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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (4th November 1944)
On the Russian Front...
7th Guards Army of Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front captures Cegled and Szolnok
46th Army of Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front attacks into the suburbs of Budapest
German 1st Panzer Division and 3rd Panzer Division counterattack around Budapest
Yugoslav partisans capture Sibenik

On the Western Front...
Canadian 1st army is making rapid progress clearing Walcheren Island and is attacking around Geertruidenberg and Steenbergen 
British 2nd Army is attacking around Canal du Nord
US 1st Army captures Simonskall and repels German counterattacks around Schmidt and Kommerscheidt
US 3rd Army is skirmishing around Berg
US 7th Army is attacking around Foret de Mortagne, La Salle, Foret Domaniale de Champ, and Corcieux
The first Allied minesweeper successfully reaches Antwerp from the North Sea

Italy...
USN destroyers Benson and Woolsey bombard German positions around Cap Ampeglio

In Washington DC...
British field marshal Sir John Dill dies of Aplastic Anaemia

In the Pacific...
IJN minesweeper W-5 is sunk by RN submarine Terrapin off the East Indies
Japanese vessel Kagu Maru sunk by USN submarines Bream, Guitarro, and Ray off the Philippines
IJN destroyer Harukaze is damaged by USN submarine Sailfish and towed to port in the Philippines
 
On Leyte Island, US 6th Army advances around Colasian, Pinamopoan, Breakneck Ridge, and Bloody Ridge. A Japanese counter-attack is repulsed overnight.

China...
Operation To-Go (Hunan-Kwangsi Operation): 
Japanese 11th Army attacking outskirts of Kweilin, and uses poison gas according to Chinese sources
Japanese 23rd Army captures Wushuan

Burma...
Indian 5th Infantry Division of British 14th Army attack towards Fort White 

Today's Air Raids...
Bottrop, Hanover, Gelsenkirchen, Neunkirchen, Hamburg and targets of opportunity in Germany by US 8th Air Force. At Hamburg, German vessel Veendam is burned out and vessels Signal and Hermann Fritzen are sunk along with Kriegsmarine mine vessel Sperrbrecher-30. U-2557 and Kriegsmarine destroyer Erich Steinbrinck are severely damaged.
Linz, Austria by US 15th Air Force
Solingen, Bochum, the Dortmund-Elms canal and Hanover, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Netherlands HQ of Reichskommissar Seyss-Inquart at Apeldoorn and wing of Dutch royal summer palace in use by SS by RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force
Podgorica, Yougoslavia by US 15th Air Force
The Brenner Pass, Po Valley and La Spezia, Italy by US 12th Air Force  
Iwo Jima, Pagan Island and Yap Island by US 7th Air Force
Off Leyte Island on US shipping by Kamikaze aircraft - 2 vessels damaged
Tacloban Airfield, Leyte Island by Japanese aircraft
Alicante Airfield, Negros Island by US FEAF 
Bangkok, Thailand by RAF Bombers
Menshu, China by US 14th Air Force
Myitkyina Airfield, Burma by Japanese aircraft
Shwebo and Mong Yaw, Burma by US 10th Air Force
Rangoon, Burma by RAF aircraft

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Online promotional work
Meditation
Cleaning oven and windows 
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
After over a week on short sleep, brain finally decided it needed longer. Abundant short-term memory dropouts yesterday were followed by "early brain shutdown" and I was in bed for 22:15 last night. 

I would point out that I hadn't been forcing myself to keep awake or wake early, it was just "what my brain did". I just went with it! I don't have an explanation for why my brain does what it does, my consciousness simply manages it the best it can. I haven't done any meditation for five days and I did not have the usual crankiness this neglect usually causes, (probably due to very benign circumstances) but it has possibly contributed to concentration malfunction. Today is a good day to restore balance!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you listening to what your body is telling you? 

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and cloudy throughout, light showers overnight
A light but cold north-westerly breeze will blow throughout
Max Temp = 8 degC
Min Temp = 5 degC
Sunrise at 07:12
Sunset at 16:28

Weathertrack: A weak depression over Britain bearing little rain will track east, causing a few days of mainly dry weather.
Air Pressure: 988 millibars and rising

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
A story about a haunted elevator really lifts the spirit :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY! 
Stewart Lee on Ben Elton

8. TRIVIA
In China, a baby is born with a birth defect every 30 minutes. Birth defects in that country have increased nearly 40% since 2001.

9. ZEN WISDOM
There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.