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An airport security officer lay helplessly bleeding after a gunman opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport as paramedics waited 150 yards away because police had not declared the terminal safe to enter, according to two law enforcement officials.

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 It would be 33 minutes before Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez, who was about 20 feet from an exit, would be wheeled out by police to an ambulance, said the officials, who were briefed on the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity because the probe was still ongoing into the Nov. 1 shooting.

 For all but five of those minutes, there was no threat from the suspected gunman _ he had been shot and was in custody, they said.

 While it's not known when Hernandez died or if immediate medical attention could have saved his life, officials are examining what conversations took place between police and fire commanders to determine when it was safe enough to enter and whether paramedics could have gone into the terminal earlier, one of the officials said.

 Formal conclusions may take months to reach, but what's known raises the possibility that a lack of coordination between police and fire officials prevented speedy treatment for Hernandez and other victims.

 TSA workers at LAX have been wondering the same thing, said Victor Payes, who works at the airport and is president of the local union.

 "I basically think there's a lack of coordination between entities at this airport. That lack of coordination may have led to something that shouldn't have happened," Payes said. "We may be talking about Officer Hernandez as a survivor."

 Representatives for the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department and Los Angeles Airport Police said they couldn't comment on the ongoing investigation until extensive reports are finished."

 Authorities say that Paul Ciancia entered Terminal 3 with a duffel bag, pulled out an assault rifle and started shooting. They said he had a note in his bag that said he wanted to "kill TSA" and that he wanted to stir fear in them, criticizing their searches as unconstitutional.

 He was shot by airport police officers four times, in the mouth and leg, before being taken into custody. He remains in fair condition at a hospital and his doctors will determine when he's fit to appear in court.

 In the chaotic moments after the gunfire began, as travelers dove to the ground or scrambled for cover in restaurants and stores, officials worried there could be bombs in the terminal and tried to determine whether the gunman had any accomplices. In the first 30 minutes, there was also an unfounded report of two suspicious people on an adjacent parking garage roof, one of the officials said.

 Officers from multiple agencies bent down to check on Hernandez before moving on, officials said.

 Police broadcast over their radios that Ciancia was in custody at 9:25 a.m., five minutes after Hernandez was shot in the chest. That's when a nearly 26-year veteran Los Angeles police officer checked on Hernandez several times, repeatedly telling officers who came by from various agencies "he's dead," according to one of the law enforcement officials.

 It's unclear whether the officer was qualified to determine Hernandez was dead. No officers rendered first aid on scene, according to surveillance video reviewed by the officials. Finally, airport police put Hernandez in a wheelchair and ran him to an ambulance.

 Trauma surgeon David Plurad said Hernandez had no signs of life when he arrived at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Doctors worked for about an hour to revive him despite significant blood loss.

 "When somebody is shot and they're bleeding to death, lifesaving skills need to be implemented immediately, in a couple minutes, and they're very simple, pressure dressings, tourniquets, adequate bandages to stop the bleeding," said Dr. Lawrence E. Heiskell, an emergency physician for 27 years and a reserve police officer for 24 years who founded the state and federally approved International School of Tactical Medicine.

 Responding to a situation with a shooter on the loose has changed since the 1999 Columbine school massacre, when officials huddled outside to formulate a plan while shooters continued firing inside and a teacher bled to death without timely treatment. Now police immediately charge in to stop the shooting as quickly as possible; officers are trained to step over the wounded and stop the gunman first, then tend to victims.

 During active shooter training last month with the LAX police and LAPD, Los Angeles city firefighters wearing ballistic vests and helmets dragged survivors to areas where they could provide treatment.

 Because police are often the first at the scene where there are injuries, California law requires officers receive first aid and CPR training in the academy and regular refreshers afterward.

 A recent audit by Los Angeles Police Commission Inspector General Alex Bustamante found that the LAPD had a zero percent compliance rate. Only 250-sworn officers in the Metropolitan Division out of the department's more than 9,900 sworn officers received the refresher training, it states. Airport police have the training.

 On day-to-day crime scenes, firefighters wait down the street until police clear the scene, usually in minutes, and allow them in, Los Angeles County Fire Battalion Chief Larry Collins, who's a member of a Los Angeles interagency working group creating best practices for mass casualty incidents.

 "When we have an active shooter, we can't hold back a block away, we've got to go in" because clearing the scene could take hours.

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 Associated Press writer Justin Pritchard contributed to this report. Tami Abdollah can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/latams ||||| Doctors have upgraded the condition of the alleged gunman in the deadly rampage at Los Angeles International Airport.

 Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles announced Tuesday that its last patient from the Nov. 1 shooting has been upgraded from critical to fair.

 Authorities sent 23-year-old Paul Ciancia (see-AHN'-see-uh) there after police shot him four times to end the rampage at Terminal 3.

 The announcement came on the same day that hundreds of people turned out for a public memorial service honoring Gerardo Hernandez, the first Transportation Security Administration officer killed in the line of duty.

 Ciancia is charged with killing Hernandez and wounding three others, including two other TSA officers. Authorities say he targeted TSA employees.

 The charges carry a potential death sentence. |||||

– Unnamed officials say TSA officer Gerardo Hernandez lay bleeding for 33 minutes at LAX before being taken to an ambulance. For 28 of those minutes, alleged shooter Paul Ciancia was in police custody, though officers hadn't yet declared the area safe to enter. Officers checked on Hernandez, who was just 20 feet from an exit, then moved on while paramedics waited 150 yards away, the AP reports, noting it's not clear if immediate attention might have saved Hernandez's life. Now under review: the conversations took place between police and fire commanders to determine when it was safe enough to enter, and whether paramedics could have gone into the terminal earlier. While an officer who checked on Hernandez about 5 minutes after he was shot told numerous officers he was dead, the AP reports that it's not known whether that officer had the training needed to make that determination; no first-aid was administered. "I basically think there's a lack of coordination between entities at this airport. That lack of coordination may have led to something that shouldn't have happened," an LAX employee says. "We may be talking about Officer Hernandez as a survivor." The results of the investigation could be months away, the AP adds. Ciancia was on Tuesday upgraded from critical to fair condition at UCLA Medical Center.


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NANNING, Nov. 2 -- Two officials in southern Guangdong Province were found purchasing corpses from grave robbers in order to meet government cremation quotas, Chinese media reported last week.

 In late June, a resident surnamed Gu from Shizhai Village of Beiliu City in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region reported his grandfather's body was stolen from the graveyard where it was buried.

 Since body theft cases frequently occur in the region, Gu and other family members were guarding the graveyard in turns. Still, they failed to prevent the theft of his corpse.

 In early July, police from Beiliu City apprehended a grave robber surnamed Zhong based on an investigation. Zhong said he has stolen more than 20 corpses in local villages at night, put them into bag, and transported them by motorcycle to neighboring Guangdong Province.

 Zhong then disclosed a surprising detail about the crime. He said he sold the corpses to two officials from Gaozhou City and Huazhou City in Guangdong.

 With the help of Guangdong police, the two suspects, surnamed He and Dong, were arrested. Both were local officials in charge of funeral management reform. They told police that they bought the corpses to finish government cremation quota.

 China has a long tradition of ancestor worship, which usually requires families bury their relatives and construct a tomb.

 In recent years, the country has forward a campaign encouraging cremation to save on limited land resources. Whether people are in favor of preserving farmland or upholding cultural tradition, the burial reform has aroused great controversy in rural regions.

 In He and Dong's towns, local government has demanded a certain number of the dead should be cremated each month based on the total local population of the previous year.

 Reacting to the news of the quota, people in the area began burying the corpses of their relatives in secrecy.

 Pushed to meet their quota, the two officials sought to purchase the corpses and send them to funeral parlor for cremation.

 Dong was found to have bought 10 corpses for 3000 yuan each, while the number of bodies purchased by He was unavailable. The cost for corpses paid by He was 1500 yuan each. The deal was supposedly "approved" by the government.

 Further investigation is under way.

 Many villagers from Guangxi have reported the graveyards of their family members were excavated and corpses stolen in recent years.

 It is a commonly held belief in China that a good location for ancestors' tombs can bring good luck and happiness to living relatives. Damaging tombs can spell disaster. This theory has made it taboo to dig up the tombs of others' ancestors in traditional Chinese culture. ||||| Image copyright AFP Image caption Many in China believe the body must be intact for a peaceful afterlife

 Two officials in Guangdong province have been arrested after they allegedly bought corpses from grave robbers to have them cremated, Chinese media say.

 They said they were trying to ensure government quotas on the number of cremations every month were met.

 In Chinese tradition, relatives are buried with tombs built so that loved ones can perform ancestor worship.

 However, the Chinese government has encouraged cremations to save land for farming and development.

 In June, a resident of Beiliu city in southern China Guangxi region reported that his grandfather's body had been stolen from the graveyard.

 In July, police in Beiliu arrested a grave robber, surnamed Zhong based on an investigation, official news agency Xinhua said, citing Chinese media.

 Zhong confessed he had stolen more than 20 corpses from graveyards in local villages at night. He said he put then into bags and transported them into neighbouring Guangdong province.

 Zhong also alleged that he had sold the bodies to two officials in Guangdong.

 The two officials, surnamed He and Dong, who were in charge of implementing funeral management reform, were arrested last week.

 They told police they had bought the corpses to meet the government quota on cremations.

 Dong is said to have paid 3,000 yuan ($489, £306) each for 10 corpses. The official surnamed He said he paid 1,500 yuan for each corpse but how many he bought is unknown.

 The government policy has angered many, especially in rural parts of China, because of the traditional belief that the body must be intact for a peaceful afterlife.

 Chinese media have reported cases of people committing suicide before the cremation regulations were put in place so that they may get a burial.

 Other reports have alleged some family members are burying their loved ones in secret to get around the restriction. ||||| Death comes as a surprise to most. We have no idea when or how it'll strike, and we have no time to prepare ourselves. For one elderly woman in Anhui province, however, the timing had to be precise: she had a deadline.

 Once the clock strikes twelve on the night of May 31st, burials are henceforth forbidden in the city of Anqing. After that, teams will be dispatched from house to house, destroying the wooden coffins that old people in Anhui often work on for up to a decade before their deaths. In order to beat the clock and receive a proper burial, 81-year-old Zhang Wenying hanged herself in front of her family home.

 Zhang was not alone in either her concern nor her determination. Her neighbour Wu Xiuli, who starved himself to death earlier this month, and four others have perished alongside her. One threw herself down a well, and another killed herself after authorities sawed her coffin in half before her eyes. Reports of Anqing's senior suicides incited public outrage through China, and as such were promptly deleted by the authorities. Relevant organs claim that the ban is intended to save land, but in a country where local governments rely so heavily on land transfers for their revenue, it's not hard to see why people are cynical about just who they want to save this land for. "As the value of land goes up," one netizen observed, "the value of human lives goes down."

 In China, the idea of "entering the earth and being at peace" (rutu wei'an) has thousands of years of tradition behind it, as a permanent burial spot was necessary for subsequent generations to venerate their ancestors. Yet ironically it is in Hong Kong, where cremation became the norm long ago, that traditional ancestral veneration has, perhaps, survived most intact. There, burials in government-run cemeteries are disinterred after six years, at which point the remains are either collected privately for cremation or reburied in an urn or niche. This is in keeping with the traditional southern Chinese practice of jian'gu or "digging up bones," according to which you were duty-bound by filial piety to open your parents' tombs some years after they had died and meticulously clean the bones, then place them in a much smaller ceramic pot for reburial.

 In typical Hong Kong fashion, however, the shift from burials to cremation was decided by market forces rather than official fiat. Burials were never banned in Hong Kong, and you can still be buried in a privately run cemetery today - if you can afford it. Just like apartments and retail space, squarefootage for grave plots is prohibitively expensive. Over the years, as the population swelled and land prices soared, people simply got used to the new reality and adapted their traditions accordingly.

 Perhaps these heavy-handed Anhui bureaucrats could learn a thing or two from the Hong Kong model of funeral and internment reform.

 [Pic via thegrio.com]

 By Ryan Kilpatrick |||||
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– Two officials in southern China offered up a pretty bizarre explanation after being arrested for allegedly purchasing dug-up corpses, according to local media: They needed to meet their cremation quotas. The official Xinhua news agency reports that the case had its beginnings in June, when a resident of Beiliu City in south China's Guangxi region reported that his dead grandfather's body was taken from its grave; police investigated and ended up arresting an alleged grave robber surnamed Zhong the next month. Zhong confessed to stealing more than 20 corpses under the cover of night—and then selling them to two officials from neighboring Guangdong province. The suspects, officials surnamed He and Dong, were then arrested. China has been encouraging cremation as a way to preserve more land for farming and development, reports the BBC. Some residents have been burying family members in secret to sidestep the new policy, and in May, Shanghaiist reported that six elderly residents of Anhui, a town that banned burials outright, killed themselves before the change went into effect in order to secure a burial. In Gaozhou City and Huazhou City, the local governments had set cremation quotas based on the previous year's deaths, and He and Dong were charged with implementing the funeral changes. They allegedly told police they bought the bodies in order to hit their quotas; Dong is said to have spent nearly $5,000 on 10 corpses, while He allegedly bought an unspecified number for about $250 each. Elsewhere in China, 11 have been arrested for their alleged connection to a "corpse bride."


Here is a news article: It's the last will and testament of Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, and it reveals that in his final days he disinherited daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis and his other four children.

 INSIDE EDITION has obtained the will, written five months before his death from cardiac arrest last year at age 85. His children are listed by name, including jamie Lee. Then there's this statement: "I acknowledge the existence of my children...and have intentionally and with full knowledge chosen not to provide for them."

 Instead, Curtis leaves his estate to his widow, Jill.

 A source provided INSIDE EDITION with an e-mail, apparently written to one of Curtis' kids that reads: "(I) just had to write to tell you how very sorry I am about the news of the will. I'm in shock! Your father loved you all so much, and I will never believe that he turned his back on you."

 Curtis, who starred in Spartacus and Some Like it Hot, was eulogized by his actress daughter Jamie Lee at his funeral. She comforted family members at his burial.

 Now she and her siblings find themselves cut out of their father's will.

 One of Curtis's daughters contested the will in court, but was denied. Meanwhile, Curtis's widow Jill released a statement saying, "Tony's last will and testament and his passing wishes are private family matters." ||||| According to a copy of the will obtained by the CBS television show Inside Edition he acknowledged the existence of his children, including the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, but said he had "intentionally and with full knowledge chosen not to provide for them."

 His fifth wife Jill Vandenberg Curtis was named as the representative of his estate in the document which was filed in the state of Nevada, CBS reported.

 One of the children, not Jamie Lee Curtis, was said to have tried to contest the will but the move failed.

 Curtis died from cardiac arrest at the age of 85 at his home in Nevada in September.

 He made more than 140 films over 60 years including Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe, and Spartacus with Kirk Douglas.

 Curtis, who was born Bernard Schwartz in New York, had children with three of his wives – the actress Janet Leigh, Christine Kaufmann, and Leslie Allen. He married for the fifth time in 1998.

 Following his death Jamie Lee Curtis, his daughter with Leigh, said: "He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in laws who were devoted to him."

 A statement from the actor's widow to CBS said: "Tony's last will and testament and his passing wishes are private family matters." |||||
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– Jamie Lee Curtis eulogized her father Tony at his funeral last year—but just five months before his death, Curtis had disinherited Jamie Lee and his other four children. Inside Edition has a copy of the will, which lists his children by name … then says, “I acknowledge the existence of my children … and have intentionally and with full knowledge chosen not to provide for them.” Curtis left the entire estate to his widow Jill—his fifth wife and not the mother of any of his children, the Telegraph notes. One of Curtis’ daughters contested the will, but was denied by the court.


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 On Thursday, Mr. Patrick’s family released a statement about him, saying he lived with his grandparents in Newtown, Penn., and had just completed his freshman year studying business on a scholarship at Loyola University, Md.

 The police started to closely examine Mr. DiNardo’s possible role in their disappearance early on in the search, and Mr. Weintraub first identified him on Tuesday as a “person of interest” in the case. His home in Bensalem Township, about 30 miles from the farm, was searched on Monday, the same day he was arrested on a previously dismissed weapons charge.

 The farm in Solebury Township is owned by his parents, Anthony and Sandra DiNardo. Responding to reports that the parents were summoned to a grand jury hearing, Mr. Weintraub declined to discuss whether one was hearing the case.

 In addition to the cars’ locations at or near the DiNardo family’s properties, the police said, officers have also uncovered other clues, which came to light in court records on Wednesday.

 Shortly before 8 p.m. last Friday, a license plate reader on a Solebury Township police car captured the license plate of a silver Ford truck, which Mr. DiNardo later told the police he was driving that night. Two seconds later, the license plate reader registered Mr. Meo’s Nissan Maxima driving by. That location is about two miles from where Mr. Meo’s car was discovered on Sunday. |||||
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– The family of one of four missing young men in Pennsylvania got the news they were dreading Wednesday night when authorities announced that the body of 19-year-old Dean Finocchiaro had been found in a deep grave on a suburban Philadelphia farm. District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said the body was found in a "common grave" more than 12 feet deep, though he didn't say whether the other remains found belong to the three other men who vanished last week, the Washington Post reports. The farm belongs to the family of Cosmo DiNardo, a "person of interest" in the case who was arrested Wednesday for stealing a car belonging to one of the missing men, the New York Times reports. DiNardo, 20, was bailed out by his father late Tuesday after being arrested on a weapons charge from earlier this year. Bail on the new charges has been set at $5 million. "We bought ourselves a little bit of time" with the stolen car charge, Weintraub told reporters early Thursday, adding that homicide charges are being seriously looked at. Eric Beitz, a friend of one of the missing men, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer that DiNardo sold drugs and guns and once boasted about having somebody killed. "Cosmo has spoken about weird things like killing people and having people killed," Beitz says. "Everybody you talk to about this guy, you hear he’s mentally unstable."


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Exploding Kittens is a highly strategic kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the game. The deck is made up of cards that let you avoid exploding by peeking at cards before you draw, forcing your opponent to draw multiple cards, or shuffling the deck.

 The game gets more and more intense with each card you draw because fewer cards left in the deck means a greater chance of drawing the kitten and exploding in a fiery ball of feline hyperbole.

 The game was created by Elan Lee (Xbox, ARGs), Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), and Shane Small (Xbox, Marvel). We think this game combines all the things we're best at creating, and and put together this Kickstarter campaign because we can't build this without you.

 So if you're into card games or laser beams or weaponized enchiladas, please help us make this game a reality. We think you'll love it as much as we do.

 Hugs and enchilada kisses,

 -Elan, Matt, and Shane.

 The Origin Story

 Exploding Kittens started when Shane Small proposed a game to Elan Lee where a joker was inserted into a deck of cards and they took turns picking cards until the joker came up. It was called “Bomb Squad” and it wasn’t any fun at all.

 Over the next few weeks, two important things happened: First, after neglecting work, family, and a social life, Shane and Elan developed a rule-set that started working and brought the game to life. Second, Matt Inman saw the game, thought it was super fun, and asked to join the team. (btw, if Matthew Inman ever asks you if he can join your team, the answer is “HELL YES”.)

 We changed the name to "Exploding Kittens" and our little team was born.

 BUT YOU'RE BLOWING UP KITTENS! NOT COOL, BUDDY.

 We struggled with this a lot. We love the name Exploding Kittens, but we don't want to hurt kittens. We also don't want the kittens to be hurt by anyone else. Eventually we decided to explore the concept of the kittens blowing themselves up.

 First, Matt tried drawing the kittens as the actual bombs:

 But that felt too Angry Birds’ish.

 Next, we tried making the kittens suicidal, but that felt terrible.

 In the end, we realized that everyone understands feline shenanigans, and that could be our solution. Our kitties would not blow up out of malicious intent or negligence, but by doing the things that kittens do, like running across keyboards or chewing on things they shouldn't be chewing on.

 From there, the rest of the cards fell into place, and the cards used to defuse the exploding kittens were items you'd use to defuse regular kittens.

 HELP US BUILD THIS GAME

 We wanted to put this project on Kickstarter because it's the fastest way for us to get the game into your hands and make improvements as a community. We think this game is great, but we need your help making it even better.

 So, if a world full of weaponized pork missiles is a world you want to live in, please back this project and help us build this game.

 With love and pork missiles,

 -The Exploding Kittens Team (Matt, Elan, and Shane)

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 Thanks to Weberz for providing dedicated server hosting for this website. ||||| Matthew Inman, creator of quirky comic website The Oatmeal, just launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new card game, called Exploding Kittens.

 In the vein of Russian roulette, players go around in a circle, drawing cards from a deck, until one of them picks up an exploding kitten. That player immediately "explodes" and loses. Players can strategically use other cards they've picked up to negate an exploding kitten, or make it more likely for other players to pick one up. All of the cards feature Inman's signature Oatmeal-style drawings, and many include drawings from his past comics.

 Within minutes, Inman's Kickstarter campaign had raised its $10,000 goal, and an hour later, it had over $100,000. At the time of this writing, Exploding Kittens was rapidly closing in on $1 million. Inman created the game alongside partners Elan Lee and Shane Small.

 WE JUST HIT OUR GOAL! $10k in 8 minutes — Matthew Inman (@Oatmeal) January 20, 2015

 We can easily see this becoming Friday night's game of choice. Just don't invite any cat lovers. |||||Summary:

– The creator of popular comic website The Oatmeal launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to make a card game, and let's just say things are going well for him. "Exploding Kittens," a Russian roulette-inspired game created by The Oatmeal's Matthew Inman along with Elan Lee and Shane Small, reached its $10,000 goal in eight minutes yesterday, Mashable reports, citing an Inman tweet. Within an hour, it had raised $100,000. And that was just the beginning: With 21 days to go in the campaign, it has so far raised more than $1.8 million.


Pink had the best reaction when she learned she would be on the cover of PEOPLE’s 2018 Beautiful issue.

 Speaking with Ellen DeGeneres for her episode airing Wednesday, the Beautiful Trauma hitmaker, who graces this week’s issue with her 15-month-old son Jameson Moon and 6½-year-old daughter Willow Sage, joked, “I feel more beautiful and I’ve decided that for the whole week that the magazine is out no one is allowed to look me directly in my eyes.”

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 The mother of two, 38, also recalled that she “laughed out loud” after finding out about the title. “I immediately turned to whoever was in the room and said, ‘Did you ever think this was as good as it gets?’ ” she said.

 “I think, honestly, it was Jameson and Willow that secured that deal for me. I’m wondering if in 20 years if Jameson’s gonna be upset about his first cover. I mean, it’s pretty good,” Pink admitted before reenacting her son’s facial expression.

 For more from our Beautiful issue, pick up the magazine when it hits newsstands on Friday and check out all of our coverage on PEOPLE.com.

 Watch the full episode of People Cover Story: Pink – How I’m Raising Strong Kids, streaming now on PeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device.

 While her younger child has yet to understand the true meaning of his famous mother’s cover, Willow now has another example of what beautiful means — even if she’s still not that impressed.

 “She actually just said to me, ‘You know that part on your show where you talk about that time you talked about me?’ She’s talking about the MTV speech,” Pink said when asked about Willow’s reaction, referring back to her viral August 2017 MTV VMAs speech about body image inspired by a time Willow said, “I’m the ugliest girl I know.”

 RELATED VIDEO: Beautiful Issue Cover Star Pink Gets Candid About Her Marriage & How She Takes on the Haters

 “She goes, ‘Yeah well I still feel that way.’ I was like, ‘For what? That you’re ugly?’ She’s like, ‘Yup, I just want you to know I still feel that way. Nothing you did helped.’ I was like, ’Thanks, babe. Well you know we all feel that way sometimes.’ She’s like, ‘We do?’ I’m like, ‘We’re not doing this again. I have to go,’ ” Pink told DeGeneres.

 RELATED: Pink’s Daughter Willow Stars in Her First Makeup Tutorial: ‘Like Mama Like Daughter’

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 As for what beautiful means to her, the singer revealed a lot has changed from her teenage perspective.

 “I don’t think my 13-year-old self would listen, but I love the way things are changing. And I love that our perception of beauty has completely been knocked on its head,” Pink explained.

 RELATED: Editor’s Note: PEOPLE Renames the World’s Most Beautiful Issue — and Guess Who Is on the Cover

 “There’s nothing wrong with beautiful and there’s nothing wrong with beautiful on the inside, beautiful on the outside. It’s all different shades, it’s all different sizes. It means whatever it means to you,” she said. “I think on one hand my sense of humor is the best part about all of it and on the other hand, it’s a wonderful time that we’re celebrating all different kinds of people.”

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 The Ellen DeGeneres Show airs weekdays (check local listings). ||||| FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, file photo, Pink performs "Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken" at the 60th annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York. Pink is on the cover of People magazine’s... (Associated Press)

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 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pink is on the cover of People magazine's beauty issue, and she's got some adorable company — her young children.

 The magazine has rebranded its "Most Beautiful" issue as "The Beautiful Issue" and features dozens of celebrities, including some posing with their best friends, their rescue pets and without makeup.

 People Editor-in-Chief Jess Cagle says the magazine adopted the approach to "make clear the issue is not a beauty contest." Cagle says Pink was chosen after editors saw photos of the singer with her children, 15-month-old son Jameson Moon and 6-year-old daughter Willow Sage.

 Pink offers her thoughts on parenting in the issue and says she believes in giving affection and letting her son and daughter know that they can count on her and her husband, motocross racer Carey Hart.

 "My parents obviously did not believe in that and I worked out okay," the singer told the magazine. "I always tell Willow, 'I'm going to teach you the rules so that you'll know how and when to break them.'"

 Several stars who have been featured on the cover of the magazine's "Most Beautiful" issues in the past are included in the 2018 edition, including Courteney Cox, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts, who has been featured on the cover of the "Most Beautiful" issue a record five times.

 Among the men featured in the issue are Jimmy Kimmel, Drake, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon.

 The issue is on newsstands Friday.

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 Online: www.people.com/the-beautiful-issue/ ||||| To celebrate PEOPLE’s upcoming Beautiful Issue, we’re showcasing some of the most glamorous ladies on TV as you’ve never seen them before. We asked the cast of every Real Housewives franchise to pose makeup-free — and they happily ditched their glam squads and shared natural selfies.

 We kicked things off with the ladies from Dallas and today we’re heading to Beverly Hills to see what the cast looks like without mile-long lashes, contouring and professional blowouts. Check out their barefaced photos below, and read on to find out what makes them feel the most confident and beautiful.

 Watch PEOPLE Now every day for more makeup-free Housewives and don’t miss the cover reveal of PEOPLE’s Beautiful Issue on April 18th.

 Kyle Richards

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 How have you learned to embrace features you’re self-conscious about?

 I tend to feel self-conscious about my body, as my weight fluctuates. As I’ve gotten older, I’m not as hard on myself and more accepting of my “flaws.” As long as I’m eating healthy and exercising regularly, I feel more confident.

 As you’ve gotten older, how has your beauty routine changed?

 As I’ve gotten older, it takes me a lot longer to get ready for bed at night. I’m very diligent about my skin and my routine takes more time. However when it comes to makeup, as I get older, I think less is more. Often on RHOBH I would wear more makeup and fake lashes. I would always watch the show and think it actually made me look older, so I made a point to wear less. Plus, my husband likes me without makeup on.

 If you were only going to wear one beauty product, what would it be?

 One beauty product would be moisturizer with glycolic acid and one makeup product would be lip gloss.

 Lisa Rinna

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 What physical feature have you always loved to play up?

 My lips!

 If you were only going to wear one beauty product, what would it be?

 Sunscreen! It’s the most important product you can use.

 Teddi Mellencamp

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 When do you feel most beautiful?

 After a long run, a hot shower and cuddling in sweats with my family.

 As you’ve gotten older, how has your beauty routine changed?

 I’m getting a lot more facials and laser treatments. Oh, and Botox.

 If you were only going to wear one beauty product, what would it be?

 An all-natural spray tan because I have a lot of redness in my skin and that’s the easiest way for me to look like I have an even complexion.

 Dorit Kemsley

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 What physical feature have you always loved to play up?

 My legs, for sure!

 How have you learned to embrace features you’re self-conscious about?

 I’m most self-conscious about my breasts since having children. I try and find the right bras and clothes, sometimes it’s a struggle.

 Camille Grammer

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 What does being make-up free mean to you?

 Being makeup free means less time getting ready. It’s freeing in a way.

 How have you learned to embrace features you’re self-conscious about?

 For years, I was self-conscious of my smile. My left incisor never grew in so it made my smile off-center. I had braces to pull my teeth together and four veneers to make my teeth look more unified. ||||| She might be a Grammy-winning pop star known for her brazen attitude and tomboyish style, but Alecia Moore — professionally known as Pink — admits she’s just taking it “day by day” when it comes to being a mom to her two kids Jameson Moon, 15 months, and Willow Sage, 6½, with husband Carey Hart.

 “The thing about parenting is you never know if anything you’re doing is working,” she tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “That’s been the most humbling thing for me. In my head, I sound amazing and then I turn around and her eyes are completely glazed over. I have no idea. We’ll see.”

 Currently on her Beautiful Trauma tour, Pink, 38, describes her own upbringing in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, as “free range, I guess.”

 RELATED: Pink Admits She ‘Laughed Out Loud’ Upon Hearing Beautiful Issue Cover News: ‘I Feel More Beautiful’

 “My mom worked full time and went to school full time. My dad was an insurance salesman,” she says. “My brother and I rode bikes to school and played in the woods all day. Lots of rescuing animals, tree climbing, sports, gymnastics. I had a good childhood.”

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 RELATED GALLERY: Pink and Carey Hart’s Sweetest Family Pics

 With her own kids, she has embraced more of an attachment parenting style. “Yeah, I believe in affection,” she says. “I believe in needs being met and faith being implemented, and I believe in letting your kids know they can count on you, and that you’ll be there. My parents obviously did not believe in that and I worked out okay. I always tell Willow, ‘I’m going to teach you the rules so that you’ll know how and when to break them.’ ”

 Watch the full episode of People Cover Story: Pink – How I’m Raising Strong Kids, streaming now on PeopleTV.com, or download the PeopleTV app on your favorite device.

 The singer also strives to create a gender-neutral environment for her brood. “Absolutely. [But] I feel like gender-neutral is in itself a label and I’m label-less,” she says. “I don’t like labels at all so I believe that a woman and a girl can do anything.”

 RELATED: Beautiful Issue Cover Star Pink Gets Candid About Her Marriage & How She Takes on the Haters

 More than anything, Pink says she believes in “fairness and justice. And I believe that a boy can do anything. So I have boys that flip dirt bikes and I have boy friends that wear dresses. It’s all okay to me. It’s whatever floats your boat. So that’s the kind of house that we live in.”

 For more from our Beautiful issue, pick up the magazine when it hits newsstands on Friday and check out all of our coverage on PEOPLE.com.

 Peggy Sirota

 RELATED VIDEO: Pink Gives Daughter Willow Touching and Empowering Dating Advice After 6-Year-Old Asks About Boys

 RELATED: WATCH: Pink Tells Daughter ‘We Don’t Change’ in Inspiring Speech About Self-Acceptance at MTV VMAs

 As for her children’s future, Pink is more concerned with “just the world that we live in,” she says. “I have so many worries and fears as a parent. I’m such a worrier. They’re going to be fine. They chose this family. They know what they’re doing. But the world, I don’t know if the world’s going to be fine, and so I pray a lot. I cry a lot. I talk to them a lot. I hope a lot. I curse a lot.”

 For now, she and Hart, 42, “try not to take life too terribly seriously,” Pink adds. “We laugh a lot. It’s all about our family unit and time spent together, and much less about external stuff.” |||||

Write a summary.

– Pink is on the cover of People magazine's beauty issue, and she's got some adorable company—her young children. The magazine has rebranded its "Most Beautiful" issue as "The Beautiful Issue" and features dozens of celebrities, including some posing with their best friends, their rescue pets, and without makeup. (See the cover here.) People Editor-in-Chief Jess Cagle says the magazine adopted the approach to "make clear the issue is not a beauty contest." Cagle says Pink was chosen after editors saw photos of the singer with her children, 15-month-old son Jameson Moon and 6-year-old daughter Willow Sage. Pink offers her thoughts on parenting in the issue and says she believes in giving affection and letting her son and daughter know that they can count on her and her husband, motocross racer Carey Hart, reports the AP. People reports that Pink spoke with Ellen DeGeneres in a segment that will air Wednesday, and admits she "laughed out loud" when she learned of the news. "I immediately turned to whoever was in the room and said, 'Did you ever think this was as good as it gets?'" Several stars who have been featured on the cover of the magazine's "Most Beautiful" issues in the past are included in the 2018 edition, including Courteney Cox, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, and Julia Roberts, who has been featured on the cover of the "Most Beautiful" issue a record five times. Among the men featured in the issue are Jimmy Kimmel, Drake, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon. The issue is on newsstands Friday.


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 Please try Yahoo! Help Central if you need more assistance. ||||| CBS News abruptly gave "The Early Show" a complete makeover in an attempt to freshen the show, replacing co-hosts Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez with its current Saturday anchor team of Chris Wragge and Erica Hill.

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 The network is also replacing weather forecaster Dave Price with Marysol Castro, formerly of ABC's "Good Morning America" weekend edition, and adding Jeff Glor as the regular news reader.

 The new team will start Jan. 3.

 There had been little inkling that alterations were afoot, although the show had changed its executive producer, David Friedman, within the past year. Friedman said he believed the new team had the right energy and chemistry to embark on another effort at lifting the show out of third place in the network morning news ratings.

 "It's less about what we weren't getting and less about a generational change or a different direction," Friedman said. "We just literally think this is the right team going forward."

 "The Early Show" has consistently ranked behind the morning champ, NBC's "Today" show, and ABC's "Good Morning America." The week before Thanksgiving was typical. "Today" averaged 5.6 million viewers each day, "GMA" had 4.6 million and "The Early Show" had 2.9 million, the Nielsen Co. said.

 CBS News President Sean McManus said he won't be expecting any immediate ratings changes in a time where "Today" hasn't lost a single week in nearly 15 years. But he said he believed the new team will help the show grow.

 "This group, I think, will work very well together," McManus said. "I think the chemistry will be very good."

 "We just felt the timing was right to start planning for the future," he said.

 Smith had the longest tenure on "The Early Show." He was the sole survivor from 2002 when CBS installed a four-anchor team that included Smith, Hannah Storm, Julie Chen and Rene Syler. Chen still contributes occasional reports to the show; the others have left CBS News.

 Smith also hosted a previous CBS morning show from 1987 to 1996. CBS said he'll stay at the network as a news reporter and primary substitute at the "CBS Evening News," "Face the Nation" and "Sunday Morning."

 Alerted that changes were coming, Smith said he took a "long walk on a cold golf course" Sunday and reflected on doing the CBS morning show for 17 of the last 25 years. "To be honest, I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunities I've had," he said, confirming that he plans to stay at CBS.

 "I have given them everything I can possibly give," said Smith, 59. "I wish the people who follow nothing but the best. God love 'em, I hope they can move the (ratings) needle more."

 Wragge worked in sports, including a stint as a sideline reporter at events for NBC, until he made the jump to news in 2006. Beside his weekend job at CBS, he had been anchoring local news broadcasts at the network's New York affiliate, a job he'll give up to go national.

 Hill, who came to CBS from CNN, briefly filled in for Rodriguez last year when Rodriguez was on maternity leave. She's the only holdover from the current daily program, although in a different role. Currently, she reads the newscasts.

 Wragge and Hill's growth as a team has been evident on Saturday mornings, and they've proven adept at shifting between hard news and lighter fare, McManus said.

 "They're uniquely suited to each other and to the morning show genre," he said.

 Friedman said it's an advantage for CBS that its regular viewers know each of the new personalities, except for weather forecaster Castro.

 "You're not introducing somebody to the morning genre that has never been in the morning genre," he said. "That is a little bit tougher." That's likely a reference to the other recent morning transition, where George Stephanopoulos replaced Diane Sawyer as a co-host at "Good Morning America" late last year.

 "It's hard to fault CBS for looking to shake things up," said David Bianculli, a veteran television critic and now a media professor at Rowan University in New Jersey. "I have a lot of respect for Harry Smith, but for a long time, this has not been working on a daily basis."

 The suddenness of the "bloodbath" was surprising, Bianculli said.

 "Anything that's done this quickly smells of desperation," he said.

 CBS News said it is discussing future roles at the network with Rodriquez and Price. Price has filmed human interest reports along with doing the weather on "The Early Show." Earlier this month, producers dropped him off in Alaska with only $50 and a phone and challenged him to earn his way back to New York City.

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 http://www.cbs.com ||||| The early bird doesn't always get the worm.

 CBS' "Early Show" is playing musical chairs yet again by replacing its on-air team. Making their exit are Maggie Rodriguez, Harry Smith and Dave Price.

 Moving in are Chris Wragge and Erica Hill, co-anchors of the Saturday edition of the "Early Show" since 2008, who are scheduled to take over as co-anchors of the weekday show starting Jan. 3.

 Also joining the team will be Jeff Glor, who has been anchoring the network's Saturday newscast, and Marysol Castro of ABC's "Good Morning America" weekend edition, who will serve as a weather anchor.

 Smith will become the primary substitute anchor for Katie Couric's evening newscast, "Face the Nation" and "Sunday Morning."

 New roles for Rodriguez and Price are to be determined.

 What do you think of the new team, Show Trackers? Will it be enough to break the show out of third place?

 -- Yvonne Villarreal

 twitter.com/villarrealy

 Photo: Maggie Rodriguez. Credit: Getty Images |||||
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– CBS is scrapping its Early Show team, replacing co-hosts Harry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez with the anchors of the show's Saturday edition, Chris Wragge and Erica Hill. Other more minor players also are leaving in the switch, which takes place early next year, the LA Times reports. The show has been consistently stuck in third place, well behind Today and Good Morning America. Smith, who survived the last major overhaul of the show in 2002, will stick with the network as Katie Couric's main backup on the CBS Evening News, notes AP. Click here for more.


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This time last year, Harvey Weinstein was a revered Hollywood producer, Kevin Spacey was the darling of Broadway, and the reputations of trusted household names from Morgan Freeman to Mario Testino gleamed with unimpeachable respectability. Rose McGowan was mostly famous for starring in the cutesy supernatural TV show Charmed.

 And then, exactly 12 months ago, news broke that the actress was one of eight women whom Weinstein had paid to keep quiet about alleged sexual assaults. Within days, the story was blazing through Hollywood like a wildfire, and the world watched agog as reputation after reputation went up in flames. Before long, hundreds of famous men all over the world had been exposed as sexual predators and abusers, and fired.

 A fortnight ago, Bill Cosby,… ||||| You are on Twitter Mobile because you are using an old version of Firefox. Learn more here ||||| I never said # MeToo is a lie. Ever. I was talking about Hollywood and Time’s Up, not # MeToo . Ugh. I’m so tired of erroneous sh*tstorms. # MeToo is about survivors and their experiences, that cannot be taken away. ||||| Today marks the anniversary of one of the hardest years of my life. It’s been a year of triggering for so many. I’m proud of us. Onwards. #RoseArmy ||||| Tweet with a location

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– On Wednesday, Rose McGowan commemorated the anniversary of #MeToo, "one of the hardest years of my life" and "a year of triggering for so many." As for the movement itself, an interview in the Sunday Times Magazine over the weekend painted the 45-year-old actress as coming down on it altogether as she called the people now pushing the #MeToo campaign "douchebags" and "losers." "It's all bulls---. It's a lie," she says. "It's a Band-Aid lie to make them feel better. I know these people, I know they're lily-livered, and as long as it looks good on the surface, to them, that's enough." The magazine cited her beef that she isn't asked to attend survivors' events or other campaign promotions, even though she's been one of the most outspoken people in speaking up about sexual misconduct since she revealed she was a victim of Harvey Weinstein. Now, however, McGowan says her words were twisted, and that she wasn't trashing the #MeToo movement itself, per USA Today. "I never said #MeToo is a lie," she tweeted Sunday evening. "Ever. I was talking about Hollywood and Time's Up, not #MeToo. Ugh. I'm so tired of erroneous sh*tstorms. #MeToo is about survivors and their experiences, that cannot be taken away." In two follow-up videos Monday morning, McGowan added, "I'm just here to say that #MeToo is important, it's honest, and it's ... simply our shared experience. That is what #MeToo is. And it's beautiful." Also told with "cold, controlled fury" to the Times, McGowan reveals she spent 20 years strategically "plotting her revenge" against Weinstein—she says she only took on the role on Charmed to become more famous so that when she exposed him it would definitely make headlines. More from her scathing interview here.


Trenton Lewis, 21, goes the extra mile for his job at UPS. Actually, it's several miles. In order to start loading trucks by 4 a.m,, Lewis starts walking from his home in downtown Little Rock before midnight.

 "It will probably take me two-and-a-half or three hours," said Lewis.

 In the rain or cold and through some rough areas of town Lewis walked. He never missed a shift and was never late to work.

 "I had music in my head. I was just walking, not worried about nothing, I was just moving my feet," said Lewis. "[My job] got more important to me. When I had my daughter, I knew I had to step up. I didn't have a job when she was born," said Lewis.

 Patricia Bryant worked with Lewis in the loading docks. She mentioned Lewis' daily trek to her husband Kenneth Bryant, a veteran driver at UPS.

 "Man, that's got to be a dedicated young man to walk to work," said Bryant.

 He started collecting donations from other workers at UPS.

 "I was like, 'It's coming together, It's coming together, slowly," said Bryant.

 Eventually, he collected $1,900 and found a reliable car.

 "That's actually the third car because a couple of them fell through," said Bryant.

 Bryant even went so far as to fix a nick in the front bumper because he wanted everything to be perfect for the big surprise. The group told Lewis it was a union meeting in the parking lot. Then, Bryant reached into his pocket.

 "He just pulled some keys out of his pocket, and I'm like 'That can't be mine. Those keys cannot be mine.' He brought them to me and my heart just dropped. this can't be real," said Lewis.

 Nowadays, Lewis leaves for work at 3:30 a.m.

 "It feels good because it's just me and the car. I don't have to use my feet no more," said Lewis.

 No more long walks, but definitely some lasting friendships. ||||| Every day for the past seven months, UPS worker Trenton Lewis has been waking up at midnight to make it to his 4 a.m. shift loading trucks in Little Rock, Arkansas.

 Lewis, 21, didn't have a car, so he walked to work -- for five miles -- no matter the weather. The new father said he was doing it for his baby daughter.

 "[My job] got more important to me when I had my daughter," Lewis told ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock. "I knew I had to step up. I didn't have a job when she was born."

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 The proud dad has never missed a shift in the seven months and was never late to work, according to KATV.

 When his UPS co-workers Patricia and Kenneth Bryant found out about Lewis' long walk every day, they came up with a plan to help. The Bryants collected donations from other co-workers and bought him a Saturn, which cost just shy of $2,000.

 When they surprised him with the keys in the UPS facility parking lot, last week, Lewis said he had no idea about their plan to buy him a car.

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 He said his first reaction was, "Those keys cannot be mine."

 "He brought them to me and my heart just dropped," Lewis said. "This can't be real."

 Trenton now leaves for work at 3:30am, he said, allowing him sleep in and give his legs a break. ||||| LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KARK/KXAN) — Every day, Trenton Lewis, 21, walks 5.5 miles from his home to his job at the UPS center in Little Rock, Ark. And then he makes that trip back home.

 Lewis says he gets up in the middle of the night to get to work by 4 a.m. Sometimes he would get rides, but most of the time he walks. He’s had the same routine for the past seven months.

 “I don’t want to miss work at all,” Lewis said. “I wanted to be with my daughter, to be able to support her. I wanted to be a father.”

 Lewis didn’t tell many people how he got to the office, but Kenneth Bryant found out.

 “If someone has that type of determination, I’d be willing to help them,” UPS clerk Kenneth Bryant said. “We just wanted to lend somebody a helping hand.”

 Bryant started asking around to see if coworkers would pitch in and buy Lewis a car.

 “That’s a young man that wants to work and will do whatever it takes to be successful,” Bryant said.

 After seeing his hardship, his co-workers teamed up to buy Lewis his own car.

 “They were astonished that someone would get up at that time of morning, at night, and walk to work that far,” Bryant said.

 Eventually the coworkers raised $2,000 for a car and in a Facebook Live video, Lewis’ work family surprised him with the keys to a car.

 “This is my first car,” said a shocked Lewis. “I have great, awesome coworkers. I had no idea. I guess they are very good secret holders.”

 Now, Lewis has his keys, a UPS keychain and a new car, thanks to his coworkers.

 “I knew things were going to get better if I kept coming to work so, that’s just what I did.” |||||
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– Trenton Lewis has never missed a shift and never been late for his 4am shift at a UPS facility in Little Rock, Ark., a dedication driven by his love for his 14-month-old daughter, Karmen, per CNN. His attendance is even more impressive when you consider his wakeup time and commute: Lewis rolls out of bed at midnight and then, as ABC News notes, "in the rain or cold, through some rough areas of town—he walks." And it's a 5.5-mile journey one way for the 21-year-old single dad, reports KXAN, adding that Lewis has been doing this now for seven months. Lewis tells KATV he didn't have a job when Karmen was born, but when she entered his life, "I knew I had to step up." His pride kept him from mentioning his daily walk to co-workers, but Patricia Bryant, known as the "queen bee" of the UPS site, discovered Lewis' secret—and then, along with her husband, Kenneth, set out to find a way to make things easier for Lewis. They did so by pooling together nearly $2,000 from colleagues and using it to purchase a used Saturn for Lewis, which they presented to him at a gathering they told him was a "union meeting." "Those keys cannot be mine," he recalls thinking when they revealed the surprise, per KATV. His new leave time from home each morning: 3:30am, giving him a few more hours to sleep in. "I knew things were going to get better if I kept coming to work so, that's just what I did," Lewis tells KXAN.


Here is a news article: Couple vow to stay married and meet up with their mother together

 Maria reveals she also had a son called Leandro, Adriana breaks down

 Adriana found her mother through TV show, they were reunited on air

 A woman went in search of her long-lost mother - and discovered she has unknowingly married her own brother.

 Adriana, 39, and her husband Leandro, 37, have been together for seven years and have a six-year-old daughter.

 The Brazilian couple - who didn't want to reveal their surnames - spent their lives trying to find their respective mothers, who were both called Maria, and had both abandoned their children when they were still babies.

 Related: Married couple Leandro and Adriana discovered they are brother and sister - but vow to stay together

 But neither ever imagined - until this week - that the women they had both been searching for could have been the same person.

 Adriana, a cosmetics saleswoman, hadn't seen her mother since she was just one, when she left home leaving her to be raised by the girl's father.

 Meanwhile, truck driver Leandro found out aged eight that his own mother had also abandoned him, and that the woman he knew as his mum was actually his step-mother.

 While Leandro stayed in the same town where he was born in the state of Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil, Adriana moved away to work as a housemaid, was married for 15 years and had three children.

 The pair met for the first time ten years ago after Adriana's marriage broke down and she moved back to her home town, and they soon fell in love and moved in together.

 Discovery: They were both abandoned as infants and spent their lives searching for their mothers called Maria

 Still unable to forget the give up the search for her mother, last month Adriana decided to contact a a radio station in their town to ask for help - and this week the two were reunited live on air.

 But at the end of the interview on Radio Globo's 'The Time Is Now' programme, which specialises in finding lost relatives, the mother revealed she also had a son who didn't know her, Leandro.

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 A phenomenon called genetic sexual attraction can occur when estranged relatives meet for the first time as adults .

 Feelings of intense intimacy can be confused as the brain struggles to associate each other as family .

 When families grow up together, an inherent taboo is created which desensitises them to sexual attraction .

 It is known as the Westermarck effect but is missing from relatives who do not know each other .

 As it becomes clear that it is the same Leandro that she was married to, Adriana is heard weeping uncontrollably: 'I don't believe that you're telling me this. Leandro is my husband,' she sobs.

 At the end of the interview she says: 'Now I'm scared to go home and find out that Leandro doesn't want me any more. I love him so much.'

 Adriana and Leandro - who never married legally - yesterday told Radio Globo that they would stay together, despite the bombshell that they are actually brother and sister.

 Adriana said: 'Only death is going to separate us. All this happened because God wanted it to happen.

 'Of course it would have been different if we had known all this before, but we didn't and we fell in love.

 'We thought it was funny that both our mothers had the same name, but it is a common name so we just thought it was a coincidence.

 'At first we were really knocked by it all. But we had a family meeting and told everyone that we are going to stay husband and wife, whatever anyone might think.

 'We have so many plans together, nothing's going to break us up, nothing.' ||||| Por 40 anos, Adriana esperou ansiosamente pelo momento em que conheceria a mãe, Maria. Inscreveu-se então no site "Anjo dos Encontros", tentando participar do quadro de mesmo nome transmitido diariamente pela Rádio Globo e que promove o reencontro de pessoas com parentes e amigos com quem não têm mais contato. A emoção de falar com a mãe pela primeira vez após tanto tempo, mesmo que pelo telefone e por meio da emissora, foi grande. Mas bem maiores foram a surpresa e o susto de Adriana ao descobrir, nesta mesma conversa, que seu marido, com quem está casada há sete anos e tem uma filha de seis, na verdade é seu irmão, por parte da mesma mãe.

 Para manter a privacidade e, principalmente, preservar a criança, os nomes dos personagens desse drama da vida real, assim como as cidades onde moram e datas foram suprimidos. Maria, a mãe, abandonou a filha fugindo do marido, que sempre a ameaçava e agredia. Na época, Adriana tinha apenas um ano de idade. Para reencontrar a mãe, recorreu ao programa "A Hora é Agora", da Rádio Globo São Paulo, se inscrevendo para participar do "Anjo dos Encontros", criação de Walter Peceniski, especializado em encontrar pessoas desaparecidas e autor do site Good Angels.

 Durante a gravação, Adriana conversava com Walter e Rony Magrini, apresentador da Rádio Globo, quando foi surpreendida pela notícia de que a mãe estava na linha telefônica. Ela começou a chorar e, emocionada, disse à mãe que sentia muita saudade e que esse sentimento ficava ainda mais intenso no Dia das Mães. As duas prometeram, então, que iriam se encontrar. Quando tudo se encaminhava para um final feliz, Adriana pediu para fazer mais uma pergunta à Maria:

 "Mãe, você teve outros filhos além de mim?", questionou.

 "Sim, (...) tive o 'Leandro', mas foi com outro homem, não era seu pai", respondeu Maria.

 Ao ouvir o relato da mãe, Adriana entrou em desespero e começou a chorar compulsivamente.

 "Eu não acredito que você está me falando isso. Leandro é o meu marido", disse.

 O apresentador do programa, Rony Magrini, interveio e perguntou sobrenome e filiação paterna de Leandro, confirmando a inesperada revelação: sem saber, Adriana casara-se com o próprio irmão. E com ele tivera uma filha, hoje com seis anos e saudável.

 Mais tarde, um pouco mais calma, Adriana revelou que já desconfiava estar casada com o irmão por causa de uma das certidões de nascimento do marido (ele tem duas), que trazia o nome de Maria como mãe. No entanto, em outro documento do marido, a informação sobre a mãe não constava. Segundo ela, a partir daquele momento, a busca pela mãe ganhou mais um motivo: tirar a dúvida que a atormentava.

 A reportagem da Rádio Globo esteve na casa de Adriana e Leandro e entrevistou o casal dois dias após a gravação. Eles ainda estavam abalados mas tinham reunido a família e comunicado que permanecerão juntos, já que não tinha consciência do parentesco quando se conheceram e se apaixonaram. Pela legislação brasileira, o casamento não tem validade. Mas Adriana e Leandro jamais oficializaram a união em cartório e nem religiosamente. ||||| One of the happiest moments in a Brazilian woman's life quickly turned into one of the worst when she reconnected with her biological mother and discovered she had a brother she had never known about. Unfortunately, she had also been married to him for seven years.

 The Daily Mail reports that married couple Adriana, 39, and Leandro, 37, were both given up as babies and had been looking for their birth mothers for nearly their whole lives. Adriana went on Radio Globo's The Time is Now, a show that reunites long-lost relatives, this week, to finally meet her mom.

 In their conversation, she learned her mother gave up another baby, her little brother, who just happened to have the same name as her husband. The host of the show, Ron Magrini, cut in to ask Leandro's last name, confirming the awful coincidence: Adriana had married her brother.

 They first met 10 years ago, and now have a 6-year-old son together.

 Adriana had suspected something like this after seeing their mother's name, Maria, on one of her husband's two birth certificates, but she thought the reunion would put those fears to rest, not confirm them.

 "We thought it was funny that both our mothers had the same name, but it is a common name so we just thought it was a coincidence," she said.

 Radio Globo reports the two never had their marriage notarized by the government or recognized by a church, so it's technically void under Brazilian law. Regardless, they say they love each other and plan to stay together.

 [H/T Daily Mail, Photo: Radio Globo] |||||
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– A Brazilian woman got quite the surprise when she went on a radio show this week to reconnect with her long-lost mother, Gawker reports. Adriana, 39, who gave no last name, went on Radio Globo's The Time Is Now (which helps people find lost family members) and talked to her mother for the first time. The big news: Adriana had a brother who'd been given up as a child and raised by a relative, just like Adriana was. Bigger news: His name was Leandro, just like Adriana's husband. The two men, in fact, had the same last name. "I don’t believe that you’re telling me this," said a sobbing Adriana, the Daily Mail reports. "Leandro is my husband." The couple has a 6-year-old daughter. Adriana was given up at the age of one and raised by her father, according to the show. Her husband Leandro, 37, learned at age 8 that he'd also been abandoned at a young age, then raised by his step-mother. By the time Adriana and Leandro met, each had spent years seeking their birth mother—without knowing it was the same person. "Now I'm scared to go home and find out that Leandro doesn't want me anymore," she said. "I love him so much." But she later said that the pair, who were never legally married, will stay together "whatever anyone might think." Their romantic connection isn't that unusual, according to experts who estimate that up to 50% of such reunions include at least short-term attraction and sometimes sexual obsession, reports an old Guardian article. (Read about twins who reunited after 78 years—a new world record.)


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(CNN) -- If you follow scientific developments as if they were football games, this would be a good time to cheer "Tick-tick-tick-tick! Tick-tick-tick-tick! Go, clock, go!"

 The reason for such enthusiasm? Researchers have released a study in the journal Science describing what they believe is the world's most precise clock.

 You'd never need this level of precision for getting to work on time, but the clock could be used for scientific exploration and technological advancements in areas such as navigation systems, said study co-author Andrew Ludlow, researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.

 The rate of ticking of this timepiece -- known informally (and awkwardly) as the ytterbium optical lattice clock -- does not change by more than one part in 10^18, Ludlow said. In other words, if there is any variation in how a second is measured, it would be in about the 18th decimal place.

 "The ytterbium optical lattice clock has demonstrated a groundbreaking, new level of clock stability," he said. "One could say that this is like measuring time over a hundred years to a precision of several nanoseconds."

 In order to understand what's so special about this table-sized clock, it helps to have a little background:

 How clocks work

 Inside a clock is a mechanism that changes in some regular way, called an oscillator. Imagine, for example, a grandfather clock, whose pendulum swings back and forth denoting time. In a wrist watch there is often a crystal with an electrically oscillating signal.

 A particular number of "back and forths" corresponds to one second.

 An atomic clock makes use of an electromagnetic signal -- in other words, light emitted at an exact, known frequency. At the core of the system, there is an atom. The light is used to excite an electron in the atom.

 In this model, the excitation and de-excitation of an electron corresponds to a pendulum swinging right to left, but in an atomic clock, the "tick" denotes an unimaginably tiny fraction of a second.

 The current gold standard for time is the cesium clock, a type of atomic clock that an international body of experts has used to define what is the unit of one second: About 9.19 billion oscillations. In this clock, a microwave light source is used to excite electrons in cesium atoms.

 But the new atomic clock at NIST, described in the Science study, uses a different element: Ytterbium, atomic number 70. Optical light -- specifically, yellow light from a laser with a wavelength of 578 nanometers -- is used to excite the electrons of ytterbium atoms.

 Whereas scientists talk about billions of oscillations per second in the cesium clock, oscillations per second in the ytterbium clock approach one quadrillion per second, Ludlow said.

 The new clock is akin to a ruler that has markers for fractions of inches, compared to a ruler that only delineates inches. The first instrument would make more precise measurements.

 "You divide time into finer and finer intervals," Ludlow said.

 In order to establish the precision of this clock, the scientists had to make two of them, to confirm agreement in the measurement of time.

 The devices won't fit on your wrist, or even on your wall. Because of all the laser equipment and technology necessary for this level of precision, the atomic clock and all of its components occupy a space about the size of a dining room table, Ludlow said.

 Efforts are under way to shrink the technology, however, particularly so that a version of it might be sent into space.

 Potential uses

 Researchers studying Einstein's theory of general relativity could make use of this clock to more precisely measure how time is different depending on the surrounding gravitational force.

 Global positioning systems (GPS) already take this into account. Because they are farther from Earth than we are, and therefore experience less gravitational pull, their measurement of time as they orbit Earth is slightly different from what we perceive on the ground. A more precise atomic clock could measure the correctional factors even better.

 Such clocks could also test alternative theories about the relationship between time and gravity.

 There could be other applications for navigation and communications systems.

 But you probably won't want one for your alarm clock. Ludlow said the total cost ranges on the order of a half-million dollars.

 Accuracy

 Although scientists have proclaimed that this is the world's most stable clock, they do not yet know as much about its accuracy. This is a subtle but important difference: The ytterbium clock has demonstrated incredible stability of measurement -- it always measures a second in the same way -- but we do not yet know if what it is measuring is a "true" second.

 So, we'll have to wait to find out whether these clocks could be the most accurate in the world.

 More research is needed. It's a story we hear time and time again.

 Follow Elizabeth Landau on Twitter and Google+. ||||| A pair of experimental atomic clocks based on ytterbium atoms at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has set a new record for stability. The clocks act like 21st-century pendulums or metronomes that could swing back and forth with perfect timing for a period comparable to the age of the universe.

 NIST's ultra-stable ytterbium lattice atomic clock. Ytterbium atoms are generated in an oven (large metal cylinder on the left) and sent to a vacuum chamber in the center of the photo to be manipulated and probed by lasers. Laser light is transported to the clock by five fibers (such as the yellow fiber in the lower center of the photo). Credit: Burrus/NIST View hi-resolution image

 NIST physicists report in the Aug. 22 issue of Science Express that the ytterbium clocks' tick is more stable than any other atomic clock. Stability can be thought of as how precisely the duration of each tick matches every other tick. The ytterbium clock ticks are stable to within less than two parts in 1 quintillion (1 followed by 18 zeros), roughly 10 times better than the previous best published results for other atomic clocks.

 This dramatic breakthrough has the potential for significant impacts not only on timekeeping, but also on a broad range of sensors measuring quantities that have tiny effects on the ticking rate of atomic clocks, including gravity, magnetic fields, and temperature. And it is a major step in the evolution of next-generation atomic clocks under development worldwide, including at NIST and at JILA, the joint research institute operated by NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder.

 "The stability of the ytterbium lattice clocks opens the door to a number of exciting practical applications of high-performance timekeeping," NIST physicist and co-author Andrew Ludlow says.

 Each of NIST's ytterbium clocks relies on about 10,000 rare-earth atoms cooled to 10 microkelvin (10 millionths of a degree above absolute zero) and trapped in an optical lattice -- a series of pancake-shaped wells made of laser light. Another laser that "ticks" 518 trillion times per second provokes a transition between two energy levels in the atoms. The large number of atoms is key to the clocks' high stability.

 The ticks of any atomic clock must be averaged for some period to provide the best results. One key benefit of the very high stability of the ytterbium clocks is that precise results can be achieved very quickly. For example, the current U.S. civilian time standard, the NIST-F1 cesium fountain clock, must be averaged for about 400,000 seconds (about five days) to achieve its best performance. The new ytterbium clocks achieve that same result in about one second of averaging time.

 Given this high level of stability the ytterbium clocks can make measurements extremely rapidly -- in real time in many cases -- which could be important in rapidly changing application settings, such as the factory floor and the natural environment.

 A key advance enabling the milestone performance of the ytterbium clocks was the recent construction of a second version of the clock to measure and improve the performance of the original, developed since 2003. Along the way, NIST scientists have made several improvements to both clocks, including the development of an ultra-low-noise laser used to excite the atoms, and the discovery of a method to cancel disruptive effects caused by collisions between atoms.

 The ytterbium clocks' stability record is different from the performance levels previously publicized for NIST-F1, which is traceable to the international system of units, and NIST experimental optical clocks based on single ions, such as the aluminum quantum logic clock or the mercury ion clock. NIST-F1 and the ion clocks were evaluated based on systematic uncertainty, another important metric for standard atomic clocks. NIST-F1's performance is described in terms of accuracy, which refers to how closely the clock realizes the cesium atom's known frequency, or natural vibration rate. Accuracy is crucial for time measurements that must be traced to a primary standard.

 NIST scientists plan to measure the accuracy of the ytterbium clocks in the near future, and the accuracy of other high performance optical atomic clocks is under study at NIST and JILA. The research is funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). |||||
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– A new timepiece the size of a dining-room table is being hailed as perhaps the world's most precise: It's "like measuring time over a hundred years to a precision of several nanoseconds," says Andrew Ludlow, co-author of a study behind what's being called the ytterbium optical lattice clock. Until now, the standard for time precision in the US has been a cesium-based clock. Some 9.19 billion oscillations of its electromagnetic signal defines a second. But the ytterbium clock oscillates about a quadrillion times per second, allowing observers to "divide time into finer and finer intervals," Ludlow notes. Those intervals are extremely regular; indeed, two of the clocks have set a record for stability, Science Daily reports. Their timing would be perfect for about as long as the universe has existed. Experts must measure the cesium clock across five days for the most precise readings, whereas the ytterbium clock requires just a second to offer the same level of precision. Why would we ever need such a thing? It could mean better GPS, for example: Because the navigation systems are in space, their time perception isn't quite the same as ours on Earth. Scientists could better correct for that using a more precise clock, CNN notes.