This weekend we speak with David Farrar and Edinburgh on the heels of the Scottish Independence Referendum vote. David is a member of the Libertarian Alliance and the Mises Institute and writes about all things Scottish at his blog Freedom and Whiskey, a Libertarian Returns to Scotland. David is also a Chartered Secretary in the UK and he recently returned to his home country of Scotland after many years working in London. David and I deconstruct Thursday's referendum vote from a Libertarian perspective and you won't want to miss it. Stay tuned. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to Mises Weekends. I'm your host, Geoff Theist. This weekend we are speaking with our friend David Farrar, live from Edinburgh in Scotland. David, how are you today? How are you feeling? I'm fine, a bit tired. I was up most of the night watching the results but slightly disappointed with the results but not completely dismayed because I think there is a case for saying the final outcome in the UK in the British trials will be the same as if there had been a yes vote, strange as that may seem. Well, let me ask you this. Is Edinburgh, was it a yes town, a no town or a mixed town from your perspective? I didn't actually see the result because I went to bed before the Edinburgh result was announced. I was so tired at that point and it was virtually the last result but it was roughly two thirds no and one third yes. The main yes votes were in Glasgow and Dundee and in some of the areas around the edge of Glasgow. And we're finding out today that there is a huge difference in voting between young and old. Approximately 70% of young folks were four and about 70% of older folks were against. That's absolutely right. I've made a note to mention that to you and if you like I can try and explain why that was the case. I think older people first of all were worried above all about pensions. Unfortunately, lots of people here as in the US think that the state pension, social security in your terms is sitting in a vault under the Bank of England or the Fed when in fact of course the contributions are spent and the pensions are paid out of current taxation. Lots of people didn't get that and they thought that if Scotland became independent they wouldn't have access to this pot of gold under the Bank of England. And then another factor is very important. I think the mainstream media was virtually entirely on the no side. One newspaper out of 37 that we can read here in a week supported yes and the BBC was predominantly on the no side as well. Whereas younger people who use social media got a completely different message because on Twitter and Facebook and things like that there was a far bigger support for yes. Politics aside just from a parliamentary perspective isn't it quite amazing that this vote was even held in this day and age? I see what you're getting at but the point is we have a SNP government in Edinburgh in the devolved government. Their whole purpose since they were founded about 80 or years ago was to have this referendum and once they had a majority in the Scottish Parliament there was no real way it could have been avoided and I think the government down in Westminster acknowledged that and that's why we had the referendum. Well speaking of Westminster it seems that there were a lot of very odious people and organizations who were aligned on the no side. We heard of course from Cameron from Gordon Brown from Obama, Goldman Sachs, heck even our own Alan Greenspan came out on the no side. How about on the yes side is Alex Salmon and some of the other folks on the yes side. Are they equally odious? Well they're not libertarians that's for sure. I mean they're probably fairly similar in ideologies to the people you've mentioned. It's much wider than that. It's the Putin, the Chinese leadership and the Australians and the Canadians. It's really quite amazing.  But no the main yes campaign are typical politicians from slightly left of centre, some slightly right of centre to use non-libertarian terminology. But as I said there were some libertarians, classical liberals on the yes side but also some on the no side. Very good friends of mine on both sides. Did the yes campaign fail to present a coherent vision of what Scotland might look like going forward? I think the main failure was to deal with the question of the currency. At the moment of course we all use the UK pound throughout the whole of the UK and the Bank of England slightly misleadingly named because it's really the Bank of the UK. It's the central bank and Cameron and Co said that in the event of independence the Bank of England would not act as a lender of last resort for an independent Scotland. I think that was the main reason that so many people supported the no campaign. Of course from the libertarian point of view my group Welfare Nation argued that it would be a good thing not to have a lender of last resort because that would discipline the banks into behaving in a more sensible manner. Right, but I just wonder if folks in Scotland on the left have the same disdain for the Bank of England that they seem to have for the Tories and for Westminster. I think people on the left probably don't think too much at least certainly not in any rational way about money and economics and things like that. The leftists think probably supported yes or those who did support yes on the grounds that an independent Scotland they thought would be free of things like factorism and privatisation and so on. In reality had there been a yes vote I think that economic reality would have asserted itself fairly quickly and the ideas of the left wouldn't have materialised for that long. It's interesting that you bring up thatcher from what I've been reading over the past week she is still a reviled figure for a lot of Scots isn't she? That's true to some extent yes and I think it was unfortunate that she didn't seem to understand how to talk to Scottish people if she'd only just said look I understand you can have a Scottish Parliament and debate Scottish affairs but we're still all in the UK I think she would have that would have been fine but she came across as someone who was very much not just English much but from the south east of England and London which is a place that dominates the whole of the UK including most of the rest of England in a way which is a bit unfortunate and she came across as being the embodiment of that centralisation in London. David it seems like now some people on the Scottish left save their anchor for Farage and UKIP. Well that's right and that's again because he is seen as being son of thatcher in a sense. I used to live in London for many years and if I still lived there I would probably be a UKIP voter because of their opposition to the EU and they're generally more in favour of smaller markets smaller governments rather than less taxation than the Conservatives. So yes it's understandable the Scottish left doesn't like them. Well you bring up this phenomenon of seeing them as a rightist movement. Here's what's interesting to me in most of Europe nationalist movements tend to be right wing anti-Brussels but in Scotland the nationalist movement is portrayed anyway as left wing pro-EU. Yes the reason they're pro-EU it's rather interesting if you go back about 30 or 40 years when they were quite small they were anti-EU largely because of the EU taking control of the Scottish fishing grounds and destroying a lot of the fishing industry here but as they got a bit bigger they came up against this problem that it was perceived that an independent Scotland might not be able to trade with England and the rest of the world. So they changed their mind and became pro-EU as a way of getting around that potential problem and they've maintained that pro-EU position ever since. And so I guess politics does make strange bedfellows. Tell us a little bit about your participation and the libertarian element however small in the behind the yes campaign. Well I've been involved with a group called Wealthy Nation.org and of course Wealthy Nation is it comes from Wealthy Nations as in Adam Smith. And it's a group of free market oriented people, several economists, people like myself from the business and financial world. And we've had a website putting out a lot of articles supporting independence but from a libertarian point of view. There is also a quite sizable student libertarian group here mainly on Facebook and they are predominantly or were on the yes side. So I mean we're fairly small in numbers but certainly among libertarians here I would say the majority were at least sympathetic if not completely pro-independent. Well I wonder about the hangover that's going to occur in Scotland over the next couple of weeks. In the US you had your Romney and your Obama voters. They tend not to like each other too much. But I wouldn't say it's a huge social rift. People go about their day to day business. I just wonder how deep this will run sort of in the Scottish psyche. The yes versus the no people. I think it might be quite difficult for a while. But right in the beginning I said that we could end up with the same as if there had been a yes first. And what I meant by that was if Scotland had become independent then we would be cooperating so closely with England especially on things like defence and probably foreign policy that it wouldn't be that much different from what David Cameron is talking about. Although I'll believe it when it actually happens of having far more devolution to Scotland but within the UK. So I think if we were to have that and have a properly virtually a federal system or even confederal with almost everything other than defence and foreign policy handled at the level of the four parts of the UK then I think most people would be quite happy with that. Another interesting element to this vote was that you could vote if you were 16 as of the day of the vote which is interesting to us as Americans, largely American audience. And also what's interesting is that any Scottish resident regard as long as they had an EU passport or a UK passport could vote whereas the Scots living abroad could not vote in the election. That's right. I mean the 16 and 17 year old thing was quite controversial but I did see a television programme of people of that age, 8,000 of them in a big hole in Glasgow about two weeks ago. And I do say they were very, very articulate people and seem to be well up on the various issues on both sides. As far as the other things concerned, I don't think the SNP government had much choice in this under EU laws. I understand it. Only citizens of a country can vote for the national parliament. So someone here from say Poland couldn't vote for the House of Commons and Westminster. But on the other hand, for all other election people from the EU are allowed to vote or must be allowed to vote under EU law. So that's this county. There's one of those types of election. And so they I don't think they could have stopped it if they'd wanted to. As far as people living outside Scotland, I mean, where would you draw the line?  It'd be very difficult to open this up to people who live outside Scotland, I think. And equally, it would be wrong to bar English people living here from voting as well. David, I have to say, when you use the phrase EU law, it gives me sort of a bad feeling. It gives me goosebumps. Well, regulation was then in closing, I know it's been a very long evening for you. Tell us a little bit about the idea behind your blog. It's entitled Freedom and Whiskey, A Libertarian Returns to Scotland from our from our English counterpart from your English counterparts, we get the sense that the libertarian movement in in the UK is more abundant. Perhaps you can offer a different perspective. Yes, well, you've discovered my blog, and you may have noticed it's been pretty quiet over the last year or so, I really got blocked out with churning out this stuff for 10 years. But the libertarian movement in the UK is still around. There's a thing called the Libertarian Alliance, which you may well have heard of, run by Sean Gab. And they continue to be active. I was their financial guide for more than 20 years. With the web, the ideas are spreading. There's no question about that. The word libertarian appears in the press now, and 20 years ago, no one would have used that word. But it's still quite small. But there again, it's sadly, quite small in the US as well, isn't it? Sure is. But we're growing day by day. David, thank you so much for your time. Fascinating interview. Ladies and gentlemen, have a great weekend.


Good evening and welcome to O-R-I-N-K. So now we have the Amherst Hurricanes against the Ludlow Lions. Since we've left, Amherst has made it into the playoffs, winning their 10th game the other night. Good and self-hadley. It was a 1-0 game for most of the game into the third where Amherst took control and went up to finish 3-0. Coach's word of the day was pass. So hopefully we see a lot of passing tonight. And a lot of scoring. And goal tonight for the Lions is Tyler Charest. He's had a great game. Season so far. Stand up for his team. The Lions hasn't shown it that much on the wind call. But we'll get started tonight with Joe Frontier at the dot. The first faceoff won by Amherst and they'll throw it in deep. Goes to the right of Charest. And we'll bring it all the way back. And Johnny will have his first faceoff to his right at the dot. Frontier again. Wins it. And it'll skate out of the circle with it. Up for Hanson. Hanson gains a line. Swings goes wide. Stopped the line by Slovan. Pushed in deep. Amherst makes a change. Frontier into the wall. Wrapped around to the top of the circle. Pressured by Ashita. Throwing back back in by Beckwood. Ashita and takes over the puck. Then thrown to the corner. Helped with Foster. He goes down. Taken over by the Lions. Kept in at the line by Nick Paul. Throwing back in deep behind Charest. Top of the circle by Foster. He'll skate it into the corner. Outcomes Brandon Peretz. Centering pass blocked behind the net. Outcomes Koji. Bottom of the circle. Back to Beckwood at the line. Just in. Koji throws it on. Blocked out front behind the net. Foster's there in the corner. Back around for Ashita. Back to Foster. Foster goes circle to circle.  Out to center. Massive Alexis is there. Throws it back up for Hanson. Can't connect. The Lions take over. Bounce puck. Hanson has it. Now Frenier wears some help. Joe pushes down low. Ticks a hit. Puck comes loose. Stopped outside the line by Massive Alexis. Throws it in. Gloves saved Charest. Picked off by Joe Frenier. Still not clear now in center. Brandon Peretz is there. Picked by the Lions. Massive Alexis pushes them to the corner. Centering pass in. Deflected out of the corner by Sloven. Amherst makes the line change. In comes Giorgio Salamos. Takes the body and the puck comes loose. Up for Foster. Now Ashita down to the corner. Giorgio back in the corner with the body. Back to line Nick Paul. Stopped out front by the Lions. Now taken over back to line to Nick Paul. Back to Koji. Lions intercept the pass. And they'll throw it into their bench. Is that a cold one? Lions win this one. Now intercepted by Foster. Bounces outside the line. Nick Paul's there. He circles back. Pass intercepted by the Lions. Goes all the way back down to Beckwith's corner. Beckwith was skated up. Looking for Ashita can't connect. Now Foster with it. Back to Koji. Back to Foster. Giorgio is on the wing. Quick shot! Foster! 11-21. Amherst will go up. One to nothing. Quick wristy from number seven. Chris Foster 11-21. Back to the dot. The Lions win the face off and press right into the zone. Stopped by Master Alexis and thrown out. Back to the corner. Still not out. Up along the glass. Frontier bounces out of the zone. Brandon Pritz is there with some speed. Wheels in. Backhander. Looked like it was in from this angle. Inside the post. No call. We'll have to check that one on Kody's repyle. It looked like it was inside the post. Nice nifty move by Brandon Pritz. Does get no credit on that one. Now all the way back down and Justin looks like he needs a two-minute rest over here.  Quick shot. Kick save. Hanscom. Back below the circle with the Lions on the power play. Back to the line. Blocked out front by Joe Frenny who are out of the zone. Bloodlowe with that three group. He'll wheel in. Off the glove. Hanscom to the corner. Nick Paul's there. Outcome the Lions. Bottom of the circle. Wheel to the line. Around the board to a wing. Beck was there. Throw it up for the corner. Centering pass. The flex up over the top of Hanscom to the glass. Back into the corner. Pritz will wing it out. Has to be handled by Charette. The sheet was bearing down on him. Minute left on Master Alexis' penalty. Stopped by LaFrenier. Now Foster bounces it out of the zone. Lions regroup. Throw it in deep. Hanscom leaves it for Slovin. Now LaFrenier. Lions come out behind the net. Stopped by Foster and Slovin. Centering pass in. Deflected back by Slovin. Back to the line. Screenshot in. Deflected out front. Throwing back in front. Taken over by Foster. Now Ashida. Foster. Stopped out front. 10 seconds on the penalty. 10 seconds. Back to Nick Paul's corner. Outcomes Master Alexis. Foster takes over the puck. He's got skating room. He'll wheel it out of the zone. Up for Master Alexis. Can't connect. Back to LaFrenier. 829 to go in the first. Amherst won. Lettalo's eye in zero. Lions win another face off and they come roaring out of the zone. Taken down by Hanson. Puck comes around to Master Alexis. They'll fling it up and out. All the way up to Hanson. Throwing in. Can't connect with Brandon. Brandon Prince gets a stick on it and bounces out of the zone. Back to LaFrenier. Back to Sloven. Master Alexis goes all the way to the corner. Izzy Richbears down. Keeps the puck in. Stopped the line back with Wings it up for Foster. Now Ashida. He bounces it over the top of the shoulder. Nifty little shot there. Amherst go up two. That's 731 in the first.  No pressure right back in the zone. Foster, Ashida and Ganglung Choi. Choi in the corner. Get some help from Foster. Now Foster comes out of the corner. Looking for Ashida. Quick shot. Kick to side. Back to the corner with Foster. Top of the circle. Bounces by Izzy. Just over the top of her stick. Goes all the way back in the corner. Now Foster. And Rich. Weak shot. Kick to side by Hanson. Back up to the line. K-Connect. Stopped by Ashida. Lions quick shot. Goes wide to Hanson. On the back of the net. 627 will have a face off down. Foster assisted by number 18. Ganglung Choi. Back to the dots. Joe Fernier. Lions will win this one. Now taken back over by Nick Paul. Bottom of the circle. Out comes Hanson. He goes by. Looking for parrots in the front. Can't connect. Taken over by the Lions. Brandon goes back into the other corner. Bounces up along. Lions will wheel it out. Long pass in. Nick Paul takes the body. The puck comes loose to the Fernier. Fernier around for Hanson. Bounces back up along the side. Joe Fernier comes up. Brandon Pritz. Can't connect. Now Pritz behind the net. Taken over by the Lions. Sloven pinches down. Pass goes wide. Vassal Alexis takes the body. The puck will be icing. 533 to go. First period Amherst 2. Level of Lions 0. Face off won by Amherst. Bouncing puck now up. Sloven back on deep. Pressures him to the corner. Now up over to Aiden Valley. Morgan Pritz. Up along the glass to Goodhine. Goodhine throws it in deep. Around for Aiden Valley. Goodhine out front. Bouncing just kicked aside. Morgan back to Beckwith at the line. He'll throw it in deep. Goodhine's there. Bouncing puck. Morgan Pritz. Pressures to the corner. And the Lions will skate it out. Stopped at center by Nick Paul and the Lions are able to throw it in deep and they'll make a change. Amherst 3rd line now out there making some noise. Goodhine up for Alamones. Alamones throws it in deep. Amherst makes another change. Good pressure there by the 3rd line. Made some of the things happen. Get a cold one. Two. In the bucket. In the bucket. Lions will skate it up and in. Pressured by Maxwell Lesick in the corner. Taken over by Lions. Wrapped up for the half circle. Wrapped around. Georgia O's there. Can't free the puck up. Now Maxwell Lex is behind Hansen. Up along the glass and deflected out. And Johnny Hansen will have a faceoff to his left. Just under four minutes to go first period. Faceoff this time won by the Lions and they'll bring it to the corner. Wrapped up around. Beckwith along the boards. Three groups back to the corner. Bounces it off the glass and out. Going in deep for it is foster. Can't get there before the puck does. Faceoff will come all the way back down to the right. Mr. Johnny Hansen. Amherst makes another quick line change. Back to the dots. Joe Frenier. They'll win this one. The Lions come off the boards with it. Loses the edge. Now Frenier skates it up for Hansen. Backhand it will go. Nice nifty move by Taylor Hansen. Will make it three to nothing here at O-Rink. First period. Three fifteen. Hansen makes it three to nothing. Amherst wins the faceoff. Goes all the way back behind Charette. Back to the line and re-riched. Throws it in deep. Blonde the boards. Frenier throws it in deep. Lions will throw it out. Blonde pass up. Izzy takes the body down. The puck comes loose. Bouncing puck. Tied that one up in his glove and looked for a faceoff. Momo at the dot. She'll win this one. The Lions take over. Centering pass goes through. Back to the top of the circle. Thrown back in deep. Nick Paul is there. Takes control of the body. The puck comes back around. Sports loose. Lions center pass. Goes through. Aiden Valleys there with some speed. And gloves saved. Charette. Momo back to the dot. Lions win this faceoff back. Good hind gives pressure behind the net. Up along the boards. Thrown back in by Lafrenier. Frenier. Aiden Valleys out in the corner. Bounces all over Lafrenier. Lions will skate it in. Nick Paul takes on two. Puck goes to the corner. Morgan Prince is there. Lions come out of the corner. Saved by Hans. He kicks her to the side. Prince now with it. Now Nick Paul. Centering pass in. Wrapped right at Hans and he won't have it. Thrown out and then back in. Nick Paul has it. Skates outside line. Incepted by the Lions. Lafrenier. Thrown back in by the Lions. They still didn't clear the zone. They'll be in another whistle. Koji is sheet up. Amherst wins this one. Can't control it. Sheeted now whips it out.  Foster wheels in. Back to the corner. Under a minute to go. Back to line. Quick shot in behind the net. Koji's there. Posed it back in deep looking for Foster. Now a joy. Now a sheet up. You stick handle behind the net. Comes out top of the dock. Backhander. Tied up again. Just under 30 seconds to go. First period. Tyler Charest has been busy today. With a lot of little Lions. Charest will have another face off. The Lions win this one back. Banging up along the glass. Stepped in for a moment by Beckwith at the line. Lions will throw it out the center. Hanson's there. Lions poke it forward. Now Brandon Puritz will stop at the line. Now Izzy Rich in the corner. Round for Carter Beckwith. Beckwith with room to skate. Throws it all the way down where the first period will end. Amherst 3. The low Lions. Zero. Back to second period action. Lions will throw it in deep. Goes into the right of Hanson. Wraps around the boards for Hanson. All the front here. Not out intercepted by the Lions. Quick shot kicked aside by Hanson. Black along the half boards. Now out. Up for Brandon Puritz. Torn it up around center. Throwing back in deep behind Hanson. Bass or Lexus. Now Oshida. Back behind the nets. Foster pass intercepted by the Lions. And they'll throw it out of the zone. Back to center with the Lions. And they'll skate it in. There'll be a tripping coming up on Sloven. 13-22 to go. Eli will take a quick seat for two. Back to the dot to the right of Hanson. Sheet is there. He wins it back for Beckwith. And they'll throw it out off of Oshida's skate. Amherst backs off the puck. Lions trying to come in. Oshida. Lions trying to come out of the zone. Pressured by Koji. Now Foster. Foster again. Back to center. And stopped by the defense. And thrown up to Foster. Oshida. Pass intercepted by the Lions. Bouncing puck back up to center. Minute 10 to go on the penalty of Sloven. Thrown in wide of Hanson. Nick Paul is there. Bouncing puck. Up to Koji. He'll throw it up. And Amherst will make a full change. One minute to go on the Sloven penalty. Lions looking to regroup. Pressured this time by Choi. Goes by Rich. Master Alexis. Shock goes wide. Up on the boards. Now Master Alexis. That goes all the way back down to Tyler Charest. And he'll have to make a play for the Lions. To make a regroup. Can't connect. Rich will throw it back in. Pressured now by Brandon Pritz. Again the center line. Master Alexis is there. 10 seconds on the penalty. Out comes Sloven. Behind Hanson. And they'll throw it out. And that'll be icing. They'll throw second period Amherst 3. The low Lions 0. Hurricanes that time had their second line of defense on the penalty kill. Did a pretty good job. Only a couple of shots on Hanson. Stopped out front by Lafrenier. And a melee.  Center pass is stopped out front by Lafrenier. Bosses along the boards. Aiden Valley clears the zone with it. Now Goodheim. Pass is intercepted. Quick shot in is blocked out by Lafrenier to the corner. Back around for Carter Beckwood. Throws it up along the glass. That'll be icing again on Amherst. 10-23 to go. Second period. Drawing a lot of a face off. Looks like down to his right. Out again comes the third line. Koji Ishida. Izzy Rich. Foster. Nick Paul. And Giorgio Salamone. Buffalo on the half boards. Ishida can't clear it. Throwing in center pass. Can't connect. Izzy takes the body. Puck comes to middle. Nick Paul. Center and pass in just deflected. Off a handsome stick. Center and pass in. Stopped out front. Wheeled back end and thrown out by Nick Paul. Be another face off. 9-43 to go. 9-43 to go. Second period. Amherst 3 with a low line. Zero. Back of the center dot. Left the hands down. Back of the circle with it and throw it out. Up for Giorgio Salamone. Wheels in. Backhander. Kick to the corner. Master Alexis along the half boards. Foster pinches down. Back to Master Alexis. Quick shot in. And a save and kick to the corner. Back to the line. Master Alexis one timer. Bounces back out. Back to the line. Master Alexis. Puck just goes to the left of hands. He'll kick it aside. Leaves it for Master Alexis. He'll throw it out. Back to center. Now Foster with it. He'll wheel in the zone alone. Quick shot. Gets his own rebound. Nice save that time by Tyler Charest. 8-36 to go. Second period. Face off and go to the right of Charest. At the dock. Joe Frenier. One back by the Lions. They'll throw it around. Coward Beckwith pinches down. Center's in, no one home. Frenier now Hanson. Skated out by the Lions. Stopped by Brandon Pritz. Now back to the Lions. They'll gain center. Now the blue line. Pressure to the corner by Beckwith. All up for Hanson. Hanson will throw it up looking for. Choy. Pritz. Back for it now. Beckwith. Feeling moved by Brandon Pritz. Takes another hit. What comes out to the Lions. Beckwith's there. Misses the hit. Joe Frenier doesn't. Bouncing back to center. Frenier's there. Now Pritz, now Frenier. Choy. Up back to Beckwith. Bounce is by his skit. Shots thrown through the crease. Back up to the halfboards. They need value. We'll just poke it along. Into the zone. Back to center. Master Alexis. He'll pinch down low. Gained the line. Stopped at the top of the circle. Taking over by the Lions. Slowbin takes the body. Puck comes free. Save, save. Hanscom. Pine was in the goal. Shot out. Blocked. Now skated out by Pritz. He'll skate by. That Choy. Center and pass. Bouncing in front of. Pritz can't handle it. Center and pass again. Throwing out by the Lions. Back up from the circle. Bouncing puck. Back to center. Slowbin will take over the puck. Lions make a line change. Slowbin up for Morgan Pritz. Bounce is up. Off top are sick. Back to center. Now taken over by the Lions. That pass just thrown in deep. Taking back over. And thrown out. And thrown back in. Back up here at Amherst 3. A lot of the Lions 0. They'll win this face up. Nick Paul up across there. Can't connect. Back to Nick Paul. Over for Beckwith. Up along the boards. To Ashida. Bounces up into the bench. Face off outside the line. There's a scrum. Amherst wins it. They'll throw it in deep. Alamonos behind the net. Puck comes loose. Face off one by the Lions. Another whistle. One, two, three. I think that's six. One, two, three, four, five. There was six men on the ice and they blew a whistle. But didn't give them the penalty. Interesting. Skidded up by Mr. Foster. They'll gain the line. Face off outside the line with just under five minutes to go. Second period. That goes wide. Prince throws one out front. Lions are there. They'll skid it up and out. So Alexis will now have a seat for two and the Lions tend just to play with the puck in the corner. Back to the line. Top of the circle. Screenshot blocked out front by Beckwith. Beckwith bounces along now for Brandon Parritz. Intercepted by the Lions. Back to the line. Pressured by Nick Paul. Top of the circle. Quick shot. Hanson gets a glove on it. Back to the line. Thrown back in. Deflected to the corner by Beckwith. Up along the boards. Top of the line. Gloved by the Lions and out. They'll skate back in. Top of the dot. Back to the circle. Pressured by Brandon Parritz. And the plays offside at 3.36. One minute to go on the master Alexis penalty is when the faceoff goes to the corner. Foster now along the half board and thrown out. Back behind the next line. Looked to regroup. Back to center. Koji had it. Lost it. Slowen. 15 seconds. Thrown back in. Amherst makes the line change. Foster in a sheet or the pocket sheet intercepts. Quick shot off his glove to the corner. Foster's there. Back to Koji. And a whistle. Be a elbow on the Lions. 38 will have a seat for two. Amherst will go on their first power play of the night. With 229 to go. Second period. Charest will have a faceoff to the left. Joe Furnier's there. Lions win it back. Bouncing puck to the line. Master Alexis tied up at the line. Now out. Thrown by Slowen to the corner. Slowen. Upper Alamos. Back to Slowen. Huffle on the boards. Bouncing puck to Charest. And Tyler will tie that one up. For a faceoff to his right. Foster at the dock to the right of Charest. Thrown back by the Lions. Thrown up back to the line. Hanson's there. Throws it in to the right. Bounces off the backboards. The sheet is in the corner. Gets held from Choi. Centering pass. Bouncing up. Off a Foster stick. Nice give and go one more leg. Foster back in the circle. So win this one back. The sheet out. Quick shot. Kick just a side. One minute to go on the power play. Hanson back to Koji. Over for Beckwith. Down in low to Foster. Quick shot in. Tied up by Charest. Aiden Valley will switch with Choi. Back to Beckwith. His shot. Kicked a side. Foster's there in the corner. Back to Hanson at the line. Back to Foster. Centering in to Koji. Back to the line to Hanson. Saved by Charest. Back to Hanson. Deflected over the top. The sheet is back behind the net. Now Aiden Valley with it. Centers it. Centers it. Now Ashita. Quick shot just wide. Over to Hanson. Ten seconds on the power play. Taken over by the Lions. And they'll throw it in. Now there'll be 30 seconds to go in the period. Down goes Hanson. Quick shot in. Gloved away by Hanson. Shot goes wide to the corner. 15 seconds. Hanson puck out of the zone. High stick. 10 seconds to go. 10 seconds to go. Second period. Amherst 3. The Ludlow Lions 0. Out there now is Brandon Brits. Morgan Brits. Walker Geckl gots out there. Now master Alexis. Tomomo throws it in deep. 5 seconds to go. And that'll do it. Another good period here at Amherst. And we're back and ready for third period actions.  Master Alexis will throw it in deep. It's going by the Lions and they'll throw it out of the zone. Sloan throws it back in deep. By Foster throwing back into the corner. Koji Ashita is there. Back to Ashita. Back to line. Master Alexis. Back to line. Master Alexis deflected wide into the corner. And Lions intercepted by Sloan. Throw him back in deep. Deflected off the corner. Amherst will go up 4 to 0. Cantalba looks like Giorgio Alamones wants it. 14-02. Third period. Amherst goes up 4. Skated in by Brandon Pritz. The centering pass goes through all the way to the boards. Back wrap around to the corner. Brandon Pritz and Kara Beckwith throw it in. Now skated out. Throw him back in by Beckwith. Joe Frontier now Choi in the corner. Brandon Pritz top of the circle. Amherst making a shift change. Stop by Master Alexis at the line. Bounce and cock up and out. Morgan Pritz is there. She'll wheel it in. Taking a hold by the Lions. Stop by Morgan. Momo was skated out. Pressured by the Lions and taken over and thrown in. Kara Beckwith there. Up for Goodhigh. Now Aiden Valley over to Master Alexis. Throw it in deep.  Momo will go down. Lions skated up. Now in. Back behind the net. Stop by Morgan Pritz. And a whistle. At 12.18. A whistle back on Justin Master Alexis. Looks like he needs a rest for two. Quick shot in. Deflected out front. And gets the whistle. Georgia was on a roll. He got one in the last game against South Adler. Wrapped around the boards. Foster's stick goes flying. Now Ashita with pressure. He steals the puck. Quick shot. Saved Sherefs. Bouncing puck up the center. Lions will take it over and in. Shot goes wide. A hands come. And a half board. Stop in the circles. Foster. For a code to Ashita. Short handed now to Foster. Now Foster. Wheels it back. Minute to go on the penalty of Master Alexis. Foster all the way back now behind Hansen. Wraps it up. Not out. Taking over by the Lions in the corner. Pressure by Sloven. Wrapped out front. Now Brandon Pritz. Can't clear. Now up to Foster. 30 seconds. Take it over now by the Lions. 20 seconds. Lions gain the line. Centering in. Stop by Nick Paul. The lion goes down on his tail. Centering pass. Stopped out front by Beckwith. To Pritz now Hansen. Back out of the box. Master Alexis pitching down low behind the net. Back to Beckwith. His shot wide. Boussle on the boards. Nick Paul pushes it down low low. Now the Lions down. Master Alexis taking away. Picked his pocket. Can't control it. The Lions will throw it in looking for a line change. Back for Beckwith. Leads it for Nick Paul. Nick Paul takes the hit. Boussle out to center. Nick Paul bounces back up to center. Back on half boards. Skated in. Beckwith gives him a little shove. Let's know he's around. Back to Beckwith. He's ridden to the corner. Back behind the net. It's on the back of the net. We'll have a faceoff just inside of nine minutes. Still left to go in the game here at the end of the game. With Amherst 4, the lead low Lions 0. Back to the right of Hanscombe. Ashida wins it back for LaFrenier. Getting some more ice time again tonight. He had a hard working effort against South Hadley and he'll get some more ice time to cover it. Out comes Ashida with Choi and Foster. Takes two men all the way back in. Another whistle. This time will be for Vist I guess. Amherst on the power play back to Beckwith. Into the top of the circle bearing down Ashida. Kicked aside by Tyler. Back to Beckwith. Through the legs over to Koji. Koji at the bottom of the circle will wheel out. Back in. Leaves it back over the corner. Back in deep for Hanson. In for Foster. Now Ashida. Centering pass in with Beckwith bearing down. Now Foster. Back to Beckwith. Back to Foster. Back to Beckwith. Off his skate now. Now Foster with it. Now Choi. Now Choi. He'll bring it in. One minute to go on the power play. Lions short handed will skate it in. Centering pass in. Kicked aside by Hanson. Now up for Joe. Frontier. All the way in deep. His shot just over the top of Charest. Back to the line. Thrown in deep by the Lions. 30 seconds to go on their power play for Amherst. Amherst now with some movement. Brandon Prince gains the line. Brandon Prince gains the line. Waiting for Sloban to join the action. Shot goes over the top. Back to the board. Slimes are there. And they'll skate it out. Buck goes all the way in deep. 10 seconds. Master Alexis is there. Pressure by the land. Lions now out. Off a Sloban stick. Penalty is up. Back to 5 on 5. Inside of 7 minutes. Regios back out there. Now Sloban. His shots deflected. Now all the way over to the dock to dock. Backhander can't go. And the puck bounces out of the zone. Go frontiers there at the center. Now Aliminals. Lions will skate it up. Choi goes down. Well that's Walker Gecko back out there. Sloban with it behind the neck. With Goodheim. And Brooks now out there as well. Inside of 6 minutes to go. Third period. Lions will skate it in. And push right back out by Goodheim. They'll throw it back in. Lions will make a shift change. Backward. Master Alexis. Can't connect with the diving. Koji Ishida. And the play will go offside. And the face off will come inside. The Amherstone. And the other side. The Amherstone. To the right of Hanscombe. One by the Lions. Quick shot. And Carter Beckwith will skate it out of the zone. Back for Nick Paul. He'll throw it in deep. And intercepted by the Lions. Now intercepted by Foster. He'll skate it in and out. And deep. Looking for help. To Ishida. Quick shot just goes wide. Over to the corner. Back to Foster. Now Ishida throws it in wide. Under 5 minutes to go. Stolen by Foster. Now Koji back with it. Centering pass. And into Foster. Oh that's Giorgio Alomonos. Alomonos. With his second goal of the night. Giorgio is on a tear lately. That's his third goal. In two games. He's got 5 minutes now to get a hat trick. It'll be between him and Foster. Over for Rich. Rich will throw it in deep. Now with Morgan Peritz. Aiden Valley. Justin Mastro-Lexus. And Punk just bounces out of the zone. Now taken over by the Lions. Over for Izzy. Bounces it out of the zone. Up for Morgan Peritz. She'll wheel in. Quick shot. Back to the line. Rich. Her pocket's picked. And out come the Lions. Centering pass in. Deflected off of Mastro-Lexus. Stick and now out. Aiden Valley's still out there. Now Shine. Quinn Shine will play it up to Brandon Peritz. He's got Walker with him. Back for it's Sloven. Amherst clears the zone. He'll throw it back in. Andrew Martin out there as well. Lions throw it all the way back down to Hanscombe.  We're at three minutes left to go. Here at O'Rink. Amherst 5. Ludlow-Lions 0. Back to the right of the dog at Hanscombe. Carter Beckwith. Wheels it around for Lafrenia. Goes back behind Hanscombe. Beckwith's there again. Up along the boards to Walker. Back to Carter. Up along the boards now out. The Lions control at center. They cleared the zone. Was off sides. They'll throw it back in. Beckwith's there. He'll skate it up off his stick. Intercepted by the Lions. Stopped by Hanscombe. Now a nice glove save. Around two minutes to go. Amherst 5. Ludlow-Lions 0. Back to the dots. Andrew Martin. Quick shot in. Hanscombe will tie that up. Andrew Martin back to the dot. They'll win this one again. Lions come out with it. Bounces in the corner. Nick falls there. Now Martin. Off the referee. He'll slow it down for the Lions. He flexes off their stick and out. Back to Martin. And allowed in half boards. By Goodhine. Centering pass in. Through the crease. Now Rich. Centering pass in. Now Joe Frenier takes it over. Nick Paul. Centering pass in. Up to Martin. And that'll be icing. Inside. Minute 22. Morgan Fritz will take this face off. The Lions throw it back in deep. Back in the corner. Morgan will give Quinn shine some help. Quinn up for Giorgio. He'll throw it out. Up to Aiden Valley. Now Morgan with it. Leads it up for Massile Lexus. Under a minute to go. Quick shot in. Gloves save. Hanscombe. Chase off. One by the Lions. They'll throw it in deep. Stop there by Frenier. Bouncing puck goes into center. Aiden Valley gives chase. Centering pass. Stopped out front by Sloven. Hanscombe went down on the play. They'll throw it up over the top of them. At 23 seconds to go. The shutout is no more. linemen now out there as well. Foster. And Martin. Foster can score in the next 15 seconds. He'll have a hat trick. Comes out of the corner with it. Five seconds. And that she'll do it. Nice effort tonight by the Hurricanes. Solid game. Too bad he didn't get the shutout here. Just in 20 seconds gets the last goal. But Amherst wins this one. Five. The Lions. One.


Hi, my name is Sandy. Today we'll be exploring Google Arts and Culture. You could have this experience by way of a website, but there are also some additional features you can use if you download the Arts and Culture app for your smart device. Before we get started don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications. Also, leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking the pop-up cards. Here's how to get started with your adventure in Google Arts and Culture. Find your way to Google Arts and Culture and it's artsandculture.com. This is a starting page for your experience in this tutorial. If you're not logged in to Chrome, you will be prompted to do so when you enter this site. When you first enter the website, there are several things I'd like to point out. First, the front page changes almost daily to reflect what's happening that day. Today, for example, I'm recording on February the 14th, which is Valentine's Day. As you can see, the highlight for today is Kisses in Art. You can see the headline as Travel Across Art History with the Most Famous Kisses and Embraces. The next thing I would like to point out is the three lines on the top left. Sometimes people call these three lines the hamburger in Google Chrome. When you click the hamburger, this will expand the list of everything that Arts and Culture has to offer. As you can see, the list is rich in content. A great place to start is by clicking on Explore. Once you enter this area, you can find content by going through highlights or search by way of categories. You can even search through the arts by a timeline or even by color. To find a virtual art museum tour, you could even go to Collections and if you click on View All, you'll be able to find some hidden art treasures for yourself. While you are exploring, you can also locate weekly highlights and popular topics. You could find local arts and culture by going to the nearby section and if you go to Profile, here is where you could save your favorites and even create your own gallery that you'll be able to share and come back to you later. By visiting Collections, you could find the museum list and you could also search by themes. But one really great place to look at is Experiments. It will open a new tab and this is where you'll have a lot of your interactive activities. You can search by way of artists, mediums, art movements and so on. One great place I'd like to point out is Searching by way of places. This is where you can go to all different types of places like Poland for example. If you want to go to Poland, you can learn a little bit about the country and you could also find museums within the country along with stories and you can organize it by events and again there's a timeline. So there you have it, a closer look into the Google Arts and Culture website. Before I go, make sure to check out the Arts and Culture app for your smart devices. This is where you can find even more features that Google has to offer. One activity for example, you could find the art selfie. This is where you can take a photograph of yourself to discover which artworks most look like you. What do you think? Did we just find our fine art doppelgangers? Contact us via email or our blog.


Today on the breakfast, despite assurance and campaign to end fuel subsidy, organized labor and cis-federal government should provide both as an alternative to removal of work. It's that a way forward. Also on the breakfast, amid security concerns and other bottlenecks, INEC says preparation for the 2023 general elections are largely being concluded, assisted through a picture. And like always, we'll also be reviewing all of the biggest stories making the headlines across major or dailies. It's a beautiful Wednesday morning. Welcome to The Breakfast in Plos TV Africa. I am Messia Popo and the lineup is quite interesting this morning.  As we proceed as always, we set off with a top trending conversation. But it's also important to note that the queues have not disappeared. The queues are still very much around, especially in Lagos, and I can only imagine what the people and what you have to go through just to get to work and also get to your different place of business. That's just very difficult. However, our top trending this morning, we start with the issue of defection. Now, one more thing that just few days before the 2023 elections that we have anticipated. The issue of defection would be a different story, but that's not the case. As we have Baba Ayur Liman, the North East Zonal Secretary of NNPP, announcing his resignation as the Zonal Secretary of the North East, as well as member and coordinator of the Presidential Campaign Council of the NPPP. That's presidential candidate Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso. Now, Liman claimed that the reason he detached or ditched the NNPP for the PDP alongside many of his supporters was due to lack of structure needed to win the elections in Nigeria. He also explained that his decision to defect stemmed from the internal crisis and the total disregard for the rule of law and lack of unity among members due to poor leadership of the party. Now, according to him, he said the NNPP's leadership poorly managed his affairs resulting in the emergence of various factions and he therefore can vast, you know, votes for the PDP and his candidate at all levels in the vote coming election. It might also interest you to know that the chairman of the party had purportedly suspended Liman on the 13th of July, that's of last year, 2022 without the consent and approval of the party's Zonal Chairman and the National Working Committee. That's the NWC and some have described that act as, you know, a total disregard and violation of the NPP's constitution and that's because every party has their constitution and word of view. Don't forget that Rabiu Kwankwaso is in the race contesting that race come the 25th of February 2023 to become the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. So we're still talking about defection. Well, however, the reason for political defections have not changed, you can be attributed and has always been attributed to political interests, the pursuit of political ambition, internal party, you know, this division lack of transparency in the party process, lack of political ideology and political agenda and this is it and it's not surprising because since democracy started in Nigeria, we have actually faced series of problems from conflict between parties to literacy, corruption, you know, political defections as the challenges affecting the country. A function of political system is what everybody prays for. But I'm also interested to know that the first known and recognized political defection in Nigeria happened in 1951 when the members of the National Council for Nigerian Cameroon, that's the NCNC, defected and joined the Action Group, the AJ, in order to deny Nambia Zikawe then the power of the majority making a bathroom is Awolowo, becoming the prime minister of, you know, the Western region and other major defections have also taken place during the course of our democracy. And so including, you know, the current president, including the likes of Pitao be defected from the PDP, the likes of, you know, Atikua Buboka once upon a time was, you know, in the APC. I mean, there's been a lot of defection back and forth from what our senators and what have you, but it's totally and really, really saddening that this is the kind of politics that we have been practicing. And the question would be, is there any legal restraint or restriction, I mean, or restraint from, for political defections or defections, if you like to say, do we have any law, you know, stopping anyone from defecting? How can we, you know, move away from such kind of practice and politics? Because at the end of the day, in whose interest are you, you know, moving from one party to another? I mean, just how many more days before the election, one would think that you have seen all, but that's not the end of it here. I'm sure that even just the day before the election, you still have a lot of persons who would defect. But that's the kind of politics that we have found ourselves and that's the kind of politics that's playing. Next is that there's a video that made the rounds. It got a lot of Nigerians talking, especially at an era where we're asking for a lot of Nigerians are saying, hey, we want those who have the capacity, the ability, you know, to run the affairs of the nation. And so former president, Oluca Gunobassandro, was seen, you know, playing the role of a prefect, a senior prefect during a reunion with secondary school mates. And can we run the tape now? Do we have a video? It would make sense if you see, you know, what I'm talking about. But I mean, there's a former military, you know, personnel. And so it's within him. But it's quite interesting.  I think we've been told that we have the video. So we'll quickly just run that track and then we'll come back and talk some more. And that's the former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Oluca Gunobassandro, right there in the video that got a lot of Nigerians talking about how fit he is.    But I think that, you know, looking at that video, you want to see someone who's disciplined. That hasn't left him. I'm sure the military training in him, see how it remains there. And it's always good to see him, you know, having a great time with his life. That's a great one. But let's quickly move away from that. Another one, it's really saddening. It's a complaint. But I think that almost the entire country might be complaining every agency of government. The NDLEA officials have lamented poor welfare and salaries. And so the officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency are saying that they cannot survive with the 44,000-hour salary. They cannot take care of their families and take care of their life. But to be very honest, I mean, think about it. What can 44,000-hour do today? They also expressed their frustration over poor, you know, premoneration and lack of promotion, nonpayment of medical and order allowances and lack of befitting bags for them to stay. So they say that the workers they are calling on the president, Mohammad Buhari, and Nigerian leaders to focus on the agency and save it from collapse. Now, some of the officers when, you know, they had to speak with men of the press, agreed to the fact that they take bribe. They say, hey, we take bribe just to meet our financial needs. And officers of these agencies are no happy. And they are complaining about it. Tolerary structure is not good. No single allowance. Some officers barely feed their family.  No hazard allowance, no transfer allowance.  But it's not even the case with almost every agency. I mean, just of recent time, we hear reports of saying that, you know, the police might just be backing a protest right here in Lagos, even though we have a police personnel saying that's not true. And they can't do that. But just, you know, conversation I had with my colleague just before coming in there. It feels like every other agency. You hear the military as well. You know, the Nigerian army, to be very precise.  And so we ask ourselves, how do we fight corruption when we're not taking care of the brother of corruption with his poverty? Because they're like cousins. So poverty and corruption work hand in hand. And so if we are ever sincere with the fight against corruption, then we should be sincere in ensuring that we improve, you know, the standard of living of the people. Now, this is not to say it's an excuse. It's, you know, an excuse for corrupt practice or corrupt behavior or behaving in a certain way. But I'm just saying that if we want to be very honest with this, then we need to pay attention. You know, to this particular factor that we need to ensure that, you know, the working environment is conducive, not just salary increase and what have you. You need to look at the allowance and what have you, the condition of living of the people. So the list is almost endless and we can continue to act like everything is normal. I think that the entire system requires an overhaul. We need to look at it, reject the system from the police to the military to every, you know, agency of government. Because when we're talking about double digit inflation, what is 44,000 are going to, you know, do? How can you, you know, survive with that when you have rents to pay? And if you live in a city as Lagos, then it becomes, you know, almost impossible for you to leave among the living, right? And you want to talk about the cost of transportation when people are buying petrol for 250 naira per liter, almost 300 naira in some areas. I mean, depending on where you're buying from. So when you juxtapose all of that, how do they survive? And some of these persons, you need to put yourself in their shoes. And that's what we talk about empathy. So imagine that you, a man has a family. He is himself. He has a wife and then he probably has to pay rent and then he has kids in an era where a lot of people believe that it's okay to have children as much as you want. You can have five and six and saying, hey, God would take care of them. And so imagine that a man has himself to take care of his wife and then he has like six children. And you're going to be looking at 44,000 naira as salary to cater for the audience. How do you even explain that? You have school fees, you have issue of feeding, clothing, what have you and that's too much. But we can do better. And I don't think it's impossible. It's very possible. It's not rocket science. It's possible to achieve, you know, system because we are naturally endowed. We have all that it takes. We have the resources as a country. But then we need to find a way to fix it. Manage it properly. We have no business being poor as a nation. That's what I think. And people have no business suffering. And so, yes, I'll say this again. If we're very honest in, we were honest with the fight against corruption. If you say we want to fight corruption as a country, then we need to pay attention to the issue of poverty. That's the size of our conversation on the top trending. We take a break when we return. It'll be time for us to go through our papers this morning. We call it off the press. Please stay with us.


Alrighty, so I have quite the interesting video. Today, I'm going to be going over some of the things that I've heard a lot of the guests complaining about, some people complaining on TikTok about, and I'm going to give what I would consider my personal solution to some of these problems. I'm going to dive into maybe some super easy solutions, some a little more complicated, and some that probably will never happen, but these are my ideas to fix some of the things going on at Canada's Wonderland right now in terms of crowds. Again, I am not complaining about anything at Canada's Wonderland. I think that everything's been going really smoothly. There haven't been any dangerous moments that I've witnessed or experienced at Canada's Wonderland, and I've had an amazing season, and I will continue to have an amazing season and recommend Canada's Wonderland to anyone that wants to go. So again, please don't take this as hate or a reason to not visit. There are definitely ways to have an amazing time at Canada's Wonderland, even when it's extremely busy. But nonetheless, let's address the lineups. They need a system, in my opinion, for rides that's called like a no queue system, something that you've seen at Walt Disney World, but maybe finding a way to better execute it, keeping guests on the midways and in the paths to enjoy entertainment, shop, play games, buy merch, just keeping the guests out of the lines that could take up to two hours. So you have a guest in a line for two hours, they're not spending any money, they're not enjoying their visit, they're not enjoying their time. So figuring out a way to keep guests out of lines as much as possible, whether that be the no queue system or figuring out a way to shorten that queue as much as possible significantly, not just faster operations that won't shorten the amount I'm talking about here, but keeping guests in the midways, on the paths, in the restaurants, in the stores, playing games, anything that keeps them spending money in the park is a benefit to the park. I think that you could have a no queue system while still utilizing Fastlane as well, so maybe people who buy Fastlane have free access to the rides in a Fastlane line, and they don't have to do that no queue system where they're printing a ticket to return to a ride. In an hour or two, Fastlane can just go around the park and get into those little queues that they have now at any moment and enjoy the rides as they please. And again, like I think that this is a great idea for a park like Candice Wonderland because people can enjoy entertainment. So having the ability for guests to go around and enjoy entertainment instead of waiting in lines, having more entertainment options is what I'm trying to get at here to entertain guests, including people that maybe aren't at the park for riding rides. So again, if you have a no queue system, you can have families going to the park together and being able to ride rides while some people in that group or family are there not to ride rides and having those things in between that they can do as a family. The only downside that this would bring to Candice Wonderland currently is a reduction in park capacity. So park capacity is around 72,000. This limiting the queue lines and having a no queue system might reduce the capacity. I'm not sure by the number, probably not that much, because you would still have some people in those queue lines that print out those tickets. But you could turn places like the International Showplace or Kingswood into giant restaurant seating areas or just like giant midways with like restaurants or theming. And that would up your capacity as well. From what we know, footpaths and queue lines is what creates capacity for a theme park. So you could just compensate it in other areas. We do know that Cedar Fair is introducing what's called a ticket booth in 2022. I believe it's going to be a park app. And from what I understand, it's just going to be a mobile ordering system for food and a cashless system for the theme parks. We know that Cedar Fair is going cashless at all their parks in 2022. And it's going to be part of the ticket booth program. I think that they can further utilize this program for entry into the park. Parking entry and staffing, it would greatly help with staffing. So for example, let's say that you only had to scan a barcode to get into a park similar when you go to a subway train station, you just scan your ticket or input the money and the turnstile lets you in on automatically. You could lower capacity to just having, or up capacity, sorry, and limited the waiting time to get into the park by just having a couple of security officers up front instead of like 20 employees watching over to make sure people aren't jumping over to get in and that people are actually scanning and only going in one at a time and not letting in a couple of friends. So having it be almost like self-serve, which brings me to my next point, I think that the front gate, actually, I'll talk about that later. We'll go into the front gate last. But yeah, I think the cashless system, I think that food and games should be part of that cashless system and having, you know, money on the ticket booth app. I think mobile ordering is going to be great if it is coming to Canada's Wonderland. It should be. It talks about it with the ticket booth, but maybe Canada's Wonderland will be 2023. I know Canada's Wonderland is slightly behind the other Cedar Fair parks in terms of technology and infrastructure that the park needs for food and beverage. So I can't see them launching mobile ordering at Canada's Wonderland in 2022, to be honest. So I'd expect that more in 2023, 2024. There's a lot of infrastructure that Wonderland needs to upgrade before we can launch something like that. But yeah, I think mobile ordering would work great. Again, self-service. I think they should have those self-ordering machines that they have at McDonald's, at the restaurants at Canada's Wonderland. So you don't need those, like, registers. And I think that people being able to go to a screen and press what they want and get that ticket printed out with a number on it and then just going up to pick up their food would be a great addition part of that mobile ordering and reducing those really long lines before you even just get to the cash register. Again, you replace Wonderland only ever has one max two people on a cash register at a restaurant that has literally hundreds of people at a time trying to order food.  Instead of having so many people bottleneck in this really thin queue line. So you have like literally two people serving people on the registers and then they slowly move over to in the order pickup and it starts to get built up and then the line stops moving to order your food, which creates that big bottleneck. Again, that is something Wonderland really does need to fix soon because again, these lines come to stand stills because of bottlenecks. It's quite horrendous. But nonetheless, let's get into food more in depth. I think that Wonderland needs more seating around the park. A lot of people I noticed are sitting on rocks, sitting on the ground, eating their food and I think that expanding seating areas will be a great help. I think that Wonderland should partner with colleges and universities that specialize in food and beverage and catering and hire interns to up the food quality and be able to create a program and help with staffing. I think it would be a great idea to have like those internships built into the park so they can come and practice as a sous chef or work alongside a chef and learn and be able to work in their industry. I definitely think we need more indoor atmospheres for eating. So I think that that would be a great concept that Wonderland can move with. You see it for 2022. I'd like to see more indoor eating establishments built. Wonderland is one of the heaviest Winterfest parks so it would be a great thing for Canada's Wonderland and I definitely would like to see more patios with shade. I think that they have one and it's amazing and I'd like to see more and utilize it and mix it with more bars that serve some beverages. Moving into that beverages concept, Hershey park has a great system in place that I think Wonderland could really benefit from the self-service drink plan. So I think that you know they part of ticket booth they could have the drink plans that you scan at those machines I believe Hershey park when I was there you scan it and the machine you self-serve fill it up so you don't have all these booths that you need to staff and there's only like a couple of machines and there's a long line just utilizing at a park like Canada's Wonderland more having those self-service abilities and those machines at Hershey park you can't take advantage of them they give you like 10 seconds to fill up your cup and then it turns off so there's no way around it there's no it's not something that can be taken advantage of so it's a great system that I think that Wonderland should utilize and look to at Hershey park. I definitely think Wonderland needs to do more multicultural food the way they do it right now in my honest opinion is a little disrespectful the food quality is a little not the best. The food festivals that Wonderland does though are amazing and Winterfest food is absolutely amazing and the Halloween haunt desserts the funnel cakes amazing so I do know that Canada's Wonderland can do food really well and they're really good at food in certain occasions but it almost feels like in summer busy seasons Wonderland is like incapable of keeping up with the crowds so obviously there's some infrastructure and hiring and staffing and training that Wonderland needs to work on in terms of figuring out that little part of the season where they struggle with food so I'd love to see them focus on that because I do know they have the potential to serve amazing food again Winterfest is some of my favorite food I've ever had in a theme park so I know they can do good food and I would love to see them elevate their summer season food options a little better I do know cedar fairs focusing on that so I expect full um hard to lead that um Wonderland's food and beverage will be fixed over the next three years um so I'm really looking forward to that. Whoo okay I need to remember to breathe when I'm recording these videos um anyways front gate this is a big one front gate is clearly not working I know with social distancing it doesn't help but regardless of social distancing I've seen front gate it's stacked full and then you have that massive line that stretches all the way to behemoth helix and then all the way to the parking toll booth it's way too long it's way too outrageous and it takes about an hour to get in so I would love to see them expand their front gate it's much needed talking to people that work at the park higher up we know that Wonderland's been due for a front gate reno for a while and we know that cedar fair is putting money aside for a front gate reno so I think it's time that cedar fair literally bites the bullet and puts forward this front gate reno so I think that cedar fair should double the current entry points that Canada's Wonderland has um and that they should build two exit points that come out around the front gate entry tolls so people aren't exiting through the front gate entry tolls and taking those up um and that'll help with flow I think that they need to make more of a circular design in our front gate and have self-serve kiosks um that people can literally go up to a touch screen and buy their park tickets if they don't know how to use the ticket booth app and then most people will be able to use the ticket booth app and purchase your park tickets and get that barcode and just scan into a self-service entry point to get through front gate again saving on hiring and labor costs and utilizing people for rides so you don't have any staffing issues would be great it definitely needs a complete overhaul so I would definitely love to see something like that and I would love to see security checkpoints moved to the two outer edges if that makes sense to anyone that you enter through um into the front gate plaza so from your parked cars so take up a little bit like redesign that area to make it a little circular on those two entry points as well you would eat away at the parking by like literally maybe a couple 50 spots on each end develop little midways there so people can stack and line up to get in through those security checkpoints and then into the midway where you would purchase your park tickets on those self-serve kiosks already have them on the ticket booth and then enter through front gate those are just a few of my ideas I kind of like rushed this I came up with these um just in a couple hours tonight and then I rushed making this video at one in the morning um but yeah these are just a couple of my ideas that I think would help Wonderland I bet you there's people out there that totally disagree with some of these ideas um I'd love to hear from you guys what do you think are some things that Canada's Wonderland could do to help with some of the capacity issues um food and beverage and front gate and then just uh yeah what are some things that you would love to see Wonderland tackle or do as a business to help improve your visit at the park again be super respectful understand that this is a really difficult year and I do not hold anything against Canada's Wonderland they've handled everything extremely well and I'm just really thankful to be back anyways thanks so much for watching my video again I had to really rush this out I have a full-time job as a stir manager so sometimes I really run out of time um in terms of editing and stuff that's why some of our vlogs have been released like months later after filmed or weeks later um but yeah thank you so much for watching the channel again hopefully you enjoyed this video I'm so sorry that this one was rushed and hopefully you have an amazing weekend it's the last weekend before we go to only weekend operations at Canada's Wonderland so I hope you have an amazing visit if you have one this weekend or on Monday and yeah we'll be at the park next Saturday so if you're there feel free to come say hi or join us um with Fastlane but yeah nonetheless thanks so much guys bye


We continue with workbook lesson two seventy-two. How can illusions satisfy God's Son? Father, the truth belongs to me. My home is set in heaven by Your will and mine. Can dreams content me? Can illusions bring me happiness? What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? I will accept no less than You have given me. I am surrounded by Your love, forever still, forever gentle, and forever safe. God's Son must be as You created him. Today, we pass illusions by. And if we hear temptation call to us to stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the sons of God, could be content with dreams, when heaven can be chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear. Amen.


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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a pack of 20-20 panini prism at draft picks college football Random pack break or random team break number 10. This is the final break that we have to do for reals this time This is the final break that we have to do to unlock NT. So that's coming up in a separate video right after this pack break So we'll do the break first and then at the end of the break will take the original 23 names Rerandomize them and the top four names We'll get a spots the final four spots in NT Which is officially sold out. So good luck to these folks, but let's do the break first one two three There's that right there and let's roll it let's randomize it Three and a four seven times and seven seven the final time. That's right Darren Porter I'm also good for watering the big hit garden. This is where all of your hits come from all of your packs and cases They all come from our big hit garden out back So it's it's pretty great. It's pretty great. They got a lot of sunshine a lot of water a lot of miracle grow Seven times for the teams and then seven the final time Seven seven there's seven right there Penn State down to Boston College But yeah, we got to garden those really well we want every year we want a good crop of good crop of All the delicious flawless coming in NT Lot of ripe NT There you go. There's all your teams right there Ladies and gentlemen all of your cases we assure you are from farm to table ladies and gentlemen freshness guaranteed Most of the time Anthony BJ Chris dairy these are all your teams in order by your first names Troy right there all right so No, no, no, we we we un-potted everything and we brought it over to the new garden Darren Porter All right, so we only have packs. Well, there's five packs per box. There's two three four and five We did one already previously a little bit earlier today So I'm gonna select that die right there and then Two three four five if I roll a one or a six, we'll just roll again. That's a one. That's a one That's a three save these for some other time All right. I don't know. Let's break. I don't know where I'm at right now. Let's just break TWC trade window closed Derek Carter 249 You're Bruce Mato's and then we got Brian Brian harine harine harine from Georgia Feel like this draft class just in general in a broad sort of sense Yeah, everyone seems to have some pretty decent penmanship here. Who's got Georgia Georgia? No, not the Southern Eagles, but the Georgia Bulldogs that goes to Patrick K.  All right, Brian harion Well, hopefully he better be a first-round pick after I figured out his name I'm gonna waste my time learning the names of fourth rounders All right I mean right now he's just meat. He's not even drafted yet. I can bolder him. Why do you keep calling me meat? Cuz you haven't made the show yet. All right, so let's go back to the original list right here Let's roll it. Let's randomize that four times top four after four. We'll get the final four Mixer spots or mixer spots and tea spots. I'm losing my mind today folks It's been a long week one two three and Fourth and final time after four top four Renee Renee Anthony and EO Who was about to give up on these things, but I appreciate him trying again Joe for jasmine's case breaks calm Congrats to these folks. Thanks everybody else for getting into the action. I'll see you for the break. Bye. Bye