Since the beginning of this century, Amazon has emerged as a pre-eminent giant of retail. How? by creating an expectation among consumers that next day, or even same day, delivery is not only possible but basically routine for a dizzying array of consumer products. Millions of Amazon Prime customers all over the world have now come to expect this astonishingly swift service on countless items as standard, and this has put great swathes of the traditional retail landscape in trouble. So today, we’re going to look at how Amazon delivers packages so fast. Let’s pick a typical Amazon product as an example. Say you need a bicycle pump. How will Amazon get that bike pump delivered to your door, the very next day? How Amazon Delivers Packages So FastSHOW LESS
Walking Tours: ‘Spanish Steps In Rome’ (Video)
The Spanish Steps are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top.
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 0:00 – Brief Intro 1:35 – Spanish Steps / Piazza di Spagna 4:20 – Via dei Condotti 8:00 – Largo Goldoni 8:50 – Via del Corso 12:40 – Via Vittoria 14:46 – Via Mario de Fiori 17:18 – Piazza di Spagna / Spanish Steps “ascension” of Scalata dei Trinità dei Monti 21:21 – Panorama from above 23:31 – Via Gregoriana 27:36 – Via dei due macelli 29:40 – Via Frattina 30:53 – Via Bocca di leone 35:00 – Via della Croce 36:52 – Via Borgognona 39:30 – Via del Corso
Aerial Travel: ‘Brussels’ – Capital Of Belgium (Video)
The City of Brussels is the largest municipality and historical centre of the Brussels-Capital Region, and the capital of Belgium. Besides the strict centre, it also covers the immediate northern outskirts where it borders municipalities in Flanders.
Crime: Delivery Scams Imitating Amazon, UPS, FedEX & DHL On The Rise
As online shopping sees its biggest holiday season ever, hackers are sending fake delivery notices impersonating Amazon, UPS and FedEx, with scams up 72% from last year and 440% from October to November. Clicking a fake shipping notification link can launch ransomware or launch a counterfeit branded site to trick users into entering credit card and personal information to “reroute” a package that never existed.
Video: ‘A Perfect Planet’ (BBC Earth Trailer)
Join David Attenborough to discover how diverse forces work together to keep our planet in perfect balance. A Perfect Planet is an awe-inspiring exploration of Earth’s power and fragility.
Video Profiles: Asha Deliverance And Her ‘Fabric-Welded Domes’
In 1979 Asha Deliverance sewed her first geodesic dome on an old Singer sewing machine, finishing it in time to become her eldest child’s first home. Motivated by the work of Buckminster Fuller, she continued to build dome homes for friends until she responded to increasing demand and opened the country’s first retail dome company in 1980.
Today, Asha has stopped sewing and relies on her team at the Pacific Domes headquarters in Ashland, Oregon to fabric weld her domes. The company provides shelters for families, glamping sites, greenhouses, climbing, events (e.g. Coachella) and extreme outposts. “To test some of the possible challenges of living on Mars, NASA joined forces with Pacific Domes in early in 2013 to erect a 44-foot geodesic-engineered dome on the northern slope of Mauna Loa, Hawaii.”
The company offers DIY dome kits starting at $5,500 for a 16 foot (5 meter) shelter that can be erected with their manual in a couple of days (instructions for the deck are included). When we asked Deliverance about the frustrations of some dome builders like Shelter Publications’ Lloyd Kahn she explained that in the ‘60s people were building domes out of wood which required sealing multiple joints, but that using fabric has made all the difference.
Walking Tours: ‘Catania’ – In Sicily, Italy (Video)
La passeggiata, or slow walk, takes place each evening here in Italy but it is most popular on Sunday nights. This slow evening walk begins on Via Etnea next to the Villa Bellini and continues down to the Piazza Duomo. The walk was filmed on June 13th, 2020 starting at 7:56 pm. For the best viewing experience, be sure to listen using headphones.
Catania is an ancient port city on Sicily’s east coast. It sits at the foot of Mt. Etna, an active volcano with trails leading up to the summit. The city’s wide central square, Piazza del Duomo, features the whimsical Fontana dell’Elefante statue and richly decorated Catania Cathedral. In the southwest corner of the square, La Pescheria weekday fish market is a rowdy spectacle surrounded by seafood restaurants.
Travel: ‘Singapore’ (Video)
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Straits of Malacca to the west, the Riau Islands (Indonesia) to the south, and the South China Sea to the east. The country’s territory is composed of one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet, the combined area of which has increased by 25% since the country’s independence as a result of extensive land reclamation projects. It has the second greatest population density in the world. The country has almost 5.7 million residents, 61% (3.4 million) of whom are Singaporean citizens.
World News Podcast: Cyber Hacks, Austrian Skiing & Art In Melbourne
Georgina Godwin with the weekend’s biggest discussion topics.
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Aerial Travel: Anatolian Village Of Sivas, Turkey
Aerial tour of village in Anatolia; Sivas, İmranlı, Maden Köyü
İmranlı, is a town and a district of Sivas Province of Turkey. Population is 6,600. The mayor is Murat Açıl. The town is located at 108 km to Sivas. It became a district on January 1, 1948, while it was a part of the Zara district. Because of the harsh weather, agriculture is less prevalent.
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