Lip Sync Battle with Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon It was a battle of epic proportions. The Rock and Jimmy faced off on the April 2 premiere of Lip Sync Battle using classic songs by Madonna, Taylor and more. Click to WATCH!
The series premiere of Lip Sync Battle was one to be remembered. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, 42, and Jimmy Fallon, 40, battled it out to be the first-ever lip syncing champion on the new Spike show. The Rock made a great choice by taking on Taylor Swifts Shake It Off and a classic Bee Gees song, while Jimmy opted for Madonnas iconicLike A Prayer. So, who took home the title? Find out now!
Lip Sync Battle": The Rock & Jimmy Fallon Face Off In Premiere
The Rock started the night off right by lip syncing T-Swifts hit song Shake It Off. From the looks of it, The Rock has clearly been listening to Taylors 1989 album for quite some time. Jimmy opted to lip syncHarry Belafontes Jump In The Line (Shake Senora) first.
The second round was when Jimmy and The Rock really turned up the heat. Jimmy went for it by taking on Madonnas Like A Prayer, complete with a choir behind him. He had everyone their feet, including The Rock, host LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen!
But The Rock wasnt going to let Jimmy win that easily. He donned a sharp white suit and transformed into Barry Gibb for his Stayin Alive rendition. It was impossible not to get your groove on!
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And the winner of the first Lip Sync Battle was The Rock!
Anna Kendrick Raps With Jennifer Lopez On Lip Sync Battle
Lip Sync Battle is already our favorite new show. Anna Kendrick and Jennifer Lopez will appear on an upcoming episode where theyll be showing off their amazing lip syncing skills.
Anna raps to Pitbull and brings out JLo as her surprise guest star.Its going to be incredible. The Bellas would be so proud of Anna! And lets not forget that Justin Bieber will be rocking out as Ozzy Osbourne on an upcoming episode!
HollywoodLifers, who do you think won the Lip Sync Battle The Rock or Jimmy? Let us know!
The Flash Finale Trailer Breakdown - Team Up vs Reverse Flash
(Photo : Facebook/The Flash) New "The Flash" set photos revealed that Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) and Ronnie (Robbie Amell) are tying the knot in an upcoming episode this season.
This could this be the end of SnowBarry.
New set photos obtained by the Daily Mail revealed that Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) and Ronnie (Robbie Amell) are tying the knot in an upcoming episode of "The Flash" this season.
The pictures, taken on Wednesday, April 1, show a rehearsal of Caitlin and Ronnie"s wedding sequence.
Since it"s only a run through, Panabaker is seen wearing a fur-trim coat and rolling pins as she walked down the aisle with a bouquet of Daffodils in hand.
After meeting her onscreen groom Amell at the end of the aisle, the 27-year-old actress handed her bouquet to her co-star Candice Patton (Iris), who appeared to be serving as Caitlin"s maid of honor.
Victor Garber, who plays Dr. Martin Stein on the CW series, was photographed officiating the ceremony. Dr. Martin and Ronnie together form the superhero Firestorm.
Grant Gustin (Barry/The Flash), Jesse L. Martin (Joe), Cisco (Carlos Valdes) and Eddie (Rick Cosnett) are also part of the wedding sequence. Surprisingly, Tom Cavanagh, who plays Dr. Harrison Wells/Eobard Thawne/The Reverse-Flash, is not seen in any of the pictures.
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Caitlin was reunited with her fianc Ronnie midway into this season after it was believed that he had died during the particle accelerator explosion. But prior to their reunion, there were a few subtle things going on between Barry and Caitlin, which for some reasons led some fans to believe that a potential romantic arc between the two will happen soon. With this news, however, it seems that Barry and Caitlin will just remain friends.
And despite the undeniable connection between Barry and Caitlin, Amell thinks that his flaming meta-human can definitely become friends with the Scarlet Speedster.
"Ronnie and Barry haven"t spent any time together because they weren"t really buddies before the explosion," the "DUFF" actor told Access Hollywood in February. "They didn"t know each other before the explosion and since then, it"s been this schizophrenic homeless guy who hasn"t really been able to converse with anybody in a regular way... [But] then you get a little bit of -- over the next episodes -- you get a little bit of a sense that these guys could be good friends, even though there"s definitely a little something for Caitlin from Barry."
"The Flash"s" next episode, titled "All Star Team Up," airs on Tuesday, April 14, at 8:00 p.m. on The CW.
Shared: New Mind-Blowing Morgellons Disease Presentation Geo-Engineering Operations
Joni Mitchell, who entered the hospital yesterday (March 31), has long suffered from a little-understood condition called Morgellonsdisease. The intensity of the disease caused the singer to almost completely stop performing, recording, and traveling in recent years.
Joni Mitchell Hospitalized
The 71-year-old singerfirst discussed her battle with Morgellons in a 2010interview with the Los Angeles Times, telling them she had"this weird, incurable disease that seems like it"s from outer space." Her vivid description left many fans concerned: "Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm: they cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral."
In 2013, she told The Star,I havent been doing much lately because Ive just come through about seven years of a flattening kind of illness. Im not cured but Ive found a helpful physician way outside the box. Western medicine says this doesnt even exist;its a psychotic disease. Its not.
Joni Mitchell Talks New Boxed Set, Not Being Able To Perform: "I Don"t Miss Much of Anything"
"I can"t fly without consequences at this point," Mitchell told Billboard in a 2014 interview. "I can fly off to Canada, that"s about all I can handle. And I"m sick on both ends for about 10 to 12 days. It"s all that heavy metal in the air, and also viruses. My immune system is also very taxed, and the metal that comes off the exhaust and gets into the cabin and gets into my system...just being delicate. I"m always jetlagged so touring was always hard for me. And now it"s kind of impossible."
In the 2014 bookJoni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, she elaborated on the severity ofher symptoms, saying"Icouldn"t wear clothing. I couldn"t leave my house for several years. Sometimes it got so I"d have to crawl across the floor. My legs would cramp up, just like a polio spasm. It hit all of the places where I had polio."
Struggles withMorgellons have been controversial within the medical community, however. The diseasewas only named in 2002 by a Pennsylvania lab technician nameMary Leitao. Sufferers say fibers grow from lesions inthe skin, potentially because of tiny parasites. Crawling sensations, extreme itching, and general fatigue/mental fog are also named as symptoms of the condition.While sufferers have united behind groups like theMorgellons Research Foundation, the broader medical community still does not recognize the disease. Since it isn"t a recognized condition, there aren"t many reliable numbers on sufferers, though initial outbreaks seemed to cluster in California, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The Center for Disease Control, which released a report on Morgellons in 2012, did not find that the disease had infectious or environmental causes."Unexplained apparent dermopathy," as they refer to it, is a psychosomatic condition -- all biopsies of affected areas came back either negative, or positive for skin conditions like dermatitis. Patients who self-diagnose with Morgellons are often treated for delusional parasitosis (the delusion that they are infested with parasites).
One argument for Morgellons as psychosomatic ailment is that the disease"s rise is directly correlated with the rise of the Internet -- patients who self-diagnose find support inthe Morgellons communities that exist online, and the existence of other sufferers lendscredence to their own experience. Rather than accept a doctor"s diagnosis that there is no medical cause for their symptoms, they seek comfort in their shared suffering -- asSlate"s Torie Bosch put it, "because of the stigma of mental illness, people are loathto accept such a diagnosis."
One article on the Mayo Clinic"s website simply states, "Further study is needed."
A newer blood test for DNA defects that cause Down"s syndrome and similar conditions is more accurate than older tests, researchers reported Wednesday.
The test, called a cell-free DNA test, detected cases more accurately, a team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. It also came up with fewer false positives when a test incorrectly indicates an abnormality, Dr. Mary Norton of the University of California San Francisco and colleagues reported.
"The performance of cfDNA testing was superior to that of traditional first-trimester screening for the detection of trisomy 21 in a routine prenatal population," they wrote in their report.
It"s not likely to be the last word on such tests, which are controversial and not yet regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. But the very large size of the trial nearly 16,000 women gives it some power. The researchers also included women of all ages, including many not considered at high risk of having a child with a chromosomal abnormality.
But it does provide an option for women to find out very early in pregnancy, Norton said. It can be done as early as 10 weeks into a pregnancy.
"Providers need to be attuned to patients" preferences."
The test looks for free-floating DNA (cfDNA) from the fetus. It can find the extra copies of chromosome 21, which causes Down"s syndrome, as well as other genetic conditions, such as trisomy 13 and trisomy 18.
Norton"s team said the test caught all 38 cases of Down"s syndrome. The standard screening test found just 30 of the 38 cases.
It also had a lower rate of false positives but not a zero rate, pointed out Lyn Chitty of Great Ormond Street Hospital, a specialized children"s hospital in London. "This study supports the need for invasive testing to confirm a positive cfDNA result: nine of the 47 results indicating a high risk of trisomy 21 were false positives," Chitty wrote in a commentary. There were 854 false positives using standard screening.
Not all parents opt to do anything when they discover a pregnancy may carry a chromosomal abnormality, and more and more parents are actively opting to have and celebrate babies with Down"s syndrome. But the test can prepare parents for the coming challenges.
Critics note that false-positive tests can unnecessarily upset parents and could potentially cause some to abort fetuses that may not have actually had a chromosomal syndrome.
Norton said any prenatal test needs to be discussed thoroughly with a patient.
"Providers need to be attuned to patients" preferences and counsel them about the differences in prenatal screening and diagnostic testing options," she said in a statement.
"Those women who do opt for cell-free DNA testing should be informed that it is highly accurate for Down syndrome, but it focuses on a small number of chromosomal abnormalities and does not provide the comprehensive assessment available with other approaches."
"The performance of cfDNA testing was superior to that of traditional first-trimester screening for the detection of trisomy 21."
The usual test for Down"s looks for cells from the fetus, and usually an ultrasound is done to look for structures associated with the syndrome.
Amniocentesis is the most accurate test and detects a wide range of genetic problems but is usually not done until 18 weeks gestation, and the test itself can cause miscarriage in rare cases. Chorionic villus sampling (CVS) takes a tiny piece of the placenta and can be done as early as 10 weeks, but it has a one-in-100 risk of miscarriage.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that cell-free DNA tests be offered to women over 35 but not to women whose risk of having a baby with Down"s syndrome or another chromosomal abnormality is low.
Several companies offer the cfDNA tests and charge $1,700 or more for them. Norton"s group got funding from Ariosa Diagnostics, which makes one of the tests.
First published April 1 2015, 2:37 PM
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Here"s what"s on TV tonight: "American Idol" (7 p.m., WVUE) continues as the top eight perform. Team NOLA Quentin Alexander and Joey Cook are still in the running, but will their performances last week be enough to keep them in the competition another week? The Wednesday theme is Kelly Clarkson songs.
Meanwhile, Cook got engaged in the past few days and celebrated turning 24.
Mike Holtzclaw @DailyPress.com has the rundown:
The engagement to her beau of five years, Evan Higgins, technically happened on Saturday. They"ve been together for five years, and for all intents and purposes they got engaged last year while they were living in Newport News -- she was waiting tables at Cozzy"s Comedy Club and he was working at County Grill in Yorktown.
But then she auditioned for "Idol," and she made it, and things got kind of crazy, so they didn"t get around to sealing the deal until this weekend.
Copy from the crypt about Cook"sroots in Virginia before moving to New Orleans last year.
Meanwhile, "The Dovekeepers" (8 p.m., WWL) concludes. Read more about the CBS miniseries.
And "Nashville" (9 p.m., WGNO) continues.
Elsewhere: "Modern Family" (8 p.m., WGNO), "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies" (8 p.m., WYES), "Big Time in Hollywood, FL" (9:30 p.m., Comedy Central).
Late night: Ringo Starr guests on "Conan" (10 p.m., TBS), Sen. Al Franken guests on "Late Show With David Letterman" (10:35 p.m., WWL), Death Cab for Cutie performs on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (10:35 p.m., WGNO).
Got a TV question? Contact Dave Walker at dwalker@nola.com or 504.826.3429. Read more TV coverage at NOLA.com/tv. He"s @DaveWalkerTV on Twitter, and Dave Walker TV on Facebook.
Google Maps, 5 Awesome Tips (you probably did not know!)
While not every April Fools" Day prank turns out to be "fun," Google has quietly enabled a secret feature in Google Maps that lets you play the classic arcade game Pac-Man in your city"s streets and it"s actually a brilliant idea.
To get your own custom game of Pac-Man going, first you need to head over to Google Mapsand navigate to your favorite location (or whatever area you"d like to turn into a Pac-Man level).
We decided to play in Times Square.
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When you"re ready, click the Pac-Man button in the lower left of the screen and Google will transform the city streets and bring up the controls, which use your keyboard"s arrow keys.
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Fans of Pac-Man will find that while the levels are far from the usual organized mazes Google lets you play on diagonal streets the core gameplay remains the same. You"ll still need to collect all of the tiny white dots, or "pellets," to complete a level. Eating one of the larger "power pellets" turns the ghosts blue and gives you a small amount of time to chase them down and gobble them up.
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Of course, some cities or neighborhoods might be easier or more difficult than others, so feel free to explore different areas around the world to change up the difficulty.
Ready to play? You can head on over to Google Maps directly by clicking here.
Many of the rape studies are modified for political objectives influenced by the powerful feminist lobby. Even insufficient evidence cases are counted as truthful accusations in many of the studies. Thus we get the false and manufactured 98% of victims tell the truth claim.
Large numbers of people have been falsely accused of rape: Some examples are Singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, NFLs Brian Banks, William McCaffey, James Grissom, and false-rape allegations at Ohio University and Hofstra University. Crystal Mangum, represented by Gloria Allred, made false allegations of rape against Duke University lacrosse players.
Some men spend years in prison before they are exonerated, and many have their reputations and lives destroyed.
Source: False rape accusations exist, and they are a serious problem. By Cathy Young. Slate, September 2014.
Oftentimes, whenever police or prosecutors speak the truth about the rate of false rape accusations, Feminist and related interest groups demand that they undergo sensitivity training. What this really means is that they must be intimidated, browbeaten, threatened, and coerced into apologizing for stating an inconvenient truth.
Source: 10 Reasons False Rape Accusations are Common. By Jonathan Taylor. A Voice for Male Students, July 22, 2014.
