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ROBBIE Williams has opened up on working with his wife Ayda Field on The X Factor.
Husband and wife Robbie Williams and Ayda Field have shaken up the judge's panel on this years The X Factor.
Many couples would squirm at the thought of going to work with their partner but the former Take That singer has revealed his marriage has improved since working with his other half.
Speaking to The Mirror, the 44-year-old said: “We were a really tight unit anyway and when people say marriage is really difficult and you have to work at it, we never understand that saying... and long may that continue.
Robbie’s comments follow on from the couple recently being snapped on a child-free date night.
The stunning pair spent some festive quality time together as they ventured to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, London.
The parents – who share children, Teddy, Charlie and Coco – indulged in some fun, whizzing around on dodgems looking more loved up than ever.
Braving the plummeting temperatures, the pair wrapped up warm in long coats with plenty of layers.
Ayda, 39, proved that dressed up or down she never looks anything less than immaculate as she oozed sophistication in a floor-length coat, black boots and a black hat.
Adding a pop of colour to her all black outfit, the mum of three sported a vibrant fuchsia lip colour.
Robbie, looked cosy in an oversized puffa jacket as he beamed for photos alongside his wife.
Menasha High School Art students have been painting barn quilts for area barns for the last two years. We want to advertise our non -profit work to farmers who might be interested in purchasing an 8-by-8-foot quilt for their barn. The cost of the wood, primer and paint is $200.
The school does not make any money from this project and the students' labor is free. We do this to add the beautiful countryside of Wisconsin and pay homage to our state's historical barns. If you are interested in receiving a quilt this fall or spring, please contact art teacher Erin Culligan at culligane@mjsd.k12.wi...
An Egyptian court on Sunday adjourned until May 3 the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 14 others charged with inciting the murder of demonstrators outside Cairo's Ittihadiya presidential palace in late 2012, a judicial source said.
In Sunday's closed-door session, judges continued hearing testimony from prosecution witnesses – all of whom were security officials – regarding 2012 clashes that erupted between Morsi's supporters and opponents outside the palace, the source said.
The court has earlier imposed a gag on the eyewitnesses' testimonies, citing national security concerns.
Morsi and his 14 co-defendants, seven of whom are being tried in absentia, are charged with inciting the murder of opposition demonstrators outside the palace in late 2012.
Newburgh — Brendan Durkin stood entangled yesterday afternoon in the long blue tail of his Spider-Man kite. All around him, other kites rose in the stiff breeze on the sloping grass behind Washington's Headquarters.
Brendan's kite lay at his feet. Brendan is 4 years old. It seemed to matter not a whit to him that his kite was grounded. He couldn't have looked happier if Santa Claus had broken through the sultry summer haze and offered him a lift to the North Pole.
"He loves flying kites with his dad," explained his mother, Danielle Durkin. And Brendan gave every indication yesterday that he loved getting tangled in kite parts with his mom.
Everywhere you looked during the "Kites Over the Hudson" event at the historical site, you could see moms and dads struggling with their kites, working out knots in their lines, trying to keep them aloft, trying to figure out how it was that they seemed to be doing all the aeronautical work.
While Karen Boschulte struggled to untangle a knot in her line while keeping her kite aloft, her three children, ages 3 to 5, sat with Boschulte's mother and sister in the shade of a giant tree 100 yards away. Boschulte didn't complain. She was having fun, maybe even more fun than the kids.
"It's nice here," she said while wangling her line and boosting her kite back in the sky. "We'll probably come back."
The site, with its stately buildings and welcome breeze, also impressed Danielle Durkin. But she'd have been happy with a lot less: "It's so wholesome — and it's not Chuck E. Cheese."
T.I. begins a fourth non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna, but the big story on the chart this week is Taylor Swift's six new entries, led by "White Horse" at No. 13.
That song is her sixth top 20 debut of 2008, a calendar year record for any artist in the history of the chart. In addition, her six debuts and seven total tracks on the Hot 100 each tie her with Hannah Montana for the most by a female artist in a single week. Swift's second album, "Fearless," debuted yesterday at No. ...
T.I.'s "Whatever You Like" is No. 2 on the Hot 100, while Beyonce's "If I Were a Boy" rises 5-3 and Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" slips 3-4. Pink's "So What," Kevin Rudolf's "Let It Rock" featuring Lil Wayne and Britney Spears' "Womanizer" hold at Nos. 5-7 respectively.
Akon's "Right Now (Na Na Na)" jumps 10-8, Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" is up 13-9 and Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" drops 9-10 to round out the top tier.
Guns N' Roses notches its first Hot 100 appearance since "Sympathy for the Devil" in 1995 with "Chinese Democracy," the title track from its upcoming album. The song debuts at No. 34 after selling 57,000 downloads.
Keith Urban nets his first top 50 debut on the Hot 100 with "Sweet Thing" at No. 43. The lead single from an album due next spring also rises 30-25 on Hot Country Songs, where Swift's "Love Story" begins a second week at No. 1.
On Hot randbHip-Hop Songs, Beyonce rockets 5-1 with "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," her fifth solo chart-topper there. Ne-Yo earns the top debut at No. 37 with "She Got Her Own" featuring Jamie Foxx and Fabolous.
AC/DC's "Rock'N'Roll Train" ends Metallica's seven-week run atop Mainstream Rock with "The Day That Never Comes," while the Offspring's "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" is No. 1 on Modern Rock for a ninth week.
NEW JERSEY – A black bear was returned to a remote part of New Jersey Friday after veterinarians removed a large arrow from its face.
New Jersey wildlife officials had been searching for the bear since last fall.
That’s when people reported seeing it walking around with an arrow in its face in New Egypt.
The bear was about three years old and weighed about 220 pounds.
A wildlife official said it should have weighed more – but it was malnourished because it didn’t have full use of its mouth.
The bear managed, nonetheless, to survive hibernation with the arrow through its nose, mouth and neck.
With the arrow removed, and now back in the wild, the bear is expected to make a full recovery.
Laura Thomas surprised Jennifer Blair, left, and Lindsay Brandenburg, both employees at Olive You Boutique. Thomas dressed in a banana costume. The Richmond Chamber of Commerce ambassadors went “Crashing Businesses” Thursday with two giant bananas to let businesses know they are appreciated.
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) � Joyce Johnson remembers the drums beating slowly as she walked with her girls from the Old Post Chapel, behind the horse-drawn caisson carrying the flag-draped casket of her husband.
She remembers struggling to maintain her composure as she stared at his freshly dug grave, trying not to dwell on the terrible sight in the distance � the gaping hole in the Pentagon where he had so proudly worked.
The three-volley salute. Taps. The chaplain handing her a perfectly folded flag. The blur of tributes.
And then a lady stepped forward, a stranger, dressed not in uniform but in a simple suit. She whispered a few words and pressed two cards into Johnson�s hands.
Then she melted back into the crowd.
Later, Johnson would think of her as a touchingly, human presence in a sea of starched uniforms and salutes. She would learn that the stranger was an �Arlington lady� � one of a small band of volunteers, mainly spouses of retired military officers, who attend every funeral in Arlington National Cemetery. She would read...
She would learn of their mission: to ensure no soldier is buried alone.
Johnson wasn�t alone. But she never forgot the kindness of her Arlington Lady.
And several years later, as she wrestled with how to best to honor her husband, she dug out the lady�s card. This is something I can do, she thought, not just for him, but for every soldier.
Mensch is sitting at her desk in the basement of the cemetery�s administration building in the cramped office shared by ladies from the Navy, Air Force, Army and Coast Guard. The place bustles with activity � young military escorts in dress uniform arriving to accompany ladies to funerals, chaplains scribbling eulogies...
There are approximately 30 funerals in Arlington every weekday and the ladies attend every one. All have their own reasons and stories.
There is Mensch, married to a retired Army colonel, who oversees the mammoth task of organizing the schedules for her 66 Army ladies and who says attending the funerals is the greatest honor of her life. And Doreen Huylebroeck, a 63-year-old nurse who remembers how desperately she wanted an Arlington lady beside her wh...
She treks to the cemetery in spring when cherry blossoms burst over the rows of white stones and everything seems dusted in yellow pollen. And in the swelter of summer when the stones blaze in the heat and mourners sometimes pass out at services. Even in winter, when the wind whips through the marble pillars of the Col...
�So many stones, so many stories,� says Paula Mckinley, head of the Navy ladies, as she drives through the cemetery one recent spring day, stopping at a section not far from the throngs of tourists at President John Kennedy�s grave.
Baldwin. Curtis. Sanchez. She walks among their headstones reciting their names.
With her booming voice, red hair tucked under a straw hat, and brisk manner, Mckinley, whose husband is a retired Navy officer, is a striking figure. But she is subdued by the graves, reverential. �They all deserve to be remembered, and to be visited,� she says.
McKinley, who has been an Arlington lady for 21 years, drives a little further. She stops by a grove of willow oaks, searching for a specific plot.
�Here you are, sweetheart,� she says, gently touching the stone of a young woman Navy officer who died in an accident at the age of 25. The officer�s mother called from California one day � on her daughter�s birthday � and asked if an Arlington lady could put flowers on the grave. Now McKinley visits regularly. She say...
The ladies insist they are not mourners. �An Arlington lady doesn�t cry,� is practically a mantra.
And yet, there are times when that is inevitable.
McKinley remembers choking up as she offered condolences to a 10-year-old girl, who had just lost her parents. The child reached up and hugged her tight. And the time a young widow from Peru clung to her, begging McKinley to sit next to her. Her husband had died suddenly and there were no family members to comfort her.
And Mensch tells of the heartache the Army ladies felt last year when one of their own escorts was killed in Iraq. The handsome young soldier from the 3rd Infantry Division, who had escorted the ladies to hundreds of funerals, was buried with full military honors, an Arlington lady standing by his grave.
About 145 ladies volunteer in the four branches.
All of the ladies volunteer for one day a month, sometimes attending four or five funerals in a single day. All have memories and stories: the time a family feud erupted and police had to break up the mourners; the young widow who wore a red cocktail dress because it was her husband�s favorite; the older widow who refu...
From around the cemetery drift the sounds of other services, bands and salutes and drums, one funeral seeming to blend into the next.
In one section, three daughters in black dresses and pearls, are burying their father, a former Navy officer who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and who meticulously planned his own funeral, even visiting Arlington regularly to view his final resting place. He smiles from a photograph propped next to his urn...
In the Columbarium, decorated veterans, laden with medals, are saluting one of their own � a member of the naval aviation squadron known as the Golden Eagles, and one of the last survivors of the Battle of Midway.
And in Section 60 a widow, young and beautiful and dressed in black, clutches her toddler son. Before her, standing to attention, the honor guard that had processed behind her husband�s coffin, pulled in a caisson by six horses. In the distance, the guard that had fired the salute. In a corner, the bugler who had playe...
On this steamy spring day, beneath a towering oak, a 27-year-old Army sergeant, killed in an attack in Pakistan a month earlier, is about to be laid to rest.
�Today the country tries to say thank you ... and yet words are inadequate,� the chaplain begins.
His widow seems overwhelmed, her eyes locked on the silver casket that holds his remains.
And then a lady steps forward, an older woman, dressed in a simple dark suit.
She whispers a few words of condolences and presses two cards into the widow�s hands.
We've all got a buddy or loved one who won't touch a good cocktail, but can rattle off 10 different IPA styles before you've even put in your drink order at the bar. For them, there are plenty of great beer-related gift ideas to nurture their passion. Here are 10 we recommend.
This one's easy: Just sign them up for a craft beer subscription. Craft Beer Club introduces them to four new beers every single month, ensuring they'll always have a new microbrewery or style to talk about.
These hand-painted beer glasses, with a unique shape and copper stems, are a stylish way to throw back a pint.
No dedicated beer lover lets a shower stand in the way of his or her drinking time. Or vice versa.
Whether they like hefeweizen or India pale ale, this selection of beer soaps, which lather up nicely, are a fitting addition to the bathroom.
Appropriately, this is what their face looks like before they pop open the top on their first beer.
"The Comic Book Story of Beer"
For the history nerd, this book traces the tale of beer from 7,000 B.C. to today...in the form of a graphic novel. Cool stuff.
A minimalistic framed print is a real upgrade from the dilapidated PBR sign they've had hanging in the garage since college.
This sleek machine is a wannabe home brewer's dream. Once they order their brew packets of choice, it makes up to 10 liters at a time to be tap dispensed. It's also customizable, so they can invent new recipes in their kitchens.
A Coors cap is perfect for enjoying a cold one under the hot summer sun.
If all else fails, get them a case of America's most popular craft beer as voted by thousands of homebrewers: Bell's Two Hearted IPA, with citrus, floral pine, and caramel malt flavors.
The strange visit of Serbian president Boris Tadic to Washington, less than a week after his inauguration, became a backdrop Monday for a new U.S. policy toward Serbia: absolute insistence on extradition of war crimes suspects to the Hague Inquisition.
Demands for extradition have featured prominently in U.S. policy toward Serbia since October 2000, and indeed dominated that policy at times, but they have never before taken it over completely. All the talk of multi-ethnic Kosovo, democratization, stabilization, reform, human rights, rule of law and other such boondog...
This latest one-note policy is driven less by any interest in justice, and more by a power agenda. It could be that the Bush administration is trying to outflank its Democratic challengers by assuming an even harder line on the Balkans. Whether it is so or not, "war crimes" politics plays a crucial role in legitimizing...
U.S. and Inquisition demands focus on the two wartime leaders of the Bosnian Serbs, president Radovan Karadzic and general Ratko Mladic. Wire services persistently repeat it is "widely believed" that Karadzic is hiding in eastern Bosnia and Mladic in Serbia, without establishing what "widely believed" actually means. H...
Nor is Del Ponte the only one obsessed with Karadzic and Mladic. Time magazine reports that Mladic is negotiating his surrender, prompted by U.S. and EU pressure which sounds like wishful thinking aimed at becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Though no doubt some accusations of al-Qaeda involvement in the Balkans made over the past three years have been self-serving and exaggerated, much more so are the strident denials of such involvement, made by supporters of Imperial intervention partial to Bosnian Muslims and Kosovo Albanians (both alleged to have al-Q...
Speaking to the press on Monday, Tadic acknowledged that Mladics arrest "is the main issue with the international community." However, according to Reuters, Washington offered Tadic a deal: hand over Mladic "in exchange for possibly being allowed to try other key figures at home."
Two questions immediately arise from this. How exactly is the U.S. competent to offer deals on behalf of the supposedly "independent" ICTY? And, by what right does Washington assume the authority to "allow" any country to put its own citizens on trial or not? The obvious answers render the questions rhetorical. The ICT...
Further cementing the political nature of the demanded extraditions is the fact that the Empire is not arguing for them on grounds of serving international or any other kind of justice, but uses purely utilitarian arguments.
In other words, the motivation for extraditions is the possibility of eventually joining NATO and the EU. Lack of arrests and extraditions of men wanted by the Empire would "block" this integration. But given the true nature of NATO and the EU, why would anyone want to join either?
Indeed, why is joining these two institutions considered a pinnacle of human achievement in the Balkans? Why does just about every politician think this is an issue beyond debate?
The European Union evolved from a common market into a bloated bureaucratic monster. A super-state seeking to control every aspect of its subjects lives through legislation, reliant on heavy taxes and massive subsidies, the EU has little regard for personal freedom or private property. Contrary to popular belief, the ...
Originally established to counter the perceived "Soviet aggression" at the dawn of the Cold War, NATO outlived its purpose in 1991. Its intervention in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s was a desperate attempt to redefine its raison detre. It was also a crime against peace (specifically in Kosovo) and involved aiding and...
In a very real sense, NATO has become a "joint criminal enterprise," with the goal of imposing by force political objectives of the United States and its European satellites on unwilling nations. Is this not precisely what the world order established after 1945 declared a crime, and at least nominally endeavored to pre...

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