jeudi 14 novembre 2013

World War II Reunions Poignant For Dwindling Veterans

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DAYTON, Ohio -- DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Paul Young rarely talked about his service during World War II — about the B-25 bomber he piloted, about his 57 missions, about the dangers he faced or the fears he overcame.

"Some things you just don't talk about," he said.

But Susan Frymier had a hunch that if she could journey from Fort Wayne, Ind., with her 92-year-old dad for a reunion of his comrades in the 57th Bomb wing, he would open up.

She was right: On a private tour at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force near Dayton, amid fellow veterans of flights over southern Europe and Germany, Young rattled off vivid details of his plane, crewmates, training and some of his most harrowing missions.

"Dad, you can't remember what you ate yesterday, but you remember everything about World War II," his daughter said, beaming.

When Young came home from the war, more than 70 years ago, there were 16 million veterans like him — young soldiers, sailors and Marines who returned to work, raise families, build lives. Over the decades, children grew up, married, had children of their own; careers were built and faded into retirement; love affairs followed the path from the altar to the homestead and often, sadly, to the graveyard.

Through it all, the veterans would occasionally get together to remember the greatest formative experience of their lives. But as the years wore on, there were fewer and fewer of them. According to the Department of Veteran Affairs, just a little over 1 million remain. The ones who remain are in their 80s and 90s, and many are infirm or fragile.

So the reunions, when they are held, are more sparsely attended — yearly reminders of the passing of the Greatest Generation.

—When veterans of the Battle of the Bulge gathered in Kansas City this summer, only 40 came, according to organizers, down from 63 last year and 350 in 2004.

—Of the 80 members of Doolittle's Raiders who set out on their daring attack on mainland Japan in 1942, 73 survived. Seventy-one years later, only four remain; they decided this year's April reunion in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., would be their last, though they agreed to meet Nov. 9 for a final toast in honor of those who have gone before them.

—A half-century ago, when retired Army First Lt. Frank Towers went to his first reunion of the 30th Infantry Division — soldiers who landed at the beaches of Normandy and fought across France and Germany — he was surrounded by 1,000 other veterans.

"Now if I get 50, I'm lucky," said Towers, who is working on plans for a reunion next February in Savannah, Ga. "Age has taken its toll on us. A lot of our members have passed away, and many of them who are left are in health situations where they can't travel."

So why persist?

"It's a matter of camaraderie," Towers said. "We spent basically a year or more together through hell or high water. We became a band of brothers. We can relate to each other in ways we can't relate to (anyone else). You weren't there. These guys were there. They know the horrors we went through."

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As many as 11,000 people served in the 57th Bomb Wing that flew missions over German-held Europe from North Africa and the island of Corsica during most of the war. Hundreds survive, according to wing historians and reunion organizers. Only nine veterans made it to this fall's event.

George Williams, 90, recalled earlier reunions with his comrades, "having a great time yukking it up and talking about things." No one else from his squadron came to this one.

"All of a sudden, it's lonesome," said Williams, a native of Visalia, Calif., who moved after his wife's death to Springfield, Mo., where his son lives. "All of the people you ran around with are on the wrong side of the grass. You wonder why you're so lucky."

But in a Holiday Inn hospitality suite with patriotic bunting, bowls of pretzels and chips with soft drinks at their tables, the stories flowed easily.

Williams remembered the tension of his first mission, his hand ready at the tag that would release him to bail out if necessary. It went without incident, and upon their return to base, a flight surgeon measured out two ounces of whiskey for each crewman. "Sixty-nine to go," he said then, because 70 missions was considered the tour of duty. Sometimes on later missions, he would pour the two ounces into a beer bottle to save up for a night when he needed numbing.

Robert Crouse, of Clinton, Tenn., is 89 years old, but he remembers as if it happened yesterday the time a shell blew out the cockpit windshield ("you could stick your head through it"), disabling much of the control panel. Another plane escorted the bomber, its pilot calling out altitude and air speed as Crouse's plane limped back to base, riddled with holes.

Young recalled flying a damaged plane back to base, hearing his tail gunner's panicked yells as Plexiglass shattered over him. "You could feel the plane vibrate; you fly through the smoke, you smell the smoke and you hear the flak hitting the plane like hail on a tin roof."

Not all the memories are bad ones. There was the late-war mission when they hit a spaghetti factory instead of the intended target ("Spaghetti was flying everywhere," recalled Crouse, chuckling). There was Williams' first Thanksgiving meal overseas: a Spam turkey, spiced and baked to perfection by an innovative cook.

"I still love Spam," he said.

Then there was R&R in Rome, hosted by the Red Cross. Young men not long removed from high school toured the Colosseum and other historic sites they had read about. They visited the Vatican; some met Pope Pius XII. Williams got a papal blessing of a rosary for his engineer's fiancee.

"It was pretty good," Williams said of his war experience, "except when they were shooting at us."

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Some of the veterans fear that their service will be forgotten after they are gone. Crouse and others have written memoirs, and many of the reunion groups now have websites, magazines and other publications in which they recount their stories.

"You just hope that the young people appreciate it," said Young. "That it was very important, if you wanted to continue the freedom that we have."

Their children remember. Some are joining them at the reunions; others keep coming after their fathers are gone.

At this year's reunion, Bob Marino led a memorial service and read the names of 42 members of the 57th Bomb Wing who died in the past year. A bugler played "Taps."

Marino, 72, a retired IRS attorney and Air Force veteran from Basking Ridge, N.J., helped organize the gathering. His Brooklyn-native father, Capt. Benjamin Marino, died in 1967 and left numerous photos from the war, and Marino set about trying to identify and organize them. To learn more about his father's experiences, he corresponded with other veterans — including Joseph Heller, who was inspired by his wartime experiences with the 57th to write his classic novel "Catch-22."

"He never talked about any of this," Marino said, turning the pages on a massive scrapbook as veterans dropped by to look at the photos. "Once in a while, something came out. I wish I had sat down and talked to him about it."

This was precisely the gift Susan Frymier received at the reunion in Dayton.

She watched as the father who had long avoided talking about the war proudly pulled from his wallet a well-worn, black-and-white snapshot of the plane he piloted, nicknamed "Heaven Can Wait" with a scantily clad, shapely female painted near the cockpit.

She listened as he described German anti-aircraft artillery fire zeroing in on his plane. "I had to get out of there. All the flak ... they were awfully close." He described "red-lining" a landing, running the engines beyond safe speed. His voice suddenly choked.

"Oh, Dad!" said his daughter, and she hugged him tightly.

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'60 Minutes' Apologizes For Benghazi Report: 'We Are Very Sorry'

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"60 Minutes" issued a brief on-air apology and correction on Sunday for its botched and mishandled report on the Benghazi attacks, but gave few details about the failures that led to its retraction of a piece it had staunchly defended.

Speaking about Dylan Davies, the discredited man at the heart of her piece, correspondent Lara Logan told viewers, "We realized we had been misled, and it was a mistake to include him in our report. For that, we are very sorry."

The venerable program was forced into an embarrassing retreat after it had defended itself for a week about the reliability of Davies, a British security officer. On Thursday night, it emerged that Davies—who had already admitted to lying to a superior about his whereabouts on the night of the attack—had also told the FBI he had been nowhere near the American compound when it took place, a statement completely at odds with the detailed, harrowing tale he told "60 Minutes."

It was the second on-air apology delivered by Logan. On Friday, she went on television to say that she was "wrong" to have put Davies on air.

Predictably, her Sunday mea culpa offered little insight into why Davies was chosen as the key source for the report, and why "60 Minutes" had so fervently defended him, even amid mounting evidence of his unreliability. Also unmentioned was what role, if any, corporate ties played in placing Davies at the heart of the piece. A conservative imprint of Simon and Schuster, which is also owned by CBS, had published a book about Benghazi by Davies. That book has since been recalled.

Many media observers pronounced themselves to be less than impressed:

Media Matters, which led the charge against the report, issued a statement from its founder David Brock, who called the apology "wholly inadequate and entirely self-serving."

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Miley Cyrus Smokes A Joint On Stage At The EMAs

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miley cyrus smokes joint emas AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - NOVEMBER 10: Miley Cyrus accepts award onstage during the MTV EMA's 2013 at the Ziggo Dome on November 10, 2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Miley Cyrus kept her MTV Europe Music Awards performances pretty tame, but we're guessing she knew she'd get people talking with her EMAs acceptance speech.

All eyes were on the 20-year-old singer as she went to collect the award for Best Video for "Wrecking Ball," telling the crowd she didn't think she would be able to fit the award in her purse as she put the trophy on the ground.

Cyrus went on to thank her fans for making the award happen, before she started digging through her bag and pulled out what appeared to be a joint. "I couldn't fit this award in my bag, but I did find this," she said holding up the joint before sparking it up.

Cyrus isn't shy about her love of marijuana. In September she told Rolling Stone, "I think weed is the best drug on earth," and since she's been in Amsterdam for the EMAs, she's reportedly been hitting up the city's famous coffee shops that allow patrons to enjoy all the weed they want.

Though it's sold openly in cafes, marijuana still isn't legal in the Netherlands, however smokers in possession of less than five grams of cannabis have no fear of prosecution, according to the Associated Press.


CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misspelled the song "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus.

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Texas And 5 Other States Resist Processing Benefits For Gay Couples

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On the morning of Sept. 3, the first day the Pentagon said they could, Alicia Butler and her spouse, Judith Chedville, who is a Texas Army National Guard officer, went to Austin’s Camp Mabry so Ms. Butler could get a military spouse identification card and register for the same federal marriage benefits provided to wives and husbands of heterosexual service members.

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mercredi 13 novembre 2013

Jonathan Martin's Threatening Text Message To Richie Incognito Was This Meme, Claims His Lawyer

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jonathan martin text Miami Dolphins guard Richie Incognito (68) and tackle Jonathan Martin (71) stand on the field during practice in Davie, Fla. on July 24, 2013.

Attempting to provide context for his treatment of teammate Jonathan Martin, Richie Incognito claimed he also received a threatening text message. The suspended Miami Dolphins guard made this revelation when he sat down with Jay Glazer of FOX Sports to discuss the Dolphins' bullying scandal involving him and Martin. A second-year offensive tackle, Martin abruptly left the Dolphins on Oct. 28 to receive treatment for emotional distress. Incognito, once named the NFL's dirtiest player in a poll of his peers, was subsequently suspended by the Dolphins on Nov. 2 for unspecified misconduct related to alleged mistreatment of Martin.

"People don't know how John and I communicate to one another," Incognito explained to Glazer. "For instance, a week before this went down, Jonathan Martin texts me on my phone: 'I will murder your whole effing family.' Now, did I think Jonathan Martin was going to murder my family? Not one bit. I knew it was coming from a brother. I knew it was coming from a friend. I knew it was coming from a teammate."

Hours after the interview aired on FOX on Sunday afternoon, David Cornwell, an attorney for Martin, shared a profane Internet meme featuring a smiling woman and a dog on Twitter and indicated this was the message that Incognito mentioned to Glazer.

WARNING: Image Below Contains Strong Language

Is that what viewers had in mind as Incognito recalled the text message?

Incognito referenced the text from Martin when asked about the threatening voice and text messages he had reportedly sent that included racial slurs. Speaking with Glazer, Incognito confirmed leaving the following voicemail for Martin, who is bi-racial.

“Hey, wassup, you half n—– piece of [expletive] . . . I saw you on Twitter, you been training ten weeks. [I want to] [expletive] in your [expletive] mouth. [I'm going to] slap your [expletive] mouth. [I'm going to] slap your real mother across the face (laughter). [Expletive] you, you’re still a rookie. I’ll kill you.”

Although he did expressed embarrassment over the voicemail, Incognito cited the text from Martin as evidence that both players traded similar threats in jest. He portrayed a locker room culture where such language was acceptable.

"When I see that voicemail, when I see those words come across the screen, I'm embarrassed by it," Incognito said after he was presented with a transcript of the offensive voicemail he left for Martin. "I'm embarrassed by my actions. But what I want people to know is, the way Jonathan and the rest of the offensive line and how our teammates, how we communicate it's vulgar. It's not right."

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Ben Roethlisberger Denies Trade Rumors: 'I Don't Know Where That Came From'

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ben Roethlisberger isn't going anywhere. Not if he has anything to say about it.

The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback called a report he may seek a trade in the offseason "ridiculous."

NFL.com reported early Sunday the Steelers expected Roethlisberger to ask the team to explore trade options in the offseason. Roethlisberger's agent, Ryan Tollner, called the speculation "completely wrong" and added the 31-year-old quarterback is "100 percent committed to winning a championship with the Steelers."

Roethlisberger went even further after passing for 204 yards with a touchdown and an interception in a 23-10 win over Buffalo on Sunday.

"I don't know where that came from," he said. "It is one of the most (untrue) stories that I've ever heard of. I've always said that I want to be a Steeler for life. I love it here. I'm happy here."

The report called Roethlisberger "very frustrated" by his team's ugly start. The Steelers improved to 3-6 after drumming the Bills, but still remain well out of the mix in the AFC North.

Roethlisberger, who has won two Super Bowls in 10 seasons, agreed he's "unhappy" when Pittsburgh fails to produce, but welcomed his share of the blame. Roethlisberger and offensive coordinator Todd Haley have struggled to communicate at times since Haley was hired nearly two years ago. The quarterback and the coach have spent much of the season trying to find common ground.

Steelers president Art Rooney II added "the Pittsburgh Steelers have not explored trading quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and have no plans to do so."

Roethlisberger's current contract will expire at the end of the 2015 season. He is due a base salary of $12.1 million next season, with a salary cap number of nearly $19 million. That alone would could make it difficult for the Steelers to move Roethlisberger even if there was interest.

Apparently, there's not. Tollner said Roethlisberger's roots are "firmly" planted in western Pennsylvania. Roethlisberger and his wife are expecting their second child next spring.

"I'm a Pittsburgher," Roethlisberger said. "I've told people that. I'm so proud to raise my kids here. I want to finish my career here, however long that is. I don't want to play for anybody else. This is it for me."

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'Downton Abbey' Renewed For Fifth Season

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NEW YORK -- NEW YORK (AP) — "Downton Abbey" will return for a fourth season in January, but now PBS is announcing the series will be back for at least one more after that.

"Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton says Downton fans can "rest easy knowing that a fifth season is on the way."

The celebrated British costume drama focusing on the elite Crawley family will air its fourth season on "Masterpiece" beginning Jan. 5. Michelle Dockery, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern and Jim Carter are among its stars.

Earlier this year, more than 24 million viewers watched the third season of the series in the U.S., making it the most-watched drama in PBS history.

Panthers Beat 49ers 10-9 For 5th Straight Win

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SAN FRANCISCO -- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Carolina's swarming, opportunistic defense stopped Colin Kaepernick in his tracks.

Drayton Florence intercepted a pass by Kaepernick in the final minute to seal a 10-9 victory Sunday to snap the San Francisco 49ers' five-game winning streak and give the Panthers their fifth straight win.

Graham Gano kicked a 53-yard field goal with 10:05 remaining that held up as the Panthers (6-3) twice shut down Colin Kaepernick on last-ditch drives with swarming defense.


DeAngelo Williams broke two tackles for a 27-yard touchdown run late in the first half that pulled Carolina within 9-7. Gano missed wide left on a 48-yard field goal in the third period, but came through later.

San Francisco (6-3) got the ball back with 5:25 left at its 1, then again with 1:02 to go.

Phil Dawson kicked a season-best 53-yard field goal among his three for the 49ers, who lost tight end Vernon Davis and rookie safety Eric Reid to concussions.

Carolina fumbled twice in the closing moments, but recovered each time. First, Jonathan Stewart fumbled and Mike Tolbert pounced on the ball. Cam recovered his own bobble.

This was hardly the highly touted showdown between 2011 No. 1 overall pick Newton and Kaepernick, the sixth quarterback drafted that year, in the second round. They roomed together during the scouting combine.

Kaepernick went 11 for 22 for 91 yards with an interception and was sacked six times for a 42.0 passer rating. Newton was only slightly better, going 16 of 32 for 169 yards, an interception and four sacks for a 52.7 rating.

For two teams that have been putting up points at a prolific pace for the past month, the defenses dictated this one.

More than losing the game, the 49ers' losses of Davis and Reid could be troublesome for the reigning NFC champions as they hit the road next week for New Orleans, then go to Washington.

Davis didn't return after sustaining a concussion in the second quarter, then Reid went down on a helmet-to-helmet hit on Mike Tolbert in the third. Earlier, Reid recovered a fumble to give him five takeaways in an already-stellar rookie season that also includes three interceptions.

Frank Gore had 16 carries for 82 yards, accounting for most of San Francisco's 151 total yards.

Dawson put San Francisco ahead on a 53-yard field goal on the team's opening drive, his longest kick of the year. He kicked second-quarter field goals of 43 and 25 yards.

But Kaepernick could never get his team in the end zone in its first game since a bye on the heels of a win over Jacksonville in London.

When San Francisco's Andy Lee had his punt blocked at the end of the first quarter, Florence tried to get out of the way, but went to grab the ball at the last second and it got away from him. Reid wrestled the ball from Josh Thomas for his second fumble recovery of the season and fifth takeaway.

Carolina got going after managing only minus-7 yards passing and 12 total yards in the first quarter. The Panthers finished with 250 total yards.

The 49ers also lost tight end Garrett Celek to a hamstring injury in the first quarter, while defensive tackle Ray McDonald hurt an ankle.

Panthers linebacker Chase Blackburn did not return in the second half because of a foot injury.

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LSU Fan Acts Like A Dinosaur On National TV

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A Lousiana State University student acted like a dinosaur on national television this weekend.

After a touchdown in the LSU game against Alabama, CBS cameras switched to a celebrating Tigers fan section and slowly focused on engineering student Caleb Bates. He wasn't cheering, he was just pretending to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

We're guessing this is one of the ways Bates strives to serve as a "role model for students in every aspect of University life," per his LinkedIn page.

It was inevitable that people would begin making .GIFs of Bates' dinosaur imitation spliced with footage from "Jurassic Park."

Now, of course, Bates is milking his new reputation as a faux-dino.

Apparently no one told Bates it wasn't possible for him to a dinosaur.

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Cory Booker Goes To Washington A Celebrity And Senator

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WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — When the U.S. Senate passed a bill to ban job discrimination against gay and transgender people, its newest member's first impulse was to yell with joy. Then he remembered where he was.

Instead, Cory Booker reached into his pocket for his phone.

"I got it all out via Twitter," said Booker, who has 1.4 million followers.

Booker, the 44-year-old Democratic former mayor of Newark, N.J., came into Congress as a rare freshman senator with celebrity status. He has been dubbed a rock star mayor by Oprah Winfrey, been called a hero for pulling a neighbor out of her burning home in 2012 and hobnobbed with Matt Damon.

During his first week in Congress, Booker tried to balance immersion in his new job with already standing out from his 99 colleagues on the staid Senate floor. Booker allowed The Associated Press to shadow his comings and goings.

"The model I've encouraged him to follow is Al Franken or Hillary Clinton," said Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat and a friend of Booker's. "People who came to the Senate with big national profiles but demonstrated a willingness to do the work, dig in, go visit every corner of their state and really focus on home-state interests."

Coons came into the Senate after a special election in 2010. He is helping Booker, who also won a special election, navigate and knows what it's like to start the job with no orientation and a skeleton staff.

After a swearing-in Oct. 31 filled with media and supporters, Booker has mostly stayed out of the spotlight. He's studying the minutiae of Senate rules and has attended multitudes of meetings. He has worked out at the Senate gym to meet colleagues and attended a bipartisan prayer breakfast.

Known for his soaring oratory and confidence, he is now listening and asking questions, sometimes seeming overwhelmed or confused — and showing glimmers of his cheeky sense of humor amid the business of the day.

In his first committee hearing Wednesday, he joked that "I still have that new senator smell" after telling the leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency that higher flood insurance rates would devastate parts of New Jersey.

He asked Vice President Joe Biden if he could crash on his couch. And he answered a Twitter question about his thoughts on workplace romances with: "Don't! Especially if u have 99 colleagues in 1 of the world's most august bodies."

He went to the White House twice. He joined a group of Democratic senators Wednesday and, hours after being sworn in, had a private visit with President Barack Obama.

"There was a guy with a football, and I grabbed it, and the president and I had a little catch," said Booker, who played football at Stanford. Obama, he said, complimented his spiral.

Booker was the first to arrive at a Democratic caucus lunch Tuesday, piling his plate with greens and vegetables. He peeled plastic wrap off of a bowl of dressing as Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu arrived. The two headed toward the back of the room and sat down.

"Sen. Menendez came in and said, 'That's my seat.' And of course I panicked," Booker said. "At first I'm like, 'Oh my God, did I really sit in his seat?' And another senator came in and tried to play the same trick on me."

Booker and his mother, Carolyn, met privately with Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Booker's father, Cary, suffered a stroke in August shortly after moving to Las Vegas and days before Booker's Democratic primary. Reid visited his bedside, and when he died Oct. 10, Reid reached out to Booker and his family.

In many ways, Booker is just another guy getting used to a new job — learning the rules and his colleagues, just as they've all had to do at some point.

He took his first vote minutes after being sworn in and thought votes were cast by pushing a button or pulling a lever. Instead, he learned, "you raise your hand." On one vote, Booker missed his name while chatting with colleagues and flagged down the Senate clerk, voting yes with a thumbs-up.

He brought a congressional directory Thursday morning and watched each speaker intently, occasionally flipping through to match a senator with a photo. He is also learning how to navigate the labyrinth that is the Capitol and its office buildings.

"Is this the way home?" he asked his chief of staff as the two traversed the Senate basement.

He said he plans to advocate for New Jersey residents, hoping to ensure they receive unclaimed earned-income credits and helping victims of Superstorm Sandy. He met with an ethics officer to see how he can leverage private-public partnerships for New Jersey, as he did in Newark — most famously with a $100 million donation from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to the city schools.

And though he's been minding his manners, he's still the same Cory Booker. A stalwart supporter of gay rights, he finally let out that yell upon walking into his office after the job discrimination vote.

"Call everybody in New Jersey," Booker said to his staff, "and tell them we're one step closer to an equal nation."

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dimanche 10 novembre 2013

Lawrence Rothman's '#1 All Time Low' Video Is The Creepiest Thing You'll See Today

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Lawrence Rothman doesn't do everything the same way you do things. In the video for his lead single, "Montauk Fling," Rothman dressed himself as Elizabeth Taylor and seduced himself in a hotel room, and he returns with the haunting visuals for "#1 All Time Low" -- premiering exclusively on HuffPost Entertainment.

In the new dystopian video, a battered and bruised Rothman meanders through various scenes of a certain type of hell that make the grislier scenes in "Trainspotting" look like "Smurfs 2." Blood, dirty bathwater -- it's all there. David Bowie favorite Floria Sigismondi directed the video for the song.

"What I try to do during the 14 to 17 hours that i'm awake, and are participating in this rat race, is aim to experience shit that blows my mind and rattles the mundane cage of cynical normalcy," Rothman said. "Why? So that when I finally get chewed up and spit out on the other end I can say, 'Fuck it, that was great, those where the days of my life. This idea is the theme of my music."

"This video to cut to the chase, as everyone including myself, attention spam is about as long as a gif," he adds. "It's about me trying to do away with my adult jaded, cynical, self and push through a rebirth of sorts or a actually a reintroduction to my inner 'tween spirit' -- the part of me that doesn't give a fuck and goes with the flow, like when you're a kid and your parents are having a bitch-fest, but it doesn't phase you because you're too enthralled with building LEGO city."

Take a look below and let us know what you think in the comments. Viewer discretion is advised. Select tour dates follow.

10/29 - The Sebright Arms - London, UK
11/5 - Casbah - San Diego, CA (w/ Active Child)
11/23 - El Rey - Los Angeles, CA (w/ Active Child)

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Joe Biden Addresses Navy Yard Shooting

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SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Vice President Joe Biden says a shooting Monday at the Washington Navy Yard is a "God-awful reminder" of the need for Americans to stay vigilant.

He says he's confident the nation will get to the bottom of the situation.

Biden says the situation is still unfolding, but that his heart and sorrow goes out to all those affected. He says the tragedy is almost unthinkable.

The shooting rampage in the heart of a U.S. Navy left at least 12 people dead. One shooter was killed, but police were looking for one other possible gunman.

Biden spoke at a port in Savannah during an event highlighting the need to invest in U.S. infrastructure. He was being briefed Monday by his national security team as he visited South Carolina and Georgia.

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Kelly Rowland Works On Her Ab-Fab Fitness

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Kelly Rowland has one of the most enviable sets of abs in Tinseltown.

The singer, who made a body-baring splash on this month's cover of Shape, showed how she carves those muscles.

It's all thanks to trainer Jeanette Jenkins! Rowland says the trainer's star plank (which she easily executed above) is one of her favorite moves from Jenkins' latest video.

"The Hollywood Trainer" definitely gets the Destiny's Child diva's seal of approval -- the two teamed up for a workout DVD, "Sexy Abs Cardio Sculpt," which will be released Oct. 1.

Those abs are enough "Motivation" for us. We're sold, Kelly!

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samedi 9 novembre 2013

Peter Pilotto For Target Is The Best News We've Heard All Week

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Best news out of London Fashion Week so far? Peter Pilotto is partnering with Target!

That's right, the London-based design house used its Spring 2014 runway show this afternoon to drop the news that it's designing a line to be sold across the US and Canada at Target. The collection, which will feature women's apparel, accessories and swimwear, will debut Feb. 9th, 2014, and be mostly priced under $60.

Yup, you're going to want to queue up early for this one, folks. Peter Pilotto and Christopher De Vos, the brand's designers, have mastered the art of printed, daring silhouettes and have landed the likes of Kerry Washington, Miranda Kerr and Selena Gomez on best-dressed lists. We can't wait to see what the duo dreams up for Target's spring line, since, unlike their usual pricey fare, we'll actually be able to afford these pieces. (If we have any more money left after purchasing the fall Phillip Lim for Target line, that is.)

And don't think Peter Pilotto's forgotten its international customers; a handful of the pieces will be available on Net-A-Porter.com. So get ready to fight your way through the Target aisles -- or the e-commerce sphere -- come February.

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The Republican Plot To Kill Obamacare -- New York Magazine

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The Republican party has voted unanimously against establishing the Affordable Care Act in the Senate and then in the House of Representatives, then voted some 40 times to repeal or cripple it; it has mounted a nearly successful campaign to nullify it through the courts and a failed presidential campaign that promised to repeal it; and it has used its control of state governments to block the law's implementation across vast swaths of the country, at enormous economic cost to those states. Yet somehow, in the wake of all this, the party is consumed with the question Have we done enough to stop Obamacare?

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Getting Off A Train Is Better When Greeted By This Friendly Russian Boy (VIDEO)

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This Russian kid doesn't know any of these people, but that doesn't stop him from greeting every single one of them as they leave the train, and it's pretty cute. He definitely has a future as a politician.

But, uh, what's with that shirtless guy?

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mardi 17 septembre 2013

A Lot Of People Are Very Upset That An Indian-American Woman Won The Miss America Pageant

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Sunday night Nina Davuluri, Miss New York, was crowned the winner the 2014 Miss America Pageant. She is the first contestant of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America.

When her win was announced, Twitter immediately exploded with hateful tweets, with people calling her Arab.

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Thousands Cited For Having Pot On Federal Land

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TACOMA, Wash. -- Karen Strand didn't think she'd get in trouble for having a small container of medical marijuana when she went hiking in Olympic National Park this summer.

President Barack Obama, she remembered, had said the federal government had "bigger fish to fry" than people who follow state marijuana laws, and Washington state had just legalized pot.

But a ranger pulled her over on a remote gravel road, and Strand wound up as one of at least 27,700 people cited for having pot on federal land since 2009, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal court data. The number of citations is small compared to the hundreds of millions of visitors to national parks, forests and monuments each year.

But it nevertheless illustrates one of the many issues Washington, Colorado and other states face in complying with last month's Justice Department memo that requires them to address eight federal law enforcement priorities if they want to regulate marijuana. Among those priorities is keeping marijuana use and possession off federal property.

State officials have no plans to license pot gardens or stores on federal land, but beyond that, they say, it's not clear what they can do to discourage backpackers or campers from bringing a few joints into Rocky Mountain or Mount Rainier National Park.

"It's not one of the big topics we've talked a lot about," said Jaime Smith, a spokeswoman for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.

Other concerns on the DOJ's list include keeping marijuana away from kids and cartels, preventing drugged driving and pot-related gun violence, and keeping unregulated marijuana grows from spoiling federal land.

Thousands of people receive tickets every year charging them with having pot on U.S. property – a federal misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months in jail and a $5,000 fine. The charges typically don't result in jail time, but often do require at least one court appearance. They are frequently negotiated down to an infraction, akin to a traffic ticket, and a fine of up to a few hundred dollars.

Through the first seven months of this year, at least 146 people had been cited in Washington for having pot on federal land, which makes up nearly one-third of the state. At least 135 had been cited in Colorado. Washington's figure is slightly below the same period for the past few years, while Colorado's is roughly on track.

The number of people cited nationally has dropped, from 6,282 in 2009 to 5,772 in 2012, and is on pace to hit about 5,300 this year, according to data from the U.S. Courts Central Violations Bureau. The citations were issued at national parks, seashores, forests, military bases and monuments. There were even 10 tickets issued at the Pentagon.

Officials say the actual numbers are likely greater: Park rangers and other federal agents sometimes simply write on the ticket that the offender had a controlled substance, without specifying the drug.

Defendants say being prosecuted for having tiny amounts of pot on U.S. land – especially in Washington, Colorado and states with medical marijuana laws – belies the administration's assertions that going after people who comply with state marijuana laws is not a priority. The DOJ first announced that position in a 2009 memo, though the fine print also made clear that pot isn't welcome on federal property.

Strand, 36, was pulled over for having a broken taillight, and the ranger reported that he could smell fresh pot. She was ticketed for having 2 grams – far less than the ounce, or 28 grams, allowed by Washington's recreational pot law, or the 24 ounces allowed by the state's medical marijuana law.

"It is exceptionally confusing," she said.

One morning this month, Strand sat in a small, crowded room at the federal courthouse in Tacoma for her initial appearance on charges of marijuana possession and drug paraphernalia – a pipe.

Near her sat her husband as well as several other people caught with weed on federal land, including a 21-year-old man who was accused of having 0.1 grams during a traffic stop on a highway that skirts Mount Rainier National Park.

"I just thought it was legal now," Jonah Hunt said. "I didn't know I was on federal land."

Barbara Sievers, the assistant U.S. attorney handling the cases, informed the defendants their charges would not be dismissed.

"Regardless of whatever happened in the state, it's federal law, and it's federal property," she said.

Former school teacher Melanie Cease, of Seattle, said a park ranger approached her one day in June at a secluded campsite in Olympic National Park. He came to make sure her dog was on a leash, but then saw an empty pipe on the picnic table.

With his hand on his gun, she said, the ranger demanded she turn over whatever pot she had. Cease, 48, was cited for having a "trace amount," according to the ranger's report.

"I've never been arrested in my life, and now I'm being threatened with six months in jail and a $5,000 fine for using my medicine?" she said. "It was my understanding the government was not going to mess with individual patients."

Strand and Cease both pleaded not guilty, and their cases were set for trial in October.

Strand and her husband, Thomas, said they remain troubled by what they said felt like harassment from the park ranger. He repeatedly placed his hand on his gun when speaking to them, they said.

"It's a beautiful place up there," Thomas Strand said. "And I don't know if I'll ever go back."

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Space Tourist Dennis Tito On Using Bathroom In Space: 'I Hadn't Had Toilet Training In 60 Years'

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NEW YORK – As microgravity makes even the most mundane tasks tricky, going to the bathroom in space can be a chore. How astronauts take care of that basic human necessity while in orbit has been a point of perennial fascination for the Earth-bound public.

For a moment during a Sept. 4 talk here at the Explorers Club, two of the world's first space tourists who paid their way to the International Space Station traded stories about their space toilet training, or actually the lack of training.

The Explorers Club was holding an event with former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott and his son, gaming legend Richard Garriott, perhaps best known for creating the Ultima role-playing series. They are the only American father-son team to have both gone to space. [Photos: Space Tourist Richard Garriott, an Astronaut Legacy]

While Owen Garriott flew with NASA aboard U.S. space station Skylab and the space shuttle Columbia, his son became a spaceflyer in his own right in 2008 after using his gaming fortune to buy a multimillion-dollar ticket to the space station aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule.

Adventurer and journalist Jim Clash interviewed the duo in front of a small audience and afterwards gave the night's first question to another private spaceflyer in the room: American businessman Dennis Tito.

A longtime space enthusiast, Tito made his millions in the world of finance, but was once an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Widely considered the first space tourist, Tito paid the Russians a reported $20 million for his 2001 flight to the space station.

The younger Garriott earlier in the night said he used to look at Tito and think, "That's the guy that got my seat!" Garriott's long-held aspirations to go to space — first dashed when he learned his eyesight was below NASA standards — had to be postponed for a few years after his wealth took a hit in the dot-com crash.

space toiletA view of the toilet compartment in the Zvezda Service Module of the International Space Station (ISS).

Tito stood up to ask his question and paused before saying, "One experience that people always ask me about is, 'How do you go to the bathroom in space?'"

As the audience laughed, Owen Garriott jumped in to add: "Elementary school children, usually."

But Tito continued, saying that despite his eight months of training with the Russians, he wasn't all that prepared to go the bathroom in space.

"I guess the Russians really don't like to talk about these things — they have funny attitudes," Tito said. "So I got on board the station and the first thing that happened was Jim Voss, an American astronaut, gave me toilet trailing."

"Now, I hadn't had toilet training in 60 years," Tito added. "So I was wondering, did you get toilet training on the ground?"

Richard Garriott, who trained with the Russians, too, corroborated Tito's story.

"It is hilarious because every other system — everything except the toilet — you use the exact hardware you will use in space on the ground," Garriott said.

Garriott said he had a cheat sheet for which switches to turn on for when he needed to use the space commode, the toilet does not work the same way as it does on the ground.

"Gravity's actually really important for how to separate yourself from your waste and there's no discussion of that," Garriott said.

garriottRichard Garriott as seen in "Man on a Mission," a film by Mike Woolf.

His father chimed in to give a perspective from the U.S. side, and discussed his training with NASA ahead of his 60-day stint in space during the Skylab 3 mission in 1973.

"We did receive proper training," the elder Garriott said. "For urination it's a very simple thing ... Urination is not a problem. Defecation is what you're concerned about."

Garriott said the Skylab astronauts used a simulator toilet mounted over a camera so that they could check their positioning on the ground before using the commode in space. All three Skylab crews out also brought home all of their waste to be examined by scientists, Garriott added, remarking that they never had a single toilet failure while in flight.

"One thing NASA did right," he quipped.

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Looking For The Bed Of Your Dreams? Think Outside The Box Spring With These Fanciful Roosts

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We all know a bed should be comfortable. But there's something else a bed should be: welcoming. At the end of a long day, when you walk into your bedroom, your heartbeat should slow as you look at this refuge from a fast-paced world. Maybe I expect too much from my bed; but, unless you're an insomniac, one-third of every day is spent in it. It should be calmingly pretty. Maybe even pretty outrageously cool, pulling you onto it, like a magic carpet ride into your dreams. At least, that's what the following beds do for their owners.

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'Science Selfies' Spotlight Scientists, Geeks Doing What They Love Best (PHOTOS)

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Science is all around us, and nearly everyone can get involved -- from conducting a critical lab experiment to strolling through a natural history museum to simply browsing through a book on the Big Bang.

Whether you're a science nerd or a Nobel-prize winning scientist, we wanted to highlight YOU doing or simply enjoying science. So we asked readers to share their "science selfies" -- and here are our favorites. Click through and see if you can spot the girl who caught a bat... or the guy holding a real human brain!

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"Catching crayfish in Scotland."

"For all of my fellow bird nerds out there!"

"When our scientists' hands are busy with science, they get some help with their #scienceselfies." Here, physicist Farid El Gabaly aligns a battery electrode sample for analysis with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

Celebrating Halloween at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.

Junior high students experiment with fire in science class.

"I analyzed assimilable organic carbon in drinking water samples! "

A behind-the-scenes look into a quarantine area!

Posing like Einstein at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.

"This is how I spend my holidays, in Costa Rica catching bats +beach time in between!"

"Spent a day doing field work electrofishing for research! A brook trout we caught!"

"Me doing a basic drug extraction!!!"

"Medicine is a science, and therefore I present Jack Sexton, CRNA!"

"Talkin bout autopsies all day."

"Nearby and in the distance exploration. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ? Carl Sagan." Taken at the Liberty Science Center.

"Love my job." At the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.

"Data data data data data today's data data data."

"My kiddos a few years back @ Spark!Lab in DC."

"This #realtimechem video summarizes a standard day in a synth chem lab."

"Oh hi I just extracted a human brain."

"Inside a faraday cage with a human brain."

This is what a lot of science actually looks like... "Reading/correcting the Methods chapter of my student's PhD thesis."

"Imaging my cells on the fluorescent microscope."

"This weekend was spent playing with crayfish and an ROV. The ROV before use."

Taken at the Washington University in St. Louis: "@WUSTLdbbs and @WUSTLmedschool have lots of #scienceselfies."

"I'm a bookworm, a scientist, and world traveler."

In a science classroom.

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NBC, CBS Retract Identity Of Navy Yard Shooter

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NBC and CBS were forced to retract initial reports about the identity of the shooter responsible for the deaths and injuries at the Navy Yard in Washington on Monday.

Both networks identified the same man as the shooter, and then had to walk those reports back:

NBC's Pete Williams said the error came from sources who found an ID card that looked like the suspected gunman:

The false reports were perhaps the most prominent errors in a day filled with confusing and contradictory information.

The shooter was later identified as Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas.

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How World Bank Plans To Eliminate Extreme Poverty, Boost Incomes Of Poorest By 2030

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By Anna Yukhananov

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The World Bank, faced with a tight budget and greater competition for development funds, aims to become more selective in its lending, focusing on fragile states, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and other areas where it can have the greatest impact, according to a draft strategy paper obtained by Reuters.

The 42-page paper, presented to the bank's executive board last week, is the first major strategic review under World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

It offers the first concrete details of how the World Bank plans to fulfill his twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting the incomes of the poorest 40 percent of the population in each country.

However, the strategy paper is still vague about what exact programs the bank will cut or bolster, and how it will change its budget to reflect new priorities and falling revenue.

When asked for comment, World Bank spokesman David Theis declined to elaborate further on the plan.

Founded after World War II to help rebuild Europe, the World Bank later focused on lending money to developing countries in order to improve the lives of poor people.

The global lender is praised for its worldwide reach, stringent standards and long-term focus. But it has also been criticized for avoiding risks, delaying approval of projects, not responding enough to what countries want, and focusing more on pushing money out the door rather than program outcomes.

Kim, who came to the helm of the multilateral development institution a little over a year ago, has launched a major reorganization to change all that, driving an emphasis on flexibility, measurable impact, and evidence, or what he calls "the science of delivery."

The draft strategy acknowledges the World Bank has become less important to the growth of many middle-income countries, which can rely more on private funding and bilateral loans from emerging markets like China.

The World Bank also admits it has limited funds to tackle the needs of the developing world, where new infrastructure projects alone will require $1.5 trillion in funding a year.

Instead, the World Bank wants to reposition itself as a "solutions" bank, offering not only financing but also its knowledge of how to solve common development challenges.

"The World Bank Group's role in knowledge, convening and global advocacy has increased relative to its role in providing finance," the paper said.

Keeping the bank relevant means focusing on areas where other donors are reluctant to go, such as fragile and conflict-affected states, by 2015 home to half of the world's poorest people.

The World Bank said it also plans to use its projects and global presence to share data and promote better policies in areas like climate change.

To help address countries' needs and better coordinate development policies, the bank also plans to work more closely with other development agencies like the United Nations and with philanthropic organizations.

And it wants to promote more private-public partnerships for basic services like health, education and housing - to the consternation of some non-profit organizations that argue such programs have mixed records for helping the poor.

BUDGET CUTS

As part of the new strategy, the World Bank also plans to make some cuts to its budget. Operating in fragile states, collecting data to measure countries' progress, and ensuring a global presence have strained the bank's administrative funds.

And less lending to middle-income or stable countries also means less revenue, as the bank has made money from interest-bearing loans.

"Maintaining a minimum scale of operations is important if the World Bank Group is to influence the policy agenda and support clients in delivering effective development solutions," the paper said.

"Although the World Bank Group does not face immediate financial concerns, its financial capacity will need to be strengthened," the paper added.

The bank said it will have to be selective in what it does and make cuts to certain programs, without specifying further. It is also considering relying more on fees for advisory services and on money from trust funds, or earmarked funds from governments for specific projects.

Trust funds already account for one of every 10 dollars the bank disburses to governments, according to the paper.

The new budget will be implemented for the next fiscal year, which begins in July 2014, and may be one of the thorniest issues for the bank to resolve as it decides which departments and programs must shrink.

Changing the bank's internal culture may also pose a threat to the success of the new strategy, according to several outside analysts who reviewed the paper.

Part of the new focus means integrating the work of the bank with the activities of its private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, which insures investments in difficult environments.

The three agencies work with different clients and may have different approaches to specific projects, creating conflicts of interest.

The details of how the bank will change its internal organization to align with the new strategy will be presented later in an "Implementation Paper."

For now, the draft strategy will go to the governments of the World Bank's members for approval, before being formally presented during the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in early October. (Reporting by Anna Yukhananov; Editing by Andrea Ricci)

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lundi 16 septembre 2013

Health Care Polls Find Obamacare Unpopular On Eve Of Rollout

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The Affordable Care Act is more unpopular than ever, with those who disapprove divided over whether the law should be reformed or scrapped, according to a Pew Research/USA Today poll released Monday.

Forty-two percent of Americans approved of the law, while 53 percent disapproved. That's the highest rate of disapproval that Pew has found since the law's passage in 2010. Attitudes among the uninsured were somewhat more positive, with 49 percent approving and 46 percent disapproving.

An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, also released Monday, found similar opposition, with 44 percent of Americans calling the health care law a bad idea and 31 percent calling it a good idea. NBC posted a range of respondents' explanations for their opinions, from fears about "death panels" and rising costs, to happiness that preexisting conditions are covered and young adults can be covered by their parents' insurance.

HuffPost Pollster's average of all available public polls puts disapproval of Obamacare at about 53 percent.

In the Pew survey, those who disapproved of the health care law split on what lawmakers should do next: 27 percent of all respondents said lawmakers should try to make Obamacare work as well as possible, and 23 percent said they seek to make it fail.

"This strategic question is a particular point of conflict within the Republican Party," the Pew report says. Republicans as a whole were just slightly more likely to want the law to fail than to want it improved, while 64 percent of tea party Republicans wanted the law to fail.

Americans were almost evenly split on which party they trusted more to handle health care. Forty percent said they believe the Republican Party would do a better job dealing with health care, while 39 percent preferred the Democrats. It's the first time a Pew poll has found the GOP ahead on health care since at least 1990. While the size of Democrats' edge has varied widely in the past, a December 2012 poll put them 10 points ahead of Republicans on the issue.

More than three years after the Affordable Care Act was passed, 34 percent still said they didn't have a good understanding of how the law affects them. Just 51 percent knew that a health insurance exchange will be available in their state. Awareness of the exchanges was significantly higher in states that chose to run their own exchanges or partner with the federal government than in states where the exchanges will be run by the federal government.

The NBC/WSJ poll similarly found that only 30 percent said they understand the health care law "very well" or "pretty well."

"As it turns out, that 30 percent has more positive opinions about the health-care law (42 percent good idea, 45 percent bad idea), versus the 34 percent who don't understand it very well (17 percent good idea, 44 percent bad idea)," NBC's Mark Murray wrote.

The Pew/USA Today poll surveyed 1,504 adults between Sept. 4 and Sept. 8, while the NBC/WSJ poll surveyed 1,000 adults between Sept. 5 and Sept. 8. Both used live telephone interviews.

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James Franco Gay Jokes During Comedy Central's Roast Discussed On 'The Rubin Report'

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Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" took Comedy Central to task over the barrage of gay jokes directed at James Franco during its roast of the Academy Award-nominated actor earlier this month. (WARNING: contains graphic language)

Joining Rubin were comedian Erin Foley and producer Jayar Jackson, both of whom were critical of the event.

"This was just was another example of what happens in comedy clubs across the country -- it's just stupid straight dudes making stupid gay jokes," Foley said. "They don't know James Franco ... honestly, it's absolutely ridiculous."

Jackson minced even fewer words, noting, "Call it a written sh*t talk night rather than a roast."

For his part, Franco doesn't seem to mind the gay speculation. Last week, he told The Daily Beast: "I don’t even care if people think I’m gay, so it was like, 'Awesome!' I mean, I wish I was. … I wish I was gay."

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dimanche 15 septembre 2013

Lo mejor del viernes 13/09/2013

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Liz, sobre Susana: "Yo preparé la ensalada y ella se la comió"

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samedi 14 septembre 2013

Cita Tony y Oriana (13/09/2013)

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Liz: “Quiero creer que no ha pasado nada”

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Cita Leo y Liz (13/09/2013)

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Leo, tras la cita sin cámaras: "Hay un empate técnico entre Liz y Susana"

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Liz ha vuelto de vacaciones llena de ganas y no ha dudado en plantarle un apasionado beso a Leo nada m?s verle. Sin embargo, no ha tardado mucho en llevarse un buen chasco. Liz estaba encantada porque hab?a tenido d os estupendas citas con su tronista y hab?an vuelto tener la complicidad y el buen rollo que ten?an al principio de su relaci?n, pero la cara de felicidad y la seguridad que desbordaba Susana le han empezado a poner muy nerviosa.

Susana tiene claro que su relaci?n con Leo est? en una situaci?n estupenda y que no tienen por qué tener miedo de Liz. Y no le faltaba raz?n porque Leo lleg? a su cita y tras unos minutos cerca de ella, no dud? en pedir al equipo que le dejaran tener una hora sin c?maras con ella. Una hora sin c?maras que ha despertado todo tipo de dudas en plat?. Sus protagonistas ten?an una cara resplandeciente, han asegurado que su tensi?n sexual ha aumentado, Susana estaba muy despeinada y la habitaci?n casi sin desordenar.

La cara de Liz ha cambiado por completo al ver estas im?genes y escuchar a Leo asegurar que entre ella y Susana hab?a "un empate técnico". La pretendienta ha intentado mantener la calma y decirle a su tronista que no le gustaban las comparaciones porque parec?a que estaban en un partido de f?tbol. Pero r?pidamente se ha dado cuenta de que Leo hab?a tenido esa cita después de la suya y lo ha tenido claro: "Yo preparé la ensalada y ella se la comi?". Liz parece estar convencida de que ella hab?a calentado al tronista y que Susana se hab?a llevado el gato al agua, pero Susana le ha dejado claro que las cosas no son as? porque Leo siempre est? igual de bien con ella. Leo parec?a encantado con este intercambio de palabras entre sus pretendientas y ha asegurado que se estaba poniendo "tonto" al escucharlas discutir por él.

Todo el mundo quer?a averiguar qué hab?a pasado en la cita sin c?maras y Leo ha asegurado que ten?a que llegar con sus chicas al l?mite antes de saber con cu?l quer?a salir del plat?. Yolanda se ha molestado y ha comentado que parec?a que se ten?a que acostar con todas para saber quién le gustaba m?s. Susana se ha molestado y le ha dicho que no siguiera por ah? porque ella era la que m?s ten?a que callar porque también hab?a tenido una cita sin c?maras con el tronista. ?Qué pas? entre Leo y Yolanda? Ha sido la pregunta que todo el mundo se ha hecho, pero ella ha asegurado que es una se?ora y que no tiene por qué contar lo que pas? entre ellos.

Después de analizar c?mo hab?a quedado la habitaci?n del hotel, L iz ha querido creer que Susana y Leo no hab?an llegado hasta el final, pero Susana se lo ha puesto muy dif?cil mostr?ndole una cara de felicidad absoluta. Nagore ha comenzado a tener dudas y ha preguntado que si Leo y Liz ten?an un pacto que se romper?a si el tronista llegaba hasta el final con alguna de sus pretendientas. Los protagonistas lo han negado y Liz ha aclarado que ella es demasiado celosa como para tener un pacto con Leo y aguantar que se estuviera besando con todas.

Oriana: "No sabía que una lubina era un pescado"

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Yolanda: "Yo siempre he dicho que soy una señora"

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vendredi 13 septembre 2013

Viernes 13/09/2013

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Cita Leo y Susana (13/09/2013)

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Jesús: "Yanira me ha faltado al respeto"

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Cita Jesús y Yanira (11/09/2013)

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Lola: "Me gustan los chicos con los dientes bien limpios"

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La nueva tronista es... ¡Andrea!

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jeudi 12 septembre 2013

Lola también es tronista de 'Myh'

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Lola y Andrea, las nuevas tronistas

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Emma ha comenzado el programa anunci?ndonos que ten?amos a dos nuevas tronistas y no nos ha hecho esperar mucho para conocer el nombre de las agraciadas. Andrea ha sido la primera en ocupar su puesto de nueva tronista de 'Mujeres y hombres'. La ex pretendienta de Kiko ha bajado las escaleras con una gran ovaci?n y llena de nervios. Andrea estaba tan nerviosa que casi no pod?a articular palabra, pero ha dado las gracias por el nombramiento y nos ha mostrado una gran sonrisa, que reflejaba su grado de felicidad.

Cuando Andrea estaba acomodada a la derecha de Yanira, Emma ha dado paso a la tercera tronista: Lola. La joven ha bajado también las escaleras muy nerviosa, pero no ha tenido el mismo recibimiento que su compa?era. El plat? se ha llenado de tensi?n cuando L ola se ha sentado en el trono y la cara de Yanira ha sido la primera que ha cambiado. Sab?amos que a muchos no les hac?a gracia que Lola fuera tronista porque se hab?a saltado las normas, pero la joven lo reconoci? y todo el mundo tiene derecho a una segunda oportunidad. Sin embargo, Yanira ha explicado que Lola le dijo fuera del plat? que no le gustaba ninguno de los pretendientes que hab?a y que se hab?a enterado de que ha tenido una cita con su preferido, Jes?s.

Lola ha negado que dijera que no le gustaba ninguno porque de hecho, coment? en plat? que le gustaba Alex y le ha pedido que se esperara a ver la cita que hab?an tenido antes de decir nada, pero Yanira estaba muy enfadada. La tronista ha llegado a "despreciar" a Jes?s diciéndole que no le tocara. Lola se ha quedado un poco chafada y le ha comentado a Emma que se esperaba otro tipo de recibimiento al llegar al trono. La presentadora ha querido que viéramos sus v?deos de presentaci?n y que Lola se empezara a sentir tronista.

Lola nos ha comparado una carrera de fondo con una relaci?n y nos ha contado que una de sus grandes pasiones es el deporte. Sin embargo, la tronista es una chica muy deportista, pero que sabe ponerse muy sexy cuando la situaci?n lo requiere. Lola le ha dado una gran alegr?a a Madre al hacer p?blico que es protésica dental y no una camarera del mundo de la noche, y ha dejado claro que va a inspeccionar a sus chicos al m?ximo. Le gustan los hombres morenos y tiene muy claro lo que est? buscando.

'Mujeres y hombres' ya tiene a sus tres tronistas deseadas y la cosa promete. Lola de momento no tiene ning?n pretendiente, pero Andrea ya ha sentado en su bando a Ander y a ?ngel. Las dos prometen ser sinceras y dejarse llevar por sus sentimientos.

Lola: "Una relación es como una carrera de fondo"

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La carrera por el trono

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Manu se tatua la inicial de Yanira

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Miércoles 11/09/2013

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mercredi 21 août 2013

Raúl, un aspirante a pretendiente muy polifacético

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Jesús, sobre Yanira: "Es muy pronto para hablar de sentimientos"

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Yanira: "Sé que Diego me podría dar todo lo que necesito"

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Manu le regala a Yanira un peluche

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Toni, aspirante a pretendiente

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Yanira, sobre Jesús: "Igual estoy yendo demasiado rápido con él"

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mardi 20 août 2013

Yanira: "Yo tampoco estoy enamorada de Jesús"

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Jesús, sobre Yanira: "Es muy pronto para hablar de sentimientos"

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Martes 20/08/2013

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Jesús: "Estoy cansado de tantas acusaciones"

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dimanche 18 août 2013

La madre de Cristina llama Kiko a Tony

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Estalla la tensión entre Kiko y Suhaila

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Carolina se ha soltado en su segunda cita con Kiko y las reacciones no se han hecho esperar. La pretendienta que llegó con mucho carácter se ha dado cuenta de que la carrera por el corazón del tronista va muy rápido y ha decidido dejar sus borderías para otra ocasión. Carolina ha hablado de sus rivales y ha disfrutado comiéndose unas chucherías con Kiko.

Tras verla, Loli no ha dudado en decirle que no iba a admitir que dijera que ella había faltado al respeto a Kiko porque eso no es cierto. Carolina le ha explicado que ella no era la única que lo pensaba y que Kiko solo la veía como una amiga. Una vez más, el carácter de las dos pretendientas ha vuelto a chocar y Carolina ha asegurado que no iba a discutir con ella porque tenía mucha educación.

Una frase que Suhaila ha cogido para atacarle con dureza. La ex tronista le ha dejado claro que de educada no tiene nada cuando en la cita ha permitido que Kiko le hiciera "un dedo trasero". Un comentario burlesco que ha despertado todas las tensiones. Carolina no estaba dispuesta a aguantar los comentarios de Suhaila, pero la ex tronista se ha venido arriba y ha continuado con el tema. Incluso, ha llegado a asegurar que no le extrañaba que la hubiera llamado "frígida" después de haber tenido esa cita.

Carolina, muy afectada, ha intentado decirle a Suhaila que se estaba pasando porque estaba hablando de cosas que no habían pasado y Kiko ha salido en su defensa. El tronista le ha pedido a Carolina que no hiciera caso a Suhaila porque estaban hablando los celos por ella y que lo único que la tenía que importar era lo que él pensara.

Sin embargo, Carolina se ha derrumbado porque ella le reprochó a Kiko que le diera un cachete en el trasero en la cita y eso no ha salido. La pretendienta no podía entender que se estuvieran pasando tanto con ella y que estuvieran haciendo una montaña de un granito de arena.

Suhaila no ha cesado en sus ataques y Kiko no ha dudado en plantarle cara. No entiende por qué está actuando así. Suhaila le ha dicho que se tranquilizara, pero Kiko ha sacado a relucir su historia pasada, ha comentado que él era el que tenía que llevar la voz cantante en las citas y que a ella también le gustaban sus caricias. Suhaila ha aclarado que a ella jamás le había tocado los pechos y Kiko ha terminado diciéndole a Suhaila que ella estaba en el programa porque él estaba en el trono.

La tensión ha terminado de estallar. Kiko y Suhaila han tenido su primera discusión desde que se acabó su historia de amor y ambos han demostrado que tienen mucho carácter. Suhaila le ha dicho a Kiko que ella no estaba en el programa por él, pero que entendiera que nadie es más que nadie y que todos se necesitan mutuamente.

samedi 17 août 2013

¿Las Nancys quieren conquistar a Kiko?

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Aurora llama "paticorto" a Tony

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Loli no admite que Carolina diga que le ha faltado el respeto a Kiko

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Cita Tony y Lola (16/08/2013)

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Oriana explica los motivos por los que ha renunciado al trono, el lunes en 'Myh'

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vendredi 16 août 2013

Amalur viene a por Kiko

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Kiko: "Hemos tocado un poco de todo"

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Viernes 16/08/2013

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mardi 13 août 2013

Diego: "Jesús ya viene toreado"

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¿Cómo andan de manos los pretendientes de Oriana?

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La cita de Jesús crea tensiones entre los pretendientes de Yanira

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Cuando Jesús entró en plató por primera vez, la cara de Yanira se llenó de luz y no dudó en comentar que ella había pedido a Jesús porque era un chico que le gustaba mucho. Algo que nos hacía prever que su primera cita iba a ser muy buena, pero las intenciones de Naima con el pretendiente cambiaron un poco la situación.

Yanira no podía dejar de sonreír al tener a Jesús al lado y el pretendiente no dudó en decirle qué si ya no estaba enfadada por o de Naima. Yanira le comentó que sí, pero que cada cosa a su tiempo. Jesús le explicó que no veía nada de malo en tener una cita con Naima para conocerla, pero que si a ella le molestaba, no la iba a tener de ninguna manera. Jesús estaba encantado con su nueva tronista y a Yanira le temblaba hasta el pulso de estar junto a él. El ambiente estaba muy calentito y Yanira decidió ir a por un poco de hielo para enfriarlo. Sin embargo, consiguió el efecto contrario. Tras un sensual juego con los hielos, la pareja no dudó en besarse apasionadamente. Yanira calificó la cita como la mejor primera cita que había tenido en el trono.

Tras ver la cita, Jesús se ha levantado para darle dos besos a Yanira y asegurar que la cita le había encantado. Algo que también le pasa a la tronista con él, que le encanta. Jesús ha llegado pisando fuerte y ha puesto muy nerviosos a los pretendientes de Yanira. Ángel, Mario y Manu, en lugar de comentar una cita que les había dejado la autoestima por el suelo, han empezado a atacar a su rival. Mario ha comentado que seguro que a Yanira no le gustaba tanto saber lo que había dicho en la furgoneta. Jesús le ha dicho a Yanira que estuviera tranquila porque lo que había hecho era bromear con ellos asegurando que le habían echado, pero eso no es lo que Mario iba a contar. El pretendiente ha asegurado que Jesús comentó en la furgoneta que seguro que esta vez sí que le ofrecían bolos. Jesús se ha molestado muchísimo y ha asegurado que eso era mentira y que no lo iba a permitir.

Yanira se ha quedado un poco desinflada porque para ella es imposible pensar que Jesús fuera capaz de engañarla de esa manera. Pero, si la tronista tenía poco, Laura ha pedido la palabra para contar que a ella le encanta Jesús y que le ve el príncipe perfecto para ella. Jesús se ha ruborizado y ha comentado que a él no le suelen pasar este tipo de cosas. Yanira asegura que Jesús es el único prentendiente que está todo el rato pendiente de ella y que no cree que tenga otras intenciones.

Cuando el ambiente estaba lleno de tensión, ha entrado Diego y lo ha terminado de llenar. El pretendiente de Yanira estaba decepcionado porque cree que Yanira se contradice en muchas de las cosas que dice y él está en el programa cien por cien por ella. Tiene la sensación de que Jesús está vacilando a la tronista y eso le crea mucha impotencia. Yanira le ha explicado que no tiene la sensación de que Jesús le esté vacilando y que es un chico que le encanta y no lo puede evitar. La actitud de Diego era la propia de un novio formal y no parecía tener mucho sentido. Jesús se ha visto demasiado atacado y se ha levantado para jurar por su vida que él nunca había hablado de bolos.

Yanira ha valorado la reacción de Diego aunque, le ha dicho que no entendía que estuviera buscando protagonismo de esa manera, y le ha pedido que entendiera que estaba conociendo a otros chicos al mismo tiempo. Emma ha pedido permiso a la dirección para que Yanira tuviera una cita con Diego durante el programa para arreglar la situación con Diego. Sin embargo, minutos más tarde, Emma le ha dado la opción a la tronista de dividir la cita de Diego en dos y Yanira ha tenido claro que la quería dividir y tener una con él y otra con Jesús.

La furia se ha apoderado de Diego y le ha llevado a decir que él ya no quería cita con Yanira, y volver a enfrentarse con Jesús. Yanira estaba asombrada y ha comentado que Diego no era el chico que ella pensaba conocer. ¿Jesús es un rival demasiado duro para los pretendientes de Yanira?, ¿es normal la actitud de Diego?, ¿es verdad lo que dice Mario de Jesús? Tendremos que esperar hasta el próximo programa para responder a estas y otras preguntas.

Yanira quiere compartir la cita de Diego con Jesús

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Marcos: "A Jesús no le suelen pasar estas cosas"

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Jaime viene a conquistar a Yanira

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Mario: "A uno se le quitan las ganas de seguir"

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lundi 12 août 2013

Jesús, sobre la cita: "Me encantó"

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Lunes 12/08/2013

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Cita Yanira y Mario (12/08/13)

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María se rompe

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La última cita de Noel y Connie

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Lo mejor del martes 06/08/2013

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dimanche 11 août 2013

El paso de Connie por el programa

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Noel elige a… ¡Connie!

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El mejor despertar de Noel

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Noel baila con sus finalistas

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Miércoles 07/08/2013

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La final de Noel, cara a cara

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samedi 10 août 2013

Noel elige a... ¡Connie!

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Zaida: “Tengo claro que no me voy a sentar”

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Noel y sus chicas llegan a la casa rural

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Noel, sobre Zaida: “Me dijo que le habían vacilado”

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Las ‘Mojo clean’

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Zaida se cuela en la final de Noel

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Más guapo que nunca, Noel ha entrado en el plató de 'Mujeres y hombres' dispuesto a ver cómo habían transcurrido sus citas con las finalistas en una casa rural y más nervioso que el primer día. El tronista estaba encantado con sus finalistas y con el baile sorpresa que le habían regalado.

Emma ha querido que viéramos como había transcurrido su viaje con las finalistas y ha ido dando paso a los vídeos. Primero hemos visto como el tronista fue a recoger a sus finalistas en un minibús y les amenizó el viaje con canciones y bromas, después nos hemos quedado con la boca abierta al ver cómo Noel les pedía a sus chicas que limpiaran el autobús y nos regalara uno de los momentos más sexys y divertidos de 'Mujeres y hombres'. Al llegar a la casa rural, Noel nos ha demostrado su dotes organizativas, ha entregado un sobre sorpresa a cada una de sus pretendientas estableciendo las horas y los lugares para sus encuentros íntimos con ellas.

Lo que nadie se esperaba es que cuando la chicas se estaban preparando para la cena y acababan de descubrir que en la casa no había agua caliente, se abriera la puerta y apareciera Zaida. La ex pretendienta no fue muy bien recibida, pero Noel pidió a sus finalistas que le dejaran un rato a solas con Zaida. La ex pretendienta le explicó a Noel que el futbolista con el que se había ilusionado, le habían mandado a paseo y por lo que luego hemos sabido en plató, se había reído de ella porque le había ocultado que tenía novia y que estaba esperando un bebé. Noel quiso saber si Zaida seguía pensando en él y no dudó en invitarle a sentarse en su final. Zaida antes de contestarle, le dijo que no le parecía justo para el resto de chicas, pero que de momento se iba a quedar a cenar.

Ya en plató, las opiniones sobre la aparición de Zaida en la cena han sido muy variadas. Algunos consideraban que Zaida no pintaba nada en la cita y otras que entendían que quisiera estar en un momento tan especial para el chico al que ha intentado conquistar durante meses. Noel ha contado que Adrián González no le había contado a Zaida que tenía mujer y que estaba esperando un hijo. Roberto desde las gradas ha explicado que la mujer del futbolista se había puesto en contacto con él para desmentir todo lo que había dicho Zaida y asegurar que su novio no era la persona de la que estaban hablando. Emma también ha comentado que el propio futbolista había llamado al plató para desmentir que hubiera tenido algo con la pretendienta. Pero, ¿qué necesidad tiene Zaida de mentir?

Zaida estaba en Telecinco y Emma ha querido que entrara en el plató para responder a todas las preguntas que estaban en el aire. Zaida ha entrado vestida de final y ha querido ir aclarando las cosas poco a poco. Primero ha asegurado que no se iba a sentar cómo finalistas porque ya no sentía lo mismo por Noel, pero que quería acompañarle en un día tan especial. Respecto a su relación con el futbolista, Zaida ha explicado que prefería no hablar del tema porque se sentía "boba", pero ha aguantado el chaparrón como ha podido.

La ex pretendienta conoció a el futbolista por Facebook y aunque a Noel le cueste muchísimo trabajo creérselo, sintió un flechazo. Un hombre le estaba haciendo sentirse muy especial y no quiso desaprovechar la oportunidad. Zaida ha contado que llegó a quedar con el futbolista y que nada más que se supo que su nombre se había hecho público le dijo que su relación no podía ser. Zaida no sabía que Adrián tenía pareja y lo siente mucho por su novia, pero a ella también le han engañado. No está dispuesta a permitir que le digan que ella tenía un interés especial porque se tratara de un futbolista porque estaría encantada de que nada de esto hubiera pasado y haber conocido a un chico normal con dos dedos de frente.

Zaida ha aguantado como ha podido y ha decidido quedarse hasta el final del programa, pero sentada junto a sus padres desde las gradas. Nada más sentir cerca a sus padres, Zaida se ha derrumbado y su padre ha querido aclarar que el único delito que había cometido su hija era ser demasiado confiada, pero que eso eran cosas que te iba enseñando la vida y que todavía era muy joven.