Wednesday 11 March 2015

WEDNESDAY 11th MARCH 2015 07:42 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (11th March 
1945)
On the Russian Front...

General Rendulic takes command of German Army Group Courland
Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front continues assaulting toward Danzig
Kriegsmarine destroyers support the pocket around Kolberg and the evacuation of civilians
General Weiss takes command of German Army Group North
5th Shock Army and 8th Guards Army of Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front assault the isolated fortress city of Kustrin
On the Oder, Hitler visits the front for the last time
German Army Group South attacks make minimal progress around Lake Balaton

London...
Edvard Benes and his government-in-exile depart for the Soviet Union

Norway...
Kriegsmarine minesweeper M-2 is sunk by Allied aircraft in Fedjefjord

Germany...
Hitler speech: "Fight on or be exterminated by the Allies!"

On the Western Front...
US 9th Army, already across the Rhine, captures Leubsdorf, Ariendorf, Nieder Breisig, Rheineck, and Ober Breisig
USN LCVP and LCM craft assist in expanding and maintaining the crossing at Remagen
US 3rd Army is mopping up west of the Rhine and advancing toward the Moselle River

North Sea...
RAF aircraft claim a German one-man Biber submarine sunk

English Channel...
U-681 is sunk by USN PB4Y-1 aircraft

Wales....
70 German prisoners escape from a POW camp overnight

In the Pacific...
Bougainville Island: Australian II Corps attacks Japanese 17th Army along the Buin road

South China Sea: Four Japanese cargo ships are sunk by US aircraft

Yellow Sea: Japanese vessel Shori Maru is sunk by USN submarine Segundo off Korea

Luzon: US 6th Army are attacking north and south of Manila

Mindanao Island: 41st Infantry Division of US 8th Army captures Zamboanga City

Romblon Island: A detachment of US 8th Army lands overnight

Iwo Jima: US V Amphibious Corps continues pocketing and compressing Japanese positions

Indochina...
Emperor Bao Dai proclaims the independence of Annam under Japanese protection
A column of French and Vietnamese troops withdrawing toward Chinese border requests air support from US 14th Air Force

China...
Japanese vessel Koko Maru is sunk by mine in the Yangtze River

Burma...
British 14th Army is attacking Japanese 15th Army in Mandalay

Today's Air Raids...
Eindhoven, Netherlands by two V-2 rockets
Bremen, Kiel and Hamburg, Germany by USS 8th Air Force - these raids are exceptionally successful - U-758, U-2515, U-2530, U-682 and U-2547, six cargo ships and three minesweepers are sunk or written off
Southern Germany on military targets by US 12th Air Force flying from Italian bases
Essen, Germany in a "thousand-bomber" raid by RAF Bomber Command - only three of 1079 aircraft are shot down
Brunswick, Hannover, Berlin and Magdeburg, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Warnemunde, Germany by RAF fighters - German vessel Wilhelm Bauer is burned out 
London by seven V-2 rockets
North Sea - minelaying by RAF Bomber Command
Ulithi Atoll by Japanese aircraft, including Kamikaze - USN carrier Randolph is put out of action for four weeks
Mako and Takao, Formosa by US FEAF
Chichi Jima by US 7th Air Force
Nagoya, Japan by US 20th Air Force
China rail targets and villages around Tsinpu and Lohochai by US 14th Air Force
Burma Japanese positions, transportation lines, and other targets around Kongsha, Kwai-Kong, Man Kat, Mong Yai and targets of opportunity by US 10th Air Force
Rangoon, Burma by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shopping
Ironing
Meditation
Me Time
Supper
Missus Time

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Unfollowers eliminated = 0
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION 
After a good start to yesterday, I was somewhat thrown by being unable to find three separate items at once and getting nowhere with finding a quick-fix for my oven auto-ignition.

I was somewhat disappointed by response! It's a good thing I was alone in the house, as I found myself regressing to a childhood tantrum. Fortunately, recovery was swift. I located two of the three items and the third doesn't matter. I can also find more expensive but more reliable fixes for the oven auto-ignition.

Though the issues themselves were not great, my response was something of a personal defeat - but I only have myself to blame! If I don't prioritize my mental disciplines, my unstable mind won't be able to cope. Like most humans, I have to learn the hard way! I have to experience the consequences of not doing something before being motivated to do it!

Mental disciplines, particularly meditation, WILL get priority from today!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you doing the things that are necessary to maintain your happiness and wellbeing?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and sunny in the morning
Rain, occasionally heavy, in the afternoon
Dry and clear in the evening
Wind will be highly variable but generally moderate and southerly during the day, becoming negligible in the evening
Max Temp = 8 degC at 5pm
Min temp = 3 degC at 8am
Sunrise at 06:32
Sunset at 18:03
Moon:

Weathertrack: Decaying weather fronts will cross Britain swiftly today
Air Pressure: 1028 millibars, dipping and recovering by evening

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
A mime was performing in the street so I pretended to throw him money :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

8. TRIVIA
Earthquakes kill approximately 8,000 people each year and have caused an estimated 13 million deaths in the past 4,000 years. 

9. ZEN WISDOM
There is nothing more vulnerable or corruptible than the human mind, but neither is there anything as powerful, steadfast and enabling.
  

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