What comes to mind when you hear “TOYOTA” car city? Like Detroit? It is a cozy neighborhood and pretty close to the downtown area but still rich in nature. You will be able to see four-seasons cherry blossoms.
Date taken: 9th of December 2020
Travel: ‘Red Rock Country – Sedona, Arizona’ (Video)
The main vortexes (places of spiritual energy) and some of the most scenic locations around the Red Rock Country, Sedona, Arizona.
Sedona is an Arizona desert town near Flagstaff that’s surrounded by red-rock buttes, steep canyon walls and pine forests. It’s noted for its mild climate and vibrant arts community. Uptown Sedona is dense with New Age shops, spas and art galleries. On the town’s outskirts, numerous trailheads access Red Rock State Park, which offers bird-watching, hiking and picnicking spots.
Locations in the video: Cathedral Rock (0:32), Bell Rock (0:01, 2:27), Chapel of the Holy Cross (3:00), Airport Mesa (3:35), Sedona & Tlaquepaque (4:04), Devil’s Bridge (5:06), Fay Canyon Arch (5:47), Boynton Canyon (6:18), West Fork of Oak Creek Canyon (7:54).
Wildlife: The ‘Extreme Biology’ Of Hummingbirds
The hummingbird is the smallest bird on the planet, with one species measuring just five centimeters! But inside their tiny bodies are huge brains and hearts – the largest in the avian kingdom relative to body size.
Those brains and hearts are used to power an astonishing metabolism, incredibly strong flight muscles for their high-speed wings, and a formidable intelligence that allows them to remember where to find the sweetest flowers. Dive into the extraordinary world of these aerial acrobats through ultra high-speed HD cameras and cutting-edge remote systems – what you’ll learn may well surprise you!
Morning News Podcast: FDA Approves Vaccine, States’ ICU Bed Shortages
NPR News Now reports: FDA votes to approve Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, California stay-at-home orders, ICU beds in short supply and other top news.
Walking Tour: ‘Ashikaga Flower Park illumination 2020’ In Japan (Video)
Held for the 19th time this year, the event was ranked among the TOP 3 biggest light up events in Japan in 2017. Ranked TOP by night view critics in Japan as best illumination event for five consecutive years, it has now become very popular. Over 5.0 million lights decorate the 100,000 ㎡ gardens touching the hearts of all visitors. Most of the 5.0 million light bulbs are LED type in an effort to consider the environment and to save energy.
Date recorded：December, 2020
Reviews: TIME Magazine – Person Of The Year (2020)
The Biden-Harris ticket represents something historic. Person of the Year is not just about the year that was, but about where we’re headed.
Aerial Travel: ‘Nassau’ In The Bahamas (Video)
Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas. It lies on the island of New Providence, with neighboring Paradise Island accessible via Nassau Harbor bridges. A popular cruise-ship stop, the city has a hilly landscape and is known for beaches as well as its offshore coral reefs, popular for diving and snorkeling. It retains many of its typical pastel-colored British colonial buildings, like the pink-hued Government House.
The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago’s land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago’s population.
Walking Tour: Amsterdam -The Netherlands (Video)
Amsterdam is the Netherlands’ capital, known for its artistic heritage, elaborate canal system and narrow houses with gabled facades, legacies of the city’s 17th-century Golden Age. Its Museum District houses the Van Gogh Museum, works by Rembrandt and Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, and modern art at the Stedelijk. Cycling is key to the city’s character, and there are numerous bike paths.
Recorded: August 2020
Video Timeline Links: 00:00 – Amsterdam, Netherlands Walking Tour Intro 01:37 – Amsterdam Central Station 09:35 – Old Church 18:59 – Dam Square 19:32 – National Monument 21:30 – Madame Tussauds 22:00 – Royal Palace 22:56 – The New Church 24:19 – Magna Plaza 30:36 – Amsterdam Museum 39:48 – Mint Tower 41:06 – Floating Flower Market 47:53 – Rembrandt Square 48:34 – Rembrandt Statue 52:43 – Museum of Bags & Purses 1:00:29 – Museum Van Loon 1:06:14 – Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 1:13:36 – Rijksmuseum 1:16:21 – Museum Square 1:34:02 – Leidsestraat 1:43:59 – Museum of the Canals 1:45:17 – Cromhout House Museum 1:55:16 – Church of Our Lady 1:58:55 – Western Church (Westerkerk) 2:01:34 – Anne Frank House Museum 2:10:23 – Torensluis Bridge 2:11:04 – Statue of Multatuli
Tours: “Stunning” Spanish Renaissance Revival Home In San Francisco, CA (AD)
“You just sort of gulp,” Marino explains of projects like the sprawling 1916 San Francisco mansion that he labored on for more than three years, overhauling its nearly two dozen rooms for effervescent East Coast transplants with three teenagers, two French bulldogs, and a passion for pedigreed real estate.
“It was a Herculean task,” Marino continues. “There was no roof, the exterior walls were under boarding, and there were no floor slabs. It all looks so pretty now, but it was painful.” And, he quips with a laugh, “if there’s an earthquake anywhere in North America, from Vancouver to Teotihuacán, for God’s sake run here.”
Not only is the house in the city’s Pacific Heights enclave, one of the most theatrical residences ever conceived by the genius society architect Willis Polk, the Spanish Renaissance Revival palacio—wrapped around a two-story courtyard crowned with a vast glass roof—had long been home to one of Marino’s friends, Georgette “Dodie” Rosekrans.
The husband and wife also possessed phenomenal sangfroid, accepting with barely a blink the seismic requirements that demanded gutting the house and driving concrete pilings 30 feet into the ground.
She was a tiny, couture-clad movie-theater heiress, while her husband, John, was a Spreckels sugar–fortune scion who also manufactured, of all things, Hula Hoops and Frisbees. As for the four-story house where they lived from 1979 until their respective deaths (his in 2001, hers in 2010), it’s been described, with good reason, as the most beautiful house in America.
Technology: Dutch ‘PAL-V’ Is World’s First Certified Flying Car (Video)
The world’s first-ever commercial flying car was recently unveiled by Dutch vehicle manufacturer PAL-V. Here’s what that means for our roads (and our skies).
Starting with the undercarriage, which PAL-V credits as their main breakthrough. The company was looking for a three-wheeled design that could still be stable when turning at normal road-going speeds.
In 2005, they discovered the work of another Dutch company, Carver, which made 3-wheeled cars that tilted like motorcycles. A hydraulic tilting system like that could eliminate the need for a 4th wheel and also be useful to raise the whole vehicle up, giving it ground clearance for a rear-facing propeller. Then there was the matter of generating lift.
Fixed wing aircraft need air to move over their wings fast enough to stay aloft, otherwise they’ll stall. A fixed wing flying car has to compromise the size and shape of its wings in the name of practicality, meaning its risk of stalling is higher. So PAL-V chose a rotary wing design instead, but rather than make their flying car a helicopter, they decided it should be an autogyro.
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“In driving mode the Liberty can go up to 99 miles per hour, and in flight mode its max speed is 112 miles per hour. For comparison’s sake, the average helicopter can go up to about 160 miles per hour.”
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