Thursday 29 January 2015

THURSDAY 29th JANUARY 2015 11:02 GMT

Read my book - ENLIGHTENMENT FOR ORDINARY FOLK
 

Also available - EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT FOR ORDINARY FOLK
 

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (29th January
1945)
On the Russian Front...

Kriegsmarine cruiser Prinz Eugen, two destroyers, and five torpedo boats provide naval gunfire support as XXVIII Korps of German 4th Army attacks from the Cranz bridgehead toward Koenigsberg
Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front is fighting its way into Koenigsberg - U-763 is heavily damaged by supporting Soviet aircraft and scuttled
German 4th Army's attacks are fought to a standstill by Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front

Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front is clearing Upper Silesia
German and Hungarian forces counterattack around Budapest
Kriegsmarine escort vessel F-5 is sunk by mine during refugee evacuation operations

German vessel Henry Lutgens is sunk by uncertain cause, possibly a mine
German vessel Borbek is sunk by Soviet submarine SC-303 and aircraft

North Sea...
Kriegsmarine destroyers Z-34 and Z-38 depart Bergen, Norway in another attempt to reach Germany

Kriegsmarine S-boats conduct minelaying operations off the Humber overnight

Germany...
General Manstein, currently without a command, is unceremoniously rebuffed when he attempts to meet with Hitler

On the Western Front...

US 1st Army captures Buellingen, Wereth, Holzheim, and Medendorf

US 3rd Army captures Schlierbach, Setz, Elcherath, Welchenhausen, Stupbach, and Kalborn
The Kriegsmarine launches 15 Biber one-man submarines against Allied shipping in the Scheldt estuary but without success
 

Malta...Admiral Ernest J. King arrives by air from the US via Bermuda and Casablanca
  
In the Pacific...
USN vessel Serpens destroyed by unknown explosion during loading operations at Guadalcanal, killing 196 crewmen and 57 troops


USN Task Group 78.3 lands XI Corps of US 6th Army unopposed near San Antonio, northwest of Subic Bay, on Luzon Island
 
US 5th Air Force HQ moves from Leyte Island to Mindoro Island
 

Japanese vessel Clyde Maru is sunk by USN submarine Picuda in the Formosa Straits
  

Burma...
Chinese 38th Infantry Division is clearing Japanese pockets along the Burma Road near the Chinese border
British 14th Army attacks Japanese positions at Kabwet


Today's Air Raids...
Kassel and rail targets in Germany by US 8th Air Force
Krefeld and Berlin, Germany by RAF Bomber Command

Celebes Island by RAAF aircraft
Sumatra oil facilities by RN aircraft from RN Pacific Fleet
Heito Airfield, Formosa by US FEAF
Iwo Jima by US 7th and 20th Air Forces
China Japanese positions, transportation lines, and other targets at multiple locations by US 14th Air Force
Burma Aungban and Heho, Japanese positions around Namhkai and military targets by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
The Milk Run
Blogging
Ironing
Making lunch
Client Prep, sessions and follow-up
Online Promotional work
Missus Time
Me Time

Twitter Followers = 1,856 (up 2)
Non-followed eliminated = 0
Unfollowers eliminated = 0

New Followers = 2

Untraced
Spammers not followed back = 0         

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I'm reasonably pleased with my reaction to minor frustrations. Bradford, gridlocked by a few inches of snow, disrupted our evening routine then I've had issues with Blogger AND JustUnfollow. I've just unfollowed JustUnfollow and replaced it with unfollowers.com, but the Blogger issue is due to repetitive copying-over, which buggers up the HTML over time, so it means that every now and again I have to set up this blog from scratch.


The weather/traffic may also bugger up my client appointments today! In all this I have successfully focused on my responses rather than the circumstances - progress!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you responding to adversity in the way that you would like?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Snow showers will finally peter out in the evening but will briefly return for a few hours overnight
A moderate westerly or north westerly will blow throughout
Max Temp = 1 degC at midday
Min Temp = 0 degC at midnight
Sunrise at 07:59
Sunset at 16:42

Weathertrack: A large depression west of Norway will drive Arctic air and snow showers across Britain
Air Pressure: 983 millibars and falling 

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
This is your captain speaking. AND THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN PANICKING!!  

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
The Late Late Show - Richard Ayoade 

8. TRIVIA
When a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members would mourn by shaving off their eyebrows. They also held elaborate funerals during which they drank wine and beat their breasts. The cat was embalmed with a sculpted wooden mask and the tiny mummy was placed in the family tomb or in a pet cemetery with tiny mummies of mice. 

9. ZEN WISDOM
Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do. 

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