SATURDAY 25th JANUARY 2014 07:02 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (25th January 1944)
On the Russian Front...
5th Guards Tank Army of Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front advances round to the rear of German XI Korps and XLII Korps

In the Arctic...
Soviet submarine L-22 conducts minelaying operations off Rolfsoy
US vessel Penelope Barker is sunk by U-278

In Italy...
II Corps of US 5th Army continues attacking across the Rapido River
French Expeditionary Corps of US 5th Army advances to Belvedere Hil 
US VI Corps makes limited attacks to solidify the Anzio beachhead  
USN minesweeper YMS-30 is sunk by a mine off Anzio 

In the Pacific...
In a disastrous accident, an entire squadron of USMC fighters (17 of 23 pilots, 22 of 23 aircraft) is lost in bad weather when attempting to transfer to Funafuti Atoll via Tarawa Atoll and Nanomea Atoll  

More than 125 japanese aircraft arrive safely via Truk to reinforce the Japanese defences of Rabaul on New Britain  

In Burma...
British 32nd Infantry Brigade captures a newly-established Japanese position at Kyaukchaw west of the Chindwin 

In the Indian Ocean...
British vessel Fort La Maune is sunk by U-188 

Today's Air Raids...
Aachen, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Gilze-Rijen airfield, Netherlands by US 8th Air Force 
V-Weapons sites, Northern France by RAF Bomber Command and 2nd Tactical Air Force
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia by US 12th Air Force
Valmonte, Sezze, and military targets in Italy by US 12th Air Force 
Transportation routes, Italy by US 15th Air Force
Maloelap Atoll, Kwajalein Atoll, and Mille Atoll by US 7th Air Force
Hansa Bay, Alexishafen, and Madang, New Guinea by US 5th Air Force 
Rabaul and Gasmata, New Britain by US 5th Air Force
Manus Island and Los Negros Island by US 5th Air Force 
Pantha, Burma by RAF aircraft

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging/Me Time
Brief Missus Time
Shift 2 of the Weekend Job
TV footie with Missus

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
With a five-week shopping month, my practice being very quiet and and a hefty gas bill, the finances are not looking good reading for the end of the month. Mild austerity measures may turn into severe austerity measures if things get worse!

To put things in perspective, our financial concerns are a lot less than many, and I don't forget that on the world-scale I am living in paradise. I remain profoundly grateful. 

I have been contemplating the nature of good and evil. From inward knowledge of myself and the study of history I know that most people are not intrinsically good or evil - I am well aware of the capacity for both within myself. What we actually end up doing is a product of our situations and experiences. Most people could equally possibly end up labelled a great hero or a vile being depending on what they faced in their lives. 

I am therefore profoundly grateful to thus far not have been put in positions where my darkest side would manifest, but rather be in a position to make a difference. Though I am delighted to make a handful very happy, I see my main role as passing on the knowledge I have accumulated while I still can, so that the flame of Enlightenment and learning may be kept alight amidst the general ignorance experienced by the majority of humanity.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
If you don't really know what's going on, do you know what YOU'RE doing?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Mainly dry in the morning - chance of an isolated shower
Showers, some heavy, moving in from noon
Rain will clear by mid-evening and it will be dry and clear thereafter
A moderate south-westerly will strengthen and swing westerly during the afternoon, but ease and return to south-westerly overnight
Max Temp = 7 degC
Min Temp = 3 degC
Sunrise at 08:05
Sunset at 16:34

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
What do you call a gym where girls are sexually harassed by girls? A lezza centre  : D  

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!    
QI - Eating rabbits and other rabbit trivia

8. TRIVIA
The original GlobeTheatre burned to the ground on June 29, 1613, set fire by a cannon shot during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII. In 1997 the restored theatre was opened and is situated in the Southwark area of London on the south bank of the Thames

9. ZEN WISDOM
Each time you fall down, just get back up. If you can pick yourself up, you can also move forward.