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Do you prefer Mario Batali's Italian cuisine to Paula Deen's Southern comfort food? Guy Fieri's no-frills diner dishes or Rachael Ray's simple cooking? Kitchen Daily has selected 20 of the nation's top celebrity chefs as nominees for America's Favorite Chef and now's your chance to share your choice.

Vote for your favorite and the chef with the most votes will be named America's Favorite Chef, receiving a donation to his or her charity of choice. If your favorite chef is falling behind, invite friends and family to cast their vote. Voters will be entered to win the ultimate blender, a Vitamix 7500.

To cast your vote, simply visit Kitchen Daily and follow the instructions on the page. Real-time polling will allow you to track the status of each chef. Voting ends at 11:59 PM ET on February 1. May the best chef win!

AOL is in the business of helping people, and a bunch of AOLers lent a hand to build gifts for those in need during AOL's Epic Sales Conference in December. Many members of the AOL Sales and Advertising teams took time out of the day to handcraft rocking chairs, wheelchairs, bicycles and more, to give to those in need during the holiday season.

These gifts will benefit both Big Brothers Big Sisters by giving bicycles to children on the waiting list for a proper big brother or sister and the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center by donating wheelchairs to a hospital with a surplus of veterans and a shortage of wheelchairs.

We'd like to take a moment to thank these great organizations for the work that they do and for their help in making this happen.

Take a look at a gallery of AOLers hard at work, and some of the recipients trying out their new gifts below. To learn more AOL's Corporate Social Responsibility efforts, visit the AOL Corporate Site.

Starting today, 40 million Xbox users will have the opportunity to get a boatload of awesome video content. The AOL On Network is now available for download on Xbox 360®, giving Xbox LIVE® subscribers access to more than 420,000 high-definition, premium, short-form videos.

Through the Xbox LIVE app's Kinect capabilities, users can now control the AOL On App and choose the video of their choice by using gestures and voice commands. Videos can also be easily shared with the app's built-in social media functionality where subscribers can sign into their accounts and instantly share their favorite videos with friends and family.

The AOL On app offers access to the AOL On Network's constantly updated collection of AOL's original videos from properties like Huffington Post, Engadget and TechCrunch, as well as from content partners like Reuters, AP, BBC, E!, ET Online, Sugar, Splash News, CNET and Martha Stewart.

The app is also available through Roku, Boxee, GoogleTV, TiVo and seven smart TV manufacturers.

Read the full press release for additional details on The AOL On app for Xbox live.

It's already available online through Roku, Boxee, GoogleTV and seven smart TV manufacturers from major brands and, starting this week, the AOL On app is available on TiVo as well.

The recently redesigned app also features over 380,000 high-definition short-form videos from AOL's other original content properties such as Moviefone, Engadget and HuffPost Entertainment, allowing people to browse through premium videos all in one place. Additionally, the AOL On app gives you access to today's best music, containing full albums from top artists of any genre with the app's "CD Listening Party" feature.

For more information on this app visit http://www.tivo.com/aolon! To learn how to get the AOL On app on your smart TV device, visit http://hd.aol.com.

AOLers Cycle for Survival

AOL takes great pride in being a company who's in the business of helping people and AOLer Janet Balis saw this first-hand when AOL stood behind her and Cycle for Survival, raising money for cancer research. Janet's close friend Jennifer Goodman Linn founded the charity in 2007 and in the years that followed, grew the effort to become one of the fastest growing non-profits in the country, raising over $18 million. As she writes on HuffPost Impact:

AOL's Janet Balis with Cycle for Survival Founders Dave and Jennifer Linn

Team "AOL+HuffPost: Cycle for Impact" has a goal to double their impact from last year and raise $100,000. To help the team reach its goal, click here.

Cycle for Survival's Founder Jennifer Linn