MONDAY 10th NOVEMBER 2014 07:30 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (10th November 1944)
On the Russian Front...
Finnish forces capture Enontekio
German vessel Carl Cords sunk by Soviet submarine SC-309 in the Baltic

In Germany...
Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, former ambassador to Soviet Union, is executed for participation in plot against Hitler 
Hitler approves plans for the Ardennes offensive

On the Western Front...
US 1st Army is heavily engaged in the Huertgen Forest sector 
US 3rd Army is fighting around Metz
US 7th Army is attacking around Etival, Vanemont, and La Houssiere   

In France...
A court is established to prosecute members of the Vichy government

In the North Sea...
RN minesweeper Hydra is severely damaged by a mine and written off

Italy...
British 8th Army attacks north of Forli against strong resistance
US 5th Army advances around Monte Ponpegno and Monte Bassana

In the Atlantic...
U-300 sinks Icelandic vessel Godafoss and British vessels Shirvan and Empire

In the Pacific...
The Japanese landing force on Ngeregong Island is bombarded by combined air attack and seabourne artillery

USN ammunition ship Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, destroying and damaging dozens of nearby ships 

U-537 is sunk by USN submarine Flounder in the Java Sea
IJN patrol boat No. 46 is sunk by USN submarine Greenling off Honshu 
Japanese vessel Yamabiko Maru is sunk by USN submarine Steelhead off Honshu 
Japanese vessel Gokoku Maru sunk by USN submarine Barb off Kyushu 

US 6th Army attacking around Breakneck Ridge and Bloody Ridge on Leyte Island
US 13th Air Force aircraft attack Japanese convoy at Ormoc Bay, sinking two Japanese vessels

In Japan...
Wang Ching-Wei, head of Japanese-sponsored Nanking government, dies in Nagoya, where he has been receiving medical care, after a long illness and is succeeded by Chen Kiung-po

In China...
Operation To-Go (Hunan-Kwangsi Operation): 
Japanese 11th Army captures Kweilin  
Japanese 23rd Army captures Liuchow

In Burma...
British 36th Infantry Division of Northern Combat Area Command reaches the Pinwe area, whilst Chinese 38th Infantry Division reaches the Bhamo area 
East African 11th Infantry Division of British 14th Army captures Mawlaik

Today's Air Raids...
Cologne, Hanau and Wiesbaden, Germany by US 8th Air Force
Hanover, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Po Valley and Brenner Pass, Italy on transportation routes by US 12th Air Force
Ceram Island and military targets in the Molucca Islands by US FEAF, sinking three Japanese vessels
Iwo Jima by US 7th Air Force
Wanlin, Tingka, Kweilin, Yoyang, Nanyo, Changsha, Paoching, Kweihsien, Yungfu, Wuchou, Siangtan, Tanchuk, Mosun, Kweiping, Yuncheng, Chenghsien, Hankow, and Chikhom, China by US 14th Air Force
Bhamo, Indaw, Hkapra, Nawngtao, Naba Station, Meza, and Kawlin, Burma by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
The Milk Run
Housework 
Monday Roast
Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Daughter continues not to contact Missus, which led to an evening discussion in which I have hopefully persuaded Missus to let Daughter go. Of course, if Daughter does get in touch, we're back to square one, but I hope Daughter instead does the decent thing and hereafter leaves the three of us alone - she has caused quite enough hurt and distress for this lifetime.

I have no hatred for this young woman, and wish her every happiness in life, but I have long since disowned her as a malign toxic influence in my life. I have learned that it is not in the interest of anyone to persist in relationships that cause mutual unhappiness.

With the situation crystallized, I hope I can move on to focus on my objective for this character of making a difference in its one-off unique way. To get the most from the experience, this is best felt from the universal rather than ego perspective, so that I shall focus on.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Is there anything in your life that you need to throw out?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Misty start
Fog will lift by mid-morning and it will be cool, dry and cloudy thereafter.
Rain arrives late evening and will turn heavy but will clear the following morning. A light southerly or south-westerly will strengthen in the evening
Max Temp = 8 degC
Min Temp = 5 degC
Sunrise at 07:24
Sunset at 16:17

Weathertrack: A large depression in the mid-Atlantic will become static and drive weather fronts across Britain
Air Pressure: 1001 millibars and falling slightly

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Local job centre continues to pay suspect people regularly while they investigate fraud - it's the benefit of the doubt :D    

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!  
Amy Blackwell on being larger 

8. TRIVIA
Approximately 109 planet Earths would fit on the surface of the sun and more than one million planet Earths would fit inside of the sun.  

9. ZEN WISDOM
If a person has just one good friend, their happiness is doubled and their life immeasurably enriched. This is genuine wealth.