Sunday, 3 November 2013

SUNDAY 3rd NOVEMBER 2013 08:09 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (3rd November 1943)
On the Russian Front...

Soviet 38th Army and 60th Army of 1st Ukrainian Front launch a major offensive north of Kiev. German 4th Panzer Army launches unsuccessful counter-attacks
XLIV Korps of German 6th Army withdraws across the Dniepr River at Kherson
In the Crimea, Soviet 56th Army strengthens its bridgehead on the Kerch peninsula.
As the Germans withdraw from the Kiev area, several thousand Jews are murdered.

In Germany...
Hitler issues Fuehrer Directive No. 51 regarding defences in Western Europe.

In the Aegean...  
Kampfgruppe of German 22nd Infantry Division departs Piraeus slowly by sea for an assault on Leros Island.

In Italy...
British 8th Army continues a major assault across the Trigno River
US 5th Army attacks across the Volturno River and captures Sessa Aurunca 
Kriegsmarine ASW trawler UJ-2206 is sunk by USN PT boats at San Stefano 

In the Mediterranean...
French vessel Mont Viso is sunk by U-593

At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...
USN battleship Oklahoma, sunk in 1941, is refloated.

In the Pacific...
Japanese vessel Minato Maru is sunk by USN PB4Y aircraft   

An IJN task force of ten cruisers and ten destroyers departs Truk Atoll for Rabaul to support the defence of Bougainville Island, where US 3rd Marine Division is expanding its bridgehead.

In New Guinea...
Two Australian battalions attack Japanese positions at Jivevaneng in the Finschhafen sector

In China...
Changte Operation: Japanese 11th Army advances toward the Nuanshuichieh-Wangchiachang line 

Today's Air Raids...
Wilhelshaven, Germany by US 8th Air Force
Dusseldorf, Cologne and military targets in Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Schiphol, Netherlands  by US 9th Air Force
Belgium, Netherlands and Northern France Fighter patrols by 2nd Tactical Air Force
St Andre de L'Eure and Triqueville, France by US 9th Air Force 
North Sea minelaying by RAF Bomber Command
Ipswich, England by the Luftwaffe
Araxos Island by US 15th Air Force
Kowloon Docks, Hong Kong by US 14th Air Force
Maungdaw, Burma by RAF aircraft

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
The Milk Run
Miscellaneous online stuff
Meditation
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,694 (no change)
Nonfollowed eliminated = 0
Unfollowers eliminated = 0

New followers = 0


3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
What greater compliment could a son pay his father? When Son realized he couldn't take me to Huddersfield, he chose to abandon the outing and instead we went as Father And Son to the Corn Dolly and had a most blokey evening drinking real ale, talking man-talk and playing pool, followed by a takeaway Chinese which we ate in front of the football.

In short, rather than going out partying with his peers for his 18th, he chose to spend the evening as just me and him. We have become not just father and son but best friends. I am basking in the spectacularly successful relationships I enjoy with Son and Missus.

I often think that this character I play sits at a fulcrum, a vantage point from which I can see the entire universe on every scale from cosmic to quantum, and experience positive and negative, darkness and light, success and failure, joy and despair, love and loneliness, selfishness and generosity, good and evil, pleasure and pain in equal bittersweet measure. I have in a quiet way truly observed life.

Through my character the universe has known itself in all its awesomeness!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What in your life is a success, and what were the reasons for it?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
A dry and sunny start
Showers, some heavy, arriving by mid-morning, with sunny imtervals.
Showers will clear by dusk and it will be dry with clear spells thereafter.
A strong westerly will gradually ease and peter out entirely by late evening
A very cold north-westerly will slowly pick up overnight  
Max Temp = 7 degC

Min Temp = 3 degC
Sunrise at 17:10
Sunset at 16:30

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
The LEGO craze - if you can't beat it, join it! : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
QI - Marijuana 

8. TRIVIA
10% of all diabetics are Americans

9. ZEN WISDOM
Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves. 
 
    

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