A Walker-led drive this year to limit the power of public sector unions prompted massive pro-union protests and sparked a national debate over union rights.The Wisconsin elections are being closely watched for clues to the mood of U.S. voters after the bruising battle in Washington over the nation's debt and deficits, and more than a year before the presidential election in 2012 .The stakes are high for organized labor and unions who have poured millions of dollars feather hair extensions into efforts to recall the six Republican lawmakers and block Walker's agenda.
Democrats appeared to have ousted one Wisconsin lawmaker but three Republicans survived recall on Tuesday, leaving two races still in doubt in the nation's largest ever group of recall votes.WisPolitics.com said that Republican state Senators in three of Tuesday's six races beat back Democratic challengers who targeted them for voting to curb the power of public sector unions in the state legislature.In a fourth race, the Democratic challenger held a comfortable lead with most ballots counted and appeared to have ousted a Republican who narrowly won in 2010.
Republicans declared the winners were Robert Cowles, Sheila Harsdorf and Luther Olsen.Spending on the nine elections had reached $33 million, most of it from outside special interest feather hair extensions wholesale groups. Interest group spending has far eclipsed the Wisconsin record of about $20 million set in 2008 elections that covered half the state Senate and all Assembly members.There have been 20 state-level recall elections in U.S. history before this year and never six in a single day.
Democrats needed to win three of the six races to take over majority control of the state Senate, meaning that they would need to win both of the two remaining races to do so."This was more than about one vote, this was about the direction of our state." said Democrat Jennifer Shilling told a crowd of supporters in LaCrosse, where she declared victory.Democrats and organized labor forced the recall prada handbags 2011 elections in an effort to block Republican Governor Scott Walker's conservative agenda.
In a much-read post over at PC World, Ian Paul argues that much of iOS 5 feels familiar. And for a good reason: iOS 5, Paul says, gets a lot of its best features from Android. Paul has compiled a list of the "ripped-off" functionalities, which include greater social media feather hair extensions integration and over-the-air updates (as opposed to Apple updates now, which require the user to plug his or her device into a computer).
"You might even call these new features magical or revolutionary, unless you're an Android user, then you'd call them 'stuff I've been using for years.' The latest additions to Apple's mobile OS are probably a welcome relief for iPhone and iPad fans," Paul argues, "but it's hard to call iOS 'the world's most advanced mobile operating system' when Apple is playing catch up to Android."
Fair enough. iOS 5, of course, will likely ship on the new iPhone 5, if the new iPhone 5 ever arrives. Last we heard on that front, the iPhone 5 had entered the final stage of testing, and was already being hauled around by "high level Apple and carrier feather hair extensions executives." The question is whether the iPhone 5 will look more or less like the iPhone 4 – boxy, flat – or whether it will get a radical teardrop shape. Or another shape altogether.
iOS 5, the latest iteration of Apple's mobile operating system, has been dished out in beta version to developers, and judging by the early reports, the upgrade over iOS 4 won't be particularly enormous. There are bunch of bug fixes – and hat tip here to Boy Genius Report, which has published a sheaf of iOS 5 details – and full compatibility with iCloud. Also on the docket (maybe): Some feather hair extensions wholesale sort of text-to-speech function.
Exact casualty figures were hard to obtain because most people were trapped indoors, and residents said bodies were lying unattended in the streets where feather hair extensions is pop, because it was too dangerous for ambulances to reach them.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 42 people were killed; the global advocacy group Avaaz put the toll at 27; an activist in Deir al-Zour said 58 died. Activists said at least 12 people were killed in similar assaults on towns in the southern province of Daraa, the central province of Homs and the northern province of Idlib. There also were reports of fresh bombardments, additional deaths and mass arrests in Hama, the first target of the offensive, which was launched last feather hair extensions wholesale week.
The Syrian military on Sunday escalated its offensive to crush a nationwide revolt, reportedly killing scores of people as it sent tanks and troops to several locations, including the restive eastern city of Deir al-Zour, whose tribes are armed and have close clan ties with their brethren across the border in Iraq.
“It’s massive, brutal and determined,” said Wissam Tarif, an activist with Avaaz. “They are just killing people everywhere.”The assault on Deir al-Zour echoed the push launched a week ago against the central city of Hama, where human rights groups say at least 200 people have been killed, leaving little doubt of the government’s intent to use force to crush the nearly five-month-old uprising that has threatened to overturn five decades of Baath Party rule.
Residents said tanks began bombarding before dawn and then rumbled into neighborhoods on the feather earrings wholesale outskirts of the desert city. Deir al-Zour has emerged in recent weeks as a stronghold of the protest movement seeking to topple the regime led by President Bashar al-Assad
The transportation secretary, Ray LaHood, said Friday that “as a matter of fairness, we will also do everything we can to get Congress to provide our furloughed employees with the back pay they deserve.” The 40 airport safety inspectors who were required to work for feather hair extensions during the shutdown have been promised back pay.
Thousands more construction workers lost income because the F.A.A. halted more than 250 of its own building projects, and many airports asked crews to stop work on airport improvement efforts that they were financing out of their own pockets with the expectation that they would be repaid by the F.A.A.
It took the Senate all of about 30 seconds on Friday to approve a bill that will put 4,000 employees of the Federal Aviation Administration back to work on Monday. Calculating the cost of the 14-day standoff will take much longer. Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress, meanwhile, made clear on Friday that the fight was not over. The bill, signed into law by President Obama within hours of its approval, expires on Sept. 16.
While the government lost revenue on airline ticket taxes, passengers who paid those taxes on peacock feather hair extensions will not receive refunds, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday. That reversed its earlier position that passengers could apply for refunds if they had paid the tax before the F.A.A. shutdown on a ticket that was used during the last two weeks. “The impasse was an unnecessary strain on local economies around the country at a time when we can’t allow politics to get in the way of our economic recovery,” Mr. Obama said Friday in a statement.
Among the costs, of course, is the $388 million, as calculated by the American Association of Airport Executives, in lost revenue from ticket and fuel taxes that the federal government could not collect during the shutdown. And there could be the salaries of about 3,960 F.A.A. workers who were forced out of work for two weeks and have not been guaranteed that they will receive feather hair extensions wholesale back pay.
You see, the telecommunications companies are funding the Universal Service Fund to the tune of $4 billion a year because the feds said they have to and in order to recoup their money, the companies turn around and hike their feather hair extensions fees to paying customers. But those of use paying for the free service for the poor, should be happy about this infuriating situation, says Gary Carter, manager of national partnerships for Assurance, because "the program is about peace of mind." Free cell service means "one less bill that someone has to pay, so they can pay their rent or for day care...it is a right to have peace of mind," Cater explained.
Well, the telecommunications companies don't seem to love providing this 'right' to poor folks because they are trying to renegotiate the deal with the FCC. The telecommunications companies like Verizon and AT&T want more paying customers, but their desire to reform their deal with the feds dovetails nicely with the political ideology of the current FCC chairman Julian Genachowski, who like all Obama administration flunkies sees 'rights' where others see 'priviledges'. Just listen to how the agency put the question of providing broadband and cell service to those in rural and poor communities. "The feather hair extensions wholesale goal of reform is to provide everyone with affordable voice and broadband," the agency said.
Recently, a federal government program called the Universal Service Fund came to the Keystone State and some residents are thrilled because it means they can enjoy 250 minutes a month and a handset for free, just because they don't have the money to pay for it. Through Assurance Wireless and SafeLink from Tracfone Wireless these folks get to reach out and touch someone while the cost of their service is paid for by everyone else.
Between 14 million and 24 million Americans lack access to broadband, "and immediate prospects for deployment to them are bleak," the FCC said in a report last year. "Many of these Americans are poor or live in rural areas that will remain unserved without reform of the universal service program and other changes about peacock feather hair extensions ," the report said.