MONDAY 6th OCTOBER 2014 07:16 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (7th October 1944)
On the Russian Front...
Finnish forces capture Ranua
Finnish gunboats Uusimaa and Hameenmaa support 3rd Infantry Division against German forces around Royotta
Hitler refuses to allow German 16th Army and 18th Army to withdraw from positions around Riga
German 3rd Panzer Army disintegrates under assault from Soviet 1st Baltic Front 
Soviet 4th Ukrainian Front opens a new offensive against German 1st Panzer Army and 1st Hungarian Army in eastern Hungary
Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front opens a new offensive against German 6th Army, German 8th Army, and Hungarian 3rd Army in southern Hungary
German vessel Nordstern is sunk by Soviet submarine SC-407 in the Baltic 

On the Western Front...
Canadian 1st Army attacks the Breskens pocket and advances toward Woensdrecht to cut off South Beveland peninsula
US 1st Army attacks toward Geilenkirchen, Alsdorf, Baesweiler, and Schmidt 
US 3rd Army is fighting around Fort Driant 
US 7th Army attacks Vagney 
French 1st Army resists German counterattacks around Le Thillot  
Free Czechoslovakian 1st Armored Brigade enters the line besieging Dunkirk under command of Canadian 1st Army 

In Hungary...
The Hungarian Resistance launches attacks in Budapest

In Yugoslavia...
Tito returns from Moscow
Serbian Premier Nedic flees Belgrade for Germany

Italy...
British 8th Army begins attacking across the Fiumicino River
US 5th Army attacks around Monte Vigese, Monte Stanco, Monte Caula, Castelnuovo di Bisano, La Villa, and Monte Ceco
USN destroyer Niblack bombards Cape Impeglio, but is then damaged in accidental collision with USN destroyer Jouett 

In the Pacific...
US 81st Infantry Division attacks the Japanese pocket on Angaur Island 
Australian 3rd Infantry Division HQ opens at Torokina on Bougainville Island

Japanese auxiliary sub chaser Cha-2 is sunk by RN submarine Tally Ho in the Strait of Malacca
U-168 is sunk by Free Dutch submarine Zwaardvisch off the East Indies
Japanese vessel Hokurei Maru is sunk by USN submarine Cabrilla off Luzon
Japanese vessel Akane Maru sunk by USN submarine Whale off the Philippines
IJN Coast Defense Vessel No. 21 is sunk by USN submarine Seahorse off the Philippines
IJN gunboat Sata is written off by a mine off Hong Kong

In China...
Hsiamen operation: 
One battalion of Japanese 62nd Independent Mixed Brigade lands at and captures Hsiamen 

In Burma...
Indian 5th Infantry Division of British 14th Army attacks Tiddim

In the Indian Ocean...
Japanese vessel No. 12 Tosa Maru and No. 42 Tachibana Maru are sunk by RN submarine Statesman in the Andaman Sea

Today's Air Raids...
Stargard Airfield, Stettin, Neubrandenburg, Straslund, Hamburg, Wenzendorf, Berlin, seaplane bases and targets of opportunity in Germany by US 8th Air Force
Sterkrade, Scholven, Buer, Dortmund, Bremen, Berlin, Ludwigshafen and Saarbrucken, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
London by one V-2 rocket
Greece on Luftwaffe airfields by US 15th Air Force
Kaimana, New Guinea by US FEAF
Celebes Island, Boeroe Island, Halmahera Island, Djailolo Island, and Ceram Island and offshore shipping by US FEAF
Iwo Jima by US 7th Air Force
Wuchou, Canton and fighter sweeps south of the Yangtze River by US 14th Air Force
Mawlu, Bilumyo, and Hsenwi, Burma by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging          
Housework
Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
With Missus at home due to the Eid holiday, there will be some disruption to the normal routine. Unable to dive into any specific projects, my focus is to externally make a difference and internally be focused as The Witness, acting from Universal Consciousness.

To all the outside perspectives the character of Gary Blonder carries on as normal, but my consciousness is now outside of the character. The objective is to keep consciousness in that elevated place by means of focus and concentration.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you have a full understanding of who you really are?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Heavy rain in the morning will ease in the afternoon and peter out by evening.
Dry and cloudy thereafter
A strong south-easterly wind will ease in the afternoon and peter out in the evening
Max Temp = 9 degC
Min Temp = 7 degC
Sunrise at 07:17
Sunset at 18:32

Weathertrack: A strong depression in the Atlantic will extend over Britain for the rest of the week, driving a series of weather fronts over the country.
Air Pressure: 1000 millibars and static

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends! :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Tim Vine on Saturday-Live 1996  

8. TRIVIA
The heaviest known normal human brain belonged to the Russian Writer Ivan Turgenev, who died in 1883. His brain weighed 4.43 pounds, more than a pound heavier than the average male brain.

9. ZEN WISDOM
Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.