SATURDAY 17th JANUARY 2015 07:08 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (17th January 1945)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet 2nd Byelorussian Front captures Ciechanow
Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front captures Warsaw
Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front is attacking into Krakow
Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front is mopping up remaining pockets of resistance in Budapest 
Auschwitz prisoners are forced to evacuate on foot as Soviet troops approach 
Dr. Mengele transfers from Auschwitz to Gross-Rosen concentration camp 

On the Western Front... 
Operation Blackcock: 
British 2nd Army captures Echt and Susteren

The Battle Of The Bulge:
US 1st Army captures Vielsalm
US 3rd Army continues attacking the southern sector of the Bulge

Operation Nordwind:
US 7th Army is engaged around Bitche, Rittershoffen, Hatten, Dengolsheim, and Gambsheim

North Sea... 
Kriegsmarine patrol vessel V-1417 sunk by Allied aircraft

Hungary...
Soviet forces arrest Swedish diplomat Raul Wallenberg - he is never seen again.

In the Pacific...
US 6th Army attacks around Urdaneta, Binalonan, Pozorrubio, and Damortis on Luzon

Japanese vessel T-15 is sunk by USN submarine Tautog off Kyushu
Japanese vessel Minka Maru is sunk by a mine in the East China Sea 

China...
Hunan-Kwangtung-Kiangsi operations: 
Chinese 59th, 60th, 102nd and 160th Infantry Divisions unsuccessfully attack a raiding force of Japanese 20th Army around Lohchang and Pingshih

Burma...
US 5332nd Infantry Brigade of Northern Combat Area Command clears Namhkam 
British 14th Army attacks into Ayadaw

Indian Ocean... 
Japanese vessel Nichinan Maru sunk by RN submarine Stygian off Malaya

Today's Air Raids... 
Paderborn, Bielefeld, Harburg, and Hamburg, Germany by US 8th Air Force - three U-Boats and two cargo ships are sunk at Hamburg
Magdeburg, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Po Velley and Brenner Pass, Italy by US 12th Air Force
Shinchiku, Formosa by US 20th Air Force
Iwo Jima by US 7th Air Force
Ishan and military targets in Southern China by US 14th Air Force
Japanese positions, bridges, supply depots, and other targets around Ho-hko, Mansam, Konkha, Onbaing, Wabyudaung, Nawngchio, No-na, Man Hpa-yaw, Man Namket, Nahu, Panghai, Mong Nge, and Ho-Pok, Burma by US 10th Air Force 

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Me Time
Shift 2 of the Weekend Job
TV Footie

Twitter Followers = 1,851 (up 3) 
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New Followers followed back = 3
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Two immediate changes as part of my self-development are physically the elimination of sucrose from my diet and mentally to be a "Hypnotherapist 24-7" - never resting from the role I wish to play. I am also reading a new self-development book, so I'm at least doing something! I'm following my own philosophy of feel the fear and do it anyway and never giving up

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you jmaking the difference you want to make?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Snow showers throughout
A moderate but cold south-westerly will blow throughout
Max Temp = 1 degC at 1pm
Min Temp = 0 degC at midnight
Sunrise at 08:15
Sunset at 16:20

Weathertrack: A depression static off Norway will drive cold air and wintry showers across Britain
Air Pressure: 1007 millibars and static

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
I don't always procrastinate, but when I do, I'll do it tomorrow :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY! 
Shit that Butch Lesbians Say In Bed and Lesbians on dating sites

8. TRIVIA
From the moon, Earth is almost four times the size of a full moon from Earth, and it never moves across the moon’s sky.
        
9. ZEN WISDOM
The place where you are now is vital. Never avoid what you must face. Challenge your circumstances and steadily persevere. The path toward victory opens from where you stand.