Good morning and welcome to the simple Sophisticates Weekend Edition Aacurant Weekly.

I'm your host Shannon Ables and part of living well is being in the know, whether it's 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 all of the information shared in each week's a currentorant Weekly will enable you to go forth

into the weekend ready for either an engaging conversation or being mindful of

the most recent current events. 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.

Welcome to Saturday. It is August 15th, 2015 and we are making our way through that last month of summer. Here comes fall. Can you believe it is coming sooner than we think.

So the news tends to slow down in August,

which you probably have noticed for all sorts of reasons.

One, with regards to politics,

our US Congress goes on their August vacation and they'll be returning after Labor Day.

And two, many people are on vacation, thus fewer people are making news if they would like to do it and they're taking a break.

Everything seems to ramp up in September so be prepared but that doesn't mean we

don't have stories because we definitely do this week. So let's get started. In

international news on Monday residents of an East London neighborhood were

alerted to a bomb in their vicinity, a German bomb from World War II that is.

At a nearby construction site, a large undetinated bomb was discovered Monday afternoon

resulting in a temporary evacuation.

Now you may remember during the Blitz, Germans dropped more than 30,000 bombs on London

in three short unsettling angst-ridden months.

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