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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (30th September
1943)
In the Arctic...
Soviet vessel Arkhangelsk sunk by U-960
On the Russian Front...
Soviet West Front crosses into Belorussia captures Krichev
In Denmark...
Atomic scientist Niels Bohr is smuggled out of the country and into neutral Sweden.
In Lisbon, Portugal...
British representatives
impose a deadline for Portugese dictator Salazar to sign the unratified Anglo-Portuguese
agreement regarding airbases in the Azores
In Italy...
German troops withdraw from Naples under pressure from Italian partisans and the Allied advance
US 5th Army captures Avellino
On Malta...
Marshal Badoglio forms a pro-Allied Italian rival government to Mussolini's pro-German government
In the Mediterranean...
Kriegsmarine minesweeper M-7022 is sunk by British submarine Sibyl
In the Pacific...
Japanese vessel Maebashi Maru sunk by USN submarine Pogy
USN submarine Bowfin delivers supplies to the Philippino Resistance and embarks evacuees from Siquijor Island
IJN sub chaser No. 3 Shosei Maru is sunk by USN submarine Harder off Japan
In New Guinea...
Australian 21st Infantry Brigade advance through the Ramu River valley
Australian 2/43rd Battalion arrives at Scarlet Beach north of Finschhafen
In China...
Kuangte Operation: Japanese 13th Army opens an offensive with four infantry divisions against the Kuangte - Changhsing - Wukang area.
Today's Air Raids...
Vella Lavella Island by Japanese aircraft, damaging LST-334
Kahili, Bougainville Island by US AirSols
2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Family accounts
Blogging
Client prep, session and follow-up
Housework
Missus Time
Twitter Followers = 1,674 (no change)
Nonfollowed
eliminated = 0
Unfollowers
eliminated = 0
New
Followers = 0
3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Today has got off with a welcome morale-boost in the form of the monthly accounts - the Blonder family has clawed back a £200 hole in the budget in an impressive two months, to get back in the black by £30. However there is no room for complacency - October is a five-week shopping month, November is Son's birthday and December is Christmas! Prudent spending will need to remain in place!
With the gardening season now over, I can focus upon spiritual and Hypnotherapy Practice development. I need to rein in frivolous time spent online and use those hours more usefully. I am no longer perpetually chasing fresh music and porn, but have instead discovered Tumblr and video editing, which are equally time-consuming! I still intend to enjoy these things but on a more controlled basis.
Spiritual goal is: the elimination of unnecessary thought and to be guided by intuition
Business goal is: to raise my profile and attract more and influential clients
Personal goal is: to make a difference continually, to self, environment and others, prioritising Son and Missus
4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What are your goals to achieve by year end?
5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Mild and cloudy throughout.
A cool moderate easterly will blow throughout
Max Temp = 14 degC
Min Temp = 10 degC
Sunrise at 07:06
Sunset at 18:47
6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Stephen Hawking has been talking rubbish recently, so they turned him off then rebooted him. ; D
7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY
Michael McIntyre on the Scots excellent!
8. TRIVIA
Some sharks can bite hard enough to cut through a thick piece of steel.
Like lions and other predators, sharks usually kill only when they are
hungry, which isn’t very often. Some sharks can live a year without
eating, living off the oil stored in their bodies.
9. ZEN WISDOM
Defeat lies not in failing or making mistakes; rather, it lies in giving up on ourselves when we do so.
Monday, 30 September 2013
Sunday, 29 September 2013
SUNDAY 29th SEPTEMBER 2013 10:10 BST
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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (29th September 1943)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet Steppe Front captures Kremenchug, on the banks of the Dniepr river
In the Black Sea...
Soviet vessel Dunaj 2 is sunk by a mine
In Southern Albania....
German forces conduct a major anti-partisan offensive
On Corsica...
Free French and Resistance forces advance towards Bastia
In Italy...
US 5th Army attacks toward Naples and Avellino
A fierce storm sinks USN LCT-342 and damages several other LCTs as well as dozens of smaller landing craft blown ashore around Salerno
German forces conduct an offensive against the Italian resistance in Naples
The Gestapo round up Jews in Rome for deportation to Auschwitz
Malta...
General Eisenhower and Marshal Badoglio sign the official terms of surrender of Italy aboard RN battleship HMS Nelson
In the English Channel...
Minelaying by Kriegsmarine vessels
In the Pacific...
Japanese vessel Akashi Maru sunk by USN submarine Bluefish off the East Indies
In New Guinea...
Australian 20th Infantry Brigade attack towards Salamaua against fierce Japanese opposition
In Saigon, Indochina...
Japanese vessel Teia Maru arrives to embark more US internees for exchange in Portuguese India
In the Indian Ocean...
Norwegian vessel Banffshire is sunk by U-532
Today's Air Raids...
Bochum and Gelsenkirchen, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Myitkyina and Sadon, Burma by USAAF
2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
The Milk Run
Blogging
Ironing
Missus marital time
Lunch
Meditation/Me Time
Missus Time
Twitter Followers = 1,674 (down 1)
Nonfollowed eliminated = 0
Unfollowers eliminated = 1
New Followers = 0
3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
For the second time in a row I required the 7am alarm - most unusual for me! I clearly needed the extra sleep, possibly because of too much thinking. I have been rather distracted from my goal of zero unnecessary thinking in the past couple of weeks. I intend to renew focus on this from today.
Emptying the mind is a requirement of spiritual development, as you cannot view the universe from a higher and liberated perspective if your mind is full of crap. For me it's more than that - it's a mental health necessity. My default thought patterns are so dark and sociopathic that I am a danger to myself and others if I have no self-awareness.
If my thought is not strictly and consciously managed, it inevitably lapses into a dark and destructive mode. My intention of course is the opposite, so to achieve that intention, rigorous mind-management is absolutely crucial to the wellbeing of myself and others.
I do not wish to banish the "Dark Side" entirely - it is a highly effective defensive weapon that has made my lot better, particularly at the Weekend Job, but I must have the ability to turn it off. In the past, guilt was the restraint, but that of course cripples your life and makes you ill, so I have effectively eradicated it from my life. Instead, I turn off thought.
One of the most liberating discoveries I have made is that thoughts are not "who I am" but things that happen to me internally. For much of my life I simply don't need thought at all - intuition is a much better governor of behaviour. Recent events have reminded me that disengaging thought is not just a good spiritual discipline but a mental health necessity in my case, and I shall consequently renew my pursuit of it with renewed vigour.
4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you know how to manage yourself in order to achieve your objectives?
5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Sunny, dry and mild throughout
Clear skies overnight, clouding over in the small hours
A moderate and cool easterly wind will blow throughout
Max Temp = 14 degC
Min Temp = 11 degC
Sunrise at 07:04
Sunset at 18:49
6. TODAY'S ONELINER
As she cycled down the cobbled street, she realized she had never come this way before : D
7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Mock The Week Series 12 - Commercials that never made it to air
8. TRIVIA
In 1943, a Mexican farmer named Dionisio Pulido witnessed the birth of a volcano in his cornfield about 329 kilometers west of Mexico City. It started as a slight depression in his field and soon became a fissure that emitted smoke and hissing noises. During the next nine years, the volcano Paricutin had grown to an elevation of 2,272 meters and its voluminous lava flows had destroyed several towns. In 1952 it stopped erupting and is believed to be already extinct. This makes the volcano unique as the only one whose beginning and extinction have been witnessed and documented.
9. ZEN WISDOM
A truly beautiful person is one who is good at seeing beauty.
FOR MORE WISDOM CHECK OUT MY TUMBLR PAGE
FOR PERSONAL ISSUES, OR TO FIND OUT WHAT I DO, WHY NOT CHECK OUT MY WEBSITE
1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (29th September 1943)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet Steppe Front captures Kremenchug, on the banks of the Dniepr river
In the Black Sea...
Soviet vessel Dunaj 2 is sunk by a mine
In Southern Albania....
German forces conduct a major anti-partisan offensive
On Corsica...
Free French and Resistance forces advance towards Bastia
In Italy...
US 5th Army attacks toward Naples and Avellino
A fierce storm sinks USN LCT-342 and damages several other LCTs as well as dozens of smaller landing craft blown ashore around Salerno
German forces conduct an offensive against the Italian resistance in Naples
The Gestapo round up Jews in Rome for deportation to Auschwitz
Malta...
General Eisenhower and Marshal Badoglio sign the official terms of surrender of Italy aboard RN battleship HMS Nelson
In the English Channel...
Minelaying by Kriegsmarine vessels
In the Pacific...
Japanese vessel Akashi Maru sunk by USN submarine Bluefish off the East Indies
In New Guinea...
Australian 20th Infantry Brigade attack towards Salamaua against fierce Japanese opposition
In Saigon, Indochina...
Japanese vessel Teia Maru arrives to embark more US internees for exchange in Portuguese India
In the Indian Ocean...
Norwegian vessel Banffshire is sunk by U-532
Today's Air Raids...
Bochum and Gelsenkirchen, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Myitkyina and Sadon, Burma by USAAF
2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
The Milk Run
Blogging
Ironing
Missus marital time
Lunch
Meditation/Me Time
Missus Time
Twitter Followers = 1,674 (down 1)
Nonfollowed eliminated = 0
Unfollowers eliminated = 1
New Followers = 0
3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
For the second time in a row I required the 7am alarm - most unusual for me! I clearly needed the extra sleep, possibly because of too much thinking. I have been rather distracted from my goal of zero unnecessary thinking in the past couple of weeks. I intend to renew focus on this from today.
Emptying the mind is a requirement of spiritual development, as you cannot view the universe from a higher and liberated perspective if your mind is full of crap. For me it's more than that - it's a mental health necessity. My default thought patterns are so dark and sociopathic that I am a danger to myself and others if I have no self-awareness.
If my thought is not strictly and consciously managed, it inevitably lapses into a dark and destructive mode. My intention of course is the opposite, so to achieve that intention, rigorous mind-management is absolutely crucial to the wellbeing of myself and others.
I do not wish to banish the "Dark Side" entirely - it is a highly effective defensive weapon that has made my lot better, particularly at the Weekend Job, but I must have the ability to turn it off. In the past, guilt was the restraint, but that of course cripples your life and makes you ill, so I have effectively eradicated it from my life. Instead, I turn off thought.
One of the most liberating discoveries I have made is that thoughts are not "who I am" but things that happen to me internally. For much of my life I simply don't need thought at all - intuition is a much better governor of behaviour. Recent events have reminded me that disengaging thought is not just a good spiritual discipline but a mental health necessity in my case, and I shall consequently renew my pursuit of it with renewed vigour.
4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you know how to manage yourself in order to achieve your objectives?
5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Sunny, dry and mild throughout
Clear skies overnight, clouding over in the small hours
A moderate and cool easterly wind will blow throughout
Max Temp = 14 degC
Min Temp = 11 degC
Sunrise at 07:04
Sunset at 18:49
6. TODAY'S ONELINER
As she cycled down the cobbled street, she realized she had never come this way before : D
7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Mock The Week Series 12 - Commercials that never made it to air
8. TRIVIA
In 1943, a Mexican farmer named Dionisio Pulido witnessed the birth of a volcano in his cornfield about 329 kilometers west of Mexico City. It started as a slight depression in his field and soon became a fissure that emitted smoke and hissing noises. During the next nine years, the volcano Paricutin had grown to an elevation of 2,272 meters and its voluminous lava flows had destroyed several towns. In 1952 it stopped erupting and is believed to be already extinct. This makes the volcano unique as the only one whose beginning and extinction have been witnessed and documented.
9. ZEN WISDOM
A truly beautiful person is one who is good at seeing beauty.
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