Hello friends and welcome back to another Pokemon how to guide my name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode I'm gonna be looking at how to get one of probably the best new available Pokemon in the Isle of Armour and that is Hidnability Drizzle Polytod So with the release of the Isle of Armour, we've got a bunch of brand new Pokemon available to us players Competitively we always look at these Pokemon and think what can change the format and when one certain Pokemon was announced There was a bit of a stir in the community and a lot of players were excited about this Pokemon and for good reason now Rain as an archetype has kind of struggled in Sword and Shield up to now because you're relying on either setting the rain manually through Dynamax moves through rain dance Thing all through Pellipa, which actually has the Drizzle ability But none of those are really very consistent methods to getting rain up and making sure that you can get your rain Up over and over again and very consistently time and time again in battles But with the introduction of polytod now in the Isle of Armour does mean that rain teams have a bit more stability They have a very very good Drizzle user that can come in and out and multiple times take multiple hits because of the defensive bulk on it and support Extremely well like not other Drizzle user with its flow of support options And I'm for one very excited that we've now got access to polytod So I wanted to do a quick guide on how to obtain it in the Isle of Armour If you haven't got access to it from previous games that you've had generations that you've caught it before If you're brand new to Sword and Shield You're gonna need to know where this den is how to get hidden ability polytod So you can build those rain teams in preparation for series 5 Which would be kind of kicking off in about two weeks time on the 1st of July now Series 5 rules will be updating where it will allow all of the new Pokemon within the Isle of Armour to Participate within the next rule set of online ranked battles So it's good time now to start getting prepared for those battles start building your teams start breeding start getting the Pokemon and what better way to start with in the Isle of Armour than to get polytod So to do this if we jump over into our game You can see we are starting outside of the dojo It is a good marker for us to start and a good place for you to kind of follow my route to this den So we'll take a left and then we'll head into the marshlands here And you want to just go through this soothing wetlands But rather than heading up towards the woodland area in the upper right hand corner You want to head more towards the coast so centrally across here Just follow the path that I'm taking here and we'll be at the den in no time at all now this den You don't need a purple beam, which is one of the rarer beams You just need a regular rare beam and you'll be able to find hidden ability polytod with that beam So this is the den right here. What you want to do is just save in front of it before you start And then immediately the first thing you want to do is just drop a wishing piece down into the den Which will spawn your beam and if it's a red one That's perfect and then what you want to do if it's not polytod to start with you want to invite others Make sure you're not online You don't need to be online to do this go into your home menu system settings date and time change your date forward Come back out into the game then quit out of this den and then go back into it And the Pokemon will change and you keep doing that until you get polytod So we eventually do run into polytod, but this one didn't have its hidden ability Fortunately enough. I was streaming the other evening on the release day of the DLC and we actually bumped into a polytod with drizzle on stream So I'm gonna pass you over to this stream footage You can see the hidden ability polytod being caught and then I'll come back to you at the end of the video What is it gonna be? Polytod no way. Okay, right There's anyone in the chat right now that hasn't got me as a friend Send me your friend code right now And I will add you so you can hop in on this den because this is a polytod and it might have drizzle Will definitely once in okay, I'm gonna start it now to make it fair on everyone So inviting others This is awesome. We got a polytod then straight away. So we know our polytod located. So this is pretty cool Flims em see I just started so I will be lurking cuz I kind of off don't want spoilers. I'm happy I could catch a stream Thank you so much for coming by man. And yeah, enjoy the game. I don't blame you for not wanting any spoilers So yeah, just you go in enjoy it and then hop back in if we're still here when you When you when you are all done with it. Okay, let's go peeps Get ourselves a polytod Got David Malcolm and will all hoppin in here. So And please you bring the cub food. It's literally the best new Pokemon that we've had in like forever. I swear cub food's just insanely cute Please have drizzle. Please have drizzle. Come on. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Don't think it does have Does it have drizzle? Yes, come on nice We've done it. We've done it. I Should have saved in front of it and I could have just I could have just And I could have rinsed through this and just repeated it for people to come in on so Alright, I don't really I don't think I should use what type attack really but This is awesome. This is awesome. Okay, we've got our drizzle polytod. This is nice Didn't take long at all did it this is good And I'm hoping everyone that is joined in is able to to get this as well Yeah, I have updated mood bot with my actual friend code if you did want it Yeah, just add me and then you can jump in on these at any time I might try and get another drizzle polytod before the end of the stream tonight if if there's anyone else out there that would like To get one because I don't think it'd be too hard to have spawn another one that Max Quake is so ineffective Right choose too thick. Let's take this thing down The only sad thing is I've got no dive balls. Um This makes me sad because now I'm not gonna be able to breed it In a dive ball I Guess I could find another polytod and just breed this down with it in a dive But a female if this is a male then it works still Then it'll be all right. We've got a friend request. So I will accept that in just two ticks as soon as we finish this I Wonder what else we're gonna find tonight. Mr. Fish rocks. Thank you so much for the follow and for joining us tonight I hope you're having a good day if you've been playing the DLCs. I hope you've been enjoying it We're just gonna chill out play the DLCs like hunt around in the den see what we can get and do some max raids and Do other things in the Isle of Armour tonight Just explore it a little bit because it's so new and not all the information about everything is is known yet So if we can find some stuff out tonight, that would be awesome We've currently got ourselves a hidden ability polytod So Well, I feel pretty pretty good pretty lucky that we've got this Because this is definitely one of the Pokemon that I was looking for look at cup food Right we need to catch this come on come on you have to catch it It's not mess around let's go with those dust balls and get this thing I know my my ocean food must be so slow Like it was slow when I was in the in the playthrough. It was slower than most stuff one Two and it's hyper train now, so it shouldn't be that slow There we go, we got it nice drizzle polytod Day one We're set up for this new format. Okay. What do we got? I'm right all pearl waterfall surf muddy water hydropump nice Very nice. Very nice. Very nice. Very nice. Very nice indeed I probably said that way too many times, but as you can see the summary screen here We got the polytod up and it has got that drizzle ability So that means we can then breed this down or hyper train this and mint it If we want and then get it ready to use in a rain team come series five And you don't need a rain team just to use polytod It can be used to disrupt the weather of opposing weather teams and it's just generally a very good Pokemon It can also use perish song so it's very versatile has a lot of different options and it's quite unpredictable So that's what makes it very good and obviously the drizzle ability is just incredibly strong No, um that wraps up the guide my friends getting on to the stream footage though I do stream three times a week on a Monday Wednesday Friday over on twitch at 8 p.m You see tea time which is pretty standard time if you want to come over and join us the link to my twitch channel is down in the description below and I look forward to hearing all of your comments about the drizzle polytod What your plans are and if you're planning on building a rain team or a team with polytod coming into season Five then I would love to hear about it Do leave your comments down below and also just to end on I am if you guys would like to see a video of me going through the new pokemon available within the isle of armor and my competitive perspective of these pokemon and what I think are the more common and more powerful archetypes and pokemon combinations that we're going to see and things to watch out for before Series five drops do let me know down in the comment section because it's something I'm super happy and open to do and I think it could be quite an interesting discussion to have so We will leave it there my friends. I hope you found the guide useful As always drop a like on the video if you have do subscribe to the channel I need to get a new mic stand because this is always in my way I move my hands way too much and I'll see you all for the next one So take care yourselves be kind to each other and I'll see you on the next one So until then take care and bye. Bye I can't do it


to be interviewed. We're calling it Art Bus TV actually over on YouTube. So this interview today I am talking to the very lovely Myra Staffos also in Perth here with me. So we're luckily on the same time zone. So I've got orange and you've got kind of blue and green going. So I think we're sort of coordinated. So welcome Myra. Thank you Sophie. Lovely to be here. Super excited. Now we've just chatting away haven't we before that and it's like oh look we need to start going already. So we've already had a conversation everybody. So we're about to have a little bit more of a conversation as well. So as people come on live now I've got the chat somewhere. If you can just let me know if you can see and hear me okay that would be great. If I toggle across the chat so I can actually see that that would be really really helpful. But for those of you watching the replay or watching on YouTube then do leave us a comment below or ask any questions as we go through or if you're watching later because I'm sure that we love to come back and answer them as well. So Myra okay this is all about an artist's journey today. Now Myra has quite a story and so we have a lot of questions and topics to discover and talk about. So I'm super super excited and we kind of start at the beginning as well aren't we. Thank you. Thank you Karen. Can hear and see you clearly. She says okay great that's brilliant thank you. So tell us a bit about your background Myra and what brought you kind of here today. Well I grew up in Perth so I've lived here all my life and I was thinking about my childhood when I was reviewing the questions and Perth in the 19-somethings a long time ago was a much more sort of bush orientated suburb lots of trees and so on and lots of places for a kid to explore. So I used to take off on my bike and I'd be gone all day and just came back when I was hungry kind of thing and so that was my childhood very much exploring nature going down to the river going out in the bush and then my family had a very modest beach shack that my dad had built and we used to have weekends and holidays at the sea down near Miami and it was some idyllic childhood really and I think a lot of those early experiences of nature and inventive play and making your own fun has really impacted on the rest of my life in terms of my response to the world around me. So it was a very fortunate childhood my parents were just a middle-class conservative family life but my dad was very DIY sort of dad and he had a shed and we'd tinker about in the shed and I learned to use tools and all of that kind of stuff so that's also been really useful and he he was very interested in photography he was an amateur photographer and this was back in the day where he used film and he would turn the kitchen into a temporary dark room and we would learn to develop our films and then we'd print them. So that was an interesting introduction and of course photography had stayed with me since that very first little toy camera I had when I was 10 so photography is something that I use every day and I credit him with getting me interested. Yeah absolutely that's amazing isn't it it's like you're describing a different era I know that was a totally different era and I mean I'm totally ancient I'm a typical baby boomer and very much a product of my time and a lot of things that happened during my say university years were a lot of those really times of social change that were going on where you had things like happening with the women's movement and a lot of things that were really hard fought for during those years are things that are now taken for granted like like people pay for women for example. Yeah absolutely. Lots of opportunities that people don't actually realise came as a result of that social change so it was quite a dynamic time in lots of ways from art and culture and music a lot of experimental stuff was going on in society at that time. Somebody says that they totally understand your childhood so I guess that must be another and you're another per I mean I have to say where I was it was very country and you did ride your bike and you came back like you said when you were hungry and it's the same that perhaps it's not that same world you know anymore and I think as an artist you absorb all of that stuff so from that childhood what was the next step for you then? Well I was very fortunate in that from the age of about 12 or 13 I knew that I wanted to be an artist and an art teacher I did have a good art teacher when I was at junior high school and then I was lucky enough to get a scholarship to a specialised high school it was a new program the special art schools and I was among the early students who I took in that and it was a fabulous insight into what an artistic life would be like and all of my classmates were people who were on the same page as me and we had some of the best Perth artists teaching us and so I was going to exhibitions when I was still in high school I was you know going out on painting trips on weekends with my girlfriends from school and that kind of thing so it was very much an artist in my whole life has been very much an art focused life I've never had another kind of job. But isn't that lovely just to know it's like this is it this is my thing this is what I'm going to do I think so many people are coming to art later on and it's like I think you're very very lucky somebody says the freedom of the childhood that they meant I can't see the names unfortunately on this silly software but brought up in Singapore and the UK okay yeah that's too very very different exactly I know about the UK but I'm not so sure about Singapore yeah having the freedom as a child is wonderful yeah was that was there something at age 12 I mean did you know before you have an inkling or something like an overnight thing my earliest memories are of making things I was always making stuff so I would make stuff out of paper I would draw I would poke around with little bits of wood and and because my dad let me come in the shed and you know glue bits of wood together and stuff like that um and I always was I was probably a bit of a tomboy in some respects you know because yeah although I did enjoy I did play with dolls and I did like sewing and dressing my dolls and those kinds of things I was very much into inventive play and you've got to remember that in those years there wasn't a lot of distraction of other things like technology for example like we had no TV when I was a kid until I was in probably late primary school and the only technology in our house was the telephone a landline telephone as one radio so um it was you had to make your own entertainment if we keep our own letters yes yes I know so it and we walked everywhere because my mother didn't drive and there was only one car in the house and so uh it was a very different type of different time they okay so you knew that you wanted sorry yeah no that's all right go on I was gonna say so you knew that you you wanted to do the whole art thing at 12 13 but a big part of your career has also been the teaching aspect so when did you know and you said you knew that as well when did that start and how did that start well as I said I knew I wanted to be an artist and an art teacher from age 12 13 so that it was a good thing to have actually discovered at such a young age because it helped to send me on my career path it it helped me to choose my subjects at school and it basically just set my life out for me having made that decision and so when I finished school I went on to university to art school and um you know this lovely young sweet young innocent girl walks up to art school and um again had some fabulous teachers um but the the society that I grew up in was very much okay so right you go to university and then you go and get a real job yeah that's right you go to work you don't go wafting around and sitting on your uh on your behind just doing nothing and just thinking oh maybe I'll do some art or or living some kind of bohemian life I mean some people did but not the people who came from my family so um get a very much you get a real job and for women in particular at that time um the real jobs that women had if they weren't domestic goddesses with children very young they um went into nursing or teaching or secretarial work so teaching was considered a respectable reasonably well paid job and and people had a better attitude I think in lots of ways to the teaching profession in those days so and did you choose were you teaching in schools at that moment yes so I trained as a secondary school teacher and my first position was in a very small country school where you have to be very um so as a state school system school you have to be very versatile to work in that environment I was like 400 miles or k's away from four hours driving anyway away from oh my god um but I didn't last very long in that system I ended up teaching in the private school system and I found that suited me a lot better and when did you transition then to teaching adults uh so I taught in secondary schools for probably about 15 or more years and um and then um probably about the time that my daughter was born I decided to retrain not so much retrain but just do postgraduate work so I went back to university and studied part-time and worked part-time and parented full-time uh so it was a big balancing trick uh but it was a good thing to do so after that I worked um I worked only part-time which gave me a bit more time to do my own artwork okay yeah quite well doing it that way great those two things so what would you say that you really love about teaching like you know you obviously when you look up you said you must be a misprint Mara but you say that you've been teaching for 45 plus you must have actually been teaching since you were five well well literally I have been teaching since 1974 I graduated um just a little bit before then and so when I started teaching I was really only probably four years older than my older students yeah and so there was a really lovely um appropriate friendliness you know you always still have to maintain that certain decorum and that certain separation that professional teachers you kind of understood where they're at because you yeah that boundary yeah I understood my boundaries but at the same time with a lot of fun and for a lot of teenagers the art room still is but also was a refuge and it was a place for them to explore themselves as much as it was to explore materials and the processes that I introduced to them and even today I still get little notes or messages sent to me from students I taught many years ago saying how important their art days and how they and loved their art days and so many of them have gone on to art careers in all different areas of all facets of art related business and and career and wow very satisfying to see that they've achieved their goals and have done wonderful things it's amazing I mean I hear you talk about teaching with such a glow do you have areas sorry if you have areas that you specialize in like now I haven't taught for many years your things that you particularly like teaching well the curriculum to some extent would dictate to you um what were the areas that were required but then there was a lot of movement within that lot of flexibility within that and when I was at university I deliberately chose to do a lot of extra electives so that I would be well qualified and knowledgeable to teach my students all these different fields because I wanted them to learn how to express themselves through their own discoveries of different techniques and so on rather than be limited by what I could offer yeah a very broad art education yeah and like that usually worked out quite well so yeah so you've been doing that for obviously a really long time and you know we were just talking before we got on that you were preparing a print workshop for the end of this year and then you're looking at workshops for next year would you recommend this teaching model for other artists if you know if that's as a way to make a living well for me um teaching has been the perfect way for me to make a living because um it it has given me um a sort of structure to some extent to my life it's obviously given um that whole summoned by bells john betcherman some by bells concept of the terms and your life being divided up into into parts of the year and all of those kinds of things and I still think like that yeah um it has given me the opportunity to travel because I've had money to do things and I've traveled all over the world visiting all the major galleries in the world which I would never have done if I was just starving in the garret kind of idea we're not suggesting that you have to be starving in the garret but this is a good so basically what you're saying is that this if teaching is right for you this is a good solid way of of earning a living doing what you love right exactly I mean I don't think that teaching is for everybody no you have to actually love it and you have to be passionate about sharing knowledge with people uh in a fun and exciting and dynamic way which is not that hard if you love your subject love it yeah and um you just see the most exciting things happening with your students that are really very dynamic and satisfying I mean there are certain times where it's exciting to see how your ideas get extended and worked on by your students but then I I have to say there are times when that's also a little bit frustrating not so much for me now but when I was still a high school teacher where you didn't have the time to explore stuff yourself your kids were doing it yes yes and that was the point where I gave up yeah because you're just looking you're like they're doing it yeah yeah but in the main it was um it has always been my career path my chosen career path and and as I said before apart from when I was university waitressing and selling shoes it's the only job I've ever had it's wonderful isn't it what do you think is the most important part of being a good teacher uh I think being knowledgeable and passionate about your subject and being um very patient and authentic about the way that you work with your students um it's you've got to bring out their creativity without um I like you you've got to offer a certain amount of technique and a certain amount of suggestion but at at some point it's their work so they have you have to kind of like you have to enable them to find their own yeah that's right sticking to their voice yeah and so sometimes that can be something of a challenge um and it's interesting now that I am working with um more mature age students because um after I finished at um high teaching high school students I went into the tape system and taught people from the age of 17 to 70 plus um and now I teach in community arts um in a trisilian in the community arts area and so most of my students now are people who have retired and who are looking for art to be a leisure activity and a fun activity and these are people who've been CEOs and had major careers and uh so it's quite a different clientele and I'm really enjoying the interaction on a completely different level with this group of people and it's wonderful working community arts because of course there is so much less pressure there is no report writing there's no exact that's right there are no visual priorities to mark yeah and that has also been very energizing as well and I'm only teaching one session a week so the rest of the week I'm in my own studio and that's a really good link exactly yeah it is it what I'm doing in my own studio then bubbles back into my classroom um and vice versa you know there's always this interchange of ideas and processes that come from the students and my classroom to my own work in my studio and then back from my studio back to them so it's like um a never-ending dialogue really I like that okay that's that's pretty that's pretty cool I was gonna just say tell us a bit about the journey of your own art practice but I think you're really starting to yeah tell us that yeah do you do you work with themes or do you just how do you pick what you're gonna paint well it's interesting because um that whole going back to nature from my childhood thing that just is ongoing so I'm interested in a lot of different themes like nature uh seascape botanical things objects the land rocks fossils all sorts of things architecture activities that you might have done while you were traveling inspiration that you might have got when you were traveling sometimes it can be the lines of a song or something you read in a book that triggers a whole train of thought I'm more interested in a more impressionistic interpretation of things I'm not so much realist I do like working with still life the idea that uh Suzanne used to talk about how sit still and they won't talk back to you and stuff like that yeah apples dying um they are behaving themselves uh without change and without clouds coming in and rain that's right like changing and yeah absolutely um so there's all of that aspect um I think the other thing that we were talking about before is that my body of work has gone through a number of different cycles because when I first graduated from university I made it in painting and then when I went back and did postgrad I made it in ceramics because I became more interested in working with clay towards the end of that first degree and so I established quite a well uh considered pottery studio ceramic sculpture studio and I was showing work all over Australia and what my work was collected for a few major collections and stuff like that and then uh towards the late 90s ceramics kind of fell out of favour in some way and glass was kind of like the new poster boy kind of idea and so I did that that whole pivot into a new direction of finding my way through glass I'd always been interested in glass it it has always has always um you know when I was traveling in Europe I saw all the beautiful big stained glass windows in all the big cathedrals and that kind of thing and a lot of the uh more contemporary glass coming out of the factories in Scandinavia and so on that was very popular around about that time so um I studied as much as I could about glass I've been to probably 20 different workshops master classes with some of the world's most interesting glass operatives and teachers and um and now I've sort of come to another turn in the road where I feel I'm starting to leave glass I feel like I've got I found out all I want to know about glass yeah okay and I was saying to you before glass is a very expensive material to work in and very uh physical and obviously not getting any younger so I sort of felt that it might be time to consider uh paralleling my paint going back into painting which is where I started yeah because you need huge amount of equipment and studio space and a lot of muscle literally physical muscle to operate in the glass field right so I thought maybe while I'm still able um I should start maybe focusing back more on my painting so that's what I've been doing but in doing that I've given up all of that connection and all of that if you like sort of reputation I suppose you'd say to kind of almost come back to having to start again and I've done that but you're still you they want you you know you're still your own brand they're still you yeah so and we were talking before about how what was the correlation between all of those things like pottery and and glass and paint yeah and a lot of those themes that I'm primarily interested in uh just flowing right through the whole story so if you like that's what my consistent pattern is yeah it's it's what I'm thinking about you know doesn't really matter what material I work in absolutely I think what I think that's actually quite key I think so long if you have that theme that thing that you're interested in how you explore it is almost irrelevant isn't it so yeah so um yeah that's wonderful and I know that you know with in terms of exhibiting you're part of a group here in Perth tell us a little bit how that group is going well um I'm lucky enough to belong to the Just 10 Contemporary Artists group and there were originally 10 and now there are nine uh women artists who met as part of a Facebook call out for artists who might be interested in walking as a group and trying to get a bit of exercise yeah and so that was our primary startup um we met one day and we all started walking and that group's been just kept we've kept walking and we've now been walking for five years wow and we meet about twice a week and we do our 45 minutes 45 minutes to an hour walk and then we'll have a coffee and all breakfast and we talk about all things to do with art you know if we've got a particular question that somebody might know the answer to uh or perhaps maybe ask for a critique for a particular piece of work um we might share the uh dropping off to exhibitions you know so if someone might be doing one of the country exhibitions and someone say oh I'll take that up to the depot for you or I'll pick it up wonderful that kind of thing so we've been a very supportive group for each other yeah and um we have quite a lot of expertise within that group that yeah means that if you have something that you're pondering you can usually get the answer from somebody in the group so you just almost started a mini mastermind there then I think initially when I heard about that I just thought you were a group I knew you walked but I thought you were just a group that walked and exhibited together but actually you're way more than that way more than that yeah well I guess when you've been together and you've seen each other twice a week and so rain hail and shine absolutely uh at you know some sometimes some very ungodly hours um you um you build up a sort of certain level of trust and a certain sort of collegial um togetherness yeah which I've found is being absolutely invaluable and I and I think all the other women think the same yeah that yeah it's been a really important thing that we are lucky enough to belong to oh I think it's fantastic so considering all of what we've spoken about and obviously I specialize in in teaching art business do you see yourself as having an art business or not so much well I just love this question Sophie because as you know I've been trying to uh to turn my mindset um I've been I've been training with Sophie over quite a few years now and I've done quite a few of your courses and I'm still trying to train my mind to accept that yes I am running an art business but in my own brain no I'm not that's why I lost the question because it is a mindset shift isn't it because I've always relied on teaching as my primary source of income yeah and a little bit different and I I have just always thought well that's where I earn money and I don't like the whole money thing to do with art you see and then this is something that I need to shift in my own here we have actually talked about this I know we talked about this in one of our um private groups we had conversations about this and quite a few the other people said the same but I yeah probably a couple of years ago I did actually start to be much more proactive in um learning about art business because when I was at university nobody taught that whole art business side that the university is now and so nobody taught you how to approach a gallery or how to hang an exhibition or how to cost your work nobody taught you anything like that so all of what I know now has been obtained through experience or ad hoc kind of cobbling together bits and pieces and um so that couple of years ago I I decided okay right I'm going to focus my attention on trying to learn more about this side of of art and so I even have especially for you I have um my little book oh look I love your book all these scraps of paper that I used to write all my stuff on I now have all in a book it's all still scrappy but it's in there look I can find it kind of like it's like an artist journal book for business the first time I saw the book it was like wow just literally look at that this is my file that has got all of my commitments so like all your terms and conditions of exhibitions that you're entering all the deadlines and all of that kind of stuff and so I'm much like a set aside time during the week where I actually write in that little book and I look at I give myself a critique I look at what my deadlines are I plan what my next quarter is going to be I actually know how much I've spent on certain materials and if you'd ask me all of this prior to me meeting you I would want what what why are you talking about no idea uh so thank you Sophie for getting me better organized but no yeah I'm still grappling with the idea of it being a business yeah it's funny it is a mindset thing isn't it but it's like the moment you put yourself out and you want to make money and you're gonna sell what you do then you've got a business somebody I can't say I people are leaving comments but I can't see who they are because of the software that we're using so um somebody says they're a bit late we're literally coming towards the end but it's okay because it's going to stay exactly where it is so you can watch watch it after the fact so don't worry about being late at all we're just talking about having a mindset shift of having an art business it's weird it's an ongoing process I think so Myra where can people find out more about you like if they want to find out and see your work and find out about the workshops tell us a bit about what workshops that you're running currently if you are that CEO Perth and you want to learn what are you currently running and where can we find out about it I've got my next workshops coming up at Jackson's drawing supplies store in Zubieco in November from memory that is the 18th of November it's a Saturday anyway and you can find information from them in the store but it's going to be a printmaking workshop uh so that will be a lino printing workshop so three and a half hours and then I've got several exhibitions running through to the end of Nick this year so next deadline is St Hilda's which is coming up at the end of this month and that's a three-day plus opening exhibition and I've got a stand of about four metres worth of work in there and I'm going to be involved in the glass exhibition at Zigzag Gallery in Calamanda yes that's at the end of November early December and that's glass plus exhibition and then to finish the year I'll be at Juniper Gallery where they will be having their charity a special event for the Christmas lifeline and so I've got some little tiny little paintings in there that are going to be raising money for charity for lifelines so it's just a way that artists will often get together to do things positively or that you give back to society and can we get all this information on your website yeah so there is my website you'll find it's my website is a bit clunky but it's there so that's www.myrestaffer.com.au and I will put all the links to that and of course you're on the socials as well this is for media probably the best way to find me because I'm always there is Instagram and that's it at Myrestaffer and I'm very active on Instagram you are and I do enjoy sharing my process and showing people day to day or at least week to week what I'm working on and that's probably the my most up-to-date you're great actually with the Instagram because I you know engage Instagram shows me straight off and it's just like it's a really inspiring journal of all these things that you're doing and exhibitions and all this stuff so follow Myra please because you'll be totally inspired if you haven't been inspired already you'll be even more inspired on a day-by-day basis thank you so very much this has been so exciting and it's so wonderful to find out you know all these bits and pieces right from childhood to today sounds a wonderful group somebody says I mean I think we we might do another interview on how how to maybe create a group like that because I think it's we talked about that before and that's something special isn't it you know where there we all are in our separate studio spaces and I know that lots of people like to try and get together in a group so maybe watch this space we might I might persuade Myra to do another interview and then we'll talk about how to form a group and the pros and cons of forming your own little artist group but I think I think that could be quite exciting so thank you so much for doing this today I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I've enjoyed it it's been fun and it's been very interesting to reflect on the questions that you posed so thanks for putting those together because you know it's good good thing to do from time to time to just actually take stock of where you're up to and what you know about yeah absolutely it's fascinating I think for artists we want to know you know what is your journey what have you done how have you done it it's it's fantastic so wonderful thank you and for those people watching thank you so much and you're welcome to leave comments below anytime because I will come back and answer them and if you've got a question for Myra then I'll make sure that she as well or you can tag her in it especially if it's on Facebook and if it's on YouTube then I will let her know as well all right so thank you so much enjoy the rest of your day Myra because Sun is out thank you bye everybody thanks for watching bye everybody bye take care


Hello, and welcome to Arrow Electronics Tech Snack. Today, we are going to present you a basic AI demo running on the Avenger 96 board. This development board is hosting the first MPU from ST Microelectronics. The STM32 MP1 is combining dual ARM Cortex A7 with an ARM Cortex M4 core. While the A7 cores are giving the performance to run Linus-based systems with rich graphical user interface and advanced networking ability, the M4 core can provide the real-time functionality for any application. In today's demo, we are attaching additionally a CAM1 mezzanine from Shiratec Solution. This is providing us the video data decoding to YUV format thanks to ONSEMI's 13MP image sensor and the corresponding image signal processor on the mezzanine itself. We are going to use this video stream as input for AI model. We are using the image segmentation model that is available on the Tensor4Light model page. This model function is similar to the standard object recognition, but the output will be the segment or area of the picture that contains the recognized object instead of the probability value of the identified object class. So let's have a closer look on the demo itself. First, let's get through the data flow again in details. The camera module is based on a 13MP image sensor from ONSEMI. It provides the video data in raw format for having it an easily processable format. We are converting the stream into YUV with ISP AP1302 from ONSEMI. At this point, our data is still transferred on MIPI lines that are not available on the host processor. So we use the STMIPID02 MIPIDESALIRIZER to change our interface to parallel. When the processor receives the stream, it rescales it for the AI model requirements and then combines the interference output with the original video input. As last step, the processor outputs the final result on an HDMI monitor. In our demo, we are using the output information of the model to apply a well-known fake background effect on the video stream. As an additional feature, you can change the virtual background by simply clicking on the change background button. Further improvement on the AI algorithm can be done by quantization and transfer learning methods. If you are interested in the details, please visit the product page of Avenger 96 or the CAM1 mezzanine at arrow.com to find more information and the complete guide for the demo. Please follow the Arrow Tech Snack next episodes to see other cool and interesting videos on the newest Devkitsen demos.


Tendom also helps with the sensor readings and goes up and down as we discussed. There are different thresholds for different glucose levels, but it basically always takes the whatever is set by your colonization in terms of the basal rate. So if your basal rate is not enough for example at night, the moment your blood sugar starts going up, let's say you go to bed at 10 o'clock and your blood sugar starts going up at 11, your tendon pump will still be able to correct that because it estimates that your blood sugar is going to be keep going up and it keeps giving you more insulin, but the cycle continues to happen pretty much every day. So I think from the basal standpoint both pumps get the job done. It's just a technical difference that I see there. Now the third thing we can talk about is the insulin, active insulin time. Now that is modifiable with Metronic. And then to be honest with you based on the insulin that you are using in the pump and based on your personal active insulin time can be different. So sometimes a novel log for example can last four hours for one person. It may not even last three hours for another person. So as a result being able to change that even in the auto mode is I think a good feature. On tandem side that is not modifiable. It is set at five hours. And I think they did that as a safety feature because they are giving insulin bolus. Remember that Metronic does not. So when tandem gives an insulin bolus on top of what you already have given, they want to prevent something called insulin stacking. So as a result active insulin time is more put as a more like a safety feature. On the other hand you can of course change your sensitivity factor anytime you are not in the auto mode. So in this case they call that a control IQ. So there is some confusion between the terminology they use but the bottom line they mean the same thing. They are all called closed loop systems as sensor talks to your pump bottom line. So Metronic calls that 670G closed hybrid loop system and the tandem calls that a control IQ. So what else we have? So in terms of modifiable factors we talked about the sensitivity factor we talked about. So the other thing that we mentioned in the beginning that your set blood sugar is 120 versus it changes in tandem pump. It has different thresholds like 112, 160, 160, 180. Below 112 and below 70 tandem will make different changes based on the incoming data. So with that we will also talk about the exercise settings that the tandem has as well as sleep settings. So as you know when you are sleeping you are more sensitive to insulin and then when you are exercising you also are more sensitive to the insulin. So on the other hand everybody wants to wake up with a nice blood sugar so tandem thought about this and they came up with a sleep profile. And you can auto set that, you don't have to push a button every time you go to sleep. So if you are sleeping from 10 to 6 every day you can actually put that in your pump as a sleep setting. So everybody's sleep is different but what the tandem does here is that it actually reduces your 160 threshold to 120 for the high. Just because when you are sleeping it's a lot easier to control your blood sugar because you are not really active which affects your blood sugars and you are also not eating which also affects your blood sugar. So it's more of a stable environment so as a result keeping your blood sugar right at 120 is easy for both metronic and the tandem. To be honest with you with any pump or a closed lip system it will be a lot easier when somebody is sleeping. Now metronic doesn't have the sleep pattern but they have it set at 120 which is very similar to tandem pumps so I think there is not much difference there. But you know having a sleep pattern for tandem can help you wake up with better blood sugars in my opinion. Now on the other hand the exercise is important because a lot of people are scared that the blood sugar sometimes go really high, sometimes crash out later after the exercise. So when you're exercising basically your tandem pump will allow your blood sugar to be at 120 so instead of keeping your normal steady basal rate between 112 and 160 blood sugars your tandem will actually only start giving you more basal insulin if you go above 140. Again that is a safety feature because when you're exercising your body uses glucose and if you get a lot of insulin that can definitely cause a low blood sugar. So I'm glad that the tandem thought about this and they increased their basal insulin delivery rate at 160. And it will actually cut down on the insulin if you're going below 140 which is important because if you're exercising and your blood sugar is going below 140 it is just a matter of minutes sometimes for you to find yourself at down to 50. So as a result I think it is an important feature that start cutting the insulin when you are going below 140. Again remember your blood glucose is going down due to exercise anyways so I think that's a good important feature. Now with Metronic you are still set at 120 although what Metronic does it will you can set your low setting if you're a very avid exercise person you can set your low glucose setting a little bit higher which is modifiable with the Metronic sensor which is not modifiable with the DEXCOM that works with tandem. So you can always say okay well I don't want to go low so I'm going to set my low threshold at 80 or 90 and then your pump will start cutting back on your insulin right around 110 and if it goes really down fast it will totally cut your insulin off. So these are the tweaks that you can make in Metronic versus in tandem pump you can just push a button for exercise saying that I'm exercising right now so keep me a little bit higher versus Metronic you just basically need to keep your low threshold a little bit higher. So these are the important features again now we are going to talk about when actually you get kicked out from the automode and that is a fact because these are designed to be safe and you may be kicked out in both closed loop systems to open loop system which is requiring you to basically check your finger stick if there's a problem with the sensor and so forth which we will discuss that in a second. Okay so let's talk about the kick out process. Now one thing that I like about guys with tandem pumps is that you do not necessarily get kicked out unless you do not have any sensor data coming in that is because DEXCOM is approved to make clinical decisions as long as you see a number on the DEXCOM as long as you see an arrow up or down you can make a clinical decision. Now the basic problem with the Metronic sensor unfortunately it is still not approved by the FDA to make clinical decisions. So you will find yourself doing finger sticks multiple times it could be at least two but if not four or more you may end up doing three, four, five finger sticks a day in order to be able to stay within the closed loop system and if you do not do the finger stick since the sensor data is not approved just for the clinical decision making you will be forced to be out of the closed loop system. So closed loop system will adjust your basal insulin delivery but anytime in Metronic if the sensor thinks that the sensor is kind of off you will be asked to enter a blood sugar.  Now the problem with the systems is if you're not in the closed loop and if your basal insulin is not being adjusted you're not really going to get the benefit so just remember that. Now also the Metronic will kick you out if your blood sugar is more than 300 for more than an hour that means that the pump basically failed to keep your blood sugar down or the pump does not trust the sensor readings eventually it's gonna ask you to say hey what's your blood sugar if your blood sugar is really 300 more than an hour you should do something about it if you check your pump check your infusion set check your blood sugar make sure you don't have any ketones Metronic just panics on on that regard it's just built extremely safely but it can be annoying sometimes to be extremely safe and so the the other feature with the Metronic is that you know if you are more than 250 for a couple hours again I believe that's three hours again for the safety they make sure that you check your ketones they make sure you check your blood sugar and if you don't do blood sugar check and enter it you may not be able to get back in and if your blood sugars are remaining high if you're not able to control that with a infusion set change or an subcutaneous injection of some sort of correction that brings your blood sugar down then you're not just going to be able to get back in and if your blood sugars are rapidly changing that's one time that you don't want to do calibration so if there is more than 35% change between the sensor reading and the blood sugar reading your pump will not accept that we'll say this is way too confusing I'm out and it's gonna kick you out and then you're gonna be in the dark then you have to handle yourself the pump is not helping you they are doing that for a safety feature but you really be actively hands on involved in following what the pump says and if you're not the type of person who is willing to do finger sticks and blood sugar checks Metronic pump is not gonna be the best pump for you just so you know if you're motivated it can be a good pump but if you're not at this point blood sugar checks are required for you to make a clinical decision and as a rule of thumb guys you always calibrate with any CGM device you always calibrate when your blood sugars are stable don't try to calibrate after you eat or don't try to calibrate when you feel like you're low you're sweating or something that you have symptoms of low blood sugars you don't want to really make calibrations when the blood sugars are rapidly changing in your system


I've asked all the time, what is the most important thing that people need to live a better life? If I'm a teenager, what's the thing I can do to live a better life?  Well, in this video, I want to share what I think is the most important thing you do daily to live a healthy, happy, fulfilled, balanced, successful life. Hey guys, Alex Hine, author of the book Master the Day. Now for me, one of the biggest things you can do is actually plan out what your ideal year looks like. The first link in the description, I've included a free worksheet on how you can plan out having your best year ever. The first link there, once you click that, you're also going to get a weekly email on the things you can do to improve your life and make this year the best you've ever had. So what is the most important thing in life? To me, the most important thing in life is to have goals. And it doesn't mean because I think achievement is the most important thing. It's because to me, goals direct human consciousness, goals direct your mind. They give you direction, they give you fulfillment, they give you something to look forward to and be inspired by daily. So goals, to me, are the most important thing to do in your life, to set them into work towards them. And I want to share why that is. So the first thing is, without goals in life, if you don't set the direction, things and life just happens to you and you don't know why. The number of people I've talked to in their 40s and 50s that tell me, Alex, I just woke up one day and I was in this life that I don't even know how I got here. I don't even know what I want. I don't even know why. Like, why? How did I get here with three kids? The mortgage, all this debt, every day is kind of like, well, how did I get here? That's what happens when you don't set goals and you're not consciously thinking about the direction you want your life to go in. You know, so many of us, when we don't set goals, it's this feeling of being a rudder of the ship. It's like, you know, a boat that's just pushed into the ocean and then it's like, all right. Have fun. Bob, we'll see where you end up. And of course, they end up in Mysteryland or the Bermuda Triangle or they end up in some random bay somewhere on the earth and they're like, what, what, how, why? But it wasn't a mystery, right? It's a ship without a rudder, a ship that sets course from, let's say, New York and it wants to go to London. It's going to get there every single time because even if it gets blown off course, out of a disaster, it can always course correct. It's like, whoa, we're going way over here. All right, let's bring it back. Whoa, my dad's way over here. All right, I got to work on that. Whoa, my relationship's really sucking. All right, let's bring it back to the middle. And in school, so often why, even if school's unhappy and it's not that fun or it's stressful, it's harder to feel depressed in school than it is in life because in school, at least there's direction. In school, at least we know I've got to do this year of school with these classes. I got to show up and be somewhere. So even if you don't want to do it, it's hard to really feel depressed. But in the real world, especially your early 20s, depression is almost like an expected thing because there's no game anymore. There's no direction. There's no goals. There's no mission. There's no deadlines. There's no, you just show up and work nine hours a day forever, 50 years. That's all you do every day the same thing day in, day out. That's depressing to me. That's depressing. That's dying at 20 and being buried at 70, whatever that quote is, because there's no direction going forward. The second thing is that goals provide means for growth and growth is life.  I'm not starving. I have a good apartment, but I'm not happy. Have you ever felt that before? Because I felt that a lot in my 20s. So how could you be unhappy if you have all the material needs? You maybe have a partner you like, your friends, but life overall is just meh and you don't understand why and it's kind of scary. The reason for that existential angst about life is because there's no growth. There's no challenge.  They have all their first world needs met. But the second you give them an exciting, inspiring goal, I'm going to train for a 5k. I'm going to spend every evening writing my book. I'm going to spend this weekend working on my passion project and business I want to create. That person is an excited, inspired person. You know, you find a person who's deeply happy and deeply fulfilled. They're off building a boat in the backyard or repairing old cars. They're planning a trip around the world. They're working on a passion project. They're building a model. They're writing that book. They're trying to find an awesome way to make their relationship better. They're building a tree fort in the backyard. That's a person who's deeply happy because they have a project. They have growth. They have a mission. There's a reason why people with purpose some research suggests can live up to 8 years longer than people without purpose in their lives. What I'm suggesting is that with goals, you can create a mission and direction and that will give your life fulfillment and excitement going forward. The last thing is that goals provide direction and meaning, a purpose or a mission. One of those days when I was sitting at my desk, I developed this bad habit of trying to make myself feel excited and inspired. I would go to kayak.com forward slash explore and when you go to that, it shows you how far away you can fly for how much money. In my head, I would be going through all these trips and all these amazing things I could do and the planes I would jump out of the skydive and the bungee jumping I wanted to do in New Zealand and all these adventures because right now, even though my life was good, it wasn't exciting. I didn't feel alive. Just by setting a goal and the longer the goal, the bigger the mission, the more it's going to fulfill you and the more it's going to drive you. And so just by having goals, you have a mission in your life. It's the person who wants to transform healthcare, the person who wants to become a YouTuber and like figure this stuff out how to build a business, how to build a brand. How do you just build that most exciting, inspiring life? That's the person you meet at a friend's party and they're just jacked up on life. They're excited. They're inspired. They're doing all the stuff that they love the most in life. That's the person you want to be around. You know, it's not the person that's like, I have a great job, I've got a lot of prestige and respect. I'm a movie star and I've got all this cool stuff going on and I'm a model. It's like cool story, bro. Show me someone who's living something cool, like something exciting, inspiring. I want to meet people with passion because passion is the rarest quality in people. Trying to find someone that's truly alive and excited, inspired by their life is the rarest thing, isn't it? And the older you get, the harder it is to find that and that's why you have to become that person because the world needs you to be that person who is excited, alive and inspired because that is what inspires the world. It's the people who they themselves are alive in their body. They're jacked up on life and they know where they're going and what they want. And that person with a purpose and a mission is the person that thousands or millions of people can get behind. That is the kind of person you want to be in your life and that is why you should set goals. So that's my inspired rant for today but before you go if you want to get started on setting goals, download the free worksheet I've provided on planning out your best year ever because that's going to help you figure out how you can really do that in your life. So click the first link below. You'll also get a weekly email on how to begin setting goals in your life. And after that come check out my related videos on this topic right there and right there.


I've already said it, I have the little word for it. So you wear the nuclear vehicles and we're changing that, okay? We're going to have at least four chains on each vehicle, okay? So our sliders are going to go over which chains are going on one, on one vehicle. Half of the deck is full. Push them up right now.