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Associated Press - February 6, 2014 3:45 am
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – Charlie Weis had made it clear that he's modeling his rebuilding job at Kansas in part on what Bill Snyder accomplished at rival Kansas State.
That means recruiting a heavy load of junior college and four year transfers.
Weis announced a 25 member class on national signing day Wednesday that he hopes will be able to help immediately. Among them are eight junior college players and two transfers from four year schools, quarterback T.J. Millweard from UCLA and tight end Kent Taylor from Florida.
Weis was scheduled to discuss his third recruiting class during an afternoon news conference, but it was postponed a day because of heavy snow that fell across the midwest. Weis said in a statement that the class addresses many of the Jayhawks' biggest holes.


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Cameron Simcik is a graduate of Bucknell University. She has written for Her Campus and is currently the Philadelphia Travel City Editor for The Daily Meal and a contributing writer for TheFW and GuySpeed.
There's no sense in denying cats can be a little sassy from time to time, simply because they're not afraid to make it totally obvious they hate something. Costumes? Check. Reindeer antlers? Double check. Their 'tude doesn't make them any less adorable, though! It's sort of charming, actually.
In case you forgot, a little something called the Super Bowl went down yesterday. Alicia Keys rocked the National Anthem, Beyonce was as fierce as they come and the commercials were awesome. There's also one very underrated part of Super Bowl Sunday that often goes unnoticed-- the Puppy Bowl!
Only t-minus four days until the big game, so now is the perfect time to start thinking about the most important part of our Super Bowl party-- food. Nachos, sandwiches, pizza and anything greasy goes, as long as it's hardy and semi-manly. But how the heck are we supposed to choose with so many delicious options out there? Answer: go big.
Sometimes life can feel like a big ol' pile of crap. Thankfully, there are those rare situations when crap can be turned into something fairly useful. This is one of those times. Sort of.
We recently presented you with quite possibly the most adorable group of pictures, ever. They were miniature, furry nuggets of cuteness that would be extremely difficult to top in the miniature, furry nuggets of cuteness category-- tiny dogs. Could it get any better?! Answer: y-e-s. America, we'd like to share with you our latest discovery-- tiny cats.
Aww man! We've been sucked in again. It's another edition of animals in costumes, but we swear it's way worth your time. Why? Well, because there are few things more adorable than dressing up our dogs and cats in holiday garb and showing them off on the Web. We're positive they love it! (Maybe.)
We love Santa. We really do! He's probably the coolest old guy we know, spending his life making presents, managing elves and eating cookies. Truth be told, we're sort of jealous. The jolly old guy usually looks bright and cheery and not all that scary, which is yet another reason we're fans.
Attention everyone: we now officially have T-minus eight days until Christmas, and preparation time is running out faster than we can shove holiday cookies in our mouths. We still have to buy last-minute presents, dig out those stockings from the back of our closets and make time for that awful office party.
The holiday season is easily the greatest time of year, mostly because good moods are abundant and we get to eat tons and tons of cookies. While we're huge fans of Christmastime, it does require a lot of prep. Between the endless cooking and gift shopping, stress can build up pretty quickly, and that brings nothing but bad moods and muddled minds.
Neil Patrick Harris is one cool dude. He knows how to speak bear and he takes getting groped by a 'Price is Right' contestant like a champ. If that's not enough for you to prove his sheer awesomeness, let us break some fantastic news: he's now joined forces with The Muppets to create a strangely awesome new web series called 'Neil's Puppet Dreams.'
Doctors are some of the creepiest dudes around. We know they do all this good crap for people, but think about it-- does the good ol' doc really need to be touching our junk for that long during a prostate exam? Is he genuinely worried about that slight pain we've been feeling in our butt? Unfortunately, there are very few times a doctor's weird antics are questioned. That is, until now.
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Joe Moore, Head Grower for 2009 Operation Of The Year winner Lucas Greenhouses, runs a clean, well-organized, high-quality and disciplined operation. His crops are always of the highest quality both in propagation and finished plant production. Moore and his team achieve this top quality by staying on the cutting edge of the best growing technical practices.
Moore is directly responsible for all growing decisions for 22 acres of heated space and 30 acres of outdoor growing. He delegates responsibility to 18 other growers and mentors them on all aspects of growing. He also is the head of production, overseeing about 100 people in all.
Moore leads the staff by example with a strong work ethic, personal integrity and a dynamic and enthusiastic approach to his daily work. His interactions with the staff always seem positive even when working through a problem.
"Joe has been with Lucas Grenhouses for more than 30 years. He is a part of all major decisions and, except for sales, runs the entire operation every day," says owner George Lucas. "He understands what it takes to get where we are today, and I value his opinion very much."


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One the things I most like in Buenos Aires was the lots of green areas inside the city. The parks (or "plazas"as they call there) are nice places to visit. Here I was at "3 de Febrero" Park at Parlermo neightborhood. In the backgrounds some of the beuatiful buildings of Buenos Aires.
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Your composition is outstanding here using the trees to provide balance for the tall buildings. The water provides a nice lead in for the shot. The vertical format of the shot works well emphasizing the height of the buildings and trees.
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Wigan Athletic (0) 0 Plymouth Argyle (1) 1
Wigan owner and chairman Dave Whelan is reported to be preparing to buy back his JJB Sports business from the shareholders; but his footballers put him in anything but a bullish mood with a performance that sent the Second Division leaders' stock falling. They were outclassed by a lively and innovative Plymouth.
Lucky to only lose by one goal, a seventh in six matches for Marino Keith, Wigan rarely troubled Argyle keeper Romain Larrieu until the closing minutes and were second best from the second minute onwards when John Filan made a magnificent save from Grant Smith's 18-yard volley.
Manager Paul Jewell said: "Plymouth played extremely well, and quite simply they worked harder than our players. We did not fight for the cause, and that kind of performance just will not do."
With their precision passing and lively movement off the ball Plymouth looked well organised and capable of holding a position in a higher division, but probably not next season.
Filan saved magnificently on-on-one with England under-18 international Ian Stonebridge in the 23rd minute, but was able to do nothing with the deflected 35th minute winner from Keith.


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The Nasdaq's Technical Outlook
The Nasdaq Composite Index opened yesterday session gaping down dragged by poor performance of many of its main components, including (NASDAQ: AAPL), (NASDAQ: QCOMM) and (NASDAQ: NFLX). From a technical point of view, gaping up or down is a strong continuation pattern.
In the case of Nasdaq, the Fibonacci fan that was working as support level during the last sessions got broken giving a clear indication that the movement is strong and a possible level of 2900 may be achieved during the next sessions. Apart from the Fibonacci indicator and the gap pattern, three main Moving Averages (10, 20, 40 and 50) are converging down as we speak and RSI is already below the 50 mark, a further signal that the Index losing upper power.
In a positive note at least for the short term, yesterday candlestick Doji formation can be interpreted as a change in direction - and again this normally works only in the short term. This may provide an opportunity to enter a long position having in mind that it may not last and most likely will not change the direction of the trend.
For the future, the Nasdaq Index may be expected to move up to levels of 3000 (giving the Doji formation) where it may bounce back down to the 2900 level. If the Index is capable of changing gears and continue trending up, then the level to observe would be the correspondent to the Fibonacci fan - Around 3500. After breaking that level we may expect the Index to retake the winning stake it shown during the first quarter of 2012.
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I was confounded by your editorial of Nov. 7th ("Now in the Senate, King should expand his vision") stating that Senator-elect Angus King should "provide a vision for the country that goes beyond fixing the process of the U.S. Senate and say how he is going to address the problems of the nation."
The point the editorial misses is that, as long as the dysfunction persists in our politically divided government, we will never solve the challenges confronting America — because there is no mechanism by which we can come together to forge consensus or find common ground.
To gloss over the imperative of repairing the Senate is to ignore the ineffectiveness and miniaturization of what is supposed to be the world's greatest deliberative body that has resulted from the current dysfunction.
In the 112th Congress, we're on pace to pass the fewest number of laws since 1947. The Senate has failed to pass a budget in either this Congress or the last.
And why is that? In large part because the norms and procedures of the Senate are being perverted in a quest to defeat the opposing party, rather than employing a process that brings the various sides together to solve problems.
When each party's position fails, no effort is made to identify a mutually acceptable alternative.
Rather, each side issues sound bites to embarrass the other party and create 30-second ads for the next election — leaving the problem unresolved.
But with the rules of the United States Senate, essentially 60 votes are required to pass legislation.
This means that moving past our differences and engaging in compromise is a necessity if we are to secure results.
That's the kind of collaborative spirit that Washington is lacking, and that is a prerequisite if we are to "address the problems of this nation."
Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Falmouth is retiring after three terms in the U.S. Senate.


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After shooting one of her own clients and accidentally getting involved with the mob, Sofie Metropolis is finally starting to get the hang of the PI business. She's just landed her first high-profile case. A local Astoria girl has made good by marrying an up-and-coming South American pitcher who has just been signed by the New York Mets. Reni Venezuela's good looks and charm, not to mention his fastball and his slider, are bringing hordes of fans to Shea Stadium. But despite his stellar record, Reni's wife insists something's wrong with her husband. Can Sofie find out what?
Meanwhile, romance and all its complications are heating up for Sofie. But while the Mets steamroll toward the pennant race, Sofie must tail Reni and hope that whatever she discovers (steroids or an affair?) won't cost her beloved Mets the Series.
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"If you love My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Stephanie Plum, this is definitely the series for you!" (Christine Feehan)
"Smart, sassy Sofie knocks the ball out of Shea Stadium in this colorful concoction." (Publishers Weekly)
"The flair and cultural humor this dynamic writing duo brings to their Sofie books is energizing and giggle-producing. Snappy dialogue and offbeat characters ensure a great time!" (Romantic Times BookReviews)
"fine for passing the time"
Books from this series are all reasonably entertaining as long as you don't pay too much attention. My complaints first: The format is so similar to the Stephanie Plum books that it can elicit eye rolls. The narrator on this one is different from the other books. The narration is mostly very good... but, she only does three voices: Sophie, Rosie and then everyone else is Greek, even if they are Hispanic or Jewish.
That being said, all of the books are fast paced and amusing and this is the best of the lot.
"No Anna Fields, but still a good story"
Fans of the Sofie Metropolis audiobooks are saddened at the passing of Narrator Anna Fields and we miss her way of bringing Greek America to the rest of us. Ms Rogers does a capable job of of continuing the story, but I would find myself missing the way Anna spoke certain words or voices. Aside from the narrator issue, I enjoyed the story and hope that the author will continue with the new storyline direction introduced at the end of the book.
I cannot seem to be able to get past a few moments of this book. The new narrator reads like she is going to a fire and cannot seem to do multiple voices. Why they changed from Anna Fields is lost on me. It was certainly a waste of my credits to buy this book. Very disappointed.
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text: After teasing the reveal of the man under the Superman mask in a preview, DC Comics finally unveiled his identity in today's The New 52: Futures End #17. While the experts below are collated from several different sources, (Bleeding Cool, Newsarama and r/comicbooks) it turns out that Billy Batson, aka Shazam, has been acting as the Man of Steel, as many fans speculated. After a lengthy fight with Rampage, Billy finally gets a chance to let loose the iconic word and reverts back to his (slightly) younger self. This puts an end to rumblings of Kal-El now being disfigured or becoming half-cyborg (as seen in the initial Superman: Futures End one-shot cover, now changed to feature Masked Superman), as the original Superman comes crashing down back to Earth (sporting a look not dissimilar to Henry Cavill in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel). You'll obviously need to read the issue to get the whole story, but this is about as much information as we've gotten so far. So what do you think? Did you guess this months ago, or were you hoping it would be somebody else?


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EXCLUSIVE: 'Nothing can break us' Dan Osborne and Jacqueline Jossa set the record straight once and for all
Pregnant EastEnders actress and TOWIE boyfriend insist relationship is forever as they prepare for baby daughter's imminent arrival
DAN Osborne and Jacqueline Jossa have had their fair share of ups and downs but in an exclusive shoot in this week's OK! Magazine, they've set the record straight once and for all.
As the pregnant EastEnders actress prepares to go into labour in a few weeks, she and her TOWIE boyfriend revealed how they'd come out the other side and are stronger than ever following some turbulent times.
Dan was the first to admit their relationship had been strained by certain factors and explained: "It has been hard but I'm lucky to still have Jackie. There have been times when I've spent loads of time with Teddy and I've been funny with Jackie or not really spoken to her. I was unhappy whenever I was away from Teddy so there was a lot of pressure on us. But now we've got our baby on the way and everything has fallen into place."
"It's difficult but we've come out the other side and it just shows that nothing can really break us, so it's not as big as people think," the 22-year-old added.
The genetically-blessed TV couple – who first met in August 2013 – admitted the 'L-word' was dropped "pretty soon" into the relationship.
"Now we say it about 300 times a day," Dan confessed.
Jacqueline and Dan went on to rubbish all rumours they'd split in November 2013 and 2014 and insisted they never stopped seeing each other when things got tough.
"There's a reason why we're still here and we're still going strong," James Argent's mate said.
Things are looking up for the showbiz pair and they can finally look forward to setting up a home with their baby girl as Dan has moved out of his ex-girlfriend Megan Tomlin's and into Jacqueline's house.
"We do everything together – tonight I'll have to go to the gym with him and watch him work out for two hours because we hate being apart," the loved-up brunette admitted.
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Although a proposal is not on the cards just yet, Dan plans to cement the pair's commitment in the form of a tattoo.
"I'm going to get 'Jacqueline' on me too because this is forever," he finished.
Read Dan and Jacqueline's first joint interview and see all the stunning snaps in this week's OK! Magazine, out now!
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sept. 21 admitted Canada had failed its indigenous people and told the United Nations his government would do better to improve the lives of aboriginals and achieve reconciliation.
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A group of protesters, including at least two members of the People's Protection Units (YPG), entered a hall in New York where Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was delivering a speech, shouting slogans before they were ejected by U.S. security officials late on Sept. 21.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller's team of investigators has been seeking information from the White House related to Michael Flynn's stint as national security adviser and about the response to a meeting with a Russian lawyer that was attended by President Donald Trump's oldest son, The Associated Press has learned.
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Rescuers dug on Sept. 20 for survivors of a 7.1- magnitude earthquake that killed at least 230 people in Mexico, as the nation watched anxiously for signs of life at a collapsed school in the capital.
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Hurricane Maria pounded the small island of Dominica with catastrophic winds, starting a charge into the eastern Caribbean that threatens islands already devastated by Hurricane Irma and holds the possibility of a direct hit on Puerto Rico.
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The United States "strongly opposes" the planned independence referendum by Iraqi Kurds and urges Iraqi Kurdish leaders to engage in negotiations with the Baghdad government instead, the U.S. State Department said on Sept 20.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York on Sept. 17 ahead of the UN General Assembly, officials said.
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If you are young, if you are homeless, if you are a woman, and if you have children, "the chances of finding shelter in Augusta, Ga., tonight are not good," said Virginia Lifsey, the director of the new women's and children's shelter at the Garden City Rescue Mission in downtown Augusta.
The new shelter opens today above Garden City's 50-bed men's shelter on Fenwick Street.
Lifsey, the founder of Starting Point Ministries, a new ministry of The Point, is in charge of relaunching the shelter, which was closed for renovations this summer.
The new ministry's initial goal is to provide clean and safe shelter and day care services for young moms between ages 17 and 24. Six women and their children can stay for up to 90 days in the new shelter. They will attend daily Bible studies and receive parenting and job-skills training. A full-time housemother will live on site. Volunteers are needed to bring meals, run a clothing closet and work in the office.
Eventually, Starting Point plans to open a home for women in Harrisburg, a day care and classrooms.
"Our dream is big because the need is big," Lifsey said. "For every four to six families we serve, I know we're leaving 20 out on the street. They say they're holding on until we open. How do you hold on with 3-month-old twins on the street?
Keith Pope, Garden City's executive director, agreed.
"We've got to come up with a solution to the women and children's shelter problem in Augusta," he said. "There's got to be a collaborative effort because they're slipping through the cracks.
"For men, there's help if they want it. For women, they're being left out in the cold. The transitional houses are maxed out. Most of them come to us having already lived with family and have nowhere else to go."
Recent renovations include an innovative approach to housing homeless moms and their children.
"I call them cubicles. They're little mommy cubicles," said Ansley Pope, the women and children's director at the mission, who is married to Keith. "We're not just taking in a woman. We're taking in a family. More than likely, they have children, and they have more than one."
Each cubicle features chest-high walls, with beds for moms and cribs for babies, so each woman has a semi-private space to care for her children, while also receiving support and help from other moms.
"It's homey, comforting," Keith Pope said. "It's important for the kids to have their private space. They need to be together as a family. They're coming to us from some bad circumstances. Most of the time the ladies are dealing with some sort of abuse. It's a lot different situation than our men."
The two ministries, at least at first, will share chapel space and resources as Starting Point gets off the ground.
"There's daily Bible studies and chapel services for a reason," Lifsey said. "Our ministry is called The Point because everything we do is pointing to Jesus Christ. If I gave you a place to sleep but I haven't pointed you to Jesus Christ, I haven't done you much."
Lifsey, a former teacher and member of In Focus Church in Evans, said she was given a vision for helping women off the streets.
Last fall, after training with a similar ministry in Atlanta, she wrote out plans to raise $200,000 to renovate a house that would serve as a woman's shelter.
However, she "ended up with breast cancer, had chemo, recovered from that," Lifsey said. "We're opening Oct. 1, which I thought was appropriate. This is my pink ribbon."
This summer, Lifsey shared her plans with a woman at the Salvation Army, who pointed her to Garden City. Instead of raising money for a new facility, Lifsey worked with Garden City to run the program in its facility.
"It was the greatest gift," she said. "It allows us to get started almost immediately."
Garden City was founded in 2001 by Travis Sharpe. As a student at Victory Baptist College in North Augusta, Sharpe began picking up homeless men in Augusta and driving them to services at his church. He founded the mission with the support of Victory Baptist.
Today, Garden City is supported by Victory Baptist and nearly 20 other churches.
"We couldn't do it without the local church," Pope said. 'We're in a down economy, and we're still open. When I took over two years ago, people said, 'They'll be open two or three months, then they'll be closing their doors.' On paper, that's what it looked like. God had bigger plans."
Garden City needs to raise $18,000 a month; the women's shelter raises an additional $5,000.
"I was looking at raising $200,000 to start a house before I found Garden City," Lifsey said. "We've raised zero dollars and zero centers. We've been given all of this. I cannot tell you today how we're going to pay the bills, but if God has given us this place, he can certainly pay the bills."
A recent workday brought out volunteers from several congregations, who helped with landscaping, cleaning and maintenance.
"It's a 100-year-old building, so it needs some maintenance," Keith Pope said. "The building was never designed to handle the foot traffic. There are three showers for 55 guys. The bathroom needs to be replaced."
In this economy, "our numbers are through the roof," Pope said. "All the shelters are. The numbers go even higher in the winter."
Staff say there's also a brand new problem.
"We're getting calls from men with children," said Scott Simet, the assistant director who runs Garden City's transitional house in south Augusta. "Maybe a half-dozen calls over a few months. That didn't use to happen.
"It's usually single dads because of death or divorce or something. But they have these kids, and it's a problem no one expected. No one out there – no one – is prepared to take them in."


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No, my apologies. I just reread what I wrote and it sounded more confrontational in black and white than it did in my head. I just meant maybe you had a good anecdote to share.
I too find it exciting that some of our kids are in a climate where it is safe to be who they are. I just worry about a potential witch hunt on my daughter some day... hopefully she is in a progressive enough school that it will never be an issue.
It was helpful, though I'm not sure I get why your first response was to laugh. It's funny, my daughter had an incident on the 1st grade playground, where a bunch of Christian children surrounded her and said, "Oh, yeah? If there's no god, who made the trees/beach/lakes/etc.?? She noticed them as being nutty right then. I don't mind what she's doing... she's just talking with friends. My question stemmed from an anticipation of the backlash this might cause once parents get word. Her current school seems to have a pretty big atheist population (the kids actually use the pledge as a way to find out who thinks as they do, and they've connected). My husband and I have both been atheists since we were old enough to think for ourselves, but we always remained quiet about it. I hope to make it easier for my very vocal daughter to navigate through a world of believers.
I have to be honest, my first reaction was to laugh. My son [8] has started telling people he's and atheist too and the pledge had a bit to do with his outing. Upon further discussion I found that the reason he doesn't like the Christians is that the ones with which he has to contend go around telling him and others they are going to hell. Good luck converting him now guys! That is why he tells them, I don't believe in that, I'm an Atheist.
Kids will naturally talk about theses things and you can bet they are "proselytizing" to some extent to your daughter too, she just seems to have the better argument.
For our personal rules we allow it provided it is among peers and no adults are involved. I'm not sure if that was helpful. :/
Hi Vitomama-
My daughter is 12, and she declared herself an atheist at age 5 (of course, she didn't use that term, but simply said there is no proof of any gods). She's pretty firm on where she stands. She was a born skeptic, and has been raised as such.
The problem (which may be too strong of a term really) is that she is now encouraging her friends to question their belief systems. Two have deconverted, another has stated that she is Christian and doesn't want to talk about it. She and I talked about how she must respect her friend's beliefs (and we also talked about not being too pushy).
As I wrote to John, I think middle school is a very natural time for children to question the culture they were raised in, but I wonder if anyone else has had issues where their child was trying to deconvert others. There have been no problems for other parents, but I know that I would be a little angry if say, one of my daughter's friends was proselytizing in the cafeteria. She says it just comes up in discussions, especially when one another child hears her omit the "under god" portion of the pledge at school.
I appreciate your response, and I too look forward to more discussions.
Hi Everyone! My name is Annie and I just joined this lovely site. I am the mother of an amazing 12 year old daughter. We have this raising an atheist thing down pretty well, but a recent issue we're dealing with is that my daughter is starting to deconvert her friends. No nasty phone calls from other parents yet, but I wonder if any of you have dealt with this. I simply tell her to be respectful of other people's opinions and the family culture in which they live.
I look forward to getting to know you, and participating in this community.
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A labor dispute will not prevent the running of the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) June 9, the New York Daily News reported June 5.
A labor dispute will not prevent the running of the Belmont Stakes (gr. I) June 9, the New York Daily News reported June 5.
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New Haven - A Yale librarian says Christine O'Donnell's TV ad declaring "I'm not a witch" during her unsuccessful US Senate campaign has topped this year's best quotes.
Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School, released his fifth annual list of the most notable quotations of the year. In the ad, O'Donnell was responding to reports of her revelations that she had dabbled in witchcraft years ago.
The quote by O'Donnell, a favourite of the ultraconservative tea party movement running in Delaware, tied for first place with "I'd like my life back," the lament made in May by BP's CEO Tony Hayward after the worst offshore oil spill in US history.
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Elisabeth Moss and Fred Armisen surprised everyone when they secretly got married in October 2009. It was an even bigger shock when just nine months later, she filed for divorce — but now the "Mad Men" actress is breaking her silence on why she pulled the plug on the short-lived union. In an interview with Page Six Magazine, the 29-year-old paints a dark picture when it comes to her relationship with the "Saturday Night Live" funnyman. "One of the greatest things I heard someone say about him is, 'He's so great doing impersonations. But the greatest impersonation he does is that of a normal person,'" Moss tells the mag. "To me, that sums it up." And forget the two remaining friendly exes. When asked if she still talks to Armisen, 45 — who rebounded weeks after their split with "SNL" castmate Abby Elliott — she quickly retorts, "Oh, God, no!" After bashing her ex, Moss feels slightly bad -- but it's a fleeting moment. "I'm probably gonna get a slap on the wrist," she tells the interviewer. "But I've just been such a good girl. And sometimes you just want to be a bad girl for a minute."
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And she's certainly not dwelling on past. Moss says she's very much enjoying the single life. "It's fun to go out at night and not know what's going to happen. I'm addicted and obsessed with my freedom in that sense. I'm having fun!" But she still has hopes for finding true, lasting love and starting a family — just not now. "I obviously want a partner in life, and I want someone to grow old with, but there's also a nice time when you're young to enjoy being you," Moss tells Page Six. "I have a tremendous amount of respect for my mother, and it makes me want to be a really great mother. And sure, in an ideal world I can do it all. But I think for now I'm too young to know. You almost have to get older to understand that you're too young to know." As for her ideal guy when the time comes, he sounds a lot like Armisen should have been: "Sense of humor," reveals Moss. "This is so cheesy to say, but to me, a guy that can make you laugh is everything. When you're old and gray, you're going to want someone who can make you laugh. That said, a pretty face in the morning is lovely!"
Moss has come a long way over the past few years, much like her character on "Mad Men," Peggy Olson, a headstrong, feminist copywriter in a male-dominant business. "I started the show way more confident, way more wizened, way more aware of the world around me than Peggy was, but over the years she's caught up quite a bit," says the actress. "We've managed to come closer and closer together over the years." And much like Moss' new life post-marriage, the two are also looking ahead to bigger and better things. "I am ecstatic with what happens this season," she says. "I think the audience is going to be surprised. For me, it was very meaningful with what happens to Peggy."
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