Must visit place in Germany: Most sacred Kamakshi Ammal Temple

This is the largest Dravidian style temple in the whole of Europe inaugurated in July 2002. It is situated in the city of Hamm, in North Rhine Westphalian, Germany.

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An estimated over 25,000 people visit the temple during the annual temple festival featuring the Pallaki Utsava. It was designed by a Hammer architect Heinz-Rainer Eichhorst to simulate the original in Kanchi Temple in Kancheepuram. He was also the architect for a beautiful church partnering with Mathias Schade (Kirche St. Liborius, 2015-2016).

A must place to visit in Germany.

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Decorated cows of Salzburg

I saw these advertising full-sized cow sculpted out of clay or something and painted over in Salzburg.

They really looked nice. Stern Biergarten in Salzburg is a remodeled old Bier Garten of the 1930's.

This beer garden/arcade is on one of the side streets of Getreidegasse, a busy shopping street. The most famous of Salzburg's sons, Amadeus Mozart was born on this street. The street is lined with ground level fountains. The day we came across this place, a European football games was playing and the bier garden was overflowing with the soccer/beer enthusiasts.

These cows are called the 'Sternbrau cows'.

This one was not part of the Sternbrau but in another location nearer to  the house where Mozart was born.

Here is an Austrian tradition of brining cows from higher alpine regions to lower levels.

Three IS suspects arrested in Germany with Syrian Passports

According to this news (https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/germany-arrests-three-suspects-links-paris-attackers) from Agence France Presse (AFP) three suspects with fake Syrian passports were arrested 9/13/2016 in  Germany in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein.  They were being monitored by German police for months before they were arrested. They had used the same Turkey,Greece route as the Paris gunmen to arrive in Germany.

It is nice to know they were arrested before they could do damage.

Any country that takes in refugees from the troubled areas (which is almost from everywhere) must have to be super vigilant. It is hard to tell which migrant is a terrorist and of course before a migrant is allowed to enter, thorough checking is necessary. But at times like this refugee crisis these checks may get expedited.

Read complete details here:

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article158120066/Im-Auftrag-des-IS-in-die-norddeutsche-Provinz.html

https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/germany-arrests-three-suspects-links-paris-attackers

Vacationing in Europe, set up your Cortana to use the local language

Well first of all language settings for Cortana is supported in couple of countries like UK, China, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and perhaps few other countries. Let us say you travel from US to France and you want to find things there using Cortana. Then you can switch the language that Cortana understands by default (US English in USA) to French. I assume you can access Cortana on your Windows 10 Desktop, If not go here.

In Windows 10 Desktop you can open Control Panel and choose to change your language preferences.

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In the above, I have added couple of languages ( this means I have downloaded the necessary language packs) and I have also set the default as French. You can add another language by hitting the Add a Language button. You may have download the language pack.

With just this setting my Cortana settings in Windows 10 desktop is as shown.

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 Of course you cannot use it in USA and you will have to be in France.

Now I move up Japanese to the top in 'Change your language preferences'  as in the following:

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Voila! Cortana language settings has changed as well.

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You return to USA and you want to restore. It is just as easy. Just bump up English(United States) to the top (you need not restart the computer).

How about voice commands to Cortana? How about in Windows Phone? Well you will have to work with speech and speech recognition settings.

Come back again to learn, How?