Cindy Kimberly : 5 Facts You Didnt't Know

She bacame fast the most envied woman on the Internet after Justin Bieber posted her photo to Instagram and demanded to know who she was. She hasn’t made any comment or statement since Biebs put her on blast in a december 7 post . That photo generated over 110,000 comments to his page.



1.She’s Not Just a Belieber; Kimberly Is Also a 1D Fan ...
In what might prove to be a shocking development for those Beliebers who want Kimberly and Justin to get together, she’s also a One Direction fan. On November 13, Kimberly posted the lyrics to the 1D classic “If I Could Fly.”The furor around Kimberly comes as One Direction’s Niall Horan is rumored to be dating the love of Bieber’s life, Selena Gomez, reports US Weekly.

2.Days Before Bieber Put Her on Blast, She Posted a Video of Herself Listening to His Song ‘No Sense’.
It all began on December 7 when Bieber posted a photo of Kimberly saying “OMG who is this!” Eventually the comments came rolling in, with all agreeing that the girl in the photo was Cindy Kimberly, an apparent selfie junkie. Her profile description reads, “My name is Cindy and I get too excited about fictional related stuff.” Days before Bieber posted the photo, she put up a video showing her listening to the first few bars of his classic “No Sense.” In response to Bieber, Kimberly wrote on Instagram: “I so do not know how to deal with this.”



3.In November, She Was Involved in a Flirty Conversation With an Abercrombie Model.
On Facebook.On November 4, Kimberly posted a photo to her Facebook page showing her hugging Dutch male model Josel Scholz. According to his Facebook page, he’s a native of Amsterdam but now lives in London.

She began their conversation by quoting from the English-German romantic comedy Love, Rosie. That line read:

''It was no ordinary friendship. We were inseparable, constantly being separated. I’ve realized that no matter where you are or who you’re with, I will always truly, completely love you.''

From there, Scholz and Kimberly commented back-and-forth in an Italian flirt fest. The two spoke in Italian, as do most of her Facebook commenters. A November 5 photo showed Scholz and Kimberly kissing.

4. She Regularly Posts Photos of Portraits That Her Followers Do of Her.

When she’s not posting selfies to her Instagram page, Kimberly spends much of her time posting photos of the portraits that her followers do of her. She’s also posted some of her own self-portraits.

5. Bieber Was Linked to His Dancer Elysandra Quinones a Month Ago.

Photos emerged of Justin Bieber getting close with backup dancer Elysandra Quinones, 25, back in November. The Biebs was on tour in Europe at the time, with the photos of Bieber and Quinones being taken in a pub in London. Those pics first emerged on TMZ, with the site writing, “Justin Bieber has figured it out … when you’re young and rich, hookups beat relationships every time. Justin was hanging Wednesday at a pub in London with Elysandra Quinones, one of his backup dancers. It’s not hard to figure out the rest of the night.”

Best Celebrities of 2015

1. Models make a lot of money.

Between the yearly Forbes list of the world’s highest-paid uber-models and the huge amounts of money spent by designers at Fashion Week (a 2011 Marc Jacobs show was estimated to have cost $1 million), it would seem most models are swimming in cash. “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day,” model Linda Evangelista told Vogue in 1990. She probably didn’t — Evangelista’s career was marked by multimillion-dollar contracts.

But the median yearly wage for models in the United States, based on 2012 census data, is a mere $18,750, and fashion’s main event is unlikely to contribute much to that balance. Hundreds of relatively unknown models will fly to New York hoping to book a coveted spot in a runway show, which can pay $250 to $1,000, depending on the show and the model — a stipend that’s likely to cover what the model spent on travel and accommodations. Some Fashion Week hopefuls won’t walk in any shows,  and others will end up in the red, even after walking in several shows.

Compounding the problem: Some designers pay their models in clothes instead of cash. The trade is even worse than it seems; a model might receive clothing that’s damaged or several years old. I was once paid with a skirt with a broken zipper, which did little to help me make rent that month. But the exposure can be invaluable — international magazine editors sit in the front rows, and a few models might get booked for a designer’s campaign immediately after walking in a show. The runway can jumpstart a career but not a savings account. After my second year of runway work, walking for almost every major fashion house, I was $30,000 in debt.

2. Models are glorified clothes hangers.

Runway girls are often compared to “human coat hangers.” In other words: Models are just modes of transportation for garments. Even Twiggy used the phrase to dismiss her groundbreaking career, declaring when she retired: “You can’t be a clothes hanger for your entire life!”

But as long as there have been models, there have been muses. A model was the reason the painter picked up a brush, the sculptor a chisel. Just as not every actress is Meryl Streep, models are not all equally skilled or gifted. The best are translators, a visual representation of the story the designer wants to tell. Last year I published my first book, “Study of Pose,” an anthology of poses inspired by fashion history, art history and pop culture. I wanted to show that a model’s repertoire extends beyond duck-face selfies or blank runway stares. For the past 60 years, models such as Carmen Dell’Orefice, Evangelista and, more recently, Karlie Kloss have helped solidify modeling as an art form by collaborating with designers and photographers. Top photographer Mario Testino said of working with models with strong personalities: “I think that you can’t do it any other way. Because then the pictures are nothing.”

Are some models clothes hangers? Certainly, just as some singers can’t reach the high notes. But the best have always had the talent to make us feel something.

3. Models are catty with one another.

Decades of media coverage of “catwalk catfights” — the televised “drama” between Tyra Banks and Naomi Campbell, the Elle Macpherson/Heidi Klum “rivalry,” a “feud” betweenChanel Iman and Jourdan Dunn, Carol Alt “slamming” Kate Upton — are enough to make anyone think that the modeling industry is rife with bad behavior and bad people.

Certainly some successful models are divas, and the field is competitive. But in my experience, the models who have endured for a decade or more are thoughtful, hardworking and humble. Most models start working at age 14 or 15 and go through a form of “fashion high school,” living in cramped close quarters. The sleepover-like atmosphere produces some squabbles, sure, but everyone grows up.

Models frequently collaborate on projects off the runway and are quick to help one another. In 2011, Caroline Trentini and the legendary Iman gave up a day’s work to pose in the campaign for my jewelry collection with the charity Senhoa, which supports victims of human trafficking in Cambodia. Recently supermodel Christy Turlington heard that I was pregnant and asked me to participate in a campaign for her charity, Every Mother Counts, which works to increase access to maternal care in the United States and abroad. Far from being catty, models care a great deal about one another and the world around us, even if our rivalries receive disproportionate attention.

4. You get to keep the clothes.

It’s a perennial feature of high- and low-brow publications: the “peek inside a model’s closet,” in which People offers a tour of Alyssa Miller’s wardrobe or the Coveteur photographs Carolyn Murphy’s belongings — glowing shots of Alexander Wang gowns and Prada treasures, some of them gifts from Miuccia Prada herself. It’s enough to make anyone think a model’s closet brims with fabulous frocks, taken from shoots or gifted from designers.

However, models almost never get to keep the clothes they wear on the runway. The garments are usually one-of-a-kind samples, created days or even hours before the show, that have to be immediately packed up and presented to international buyers. A model is more likely to be accused of stealing clothes (we’re always the first suspected) than to be given clothing after a show. When a pair of shoes from a show I walked in went missing, the designer’s team called my agency to see if I had “accidentally” taken off with them.

Once a model is established and starts being captured by paparazzi in her “street-style looks,” she might receive gifted items from designers, since that can mean publicity for the brand and the model. But the typical working model is far from that status.

5. Models don’t eat.

Eating disorders are real, and they do affect the modeling industry. In 2006, Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston died at age 21, weighing just 80 pounds. A former British model told the Telegraph in 2013, “My modeling career lasted for three years and ... I’ve had anorexia for eight.”

Sad as such cases are, in my 10 years of living and working with models around the world, I’ve seen that the majority are not resorting to extreme or unhealthy means to keep their physique — they are simply naturally thin. And the industry now has its own checks and balances: Vogue will not photograph models who appear to have eating disorders; catwalk models with a body mass index below a certain level are banned from runways in Italy and Spain.

Like many women outside the industry, models do watch their diets, but they enjoy food as much as anyone. Take a look at Chrissy Teigen’s food-centric blog. When I go to events and finish my plate, people often comment about how “amazed” they are that I eat, as if I could live, work and keep up a crazy schedule traveling the world on zero calories a day.

At various points in my career, I’ve been called  too thin and too fat, so I will eat that hamburger, thanks.

Countries Evolution

Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false? This simple question is splitting America apart, with a growing proportion thinking that we did not descend from an ancestral ape. A survey of 32 European countries, the US and Japan has revealed that only Turkey is less willing than the US to accept evolution as fact.

Religious fundamentalism, bitter partisan politics and poor science education have all contributed to this denial of evolution in the US, says Jon Miller of Michigan State University in East Lansing, who conducted the survey with his colleagues. “The US is the only country in which [the teaching of evolution] has been politicised,” he says. “Republicans have clearly adopted this as one of their wedge issues. In most of the world, this is a non-issue.”

Miller’s report makes for grim reading for adherents of evolutionary theory. Even though the average American has more years of education than when Miller began his surveys 20 years ago, the percentage of people in the country who accept the idea of evolution has declined from 45 in 1985 to 40 in 2005 (Science, vol 313, p 765). That’s despite a series of widely publicised advances in genetics, including genetic sequencing, which shows strong overlap of the human genome with those of chimpanzees and mice. “We don’t seem to be going in the right direction,” Miller says.

There is some cause for hope. Team member Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education in Oakland, California, finds solace in the finding that the percentage of adults overtly rejecting evolution has dropped from 48 to 39 in the same time. Meanwhile the fraction of Americans unsure about evolution has soared, from 7 per cent in 1985 to 21 per cent last year. “That is a group of people that can be reached,” says Scott.

The main opposition to evolution comes from fundamentalist Christians, who are much more abundant in the US than in Europe. While Catholics, European Protestants and so-called mainstream US Protestants consider the biblical account of creation as a metaphor, fundamentalists take the Bible literally, leading them to believe that the Earth and humans were created only 6000 years ago.

Ironically, the separation of church and state laid down in the US constitution contributes to the tension. In Catholic schools, both evolution and the strict biblical version of human beginnings can be taught. A court ban on teaching creationism in public schools, however, means pupils can only be taught evolution, which angers fundamentalists, and triggers local battles over evolution.

These battles can take place because the US lacks a national curriculum of the sort common in European countries. However, the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind act is instituting standards for science teaching, and the battles of what they should be has now spread to the state level.

Lewis Hamilton is impervious to pressure after Bahrain dominance

 

Right now, there seems to be no stopping Lewis Hamilton.

The challenge to Hamilton's Mercedes team from Ferrari is real, of that there can be no doubt, but the world champion looks more than capable of responding for now.

After four races of this season, Hamilton has three victories and a second place and is already more than a clear win's worth of points ahead of his closest rival. That position is now held by his team-mate Nico Rosberg after an uncharacteristically error-strewn race from Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in Bahrain.

Hamilton's victory in the Gulf kingdom on Sunday rounded off an almost-perfect start to the season for the Englishman, and he returns to Europe to prepare for the next race in Spain in three weeks' time with the satisfaction of a job well done.

Bouncing back, with meaning

Utterly dominant in the season-opening race in Australia, there is no doubt Hamilton and Mercedes were shocked by the strength of the Ferrari revival when Sebastian Vettel won in Malaysia two weeks later.

But Hamilton and his team have rebounded with great effect, with two carefully controlled and impressive wins in China and Bahrain in the space of seven days.

Hamilton told this writer this weekend that he was not doing anything different this year from last, but it certainly looks that way.

Lewis Hamilton extended his championship lead to 27 points over team-mate Nico Rosberg

There is no sign this year of the occasionally nervy, mistake-prone Hamilton of 2014. In its place has come a man of serenity and control, someone who seems impervious to pressure and appears to be operating on a level beyond everyone else.

This is how Hamilton can be when he is on song. His natural talent is arguably the greatest in the sport, and if he can let it breathe, he can be close to untouchable.

His success this year has been founded on his impeccable qualifying form.

With laps that have been a joy to behold in their precision and flair, he has taken four straight pole positions. His average advantage over the next-closest qualifier over four races is 0.279secs; over Rosberg - who has twice been demoted to third by Vettel - it is 0.414secs.

And it is in this inherent blistering pace - always Hamilton's strongest card - that his advantage lies. It allows him to control the races from the front, only going as fast as he needs to, unleashing that speed only when required. It is mighty impressive to watch.

"I am keeping my head down, staying focused, and the older I get the more appreciative I am to have the opportunity to be an F1 driver and win races," he wrote in his BBC Sport column on his arrival in Bahrain. "Not many people get to have that chance."

He meant that last sentence in the sense that very few people find themselves in his position, but its other meaning applies at the moment, too.

Ferrari threat is for real

With Hamilton in this form, in a car as good as the Mercedes, his rivals don't have much of a chance either.

For all that, it is already clear that this championship will be hard won. There is no doubt Mercedes are seriously concerned about the threat from Ferrari, and they have good reason to be.

Kimi Raikkonen produced an impressive drive to finish second on an alternative strategy

The strength of Ferrari's challenge came as a surprise with Vettel's win in Malaysia and, although Hamilton's subsequent victories in China and Bahrain have ultimately come with something to spare, the Italian team are undoubtedly too close for comfort.

Bahrain underlined that reality very clearly. Mercedes did not have the pace advantage for a comfortable one-two, and Rosberg found himself locked in a race-long battle with both red cars.

Much racier and more aggressive than he has been for some time, Rosberg looked to have Vettel handled - and the four-time champion cost himself at least one place by running wide when under pressure from the Mercedes and damaging his front wing.

But that only cleared the way for Kimi Raikkonen, who produced an impressive drive on an alternative strategy. When brake problems intervened on the penultimate lap, Rosberg was defenceless - but he might have lost second anyway.

Hamilton's extra pace ensured he was always tantalisingly out of reach, for both the Ferraris and his own team-mate. But Mercedes clearly know they have a fight on their hands.

"Their rate of development has been very impressive over the winter and the last three races," Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said. "That is quite a challenge for us."

Asked if Mercedes were nervous, Wolff's partner at the helm of the team, technical chief Paddy Lowe, said: "Nervous is not the right word. It's a competition. This is a more normal championship, where teams compete to win each race and it's never easy."

And Hamilton - who is believed to be committed to staying at Mercedes despite the delay in signing his contract and rumours this weekend linking him to Ferrari - remains unperturbed.

"I'm confident the team will do the utmost," he said. "This is what we want. It is what F1 needed and I feel strong enough to fight whoever is coming."

Ticking off boxes towards bigger goal

On the podium in Bahrain, Hamilton told Sir Jackie Stewart he was "gunning for" a third title - which would put him level with the legendary Scot.

That much is self-evident. It is how he is going about it that is so impressive.

Hamilton's approach to this season is about taking small steps leading to a bigger goal.

Heading into Bahrain, he was talking about making amends for last year when, although he won the 'desert duel' with Rosberg, it was only with his back against the wall against a team-mate who was quicker than him.

That box ticked, his sights are already on the next two races in Spain and Monaco, which were also difficult for him in 2014.

He won Spain, but again it was in a rearguard battle with Rosberg.And Monaco was where their relationship first began to fall apart, with Hamilton suspecting his team-mate of gamesmanship in qualifying, running off the road to prevent the Englishman beating him to pole.

That halted a run of four straight wins for Hamilton last year, and he has no intention of letting it happen again.

"Here and Barcelona and Monaco were races where I was so-so last year," Hamilton said. "I've done better here but Barcelona and Monaco were both tough last year, so that's two races I need to fix. And I have not won in Monaco for many years and this is the year I want to change that."

On this form, who would want to say he won't do just that?

 

What Nico Rosberg must do to beat Lewis Hamilton - McNish

By Allan McNishBBC F1 analyst

Time is already running out for Nico Rosberg this season and, if he wants to mount a challenge for the championship, he has to turn the tables on Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton sharpish.

The last grand prix in Bahrain was an important race for Rosberg to win, because he was already some way behind Hamilton in the championship. In fact, he entered the weekend third overall, behind Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel as well.

But Rosberg did not win - Hamilton did again.

It was fortunate for Rosberg that Vettel had a bad day at the office - but Kimi Raikkonen's second place for Ferrari underlined just how difficult this year is going to be, for Mercedes in general and Rosberg, who finished third in the race, in particular.

Fortunately, there is now a decent break before the next race in Spain on 10 May for him to have a think about what to do next.

What has changed for Rosberg?

Last year, Rosberg took the title battle to the final race, eventually losing out to Hamilton in Abu Dhabi. This year, Hamilton has been in control since day one, and after four races is more than a clear victory's worth of points ahead - 27 points in front.

Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg collide during the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa

In reality, Hamilton has been on a roll since after the Belgian Grand Prix last year.

Hamilton got a big lift out of Mercedes backing him following the collision between the two drivers at Spa. The team not only punished Rosberg privately, but admonished him in public as well.

Rosberg was clearly quite badly affected by that incident. The team stopped smiling at him in quite the same way as before, and it appears that he looked inside himself and thought: "Actually, yeah, that was not appropriate; I should not have done that."

Hamilton has been dominant from that moment on. The only time Rosberg has beaten him since was in the penultimate race of last year in Brazil, where it has to be said the German did a super job all weekend.

Hamilton's momentum has carried on into this year, and he has eradicated his main area of weakness from 2014, which was his first flying lap in final qualifying.

Hamilton got quite a lot of those runs wrong last year, and that put him under pressure on the final run, where Rosberg more often than not beat him.

This year, though, Hamilton has nailed those first Q3 laps every single time, and the pressure is firmly on Rosberg.

I'm convinced Hamilton has stepped up this year. He seems more at ease, with less pressure on him - which I'm sure comes from winning the championship again and feeling he has nothing to prove to himself.

What can Rosberg do about it?

Rosberg is an intelligent guy, and that has often been a strength, but this year he is over-thinking.

When that happens, you tense up, and things don't flow. It stops being natural. It's happened to me in the past and I'm sure to every driver; in fact probably every sportsperson.

Hamilton's win in Bahrain was his second at the circuit - he was also triumphant in 2014

You could see that after Q2 in Bahrain. In fact, Radio 5 live commentator James Allen and I had an on-air debate about it at the time.

After Rosberg had been a second off Hamilton in Q2, James was very quick to pick up that Rosberg was thinking about the race and trying not to take too much out of that set of tyres - which is the one the drivers have to start the race on. Rosberg later admitted that was indeed on his mind.

I said at the time I would prefer Hamilton's one-second advantage, because going into Q3 you know what the car is going to do and where your limits are.

The driver is heading into that crucial final session knowing exactly what he has to do - and he also has the psychological advantage of that margin. It's like: "There you go, I've done it. Now you try to beat it."

And that's exactly what happened - Rosberg qualified only third, and said afterwards that this was partly because he did not have a feel for the limit because he had been so conservative on his Q2 lap.

Getting back on track

I've experienced what Rosberg went through last year in sports car racing. Losing a world championship is one of the most gut-wrenching experiences a racing driver can have.

You put so much effort and emotional energy into it - especially if it is a straight fight between two guys in the same team.

There was high tension within Mercedes last year, which is very draining. At the end of it, the person who wins gets a massive boost and the other one has to recover from that, which does not happen overnight.

When a driver gets into this sort of mindset, it takes something to change it, and usually that is a victory.

For now, though, Rosberg is yet to get everything together this season. He is doing a neat and tidy job, but it's not enough.

Right now, he is in a similar position to the one Andy Murray faces in tennis. Murray is a superb player, but he is competing in an era of three all-time greats - Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

Those guys will become legends of the sport. And it is the same for Rosberg, racing in an era that contains Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Vettel.

A mental reset

Rosberg needs to throw off the internal pressures - and that is very difficult to do.

Rosberg has yet to win a race this season having taken five chequered flags last year

His problem is that the media adds to it. So far, Rosberg has fronted up to all the questions about trying to beat Hamilton. But it might be a better idea to decide not to go there and refuse to answer them.

China was another example of him not doing quite the right thing. I don't think his comments after the race, accusing Hamilton of backing him into the Ferraris, did him any favours at all. It betrayed a weakness.

I know how he feels. When I joined Audi in sportscars, I had already won Le Mans with Porsche, but it was some time before I won it with Audi.

And Audi kept bringing it up, which made it worse for me and added to the pressure. It was like telling the media what to ask, and of course then every question focused on the fact I had not yet won Le Mans with Audi.

There are simple things you can do to alleviate some of that pressure, and Rosberg needs to work out what they are and do them.

The Ferrari threat

Rosberg is perhaps not on the ultimate level of Hamilton at his best. But he has the speed and the capability to be there or thereabouts - he proved it last year.

You don't go to bed a fast driver and wake up a slow one, and you can only control yourself.

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen sparked a renaissance of good form in Bahrain

So you have to concentrate on that, don't think about what the other guy is up to and get back to enjoying driving a racing car, because that is what will unlock those final couple of tenths of a second that make the difference between winning and losing.

If Rosberg does not turn this around soon, it may be too late. Raikkonen is revived this year and Ferrari have two cars that can mix it with Mercedes.

That will increase Ferrari's development potential and they have nothing to lose, because they are coming back after their worst season for 21 years.

Ferrari are not quite there on absolute pace yet, but they are close enough to be a fly in the ointment.

Last year, if one of the Mercedes drivers had a bad race, they would almost certainly still finish second behind the other, which mitigated their losses in the constructors' championship.

But this year that is not the case. Ferrari are right there and will split the Mercedes if there is any kind of problem - such as Rosberg's brake failure on the penultimate lap in Bahrain that gifted second place to Raikkonen.

In these situations, the championship can slip away from a driver quite quickly.

At the moment, everything Hamilton touches seems to turn to gold. And Mercedes have already intimated that they would look at operating team orders if Ferrari start to get a sniff that they have a realistic chance of the championship and throw everything behind one driver.

If that happens, with the way things are going at the moment, there is only one driver Mercedes are going to back, and it is certainly not Rosberg.

It is building up into a very exciting year. You have the might of Ferrari with a cavalier attitude against the more methodical, process-led approach of Mercedes.

There are going to be fireworks as a result.

Allan McNish is a former F1 driver, a three-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours and the 2013 World Endurance Champion. He was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson

Brendan Rodgers: Liverpool 'outstanding' against West Brom

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers says his players were "outstanding" against West Brom despite beingheld to a goalless draw at the Hawthorns.

Liverpool had 74% possession in the match and had 22 shots at goal, of which only five were on target.

The result was a setback to fifth-placed Liverpool's chances of securing a Champions League spot.

"I thought they were excellent. We didn't get the win, but our overall game was outstanding," Rodgers said.

"I was pleased how the players kept their patience and kept working the ball. The one area we were missing, as for most of the season, was goals."

Rodgers was particularly pleased with the performance of his defence, as they kept their 14th clean sheet of the campaign.

"Dejan Lovren was excellent. Balls into the box both him and Martin Skrtel dealt with very well," Rodgers added.

"I thought Emre Can was incredible today for a young player who I've asked to play in a number of positions. We defended well as a team, and attacked well as a team."

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Inside the Transition: Technology, Innovation and Government Reform

Monday, January 19, 2009 02:30pm EST / Posted by Kate Albright-Hanna

The Obama Administation’s commitment to reform and transparency is embodied by the one of the Transition’s most dynamic groups—the TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) Team.

The experts who serve in TIGR advocated for some of our most innovative features on Change.gov—including the Citizen’s Briefing Book and Seat at the Table. Watch the video and get to know the people behind the ideas—and let us know your reaction to some of the initiatives they’re proposing.