MONDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 2013 07:34 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (16th September 1943)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet 31st Army liberates Yartsevo, east of Smolensk
Soviet 10th Army attacks toward Roslavl 
Soviet 60th Army captures Novgorod Seversky, NE Ukraine
Soviet 6th Army captures Lozovaya, south of Kharkov 
Soviet Voronezh Front captures Romny
Soviet 18th Army clears Novorossisk 

In the Mediterranean...
1st Durham Light Infantry reinforces Kos Island 
Free Greek submarine Katsonis rammed and sunk by Kriegsmarine sub chaser UJ-2101

In Yugoslavia...
Tito's partisans capture Italian-occupied Split 

In Italy...
US 5th Army and British 8th Army make contact near Vallo 
US 5th Army attacks Altavilla
RN battleship Warspite heavily is damaged by Luftwaffe aircraft off Salerno

On Corsica...
German forces begin gradual evacuation to Italy by air and sea 

In the Pacific...
US reinforcements move to Arundel Island 
IJN gunboat Seikai Maru is sunk by a mine in the Bismarck Archipelago
Japanese vessel Teia Maru departs Osaka with US internees for exchange in Portuguese India
Kriegsmarine submarine U-511 is accepted into Imperial Japanese Navy as submarine RO-500 

In New Guinea...
Australian 7th and 9th Infantry Divisions enter Lae, and defending Japanese 41st and 51st Infantry Divisions, under US Air attack, retreat into the jungle 
Japanese vessel No. 2 Taira Maru sunk by USN aircraft off Hansa Bay 

Today's Air Raids...
Nantes, La Rochelle, Cognac, Beaumont-Le-Roger and Tricqueville, France by US 8th Air Force. Two Kriegsmarine torpedo boats and a minesweeper are destroyed in port at Nantes.
Modane and Antheor Viaduct, France by RAF Bomber Command
Northern France by RAF Fighter Command
Bizerte, Tunisia on Allied shipping by the Luftwaffe
Ballale Island Airfield by US Air Sols USMC Major Gregory Boyington claims five Japanese aircraft shot down.
Liujenpa, China by US 14th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Housework
Meditation
Bookwriting
Missus Time

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New Followers = 1 
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I shall remember the weekend just passed as the Weekend Of Injuries: Daughter lost the tip of a finger to a fan at her workplace, Son ate a raw chicken gujon (?!) and spent Saturday night/Sunday morning with bad guts, and Revan The Cat was recovering from an abcess. All these events caused disruption to the Weekend and me to waste a Viagra tablet.

Fortunately all injured parties are already recovered or recovering, and it was kinda fulfilling to be everybody's rock, although it was a reminder that I can never truly sever ties with Daughter while Missus lives. 

Over the last couple of weeks there has been healing from Daughter Trauma, or at least the scar has stopped bleeding. Suitably distanced from that direction, I can be philosophical and accepting. It is easier and simpler to view the relationship as dead, as it is with the nuclear family I grew up with. This frees up my mind to focus on the two relationships that are working, with Son and Missus, which continue to thrive.

As this character, I have learned that life goes better when you aggressively stand up for yourself, so long as you are benevolent to those who are harmless. These days I bare fangs without hesitation to any physical or verbal aggression or unreasonable demand. I find it no coincidence that I have never been happier!

My experience has caused me to reject utterly the hippy peace/love/pacifist philosophy and even the Primacy Of Love. On the other hand, I also reject personal gain as a life-purpose. I believe in the primacy of a morally neutral collective consciousness, and that the most fulfilling life objective is to make a difference. Because my consciousness has developed the ability to distance itself from both my character and his circumstances at any given moment, apart from the occasional distraction, I am in possession of life's ultimate prize - peace of mind. 

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Have you ever paused to question who you really are and what's really going on?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Heavy blustery showers throughout bourne on a strong cool westerly wind, with sunny intervals between.
Showers will finally move away around midnight, but it will remain cool and windy overnight.
Max Temp = 9 degC
Min Temp = 6 degC
Sunrise at 06:41
Sunset at 19:21

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
The sex last night was so good that even the neighbours had a cigarette.  : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!  
George Carlin on everyday expressions  - particularly good!

8. TRIVIA
Laws prohibiting mixed marriage in Virginia were in effect until 1967. South Carolina did not overturn its ban on interracial marriage until 1998, and even then 38% of voters opposed lifting the ban. 

9. ZEN WISDOM
Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.