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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (23rd November
1944)
On the Russian Front...
German units are withdrawing from Finnish Lapland into Norway
The German evacuation from Oesel (Saaremaa) Island is completed overnight. To cover the retreat, Kriegsmarine cruiser
Admiral Scheer with destroyers Z-25 and Z-35 and six torpedo boats bombard Soviet positions.
Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front attacks around Budapest but with limited supplies
Germany...
Hitler authorizes acceptance of the British offer to send food and medicine to the Channel Islands
On the Western Front...
British 2nd Army advances to the Maas River from Venlo northward
US 9th Army captures Bourheim, Lohn, Pattern, and part of Merzenhausen and German forces launch strong counterattacks
US 1st Army is heavily engaged in Huertgen Forest
US 3rd Army attacks around the Orscholz Line, Hilsprich, and Albestroff
French 2nd Armored Division of US 7th Army captures Strasbourg despite strong German counterattacks around Sarrebourg
French 1st Army captures Chateau-Lambert
In the Channel Islands...
US vessel William D. Burnham is sunk by U-978
Italy...
British 8th Army captures Monte Ricci and continues to advance across the Cosina River
Canada...
Parliament approves the sending of conscripts to fight in Europe
In the Pacific...
The transfer of military positions from US Army units to Australian II Corps continues in the Solomon Islands
Japanese forces counterattack US 6th Army around Shoestring Ridge on Leyte Island
Five Japanese cargo ships are lost to USN submarines in the East China Sea
Indochina...
De Gaulle secretly instructs Admiral Decoux, who has defected from the Vichy government, to remain in office in Indochina
China...
Operation To-Go (Hunan-Kwangsi Operation):
23rd Independent Mixed Brigade of Japanese 23rd Army advances toward Nanning
Burma...
British 36th Infantry Division of Northern Combat Area Command, with USAAF air support, attacks around Pinwe
Today's Air Raids...
Gelsenkirchen, Germany by US 8th Air Force and RAF Bomber Command
Hanover, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Yugoslavia on transportation routes and military targets by US 15th Air Force
Halmahera Island by RAAF aircraft
Matina airfield, Mindanao Island by US FEAF
Chichi Jima and Haha Jima by US 7th Air Force
Southern China on targets of opportunity by US 14th Air Force
Anisakan, Nawnghkio, Man Naung, Ye-U, Kanbalu, Tantabin, Tangon, and Thegyaung, Burma by US 10th Air Force
Lashio, Burma by US 14th Air Force
2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
The Milk Run
Ironing
Lunch
Meditation/Me Time
Missus Time
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I enjoyed one of the "smooth as you can get Saturdays" and Missus was treated well at Daughter's. Daughter, however, though I have nothing to do with her, still manages to wind me up via her mother. Her latest prize comment is "I have no parental role models as you and Dad have such a dysfunctional relationship". The reality is of course the complete opposite. Missus and I have the best marriage I know of, loving and soppy to the point of being sickly as Son will testify.
In Daughter's unwell mind, she is the innocent victim of a very bad dad who dominates her mum and rules with an iron rod. This perception of course is a form of denial about her own narcissistic self-absorbtion and the hurts she has herself inflicted. The reality is again the opposite. Missus is loved and cherished and I have never stood in the way of anything she wanted to do, including her spending an obscene amount of money which we can't actually afford on Daughter's Christmas gifts.
My training teaches me that when you feel the arising of anger you must look within to discover the root cause. This I have done: Daughter very successfully treads on a particular raw nerve - being misrepresented, misunderstood, or just plain lied about. As with all raw nerves this is deeply-rooted in childhood experience.
It actually helps that my relationship with Daughter is so irretrievably dead - there is nothing I could say or do to reason with such a closed mind. This makes acceptance easier as there is absolutely no hope at all to cling on to. I AM going to be misrepresented, misunderstood and just plain lied about, so I must simply feel the hurt and carry on anyway, for the sake of those who still depend on me, and for those who I make any positive difference to.
4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Is there anything about your life that you cannot change and now need to accept?
5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry throughout, with skies clearing and temperature dropping sharply from mid-afternoon
A north-westerly breeze will swing westerly in the evening
Max Temp = 7 degC
Min Temp = 3 degC
Sunrise at 07:48
Sunset at 15:58
Weathertrack: A strong ridge of high pressure in the Atlantic will move over Britain and become a distinct system overnight, introducing calm, dry, settled and cold weather
Air Pressure: 1016 millibars and rising
6. TODAY'S ONELINER
A mathematician turned his heating off because he wanted to be cold and calculating :D
7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
The Jonathan Ross Show - Peter Kay Explores The Studio!
8. TRIVIA
Doctors who administer anaesthesia often tell their patients to "have a good dream" and call their anaesthetized patients "asleep", but in fact anaesthesia is nothing like sleep - it is a chemically-induced reversible coma in which all the complex, active brainwave patterns seen in normal sleep are absent.
9. ZEN WISDOM
“What kind of future do I envision for myself? What kind of self am I
trying to develop? What do I want to accomplish in my life?” Paint this vision of your life in your heart as specifically as
possible. That “painting” itself becomes the design of your future.
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