SATURDAY 17th MAY 2014 07:20 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (17th May 1944)
Over Denmark...
RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force aircraft on a long-range Ranger operation claim twelve Luftwaffe planes shot down after dogfighting


In France...
French Resistance forces sabotage a plant at Ivry-sur-Seine 

In the English Channel...
Kriegsmarine minesweeper M-3238 is sunk by a mine 

In Italy...
British 8th Army opens major attacks with Canadian 1st Corps advancing forward and Polish II Corps attacking around Cassino
US 5th Army advances around Formia, Maranola, Esperia, and Monte Oro
Kesselring orders all German units to withdraw from the Cassino sector

In Palestine...
The Jewish Irgun organization captures the radio station in Ramallah 

In the Mediterranean...
U-616 is sunk by RAF aircraft and USN destroyers

In the Pacific...
Japanese vessels Taikoku Maru and Fukko Maru are sunk by USN submarine Sand Lance 
Japanese vessel Nichiwa Maru is sunk by USN submarine Tunny 

USN destroyers Frazier and Meade bombard Maloelap Atoll

IJN guardboat Zuiho Maru is sunk by US aircraft off Duke of York Island 

Carrier-based aircraft from RN Eastern Fleet, including USN carrier Saratoga, attack Surabaya on Java - 8 vessels are damaged and 1 sunk.

In New Guinea...
Operation Straightline: 
USN Task Force 74 bombards the Arare area  
USN Task Force 77 lands 163rd Infantry Regiment at Arare on the coast opposite Wakde Islands

In China...
Operation Ko-Go (Peking-Hankow Operation): 
Japanese 1st Army captures Loning 

On the Salween Front:
Chinese Y Force makes a slow advance

In Burma...
Elements of US 5307th Provisional Unit capture Pamati
Chinese 150th Infantry Regiment seizes Myitkyina airfield, and reinforcements are immediately airlifted in.
General Joseph Stilwell assumes command of Chindit forces 

In India...
Japanese forces attack Indian 23rd Infantry Division at Shenam Pass southeast of Imphal 
South of Imphal, Indian 48th Infantry Brigade blocks the Tiddim road behind Japanese positions around Bishenpur, cutting off their supply route 

Today's Air Raids...
Northern France Fighter patrols by RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force
Bihac, Yugoslavia by US 15th Air Force
Wake Island and Ponape Island by US 7th Air Force
Bougainville Island by US 13yh Air Force
Biak Island and Noemfoor Island and military coastal targets in New Guinea by US 5th Air Force
Rabaul and military targets on New Britain by US 13th Air Force
Chauk Oil Facilities and Buthidaung, Burma by US 10th Air Force

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

Twitter Followers = 1,739 (no change)
Nonfollowed eliminated = 0
Unfollowers eliminated = 0
New followers = 0

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
A "good run" on the Weekend Job continues, where I have been able to just do it and go home, which is the desired state, so I can focus on developing my Practice and myself most of the week. The most unwelcome distraction of the Poison Dwarf Manager in March/April disrupted all that. 

With the Weekend Job settling down I can return focus to pressing issues on the home front, namely debt, overspending, and the need to put considerably more time into online promotion. This requires both hemispheres of my mind at full capacity! I am very aware that the logical/calculating half simply can't do it alone - it gets stuck in loops where it sees all the problems but has no answers. My intuition, imagination and self-belief are required to make new moves.

Adversity is never welcome, but it does tend to force you to get moving and make things happen, and shakes you out of the complacency born of abundance. 

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
When it gets tough, are you despairing or decisive?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and sunny - cloudy after dusk
A moderate south-westerly will blow throughout
Max Temp = 19 degC
Min Temp = 13 degC
Sunrise at 05:02
Sunset at 21:05

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
I’m not mature enough to have a friend named Dick. :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Stewart Francis on the Late Show

8. TRIVIA
While waves generated by wind may travel anywhere from around 2 to 60 miles (3.2 to 97 km) per hour, tsunami waves can travel at speeds of 600 miles (970 km) per hour, the speed of a jet plane.

9. ZEN WISDOM
Happiness doesn’t exist on the far side of distant mountains. It is within you, yourself. Not you, however, sitting in idle passivity. It is to be found in the vibrant dynamism of your own life as you struggle to challenge and overcome one obstacle after another, as you clamber up a perilous ridge in pursuit of that which lies beyond.