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Attack of the movie sequels!
A lot of people complain about the number of sequels that hog all the screens at movie theatres these days. And if you're one of them, then I hate to tell you....it's going to be a bad year for you. That's because there are 27 sequels flooding the marketplace. And that's an all-time record. (The previous record was 23 in 2003.) It also represents about one-fifth of all wide releases for the coming year!
Nerves.....or a stroke?
Sunday night after the Grammy Awards, KCBS reporter Serene Branson was giving on on-air recap and her words were complete gibberish that were unintelligible. Many people were concerned that she may have suffered a stroke on the air. However, she was examined by paramedics at the scene and her vital signs were normal. Some people were critical of her going home and not getting a second opinion.
DVR Love For Valentine's Day
We were discussing Valentine's Day on the show this morning and the how our spouses do little things that show us they love us. In my case, I call it "DVR Love."
Here's the scoop: in case you somehow missed this.....I am a HUGE Green Bay Packers fan, while my hubby Jeff is a Chicago Bears fan. First, we had a house-divided over the NFC Championship Game, which the Packers won. They then went on to win Super Bowl 45 last Sunday in Dallas.
The Really Big "Radio" Show
I hope you'll join us on Saturday night at The Centre, when DJB, myself and Mark Elliott from the WIKY Afternoon Show will once again be a part of The Really Big Show to benefit The Evansville ARC. This year, we'll be celebrating radio from 1953, when the Evansville ARC was founded.....all the way through present day. Plus, we'll have the "WARC Word" of the day and DJB and I will actually give away a great prize during the show!
Love is in the air
Valentine's Day is fast approaching and if you're looking for something really cool to get your sweet baboo.....this is perfect! On the show, we chatted with Fletcher Newburn from yournovel.com.
How would you like to star in your very own romance novel?? They have over 25 different plot scenarios for you to choose from, and the book can be as "mild" or "wild" as you want it to be! They're even available as an E-book if that's what your honey wants.
Living In a House Divided
If you're a long -time listener of the WIKY Morning Show, you'll know that I am a life-long Green Bay Packers fan. My husband, on the other hand, is a Chicago Bears fan. With both teams playing for the NFC Championship this Sunday, Jeff and I are officially living in a divided house! To make matters worse, Sunday is our wedding anniversary! This is going to be a very interesting week in my house.
Now those are some Christmas lights!
This morning's Culture Quiz had to do with 34% of Americans refuse to decorate their homes for the Christmas season.
Obviously, these people don't fall into that percentage! Check out the video and be thankful you're not their neighbor!!
On the Road Again
Friday morning, the WIKY Morning Show will be on the road broadcasting from Wal-Mart to benefit the Salvation Army's annual "Toy Town" toy drive. DJB will be at the Newburgh location and I'll be at the Westside Wal-Mart starting at 6 a.m.
Dishwashers aren't just for dishes anymore.
On the show this morning we brought up an interesting topic......is there anything other than dishes that you wash in your dishwasher? My dad has washed his baseball hats in the dishwasher for years and swears by it! He says they turn out just great, so who am I to argue with his logic? It turns out that a lot of people are in agreement with my dad and keep their chapeaus clean the dishwasher way!


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Somewhere back in the distant past, when cities had evening newspapers and families had three TV networks to choose from, someone must have decreed that business journalists were supposed to be drones.
Sportswriters could write colorful tales, and sports columnists could offer outrageous opinions. But to cover business was to be formal, formulaic, even dull. Well, bunk.
There's as much drama in the field of business as on any field of play. There are as many fascinating characters in boardrooms as locker rooms -- if not more. Yet we business journalists still too often limit ourselves in how we cover the beat. And in an age that's left our cities' evening newspapers and Cronkite's Evening News far behind, we are nothing if we are not telling strong tales and providing distinctive takes to our readers. They have all the financial data and breaking news they could want in the age of Yahoo! Finance, CNBC and bloggers galore.
Our value-added is to take them a step beyond the charts and the press releases -- into the characters and dynamics that truly drive business. So please fellow scribes no more self-imposed straitjackets.
Define your beat and imagine your journalistic possibilities as broadly as possible. Use compelling narratives to take readers to the heart of the most important matters, whether global economics, paradigm shifts or corporate scandals. We need to write as if business isn't the dullest beat on the paper, but the richest -- because it is.
And here, immodestly, are my six personal rules for the business-writing craft.
1) Don't quote analysts. Sure, they seem to imbue your story with authority; sure, they speak in handy sound bites. But they aren't oracles, they're pimps -- hustling stocks and cultivating business for their firms. There are so many other sources who have good dope about the companies you cover -- competitors, consultants, union leaders, you name it. Others may have agendas and axes to grind, too. But calling them, instead of speed-dialing an analyst, is the first step in taking a fresh approach to covering business. So please make this mutual-assistance pact with your colleagues on the business desk: Friends don't let friends quote analysts.
2) Don't do drive-by shootings. Odds are that the best stories you'll ever write are based on relationships established over a long period of time. In the course of daily newspaper stories, it's tempting to make glib conclusions or forego those extra calls that can change a story. But you've got to think about the long run and the forging of long-term relationships. Those are based on developing trust and getting not just the facts, but also the tone of your stories right. Writing our book, Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, was made possible by one key thing: trust. Bryan Burrough and I had covered the six-week bidding war for RJR Nabisco on a day-to-day basis and had developed reputations for keeping our word, for being accurate, for trying to sort out the truth from the spin. When we decided to do the book, the people to whom we needed full access fully opened up to us.
3) Be a storyteller, not a prosecutor. When you're covering a great conflict, a great scandal, a great anything that makes for a blockbuster tale, it's very tempting to take sides. These stories tend to lend themselves to stock characters: good guys and bad guys, geniuses and buffoons. But, most often, it's neither accurate reporting nor compelling storytelling to paint everything in black and white. It may seem counter-intuitive, but shades of gray are actually much more interesting. When I was covering the sports business for The Wall Street Journal, I did a story on NFL owner Art Modell after he'd abruptly moved his Cleveland Browns to Baltimore. He was vilified locally, nationally, probably internationally. But my reporting pointed me to a more nuanced tale than another denunciation. I wrote about how Modell had gone from being the king of his town to a second-rate power, after Cleveland's baseball and basketball teams got new facilities, how he'd been both financially and emotionally wounded. I think that was a better story, and so I say: If you want to be a prosecutor, go to law school; if you want to be a storyteller, don't get too one-sided.
4) You've got to put the bowl down where the dog can eat it. My old boss, John Huey, provided this wise advice whenever my writing veered out of control. His point: We are not here to make fine points that may impress our sources but that lose our readers. We are here to explain stuff. Our job is to take the jargon of CPAs and MBAs and translate it into English. When Bryan and I set out to write Barbarians, we had a simple goal: to write a book that our mothers could understand. Passages on the intricacies of convertible debentures or the nuances of corporate law were strictly forbidden. I think we succeeded. It turned out the only language that seemed to throw our mothers was all the cussing.
5) Think out of the usual box. Don't go for the usual default explanations for a mogul's actions or a company's results. You need to push yourself to a higher level of understanding of your subject to really deliver the goods for your reader. When I started working on a profile of Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth, I want to avoid the "G" word -- greed. It had been so overused in describing what drove other white-collar scoundrels like Bernie Ebbers and Dennis Kozlowski that it had ceased to have meaning. So I called up a psychologist friend, listed Scrushy's traits and asked if there was some kind of psychological diagnosis that described him. Sure, she said: narcissistic personality disorder. Now THAT was interesting, and that was the framework for my story. There's a thin line between charismatic leadership and narcissistic personality disorder.
6) When dialing for sources, take chances. Particularly when a business is in crisis, there are lots more people who are eager to see the truth come out and willing to talk than you might think. Sure, you have to venture outside your usual tried-and-true Rolodex; sure, you have to make a lot of after-hours calls. But if you want good, nitty-gritty stuff, try the middle-managers who do the real work; the corporate pilots who know the big-shots' peccadilloes; the vendors who know why their payments are late. I once interviewed an Atlantan known as "Tommy the barber," as he snipped my hair, and I got an earful about the follies at Coke, whose executives he regularly shears. I guarantee you couldn't have gotten that kind of dope from any analyst!
John Helyar is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. He previously covered the business of sports for The Wall Street Journal and Fortune magazine and is the author of "Lords of the Realm: The Real History of Baseball."
Hi, John,
I loved your article, "Six Rules for the Business Writer's Craft" I've been teaching business writing for more than 25 years, and your excellent advice would be very useful for many of the corporate communications people who attend my classes.
Janis Fisher Chan
the trend in journalism is to switch in 3-5 years from sector/branche. how to build trust. the trend is also speed. news is more and more a commodity. how to organize yourself in the daily shackles of a paper and get out of the mood of daily publishing into that different year. Grateful if you could comment on that one. pieter. loved your book by the way. it is still a boys dream to write that one.
Hi, John,
I found your tips very useful. How 'bout coming to Massachusetts to offer these in person?
This is a wonderful tip to my writing business news stories and features.
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Why United Continental Holdings (UAL) Stock Is Up Today
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- United Continental Holdings (UAL - Get Report) shares were up 1.9% to $45.50 in premarket trading Tuesday.
The company was upgraded to "buy" from "neutral" by UBS AG
(UBS). The firm maintained a price target of $50 for the company's shares.
United Continental Holdings is a holding company whose wholly owned subsidiaries include both Continental Airlines and United Airlines.
"We upgrade UAL to Buy from Neutral as we believe its unit revenue growth is set to accelerate beginning in Q2, supported by our separate Revenue Edge fare tracker and competitive capacity analyses, while we also see potential for upside to depressed Q1 expectations post recent guidance cut, mainly on lower unit costs" UBS said in the note.
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- UNITED CONTINENTAL HLDGS INC reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past year. We feel that this trend should continue. This trend suggests that the performance of the business is improving. During the past fiscal year, UNITED CONTINENTAL HLDGS INC turned its bottom line around by earning $1.30 versus -$2.32 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($4.34 versus $1.30).
- UAL's revenue growth trails the industry average of 26.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 7.2%. Growth in the company's revenue appears to have helped boost the earnings per share.
- The company's current return on equity greatly increased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of significant strength within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Airlines industry and the overall market on the basis of return on equity, UNITED CONTINENTAL HLDGS INC has underperformed in comparison with the industry average, but has exceeded that of the S&P 500.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to -$334.00 million or 471.11% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.
- The debt-to-equity ratio is very high at 4.16 and currently higher than the industry average, implying increased risk associated with the management of debt levels within the company. To add to this, UAL has a quick ratio of 0.55, this demonstrates the lack of ability of the company to cover short-term liquidity needs.
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Brewers sign RHP Kyle Lohse; Lohse talks to WTMJ
The Milwaukee Brewers officially announced the signing of 34-year-old right handed pitcher, Kyle Lohse Monday. News spread of Lohse agreeing to terms with the Brewers about 11:00 Monday morning. Lohse arrived at the Brewers spring training complex in Phoenix in the morning. After he passed his physical and MRI, the Brewers made the official announcement.
The deal is reported to be worth 3 years and $33 million dollars.
Brewers General Manager Doug Melvin commented on the signing saying,
"Kyle is coming off two very good years, and his experience and competitiveness will be welcomed by the club. This signing makes us a better club today than we were yesterday."
Lohse joined Jeff Falconio and me on Sports Central Monday night and explained he has been working out and threw 90 pitches in a simulated game last week.
Lohse is not certain when he will make his regular season debut for the Brewers, but he will throw a bullpen session on Tuesday, and may make a spring training start on Thursday.
The Brewers will play Lohse's former team, the St. Louis Cardinals, April 12-14. Lohse would love to be in the mix to start one of those games.
"it would be pretty cool," Lohse said of starting against his former mates. "I have a lot of good friends [in St. Louis], but we're all competitors. I feel like I have the upper hand knowing how to get those guys out. I pay attention."
When asked about what he thought the fan reaction in St. Louis would be, Lohse said, "I think the people in St Louis know that I gave everything I had every time I went out there."
Lohse has compiled a record of 30-11, with a combined ERA of 3.11 over the past two seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals. For his career, Lohse is 118-109 with an ERA of 4.45. Last season, at the age of 33, he also held opponents to a career-best .239 batting average. He will wear uniform number 26.
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Diplo @ Soundgarden Hall 1/20
It's already been a crazy, busy year for the former Philadelphia native Thomas Wesley Pentz aka Diplo. Major Lazer has a new album out in February and will be touring behind it. Diplo himself is working on a 17-verse remix of the mind-numbingly catchy hit "All Gold Everything" by Trinidad Jame$. And even though it was in the beginning of September, he also reported he was working on a song with the Gangnam master PSY and 2 Chainz. On January 20th he's taking things to the next level by performing in 4 cities in one night. Diplo will be working his was up the east coast starting with Baltimore and ending in New York City. At roughly 9:30PM he will be stopping in his old stomping grounds at the city's newest venue Soundgarden Hall. It will be interesting to see if the Dippers will be able to make it to each venue with the tight schedule planned.
January 20th
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If the size of the heap data segment is limited then for large process we may have a core dump because of the way the memory management is implemented in AIX.
Following are the quick solution to try out :-
1. ulimit -d unlimited ------ should allow larger process.
2. Increase the LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA setting at the AIX level prior to executing the command.
export LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000 ( Default on AIX is 0x10000000)
To make the setting permanent, place the LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000 to the end of the/etc/environment file.
All must be set in the environment of the netbackup processes at startup.
3. NBU since 6.0.MP7 takes care of such issues. Because later the way the binaries were built was changed to take into consideration such scenarios. Making the changes in the /etc/environment will make the changes for the entire system.
Technical Explaination:-
On AIX, the 32-bit address space (= 232 or 4 GB) is divided into 16 segments, each 256 MB (256 MB*16 = 4 GB). When a 32-bit process is loaded in memory, its address space looks like
Kernel 0
Exec Program 1
Private Read-Write 2
Currently Addressable Files and Other segments 3
shared Libraries D
Kernel E
Shared Libraries Data F
In the default address-space model, segment 2 contains the user stack, kernel stack and u-block, as well as data (area used by malloc ()). This translates to a limit of 256 MB for data, stacks, and u-block for the whole process. Segments 3 through C are free to be used as shared memory, using shmat () or mmap (). If a process needs to allocate more data, it can switch to the large space model, where the native heap starts from segment 3 onwards, and grows to an offset specified by the MAXDATA value in the XCOFF header to a non-zero value. So as you increase the MAXDATA value the size of the data segment goes on increasing where as the space allocated for the shared component is reduced and vice versa.