FRIDAY 24th JULY 2015 06:44 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (24th July 1945)
Potsdam, Germany...
During the Potsdam conference, Truman and Stimson privately set the use of the first atomic bomb against Japan for approximately 3 August. Truman informs Stalin in general terms about the atomic bomb, but Stalin is already aware of most of the details from his spy network

Bougainville Island...
Australian II Corps launches its final attacks

Off Java...
IJN auxiliary minesweeper Wa-3 is sunk by Allied aircraft
Japanese vessel (ex Dutch Ginah) sunk by USN submarine Chub

Off the Philippines...
IJN submarine I-53 launches two Kaiten manned suicide torpedoes - USN destroyer Underhill is damaged and written off

Off Korea...
Japanese vessel Koichi Maru is sunk by a mine

China...
Chinese forces recover Paisha

Off Phuket, Thailand...
RN East Indies Fleet conducts minesweeping operations - RN minesweeper Squirrel is damaged by a mine and written off

Today's Air Raids...
Pagan Island by USN aircraft
Borneo on military targets by US FEAF
Luzon on Japanese pockets by US 5th Air force
Japan on military targets on Honshu by US FEAF
Japan Carrier-based aircraft from USN Task Force 38 attack shipping in the Inland Sea, nearby airfields, and other targets, conducting more than 1700 sorties - 11 IJN ships and 12 cargo ships are sunk, many other ships are damaged
Japan on Osaka, Takarazuka, Kuwana, Eitoku, Tsu, Handa, and military targets by US 20th Air Force
China on Shanghai and military targets by US FEAF
China on transportation lines, river traffic, Japanese positions, and other targets around Hengyang, Pakonghow, and Changsha by US 14th Air Force
Indochina on military targets by US 14th Air Force
Northern Malaya on military targets by RN aircraft

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Quality Missus Time
Meditation
Me Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

With this character very settled, Consciousness is free to experience. When you begin to awaken, there is a frustrating stage where you see how asleep everyone else is. This can fill you with an exasperated contempt for them.

But as awareness expands, you can see that there isn't a "you" and "them"  - it's all "you"! Everything is just Physics in action. Furthermore, there is the realization that perception is very limited in scope. Your limited experience does not add up to a grasp of Absolute Reality, and is little more than a flawed map within which your character operates.

You ultimately see that what you experience is a movie - one of an infinity, and one's true ultimate purpose is to share and pass on information - this is how the universe gets to understand itself. An individual does not have to be "awake" to do this - information will inevitably be passed on anyway. However being awake has one great single benefit - peace of mind. You can enjoy the movie without being lost in it.

Peace of mind is the best feeling the universe can offer. Imagine an orgasm of low intensity but which just keeps going on and on!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
What is the greatest prize life can offer?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Sunny start
Mainly dry and cloudy thereafter
Isolate light showers probable mid-evening
Wind will be very light and generally easterly
Max Temp: 14 degC at noon
Min Temp: 9 degC at 7am
Sunrise at 05:08
Sunset at 21:18
Moon: 

Weathertrack: A depression moving rapidly east across France will bring rain to southern Britain while the rest of the country remains in a col. 

Air Pressure: 1012 millibars and rising slightly

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

Men would be much more willing to do housework if everything made a laser noise :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

John Oliver on US stadiums

8. TRIVIA

Attractive defendants are not only statistically less likely to be convicted, but when they are, they are likely to suffer less severe punishment than an unattractive person convicted of the same offence.

9. ZEN WISDOM

Life is a constant battle against deadlock. As long as we are alive, as long as we continue challenging ourselves, we are bound to come up against difficult obstacles that need to be overcome. If life were all smooth sailing, if we never encountered setbacks, that in itself would be a sign of stagnation.