The sultry 'Bow Down/I Been On' singer models a series of bikinis against an ocean backdrop in her commercial for the Swedish retailer's summer collection.
The pop star, 31, showed off her toned physique in a new advertisement for H&M, modeling bikinis and curve-hugging beachwear against an island paradise background.
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The H&M ad has a peek at the new single 'Standing on the Sun' from Beyoncé's upcoming album.
The minute-and-a-half spot shows Beyoncé frolicking in the sand and waves, joined in the fun by an array of back-up dancers. The singer alternates between several looks, including one where she sports jet black hair and a sporty one-piece.
Hurricane Sandy may have destroyed much of the eastern seaboard, but it has yielded a pretty offer for Ice-T’s wife Coco Austin. The buxom blonde, who made a now-infamous video of herself out in the storm (twins drenched and tank top clinging), could be the new weather girl for VH1’s Big Morning Buzz Live.
Host Carrie Keagan explains “Coco put herself outside during the height of hurricane Sandy, to weather the storm so the rest of us didn’t have to and looked darn good doing it. That kind of dedication and charisma is what our show is all about. I would love to have Coco join my team.”
Buzz executive producer Shane Farley added, “after seeing her deliver a weather update during Hurricane Sandy, we knew she would be the perfect person to report the weather on our show.”
With any luck, Coco (who is set to take over for former Playmate Holly Madison in her Las Vegas burlesque show) will soon bring her ray of sunshine to our morning routine. Stay tuned to see if Coco accepts the offer.
Neighbors who heard the gunshot that hit a 1 1/2-year-old boy awoke to another surprise Thursday: a first-ever police shift line-up right out on their street.
Four rows of A Squad patrol officers and detectives from around the city lined up at 8:30 a.m. to start their shift—not at headquarters, as usual, but on Kensington Street.
They stood in front of the porch of 58-60 Kensington, where a gunman riding by in a car fired bullets at 2:31 p.m. Wednesday. One of those bullets struck 1 1/2-year-old Tramire Miller in the stomach —and ignited citywide grief and outrage.
Tramire’s condition had improved and was no longer critical Thursday morning, according to Yale-New Haven Hospital spokesman Mark D’Antonio. “Good news,” D’Antonio said. “He’s been upgraded” to “fair” condition. Tramire was feeling well enough to high-five the nurse who moved him from a gurney to a bed at Yale-New Haven’s Children Hospital.
Meanwhile, cops fanned out in the Dwight-Kensington and Hill neighborhoods through the night and morning following what a top cop called “strong leads” in the drive-by shooting.
And at 8:30 a.m., dozens of officers lined up to hear Capt. Joann Peterson call the roll and Assistant Chief Luiz Casanova give them their marching orders.
“We want all hands on deck,” Casanova declared. (Click on the play arrow to the above video to watch highlights.)
“The reason we’re doing this line-up out here today is because we want to reassure the communitythat the New Haven police department is on the scene. That every cop working in this city, every detective working in this city, is going to be on the case. A 1-year-old kid got shot in our community. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. Some of you guys are parents. Some of you guys are fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts. Pretend like this is a of your family. I want this investigated like if it was a kid that belonged to you.”
A few doors down the block, Celena Jones woke up her sister Kianna Jones. Kianna rushed out to her porch in her sweats to watch the show.
She’d seen police line-ups “on TV or the movies” before but never in person, Kianna said.
“I thought they was gonna bust somebody’s house in” at first, she said. Then she saw the lectern.
“Thank God they’re coming here,” she said. “It should have been sooner.”
“It’s good,” said a neighborhood who stood right behind the line-up, watching. He declined to give his name. “But it’s like a war zone. These dealers don’t care about show time.”
Chief Dean Esserman, who also addressed the line-up, said he had previously held an out-in-the-street line-up following a major crime when he ran Providence’s department. “I stole the idea from London [police],” he said. He had told Assistant Chief Casanova about it. Casanova remembered the idea and decided Tramire’s shooting was the right time to try it out.
Elisa Castillo hopped into her 1996 Camry right after the line-up and turned on the ignition—with trepidation.
The car was parked right in front of 58-60 Kensington; she lives there, in the same house as Tramire’s family. One of the gunman’s bullets Wednesday hit her car, right by the gas tank.
“I just hope nothing happens when I turn it on,” she said as she prepared to head for class at GatewayCommunity College.
The key turned. The car started. She went on her way.
Meanwhile, officers left the line-up and swarmed the block talking to every neighbor they could find, resuming the hunt for evidence.
Officer Arpad Tolnay speaks in Spanish with neighbors across the street from Tramire’s house.
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Cops gathered back at the intersection for another line-up at 5 p.m., at the beginning of the evening shift. Assistant Chief Casanova and Chief Casanova again delivered remarks to the cops, this time with a bank of TV cameras looking on
New Haven, Conn. (WTNH) - The National Double Dutch League jumped into New Haven today as part of an initiative to get more kids on the path to a healthy lifestyle.
The National Double Dutch League has partnered with United Healthcare and the Boys & Girls Club for the free workshops to encourage kids to turn off the TV and get moving.
"It's a great event to get the kids up and moving," said Seth Poole, New Haven Boys and Girls Club.
"You need some jump ropes and you need some friends, go outside and play. It's one of the best ways to stay in shape," said Anayo Afolabi, United Healthcare.
United Healthcare estimates by 2020, half of our nation's population will either be diabetic or pre-diabetic due to obesity. The plan is to inspire kids, like 11-year old Chynna Moore, that exercise is fun, and maybe it will become a staple of their lives, saving health care costs in the process.
"It's better than sitting down playing video games and doing nothing," Chynna said.
Research shows that 10 minutes of jumping rope is equivalent to a 30-minute jog
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