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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (12th July 1944)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet Leningrad Front is ordered to halt its unsuccessful attacks against Finnish defenses around Tali-Ihantala, ending the Summer offensive in the Karelian isthmus

Operation Bagration:
Soviet 3rd Baltic Front reaches the Velikaya River
Soviet 2nd Baltic Front breaks through German 16th Army lines and advances into rear areas
Soviet 1st Baltic Front captures Idritsa
Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front fights its way into encircled Vilnius (Wilno, Vilna) 

Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front launches probing attacks on German Army Group North Ukraine  

In Normandy, France...
V Corps of US 1st Army clears the area around Hill 192
XIX Corps of US 1st Army attacks toward St Lo 
VII Corps of US 1st Army attacks toward Periers
VIII Corps of US 1st Army attacks southward along the west coast of the Cotentin peninsula 
US Brigadier-General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. dies of a cardiac arrest

In the North Sea...
Kriegsmarine patrol vessel V-812 is sunk by patrolling Allied aircraft 

In Italy...
US 5th Army captures Laiatico and Castiglioncello

In the Mediterranean...
The Luftwaffe unsuccessfully attacks Allied convoy UGS-46 with 30 aircraft

In the Pacific...
Guam is bombarded by Cruisers and destroyers of USN Task Group 53.18, whilst carrier-based aircraft attack from the air 

Japanese vessel Nichiran Maru sunk by USN submarine Piranha off the Philippines

US 41st Infantry Division are still mopping up remnants of Japanese Biak Detachment on Biak Island

In New Guinea...
US Task Force Persecution regroups and prepares to counterattack along the Driniumor River at the eastern end of Aitape beachhead 
Japanese units conduct unsuccessful attacks overnight along the Driniumor River

In China...
Operation To-Go (Hengyang Operation): 
Japanese 11th Army attack Chinese 10th Army in Hengyang

On the Salween Front:
Chinese forces unsuccessfully attacking around Sung Shan

In Burma...
US-Chinese forces unsuccessfully attack Myitkyina with poorly coordinated air support 

Today's Air Raids...
Munich, Germany by US 8th Air Force in massive strength - 1117 bombers, of which 24 (2%) are lost, and escorted by 754 fighters
V-Weapons sites, France by RAF Bomber Command
Mimes, Miramas and military targets in Southern France by US 15th Air Force
Po Valley, Italy on communications targets by US 12th Air Force
Rota Island by Carrier-based aircraft from USN task force 53
Tinian and Truk Atoll by US 7th Air Force 
Yap Island, Timor Island and Ceram Island by US FEAF
Wewak, Manikwari and military targwts in New Guinea by US FEAF
Liling, Yuhsien, Hengyang, Leiyang, and military targets in China by US 14th Air Force  
Myitkyina and military targets in North Burma by US 10th Air Force

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

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Unfollowers eliminated = 0
New followers = 0

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
It turns out that the secret to a joyful fulfilled life experience boils down to one act: keep your mind focused on your intention. However, this is a bit like saying all that you need to do to become a successful athlete is train hard!      
It has taken me two-thirds of this life-experience to simply get to understanding what I need to do, and the level of concentration required to keep my mind in he right place and protected from distraction is way beyond that of that needed for simply living.

Of course, as with any training, if you keep doing it, it gets easier, but you can never relax - you have to keep up that level of focus permanently. But it is however, absolutely worth it! While I am doing it, I am truly awake! The default human experience is to dream through life thinking you're awake when you're not. I guess I was fortunate in having a bad dream - that gave me an incentive to awaken.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What if this, no matter how vivid and real it feels, is only a dream?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry start
Cloud thickens throughout the day and there may be isolated light showers in the later afternoon
Prolonged but light rain arrives in the late evening
Max Temp = 22 degC
Min Temp = 14 degC
Sunrise at 04:51
Sunset at 21:34

Jetstream: North of Scotland but shifting rapidly south
Weathertrack: High Pressure over the Azores will temporarily retreat, allowing weather fronts generated by a depression static off Iceland, to sweep across Britain
Air Pressure: 1015 millibars and falling

6. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Guess who I bumped into at the opticians? Everybody :D   

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Eddie Izzard - Cake or Death 

8. TRIVIA
Chicago gangster Al Capone (1899-1947), in one of his sporadic attempts at public relations, opened a soup kitchen during the Great Depression.

9. ZEN WISDOM
Wisdom is invisible. It can only be gauged by a person’s actual conduct and behaviour.