a constitution that will last for a long time," said Khaled Dawoud, a spokesman for the main opposition group, the National Salvation Front, vowing to fight for more freedoms, social and economic rights.

In a sign that the new front for the opposition against Morsi's policies may be the economy, Dawoud said the Morsi administration was "confused" both on the political and economic fronts.

"We want stability and economic prosperity like everybody else. But we don't believe that the policies of Morsi and the Brotherhood will lead to more stability," he said.

The turmoil over the constitution sparked huge protests that turned deadly at times. For a moment, the tension looked like it was spiraling out of control and only added to an already weakened economy.

At the height of the protests, the government called off its talks with the International Monetary Fund over a $4.8 billion loan which Morsi's government viewed as a way to attract much needed foreign investors, and deal with a high budget deficit.

Major foreign currency earners, such as foreign direct investment and tourism, have dropped off because of political unrest and deterioration in security following Mubarak's ouster in February 2011.

Over the last two years, the country has lost more than half of its foreign currency reserves from $36 billion in 2010 to around $15 billion currently. The reserve level has been slightly propped up by some Qatari deposits in past months.

Economic experts say that Egypt's current foreign reserves barely cover three months of imports, which is the IMF's minimum recommended coverage.

There were signs on Tuesday that some Egyptians were starting to hoard dollars for fear that the local currency could weaken significantly.

The run on the dollar was fueled in part by a decree issued by Morsi late Monday banning people from leaving Egypt with more than $10,000 or its equivalent in other currencies.

Some currency exchanges in the upscale Cairo neighborhood of Zamalek ran out of dollars by midday and offered only euros ? a rare occurrence. Some banks, too, said they had run out of cash dollars.

"I asked around in many exchange places and can't find dollars anywhere," said Cairo resident Mahmoud Kamel after unsuccessfully visiting one exchange office. "I want to exchange money because I'm afraid the Egyptian pound will not have any value soon."

The dollar rush prompted the Central Bank of Egypt to issue a statement on Monday calling on banks not to listen to rumors circulating about the fiscal health of the nation.

The bank declared its commitment to guarantee all deposits in local and foreign currencies to banks in Egypt and said banks are "financially strong enough."

There was one particularly nerve-rattling report in recent days that longtime Central Bank Governor Farouk Okdah had resigned. The report came on Saturday during the second and final round of voting on the constitutional referendum.

Official media quickly retracted the news after reporting it. The governor then turned up at a meeting of the government's economic team on Sunday in an apparent attempt to quell nervousness over the state of the economy.

Egypt's currency had been stable trading around 6 pounds to the dollar for the first half of the year. It has since slipped, especially in the past two months as political instability worsened. The dollar was selling Tuesday at 6.18.

Rumors swirling around impending tax hikes, subsidy cuts and other bread-and-butter issues have heightened the public's concern. Around 40 percent of Egyptians live just at or below the poverty line of surviving on around $2 a day.

In a sign of the worsening economy, the number of people living on under $1 a day rose to 25 percent in 2011, up from 21.6 percent in 2009, according to government statistics released last month.

Promises that the Islamist-drafted constitution would bring about the stability Egyptians crave were dismissed by economic experts who warned that without enough currency reserves, there is little to stop the pound from falling.

"The instability of the foreign exchange rate is not at all detached from the political instability. It is a reflection and clear mirror to what is happening," said Haytham Abdel Fattah, head of the Treasury and International Markets Manager at Industrial Development Bank.

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Mariam Rizk contributed to this report

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Internet Business Training ? 3 Tips to Create Content Quickly

You might be floored by the benefits of creating good content fast. Seriously. You can generate a ton more leads and grow your home based opportunity alarmingly fast by creating like a fiend. Be prolific and people seek you out. Churn out helpful content and people who need your help find you. Amazing how easy this works, if you create content quickly.

The reason why so few people create content fast is because of rushing, or mental hurry. People think ?quickly? means rushing. Absolutely not the case, because rushing creates desperation in your being, a desperate vibe blocks creative ideas, and you do little creating in this state, and the little creating you do, well, it is a shit job at that.

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Tip 1 ? Slow Down and Calm Down

Totally against the faulty human impulse to speed up, to get things done fast, but remember this: you are supplied with ideas. When you stop trying so damn hard to GRAB ideas the creative ideas find you, at an alarming rate of speed. When you stop trying so hard to make money online you make money online quickly. All your vibe, creating the reality in each moment. Take a few deep breaths. Relax. Come from a calm, confident place to achieve more now.

Tip 2 ? Practice Looking for Ideas

Practice observing your environment. You can see content creation ideas in your physical location, or from your dealings with internet business prospects, or heck, anywhere. The parallels are infinite and you make dead on correlations quickly by deciding to practice observing. Most people have difficulties being prolific in the content creation game because the crowd misses opportunities.

Too busy straining, and striving, and grabbing at ideas, or people, or money, to actually see that writing 1, 2 or 10 blog posts daily becomes easier if you can observe like a pro. Watch. Listen. Tune into the needs of your target market. Listen to relevant chatter on social networks like Facebook or LinkedIn Groups. Do this and you will have few problems churning out unique, problem solving content on a persistent basis.

Tip 3 ? Create So Much that it Becomes a Habit

Skills are mastered by habitually practicing the skill. Master authors write. A lot. Master internet business entrepreneur bloggers write. A lot. 1 post a day minimum, and if you really want to churn out content fast you better up the ante fast, because you churn out content at a rate in proportion to the amount of time you spend in practice.

You cannot get around this one. Bloggers who succeed like crazy blog a lot. Practice. Be prolific by committing to your craft. Make money online.

Are You Practicing Yet?

Leave the lame excuses behind. Start creating today.

How long does it take you to write a blog post or shoot a video?

What tips can you add?

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Syed Modi International 2012: Sung Hyun Ko and Yong Dae Lee ...

Syed Modi International 2012: Sung Hyun Ko and Yong Dae Lee secure Men?s Doubles crown

Korea?s experienced duo Sung Hyun Ko and Yong Dae Lee maintained their supremacy in the arena and easily secured Men?s Doubles title at the Syed Modi International India GPG 2012, which ended on Sunday, December 23, in India.

In the final fight, the fourth seeded Sung Hyun and Yong Dae were at the top of their form and they crushed their lower ranked compatriots Ji Wook Kang and Sang Joon Lee by consuming just 30 minutes on court.

Sung Hyun and Yong Dae were in smashing form as they played with impressive speed and remained successful in winning the final match in straight games with a completely controlled margin on the board.

In contrast, Ji Wook and Sang Joon also showed their brilliance particularly in the second game. However, they failed to elevate their game in the ending points and lost the final encounter against their higher ranked challengers in straight sets.

In the opening set, the in-form Sung Hyun and Yong Dae displayed a phenomenal show on court as they executed powerful shots with remarkable variations and easily controlled the affairs.

Sung Hyun and Yong Dae proved that they belong to one-class above their challengers as they played flawless badminton and got a wonderful lead until the end of opening half.

After the break, the lower ranked Ji Wook and Sang Joon tried to play attacking badminton but they could not destroy the impressive defence of their rivals and remained struggling.

Meanwhile, the fourth seeded Sung Hyun and Yong Dae stayed calm but quick on court and they easily took the first game with a one-sided 21-13 score on the board.

In the second game, Ji Wook and Sang Joon played good badminton as they increased their speed in all areas and remained successful in staying close to their rivals until the break.

After the interval, Sung Hyun and Yong Dae accelerate their speed and put in extra effort to control the pace of rallies. They stayed focused in ending points and took the set with a narrow margin of 21-19.

The impressive Sung Hyun and Yong Dae emerged as the crown winners as they finished up the title match in straight sets with a reasonable 21-13 and 21-19 total on the board.

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AP: 'Odd Couple,' 'Quincy' star Jack Klugman dies

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Jack Klugman in Santa Monica, Calif., in June 2008.

By Anthony McCartney, The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES -- Jack Klugman, the prolific, craggy-faced character actor and regular guy who was loved by millions as the messy one in TV's "The Odd Couple" and the crime-fighting coroner in "Quincy, M.E.," died Monday, a son told the Associated Press. He was 90.

Klugman, who lost his voice to throat cancer in the 1980s and trained himself to speak again, died with his wife at his side.

"He had a great life and he enjoyed every moment of it and he would encourage others to do the same," son Adam Klugman said.

Adam Klugman said he was spending Christmas with his brother, David, and their families. Their father had been convalescing for some time but had apparently died suddenly and they were not sure of the exact cause.

"His sons loved him very much," David Klugman said. "We'll carry on in his spirit."

Never anyone's idea of a matinee idol, Klugman remained a popular star for decades simply by playing the type of man you could imagine running into at a bar or riding on a subway with?-- gruff, but down to earth, his tie stained and a little loose, a racing form under his arm, a cigar in hand during the days when smoking was permitted.

The Odd Couple TV series intro.

His was a city actor ideal for "The Odd Couple," which ran from 1970 to 1975 and was based on Neil Simon's play about mismatched roommates, divorced New Yorkers who end up living together. The show teamed Klugman?-- the sloppy sports writer Oscar Madison -- and Tony Randall?-- the fussy photographer Felix Unger -- in the roles played by Walter Matthau and Art Carney on Broadway and Matthau and Jack Lemmon in the 1968 film. Klugman had already had a taste of the show when he replaced Matthau on Broadway and he learned to roll with the quick-thinking Randall, with whom he had worked in 1955 on the CBS series "Appointment with Adventure."

"There's nobody better to improvise with than Tony," Klugman said. "A script might say, 'Oscar teaches Felix football.' There would be four blank pages. He would provoke me into reacting to what he did. Mine was the easy part."

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Actors Jack Klugman, left, portraying Oscar Madison, and Tony Randall, portraying Felix Unger, in a scene from their 1970's television series "The Odd Couple."

They were battlers on screen, and the best of friends in real life. When Randall died in 2004 at age 84, Klugman told CNN: "A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize."

In "Quincy, M.E.," which ran from 1976 to 1983, Klugman played an idealistic, tough-minded medical examiner who tussled with his boss by uncovering evidence of murder in cases where others saw natural causes.

"We had some wonderful writers," he said in a 1987 Associated Press interview. "Quincy was a muckraker, like Upton Sinclair, who wrote about injustices. He was my ideal as a youngster, my author, my hero.

"Everybody said, 'Quincy'll never be a hit.' I said, 'You guys are wrong. He's two heroes in one, a cop and a doctor.' A coroner has power. He can tell the police commissioner to investigate a murder. I saw the opportunity to do what I'd gotten into the theater to do?-- give a message.

"They were going to do cops and robbers with 'Quincy.' I said, 'You promised me I could do causes.' They said, 'Nobody wants to see that.' I said, 'Look at the success of "60 Minutes." They want to see it if you present it as entertainment.'"

For his 1987 role as 81-year-old Nat in the Broadway production of "I'm Not Rappaport," Klugman wore leg weights to learn to shuffle like an elderly man. He said he would wear them for an hour before each performance, "to remember to keep that shuffle."

"The guy is so vital emotionally, but physically he can't be," Klugman said.

"We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80."

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The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, he was born in Philadelphia and began his acting career in college drama (Carnegie Institute of Technology). After serving in the Army during World War I, he went on to summer stock and off-Broadway, rooming with fellow actor Charles Bronson as both looked for paying jobs. He made his Broadway debut in 1952 in a revival of "Golden Boy." His film credits included Sidney Lumet's "12 Angry Men" and Blake Edwards' "Days of Wine and Roses" and an early television highlight was appearing with Humphrey Bogart and Henry Fonda in a production of "The Petrified Forest." His performance in the classic 1959 musical "Gypsy" brought him a Tony nomination for best featured (supporting) actor in a musical.

He also appeared in several episodes of "The Twilight Zone," including a memorable 1963 one in which he played a negligent father whose son is seriously wounded in Vietnam. His other TV shows included "The Defenders" and the soap opera "The Greatest Gift."

In a 1987 interview in the New York Daily News, he said, "once I did three hourlong shows in 2? weeks. Think we'd do that now? Huh! But then it was great. I did summer stock, played the classics. Me!"

Throat cancer took away his raspy voice for several years in the 1980s. When he was back on the stage for a 1993 revival of "Three Men on a Horse," The Associated Press review said, "His voice may be a little scratchy but his timing is as impeccable as ever."

"The only really stupid thing I ever did in my life was to start smoking," he said in 1996. Seeing people smoking in television and films, he added, "disgusts me, it makes me so angry?-- kids are watching."

In his later years, he guest-starred on TV series including "Third Watch" and "Crossing Jordan" and appeared in a 2010 theatrical film, "Camera Obscura."

Klugman's hobby was horse racing and he eventually took up raising them, too.

"I always loved to gamble," he said. "I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is.

"Now I love being around them."

Klugman's wife, actress-comedian Brett Somers, played his ex-wife, Blanche, in the "Odd Couple" series. The couple, who married in 1953 and had two sons, Adam and David, had been estranged for years at the time of her death in 2007.

In February 2008, at age 85, Klugman married longtime girlfriend Peggy Crosby.

In 1997, Klugman was sued by an ex-girlfriend, Barbara Neugass, who claimed he had promised to support her for the rest of her life. But a jury rejected her claim.

-- Biographical material in this story was written by former AP staffer Polly Anderson.

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'Anarchy' creator blasts AMC over 'Dead' exit

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Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes in "The Walking Dead."

By Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter

Former "Shield" writers/exec producers Kurt Sutter and Shawn Ryan took to Twitter on Friday to voice their support for friend and former colleague Glen Mazzara after the showrunner parted ways with AMC's "The Walking Dead."

AMC on Friday announced that its ratings juggernaut "The Walking Dead" would return for a fourth season -- and without Mazzara, who became the second showrunner to exit the zombie drama in as many years.

STORY: AMC renews "The Walking Dead" for fourth season; showrunner Glen Mazzara departing

"Both parties acknowledge that there is a difference of opinion about where the show should go moving forward and conclude that it is best to part ways," AMC said in a statement.?"This decision is amicable, and Glen will remain on for postproduction on season 3B as showrunner and executive producer." (Filming on season three already has concluded, with the second half of episodes set to return to AMC in February.)

"Sons of Anarchy" creator Sutter took to Twitter late Friday to voice his support for Mazzara and blast AMC -- which has a history of rocky relationships with its showrunners.

"AMC is run by small-minded, bottom-line thinkers who have no appreciation or gratitude for the effort of its creative personnel," Sutter wrote. "Time and time again we see events like what happened today with Glen Mazzara. They continue to disrespect writers, s--- on their audience and bury their network. Mazzara took the work-in-progress that was 'Walking Dead' and turned it into a viable TV show with a future. Without him, that future is dim. Showrunners are not development executives, we're not cookie-cutter d------- that you plug into a preexisting model. 'TWD' will suffer. Even zombies need consistency. 'Mad Men' and 'Breaking Bad' will be gone soon. So will AMC. I hope their f------ stock takes a dive and the shareholders line up (AMC president and CEO Josh) Sapan, (AMC parent Cablevision founder Charles) Dolan and (AMC president and GM Charlie) Collier and s--- in their open hands."

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Sutter's comments come more than a year after the showrunner quit Twitter following his vocal support for former "Walking Dead" showrunner Frank Darabont, whom Mazzara replaced. Sutter, in August 2011, wrote: "No one else wants to f------ say it, but the greed of 'Mad Men' is killing the other two best shows on TV -- 'Breaking Bad' and 'Walking Dead,'" added Sutter, referring to AMC's?then-protracted negotiations?with "Mad Men" creator?Matthew Weiner?and "Breaking Bad" showrunner?Vince Gilligan.

Ryan, meanwhile, broke a holiday-timed Twitter silence to express his concern about whether Mazzara's departure would hurt AMC in the long run.

"Breaking my Twitter silence to comment: AMC, WTF?" Ryan wrote.

"Common knowledge that AMC cut Breaking Bad shorter than it should have been. Now you have creative differences w/ biggest hit's savior?" he added.

"With FX, Showtime, HBO, Starz, Cinemax, A&E, TNT and others to sell to, it's a real question now why good show runners should sell to AMC?" he concluded before returning to Twitter silence.

"Banshee" and "House" EP GregYaitanes also voiced support for Mazzara, writing: "Yo.?@AMC_TV?what are you doing with@WalkingDead_AMC?by canning another great voice???"

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Monti says he won't run for Italian premier

ROME (AP) ? Italy's caretaker Premier Mario Monti said Sunday he won't run in February elections, but if political parties that back his anti-crisis agenda ask him to head the next government he would consider the offer.

Monti ruled out heading any ticket himself, saying "I have no sympathy for 'personal' parties."

At a news conference, Monti made clear he was spurning an offer from his predecessor Silvio Berlusconi to run on a center-right election ticket backed by the media mogul, citing Berlusconi's heavy criticism of his economic policies.

Monti's decision ends weeks of speculation that have dominated Italian politics and preoccupied Europe, which is eager to see Monti's financial reforms continue.

The premier, an economist who has spent 13 months tasked with trying to right Italy's troubled economy, said Berlusconi's flipping back and forth between condemning the government's economic policies and then praising the premier convinced him that "I couldn't accept his offer."

Monti was tapped by Italy's president to lead the country after Berlusconi was forced to resign, having lost the confidence of international markets. He stepped down Friday after Berlusconi's party withdrew its support from his technical government, but has been asked stay on in a caretaker capacity in the run-up to Feb. 24-25 elections.

Other centrist parties in Parliament have been urging him to run for another stint as premier. Monti said "I won't line up with anyone," but made clear he was available to head the next government.

"If one or more political forces is credibly backing (Monti's) agenda or even has a better one, I'd evaluate the offer," Monti said.

"To those forces who demonstrate convincing and credible adherence to (my) agenda, I will be ready to give encouragement, and if necessary, lead" the country, he said.

Monti expressed gratitude to Berlusconi for his backing of key anti-crisis measures, but said "I struggle to understand his line of thought."

"Yesterday, we read that he assessed the work of the (Monti) government to be a complete disaster. A few days earlier I read flattering things," he said.

The logic of Berlusconi's positions "escapes me" and "I couldn't accept his offer," Monti said, drawing chuckles.

Monti praised his government and Parliament for its support of spending cuts, new taxes and pension reform that he said had saved Italy from succumbing to the debt crisis.

"Italians as citizens can hold their heads up high in Europe," Monti said, noting Italy had avoided the kind of bailouts that Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus have been forced to take.

Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved Parliament after Monti handed in his resignation following approval of the country's national budget law. Monti noted that as a senator-for-life, he remains in Parliament and thus doesn't need to run for a seat in the legislature.

Napolitano set elections two months before their expected date, recognizing that without Berlusconi's support for Monti, it was useless to wait until late April for Italians to go to the ballot box.

Voter opinion polls indicate a centrist ticket backing Monti would take about 15 percent of the vote, meaning any government headed by him would have to have the support of either of Italy's largest political groupings: the center-right, led by Berlusconi, or the center-left, led by Pier Luigi Bersani.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/monti-says-wont-run-italian-premier-115119409.html

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Egypt's liberals decry "shadow" of the Brotherhood

CAIRO (Reuters) - Director Khaled Youssef took on the establishment with his films before Hosni Mubarak's police state was brought down and now believes the arts can challenge the Islamists ruling Egypt after the revolution.

"Art will contribute greatly, just as it did in overthrowing Mubarak's regime," said Youssef, who has joined the opposition campaign against a constitution drafted by an Islamist assembly that is on the verge of becoming the basis for Egypt's laws.

The constitution, fast-tracked to a referendum by President Mohamed Mursi, has exposed the deep rifts between Egypt's Islamists and a rival camp of leftists, liberals, Christians and more moderate Muslims, at odds about how to shape the new nation.

The basic law won 57 percent of the vote in the first round and is now expected to pass through a second round on Saturday. The opposition camp says the document's failure to win a ringing endorsement shows just how divisive it is.

"No constitution is forced on half of a nation oppressively and forcefully," said Youssef, 48, a leftist member of the opposition Popular Current party.

Islamists, who have won every vote since Mubarak was ousted in February 2011, although by shrinking margins, say the constitution must be passed to complete the transition to democracy and Egypt's laws and codes should be based on Islamic principles to reflect the wishes of a Muslim-majority nation.

For liberal-minded Muslims like Youssef, whose camp has struggled to organise against the disciplined ranks of Islamists, that vision means sidelining the rights of Christians, who make up a tenth of Egypt's 83 million people, women and others who see Egypt as a diverse nation and a cultural leader in the Arab world.

"This constitution is heading to the dustbin of history," said the director whose films sought to highlight the nation's slide into poverty under Mubarak and have annoyed Islamists with plots that tackle taboo issues such as sex.

FIGHT ON ITS HANDS

Rights groups say the constitution does not include enough explicit protection for women's rights and point to vague language, such as references to "national" morals. Liberals fear this means religious conservatives will use it to impose social restrictions that could hurt women, minorities and the arts.

The document has a distinctly Islamist flavor. While the source of legislation remains "the principles" of Islamic sharia as in the old text, a new provision adds further details on what that would mean. Another article says Al-Azhar mosque and university, a seat of Sunni Muslim learning, must be consulted on "matters related to the Islamic sharia".

"Under the shadow of the Brotherhood and extremist groups the future of all Egyptians will no doubt be dark," said Fatma Naoot, 48, a poet and columnist, who often speaks out on women's issues and defends the arts against censorship.

Naoot, a liberal Muslim, refers to some of the radical preachers who are now common faces on television as "strangers" to Egyptians, adding: "But I am confident that Egypt will return to us soon."

Defeating the constitution in the referendum now looks beyond the opposition. Their next battle will be a parliamentary election likely in early 2013. The last parliament, dissolved in June, was dominated by Islamists.

Islamists bore the brunt of Mubarak's repressive police state, but liberals and leftists fared little better. Some groups were co-opted, others were harried and their anti-Mubarak protests were routinely crushed by baton-wielding police.

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, can draw on a social support and charity network it built up over eight decades, even as its members were jailed. The opposition have not yet matched that, even if groups like the Popular Current and Mohamed ElBaradei's Constitution Party are expanding their reach.

"The Brotherhood faction and the extremist religious groups, are unfortunately only ruled by a sense of revenge for the 80 years (they spent) visualizing and longing for power," said Naoot.

Like Youssef, she has become a regular guest on fiercely argumentative talk shows, lining up against Islamists. The shows have become nightly battle grounds on Egypt's future.

"A woman in the eyes of those seated on the chair of power now is merely a 'thing' that has no decision or will," she said, pointing to Egypt's ancient history with its women leaders and female goddesses, and mentioning that in more modern times one of the earliest female aviators was Egyptian.

DIVISIONS

"Egypt will move on the right path if people stay strong and united in the face of Brotherhood fascism," she said, using the kind of fierce language that has become more common as the political battle lines have hardened.

Both sides employed fiery terms. In a call for a protest in Alexandria this Friday in response to clashes between Islamists and their opponents last week, a Brotherhood official referred to the "ugly face of secularism with its animosity to Islam."

Islamists also say their actions are not seeking to smother the views of others but claim they reflect majority opinion, in a nation where most women are veiled, although that dress code does not indicate political allegiance.

Divisions, they say, are the normal way of politics.

"The whole world is divided and that does not mean the world will enter into global wars," Brotherhood official Essam el-Erian told Reuters after the first-round vote. "Division in any vote doesn't mean the start of a civil war or chaos."

But the Brotherhood's opponents say a constitution should not drive a wedge through a nation because it is meant to reflect the principles of governance not partisan politics.

They also say support for Mursi and his group may be ebbing away. A referendum on a temporary constitution, a parliamentary vote and a presidential election in the past two years suggest at least some slippage in support for Islamists.

The National Salvation Front, an opposition coalition formed after Mursi expanded his powers on November 22 and then pushed through the constitution, has drawn tens of thousands on to the streets to oppose the referendum, although has not managed it with the regularity of Islamists.

Hassan Nafaa, a liberal activist and political science professor, was among voters who plumped for Mursi in the presidential run-off race in June when the alternative was Ahmed Shafik, an ex-military man and former prime minister under Mubarak. Mursi won with 52 percent of the vote.

But Nafaa said Mursi had turned to his own group and ignored other Egyptians, even members of the opposition who had backed him in his election. He said the president was simply dismissing the opposition as "liberals (who) do not have any real weight among the population".

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-liberals-decry-shadow-brotherhood-123941343.html

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Obama Christmas 2012: President & Family Head To Hawaii For The Holidays (PHOTOS)

Alright, America, you can officially get in holiday mode: President Obama and his family jetted off to Hawaii last night, thus ringing in the national Christmas vacation season.

After saying goodbye to reporters on Friday with a "see you next week," the president joined Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia to embark on their annual trip to Hawaii. Each year, the family heads to Honolulu, Obama's hometown, to celebrate the Christmas holiday -- not a bad way to spend the usually-wintry season, if you ask us.

Members of the Air Force were there to see the Obamas off and salute the family as they boarded their flight. The first couple looked pretty dapper as they waved goodbye and entered Air Force One, Michelle going simple in a purple scarf and the president whipping out his brown leather jacket (not his trusty bomber jacket, unfortunately).

After a long flight, the Obamas arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu early this morning, mostly sporting a change of clothes. FLOTUS looked unfairly put-together after a redeye, opting for her signature look of a printed, sleeveless dress with an eye-catching print. Sasha and Malia wore a floral top and a striped button-down, respectively, while Obama stuck to his simple slacks and button-down.

According to White House officials, the Obamas won't be making any public appearances during their stay in Hawaii, so their pre and post-plane stints may be our only glimpse at the first family's holiday gear. But that's OK -- like we said, their trip is our unofficial signal that it's time to sit back, relax and enjoy the holidays. Hey, if Michelle can forget about "Let's Move" for a few days and serve mac and cheese, we can lay off the fashion-watching.

Check out pictures of the Obamas jetting off on Air Force One and arriving in Hawaii the next morning below.

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• April 2011 heading to Chicago

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• June 2011 on the South Lawn

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• April 2011 during an event for the US military

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• February 2011 at the National Prayer Breakfast

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• January 2011 honoring the Tucson shooting victims

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• December 2010 at the signing of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act

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  After a false start, President Obama and the First Lady puckered up for the "Kiss Cam" at an Olympic exhibition game.

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Mentoring - Santa Fe Leadership Center

You?re fulfilling leadership role in a school as a department chair, division director, dean or head of school.? Whether you like it or not, and despite what your job description includes (or omits), you should also be playing the critical role of mentor.? You might be thinking now, ?Whom do I mentor?? Do I need to mentor everyone I supervise? What exactly does a mentor do?? And am I doing it??? Good mentoring is probably the single most effective and most economical form of professional development you can provide your school.

If you are supervising other individuals you are likely serving in a mentor capacity to some of them already.? But unless you have formally communicated this to a mentee and have taken ownership of that role, you might not be doing it very well or with a sense of purpose. Mentoring is a two-way street and it happens most successfully when both the mentor and the mentee claim their roles and consider how they can make the most of their relationship. While you certainly can serve as a mentor to every single one of your direct reports, there needs to be an acknowledgement and a desire on the part of both mentor and mentee that this relationship exists. Mentoring members of your community who are not under your supervision might be even more effective due to the low risk nature of that relationship.

So what exactly is mentoring and how does it differentiate from evaluation and assessment??? Mentoring is not synonymous with evaluation.? In fact, it is quite the opposite. Mentoring reserves judgment and instead allows for mentors to hold up a proverbial mirror for mentees and provide them not with answers but rather questions that focus on self-reflection, growth and improvement.

Mentoring is not just modeling.? We often hear from participants in our seminar that they lead others by setting a good example.? This is all well and good, but it does not substitute for direct, purposeful, open and honest conversation that happens between mentor and mentee when the right questions are asked.? Leading by example is important, as one does not want to be viewed as acting hypocritically,? but it is a passive approach to sharing one?s expertise.

Mentoring is not synonymous with coaching.? Leadership coaches have come into vogue and for good reason.? Coaches provide a level of training and skill development that benefits new leaders. But like athletic coaches, they prescribe exercises such as case studies to help leaders build their problem solving muscles and they offer advice based on their own experiences.? Mentoring is less prescriptive and more reflective.? It is less driven by the knowledge of the mentor and more by the needs of the mentee.

Mentoring benefits both the mentor and the mentee. While strong mentorships are clearly grounded in the professional development of the mentee, the mentor gains in spades an opportunity to think purposefully about his or her own proactive. Teacher mentoring programs for new teachers are becoming more common in independent schools as ways to develop teachers new to the profession and to provide opportunities for experienced teachers to grow. Shady Hill School and Bank Street were early pioneers but these programs have sprouted all over the country.? Here in the There comes a natural opportunity for self-reflection as a mentor helps a mentee to process his

Last Sunday?s New York Times Corner Office featured Venture Capitalist Tony Tjan who has supervised others since he was a teenager and has come to mentoring after many years as a manager and leader and having benefitted from mentors himself.? He and his partner Mats Lederhausen use a basic framework for mentoring that was inspired by Deepak Chopra and it includes five questions: 1) What is it that you really want to be and do?? 2) What are you doing really well that is helping you to get there? 3) What are you not doing that is preventing you from getting there? 4) What will you do differently tomorrow to meet those challenges? 5) How can I help and where do you need the most help?? Tjan writes, ?The sequence is important.? You have to understand the larger purpose; understand the person?s self-awareness around their strengths; understand external or intrinsic blocks to doing that; and understand the person?s plan and motivation to change before you assume you can help.?

The International Mentoring Association credits good mentoring with increased retention, greater staff diversity and inclusion, enhanced staff performance, improved leadership succession, and the great benefit of organizations functioning as learning communities.? Our schools are constantly looking for ways to develop these same qualities.? If you don?t have a formal mentorship program it?s not hard to start one, but it does take the commitment of two individuals who agree on the relationship, the time to meet regularly, and a set of reflective questions that can be revisited, and the courage to engage in open and honest dialogue.

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Office Crashers: Chegg&#39;s opening up its education platform which ...

By Kym McNicholas
On December 21, 2012

Chegg arguably has 30 percent of US college students using its online education portal, which sells textbooks, helps students manage their classes, and even find scholarships. It has 15 percent of high school students using its resources. That?s why CEO Dan Rosenweig says he gets lots of calls and emails from other companies wanting access to his customers and data. But he?s been resistant to the idea until now.

Chegg?s experienced growth thus far has been through its own innovation, as well as five acquisitions of companies which offer products and services to help students get scholarships, get into college, get internships, manage their class schedules, and get homework help.

But now, Chegg is planning to open up its platform to allow other companies to use its student graph to provide relevant products and services. It won?t be a free-for-all. And there will be certainly criteria, which the company has yet to share.

?We want to ensure our students are protected and only receive the highest quality products available,? explains Rosenweig.

Rosenweig wouldn?t give an exact timeline on opening up the platform, except to say it?ll happen over the course of the next few months.

Chegg?s goal is to become that third graph of the Web. Facebook is your social graph. LinkedIn is your professional graph (although Branchout is fighting for that title). Chegg wants to own the student graph. And they?re on their way to achieving that goal.

Sarah recently wrote a fantastic?article about Chegg after a long conversation with Rosenweig. She says:

I should note a lot of people want their company to be the third graph of the Web. MyHeritage and other genealogy sites want to be your family graph; many companies want to be a ?taste graph.? The utilities of all of these are still up for debate.

Clearly everyone doesn?t need an education graph. But every year there is a huge number of incoming freshman who do. And it just so happens, they?re people a lot of businesses want to market to. ?You?ve found the perpetual fountain of youth,? a marketing executive looking to sell stuff through Chegg recently said to Rosensweig.

In that sense, Chegg will start to become less about the classroom as it dominates everything connected with the classroom.

Chegg has even built its own classroom to increase its connectivity with universities nationwide. It?s offering them the use of it for a semester to offer students classes on entrepreneurship and even an internship that follows, whether it?s with Cheggg or other companies in Silicon Valley.

I recently visited Chegg?s new campus in Santa Clara. The company truly immerses itself in the campus culture, complete with the classroom, a dorm room, even bleachers.

Aside from Zynga, I have to say it?s probably the most thematic office I have visited yet which is truly representative of their culture and customer.

Kym McNicholas

Kym McNicholas is an Emmy Award winning reporter (3x Emmy nominated), with 18 years experience in broadcasting. She has spent most of her career in finance and technology, most recently at Forbes.

Source: http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/21/office-crashers-cheggs-opening-up-its-education-platform-which-reaches-30-of-college-students/

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Silence, ringing of bells honor victims of school massacre

NEWTOWN, Conn./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many Americans remembered the victims of the Newtown, Connecticut, school massacre with a moment of silence on Friday, as a powerful U.S. gun rights lobbying group prepared to plunge into the national debate over gun control.

At the Sandy Hook fire house, where worried parents had gathered a week earlier to wait for news about their children, a handful of people gathered in a driving rain on Friday morning. One couple worked to steady one of the 26 trees that have been placed there as a memorial after it was blown down in the wind.

In the leafy suburban town's downtown, a makeshift memorial rose several feet around two Christmas trees with teddy bears, flower bouquets and printed cards with messages like "We Choose Love" and "Our Newtown Angels rest in Peace." They were memorials to the 20 children, all aged 6 and 7, who died in one of the deadliest mass shooting incidents in U.S. history.

As the church bells began to ring at 9:30 a.m. EST, a small crowd lowered their heads and wept quietly under a steady rain. Churches up and down the East Coast, as far south as Florida and at the National Cathedral in Washington, rang their bells.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy had called for residents of his state to observe the moment of silence to mark a week since a 20-year-old gunman killed his mother and then stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. He killed a total of 28 people that day, including six school teachers and staff, his mother and himself.

Governors in Maine, Illinois, Michigan and several other states also called for moments of silence.

"We have the moral obligation to stand for and with the victims of gun violence and to work to end it," said Reverend Gary Hall, dean of Washington National Cathedral, who called on Americans to pray "that we may have courage to act, so that the murderous violence done on Friday may never be repeated."

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The observances were held not long before the National Rifle Association, the largest U.S. gun rights group and one with powerful ties to Washington politicians, was to begin a media campaign to become part of the gun control debate prompted by the massacre.

Laws restricting gun ownership are controversial in the United States, a nation with a strong culture of individual gun ownership. The U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms. Hundreds of millions of weapons are in private hands.

About 11,100 Americans died in gun-related killings in 2011, not including suicides, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The NRA remained quiet for four days after the Newtown slaughter, citing "common decency." It released a short statement on Tuesday saying it was "prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again."

The group scheduled a news conference for 10:45 a.m. on Friday in Washington. NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre planned to appear on the NBC television talk show "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

Some U.S. lawmakers called for swift passage of an assault weapons ban.

Vice President Joe Biden convened a new White House task force on Thursday charged by President Barack Obama with finding ways to quell violence.

"We have to have a comprehensive way in which to respond to the mass murder of our children that we saw in Connecticut," Biden told the group, which included Attorney General Eric Holder, Thomas Nee, president of the National Association of Police Organizations, and other officials.

The gunman, Adam Lanza, used a military-style assault rifle and police said he carried hundreds of bullets in high-capacity magazines, as well as two handguns. The weapons were legally purchased and registered to his mother, Nancy, his first victim.

By Thursday, funeral services had been held for more than half of the 27 people Lanza killed last week.

Newtown school officials said that Friday would be a shortened day for students heading into the Christmas break.

Reflecting a heightened state of alert at schools across the United States, a school district near Boise, Idaho, canceled planned assemblies at a number of its 50 schools after receiving a rash of threats that suggested "something bad" would happen on Friday, Meridian school spokesman Eric Exline said.

In Florida, a 13-year-old student was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly posted a Facebook message threatening to "bring a gun to school tomorrow and shoot everyone," said the St. Lucie County Sheriff's office on Florida's east coast.

Even non-violent gestures brought swift retribution. In Roberta, Georgia, a 16-year-old high school student was questioned by police and suspended from school indefinitely after posting on Facebook that he planned a "big surprise" at school, according to The Telegraph of Macon, Georgia.

He had planned to dress up as Santa Claus and hand out candy to classmates.

(Additional reporting by Dan Burns; Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Will Dunham)

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