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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (2nd September 1944)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet 3rd Ukraininan Front approaches the Bulgarian border
Soviet minesweeper BTSC-410 is sunk by U-19 in the Black Sea
Finnish government agrees to accept Moscow's prerequisites for peace negotiations and in compliance severs relations with Germany and orders the withdrawal of all German forces from Finnish territory
The Old Town sector of Warsaw is captured by German forces

On the Western Front...
Canadian 1st Army captures St Valery-en-Caux, advances toward Le Havre, and reaches the Somme River east of Abbeville.
British 2nd Army drives toward Lille while crossing into Belgium and reaching Tournai
US 1st Army crosses into Belgium, advancing around Tournai, Noyon, St Quentin, Maubeuge, Hirson, Mons, and Charleroi
US 3rd Army, slowed by lack of fuel, reaches the Moselle River 
VIII Corps of US 3rd Army with RAF air support attacks into Brest while elements of 83rd Infantry Division capture Ile de Cezembre 
US 7th Army repulses a German counterattack
French forces enter Lyon

In the North Sea...
U-394 is sunk by RN destroyers Mermaid and Whitehall

In the English Channel...
Kriegsmarine gun ferry AF-70 is sunk by RN MTBs 

In Albania...
Partisans attack and destroy a German column, killing more than 100 troops and capturing 29 others

In the Adriatic...
Italian liner Rex, in German service is sunk by Allied aircraft 

In Italy...
British 8th Army advances toward Rimini 
US 5th Army clears Pisa, patrols to the Serchio River, and attacks around Monte Albano 

In the Pacific...
Japanese vessel Shirakami Maru is sunk by USN submarine Guardfish 
Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima are bombarded by two cruisers and four destroyers of USN Task Group 38.4, and attacked by carrier-based aircraft
 
In China...
Operation To-Go (Hunan-Kwangsi Operation): 
Japanese 11th Army advances toward Kiyang and Hwochangping

In the Indian Ocean...
Japanese vessel No. 1 Toso Maru is sunk by RN submarine Strongbow

Today's Air Raids...
Yugoslavia on transportation routes by US 15th Air Force
Nauru, Pagan Island, Yap Island, Kror Island and Ponape Island by US 7th Air Force
Sorong, New Guinea by US FEAF  
Mindanao Island by US FEAF
China airfields, troop positions, and other targets around Hengyang, Changning, Changsha, and elsewhere by US 14th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Laundry
Gardening
Online promotional work
Meditation
Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Myself and Missus slipped back to the "old routine" really easily and got stuff done. It's now a case of the daily pursuit of objectives. I have recently without realizing let thought management slip, so I'm renewing my efforts to achieve Total Internal Silence, letting intuition/Higher Self do all the "thinking", and making all the decisions, freeing up consciousness to experience life and focus on objectives.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are the right parts of your mind doing the right jobs?                

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD 
Dry and sunny in the morning, cloudy thereafter
Wind negligible
Max Temp = 17 degC
Min Temp = 9 degC
Sunrise at 06:17
Sunset at 19:56

Weathertrack: High Pressure over Ireland will move rapidly east to the Baltic, slow and intensify, extending over all northern Europe
Air Pressure: 1024 millibars and static

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
I wish I was where I was when I wished I was here. :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY! 
Mock The Week: What a news reporter would never say 

8. TRIVIA
Ancient mathematicians tried to compute pi by inscribing polygons with more and more sides to more closely approach the area of a circle. Archimedes used a 96-sided polygon. Chinese mathematician Liu Hui inscribed a 192-sided polygon and then a 3,072-sided polygon to calculate pi to 3.14159. Tsu Ch’ung and his son inscribed polygons with as many as 24,576 sides to calculate pi (the result had only an 8-millionth of 1% difference from the now accepted value of pi). 

9. ZEN WISDOM
Too much triumph deludes the successful into thinking they themselves are the source of their power and thus invincible, so they stop doing what it takes to keep it - and fall.