WEDNESDAY 26th FEBRUARY 2014 06:50 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (26th February 1944)
In the Arctic...
Soviet submarine L-20 conducts minelaying operations off northern Norway

On the Russian Front... 
Soviet 54th Army captures Porkhov

In Germany...
Romanian leader Ion Antonescu begins three-day visit with Hitler 

In Lyon, France...
French Resistance forces attack the armaments factory

In Palestine...
The Jewish Irgun organization bombs British offices in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa 

In the Atlantic...
British vessel Silvermaple is sunk by U-66

In the Pacific...
Japanese vessel No. 3 Daigen Maru is sunk by USN submarine Gato

USN PT-251 runs aground off Bougainville Island and is destroyed by a Japanese shore battery

In Burma...
In the Arakan, the last Japanese positions in Ngakyedauk - Sinzweya sector are eliminated

In the Indian Ocean...
British vessel Sutlej is sunk by IJN submarine I-37 

Today's Air Raids...
Jaluit Atoll, Wotje Atoll, and Mille Atoll by US 7th Air Force 
Wewak, Madang, and Alexishafen, New Guinea by US 5th Air Force and RAAF 
New Britain military targets by US 13th Air Force and USN aircraft
Los Negros Island and Manus Island by US 5th Air Force 
Tourane, Indochina by US 14th Air Force, sinking two US vessels in port
Tantabin Bridge and other military targets in Burma by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shopping with Missus
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,718 (up 1)
Nonfollowed eliminated = 0
Unfollowers eliminated = 1
@High_Sea_Pirate
New followers = 2
@arrianeotero, @missfitts

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Yesterday was the first full day taking cinnamon in tea and coffee and I am astonished at the result so far. It has been like someone has thrown a switch! Despite eating very little up to suppertime, not a trace of the usual near-psychopathic behaviour I exhibit when hungry. In fact, I felt particularly calm all day.

Is it really this simple? Can a lifelong condition have all the time been solved by such a simple measure? The jury's out but results so far have been very encouraging. I was certainly not expecting to feel so completely different immediately. If this lasts, completely unexpectedly, and due to someone's average post on Facebook, my life could be entering a new chapter!

Yesterday's lie-in (by my my standards!) seems to have been a one-off as I awoke at the more average time of 05:20 this morning. This is not overly freaky as I am usually in bed by 22:15, so that's a good 7 hours sleep, occasionally interrupted by a big small-hours wee. 

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you accepting something about yourself when all the time a remedy is out there?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry in the morning with sunny periods
Light rain in the early afternoon
Rain will clear by mid-afternoon and it will be dry thereafter
Heavy rain overnight
Max Temp = 6 degC
Min Temp = 4 degC
Sunrise at 07:03
Sunset at 17:38

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Laughter is the best medicine - buy nitrous oxide! : D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!  
Katherine Ryan on Have I Got News For You  

8. TRIVIA
Japan, considered an economic superpower in the later 20th Century, by 2011 had a national debt 2.3 times its GDP (the money it makes in a year)

9. ZEN WISDOM
Guard against laziness, cowardice, carelessness, impatience, resignation and despair which corrode the human spirit and sow the seeds of defeat.