WEDNESDAY 14th JANUARY 2015 08:54 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (14th January 1945)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front attacks German 3rd Panzer Army around Kattenau
Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front opens an offensive, attacking German 9th Army and attempting to encircle Warsaw
Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front, having broken through the German lines, advances around Baranow
Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front is still fighting house-to-house in Budapest, whilst 27th Army captures Lunenec 

On the Western Front...
The Battle of the Bulge
US 1st Army, attacking the northern flank of the Bulge, approaches US 3rd Army attacking from the south
 
Operation Nordwind:
US 7th Army is engaged around Bitche

In heavy dogfighting, the USAAF claim 174 Luftwaffe aircraft shot down

Greece...
British troops and Greek communist forces reach another ceasefire agreement

In the Atlantic...
U-1232 sinks British vessels British Freedom and Athelviking, and US vessel Martin van Buren is written off. The Canadian frigate HMCS Ettrick rams the U-Boat, causing extensive damage to the tower, periscopes and radio mast. The U-Boat is then depth-charged heavily but manages to escape. However, the damage forces curtailment of its patrol and a return to base. 

In the Pacific...
IJN minelayer Yurijima is sunk by USN submarine Cobia off Malaya

With heavy air support, US 6th Army expands the Lingayen Gulf beachhead on Luzon

Today's Air Raids...
Germany on oil facilities and transportation routes by US 8th Air Force
Saarbrucken, Leuna, Grevenbroich, Dulmwn and Berlin, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
London the last V-1 flying bomb hits
Antwerp, Belgium by three V-2 rockets
Truk Atoll by US 7th Air Force
Kagi Airfield, Formosa by US 20th Air Force
Nagoya, Japan by US 20th Air Force
Hengyang and targets of opportunity in China by US 20th Air Force
Hankow, Kengtung, Wuchang, Wanting, Shanhsien and Yangtse River shipping by US 14th Air Force
Nampawng and Hay-ti bridges, and Japanese positions, supply depots, and targets of opportunity around Hsenwi, Se-u, Kongnyaung, Kutkai, Mongmit, Manai, and Kawnghka, Burma by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shopping
Ironing
Meditation
Me Time
Cooking supper
Client session and follow-up
Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I have been contemplating that the character I play would rather have lived in ignorance like most other characters do and simply experienced the dream, if only it had been a good dream. But it wasn't! The only way to escape a bad dream is to awaken. Interestingly, with awakening, and now living a lucid dream, the character is actually faring better!

Awakening requires a rare combination of factors: you must be thoroughly fed up with the dream and yet also be curious. Most who can't bear suffering are either saved by an intervention or terminate the experience by taking their own lives, either quickly by suicide or slowly by self-abuse.

Once you have awakened there is no going back - you KNOW. The only way forward is upward into ever-higher consciousness. It becomes too tiring to confine your consciousness within the character. What you used to see as "you" is merely the organ of observation, a specific lens by which you experience yourself. Awakening is the transition from player to spectator.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you curious enough to know who you really are and how it really is?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Wintry showers at first 
Dry, sunny and cold thereafter
Cloud will build after dusk and there will be heavy rain overnight
A moderate south-westerly will gradually strengthen
Max Temp = 7 degC at midnight
Min Temp = 0 degC at 9am
Sunrise at 08:18
Sunset at 16:15

Weathertrack: A brief ridge of high pressure will be replaced by a small but fierce and stormy depression moving across Britain from Wednesday evening
Air Pressure: 998 millibars, rising slightly them falling rapidly in the evening

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Forest holidays - back by poplar demand :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY! 
QI: Who Thought The Earth Was Flat? 

8. TRIVIA
On November 14, 1971, the United States’ Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit Mars (or any other planet). After a massive dust storm cleared, Mariner 9 began transmitting nearly 73,000 images and revealing enormous volcanoes, huge canyons, frozen underground water in the form of permafrost, and what appeared to be dried-up river beds.

9. ZEN WISDOM
It’s important to have the courage to say what needs to be said at the crucial moment - and what not to say