47: Au Courant Weekly: July 25, 2015

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Part of living well is being in the know, whether it is being knowledgable of news from around the world or informed of going-ons right in your own community, because it's not what you think, it's that you think. All of the information shared on the Au Courant Weekly will enable you to go forth into the weekend ready for an engaging conversation or simply mindful of the most recent current events, from which you can formulate your own opinions. So tune in each Saturday morning, and in 15 minutes or less you will be au courant.

In this week's episode: Dr. Seuss, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, the Sibling Study, Cuban Embassy, President Obama in Kenya, and more!

And don't forget Géraldine Lepère, the French language expert and founder of the website Comme une Française offers her weekly French Word of the Week at the end of the episode. Find out what it is!

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the simple Sophisticates Weekend Edition Aacurant Weekly.
0:15.8	I'm your host Shannon Ables and part of living well is being in the know, whether it's being
0:21.0	knowledgeable of news from around the world or informed of
0:24.0	going on's right in your own community because it's not what you think it's that you
0:29.0	think all of the information shared in each week's a currentorant Weekly will enable you to go forth
0:34.4	into the weekend ready for either an engaging conversation or being mindful of
0:39.0	the most recent current events. From that point it is your job to formulate your very own opinion. So thank you
0:46.0	for joining me and in 15 minutes or less I will have you all Corona. Let's get started.
1:14.0	Welcome to Saturday morning, 25th, 2015 and this past week has been full of all sorts of news from around the world right in our backyard and some fantastic entertainment coming up for you to enjoy. So let's dive right into it.
1:16.0	We're going to start with international news and you may have heard
1:19.0	we now have officially a Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C.
1:24.2	On Monday, Cuban flags were raised above Cuba's embassy
1:27.6	on 16th Street, just two miles north of the White House.
1:32.2	This was a formal ceremony and as well the flag, the United
1:36.2	States flag that is, ascended above their embassy in Havana, Cuba. However, we're
1:41.6	going to save our formal ceremonies in Cuba until August 14th
1:45.9	when our Secretary of State John Kerry can attend. This movement to Thaw relations between Cuba in the United States was announced this past December
1:55.8	after 54 years of great contention.
2:00.4	So quite a change is starting to happen.
2:03.0	Moving on to the United States, Barack Obama just landed yesterday in Kenya for the first time
2:09.3	as President of the United States.
2:11.4	He is visiting his father's homeland and in Nairobi Kenya, the of the
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