WEDNESDAY 3rd JUNE 2015 06:05 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (3rd June 1945)
France...
An estimated million displaced French have now returned

Middle-East...
French troops withdraw from Damascus and Beirut

In the Atlantic...
U-1277 is scuttled by it crew off Portugal

USA...
USN aircraft carrier Lake Champlain is commissioned
General Bradley arrives for conferences and victory parades

Bougainville Island...
Australian II Corps is advancing against Japanese opposition

East Indies...
A Japanese fishing vessel is sunk by USN submarine Blueback

Luzon...
US 6th Army is advancing north of Santa Fe

Okinawa...
US 10th Army crosses the Kokuba River, sealing off Oroku peninsula, and advances toward Gisushi, cutting off the Chinen peninsula
Two vessels are damaged by kamikaze aircraft

Iheya Shima...
USN Task Group 31.25 lands a regiment of 2nd Marine Division

Tokyo...
Unaware of Stalin's pledge to the Western Allies, Japanese officials begin a series of meetings with the Soviet ambassador in Tokyo about improving relations and assistance in bringing the war to an agreeable conclusion

Off Japan...
Five vessels are sunk and two damaged by mines

East China Sea...
Japanese vessel No. 94 Anto Maru is sunk by USN submarine Segundo

Burma...
Many RAF squadrons are being withdrawn, disbanded, or consolidated throughout the month, and air operations are scaled scaled back

Today's Air Raids...
Borneo on military targets by US FEAF
Batavia, Java by US FEAF
Takao and Getsubi, Formosa by US FEAF
Sakishima Islands on airfields by USN aircraft
Kyushu Island, Japan on airfields by USN aircraft, sinking Japanese vessel No. 6 Tankai Maru offshore
China on offshore coastal shipping by US FEAF
China on transportation lines, river traffic, and other targets around Liuchow, Shihkiachwang, Kiehsiu, and Linfen by US 14th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shopping
Me Time 
Meditation
Making Supper
Client session
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,976 (down 2)
Non-followed eliminated = 2
@WealthProducers, @MariaZuhr, 
Unfollowers eliminated = 1
@EKJalim 

New Followers followed back = 0

Spammers not followed back = 1

@LoopStrategy

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

There's a hush in my mind right now and it's most blissful! With the mental disruption of the Saturday Incident easing, balance is restored and I'm feeling that internal silence I have long sought. Were it not for loved ones counting on me, it might be a good day to die, at peace with self, but that wouldn't be so agreeable for the ones to whom I make a difference.

I will therefore carry on making a difference for the moment, out of love and service, even though I myself have nothing left to want. It's been a long traumatic time coming, but my mind is now how I want it, and I shall simply savour it.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What would bring you permanent peace of mind?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and sunny throughout with a moderate westerly wind that will peter out in the later evening
Max Temp = 13 degC at 4pm
Min Temp = 8 degC at 6am
Sunrise at 04:41
Sunset at 21:29
Moon: 

Weathertrack: An anticyclone in the Bay of Biscay and moving rapidly north-east will extend over Britain today

Air Pressure: 1014 millibars and rising rapidly

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

85% of couples stay together because they don't want to have to go to the gym :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

Norm MacDonald on David Letterman

8. TRIVIA

The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract its claws

9. ZEN WISDOM

Without dialogue, humans are fated to walk in the darkness of their own dogmatic self-righteousness. Dialogue is the lamp by which we dispel that darkness, lighting and making visible for each other our steps and the path ahead.