kokolaunch's Blog: 06/09/17

Model Elsa Hosk sizzles in leopard-print bra and French knickers as she joins a bevy of lingerie-clad Victoria's Secret beauties for Justin Bieber's newly released racy 2U video

One clip sees Elsa Hosk showing off her enviable abs, as she poses against a white backdrop in just a bra and trousers.

Then taking to a scenic rooftop location, the blonde is seen getting ready for a would-be shoot.

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Picturesque: One clip sees Elsa Hosk taking to a scenic rooftop location, the blonde is seen getting ready for a would-be shoot

And the rest of the girls join, selecting their clothes from personalised racks.

Jasmine Tookes and Sara Sampaio join the blonde, clad in bras as they party on the rooftop.

Stella Maxwell is seen posing in a leather jacket, next to a railing signposted with her name.

And as Jasmine tries on a denim jacket, another model is seen sprawled out on a sofa next to a sumptuous breakfast, the New York skyline in the background.

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Giving the girls the spotlight: The video, entitled David Guetta ft Justin Bieber - 2U (The Victoria’s Secret Angels Lip Sync), sees the angels do just that in an array fashion shoot-inspired scenes, with Justin and David not appearing

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Staying mysterious: Released on David's YouTube account, 26-year-old Justin lets the models steal the spotlight, as the pop star remains absent from the picturesque video

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Rooftop party! Jasmine Tookes and Sara Sampaio join the blonde, clad in bras as they party

Meanwhile Sara Sampaio shows off her natural beauty, looking effortlessly stunning as she beams behind a TV screen, her emerald green eyes contrasting her dark hair.

And the models look to be having a whale of a time on the rooftop, rocking an array of outfit changes.

Perhaps in a bid to prove they do eat, another clip sees two angels balancing precariously on a wall against the backdrop, enjoying a hearty meal.

On Monday Bieber uploaded a fifteen second clip of the video, witch each girl lip-syncing along to a preview of Bieber's unreleased tune with David Guetta.

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Personalised: Stella Maxwell is seen posing in a leather jacket, next to a railing signposted with her name

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Chic: Jasmine tries on a denim jacket, another model is seen sprawled out on a sofa next to a sumptuous breakfast, the New York skyline in the background

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Breakfast in style: Another model is seen sprawled out on a sofa next to a sumptuous breakfast, the New York skyline in the background

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Natural: Meanwhile Sara Sampaio shows off her natural beauty, looking effortlessly stunning as she beams behind a TV screen, her emerald green eyes contrasting her dark hair

The clip saw Romee Strijd bouncing around in her bra, passionately mouthing along to Justin's vocals.

Speaking about their collaboration, David Guetta said: ’Justin has such a unique voice and I have so much respect for his talent but also for his choices. He took some risks reinventing himself lately in such a cool amazing creative way. I'm very proud to finally share a record with him. I feel like 2U is an incredible combination of emotion energy with a huge melody combined with edgy sounds.’’

Justin has had a busy week, performing at the star-studded One Love benefit concert for victims of the Manchester bombing on Sunday night.

And an impassioned speech saw the Canadian hitmaker welling up during the concert, which saw Ariana Grande, Take That, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and more join forces.

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Scenic: Released on David Guetta's YouTube account, 26-year-old Justin lets the models steal the spotlight, as the pop star remains absent from the picturesque video

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Singing along: The models mouthed the words to the song 2U

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Rock chic: The blonde posed in ripped jeans and a green bra

And Justin's ex Selena was quick to compliment Justin on his moving words, which honoured the families of those affected by the Manchester bombing.

The 24-year-old singer said she thought her ex-boyfriend's performance was 'really beautiful', during an appearance on Sirius XM's Morning Mash Up in New York.

'I thought Justin did great. It was really beautiful,' she gushed on Monday morning.

'It was beautiful. I thought everyone did such a beautiful job. It was so gorgeous. I love how she [Ariana] ended it.'

The Baby hitmaker performed his chart topper Love Yourself and played his guitar in tribute to the 22 people - some of which were children - who died in a terror attack at Manchester concert on May 22.

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Tucking in: Perhaps in a bid to prove they do eat, another clip sees two angels balancing precariously on a wall against the backdrop, enjoying a hearty meal

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Sizzling: Sara stayed covered up, showing that less flesh can also be more

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Stunner: Jasmine showed off her enviable bone structure under minimal make-up

The tribute concert, held at Emirates Old Trafford cricket ground, was formally announced and led by Justin's friend Ariana last Tuesday.

Ahead of his performance, Justin said: ‘God is good is the midst of the evil. God is good in the midst of the darkness. He loves you.

‘To the families we love you so much. Put both hands up to honour those people right now.

'Say we honour you, and we love you,' he declared, as the emotional audience repeated back 'We honour you. We love you.'

'Thank you so much for having me,' he concluded.

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Girls' time: The models look to be having a whale of a time on the rooftop, rocking an array of outfit changes

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Expert: Stella threw an array of professional model poses for the video

Elsa's video is similar, she captioned it: 'So @justinbieber was wondering if you could guess these lyrics...'

Justin has history with VS, having performed at the brand's 2012 annual fashion show with Rihanna and Bruno Mars.

He was linked to Victoria's Secret model Barbara Pavlin while on a break from his on-and-off relationship with Selena Gomez.

The angels also shot a lip-sync vid to Justin's song Beauty And A Beat.

Bieber has been busy touring the globe on his Purpose World Tour, which kicked off back in March of 2016.

The tour is to promote his 2015 album Purpose, which spawned hits like What Do You Mean, Sorry and Love Yourself.

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to be drained after 80 ducks die

The National Park Service will drain the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool this weekend after approximately 80 ducklings were found dead, including 53 in one day.

The culprit is a parasite that grows in snails that live in the pool, said park service spokesman Mike Litterst.

The federal agency says chemical treatments alone aren't sufficient to fully reduce the parasite and snail population. So the pool must be drained and cleaned.

The cleanup begins Sunday. It will take about two days to fully drain the water. On Tuesday, crews will begin cleaning the interior.

Humans who come in contact with the parasite could develop cercarial dermatitis, better known as "swimmer's itch." It's not contagious and rarely requires medical treatment, but it's uncomfortable.

Crews will refill the pool next Friday and things should be back to normal the following week.

Practice makes perfect

BLOGGER FROM AMERICAFRI 9 JUN 2017

My guess is that unless you are hopelessly optimistic, or spookily clairvoyant, you didn’t think we would win the league this year. I think most Blues supporters would have settled for fourth after the underachievement and turmoil of the last campaign. So how important was the 2016 preseason? An accurate predictor of what was to follow or just a series of meaningless friendlies?

In July 1997, a full two decades ago next month, I traveled to Goodison Park to watch us win the Umbro Cup, defeating Newcastle and then Everton in the final. I came away from that weekend impressed by our performances, confident we would be a force to be reckoned with that season. It was the year we won both the League Cup and the European Cup Winners’ Cup and clinched third in the league, our best finish since 1970.

Last preseason Chelsea had a busy schedule. According to the BBC website, the trips to Germany, Austria and the USA to play six friendlies in the space of 22 days meant flying an incredible 14,345 miles. For scale, to cover the same distance I would have to jet from New Orleans to London, back to New Orleans, return to London, and still have enough miles left to nip up to Inverness.

I watched the team train in Los Angeles and Minneapolis last summer. I was particularly keen to see how the sessions were structured for world-class stars as opposed to what I had been taught to do when I went through my licenses to coach teenagers here in the States. The biggest difference was the repetitiveness of the exercises. Antonio Conte had the squad do the same movements, the same passing patterns, work on the same shape, over and over again.

One afternoon at UCLA I was a few feet away from Diego Costa when he spotted a tiny ball on the pitch. I don’t know what it was exactly, but it was about the size of a large hailstone or small bouncy ball. With a single deft kick he flicked it into the air, controlled it, and volleyed it to Kenedy standing beside him. They juggled it back and forth a few times - I’ve never seen control like that with such a small object. Both individually and with the team, practice makes perfect, right?

We won the two matches I attended, defeating Liverpool 1-0 and AC Milan 3-1. But I would be lying if I now claimed that 10 months ago, based on those two friendlies and a few training sessions, I knew we would be champions.

But what do I know. Apart from that you can earn all the coaching qualifications and licenses in the world - but there is no substitute for experience.

Actress Glenne Headly dies at 62

Actress Glenne Headly

Glenne Headly passed away on Thursday night, a representative for the actress told CNN.

The actress, best known for starring alongside Warren Beatty in "Dick Tracy," was 62. She is survived by her husband Byron McCulloch and son Stirling.

"It is with deep sorrow that we confirm the passing of Glenne Headly," her reps said in a statement. "We ask that her family's privacy be respected in this difficult time."

Headly, a native of Connecticut, got her start in theater and went on to star in several productions including "Extremities" alongside Susan Sarandon in 1982.

Eventually, she made the transition to film and her breakout role is credited to "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," opposite Steve Martin and Michael Caine.

Headly went on to star in more than 25 films, including "Mortal Thoughts," 'Mr. Holland's Opus" and "Sgt. Bilko."

Headly earned two Emmy nominations for "Lonesome Dove" and "Bastard Out of Carolina."

She was in the middle of filming the Hulu series "Future Man" alongside Josh Hutcherson and Ed Begley Jr. before her death.

In 1982, she married John Malkovich; they divorced in 1988. She then married McCulloch in 1993 and they had a son.

Read Why Wearing Barcelona Jersey In UAE Might Attract 15-year Jail Term

Barcelona are one of the favourite clubs in the world, with lot of followership but showing off their strips in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia might attract a huge fine or 15 years imprisonment.

Reports in The Sun as sourced in Ole internacional claim that putting on a Barcelona jersey with the Qatar airways logo could attract a fine of £110,000 fine or 15 years in jail in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia due to the severed relationship between the duo arabian nations and Qatar.

It is understood that UAE and Saudi Arabia have severed ties with Qatar, over allegations that the oil-rich nation is funding armed terrorist groups. Although, Qatar have claimed that the allegations are baseless.

Several arab countries have also severed ties with Qatar stopping the Qatar airways from gaining access to their respective countries.

The Catalan giants are currently signed to a shirt sponsorship deal with Qatar Airways which is owned by the government of Qatar.

However, in 2016 Barcelona announced a new sponsorship deal with Japanese e-commerce firm, Rakuten which will begin at the start of next season.

For the third time in two years, the British electorate has defied expectations.

In 2015, pollsters, political commentators and betting markets predicted a hung Parliament -- a political stalemate in which no party had a majority. The voters surprised everyone by handing the Conservatives a decisive, if slim, parliamentary majority.

In 2016, the electorate again shocked pollsters and pundits by voting to leave the European Union. Now, they've done it again, sending back a hung Parliament.

Prime Minister Theresa May called an unnecessary election only two years into the parliamentary term, after promising that she had no intention of going to the public before 2020. She called the election because her government required a strong mandate heading into the Brexit negotiations. She did not get that mandate.

'Hard Brexit' rejected

On current count, with 649 seats reporting and just one left to declare, the Tories have 318 MPs, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has 261, and the other smaller parties hold the balance.

May is apparently determined to attempt to cling to power with the support of the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, the DUP, which has won 10 seats. While, by the numbers, the Tories might just be able to hold on, both political logic and historical precedent dictate that May should step down.

The result is an explicit repudiation of the Prime Minister's policy of a "hard Brexit."

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Whilst the DUP has little love for Corbyn, it is staunchly opposed to a hardline approach to the Brexit negotiations that could threaten free trade and free movement of people across the Irish border. If the party lend its support to the Tories, it would be despite, not because of, the issue on which this election was held. The political logic is against her.

So, too, is historical precedent. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the British electorate has failed to give a single party a parliamentary majority seven times: in January and in December 1910; in December 1923; in May 1929; in February 1974; in May 2010; and now.

Lessons from history

Following the 1910 and 2010 elections, the sitting government successfully held on to power, but none of these elections is comparable to the current result.

In 2010, the Liberals entered a formal coalition with the Conservatives after the election -- a fraught decision that resulted in the near annihilation of the parliamentary Liberal party in 2015.

Of the three other "indecisive" elections, the one that most closely resembles 2017 is the general election of 1923. In November 1922, the Andrew Bonar-Law's Conservative Party won a substantial majority over an emergent Labour Party and the deeply divided Liberals.

After only seven months in Number 10, Law resigned due to illness and was replaced by his chancellor, Stanley Baldwin.

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Baldwin could have continued in government until 1927. Instead, after only a few months in power, he called a snap election demanding a mandate from the British public to introduce protectionist tariffs on imported goods -- in effect abandoning Britain's 75-year commitment to free trade. The election that followed saw the Conservatives reduced from 344 seats to 258.

The aftermath of the 1923 election has some key lessons for Conservative and Labour parties.

Both those who hoped for and those who feared socialism in action quickly discovered the limits of what a minority Labour government could achieve in practice.

Labour's brief administration produced little in the way of domestic policy, and when leader Ramsay MacDonald called another election in October 1924, demanding a mandate to form a real socialist government, his party was roundly defeated in a Conservative landslide.

Echoes of the past

The 1923 election put Labour in government -- but not in power. The same would likely be the case today.

Arlene Foster, (left) leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, sits with Theresa May. The British Prime Minister needs the support of the DUP in Northern Ireland to form a new government.

There is, however, one key difference between 1923 and 2017, and that is likely to be the fallout for the Conservative leader.

While Baldwin's snap election led to his party being booted out of office, it also unified the party rank-and-file around protectionism and gave them a clear platform moving forward. Even in defeat, Baldwin held on to the leadership and led the Conservatives back to victory on a united platform.

May's Tories, in contrast, went into this election with divided views over a hard versus a soft Brexit, and they remain divided. May, unlike Baldwin, is not well liked amongst backbenchers, and she does not have a unifying vision for her party moving forward.

Whether she steps down graciously or hobbles on until her government collapses under the weight of its own contradictions, she is not long for the leadership.

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