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We often hear stories about dogs that are heroes, but furry friends of all types can also be heroes -especially cats. In fact, these nine cats have come to the rescue of humans, cats and even dogs.

1. Tara

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This brave little kitty made headlines across the world after she fought off a dog that attacked her four year-old owner, Jeremy Triantafilo. Jeremy was on a bike in front of his home when a neighbor's dog attacked him, pulling him off the bike and dragging him along the sidewalk. Tara immediately attacked the dog in return, scaring it and chasing it away from the family's house. Security footage of the attack went viral, getting five million views within only two days.

2. Pudding

Amy Jung headed down to her local Humane Society one day to play with the cats. While she didn't plan to adopt any new pets that day, she ended up bringing home two cats, Pudding and Wimsy. That very night, Amy went into a diabetic seizure during her sleep. Pudding then jumped on her and woke her up so she could call out to her son, Ethan, but he didn't hear her cries as he too was sleeping. Amazingly, Pudding then ran into Ethan's room and jumped on his chest to wake him up. Because of Pudding's efforts, Ethan was able to get his mother medical attention before she slipped into a diabetic coma. All this is more incredible when you keep in mind that this was still her first night at Amy's house.

Since the incident, Amy had Pudding registered as a therapy animal so she can always have the cat with her.

3. Tommy

No one knows how the cat did it, but when Gary Rosheisen fell out of his wheelchair and couldn't get back up, his cat, Tommy, managed to dial 9-11. Gary didn't have his medical alert necklace on and couldn't reach the cord above his bed that could call the medics or a telephone. When police arrived at the apartment, they saw an orange and tan cat lying beside the telephone that was off the hook on the living room floor. Police couldn't find any other explanation for the emergency call that led them to arrive on the scene other than Tommy dialing the number.

4. Schnautzie

Dogs might be known for their great sense of smell, but cats also have an enhanced sense of smell and Schnautzie used hers to save her owner. Trudy Guy was asleep when her 3 year-old cat, Schnautzie,  jumped on her chest and started pawing at her nose. Fortunately, Trudy didn't just push the cat off the bed before going back to sleep. Instead, she decided to look around and ended up hearing a roaring sound in her bathroom. That's how she discovered a gas pipe outside the bathroom had broken and was leaking.

She called 9-11 to have the pipe shut off and her house cleared for safety again and the responding firefighters informed her the house could have easily blown up because there was so much gas inside.

5. Charley

47 year-old Susan March-Armstrong suffered from a collapsed diabetic hypoglycemic attack unconscious in her bathroom one night while her husband, Kevin, was in the bedroom asleep. Fortunately, her cat, Charley, was awake and she knew something was wrong. The cat quickly ran to her bedroom, jumped on the bed and started licking and pawing at her husband's face until he woke up. Charley then led him into the bathroom in time for Kevin to give his wife the glucose injection that saved her life.

Susan explained the event merely stating, "I have no recollection of what happened after I went to the bathroom, but when I came round Charley and Kevin were both next to me and she was purring away. Kevin explained she had woken him up and raised the alarm and had not left my side since."

6. Leo

You've heard of cat burglars before, but you probably never heard of cats stopping burglars. But that's exactly what Leo did when two robbers woke him up from a cat nap. Leo immediately started releasing a series of hisses and shrieks that caught the burglars off guard. They ended up running away without taking anything and Leo's noises also woke up his owner, who called the police. “He’s a lovely cat but he is obviously quite territorial," noted his owner, John Higgins.

7. Smudge

You don't have to save lives to be a hero. Five year-old Ethan was playing in his front yard when he started getting picked on by three older bullies. When one of the bullies pushed Ethan, his cat, Smudge, ran after the bullies, jumping on one of them. The boy stumbled backwards, started crying and ran away, along with the two other bullies.

8. Scarlett

Most of these cats were heroes to their owners, but Scarlett was a hero to other felines. In 1996, Scarlett and kept her recently born litter of kittens in the garage of a rundown house that police believed to be a crack den. When the house caught on fire, Scarlett pulled the kittens out one at a time. She was burned and her eyes were blinded by blisters. Still, she kept going back to get her kittens until the last one was safe. Firefighters watched as she touched each kitten with her nose to make sure they were all safe before collapsing from exhaustion.

Firefighter David Giannelli took Scarlett and her kitties to the North Shore Animal League clinic. After news programs told the story of the heroic mother cat, people quickly fell in love with Scarlett. The rescue group received over 7,000 adoption requests for Scarlett and her kittens. Amazingly, Scarlett survived completely, although she did suffer from badly damaged eyelids and ears. Eventually, her story was made into a full-length book and a children's book.

9. Sammy

Dogs are widely known for sticking up for their friends, but Sammy is one cat friend that any dog would be lucky to have. As it turns out, he even saved his friend Izzy's life. When the small terrier, Izzy, was attacked by a much bigger dog, Sammy puffed up and did everything he could to get the other dog's attention. The aggressive dog dropped Izzy and chased after Sammy, who managed to escape by climbing up a tree.

Izzy suffered from a punctured abdomen, traumatic hernia, and severe muscle trauma, but without Sammy's help, he probably wouldn't have made it at all.

I've had some good kitty friends, but never one that came to save me from death or even bullies. Have any of you ever had a cat come to your rescue -even if it didn't necessarily save your life? 

Chris Evans is a screenwriter who wants to write an action movie. But according to his agent, he's gonna have to write a rom-com first. What will this emotionally stunted bro do? That's the premise to Playing It Cool, a film directed by Justin Reardon, and one that seems to have sat on the shelf for a bit. But with the charming Evans as lead (and featuring Aubrey Plaza, Anthony Mackie, Topher Grace, Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, and Martin Starr), it's like we're getting another shot at What's Your Number? and we'll take it.

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Over a month has passed since my last post and I am just getting to this space. I have good reason.   I promise.  And I'll share here soon.  (Hint:  Big, exciting, loving changes!)
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Jack the Ripper is one of history's most infamous serial killers. He killed and mutilated at least five women in the Whitechapel area of London in 1888. He was never caught, though criminal investigators and historians have long considered several suspects, including Prince Albert Victor, a member of Britain's royal family.

Now investigators who are publishing a book on their findings assert that they know precisely who committed those murders: Aaron Kosminski, a Polish immigrant. They used DNA evidence to make this conclusion by matching semen left on a victim's bloody shawl with a living descendent of Kosminski's sister.

The author of Naming Jack the Ripper, Russell Edwards, is an amateur investigator. But his partner, Dr. Jari Louhelainen, is a a molecular biologist and professor at Liverpool John Moores University. Louhelainen writes in the Daily Mail:

Dr David Miller found epithelial cells – which line cavities and organs – much to our surprise, as we were not expecting to find anything usable after 126 years.

Then I used a new process called whole genome amplification to copy the DNA 500 million-fold and allow it to be profiled.

Once I had the profile, I could compare it to that of the female descendant of Kosminski’s sister, who had given us a sample of  her DNA swabbed from inside  her mouth.

The first strand of DNA showed a 99.2 per cent match, as the analysis instrument could not determine the sequence of the missing 0.8 per cent fragment  of DNA. On testing the second strand, we achieved a perfect  100 per cent match.

Because of the genome amplification technique, I was also able to ascertain the ethnic and geographical background of the DNA I extracted. It was of a type known as the haplogroup T1a1, common in people of Russian Jewish ethnicity. I was even able to establish that he had dark hair.

Now that it’s over, I’m excited and proud of what we’ve achieved, and satisfied that we have established, as far as we possibly can, that Aaron Kosminski is  the culprit.

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The rankings on Shea Strauss's chart are not entirely fair. Dr. Pepper, the pride of Waco, Texas, is a perfectly satisfactory physician and a far better art historian than Dr. Zoidberg.

If I knew Doc Brown and The Doctor personally, I'd probably avoid them. A life of profitless adventure? I'll pass.

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At $69, why not?

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Outlander does, in its first six episodes, exactly what it intends to. That kind of self-assuredness is surprising for a new show, but this one comes to television with a strong pedigree: The showrunner is Ronald D. Moore, the man who rebooted Battlestar Galactica into a modern classic. And the source material for the show is Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling Outlander series. (Gabaldon is also a consultant on the show.) But many shows come to television with a recipe for success, and still proceed to crash and burn. Outlander succeeds admirably, and partly that’s because it follows the bent of both of its creators: It refuses to sit comfortably in any genre. The book Outlander is a romance novel, a fantasy novel, and historical fiction all at the same time; Battlestar Galactica is character drama in space, while also a political procedural, a soap opera, and a science-fiction saga ...

David Duchovny and Tea Leoni are quietly divorced, according to TMZ.

The 53-year-old actor filed the papers in June, citing irretrievable breakdown of the relationship.

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In the divorce settlement, David and Tea have joint legal custody of their 2 kids – Madelaine, 15, and Kyd, 12, – and she has primary physical custody.

David has been paying $8,333 a month in child support and $40,000 in spousal support since the divorce.

In case you didn’t know, the couple tied the knot in 1997 and briefly separated in 2008. In 2011, they separated again.

WHAT DO YOU THINK of David Duchovny’s divorce from Tea Leoni?

Wondering if young Roger Wakefield would be in the first season of Outlander?  According to this report from his school, Rory Burns played young Roger Wakefield for at least one day.  Roger Wakefield is the adopted son of Rev. Wakefield who is played by James Fleet.  For the non-book readers, the character of Roger Wakefield does not become important until the second book, Dragonfly in Amber.  The description of his day on his set is very cute.

Filming took place at Hunterston House in West Kilbride. Much to Rory’s (and his very proud Mummy’s) excitement not only was he picked up and dropped off by personal limousine, he had his own trailer.  

Despite the number of crew on set and the size of filming and lighting equipment Rory was unfazed and enjoyed the experience. His mother said, “A highlight for Rory was a scene in which he gets a biscuit to eat. Eventually after three biscuits the props staff realised that given the chance Rory would eat the whole packet!”

Source: St. Columba’s School via Outlander Podcast

First, a reminder: You are not Zooey Deschanel. There are things Zooey Deschanel can get away with doing that you will never be

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- No one in the media knows more about quarterback play than ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski, a former NFL quarterback himself and a devout watcher of game film. So it's always interesting to hear what he has to say about Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. By now, everyone knows that Rodgers is one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. But what makes him such? That’s where Jaws comes in. On Monday, he released his latest quarterback rankings .

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Whenever a new fad sweeps through the populace, especially if it involves physical activity of any kind, there’s always some Dr. Oz type ready to hand out dubious medical advice and warn against what may happen if the participants aren’t careful.

When bicycling became all the rage in the 19^th century doctors acted no differently, especially because bikes offered women a sense of liberation that made these stuffy old men feel threatened. Physicians began to warn women about the dangers of "Bicycle Face", in an effort to dissuade them from becoming avid bicyclists, to no avail.

Here are the supposed symptoms of this "serious medical condition", as they were presented in a newspaper from 1897:

Usually flushed, but sometimes pale, often with lips more or less drawn, and the beginning of dark shadows under the eyes, and always with an expression of weariness. Bicycle face is also characterized by a hard, clenched jaw and bulging eyes.

Little did these doctors know that Bicycle Face was only the beginning, and over one hundred years later ladies would go totally gaga over Poker Face...

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Right around the same time that French postcards were predicting lots of aerial and aquatic activities in the year 2000 as part of the 1900 Paris Worlds Fair, a German chocolate company decided to get in on the future-telling business with a crafty marketing campaign.

Following a series of viral images over the long weekend, 20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for David Fincher's Gone Girl. Check it out in the player below, courtesy of iTunes Movie Trailers.

Bill Watterson, you've been outdone. Laura Hartrich made this embroidered panel as a birthday gift for her son. She used a cartoon in Scientific Progress Goes Boink as a reference, which she enlarged and then transfered to carbon paper. 

The project, which measures about 12 by 14 inches, took about 95 hours of work. That's intense! On reddit, she expresses a sentiment familiar to all crafters:

I can see some flaws, of course, and some things I would have done differently if I had more time. I really wanted to get it done in time for my kid's birthday. And I was really ready to be DONE at that point.

You can see more pictures of her crafting work on Flickr.

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Each month, Boris Kachka will offer nonfiction and fiction book recommendations, and you should read as many of them as possible because they are all worth it.

1. Arts & Entertainments, by Chiristopher Beha (Ecco, July 1)
Good satire aims to be both funny and true, and Beha’s second novel hits that surprisingly elusive target dead-on. Our hero and comic foil is Eddie Hartley, a prep-school drama teacher with a couple of Law & Order credits behind him. Sunk into debt by in-vitro fertilization, he sells a sex tape, starring him and a currently famous ex-girlfriend, to a “meme evangelist.” His wife finds out, of course — and conceives triplets, and becomes a reality-TV star, leaving poor Eddie to the tabloid wolves.

2. Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local — and Helped Save an American Town, by Beth Macy (Little, Brown, July 15)
Macy’s first book, ostensibly the story of John D. Bassett III — furniture heir, Virginia good old boy, and unlikely savior of domestic manufacturing — is better thought of as an Appalachian Random Family. In the course of narrating Bassett’s efforts to fight China’s underhanded underpricing, Macy digs in all directions, visiting company towns without companies, unearthing family secrets, and explaining the economic forces that determine our lives.

3. Last Stories and Other Stories, by William T. Vollmann (Viking, July 1)
Don’t be afraid of the bricklike mass of this collection, or of Vollmann’s forbidding reputation as a less-accessible David Foster Wallace. Fear only the specters and vampires that invest these 32 stories, ranging from six sentences to 90 pages and from Bosnian killing fields to an American cemetery, with highbrow Goth of the first order. Another reason to savor them at leisure, well into the fall and beyond: Vollmann (perhaps facetiously) declares it “my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will be composed by a ghost.”

4. Dry Bones in the Valley, by Tom Bouman (July 7)
Bouman’s entry into “rural noir” (a trend of which he’s well aware), distinguishes itself by incorporating the style’s literary elements — thick atmosphere, regional rootedness, social scope — into an actual fast-paced mystery series. Dry Bones introduces policeman Henry Farrell, half of Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania’s police force — a fishing, fiddle-playing brooder in over his head as fracking invades his impoverished paradise, bringing with it infusions of corporate cash, illegal drugs, and perhaps inevitably, a few unsolved murders.

5. The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle, by Francisco Goldman (Grove, July 2)
In movies, the city-as-main-character is a hoary cliché, but in books, it’s an often-glorious subgenre of the travelogue. Goldman splits his time between the U.S. and Mexico, and his deep immersion into the Distrito Federal — learning to drive, getting over loss, finding history and politics on every corner — is a sort of sequel to Say Her Name, a memoir about his young wife’s death in 2007. Then it becomes the story of Mexico City’s tragic slide into the narco-violence from which its modish denizens had long considered themselves exempt.

6. Land of Love and Drowning, by Tiphanie Yanique (Riverhead, July 10)
If anyone has earned the right to a title this Marquezian, it’s the St. Thomas–born author of this century-spanning, magic-inflected debut. There’s plenty of folklore and lyricism and even some incest in Yanique’s first novel, about two almost impossibly beautiful daughters of an upper-class ship owner who died suddenly. But this isn’t just a retread of post-colonial magic realism; the Virgin Islands of this novel are shaken not by plundering conquistadors, but by the more ambiguous effects of the postwar tourist boom.

7. High As the Horses’ Bridles, by Scott Cheshire (Henry Holt, July 8)
Stick with this one — the book and, more important, the first-time novelist. Leaping back and forth between the past and present of a man who was raised in a Doomsday cult in Queens — with detours into 19th century Kentucky — Cheshire seldom deigns to make his connections explicit. He’s a more earthbound (if less assured) DeLillo, painting familiar subjects — a scrappy outer borough and a fraught father-son dynamic — in bold new colors.

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The fourth known incarnation of the Doctor, who was played by Tom Baker, was noted for wearing a very long scarf with various shades of red, brown, green, and purple (see below). Laura Ducros crocheted this ankle-length dress in imitation of it. She's also wearing a very thin version of the Doctor's scarf around her neck and his hat.

Bonus item: here's Ducros posing in her dress with Sylvester McCoy, the actor who played the Seventh Doctor.

As we approach 2015, how close are we to the future imagined in Back to the Future Part II? You may be surprised at how prescient that was! Gamma Squad takes a look at five technologies from the movie that are on the verge of becoming reality, if not already so. Like TVs:

There’s also sorts of strange TV technology in Hill Valley; displays you can roll up like a piece of paper, multiscreen TVs, weirdly shaped TVs. And believe it or not, out of all the technology featured in the movie, this is easily the one most likely to be completely true by October 2015.

Why? TV manufacturers are desperate. 4K, despite the hype, is largely selling only in China and if you’re not buying a new TV, TV manufacturers can’t make money. So they’ve been looking into new, strange technologies, no matter what they are. Flexible displays are already starting to become commonplace in phones, as they’re less likely to break. And new technology allows TV companies to essentially make a TV or a display in any shape they want, and surprisingly thin, too.

The rest has to do with flying cars, biometrics, and of course, hover boards. Not bad for a movie that came out in 1989!  

What divine madness could have possibly compelled Damon Lindelof to involve himself with "The Leftovers"? Why would the co-creator and longtime showrunner of "Lost," who endured so much public abuse from some corners because of that series' finale, decide that his next ...http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching

Olivia Munn is classy in a strapless dress while attending a screening of her latest film Deliver Us From Evil held at SVA Theater on Tuesday (June 24) in New York City.

Before hitting the red carpet, the 33-year-old actress was spotted holding hands with her handsome boyfriend Aaron Rodgers.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Olivia Munn

Earlier in the day, Olivia was gorgeous in green while promoting her new film on Today.

FYI: Olivia is wearing a Vionnet dress, Casadei shoes, Fred Leighton jewels, and Calvin Klein bag.

15+ pictures inside of Olivia Munn and Aaron Rodgers at the Deliver Us From Evil screening…

France is doing pretty well, so I don't know what Captain Picard is facepalming about. Perhaps instead the graphic designer responsible for the logo was expressing personal frustration at his own team.

-via Geekologie

Faithful reader, it's time to make a decision: Are you going to be one of those people who sees Snowpiercer for the first time when it's a cult hit years from now, or are you going to get in on the ground floor this Friday, when the movie comes out in theaters? (This sci-fi stunner is opening against Transformers: Age of Extinction, but for discerning film fans, there's only one option.) Let us entice you further with a pretty great exclusive clip from the Bong Joon Ho–directed film ... but first, some scene-setting.

Snowpiercer takes place on a futuristic train that hurtles around the frozen Earth carrying the only survivors of this post-apocalyptic wasteland, including a band of have-nots in the back of the train (led by Chris Evans) and the comparatively well-to-do folks in the front, who've got Tilda Swinton as their mouthpiece and worship the train's mysterious, unseen inventor, a man named Wilfred. When Evans and his crew decide that the only way to effect a revolution is to fight their way towards the front, it's up to Swinton to clear her phlegmy throat and give a speech in an attempt to quell their uprising. It doesn't go so well, as you'll see in this priceless clip of Swinton's big confrontation with Evans. Was it something she said?

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Hoping to take the weight of the world’s eyes off of Harrison Ford’s hobbled leg long enough for him to heal, Lucasfilm has reportedly let slip that Rian Johnson will write and/or direct Star Wars: Episodes VIII and IX—an announcement that comes as something of a surprise to those who believed J.J. Abrams had selfishly hoarded all the realization of childhood dreams from his generation of directors. Both Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter are in agreement that Johnson is attached to write and direct Episode VIII – Mr. Solo Takes A Vacation, but only Deadline seems to think he’ll also be in charge of Episode IX. (The Wrap says so far he’s only been hired to write a treatment.) Either way, the edict is clear: Abrams will help relaunch the franchise, then turn the reins over to a group of talented directors that includes ...

When sitting at home alone isn’t enough, and you need an even deeper sense of isolation yet don’t want to sacrifice comfort for loneliness, then you need the Mercury Retrograde Body Mitten.

It’s the warm and wooly full body covering sweater that will swallow you up in knit comfort, separating you from the world of the cold and uncozy.

The Mercury Retrograde Body Mitten was made to “contain and counteract the powerful negative mental and energetic effects of Mercury retrograde”, according to writer/astrologer Alan Annand, who goes on to state that each garment is “hand-knitted by celibate Virgos using hypo-allergenic squirrel wool inter-woven with strands of unicorn hair that were marinated in lavender oil infused with emerald powder.”

The Mercury Retrograde Body Mitten, it’s not just a sweater- it’s a lifestyle.

It was a great night celebrating the best music videos in country music at the 2014 CMT Music Awards held at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday evening (June 4) in Nashville, Tenn.

The awards were well spread around with many of the top artist in the country music genre taking home prizes, including Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, and Cassadee Pope.

Florida Georgia Line picked up two awards – Duo Video of the Year for “Round Here” and Collaborative Video of the Year for “This is How We Roll” with Luke.

Make sure to check out our coverage of the show in case you missed any of it this evening!

Click inside for the complete winners list…

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies and Friends – Boys ‘Round Here
Carrie Underwood – See You Again – WINNER
Eric Church – Give Me Back My Hometown
Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan – This Is How We Roll
Hunter Hayes – I Want Crazy
Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow
Keith Urban with Miranda Lambert – We Were Us
Luke Bryan – That’s My Kind of Night
Miranda Lambert – Automatic
Taylor Swift – Red
Thomas Rhett – It Goes Like This
Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban – Highway Don’t Care

MAKE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Blake Shelton – Doin’ What She Likes – WINNER
Eric Church – Give Me Back My Hometown
Hunter Hayes – I Want Crazy
Jason Aldean – Night Train
Luke Bryan – Crash My Party
Randy Houser – Runnin’ Outta Moonlight

FEMALE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Carrie Underwood – See You Again
Cassadee Pope – Wasting All These Tears
Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow
Miranda Lambert – Automatic – WINNER
Sheryl Crow – Easy
Taylor Swift – Red

GROUP VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Eli Young Band – Drunk Last Night
Lady Antebellum – Compass
Little Big Town – Your Side Of The Bed
Rascal Flatts – Rewind
The Band Perry – Done – WINNER
Zac Brown Band – Sweet Annie

DUO VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Dan + Shay – 19 You + Me
Florida Georgia Line – Round Here – WINNER
Florida Georgia Line – Stay
Thompson Square – Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About

BREAKTHROUGH VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Brett Eldredge – Beat Of The Music
Cassadee Pope – Wasting All These Tears – WINNER
Cole Swindell – Chillin’ It
David Nail – Whatever She’s Got
Thomas Rhett – It Goes Like This
Tyler Farr – Redneck Crazy

COLLABORATIVE VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies and Friends – Boys ‘Round Here
Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan – This Is How We Roll – WINNER
Florida Georgia Line featuring Nelly – Cruise (Remix)
Hunter Hayes featuring Jason Mraz – Everybody’s Got Somebody But Me
Keith Urban with Miranda Lambert – We Were Us
Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban – Highway Don’t Care

CMT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
Dierks Bentley and OneRepublic – Counting Stars (from CMT Crossroads: OneRepublic and Dierks Bentley)
Jake Owen – Days Of Gold (from CMT Hot 20 Countdown)
Lady Antebellum and Stevie Nicks – Rhiannon (from CMT Crossroads: Stevie Nicks and Lady Antebellum)
Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie – Oh No/All Night Long (from 2013 CMT Artists of the Year) – WINNER
The Band Perry and Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (from CMT Crossroads: Fall Out Boy and the Band Perry)
Willie Nelson and Neil Young – Long May You Run (from CMT Crossroads: Willie Nelson & Friends from Third Man Records)