SATURDAY 9th MARCH 2013 08:11 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (9th March 1943)
On the Russian Front...
German II SS Panzer Korps attacks Soviet 69th Army, captures Lyubotin, and pushes east to isolate Kharkov.
German 4th Panzer Army attacking around Merefa and Zmiyev.

In the Arctic...
US vessel Puerto Rican sunk by U-586

In the North Sea...
RN MTBs unsuccessfully attack three Kriegsmarine minesweepers. One MTB is sunk.

In the Mediterranean...
Italian vessel Stefano M. sunk by RN submarine HMS Safari

In Tunisia...
General Hans-Jurgen Von Arnim replaces Rommel as commander of Army Group Afrika. Rommel files to Rome, never to return to Africa.
General Gustav von Vaerst takes command of the 5th Panzer Army

In the Atlantic...
In a very bad day, the Allies lose six vessels to U-Boats.

In Portugese Goa, India
In a daring raid, three German freighters are blown up and sunk by British Commandos.

In the Indian Ocean...
Free-Norwegian vessel Tabor is sunk by U-506

Today's Air Raids...
Munich, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Le Mans, France by RAF Bomber Command
Northern France on military targets by RAF Fighter Command and US 8th Air Force Fighters.
Kiska Island by US 11th Air Force
Munda, New Georgia Island by USN aircraft
New Georgia Island and Bougainville Island by US 5th Air Force
Wau, New Guinea by Japanese Aircraft
Mogaung, Burma by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging and me time before Shift 2 of the Weekend Job. Footie on TV in the late evening.

  Twitter Followers = 1,625 (up 5)
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I've never had a problem with hedonistic self-indulgent personal pleasure, but I'm wise enough to know that anything gets dull if you do it too often. However, making other people smile never gets dull. It's a very healthy positive kind of addiction to make a difference. It's even better when to one or two people you are essential to their wellbeing. It satisfies a very primal need to be "of worth to the tribe".

It's equally true and very liberating to accept that you can't do it for everyone. As well as the loving and the recptive, there are the indifferent, the selfish and the predators. I have come to reject utterly the concept of loving your enemy. I waste no time on the indifferent and the selfish, and have no qualms at all about unleashing my Dark Side on the predators.

It has taken me until middle-age to have the confidence to assert my own ideas entirely rather than fall in behind others. I have cherrypicked the concepts from philosophies that make sense and work for me and incorporated them into my own tailor-made outlook that fits me perfectly. The result is peace of mind and the end of Cognitive Dissonance, civil war within my own mind. My personal spirituality and philosophy is also flexible and malleable, changing and evolving with continual learning and experience. I reject the concept of Universal Eternal Truth, as I believe there is none.

There is only one undeniable truth - that there is consciousness. Everything else is simply the mind's interpretation of that conscious experience, a model contructed entirely within in the mind. Once you realize that what you call "reality" is simply a construct of your own mind, you can see that my modifying you mind, you can modify your reality. You do this by the simple expedient of focus. Whatever you focus upon determines your experience, so by training your focus to latch on to helpful stuff, you can improve your experience of this temporary phenomenon we call life. Change your thought and change your life - it's as simple as that.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you know it, or have you simply accepted what you've been told?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Continual drizzle turning gradually to snow flurries.
There will be a consistent very cold raw north-westerly wind.
Max Temp = 2 degC
Min Temp = 0 degC
Sunrise at 06:37
Sunset at 17:59

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Somebody actually complimented me on my driving today - they left a little note on the windscreen saying 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.  : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
The Muppet Show: The Hugga Wugga Sketch

8. TRIVIA
31% of men have dumped an overweight partner compared to 12% of women.

9. THE WISDOM I'VE LEARNED FROM OTHERS
"No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." - Dale Turner