Settle in for series premiering in the winter TV season (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmaHPVy3GFwzcGzpzI6hkxxSWxSFMxfy2oK0zGoxPm-z_HNIJnTUNh8FvSeixpvgeVmVEGZrmRMEUWtEATyWGXqfkwMpMMjX31wVNw7xJJfkcoI5BW9VCjYHV-73OJWagPw_wJjAcwgRY/s1600/1388621507000-XXX-103148-D03733b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmaHPVy3GFwzcGzpzI6hkxxSWxSFMxfy2oK0zGoxPm-z_HNIJnTUNh8FvSeixpvgeVmVEGZrmRMEUWtEATyWGXqfkwMpMMjX31wVNw7xJJfkcoI5BW9VCjYHV-73OJWagPw_wJjAcwgRY/s320/1388621507000-XXX-103148-D03733b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan 5: </span><i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Downton Abbey" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Downton Abbey</khlink></i> (PBS, Sundays at 9 ET/PT). The Crawleys return for Season 4 of the British drama that revolves around life at the family estate.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 6:</span><i>The Bachelor </i>(ABC, Mondays at 8 ET/PT). It's "Juan-uary" at ABC, as the newest hottie and first Latino bachelor, <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Juan Pablo Galavis" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Juan Pablo Galavis</khlink>, is wooed by a bevy of beauties; <i>Teen Wolf</i> (MTV, Mondays at 10 ET/PT).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 7: </span><i>Intelligence</i> (CBS, Mondays at 10 ET/PT after tonight's preview): Josh Holloway (<i>Lost</i>) stars as a man with a chip in his brain (if not on his shoulder) in this crime drama also featuring the return of <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Marg Helgenberger" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Marg Helgenberger</khlink> (<i>CSI</i>). <i>Killer Women</i>(ABC, Tuesdays at 10 ET/PT) centers on the lone female Texas Ranger (<khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Tricia Helfer" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Tricia Helfer</khlink>). <i>Justified</i> (FX, Tuesdays at 10 ET/PT) returns as marshal <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Raylan Givens" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Raylan Givens</khlink>(<khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Timothy Olyphant" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Timothy Olyphant</khlink>) battles the Crowes, a Florida crime family bent on infiltrating Harlan. And <i>Being Mary Jane</i> (BET, Tuesdays at 10 ET/PT) follows the life and loves of an Atlanta news anchor (Gabrielle Union).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan 8: </span><i>Chicago PD</i> (NBC, Wednesdays at 10 ET/PT). This series from the team behind <i>Chicago Fire</i>, focuses on the detectives and uniformed cops of the Chicago Police Department's District 21.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 9: </span><i>The Spoils of Babylon</i> (IFC, Thursdays at 10 ET/PT): Will Ferrell is author/producer/director Eric Jonrosh in this parody of 1970s miniseries also starring<khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Tobey Maguire" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Tobey Maguire</khlink>, <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Kristen Wiig" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Kristen Wiig</khlink> and Tim Robbins.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 10: </span><i>Enlisted</i> (Fox, Fridays at 8:30 ET/PT): Sitcom about three brothers on a Florida military base; <i>Helix</i> (Syfy, Fridays at 10 ET/PT), a new series from producer Ron Moore (<i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Battlestar Galactica" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Battlestar Galactica</khlink></i>) set at an Arctic research facility infected by a rapidly spreading virus; <i>Banshee</i> (Cinemax, Fridays at 10 ET/PT) is back for a third season.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 12:</span><i>True Detective</i> (HBO. Sundays at 9 ET/PT): <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Matthew McConaughey" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Matthew McConaughey</khlink> and<khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Woody Harrelson" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Woody Harrelson</khlink> star as Louisiana detectives tracking a cold-case serial killer in this eight-episode series, which shifts between 1995 and 2012; Lena Dunham's <i>Girls</i>(HBO, Sundays at 10 ET/PT) returns for a third season. Also back for more: Showtime's <i>Shameless</i> (Sundays at 9 ET/PT), <i>House of Lies </i>(Sundays at 10 ET/PT) and <i>Episodes</i> (Sundays at 10:30 ET/PT).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 13: </span><i>Archer</i> (FX, Mondays at 10 ET/PT), the animated spy comedy; and <i>Chozen</i>(FX, Mondays at 10:30 ET/PT), a new animated series about a gay white rapper (Bobby Moynihan) just out of prison.</div><div class="story-asset image-asset" id="module-position-M3c84z1Qi_k" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px;"><img alt="A406_04" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/1e12691bd0d6b334653eeb9700c7935057cdfbad/c=230-0-1663-1064&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2014/01/01//1388621026000-A406-04.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">The new season of "Archer" (voice of H. Jon Benjamin) premieres Jan. 13 at 10 p.m. ET?PT.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: FX)</span></div></aside><div class="clearfix"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 15: </span><i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/American Idol" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">American Idol</khlink></i> (Fox, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 ET/PT): The granddaddy of singing competitions returns for a 13th season with another new judges' panel of newcomer Harry Connick Jr., holdover <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Keith Urban" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Keith Urban</khlink> and the returning Jennifer Lopez. <i>Duck Dynasty</i> (A&E, Wednesdays at 9 ET/PT). This wildly popular reality series following the outspoken Robertson duck-caller clan returns. And<i>Suburgatory </i>(ABC, Wednesdays at 8:30 ET/PT) has its third-season premiere.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 16: </span><i>Under the Gunn</i> (Lifetime, Thursdays at 9 ET/PT): <i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Project Runway" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Project Runway</khlink></i> mentor Tim Gunn hosts over his own fashion-design competition.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 17: </span><i>Cloud 9 </i>(<khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Disney Channel" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Disney Channel</khlink>, Friday at 8 ET/PT), the tween network's latest original movie, follows a pair of snowboarders who must battle self-doubt to achieve victory.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 19: </span><i>The Following</i> (Fox, Mondays at 9 ET/PT after a Sunday preview at 10 ET/7 PT); Former FBI agent Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) begins to suspect that serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) isn't dead after all when a new attack is triggered.<i>Sherlock</i> (PBS, Sundays at 10 ET/PT); <i>Looking</i> (HBO, Sundays at 10:30 ET/PT), a dramedy that follows three gay men in San Francisco at different stages in their relationships.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 20-22: </span><i>Klondike </i>(Discovery, Mondays 9 ET/PT) The non-fiction channel's first scripted miniseries follows two childhood best friends in the late 1890s as they head for the gold rush capital in the <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Yukon" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Yukon Territory</khlink>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 23: </span><i>Rake</i> (Fox, Thursdays at 9 ET/PT): <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Greg Kinnear" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Greg Kinnear</khlink> stars as a down-on-his-luck lawyer with a gambling problem in this new drama.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jan. 25: </span><i>Black Sails </i>(Starz, Saturdays, 9 ET/PT) Captain Flint controls <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/New Providence" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">New Providence Island</khlink> in 1715, the golden age of piracy.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 2: </span><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Super Bowl XLVIII" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Super Bowl XLVIII</khlink> (Fox, 6:20 ET/3:20 PT), from <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/East Rutherford, New Jersey" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">East Rutherford</khlink>, N.J., followed by special episodes of <i>New Girl</i> and <i><khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Brooklyn Nine-Nine" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Brooklyn Nine-Nine</khlink></i>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 7-23: </span>Winter Olympics (NBC and sibling cable networks). The winter games, from <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Sochi" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Sochi, Russia</khlink>, will dominate TV for more than two weeks.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 9: </span><i>The Walking Dead</i> (AMC, Sundays at 9 ET/PT): The zombie smash returns for the second half of its fourth season.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 14:</span><i>House of Cards</i> (Netflix). The 13-episode second season of this Emmy-nominated drama arrives, all at once, as Rep. <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Frank Underwood" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Frank Underwood</khlink> (<khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Kevin Spacey" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Kevin Spacey</khlink>) continues his quest for political power.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 17: </span><i>The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</i> (NBC, weekdays at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT, after Jay Leno leaves Feb. 6); <i>Star-Crossed </i>(CW, Mondays at 8 ET/PT); An alien species called Atrians has arrived on Earth and their teens are integrating with humans at a local high school.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 24:</span> The third season marks the first since the demise of <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/J.R. Ewing" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">J.R. Ewing</khlink> (and the death of actor <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Larry Hagman" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Larry Hagman</khlink>); <i>Late Night With Seth Meyers</i> (NBC, weeknights at 12:35 a.m. ET/PT), replacing Fallon; <i>The Voice</i> (NBC, Mondays at 8 ET/PT, Tuesdays at 9 ET/PT); <i>Dallas</i> (TNT, Mondays at 9 ET/PT).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 26: </span><i>Mixology</i> (ABC, Wednesdays at 9:30 ET/PT), the latest attempt to find a worthy companion to <i>Modern Family,</i> follows a group of pals and is set entirely at a bar; <i>The Americans</i> (FX, Wednesdays at 10 ET/PT): Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys return as Russian spies living in suburban Washington in the second season of this 1980s drama.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 27: </span><i>Vikings </i>(History, Thursdays, 10 ET/PT) returns for Season 2; <i>Portlandia</i>(IFC, Thursdays, 10 ET/PT) Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's quirky satire of Portland, Ore.; <i>The Red Road</i> (Sundance, Thursdays at 9 ET/PT), a thriller about a sheriff policing a small town and a nearby Native American reservation.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Feb. 28: </span><i>Hannibal</i> (NBC, Fridays at 10 ET/PT): A second season of this prequel about <khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Hannibal Lecter" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Hannibal Lecter</khlink> (<khlink class="khlinks" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Hugh Dancy" lang="en" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 204, 255) !important; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: help; display: inline !important; float: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;">Hugh Dancy</khlink>) resurfaces on a new night.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mar. 6:</span><i>Sirens </i>(USA, Thursdays at 10 ET/PT, following the return of <i>Suits</i>) takes viewers on a ride with three Chicago EMTs, produced by Denis Leary.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mar. 9: </span><i>Resurrection</i> (ABC, Sundays at 9 ET/PT): Deceased loved ones start seemingly returning to their families in Arcadia, Mo.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mar. 11: </span><i>Mind Games</i> (ABC, Tuesdays at 10 ET/PT): Two brothers run an agency that specializes in using psychological manipulation to solve clients' problems.</div></div>

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The conflict is: Jay Mohr apologized Alyssa Milano

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM2ighRjtflOIhgZPZ_jkeDW8BZhq1iQlfaa22afEUnZsumEqFYtkI1KvEV4FxvOpFzSOFLKzygYjwxAsVoGwUDLOmm8_Xokx0gQj9iCwimIq7HAKLaX3s6uu-ALrgqSPOwdEcFkZI/s1600/The+conflict+is+Jay+Mohr+apologized+Alyssa+Milano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM2ighRjtflOIhgZPZ_jkeDW8BZhq1iQlfaa22afEUnZsumEqFYtkI1KvEV4FxvOpFzSOFLKzygYjwxAsVoGwUDLOmm8_Xokx0gQj9iCwimIq7HAKLaX3s6uu-ALrgqSPOwdEcFkZI/s1600/The+conflict+is+Jay+Mohr+apologized+Alyssa+Milano.jpg" /></a></div><br />History with a bad joke comedian Jay Mohr addressed Alyssa Milano ended quite well. Celebrities have turned to each other in blogs and it looks like "buried the hatchet". <br /> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- biner noir --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="2088847501"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /> 43-year-old Mora struck criticism of the press and colleagues after in a recent interview he said that Milano waved at her hand after birth of a child and is not in vain slimming underwear. In response to his comment 41-year-old actress wrote in his twitter that really upset him hints on her overweight and "all good wishes" abuser. <br /> <br /> Jay reaction was not long in coming. In his microblog, he spoke about Alyssa: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> She is awesome. I mistakenly thought that the absurdity of my words will perceive it as a joke. # Fail </blockquote><br /> Next Mor Milano dedicated a post on his blog, writing: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> comedians sometimes go too far, and I did. I can not change what has already been said, but I assure you, my heart is broken because I hurt her. I'm very sorry. It was not funny. I was tormented by the thought that she Alyssa, her family, friends, fans, and especially her husband heard these hurtful words. For me it has always been one of the most kind, caring and beautiful people only saw this city. </blockquote><br /> Luckily for Jay, Alyssa was not a man of vindictive. On twitter she left a message: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> Thank You. Apology accepted. (She growled viciously, but diligently tightening themselves from head to toe to waist underwear). # DaytePechenku </blockquote><br /> Apparently, that comes to a sense of humor, Milano may even surpass the famous comedian!<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOTKPUsdXOKq2LyFo2DL6zYnBegtDWKV4XzO28jUtohihYX2_Bv6_xSlEIYOA6M_WXB5r6BNDoXIa13OcmBWiJ_fUTblteH-sdg6WnBUsmTiAvbQ5cQaRs5ZbysJRf_QmU3JELK9gM/s1600/Alyssa+Milano+took+apologies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOTKPUsdXOKq2LyFo2DL6zYnBegtDWKV4XzO28jUtohihYX2_Bv6_xSlEIYOA6M_WXB5r6BNDoXIa13OcmBWiJ_fUTblteH-sdg6WnBUsmTiAvbQ5cQaRs5ZbysJRf_QmU3JELK9gM/s1600/Alyssa+Milano+took+apologies.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alyssa Milano took apologies </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6ehdSWZmJaCNCDLS0YE1Z5D5yorUyLLqSQ_cxHuBZ0AjPhGxEKnHY-E5tz3VjdZm7cm0OfoWwDgJyZnO0Lf_yv4fdyfgeQsCmdiYEwkeLBBo4Nmk_jAnpmkrcxXlqFf3Y78BQf0L/s1600/Jay+Mohr+admitted+that+too+far.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6ehdSWZmJaCNCDLS0YE1Z5D5yorUyLLqSQ_cxHuBZ0AjPhGxEKnHY-E5tz3VjdZm7cm0OfoWwDgJyZnO0Lf_yv4fdyfgeQsCmdiYEwkeLBBo4Nmk_jAnpmkrcxXlqFf3Y78BQf0L/s1600/Jay+Mohr+admitted+that+too+far.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jay Mohr admitted that "too far" </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- gri 300-600 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8441125172513237" data-ad-slot="3821859903"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br />

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Michael Schumacher may remain paralyzed

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgzOvdSocbJntD3xz9rp5dZ3TI5pdFmE_blvZKhHnzfjr1v9TUmkhfVMMwajazeyPA0S2AFMGP9EmCyxI9iwJnmw3Zn_zdUf2w7Yt-UpJupcRCOjJl2FsABrceNGvr1aDs18hMWZv/s1600/Michael+Schumacher+may+remain+paralyzed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRgzOvdSocbJntD3xz9rp5dZ3TI5pdFmE_blvZKhHnzfjr1v9TUmkhfVMMwajazeyPA0S2AFMGP9EmCyxI9iwJnmw3Zn_zdUf2w7Yt-UpJupcRCOjJl2FsABrceNGvr1aDs18hMWZv/s1600/Michael+Schumacher+may+remain+paralyzed.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/search/label/Michael%20Schumacher" target="_blank">Michael Schumacher</a></b> is still in a hospital in Grenoble in a coma. On the state of health of the race driver on duty outside the hospital yesterday told reporters one of the victim, a former racer Shtrayff Philip, who spoke with the head of the Brain Institute and other family Schumacher surgeon Gerard Salyan. <br /> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* biner3 */ google_ad_slot = "7346003106"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script><br /> Shtrayff says: <br /> <br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> I doctor, I'm just passing that said Gerard Salyan. He says that the state is serious, but fortunately, a danger to life was over. </blockquote><br /> Meanwhile, he said, doctors do not rule out that the incident may result in serious consequences for Michael: in particular, the right side body paralysis and loss of voice. <br /> <br /> Recall that Schumacher suffered a head injury while skiing in the Alps. Police has been studying camcorder recordings, which was installed on a helmet while riding a racing driver. Investigators also find out details of what happened at the 14-year-old son <b>Mick Schumacher </b>and his friend - they witnessed the accident. <br /> <br /> Near the hospital where Michael is constantly are his fans. Many of them came from other cities and countries to support the rider - especially since yesterday was his birthday: Schumacher turned 45.<br /><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-8441125172513237"; /* video */ google_ad_slot = "9278264705"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br />

Michael Schumacher may remain paralyzed

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10 great apps for your new tablet (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOw2cM_3NAnWmJd-ixSM2Almg2ndiyD42iCILF7XZcKYoKUaMKtY7zvt_syuKivopVXPM2MccG4v4R2yytvOF1aI-AQtolHBU0QYnYnREoqVSjEiYrTGMwggAhSf3ElANBJRMUwi1Bg2Q/s1600/1385599739000-AFP-524586397.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOw2cM_3NAnWmJd-ixSM2Almg2ndiyD42iCILF7XZcKYoKUaMKtY7zvt_syuKivopVXPM2MccG4v4R2yytvOF1aI-AQtolHBU0QYnYnREoqVSjEiYrTGMwggAhSf3ElANBJRMUwi1Bg2Q/s320/1385599739000-AFP-524586397.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">IIf you're new to the world of tablets, it's not surprising that you might not know where to start. You'll hear a lot of talk about "apps." Apps are applications. Think of them as software programs customized for your tablet.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">They are available through an already installed app you'll find on your tablet. It's the "App Store" on iPads or the "Google Play" on Android tablets. Microsoft calls its the "Windows Store."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">As time goes on, you'll find the apps that get the tablet to do what you want it to do. Right now, here are 10 to get you started. I've tried to balance three considerations — usefulness, the wow factor, and unlocking your tablet's possibilities.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-earth/id293622097" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-earth/id293622097">Google Earth</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">There is perhaps no app with a greater Gee Whiz factor. Google Earth is a massive collection of satellite photos, seamlessly stitched together. The result? You have the ability to zoom all over our Earth, swooping in to see everything from your childhood home to the Taj Mahal.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.stardroid" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.stardroid">Google Sky View</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If the earth isn't enough for you, download Sky View, which gives you a dizzying view of the heavens—stars, planets, and constellations, all nicely labeled. Poke around and you can even find the International Space Station, 200 miles up.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard-your-social-news/id358801284?mt=8" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard-your-social-news/id358801284?mt=8">Flipboard</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">One thing you'll quickly discover is that there's a lot of stuff out there to read! What you really need, though, is a way to easily read the news you choose. This is a delightful and easy-to-use app that brings together the news sources you select as well as Facebook posts, Instagram photos, YouTube videos and anything else you'd like, all in a fun and responsive magazine format.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id302584613" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id302584613">Kindle</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">For regular book reading, there's no cleaner reader than the Kindle app. It's available on every platform you can think of, including smartphones. And the Kindle reader keeps your place for you, too, no matter what you're reading it on.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051?mt=8" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051?mt=8">Netflix</a> or <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hulu-plus/id376510438?l=es&mt=8" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hulu-plus/id376510438?l=es&mt=8">Hulu</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Those beautiful screens are there for a reason. Netflix and Hulu give you great movies and TV shows to watch on them. Netflix requires a streaming subscription; the movie selection is so-so, but the TV back catalog is pretty extensive. Hulu has some free stuff for casual users; its subscription service unlocks a lot of good films and a big array of TV shows too, including recent episodes of Saturday Night Live, the Daily Show, and Law & Order.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8">Evernote</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Evernote takes your notes and puts them in the cloud, so they're accessible from any other device you care to sync to it. Text, photos, and even audio, Evernote can handle it. If you are trying to get organized, this will help you make it happen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skype-for-iphone/id304878510?mt=8" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skype-for-iphone/id304878510?mt=8">Skype</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">You might have heard about "Skyping," but might not understand exactly what that means. Skype is a quick and easy way to have video chats with friends and family all over the word. Best of all, your calls are free. Download the app and sign up for an account. Then start hunting for friends!</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8">Photoshop Express</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Tablets are a great place to edit pictures. All you need is a good app to work with. Adobe's Photoshop Express does the job. It's a (very) lite but extremely useful version of its famous high-end product, Photoshop. You'll find it gives you the tools you need to lighten backgrounds, adjust colors and crop photos.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-express/id404243625?mt=12" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchbook-express/id404243625?mt=12">Sketchbook Express</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Tablets can showcase the artist inside all of us. Right now, it seems many of the most acclaimed drawing and painting apps work on Apple products with one exception. Sketchbook Express, available for both Apple and Android tablets, has a dense palette of brushes, colors and textures to work with, all from the moves of your fingers on the tablet's purchase. It's great for artists of all ages.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-saver-improve-battery/id615987910?mt=8" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-saver-improve-battery/id615987910?mt=8">Battery Saver</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">One of the biggest drains on the battery is your tablet's bright high-definition screen. Keeping the screen slightly dimmed can add hours of battery life. You'll also want to turn off your gadget's wireless communications when you don't need them. That includes cellular, Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth signals, which are constantly roaming and eating into battery life. Use a free app like Battery Saver, to sniff out power-hogging apps and programs.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Kim Komando hosts the nation's largest talk radio show about consumer electronics, computers and the Internet. To get the podcast, watch the show or find the station nearest you, visit <a href="http://www.komando.com/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.komando.com/">www.komando.com</a>. E-mail her at <a href="mailto:techcomments@usatoday.com" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="mailto:techcomments@usatoday.com/">techcomments@usatoday.com</a>.</i></div></div>

10 great apps for your new tablet (BLOG)

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Fumble in first clash with 49ers changed Eddie Lacy's rookie season (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-2OdTi0k5AtKc1oId2CVoaJDz60ThOY8W-GPB4xO0nSV5iL5fKuIpLBq4o2YgEubFlCRAtqNVvhwV7cDXGTdfw06DaYg_GZd64A_RRRTc-xue0C-D-0s-MPW2rWrBHxi7Qi7UPU-Kvc/s1600/1388785816000-USATSI-7623507.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf-2OdTi0k5AtKc1oId2CVoaJDz60ThOY8W-GPB4xO0nSV5iL5fKuIpLBq4o2YgEubFlCRAtqNVvhwV7cDXGTdfw06DaYg_GZd64A_RRRTc-xue0C-D-0s-MPW2rWrBHxi7Qi7UPU-Kvc/s320/1388785816000-USATSI-7623507.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">GREEN BAY, Wis. — The first time Eddie Lacy faced the 49ers, he got benched after his first career fumble led to a San Francisco touchdown.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Green Bay Packers' rookie halfback hasn't fumbled since – and he'll get a chance in Sunday's NFC wild-card playoff game to show the 49ers how far he has come.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I think I developed a lot," Lacy said Friday. "I'm playing a lot faster, a lot calmer. I think I'm a much better player now than I was then."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">PREDICTIONS: </span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2014/01/03/staff-picks-wild-card-playoffs-2013-awards/4305917/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2014/01/03/staff-picks-wild-card-playoffs-2013-awards/4305917/">Picks and our season awards</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">PACKERS: </span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2014/01/03/aaron-rodgers-green-bay-nfc-north-san-francisco-49ers/4304649/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2014/01/03/aaron-rodgers-green-bay-nfc-north-san-francisco-49ers/4304649/">Rodgers looking like himself</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">A thickly built second-round draft pick out of Alabama, Lacy has run for 1,178 yards and 11 touchdowns, making him a strong candidate for rookie of the year despite an ankle injury that has bothered him the past month.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He was limited in practice this week but listed as probable on Friday's injury report, along with everyone else on the Packers' injury report except linebacker Clay Matthews, who is out with a broken thumb.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I definitely feel a lot better," Lacy said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">That's good news for the Packers, who ranked seventh in rushing at 133.5 yards a game this season – up from 20th in 2012 and their highest ranking since they were third in 2003, with Ahman Green at the top of his game.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"He's always been a hard runner. He's just gotten into a groove," offensive coordinator Tom Clements said of Lacy, who's listed at 5-11 and 230 pounds.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"It's unusual for a single tackler to bring him down. He's always fighting and pushing hard and trying to get extra yards, and that motivates (the offensive line) to do what they can to help him get his yards."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Sunday, they'll be going against one of the NFL's top run defenses on what's expected to be a frigid afternoon at Lambeau Field.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">In the first meeting this season, the 49ers held Green Bay to 63 yards on 19 carries, including 41 yards on 14 carries and a touchdown for Lacy, who admitted being nervous.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"He's a totally different back. It's night and day," receiver James Jones said. "Way more comfortable. Way more confident. They'll have to account for him."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Despite a projected game-time temperature Sunday around zero, Lacy said he'll stick with his custom of not wearing sleeves.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He's not taking any chances with what that might to do to his ball security, given what happened four months ago in San Francisco.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I like being on the field," Lacy said, "so I try not to make mistakes that'll get you taken off of it."</div><div class="story-asset video-asset" id="module-position-M3c5swBOH5E" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><div class="video" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject" style="display: inline-block; height: 304px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 60px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 540px;"><img alt="" class="videoStill" height="304" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/fd7cf0f07db23e04787c44bf5a19473d907ce74d/r=x307&c=540x304/http/videos.usatoday.net/Brightcove2/29906170001/2014/01/29906170001_3001170316001_USATSI-7641550-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100%; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 0;" width="540" /></div></div><div><div class="video" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject" style="display: inline-block; height: 304px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 60px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 540px;"><br /></div></div></div>

Fumble in first clash with 49ers changed Eddie Lacy's rookie season (BLOG)

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It's Caturday Again!

<br />Heh, little motherfucker. Cats on the counter piss me off something fierce.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWksmU64CkVkEqepCOKmqcUcUyPZzJ_gR_2gU_Nmp6fM9HNm-6tHgPx17axH-R6dzgVgonEn3NabEjsp_7__l9GgSrZ0bSdr3q3hLbABUofG3yqXK7N90jDKNulBwuB43DPO9wdSbLGGST/s1600/kitchen-thief.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWksmU64CkVkEqepCOKmqcUcUyPZzJ_gR_2gU_Nmp6fM9HNm-6tHgPx17axH-R6dzgVgonEn3NabEjsp_7__l9GgSrZ0bSdr3q3hLbABUofG3yqXK7N90jDKNulBwuB43DPO9wdSbLGGST/s640/kitchen-thief.gif" /></a></div><br />Apparently someone else got tired of that shit too.<br />The marshmallows are a nice touch but mouse traps would have been even better.<br />

It's Caturday Again!

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Scientists Find Sniffing Rosemary Can Increase Memory By 75%

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Scientists Find Sniffing Rosemary Can Increase Memory By 75 Percent" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2089" height="403" src="http://www.herbs-info.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Scientists-Find-Sniffing-Rosemary-Can-Increase-Memory-By-75-Percent.jpg" width="403" /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'Rosemary is a wonderful herb with a tradition of use spanning millennia. It has innumerable uses in both the kitchen and in herbal medicine.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Did you know that rosemary has been associated with memory enhancement since ancient times? It is true – and it has even been referred to from the latter part of the Elizabethan Era to the Early Romantic period as the herb of remembrance. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia says, “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.” (Hamlet, iv. 5.) It has also long been used as a symbol for remembrance during weddings, war commemorations and funerals in Europe and Australia. [1] Mourners in old times would wear it as a buttonhole, burn it as incense or throw it into graves as a symbol of remembrance for the dead.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.herbs-info.com/blog/scientists-find-sniffing-rosemary-can-increase-memory-by-75/">more... </a></span>

Scientists Find Sniffing Rosemary Can Increase Memory By 75%

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This Little Weed is one of the Most Useful Medicines on the Planet

<h1><img alt="plantain" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3376" height="599" src="http://www.thefutureofhealthnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/plantain.jpg" width="800" /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo Credit:www.thefutureofhealthnow.com</span></h1><h1><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>'You’ve stepped on it, ignored it, and tried to eradicate it from your lawn. However, this innocuous little weed is one of the most useful medicines on the planet, just begging to be harvested.'</h1><span style="font-size: large;">'There are two major types of plantain in BC, Canada: Lance and Broadleaf. Generally, all 200-plus varieties of plantain yield the same results. It grows especially well in poor, rocky soil (such as driveways) and is often seen alongside dandelion. More often than not, you will see plantain growing in gravel pits and construction sites as nature seeks to regenerate the soil.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.thefutureofhealthnow.com/little-weed-one-useful-medicines-planet/">more... </a></span>

This Little Weed is one of the Most Useful Medicines on the Planet

Photo Credit:www.thefutureofhealthnow.com   'You’ve stepped on it, ignored it, and tried to eradicate it from your lawn. However, this ...

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Mental Handcuffs – A Kid’s View of ADHD Medications

<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="248" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Bq1iXU1WoTk" width="440"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq1iXU1WoTk" target="_blank">Minimum Max’</a>, a short film created by high school student Josh Ovalle, presents the viewer with a modern day dilemma that many kids are faced with. In an educational system that demands <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/11/23/the-psychology-of-tyranny-vs-nature-of-conformity/" title="The Psychology of Tyranny vs. the Nature of Conformity">conformity and uniformity</a>, being labelled ‘below average’ exposes a child to increased time at school with tutors, a more rigorous daily schedule, and the stigma of being lesser than the other kids. In addition to the extra work involved, many ‘below average’ or unmanageable kids are diagnosed as having <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/07/11/childrens-adhd-prescriptions-increase-nine-fold-ages-three-and-up/" target="_blank" title="Children’s ADHD Prescriptions Increase Nine-fold, Ages Three and Up">ADD or ADHD</a> and are put on mind-altering medications as a means of correcting their behavior and inducing conformity.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/01/02/mental-handcuffs-kids-view-adhd-medications/">more... </a></span>

Mental Handcuffs – A Kid’s View of ADHD Medications

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Did You Know that Nasal Flu Vax Recipients Can Pass the Flu to Everyone Around Them for Up to 21 Days?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="flumist" class="size-full wp-image-2820 aligncenter" height="292" src="http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/flumist.jpg" width="400" /></div>Photo Credit: The Organic Prepper<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">‘Did you know that when a person receives the “FluMist” flu vaccine that anyone around them becomes exposed to the flu as the recipient “sheds” the viruses contained within the vaccine?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">With all of the propaganda about how you MUST be vaccinated in order to protect those around you, you’d think that they would warn people who receive this vaccine that they’ve just become the most contagious person in the room, particularly if the person has been browbeaten into receiving the vaccine to “protect” a loved one with a lowered immune system.’</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/did-you-know-that-nasal-flu-vax-recipients-can-pass-the-flu-to-everyone-around-them-for-up-to-21-days-01032014">more... </a></span>

Did You Know that Nasal Flu Vax Recipients Can Pass the Flu to Everyone Around Them for Up to 21 Days?

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Mise à jour au 1er janvier 2014 des "Chiffres sociaux utiles"

<BR><br />Par application des dispositions légales, le taux horaire du SMIC a été porté au 1er janvier 2014 à <span style="font-weight:bold;">9,22€ brut</span> (contre 9,19€ depuis le 1er décembre 2014) soit 1398,37€ brut par mois pour 151,67h de travail. <br /><br /><a title="View MDE chiffres sociaux 012014 on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/77126657/MDE-chiffres-sociaux-012014" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">MDE chiffres sociaux 012014</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/77126657/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-xwlenpi7kz4r2rzoe7p" data-auto-height="true" data-aspect-ratio="0.706697459584296" scrolling="no" id="doc_91720" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();</script><br /><BR>

Mise à jour au 1er janvier 2014 des "Chiffres sociaux utiles"

Par application des dispositions légales, le taux horaire du SMIC a été porté au 1er janvier 2014 à 9,22€ brut (contre 9,19€ depuis le 1er ...

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Jennifer Hudson Gives Her Personal Assistant a House for Christmas (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1h0KIeYub6w_7JleCMF3u4ltvCKpL1xCPeFV1Z6OnUSvdaw0b3bzWWG3c1_9oxJ9qrzemVUUlYcz41BdbZz_x9dGplllX0IExch0aEG6_mxGQIPnyiCmsThh5GXkgWFqwx8RiWYVjs7c/s1600/jennifer-hudson-600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1h0KIeYub6w_7JleCMF3u4ltvCKpL1xCPeFV1Z6OnUSvdaw0b3bzWWG3c1_9oxJ9qrzemVUUlYcz41BdbZz_x9dGplllX0IExch0aEG6_mxGQIPnyiCmsThh5GXkgWFqwx8RiWYVjs7c/s320/jennifer-hudson-600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">She's a </span><a class="tracklink3" href="http://www.peoplestylewatch.com/people/stylewatch/package/gallery/0,,20658247_20676942_21286489,00.html" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: #067ab4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">world-class singer</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">, an </span><a class="tracklink3" href="http://www.peoplestylewatch.com/people/stylewatch/package/gallery/0,,20552373_20571079_21121777,00.html" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: #067ab4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Oscar-winning actress</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">. And a </span><em style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">very</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> generous boss. </span><br style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a class="celebdb tracklink3" href="http://www.people.com/people/jennifer_hudson" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: #067ab4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Jennifer Hudson</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> offered up major love for her personal assistant this Christmas, surprising Walter Williams with his very own new house, reports New York's </span><a class="tracklink3" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/jennifer-hudson-surprises-assistant-house-christmas-article-1.1565286" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: #067ab4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Daily News</em></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">. </span><br style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">His reaction was both shocked and loud as Williams is seen on an </span><a class="tracklink3" href="http://instagram.com/p/imDZM6uEpW/" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: #067ab4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Instagram video</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a class="tracklink3" href="http://www.peoplestylewatch.com/people/stylewatch/gallery/0,,20159269_30029777,00.html" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: #067ab4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">posted by Hudson</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">, 32, as he screams repeatedly upon learning of her over-the-top gift. </span><br style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Hudson's friendship with Williams runs deep. They met in the sixth grade at Chicago's Yale Elementary School, Hudson told the </span><a class="tracklink3" href="http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/music/2011/03/22/jennifer-hudson-feeling-good?page=0,2" style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: #067ab4; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><em style="background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Advocate</em></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> in 2011. </span><br style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br /><br style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 50%; border: 0px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">"He's by far my closest friend," she explains. </span></div>

Jennifer Hudson Gives Her Personal Assistant a House for Christmas (BLOG)

She's a  world-class singer , an  Oscar-winning actress . And a  very  generous boss.  Jennifer Hudson  offered up major love for her pe...

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Emerging markets: Cheap but risky investment (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6VFe6BnwxxrQYq_Os5ibxH7FqsZmAgB4JQntySVp4VEp2hI2iaKCNL8wWeN2MbjLFycRzknldMzcDVdiZdEgQAbyYnPcrKG_qm_vXfvp81F_V5l25hWdh9Pa-Dql_rpknEel215x_nM/s1600/1388707992000-AP-India-Religious-Riots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic6VFe6BnwxxrQYq_Os5ibxH7FqsZmAgB4JQntySVp4VEp2hI2iaKCNL8wWeN2MbjLFycRzknldMzcDVdiZdEgQAbyYnPcrKG_qm_vXfvp81F_V5l25hWdh9Pa-Dql_rpknEel215x_nM/s320/1388707992000-AP-India-Religious-Riots.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">You should always leave the New Year's party before you start an argument with a ficus, and it's certainly best to leave before you lose the fight. Similarly, it's best to come to some investments early and leave them early, which brings us to emerging markets funds.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Emerging markets funds had a lousy 2013, but they started to heat up in the last quarter. Furthermore, they're reasonably cheap, something you can't really say about the U.S. market anymore. And, much like a party, they're much more fun as more people join in. You simply have to be willing to leave early, or be willing to be stuck with a mess when the party ends.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Emerging markets are Wall Street's name for the stock markets in countries that are not among the leading industrialized nations, such as the U.S., Japan and most of Western Europe. We're talking about such countries as Poland in Europe, Thailand in Asia and Brazil in Latin America.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The average emerging markets fund fell 0.1% last year, which is not bad by emerging markets standards. In fact, it's terrific. The worst 12-month fall in emerging markets was a bone-grinding 58% loss in the 12 months ended February 2009, which eclipsed the funds' 45% loss during the 1998 Asian currency crisis.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Nevertheless, if you bet heavily on emerging markets last year, you probably feel fairly silly, given that the average diversified U.S. stock fund gained 34%, and the average large-company international fund gained 19.6%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Why consider emerging markets now? For one thing, they're relatively cheap, compared with their past 12 months' earnings. The traditional measure of value is the price-to-earnings ratio: Lower is cheaper. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index sells for about 11.6 times its past 12 months' earnings, according to Bloomberg. The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index sells for about 19 times its 2013 earnings.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">While emerging markets aren't at their cheapest ever — that was in 1998 — they're still pretty darn cheap. So that's the first part of the argument for emerging markets: They're cheap.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If you've ever stayed in a $39 hotel room, you know that "cheap" isn't the same as "a bargain," particularly if you have to hire a guy named Cronk to stand guard outside the door. When you're looking for stock bargains, you need to get a low price combined with decent earnings potential.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">And this is where things get a bit murky, because emerging markets cover a great deal of ground. Last year, for example, the top-performing emerging markets were:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• Greece (yes, Greece), up 46%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• Taiwan, up 6.6%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• Egypt, up 6.2%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">All three countries were recovering from epic drops. Beyond them, the emerging markets were pretty much filled with bitterness and disappointment, especially the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — which were hyped in 2009 and 2010. Brazil plunged 18.7%. Russia fell 1.6%. India slid 6.1%. China lost 10.4%.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The great argument for growth in the emerging markets is the emerging consumer class there. People like good food, utilities and conveniences, and the emerging markets have seen a growing appetite for all three. Continued prosperity in the emerging markets could be a bonanza for the companies that sell there.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But growth is likely to be uneven across the emerging markets spectrum, says Stephen Wood, chief market strategist at Russell Investments. China, for example, should see 7.5% GDP growth — a rate that would be insanely fast for the U.S., but is sluggish by Chinese standards. That means that demand for commodities such as iron, steel and wood could be sluggish, as well. For emerging markets such as Brazil and Russia, that's bad news.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Further complicating matters is the Federal Reserve's decision to taper its massive bond purchases, which have kept U.S. interest rates artificially low. Higher U.S. rates mean that investors can get higher, safe returns and might not feel as inclined to send their money to more volatile emerging markets.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Cash flows to emerging markets make an enormous difference. Because some emerging markets are so small, a big blast of money into them is like filling a soda can with a fire hose. In 2012, for example, investors poured a net $43 billion into emerging markets funds, which rose 18% that year. Flows last year were about $27 billion. Should investors feel that there are better opportunities in the U.S., inflows to emerging markets could fall further.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If you believe in buying stocks cheaply, however, it's hard to overlook emerging markets. You might consider three ways to play emerging markets:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• <span style="font-weight: 700;">Via a value fund.</span> Value managers look for stocks that are cheap, relative to earnings. One consideration: Schwab Fundamental Emerging Markets Index (ticker: SFENX), which also charges just 0.5% in annual expenses.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• <span style="font-weight: 700;">Via a broad-based index fund.</span> Vanguard Emerging Markets index (VEIEX) will give you broad exposure to emerging markets, and for just 0.33% a year in expenses.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">• <span style="font-weight: 700;">Via an actively managed fund.</span> You'll pay more, but funds such as Driehaus Emerging Markets Growth (DREGX), Northern Multi-Manager Emerging Markets (NMMEX) and T. Rowe Price Emerging Markets (PRMSX) all have good long-term records.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If you do invest in emerging markets, keep them to a relatively small percentage of your portfolio — say, 10% or less. Why so little? Because many U.S. companies get a big share of earnings from emerging markets, so you have exposure there. And many international funds have a chunk of assets in emerging markets, too. Emerging markets are attractive, but you don't want a hangover.</div></div>

Emerging markets: Cheap but risky investment (BLOG)

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Bell: Questions to ponder heading into NFL playoffs (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWS3EJ6c_gc-3mgKXmDef-NEOD2iIhnXrVW1pkezfi3vrcyhzo6Qru9LVjyAeklfTyHoE3XOqBPvmq96bVNkrOaeIQ5vxDPRC_pGKgOPVrcYzszwzyCGirEVNua5JxpOm352OzjbIJmxQ/s1600/1388718143000-USATSI-7613060.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWS3EJ6c_gc-3mgKXmDef-NEOD2iIhnXrVW1pkezfi3vrcyhzo6Qru9LVjyAeklfTyHoE3XOqBPvmq96bVNkrOaeIQ5vxDPRC_pGKgOPVrcYzszwzyCGirEVNua5JxpOm352OzjbIJmxQ/s320/1388718143000-USATSI-7613060.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The answers will be provided soon enough, where it matters most – on the field.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But as another NFL postseason kicks off this weekend, the questions persist.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">A few things to wonder about …</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">How dangerous are the Packers with Aaron Rodgers back?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Green Bay's wait for its former MVP quarterback to return from a broken collarbone was rewarded by the best-case scenario.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">You know what they say: Just get in. Anything can happen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Like last weekend, when Rodgers connected with Randall Cobb on a 46-yard, fourth-down heave at Chicago that won the NFC North crown. Or like three years ago, when the Packers got in as a sixth seed and won it all.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Packers (8-7-1) were 6-2 this season in games that Rodgers started and finished. But there can be no magical playoff run this time unless Green Bay, suspect defense in tow, can find a way to handle a physical 49ers team that it has succumbed to three times since the start of the 2012 season.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">VIDEO: Wild card weekend story lines</span></div><div class="story-asset video-asset" id="module-position-M3cy5vDf29Q" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><div class="video" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject" style="display: inline-block; height: 304px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 60px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 540px;"><img alt="" class="videoStill" height="304" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/fd7cf0f07db23e04787c44bf5a19473d907ce74d/r=x307&c=540x304/http/videos.usatoday.net/Brightcove2/29906170001/2014/01/29906170001_3002010711001_Screen-Shot-2014-01-02-at-9-48-35-AM.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; max-width: 100%; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 0;" width="540" /><div class="videoStillPlay" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/usat-web-static-12.2.2/images/buttons/button_video_play.png); background-position: 0px -2px; cursor: pointer; height: 91px; left: 270px; margin: -46px 0px 0px -46px; position: absolute; top: 152px; visibility: visible; width: 93px; z-index: 0;"></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Can the Saints finally win a road playoff game?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">With the forecast for temperatures near 32 degrees in Philadelphia on Saturday night, New Orleans coach Sean Payton had his team practice outdoors this week.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Saints are 0-5 in road playoff games in franchise history. The 3-5 road record during the just-completed regular season reflected that a Drew Brees-armed offense scores about half as much on the road as it does in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. New Orleans averaged 34 points per game at home, 17.8 on the road.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Saints are bringing a better defense under first-year coordinator Rob Ryan -- New Orleans ranked fourth for yards allowed one season after allowing an NFL-record 7,092 yards. Yet the unit couldn't hold up in crunchtime of two of the most heartbreaking road losses this season – at New England and at Carolina. So it still might take winning a shootout.</div><div class="story-asset image-asset" id="module-position-M3cy5vEVKxw" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px;"><img alt="2014-01-02-cam-newton" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/89bbbb030fc81029937a0c0535b8c61f8991ca4a/c=0-148-1456-1243&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2014/01/02//1388718311000-USATSI-7640645.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">The Carolina Panthers are a heavy run time, but do they need more from quarterback Cam Newton in order to succeed in the postseason?<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Daniel Shirey, USA TODAY Sports)</span></div></aside><div class="clearfix"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Does Cam Newton have to produce bigger passing games for the Panthers to advance?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Not necessarily. The Panthers are built for the tough, gritty, tightly contested games that often mark the higher competition of postseason football. One of the NFL's most dominant defenses will keep them in most games, and they have demonstrated a knack for rallying to pull out games at the finish.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Yet balance is a virtue. Carolina has the NFL's 29th-ranked passing attack. And with Newton's most proven wideout, Steve Smith, nursing a knee injury, the ripple effect could be a crucial factor.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Still, Carolina has been one of the NFL's best teams on third downs. While Newton hasn't produced the huge passing numbers, he's raised his game by making better decisions that ultimately reduce the chances of losing.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">And with the game on the line, all stats go out the window.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Can Andy Dalton raise his game for the Bengals?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Dalton is just the fifth quarterback in NFL history to lead his team to the playoffs in each of his first three seasons, but to this point he has not demonstrated any ability to spark his team to a higher level in January. Cincinnati was eliminated the last two seasons in first-round openers at Houston, with Dalton combining for four picks and zero TDs.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Yet playing in his first home playoff game should make a difference – at least for the opening round. In going 8-0 at home this season, Cincinnati averaged 34.4 points and posted an average margin of victory of 17.6 points per game.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Still, it has been such an up-and-down season for Dalton. He ranked third in the NFL with 33 TD passes, but no quarterback in the playoffs threw as many interceptions (20).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">How can the Patriots offense thrive without Gronk?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">It has been a season of adjustments for Tom Brady and the New England offense, but losing the 6-6 weapon that is all-pro tight end Rob Gronkowski becomes more glaring in the red zone. The Patriots have plugged leaks with the likes of receivers Danny Amendola and Julian Edelman, but they lack the radius to create red-zone mismatches.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">So much will undoubtedly ride on Brady's arm. Despite Brady's modest numbers this season, his impact in developing targets throughout the season has been essential.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">But he can't create another Gronkowski. Maybe New England's best answer when it gets into the red zone was demonstrated in Week 17 with the power running of LeGarrette Blount, whose 24-carry, 189-yard game was the biggest rushing performance by a Patriot since 1998.</div><div class="story-asset image-asset" id="module-position-M3cy5vF5Q3c" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px;"><img alt="2014-01-02-crabtree" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/d51349adbb69052d8ef1b77192c566d65e4be5dc/c=142-0-3451-2488&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2014/01/02//1388718599000-USATSI-7593532.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree could be the key to the team revitalizing its passing attack in the playoffs.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports)</span></div></aside><div class="clearfix"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Have the 49ers solved their issues in the passing game?</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Getting Michael Crabtree back surely made a difference. It is no coincidence that Colin Kaepernick – who finished the regular season with a 310-yard outing at Arizona that marked his biggest passing game since his career-high 412-yard game in Week 1 against Green Bay – has been in a better rhythm since Crabtree returned from his torn Achilles in Week 13.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">During the last six games, when the 49ers mounted a six-game winning streak that is longest in the NFL as the playoffs begin, Kaepernick has a 10-1 TD-to-interception ratio that is best in the league.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">With their tough defense and potent rushing attack, the 49ers probably don't need Kaepernick to pass for 300 yards on a weekly basis. But if they can throw effectively when they need to or want to – and Crabtree's presence opens windows for Anquan Boldin and Vernon Davis -- it would add another dimension to the most dangerous wild-card entrant in the playoffs.</div><div class="story-asset gallery-asset" id="module-position-M3cy5vFsuSc" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><div class="sports-story-gallery sports-story-gallery0"><div class="galleries embedded_story hasendslate" data-base-page-type="gallery" data-cst="sports/football/nfl" data-gal-pageurl="http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/sports/nfl/2014/01/01/2013-mvps-for-each-nfl-team/4275213/" data-gallery-id="4275213" data-seo-title="2013-mvps-for-each-nfl-team" data-ssts="sports/nfl" data-title="2013 MVPs for each NFL team:2013 MVPs for each NFL team" data-topic="sports,sports_nfl" style="background-color: #fafafa; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(242, 242, 242); height: 550px !important; margin: 10px 0px 20px 60px; position: relative; width: 540px;"><br /></div></div></div></div>

Bell: Questions to ponder heading into NFL playoffs (BLOG)

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Calif. man to share $648M lottery jackpot (BLOG)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiK5m9zn8Qbrw3o1Kn9VASQeGp-tORSZZUyuPSqyk2T4RhVidMsCy8BtiQ_NrDOwArLH298fGFuqANXoVjLNTiEsgXmwFHwuSBN76XzoGnGDFNC05IoXfk2_jMxCeRfgEZWMYCeGQV2w/s1600/1388776420000-AP-APTOPIX-Mega-Millions-Jackpot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiK5m9zn8Qbrw3o1Kn9VASQeGp-tORSZZUyuPSqyk2T4RhVidMsCy8BtiQ_NrDOwArLH298fGFuqANXoVjLNTiEsgXmwFHwuSBN76XzoGnGDFNC05IoXfk2_jMxCeRfgEZWMYCeGQV2w/s320/1388776420000-AP-APTOPIX-Mega-Millions-Jackpot.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">A California man who didn't realize for more than two weeks that he had a winning Mega Million lottery ticket has come forward to claim half of a $648 million jackpot, the second largest in U.S. history, California Lottery officials said Friday.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The other winner, a Georgia woman who bought her ticket in Atlanta, has already claimed her winnings.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Steve Tran, a frequent lottery player who lives in Northern California, said he had read about the big jackpot drawing on Dec. 17 and knew that "everybody was anxious, looking for the person."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Because he and his family had gone on vacation without checking their tickets, it didn't dawn on Tran until Monday that he might have a winner among the pile he keeps in a drawer.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I woke up in the middle of the night," Tran told the Lottery officials. "I remembered, I think I went to San Jose."</div><div class="story-asset image-asset" id="module-position-M3cxaXf7AFQ" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px;"><img alt="Mega Millions Jackpot" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/bc149b4532b91ff374d0a3a6c708d5ef2eb8de05/c=272-0-4782-3390&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2014/01/03//1388777460000-AP-Mega-Millions-Jackpot.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Customers crowd Jenny's gift shop to purchase lottery tickets Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, in San Jose, Calif. Two lucky winning tickets were sold in a $648 million Mega Millions drawing on Dec. 17. The second winner was purchased in Atlanta.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Ben Margot AP)</span></div></aside><div class="clearfix"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Tran, who drives a delivery truck, said he and his family had visited San Jose because of its large Vietnamese community, where they can also eat and shop, <i>The San Jose Mercury News </i><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24840318/california-lottery-324-million-mega-millions-winn" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24840318/california-lottery-324-million-mega-millions-winn">reports</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">He said the winner -- with numbers 8, 14, 17, 20, 39 and a Mega number of 7 -- was among five he bought at Jenny's Gift & Kids Wear in a San Jose strip mall.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">After doublechecking the number on Monday, Tran said, he called his boss and left a message: "I'm really sorry boss. I hit the jackpot. I don't think I'm going to come in today, tomorrow, or ever."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The other winner of the big jackpot was identified as Ira Curry of Georgia. She took a lump sum payout of $123 million after taxes.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Thuy Nguyen, owner of the San Jose gift shop, will get $1 million for selling a jackpot winner.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Contributing: The Associated Press</i></div></div>

Calif. man to share $648M lottery jackpot (BLOG)

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIhWmcWw8mjgQ0qhKLH52wqajSp6-bXYMktBlRrxOaOD-2pburp1Kx8Csx06z-sd6REsuNfOAFSGyvniojZQDRRSAqgMOSPAJIPd9fzPLdRJA-UExVferYkP4B6mE0Zzh3Bj-b9dXzSJl/s1600/alyssa+milano+hot+naked+jay+mohr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIhWmcWw8mjgQ0qhKLH52wqajSp6-bXYMktBlRrxOaOD-2pburp1Kx8Csx06z-sd6REsuNfOAFSGyvniojZQDRRSAqgMOSPAJIPd9fzPLdRJA-UExVferYkP4B6mE0Zzh3Bj-b9dXzSJl/s400/alyssa+milano+hot+naked+jay+mohr.jpg" width="290" /></a>Matt farts, Jay belches, you admire their manliness…<br /><br />Matt:  Hello?  Hello?  Lady of the house speaking.<br />Jay:  Lady of the house?  Dude you need to man up.<br />Matt:  Dude, I was being funny.<br />Jay:  Well there’s funny, and then there is effeminate-ancy.<br />Matt:  Is that a word?<br />Jay:  Well, it is now, because it’s on the internet.<br />Matt:  Good point.<br /><br />Jay:  How was your New Year’s Eve?<br />Matt:  Uneventful but pleasant.  Schmoop wore tight fittin’ booty shorts.<br />Jay:  That’s HOT.  How come?<br />Matt:  I asked her to. <br />Jay:  Oh wow.  That’s skill right there.<br />Matt:  Word…How was yours?<br />Jay:  Just dandy.  Making the New Year cheese ball for today as we welcome in 2014.<br />Matt:  Making a cheese ball?  And you call me effeminate?<br />Jay:  Listen…I am a man who can make cheese balls AND cook.  Chicks dig that.<br />Matt:  By God they do…y’know…you and I have developed are manly skills to the nth degree.<br /><br />Jay:  Oh I know.  We are witty and sensitive.<br />Matt:  We can cook and are runway fashion plates.<br />Jay:  We are handy around the house and know how to feminize the ladies.<br />Matt:  We offer to get our napkins after they forget to bring one when they bring us our sandwich.<br />Jay:  Damn dude…When I think about it?  We have a lot of knowledge to offer to men everywhere.<br />Matt:  And it would be rude of us to keep it to ourselves.<br />Jay:  It would be.<br /><br />Matt:  Alright then…Sunday we should do a <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2014/01/06/the-mans-survival-guide-for-2014" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Man’s Survival Guide</span></i></a> type show on IWS Radio.<br />Jay:  Hell yeah.  If we don’t impart our tips on how to become a valued and lusted after man, we are sinning.<br />Matt:  I don’t want to sin.<br />Jay:  Me neither.  Sinning is…well, a sin.<br />Matt:  Well said.<br />Jay:  Thank You.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfUrzcFZ3tuuRXxR-N15uJDcGYsGe2fFAM9aLAdeSniyukpoIZKBSHQC0_q1dfCzSpEMYrndRSCVILP0GfBIZUYrcbWFfNcfUpH767EEPGEfb6bRTRREktD2VlMymVhrAqjwNVDWPF_daz/s1600/Best+Cheese+Ball+Recipe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfUrzcFZ3tuuRXxR-N15uJDcGYsGe2fFAM9aLAdeSniyukpoIZKBSHQC0_q1dfCzSpEMYrndRSCVILP0GfBIZUYrcbWFfNcfUpH767EEPGEfb6bRTRREktD2VlMymVhrAqjwNVDWPF_daz/s320/Best+Cheese+Ball+Recipe.jpg" width="320" /></a>Matt:  So?  This <i><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2014/01/06/the-mans-survival-guide-for-2014" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sunday from 8-10 PM ET</span></a></i> on the IWS Radio Show we will help every guy in the universe.<br />Jay:  Damn straight.  Teach guys how to cook, dress, build a career.<br />Matt:  Find that special lady and leave her wanting more every time.<br />Jay:  I bet Rev. Moneymaker and Stubby Stonehenge could help with some insightful words.<br />Matt:  As could Bobby Kraft and Barry Resnick.<br /><br />Jay:  This is going to be huge, because men everywhere will call-in for our advice.<br />Matt:  If they don’t, they aren’t real men.<br />Jay:  Damn straight.  That would make them pussies and won’t be getting any of what they are.<br />Matt:  You speak the truth.  Off to make a baloney sandwich and look at Scar-Jo pics Jayman.<br />Jay:  Okay.  Ima gonna finish the cheese ball and see if Alyssa Milano will retweet me again.<br />Matt and Jay:  See ya Sunday on the Radio!!<br /><br />To listen LIVE to IWS Radio’s, <i><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2014/01/06/the-mans-survival-guide-for-2014" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Man’s Survival Guide to 2014</span></a></i> Sunday from 8-10 PM ET on Blog Talk Radio click <i><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2014/01/06/the-mans-survival-guide-for-2014" target="_blank">HERE!!</a></span></i><br />.  </div>

Matt Said, Jay Said...9373277200

Matt farts, Jay belches, you admire their manliness… Matt:  Hello?  Hello?  Lady of the house speaking. Jay:  Lady of the house?  Dude you n...

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