FRIDAY 10th JULY 2015 07:26 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (9th July 1945)
English Channel...
RN minesweeping trawler Kurd is sunk by a mine - probably laid by U-218 in August 1944 - off Cornwall

March Del Plata, Argentina...
U-530 arrives in port unexpectedly and surrenders to the Argentine Navy. The captain, Oberleutnant Otto Wermuth, does not explain why it has taken him more than two months to surrender, nor why the submarine has jettisoned its deck gun, or why the crew carries no identification, nor what had happened to the ship's log. The crew are interned and the submarine turned over to the US Navy

Borneo...
Australian 7th Infantry Division is expanding and consolidating its beachhead in the Balikpapan sector

East China Sea...
Japanese vessels Sakura Maru and No. 5 Nanmei Maru are sunk by USN submarine Hammerhead

Moscow...
The Japanese ambassador in reports to Tokyo that the Soviet government is not responding to his requests for a meeting

Off Japan...
Japanese vessel No. 6 Fumi Maru is sunk by USN submarine Moray
IJN minesweeper W-27 is sunk by USN submarine Runner
Japanese vessel Chikuma Maru is sunk by a mine

East China Sea...
Japanese vessel Sakishima Maru is sunk by USN submarine Sea Robin

China...
Japanese vessel No. 10 Hachiryu Maru and IJN guardboat No. 3 Kashima Maru are sunk by US aircraft near the mouth of the Yangtze River
Chinese 94th Army recovers Nanyu

Today's Air Raids...
Luzon on Japanese pockets by US 5th Air force
Tainan and Takao, Formosa by US FEAF
Kikaiga Island and Naka-No Island by US FEAF
Japan on military targets by US 7th Air Force
Japan on airfields by USN aircraft
China on multiple military targets by US 14th Air Force
Dong Anh, Phu Lang Thuong and military targets in Indochina by US 14th Air Force
Bangkok, Thailand by the RAF

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Ironing
Meditation
Shift 1 of the Weekend Job
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,982 (no change)
Non-followed eliminated = 0
Unfollowers eliminated = 0

New Followers followed back = 0

Spammers not followed back = 0

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

Now having figured out how and when to take the magic blue tablets to best effect, there will now hopefully be no more "failures to launch", and with July's tablet supply now obtained, a month of marital happiness is expected to follow. In any case, I now get at least two days off due to the Weekend Job and general busy-ness. 

With July looking so settled and commitments to a minimum, I have a golden opportunity to focus on my prime objective - to lift consciousness out of this character entirely and simply enjoy the movie, which is in essence a slice of spacetime. I am convinced from my understanding of Physics that everything in all time already exists and the ego is an opportunity to view a unique slice of it, and contribute the knowledge obtained to universal knowledge. 

There's a twinge at being aware that consciousness can now never go back - it can't unlearn what it is, but the character's individual experience wasn't that great anyway. There's a need to freely surrender what was temporary anyway for a peace of mind that is eternal.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU

Are you interested in knowing what you really are?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD

Dry throughout, with prolonged sunshine in the afternoon.

A high likelihood of brief but heavy showers in the late evening

Dry and cloudy overnight

A light to moderate southerly wind will blow throughout

Max Temp = 22 degC at 3pm

Min Temp = 12 degC at 7am

Sunrise at 04:49

Sunset at 21:35

Moon:

 

Weathertrack: Britain is between an anticyclone to the east and a depression to the west, drawing up warmer air from the south

Air Pressure: 1019 millibars and falling

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

Sarcasm is just one of the many services I offer to people who ask stupid questions :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

Monty Franklin on the American accent

8. TRIVIA

At the first Miss World competition in 1951, Kiki Hakansson of Sweden became the first and last to wear a bikini for her crowning ceremony. Her bikini-clad crowning prompted a condemnation from the pope, and countries such as Spain and Ireland threatened to withdraw from the event.

9. ZEN WISDOM

It is natural for human beings to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.