A gunman dressed in military fatigues has launched a shooting spree at a suburban Milwaukee mall.
At least seven people have been injured according to a hospital spokesman in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
The gunman was reportedly seen fleeing the scene in a 2003 black Mazda.
He was described as a bald black man, about 6 foot one inch tall and 270 pounds.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A left-wing leader takes office in a troubled European nation. Company bankruptcies are piling up and unemployment is on the rise. His pledge to pull off long-overdue economic reforms is greeted with weary skepticism.
The scene that played out in Germany a decade ago is being repeated in France today.
But whereas Gerhard Schroeder in 2003 launched deep labor reforms that helped revive a moribund German economy, Francois Hollande will find his room for maneuver hemmed in by the global slowdown and France's prickly industrial relations.
"This is not about copying someone else's model - just improving our own," said Lionel Fontagne, an economics professor at Paris's Sorbonne university who has tracked France's gradual decline as a global economic force.
"But it is very difficult to discuss the real issues."
Hollande came to power five months ago on promises to revamp France's economy and halt a spate of industry closures that have pushed joblessness to a 13-year high of over three million.
In a nod to the "Agenda 2010" label that Schroeder gave to his reform drive, he has christened his own push "Agenda 2014" - the ambitious deadline he has set to restore jobs and growth.
He has tasked trade unions and employers with negotiating a "historic" overhaul of the French labor market and charged Louis Gallois, ex-head of European aerospace concern EADS, to propose by November 5 measures to boost French competitiveness.
It is a bold timetable that, in coming months, will show whether the euro zone's second biggest economy can follow the largest in grasping the nettle of reform.
GERMANY IN BETTER SHAPE
Back in 2003, Germany was struggling to digest the cost of the 1990 reunification of west and east. Over 4.4 million had no job and the head of the revered Ifo economics institute said Germany was "the sick man of Europe", its citizens lagging behind the rising income per head elsewhere in Europe.
But World Bank data put German income at $39,211 a head last year against $34,993 in France, with Germany outdoing its southern neighbor on just about every economic benchmark.
Schroeder's reforms such as the creation of a new low-wage sector and wage moderation pacts with unions have meant German labor costs have risen less than 10 percent in the past decade, compared to 30 percent in France.
Critics say the "Hartz reforms" - named after Peter Hartz, the personnel director of auto giant Volkswagen whom Schroeder named to draft the plans - led to a generation of "working poor" in Germany, sometimes paid less than one euro an hour.
While that carries a social cost, few dispute the German economy as a whole is currently in a better shape than France's.
Where German exports are at record levels, France's share of total euro zone exports has crumbled from around 17 percent at the turn of the century to 12.9 percent. Unemployment is at 6.8 percent in Germany against over 10 percent in France.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Schroeder's left-leaning credentials helped persuade unions to moderate wage claims in return for future job security.
Socialist diehard Hollande enjoys similar confidence with France's main unions. But the way French industrial relations work will make it harder for him to get the same result.
Whereas German unions such as the auto sector's IG Metall can strike wage deals across an entire industry, French accords are made at company or individual level and so cannot be used as a policy tool for nationwide wage restraint.
Schroeder also had the benefit of a more predictable trade union scene: workable contacts with the main umbrella group, the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), and unionists who were less inclined to call for strikes because their statute gave them "co-determination" rights to influence company policy.
In contrast, Hollande must deal with at least a handful of main trade unions ranging from moderate to militant and which compensate for lacking the statutory powers of their German counterparts by having earlier recourse to the street.
"French trade unions are structurally weak but time and time again they show their ability to mobilize," Jacques Freyssinet of France's Centre of Labour Studies (CEE) said of protests and strikes that sporadically bring the country grinding to a halt.
With the economy near recession, Hollande cannot risk protests such as a 1995 strike over welfare cuts that brought France to a halt for weeks, or fierce 2010 protests against pension reforms by his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy.
Yet even if he can find some common ground with the unions, things are less promising on the employers' side.
Whereas Schroeder cultivated a pro-business image - and even enjoyed the nickname "Comrade of the Bosses" - Hollande campaigned on a solidly leftist platform of reining in the excesses of big business and the world of finance.
His first annual budget targeted the wealthy and corporate world, with a symbolic 75 percent tax on the super-rich among a raft of tax hikes aimed at bolstering public finances.
The government has poured cold water on demands for at least 30 billion euros ($39 billion) of social charges businesses pay to be transferred to other levies such as value added tax (VAT).
Employers insist such cuts are vital, pointing to the fact that French labour charges are among the highest in the European Union alongside those in Belgium and Sweden.
But the government fears a shift of those charges onto VAT or other taxes would hurt consumer spending, for years one of the main props of the French economy.
"We are looking at all the options," said a source close to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. "But we won't be looking at any transfers that would bring on a recession."
TECHNOLOGY RACE
Prospects for France to follow Germany in establishing a low-wage sector of "mini-jobs" also appear dim.
Not even employers dare suggest scrapping the current minimum wage of 9.40 euros an hour, and unions are furious that more companies are turning to temporary contracts to avoid permanent contracts that are hugely expensive to terminate.
"Each time we give them a bit of flexibility they want more," said Francois Chereque, head of the moderate CFDT union.
With anything more than a small chipping away at labour costs unlikely, the government argues France can maintain a competitive edge by moving upmarket to offer high-value goods for which the world is ready to pay a premium.
That tactic has worked for German companies such as Mercedes-maker Daimler AG and specific sectors in France such as aeronautics or the luxury goods industries.
But engineering a more widespread shift would take years. Firms such as Franco-Italian microchip-maker STMicroelectronics say the race to keep one step ahead of low-cost rivals is getting tougher by the year.
"The real differentiator is labour cost and flexibility," STMicroelectronics director Gerard Matheron said, citing the example of Taiwanese workers who worked longer than the 32 hours a week of their French counterparts for a fifth of the salary.
"To keep producing in Europe we have to continually find the right mix between research and production to keep up with the most up-to-date technologies."
Yet high labour costs are trapping many French firms in a vicious circle of lower profit that prevents investment in new technologies, argues Axa chief economist Eric Chaney.
Using official EU data, Chaney calculates French research and development spending has remained flat at 1.4 percent of national output over the past decade while Germany's has risen from the same level to over 1.9 percent of output.
French research group Coe-Rexecode estimates gross operating margins in the French manufacturing sector have fallen from 37 percent in 2000 to 29.9 percent last year, while German margins are up from 27 percent to 34.4 percent.
"French companies are not profitable enough to spend as much on R&D as German ones. Why? Labour costs," concluded Chaney, who in 2007 investment note entitled "France - the new sick man of Europe", was among the first to sound the alarm on its economy.
Hollande is creating a state agency to foster innovation with a budget of around 40 billion euros but the challenge is whether the civil servants spend the money on industry's needs.
It may be the middle of 2013 before any progress in talks between unions and employers and Gallois' proposals start to be translated into reforms and longer before the economy benefits.
Worryingly for Hollande, Schroeder did not survive in office to see his reforms take effect. As unemployment continued to rise into 2005, he lost support with core left-wing voters and was ousted in a September poll by conservative Angela Merkel.
He told adoring French business leaders in August: "Courage means putting reform of your country before staying power." ($1 = 0.7679 euros)
(Additional reporting by Marc Joanny, Nick Vinocur, Emmanuel Jarry and Jean-Baptiste Vey; editing by Anna Willard)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-schroeder-la-francaise-wont-hollande-105853392--business.html
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Writing articles isn't that hard--if you can write an email, then you can write an article. The challenging part comes in when you try to write articles on a regular basis, which is necessary with article marketing. In order for article marketing to be as effective as possible, you'll need to be writing and submitting articles each month, possibly even each week.
So how do you go from writing no articles to writing multiple ones each month on a consistent basis?
I can totally relate to this problem, as I've dealt with it myself. When I first started to submit articles many years ago, I was not in the habit of writing anything on a regular basis. I had to train myself to be able to write consistently. It took some time, but I got there, and you can too.
Here are some tips I picked up when I was trying to learn how to submit articles consistently myself:
1 - Work up to your goal.
Get an idea in your head of how many articles you'd like to submit each month. That number is probably a lot more than you're used to writing, isn't it? Instead of putting pressure on yourself to suddenly write 8 articles a month (or whatever amount you've decided on), take baby steps toward your goal.
Maybe the first month you have the goal of writing 3 articles, then the next month 6, then the following month you'll reach your goal with 8. You'll be much more likely to stick with article marketing if you go easy on yourself and create a doable writing schedule.
2 - Put your writing sessions on your calendar.
It sounds so simple, but it's absolutely essential. At the beginning of the month when you've decided how many articles you're going to write, make a note on your calendar exactly which days you're to write those articles. Try not to wait until the end of the month when it's "crunch time"--you don't need that pressure. Rather, schedule your articles early in the month, but spaced out enough that you don't feel overwhelmed.
3 - Try to write earlier in the day.
I've been writing for some time now, and I always come back to the trick of writing early in the day. Now, I don't always take that advice myself, but when I don't I notice that writing gets harder. If I wait until the afternoon, my mind is more sluggish and I feel less like writing. On the days when I manage to get up a little early and sit down to write first thing, it seems like the writing just flows.
4 - Go easy on yourself, and focus on your achievements rather than how far you need to go.
Marketing with articles is about more than just writing and submitting content. No doubt as you get more into this marketing tool you'll discover a lot of tips and techniques for making the best title, the best resource box, the best article, not to mention thinking about how keywords play into your article submissions. It's a lot to take in, and it's very easy to get overwhelmed with everything you think you should be doing. Just take it easy--for now, you are focusing on learning how to write articles consistently, which is the foundation for a successful article marketing campaign. You will learn the rest in due time.
5- Recognize that writing is a skill, and you'll get better with more practice.
The same concept applies to the art of writing--you will probably feel a bit clumsy at first, but the more articles you write, the better you'll get.
6 - Address the questions of real people (your customers, clients--anyone who asks you questions about your niche) in your articles.
The articles that you create are meant to serve real people, and it's so helpful to take your article ideas from the people you talk with during the course of doing business. It helps to make your articles more relatable and relevant.
7 - Try different productivity methods.
There are tons of them out there, and which ones work for you are dependent on your personality and how you like to work. Here are a few that I've tried:
*Use a kitchen timer and give yourself a time limit for writing an article.
*Have a marathon writing sessions where you try to write the first draft for as many articles as possible.
*Create a simple outline, and then use that a springboard for your article.
*Try writing early in the morning or late at night, when everyone is in bed.
*Do a writing warm-up--just type anything (the alphabet, a poem, stream of consciousness, or just plain nonsense) for about 3 minutes, and it will help you when you turn to writing your articles.
There's no need to be concerned about if you'll be able to write a certain number of articles on a consistent basis. This is something that you'll grow into with a little effort, and your faithfulness and perseverance will benefit your website and your business over the long run.
Cyber marketing has now become an indispensable segment of e-commerce as well as the internet and World Wide Web related topics. Cyber marketing simply refers to a technique of attracting potential customers by advertising your products or services through such means as websites, emails, and banners.
Businesses go to so much trouble when there is one sure-fire, simple, very inexpensive way to attract new clients to a business: Teach a free class. That is what article marketing is like. Your articles are just like free classes. You teach your target readers something helpful in your article. Your resource box then says, "If you enjoyed this article you can visit my website and apply what you have learned."
Distributing articles online can be an effective way to build backlinks to your website -- when done correctly. This article explores how to choose the right topics for your article marketing campaign so that they will be widely accepted and distributed online.
Do you ever dread sitting down to write because you're just not sure what to write about? When you're doing article marketing, you need to create a steady flow of articles. Even if you feel stumped, I assure you--you have more creative writing ideas in you. You just need a little help in looking at your topic in a new way to come up with new writing ideas. Use these 15 article ideas to start your next brainstorming session.
An analysis of Article Marketing in comparison to Guest Blog Posting as a strategy towards achieving the twin objectives of gaining backlinks and getting massive traffic
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All Female Chef Line-Up Highlight of Culinary Fundraiser! Eat to the Beat
Date: October 16, 2012
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Sixty of Canada?s top female chefs are donating their time and talent to create mouthwatering treats at the 17th Annual Eat to the Beat culinary fundraiser on Tuesday, October 16, at 7:00pm at Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe Street, Toronto). Eat to the Beat benefits Willow Breast Cancer Support Canada, a not-for-profit organization that offers free peer support to anyone coping with breast cancer.
Eat to the Beat has a cornucopia of sweet and savory foods, wines, premium beers and spirits for sampling at food and drink stations positioned around Roy Thomson Hall?s outer lobby.
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I am in the salvage business, and haul a lot of metal around all day long. Sometimes I travel 100 miles a day.
Anyway, I need a tough truck, and old Fords are just that, preferably Canadian models (assembled in Canada). Put it this way, Chevy or Dodge doesn't have a chance mechanically or chassis wise.
What I am trying to tell everyone, is from 1980-1989, Ford made the toughest trucks ever made, if you don't care about turn signals or brake lights never working of course LOL.
I have been hauling metal for 8 years now, and had 2 Fords. The first one was a 1983 5.0 F. It never let me down. The first thing I did to it when I bought it was a timing chain and steel gear. It didn't need one, but I knew I would never have a problem with it. 5.0s are bullet proof, known to even run without oil!
The truck never did die. I wanted a 1985 diesel F250, the F150 was towed because it looked like it went thru world war 1-2 and even Nam LOL, and it did in truck world of scraping metal! The salvage business is one of the hardest businesses on a truck. Now I have a 6.9 250 and do the same, but don't burn any gas and have great power on the highway.
Weight was never an issue for both trucks, whatever you can fit the old Fords will handle, not legally. If you try this with any other trucks, you will experience failure; frames bend, snapped leafs, axles break and blown rears. Also Chevy's overheat with a load. Both the half and 3/4 ton Fords I had 4 tons in, no problem! It's not safe, but it is incredible!
If I could post pics, I would show the scrapyards where you will see nothing but Fords. 95 percent Ford, 5 percent Chevy and Dodge. Dodge is a great truck, but Ford used a thicker frame rail and treated the leafspring steel perfect; they don't snap or bend like Chevy's do. Also you see more more Fords in auto junkyards because Ford produced so many more trucks than Chevy and Dodge put together!
Source: http://www.carsurvey.org/reviews/ford/f250/1985/
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Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier and the record for highest skydive Sunday when he?leapt into the stratosphere from a balloon near the edge of space. Felix Baumgartner?has made a career of risky jumps, including skydiving across the English Channel and parachuting off the?Petronas Towers.
In this photo provided by Red Bull Stratos, Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria celebrates after successfully completing the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, N.M., Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012.
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Cheers broke out as?Felix?Baumgartner, 43, jumped from a skateboard- s ized shelf outside the 11-by-8-foot (3.3-by-2.4 metre) fiberglass and acrylic capsule that was carried higher than 12 8,000 feet (39 ,000 metres) by an enormous balloon.
"We love you?Felix!" screamed the crowd gathered in a mission control setting at his launch site in?Roswell, New Mexico as more than 8 million people watched his feat online.
Baumgartner's body pierced the atmosphere at 833.9 miles per hour (1, 3 42.8 kph), according to preliminary numbers released by?Brian Utley, the certification official for the Federation Aeronautic International, at a press conference afterward.
Baumgartner's speed clinched one of his goals: to become the first skydiver to break the s ound barrier, typically measured at more than 690 m ph (1,110 kph). And he did so on the 65th anniversary of legendary American pilot?Chuck Yeager's flight shattering the sound barrier on Oct. 14, 1947.
Utley said preliminary figures indicate?Baumgartner?broke a total of three established world records, including the highest altitude skydive ( 128,100 feet or 39,045 metres), longest freefall without a parachute (119,846 feet or 36,529 metres) and fastest fall achieved during a skydive (reaching 833.9 mph or 1,342 kph).
Baumgartner?landed safely on the ground and raised his arms in a victory salute just 10 minutes after he stepped into the air. Soon he was hugged by his mother and father, who took their first trip outside?Europe?to see his historic plunge, and his girlfriend jumped up and wrapped her legs around him.
"It was way harder than I expected,"?Baumgartner?said. Recalling his final words before he stepped into the stratosphere, he said, "Sometimes you have to get up really high to know how small you are."
The Austrian has made a career of risky jumps including skydiving across the English Channel and parachuting off the?Petronas Towers?in?Malaysia.
?PREPARATION
Earlier?Baumgartner?prepared to jump from the pressurized capsule by going through a checklist of 40 items with project adviser?Joe Kittinger, holder of a 19-mile high (30 km) altitude parachute jump record that?Baumgartner?smashed.
Earlier in the flight, he expressed concern that his astronaut-like helmet was not heating properly.
"This is very serious, Joe," said?Baumgartner?as the capsule, designed to remain at 55 degrees Fahrenheit ascended in skies where temperatures were expected to plunge below -91.8 F (-67.8 C), according to the project's website. "Sometimes it's getting foggy when I exhale. ... I do not feel heat."
Baumgartner's ascent into the stratosphere took about 2-1/2 hours.
The 30 million-cubic-foot (850,000-cubic-metre) plastic balloon, is about one-tenth the thickness of a plastic bag, or roughly as thin as a dry cleaner bag.?
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