The pickup lines are the same. But they're delivered with a mommy twist."Do you come here (the playground) often?""Do you want to come to my place, or shall we go to yours?"Mothers of young children, who a few years ago may have been looking for Mr. Right in a bar, now are seeking Mrs. Right and her kids in between the swings and the slides at the local playground.Women also are going online to find moms who match their personality and interests, much like singles use an online dating service."You scope 'em out," says Magalie Belanger, 31, about prospective mommy-friends in Helena, Mont. "You see how they deal with their children, and with yours."It's like dating, but the dates are with other moms and their children. While the kids play, hopefully without tantrums or biting, the moms are free to talk about the things they have in common, from the lofty subjects of religion and politics to the more practical topics of teething and diaper rash."Women, they want someone else who is going through the same thing," says Drury Sherrod, a Los Angeles social psychologist who studies friendship.Often, that can mean seeking out other women in the same trimester of pregnancy or whose children are similar in age, he says.Kate Harmon, 41, of Concord, Mass., recalls how 10 years ago she fell into the perfect support group while her husband was a graduate student in Boston.

The meeting of like moms

Women also are going online to find moms who match their personality and interests, much like singles use an online dating service."You scope 'em out," says Magalie Belanger, 31, about prospective mommy-friends in Helena, Mont. "You see how they deal with their children, and with yours."It's like dating, but the dates are with other moms and their children. While the kids play, hopefully without tantrums or biting, the moms are free to talk about the things they have in common, from the lofty subjects of religion and politics to the more practical topics of teething and diaper rash."Women, they want someone else who is going through the same thing," says Drury Sherrod, a Los Angeles social psychologist who studies friendship.Often, that can mean seeking out other women in the same trimester of pregnancy or whose children are similar in age, he says.Kate Harmon, 41, of Concord, Mass., recalls how 10 years ago she fell into the perfect support group while her husband was a graduate student in Boston.

Six months no sex for Aniston

FORMER Friends star Jennifer Aniston, who is rumoured to be dating her Travelling co-star Aaron Eckhart, has been celibate for six months.

Freezing ya eggs.

Former Mormon missionary gets prison in Nevada child sex case

A former Mormon missionary was sentenced Thursday to two to six years in prison after a judge ruled he violated terms of a plea deal that called for him to complete counseling and community service.

The judge decreed John Misseldine, 26, guilty of lewdness with a child under the age of 14 and coercion, and ordered him to register and submit to monitoring as a sex offender. The felony charges, dating to 2003, had been stayed under terms of the October 2005 plea deal.

The judge dismissed Misseldine's assertions that the claims against him were false and a scheme by the girls' families to get money from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Who will be the Nation Builder of 2007?

She suffered from post-traumatic stress due to her experiences, but she continues to move people to action through her lectures. - notes from CBC.ca website

As Canada is mired in questions about police performance, Debbie shows the Canadian constabulary at its finest. She has a vision of service and protection that exists beyond prescribed duties, expectations and borders. She teaches us to protect and serve human kind. Posted 24/11/07 at 9:52 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .

One-on-one with UFC's Tito Ortiz

High school wrestling success led to a college scholarship and was the vehicle that eventually took him to mixed martial arts and the UFC.

Ortiz doesn't shy away from the camera or hesitate to speak his mind on a number of topics. His showmanship and outspokenness have opened up opportunities outside the UFC that make Ortiz arguably the most recognizable fighter -- and possibly the most controversial -- in all of mixed martial arts.

Jubilant retreat

For window treatments in the kitchen, Jan uses green ribbon to hang metal cookie cutters on an old wooden sickle handle; in the master bedroom, she ties earth-toned Christmas ornaments onto fleur de lis curtain rods.

A primitive cabinet bought for $5 at a going-out-of-business sale in a Gibsland antique shop stores paper products on the kitchen island.

Papers collecting tornado-lost items

Each week, the paper will run photographs of the items delivered, she said.

"I don't know who turned it in," he said. "I wish I did so I could thank them.” Tom Larimer, the director of the Arkansas Press Association, of which scores of Arkansas newspapers are members, said he hopes other papers help with the lost-and-found recovery.

Too much too young?

Born outside Manchester in 1952, his family moved to London when he was eight. A few years later, a stage school agent "discovered" him playing football in a park. He appeared in Ken Loach's debut feature, Poor Cow then, in 1967, auditioned for the role of the Artful Dodger.• WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Following Oliver! he became a linchpin of the popular US children's programme HR Pufnstuf, and also signed a recording contract. The 1970s saw him appearing in innumerable TV specials. Subsequent screen work saw a reunion with his old Oliver! co-star Ron Moody in Flight of the Doves, but most of his work was in theatre. His career was blighted by excessive drinking, though he managed to sober up enough to join Kevin Costner in the 1991 hit movie Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves.• WHERE IS HE NOW? In 2000 Wild was diagnosed with oral cancer, linked to his alcohol and drug abuse, and he died in Tebworth, Bedfordshire, in 2006.TATUM O'NEAL ADDIE IN PAPER MOON• NOMINATED FOR: BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, 1973• AGE: 10THE youngest actor ever to win an Oscar, O'Neal was praised for her entertaining and surprisingly mature role as a child con-artist being tutored by her con-man father.

How to break 100

A playing partner and friend once sank a 45-foot putt on the 18th hole at Walden Lake Golf and Country Club in Plant City to shoot 99 for the first time. He celebrated by running around the perimeter of the green with his arms and putter over his head. And his shirt off.

We solicited former touring professional and area teaching pro Bill Buttner to help golfers who struggle to consistently shoot double digits. Buttner, a 1978 University of North Carolina graduate, played on several minitours and spent six years on the PGA Tour in the 1980s and early '90s.

Gordon Brown in ‘crisis of morale’

One joked: "There are times when we can learn things from others, even America."

The Treasury has made it clear that it will bring forward reforms to the tripartite framework for regulating banks and financial markets after the Commons treasury committee has made its recommendations.

Bosses told to get staff moving

TASMANIAN bosses are being urged to get their workers off chairs and moving to create healthier and more productive workplaces.

Lisa Abeyta: Thin say: I'm fat. I say: Oh, stuff it.

I purposely bought it too small as an incentive to stick to my diet. I really want to wear that skirt on vacation this year.