51: August 8, 2015: Au Courant Weekly

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The top stories from the past stories such as President Obama's announcement on greenhouse gas emmissions, meditation's positive effects on being self-critical and the return of a Stradivarius violin that was lost 35 years ago. So much to talk about, so tune in and you'll be au courant in 15 minutes or less.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to the simple Sophisticates Weekend Edition A Curran Weekly.
0:15.9	I'm your host Shannon Ables and part of living well is being in the know, whether it's
0:20.8	being knowledgeable of news from around the world, or informed of going on's right in your own community, because it's not what you think, it's that you think.
0:29.5	All of the information shared in each week's Aqorant Weekly will enable you to go forth into the weekend
0:35.3	ready for either an engaging conversation or being mindful of the most recent current events.
0:40.9	From that point it is your job to formulate your very own opinion. So thank you for joining me and in 15 minutes or less I will have you all Corona. Let's get started. Good morning and welcome to August 8, 2009.
1:00.0	Good morning and welcome to August 8th 2015. We have a lot of great stories to get to but before I do I want to make a quick correction to last week stories. I inadvertently stated that Boston had applied for the
1:15.7	2022 Winter Olympics. I was absolutely incorrect and it was the 2024 Summer Olympics that they had initially applied for and then removed their name from.
1:25.8	So I just wanted to make sure I address that correction.
1:28.8	Anytime there is a correction, it will be noted on the actual show notes, however I cannot go back and fix the
1:34.2	podcast episode. So if you hear something, most likely it is corrected on the
1:38.4	show notes, but if it isn't, please feel free to make a comment and I will do
1:42.2	my due diligence and correct it.
1:44.4	All right, but we have a lot to talk about today, so let's get into it. In international news, French investigators announced on Wednesday that the piece of a wing known as a
1:54.4	Flaperon from a Boeing 777 is from Malaysia flight 370 which went missing on
2:01.6	March 8th back in 2014.
2:04.0	This wing part was found on Reunion Island in late July,
2:08.0	which is located in the Indian Ocean.
2:10.0	The announcement provided some closure to the families of those 239 lives lost on that flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
2:18.0	French investigators are continuing to examine the wing and other debris.
2:23.6	In national news here in the United States on Monday President Obama announced a major
2:29.0	change to cut greenhouse gas emissions from coal-burning power plants.
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