>> NOW, WGAL 8'S WEATHER ON THE
8'S WITH METEOROLOGIST CHRISTINE
FERREIRA.
CHRISTINE:
GOOD MORNING.
IT IS 6:18.
WE ARE CALLING IT ARE
TRANSITIONAL THURSDAY FROM THE
BRIGHT SKIES YESTERDAY TO
POURING RAIN COMING IN TOMORROW.
WE WILL SEE INCREASING CLOUDS
AHEAD OF THAT SYSTEM TODAY.
SOGGY WEATHER TOMORROW WITHIN
AND TO UP TO TWO INCHES.
A MILDER WEEKEND WILL FOLLOW.
60 DEGREES BY SUNDAY.
TODAY, SKIES WILL BECOME CLOUDY.
WE WILL GIVE BREAKS OF SOME THIS
MORNING, BUT THE CLOUDS WILL
COME IN FAST FROM THE NORTH AND
WEST.
IT WILL BE COOLER WITH ICE OR 50
AND THERE COULD BE EVENING
SHOWERS.
TONIGHT, CLOUDY SKIES, RAIN
DEVELOPING OVERNIGHT LOWS NEAR
40 DEGREES.
TOMORROW, WIDESPREAD RAIN IS
LIKELY, BREEZY, COOL, HIGHS IN
THE UPPER 40'S, WHICH IS BELOW
AVERAGE.
AVERAGE HIGH IS 56.
HERE IS HARRISBURG -- CLOUDS ARE
THICKENING.
TEMPERATURE WISE, WE ARE SEEING
40 DEGREES IN MANY CITIES, BUT
ALSO WHERE IT HAS BEEN CLEARER
LONGER, LOWER 30'S.
LANCASTER, 34.
32 IN YORK.
HERE IS A LIVE LOOK FOR YOUR
WEATHER AND HEALTH REPORT.
POLLEN IS AT LOW LEVELS.
TREE POLLEN HAS BEEN PREDOMINANT
THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.
AIR QUALITY IS GOOD.
A UV INDEX IS AT THREE.
SUPER DOPPLER 8 -- SHOWING
CLOUDS INCREASING.
SATELLITE IS PICKING UP LANE
AND
AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE BRINGING
AND THE WET WEATHER.
TODAY, WE ARE CALLING FOR
INCREASING CLOUD COVER AND A FEW
SHOWERS BY EVENING.
TONIGHT, RAIN DEVELOPS, AND
TOMORROW, IT COULD BE HEAVY AT
TIMES.
LOOK AT THE YELLOWS AND ORANGES
ON PREDICTOR.
THAT IS THE HEAVIER RAIN COMING
THROUGH.
LOW-PRESSURE HEADS OUT TO
SEA
SATURDAY.
WE STAY MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SOME
CLEARING LATE IN THE DAY.
SUNDAY, WE WILL SEE BRIGHTER
SKIES AND WARMER HIGHS.
HERE IS WHAT PREDICTOR SAYS FOR
RAINFALL -- IT IS WIDESPREAD
ACROSS THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH.
MOST ALSO PICK UP AN INCH.
SOME SPOTS AN INCH AND A HALF UP
TO TWO CLUE -- UP TO TWO.
WE START TO WARM UP AS WE HEAD
INTO THE WEEKEND.
SUNDAY'S HIGH
IS 60 AND THE
WARMEST DAY AND THE SEVEN-DAY
FORECAST VERY EGO BACK INTO THE
50'S NEXT WEEK WITH ANOTHER
CHANCE OF RAIN TUESDAY.
EVERY COUPLE OF DAYS, WE GET WET
WEATHER.
JERE:
I NOTICED NOTHING REAL
COLD OR WARM.
IT SEEMS AVERAGE.
CHRISTINE: IN APRIL, YOU CAN GET
70'S AND 80'S.
WE DON'T SEE THAT ONCE COMING
IT.
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Angel~Chan & Donna~Kun as Anime Gurls - Duration: 1:13.
Hey Angel~Chan here today is Anime Day *Giggles* Its nothing to worry about *Mumbles Maybe* Hope you like it hehe
Angel~chan:This is anime as Angel~Chan as a Kid baby toddler ???
Angel~Chan Can't decide which one so also this one
Angel~chan as a Teen Awww daw So cute
Angel~Chan:Next is Donna~Kun ( FYI Donna~Kun is still on Vacation for Spring break Donna~Kun will be back on Saturday or Sunday Next Monday Back to school)
Angel~Chan:Donna~Kun as a Kid or baby or Toddler ?? Isn't Donna~Kun cute as a anime person kid thing
Angel~Chan:Donna~Kun as a Teen ( In real life Donna~~Kun hair is curly wavy Angel~chan couldn't fine one )
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Choosing a Probe Attenuation Ratio and Today's Scope Month Winners! (30-March-2017) - Duration: 4:06.
Hi and welcome to Scope Month! My name
is Daniel Bogdanoff and today is
Thursday, March 30th. It's the second
to last day of scope month but that
means we're going to be giving away 5
more 1000 X-Series oscilloscopes. For
today's scope tip we're actually going
to talk a little bit about probes. One of
the new things that came out with the
1000 X-Series scopes is these probes. They are
switchable 10:1, 1:1 attenuation and
that begs the question, "when would you
use a 10:1 probe? When would you use a
1:1 probe or when would you use
something like a 100:1 probe? Well you
generally want to use the higher
attenuation ratios for higher voltages.
It comes down to the way that the
attenuation in the probe works. If I'm in
10:1 mode and I probe a 1 volt signal,
it's only going to pass 100mV
into the scope and the scope
is going to recognize the probe as a 10:1
and show you one volt on the
screen, so higher attenuations are useful
if you're trying to take a really big
voltage and scale it down so that you're
not going to blow out the inputs of your
scope. 1:1 attenuation is useful
for making lower noise measurements,
especially on lower voltage signals. We
can actually see this phenomena on the
scope. I've pulled out my 1000 X and
right now I'm in 1:1 mode and I'm
probing the probe comp port of the scope
and when I switch to 10:1 attenuation
you'll see that the signal drops by 10x
and I can switch back and forth and see
that's consistently changing over time.
Also notice that this bar, the thickness
of that, is generally the noise floor of
the scope and as I switch between 10:1
and 1:1, the thickness of the signal
there at 0 and 1 is not changing between
the two attenuations, so if I wanted to
get a more accurate measurement of my
probe comp port, I'd want to be in
1:1 mode and now let's draw
today's five 1000 X-Series
oscilloscope winners. Our winners are
Elizabeth Laffey, Carson Hoffman
Philip Wallner, Dennis Wachter, and
Lasa Tilakaratne. Congratulations to our
winners. We will be in touch with you
shortly. Let's take a quick look at
another test to impress entry. Remember
you have until March 31st at 11 p.m. UTC
to get your entries in.
We are the BRS Motorsport team, non-profit association
of students from Augustine in
Germany which works completely
independently from our universities.
Every year we build a new fully electric
race car to participate in the formula
student competition all over Europe to
compete with different formula student teams
from all over the world. Over 70 team
members from different fields of studies
work on this interdisciplinary project.
We use seven control units in our car
which we design and develop on our own.
Our main focus is to build a safe car
because on the events in the summer a
fellow student would ride the prototype so
due to good engineering practice we have
to test all functions beforehand
especially critical signal lines are
very important to test for us because
unstable signals can be corrupted by MC
due to the electrical power train of the
car. Furthermore we have no possibility
of data connection to a computer with
our oscilloscopes. This makes it very
hard to create a professional
documentation of our projects and that's
the reason why we need you so much. We
want an oscilloscope with more
features because we want to improve and
learn more about our designs. Only this
way our skills can be better and we can
gain a better understanding for circuit technology.
That's all for today make
sure you tune in tomorrow at 10 a.m.
mountain standard time for our live
stream Scope Month Finale. Subscribe to
the Keysight Oscilloscopes YouTube channel.
Check us out on Facebook, Instagram and
Twitter. I'll see you tomorrow!
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MUSÉONAUTE #6 - Les Arts de l'Islam - Duration: 10:31.
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Charla casual - Miguel in Bogotá - Duration: 11:40.
We have a great soundtrack by Bruno Mars
I forgot my audio recorder
So the audio is through here and the video there
No, right here
So that is how you record your videos?
For me this is the perfect camera as you have the screen on top
The only danger is that you start looking at the screen and not at the lens
I don't know if you have seen Casey Neistat's videos
I think he is the biggest vlogger out there
What he does is use his sun glasses to not look at the screen
I really like his videos
Casey with his boosted board
Is that where you got the idea for the boosted board from?
Yes, in the US there are loads of people with boosted boards
Not only Casey Neistat but also Sara Dietschy, Saywer Hartman
There are loads of people that have one
But I think I am the first one here in Colombia that has one and makes videos
Maybe I have seen another one but it is very unusual
Luckily there are loads of cycle lanes in Bogota
And obviously the ciclovía on Sunday
He has an electric skateboard from the US
It comes with a remote control
So you drive it that way
So he has one and rides it on the cycle lanes
Is it very hot?
She loves choclos
In what year of university are you?
Fourth
Fourth? Oh so you are almost done then
No, it's nine
It's nine years??
No, it's nine months
We are in the fourth semester, which is the second year
It's four and a half years
We're halfway now
And what is the job market like for people that have studied social media?
Is it easy?
I think you need to be creative
Because through these new media types news reaches different barriers
It didn't used to be like this
You need to do the same as in the past, be good at your job
But also use these new media channels
But here these jobs are fairly new but I think there are a few of them
There is a lot of supply but there is also a lot of demand for people
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Mega gummy bear new toy finger family rhymes for children| gummy bear nursery rhymes songs - Duration: 14:50.
Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Mommy finger, Mommy finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Brother finger, Brother finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Sister finger, Sister finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
Baby finger, Baby finger, where are you?
Here I am, here I am. How do you do?
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PRÁCTICA #3: OTROS PASOS BÁSICOS + MOVIMIENTOS DE CADERA – KIZOMBA para Principiantes - Duration: 6:21.
Hello Kizomberos!,… We are Carlos and Claudia,
teachers at the Dance School
¡Deberías Estar Bailando!, from Altea (Spain).
Practice day!.
And today we are going to make it a little more difficult,
because we want to practice
the steps that we teach you in tutorial 5
of the Kizomba Beginners Series.
But also, use the steps of tutorials 1, 2 and 3.
So we have
a fairly long combination for today.
Of course,
we will also practice
hip movements,
according to the steps that Carlos uses in the combination.
If you need to remember them,
check out the tutorials 8, 9 and 12 of the Series.
If you do not have anyone to practice with,
you can do it alone, girls!.
And boys!. For us it will be a perfect exercise
to practice our memory.
If we do not have anyone to practice with,
we can do it on our own.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5… 1, 2, 3...
Are you ready?.
Today's Practice video,
is dedicated to the steps The "L" and The Cross,
although of the latter, we are only interested in
the technique Change of Direction.
We will not do The Cross, because it is a very long step,
and we simply have to do 4 times
the Change of Direction.
And so that you can practice
hip movements a little more,
we will rescue some of the previous steps.
Like the Basic to Double Time,
the Basic In Time and the Kizomba Basic.
I remind you guys,
how important it is for us
to indicate the steps correctly.
You can review all the indications of the steps,
in the tutorial 6 of the Series.
And that what we are doing,
creating combinations,
although it needs a little experience, is very easy.
We showed you how to do it in tutorial 4.
So you can create your own combinations.
We leave you in the description of the video,
all the links to the tutorials.
This is the combination of today,
do not be scared, because it is easier than it seems.
Just memorize a little more.
Girls, although I have not explained it,
in The "L" we will apply the Lateral Movement of the hip,
whenever we join the feet.
We will begin as usual
with a Basic to Double Time,
to connect with our partner,… 8 counts.
Basic to Double Time,... Half circle back.
We will do The "L", forward and backward,… 6 counts.
The "L",… Lateral movement.
2 Kizomba Basics,… 6 counts.
Kizomba Basic,... Half 8.
Now we will do 2 Walks, and in the middle
we will make a Change of Direction,… 12 counts.
Walk,… Lateral Movement.
Basic In Time,… 8 counts.
Basic In Time,… Hip rotations
to the right and left.
We relaxed, Basic to Double Time,… 8 counts.
Basic to Double Time,… Half circle back.
We do again 2 Walks, and in the middle
we will make a Change of Direction,… 12 counts.
Walk,… Lateral Movement.
Now again the Kizomba Basic,
2 times,… 6 counts.
Kizomba Basic,… Half 8.
The "L", forward and backward,… 6 counts.
The "L",… Lateral Movement.
And we ended up again slowing down
with the Basic to Double Time.
Basic to Double Time,… Half circle back.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 12.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
Do you have it?… I have it!.
And you, do you have it?,… They have it, they have it!.
So let's put music on, and practice it together.
Be prepared in this same position.
We will start with the Basic to Double Time.
3,… 2,… 1,…
The "L".
2 Kizomba Basics.
Walks with Change of Direction.
Basic In Time.
Basic to Double Time.
Walks with Change of Direction.
2 Kizomba Basics.
The "L".
And Basic to Double Time.
We repeat it once more.
Basic to Double Time.
The "L".
2 Kizomba Basics.
Walks with Change of Direction.
Basic In Time.
Basic to Double Time.
Walks with Change of Direction.
2 Kizomba Basics.
The "L".
And Basic to Double Time.
Great!. We have finished today's practice.
Hope you liked it.
Keep practicing.
Leave your comment.
LIKE if you liked.
Subscribe to the Channel.
We're waiting for you on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
And also in Spotify,
where you can find Kizomba music
to dance.
Cheer up and see you in the next tutorial.
A hug.
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Ask the Gooch - Episode 3 - Duration: 10:31.
Mikielle-san. Mikielle!
"Do you always have plans to make a mobile platform game?"
Wait, it's "Did you always have... What challenge?"
Challenges, huh?
"What advantages did developing for mobile have?"
This is an involved question... about mobile.
He is asking...
About the challenges and advantages... Right?
Got it.
And how I overcame them...
This was my first time making a mobile game, and first time is always hard.
But moving to mobile's not much different than changing hardware from NES, to Super Nintendo, to PlayStation, to Xbox.
A similar challenge.
And changing hardware can be a good thing, because every platform has its own characteristics.
For instance, mobile uses a touch panel.
There's no controller, so game design has to change dramatically to match the input method.
And while each platform has its own characteristics, it also has its own limitations.
Certain limitations like...
A console's handling of 3D.
There are limitations for handling 2D, too, since mobile games use high-definition 2D images.
Each hardware has limits like that. But those limitations allow us to firmly establish suitable mechanics.
And sometimes it's fun to lean into what the platform does well. That serves us well in the early stages of production.
In that sense, I enjoy the process of overcoming the limitations of hardware.
That's actually part of the joy in creating games.
OK... Let's go to the next one.
Is this the last question? Nope.
Well...
Oops, sorry. Did I answer the wrong question?
Sorry. Sorry.
This one, huh? Whatever. Can I answer both of them?
It's OK, right? Right?
"What have been the hardest ..."
What? "Terra Battle... how did you overcome them?"
This question right? and...
The one... about mobile.
Let's say I gave answers to both, OK?
I'm sorry. Let's leave it at that.
Now, this came in as I was talking...
Wait... I got everything mixed up.
This is a mess!
Whatever...
What about this? About Terra Battle...
These two are similar, right?
Well... When you add a new...
....a new character to Terra Battle, how do you...
Wait a second...
Well...
Let's see...
"When you add... "
I see, I see. I'm sorry.
About that...
Basically, Fujisaka plays a key role.
My priority is to have him create fascinating drawings.
So, sometimes the drawing comes first and their story is created based on that.
But when that's difficult to do, I create names and their basic profiles.
Those are different from their in-game profiles and kind of rough.
They include things like characters' lifestyles, personalities, and backgrounds.
I put those into words so he can create their appearance.
And of course he'll add his ideas for the characters into his drawings.
Lastly, we'll look at them with our scenario writer, Hatano-kun, and finalize the characters.
The characters' in-game skills are also important.
So we need more than just the art... We need new ideas.
We've got great characters with great art...
so we want unique skills to complete them.
So I'm constantly looking for good ideas for that with Nishimura and Ohno.
Right. I think that did it.
Now, the question from Sunil...
Godhania? Godhania?
G... Good-Dania? I'm not sure.
This one is similar.
Our challenges on mobile... Were also our challenges on Terra Battle.
What should I say...
Like I said, the biggest challenges were the hardware limitations.
But if I can use those limits to my advantage, I should be able to create something different from what I've created in the past.
I always try to use that to keep that in mind and make something new.
So, I can say changing hardware offers me a chance to do that.
Was that good?
Everything got mixed up. Sorry.
Is the next question the last one? Last questioooooon!
"Who is your favorite adventurer, and why?"
This is about my favorite character, right?
Well, the first one I fell in love with was... I found my favorite after Fujisaka came along.
Amazora here. I like her active personality.
Since she's one of the first characters we created...
I feel especially attached to her.
I suppose you could say the same for our entire first batch of characters.
Like Bahl...
Also Grace. I love these guys.
By the way, I like grandpa and grandma characters as well.
Those of you who play FF probably know this.
In FF, you'll always see groups of old fogies at pivotal moments.
They used to be legendary fighters, supposedly.
The famous Cid character is basically a grandpa, too.
Following that, I also love grandpa characters in Terra Battle.
This is Jennish.
Jennish is so cool. I love this grandpa!
Who else?
Zerro, Granny Zerro. I like her, too!
She has an Orbling on her head.
This is... good.
By the way, if you use the Recode DNA system in Terra Battle, you can see young Zerro.
You'll be surprised to see how beautiful she used to be.
Alright. That'll do it for the first episode. Was this too long? It's been over 30 minutes.
The plan is to edit this down to 10 minutes, but I wonder how. Hey Kyoko and Michael, can you handle it?
If not, leave it as is? Too long? Cut out whatever.
But I put a lot into this, so make it look good!
And with that...
This has been Ask the Gooch.
I'll be back with more episodes.
So make sure to check it out!
Ask the...
Ask the Goooooch!
Thank you for watching. Seeeeeeeee ya!
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April Fool's Day English Pronunciation Lesson with 5 YT Teachers! - Duration: 4:47.
Ready for an April Fool's Day lesson?
Wait. Does everyone watching know what April Fool's Day is?
I can sum it up in a single line: it's a day when people play silly jokes on one another.
Right. We try to fool friends and family. It's all done in fun. And when people discover that it's a joke, the joker can say, "April Fool's!"
So five of us teachers have come together to see if we can fool you.
We're each going to ask a true-false question. Some of us will tell the truth. Others are going to try to fool you.
Do I look like a person who can handle weapons?
Actually, I know how to use three types of weapons. True or false?
True. I briefly studied tae kwon do. And that's when I learned how to use a long staff, a short stick, and nunchucks. Double and single.
Did you hear how I stated my list? A long staff, a short stick, and nunchucks.
A common pattern is to use rising intonation on all but the last item of a list, as in one, two, and three. We use falling intonation on the last item.
For more information and practice, please check out my lesson on intonation patterns for stating lists and presenting alternatives.
I'm from the United States of America, but do you know which state I currently live in?
Well, if you follow Go Natural English, you probably know the answer. I live in Missouri.
True or false?
The answer is false. I made one of the Go Natural videos in Missouri when I was visiting family. My father lives there. But I am not from there and I don't currently live there.
But you can see the video I made and learn about how to use word stress correctly to sound more like a natural English speaker.
I went to graduate school to study Linguistics. True or false?
False! I went to graduate school to study opera singing.
Check out this video I made about intonation in American English and how it can help you
sound more native. I have a short clip of me singing opera in that video!
I'm British and this is my husband, Jay. He's American. That's true!
So he says tomahto and I say tomayto. Is that true or false?
It's false! It's the other way round. I say tomayto and she says tomahto.
So watch our video on British and American pronunciation differences to learn more.
Check this out. I used to work at a fish market. True or false?
True! Actually I worked at a fish market for
six summers when I was a teenager. Did you notice the rhythm while I was speaking?
Did you? When we speak, we stress the words that are most important for people to understand.
Those words are on the beat in English. The other words - usually little grammar words
- they shrink, they get smaller, or link together. That's the shrinking and linking. If you're
interested in this topic - so important for practicing English - please check out this video I made.
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Lenin Takes The Train - First Battle of Gaza I THE GREAT WAR Week 140 - Duration: 10:17.
If you plan a battle, of course you need soldiers and weapons, and a battle plan, but that's
not all you need - you also need time, timing, and water.
I'm Indy Neidell; welcome to the Great War.
Last week the allies made small advances in the west, the Balkans, and Macedonia.
There was a munitions strike in Britain, rival factions attempting to lead in post revolutionary
Russia, political machinations from Austria-Hungary, and hundreds of civilian deaths at sea caused
by German U-boats.
On thing I didn't mention last week that still continued was the Toplica Uprising.
It ended, though, the 25th, with order restored by the Central Powers.
Thousands of people, including many civilians, lost their lives.
This was the only popular uprising during the war that happened in an occupied territory.
It was pretty brutally crushed, and the Bulgarians actually set fire to whole villages.
But though the uprising was put down, resistance wasn't.
And the Bulgarian policy had been harsh from the beginning, "...to a certain point it
was based on the presumption that Serbia had been once and for all wiped out of the political
map of Europe...
Bulgaria intended to hold what it got, or... make these lands Bulgarian by any means possible."
And it is true that postwar many Bulgarian officers were charged with war crimes for
their actions in this region.
(Toplice uprising PDF)
The "rebellion" also seemed over in Russia.
On the 24th, the Russian armies declare their loyalty to the provisional government, and
the next day Mikhail Alexeev became army commander in chief.
Because of desertions and to try and fix supply issues, he announced that he would have to
delay the May offensive he'd promised the Allies.
On the 26th, German and Austrian authorities provided railway facilities for Vladimir Lenin
to return to Russia from exile in Switzerland, knowing he will be a major force for civil
unrest and getting Russia out of the war.
You might think that with the situation in Russia, Germany would launch an immediate
offensive on the Eastern Front to capitalize on chaos in the Russian army, but they were
subtler.
A direct attack could in theory provoke patriotism in the Russian troops; why not let them tear
themselves apart internally instead?
This was why they sent Lenin, the political agitator, hoping that he was the virus that
would kill his host.
Also, the spring thaws were preventing any major action in the east for the time being
anyhow.
On the 27th, the Petrograd Soviet, vying for control with the Provisional Government, called
on all people to demand an end to the war.
They issued their famous proclamation, "to the people of the whole world", with passages
like this, "We address ourselves to our brothers from the proletariat of the Austro-German
coalition... from the first days of the war, the attempt was made to convince you that
your weapons... protect European culture from Asiatic despotism...
From now on, this excuse no longer applies; democratic Russia cannot be a threat to liberty
and civilization...
Cast off the yoke of your semi-despotic state order... refuse to be a tool of annexation
and violence... we challenge you to the restoration and consolidation of international unity.
Workers of the world, unite!"
That same day, that same Soviet promised the Polish people complete independence.
There was one big battle that was taking place in the field this week.
General Sir Archibald Murray was in charge of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, and though
he'd lost a division to the demands of the Western Front, he still had four divisions
in his Eastern Force under his field commander Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Dobell.
He also had his desert column made up of the ANZAC and Imperial Mounted Divisions.
They had been making pretty successful raids on Ottoman positions near the border, but
the main attack was now on.
The British figured it to be more a case of getting the Turks to turn up and cutting off
their retreat than an actual battle, and this - as was par for the course with the British
- was overly optimistic.
The town of Gaza was the key to the coastal region and an advance to Palestine, but though
the Turks were not really there in large numbers, they were well dug in on the hills and ridges
around Gaza, and they also had thick hedges of cactus, which, as you may guess, were serious
obstacles.
What would eventually be known as the First Battle of Gaza kicked off March 26, 1917,
with pretty ambitious British battle plans.
The cavalry, under Sir Philip Chetwode, would make a sweep around the town to cut the enemy
off, and then two divisions would make a frontal assault.
Thing is, though this plan was ambitious, it worked, at least at first.
The cavalry swept all the way around to the sea, encircling Gaza, and the infantry had
advanced at night and hadn't been noticed.
But dense fog crept in and the guides weren't up to snuff, so there was suddenly delay after
delay, and by the time the 53rd Division attacked Ali Muntar hill, there was serious resistance.
Still, they managed to capture their objectives and establish at least tentative contact with
the cavalry, but by this time the day was almost over and they had not broken the enemy
resistance.
There were also reports of Turkish reinforcements marching in from the south.
Peter Hart says, "The effective use of time is always important in warfare, but in Palestine
it was particularly critical because unless they had secured water within a certain timeframe,
the troops would have to be withdrawn".
Dobell first pulled back his cavalry, which was pretty exposed, but then came a period
of total chaos and a collapse of command.
Both sides actually thought they'd lost the battle, but the Turks had the water advantage
and since Dobell's water situation was growing grave he was forced to order the men to fall
back.
On March 27th his forces surrendered their gains.
It was a British defeat.
Murray, though, did not really write that up in his dispatches to Britain, tripling
the Turkish casualties and writing an optimistic account that it was just a minor setback.
The result of that - in conjunction with taking Baghdad two weeks ago - meant that Prime Minister
Lloyd George saw a real opportunity for success in Palestine and urged swift action, with
Jerusalem being the goal.
A second attempt on Gaza was given the green light.
Thing is, Murray had said previously that he needed five divisions to defend Egypt,
but now he was going to invade Palestine with just four.
It seems, to me at least, that just like in Mesopotamia leading up to the siege of Kut
15 months ago, hubris and optimism were taking the place of common sense.
Murray began his preparations for another attack.
And a side note here- soon, the war in the skies is going to heat up, and I want to mention
something I haven't had time to mention before.
It's something from the period that I found in The Story of the Great War, "Not only
have aeroplanes, since the beginning of the war, become safer, but they have also become
marvelously swifter and more powerful.
As this is being written news comes from Washington that some recently imported very big and powerful
Italian aeroplanes have made successfully a flight from Newport News to the federal
capital - a distance of some 150 miles - at a rate of 135 miles per hour and carrying
ten passengers.
This is typical of the recent development in the science of flying."
That was actually faster than the land speed record of 124 MPH, set in Britain in 1914.
Planes were now faster than cars.
And the week ends, with a British defeat at Gaza, the ending of a rebellion in the Balkans,
and a Russian government saying it will continue the war but the Germans sending Lenin to try
and stop that from happening.
Time and timing are important in war, but not just in battle; also in the endless conduct
of the war.
I haven't read from Louis Barthas' memoir "Poilu" in a while so I want to close
with that today.
He had been doing his time fighting since August 1914 and was still doing so, day after
grim day.
You can see that effect on his morale, and there is no doubt his feelings were shared
by the masses of the warring men.
"All this accursed month of March, the weather was terrible, bitterly cold, with fog, rain
and snow squalls.
But that didn't stop the firefights or violent bombardments... to take and retake a few stretches
of broken down trench line.
It wasn't that the possession of these trenches had any capital importance for one adversary
or the other.
It came from a sense of prestige, of conceit, or glory for the generals responsible, both
French and German.
The sufferings and deaths of hundreds and thousands of soldiers counted for little in
relation to all that."
Amen.
If you want to learn more about Louis Barthas and his diary, check out our bio episode about
him right here.
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