Musings of a Menopausal Melon - mmm! quilts: Pets on Quilts --Cats!
I heard about this fun Pets On Quilts linky party over at Lily Pad Quilting from my friend Judy who blogs at Quilt Paradigm. Thank you Judy! She is the one who tagged me to participate in the Around the World Blog Hop. My post was last Monday, August 4, and the three lovely ladies I have tagged will be posting tomorrow. I will give you links to their posts tomorrow!
So this is a linky party I am WELL-prepared for!! As many of you know, I have a Pitbull named Rocco. Before I got him, and before I started watching Cesar Millan rehabilitate other dogs under the guidance of (I'm dead serious) his Pitbull, Daddy, I, too, had a bit of a whoa-keep-your-distance-scary-pitbull attitude towards these people-(especially kids)-loving, life-loving, joyful dogs.
He, too, loves quilts. Especially quilts on a human bed.
He has been known to photo-bomb a picture or two for my blog.
"Back off Bella, I'm claiming this one"
However, this entry is my CAT on quilt entry, so if you want to read my DOG on quilt entry, click here! When I wrote it, I had no idea I would be entering him into this party, and it is quite interesting how many pictures I have of him on one of my quilts!
So I also have a gorgeous cat named Bella, who is my sewing diva partner. This post is my entry for her into the POQ Festival. I would say she loves new fabric as much as I do.
She, much like me, loves the feel of fabric, loves the feel of a quilt, either burrowing into it, or lounging on top of one.
"Must you take more pictures? How absolutely boring of you..."
We got her in October of 2012, when she was 6 months old. She is a Himalayan.
She loved quilts and was fascinated by my sewing space even at that young age.
This past winter in Florida, she was quite intrigued with my old Elna sewing machine that I keep there.
She also loves keeping her spine in shape on my sewing machine cover, and, yep, new fabric underneath.
Think I've got my toes on it...yep, just!
This is my yoga bag I free-motion quilted. I stood it up here after I'd taken some outside shots of it. Turned around, and look who managed to get herself ON a part of it. It was only the quilted strap, but hey, she got ON a part of that baby!
She's my cheerleader when it comes to being in my quilting/sewing space. She bubbles with feline energy, all wiggly and bouncy, wriggling like a caterpillar on the carpet beside me, whenever I go down to the basement to sew.
Here's one last shot of her from a few moments ago, showing off her flexible spine and body.
Okay, she says that wasn't her good side. Do you see how she just loves to pose?! Typical cat, no?!
It's kind of funny the way they think we make quilts for them...isn't it?
She is a really pretty cat and something of a diva I think!
She is so beautiful! I'm jealous she did such a great job posing on your daybed! My cats were not cooperative at all!
She is quite the ham! ha! great pictures!
Your quilts are beautiful and so is that cat. She seems to love the camera with all her sweet poses!
Oh My! Bella is a gorgeous girl Sandra! And the quilts you have made - I am so impressed!
Rocco and Bella seem like quit the siblings! I guess you never know what is going to happen! They are adorable plus I love all your quilts!
It must be so much fun to have such a beautiful sewing partner, she poses so well on the quilts.
Ha Ha!! Love the stretched out pics!! Precious!
Bella has a wonderful face! What a beauty!
Love the photo of her staring straight at camera with the maple leaf in front!
Bella is beautiful. My cats show up whenever a quilt is put down for measuring too. I feel if they do not check out the quilt, I must have done something wrong with it.


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Q: error: Failed to establish TLS connection: underlying network error (Connection reset by peer) I am using Centos 7.6.
When running rudder agent update, I get a TLS connection error. The web console is working, and the machine is registered.  However, there are no reports from the server.
Any suggestions on what could be causing this would be helpful.
$ sudo rudder agent update
error: Failed to establish TLS connection: underlying network error (Connection reset by peer)
error: No suitable server found
error: Failed to establish TLS connection: underlying network error (Connection reset by peer)
error: No suitable server found R:
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* rudder-agent could not get an updated configuration from the policy server.   *
* This can be caused by:                                                        *
*   * an agent key that has been changed                                        *
*   * if this node is not accepted or deleted node on the Rudder root server    *
*   * if this node has changed policy server without sending a new inventory    *
* Any existing configuration policy will continue to be applied without change. *
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error: Rudder agent promises could not be updated.

A: To debug the problem, you can use rudder server debug <NODE-IP-OR-HOSTNAME> on your Rudder server (with the ip or hostname of the failing node as parameter), it will start a debug server and display more information about the connection.
Then run rudder agent update on the node and check the output on the server, it should indicate the cause of the problem. If you see nothing on the server, it is probably a network configuration issue, you need to check if tcp/5309 is correctly open from your node to the Rudder server.
Note: On the other hand, if the policy updates succeeds in debug mode (and only in debug mode), the problem probably lies in the policy server daemon on your Rudder server, and rudder agent restart on you Rudder server should fix it.

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History of Major World Wars
Causes, consequences and important facts related to the First World War:
General information about the First World War:
In the history of the world, between the First World War (28 July 1914 AD to 11 November 1918 AD), the three continents of the world, Europe, Asia and Africa, were fought in water, land and sky. Due to the unprecedented figures of the number of participating countries, its area and the damage caused by it, it was named World War. World War I lasted for 4 years (about 52 months).
Nearly half the world was hit by violence, and during this time an estimated 10 million people died and twice as many were injured. Apart from this, lakhs of people also died due to diseases and malnutrition. By the end of the world war, the four major countries Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Osmania collapsed. The boundaries of the continent of Europe were redrawn and America certainly emerged as a 'super power'.
Why did the First World War happen?
World War I, also known as the Great War and World War I, was a deadly global conflict that originated in Europe. It began in 1914 and lasted until 1918, with World War I resulting in approximately nine million combat deaths and 13 million civilian deaths as a direct result of the conflict.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the growing rivalry between European nations became all too evident. Germany, upon its unification in 1871, was becoming an industrial power and other nations of Europe, particularly France and Britain, felt threatened by it. Around this time the Ottoman Empire gave birth to new countries in the Balkan region. One of them, Serbia, was gaining land and power at the expense of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary. To counter this threat, the Austro-Hungarian Empire formed an alliance with Germany and Italy to defend each other, as with no future ones.
In response, Britain, France and Russia formed the Triple Entente for the same purpose. During the 1900s both Britain and Germany added larger and better warships to their naval arsenals. The rest of Europe also shot. By 1914, most European countries had prepared their armies for war. All that was needed was a spark to ignite it. The spark came to light when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Cause of the First World War:
Disturbance of the balance of European power:
Before the unification of Germany in 1871, Germany did not play an important role in European politics, but a powerful German nation emerged under the leadership of Bismarck (Otto von Bismarck). This disturbed the balance of European power. Germany became a challenge for England and France. This increased the spirit of competition among European nations.
Prevalence of secret treaties:
After the unification of Germany, Chancellor Bismarck (Otto von Bismarck) adopted the policies of secret treaties to make his country influential in European politics and to keep France friendless in European politics. He made a dual alliance with Austria-Hungary (1879). Friendship treaties were also made with Russia (1881 and 1887). Bismarck (Otto von Bismarck) also made friendly relations with England.
In 1882 he made friendship treaties with Italy and Austria. As a result, a new faction was formed in Europe called the Triple Alliance. This included Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. England and France remained separate from this faction.
Conflict of Germany and France:
There was an old enmity between Germany and France. During the unification of Germany, Bismarck had taken possession of the rich French region of Alsace-Lorraine. French interests were also damaged in Morocco. So the French public opinion was against Germany.
France was always trying to humiliate Germany. On the other hand, Germany also wanted to keep France powerless. So Germany made a three-part agreement to keep France friendless. In return, France also formed a group of its allies against Germany. By the time of World War I, hostility between Germany and France had increased so much that it made war inevitable.
Imperial Competition:
Imperialism, mutual rivalry and conflict of interest for the expansion of empire) countries can be considered as the root cause of the First World War.
As a result of the Industrial Revolution, there was a need for a market for the raw materials to run the factories and for the consumption of the goods produced in the factories. As a result, by using imperial powers, England, France and Russia took over them by making their own colonies in Asia and Africa.
When Germany and Italy later joined the colonialist race, there was little room for expansion. Therefore, these countries adopted a new policy of colonial expansion.
This policy was to strengthen its position by forcibly taking over the colonies of other nations.
By the time the First World War broke out, Germany's economic and industrial condition had become very strong. So the German emperor became desperate to give Germany a proper place on earth and under the sun. His army was strong from the beginning, but now by building a strong fleet, he tried to develop his empire and challenge England's ownership of the sea.
In 1911, the Agadir crisis arose as a result of the Anglo-German sailing competition. Attempts were made to solve it but it failed. In 1912 a huge ship Imperator was built in Germany, which was the largest ship of that time. As a result, enmity and competition increased between Germany and England.
Similarly, the Moroccan and Bosnia crisis further fueled the competition between England and Germany.
To increase its sphere of influence, when Germany planned the Verlaine-Baghdad Railroad with the aim of establishing control over the economy of the decadent Turkish Empire, England, France and Russia opposed it. This increased bitterness.
Emphasis on militarism and armament:
Militarism, like imperialism, also brought the First World War closer. Each nation engaged in the manufacture and sale of weapons to implement its security and expansionist policy. For the security of their own colonies, it became necessary to be strong from the military point of view. As a result, new weapons of war were created. A large part of the national income began to be spent on the manufacture of weapons and military organization.
For example France, Germany and other major nations were spending 85% of their income on military systems. Compulsory military service was introduced in many countries. The number of soldiers was greatly increased. Military officers dominated the politics of the country. Thus the whole of Europe sat on a pile of gunpowder. It was just a delay of the explosion. This explosion happened in 1914.
Radical Nationalism:
Radical or distorted nationalism also became a fundamental cause of the First World War.
It developed equally in all the countries of Europe. There was a growing feeling that if people of the same caste, religion, language, and historical tradition came together and worked together, they would become a separate identity and progress.
Earlier also Germany and Italy had been unified on this basis. This sentiment was stronger in the Balkans region. The Balkan region was under the Turkish Empire.
With the weakening of the Turkish Empire, the demand for independence in the region began to gain momentum. In many areas of the Turkish Empire and Austria-Hungary, people of the Slavic race were predominant. He was demanding a separate Slavic nation.
Russia believed that after independence from Austria-Hungary and Turkey, the Slavs would come under Russian influence. That is why Russia promoted the All-Slavic or Sarvaslavism movement. This caused a rift between Russia and Austria-Hungary.
Similarly Pan-Germanism also went on. The people of Sarva, Czech and Pol races were also demanding independence. This increased the feeling of bitterness among European nations.
Viseli Publicity by Newspapers and Publicity Means:
Politicians, philosophers and writers of each country were advocating war in their writings. The bourgeoisie also became a supporter of war in its own interest, the most important role in preparing war-oriented public opinion was the newspapers. The newspaper of each country used to publish false and inflammatory articles against the other nation.
This caused bitterness among different nations and their people. The false propaganda of newspapers poisoned the atmosphere of Europe and made war inevitable.
Current reasons:
The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria in the capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo. On 28 June 1914, a Bosnian youth of all races with links to a terrorist organization Kala Hath shot and killed the prince and his wife. This shocked the whole of Europe. Austria held Cervia responsible for the incident.
Austria threatened Serbia to clarify the situation in this regard within 48 hours and suppress the terrorists. Serbia turned down Austria's demands. As a result, on 28 July 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia. Along with this, other nations also joined the war in support of their respective factions. Thus began the First World War.
Paris Peace Conference:
The conference of the victorious countries held in Paris after the end of the First World War is called the Paris Peace Conference. This created the 'conditions of peace' to be applied to the defeated countries. This conference was held in Paris in 1919 in which diplomats from 32 countries of the world participated. The main decisions taken in this were the formation of the League of Nations and five peace treaties with the defeated countries.
Treaty of Versailles: This treaty was signed between the Allies and Germany. In which countries like France, America, Russia etc. were included. The defeated Germany after the First World War signed the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919. As a result, Germany lost a large part of its land, banned the occupation of other states, limited the size of its army, and imposed heavy indemnities. The Treaty of Versailles was forcibly imposed on Germany. For this reason Adolf Hitler and other Germans considered it humiliating and thus this treaty was one of the causes of World War II.
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye: The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was signed on 10 September 1919, with which Montenegro was merged to form Slovakia for ages. Poland was reorganized. Some territory of Austria was also given to Italy. In which the territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina were snatched and given to Serbia. The state of Czechoslovakia was established by separating some regions. Austria was banned from any political relations with Germany.
Treaty of Niuli: On 27 November 1919, some areas of Bulgaria were given to Greece, Yugoslavia and Romania.
Treaty of Trianon: On 4 June 1920, Slovakia and Ruthenia were given to Czechoslovakia. Many territories were also given to Yugoslavia and Romania. As a result of these treaties, the political and economic condition of Austria-Hungary became very weak.
Treaty of Sevres: Turkey fought on the side of Germany in the First World War and after being defeated, it had to make a treaty with the Allies, which is called the Treaty of Sevres, this treaty was on 10 August 1920Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, Morocco, Arab, Areas like Syria, Iran etc. were separated from Turkey. Britain controlled Syria over France and Palestine and Iran.
Treaty of Rapallo: The Treaty of Rapallo was an agreement signed between Germany and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic on 16 April 1922. Under this, the enemies of World War I, Russia and Germany, decided in the Italian city of Rapalo to give up the territorial and financial claims they had received under the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918. Were.
Treaty of Lausanne: The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace agreement signed on 26 July 1923 in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland. As a result, the war between Turkey, the British Empire, the French Republic, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Japan, the Kingdom of Greece, the Kingdom of Romania, and the All-Croto-Slovene state since the beginning of the First World War formally ended. This was the second effort towards peace after the breakup of the Treaty of Sevres.
Important facts related to the First World War are as follows:
The First World War started on 28 July 1914.
World War I lasted for 4 years.
32 countries participated in the First World War.
The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of Prince Ferdinand of Austria.
The Austrian prince was assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia.
During the First World War, the world was divided into two camps, the Allies and the Axis.
Apart from Germany, the Axis countries were also led by countries like Austria, Hungary and Italy.
The Allies included England, Japan, the United States, Russia, and France.
Bismarck was the father of the system of secret treaties.
The threesome between Austria, Germany and Italy was formed in 1882 AD.
Serbia's secret revolutionary organization was a black hand.
The Russo-Japanese War ended with US President Roosevelta.
The Moroccan crisis came to the fore in 1906.
During the First World War, Germany attacked Russia on August 1, 1914.
Germany attacked France on 3 August 1914 AD.
England joined the First World War on 8 August 1914 AD.
The President of the United States at the time of World War I was Woodrow Wilson.
America joined World War I after Germany's U boat sank a ship called the England Lusitania. Because 128 of the 1153 people who died on the Lusitania ship were Americans.
Italy joined the First World War on 26 April 1915 on behalf of the Allies.
The First World War ended on 11 November 1918.
The Paris Peace Conference took place on 18 June 1919.
27 countries participated in the Paris Peace Conference.
Apart from land, this war was also fought in the sky and sea.
The Treaty of Versailles was signed between Germany and the Allies (28 June 1919 AD).
An amount of 6 billion 500 million was demanded from Germany as war damages.
The biggest contribution of the First World War in the international arena was the establishment of the League of Nations.
The term "world war" was first used in September 1914 by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel, who claimed that "there is no doubt that the course and character of the dreaded 'European War'... Will become.
Events before and during the First World War:
Year/Month Competition
1878 Serbia gained independence from the Ottoman Empire
1881 Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy form a Triple Alliance to defend each other in the event of war
1904 Britain forms the Entente Cordiale with France
1907 Russia joins Britain to create Triple Entente
1908 Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina to prevent Serbia from taking control
1912-1913 The Balkan Wars are fought between the Balkan League (Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Montenegro). Balkan League is victorious
1914 - June 28 Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
1914 - 28 July Austria declared war on Serbia. Russia prepares to defend Serbia from Austria
1914 - August 1 Germany declares war on Russia to defend Austria
1914 - August 3 Germany declares war on France, Russia allies
1914 - August 4 German forces march from Belgium to France. Britain declares war on Germany World War I begins
1914 - August 26 Germany defeats Russian forces at the Battle of Tenberg
1914 - September At the Battle of the Marne, the Allies halted the German advance on Paris. The German victory in the same month ended Russian involvement in East Prussia.
𝒬. World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles Versailles is in which country?
𝒜. France
𝒬. Against whom did the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) fight in World War II?
𝒜. Great Britain
𝒬. In which year did the Second World War start?
𝒜. in 1939
𝒬. Where was the trial of war criminals of World War II held?
𝒜. nuremberg
𝒬. Which German general was nicknamed the "Desert Fox" during World War II?
𝒜. rommel
𝒬. Who were the Axis Powers in World War II?
𝒜. Germany, Italy, Japan
𝒬. Who was the President of the United States during World War I?
𝒜. Woodrow Wilson
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Some UFO Tapes are "Missing" Claims Navy Pilot
By Jazz Shaw
Another interesting tidbit has surfaced in the story of U.S. Navy Cmdr David Fravor (Ret), the pilot who engaged in the now-infamous encounter with the "tic-tac" UFO in 2004. While flying his F/A-18F Super Hornet, he was sent to observe unidentified craft showing up on radar, flying from the USS Nimitz carrier battle group, leading to the bizarre run-in with the tic-tac. This encounter produced one of the three Navy UFO videos that have been making the rounds in the media for the past couple of years.
During an interview earlier this year, however, Fravor indicated that there were more tapes, including video and radar tracking information, that simply "disappeared" after the event. And so, the mystery deepens further. (Daily Star)
One of the first US Navy pilots to have encountered the famed tic-tac UFO off the coast of San Diego has said there are tapes "missing".
Commander David Fravor was flying one of the two F/A-18E/F Super Hornets that had taken off from the USS Nimitz, during a combat exercise on November 14, 2004…
"All the radar tapes from the Princeton are missing and they can't find," Fravor told host and former US Navy pilot Vincent Aiello.
"I was chatting to someone at the archives and they've said someone has taken that page from the logbook."
The conversation comes from this episode of the Fighter Pilot Podcast where Fravor was a guest. (It's also where we learn that his pilot call sign in the Navy was "Sex". You'll have to listen to the last few minutes of the interview to learn where it came from, but it's not as salacious as you might guess.) This interview is revealing and enjoyable because the host is another fighter pilot who actually served with Fravor back in the day. The lingo gets a little technical for the layman here and there, but they really dig into the details.
An interesting takeaway from this interview as to how Fravor got the tapes originally is revealed. After landing, he went down to CVIC (Carrier Information Center) and told them to give him the tapes. And if they refused he was going to "tear this place apart." He told them to go get their boss and he would tell him the same thing. They gave him the tapes.
Fravor goes on to say that he made copies of the tapes which were kept in a safe on the USS Princeton. He said the tapes were still there when they returned from the cruise, but when he checked on them later they had simply "disappeared."
This testimony is in keeping with what we've heard from other sailors. Two of them from the Princeton who provided video interviews to The Nimitz Encounters described how the "cleanup" after this cruise was taken care of. Shortly after the exercise and long before they returned to port, some men in either civilian clothes or jumpsuits with no military insignia showed up and collected data recorders, radar and video records from the days when the tic-tacs were being seen.
The odd part is that many of those devices and recordings were regularly not even looked at unless the airplane or radar manufacturers wanted test data for product development. Most commonly, planes' recorders were locked in a safe after use for a time and then wiped and reinstalled for another mission. But after the tic-tac encounters, officers came around and collected them all with or without the unnamed civilians who arrived.
With that in mind, it's probably not at all surprising that Fravor's tapes would have gone "missing" as well. The real question is, what was on those recordings and would it provide the public with a better view and understanding of what these objects looked like and what they might have been up to. Unless Uncle Sam is feeling generous and cares to release any more of them to the media, we may not get those answers, but it would be extremely helpful if they would agree to do so.
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The US Army has explained more about why it partnered with former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge's UFO research organization to study exotic materials. The Army described it as a "low risk" partnership that is of "significant interest" to the military.
Last month, DeLonge's To the Stars Academy joined forces with the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command, a research and development body. According to the contract, the government is interested in studying some pretty exotic science such as active camouflage, inertial mass reduction, and quantum communication. Even stranger, it turns out that the US government approached To the Stars for this deal.
In particular, the government is interested in the group's ADAM Project, which Doug Halleaux, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center described as "a global dragnet for the collection and evaluation of novel materials." Last year, TTSA put out a call for individuals and organizations to submit materials from alleged exotic sources as part of the project.
"If materials represented in the TTSA ADAM project are scientifically evaluated and presented with supporting data as having military utility by the TTSA, it makes sense to look deeper here," Halleaux said, adding that it's also interested in a cooperative project between TTSA and a company called TruClear Global.
In August of 2019, To the Stars signed a "cooperative marketing agreement" with TruClear Global to "cooperate on joint development projects as well as to provide advanced technology solutions to United States Government clientele." TruClear essentially creates custom video screens that can be put on the side of buildings for marketing and events purposes.
To the Stars has generally made news for its UFO research, but this partnership with the U.S. Army may mean that it fancies itself as a military contractor.
"None of us at TTSA consider ourselves 'Ufologists' or part of the 'Ufology culture,' in fact, most of us come from a U.S. Government background (both Defense and Intelligence) and consider it our patriotic duty to work alongside our friends in Government should they see an advantage to improving our national security and protecting our people," Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon staffer and TTSA's Director of Global Security and Special Programs, said in an interview.
While members of TTSA have spoken at UFO conferences and the recent Anomalous Aerospace Phenomena Conference, and DeLonge has co-authored two non-fiction books on extraterrestrial visitation and the UFO phenomenon, there seems to be a sort of ideological polarization within the organization which swings between being contenders for military contracts and a UFO research organization.
Now armed with a five year deal, TTSA and the government will work together on research and development for future military technology. Halleaux explained that the government believes the "key technologies or capabilities that [the Army] is investigating with TTSA are certainly on the leading edge of the realm of the possible" and comes at a low cost for the government.
To the Stars seems to be banking on the idea that the 'exotic' materials in their possession and outside-the-box science will lead to the development of some actual technology.
"If all goes as planned, the next year will lead to additional opportunities to cooperate with the government and conduct a more detailed analysis and product development," Elizondo said.
The government has had a decades long sordid history with the UFO narrative, and UFO mogul Tom DeLonge's latest deal with the US Army is definitely raising a few eyebrows. This agreement, as well as the recent announcements by the Navy that they will make it easier for personnel to report UFO sightings and the Navy's confirmation that objects seen in recently released videos are unknown aerial phenomena, have become a hot topic of debate among UFO researchers. Some believe that something nefarious is afoot as branches of the military begin a contemporary campaign to become more friendly with the UFO topic.
Others remain optimistic. Author and popular UFO historian Richard Dolan told Motherboard that it is irresponsible to "throw cold water" on this before any results come in.
"True skepticism doesn't equate into reflexive debunking, but an honest inquiry into the data," Dolan stated. "What is obvious is that this announcement would have been considered astonishing as little as two years ago. The fact that the U.S. military is interested in this should cause us to become more attentive to what exactly is going on. Therefore, I'd say 'close attention' rather than caution is the order of the day."
Halleaux could not comment on the specifics regarding the types of research and technology the Army is after in this deal, but he did express that camouflaging and keeping ground vehicles and personnel safe are always "a priority."
"The USG sees an opportunity to improve the survivability of our brave men and women in uniform, and perhaps improve the chances of them returning home safely back to their loved ones," stated Elizondo. "It seems to me to be an obvious and worthwhile pursuit."
Source: Vice
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwywx/the-army-told-us-why-it-partnered-with
-tom-delonges-ufo-group
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Can Ghosts Speak To Alexa?
By Rob Schwarz
Throughout the history of spirit communication, people have used a variety of unique tools and methods to contact the deceased.
From automatic writing using planchettes, to mediums channeling the other side during late night seances, we've managed to develop quite the number of alleged ways to speak to the dead. The Ouija board, too, is an immensely popular form of attempted communication. In modern times, paranormal investigators have turned to radios and recording devices, like so-called Ghost Boxes, to capture electronic voice phenomena.
Perhaps there's something else we can add to that list of tools in our supernatural toolbox: Alexa.
Amazon's plucky virtual assistant inhabits nearly everything they make. Their Echo smart speakers, their TV sticks, their Fire tablets. Personally, I've never used Alexa, but apparently Amazon has sold over 100 million of these devices as of January 2019. That means Alexa can be found in many, many households, fielding many, many spoken commands.
But here's a question: Can ghosts also speak to Alexa?
If we are to believe that they can speak through recording devices and radios, as they allegedly did with Konstantins Raudive in the 1960s, there's no particular reason ghosts can't also speak through modern smart speakers. I'd imagine any spectral transmitting stations are already well-equipped to handle such technologies, wouldn't you?
After all, Alexa's no stranger to strange things. For example, in 2018, there were several reports of Alexa spontaneously laughing, which Amazon dubbed a simple "malfunction," though a creepy one.
That said, can everything be explained away as simply a glitch or a misheard command?
One Echo user experienced a number of odd activities surrounding their device. On one day in particular, after the passing of their grandmother, they truly began to wonder if spirits beyond were conversing with Alexa:
"My grandma passed away around that time. A couple of days after her passing, the Echo turned on (when I was alone) and started playing 'Mandy,' by Boston. I had never heard that song before and had never played it on the Echo. My grandma was the only one who called me Mandy."
Is it possible that ghosts might be giving Alexa commands? In another case, a user's recently deceased grandfather may have asked Alexa to play a song:
"My grandpa passed away a few months back, leaving my grandma to live by herself. She has an Amazon echo. One night when she was alone getting ready for bed, she heard a song start playing in the living room, in a house that was completely silent. Alexa was playing the song Lucille by Kenny Rogers (a song she shares a name with). The song was my grandparents' favorite song to dance to together."
Perhaps it's an odd coincidence, but I stumbled across multiple instances, including the above, of Echo users hearing very specific songs playing after the passing of a loved one, almost as if their ghosts were trying to send messages through these devices.
One Redditor shared an account of an Amazon Dot randomly playing a song that had helped them deal with the loss of their father. Another report of paranormal activity after a recent death also involved Alexa playing a specific song over and over again.
Is there anything to the idea that ghosts are reaching out to certain individuals through Alexa and other smart devices? In one final example, an Alexa command seemed a bit more specific:
"Today my mom was on her house phone with my grandmother (my mom left her cellphone at work, an hour away). While she was talking, her Alexa came on, lit up green, and said "Dad wants to talk. Dad wants to talk" and she repeated it again two more times. My grandfather/moms father, passed away last Christmas."
Of course, none of this proves anything supernatural. These are, after all, just anecdotes, and sometimes weird things just happen.
But consider this: Amazon reportedly employs thousands of people who sift through thousands of Alexa conversations every day to improve its voice recognition. That's a lot of data. Now, if otherworldly entities can communicate through recording devices, including Alexa, just how many of those conversations may have been with ghosts? Is it possible that some Amazon employees have actually listened to EVPs captured by these devices?
They'd probably never even notice.
How about you? Has your smart device, if you have one, ever done anything you'd consider unnatural?
Source: Stranger Dimensions
https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2019/10/31/can-ghosts-speak-alexa/
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The Werewolf Panic of the 1970s
By Tommy Kuusela, PhD
In the autumn of 1972, numerous Swedish newspapers described how werewolves were causing a panic in a town in southern Sweden. According to the articles, fearsome werewolf attacks caused a "werewolf panic", children were "paralysed with fear", and one article even gave the alarming statement: "three school children killed! A teacher attacked and a woman beaten senseless in her cellar" (Kuusela 2016, 94). The happening took place in the otherwise quiet and peaceful town Trelleborg, at the time home to approximately 23,000 people.
The topic of werewolves was considered interesting for a couple of days, before the journalists pursued other matters. After that, the whole thing faded, and became a distant memory in Trelleborg – just a good story. Nevertheless, a couple of weeks later, newspapers reported a second outburst of werewolf attacks roughly 411 miles north of Trelleborg, in Jakobsberg, a suburb of Stockholm. This time, adults were calling the police claiming that a werewolf was roaming the rooftops at night, smashing windows and biting people to death! Like the first alarm, public interest in the second wave of werewolf attacks was brief and died out after a couple of days. The following year, one of Sweden's biggest daily newspapers, Aftonbladet, reported that a mummy roamed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm. According to the article, the mummy killed cats, panicked horses, and "howled like a werewolf". So, if werewolves were biting people to death and a mummy was roaming the streets of Stockholm, then this would have been shocking, even global news, and not something that could die out after a couple of days of circulation in local or national newspapers.
The first article on werewolves in Trelleborg had the following caption: "'Werewolf' scared children. Police took action at school". It appeared in a local newspaper, Trelleborgs Allehanda, on 16 November 1972. This encouraged and inspired other journalists, who travelled to Trelleborg in hunt of a scoop. They interviewed children and teachers at the school, and contacted both police officers and locals. Different newspapers tried to come up with the most sensational news. That the journalists considered the werewolf a mere rumour becomes evident from reading the articles, written with a tongue-in-cheek fashion. Frightened schoolchildren said that they had seen a "man with hairy face, large protruding teeth and claws on his fingers", they told other children who in turn started looking for a werewolf. Rumours started circulating in town and quickly became more and more sensational.
Many children claimed to have seen a werewolf; they said that he had a beard, long hair, and horns on his forehead. Other children showed the reporters werewolf teeth (tree branches), werewolf footprints (prints from horse hooves) or showed markings on walls supposed to be scratches from werewolf claws. Some children did not speak of a werewolf; instead, they claimed that a vampire haunted Trelleborg. One rumour said that two elderly women were just about to leave a laundry room – in Sweden this is usually a separate building or in a cellar, shared by tenants of the same house or a housing cooperative – when a large, unpleasant man appeared in front of them. He attacked them and tried to claw their faces, but one of the women fainted and the man suddenly disappeared. Different articles published in local and national newspapers, based on interviews and rumours, led to more rumours and increasing fear among children and parents. Two days after the first newspaper article, several children were so terrified that they stayed home from school. Both teachers and the school principal repeatedly had to calm the situation. Even the police had to respond to different alarms of alleged werewolf sightings – but never found any reliable physical evidence. Younger schoolchildren were most afraid, while many of the older children thought the situation ridiculous; some even took advantage of the situation to frighten the younger children even more. Many distressed parents thought it might be a crazy person who dressed up as a werewolf. All kinds of rumours circulated. One thing was certain, werewolf or not, the horror that many children, and some of their parents, felt was genuine. It took a couple of days for the whole thing to die out, something that happened naturally when the newspapers stopped writing about the situation.
The second werewolf alarm is comparable to the first. The rumour was at first concentrated in one area and reported in the press by different newspapers, but died out after only a couple of days of circulation. The explanation for the second alarm is probably also due to the horror movies (see below), combined with an event. According to one article, a group of children had met a strange man with long hair and big beard in a big public garage; he shouted at them and the children interpreted this as a roar or a howl. Apparently, this strange encounter in the large, shadowy garage was enough for the children to associate the man with a werewolf. The children's reaction and response was with upsetting narratives that quickly spread and grew in intensity among parents and other children.
The third case, the mummy alarm, originated when an eleven-year-old boy claimed to have encountered the mummy late one night in March in 1973. He was shaken by what he think he saw, and he quickly told other kids, who told parents, who called the police, which led to reporters writing about it in newspapers. The rumour spread and grew in proportions. Other children organised expeditions were they hunted for the mummy at night and spooked each other. The police was soon hunting the mummy, but never found anything.
According to police reports from Trelleborg and Jakobsberg, the werewolf in both cases was really the town oddball, who in both cases was a well-known eccentric man with long hair and a big beard (Kuusela 2016, 85). It seems clear that the werewolf (and mummy) alarms were just rumours, encouraged by older schoolchildren who scared younger kids, who in turn worried parents. The police officers seems to have been annoyed at the whole situation, especially the fact that many seemed to take the rumours seriously. One police officer, who worked on this case, said to a reporter, "Nowadays many people look more or less like werewolves, with long hair and beard" (Kuusela 2016: 93). This is clearly his opinion of a new hippie generation with long hair, sideburns and beard.
Is it possible to compare the 1972 Swedish werewolf panic, or rather alarm, to similar cases in other countries? Yes. One similar happening took place in England in the 1950s. In the Gorbals district of Glasgow in 1954, hundreds of children stormed a local cemetery. This was at first reported in the now obsolete Glasgow morning paper, The Bulletin on 24 September 1954. Other papers followed and wrote about the same happening with different angles during the following days. Apparently, the children were looking for something they referred to as a vampire with iron teeth. The press had just reported that this vampire had killed and eaten "two wee boys". At first, the alarm was thought to be directly linked to horror films shown locally, but was later reinterpreted as being due to horror comics. But, as shown in a study by two folklorists, the monster with iron teeth can also be traced to local legends. Above all to bogeymen and the children's responses to legends and frightening, particularly about a certain "Jenny wi' the airn teeth" that was used to frighten children in the area (see Hobbs & Cornwell 1988).
When it comes to the werewolf scares, from the grown-ups perspective, it seems to be a fear that children are in danger or victims of some crazy person. Why werewolves? I will quote my own article, and add that what I say applies to other horrors that circulates and pops up now and again:
"But, notions of the werewolf, both in folklore and popular culture, have one thing in common; it is fear of the unknown and suspicion against strange and unfamiliar people. The savage image of the werewolf, being uncivilized and nocturnal, fits well: it is a way of expressing fears of what is believed to be wrong with society […] werewolves reveal our fear of what lurks inside, the beast hidden in us all that has the potential to change a rational and moral person, leaving only dreaded animal behaviour and appetites of lust, hunger, and rage" ("An American Werewolf in Trelleborg: Representation of the Werewolf in Swedish Folk Belief and Popular Culture").
Source: Folklore Thursday
https://folklorethursday.com/halloween/the-werewolf-panic-of-the-1970s
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'Witch Bottle' Discovered in English Chimney
By Jason Daley
Contractors demolishing the chimney of a former inn and pub in Watford, England, recently chanced upon a creepy surprise: namely, a bottle full of fish hooks, human teeth, shards of glass and an unidentified liquid. As BBC News reports, the 19th-century vessel is likely a witch bottle, or talisman intentionally placed in a building to ward off witchcraft.
The newly discovered bottle is one of more than 100 recovered from old buildings, churchyards and riverbanks across Great Britain to date. Most specimens trace their origins to the 1600s, when continental Europe was in the grips of a major witch panic. Common contents found in witch bottles include pins, nails, thorns, urine, fingernail clippings and hair.
According to BBC News, the Watford property—now a private residence but formerly known as the Star and Garter inn—is best known as the birthplace of Angeline Tubbs, a woman later nicknamed the Witch of Saratoga. Born in 1761, Tubbs emigrated to the United States during her teenage years. She settled down in Saratoga Springs, New York, and made a living telling fortunes.
The type of torpedo-shaped glass bottle found in Watford was first manufactured during the 1830s, meaning the find is probably not directly connected with Tubbs. Still, the witch bottle's presence does suggest the building's residents practiced anti-witchcraft traditions much longer than most.
"It's certainly later than most witch bottles, so sadly not contemporary with Angeline Tubbs," Ceri Houlbrook, a historian and folklorist at the University of Hertfordshire, tells BBC News, "but still a fascinating find."
The home's current owner does not plan on displaying the bottle. Instead, the anonymous individual says they "will probably hide it away again for someone to find in another 100 years or so."
So, how exactly did witch bottles work? Per JSTOR Daily's Allison C. Meier, practitioners filled the vessels with an assortment of items, but most commonly urine and bent pins. The urine was believed to lure witches traveling through a supernatural "otherworld" into the bottle, where they would then be trapped on the pins' sharp points. Would-be witchcraft victims often embedded the protective bottles under hearths or near chimneys; as anthropologist Christopher C. Fennell explained in a 2000 study, people at the time thought witches "gained access to homes through deviant paths such as the chimney stack."
Witch bottles are more than just curiosities. Researchers at the Museum of London Archaeology (including Houlbrook) are currently working on a three-year project, "Witch Bottles Concealed and Revealed," dedicated to analyzing examples held in public and private collections. The team's goal is to learn more about the tradition's origins, as well as its relationship with beliefs regarding magic and early modern medicine.
Interestingly enough, Geoff Manaugh reports for the New Yorker, the project has led MOLA's ceramics specialist, Nigel Jeffries, to suspect that witch bottles were primarily created for medical purposes. As Jeffries tells Manaugh, the vessels may have been thought to act as "curatives that could bring a home's residents longevity and health."
The Salem Witch Trials are the most famous example of witchcraft hysteria in the U.S., but the scare also took root in many other places—including the Hudson Valley, where contractors and archaeologists have found witch bottles, eerie symbols and other forms of magical protection dating as far back as the 1600s.
By the time Angeline Tubbs arrived in the U.S., witches were treated as creepy curiosities rather than criminals. According to a Saratogian article by Wilton Town historian Jeannie Woutersz, Tubbs traveled to New York with a British officer during the Revolutionary War but was left behind following the conflict's end. Eventually, she moved to a hut on a nearby mountain range, where she made a living begging and telling fortunes. Perhaps she was a woman who just preferred isolation—or maybe witch bottles kept her from ever moving into town.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/witch-bottle-full-teeth-pins
-and-possibly-urine-discovered-chimney-180973448/
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The Story of the Supermodel Brainwashed into Becoming a CIA Spy
In the movie Salt, Angelina Jolie plays a double-agent who is mind-controlled by scary remnants of the USSR secret service. And in real life, the 1940s bombshell Candy Jones was apparently brainwashed with drugs and used as a CIA covert operative.
Candy Jones was a successful model, author, and modeling agency owner who had married Long John Nebel, a popular late-night talk show host on New York radio station WOR. Candy told Nebel that years earlier, the FBI had asked to use her office as a mail drop and that she had agreed to deliver mail for the FBI when traveling on business.
Candy was prone to insomnia and suffered from abrupt changes in her normally congenial disposition, Nebel, an amateur hypnotist, offered to hypnotize her. During their first session, Jones easily fell into a hypnotic trance and began speaking in another voice who identified herself as Arlene Grant. This second personality revealed that Jones had once delivered a package for the FBI to a man in San Francisco while she was on business there. The man was Dr Gilbert Jensen, a doctor she knew from her USO days.
Candy had dinner with Jensen on November 16, 1960. Jensen said that he now worked for the CIA and had an office in Oakland, across Bay Bridge. He said that if Candy wanted to, she could get far deeper into the covert Intelligence business, adding that it could prove lucrative for her. With three sons at private schools, Candy was short of cash and accepted.
The first thing Jensen did was to hypnotise Candy. Under hypnosis, Jensen told Candy that she was to be a messenger for a secret CIA unit and as she would sometimes be required to travel abroad, that she would be given a passport under the assumed name of Arlene Grant. Using mind-altering drugs, Jensen reinforced the Arlene personality so that she could take Candy over almost completely when triggered by a telephone call that played a recording of particular sounds.
This done, he was able to send Candy (with Arlene's voice and manner) on various experimental missions at home and abroad. Candy would change into Arlene in appearance too, wearing a wig and using a different make-up style. Jensen aimed to create a 'perfect messenger', one who could not reveal – even under torture – anything about the message she carried, where she came from or who had sent her.
Jones was then supposedly sent to a CIA training camp where she was trained to kill and learned how to hide code numbers under her fingernail polish.
After each mission was completed, Candy would remember nothing.
Jensen's pièce de résistance was to demonstrate that his conditioning was so deep that Arlene would kill herself on command. As a means of demonstrating the psychiatrist's control over her, Candy was once supposedly even tortured in front of 24 doctors in an auditorium at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Candy Jones' story sounds like the wild fabrications of a deranged mind. However, there is some evidence that this bizarre tale is true.
Candy told Joe Vergara, her book editor at Harper and Row, that she sometimes worked for a government agency as a courier and might disappear occasionally for weeks at a time.
She also wrote a letter to her attorney William Williams instructing him that if she were to die or vanish under unusual circumstances that he was not to reveal the details of the event to anyone, especially the press.
Also, when writer Donald Bain was talking to Candy about publishing a book on the story of her life, she showed him a passport issued in the name of Arlene Grant bearing a photo of Candy in a dark wig. Freedom of Information requests have also revealed that the CIA does have a substantial file on Jones, but refuses to release it.
Source: io9
http://io9.com/#!5784189/the-strange-story-of-the-real+life-salt-a-supermodel-brainwashed-
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Making your own karaoke CDs: is it legal?
There are some dedicated karaoke "enthusiasts" out there who like singing so …
Jacqui Cheng - Feb 16, 2010 1:31 am UTC
"Passionate" is a good word to describe most karaoke enthusiasts, or perhaps just "shameless." But when you meet one, you know it—these people have an insatiable thirst for belting out popular songs in front of friends, colleagues, and strangers, and will do so at pretty much any time. This includes house parties or even hanging out at home with friends (we all have that friend who's always trying to bring over a karaoke machine, don't we?). But what if that perfect song isn't available on CD or iTunes for your tone-deaf belting pleasure?
That's where the home karaoke track culture comes in. Using software and your favorite MP3s, you, too, can create the ideal collection of tracks for you and your friends to show off. However, as with most things musical, some are concerned that there's a maze of copyright issues involved in creating your own tracks. We decided to dig into the technicalities to try and find out.
Avoid the bars
If there's one thing that is clear about karaoke and copyright, it's that you should definitely avoid taking your homemade creations out in public if you care about your favorite bar or restaurant. Why is this? In order to treat a room full of strangers with your take on Bon Jovi, the establishment in question must have paid for a "public performance" license for the songs you'll be singing.
The price for not doing so can be steep. Two licensing authorities in particular—the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI)—have made a name for themselves by suing bars and restaurants that haven't kept up on their licensing fees for karaoke "performances" by sending investigators to drink, hang out, and take notes.
In case you need a few examples to scare you, BMI sued restaurant owner Pasquale Santangeli after his restaurant ran 12 unlicensed songs on karaoke night—a stunt that eventually netted Santangeli a $50,500 fine. In another case, a Texas restaurant manager was targeted by ASCAP for hiring a professional singer who chose to sing to karaoke tracks; Stephen Rowland was apparently unaware that he would be held liable for the licensing fees and not the singer.
But what about my living room?
If you're creating karaoke tracks for home use, it's an entirely different story. For one, it's unlikely that an investigator for ASCAP or BMI is going to be camping out in your living room looking for ways to charge you licensing fees. However, for those concerned about copyrights, we asked a couple of copyright lawyers to give us their take.
We'll cut to the chase first: both EFF staff attorney Fred von Lohmann and copyright attorney (currently working as production attorney for NBC Universal) Ben Sheffner agree that there are virtually no ramifications for you, as the karaoke fiend, if you're creating derivative works for your own private use. Stripping out the vocal track and overlaying written lyrics on top of an instrumental theme is almost no different than creating remixes to play for your friends when they come over for a party. "The law is almost beside the point here," Sheffner said. "The copyright owners have never been and are still not very interested in what people do with music they've bought at home."
That may be true, but what would the law say if the content owners cared more? Von Lohmann was confident in saying that the practice would be A-OK under current US copyright Law. "It's a fair use issue, as you're both making copies and creating a derivative work," he told Ars.
Von Lohmann went on to caution that software makers who enable this practice might eventually find themselves the target of the music industry if they market themselves the wrong way. "In my view, that should be perfectly OK under the Betamax precedent (i.e., the software obviously has substantial noninfringing uses," he said. "In a post-Grokster world of inducement, the company would want to be careful about how it advertises the product, what kind of customer support it provides, and what kinds of examples it included in documentation, at a minimum."
Throwing the Internet into the mix
The issue becomes more complicated if you decide to throw your new creation up on the Internet to share with your buddies online, however. "Obviously, if you buy music on a CD or through iTunes or some other service, it doesn't give you the right to re-broadcast over the Internet," Sheffner said. "It wouldn't really change the calculus if you stripped out the lyrics." Still, he says there are gray areas in the law—some might make fair use arguments if you made a homemade video of some sort, though those questions are still largely unresolved in a legal sense.
Sheffner did point out, however, that there's another layer on top of the question of fair use if you put your karaoke creation online. Many of the major record labels have deals with YouTube, for example, that allow people to upload videos that contain their songs and they split the ad revenue with Google. "There's a question in there about whether the uploader has committed copyright infringement, but you could argue that they've implicitly been granted a license to do this" because of the deal between record labels and YouTube, he said.
Go forth and sing?
Still, the discussion kept coming back to the same point. "I've never heard of major music companies going after an individual for something like [creating homemade karaoke tracks]," Sheffner told Ars. "Even if it's infringing, it's so far down the list of priorities that it wouldn't really make a difference."
(We should note that we asked ASCAP for comment on this scenario, but did not receive a response.)
So, if you're still in the mood to sing your own remix of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," we say knock yourself out. Just don't hold us responsible for making your neighbors' ears bleed—you're on your own for that one.
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Михайловка связана местными дорогами с Юлдашево и Кинзекеево, через переправу — с. Верхнеюлдашево на левом берегу Белой.

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 районного центра (Ишимбай): 28 км,
 центра сельсовета (Скворчиха): 10 км,
 ближайшей ж/д станции (Салават): 46 км.

Улицы
В деревне одна улица: Заречная.

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 Закон о границах, статусе и административных центрах муниципальных образований в Республике Башкортостан N 126-з от 17 декабря 2004 года
 Единый электронный справочник муниципальных районов Республики Башкортостан

Населённые пункты Ишимбайского района
Населённые пункты на Белой (приток Камы)

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The summer sun is woven into the fabric of Uruguayan culture, but there are few who can soak in the rays without craving some cold and creamy sweetness. In a country with more cows than people, there is an exceptional range of high-quality dairy products, making for some incredible ice cream. Here are the best places to find this delicious treat in Uruguay.
As one of the oldest ice cream parlors in Uruguay, Las Delicias is a locals' favorite because it has a wide range of incredible flavors, spanning from the classics to local delicacies. Its original shop is in the Carrasco neighborhood and is reminiscent of an 1950s American diner, with pink walls, black and white photographs, and a happy-go-lucky charm. This is a regular for residents and a popular meeting place for people of all ages. Las Delicias is a taste of culture that you can't find anywhere else.
With branches in both Punta del Este and Montevideo, this Argentinian ice cream shop is one of the most popular in Uruguay. They offer giant slabs of all your favorite flavors piled onto a cone or into a tub. They also do fantastic Italian-style coffee, which is the perfect beverage to accompany your cool dessert.
This is the most famous brand of ice cream in Uruguay, having expanded to sell it in the supermarket. They have a good selection of great flavors to choose from, but the real appeal is the local varieties, such as their variations of dulce de leche with coconut and other bizarre combinations. They also offer a range of great sugar-free ice creams and delicious smoothies.
Found in Montevideo and Punta del Este, this is a summer favorite for anybody who wants to cool off. These ice creams are sure to quench the heat of the Uruguayan sun. There is a wonderful variety of flavors and sauces to try, alongside some desserts and local specialties. Pecas serves wonderful baked goods and cakes that would be a perfect pairing with any flavor of ice cream.
You can find this wonderful ice cream parlor adjacent to the historic gate of Colonia's old city walls, only a short walk from the coast. It is the perfect place to stop by and pick up a cold treat while you explore the beautiful surrounding UNESCO World Heritage Site. You'll be hard pressed to pay attention to anything around you though, while you have a world of flavor on the tip of your tongue.
This is a classic establishment, known by locals of Punta del Este as the place to get great Italian-style ice cream. Even in the late evening after the sun has set there are still swarms of people perched on the benches outside eating their favorite flavors like tiramisu and white chocolate. There is also the option of buying a large tub for you to take back home or enjoy on the beach with your friends and family.
Volta in Manantiales is the emblematic ice cream of the area. People will come several times a day to enjoy their thick and creamy gelato flavors. You can enjoy rich flavors, like dulce de leche with caramelized almonds, or try their scrumptious fruit sorbets. This is a prime location for anyone who wants the traditional taste of Rio de la Plata in a waffle cone.


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This budget friendly hotel is an ideal choice if your idea of vacation is about shopping and indulging in delicious street food. Central World, Big C, Platinum, and Pantip are accessible within walking distance. The rooms are equipped with fridge and safe deposit box, and the bathrooms are quite clean.
Placed in the heart of Bangkok city, J Two S Pratunam Hotel is a 2-star hotel. It is at 2 minutes walking distance from the famous Pratunam market. Owing to its close proximity to a wide array of a shopping destination, it has become the ultimate choice of shopaholics and they love to stay in the place. The atmosphere of J Two S Hotel Bangkok is believed to be perfect for people who are searching for a peaceful and wonderful experience in the midst of nature. This hotel offers the best of amenities and facilities that let the guests enjoy a luxurious stay. The primary objective of offering a stay in this hotel is making the guests feel rejuvenated. Guests can relax by availing the spa services in the spa and wellness center of the hotel. It is the premium choice for those who have a keen interest in shopping for clothes and relishing in delicious cuisines. The architectural beauty of this hotel is just amazing. It features a variety of accommodation options which will surely leave one stunned.
J Two S Pratunam Hotel boasts of comfortable rooms that are equipped with flat-screen satellite TV, air conditioning rooms, seating area. The En-suite bathrooms of this J Two S Hotel Bangkok are equipped with shower facilities. The Standard Double or Twin Room of the hotel is considered to be the prime choice of guests in which the size of the room is 24 sq. and it has the En-suite bathrooms, flat screen cable TV, air conditioning facilities. The Deluxe Double Room provides additional space along with a private bathroom. The Deluxe Double Room with Bathtub contributes to being large air-conditioned rooms that are equipped with en-suite bathrooms along with bathtub. In addition to this, a flat-screen cable TV and seating area are also included.
At J Two S Pratunam Hotel, a wide array of facilities is waiting for the guests. During the stay at J Two S Hotel Bangkok, guests can head towards the spa for availing the soothing massage. They can go shopping in the Pantip Plaza, and an indoor IT shopping mall. Owing to its close proximity to the Platinum Fashion Mall, people also go to the place for shopping. Central World Shopping Centre is another place for shopping in the area. Guests can go for different sightseeing tours during the stay in j two s Hotel. It features complimentary Wi-Fi and thus patrons can stay connected to the world during their vacation.
Guests can have a phenomenal dining experience at J TWO S Pratunam Hotel. The J Two S Hotel Bangkok has an on-site restaurant which serves breakfast on a daily basis. If one is a foodie, one can take delight in the local cuisines, served at the restaurant. People are sure to love the American breakfast that is served in the buffet restaurant. The restaurant has earned a high reputation in serving Thai cuisines to the guests.
Customers are sure to have an out of the ordinary experience during their stay at J Two S Hotel. As they arrive at their room after having a fun-filled day, they are going to feel rejuvenated and relaxed in no time. Enveloped in the beautiful scenery and luxury, it is considered to be an ideal destination for shopping lovers and they are sure to have a wonderful time here.
The hotel is located at a distance of 19.7 km from the Don Mueang International Airport.
Does the hotel provide free WiFi to the guests?
Yes, the hotel offers free WiFi to the guests.
Guests can avail the soothing services at the spa and wellness center of the hotel. They can even go for the sightseeing tours. Shopping lovers can go shopping at the different shopping centers, located near the hotel.
Mention some of the popular landmarks around the hotel?
Some of the popular landmarks that are present near the hotel are inclusive of Temple of the Golden Mount, BTS-Sala Daeng, Bangkok City Pillar, Grand Palace.
Does the hotel provide any breakfast services to the guests?
The hotel offers American breakfast in buffet style to the guests.
If one is looking for a holistic experience in this Thai Capital then choose to stay at J Two S Hotel and make their trip memorable. A two-star hotel with a close proximity to different shopping centers is something loved by every shopping lover. Guests can also avail the WiFi services at free of charge while staying in the hotel. It has become the favorite spot of the foodies as they can relish in different types of Thai and American cuisines during the visit to the restaurant. The accommodation at this hotel which is combined with different amenities such as spa ensures that. The rooms at this hotel boast of different facilities such as air conditioning, en-suite bathrooms, a seating area that offers a luxurious stay to the guests staying here. It is also the prime choice of shopping lovers, due to close proximity to the Pratunam Market. Guests can take delight in delicious coffee and mouthwatering breakfast during their stay in the hotel. J Two S Hotel is known to be one of the finest properties in the region who are willing to experience luxury within an exclusive budget.


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What Do More Alexa Devices Mean for Amazon Stock?
Are Alexa "skills" the key to profits for Amazon's smart voice-assistant devices?
Last week, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stepped up its offering in the smart voice-assistant market, announcing an array of new Echo devices, new Alexa features, and more Alexa-enabled devices from third-party device makers. The robust lineup of new Alexa-based devices highlights the company's aggressive strategy to maintain its leadership position in the nascent market.
While more new Alexa devices will likely further fortify Amazon's competitive position in an important, fast-growing market, it's unclear exactly how this will affect the e-commerce giant's business over the long haul.
Here's a look at some of the new devices -- and how Amazon may be planning to monetize its growing presence in the smart voice-assistant space.
Echo Flex. Image source: Amazon.com.
Meet Echo Studio, Echo Flex, Echo Buds, and more
In what is becoming an annual Amazon hardware event, Amazon once again announced new Alexa-enabled devices in a late-September unveiling. Some of the most prominent new devices include:
A new Echo with an updated fabric exterior and improved sound, still priced at $99.99
The Echo Flex -- a low-cost smart speaker that plugs directly into an outlet, available for $24.99
A new Echo Dot featuring a basic LED display for showing the time, temperature, timers, and alarms, priced at $59.99
A new version of the Echo Show with an 8-inch display and improved sound, available for $129.99
The best-sounding Echo device yet, called the Echo Studio, including five directional speakers and a smart-home hub, priced at $199.99
Alexa-enabled earbuds called Echo Buds for $129.99
In addition to these devices, Amazon introduced a new invitation-only program called Day 1 Editions, which allows customers to try more experimental products. The first devices to debut as part of this program are Alexa-enabled glasses called Echo Frames and a smart ring called Echo Loop.
It's about apps and the customer experience
There's no doubt that Amazon's Alexa devices are selling well. Millions of Alexa-enabled devices were sold during Amazon's 48-hour Prime Day event this summer. In fact, Amazon said it was the biggest event ever for Alexa devices with screens.
But some investors may be starting to wonder how exactly Amazon plans to monetize these devices over the long haul. Their aggressive pricing suggests margins on the hardware are thin, leaving little (if any) room for Amazon to make meaningful profits on Alexa devices.
One analyst has an interesting theory on management's plans for the segment: "We don't think Amazon intends to make significant money from hardware sales directly, but rather from increasing touchpoints to the overall ecosystem and app store-like models," said Macquarie Research's Ben Schachter (via CNBC).
Amazon apps for Alexa-enabled devices are called "skills." Though skills are likely immaterial to Amazon today, they could become more integral to the e-commerce company's business in the future as third-party developers find more ways to deliver experiences for customers. Amazon can make money from its skills by taking a share of subscriptions and transactions generated from skills made by third-party developers.
If this is Amazon's plan, the company isn't being vocal about it. For now, Amazon says the goal with Alexa-enabled devices is simply to improve the customer experience.
"Our focus is on building the best possible experience for our customers, and the rest will take care of itself," Amazon said in a statement to CNBC.
Unfortunately, it's not clear yet whether Amazon's Alexa-enabled devices will help Amazon grow its profits. But it certainly doesn't hurt that Amazon is improving the overall customer experience in the meantime by making it easier for customers to interact with the company through voice commands.
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