Sony, Panasonic Working on Next-Gen Optical Disc

By Daisuke Wakabayashi

Physical media isn?t dead, at least not yet in Japan.

Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. said on Monday that they reached an agreement to work together to develop standards for a next-generation optical disc that can hold more than 300 gigabytes of data, or at least six times the capacity of current Blu-ray discs, which store about 50 gigabytes of data. The two companies said they aim to develop the next-generation storage medium by 2015.

The growth of streaming and on-demand download of media has caused a slow and steady decline for the demand of physical media such as compact discs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs, but the two Japanese electronics giants see potential for the discs in large-scale archiving of video.

Read more on Japan Real Time.

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NBC to air Kerrigan interview during Olympics

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? A new documentary on former Olympic figure skating rivals Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding that includes an exclusive interview with Kerrigan will air during NBC's Winter Olympics coverage in February.

Mary Carillo will interview both women on the 20th anniversary of their dramatic showdown at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.

NBC's program will air three months after ESPN's "Tonya and Nancy" documentary, set for Nov. 5. That film includes new interviews with Harding, although ESPN Films said earlier this week it is still trying to persuade Kerrigan to grant an interview.

Both documentaries will recount the Jan. 6, 1994, incident in which Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee after practice for the U.S. championships in a plot masterminded by Harding's ex-husband. At the Olympics, Kerrigan won a silver medal and Harding finished eighth.

In the NBC program, Carillo interviews both Kerrigan and Harding about what they learned and where they are now.

Kerrigan has shunned the spotlight since retiring to focus on raising her three children. Harding is married with a child and has participated in several sports and reality shows.

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Musician JJ Cale dies; wrote Clapton, Skynyrd hits

If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll.

His best songs like "After Midnight," ''Cocaine" and "Call Me the Breeze" were towering hits ? for other artists. Eric Clapton took "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" and turned them into the kind of hard-party anthems that defined rock for a long period of time. And Lynyrd Skynyrd took the easy-shuffling "Breeze" and supercharged it with a three-guitar attack that made it a hit.

Cale, the singer-songwriter and producer known as the main architect of the Tulsa Sound, passed away Friday night at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. His manager, Mike Kappus, said Cale died of a heart attack. He was 74.

While his best known songs remain in heavy rotation on the radio nearly 40 years later, most folks wouldn't be able to name Cale as their author. That was a role he had no problem with.

"No, it doesn't bother me," Cale said with a laugh in an interview posted on his website. "What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail."

And the checks rolled in for decades. The list of artists who covered his music or cite him as a direct influence reads like a who's who of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ? Clapton, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Mark Knopfler, The Allman Brothers, Carlos Santana, Captain Beefheart and Bryan Ferry among many others.

Young said in Jimmy McDonough's biography "Shakey" that Cale and Jimi Hendrix were the best guitar players he had ever heard. And in his recent memoir "Waging Heavy Peace," Young said Cale's "Crazy Mama" ? his biggest hit, rising to No. 22 on the Billboard singles chart ? was one of the five songs that most influenced him as a songwriter: "The song is true, simple, and direct, and the delivery is very natural. JJ's guitar playing is a huge influence on me. His touch is unspeakable."

It was Clapton who forged the closest relationship with Cale. They were in sync musically and personally. Clapton also recorded Cale songs "Travelin' Light" and "I'll Make Love To You Anytime" and included the Cale composition "Angel" on his most recent album, "Old Sock." Other songs like "Layla" didn't involve Cale, but clearly owe him a debt. The two also collaborated together on "The Road to Escondido," which won the Grammy Award for best contemporary blues album in 2008.

Clapton once told Vanity Fair that Cale was the living person he most admired, and Cale weighed the impact Clapton had on his life in a 2006 interview with The Associated Press: "I'd probably be selling shoes today if it wasn't for Eric."

That quote was typical of the always humble Cale. But while Clapton was already a star when he began mining Cale's catalog, there's no doubt the music they shared cemented his "Clapton is God" status and defined the second half of his career.

"As hard as I've tried I've never really succeeded in getting a record to sound like him and that's what I want," Clapton said in a "Fast Focus" video interview to promote "Escondido." ''Before I go under the ground, I want to make a JJ Cale album with him at the helm."

Clapton described Cale's music as "a strange hybrid. It's not really blues, it's not really folk or country or rock 'n' roll. It's somewhere in the middle."

Cale arrived at that intersection by birth. Born John Weldon Cale in Oklahoma City, he was raised in Tulsa. Buffeted by country and western on one side and the blues on the other, Oklahoma offered a melting pot of styles. Cale leaned on those styles as he spent his formative years in Los Angeles and Nashville, but he also used drum machines and often acted as his own producer, engineer and session player. He'd bury his own whispery vocals in the mix, causing the listener to lean in and focus.

"I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer," Cale said in a 2009 biography on his website. "Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound."

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Talbott reported from Nashville, Tenn. AP writer Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles and AP Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu in New York contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/musician-jj-cale-dies-wrote-clapton-skynyrd-hits-160728124.html

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Good Reads: From women senators, to Appalachia?s woes, to a shadow war

This week's round-up of Good Reads includes a look at the women Senators who reach across the bipartisan divide, lessons to be learned from Nelson Mandela's human failings and personal greatness, Appalachia's drug problem, Journalist's waning public favor, and America's war against Al Qaeda in the Philippines.

By Cricket Fuller,?Staff Writer / July 26, 2013

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Do women make better US senators than men? Jill Lawrence looks at that question, and the women of the Senate, in The National Journal. The 20 women of the Senate ? 16 Democrats and four Republicans ? may not always agree, but in an era of polarization, they demonstrate a remarkable commitment to collegiality. Nearly all say they bring collaborative problem-solving skills to the Senate.?

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As Ms. Lawrence chronicles, ?there is plenty of evidence, in the form of deals made and bills passed, that women know how to get things done? in the Senate ? by leveraging their caucus and through bipartisan, bicameral consensus-building. Now, after decades of hard-fought gains by pioneering women senators, traditional ?women?s issues? (such as health and education) are mainstream, making up roughly a third of the Senate docket. And women senators lead on key committees ? budget, intelligence, and defense.?

Lawrence writes that ?there are too few [women in the Senate], and their arrival on the scene has been too recent, to draw any conclusions? as to whether they are more effective than their male colleagues. But their personal connections and the bills they champion point to a needed cooperation missing in Congress.

Mandela, the patriarch

In a commentary in South Africa?s Mail & Guardian newspaper, Colleen Lowe Morna, founding chief executive of the country?s Commission on Gender Equality under Nelson Mandela, writes, ?If we are to learn from Mandela, we need to acknowledge that his gender legacy is chequered.??

Mr. Mandela?s journey from ?old-school patriarch to a modern husband in his third marriage? ? teaches about the evolution of gender equality as well as his humble commitment to personal growth. The same holds lessons for societal progress now ? and for Mandela?s feuding family, struggling with what Ms. Morna sees as the consequences of patriarchy.

Among them: Mandela named his eldest grandson heir to his tribal legacy, bypassing his oldest daughter. Morna questions ?whether this legacy would not have been safer in the hands of an older daughter than in those of an ill-prepared, younger grandson? who has fueled family controversy. But Morna is certain that as a good leader, Mandela ?would ask us to learn from his greatness and from his human failings.?

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Blast kills military bomb expert in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) A Philippine marine ordnance expert was killed and two others were wounded when one of several bombs they were trying to defuse around a house exploded on restive Jolo island in the country's south, a military commander said Sunday.

An ordnance team was deployed Saturday to a house of a village leader in the town of Panglima Estino on Jolo in Sulu province where residents reported finding more than 10 bombs made from ammonium nitrate around the residence. The marines had defused one bomb and were working on a second one, which suddenly exploded, marine Col. Jose Cenabre said.

The bombs may have been placed around the house like booby-traps due to a clan war involving the village leader, Cenabre said, adding that Abu Sayyaf extremists, who are active in Sulu, apparently were not involved.

Due to the explosion, Cenabre said he withdrew the marines and deployed an air force ordnance team, which defused two more bombs on Sunday. The new team, however, kept finding more bombs in the vicinity of the house, which had been cleared of its occupants, prompting the military to seek help from police, he said.

Such violent clan conflicts, known as "rido," have long complicated security worries in the southern Philippines, which is already mired in decades-long Muslim rebellions.

The explosion was one of two deadly blasts in the south over the weekend.

A homemade bomb went off in one of a row of upscale bars and restaurants in Cagayan de Oro city late Friday, killing six people and wounding more than 40 others, police said.

Among the dead were a provincial government official and a doctor who was unwinding in the crowded nightspot near a shopping mall after attending a medical convention, said Interior Secretary Mar Roxas.

Investigators have not determined if that attack was staged by terrorist groups or was sparked by rivalries among politicians or other groups. Roxas, who flew to the site of the blast, said Sunday that he was dismayed to find out that the scene of the explosion was immediately cleaned the next day after investigators scoured the area overnight.

"There were some lapses here," Roxas said. "People did not only sweep the place. They scrubbed it."

"I don't know of any instance in the whole world where the blast site is released less than 12 hours after," he said.

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5 Natural Ways to Boost Total Body Wellness | Intent BlogIntent Blog

There?s a reason we often refer to ?wellness? instead of ?health,? though both words in essence refer to the same thing. The difference is that the former connotes a whole-self vitality that brings mind, body, and spirit into alignment for optimal health. And in most cases, the path to wellness is paved with natural products and practices, making the individual the expert on his or her own well-being.

If you struggle with any health concerns, or if you just want to boost overall wellness, increase your energy, and get that ?glow? people are always talking about, then you may benefit from introducing some new practices into your daily routine.

Here are 5 natural tools to boost overall wellness:

1. Introduce spices and herbs into your diet.

Many common seasonings pack antioxidants and polyphenols, which can curb inflammation in the body, relieve pain, lower blood pressure, and more. In addition to that, spices and herbs add so much flavor to recipes that you?ll find yourself reaching less and less for the salt, sugar, and other unhealthy additives. A win-win all around!

Our tip: Ginger is the perfect spice to start with. With its spicy kick and subtle sweetness, ginger adds delicious flavor to savory and sweet dishes, alike! We love Wakaya Perfection Organic Ginger powder, which is 100% pure ginger naturally sourced from the beautiful island of Wakaya.

2. Start a mindfulness practice.

?Mindfulness? can mean different things to different people, but the intention is always the same. Be aware of your thoughts and biases, practice listening, practice gratitude, and challenge yourself to speak, think, and act mindfully throughout the day. Mindfulness techniques, which can include meditation, focused awareness, and yoga, have been shown to help reduce stress, depression, and anxiety (along with other conventional treatments.)

Our tip: Find a time of the day that works for you to sit, be still, and just breathe. Maybe it?s right when you get up in the morning and are still sitting in bed; or perhaps it?s a few quiet moments after the kids have gone to sleep and the computer is turned off. Return to this inner space every day, and feel the effects the practice has on your life.

3. Try natural remedies for common ailments before turning to chemical-based drugs.

There is certainly a time and place for conventional medicine, don?t get us wrong! But many common, daily ailments ? like headaches, nausea, sore muscles, and morning sickness ? can be more easily (and effectively!) remedied by natural products. If there is a specific chronic condition you struggle with, do a bit of research to see what herbs, spices, and practices might help alleviate discomfort.

Our tip: Ginger has been proven to be an extremely effective product for easing nausea and related ailments. Try Ginger-Eze, a natural ginger remedy, as your go-to for alleviating motion sickness, cold symptoms, sore muscles and more.

4. Incorporate fitness into your daily routine.

For some people, having an allotted hour at the gym or in a fitness class is what they need to make sure exercise makes it into their schedule. But for many of us this strategy can be daunting, and we either skip it altogether or over-work ourselves when we do make the time to exercise. Staying active can be surprisingly easy, though, when we incorporate fitness into our lives by walking and biking for transportation, doing exercises that promote practical strength, and enjoying fun weekend activities that get us moving!

Our tip: Opt for ?functional fitness? workouts, either on your own or at a gym that specializes in this kind of exercise. Functional fitness focuses on whole-body strength, balance, and stamina for daily life.

5. Use natural products for beauty and skin care.

Many commercial beauty and skin care products are terrible for your health. Some products have even tested positive for mercury, lead, bacteria, and other toxins. Yikes! Thankfully some of the most effective, powerful, and beautifying products come right out of the earth and don?t carry the same side-effects at the drugstore variety.

Our tip: To nourish and moisturize your skin, as well as treat rashes and minor burns, try Dilo Cream, made with oil from the super-plant Calophyllum inophyllum. This tree has so many amazing properties, and its oil has been used as a skin treatment throughout the Pacific and tropical regions of Africa for years.

We hope these tips give you some creative and empowering ideas for boosting your own wellness practice. What are your favorite tools for overall health? Let us know in the comments below!

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