SATURDAY 8th JUNE 2013 09:41 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (8th June 1943)
In Germany..
After a discussion regarding pro-Axis Russians, Hitler decides:
1. Russians can serve in Wehrmacht units but not form their own units.
2. General Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Army will be used strictly for propaganda purposes aimed at Russians in Soviet-controlled areas.

In the Mediterranean...
RN cruisers and destroyers bombard the Italian garrison on Pantelleria Island

In the Pacific...
Japanese vessel Kahoku Maru sunk by USN submarine Finback north of Palau

In Japan...
The battleship Mutsu destroyed in an accidental explosion, with the loss of over 1000 men.
The Japanese High Command orders the complete evacuation of Kiska Island

In China...
Battle of Western Hupei (South Yangtze Operation): 121st Infantry Division of Chinese 6th War Area recovers Itu

Today's Air Raids...
Gorki Tank Factory, Russia by the Luftwaffe
Kursk Sector, Russia On Luftwaffe airfields by Soviet aircraft
Netherlands RAF Fighter patrols
Sardinia Military targets by USAAF
Wewak, New Guinea by US 5th Air Force
Sumatra and Timor Island military targets by US 5th Air Force
Lungling and Tatung, China by US 14th Air Force
Lamaing, Burma by USAAF

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Missus Time
Shift 2 of the Weekend Job
Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
My training doesn't mean I am free of low moods or disappointments, but they are considerably eased by depriving them of the fuel of thought. In my case, negative chains of thought can be set off very easily by innocuous things like a newspaper headline, particularly if I'm in a low mood.

Some thoughts, whatever my mood, are just always negative, estranged family members being a case in point. Any thought devoted to them just angers or distresses me. However, even pleasant or bland thought can distract me from full consciousness. Random thought is like mud from the bottom of a lake clouding the clear water.

Once you've had the experience of "super-consciousness", you want to be in it all the time. In quiet spaces, I can now quiet my mind qiuckly and easily. I now want to expand that ability into other situations, like social interactions and travelling, my reactions guided not by thought but intuition. I am already well down the road to liberation from fear and suffering, and it's now a case of eliminating their footholds that come from random thought.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you the master of your own mind?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and mainly sunny, though it will be cloudy in the afternoon
Dry and clear overnight
A light north-westerly wind will veer gradually south-easterly in the evening.
Max Temp = 17 degC
Min Temp = 12 degC
Sunrise at 04:38
Sunset at 21:34

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
A drama about hijacking seemed like a good idea until we shot the pilot : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
QI - Lakes in Canada

8. TRIVIA
By the early fourth century, the Romans had built a road network of 53,000 miles throughout the empire. Each Roman mile was about 1,000 paces (about 4,800 feet) and was marked by a milestone.
 
9. THE WISDOM I'VE LEARNED FROM OTHERS
"Meditation does not belong to any religion, and meditation is not a belief. It is a pure science of the inner. Learning to be silent, learning to be watchful, learning to be a witness; learning that you are not the mind, but something beyond --the consciousness -- will prepare you to receive truth." - Osho