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(Jason Miller)
On Tuesday night I e-mailed the link to Siobhan Hunter?s review of Last Summer at the Marmont to the author of Q, knowing he would particularly enjoy it since he lived at the Chateau Marmont for a spell during the 1970s when he was a Hollywood screenwriter and script doctor. In the e-mail I also apologized for not meeting the self-imposed deadline of June 16 for the new draft of the screenplay adaptation of his novel. He wrote back Wednesday morning:
What a perceptive, well written review. I look forward to reading the play.
Don?t worry about ["Q"]. Take your time. I?m in my own delays as well with this weird deconstructed fiction-memoir or whatever it is.
The most important things are your health and putting coin on the table.
I was glad he told me not to worry because I?ve been doing a lot of that lately. In the last few weeks severe arthritic pain in my hands has prevented me from getting much writing done but it has resulted in a lot of thinking about writing, One thing I had been kicking my ass over a lot lately is why I have not been as productive in the short fiction market as I was between 2004-2010, starting with work for L.A. Stories. And what I?ve come to realize is that, as a writer, short fiction and flash fiction was a growing ?phase? I was going through and I burned through it, having met all of the challenges that I set for myself and, seeing no further challenges to the form, I moved on. Much as I did with my Martin Brimmer phase, and the time I spent penning personal ruminative essays for the likes of Dead Drunk Dublin and Strike the Root.
Last week an organization ? I hate to be vague there but the situation calls for it ? conducted a conference call with many of its members to consider bringing me into their circle of secrecy for an investigative journalism piece; one member warned that the group did not have a good track record with journalists, at which point another chimed in and said, ?I?ve done some research on this guy. He?s not just a journalist. He?s a writer.?
Which is what I am. An all-purpose writer. I go where the money and my interest is. This time last year my interest was in radio plays ? an antiquated form, I know, but also one I know that I can master so I?m going to meet the challenge ? and I will get back to that as soon as I am able to finish the screenplay for ?Q?, not only another personal challenge but a pet project of mine for, literally, decades.
And, in the interim, there?s the journalism project to pursue, the type of project that often falls into my lap unsolicited as a result of being an ?all-purpose writer? and not one who easily fits into a niche. My protagonist from Last Summer at the Marmont, Lewis Grizzard, explains some of the exhaustive wheeling and dealing that goes into the business during a phone call early in the first act:
LEWIS (INTO PHONE)
Jack? Lew Hogue here, buddy. How the hell are ya? ? Yeah? ? Yeah? ? You?re shitting me. I haven?t seen Bobby in a coon?s age. How is he? ? Yeah ? Yeah?? ? ? (laughs)
That?s the old Bobby I know and love. Send my regards next time you talk to him. Listen, I?ve got something here that might be up your alley. I just bought the life story rights of a certain fringe celebrity who?s been?in the limelight a bit recently ? Who? Well, he?s the former gay lover of a big time movie star who shall remain nameless ?
(It?s impossible for LEWIS to stand still now. He is circling the room like a buzzard, cell phone glued to his ear, as he talks.)
LEWIS (INTO PHONE) (CONT?D)
Yeah, that?s him. I didn?t know you read the Enquirer.?(laughs) Listen, this is no joke. The guy has led an interesting life and it would make a great TV movie. He?s more than just a peter puffer to Mr. Boffo Box Office. For one thing, he used to run drugs for Eddie Nash back in the Eighties, turned state?s evidence against Nash, went into the Witness Protection Program and ? Huh? ? What? ? Yeah, I engineered an exclusive to the Enquirer, which netted me five grand, I don?t mind saying, and I managed to get an eight week embargo on the story down to four so I want to strike while the fire?s hot, so to speak. Or is that anvil? ? Huh? ? No, I was just wondering out loud. Is it strike while the fire is hot or while the anvil is hot? Anvil would make more sense, I think.
(LEWIS reacts to a demure knock at the door.)
LEWIS (INTO PHONE) (CONT?D)?When? ? Hold on, let me check my schedule ?
(He retrieves a Day Runner from the bed, paws through the pages)
LEWIS (INTO PHONE) (CONT?D)?Tuesday at one at The Ivy. Yeah, I think I can swing that.
(He closes the Day Runner without making a notation.)
LEWIS (INTO PHONE) (CONT?D) I?ll see you then. And I?ll bring along the contract so you can see it?s all on the level. This could really be something.
(Another knock at the door. A visibly annoyed LEWIS walks to the door while still talking on the cell.
LEWIS (INTO PHONE) (CONT?D) ?No, it was a dollar option?just to keep it all legal, you understand?but this guy can?t sneeze without me owning the snot that comes out of his nose. I?m not gonna make the same mistake I did with Jason Miller. If I?d had the rights to that goddamn play sewn up, Sorvino wouldn?t have beaten me to the punch.
**********
Less than three months after writing that moment I penned the first draft of the play Go Irish: The Purgatory Diaries of Jason Miller, in 2004. I guess you can say that was my ?playwright phase?.
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The wet cold winters in Paarl might give your children cabin fever, but don?t worry. Here are quite a few ideas to keep the kids entertained this winter without having to resort to watching TV or play Xbox or Playstation games.
Picnics are not just for summer. Throw a blanket and cushions on your living room floor and let the children help make healthy snacks to have at their picnic. Use cookie cutters to make fun shaped sandwiches, make popcorn and flavour it with spices, powdered cheese or icing sugar for a sweet treat, make your own lemonade for some vitamin packed goodness to keep away colds and flu, make mini fruit kebabs by piercing small block of fruit onto toothpicks, grate cheese and roll it into balls mixed with their favourite chips crushed finely and round it off with a mug of steaming hot chocolate with marshmallows.
Many herbs and flowers grow very well indoors. Use recycled containers like plastic yoghurt tubs and let the children decorate it with paint, stickers or magazine cut outs. Make sure to make a few holes in the bottom for water drainage. Go to your closest plant nursery and let your children choose a few herb or flower seedlings. Get potting soil that has already got compost in it. When you get home, you can let the children plant their seedlings into the decorated containers. Place the planted seedlings each on a saucer and give your child the duty of watering their plants every morning. You can even use see through plastic containers and plant seeds in it, so that your child can watch the little plant grow. Place the plants in the window sill to get well needed sun to grow.
Take out your recipe books and let your child help you bake one of the family?s favourite cookie recipes. For smaller children you can use a recipe that does not require baking. Let them help stirring, sifting, pressing out cookies or decorating. You can also make a batch of cupcakes and let the children have free reign with the decorating of the cupcakes. Making play dough is also great fun! Mix 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of salt and a few drops of food colouring together. Add 1 cup of water and 1 tablespoon of oil and mix it together till it forms a ball. Kneed for a while and voila, you?ve got child-safe play dough in a jiffy.
Scrap booking is a fun way to keep children busy for hours. Use some old magazines to cut out words and letters from or a few family photos and a selection of paints and stickers and decorations. You can also create unique family tree by using photos of all your family members and drawing a tree on an A2 size poster board. Let the children decorate the tree with each family member?s favourite activities.
Playing board games are always fun. You can even play in teams. Create some healthy competition and let the winners choose an activity the losers must do, like wash the dishes after dinner. Make turns choosing games, so that everyone gets a chance to beat the others at what they excel in best. If you don?t have a variety of board games, why not create your own games or draw up a snakes and ladders board. There is also a wide range of imagination and word games that you can play. Charades are always great fun for the whole family. Don?t forget your trusty pack of playing cards!
Children have always enjoyed making forts out of furniture, blankets, and cushions. Help your kids construct their own fort in the family room. They?ll stay busy all day long with fun, quiet activities to play inside their new imaginary castle. The older children can even read stories to the little ones. If you have a children?s tent and you don?t want to have your furniture turned upside down, pitch the tent in the living room and have an indoor camping day.
Put on your explorers hat and go hunting for treasures. Each child can hide an item somewhere in your house and then draw a map or write clues of how to get to the treasure. If it is not a rainy day, the treasures can also be hidden in the garden. Let all the neighbouring children join in and let everyone take turns to hide a surprise treasure or let everyone hide something at their house and make one big treasure hunt!
As South Africans we love our braai, but it is not so great during the cold winter months. Fire still adds warmth, so why not still make a fire outside when it?s not raining and let the children dress warmly and gather round the fire outside and toast marshmallows and make yummy Smores. (A?s?more?(sometimes spelled?smore) is a traditional night time?campfire?treat?popular in the?United States?and?Canada?consisting of a roasted?marshmallow?and a layer of?chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of?cracker) Toast a marshmallow and sandwich it between your favourite cookies. If it?s too cold to make a fire outside, start up your fireplace. You can also easily make Smores in your microwave by placing a marshmallow on a cookie; add a small block of chocolate, and cook ?it for a few seconds in the microwave till the marshmallow puffs up. Top it with another cookie and enjoy with your favourite steaming hot beverage.
Remember not to leave the little ones on their own at the fire!
Your back garden is a treasure trove of beautiful ornaments that you can use to make a stunning mobile or wind chime with. Let your children gather small stones, acorns, dried seed pods, leaves, small sticks, empty snail shells etc. Wrap a piece of string or ribbon around each item. Take a stick at least 30cm long and knot the loose end of the ribbon to the stick. Tie a long piece of ribbon to the middle of your stick and hang it up in a tree or from your porch. You can also use an old clothes hanger to hang your ornaments from.
Making personalised calendars could be so much fun and there are so many ways that you can decorate them. Turn it into an arts and crafts activity and let your children draw or decorate a picture for every month of the year. You can also use family photographs and make collages. Why not take your digital camera and play dress up, make funny faces or create themed scenes for each month. Remember to highlight special events of your family, like birthdays, on the calendar too! Calendars also make creates gifts, so you can scan in the final art works and print out a few calendars as gifts. Granny would love to see her beautiful grandchildren?s beaming faces all year round!
Sock puppets are fun to make, but what is even easier to make are paper bag puppets. Take a small paper bag and crayons or markers. ?Simply draw a funny face on the bag and you have a puppet! ?You can also decorate your puppets with wool for hair, buttons for eyes, and glitter for cheeks. Ribbon can be added to the hair or made into a bow tie for the ?neck?. Draw on eyelashes and lips with colourful markers. Animal puppets are also great fun. The children can then create a puppet show and ?perform? it for you.
Modern technology has made it so easy for anyone to make their own movies. Let your child have free reign with shooting some footage. Let them document the activities of your family pet or let them ?follow their feet? for a day or let them interview friends or neighbours. When they are done, help them edit it and add fun captions or music. Screen your child?s movie at your next movie night.
It is so easy to make your own snow globe. Take a glass jar and paste a plastic figurine on the inside of the lid. Let the glue dry completely. Fill the jar with water, glitter and liquid glycerine (available at a pharmacy). Tightly screw on the lid, making sure there is no leakage. Flip it over and let them see the beauty of their own winter wonderland.
Decorate your windows with snowflake silhouettes. Take white pieces of paper and fold it over a few times. Use scissors to cut out organic shapes. Unfold your paper to reveal a one of a kind snowflake. Paste it on the inside of your windows with small pieces of Prestick. If you want more intricate designs, you can use a template downloaded from the internet.
Take the biggest container you can find and fill it with rice, dry pasta or beans. Place it on the floor with newspaper underneath the container. Take out the children?s beach buckets and spades and let them play in the ?sandbox?. You can even paint a few shapes different colours and let the kids have a competition to see who can collect the most coloured shapes.
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New Rochelle, NY, June 28, 2012Games that promote health can improve the well-being of employees, saving employers direct and indirect health care costs. Employers can more readily reap these benefits by offering game-based services that educate their employees about health and wellness and improve physical and psychological fitness, according to an Editorial in Games for Health Journal a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The Editorial is available free on the Games for Health Journal website.
"Wellness programs using health games have the potential to significantly impact human well-being and the costs, pain, and suffering of preventable illnesses and conditions," says Games for Health Journal Editor-in-Chief Bill Ferguson, PhD, in the Editorial entitled "Games for WellnessImpacting the Lives of Employees and the Profits of Employers."
Dr. Ferguson highlights the key factors that will drive increased market acceptance of health games and wellness initiatives among employers. The Editorial describes the characteristics of health games for improving wellness and how videogaming can help engage people in their own health, supplement traditional forms of exercise, promote healthy living, and improve patient care.
"The most successful wellness programs incorporate videogames that present themselves as in the service of the player," states Dr. Ferguson. "These activities enable individuals to engage in things they have personally desired, but were unable to prioritize and accomplish before wellness games. The result is healthier, happier, and more productive employees - a win-win for employers and their people"
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About the Journal
Games for Health Journal breaks new ground as the first journal to address this emerging and increasingly important area of health care. The Journal provides a bimonthly forum in print and online for academic and clinical researchers, game designers and developers, health care providers, insurers, and information technology leaders. Articles explore the use of game technology in a variety of clinical applications. These include disease prevention and monitoring, nutrition, weight management, and medication adherence. Gaming can play an important role in the care of patients with diabetes, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer's disease, and cognitive, mental, emotional, and behavioral health disorders.
About the Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking and Telemedicine & e-Health. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. website.
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News
New Rochelle, NY, June 28, 2012Games that promote health can improve the well-being of employees, saving employers direct and indirect health care costs. Employers can more readily reap these benefits by offering game-based services that educate their employees about health and wellness and improve physical and psychological fitness, according to an Editorial in Games for Health Journal a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. The Editorial is available free on the Games for Health Journal website.
"Wellness programs using health games have the potential to significantly impact human well-being and the costs, pain, and suffering of preventable illnesses and conditions," says Games for Health Journal Editor-in-Chief Bill Ferguson, PhD, in the Editorial entitled "Games for WellnessImpacting the Lives of Employees and the Profits of Employers."
Dr. Ferguson highlights the key factors that will drive increased market acceptance of health games and wellness initiatives among employers. The Editorial describes the characteristics of health games for improving wellness and how videogaming can help engage people in their own health, supplement traditional forms of exercise, promote healthy living, and improve patient care.
"The most successful wellness programs incorporate videogames that present themselves as in the service of the player," states Dr. Ferguson. "These activities enable individuals to engage in things they have personally desired, but were unable to prioritize and accomplish before wellness games. The result is healthier, happier, and more productive employees - a win-win for employers and their people"
###
About the Journal
Games for Health Journal breaks new ground as the first journal to address this emerging and increasingly important area of health care. The Journal provides a bimonthly forum in print and online for academic and clinical researchers, game designers and developers, health care providers, insurers, and information technology leaders. Articles explore the use of game technology in a variety of clinical applications. These include disease prevention and monitoring, nutrition, weight management, and medication adherence. Gaming can play an important role in the care of patients with diabetes, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer's disease, and cognitive, mental, emotional, and behavioral health disorders.
About the Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking and Telemedicine & e-Health. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. website.
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 140 Huguenot St., New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215
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G-Unit CEO was taken to a Queens, New York, hospital after his SUV was rear-ended Tuesday morning.
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A month after 50 Cent was hospitalized with a blockage in his small intestine, Fif was back in the hospital Tuesday morning (June 26), this time after a car accident. He has since been released and is back on the mend.
"Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson was involved in a car accident in New York early Tuesday morning. He was taken to New York Hospital Queens where he was treated for minor neck and back injuries," said a spokesperson for the rapper in a statement given to MTV News. "He was released this morning and is doing fine."
The rapper's website Thisis50 broke the story early Tuesday morning, though the details are thin. The site reported that the Get Rich or Die Tryin' MC's bullet-proof SUV almost flipped over after it was rear-ended by a Mack truck while driving on the Long Island Expressway in New York City.
The site published multiple pictures of 50 on a stretcher with a neck brace. There are also pictures of 50's mangled SUV as well as photos of the truck that is said to have caused the accident.
50 famously survived a 2000 attack in which he was shot nine times and in 2003 dropped his classic major-label debut Get Rich or Die Tryin'. Fif has since built himself as one of rap's biggest draws and smartest business minds, crafting lucrative deals in music and merchandising. Fif's latest mixtape The Lost Tape was released in May and on July 3 the G-Unit Records CEO will be releasing his oft-delayed fifth studio album 5 (Murder By Numbers).
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TOKYO (AP) ? The record 9,000 shareholders that packed Sony's annual meeting was no cause for celebration. After four years of losses and a halving of the share price, some angry investors doubt even a new CEO can pull the entertainment and electronics giant out of its slump.
The questions for management at a Tokyo convention hall this week were familiar ones, but only growing harsher. How is Sony Corp. going to regain its past glory? Is Sony finished? When is the red ink ever going to stop?
One man got up and began shouting. One by one, shareholders demanded to know why management didn't have more fresh faces, asked if the quality of Sony products was dropping, and even wondered whether Sony faced the risk of total collapse.
Once an icon of Japan Inc. with its portable Walkman music player and Trinitron TV, Sony reported the worst loss in its 66-year corporate history for the business year ended March with red ink of 457 billion yen ($5.7 billion). Profitability was battered by factors outside Sony's control such as last year's tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan, flooding in Thailand, the global economic slowdown and a soaring yen.
But most critically, Sony stumbled in the face of powerful, often cheaper, rivals such as South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., which dominates the global TV market. Sony has lost money for eight straight years in its TV business. Sony's glamor image is fading next to Apple Inc.'s iPod, iPhone and iPad, now bigger hits not only globally but also in Sony's Japanese home market, displaying the kind of ingenuity that was once prized as Sony's.
"We take the problem Sony's electronics business is facing very seriously, and we feel a sense of crisis," said Kazuo Hirai, the former head of Sony's game division who has taken over as CEO and president from Howard Stringer.
Decades ago, Sony co-founder Akio Morita was praised as a pioneer in unifying entertainment with technology to deliver dazzling fun gadgets such as the Walkman. He was a hero, helping fix Japan from wartime devastation, and catapulting a nation's technological wizardry to the global stage. Steve Jobs often sung the praises of Sony.
The company seemed to mirror and exemplify Japan's own rise as an economic and manufacturing power. Then something started going wrong. Critics often point to Sony's miscalculation of the strength of its digital music players over the last decade as a telling sign it had lost its way. Although Sony had developed digital music players early on, it failed to woo users by sticking to an unpopular proprietary format and not working on compatibility with the widespread MP3 format.
Now Sony's repeated promises of a revival have worn thin and are met with skepticism.
Stringer, who stepped down as CEO in April, pleaded with investors to support Hirai to carry out initiatives under the slogan of "One Sony." It's a strategy of removing barriers between the Tokyo-based manufacturer's sprawling divisions that span electronics, movies, music, banking and games so they all work better together.
But as soon as he stopped speaking, one stockholder asked why Stringer, who had hand-picked Hirai as his replacement, was staying on as chairman when Sony's performance had been so dismal under his seven-year tenure.
Hirai is promising to focus on image technology exemplified in sensors, broadcasting equipment and digital cameras to bring back Sony, but it faces competition from Samsung there as well.
"Japan excels in that core technology," Osamu Kumamoto, director at Asahi Electronics Co. of Japan, which offers image and robotics services, said at a recent manufacturing convention in Tokyo. "But Samsung is very advanced, too."
Hirai is also banking on games, the sector he knows best, having led Sony's U.S. game operations since 2006.
Sony has long faced tough competition from Nintendo Co. and Microsoft Corp. which makes the popular PlayStation machine. But the popularity of the iPhone and other devices that also offer games means Sony will increasingly be threatened by a host of electronics makers.
Still, Hirai departed from the line of his predecessors and didn't stress Sony's prowess in TVs. He only promised to stop the red ink.
Under Hirai, Sony has ended its joint venture in liquid crystal displays for TVs with Samsung to boost profitability. Sony fell behind in flat panel TVs and invested in a Samsung panel factory in 2004, to ensure a steady supply for LCD TVs.
Koichiro Hagiwara, senior analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Center, said Hirai might be able to make a difference because of his understanding of entertainment and gadgetry.
"People have said the long promised synergy between software and hardware is a ghost that no one has ever seen," said Hagiwara. "But if anyone can make it real, it's Hirai."
Hirai is also promising to strengthen Sony's smartphone offerings, taking full control over its joint venture with Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson.
He has already said the company will cut 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce. The job cuts come on top of a couple of rounds of layoffs under Stringer.
Hirai declined to detail upcoming products, saying that must be kept secret to stay competitive. But he acknowledged cost cuts, regrouping and promises won't be enough to revive Sony.
"We need to make sure our customers are moved by our products. We need to pique their curiosity," he told shareholders. "I want our shareholders to feel that Sony has changed."
Sony shares have lost about half their value over the past year to trade recently at about 1,000 yen ($12).
The changes at Sony underline a bigger shift in Japanese electronics to expand into businesses that sell to other businesses, rather than consumers.
There is speculation Sony will tie up with Japan's scandal-tainted Olympus Corp., which boasts a strong medical equipment division. Hirai declined comment on Olympus, but reiterated Sony wants to strengthen its medical business.
Panasonic Corp., which also suffered record losses, is vowing to turn itself around by focusing on such "business-to-business" sectors, including solar panels and batteries for autos, although it's not exiting consumer electronics.
In a reversal of a historical rivalry made famous by the 1980s video format wars between Sony's Betamax vs. Panasonic's VHS, the two companies are joining forces to develop next-generation TV display technology called OLED, or organic light-emitting diode, panels, aiming for low-cost mass production by 2013.
Samsung is planning to start selling TVs with big OLED screens later this year. OLEDs use a different technology than liquid crystal displays and deliver very clear, vivid imagery. Sony was the first in the world to sell an OLED TV, with an 11-inch model in 2007, but it wasn't a strong seller, partly because of its small size and high price.
Despite Hirai's promises to revive Sony, Kazuo Bando, a Tokyo retailer who owns 5,000 Sony shares and was at the shareholders meeting, wasn't feeling too confident.
"The management has failed," he said. "I am worried. I lost a lot of money."
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Damaged houses are seen at the scene of a suspected gas explosion in the Shaw area of Oldham England Tuesday June 26, 2012. Emergency services are at the scene of the "very serious" incident, which is believed to involve a number of terrace properties in the Shaw area of Oldham. Local police said one child was killed in the explosion. (AP Photo/ Adam Pollard/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT
Damaged houses are seen at the scene of a suspected gas explosion in the Shaw area of Oldham England Tuesday June 26, 2012. Emergency services are at the scene of the "very serious" incident, which is believed to involve a number of terrace properties in the Shaw area of Oldham. Local police said one child was killed in the explosion. (AP Photo/ Adam Pollard/PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT
LONDON (AP) ? A suspected gas explosion reduced a house to smoking rubble, killed a 2-year-old boy and left a man seriously burned in northwest England on Tuesday, police and rescue workers said.
Police were not linking the explosion to terrorism, but said they were treating the child's death as "suspicious."
Superintendent Neil Evans said detectives were looking into reports of a domestic disturbance in the area the night before the explosion.
Fire service spokesman Dean Nankivell said firefighters were looking at a variety of possible causes for the blast, but "gas is definitely a strong contender."
The National Grid utilities company said residents had complained of a smell of gas before the blast.
The explosion left a pile of rubble where the row house had stood in the town of Oldham, 160 miles (260 kilometers) northwest of London, and damaged two other houses beyond repair.
Greater Manchester Police said the injured man was taken to a nearby hospital with serious burns. He was in serious but stable condition Tuesday.
Firefighters searched the rubble amid fears more people could be trapped, but found no one.
The National Grid said five houses were damaged and 100 homes evacuated after the blast.
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On the eve of its I/O event, Google is continuing to roll out new features, one of which is expanded functionality for its ubiquitous +1 sharing buttons that can be found all over the web (and on this site). For users that are a member of its platform preview test group, other than clicking once to +1 something, or clicking again to share it on Google+, now on mouseover it will display recommended pages as seen above. According to the corresponding blog post, it pulls in related content and stuff shared by friends, and will only display selections from the same domain or subdomain as the page the button is on. Google anticipates this will go live to all users "in the next few weeks", if you can't wait until then hit the more coverage link below to join the preview and give feedback on how well it's working.
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Here is a summary of recent earnings and reports for selected technology companies and what they reveal about the state of spending and the overall economy:
April 6: Samsung Electronics Co. says it is expecting a record operating profit of $5.1 billion for the first quarter. It says the result would be a 97 percent rise from its operating profit a year earlier. Samsung estimated that its first quarter sales rose 21.6 percent from a year earlier. More details will come when Samsung releases its full quarterly results.
April 12: Google Inc. reports adjusted earnings and adjusted revenue that beat expectations. Google's revenue was helped by a 39 percent increase in "paid clicks," but the prices of its search-driven text ads continued to decline. CEO Larry Page called the first quarter "very strong," but acknowledgehd there's more work to do.
April 17: Yahoo Inc.'s first-quarter earnings show signs of modest progress under recently hired CEO Scott Thompson. Net income grew 28 percent from the same time last year and exceeded expectations. Revenue grew less than 1 percent, but represented a breakthrough because the company's revenue has been steadily falling for years.
IBM Corp. says first-quarter net income grew 7 percent, helped by strong profit margins in its services business and strong revenue growth across its software and services businesses. Revenue was flat overall because of declines in the hardware and financing segments, and revenue fell short of analysts' expectations. IBM increases its full-year guidance to at least $15 per share, above the $14.93 expected by analysts.
Intel Corp. says its net income in the first quarter fell 13 percent as spending on research and marketing rose while sales were flat.
April 18: EBay Inc. says its first-quarter net income grew 20 percent thanks to higher revenue from its PayPal business and brisk sales at its e-commerce websites. The results beat Wall Street's expectations.
Mobile phone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. says its quarterly profit more than doubled as strong demand for smartphones boosted its sales; but it expects costs to increase as it makes more chips.
April 19: Microsoft Corp. fares better than analysts anticipated in its latest quarter, boosted by a surprising rise in sales of its Windows operating system for personal computers
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. reports adjusted earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street's expectations. AMD's revenue forecast for the current quarter was at $1.59 billion to $1.68 billion, while analysts surveyed by FactSet were expecting $1.59 billion.
Nokia Corp. reports a huge net loss, one of the company's worst ever quarters, and blames tougher-than-expected competition. It has faced stiff competition from the likes of Apple Inc.'s iPhone and handset makers using Google Inc.'s popular Android software.
April 23: Netflix Inc. says it suffered its first quarterly loss in seven years, but the setback was far smaller than analysts expected. Netflix had rising licensing fees and a bill for an international expansion. Netflix predicted that it would make money during the current quarter. Still, Wall Street was worried about tougher competition. Skittish investors keyed on a second-quarter forecast that calls for a slowdown in subscriber growth during the spring and early summer.
Chipmaker Texas Instruments Inc. says first-quarter net income fell 60 percent from a year ago as revenue shrank. But the results still beat analysts' expectations.
Xerox Corp. says first-quarter net income fell 4 percent as the company spent more on building its services business, which now makes up more than half the company's revenue. The company says it's investing in new offerings and long-term contracts in order to increase growth. In the short term, that has hurt profitability.
April 24: Apple Inc. reported blowout iPhone sales ? 35 million in the latest quarter, almost twice as many as it sold a year ago and above analyst expectations. Net income nearly doubled to $11.6 billion, and revenue was up 59 percent at $39.2 billion. IPad sales came in below analyst expectations, at 11.8 million units. But that was still two and a half times as many as it sold in the same quarter a year ago.
April 25: Motorola Solutions Inc., which sells communications equipment to government and corporate customers, says first-quarter net income declined from a year ago, when the company recorded a large tax-related gain. Revenue grew thanks to strong demand from the company's government customers.
April 26: Amazon.com Inc. reports strong quarterly earnings and says its Kindle Fire tablet computer remains its best-selling item. However, its outlook for revenue growth was slower than expected.
Online games company Zynga Inc. reports adjusted earnings of 6 cents a share, a penny better than what Wall Street expected. Revenue grew 32 percent.
April 27: A surge in Galaxy smartphone sales fueled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a record high in the first quarter, usually a tough season for the global consumer-electronics industry. The South Korean company outshined handset rivals such as Nokia Corp. Strong demand for high-end smartphones, such as the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy S2 introduced last year, helped mask lower profit from memory chips, another Samsung flagship business.
May 1: Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. reports a slightly larger net loss in the first quarter as expenses grew more than revenue. Motorola says it still expects its acquisition by Google to close by the end of June. The deal still needs to be approved by authorities in China.
May 3: LinkedIn Corp. says its first-quarter net income more than doubled, and its revenue doubled from a year ago. Adjusted profit and revenue beat expectations. During the quarter, revenue grew across the company's divisions. The business-networking company also announces plans to buy presentation-sharing website SlideShare for $118.8 million.
May 9: Cisco Systems Inc. says its quarterly earnings surged 20 percent in the latest sign that a recently completed overhaul is paying off for the world's largest maker of computer-networking equipment. However, Cisco raised the specter of a sharp slowdown in technology spending, rattling investors already fretting about the economy's fragile condition. Cisco made a sobering forecast for the current quarter and traced it to skittish customers who are waiting longer to close deals and spending less money because of growing uncertainty about the economy, particularly in Europe and India.
May 14: Online deals company Groupon Inc. says it had a smaller net loss and sharply higher revenue in the first quarter, helped by increased demand from a growing customer base.
May 17: Salesforce.com Inc., which makes Web-based business software, says it had a net loss in the first quarter, but adjusted profit and revenue beat expectations. It raises its forecast for full-year results.
May 22: Dell Inc. reports disappointing first-quarter results and forecasts weak sales in the current quarter. The computer maker says sales to big businesses, consumers and the public sector decreased.
May 23: Hewlett-Packard Co. says it will cut 27,000 workers, or 8 percent of its work force, by October 2014. News of the cutbacks overshadowed the release of HP's latest quarterly results. The company's earnings and revenue were both better than analysts projected.
June 18: Oracle Corp says net income increased 8 percent and topped analysts' predictions. Oracle also posted a 7 percent gain in its sales of new software licenses, indicating there is still strong demand for technology that helps businesses automate their administrative tasks.
June 19: Software company Adobe Systems Inc. says net income in the latest quarter fell 2 percent, amid higher expenses. Revenue grew with strong sales of its Creative Suite product.
Coming up:
Thursday: Research in Motion Ltd.
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