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The Battle of Ginchy took place on 9 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, when the 16th (Irish) Division captured the German-held village. Ginchy is  north-east of Guillemont, at the junction of six roads, on a rise overlooking Combles,  to the south-east. After the conclusion of the Battle of Guillemont on 6 September, XIV Corps and XV Corps were required to complete the advance to positions which would give observation over the German third position, to be ready for a general attack in mid-September, for which the Anglo-French armies had been preparing since early August.

British attacks northwards from the boundary between the  Fourth Army and the French Sixth Army, from Leuze Wood north to Ginchy, had begun on 3 September when the 7th Division captured the village, before being forced out by a German counter-attack. Attacks on Leuze Wood and attempts to re-take Ginchy on 4 and 5 September were also defeated by German counter-attacks. The 7th Division was relieved by the 16th (Irish) Division and 55th (West Lancashire) Division on the evening of 7 September and the 5th Division was replaced by the 56th (1/1st London) Division on the right at the army boundary.

On 9 September the British began a bombardment early in the morning but waited until late afternoon to advance, to deny the Germans time to counter-attack before dark. The British assault in the south by the 56th (1/1st London) Division and the 16th (Irish) Division reached Bouleaux Wood but the attack in the centre was repulsed. On the northern flank, Ginchy was captured by the 16th (Irish) Division and several German counter-attacks were defeated. The loss of Ginchy deprived the Germans of observation posts from which they could observe the battlefield. The success eliminated the salient at Delville Wood, which had been costly to defend, due to observed German artillery-fire from three sides and the many counter-attacks by German infantry in July and August; the attack on 31 August, being the largest mounted by the Germans against the British during the battle.

The success of the attack by the French Sixth Army on 12 September, in its biggest operation of the battle and the advance of the right flank of the British Fourth Army from 3 to 9 September, enabled both armies to make much bigger attacks. The assaults were sequenced with attacks by the Tenth and Reserve armies in September, which captured much more ground and inflicted approximately  on the German defenders. Anglo-French attempts to co-ordinate their attacks had failed from July to early September, due to a combination of disagreements between Haig, Joffre and Foch over tactics, supply difficulties, devastated terrain, inclement weather and the increasing defensive power of the German armies. In September, the Allies managed to co-ordinate their attacks; advances on each army front made adjacent German positions vulnerable, which were attacked promptly by the neighbouring army before the Germans recovered from their disorganisation.

Background

Tactical developments

After the capture of  of the German second position on Bazentin Ridge by the British on 14 July, the Germans had reinforced the flanks of the captured ground and built more fortifications between the second and third positions. On the right flank the British line formed a salient at Longueval and Delville Wood, which ran west to Pozières and south to Maltz Horn Farm, the junction with the French Sixth Army. The salient was overlooked by German positions from Guillemont to the south-east and High Wood to the north-west. Control of Guillemont and Ginchy also gave the Germans observation of the ground to the south, over the French approaches to the German second line, from the Somme river north to Maurepas and the area between Malz Horn Farm and Falfemont Farm.

German artillery could fire into the salient and the area beyond, where a huge mass of Allied artillery was based and through which the fronts of the Fourth and French Sixth armies were supplied over a small number of poor roads. In August, Joffre had pressed Haig to continue with big attacks on wide fronts but despite conforming to French strategy, Haig had refused to follow these tactics until the British Armies were ready, being unwilling to risk another fiasco like the attacks of 22/23 July. The British made a large number of small, narrow-front attacks, consistent with the state of training and supply of the British divisions, intended to approximate wide-front attacks, while concentrating artillery firepower opposite Guillemont, on the right flank of the Fourth Army. From late July to early September, many attacks took place to establish the British right flank on Guillemont and Ginchy, ready for a big attack combined with the French Sixth Army and the Reserve Army in mid-September.

Publication of German casualty statistics for July 1916, showed that seven of the twelve divisions engaged by the British in July, had lost more than  their infantry, which increased optimism at British Expeditionary Force (BEF) General Headquarters (GHQ), that the German defence of the Somme front was weakening. GHQ Intelligence made a guess of  casualties, while Lieutenant-General George Macdonogh, Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office in London, estimated  the French  losses. The Bavarian divisions south of the Albert–Bapaume road were assessed to have high morale despite "heavy losses" but it was believed that there were no more than five German divisions left in reserve on the Western Front. (British spy networks in northern France and Flanders had been blown in June 1916, which left the Secret Service and GHQ Intelligence ignorant of German troop movements in the area.) A general relief of the German divisions on the Somme was known to have been completed in late August and the assessment of German divisions available as reinforcements was increased to eight. GHQ Intelligence considered a German division on the British front was worn-out after  days, even though German divisions averaged twenty days in the line. Of six more German divisions moved to the Somme by 28 August, only two had been known to be in reserve and the other four had been moved from quiet sectors without warning. News of the dismissal of Falkenhayn reached the British on 30 August and it was taken by military intelligence to foreshadow increased German emphasis on the Eastern Front, which would make the German armies in France vulnerable. The "wearing-out" battles since late July and events elsewhere, led to a belief that the big Allied attack planned for mid-September could have decisive effect.

Prelude

British preparations
The Anglo-French attacks of late July and August had been intended to advance through the un-captured part of the German second position, to Falfemont Farm, Guillemont and Leuze Wood, preparatory to the capture of Ginchy and Bouleaux Wood. The British and French armies were to co-operate to capture the high ground either side of the Combles valley and the French Sixth Army to reach Maurepas, Le Forest, Rancourt and Frégicourt. Fighting to the west of Ginchy at Longueval and Delville Wood had begun on 14 July and continued until 3 September, when all but the eastern corner was captured. The area between the wood and Ginchy, known to the German defenders as the  (Duck's Bill) dominated the approaches to the village. An attack from west needed the support of a simultaneous attack northwards on the , to prevent the Germans defeating the attack with enfilade fire and arrangements for the big offensive planned for mid-September continued.

Attacks by XV Corps and III Corps on Delville Wood and High Wood took place during the XIV Corps operations to capture Ginchy. The attacks added to the strain on British engineer services, pioneer, labour and transport units and was made worse by German bombardments, directed from the vantage points still in German possession. In the aftermath of the last attack of the Battle of Guillemont (3 to 6 September), in the XIV Corps area, the 56th (1/1st London) Division relieved the right of the 168th Brigade with the 169th Brigade, from the boundary with the French Sixth Army at the Combles ravine to the southern portion of Leuze Wood. The 168th Brigade sidestepped left to take over part of the line held by the 49th Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division and an advanced trench dug near Leuze Wood was abandoned. At  on 8 September, the 56th (1/1st London) Division attacked down Combles Trench from Leuze Wood, advancing a short distance before a German counter-attack at  on 9 September bombed them back to the wood.

British plan of attack

The 22nd Brigade, 7th Division had been withdrawn for only two days, before being sent forward again for the attack on Ginchy. The ground had been torn by shell-fire and made muddy by rain, as the brigade took over the south end of Edge Trench and Devil's Trench in Delville Wood on the left, Stout and Porter trenches on the right facing Ginchy, with a battalion in support in Montauban Alley and a battalion in reserve in Pommiers Trench. A noon attack was planned to mislead the Germans. On 6 September, a new attack was ordered with XIV Corps to advance to a line from Combles to Leuze Wood road, the Quadrilateral and Ginchy. The 55th Division to the north in the XV Corps area was to support the attack on Ginchy by attacking with the 164th Brigade, between the outskirts of the village and the eastern edge of Delville Wood. The advance was then to continue to Hop Alley and Ale Alley, then from Pint Trench to Lager Lane on the road from Ginchy to Flers; III Corps was to take Wood Lane and the east corner of High Wood.

A bombardment was to begin on 9 September at , with no increase in intensity before zero at , to deceive the Germans as to the time of the attack and to deny them an opportunity to counter-attack before dark. The French Sixth Army attack as part of the joint plan to isolate Combles further south, also scheduled for 9 September was postponed on 8 September to 12 September due to supply difficulties. On the 56th (1/1st London) Division front, between the Combles ravine and the boundary with the 16th (Irish) Division on the Combles–Guillemont road, the attack of 9 September was to be made behind a creeping barrage from half of the divisional artillery, moving at  per minute. As the creeping barrage met a standing barrage fired by the other half of the divisional artillery on each barrage line successively, the standing barrage would jump ahead to the next objective.

German defensive preparations

The many British "nibbling" attacks after 14 July had been costly to contain, as German defences had been under frequent artillery bombardment, which had turned German positions into crater-fields, buried the entrances of dug-outs, vaporised barbed-wire and demolished trenches. Allied air superiority and artillery dominated the battlefield and kept the German defenders under constant strain and caused many casualties, the most notable being Falkenhayn who was sacked on 28 August and replaced by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, who scrapped Falkenhayn's policy of rigid defence and automatic counter-attacks. German field fortifications had evolved since July from a trench-system into an outpost line in shell-holes, with supports and reserves further back in shell-holes or any cover that could be found. The outpost line, containing two or three soldiers every  and the occasional machine-gun was often overrun, after which similar shell-hole positions were improvised by the British before a German counter-attack could be mounted. The hasty German counter-attack () was forestalled and the remedy of a well-prepared methodical counter-attack () was rarely mounted because of the chronic shortage of infantry, artillery and ammunition.

Attempts to link shell-hole positions failed, because they were visible from the air and British reconnaissance aircraft directed artillery onto them. Trenches were abandoned during an attack in preference for shell-holes further forward. Unobtrusive positions were much harder for British air observers to spot and much more artillery ammunition was needed to bombard areas which were thought to contain them. Trench-lines retained their value as rallying points and accommodation and new ones were built according to the defensive lessons of the  (Second Battle of Champagne 25 September to 6 November 1915). Back-lines and switch-trenches were dug, as soon as manpower was available, on reverse slopes with artillery observation posts moved  further back. In early September, the relief of the defenders of Ginchy by Bavarian Infantry Regiment 19 was rushed, giving the regiment no time to study the ground. By mistake, the boundary between the 5th Bavarian Division and the 185th Division was placed in the village, dividing responsibility for its defence, which was made worse by some of the soldiers in the 185th Division being retrained gunners with little infantry experience.

Battle

French Sixth and Tenth armies

The Sixth Army attacked north of the Somme at noon on 3 September, capturing most of Cléry, the German position along the Cléry to Le Forêt road and all of the village of Le Forêt. On the left I Corps occupied high ground south of Combles and entered Bois Douage, taking  and twelve guns. The Tenth Army attacked on the south bank on 4 September, from Chilly to Barleux and took Chilly and Soyécourt after three days of attacks but failed to capture Vermandovillers, Derniécourt and Barleux. The Sixth Army attacked on the north bank with VII Corps, which advanced on the left and made more gains around Cléry; to the north, the Germans counter-attacked in the Combles ravine, stopping the French advance towards Rancourt. When the British took Falfemont Farm on 5 September, the French gained touch at the Combles ravine and patrols captured Ferme de l'Hôpital,  east of Le Forêt. The rest of Cléry was taken by VII Corps and XXXIII Corps, which had taken Omniécourt on the south bank of the Somme, was met on the right flank. An attack by I Corps, on the boundary with the British Fourth Army on 6 September was repulsed.

On 12 September, XXXIII Corps attacked towards Mont St Quentin and VII Corps attacked Bouchavesnes, taking the village and digging in facing Cléry and Feuillaucourt. I Corps took Bois d'Anderlu and broke through the German defences near Marrières Wood, before attacking north towards Rancourt and Sailly-Saillisel. On 13 September, I Corps closed on Le Priez Farm and VII Corps defeated several big German counter-attacks. Next day the attacks of VII and XXXIII corps were stopped by mud and German defensive fire but I Corps managed to take Le Priez Farm. Attacks were suspended again to bring up supplies and relieve tired troops, despite the big British attack due on 15 September. Frégicourt, which overlooked part of the area to be attacked by the British was still held by the Germans. Although Foch wanted to keep pressure on the Germans south of the river, supply priority was given to the Sixth Army; the Tenth Army met frequent German counter-attacks near Berny, which took some ground and was not able to resume its attacks.

Fourth Army

British attacks on Ginchy began on 3 September in the XV Corps area, when the 22nd Brigade of the 7th Division advanced eastwards, on a line from Waterlot Farm north to Delville Wood on the Guillemont–Longueval road, the objective being Ginchy Telegraph, site of an old semaphore station on the highest ground east of the village. The ground over which the attack was to pass was overlooked by Ale Alley and Hop Alley, German positions at the east end of Delville Wood. Bombers from the 91st Brigade and part of the 22nd Brigade attacked the German positions on the northern flank five minutes before zero, with support from a 24th Division battalion on the left. The British bombardment increased at  and at  became intense. A creeping barrage was arranged to begin at zero hour (noon) and dwell for five minutes, so that the infantry could close up to the German front line  away, then creep forward in three lifts through Ginchy. The bombers advanced towards Hop Alley at  but smoke from their fumite grenades alerted the Germans and the 24th Division battalion attacked late, after it received contradictory orders. The eastern edge of Delville Wood up to Hop Alley was captured but the German defenders pinned down the rest of the attacking force, when it tried to advance by moving in the open and by bombing along trenches.

At noon the main attack began and the right-hand battalion advanced into the south of Ginchy out of view, as the left-hand battalion was caught in flanking fire by the German machine-guns in Ale Alley. Part of the battalion got into the north end of Ginchy and also disappeared, while the rest occupied the southern part of Beer Trench or dug in  short of Hop Alley. A supporting company got a few men into the orchards north-west of Ginchy and were joined by part of another battalion, originally intended to occupy Ale Alley as a defensive flank. On the right flank it was reported at  that the far side of the village had been reached and the eastern and south-eastern outskirts were being consolidated. Germans in the north end of the village then worked round the open left flank and counter-attacked, pushing the survivors back to Porter Trench, except for a party which held on to a position on the Guillemont road, at the boundary with XIV Corps. A new attack at  on the northern flank, from Pilsen Lane against Hop Alley was ordered at  and extended south to recapture Ginchy, when it was seen to have been lost. The attack in the north failed, apart from some troops reaching the left side of Hop Alley and that on Ginchy was stopped by artillery and machine-gun fire at Stout and Porter trenches, where the survivors of the original attack were holding on.

Heavy and accurate German artillery-fire had begun twenty minutes after zero hour and cut communication with the attacking battalions. Contact aircraft reported seeing flares in the village but received no response when more flares were called for. The 7th Division called on corps headquarters for another bombardment by heavy artillery at  and the divisional commander Major-General Herbert Watts, requested the use of the 20th Brigade for another attack. Lieutenant-General Henry Horne, the corps commander referred this to Fourth Army headquarters, because the brigade was being conserved for the big attack planned for mid-September. Eventually the 20th Brigade was committed to hold the line and the 22nd Brigade ordered to attack again, despite its losses and disorganisation, until a patrol revealed that the Germans had infiltrated a large number of infantry in the village. The attack was cancelled and the 20th Brigade moved up by lorry to Mametz, to take over from Stout and Porter trenches to Delville Wood, ready to reinforce troops in Ginchy or to wait until morning to renew the attack, the attempt eventually taking place next day at

The 20th Brigade attackers quickly occupied Ginchy, came under massed shrapnel-shell and machine-gun fire and was soon pushed back to ZZ, Porter and Stout trenches, west and south-west of the outskirts. The corps commander postponed another attack until 5 September, when a surprise attack was to be attempted. Further north the attack from Delville Wood began at  but made no progress beyond Ale Alley and Hop Alley; a later attempt on Hop Alley from Pilsen Lane also failed, the troops being pinned down in shell-holes until dusk. The 20th Brigade attack intended for 5 September was postponed, due to the state of the ground and disorganisation in the front line.  Survivors from the 22nd Brigade reported that the village was held mainly by machine-gunners and recommended a night attack, for which a preliminary attack on the eastern fringe of Delville Wood, was made in the late afternoon. The attack reached the edge of the wood to a point north of Hop Alley, despite continuous German artillery-fire. In the early morning of 6 September, another attack on Ginchy began but lost direction in the dark.

A second attack was made at  Despite deep mud the attackers reached the western outskirts of the village, before being stopped by German machine-gun fire at close range, from hides in the débris of the village. Attacks between Ginchy and Delville Wood pushed forward from Pilsen Lane, where some of the advanced parties were then pushed back by a counter-attack from Ginchy. After another bombardment at  the British attacked from the Guillemont–Ginchy road, behind a creeping barrage and reached the village, taking a number of prisoners, before being cut off by a German counter-barrage, attacked at  and pushed back to the original front line. The 7th Division commander reported that the division was incapable of another effort and no attack on Ginchy was made on 7 September. An attempt was made to capture the last part of Delville Wood, behind a rifle-grenade barrage which was repulsed.

On the right of XIV Corps, the 56th (1/1st London) Division attacked on 9 September at  A battalion of the 169th Brigade advanced from the south-east of Leuze Wood towards Loop Trench, to establish a defensive flank along the Combles ravine. German artillery and machine-gun fire forced the battalion back; another battalion was sent forward as reinforcements but took until  to find its way through German artillery-fire and the dark. A battalion attacking from inside Leuze Wood, managed to capture the main German line beyond the sunken road into Combles at Bouleaux Wood, then advance north-west to the Guillemont–Morval road, south-east of the Quadrilateral and dig in. The 168th Brigade advanced to the north-east, from south of the Leuze Wood–Guillemont road by pivoting on its right flank, intending to reach the German line from Leuze Wood to the Quadrilateral. The right-hand battalion hugged the barrage and reached its first objective easily about  forward, despite small-arms raking the left flank battalion and only the company on the right reaching its first objective on the Leuze Wood–Ginchy road. The battalion on the right advanced again, when the barrage began to move forward at  to the final objective, at the German trench from the Quadrilateral to Bouleaux Wood. Despite many losses the objective was reached and consolidated, touch being gained with the left of the 169th Brigade and patrols pushed forward towards Morval. Small parties of German infantry were engaged by Lewis-gun fire in the gloom and driven off.

The left battalion was pinned-down by fire from German positions south-east of Ginchy and the advance to the Quadrilateral stopped. Air reconnaissance of the Quadrilateral which lay in dead ground, had shown that its outer belt of barbed-wire had been cut by the British artillery but not wire covered by long grass for  behind. A second attempt lost direction and veered to the right, as German artillery-fire and a thick mist at sunset cut off the attacking troops from communication to the rear. Troops had been brought forward to form a defensive flank on the left and after dark a battalion was sent to link the line left from the Quadrilateral, erroneously believed to have been captured, to Ginchy where troops of the 16th (Irish) Division were thought to be. The advance began at  but also got lost in the dark and mist. The German defence collapsed into confusion, with one party attacking the British from behind. As dawn broke some of the battalion found that they were at the trench south-east of the Quadrilateral.

The two 16th (Irish) Division brigades began the attack tired and worn down, after earlier attacks while attached to the 5th Division and 20th Division. The two attacking battalions of the 47th Brigade on the right flank were held back for two minutes after zero hour for a final hurricane bombardment. The 48th Brigade on the left attacked on schedule, which brought down a German counter-barrage. The battalions of the 47th Brigade were stopped by close-range machine-gun fire, most of the British bombardment having fallen on the German second line. Further attempts to advance with reinforcements also failed. North of the 47th Brigade, the battalion on the right side of the 48th Brigade was also stopped but wheeled, forced back the Germans in the vicinity and pressed on. The brigade advanced either side of the Guillemont–Ginchy road, against slight opposition and reached the first objective along Hans Crescent, on the western outskirts of Ginchy at  Two battalions leap-frogged through at  and took the village and  prisoner, the rest withdrawing towards Flers and Lesbœufs.

Some of the Irish pursued the Germans until they were recalled, to consolidate a defensive line around the eastern outskirts of Ginchy. Engineer field companies built a strongpoint on the road to Lesbœufs and one at the XIV Corps–XV Corps boundary on the Delville Wood road. On the right of XV Corps, an attack by 164th Brigade of the 55th Division captured the east end of Delville Wood and took Hop and Ale alleys but failed to hold them against German artillery and machine-gun fire. A camouflaged trench had been taken to be the objective for a few moments, causing a delay which proved "disastrous". After advancing to within  of Hop Alley, the few survivors withdrew to Pilsen Lane. Several German counter-attacks were made in the evening and repulsed.

Air operations

On the evening of 6 July, German troops were spotted moving into Ginchy, by a 9 Squadron observer and were machine-gunned but a call for artillery-fire went unanswered. Later on more troops were seen and engaged by artillery, prisoners later stating that a battalion lost half its men. On 22 July, 9 Squadron observers reported that new digging was seen around Ginchy, part of a line of entrenchments from Combles to Geuedecourt. On 18 August, British artillery-fire was directed on Ginchy, again by 9 Squadron. On 3 September a reconnaissance flight by 3 Squadron over Ginchy reported no great mass of German infantry, the aeroplane was not fired on and huddled bodies were taken to be German dead. Another aircraft flight took place during the attack and observed British infantry enter the village and at , then saw the advance move through the centre of Ginchy towards the eastern edge. German troops north of the village and more troops moving down Lager Lane were machine-gunned by the aircraft, which also called for artillery-fire by wireless and observed the shells falling on the German positions. At  British troops were still visible at the east end of Ginchy but the German troops seen earlier managed to counter-attack at , despite the British artillery-fire and recapture the village up to the western outskirts. On 9 September the final attack on Ginchy began in a haze in the late afternoon, with three aircraft of 9 Squadron on contact-patrol over the area, which reported the progress of the attack.

German 1st Army

The 4th Bavarian Division moved its left boundary to the Longueval–Flers road and the 56th (1/1st London) Division withdrew Infantry Regiment 88 (IR 88) into reserve, which became available to reinforce Fusilier Regiment 35 (FR 35) in Ginchy, which held the western edge of the village with I Battalion FR 35 and part of I Battalion, IR 88, until forced back by the British attack on 3 September. Parts of both battalions counter-attacked from Pint Trench at  as parts of I Battalion, IR 88 and III battalion, F R 35 advanced slowly through the south of the village to the south-eastern corner. Elements of both regiments attacked again at  and after hand-to-hand fighting recaptured the rest of the village but were not able to link with IR 76 to the south-west, which had been forced out of Guillemont.

A British attack at  was repulsed by small-arms fire, after signals to the German artillery went unanswered and I Battalion, F R 35 had many casualties defending Delville Wood to the west. On 6 September, the British attack got into Ginchy and took a number of prisoners, before being forced back out by a counter-attack at  by III Battalion, I R 88 and I Battalion, Reserve Infantry Regiment 104 (RIR 104) of the 24th Reserve Division, which had arrived as a reinforcement. Next day was relatively quiet and the 5th Bavarian Division began to relieve the 56th (1/1st London) Division, Bavarian Infantry Regiment 19 (BIR 19) taking over the defence of Ginchy amid considerable confusion caused by ignorance of the situation in the village, which had disappeared due to the effect of constant bombardment. On 8 September, the men of I Battalion, I R 88 at the  (Duck's Bill), a former meadow in the area between Delville Wood and Ginchy, were subjected to  (drumfire) which sent plumes of mud high into the air. Digging-in deeper revealed British corpses, whose decomposition fouled the atmosphere; British bodies were thrown forward of the German defences and German ones thrown into shell-holes behind.

South-west of Ginchy, the 111th Division had been relieved by the 185th Division of the XII Reserve Corps on  on the left of the 5th Bavarian Division. Loop Trench was defended by III Battalion, RIR 28 which was reinforced by part of the II Battalion and I Battalion, IR 65 (in line to the south, defending Combles). Part of III Battalion was overrun in Leuze and Bouleaux woods, which was reinforced by part of I Battalion, RIR 28 and some ground was recaptured; contact with Infantry Regiment 161 (IR 161) towards Ginchy was lost temporarily. The left flank of IR 161 had been "demolished" by the British attack and reinforcements from IR 65, were only able to reach the railway north-west of Bouleaux Wood. The area from Ginchy to Delville Wood was held by the 5th Bavarian Division, with I Battalion, BIR 19 from Ginchy to trenches west to Delville Wood and II Battalion, BIR 19 in support; touch with the 185th Division was maintained by patrols. The left of I Battalion, south-east of Ginchy held its ground, although contact with the rear was lost. Opposite Delville Wood, the British attack was defeated but a company in Ginchy was rolled up from the south and part of II Battalion was also pushed back. Attempts by the II Battalion to counter-attack from north of the village at  failed, the troops getting lost in the dark during the second attack. Next day at  the III Battalion, BIR 19 counter-attacked along the Ginchy–Lesbœufs road into a "terrible bombardment" and was stopped short of Ginchy. A report took until nightfall to reach the battalion headquarters. III Battalion, BIR 19 then counter-attacked again into massed artillery and machine-gun fire; part of the battalion penetrated Ginchy, where they were overwhelmed.

Aftermath

Analysis

Crown Prince Rupprecht wrote later that the confusion in Ginchy had been caused by two divisions having responsibility for the defence of the village. The hurried relief of the defenders and lack of organisation at the divisional boundary, enabled a British battalion to find its way in small groups through a gap between German units and get round the flank of the 5th Bavarian Division, forcing it to withdraw. Counter-attacks were said to have failed, because the English (sic) had defended Ginchy with few men but many machine-guns, dug-in around the fringes of the village, which stopped the German counter-attacks short of the village. A final attempt failed on 11 September, leaving Bavarian Infantry Regiment 19 with losses of . Franco-British attacks in September caused a crisis in the German defence and by  many German infantry units were at the end of their endurance.

It had taken the Fourth Army from  to advance  on a  front and cost  but capture of the ground north of Ginchy gained the British another  of the crest from Leuze Wood to Delville Wood, which overlooked the German third position for , from Delville Wood to Mouquet Farm. On 11 September, Gallwitz wrote that if the process continued, Germany would run out of men and equipment and that the British heavy guns were destroying the German artillery. The 4th Bavarian Division at Flers, reported that the loss of Ginchy exposed the area from Flers to Martinpuich to attack. British and French prisoners had said that in the recent attacks, German artillery-fire had begun too late and that attacks had caught Germans while they were still under cover in dugouts and also managed to overrun troops further back, held ready to counter-attack.

Prior & Wilson wrote that Guillemont had eventually been captured, using improved tactics but that the 7th Division attacked Ginchy with insufficient weight, seeking to keep troops fresh for the big offensive planned for mid-September. Insufficient attention was paid to mopping-up captured ground, German troops hiding in village cellars were overlooked and the artillery failed to suppress German machine-gunners firing from the flanks. The same form of attack was repeated until the 7th Division was relieved by the 16th (Irish) Division, which moved into line just as the weather deteriorated and rain turned the ground to mud. It was possible to attack Ginchy from the south once Guillemont had fallen and six battalions (albeit tired and depleted by losses) attacked instead of two in previous attacks. A stroke of ill-luck left the Germans in Ginchy unsupported, when the Irish attacked with twice as much field artillery than the previous attacks and took the village in two hours.

In the 7th Division history, Atkinson called the attacks on Ginchy most unsatisfactory, despite having plenty of artillery and ammunition in support. The fighting in Delville Wood in the aftermath of the big German counter-attack of 31 August had depleted the division; some of the lost ground in the wood had not been recaptured, which left the Germans well placed to enfilade attacks towards Ginchy from the west and north. Atkinson claimed that fighting for the village covered the left flank of the troops further south attacking Guillemont and absorbed German reinforcements in the area. The 7th Division had been used in "driblets", when a co-ordinated attack on a broader front may have succeeded. There had been insufficient time to rest troops, who were poorly trained, led by inexperienced NCOs and the "musketry" of many men from recent drafts was inadequate.

Harris described British efforts between 15 July and 14 September, a "dissolution" and that the large number of piecemeal attacks demonstrate a failure of command primarily by Haig. He suggested that the British could have established an army group level of command, similar to those in the French and German armies. Despite criticism of British methods and results, Harris noted that things were worse for the Germans, who were deluged by British artillery, directed by "ubiquitous" Royal Flying Corps (RFC) observers overhead. German troops made seventy counter-attacks against ninety British attacks from , most of which were costly failures, were too frequent and wasted troops on insignificant objectives.

Sheldon wrote in 2005, that the defence of Ginchy had driven some of the best German regiments close to collapse.  The commander of the 10th Company, Infantry Regiment 88 wrote a report to the battalion commander on 5 September, that if the company was not withdrawn, he could not answer for the consequences. The report was endorsed and forwarded by the battalion commander but the company was required to counter-attack at Ginchy on 6 September, before being relieved. In contrast to the criticism from Joffre and Foch at the time and by writers and historians since, that the British in this period conducted too many narrow-front attacks, which conceded a tactical advantage to the Germans, Dudley Ward in the 56th (1/1st London) Division history, noted that broad-front attacks were futile when delivered with insufficient weight, since troops edged away from return fire and moved through gaps in defences, bypassing German infantry who could cut them off from reinforcements and supplies.

Casualties

From  Bavarian Infantry Regiment 19 lost  in the defence of Ginchy. The 16th Irish Division suffered  from 1 to 10 September and was transferred to the Second Army in Flanders. From 23 August to its relief on 7 September, the 7th Division suffered  The 24th Division had suffered approximately  since the end of August.

Subsequent operations

Attacks were made from the Guillemont–Combles and the Guillemont–Ginchy roads to reach the Quadrilateral, a rectangular trench  on a sunken part of the Ginchy–Morval road, which was one of the preliminary objectives of the Fourth Army, before the big offensive planned for 15 September. The 16th (Irish) Division was relieved by the Guards Division on the night of 9/10 September, from the edge of Leuze Wood along the Ginchy road to Ginchy, as the British hold on Ginchy was consolidated. Next day the 56th (1/1st London) Division attacked south-east from Leuze Wood at  but was stopped by machine-gun fire from Loop Trench and the sunken road into Combles; a second attempt at  also failed. Operations began to capture Ginchy Telegraph and the Quadrilateral on the Ginchy–Morval road, at the top of the Ginchy–Morval spur. An attempt to bomb up to the Quadrilateral from Bouleaux Wood also failed in the face of German machine-gun fire. A brigade from the 5th Division began to relieve units of the 56th (1/1st London) Division and the Guards Division defeated German attempts to re-capture Ginchy.

Ginchy Telegraph was attacked by the Guards Division on 12 September at  along the Morval road, as the 56th (1/1st London) Division attacked towards the Quadrilateral again and the 6th Division began to relieve the left flank of the 56th and right flank of the Guards divisions. Next day the 6th Division had taken over from Leuze Wood to the edge of Ginchy and attacked the Quadrilateral from the south-west, reaching the Leuze Wood–Ginchy road before being held up by machine-gun fire. A second attempt at  failed with  in the two attacking battalions. An attack by the Guards at the north end of Ginchy straightened the line and an attack after dark was made on German machine-gun nests along the road to Morval. On 14 September a battalion of the 56th (1/1st London) Division dug assembly trenches south of Leuze Wood parallel to Combles Trench, preparatory to the Battle of Flers-Courcelette (15 to 22 September). The Quadrilateral was captured by the 6th Division on 18 September.

Notes

Footnotes

References

Books

Theses

Further reading

  Translation of Meine Tätigkeit im Weltkriege 1914–1918 (Berlin, Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn 1939)

External links

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 Campaign Map, Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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Q: MySQL - utf8 characters no displaying correctly on web frontend I have a database which has the latin1 default characterset - info obtained by running the following statement:
  SELECT default_character_set_name FROM information_schema.SCHEMATA

WHERE schema_name = "schemaname";
The default character set for each table and column in this database is set to utf8.
When I look at the data in the tables I can see data is stored as utf8 e.g the currency symbol € is stored in the table as €. Similarly apostraphes are stored as ' etc.
On the web frontend I have the following meta tag and so the characters render correctly.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

However I'm also seeing a lot of � symbols on the webpage which I don't see inside the database?
When I change the database connection to include the charset utf8 as follows: mysql:host=myhost;dbname=mydatabase;charset=utf8, the diamond symbols disappear but then all the other utf8
characters revert to exactly how they are saved in the database e.g. the € symbol renders as € on the webpage?
Why is this happening?

*

*How do I fix this and also change character set to utf8mb4?

Any help appreciated.
* UPDATE *
Tried the following steps:

*

*for the database:
ALTER DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

*For each table:
ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4  COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

*For each column:
ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE column_name column_name VARCHAR(191) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
Not sure if Step 3 is necessary since when I do SHOW CREATE TABLE after step 2, whilst the definition doesn't display the column charset it does display the default charset for the table as utf8mb4. As a sanity check I did run step 3 on one of the tables columns but it makes no difference - € is being rendered on the page as € with db connection as follows:
`mysql:host=myhost;dbname=mydatabase;charset=utf8mb4`

I had to run the following on each column I wanted converting which seems to fix some issues
 UPDATE tbl_profiles SET profile =
 convert(cast(convert(profile using latin1) as binary) using UTF8MB4);

but still seeing characters such as  Iâm and «Âand ⢠rendered on the webpage
Any ideas?
* UPDATE  2 *
After running steps 1 and 2 above I have a table column as follows:
`job_salary` VARCHAR(150) NULL DEFAULT NULL COLLATE 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',

The following query on this column returns the following result:
SELECT job_salary FROM tbl_jobs WHERE job_id = 2235;

€30,000 plus excellent benefits

I execute the following statement on this column:
UPDATE tbl_jobs SET job_salary = CONVERT(BINARY(CONVERT(job_salary  USING latin1)) USING utf8mb4);

But I get the following error which means some other record has a invalid utf8mb4
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A: First, let's discuss the Mojibake of the Euro sign.  All of this applies to both utf8 and utf8mb4, since the Euro is encoded the same way and there is.
It is very likely that the data was initially stored incorrectly.  If you can get back to the INSERT program, let's check for:

*

*The bytes to be stored need to be UTF-8-encoded.  What was the client programming language?  Where did the data come from?

*The connection when INSERTing and SELECTing text needs to specify utf8 or utf8mb4.  Do you have the connection parameters?

*The column needs to be declared CHARACTER SET utf8 (or utf8mb4).  It sounds like this was always correct.

*HTML should start with .

What is currently in the table?
SELECT col, HEX(col) FROM ... WHERE ...

A correctly stored Euro sign (€) should have hex E282AC.  (Interpreting that as latin1 yields €.
If instead, you see hex C3A2E2809AC2AC, you have "double encoding", and the display is probably €.
I have identified several possible fixes, but have not yet determined which applies in your case.  The likely candidate is

*

*CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 with double-encoding:

To verify it (before fixing it), please do something like:
SELECT col,
       CONVERT(BINARY(CONVERT(col USING latin1)) USING utf8mb4),
       HEX(
          CONVERT(BINARY(CONVERT(col USING latin1)) USING utf8mb4)
          )
    FROM ...
    WHERE ...

Do not apply a fix on top of another fix.  I have struggled for a long time to decipher how character set problems occur and what to do to 'fix' a single problem.  But when the wrong fix is applied, I am at a loss to unravel the mess.

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My cousin Scoota and his wife Odes have been here from South Africa and we have been non stop sight seeing in the sunshine this week!
On our second day in Capri, we caught the bus up to Ana Capri town, to catch the chair lift up to one of the highest points on the island.
Going up on down the chairlifts was one of the most peaceful journeys I have ever experienced. The views are breathtaking and when about 15 nuns came past us on our way down, it really was surreal.
After walking around the viewing point and having a much needed ice cold drink, we caught the lift back down to Ana Capri again.
Where I got a beautiful pair of sandals hand made by a local cobbler.
And then it was time to head back to the hotel and to catch the ferry to Sorrento.
The chair lift was a highlight for me in our week in Italy!


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Judith M. Billings (born July 1943) served as a judge for the Utah Court of Appeals from 1987 to 2008 and is a current Adjunct Professor for the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. In addition, she still works as an active senior judge, mediator, arbitrator and a faculty member of the National Judicial College.

Early life and education
Born and raised in Utah, Billings earned a B.A. in English from The University of Utah in 1965. Billings graduated magna cum laude and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Following her undergraduate education at the University of Utah Billings obtained a J.D. from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah in 1977. In law school she was an Associate Editor of Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. Billings earned her L.L.M. at University of Virginia Law School in 1990.

Professional career
After completion of law school, Billings was admitted to the Utah State Bar and Utah Federal Bar in 1977 and, eventually, the Supreme Court of the United States in 1989. Her first job as a lawyer was as a trial lawyer and partner with Ray, Quinney & Nebeker, where she worked from 1976 to 1982. She litigated commercial, banking, corporate, employment, construction, products liability, securities and insurance cases in state and federal courts. Cases for the Utah Court of Appeals varied from civil, criminal, administrative and domestic cases. Throughout her career, Billings has also served as a Chair of the Appellate Judges Conference of the American Bar Association and President of the National Association of Women Judges. Currently, Billings teaches about the Judicial Process (see: procedural law) at The University of Utah's S.J. Quinney College of Law while serving as a current trustee of Westminster College, member of the Board of Directors of the Park City Historical Society and Museum, member of the National Judicial College, active senior judge, mediator, arbitrator.

Judicial career
From 1981 to 1986 she served as a District Court Judge in the Third Judicial District of Utah where she presided over complex civil, criminal bench and jury trials. When the Utah Court of Appeals was established on January 31, 1987, Billings was asked by Former Governor Bangerter to serve as one of the court's inaugural judges until she retired from the court on December 31, 2008.

Awards and honors
In 1990, Judge Billings was named Utah Woman Lawyer of the year. In 1993 she received the Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Utah College of Humanities. In 1995, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.

Selected Billings Rulings
Below is a list of some of Billings' rulings throughout her career:

K.A.M. v. State, 2004 Ut. Ct. App 48 (2004)
In K.A.M. vs. State Judges; Billings, Greenwood and Orme reaffirmed the ruling of the Juvenile Court that K.A.M.s name will remain in the licensing database maintained by the Department of Child and Family Services (DFCS)

The case involved a parent that spanked their child and left a visible mark of the disciplinary action for more than 24 hours. The petitioner argued that since corporal punishment was legal that any restrictions on that punishment infringes upon "parental rights." The court affirmed the ruling of the Juvenile Court which used the following standard set by the DFCS: "whether, by clear and convincing evidence, a child has 'suffered or been threatened with nonaccidental physical or mental harm."

Boyer v. Boyer, 2011 UT App. (2011)
The Court of Appeals, in an opinion authored by Billings, affirmed the trial court's award of diminishing monthly alimony for a time period less than the length of the marriage as well as affirming a property division where there were certain assets that were not divided equally. Wife appealed the trial court's ruling that certain specific assets that were not divided equally. In affirming, the Court of Appeals noted that the goal of a property division is to receive a fair result between the parties. In awarding property, a court should determine which property is marital along with its value. The court should then divide the property equally unless it finds exceptional circumstances to do otherwise. Wife asserted that the trial court erred because it failed to divide certain marital property equally. The Court of Appeals held that a trial court is not required to divide each piece of property equally, but it can look to the marital estate in its entirety and divide the entire estate in a manner that best facilitates a clean break between the parties. The Court noted that husband had assumed all the marital deb and that the trial court made a specific finding that considering the debt, the property division was equitable. Wife also appealed her alimony award on two grounds: first that the trial court erred by not adjusting alimony (presumably an upward adjustment) based upon husband's fault and second that the court erred by awarding her diminishing alimony for a time less than the length of alimony. The Court of Appeals rejected wife's claim regarding fault by merely pointing out that the statute sets forth that a trial court may consider fault but is not required to consider fault.  The Court of Appeals then considered the diminishing alimony award under a two part analysis: was it a prospective change to a traditional alimony award or was it rehabilitative alimony? The Court noted that making future adjustments to a traditional alimony award is generally only justified when the anticipated event is certain, such as reductions in child support increasing alimony by a similar sum. The Court indicated that if the event is not certain then the trial court would be in a better position to consider the event at the time of the event. Rehabilitative alimony on the other hand is designed to assist the recipient spouse in the transition to self-sufficiency. The Court remanded to the trial court to clarify whether it had made future adjustments to a traditional alimony award or awarded rehabilitative alimony and required the trial court to clarify the time of the alimony given that there was a mathematical error in the trial court's order.

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Celebrating black women Yaa Asantewaa
(c.1850-c.1920)
Yaa Asantewaa was the queen mother of the Edweso tribe of the Asante (Ashanti) in what is modern Ghana. At the time, the Gold Coast (west-central Africa) was under the British protectorate. The British supported their campaigns against the Asante with taxes levied upon the local population. In addition, they took over the state-owned gold mines thus removing considerable income from the Asante government. Missionary schools were also established and the missionaries began interfering in local affairs.
Yaa Asantewaa
When the Asante began rebelling against the British rule, the British attempted to put down the unrests. Furthermore, the British governor, Lord Hodgson, demanded that the Asante turn over to them the Golden Stool, i.e. the throne and a symbol of Asante independence. Capt. C. H. Armitage was sent out to force the people to tell him where the Golden Stool was hidden and to bring it back. After going from village to village with no success, Armitage found at the village of Bare only the children who said their parents had gone hunting. In response, Armitage ordered the children to be beaten. When their parents came out of hiding to defend the children, he had them bound and beaten, too.
This brutality was the instigation for the Yaa Asantewaa War for Independence which began on March 28, 1900. Yaa Asantewaa mobilized the Asante troops and for three months laid siege to the British mission at the fort of Kumasi. The British had to bring in several thousand troops and artillery to break the siege. Also, in retaliation, the British troops plundered the villages, killed much of the population, confiscated their lands and left the remaining population dependent upon the British for survival. They also captured Queen Yaa Asantewaa whom they exiled along with her close companions to the Seychelle Islands off Africa's east coast, while most of the captured chiefs became prisoners-of-war. Yaa Asantewaa remained in exile until her death twenty years later.
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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said that Iran had crossed "all red lines" in its nuclear programme and vowed that Israel would not allow Tehran to acquire a nuclear weapon.
The UN ambassador for Iran, which has denied seeking a nuclear bomb, rejected Bennett's speech on Monday as "full of lies."
In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Bennett said Iran sought to dominate the Middle East under a "nuclear umbrella" and urged a more concerted international effort to halt Iran's nuclear activities.
But he also hinted at the potential for Israel to act on its own against Iran, something it has repeatedly threatened.
"Iran's nuclear programme has hit a watershed moment, and so has our tolerance. Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning," Bennett said. "Israel will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon."
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Bennett, a far-right politician who opposes Palestinian statehood, also drew an angry Palestinian reaction after he failed to mention the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Bennett, who ended Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year run as prime minister in June, wants US President Joe Biden to harden his stance against Iran, Israel's regional archfoe.
He opposes US efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, abandoned in 2018.
Indirect US-Iran talks in Vienna have stalled as Washington awaits the next move by Iran's new president, Ebrahim Raisi.
Bennett struck a less combative tone at the United Nations than Netanyahu, who often relied on props to dramatise his accusations against Iran, an approach that critics derided as political stunts.
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He called for international action. "If we put our heads to it, if we're serious about stopping it, if we use our resourcefulness, we can prevail," Bennett said.
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My previous tyres that I had on my car were priced around £85 a tyre, compared to the KU39. In comparison the Sessantas had a louder road noise and slightly poorer grip when driving in the wet.
How have your new tyres faired during both dry and wet road conditions?
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Sharing the same keyblade between Roxas's birth and the end of CoM?
If I remember correctly, they were using the same Keyblade all the way from Roxas' birth to Roxas' reunion with Sora. I believe one of the Ultimania interviews probably covered this, though I could be wrong on my information.
Whenever you see Roxas he is wielding Sora's Keyblade. When he dual wields he is using Sora's and Ven's Keyblade. Sora also, obviously was using his own Keyblade as well. There are parts in the story where, yes, they are both wielding the same Keyblade simultaneously.
So what everytime Sora is not busy fighting Heartless between the end of KH and CoM Roxas was apparently picking up the slack?
I guess? The alternative would be that they're able to summon the same weapon in different places simultaneously. Really though, what's some broken physics and weird logic to a magic fantasy sword?
The alternative. Sora's essence was divided and able to exist in two places simultaneously, it shouldn't be a surprise that they Keyblade did the same thing.
The way I see it is that since Roxas was basically the product of Sora being split in two, the keyblade, being bound to Sora was split as well or perhaps replicated. Though this doesn't quite add up still.
Based on the theory that Kairi's light merely restored Sora's outer form when she hugged his shadow heartless, neither he or Roxas should have a heart until they are reunited in KHII and it's Sora's heart which summons the keyblade and keeps it bound to him.


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When Arooj Aftab sings, it is in the most ethereal and arresting fashion. Her music is described as 'neo-Sufi, jazz, minimalist' but that has never kept her from exploring music in its many incarnations.
When Arooj Aftab sings, it is in the most ethereal and arresting fashion. Her music is described as 'neo-Sufi, jazz, minimalist' but that has never kept her from exploring music in its many incarnations. So, it doesn't come as a shock that Arooj Aftab has been nominated for two Grammy Awards.
While the late (and forever great) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was nominated in the '90s in the category of Best Traditional Folk Album and Best World Music Album, no Pakistani woman has picked up two Grammy nods prior to Arooj Aftab. Her song 'Mohabbat' was also on former American President Barack Obama's playlist, and she's been covered by international publications purely on the basis of her enormous talent.
Arooj has been nominated in the category of Best New Artist alongside Olivia Rodrigo, The Kid Laroi, Billie Eilish's brother and producer Finneas, Jimmie Allen, rappers Saweetie and Baby Keem, Glass Animals, Japanese Breakfast and Arlo Parks. The 36-year-old singer who originally comes from Lahore also got nominated in the category of Best Global Music Performance category for 'Mohabbat'. The song is off her third album, Vulture Prince that was released this year. Watch out, Pakistan. Arooj has done something remarkable and for that reason alone, we suggest you give her material a listen. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, since the news became public, Arooj has been congratulated by several industry insiders including Osman Khalid Butt, Meesha Shafi and Fakhr-e-Alam. May the force be with her come Grammy ceremony in 2022. Arooj Aftab will also appear on the upcoming season of Coke Studio 14.
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Think of the word 'Qarar' and for many of us who grew up in the '90s, the name that comes to mind is Ali Haider's. However, it looks like he will not be the only one. Riding high on the success of PISA Awards where his medley of songs including 'Cinderella' had the industry that was in attendance dancing and cheering him on, Sajjad Ali has dropped a single along with a music video called 'Qarar'.
Featuring Sonya Hussyn, the single is a showcase of how strong Sajjad Ali still is as a singer and why power ballads by him should go far and wide. Slightly melancholic, it is a song that could also fit in a film soundtrack or as an OST to a television drama. He sings about finding something that brings a sense of calm. He and Sonya Hussyn are in different spaces physically, and Sajjad Ali sings for her with a sense of internal struggle.
It is not a 'Teri Yaad' or 'Chief Saab' or the mighty 'Har Zulm' but it does remind you what great music Sajjad Ali has given over the decades and has the ability to still deliver. Somewhere in his musical repertoire, 'Qarar' does fit in nicely.
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Since news became public that Zulfiqar Jabbar Khan, aka Xulfi will be helming the popular show this season, speculation about who will make the cut as featured and guest artists is one of the biggest musical wonder. Slowly news started trickling in on what to expect from the upcoming 14th season of Coke Studio.
Endorsed by co-founding producer Rohail Hyatt, Xulfi is making a lot of changes to the series. There are multiple directors such as Kamal Khan, Murtaza Niaz, Zeeshan Parwez and Jamal Rahman who will be directing certain songs, each bringing his own flavour. The set for each song is reportedly going to be different, replacing the set design that has become familiar to us over the last 13 years or so.
As for artists, among names that have been confirmed by Instep sources include Atif Aslam, Faisal Kapadia, Young Stunners, Momina Mustehsan, Hasan Raheem, Justin Bibis, Talal Qureshi, Abdullah Siddiqui (with Veeru Shan on percussions and Zain Ali on guitars).
Adding to this super list is Faris Shafi, who is considered the best rapper in the game with songs such as 'Lafz, 'Molotov', 'Nazar', 'Clap' and 'Jawab De' with Talal Qureshi, 'Waasta' with Ali Sethi as well as the breakout single, 'Áwaam' ft. Mooroo.
His biggest national effort arrived in 'Cricket Khidaiye' where he raps in a TVC with the superstar Atif Aslam and electronic wizard Talal Qureshi as a celebration of cricket. In what avatar Faris will appear is yet to be known. Will it be a collaboration, or a solo track, are the big questions for fans who know that like last year, Coke Studio 14 will be a shorter season. Time will tell.
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Re: The lie of the API
Joe Hourcle <[log in to unmask]>
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On Dec 2, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Kevin Ford wrote:
> > A key (haha) thing that keys also provide is an opportunity
> > to have a conversation with the user of your api: who are they,
> > how could you get in touch with them, what are they doing with
> > the API, what would they like to do with the API, what doesn't
> > work? These questions are difficult to ask if they are just a
> > IP address in your access log.
> -- True, but, again, there are other ways to go about this.
> I've baulked at doing just this in the past because it reveals the raw and primary purpose behind an API key: to track individual user usage/access.  I would feel a little awkward writing (and receiving, incidentally) a message that began:
> --------------
> Hello,
> I saw you using our service.  What are you doing with our data?
> Cordially,
> Data service team
> ----------
It's better than posting to a website:
We can't justify keeping this API maintained / available,
because we have no idea who's using it, or what they're
using it for.
We've had to shut down the API because we'd had people
abusing the API and we can't easily single them out as
it's not just coming from a single IP range.
We don't require API keys here, but we *do* send out messages
to our designated community every couple of years with:
If you use our APIs, please send a letter of support
that we can include in our upcoming Senior Review.
(Senior Review is NASA's peer-review of operating projects,
where they bring in outsiders to judge if it's justifiable to
continue funding them, and if so, at what level)
Personally, I like the idea of allowing limited use without
a key (be it number of accesses per day, number of concurrent
accesses, or some other rate limiting), but as someone who has
been operating APIs for years and is *not* *allowed* to track
users, I've seen quite a few times when it would've made my
life so much easier.
> And, if you cringe a little at the ramifications of the above, then why do you need user-specific granularity?   (That's really not meant to be a rhetorical question - I would genuinely be interested in whether my notions of "open" and "free" are outmoded and based too much in a theoretical purity that unnecessary tracking is a violation of privacy).
You're assuming that you're actually correlating API calls
to the users ... it may just be an authentication system
and nothing past that.
> Unless the API key exists to control specific, user-level access precisely because this is a facet of the underlying service, I feel somewhere in all of this the service has violated, in some way, the notion that it is "open" and/or "free," assuming it has billed itself as such.  Otherwise, it's "free" and "open" as in Google or Facebook.
You're also assuming that we've claimed that our services
are 'open'.  (mine are, but I know of plenty of them that
have to deal with authorization, as they manage embargoed
or otherwise restricted items).
Of course, you can also set up some sort of 'guest'
privileges for non-authenticated users so they just wouldn't
see the restricted content.
> All that said, I think a data service can smooth things over greatly by not insisting on a developer signing a EULA (which is essentially what happens when one requests an API key) before even trying the service or desiring the most basic of data access.  There are middle ground solutions.
I do have problems with EULAs ... one in that we have to
get things approved by our legal department, second in that
they're often written completely one-sided and third in
that they're often written assuming personal use.
Twitter and Facebook had to make available alternate EULAs
so that governments could use them ... because you can't
hold the person who signed up for the account responsible
for it.  (and they don't want it 'owned' by that person
should they be fired, etc.)
... but sometimes they're less restrictive ... more TOS
than EULA.  Without it, you've got absolutely no sort of
SLA ... if they want to take down their API, or block you,
you've got no recourse at all.


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Host Russell Peters poses on the red carpet ahead of the Juno awards show in Ottawa on April 2, 2017. "The Indian Detective" star Russell Peters became a real-life crime fighter this week when he helped take down a man allegedly attempting to steal from a jewelry shop in New York City. Security footage posted on the tabloid news website TMZ shows the Canadian comedian helping apprehend a man who was allegedly attempting to flee the NYC Diamond District store with an item. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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For the first time in over a decade, the country's biggest celebration of Canadian music will take place in Saskatchewan where a week of events culminate with the broadcast on March 15, 2020.
It's the first time the Junos have landed in the city since 2007.
That's when host Nelly Furtado picked up five awards on the back of her chart-topping third studio album "Loose," co-produced by Timbaland.
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This Equal Pay Day it is time to take decisive action to close the wage gap that still exists between women and men. Why is Equal Pay Day marked every April? Because currently a woman has to work a year and three months into the next year just to earn what a man earns in one year.
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Proudly representing the 9th District of Illinois in the House of Representatives
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Making sure women get equal pay for equal work remains one of my top priorities. President Obama and Democrats in Congress share this priority, and we will keep fighting to achieve it. Every week I speak with women and families in my district and from across the country who are struggling to make ends meet. I also encounter women who are striving to get ahead in their careers but know they are paid less than their male counterparts for no reason other than their gender.
Women make 78 cents for every dollar paid to men. For women of color it is even worse. African-American women are paid 64 cents, and Latinas just 54 cents, for every dollar paid to men. Closing this gap would cut poverty in half for families with a working woman, according to a recent study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research. If we keep up the status quo, in my home state of Illinois, it will take women until 2065 -- 50 years from now -- to close the pay gap. We must fix this.
Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families -- groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.
Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing. According to analysis published in the Journal of American Medical Association, female nurses make an average of $5,100 less than their male counterparts, and this gap hasn't narrowed in more than 25 years. We cannot let another year go by without fixing this problem. There are at least two solutions.
First, we must pass the Paycheck Fairness Act. I am one of 188 Democrats who are originals co-sponsors of this legislation. The Paycheck Fairness Act is a crucial part of When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: An Economic Agenda for Women and Families. It will provide effective remedies to women who are not being paid equal wages for doing equal work.
Second, whenever possible, I believe women should join unions in their workplace. Union representation especially benefits women. I have never seen a union contract that pays women 78 cents for every dollar it pays men.
We should not wait any longer to ensure that women get the pay they deserve. I will keep fighting for this until we achieve equality. I am very thankful for all those who are already advocating for equal pay and I hope others will join me in this fight.
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Happy Birthday Wake Up! Music-2018.
Pepper Gomez sings, "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Wake Up! —-Muuuuuuuussssiiiiiic! Happy Birthday FIRST birthday to you!
As I tightened up this article, I was hit with the amazing news that Matt Warren's single, "Get on Up" from "Music is My Life" is NUMBER ONE on the Digital Radio Indie Chart! So, I'm sharing the amazing news and leading with thanks to my PR Team – James Moore of Independent Music Promotions, Stevie B of Mia Mind Music and Andrew Kitchen of AK TV and Film Productions without whom we simply would not be where we are now. Thank you to James Moore for seeing the quality in our first disc with Elena Andujar and accepting to work with us. What an honor! James is simply tops in his field. His amazing force resulted in pages of reviews and airplay! We are so pleased that he agreed to be on the team again to support Matt's record. He is joined by Stevie B whose artist roster starts with Madonna. Yes, THE Madonna! Stevie B intimately knows the ropes of the music industry as well as the people. These two are complemented by Andrew Kitchen who has clearly taken us higher with the television music video programs.
There is not doubt you can have the hottest tunes but a great PR team is needed to get you out there and known. And, while the music listeners hold the ultimate power, in a sea of music I have no more delusions about making it off posting to Spotify than I do about winning the lottery! MY Extreme thanks to this PR dream team – each with their own area of expertise and each of massive support to Wake Up! Music professionally as well as personally as they continue to share, educate and guide me! We also welcome our newest addition to the PR Team! Hailing from the UK – we are thrilled to be working with Pete Bassett and his team at Quite Great PR. Off to an amazing start, Quite Great PR will be building upon the US results to make for a smashing UK/EU release.
With ALL that said, it is hard to imagine that Wake Up! Music (WUM) is just 1-year-old. The pace has been insane! It was last November that WUM officially launched Elena Andujar's disc, "Flamenco In Time", which for the first time ever brought together the sounds of Flamenco and the sounds of House. Elena's disc was critically acclaimed and produced under the direction of Matt Warren and MyMy Lady G. Congratulations to the Queen of Flamenco for continuing to create Nu Music with deep roots!
Wake Up! Music's second release is Matt Warren's, "Music Is My Life"! Another amazing disc, this one is riding high on the DRT and NACC charts. To add to the thrill of this birthday, the music video of the single "Get On Up" featuring Janis McGee and created by Acronym, is now on MTV and BET JAMS. 2019, which is sure to be a year of so much sweetness, will a kick off with "Get On Up" airing on VH1 New Year's Day. "Get On Up" has proven to be a solid first single release from this disc as prophesized by the Musical Guru and reviewer, Jessica "Goal" Golich. An uplifting tune, if you listen closely, you will hear the encouragement for all not only to get up, move, and dance but you should note loud and clear that music can lift you up when you're down – so Get On Up! While the phrase, "accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative" is so old that many young and even middle-aged fans may not have known its origins – Diva Janis McGee lives and sings this with an infectious positivity that will not be denied.
Wake Up! Music has produced a staggering total of 28 music videos in the last year – under the illustrious team of Marcus Mixx Shannon who created the bulk of them, Larry Marvar, Acronym and Pedro Bernal. Working with top dancers such as Evette of Evette's Dance Fitness Club and Champion Pole Athlete, Ashley De La Vega, has distinguished our striving for excellence. We have entered all our work in the Independent Music Awards competition including what are no doubt the best liner notes ever produced on the history of house by the internationally known music reviewer and musician, Derek Anderson. Now forever a part of musical history, the booklet can be found in the physical copies of Matt Warren's "Music Is My Life" CD and vinyl. See what you miss when you only stream digital?
In the midst of all of this is the launch of DAM Gallus, our UK subsidiary under the direction of, Derek Anderson and the UK Team. Dam Gallus will specialize in bands from that region. Maybe the next British invasion?
We also look forward to the completion of our Flamenco Documentary, "Flamenco: Pasion En Peligro/Flamenco: Passion in Danger" under the direction of Larry Marvar and the release of the documentary's companion disc. With huge names such as Elena Andujar, Pedro Cortes, Peter Baime, Diego Amador, Antonio Andujar and Javier Concepcion, there is no doubt Wake Up! Music is keeping the music Nu and Coming!
Wake Up! Music is dedicated to letting the artists create! As based on MyMy's business background as well as Pepper's poet and House vocalist background, Wake Up! Music seeks to be the artists' label and nothing less. Great to see that new inquiries are coming in from artists who have heard "good things" about Wake Up! Music. Thank you and keep them coming as we continue the search for our next artist!
Lastly, Wake Up! Music is especially proud of our Youth Arts Initiative Program (YASI). Our budding stars including, Richard Meyer, Jr, Sharkeyes, Izzy D, Frankie Wolfe and J Rock are our future as they lend so much of what is NU to all that is created at Wake Up! Music. Thanks to each one of them for the best inspiration and all of their contributions to making this a most special year!
As we like to say at Wake Up! Music, we are crushing and gushing but only thanks to you and the music which brings us together, lifts us up, expresses our innermost feelings and keeps us feeling like each day is worth living to the max. We've made so many friends and couldn't be happier!
For this and so much more, thank you. Peace and love y'all – as always!
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Congratulations and well-deserved! I'm so happy to be on this wonderful path with you. Wake Up! Music is peace and love!
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