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Les remparts de Reims constituent un ensemble de défenses qui protégèrent la ville depuis l'utilisation gauloise du site jusqu'au . On doit à Jacques-Joseph Maquart un ouvrage illustré fondateur sur l'historiographie locale : Anciens remparts et portes de Reims (1854).

Histoire

La ville gauloise
La ville est l'une des structures urbaines des Rèmes. Les fouilles montrent une ville de , centrée sur l'actuelle place royale et protégée par une fortification de  de largeur, constituée d'un fossé profond de  et d'une levée de terre probablement surmontée d'une palissade.

Les fortifications romaines

À la suite de la conquête romaine de la Gaule, les fortifications gauloises de l'oppidum sont rasées, et seules quelques tours en maçonnerie ainsi que des camps en bois entourent la ville.

Sous l'Empire, Durocortorum devient capitale de la Gaule Belgique. Deuxième plus grande ville de l'empire après Rome, Durocortorum est le siège d'une préfecture impériale, elle reçoit de nombreuses infrastructures, forum (actuel cryptoportique), cirque, arène, quatre arcs monumentaux, aqueduc...

A l'époque augustéenne, la ville est protégée par un réseau de fortification légère dont certains vestiges ont pu être observé au  par Narcisse Brunette.

L'enceinte au Haut Moyen-Age
Au cours du , à la suite des ravages des Vandales et des Huns à la fin du siècle précédent, la cité se dote de fortifications plus importantes tirées des ruines de quartiers abandonnés. Les quatre arcs monumentaux (porte de Mars, de Vénus, de Cérès ou de Trèves et porte Bazée) sont réutilisées pour marquer les entrées cardinales de la ville. La ville se rétracte considérablement et retrouve alors une superficie proche de celle qu'elle avait connue avant la conquête romaine : environ 60 ha pour 5000 habitants. Le rempart, épais de 3 à 4 mètres et épais de 7, percé de tours tous les 30 mètres, est alors doublé à l'extérieur d'un imposant fossé et l'ensemble des fortifications couvre alors un périmètre de près de 3000 mètres.

Au , l'archevêque Seulf fait fortifier le bourg de Saint-Rémi. Lors de son sacre à Reims en 815, Louis le Pieux permet la destruction du rempart, l'enceinte est alors partiellement détruite pour la construction de la nouvelle cathédrale par Ebbon. Il sera reconstruit dès la fin du siècle par Hincmar pour faire face à la menace viking en 837 et 887. En 925, on élève une nouvelle enceinte pour sécuriser le quartier st Rémi.

Ville comtale, elle est fortifiée et défend les habitants de la ville et des environs qui participent à l'entretien des remparts. La construction du château de la Porte de Mars à partir du  est sujet à conflit entre les archevêques et le conseil communal : il n'est pas encore inclus dans le rempart.

Le nouveau rempart du

Après un grave conflit, le château est finalement inclus dans le rempart mais démilitarisé. En 1209, une charte de Philippe Auguste contraint la ville à se doter d'une nouvelle enceinte. Le nouveau rempart augmente considérablement la superficie de la ville, comprenant le bourg de Saint-Rémi et descendant jusqu'à la Vesle. Les arcades de la porte de Mars sont alors bouchées et une nouvelle porte est percée un peu plus loin (actuel parking du Boulingrin). La nouvelle enceinte n'est finalement mise en œuvre qu'à la fin du siècle, les travaux se font en plusieurs phases entre 1295 et 1359. La ville est ainsi protégée lors de la guerre de Cent Ans, et notamment lors du Siège de Reims en 1360.

Pendant les Guerres de Religion (1562-1598), ils deviennent ensuite un enjeu de pouvoir entre le roi et la Ligue, Reims étant alors un point fort de la maison de Guise qui a du reste donné plusieurs archevêques à la ville. Ces dissensions entre le pouvoir royal et Reims est notamment la raison du sacre d'Henri IV à Chartres et non à Reims, ville traditionnelle des sacres et couronnements de la monarchie française. Il obtient toutefois le dernier mot et permet aux rémois de détruire le château.

Les portes du rempart au XVIIe siècle (versus plan Maquart)

 Arc antique
 Porte Mars
 Tour du Temple
 Tour Saint Hilaire

Le XIXe siècle et les vestiges actuels
L'enceinte médiévale sera finalement démantelée au , ce qui permettra le percement du canal, mais également le dégagement et la restauration de la porte de Mars. Dans les années 1840 un projet émerge pour faire de Reims une véritable place forte, entourée de citadelles, ce projet n'aboutira finalement pas et le rempart intégralement démantelé. Aujourd'hui la porte de Mars, les vestiges de la porte Bazée ainsi que la poudrière de la butte Saint-Nicaise sont les derniers vestiges visibles des remparts successifs qu'a connus Reims.

À la suite de la défaite de 1870 le plan Séré de Rivières dote la ville d'une nouvelle ceinture fortifiée. Ce sont désormais 7 forts qui permettent la fortification de la ville (d'est en ouest) :

 Fort de Montbré (Taissy)

 Fort de la Pompelle (Puisieulx)
 Fort de Nogent l'Abbesse (Nogent l'Abbesse)
 Fort de Witry (Witry-lès-Reims)
 Fort de Fresne (Fresne-lès-Reims)
 Fort de Brimont (Brimont)
 Fort de Saint-Thierry ou de Pouillon

D'autres ouvrages de moindre importance complètent le dispositif autour de Reims (vigie et batterie de Berru, Cran de Brimont, Réduit de Chenay, etc.).

L'ensemble de cette ceinture de fortification fut désarmé avant la Grande Guerre, ils furent presque tous occupés par les troupes allemandes pendant la quasi-totalité de la guerre. Seul le fort de la Pompelle fut repris et tenus par les troupes françaises et un détachement russe. Tous conservent encore aujourd'hui des vestiges en plus ou moins bon état, certains comme les Forts de la Pompelle, de Saint-Thierry ou de Nogent l'Abbesse se visitent. D'autres comme ceux de Witry ou de Fresne ont été vendus après la guerre et largement démantelés pour vendre les pierres.

Architecture

Les portes

La première enceinte de Reims ne comportait que quatre portes, toutes étaient les arcs monumentaux romains reconverti dans les fortifications.

Avec la construction de la nouvelle enceinte au , les portes Bazée et de Vénus (la porte de Vénus également connue sous les noms de porte de Soissons, porte aux Ferrons ou porte Saint-Denis) sont tombées en désuétudes, la porte de Vénus a finalement été démantelée au . De la porte Bazée seule subsiste une pile, la dernière arche ayant été détruite au . La nouvelle enceinte a nécessairement multiplié le nombre d'entrée dans la ville avec la construction de trois ponts pour traverser la Vesle. Seul le plus au Nord comportait des fortifications sur chaque rive. celle qu'on appelait initialement porte de Vesle, du nom de la rivière, prend progressivement le nom de porte de Paris puisque la voie qui la traversait menait directement à Paris. A l'occasion du sacre de Louis XVI en 1775 une nouvelle grille est commandée, elle ne sera finalement pas livrée à temps. Gênant la circulation, la porte de Paris est déplacée sur les basses promenades dans les années 1960.

L'extension du rempart au Moyen-Age a démultiplié le nombre de porte de la ville, certaines sont connues sous différents noms du fait de reconstructions successives tandis que d'autres n'ont pas eu d'existence pérennes. En voici la liste au bas-empire, à partir des années 320 :

 - Porte de Mars
 - Porte de Mars

 Porte de Cérès ou de Trèves, ou porte Chacre
 La Poterne qui donne accès à la partie du rempart comportant la Croix du Jard.
 Porte Bazée
 Poterne St Denis
 Porte de Vesle : traversant la Vesle, elle était défendue par un imposant dispositif, la porte de la barbacane (elle deviendra ensuite la porte de Paris) qui donnait accès à une seconde porte, qui permettait ensuite l'accès à la porte de Vesle proprement dite.
 Porte St Pierre-le-Vieil

Auxquelles s'ajoutent diverses portes et poternes au fil du Moyen-Âge et de l'époque moderne :

 Porte Neuve (existence éphémère)
 Porte Saint-Nicaise
 Porte Dieu-Lumière ou Dieu-le-Mire
 Porte Fléchambault ou Frichembaut, la porte est doublée puisqu'elle traverse la Vesle au Sud de Reims
 Porte Renier-Buiron, reconstruite sous le nom de porte Neuve

Dans l'art

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

 La Ville et ses axes monumentaux, une simulation Reims, Fouqueray Bernard, Causse - Fouqueray Laurence, Ed. À l'écart, Reims, 1985.
Anciens remparts et portes de Reims, album composé et dessiné par J-J Maquart et offert par sa veuve à la ville de Reims - Chez l'auteur, Reims, 1854.

Notes et références

Reims
Monument à Reims

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United States: National Labor Relations Board Turns Up The Heat On Negligent Unions
by Judd E. Cohen
Fisher Phillips LLP
Summer might be coming to a close, but labor unions continue to feel a rise in temperature. Unions can expect to face a change in how the National Labor Relations Board's Regional Offices will handle duty of fair representation (DFR) charges brought by individual employees, and it doesn't appear as if unions will be happy with the change.
Specifically, the Board's General Counsel's Office just provided Regional Offices with new instructions on how to handle charges against unions in DFR cases in the wake of a steep increase in "mere negligence" defenses raised by unions. Where unions have previously been able to argue such a defense to evade these types of claims with ease, the Regional Offices will now look more closely at these cases to determine if there was in fact gross negligence or arbitrary behavior exhibited by the union, and will likely prosecute them if such findings present themselves. What do employers need to know about this development?
How Does This Directive Change Current Treatment Of DFR Cases?
DFR cases arise when an individual employee accuses their union of acting arbitrarily, discriminatorily, or in bad faith. In other words, union members can file a DFR charge pursuant to Section 8(b)(1)(A) of the National Labor Relations Act when they believe the union did not treat them fairly or process their grievance correctly.
Formerly, Regional Offices analyzed DFR charges against unions on a case-by-case basis, and a union's defense of "mere negligence" was typically enough to warrant a dismissal of the charge. The September 14 memo from the General Counsel's office admits the new approach to handling DFR cases "may be inconsistent with the way the Board and Regional Directors have historically interpreted the law." The new directive from the General Counsel's office aims bring more predictability to the outcome of DFR cases. The changes are intended to be "an effort to enable employees to better understand the duty owed by a union representative and to help unions discern their duty owed to employees."
In particular, the Board will focus its new procedures on two types of cases: (1) when a union loses track, misplaces, or otherwise forgets about a grievance; and (2) when a union fails to communicate its decisions on a grievance, or does not respond to inquiries for information or documents by the aggrieved member.
Forgotten Grievances
The Regional Offices of the Board will now be more meticulous in determining if a union showed "mere negligence" or if the union's action in misplacing a grievance amounted to something more. Unions will have to show "the existence of established, reasonable procedures or systems in place to track grievances." The "mere negligence" defense unions have relied on in the past will "ordinarily fail" if a union fails to establish such a system.
Unless there are unique circumstances, the lack of an established procedure in place will lead Regional Offices to issue a complaint, and argue a union engages in "gross negligence." A union may avoid facing liability if it has a reasonable system in place, but "was not effective in a particular case for an identifiable and clearly-enunciated reason."
Regional offices will now be more likely to find a union acted arbitrarily when it fails to "communicate decisions related to a grievance" or when it does not "respond to inquiries for information or documents by the charging party." A union can still avoid prosecution in these types of cases if it shows "a reasonable excuse or meaningful explanation."
Additionally, in situations where a union has in fact responded to a grievant's request, but the grievant is unhappy with the union's opinion, the union does not have to share any additional explanation with the grievant to avoid acting arbitrarily.
Why Should Employers Care?
Employers might be wondering why they should care about the internal workings of unions. One unintended consequence that could soon be felt by employers is an uptick in the number of grievances filed by unions.
Unions concerned about the specter of stricter treatment of DFR cases by the Board could become more vigilant in pursuing grievances on behalf of their members. Grievances that may have once fallen through the cracks might no longer be ignored by unions as they try to avoid upsetting members. Such an increase in grievances will inevitably lead to more arbitrations and more time and money spent on resolving disputes.
Unions fighting DFR charges may also find themselves with higher litigation costs to defend themselves, which could lead to fewer resources to spend on representing their members, or, more likely, to spend on political contributions that lead to union-sponsored legislation.
Because this memo is a change to the way Regional Offices have handled DFR cases, there is always a chance the Board may disagree with the General Counsel. The General Counsel for the NLRB is the lead prosecutor for all cases filed with the NLRB, while the Board is a mainly adjudicative body. Comprised of a five-member panel located in Washington D.C., the Board decides NLRB cases brought before it. The Board in D.C. could choose to weigh in on the prosecution of these cases and find they do not rise above "mere negligence." We will be in a better position to judge the impact of this development once the Board begins weighing in on these cases.
Judd E. Cohen
United States Employment and HR Employee Rights/ Labour Relations Litigation, Mediation & Arbitration Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Professional Negligence
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The remarkable career of Henri Matisse, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, whose stylistic innovations (along with those of Pablo Picasso) fundamentally altered the course of modern art and affected the art of several generations of younger painters, spanned almost six and a half decades. His vast oeuvre encompassed painting, drawing, sculpture, graphic arts (as diverse as etchings, linocuts, lithographs, and aquatints), paper cutouts, and book illustration. His varied subjects comprised landscape, still life, portraiture, domestic and studio interiors, and particularly focused on the female figure.
Matisse created brilliantly colored canvases structured by color applied in a variety of brushwork, ranging from thick impasto to flat areas of pure pigment, sometimes accompanied by a sinuous, arabesque-like line. Paintings such as Woman with a Hat (1905), when exhibited at the 1905 Salon d'Automne in Paris, gave rise to the the first of the avant-garde movements (fall 1905–7), named "Fauvism" (from the French word fauves or "wild beasts") by a contemporary art critic, referring to its use of arbitrary combinations of bright colors and energetic brushwork to structure the composition. During his brief Fauvist period, Matisse produced a significant number of remarkable canvases, such as the portrait of …
Matisse created brilliantly colored canvases structured by color applied in a variety of brushwork, ranging from thick impasto to flat areas of pure pigment, sometimes accompanied by a sinuous, arabesque-like line. Paintings such as Woman with a Hat (1905), when exhibited at the 1905 Salon d'Automne in Paris, gave rise to the the first of the avant-garde movements (fall 1905–7), named "Fauvism" (from the French word fauves or "wild beasts") by a contemporary art critic, referring to its use of arbitrary combinations of bright colors and energetic brushwork to structure the composition. During his brief Fauvist period, Matisse produced a significant number of remarkable canvases, such as the portrait of Madame Matisse, called The Green Line (1905) and Bonheur de vivre (1905–6).
Subsequently, Matisse's career can be divided into several periods that changed stylistically, but his underlying aim always remained the same: to discover "the essential character of things" and to produce an art "of balance, purity, and serenity," as he himself put it in his "Notes of a Painter" in 1908. The years 1908–13 were focused on art and decoration, producing several large canvases such as studio interiors, exemplified by The Red Studio (1911) and a group of spectacularly colored Moroccan pictures. These were followed by four years (1913–17) of experimentation and discourse with the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris. The resulting compositions were much more austere, almost geometrically structured and at times close to abstraction. In 1932, in preparation for The Dance, a mural for Dr. Albert Barnes, Matisse began using a new technique—that of building up the composition from cutout shapes of previously colored paper. From 1940 onward, the paper cutouts became Matisse's favored exploratory medium and, until the end of his life, the dominant medium of expression.
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Forest Hill Under Attack in World War Two
In this second article of a two-part series about wartime bombing of Forest Hill and south-east London, Alistair Dey looks at German bombing in the Second World War.
German aerial bombing of London in the Second World War can be divided into three main periods: the Blitz between 7 September 1940 and 16 May 1941; the Little or Baby Blitz between January and May 1944; and the V-weapon flying bomb and rocket attacks between June 1944 and March 1945. In between these concentrated attacks, the Germans kept up sporadic day and night 'hit and run' and nuisance attacks on towns and cities throughout England. For Londoners, life had a dangerous edge to it right up to the end of March 1945.
The Battle of Britain and the Blitz
Adolf Hitler was initially reluctant to bomb London. The Battle of Britain, starting in mid-July 1940, had seen the German air force, the Luftwaffe, attacking shipping in the English Channel and then attempting to destroy RAF Fighter Command by bombing its radar stations and airfields.
On the night of August 24-25, German bombers flying along their navigational radio beams towards Shorts aircraft factory at Rochester became confused by British radio beaming countermeasures. The bombers attempted to follow the Thames, missed Rochester and dropped their bombs on London. The following night 81 British bombers flew towards Berlin. Many lost their way but, while actual damage was slight, bombs did fall on central Berlin. The psychological impact was enormous. Outraged, Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to concentrate, from 7 September, on all-out night attacks on London — which became the start of the Blitz.
This gave the RAF a chance to recover. When the next German daytime raid took place on 15 September, the Luftwaffe suffered their heaviest losses in the air war over Britain, forcing the Germans to reconsider their tactics. On 17 September Hitler postponed Operation Sea Lion, the planned invasion of Britain. The Battle of Britain was over. Henceforth, the Luftwaffe concentrated on bombing London and then other industrial cities at night. For 77 consecutive nights, except for one night when the weather was bad, large formations of German planes bombed London.
In London, people broke into underground stations for shelter and this became institutionalised, even though at the height of the Blitz, six out of ten people slept at home. There were evacuations from London, but this time about a third fewer people left London than at the outbreak of the war in 1939. Noteworthy and unfortunately tragic bombing incidents in Forest Hill included:-
• On 29 September 1940, three nuns were killed at the Sisters of Mercy Convent, 16 Mayow Road (now Our Lady & St Philip Neri Primary School)
• On 8 December, a parachute mine on Elsinore Road killed two people and injured 144, destroyed or damaged 370 houses and put Kilmorie Road School out of commission for the rest of the war
• On 19 April 1941 there were a spate of fires in the centre of Forest Hill, including Ghinns (later M&Co), 10-12 London Road, which was virtually gutted by the flames and had to be re-built
• On the same raid on 19 April, Forest Hill had to contend with a second spate of fires, which resulted in damage to The Foresters Arms pub in Perry Vale and Trinity Congregational Church, Stanstead Road; and two bombs which killed six people at 9-19 Siddons Road
The Blitz ended on 16 May 1941 largely as a result of Hitler's decision to invade Russia in June 1941, which diverted aircraft from bombing London and other British cities to the attacks on the Eastern front. This was a welcome relief for Londoners and probably Hitler's biggest miscalculation in the war. As the Luftwaffe turned towards the east, air-raid casualties decreased dramatically in the following two years.
The Baby Blitz
The Baby Blitz was a series of attacks by the Luftwaffe during January to May 1944. These were largely retaliatory attacks against the pounding of German cities by the RAF in 1943. The Germans had originally planned to retaliate against Britain by bombarding the south of England with V1 flying bombs but, as a result of technical development problems, this course of action had to be postponed. Consequently, the new series of retaliatory attacks on Britain were undertaken by conventional bombers.
The Baby Blitz killed 1,500 and seriously injured 3,000 in London. The severest battering in our area was on 22 March 1944 in a raid which lasted little more than an hour, but caused over 500 fires in south-east London. Destruction included 35 fires in Perry Rise, Perry Vale and Garlies Road, including the roof of Perry Rise Baptist Church being destroyed; and 36 house fires in Hawksfield, Allenby, Pearfield and Marler Roads. Incendiary bombs killed one person at 189 Perry Vale, two people at the corner of Kilmorie and Vancouver Roads, a fire guard in Lescombe Road (near the Bell Green gasworks, which were always a potential target), two people at 82-84 Vancouver Road and one person at 14 Perry Rise.
V-Weapons
The final period of concentrated attacks on London came from V-weapons and started on 16 June 1944. These Vergeltungswaffen or 'retaliation weapons' were the V1 flying bomb and the V2 rocket. The V1 attacks came as a shock just ten days after the D-Day landings in Normandy.
The V1 was a small pilotless aircraft powered by a pulse-jet engine, and catapulted from launch ramps located at hundreds of sites in Holland, replacing those lost in France and Belgium after D-Day.
About two-thirds of the V1s crashed prematurely, were toppled by British fighters (which perfected a clever manoeuvre of flying alongside the bomb, then flicking a wingtip under its fins) or were shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Many of the remainder fell on and around London, bringing renewed anxiety and fear to a people exhausted by years of bombing and privation. By March 1945, over 10,000 V1 flying bombs had been fired, causing 24,000 casualties in England and many more in Belgium.
Photo: V1 rocket on the left being 'tipped' by a spitfire.
There was an intense 11-week bombing campaign from 16 June to the end of August 1944. Forest Hill was hit several times by flying bombs between 21 June and early August 1944. The worst week for casualties and number of bombs was between 21 and 26 June. On the 21st, 13 people died in Fermor Road, which was SE23's single highest number of deaths. On the 23rd, eight people were injured in Ringmore Rise, and a direct hit on the pedestrian subway at Forest Hill station killed three and injured 18, badly damaged the station and wrecked several nearby shops. On the 24th, a V1 killed seven people in Ewelme Road; and on the 26th, eight people perished in Boveney Road.
V2 attacks added to the misery. The V2 was the world's first ballistic missile, fuelled by alcohol and liquid oxygen, and it was impossible to intercept and destroy because it travelled at supersonic speeds. The first V2 crashed at Chiswick in west London on 8 September 1944, killing three people and injuring 17. By 27 March 1945 over 1,000 rockets had fallen on England, killing 2,700 Londoners. The worst V2 incident in England was on Saturday 25 November 1944 when a V2 rocket struck at midday at 277-281 New Cross Road, SE14, when Woolworths and the Co-op next door were crowded with shoppers. 168 people were killed and 123 seriously injured.
SE23, however, got off relatively lightly from V2s. The only missile explosions appear to have been on 15 November at the intersections of Kilgour Road, MacLean Road and Stondon Park where 11 died and 15 houses were destroyed in a direct hit; and on 19 December at the intersections of Boveney Road, Devonshire Road and Honor Oak Park.
Within the Greater London area 24% of V1s and 21% of V2s fell on the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
The Failure of German Bombing
German bombings, including the Blitz and V-weapon attacks, were a military failure for the Germans, but caused enormous damage to many cities, especially London. The Blitz was the worst period of the war for London and many other cities.
Although of little consolation to those subjected to German attacks, the change in targeting away from airfields gave the RAF time to recover and the predictability of the German attacks allowed the RAF to concentrate their fighter planes in a way not possible before. Moreover, Hermann Goering, the chief of the Luftwaffe, made a major error in planning the campaign. Instead of delivering a limited number of devastating attacks on selected targets such as power stations, he ordered long processions of bombers to scatter bombs across wide areas of London during raids lasting ten hours or more. Such tactics meant that, although people got little sleep, the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) personnel, firemen and ambulance services could usually deal with the damage and casualties, though they were very stretched. In fact, the German Blitz was an improvised affair — the Germans had no aircraft specifically designed for independent long-range bombing, no pilots trained for it and no clear picture of what they were attempting to do.
One of Hitler's greatest follies in the final years of the war was the devotion of enormous scientific and industrial effort to the V-weapons. Although these weapons caused great apprehension and misery among the civilians of England (and Belgium), dumping small payloads of explosives with indifferent accuracy on the enemy could not conceivably justify the slave labour, materials and commitment of highly-skilled personnel and technology necessary to create delivery systems. Had Hitler forsaken the propaganda rewards of raining down V-weapons on England — to negligible military and industrial effect — and had concentrated his firepower, for example, on the Channel ports, the consequences could have been serious for the allied armies. The folly of persisting with the V-weapon programme, which drained Germany's shrinking resources merely to torment the enemy's population, highlighted the irrationality of Nazi behaviour as defeat beckoned.
As a result of the Blitz and relative military inaction elsewhere in the first two years of the war, until September 1941, the Germans killed more British civilians than combatants. 60,000 British civilians were killed during the war, 40,000 of these in the Blitz between September 1940 and May 1941. About half of civilian deaths occurred in London, with 15,000 Londoners killed in August and September 1940 alone.
It is estimated that a total of 4,100 deaths occurred in the boroughs of Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham: 2,250 civilians were killed in the 1940-41 Blitz; 260 in the 1943-44 Bombing Raids and Baby Blitz; 910 by V1 Flying Bombs; and 680 by V2 Rockets. There were also 7,400 serious injuries sustained in these boroughs.
Information on the specific bombing incidents mentioned in this article came from the book "Red Alert — South East London 1939-1945" by Lewis Blake, which is available from Sydenham Community Library and online from Lewisham Local History and Archives Centre.
at Saturday, September 16, 2017
Labels: Forest Hill, nazis, newsletter0917, world war two
Thanks so much for your research and this interesting article. We are considering the impact of civilian deaths and loss of homes as the anniversary of 1940 and the Blitz comes round and making that the focus of our 11th November 2020 remembrance service at St George's Church, Vancouver Road. This will lead to our greater awareness that all war now is essentially waged against civilians and the so called 'collateral damage' which we see so horrifyingly in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East and other parts of the world.
Really grateful to you for your article. All good wishes
Janet Killeen (janet.killeen@ntlworld.com)
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The Gourmet Makeover of Cheese Made in UK
BYCarola Traverso Saibante,
A pathological fondness for cheese unites, crosses borders and moves its victims to explore remote corners and farms, noses twitching, on the alert for whiffs of sheep, goats or cows in the area, as they seek out the most obscure and godforsaken artisanal cheese-makers. There are some countries, however – often rich in green pasture lands – in which one is automatically prepared to be flatly disappointed: their tradition in this area of production is inexplicably poor and limited. What, treat yourself to a platter of local gourmet cheeses in Great Britain? No way!
This is a serious mistake to make: a new "cheese universe" has silently materialized in the United Kingdom and, in the last few years, many craft productions have sprung up, which has widened the product offering incredibly with a stream of new dairy products being added all the time. What has happened? "First of all, this is a return to the past, not something that has sprung up out of the blue – specifies Eric Vassallo, expert cheese taster, who also collaborates with Slowfood – Great Britain has a great dairy tradition which was crushed by large industrial groups following the Second World War and almost died out". The return to artisanal dairy production is not only a UK phenomenon. In this respect, Ireland represents a model for Europe and let's not forget the Netherlands: these are countries boasting a millenary tradition – even dating back to Roman times - where, today, after decades of standardization, cheese is enjoying a new lease of life. A new, growing awareness of the importance of natural, quality food is coming into play. The same thing is happening in overseas countries whose tradition is obviously more recent, since it was imported by immigrants: the United States first and foremost, but also Argentina and Brazil.
In this respect, the work done by Slowfood in the last decades has been of fundamental importance, because we can thank them for having reorganized and regulated artisanal products that were dying out, enabling producers to form networks and to survive, in many cases stimulating others to focus on a type of production that had previously seemed hopeless. "There are Presidia for Armenian, Bulgarian and Cape Verdean cheeses… in some cases, the recipe was in the hands of an elderly shepherd – Vassallo goes on to say – Thanks to the Presidium, honour and dignity have been restored to a product, but also to an animal breed, and to human labour".
As far as the more common cheese varieties are concerned, such as Cheddar and Stilton in England or Gouda and Edam in Holland, the new artisanal manufacturers aim at bringing back the techniques and originality of the product, such as the processing of raw milk. In fact, these countries have a much smaller number of cheese varieties than the countries of southern Europe, where an extraordinary biodiversity has led to endless product differentiations. Indeed, the quality of cheese also depends on the animal breed providing the milk and each breed reflects the type of territory it comes from and the way in which it is nourished. So, defending a cheese variety is tantamount to defending a particular territory. This is mainly true of cattle but also applies to sheep and goats to a certain extent. Naturally, a Grey Alpine or a Valdaostan Red cow will not produce the quantity of milk (50 litres a day) supplied by the Friesian breed, originally from Holland, but which now predominates industrial cheese production. But quantity is certainly not quality.
It has been said that hundreds and hundreds of cheese varieties are now produced in the United Kingdom: this is a hoax, swears Vassallo, who estimates a number around fifty. "Impossible to say what the exact number is. In any case, in Italy and France – the two countries with the widest variety of cheeses in the world (in Italy, artisanal production accounts for 15-20% of the total output, compared to a percentage of 3-5% in countries like Holland, Germany and the United Kingdom) – the number is estimated as being in the range of 250 to 400 types of cheese. And that is an impressive amount... As General Charles De Gaulle once said in the course of a meeting: 'How can you possibly govern a country with 400 types of cheese?' ".
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Mattel 4th-quarter profit climbs on strong holiday demand for Barbie, Hot Wheels
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. - Mattel Inc. says strong holiday demand for toys including Barbie, Hot Wheels and American Girl helped push its fourth-quarter net income up 14 per cent.
The holiday quarter is crucial for toy makers, who can make up to half of their annual sales during the period.
Mattel, which is the No. 1 U.S. toy maker, reported Tuesday that its net income rose to $370.6 million, or $1.07 per share, for the period ended Dec. 31. That's up from $325.2 million, or 89 cents per share, a year ago.
This beat the $1 per share that analysts polled by FactSet expected.
Mattel's chief rival, Hasbro Inc., reports its financial results on Monday.
Mattel's quarterly revenue edged up 1 per cent to $2.15 billion from $2.12 billion, but missed Wall Street's $2.22 billion estimate. Mattel said that its performance was hurt a bit by unfavourable foreign currency exchange rates.
Gross sales dropped 2 per cent in the U.S., but rose 5 per cent overseas, this included a 3 percentage point drag from the unfavourable foreign exchange rates.
Barbie sales rose 6 per cent in the quarter. Sales of for Mattel's Wheels segment — which includes the Hot Wheels, Matchbox and Tyco R/Co brands — increased 5 per cent. American Girl sales climbed 4 per cent, while sales for Fisher-Price fell 10 per cent.
For the year, Mattel reported net income of $768.5 million, or $2.18 per share, up from $684.9 million, or $1.86 per share, a year earlier.
Annual revenue increased 7 per cent to $6.27 billion from $5.86 billion.
"Mattel delivered another strong year, our third consecutive year of solid performance, which I am especially pleased about given the soft global economic backdrop and the highly promotional environment, particularly in the U.S.," CEO Bryan G. Stockton said in a statement.
Mattel, based in El Segundo, Calif., is also raising its annual dividend by 35 per cent. The toy maker will pay a first-quarter cash dividend of 31 cents per share on March 9 to shareholders of record on Feb. 23. Its annualized dividend is expected to be $1.24 per share. The prior-year's dividend was 92 cents per share.
The company said that its $680 million acquisition of HIT Entertainment, the company behind Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder, is expected to close on Wednesday. Mattel announced the deal in October. It will be the company's biggest acquisition in a decade.
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Donald Trump abandoned COVID-19 relief talks today, saying they won't resume until after the election. Instead of working to save 30 million jobs, as well as countless restaurants and small businesses, he wants Republicans to "focus full time" on getting his Supreme Court nominee approved.
And just like that, the Dow fell 400 points afterwards.
Mike Pence is now requesting that no plexiglass dividers be placed on his side of the stage at tomorrow night's vice-presidential debate, despite the fact the Commission on Presidential Debates says both sides already agreed to have the dividers.
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Infernal: Hell's Vengeance Review
System: X360, PC Review Rating Legend
Dev: Metropolis 1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid 4.0 - 4.4 = Great
Pub: Playlogic 2.0 - 2.4 = Poor 4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
Release: June 30, 2009 2.5 - 2.9 = Average 5.0 = The Best
Players: 1 3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
ESRB Rating: Mature 3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Robert VerBruggen
The 2007 PC game Infernal told the tale of Ryan Lennox, a fallen angel who teams with the devil when he discovers Heaven's secret police (his former employers) are trying to kill him. Given that it's a third-person shooter with a cover mechanic, bringing it to the Xbox 360 should have not been a problem: rip off (ahem, "borrow") the control scheme from Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto IV, or Rainbow Six Vegas, and you're good to go.
Instead, when porting the game (and adding a subtitle, "Hell's Vengeance"), the developers reinvented the wheel, coming up with a setup that makes the game feel incredibly clunky and imprecise. Meanwhile, the problems that brought down the original version are still here, as are the title's few-but-notable good attributes. This isn't an awful game, but it faces a lot more competition on the 360 in 2009 than it did on computers in 2007, and thus there's little reason to play it.
The controls and cover mechanic harbor the biggest flaws here, and to understand how the developers got it wrong, it helps to play Infernal back-to-back with one of the aforementioned recent shooters. We went with Gears of War. In Gears, the aiming sensitivity is perfect by default; in Infernal, even after adjustment, your crosshairs always jump around either too slowly to track nearby running enemies or too quickly to aim with precision. In Gears, the left joystick exists solely for the purpose of movement, with the A button reserved for various tactical maneuvers; in Infernal, the left joystick does almost everything, meaning that you can get sucked into cover by just walking past it, and that you can execute an evasive roll by accident (you roll by tapping the same direction twice on the joystick). In Gears, your character hunkers down behind cover well enough that he rarely takes damage, and you can lean out to shoot quickly and efficiently; in Infernal, you get hit in cover a lot, and when you lean out it takes forever to get a shot off, giving your super-accurate enemies plenty of time to knock some health off your life bar.
Add all this together, and Gears feels incredibly natural, while Infernal feels awkward and dated. The transition from PC to console was the perfect opportunity to perfect Infernal's controls (which drew fire from reviewers even in their PC incarnation), and the developers completely blew it.
The other problems with the original title are back as well. You have the ability to crouch down and walk quietly, but when you do so, the enemies still see and shoot you almost instantly. The story is still shallow (and not entirely coherent). Every single fight scene still occurs to the tune of an annoying, repetitive heavy-metal riff. Your ultra-powerful demon-dude still dies whenever he falls more than a few feet. There are still bizarre inconsistencies when it comes to which parts of the environment you can destroy, which doors you can open, and which walls you can take cover behind. The level design is still almost completely linear, and the puzzles are still painfully easy (find keycard, put in door). In addition, there's no autosave feature, a fact we discovered when we died for the first time, after playing for about an hour. The good news is that while Infernal's problems weren't fixed, its laudable qualities weren't removed, either.
Infernal augments its shooting action by giving Ryan a variety of supernatural abilities. None of these abilities radically affects the gameplay, but they offer a break from the arcade-style shooting action. The one you'll use most is soul-sucking. When you come upon a dead body, you can drain its spirit, which gives you life (and also frisks the body for guns, ammo, and keys). This adds a level of strategy to the bigger battles, because you have to figure out which bodies you can get health from without getting shot. The downside is that most of the time there's no need to drain the bodies before the shooting is over, so soul-sucking becomes a tedious chore to perform before heading to the next room. It's also frustrating when bodies disappear before you can get the health from them.


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Glue a pair of googly eyes to each pom-pom.
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"X-Men: First Class" — A Slice of SciFi Blu-Ray Review
September 14, 2011 By Michael Hickerson Leave a Comment
Actors: Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon
Number of discs: 2 (one Blu-Ray, one digital edition)
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Video
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Slice of SciFi Rating: 5.0 out of 5.0
As close to perfect as a superhero movie gets.
In a summer packed with superhero movies, X-Men: First Class stands out as from the crowd as the best comic book movie of the year.
Taking the franchise back to the early days of the famous team, director Matthew Vaughn wisely jettisons much of what frustrated viewers in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Rebooting the franchise back to its early days and setting the events in the mid-60's, X-Men: First Class examines the early days of the mutant team coming together under Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr (better known as Magneto). Operating with the same energy and enthusiasm we saw in Bryan Singer's two X-Men installments, First Class easily rivals X-Men 2: X-Men United as the best entry in the franchise.
A lot of this credit goes to the performances and the decisions made by director Vaughn. A lot of ink has been spilled about actor Michael Fassbender's work as Magneto. And while watching the character arc play out on screen is one of the most compelling we've seen in a superhero movie in a long while, there's still another bit of work that is equally as impressive, though not as hyped. That would be actor Kevin Bacon, who plays the villain of the piece Sebastian Shaw. As the head of the Hellfire Club, Bacon mesmerizes every time he's on-screen, disappearing at times into the role.
The film also benefits from its Cold War setting and it draws a bit from the James Bond films of this era as well in look and feel.
It's the type of movie that could easily have had a lot of little things go wrong, but they never do. Every decision works and just about every performance in the film is spot-on.
Coming on on DVD and Blu-Ray, audiences will have a chance to discover or re-discover one of the summer's best movies. The audio and video are up to the usual high standards for a newly released film, but it's in the extras where this release really shines. The most fascinating extra is the isolated score from composer Henry Jackman. Jackman's score is one of the many strengths of the film.
There's also a look behind the scenes at the creation of the film, which will only help you appreciate how good the final product looks and feels. There's also the ability to catch-up on the comics that inspired the film with digital comics. And there's a nice set of deleted scenes to round out the disc.
But while all these extras are good, it's the movie itself that will have you putting into your player time and again. From directing to script to (most of ) the performances, X-Men: First Class is as close to perfect as a summer movie can get.
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Bushfire-ravaged Selwyn Snow Resort won't open for 2020 season
There has been an outpouring of support for the bushfire ravaged Selwyn Snow Resort, as it announced it will not open during the 2020 season.
The devastating damage caused to the resort during the NSW bushfires means it will take months to demolish and rebuild, restore power and replace machinery.
Lianne Thompson, a regular at the resort for decades, was devastated.
"I was broken hearted, Selwyn meant the world to us. It had so many of our childhood memories from the time we were 11, we had a ball and it gave us a love of the snow," she said.
"We would take our children there, and then eventually our children took their children, taking the kids there was just amazing."
"(We) live in Nowra and being so very close to the bushfires, it was another blow seeing it was obliterated. My daughter now lives in Darwin and she too was broken hearted when she heard the news."
Professional Snowboarder Angus Waddington, 22, said he was eager for the resort to get back up and running.
"I've been there a few times and know a quite few people who have worked there on ski patrol. It's pretty heavy because it's one of only about four resorts around that area and especially because it's more of a family resort," he said.
"I've spoken to a few of my mates who have worked there, and we're looking forward for it to re-opening. We're going to try get a group of us to all go down next year and be there for the opening day of the season and give it as much support as we can."
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Kevin James Blyton, Chairman of the Blyton Group which owns Selwyn Snow Resort, announced the closure for the season.
"We are incredibly saddened by the impact this fire has had, not only on our resort but on the wider local community as well."
"We have considered a range of options to try and resume operations for this coming winter, however the damage to critical infrastructure is simply too extensive to make this possible.
"But have no doubt, my team and I are totally focused on the rebuild of Selwyn Snow Resort and we look forward to welcoming guests back to an even better Selwyn."
There is good news for the resort's season pass holders, as they will be offered a full refund or the opportunity to move to Charlotte Pass Snow Resort for no additional costs.
Seasonal employees who had been offered to return to the resort for 2020 will be offered the opportunity to work at Charlotte's Pass Resort.
Source: 9News https://www.9news.com.au/national/selwyn-snow-resort-bushfire-damage-means-it-will-stay-closed-in-2020/44275161-0896-47d7-8afe-b98fae70819f


[Reigan] Thanks for the translations this time JHan! /dogezas Do enjoy this week's rankings~!
Well there are a few rarities in this week rankings. First up, Yuzuki Yukari makes a rare appearance in the rankings alongside IA in #25 Ika Musume Hunter's (sorry but I laughed at the name) En Priere, which turns out to be a really nice semi-techno duet.
#25 - En priere by Ika Musume Hunter feat. Yuzuki Yukari & IA - Mentioned earlier. Also it's got some great character art in the PV, which somehow reminds me of Hyperdimension Neptunia. Also, remember to check out the producer's other Yukarin&IA duet songs!
#2 - She by buzzG feat. GUMI - It's buzzG. And watch the drawn manga in the PV. 'nuff said.
Also, while not in the rankings, I'd like to also share Ren*Ai by -K-, a song that I really liked. Its change of tempo around the middle works well, and it also brought out the emotional side of me. Thumbs up from me.
Toroimerain - A GUMI Vocarock song. The song itself is quite catchy, not to mention the PV is unique! The dot art makes it look retro.
Vanilla Gogo - A nice Hatsune Miku VOCAJAZZ/blues song. Awesome PV too!
Good evening everyone, it is time for this week's Vocaran.
The Atumnal Equinox was celebrated last week, and I think people visited various places.
Everyone, please take care of your health.
Now, let's look at this week's Vocaran.
As usual, we'll start from #30!
On the 26th of September, [Vocalo Super Mix feat. Hatsune Miku], an album that features 39 popular music tracks remixed into a non-stop format, will be released by EMI Music Japan.
And on the same day, Yuyoyuppe's first major album, [Story of Hope], will be released under Yamaha's VOCALOID RECORDS label.
And here are this week's Ranking #31 and onwards.
Good evening everyone, it's time to follow up with the Weekly UTAURankings.
Last week's rankings was the first combination ranking, and feedback was generally favourable.
This week's UTAUran is also a ranking of rich variety.
Without further ado, let's look at this week's Top 10.
It'll be the announcement of the Top 10.


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Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods (2010)
Philosopher, pop-icon, shaman and story teller – as one of the most influential comic book writers in the market today, Grant Morrison is all of these things. His explosive and often controversial 30 year career has made him a household name for comic fans, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Morrison's career is now taking a new turn, as he explores media beyond comic books. With film and television projects on the horizon, more and more people are asking "Who is Grant Morrison?" Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is a feature length documentary that takes an in depth look at the life, career and mind of the man behind such pivotal titles as Batman RIP, The Invisibles, All Star Superman, The New X-Men, and many more. Featuring candid interviews with Morrison and his most important collaborators, Talking with Gods reveals an intelligent and thought provoking side of comic books that is often overlooked in Hollywood adaptations.
Director: Patrick Meaney
Actors: Amber Benson, Dan Didio, Darick Robertson, Douglas Rushkoff, Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, Hallie Cooper-Novack, J.H. Williams III, Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis
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Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
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Sting: Into the Light (2015)
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What are the biggest opportunities within paid search?
By Andrew Warren-Payne	 August 9th 2012 17:00
On the research team at Econsultancy, before we put together our guides we often seek the input of professionals working at the sharp end of their field.
This was no different for our Paid Search Agencies Buyer's Guide, where we asked leading specialists from paid search agencies to contribute some of their thoughts as to what has been happening within the industry.
As is always the case, we received far more input than we could put in our report, so we would like to share some of it here.
One of the questions we asked this year included, "What or where are the biggest opportunities for both clients and agencies within the paid search market?" With such an open-ended question, we received a variety of responses. The thoughts of some of those working in paid search are below.
Hannah Kimuyu, Director of Paid Media, Greenlight
The two biggest opportunities are definitely in mobile and performance display. With almost 30% of searches coming from mobile and tablet devices in late 2011, we have seen this trend continue since. This increase in traffic is clearly part of the multi-device/screen evolution. Users aren't just viewing or searching though, tablet devices are seeing better conversion rates (almost 20% higher than desktop) and higher average basket values. So for any e-commerce brand, taking advantage of the mobile and tablet opportunity is crucial, and should result in incremental revenue.
I also mentioned performance display, which has made some incredible advances for the past two years. Google has definitely had a hand in this with its acquisition of Invite Media (Demand Site Platform) and Teracent (dynamic retargeting technology) back in 2010. Again the opportunity in performance display is about performance, real-time management, intelligent customer driven strategies and scale.
Melanie Mack, Search Director, MediaCom
The biggest opportunity is in making search as personal as possible with a device-specific, time-based, and socially-amplified local strategy. The differences in modes of usage from mobile on 3G to tablet on Wi-Fi mean the advertiser has to provide for vastly different needs, intentions, and resulting response mechanisms.
Getting these right, and cross referencing with ever more accurate geographical targeting and social approval makes a truly personal experience, whether using online, phone or store conversion methods, and reinforces the branding and impression of ubiquity with national campaigns. The positive impact that these factors make to a campaign are overwhelming, and more than cover the effort of building out at such a granular level.
Steve Baker, PPC Chief Analyst, Epiphany
Whilst there are new features and upgrades being rolled out across all of the search engines' advertising platforms all the time, it is likely that for the majority of advertisers, the bulk of click spend will be on core search terms, and the opportunity hasn't really changed significantly. By understanding the value of the clicks that an advert generates and adjusting your bids to reflect this, and writing compelling, targeted adverts, the opportunity to generate large volumes of sales profitably via paid search exists for the vast majority of advertisers.
I think it's also worth adding that PPC advertisers can also be creative with how they strategise campaigns by making the most out of current events or capturing the zeitgeist. For example understanding what videos are being heavily shared and viewed on YouTube could have relevance to clients' campaigns as a vehicle for ads.
Kelvin Newman, Strategy Director, SiteVisibility
We see the biggest opportunity for both clients and agencies in the expansion of mobile, which not only allows PPC to reach a new segment of an audience, but creates the requirement for creatively designed strategies and campaigns for mobile users. Location targeting and retargeting through paid search continue to boom as targeting becomes more relevant.
Another big opportunity is the use of creative as well as text on the GDN. Creative attracts a greater audience as it stands proud compared with that of text ads.
Sam Fenton-Elstone, Head of Media, iCrossing
The paid search market is developing into a "performance media" market. Success in PPC and the lessons that come with it are being used in the performance display and affiliate spaces.
Clients should look to place their media with one agency, taking advantage of a centralized performance media strategy.
Duncan Parry, COO, STEAK
Mobile and tablets are undoubtedly the biggest opportunity for paid search advertisers at present. Screen proliferation means that consumers have access to search engines wherever they are.
Brands need to ensure they are visible in this expanding marketplace, but many are still behind the curve without sites and customer experiences tailored to mobiles/tablets. As that changes, so more will launch campaigns tailored to these devices. This is especially true outside of the big retail brands and in industries where mobile penetration has been slower to make its affects known – but it now is; the mobile is becoming ubiquitous in many markets.
Sophisticated campaigns are already using advanced targeting mobile and tablet targeting options – for example showing different messaging to consumers connected via WiFi (e.g .in front of the TV at home) compared to those on the move (e.g. commuting with variable data speeds).
The increasing rate of new features and beta tests on search engines also provides an opportunity. The rate of AdWords product releases accelerated in 2011 and looks set to continue throughout 2012. We've already seen Search Companion Ads, Communication Extensions and Offer Extensions this quarter.
Product releases offer alternative solutions and tactics to advertisers, often raising conversion and click-through rates as well as addressing other marketing needs such as data capture or branding through rich media. The pace of their development and the advanced options that they present to paid search advertisers make them potentially one of the biggest opportunities in the market place.
Nathan Wood, International SEM Director, NetBooster
For me, one of the largest growth areas is international expansion. Increasingly UK businesses are looking further afield for growth, and paid search offers a cost effective in-road without necessarily needing to invest fully in an overseas operation. Achieving a good search presence internationally is far easier with paid search than for organic, and this level of ease enables business to test a market for interest and profitability before committing.
Localisation, not translation, is key. Translating English ad copy into a local market language won't always have the desired effect. Understanding the market behaviour and the marketing messages that tend to work well are essential to building effective ads and campaign management. Search behaviour does differ from country to country.
Are there any other opportunities that you think search marketers should be building on? Have you faced any new challenges? What do you think will change most rapidly within paid search?
Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Which marketing KPI is the most important for display advertising?
An age-old debate in marketing that has begun to rear its head once more: are effective marketing and adverting campaigns born out of art or science?
Creativity lies at the very heart of bringing a campaign to life, but in an era where marketing budgets are under the watchful eye of the board performance has to be measured to demonstrate an impact on business goals.
Recent research brought this to my attention, which found 80% of CEOs believe marketers are "too disconnected" from the financial realities of companies.
August 14th 2012 13:23
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What are the important trends in bid management technology?
Following the release of our PPC Bid Management Technologies Buyer's Guide, we're continuing to share some of the insights that those working in the field provided us with in the run up to the guide.
Last time we shared 18 key tips for companies considering bid management technology from our contributors. For this post we share answers to the question, "What are the most important trends occurring in the bid management technology market?"
Five guiding principles behind Making Measurement Make Sense
Making Measurement Make Sense (3MS) is, in its own words, a cross-industry coalition committed to developing brand-building digital metrics and cross-platform measurement solutions.
Last week, IAB, ANA and 4A's, the member organizations behind the 3MS initiative, led a webinar showcasing the work behind 3MS and where they are to date. IAB's Sherrill Mane, explained the initiative further:
Basically, [3MS] is a collaboration across the ecosystem to make digital media metrics more brand friendly. We have to have core metrics, standardized metrics and work flow processes to make it easier to have agencies execute campaigns and create a better supply chain. Publishers [also] need this approach as they need a way to speak a language that is understand by all parties.
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» Initial job evaluation and production of a relevant job/person profile or description by which candidates can be assessed for suitability.
» Sourcing or attraction of potential candidates by various means (eg, external advertising, recruitment agencies, internal promotion etc).
» Screening of initial applicants using a variety of methods (eg, review of CVs, comparison of academic or professional qualifications held, pre-interview by telephone etc) to shortlist the most likely potential candidates.
» Selection of the best candidate from those shortlisted by utilising one or more selection techniques (eg, formal interview, psychometric testing, written exercises, group exercises etc).
» Effective induction of the successful candidate into the new role to ensure successful integration within the organisation and quicker operational deployment.
To increase the chances of successfully negotiating the recruitment process, candidates must ensure that they apply their best efforts at each stage of the process, such as fully completing application forms, producing effective CVs and preparing thoroughly for interview.
» Target your CV towards the job you are applying for.
» Always check your spelling and grammar.
» Use a straightforward font and keep the formatting simple.
» All relevant academic/professional qualifications and associated work experience.
» Any previous boating or outdoor activity experience (eg, dinghy sailing, windsurfing).
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» Mention your IT and office skills, such as bookkeeping.
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» Keep your CV to two sides of A4 and covering letter to one side of A4.
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» Use keywords that show you match the position requirements.
» Put your most relevant skills at the beginning of your CV.
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» Email CVs in a format which may be incompatible with an employer's software.
» Use jargon or abbreviations.
» Use dense blocks of text, large blank spaces, lots of different fonts.
» Forget to check spelling and grammar.
» Poor spelling and grammar.
» Not completing all the sections.
» Providing opinion rather than evidence.
Many employers today expect you to use digital and social media tools in addition to a CV use social media to your best advantage and also how to avoid the pitfalls.
» In-tray or e-tray exercises.
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Twitter "Inadvertently Took Action To Limit Engagements" On Flagged Trump Tweets
Some users on the social media platform had noticed earlier on Saturday that the ability to like, re-tweet or reply to Trump's tweets with a "disputed" label was not working. Twitter said on Saturday it had "inadvertently" limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets with "disputed" labels but later reversed its action.
"We inadvertently took action to limit engagements on the labeled Tweet you referenced. This action has been reversed", a Twitter spokesman told Reuters in an emailed statement.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
The development was earlier reported by The Verge and The Hill.
Twitter has recently added multiple warnings and labels to tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account of the U.S. president, including many that have made unfounded allegations of voting fraud in the U.S. elections.
Trump also made such tweets on Saturday, including one in which he falsely claimed that he won the election in a "landslide" in "legal votes". Twitter flagged them with a label saying: "This claim about election fraud is disputed".
The social media platform first hid one of his tweets behind a "public interest" label in May when the president violated the company's policy against glorifying violence.
Trump will be subject to the same Twitter rules as any other user when President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20, the social media company said last month.
Twitter places "public interest" notices on some rule-breaking tweets from "world leaders" that would otherwise be removed.
Such tweets from political candidates and elected or government officials are instead hidden by a warning and Twitter takes actions to restrict their reach. This treatment does not apply to former office holders.