FRIDAY 28th FEBRUARY 2014 06:20 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (28th February 1944)
In the Arctic...
Soviet submarine M-108 is sunk by a mine off Norway
Arctic Convoy JW 57 arrives Kola Inlet, notable for not having lost a single ship. However one escort had been sunk, though also one U-Boat.

In Germany...
Test pilot Hanna Reitsch visits Hitler and recommends that to increase accuracy, V-1 flying bombs should be piloted by suicide volunteers.
U-1224 formally handed over to Imperial Japanese Navy as RO-501


In the English Channel...
Kriegsmarine S-boats unsuccessfully attack a British coastal convoy overnight

In the Mediterranean...
German vessel Kapitan Diederichsen is sunk by Free French destroyers Terrible and Le Malin overnight 

In Italy...
German 14th Army mounts new attacks against US VI Corps in the Anzio beachhead 
RN cruiser Mauritius and destroyer Laforey bombard Formia

In the Pacific...
Japanese vessels Shoho Maru and Akiura Maru are sunk by USN submarine Balao 
Japanese vessel Kaiko Maru is sunk by USN submarine Sand Lance

Today's Air Raids...
V-Weapons sites, Northern France by uS 8th and 9th Air Forces and RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia on German shipping by US 12th Air Force
Wotje Atill and Mille Atoll by US 7th Air Force
Alexishafen and Madand, New Guinea by RAAF
Hansa Bay and military targets, New Guinea by US 5th Air Force
Rabaul and military targets, New Britain by US 13th Air Force and USN aircraft 
Los Negros Island and Manus Island by US 5th Air Force
Mandaly, Makyab and military targets in Burma by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Brief Missus Time
Shift 1 of the Weekend Job
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,715 (down 1)
Nonfollowed eliminated = 0
@1888mytuxes
Unfollowers eliminated = 0
New followers = 0 

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
The "cinnamon experiment" continues to proceed well with no night snacking or "hunger rage" since I started. It's beginning to look like a lifetime of being blighted could in all that time have been cured by a simple cheap product on every supermarket shelf, and I only found out about it through a chance conversation on Facebook.

It looks like my problem has been hypoglycaemia induced by Chromium deficiency. I wonder how many others are/have been needlessly silently suffering like me? I need to get this information out there!

Yesterday's "honeymoon day" went well with Missus being suitably satisfied in all departments and I got plenty of me time as well. Much of that me time was spent tracking down a problem with Windows movie Maker that turned out to be caused by a very subtly corrupt GIF file. At least I finally got to the problem and finished the video I wanted to make. All's well when you get it sorted!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Can you recall a serious problem that you overcame and how you did it?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Foggy start
Dry throughout
A north-westerly breeze will swing westerly in the evening
Max Temp = 5 degC
Min Temp = 0 degC
Sunrise at 06:59
Sunset at 17:42

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Apparently holding a door open for a woman is not welcome if it's the toilet door  : D 

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY! 
Mock The Week: The Worst Thing To Hear On Holiday  

8. TRIVIA
In just seven years, a single pair of cats and their offspring could produce a staggering total of 420,000 kittens.

9. ZEN WISDOM
Defeat lies not in failing or making mistakes; rather, it lies in giving up on ourselves when we do so.