EASTER SATURDAY 19th APRIL 2014 06:51 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (19th April 1944)
In the North Sea...
U-974 sunk by Free Norwegian submarine Ula

In the English Channel...
Kriegsmarine 5th and 9th S-Boat Flotillas unsuccessfully attack an Allied coastal convoy overnight 

In Albania...
British officers McLean, Smiley, and Amery land by parachute overnight to take control of SOE operations and liaison with Albanian partisans

In the Pacific...
IJN submarine Ro-45 sunk by USN submarine Seahorse

In China...
Operation Ko-Go (Peking-Hankow Operation): Japanese 12th Army captures Chenghsien

In India...
The Japanese siege of Kohima is ended but fighting there continues and Imphal remains surrounded
Japanese forces abandon attacks around Sengmai north of Imphal and go over to the defensive
Indian 17th Infantry Division is engaged with Japanese 33rd Infantry Division around Bishenpur and Khoirok southwest of Imphal 

In the Indian Ocean...
US vessel John Straub is sunk by IJN submarine I-180 

Today's Air Raids...
Germany on military targets by US 8th and 9th Air Forces in massive strength - over 1000 bombers and 700 fighters. The Luftwaffe loses 24 fighters
Netherlands and Belgium
Allied fighter sweeps
Northern France Fighter sweeps and on V-Weapons sites by US 8th Air Force
Italy Piombo, Ancona and military targets by US 12th Air Force
Woleai Atoll and Satawan Airfield, Nomoi Islands by US 13th Air Force
Truk Atoll and Ponape Island by US 7th Air Force
New Guinea military targets by US 5th Air Force
Rabaul and military targets in New Britain by US 13th Air Force
The Arakan, Burma by US 10th Air Force
Imphal, India on Japanese positions by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Me Time
Weekend Job
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,739 (no change)
Nonfollowed eliminated = 1
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Unfollowers eliminated = 0
New followers = 1
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3. TODAY'S SELF OBSERVATION
A wonderful week of doing nothing, allowing convalescence and resolving an issue with Son finally comes to an end today and I would have liked it to go on at least another week! However there's stuff to do and challenges to face. 

I certainly go into this coming week with my mind in the best possible place. I'm also very aware that it won't stay there without continual effort! I intend to keep up all my mental and spiritual disciplines, becoming increasingly internally silent and intuitively directed.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you clear in your own mind about what's needed to move your life forward?  

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry throughout
After a sunny start, cloud will arrive by mid-morning, but there will be plenty of sunny intervals
Cloudy with clear intervals overnight 
Max Temp = 10 degC
Min Temp = 2 degC
Sunrise at 05:58
Sunset at 20:15

6. TODAY'S ONELINER   
"I am." is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language - and "I do" is the longest :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
QI: Mythbusting dehydration 

8. TRIVIA
When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, U.S. national debt was under $1 trillion. After he left eight years later, debt was $2.6 trillion and the U.S. had moved from being the world’s largest international creditor to the world’s largest debtor nation.

9. ZEN WISDOM
From a healed, peaceful heart, humility is born; from humility, a willingness to listen to others is born; from a willingness to listen to others, mutual understanding is born.