Are you concerned about online privacy? If you are, you're probably a little confused about what search engine you should be using because many of them, of course, are tracking every move you make while you're using their particular search engines. But one of the ones that I've played with on and off in the last few years is a search engine called YACI. What is YACI?  That's their homepage. YACI is a distributed, decentralized web search engine. It's based on peer-to-peer technology, so you download it, you install it, and you have this search engine available on localhost. You have it available right there on your local machine. YACI is cross-platform, so it's available for Windows, Mac, and, of course, Linux. So to install YACI, all you need to do is go to the download tab here on their page and then find the instructions for your operating system, Windows, Mac, Linux. What I did is I followed the very last set of instructions, compile YACI yourself. It involves copying and pasting three commands in the terminal, right? So it's very easy to do, and this should work on any Linux distribution. There are some dependencies. You do need Oracle Java 8 or OpenJDK 8 installed on your system. You also need the ant command installed on your system, and you need git because you have to run a git clone to download the source for you to compile YACI. So I've already got YACI installed on my system, but let me show you some of the installation steps that are involved. First, you need to open up a terminal, and if you install it the way I did with the git clone, and that clones the YACI search server source code to your machine, and then once you run that, what you need to do is CD into the YACI search server directory that will now be on your system, and then you run ant clean all dist. This compiles YACI for you. And then after that, if you run an LS, you would see some files that it has created. Some of the more interesting ones are startYACI.sh and stopYACI.sh. So this is for starting and stopping the YACI server, the YACI daemon that is always running in the background. So if you wanted to start the YACI server, you could do period slash startYACI.sh. And that launches the YACI server so it's running right now. And then all I need to do is open a web browser. Web browser will be fine. And I'm going to go to localhost colon 8090. It runs on port 8090. And this is the YACI search engine from here. I could search for anything that I feel like searching for such as distro tube. And it is themeable. You can create your own custom themes as far as the coloring and everything. It has a few pre configured themes. It's got some light themes. It's got some dark themes. I'm using one of their standard dark themes here. You can change the layout. You can change how it sorts things, sorts by date. You can change language. All the settings that you expect to be in a search engine are pretty much here. There's also this administration tab at the very top. And this launches your admin panel. And from here, you get information about the YACI network, what's going on currently on the network. And this, by default, is the system status page that launches. If you go to peer to peer network, you get this really nice visual representation of the YACI peer to peer network. Somewhere in here, I am one of these peers that's currently doing something on the network. And this is a nice visual representation because a lot of people are confused about what it means to be decentralized and what it means to be peer to peer. So decentralization. So imagine if rather than relying on the proprietary software of a large corporation like Google that has the search engine, that instead you're using a search engine that's run by many private people across the world, such as you, me, thousands of other people that are also running the YACI server. That's what it means to be decentralized. No one person really controls anything. We all have equal parts in this thing. And that's kind of what peer to peer is as well. Peer to peer networking. That's a distributed application architecture that partitions task or workloads between all the peers. So right now you see all these names on the screen. These are peer names and all these peers, they all are equally privileged participants and what's going on on the network right now, right? They're all benefiting from being on the network. They're also all giving up a little bit of their system resources because typically peer to peer applications of what they do is these programs ask you to allocate some of your CPU or your disk storage or your network bandwidth, especially with internet applications. They want you to sacrifice a little bit of that system resources because there's no one company, right? There's no Google that has all their Google servers powering this thing. Know what powers this thing, you and me. So that's why you have to give up a little bit of storage space and a little bit of bandwidth to run something like YACI. Of course, the benefit of this is privacy, security. Nobody's tracking anything. You really can't track anything on YACI. That's one of the things if you read their frequently asked questions page on their website, nothing is trackable. There's really no one in control anyway to be collecting all of this information to begin with, looking at a little bit of the administration panel. If you go to the very first link here, use case and account, there are three different ways to set up YACI. Most of us are going to want to just do community based web search. That's all we want to do. We want a standard web search engine. YACI also includes the ability to create your own search portal for your own internal network or intranet. And that's this last option here, intranet indexing. Or you can also set it up as a search portal for your own web pages. You also have links to filters and blacklist. If you need to utilize those, if you go down here to a portal configuration and portal design under portal design is where you can change between about 10 or 12 pre built themes. I'm using dark. If you wanted to, you could define your own custom colors to create your own theme as well, but I'm pretty OK right now using the default dark theme. So what I would do if you're a window manager user, especially, you probably have some kind of auto start hook built into your window manager. I'm an X-mode ad for this video. And what I've done is I created a auto start hook for the YACI server to run that start YACI command. So it's always running in the background. And then I did a hot key for a search prompt for YACI. So if I type the right key binding, I can actually search for something in YACI. I'll search for the keyword Linux. And then it's going to open the search results for Linux news. I guess it's actually what I search for. I guess it remembers the history, the X-mode ad prompt. But anyway, so that's just a very quick way to quickly search YACI without even having a browser open for the search. For those of you using other window managers, you could very easily create a quick demon use script that would be searchable for YACI. Now, I have a pretty beefy machine, but you don't really need a fast machine to use YACI. It really doesn't take a lot of space to use it. And it is configurable because you can actually set the amount of megabytes that you want to spend for the cache and for the indexing. YACI respects user privacy because all passwords and cookie protected pages, they're excluded from indexing. There's no real way to browse the pages that are stored on a peerless machine. So you don't need to worry about people being able to access sensitive information that's maybe in your browser, your history or your law history or anything like that. So if you're concerned about privacy, I strongly urge you guys take a look at YACI, again, available on Windows, Mac and on Linux. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of the show. Devin Frangate, Torbenian, Mitchell, Akami, Archfitch, about 30. Chris, Chuck, Donnie, Dylan, Gregory, Lewis, Paul, Pick, VM, Scott and Willie. They are the producers of the show. They are my highest tier patrons over on Patreon. I also want to thank each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen, all these names you're seeing on the screen right now. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because DistroTube is supported by you guys, the community. If it wasn't for you guys, I couldn't do what I do. If you're not currently subscribed to DistroTube on Patreon, please consider it. All right, peace.


The Nigeria COVID-19 action recovery and economic stimulus program, which also has the rather propitious acronym of NG cares, is a multi-sectoral program, as we've heard, designed to support vulnerable and poor Nigerians to provide essentially emergency relief to smallholder farmers and SMEs, especially those who are adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program we've already been told will build on the varied and extensive federal government interventions developed as part of Mr President's plan for taking 100 million Nigerians out of poverty and in response to the severe socio-economic fallouts of the pandemic, especially those programs and plans contained in the economic sustainability plan. The essential addition to the federal government's program is that the NG cares program will leverage on existing programs in the States, especially job creation programs, wealth creation, poverty reduction programs at the community level, such as state cash transfer units, state FADAMA or agricultural development agencies, state job creation units, MSME units supported, all of these of course supported by the government, enterprises and empowerment program Jeep. The World Bank loan, as you've heard, is in the order of $7.5 million and this will be over a period of two years, 2021 to 2023. And the intervention allocation to each state is $20 million ex ante and $15 million to the FCT, $15 million also for the federal cares support unit. The program is to drive, is to be driven by the States and they, both the World Bank director and the chairman of Governors Forum, has mentioned that this is a P for our delivery mechanism type, in which case, you know, this, there must be performance shown. The federal government also regards this program as an important complement to its own skilled up number of beneficiaries of social transfer, subsidy and grants to support individuals, households and MSMEs in the multi-year development plan for 2021 to 2024, which was developed within the context of the response to the COVID-19 crisis and the economic sustainability plan and that plan serves as a bridge. In order to ensure this successful program implementation, the federal government will provide quality assurance, monitoring, capacity building and technical assistance to states and the FCT on project activities and results. Consequently, the federal government has inaugurated the federal cares staring committee, the federal cares technical committee and the federal care support unit to provide overall policy direction, technical support to all the states and FCT, and to advise Mr. President appropriately. I certainly look forward to the prompt and effective implementation of the program, both at the federal and state levels. And I also encourage you to fully deploy your wealth of experience and expertise to ensure the successful takeoff and implementation of this program. Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, it is now my very special pleasure and privilege to formally launch the NG cares program and declare the commencement of the program implementation. Thank you very much.


Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sharon Belmar George Minister for Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs Hon. Moses Jabatist has welcomed the decline in the transmission rate as encouraging, noting that the adherence to protocols is having the desired impact. As such Hon. Jabatist is urging the public to continue to follow the measures and take the necessary steps to become vaccinated. I extend heartfelt condolences to the families of all those who have passed away as a result of COVID-19 or COVID-19 related illness. It is a difficult time for you and may God grant you and your families strength and peace. At this stage, we note the overall reduction in the transmission rate. But as the medical professionals have explained, we are still at a critical phase and we cannot let our guard down. We must ensure that we continue to bring down the transmission rate. After discussions and dialogue with the members of the COVID-19 Management Center, the decision was made to extend the COVID-19 protocols currently in place until the end of September. We hope by that time amended protocols will include benefits for fully vaccinated individuals. The government continues to urge you to get vaccinated and will intensify our efforts to make the vaccine available to you in the best way possible. The extended protocols shall commence on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021 and end on Thursday, September 30th, 2021. The COVID-19 protocols are the same as the last two weeks. Health Minister Hon. Moses Jabatist


I'm John Furrier with Silicon Angle. We're here at the EMC Mega Launch Analyst Briefing with Michael Pellis with VCE. Just gave the briefing to the analysts. VCE's changed. You guys are listening to customers. Tell us what's changed. You mentioned service providers that are the new channel, that you guys are enabling that. So give us the quick update on VCE and what's the big change you were just talking about? Well, there's a couple things we've done. First place is when the big change is is that your customer acceptance has just been absolutely astounding. But we've also taken a look at our model and one of the things we feel very strongly about is we're here to actually enable our partners and our customers and so. When we first started this kind of journey, we said, well, we will have a service component and we'll be able to build order transfer to help some of our customers. And talking to our partners, it became clear that there was at least some of you that we were competing. So to be very clear, we are here to provide core technology, next generation conversion infrastructure, and not to offer service capacity, but to make that an enablement of our service provider partners and our other service partners so that we are not competing with them that we're enabling and that we are out of the service business. And since then, the results have been pretty staggering. Yeah, you know, particularly given the long and really just incredible relationship that we've had with the channel. It was really important to us to send a quite specific message that we were here to help them extend their business. And quite frankly, I think it created more confusion that was probably worse. So again, that is absolutely the message and we've had really a lot of success. We've now up to 120 plus partners and so that's gone pretty well. And create pipeline. You know the channel business, you've been there, done that. You've lived many lives in the tech business. You've seen the movies over and over again, in particular this one, the channel conflict resolved, VCE's booming, you guys are doing great. That's right. And so the Acadia name we have now retired it. VCE is the delivery of the solutions. We will provide to our partners the ability to have solution centers and help them train their people and offer expert opinion, but we will not be taking service modules directly. You mentioned also in your life, you've seen a lot of inflection points and you talk about 18 month kind of big movements. Blade you mentioned and other revolutions. Cloud people are talking about is kind of high efficient. And there are some outrageous valuations out there, some of these internet companies. Is it real? And just to share with the folks here on camera what you said in there about the 18 month surge you're gonna see. Yeah, there's a lot of question about is the cloud is real, whatever it really is. So I've always said, if I go back through time is when you see major inflection points in technology it's normally about an 18 month adoption cycle. We saw that with blades and then in 18 months it was a $10 billion business. We saw it with IP networks and one of the reasons why I sort of look and say the cloud is, the cloud really started with the adoption of IP network as I described, but you didn't have to know or care where the underlying infrastructure of the network was. We went to a network level, the customer was able to roll that out, new applications developed, didn't have to know or care where the physical infrastructure is. That moved out to the adoption of X86 architecture for superb price performance points. Networks started to merge and so then you thought you didn't have to know or care where the network was, you didn't know or care whether it was voice, data or video and what this next generation is taking that delivery model to the next place in on the compute which includes obviously storage and network performance. You don't have to know or care where the physical infrastructure is which saves customers a lot of time and really aids application to play. We're here with Michael Cappella's legend in the tech community, he's been around the block, knows the business, really, really talking about converged infrastructure, massive growth, running VCE, which is a joint mentioning Cisco, VMware, EMC and now Intel. Congratulations on all your success, thanks so much. Thank you, great to be here. I'm a political architecture using the new ecosystem of products that are available today and then we kind of move forward and pilot it and in an 8-bit scenario, we'll be standing up and it is useful to have a throwaway PRC. So kind of the business even if you don't have to, they get visibility which is kind of the type of required discipline that they could do before or we take months to ask the IT organization to develop and kind of we repeat that process so this notion of a big data solution is really something that we're kind of instilling in the client. So they work with us, we take them from prioritization to the technology to the analytics solutions and sit on top and then it's a continual process to leverage the capacity of the company. We all know and we've heard in all the case studies today in the sessions kind of originally what these clusters originally stand up to do very often the organization is buying new things to do. So once that will be we have to have all this going to be online. I can call Moria but you don't need to call Moria. It starts to really grow around the business and that's kind of where we really bring marriage to the IT organization. The USP Sports Statute. So I have a question about the value of EMC. I wonder if you could just make an observation you can comment on it. I'm going to have my numbers exactly right. But roughly speaking on January 1st I looked at the value of EMC compared to a year ago and I assumed that they could send a valuation to join the ownership of VMware and the core value of EMC actually dropped in a year. It's not going to value. It brought on tons of cash flow, great revenues. So do you feel like you can see it's undervalued as a result of that or it's a fairly value because of the VMware ownership and you get the up-to-date from that? I wonder if you could just talk about that dynamic? Does it matter? I know you think it's undervalued but just if you could talk a little bit about the dynamic and does that matter and is there anything you can add to that? There's shareholders that own VMware because of EMC and the equation. There's shareholders that own VMware and for the year last year they got 110% return on their investment. There's shareholders that own EMC and they got about a 33% and then we certainly right return on their investment. So 110% up, 33% up. These are both far in excess. So customers are liking both sides. Now your point that you took VMware's value and I don't know if it is anymore but it's approaching let's call it 40 billion because it's close. So if you took 80% or 81% of 40 billion is that reflected in EMC's 50 billion? And yes, we probably would not. No. We'd be like, why is that? It's a lot of things and there's a lot of ways ARB is going to give two ways to play something. You get ARB charge and then of course EMC at a company of close to 17 billion dollars in revenue. Can you afford to give that? You kind of got a bit of a sanity coming in too, right? In terms of what am I going to give EMC this big company, forget about VMware a second. What am I going to give just that consolidated P and L? What P am I going to give that relative to its peers? So if you look at the big peers you look at an Oracle you look at a Microsoft look at an Intel you look at Cisco, et cetera, et cetera. They are giving us a higher P in all of those companies. I make a statement that of the really big companies in IT were the smallest of the big. So we didn't announce this quarter but last quarter we had 50 billion in market cap and last quarter we had 10 and a half billion in cash. That's a lot. In any other industry be a giant. But in our industry there's companies that are way bigger and way more cash. So again, not all the bigger ones have more cash but if you look at it in kind of a macro. So we're kind of the smallest of the big, which is okay. We have a lot to run. But if you look at all the ones that are above us we have a higher P in all of them. So I think there's two ways to look at it. One way is you look at a consolidator and that's what we're telling the world. We're telling the world hey VMware is part of the family yes we shared it with employees and we shared it with public but we're holding our stake and it's a consolidated company part of our financials. So they believe us and they're looking at EMC as a whole. And they're saying what do I want to get EMC as a whole? What P do I want to give that company? What's their growth? What's their prospect? And I'm not going to argue with the market. So it's just cheap. We just got to continue to upperform and things tend to take care of themselves. So that's I think what's happening with EMC they're looking at it as a whole because they're now believing us. There's a lot of fodder for a while that you're going to split them off you're going to do additional that I could say no we're not no we're not. This strategy together makes a lot of sense. And if you look at the cloud do you need what VMware's doing? Absolutely. Do you need information? You need information storage? Information management? Information protection? Information security? Information intelligence? Yes you do. Those are pieces. So we got all of that in one company. Now we partner very closely with Cisco and get some of the pieces that we don't have. What's it namely? Networking? And we use there you see a service right? So again I like what we have. But I do think what's happening is customer they're not customers investors are looking at us and they're believing us. You're saying okay let's look at this as a consolidated entity. And in VMware you know it's just got an opportunity to go to a really unique place in life and you're treating that more as a you know it's got great momentum it's got great place in the cloud it's believes it'll grow into its P over time so they're willing to give that more of an advanced P.E. Which you know multiples of EMCs and that's kind of the way they're playing it and a lot of investors play both sides. So it is what it is. Across the globe in Karaptisan Village Djibouti an ecodome is rising out of the desert. Local villagers work side by side with coalition members from 84 nations as well as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines from the U.S. Africa Command's combined joint task force Horn of Africa. The goal is twofold to create a permanent resource that will be used as a school or health clinic while at the same time teaching villagers building techniques they can use to expand their community. The U.S. military has a long history of building infrastructure in Africa just asked retired general John Custer on his watch the U.S. Central Command built roads, schools, and wells in addition to assisting the United Nations and many nonprofit organizations in humanitarian relief and nation-building efforts across the region.


Look at this view right here. We are, um, let's see, where are we? We are north of Lake Mead on a highway that goes towards the Hoover Dam. And uh, we're just over at a rest stop. Um, but I'm loving this, uh, gorgeous, gorgeous scenery around here. Today's going to be an exciting day. We're going to try and find a hot spring, three mile hike, uh, but first a little laundry and a guest of the store. Time to send these gifts out. If you recall a long time ago, I did a giveaway, uh, apologies for the long delay, um, kind of got, honestly just forgot about it. Uh, so next time I do a giveaway, I think you'll do it a little bit differently where like maybe the most comments on the video or the giveaway is will win. Cause otherwise, you know what I'm saying. It was difficult. So, um, but yeah, bear with me. Um, but you guys are getting these gifts here. So we're taking a little detour, blow me up and there's a tank.  Tell us about your gun fascination. So I've always had like a fascination with firearms and, um, guns more and as I've got an older, it's been more towards like the psychology behind it and, um, places like America where it's especially in red states where you can open carry and, um, it's just really interesting to me. Um, the culture behind it and we've pulled up at this place called pro gun Vegas and I assume everybody here has guns and it's just going to be a big gunshot.  Oh, there's some Humvees over here. But, um, yeah, this is just America. Guns everywhere. Um, but it's funny to see him. He's so like, I guess that's how I would be if I was like in the English countryside and there was something different happening there. Yeah. There isn't this culture in England. The only people that have guns are like farmers and or people that shoot targets really, but or hunters, but apart from that, and then not like they really are here. Oh, great. Wow. A menu of machine guns. Look at these. Do you guys have a Tommy gun? Uh, we do. It's not listed on here, but it's, uh, $50 for 50 rounds.  So here we go. We're going out to the range. Arya is extremely excited to shoot an AK-47 today.  I'm a fantastic golf cart driver. Full speed, mate. Full speed. AK, he'll be shooting at the black, the red, or the vehicles all the way to the back. Cool. Don't shoot at the blue.  It's going to come back at us. I don't want to play dodge bullets. Me neither. Definitely not. Whenever you're ready. Yeah. Whenever you're ready. I'll take you back to semi. Wow. Well, what do you think? That was fun. That was really fun. He went through those 20 bullets real quick. Yeah. Wow. Thank you, Ian. What an experience. Great.  Welcome to America. Yeah. How'd it go? It was really, it's one of the things because I'm so, I'm such an anti-gun advocate, right? But it was an experience, right? It was so, so strange holding something that you know, especially that gun. There's kind of the reason I chose that one as well, because it's the most mass produced weapon in the world. I know it's been responsible for so much damage. And it was just so interesting holding something like that, you know? And also just incredibly fun also without being too philosophical. Right. It was very fun. Yeah. It's definitely fun. Yeah. But that is definitely a machine made to kill people. It's not a hunting rifle. All right, we stopped for a little laundry session in Boulder City over here. And after that, we're gonna hit the hot springs. This is great. So we're trying to look for a hot springs right here, Arizona hot springs. And we just kind of pulled over to get our bearings. And it looks like we came across a thirsty traveler. Hey, do you have a full, can you grab a full one right here? Sweet. I'm Jax. This is Danny Adventure Bus. Boom. There you go. You got a water. You need anything else? No, I don't need this much. Well, take the whole thing. It's our gift. Hey, fellow traveler. Yeah, I've done 48 states. Have you? I'm trying to do 49. Alaska. In the bus. Yeah, exactly. What, how long you've been on the bicycle? Three years. Three years straight? Yeah. That's incredible. I did the east coast down in the Midwest. Yep. And I'm doing the west. Awesome. So you've been three years continuously on the bike? Well, I took a time off between it. When I went home. Yep. But last year, no. Yeah. What's that? Can I give you guys something? Oh, you guys got daughters or anything? Daughters? No. No. No sons, no daughters. Of course. When I was coming back, because I was going to ask these guys up there for water, I found this stuff on the road. You want to take a look at it? Ari has found his next victim. And when I mean victim, I mean subject for his photography. We're still pulled over here. We're going to park just two tents of a mile. It's just kind of like right over there. And then we'll hit the hot springs. So when you come here, there is a turnoff at mile marker four and a gigantic parking lot and plenty of trails. And we're going to go down there three miles to the river. So we started up there. Now we're walking up and over. There seems to be three ways to go a little bit to the right up and over a little bit to the left. I have no idea if this is a correct way. There's only one way to find out though. I don't think this is the official trail. The up and over in the center is a bit more difficult, a bit more rocks. This trail to the right I think is the way to go. But I think this is the exact canyon where the spring is. So that'll save us a little cutting back and forth if we can make it. Water back there. This is the main route. We are up the wash from the hot springs. So we are getting close. Chances are there's going to be naked people. So we won't be able to film but also out of courtesy. Right here my feet are standing in wetness and water is just pouring out of the wall right here. It's going to be very hot. Watch out. It's going to be too hot to touch. There's also water seeping out of this and a giant pool. There's sandbags. We're going to have to leave our bags up here or carry them through to the other part where they're going to be safe or whatever. Alright I realize it's very dark and you won't be able to see much but I am in the uppermost spring. It is the hottest. It's right next to the source. Once you go into the lower springs you have to make your body to it. It's really it's it's very hot but it's it is very hot. Oh my god it is very very incredible here. Oh my god. I really think that hot springs are possibly my most favorite thing on planet earth. You said the ocean, waves to surf, mountains to snowboard and you know those sorts of places. I really think hot springs is is up there in my top three. It's there's nothing like it well except your bathtub. Well hot springs was amazing. How was your first time in the hot springs sir?  I was I was saying to Jack we we got in and I was like this is hot water from the earth and it was kind of blue like really really fascinating. Yeah it is. We met some really nice guys in there and it was a good time all around. And you played the ukulele again. Yes. Let's go have a little peek at the hot spring. I'm using a my cell phone rammed in my whoops I don't want to get my feet too wet but anyways up there you can see the pool slightly. Anyway take my word for it that's the source and it is now time to head back. See this is the part that I don't look forward to. I love when the hot springs are nowhere but after you're soaking your body's tired you're dehydrated and the last thing you want to do is hike through miles but it's totally worth it because it cuts down on the crowds. You know already we're heading back and we chose to go at night time a different way than the way that we came and it's proving to be a little bit difficult because we just spent a half an hour going down what ended up being a dead end and now we're on 25 percent with the the phone battery and it looks like this is going to be much longer than the original way so yeah blessing but you know we'll live oh we made it oh my gosh if you go to this hot spring and you're coming up from the Colorado River do not go on the way to the right because it's not right it's wrong what do you say chappy bloke i'm hungry i'm tired that was like oh my gosh when did we leave i reckon two or three hours like two two and a half hours what should have taken us like 45 minutes oh my god i'm tired we're out of water also we need water yeah all right so here's the update we're over by uh vegas um hoover dam area and we're going to go back down almost to a place we were yesterday kingman arizona and stay there for the night and then tomorrow grand canyon i think i don't know it's kind of up in the air


Good morning. I'm absolutely delighted to be here and after Clare's very sobering presentation I'm going to try and show a route map perhaps, a path out of this, a way that we can get to the sort of change that we need to achieve and you know for me I think it's absolutely amazing that climate change has absolutely muscled its way back onto the political agenda with the sheer grit and determination of activists, of campaigners and of a generation of young people that have demanded that their voices be heard and it's amazing that the Green New Deal, an idea that came from organisations including the New Economics Foundation a decade ago has emerged as a key demand in response to the climate emergency. The idea is simple, an unprecedented mobilisation of resources of the type we have never achieved in peacetime to decarbonise the economy at pace while creating hundreds of thousands of good jobs and lifting living standards. At its heart is a recognition that climate change and the wider threat to our environment is a symptom of an economic system that is broken. The same economic system that is failing millions of people across the world and so to tackle climate change we got to transform the economy and we got to do this in a way that works for the majority of people. And this means an end to incremental changes to the status quo and tinkering around the margins and the time for quite fundamental and I dare I say radical change in the way that we do things in the way that our economy works. Now some people and they say this to me often will say look this is pie in the sky thinking it will never happen and we say the conditions for such change are already taking root and this is being driven by the scale of the environmental crisis that we face but also of the economic breakdown that we're seeing. So we all know we're in a climate emergency if you were any doubt I think Claire has made it patently obvious. We've been told by the experts that we have little over a decade to take drastic actions to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change and even that might be too little too late. But it's not just the threat of climate change. It's the fact that we are depleting the earth's natural resources at one and a half times its ability to regenerate. It's the fact that the UN have warned that we are facing and seeing a decline in nature declining globally a rate that we haven't achieved and seen in human history. It's the fact that you know at the rate that we're degrading top soil we may only have 60 harvests left. This is scary stuff which I think is often put in the too difficult to think about box but we're going to be shaken out of our environmental complacency whether we're ready or not as this begins to bite on people's day to day lives in a visceral way that will demand change and it is already happening. And we're already seeing the shift in public opinion with climate change now one of the top issues for voters. But this environmental tipping point is coming at the same time as we are seeing a breakdown in the way our economy works. And at the heart of this is the fact that the economy is no longer benefiting the majority of people. So over the last decade since the global financial crisis we have seen growth in this country but this growth hasn't benefited huge swathes of our society. We've had a decade of wage stagnation the longest period of earning stagnation we've had for about 150 years hitting those on low to middle incomes the hardest. People are being squeezed as the cost of essential things they rely on their housing their transport their energy their water their food goes up. So today living standards on average in this country are lower than they were a decade ago in 2008. We have won in three of our children in this country living in poverty despite the fact that 70% come from households that are working. We're seeing rising inequality. So you know for me the real stat that kind of brings it home is the fact that 10% of households now own 48% of this country's wealth. Whereas the bottom 50% huge swathes of our population own 9% of this wealth. Now look my take on this sort of inequality is that it is endemic in the current economic model. But people were sort of willing to suck it up as long as they were doing incrementally better from the system as soon as this breaks down in the way that I believe that we have seen over the last 10 years. I think the public's tolerance for this sort of inequality hits a buffer in a way that begins to call into question the very model. So the environmental and the economic are coming together in quite a profound way that will force us to think about the nature of our economy to think about who it works for and in whose interest it works. Opening up public appetite and consent for quite radical change I believe of the sort that we're talking about through a Green New Deal. But to be transformative, to reach and meet the scale of the challenge that confronts us, a Green New Deal has got to be ambitious. Which stretching targets for meeting net zero much much sooner than 2050 and with much of the heavy lifting being done over the next decade. Businesses in the private sector will have an absolutely critical role in achieving this and already many are trying to make positive moves in this direction. The pace and the scale of the transition won't happen without enterprise, without innovation from businesses to make the technological leaps that we need to. It won't happen without businesses thinking about how they can become zero in their carbon operation. But this is going to have to be supported by government regulation and by incentives. Legally binding targets to get to net zero over the next decade, the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies and actively replacing them with subsidies to enable businesses to green their operation. Adducting energy efficiency measures, moving to 100% renewable energy use, thinking about ways in which you offset your carbon footprint and using the procurement power that you have to incentivise green practices across your supply chain. We already have examples that are often banded about where we know this is happening. So whether it's IKEA who are building 700,000 solar panels to power each of their operations or Patagonia, which is often cited, who are using reuse and thinking about how they build reuse into their business model. By encouraging their customers to think about repair and reconditioning rather than replacing old items. And offering a service in order to do this. But also thinking about how they use products such as natural rubber or bottles in the production of their goods. Increasingly, I think this is going to become a mark of what it means to be the best of a business. The mark of what it means to be good business and increasingly we as consumers are going to be demanding this from the market. There's also a really critical role I think in all of this for finance in order to direct finance towards sustainable activities. And here central banks will have to step up and again have to play a critical role to use credit guidance in order to create caps on the amount of investment that can go into dirty brown activities and incentivise and push through cointures investment going into green activities. But we are clear that on its own this is just not going to be enough. We won't achieve the pace and the scale of change that we need to without large scale investment in green infrastructure, in technology and the skills that we're going to need to transition. And actually when interest rates are so low this is absolutely the time to invest, this is absolutely the time to be doing this. So we want to see our next government commit to 2% of GDP, we spend this on defence, we should be spending this on the climate emergency in the next budget to delivering a green new deal. Ramping up to 5% over the course of the next year. People who say we just can't afford this, my argument is that we cannot afford not to do this. If the science is right the more global temperatures rise the more chaos in the system, more devastating hurricanes, record droughts, extreme floods, the coastline disappearing, food scarcity from loss of crop yield, all driving climate related poverty at a scale that we cannot even imagine. The cost not just in pounds but in human suffering we absolutely cannot afford and that completely outstrips the cost of a green new deal. So the choice before us is whether we take deliberate concerted action now to achieve the pace and the scale of change that we need to or we sleep, walk into a crisis and we throw money at the problem when it will be far too late. And when viewed like this a green new deal becomes a no brainer. But the government must then focus this resource and this support on places. And this means implementing bold industrial transformation plans in places in which you put local people and businesses at the heart who understand their place, they understand their local economy in order to drive a just green transition. So for us a green new deal has got to come with radical devolution of power and resources down to a level where you can affect change. So devolution of green taxes or property taxes combined with devolve funding and powers over things like education, skills, employment support, energy, housing, planning, the things that we need in order to knit together a fair transition. Finally, in return for consenting to the scale of change that must come there has to be a good deal for the public. So through this investment program we can create better jobs to replace the ones that will go that must go if we are to transition away from fossil fuels. And the green economy that emerges must be owned by people and it must work in their interest. So this means collective ownership of green infrastructure and assets we invest in from renewable energies to public transport to fleets of electric cars. It means more cooperative ways of organising new industries that will spring up from cooperative insulation companies to cooperative energy providers. If we get this right and it is a big if, we could radically transform the economy so it works for people and planet. It is absolutely within our grasp but it won't happen unless the movement that is growing by the day continues to apply pressure for radical change. Bridging divides from left to right, from old to young, from consumers to producers, forcing our politics to confront the scale of the challenge we face and to step up. Thank you.


My name is Katie Palumbo and I've been with the fire department for four years now. I joined when I was 15 years old and I started as a junior and now I'm about to turn 19 and I'm about to get my Mod 4 first or my firefighter one certifications. This is probably like two years ago like my junior year high school. I was coming down here to go to breakfast with one of my friends it was her birthday and I was like oh just park near the fire department it won't be a big deal there's I don't have to pay for parking so I came over here parked and then as soon as I put my car in park we had a fire call but it was a it was like alarm so I was like oh I won't be very long I texted her I was like I'll be right back like I'm just gonna go to this fire call real quick then we go to the fire and it turns out it's actually a working fire in the sky melted his microwave with I I can't remember what was in it but he completely melted his microwave it smelled so bad and I felt so bad because I missed the entire brunch and then I came back and she understood everything but I just felt bad because I missed the entire breakfast because some guy melted his microwave. I joined originally because I was applying to a bunch of the military academies so I wanted to get some volunteer experience get some more life experience and I feel like the fire department's really given me a lot to work with in life and I'll have opportunities and everything that a lot of other people don't get which now I am in the army now and I did get to go in and um yeah


Well I think one revelation in government over the last decade is that we finally realized that we can't do it alone. Government doesn't stockpile household supplies, pet supplies, food, clothing, shelter issues. Government's not in business to do that nor are we prepared to do it. So what we've realized over the years is that it really is a partnership between business and government and our non-profits and our non-governmental organizations that provide that support across the board. Los Angeles, as you know, is at risk at some point in time. It's not a matter of if, but when an earthquake hits. And so we know that this market, you know, Walmart is relatively new to the LA area. We want to show the community that we bring value and what we can do in the area of preparedness. During Hurricane Katrina, Walmart was one of the first companies on the scene, you know, passing out food and water, you know, whether it be here in the United States or internationally, we're in 28 countries. We know that we can play a role. We appreciate the support of the community. We want to support the community. And so we feel like this is a great venue to talk about preparedness. I have two rabbits. So I have Rocket and Nibbles, my children named them, so they're very original names. And then I have two hamsters, fuzzy and whiskers. So, you know, we've got two kids. We love pets. I've had horses, dogs, cats, budgies, so we're a very big pet family growing up with my mom and dad and also into, you know, making sure that my kids know that the care and being responsible for a pet is an important lesson in life, in addition to the companionship of having them in your family. CPR. What is it? Can anybody tell me what CPR stands for? Resuscitation. I feel like I'm doing a cheer. And in the terms of preparedness, you can add water for your pet in the bag, and you can add food that comes in various different packets.  We have to make sure that we have the food for our beloved four-legged creatures, water, medicine, all the same things you would have for your own family. Some of the differences, though, are, of course, we really encourage people to have a crate or a carrier for their pet as well as a harness or a leash because pets get panicked a lot of times in a natural disaster. And so we don't want them to get away from us, so we encourage people to have that as well. So there are some differences, but really, it's simple. If you're going to have a plan for your family, make sure you include your pet in that as well.


The mountains of Japan stand in the path of the rising sun. The storms of Earth's mightiest ocean beat upon our shores and strike again. Yet our land endures, eternal as Fuji. So it is with us, the people of Japan. From the beginning the sea has given us strength, food, the wealth of commerce. There came a day not long ago when it brought home our young men from battle fronts of the vast Pacific. Several millions the Americans sent back to us. We were glad to see them. We needed their help. We are numerous people. One of the great and powerful nations of the East. 83 millions of us live in these islands. Many of us in the teeming cities. And many in the rural areas of our fair land whose beauty stirs the heart. The cherry blossoms and lovely vistas are famed in many lands. Still others live by the sea and turn to the sea for its wealth. Saining its waters for the means whereby to live. All these needed now to do their part if our people were to survive. From laboratories where Americans worked with our technicians came grave warning. We must join forces to fight the common enemy, disease. Breakdown of normal services due to war brought a menace to public health. The waters our people were using in these hard times threatened us with malaria, typhoid and other plagues. They must be sprayed. Every swamp was a source of danger. Small vermin must be examined as well. All sources of food had to be examined immediately and health laws enforced with vigor. The health of our people was a matter of first concern. We had to reestablish sources of supply but also see that these sources were pure. We had to establish clinics for the care of our people. Many of them homeless and without ordinary means of caring for themselves. At this critical time there was a shortage of trained personnel. Some had died on far-flung battle fronts of the war. Some were still prisoners of the Russians who gave no sign of releasing the masses of our people they held. Now, with the help of the Americans we were training new nurses and technicians. Equally urgent was our need for food. Each hillside patch must yield to the full often by grueling, back-breaking work. Yet the good earth needed help. Here again the Americans helped us as they did in so many ways in those dark and discouraging days. Cargo vessels brought fertilizer from across the Pacific and soon it was at work to make the soil yield every possible bit of food for our hungry millions. The farmers were aided by many who had come from the cities in search of a livelihood. Somehow new land must be found and put to use, however rough it might be. There was no shortage of labor for this hard work and with all we must start the replanting of our forests. At the same time we must look ahead. The farmers of tomorrow must be trained, must know not only the science of farming but how to do the practical work. So schools of agriculture were established in rural areas and instructors and students worked together producing crops in these field schools. Now came use of a profound change in land ownership. The emperor and diet proclaimed that those who till the soil should own it, no longer live in bondage. Farmers had the right to vote for their land commissioners. Soon the surveyors with transits and stakes were dividing the land. In fact we're cutting up the ancient feudal system substituting the ways of democracy. Now a man who owned nothing in the old days could buy his piece of land and get a deed for it. So even amidst our urgent need to produce subsistence for our people the seeds of democracy were sown. We were harvesting food while the roots of freedom grew. Those who tilled the soil and worked in the fields were to have dignity and worth and a free man share in the products of their toil. The Japanese farmer was not to be a surf. Throughout our land there was an awareness that the freedom and dignity we had longed for was close at hand. It reached the men who go out upon the seas in fishing craft to sain the waters for their treasure. Here were rugged valiant sailors who once ranged the Pacific and brought home great harvest in fish. Not only to feed our people but to trade in the markets of the world and yet these men building the wealth and dignity of Japan often were deprived of a livelihood. To make the sea yield its fish was not enough. They must also be marketed. The rights, the controls lay with others. Now at night after their work they gathered in their cooperatives to discuss their problems to exchange views to stand together for their rights as members of a democracy. And so in the new day they go forth with courage and hope. Free men of the new democratic Japan for industry had been hard hit in the devastation of war but soon was pouring its products again into the veins of commerce. This was true especially in the handicraft trades. We had lost markets but labor had made gains. The unions destroyed by police in earlier days were restored. There was collective bargaining. The work day was shortened. We had a ministry of labor. Women had greater equality and child labor had become illegal. We urgently needed wood for the rebuilding of our homes, for ships, for fuel and for a thousand purposes of a nation stricken by the ruin of war. Our new democratic system needs an informed enlightened people. There must be paper for books, newspapers, printed matter of many kinds. Once our great steel mills reddened the skies. Now we had to arouse this dormant shattered industry to give us the basic materials for construction, for transport. If we were to survive we must get the wheels turning again. In these difficult times we were thankful for the restoration of our good system of railroads powered by electricity from our mountain streams. Despite the difficulties of getting our industrial machine underway there was a new and better relationship between management and labor. They met as equals, discussed problems across the table, reached solutions for our common good in an atmosphere of responsibility and respect. For all of us it was paramount to move forward, yet do it in the pattern of democracy. If we were to survive and regain our position in world trade we must have ships. It was a glad day when the first of these was on its way lifting the spirits of our striving people. We knew we must have commerce to survive. Here at least was a good start. Soon this fine ship was at sea, welcomed in New York, harbinger of our return to a place among the nations. Japanese trade fairs were arranged by American businessmen of Pacific Coast cities and elsewhere for the display of our products. These formally won favor in the markets of the Seven Seas and we believed would again. The democratic world that in the difficult years of war had set its face against us now was offering us encouragement and showing a lively interest in the quality and economy of Japanese goods. Meanwhile, our young people eagerly sought the universities and schools. These had set aside old restrictions, had opened wide the doors of learning, inviting the greatest freedom of thought and discussion. America sent us teachers inspiring guides for those who wanted to learn the ways of the democratic world where freedom of thought, speech, action was a right. Our young people welcomed this opportunity to explore the whole range of knowledge in which women were equals with men. Our industrial schools now spent the technical education of young people who would do the work of industry. We were going to need trained hands to man our machines. For the little ones, there was the same emphasis on freedom. A new view of child life that discouraged regimentation emphasized the birthright of happiness and gaiety. We agreed that they must not suffer from our country's depressed condition. The new education had new methods of instruction and guidance of the child. Motion pictures that brought the world into the school room showed our youngsters how the children of other lands live. The new freedom came to our libraries, opening wide their doors, tearing down the bars. No longer were books locked away, hard to get. They were out where eager hands, eager minds could reach them. Books went to the people of the country by car, speeding to villages to make knowledge available to all. The arrival of the bookmobile brought light and learning to all, young and old. A democratic people must have a free press. What news of the diet's action? What word from the emperor? What are the newest maneuvers of the communists? What action has the United Nations taken? Here were the answers. Democracy was in the air in those post-war years, sounding from every platform. Sometimes it was confusing. So many voices, each declaring it spoke the truth, each seeking our vote. Yet we knew that the ways of democracy required discussion, argument, thought. We voted as seemed best, confident that sooner or later we would find our way. We gathered later before the tabulation boards to see the results of our voting. Already we had a diet responsible to us, the Japanese people. Our emperor had called on us all to create a democratic order that would guard the rights of the common man and restore Japan to a place of honor in the democratic world. Speakers of various parties and groups, both men and women, addressed the diet, urging the viewpoint that seemed right to the speakers. And we had a constitution. We, the Japanese people, had said, had supreme rights. Even the right to change our constitution by the will of our people through voting for an amendment, acts of the diet, all matters of justice must have final review by our supreme court. Where the best legal minds of Japan, free from bias, free from pressure, would guard our rights and liberties. Here was a branch of our new government, independent of all the others. For us it was added assurance of truth and justice. And the new order had brought us a new police. Not cruel masters, but servants of law and order. We remembered how twenty years ago our democratic beginnings were crushed by the police, whose stifled freedom condemned us for thinking. These new police, like us, are aware of the rights of the people. In the courts, too, we had new rights. The right of habeas corpus, presumption of innocence, the right to counsel. The humblest citizen could look for protection of the fundamental rights of all free men. Those who headed our government were responsible to us, or by our votes we could remove them. They were charged with improving conditions for the people, bettering our relations abroad, the world new of our progress, and seemed to encourage our efforts. The United States opened its doors to our elected representatives, who were received as equals by leaders elected by the people of the United States. Such notables as Vice President Barclay and Secretary of State Atchison gave them warm greetings, indicating friendship and trust. We were emerging into the light of world opinion. In New York, our leaders visited the United Nations, where we hoped soon to take our place. Warren Austin, the United States delegate, was one of the leading figures who made our people welcome. It was a great moment when we entered the hall where world problems were being settled and listened to the spokesman of many peoples. Each spoke in his own tongue, with immediate translation in other languages. In Paris, a great door was opened to us. We joined UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization, devoted to extension of civilization and human rights. Neighbors of the Far East spoke in our behalf. When we were admitted, we knew that here was an important step toward reconciliation, toward the establishment of friendly relations with people of other lands. And we hoped a step toward resuming our place among the nations. And then a few months later, the peace conference convened in San Francisco, with President Truman appearing to welcome the delegates of 52 nations of the earth. This was the time to look to the future, not the past, he said. He praised our efforts in land reform, in extending equality to women, in furthering the rights of labor. President Truman acknowledged our many often peaceful advances since the war's end. He called for conditions to permit further progress. And finally, he offered us a partnership for peace, with full sovereignty for our land. Long months of preparation had gone into this treaty. All the democratic world was agreed on its terms. But in this critical hour, the Russian delegate tried to obstruct the treaty. He complained about the rules of procedure. He demanded new time-wasting commissions to make more studies. He called for impossible conditions, flung insults and charges left and right to make more trouble, a representative of Poland, one of the captive nations that danced to the Communist tune tried to interrupt and delay the sessions. The purpose was clear. The Communist bloc was trying, by all means, to prevent the treaty that would give Japan a place of equality among nations. We're doomed to failure. The nations gathered here, great and small, had determined upon peace. They were not to be stopped by trickery after 11 months of negotiations to enable Japan to re-enter the family of nations. The spokesman from New Zealand vehemently denounced the Communist stand. Even such nations as the Philippines that had suffered greatly in the war favored making peace with us. The architect of this peace treaty, Mr. Dulles, the American statesman, had worked tirelessly toward this moment. At last, Premier Yoshida, speaking for us, told them Japan is determined to make amends, is burning with desire to live at peace with her neighbors. This treaty, he said, was unparalleled in history. Here was no vengeance, but recognition that Japan was a new nation seeking peace. For in this solemn hour, almost 10 years from the day the fury of war was unleashed, the people of the United States signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with our people. Australia signed the Covenant. Cambodia signed. The British signed. Ceylon and France. Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan. 48 nations in all signed. The three nations of the Communist bloc did not. Nations of East and West, great and small, signed in this historic hour before our representatives added the pledge of our country to live at peace with all the world, to work with others dedicated to justice, progress and freedom. Dulles knows we have problems, but believe we have the courage, the willingness, the skill to build anew, to join others in the great constructive task of human progress under a government of the people, by the people, for the people of Japan.


Hello and welcome to Ride History with Amusement Insiders. I'm your host Jasmine and today I wanted to talk about a ride actually outside of Canada's Wonderland. So we're not quite at the end of our first season of this series but that said as we sort of veer into our second season I did want to start to branch away from Canadian themed rides and attractions and really start branching out as far as what we're looking at. So today I wanted to give you a little bit of history about another famous Canadian ride but a little bit closer to the US border. So many may know that in the early 1960s John Holler founder and owner of Marine Land started his business with just three sea lions in a tank on a small parcel of land in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Now these first tanks which eventually branched from just one tank to actually two were created by John himself. That is right John Holler the owner and operator of Marine Land actually welded these tanks and installed the portholes for visitors to view the animals inside. He then filled the parking lot with junk cars from a local wrecker to make it appear as though the park was full and to pique people's curiosity. He then opened the park with a 25 cent admission charge and an additional 25 cent charge to feed the animals. John's clever little plan was successful and Marine Land began to evolve from that point forward. Throughout the 1980s Marine Land went through a multi-billion dollar expansion and over the following years the park evolved into the over 1,000 acre amusement park that we know today. So this brings us to the main star of this episode, Dragon Mountain. So during that period of rapid expansion in the 80s that I just mentioned, Marine Land partnered with Aerodynamics then Aerohus to design, construct, and open its most ambitious project, the Dragon Mountain roller coaster. Dragon Mountain is a truly unique custom looping coaster and is often referred to as a terrain coaster because of its dependency on the man-made terrain on which it rests. Park owner John Hohler had a real vision for this coaster to stand on and interact with an actual mountain so he built an 18-story mountain on what was originally level terrain to be the setting for the Dragon Mountain coaster. Now as well as this towering man-made mountain, John Hohler had a unique creative vision for the theming of this attraction and intended for the ride to have many other immersive theming elements including two underground tunnels, a volcano, and a replica of the famous Niagara Falls waterfall which was actually located not too far away. And this replica of Niagara Falls would be roughly a quarter scale. So as I mentioned the theming plans for this ride were ambitious to say the least. While Hohler did get his mountain terrain and underground tunnels as well as some unique ride elements and world record breaking elements, there were also numerous budget cuts throughout the process and some theming elements had to be sacrificed. The most notable cuts included the waterfall and volcano theming elements. These budget cuts actually happened in the middle of production so the ride was left with some unfinished and really unattractive elements to the public eye for many years following its opening. Luckily the volcano feature was finished in 2006 around the helix and the abandoned structural elements for the Niagara Falls replica were removed after it was decided that the waterfall would not be completed. Though it's a shame that Dragon Mountain never saw the completion of all of its planned theming elements, there are still so many unique and interesting aspects to this coaster. First and foremost when Dragon Mountain opened it was actually considered to be a world record breaking roller coaster as the world's tallest full-circuit coaster. It actually held this title until Magnum XL 200 opened at Cedar Point in 1989. Interestingly Dragon Mountain was actually the last roller coaster to hold that record and include inversions. In fact two of the four inversions on Dragon Mountain take place in a ride element that is unique to that coaster called a bowtie. This element is aptly named since it actually does look like a bowtie and it's a really unique experience not only in the feel of the element when you're on the ride but also in the fact that it's the only ride with a bowtie element on the planet. Now this bowtie element is actually really similar to the batwing element found on other aero models however without the reversal of direction. So world's tallest is not the only record breaking claim to fame that Dragon Mountain has gone for over the years. To this day Marine Land still claims that Dragon Mountain has more tunnels than any other roller coaster in the world with a total of 1163 feet of tunnel length. And the final record breaking claim that Marine Land makes for this ride is that Dragon Mountain is the quote world's largest steel roller coaster. Though this is not necessarily believed by all coaster enthusiasts as a legitimate claim since there are longer and taller rides out there these days. This ride does spread over 30 acres of land and when the acreage and scope of the man-made mountain itself are considered it could be argued that this is a fair claim for Marine Land to make to this day. And I'd love to know what are your thoughts on this whole world's largest claim that Marine Land makes on Dragon Mountain. Do you agree? Do you disagree? And what's your reasoning for your thoughts? Please tell us in the comments down below. Now with all of that said let's dive into the ride experience of Dragon Mountain. At a top height of 186 feet, a first drop of 80 feet, a top speed of 50 miles per hour, and a total length of 5,500 feet, Dragon Mountain is aero's longest looping coaster by far and a really unique experience given all of the terrain elements and the lengthy runtime of three minutes and 30 seconds. Designed by Ron Tumor and costing a total of 9 million Canadian dollars, Dragon Mountain has remained operating since it first opened to the public in 1983. With three trains on this ride that have seven cars per train, the riders are arranged in two across seating in two rows per total of 28 riders per train. Now with all of that said the rider's experience actually starts well before they even board the train as they approach the ride on foot. Their experience starts when they stumble upon the looming dragon's head carving where they must enter the dragon's mouth and venture through the dark caves within in order to join the queue for the ride. Even the station for this ride is completely themed as the inside of the Dragon Mountain system of tunnels and caves. Now once they board their train riders begin their journey up two separate chain lifts to the top of the hill. Once they reach the top they turn to the left and dive down the 80-foot descent into the first two inversions back to back vertical loops. From there the ride mostly follows the man-made mountain terrain covering vast amounts of space over the park's property and entering the helix within the volcano element. After entering the first tunnel element riders continue around the ride terrain where the Niagara Falls element was originally intended to be and then into the second tunnel and finally into the bowtie element. The ride then continues along more track following close to the terrain before completing its cycle into the final break run. Now while I haven't ridden Dragon Mountain myself in quite a few years it was always a really great ride experience. It's definitely one of Arrow's most unique creations and a really quirky credit to add to your coaster count if you're into that kind of thing. It's definitely an experience you won't find anywhere else. Now I know what some of you are thinking no matter what I say or do you are never going to visit Marine Land because of the many controversies that this park has been through especially in recent years and though Marine Land has had that fair share of controversy over the years and though the future seems somewhat up in the air these days Dragon Mountain really is one of the best things to come from the history of this park. So here's to hoping that the park is either given the TLC that it deserves and needs for many years now or sold to another company that will preserve rides like this and bring Marine Land up to its full potential and full glory. It would be awesome to give enthusiasts and tourists much more of a reason to visit this park and to help bring it back to life. And whether or not you agree with Marine Land's history when it comes to animal captivity I hope we can all agree that the park the location and the rides within it could have so much more to offer to tourists and ride enthusiasts all over the world if it was properly maintained and properly invested in going forwards. And for those of you who don't know this is a specific topic that amusement insiders and our whole team here has become increasingly interested in in recent months especially since it was announced that John Hohler passed away and that the future of this park could potentially be up in the air because of that. So please stay tuned to Amusement Insiders as we continue to advocate for a much brighter future for Marine Land whether it's in the hands of Disney or Merlin or some other major contender in the amusement and theme park industry. So with that I will wrap up this video. Thank you for watching this ride history video on Dragon Mountain. I hope you enjoyed. Please make sure to share any thoughts ideas or fun facts that you might have about Dragon Mountain down below and I hope to see you in the next video. Bye!