55: August 22, 2015: Au Courant Weekly
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2015
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
First two women graduate from Army Ranger School, Addyi is approved for women's libidos, Lily Tomlin stars in a delightful new film and much more.
In this week's French Word of the Week, we're talking food and breakfast, French toast specifically.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the simple Sophisticus weekend edition Aq Curran Weekly. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host Shannon Ables and part of living well is being in the know. |
| 0:20.3 | Whether it's being knowledgeable of news from around the world or informed of goings on right in your own community |
| 0:26.4 | Because it's not what you think it's that you think all of the information shared in each week's Aukorant Weekly will enable you to go forth into the weekend |
| 0:35.8 | ready for either an engaging conversation or being mindful of the most recent current events. |
| 0:41.3 | From that point it is your job to formulate your very own opinion. So |
| 0:45.6 | thank you for joining me and in fewer than 15 minutes I will have you a kurra. |
| 0:51.7 | Let's get started. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to Saturday, August 22, 2015. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to Saturday, August 22nd, 2015. |
| 1:05.0 | We are diving into the last month of summer here in the states in the last month of winter for my Southern Hemisphere |
| 1:11.5 | listeners and we really have a time to savor but |
| 1:15.1 | regardless of what what season you are in we are going to savor this weekend but |
| 1:19.4 | let's figure out what the heck happened this past week. Here we go. In international news there was |
| 1:24.8 | terror on a train to Paris which was thwarted by two Americans. Friday evening on a |
| 1:30.8 | train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris to Americans |
| 1:34.1 | subdued a heavily armed gunman who wounded several passengers before being |
| 1:38.6 | stopped. One of the Americans is a member of the American military and there is yet no confirmation |
| 1:44.8 | as of Friday if the second hero was also a part of the US military. Police |
| 1:49.8 | investigating the scene are quoted in French news media saying quote the Americans heard the suspect |
| 1:55.8 | loading a weapon in one of the toilets and confronted him as he exited end quote. |
| 2:00.8 | Passengers interviewed after the attack shared that the attack lasted approximately |
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