FRIDAY 24th APRIL 2015 06:18 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (24th April 1945)
On the Russian Front...
The final evacuation of German refugees and troops from Pillau is conducted by ferry barges overnight
German vessel Huelva is sunk by Soviet aircraft in the Baltic
Soviet 1st Byelorussian Front and Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front are heavily engaged in Berlin
German 4th Panzer Army counterattack is halted
German 12th Army attacks Soviet 13th Army in an effort to relieve Berlin
Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front heavily engaged around Brno

Germany...
Marshal Petain and his entourage are escorted across the border into Switzerland

On the Western Front...
British 2nd Army is attacking around Bremen and closing up to the Elbe River around Lauenburg
US 9th Army is holding its positions on the Elbe River
US 1st Army is holding its positions along the Elbe River and Mulde River
US 3rd Army is advancing towards the Danube River
US 7th Army captures Ulm, reaches the Danube and establishes a bridgehead on the south bank
French 1st Army advances toward Ulm and eastward along the Swiss border

Allied-Occupied Germany...
A US congressional delegation visits Buchenwald concentration camp
An Allied War Crimes Commision begins inspecting all the liberated concentration camps

North Sea...
German vessel Ingerseks is sunk by RAF Coastal Command aircraft

Italy...
British 8th Army crosses the Po River at at Gaiaba, Stienta, and Pontelagoscuro
US 5th Army is advancing towards Genoa, Parma, and Reggio
All Kriegsmarine and captured Italian vessels moored at Genoa are scuttled

In the Atlantic...
U-546 sinks USN destroyer escort Frederick C. Davis, but is then pursued and itself sunk by USN destroyer escorts Pillsbury, Flaherty, Chatelain, Neunzer, Hubbard, Keith, Janssen, and Varian
British vessel Monmouth Coast is sunk by U-1305

USA...
General Eaker returns from tour of Pacific, China, India, and Mediterranean and assumes duties as General Arnold's deputy

In the Pacific...
South China Sea:
Japanese vessel Shinyo Maru is sunk by US FEAF aircraft

Luzon:
US 6th Army is attacking around Baguio, Mount Mirador, Lone Tree Hill, and Mount Myoko

Mindanao:
US 8th Army is attacking around Saguing

Bohol:
US 8th Army is mopping up isolated pockets of resistance

Okinawa:
US 10th Army breaks through the first line of defence of the Shuri Line defended by Japanese 32nd Army

Ie Shima:
US 77th Infantry Division is mopping up isolated pockets of Japanese resistance

Burma...
Indian collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose departs Rangoon for Bangkok via Moulmein
British 14th Army is advancing down the Sittang River valley
Japanese aircraft attack Allied vehicles around Toungoo

Today's Air Raids...
Bad Oldesloe, Schleissheim airfield, Pasing airfield and Kiel, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Northern Italy on military targets by US 15th Air Force
Borneo on military targets by US FEAF
Formosa on military targets by US FEAF
Tachikawa and military targets in Japan by US 20th Air Force
Japanese positions, supply depots, transportation lines, and other targets throughout southern and eastern China by US 14th Air Force
Burma-Thailand Railway by US 10th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Meditation
Me Time
Shift 1 of the Weekend Job
TV comedy night

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION 

With some free time and space in the morning, I have an ideal opportunity for meditation, clearing my mind and focusing on my goals. These are total internal silence, living by intuition, and for my Practice to be self-supporting by 2018. Now I've reached a point of minimum distractions I want to seize upon it before any new ones turn up! I want to throw myself into my goals and clear all distractions from my consciousness. I want to be the Enlightened Hypnotherapist 24/7!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you have a clear idea where your life is going?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and sunny in the morning
Cloud builds in the afternoon, becoming heavy enough for isolated patches of drizzle in the early evening
Dry and cloudy thereafter
Max Temp = 15 degC at 2pm
Min Temp = 8 degC at 6am
Sunrise at 05:47
Sunset at 20:24
Moon:

Weathertrack: A weak depression arriving from the north will settle over Northern Scotland
Air Pressure: 1011 millibars and falling

6. TODAY'S ONELINER
People think I'm unhappily married because of my tweets, but I'm not - I'm unhappily married because of my wife. :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY
Jasper Carrott on turning 40

8. TRIVIA
The youngest known survivor of breast cancer is Aleisha Hunter from Ontario, Canada. At only three years old, Aleisha underwent a complete mastectomy in 2010 to treat her juvenile strain of breast cancer.

9. ZEN WISDOM
Key to dialogue is respect for the other person, a willingness to listen, and a readiness to learn from them.