FRIDAY 10th APRIL 2015 06:59 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (10th April 1945)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front and 3rd Ukrainian Front are fighting in Vienna
German vessel Ilmenau is sunk by Soviet submarine SC-310 and German vessel Neuwerk is mistakenly sunk by Kriegsmarine S-boatsin the Baltic

Germany...
General Reinhard Gehlen is dismissed as head of Foreign Armies East at OKH

On the Western Front...
Canadian 1st Army captures Deventer and advances toward Leeuwarden, Groningen, and Oldenburg
British 2nd Army attacking around Soltau and Celle
US 9th Army captures Hanover and continues attacking the Ruhr pocket
US 1st Army is advancing toward Nordhausen and reducing the Ruhr pocket
US 3rd Army is advancing towards Erfurt and Arnstadt
US 7th Army is attacking Schweinfurt with strong air support against heavy resistance
French 1st Army is attacking around Neuenburg and Baden-Baden
French Army Detachment of the Alps opens attacks against the Authion massif

Over England...
A Luftwaffe jet fighter on reconnaissance conducts the last Luftwaffe flight over Britain

Italy...
British 8th Army is advancing to the Santerno River
US 5th Army enters Massa following a German withdrawal 

In the Atlantic...
U-878 is sunk by RN destroyer Vanquisher and corvette Tintagel Castle

Alaska...
Operation Hula: Soviet sailors begin arriving to be trained to operate USN vessels being transferred to Soviet Pacific Fleet

In the Pacific...
East Indies:
Japanese vessel Hosei Maru is sunk by Free Dutch submarine O-19

Luzon:
US 6th Army secures the Legaspi area and attacks around Three Peaks, Salacsac Pass, Mount Mataba, Mauban, and Atimonan

Negros:
US 8th Army is engaged around Dolan Hill

Cebu:
US 8th Army captures Hill 26 - Japanese General Sosaku Suzuki is lost at sea while evacuating to Mindanao Island

Okinawa:
US 10th Army's III Amphibious Corps are attacking into the Motobu peninsula and XXIV Corps are attacking around Kakazu Ridge and Ouki. A detachment of US 27th Infantry Division lands on Tsuken Shima off the east coast of Okinawa

China...
Japanese vessel Maruko Maru is sunk by a mine in the Yangtze River

Burma...
British 14th Army captures Pyawbwe and destroys most of the remaining fighting power of Japanese 33rd Army
On the Arakan coast, British 15th Corps withdraws to Letmauk

Today's Air Raids...
Germany on airfields and military targets by US 8th Air Force - 335 Luftwaffe aircraft are claimed destroyed on the ground at a cost of 19 bombers and 8 fighters
Southern Germany on transportation routes by US 15th Air Force
Leipzig, Plauen, Berlin and Chemnitz, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Northern Italy on transportation lines and other targets in the Po valley and throughout northern Italy by US 12th Air Force
Kuril Islands by US 11th Air Force
Celebes Island by US FEAF
Koshun, Formosa by US FEAF
China on Yungcheng and military targets throughout eastern and southern China
Burma on military by US 10th Air Force fighters

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Meditation
Shift 1 of the Weekend Job
TV Comedy Night

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION 

Today marks a return to the comfort of discipline, structure and the "old routine", though with objectives never clearer than now. I'm particularly pleased at having found an effective technique for mind-emptying and another for recovery for when my focus does drift into dark places. Now I have identified sugar as "the enemy" I expect to improve considerably in physical shape over the coming year.

With my mind and body finally finding the balance I have taken a lifetime to reach, I can start wielding the power I am capable of!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are there any internal barriers in the way of your own success?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and sunny all day, patchy cloud after dark
Possibility of a heavy shower in the small hours of Saturday
A moderate south-easterly will tilt southwesterly and strengthen after dark
Max Temp = 17 degC at 5pm
Min Temp = 9 degC at 7am
Sunrise at 06:19
Sunset at 19:59
Moon:

 
Weathertrack: A very large anticyclone dominating Europe will extend over Britain today but a cold front driven by an eastward-moving depression to the north will arrive tomorrow
Air Pressure: 1019 millibars and falling

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
Words cannot express how limited my vocabulary is :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
The Jonathon Ross Show: Russell Brand on Jeremy Clarkson

8. TRIVIA
Al-Khwarizmi, who lived in Baghdad around A.D. 800, worked on a value of pi calculated to four digits: 3.1416. The term “algorithm” derives from his name, and his text Kitab al-Jabr wal-Muqabala (The Book of Completion Concerning Calculating by Transposition and Reduction) gives us the word “algebra” (from al-Jabr, which means “completion” or “restoration”).

9. ZEN WISDOM
Encouragement means to plant the seed of courage in the lives of others. It is an act of regeneration.