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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
David Cassidy sentenced to rehab in DUI case Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES — A judge has sentenced 1970s teen heartthrob David Cassidy to three months in rehab and five years of probation in a drunken driving case. Cassidy’s attorney, Steven Graff
Levine, entered an open plea to a Los Angeles judge Monday. Cassidy admitted he was driving under the influence when he was arrested in January after making an illegal turn. Levine says Cassidy has been in rehab and will remain for longer than his sentence requires. He says
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Cassidy is committed to his sobriety and wants to break the cycle that got him arrested for drunken driving twice in less than six months. A DUI case in New York was reduced from a felony to misdemeanor earlier this month. Cassidy appeared on TV’s “The Partridge Family.”
Shakira’s new album should be much better Associated Press Writer
Shakira’s domination in America has dwindled since she became a hip-swiveling goddess of festive pop hits like “Whenever, Wherever” and “Hips Don’t Lie.” Already a superstar in her native Colombia, the multitalented singer-songwriter-instrumentalist took the American pop scene by storm when she made her U.S. language debut in 2001 with personal, rich songs about romance and more. But her recent albums haven’t matched the spark, edge and charisma from her work a decade ago, and her new self-titled release, while enjoyable at times, doesn’t showcase this Grammy-winning, Golden Globe-nominated superstar in the right light. “Shakira,” her tenth album, features the 37year-old taking a back seat as lead songwriter and producer, and that doesn’t come off as a wise move. “Dare (La La La),” helmed by Dr. Luke, Max Martin and others, sounds like a Jennifer Lopez song, and that’s not a compliment (sorry, Jenny). While Shakira’s stint as a judge on “The Voice” has been pleasurable to watch, her duet with fellow mentor Blake Shelton on the country-feeling “Medicine” is a bore, though it was co-written by Academy Award nominee and hit country songwriter Hillary Lindsey. Even the duet with Rihanna, the up-tempo lead single “Can’t Remember to Forget You,” comes off as a cry for a pop hit. The song lacks energy though two superstars are part of it, and the collaboration feels forced (Rihanna and Shakira are both signed to Roc Nation management). The album’s lyrics also lack emotion and depth. It’s a far stretch from Shakira’s earlier songs, such as her Latin pop breakthrough “Estoy Aqui (I’m Here)” or the part-gritty, part- bouncy “La Tortura.” The new album follows in the footsteps of her last two albums, 2009’s “She Wolf” and 2010’s “Sale el Sol,” which have bright spots, but still didn’t carry the oomph and appeal of her earlier work. Shakira does move the needle a bit on the reggae-laced “Cut Me Deep,” which features the band Magic! Nasir Atweh, the band’s lead singer, is part of the songwriting duo The Messengers, who have penned hits for Justin Bieber, Chris Brown and Pitbull. “Spotlight,” co-written by Lindsey and produced by Greg Kurstin, sounds arena-ready, which is excellent for an entertaining performer like Shakira. And the album’s most honest moment is “23,” a sweet ode to her 1-year-old son’s father, soccer player Gerard Pique, who is 10 years younger than Shakira (he was 23 when they met). She co-wrote the simple guitar tune with Luis Fernando Ochoa, who collaborated AP Photo/Manu Fernandez with Shakira on her third album and major label debut, 1996’s “Pies Descalzos.” Full-blown Colombian singer Shakira poses during during the presentation of her new album “Shakira” in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, March 20, 2014. reunion please?
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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Finding MH370 black boxes
Race is on
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FILE - This Aug. 8, 2009 file photo shows actor-singer David Cassidy, best known for his role as Keith Partridge on “The Partridge Family,” arrives at the ABC Disney Summer press tour party in Pasadena, Calif.
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Chinese relatives of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, flight MH370, shout in protest as they march towards the Malaysia embassy in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
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CANBERRA — Time is running out to find the crucial keys that could solve the mystery of how and why Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down. After the excruciating 17-day wait for confirmation that the Boeing 777 crashed into the southern Indian Ocean, searchers are racing to locate the so-called black boxes before a battery-powered ping they emit fades away. By law, the boxes with must be able to send those signals for at least 30 days following a crash. But experts say they can continue making noise for another 15 days or so beyond that, depending upon the strength of the black box battery
at the time of the crash. Without the black boxes — the common name for the voice and data recorders normally attached to a fuselage — it would be virtually impossible for investigators to definitively say what caused the crash. The location of the plane is still unknown more than two weeks after it crashed, although Malaysian authorities say a British satellite company has pinpointed its last position in the Indian Ocean, where
several countries have reported finding floating debris. It’s now up to experts in ocean currents and weather patterns to give searchers their best estimate on where the plane actually went down, which is where the black boxes — they’re really red cylinders — are likely to be located. “We’ve got to get lucky,” said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. “It’s a race to get to the area in time to catch the black box pinger while it’s still working.” To “catch” the signal, searchers will be putting to use a high-tech listening device loaned by the U.S. Navy.
One of the Navy’s Towed Pinger Locators is already en route to the search area. It’s a 30-inch-long cylindrical microphone that’s slowly towed underwater in a grid pattern behind a commercial ship. It will pick up any black box ping emitted from, on average, 1 mile away — but could hear a ping from 2 miles away depending upon a number of factors, from ocean conditions to topography to if the black boxes are buried or not. The listening device is attached to about 20,000 feet of cable and is guided through the ocean depths by a yellow, triangular carrier with a shark fin on top. It looks like a stingray and has a wingspan of 3
feet. The device sends data up that long cable every half second, where both human operators and computers aboard a ship carefully listen for any strong signals and record a ping’s location. The ship keeps towing the device over the grid so that operators can triangulate the strongest pings — and hopefully locate the exact location of the black boxes. Aside from the Towed Pinger Locator, an Australian navy support vessel, the Ocean Shield, is expected to arrive in the search zone within three or four days, officials said. It’s equipped with acoustic detection equipment that will also listen for pings.