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Where from here, anti-graft drive?
N Sathiya Moorthy
03 September 2011
Now that Anna Hazare's agitation is in the past and the nation is relieved of the tensions attending on this and related issues that he flagged, the question arises as to what needs to be done to take the momentum of the anti-graft movement forward without hiccups and pitfalls. One early recourse is for the inspiration derived from the fast for individuals to swear against bribe-giving (and possibly, bribe-taking, too). Going beyond that and addressing larger issues of corruption and corrupt practices is a Herculean task, whose contours and parameters would only get increasingly confused by the processes prescribed in the Jan Lokpal Bill of Team Anna.
Consider this for one - extending the jurisdiction of the proposed Lokpal to all sections of Government employment, or even stopping at the level of the Joint Secretaries to the Government of India. If the former course, as mooted in the Jan Lokpal Bill, were to be adopted, it would create a parallel bureaucracy, which in turn would be prone to corruption charges of the kind that the Anna movement wants eradicated. If the latter were the course, it would involve negotiations with foreign governments and entities, where secrecy of commercial dealings would prevent the officials involved from divulging more. Anyway, it is the political class that needed to be covered even more. The judicious elimination of the lower bureaucracy from the ambit of the Lokpal law under the Government draft would also leave room for lowly corruption at all levels that affect the common man more than those at the higher end of the socio-economic spectrum.
Add to this the complexities involved in the creation of Lokayukta in every State and Union Territory, and we would be having a parallel administration that derives powers, literally from the people - though under a parliamentary law that may have already been forced on the nation. Logical and unemotional thinking would advise that there are enough institutions of the Lokpal/Lokayukta kind, under the Constitution and specific legislations, both of the Centre and in individual States, to end graft. The Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) and the Comptroller and Auditor-General are creatures of the Constitution, deriving powers under the Statute. The CBI, the Enforcement Directorate and a host of other investigating and prosecuting agencies of the Central and State Governments derive their powers from specific pieces of law, and at times from the Supreme Court, the very watch-dog of the Government's functioning in any democracy. It is anybody's guess how the proposed Lokpal/Lokayukta would be different from all the existing agencies, whose image have successively received a beating, over the years and decades. If the idea is to cleanse them all, if nothing else, the new institutions should be replacing the existing ones, through appropriate amendments to the Constitution and the relevant laws - and not add to the confusion and contradictions already existing under the Indian scheme. Whether such a move would gather political muster is again doubtful, for valid reasons.
The nation's ills on the corruption front requires more than stop-gap fasting by an unblemished individual, or an emotional movement, where the means seems to justify the ends. While a solitary instance of the kind would motivate the people - as Anna Hazare's fasting has now done - others with lesser ideals and better strategy could end up holding the nation and the Government to ransom, aided, if not abetted by the media and other interested groups. In a nation driven with complexities and complications at birth, it is the moderation exhibited by the polity and society for most parts that has held it together. Individuals and communities, including civil society activists and organisations, should have enough space to drive home a point or two. But the will of the individual should not be allowed to run the nation amuck. If it is for a 'just and delayed cause' as Anna Hazare has now highlighted and as the larger society has acknowledged, there could be others that touch individuals and communities even more than this one in a more personal way. With the 'right' issue, strategy and timing, tactics like Team Anna's call for people gheraoing the homes of individual ministers and legislators could have led to anarchy, which the Indian State might have found hard to handle in the prevailing circumstances.
Future leaders of the Anna kind also need to remember contemporary history. There is no denying that the Government at the Centre messed up the handling of the Anna fast, the larger issue that he highlighted and the even larger issues of governance and corruption from the very word go. At one stage, it looked as if the hard-liners in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Government were pitching themselves hard against members of Team Anna, if only to score debating points on television talk-shows and nothing else. In that game, emotion and not logic won the day. Yet, the civil society outfits need to remind themselves that the discredited polity that they have sought to replace have their own uses, roles and responsibilities - which the former cannot shoulder unless they themselves convert to being one, and possibly go the same way as their predecessors. If nothing else, leaders like Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Yadav and Ramvilas Paswan, and the likes of Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar, were all products of the 'JP movement' in the Seventies. Winning is one thing, keeping the momentum over a long time is another. And overdoing it could frustrate the political class, particularly the party and Government in power to the extent everything would then become fair in love and war. The Emergency of the Seventies was a product of those days. We have no leaders of the calibre and commitment to fight it back at the opportune time as in the Seventies, and we should not create an environment of permissiveness that justifies the ends of the political class, and not the rest of the nation.
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The best VP pick in decades, who is causing the media to go haywire, is going to have a great time.
Palin should remain on SNL as a permanent cast member .
She is a natural and will have the opportunity to sign a contract after election day ....
This joke of a veep pick should just go back to Alaska and stay there.Really it's not funny anymore.
I hope she knows what she is getting into...
SNL "skewers" even the most good humored folks (not matter how high they are in government). Watch for the "real" Joe (er Sam) the Plummer surface, low pants showing crack-and-all.
Without having met any real reporters, this may be poor judgement so late in the game.
should have palin and fay next to each other...like a good and evil twin
they could talk about the Supreme Court ruling against gop trying to restrict voters in Ohio
could show joe plumber cleaning her pipes
Who cares about Palin...we want Fey!
and a presidential administration with a highly intelligent IQ!
Sarah Palin's IQ is 120 what is yours Rachael?
Wow....does she even know what she's doing. This is kinda like when Nixon showed up (awkwardly) on "Laugh-in". "Sock it to me!" he uttered...
Rachael, unlike Biden, Palin at least has her facts straight.
How do you know? And an IQ of 120 is hardly impressive.
I would love to know that both Palin and Fey were on SNL this weekend. Would we be able to know which one was which? would be funny twist.
Tina Fey is a better pick for VP - she and Palin should switch places. I'll bet Fey is brighter, is both less judgmental and with better judgment, and not trapped in some ideological lock-box. Palin is an average-sized fish from a small pond (Alaska), who was asked to perform all out of character. A sad story, really.
Tina Fey is a better pick for VP - she and Palin should switch places. I'll bet Fey is brighter, is both less judgmental and with better judgment, and not trapped in some ideological lock-box. Palin is an average-sized fish from a small pond (Alaska), who was asked to perform all out of character. A sad story, really.
It is sad that America is so quickly and thoughtlessly forgetting that the vigorous scrutiny they apply to McCain and Palin does not improve the deficits of Oblahma and Biden. The Oblahma sycophants are like a crazy mob -- see, e.g., http://www.feralchild.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/mary-kay-green-v-mccain-palin.pdf for an example of the insane lengths they go to to chill any debate of the Oblahma deficits. Frankly, given all the lies Oblahma is telling, I think John McCain is best situated to win the election. But I am pained to concede that he is failing to capitalize on opportunities to point out Oblahma's lies, the weaknesses of his proposals, and the streengths and merits of McCain's own plans. Worse still, time is running out.
I would not call 120 IQ high enough for the VP...
100 is just average (and, frankly, I doubt Palin is from the, um, WORDS SHE SAYS OUTLOUD)
I agree with J Bonner. IQ-wise, Palin seems well below average..
Sarah Palin is not and never will be competent enough to be anywhere near the presidency. Even intelligent conservatives acknowledge that (Will, Buckley, Brooks, Parker, etc...).
As for the Palin attention from the media, the classic republican response (media bias, etc.) does not apply. She should be under a microscope given that she came from nowhere and badly fumbled her first several attempts at an interview. If she can't answer questions from Katie Couric how can she step in and be president?
Her selection was a sad cynical ploy to energize the base for McCain. That is the extent of her qualifications. The old McCain would never have done something like that.
The SNL sketches are the only good thing about the Sarah Palin selection.
I doubt that.
best, worst..whatever.
That woman is a dummy! But I don't think she watched that sketch..
That woman is a dummy!
The writings of Vermont Royster forged my first impression of the Wall Street Journal, so while it's sad to watch public debate over issues as serious as death and taxes become indistinguishable from squabbling by adolescents (grown older but not up) hurling petty insults, it seems a terrible portent to find Wall Street Journal as the host. [I wonder if history will show WSJ's surrender of editorial responsibility turns out much like the first step taken by the Ancient Roman Empire on its path to becoming WWII's Italy.] The above debate dishonors the men who pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor – and kept that pledge at terrible cost – to give us America whose President we are about to elect.
You have to be kidding me! Does she not realize all the skits done were making fun of how stupid and clueless she is? It's embarassing that she was ever picked in the 1st place as VP!!!!
Why is it that people feel they can contribute to political discussions by trash talking? Let me show my intelligence by "Insert random smartass comment here"! I actually came here to get information on what type of skit she will be playing on SNL. Will it just be a short cameo ect.. If anyone knows please, do tell.
Otherwise keep trying to portray your intelligence and maybe convince someone that your candidate is the best choice.. because you say so!
P.S. McCain 08!
It's sad that she doesn't realize she's a pawn. Even McCain doesn't care about her; he only wants to run for president before he dies.
Thanks for the comment D.. Validate my point further, Please! lol..
I'm a 25 year old white male from a Blue State....I love Sarah Six Pack. She is not one of the Washington Elite (she didnt even make Obama's 250k class-warfare bracket), she is an every day person and I will be voting for HER.
I make 15K a year as a plumber and spend half of that on beer ( a six pack a day). I never finished high school. I have been approached by the RNC to run for president in 2012. They showed me some poll info that says that I have a great chance. Isn't this country great?
I've been around for 49 years. I come to The Wall Street Journal because it's the rare publication that actually reports facts, figures, what people have said and what they've done without trying to make my opinion for me. You just can't find high quality journalism like this anywhere else.
As for Sarah Palin, well she's a spectacular American. Todd Palin was proud of our country long before his wife won her nomination. But this article isn't about Sarah's quality. It's an announcement of her television appearance.
It's true that Sarah will be walking into a tank full of sharks tomorrow night. Let's see what she can do with it.
Has anyone heard from Joe Biden? The 35-year Senate deadwood must be taking a long nap, or tied up in Botox treatments. Speaking of joke VP picks...the Dems trump the GOP this time.
Thank you MythBuster,
"It's an announcement of her television appearance."
Finally someone with some sense! Now will someone post about 3 or 4 more paragraphs of hatred and the same ole rhetoric before someone above the age of 12 will post something that actually pertains to the show Saturday night..
Sarah Palin is funnier than Tina Fey.
I heard that Palin had gone to a Halloween party a few years ago dressed as Tina Fey... or maybe it was she didn't have time to get a costume.
Who is this anonymous who says the GOP is trying to restrict voters in Ohio? Who is kidding who here? Non-Ohio residents being registered by lefty Acorn groups raises serious issues about the validity of the voters there this election. Let's all be in favor of cross-checking databases to verify REAL voters.
Somebody above said Sara Palin's IQ is 120? I don't know where you got that information, but if it is true (and I think that number is fairly generous), that is just plain scary. My IQ is 135 and I would not ever presume that I was even close to intelligent enough to run this country. Seriously, I would guess George W. Bush is probably somewhere in the 110 area. That went over well. I've voting for the smart guys this time around.
So the article is about Sarah's appearance on SNL tomorrow night. I dont understand how this became a debate on her iq and how she is underqualified to run for vp. To people like Jessica Ferry, Maybe you can better our country by runnining for a political office since u say your IQ is 15 points higher than Sarah Palin. And one more question to the "Jessica Ferrys" out there... What r u doing for our country that McCain-Palin are not?
you becha, the great ronald reagan, mavericks, wink wink, and also, doggoneit, errr, uhhhh...
Obviously, this VP pick has been synonymous with a joke. Not what we want as a follow up to Bush, that has done so much harm to our country and the way others view our country.
Palin is unqualified for the job and if the US elects her, then the US will be forever marred in infamy. Twice Bush, then that? There would be no mulligan on trying to redeem your national US IQ. Which would be around permafrost levels.
I'm NOT running for VP...which is the best thing Palin could do...by stepping down.
The move in this country toward anti-intellectual mindless populism is horrifying. Many "conservative intellectuals" are speaking out against Sarah Palin. Among these are influential conservatives George Will, David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley, and Kathleen Parker.
But of course even these conservatives are quickly shot down by the Bay Buchanan's of the world as (mock) "intellectuals." The real Americans like Joe the Plumber are the heroes. The way things are going Joe will probably be a presidential candidate sometime in the future.
Palin is getting a chance to play and wreck havoc in the 'Hive'.
As far as I'm concerned, as a Veteran, I think McCain demonstrated very clearly that he places his political ambitions over the well being of the country...when he chose this brainless pit bull with lipstick as his V.P..
Those few People that are saying Palin is qualified to by V.P. and possibly president, if anything happened to the old guy, are the ones with the low I.Q.. Well, along with Palin.
Was anyone bothered by Palin dragging her little daughter out before a booing crowd last week, using her to damping the
the crowds disapproval of her.
Despicable in my book!
Come to think of it, "Despicable" describes your apparent candidates associations with Code Pink Ect. Do you agree with their views also?
"Non-Ohio residents being registered by lefty Acorn groups raises serious issues about the validity of the voters there this election. Let's all be in favor of cross-checking databases to verify REAL voters."
Okay. As long as the cross-checking ENDS on November 3rd.
There's a disturbing list I've seen, of voters who would be challenged because in one list they have a period after their middle initial, and in another they don't; or people who would be rejected because of a misspelling of their street address, for cripe's sake !
Slamming ACORN because a few of their workers screw up, out of the thousands of ACORN field personnel in total, is a GOP tactic to raise fear and division.
Workers at ACORN have received death threats and racist slurs from this tactic.
OOPS. I posted that last.
Sorry, I thought the top line was for the subject, not Name.
Hey Peter. If Palin's 120 IQ is 'hardly impressive', what does that say about your man Obama's 116 IQ? (other than it's demonstratively higher than yours ... haha)
"because a few workers screwed up"? Are you kidding? Investigations of voter fraud in 14 states? St Louis tries to verify a batch of 5,000 registrations from ACORN, and the first 2,100 are ALL fraudulent, so they quit trying to verify the rest ... "a few workers"?? Pass the doobie, y'all got some good smoke going on there.
Jessica Ferry,
Bush's IQ is 125. Obama's is 116. Sooooo, what's your point again? (ps: my IQ's 152 - I'm too smart to run for President. You'd have to be a little wacky to want the job, wouldn't you?)
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The Nepali diaspora is officially two million, but the number of Nepalis illegally working abroad (by choice and increasingly by compulsion) may exceed 10 million. Nearly every family in Nepal has at least one member working away from home. Most go to India, but Nepalis can be found in over 100 nations. Nepalis abroad are more open to the gospel than are those at home. Numerous churches are established among Nepali migrants, even in restricted-access nations. Pray that creative ways might be found to share the good news with these scattered peoples.
a) In India, Sikkim state is 75% Nepali, and Darjeeling district in West Bengal is 60% Nepali. Nepali churches in India, some established since the early 1900s, have sent their first missionaries to Nepal; pray for growth, release from stagnation and greater involvement in cross-cultural outreach.
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It is difficult to express how hard I am rooting against the Heat catching and breaking the Lakers' 33 game win streak record. That record, now 40 years old, is one of the most hallowed team records in the NBA. This has NOTHING whatsoever to do with LeBron hate. I would root against any team closing in on this record.
Most acclaimed NBA team records (IMO):
No. 1 is the most championships, held by the Celts at 17 (after they broke the Lakers' record sometime in the 60's).
No. 2 is the regular season record, held by the Bulls at 72-10 (after breaking the Lakers' record).
No. 3 is the 33 game win streak, held by the Lakers since 1972 (after they shattered the Bucks' 20 game streak set just a season or two earlier).
I don't care who it is, I want the Lakers to hold onto this one. Of the 3, it really is the most difficult one to reach, though not as difficult today as it was back in '72.
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Ellis Arnall's four years as governor of Georgia (1943-47) state debt of $36 million.
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Ellis Gibbs Arnall was born on March 20, 1907, in Newnan, the son of Bessie Lena Ellis and Joseph Gibbs Arnall. He had one brother, Frank Marion II. After attending public school in Newnan, Arnall attended Mercer University and later transferred to the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1928 with a degree in Greek. After graduating, Arnall entered the law school at the University of Georgia, where he served as president of his class, his legal fraternity, the student body, the Interfraternity Council, and the Gridiron Club. He finished law school in 1931 and returned to Newnan to practice law. In 1935 he married Mildred Delaney Slemons, and they had two children, Alvan and Alice. Following the death of Mildred in 1980, Arnall married Ruby Hamilton McCord.
Arnall's rise to political power is one of the most remarkable chapters in the state's political history. Coweta elected him to the Georgia House of Representatives when he was only twenty-five years old. The members of the lower house twice elected him to the position of Speaker pro tempore, that body's second-highest elective office. Governor E. D. Rivers appointed Arnall to fill a vacancy in the office of state attorney general and, two years later, named him attorney general; Arnall was thirty-one years old. This appointment made him the nation's youngest attorney general.
In 1942 Arnall ran against Governor Eugene Talmadge, who was seeking reelection. Talmadge's interference in the running of the state's university system, in what became known as the Cocking affair, had resulted in the loss of accreditation of most of the state's public colleges. On this issue, the thirty-five-year-old Arnall defeated Talmadge to become the youngest governor in the nation.
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Just as remarkable as Arnall's political ascendancy was his political decline. The state constitution prohibited gubernatorial succession, and Arnall suffered his first major defeat when he failed to persuade the legislature to propose a constitutional amendment allowing gubernatorial succession. Arnall also lost popularity by leading the efforts at the 1944 National Democratic Convention to renominate Vice President Henry A. Wallace.
The end of Arnall's tenure as governor proved to be as memorable as anything he actually achieved in office because of the "three governors controversy," a dispute over the rightful heir to the governorship that erupted in the wake of Talmadge's death one month after winning the election. With both the lieutenant governor Melvin Thompson and Talmadge's son, Herman, vying for the post-election vacancy, Arnall made it a three-way contest by refusing to vacate the governor's office until the dispute was settled. He dropped his claim to the office two months before the matter was resolved by the state supreme court, which ruled that Thompson would serve as acting governor until a special election could be held the following year.
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After leaving the governorship in 1947, Arnall became a successful attorney and businessman in Atlanta. For a brief period governor in 1966. He was the front-runner in the Democratic primary in a field of six candidates, but he was forced into a runoff with Lester Maddox, a well-known segregationist. Maddox defeated Arnall in the runoff. The former governor never sought public office again.
Ellis Arnall died in 1992 at the age of eighty-five.
Media Gallery: Ellis Arnall (1907-1992)
Further Reading
James F. Cook, The Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004, 3d ed. (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2005).
Harold Paulk Henderson, "Ellis Arnall and the Politics of Progress" in Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee, ed. Harold P. Henderson and Gary L. Roberts (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988).
Harold Paulk Henderson, The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991).
Harold Paulk Henderson, "Ellis Arnall and the Politics of Progress" in Georgia Governors in an Age of Change: From Ellis Arnall to George Busbee, ed. Harold P. Henderson and Gary L. Roberts (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988).
Harold Paulk Henderson, The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991).
Cite This ArticleHenderson, Harold P. "Ellis Arnall (1907-1992)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 05 November 2015. Web. 27 November 2015.
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Advice from an Electra Glide rider......... At highway speeds I wear foam earplugs that stop rush of air running past the ear canal and the music is heard perfectly fine from my speakers. Try it.
Yup - I forgot to do it this time. I already have tinnitis - this was just too much noise from the pipes and the music. Running the music loud enough to overcome the exhaust, and then straining to hear the music over the exhaust.
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Lately, I've been riding with a 3/4 helmet... not a shorty... but haven't had a chance to try the music with the 3/4 helmet yet.
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This popular group provides working moms an opportunity to learn strategies for breastfeeding success while balancing the demands of pumping, motherhood and working. Common topics include pumping strategies, breast milk collection and storage, childcare concerns, employer support, business travel, partial breastfeeding and much more. Moms are encouraged to attend before they return to work. A Board-Certified Lactation Consultant/RN moderates the group. Babies are welcome.
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When Mark Ostertag was little, he would hop on his bike when the Bayport Fire Department siren sounded and chase the fire trucks through town.
As an adult, Ostertag joined the city's volunteer fire department and taught fire safety.
Ostertag, who also served on the Bayport City Council, was found dead at his house Dec. 22. He was 31. Foul play is not suspected; the manner of death is still under investigation.
Ostertag, an electrician, joined the fire department about three years ago and loved to teach children about fire safety, said Fire Chief Mark Swenson.
"Mark was a very dedicated fireman," Swenson said. "He loved spending time with kids and helping kids with all the safety camps. Mark was all about people."
The fire department was a second family for Ostertag, said April Lyons, his girlfriend.
"He loved every part of it," she said. "He loved doing the community stuff. He loved doing the safety camps. We'd go down on Halloween and pass out candy. He'd help cook the food for the booyas. Anytime anything came up with the fire department, he was there."
Ostertag lived to help others, Lyons said.
"He was the type of guy who wanted to be there for everybody and help everyone out the best he could -- whether it was big or small," she said. "If someone needed a ride somewhere, he'd give them a ride. If someone needed help raking their lawn, he'd be there for them. If someone needed help shoveling, he'd be there.
Ostertag grew up in Bayport and graduated from Stillwater Area High School in 2000. He had a carpentry degree from Southeast Technical College in Red Wing and a construction and electricity degree from St. Paul College.
Ostertag liked snowmobiling, hanging out with friends and working on cars, said his mother, Mary Ostertag, who still lives in Bayport.
But his real love, from the time his family moved to Bayport when he was 10, was the fire department, she said.
"Back then, the siren went off every time there was a 911 call," Mary Ostertag said. "When the siren went off, Mark and his sister, Kate, would hop on their bikes and go to the fire station to see which way the (fire trucks) went. If they didn't cross (Minnesota) 95, they'd follow them. He just loved doing that."
Ostertag was a people person who connected with others in "all sorts of different situations," Mary Ostertag said. "When he was little, he had just one or two close friends, but when he got to high school, he just blossomed," she said.
The Bayport City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7, to declare a vacancy on the council.
Ostertag was elected to a four-year term in November 2010. Because there are more than two years left in his term, the council will appoint someone to replace him, said city administrator Mitch Berg. That person will serve the remainder of Ostertag's term unless the council decides to hold a special election, he said.
In addition to his mother and girlfriend, Ostertag is survived by his father and stepmother, Larry and Barb Ostertag; his sister, Kate Henning; nephew Joe Henning; stepsiblings Carl Schultze, Cassie Knutson and Nick Schultze; and grandparents Paul and Rose Moris and Lorraine Ostertag.
A Mass of Christian burial has been held; memorials to the Bayport Fire Department are suggested.
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I have now heard enough bad and sad news to last me the rest of my life. I watch the noon news on television and not only do I get to see houses that explode, killing people, but overturned tankers daily and apartment fires and molesting educators. And to make matters worse I get to see aerial shots from that darn helicopter. Then a minute later I get to see a helicopter from another state spinning out of control and crashing. Iraq daily is one dreary report. When I edit the obituaries every day they are loaded down with 52, 54, 58-year-olds dying.Well call me Pollyanna and slap me on the tush, but I am surrounded by good news in my life and I think I would love to hear a little more of that reported. I am 56 years old. I haven't been to the doctor in a decade and treated myself recently to a physical and was in fine shape except for a tiny bit of high blood pressure which the doctor said would go away if I would lop off a few pounds. I have lost five pounds in my quest to lose about 40 or so. I have a friend who is very educated but who couldn't get a job no matter where he looked. Then recently he found one working for a church. He is certainly overqualified but everyone there is nice and he loves it. A sportswriter friend of mine e-mailed me recently from covering the Master's and said she was being paid to watch great sports under a warm sun surrounded by a rainbow of azaleas. The weather is in the 80s. I don't suffer any effect from pollen. The Dodgers, who I have loved since they battled the Yankees in Brooklyn, are in first place and a friend of mine has tickets so I can see them when they play in Atlanta. Except for special occasions I gave up John Barleycorn last September and am enjoying Perrier with a twist of lime and four maraschino cherries for color. I delight in the fact that Perrier is French and I am pissing someone off by enjoying something French. I have discovered some fine new music lately, one of which is Enya, who has a great voice. The last place I worked was a miserable place, something out of a Charles Dickens novel. The philosophy was to keep your boot on the throats of the employees, always finding the half-empty glass rather than the half-full one. The bosses hated the employees. The employees hated and derided the bosses. Each day you came to work your stomach was churning because you knew you and the other editors would probably be in for one of those tirades from the managing editor about what worms we were and how we were not fit to be in journalism. To compound the misery the top bosses deep down hated and feared journalism. They found every way possible to keep stories out rather than putting them in the paper. They homogenized everything. They so distrusted their reporters they made them read finished stories back to the people being written about so there would be not mistakes and so nothing written would make anyone mad. I tell you all of this misery to tell you that I, like so many others, escaped and I am sure I feel as happy as that Mississippi dairy farmer who escaped his Iraqi captors. I am back in journalism and it is so sweet. This came home to me recently when I attended the Associated Press banquet to help accept the honors our paper won for reporting and photography. The thoughts of all of us were how we could have made more stories better and won more prizes, how if we had had more time we could have tackled even more stories. And so I enjoy my job, which is happy news for so many who hate their jobs these days. I am surrounded by real journalists who have an enthusiasm for what they are doing. I have an idea and it is accepted rather than being rejected out of hand. I set out some months ago to reduce my credit card because I am paying some unearthly rate like 19 percent. I have hacked it down considerably and within several months will reduce the debt entirely. I collect political junk and was in an antique store in Bowman, Ga. last week and found a big Henry A. Wallace for vice president sign for $20. Remember Wallace ran with FDR in 1940? Ah, life is good. There was an old lawyer in my hometown who had a small office on the square. My father, also a lawyer, went to visit him once and I as a teen tagged along. On his wall as you came into the office there was a big sign that said, "I used to complain about having no shoes until I met a man who had no feet." Bob Paslay is assistant managing editor of the News Daily and Daily Herald and can be reached at (770) 478-5753 Ext. 257 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Computers, Tablets, and AccessoriesNeed a new PC, a MacBook, or tablet? TWU has arranged discounted pricing with the companies linked below. To take advantage of the discounts, you must click into the stores from these links, and you will need to setup an account at the sites using your TWU email address. Please note that the discounts listed may be higher or lower than in-store or internet sale prices. We highly recommend that you utilize the links as an additional resource in your quest to purchase hardware. Coupon codes may not be allowed in conjunction with the discounts; contact each companys sales support for details or with questions. Apple discounts are mainly on computers.
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EE's 4G LTE rollout will continue at full speed in the first quarter of 2013, as the wireless carrier details plans to expand coverage to 17 additional cities across the UK.
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Apple reported a record quarter on Wednesday, boosted by strong iPhone and iPad sales, but the popularity of cheaper versions of its mobile devices pinched the company's profits.
The company sold 47.8 million iPhones during the past quarter, shattering the record of 37 million that it set a year ago when the iPhone 4S debuted. It's a stunning number, considering that supply chain woes limited iPhone 5 availability throughout much of the quarter.
That helped Apple record a quarterly profit of $13.1 billion,
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-- bested only by Exxon Mobil's (XOM, Fortune 500) record-setting $14.8 billion quarter from the fall of 2008, when oil prices were at an all-time high.
Still, many analysts and Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) investors are concerned that buyers' interest in the the iPhone might be drying up. Sales estimates for the current quarter and beyond are a pittance compared to the number of iPhones Apple was able to sell over the past three months, and Apple's stock has lost more than a quarter of its value over the past four months.
Customers also appear eager to pay $100 less to get a year-old iPhone 4S or $200 less to get the two-year-old iPhone 4 instead of the iPhone 5, whose features are only slightly more impressive than the older versions'. Verizon (VZ, Fortune 500) reported on Tuesday that it sold a record number of iPhones during the quarter, but the iPhone 5 made up only half of its Apple smartphone sales.
As a result, Apple's profit just barely beat its total from the same quarter a year ago. By the slimmest of margins -- $14 million -- Apple avoided recording its first year-over-year drop in profit in nine years, as analysts had feared it might.
The older iPhones reduced the average selling price of the iPhone and contributed to Apple's pinched profit margin. The company's gross margin fell to 38.6% -- down a whopping six percentage points from the same period a year ago.
Investors didn't like the news. Shares of Apple fell by more than 11% in after-hours trading.
Apple's sales rose 17.7% to $54.5 billion, just missing analysts' forecasts of $54.7 billion.
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