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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (6th July 1944)
On the Russian Front...
Soviet Leningrad Front continue attacking Finnish defenses around Tali-Ihantala in the Karelian isthmus

Operation Bagration:
Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front captures Kovel
The German 4th Army, encircled near Minsk and unable to escape, is being eliminated
LV Korps of German 9th Army withdraws to Luninets 

In Germany...
Colonel Stauffenberg attends a conference with Hitler at the Berghof, but decides not to detonate the bomb he is carrying

In Normandy, France...
Field Marshal Gunther Von Kluge takes command of German Ob West headquarters, replacing Gerd Von Rundstedt
US 3rd Army HQ established at Nehou in Normandy
VIII Corps of US 1st Army attack around La Haye-du-Puits 
VII Corps of US 1st Army attacking toward Periers

In the English Channel...
U-678 is sunk by RCN destroyers Kootenay and Ottawa and RN corvette Statice

In London...
Churchill announces that 2754 V-1 flying bombs have hit the Greater London area, killing 2752 people

In Albania...
Communist partisans continue to attack and occupy territory of Zogist partisans.

In Italy...
British 8th Army captures Osimo and Poggio all'Olmo
US 5th Army captures Castellina and attacks into Rosignano

In Washington DC...
De Gaulle meets with Roosevelt
Roosevelt recommends to Chiang Kai-shek that General Stilwell should be put in direct command of all Chinese armed forces

In the Pacific...
IJN guardboat Takamiya Maru I-Go is sunk by USN submarine Cobia 
IJN destroyer Hokaze is sunk by USN submarine Paddle in the East Indies
Japanese vessel Setsuzan Maru is sunk by USN submarine Sealion in the East China Sea
Japanese vessel Dori Maru sunk by USN submarine Tang in the Yellow Sea

4th Marine Division and 27th Infantry Division of US V Amphibious Corps attack Japanese final defensive positions on Saipan. General Saito makes final preparations for suicide attacks by the remaining Japanese units and turns over command of Saipan to his chief of staff. General Saito and Admiral Nagumo (formerly commander of IJN 1st Carrier Striking Force at Pearl Harbor and Midway) then commit hara-kiri.

2nd Battalion of US 158th Infantry Regiment lands without opposition on Noemfoor Island and captures Namber airfield, whilst RAAF fighters begin using Kamiri airfield

US 41st Infantry Division continues mopping up pockets of Japanese resistance on Biak Island 

In China...
Operation To-Go (Hengyang Operation): 
40th Infantry Division of Japanese 11th Army reaches Chakiang 

In India...
Indian 33rd Corps continues to reduce the isolated remnants of Japanese forces around Ukhrul 

Today's Air Raids...
Kiel, Germany by US 8th Air Force
Scholven and Buer, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
V-Weapons sites, Northern France by RAF Bomber Command and US 8th and 9th Air Force 
Verona, Bergamo and military targets in Northern Italy by US 15th Air Force
Tinian, Nauru, Truk Atoll and Rota Island by US 7th Air Force 
Guam and Rota Island by Carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 53
Yap Island and Woelai Atoll by US FEAF
Wewak, Manokwari and military targets on New Guinea by US FEAF
Tungting Lake, and military targets in China by US 14th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
The Milk Run
Ironing
Lunch
Meditation
Me Time
Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
I'm at that stage of life where days seem to whizz by at breakneck speed. It is more important than ever to savour the life experience and make the most of it. I am satisfied that I have all the techniques and objectives in place to do this, and it's a case of keeping putting the effort in at maintaining concentration. The added "X-Factor" is drawing on the Higher Self for the necessary energy. Belief is essential in success at anything.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you believe in yourself, and forces beyond looking after you?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry with variable cloud until mid-evening, skies clearing thereafter
A north-westerly breeze will pick up gradually, then swing slowly south-westerly from mid-evening
Max Temp = 16 degC
Min Temp = 11 degC
Sunrise at 04:44
Sunset at 21:38

Jetstream: Running south to north over Britain and drifting slowly east
Weathertrack: The large depression off Iceland will slowly fill and remain static
Air Pressure: 978 millibars and slowly rising

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
There may be no I in team, but there is an ass in associate :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY! 
QI: Rob Brydon on long socks 

8. TRIVIA
During hibernation, a bear does not defecate. Its body can somehow recycle body waste into protein—a process scientists still do not understand. 

9. ZEN WISDOM
Trust is difficult to earn and it is easily lost—the trust built over a decade can be shattered in an instant by one offhanded remark or deed, but a person who is not swayed from their chosen path, even during the most trying times, will ultimately find that he or she is trusted by all.