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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (10th June 1943)
In Germany...
Italian ambassador Alfieri meets with Hitler

In London...
Combined Chiefs-of-Staff orders initiation of round-the-clock Combined Bomber Offensive against German U-boat bases, aircraft industry, oil facilities, etc
The Royal Navy introduces new radio code Naval Cypher Number 5

In the Mediterranean...
Kriegsmarine vessel KT-12 sunk by RN submarine Safari
In the Atlantic...
US tanker Esso Gettysburg sunk by U-66

In the Pacific...
While evacuating troops from Kiska Island, IJN submarine I-24 is rammed and sunk by USN sub chaser PC-487
Japanese vessel Jimbu Maru sunk by USN submarine S-30 off the Kuril Islands
IJN aircraft carrier Hiyo is damaged by USN submarine Trigger

In China...
Battle of Western Hupei (South Yangtze Operation): Japanese 11th Army withdraws into prepared positions and fortified garrisons, ending the offensive.

Today's Air Raids...
Kursk Sector, Russia on Luftwaffe airfields by Soviet aircraft
Netherlands Fighter patrols by US 8th Air Force
Belgium Fighter patrols by the RAF
Pantelleria Island on the Italian garrison by USAAF. After heavy dogfighting, USAAF claim 34 victories
Kiska Island and Little Kiska Island by US 11th Air Force
Bougainville Island by US 13th Air Force
Rabaul, New Britain by US 5th Air Force
Hengyang, China by Japanese 1st Air Brigade, claiming 5 P-40's shot down in dogfighting

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Bathtime
Gardening
Housework
Meditation
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,673 (up 1)
Nonfollowed eliminated = 0
Unfollowers eliminated = 0

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
My life experience has reached a point where frustrations, such as they are, are trivial and short-lived. There's always something to be getting on with or making a difference to, and looking around me, I don't envy anyone else's life experience. The challenges I face I am generally winning, and my life is cosy and comfy, with torments internal and external disempowered.

In the quiet, I can now experience that ultimate blissful stillness of simply being. I am currently on a campaign to carry that inner silence into all other areas of my life so that I will have suffering excluded from my life within a year. With goals set, intentions clear and the right frame of mind, life is currently a good game to play!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you clear in your own mind about where your life is going?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and cloudy all day.
The sky will clear around dusk and it will be clear overnight
A light south-easterly breeze will blow throughout.
Max Temp = 14 degC
Min Temp = 9 degC
Sunrise at 04:37
Sunset at 21:36

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
I took my trousers to a PR company so they'd get a good press : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Milton Jones on teachers

8. TRIVIA
The combination of the oceans' inertia and the gravity of the moon has been slowing down the Earth's rotation for billions of years. When life first appeared, a day was only 12 hours long. Currently, the rotation is slowing down by 2 milliseconds per century.

9. THE WISDOM I'VE LEARNED FROM OTHERS
"Everything worthwhile is scary" - Paul Tornier