How was your 4th july holiday week? Just regular break from routine? Short or long travel? Looking at extreme hot weather predictions or surprise flooding in certain parts of the country? Or simply organized your closets and finished the long-due laundry? I am sure that break gave you some relaxation and charged your internal batteries!
Election is coming, so does social media war. There is enough content for cartoonists, endless sources!
Quote for this week:
"If you have passion, a chip on the shoulder, a sense of humor, and you can explain what you do very well, it doesn't matter if you're a plumber or a singer or a politician. If you have those four things, you are interesting."
– Larry King
Word of the week
Precatory, p, r , e, c, a, t, o, r, y
What is the meaning?
Relating to or expressing a wish or request.
What is in your mind after learning this word?
Let us start this week’s highlights..
First, some economy news and food prices..
US prices didn’t rise last month for the first time since November.
Yes, I have some extra bucks in the pocket. But my BP went up after watching the first Presidential debate! I thought my choice was already made!
Costco Just Made a Big Change to Its $4.99 Rotisserie Chickens, and Customers Are Not Happy.
It is just the packaging changes but it’s too difficult fort the customer to adopt it. No complains about the same price of $4.99 for last 24 years!
Holidays means drunken driving. That’s the reason lot of cops on the road
A driver drank 18 beers before a nail salon crash, prosecutors say.
He could say in court that the solvents like toluene and formaldehyde attracted him to the store quickly!
It’s Taylor swift time. Okay, Taylor swift year. More okay, Taylor swift decade!
German city of Gelsenkirchen is being temporarily renamed ‘Swiftkirchen’ whilst Taylor Swift is in town.
So in the future you may hear Swifterland instead of Switzerland, Singpore as Swiftapore
The US economy added 206,000 jobs last month, and the jobless rate unexpectedly increased to 4.1%.
Can’t believe these numbers. When the President’s job itself is in question. No politics here anyway! You can be rest assured!
UK’s new Prime Minister, Starmer pledges to steer UK toward "calmer waters"
Like the rhyming words, Starmer and Calmer. Let his sailing be smooth with Europe and United States
AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks
My question is who gets the royalty from the income? Or it goes to undeclared funds at each State’s treasury?
Flying news..This has never got better these days
American Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing in NY after passenger urinated in aisle.
So we need sanity check along with security checks?
One more flying news..
Delta flight diverted after passengers served expired food.
Food inspector at the preparation site took long holiday vacation, is that a good excuse?
California news..
12 people compete for every rental unit in Silicon Valley, new study says.
Was this sponsored by rental companies. Where are these people coming when news say people are leaving California
Some Amazon news..
Amazon is 30. Here's how a book store gobbled up all of e-commerce.
Remember when you were young, Amazon was just a river in South America?
Weight loss drugs are getting popular, don’t miss those news!
Weight loss drugs, Wegovy, Ozempic linked with sight-threatening eye disorder in study.
What is the point of losing weight if you could not see yourself losing weight?
Thanks for your time..See you next week!
