In today's video, we are going to talk about interesting facts and myths surrounding the Persian cats. Consider the most popular cat in the world, the Persian cats are everyone's favorite due to their regal look and adorable smushed in face. With their trademark round faces, stocky bodies, and sumptuous coats, Persians are one of the most recognized cat breeds in the world. Here are some interesting facts about Persian cats that will amaze you and that will make you admire them even more. 1. Persian cats were travelers souvenir. Like many breeds, the Persian cats' origins are a mystery. According to some sources, long-haired cats have existed in the Middle East for thousands of years. Although research indicates that the kitties have genetics in common with cats from Western Europe. The luxuriously furred feline was introduced to Western Europe by an Italian named Pietro Delevalet. Delevalet was a famous nobleman who journeyed extensively throughout the Holy Land, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and India. In 1620, Delevalet passed through Persia, now known as Iran, and took a liking to the exotic, long-haired grey cats he spotted at a bazaar. He purchased four pairs of them, and brought them home with him to Europe. Of course sailors, travelers, or merchants might have also carried Persians with them from the Middle East to the continent. 2. They were in the world's first cat show. More than 250 years later, Persians took London by storm when the breed was showcased in the world's first organized cat show in 1871 at the Crystal Palace. The day-long exhibition also featured Siamese cats, a Scottish wild cat, and Manxes, among other exotic felines. Proving that cats were popular long before the internet, the event drew more than 20,000 visitors. It also shouldn't surprise anyone that a Persian kitten won best in show. 3. Persians are furniture with fur. Due to their ability to be inactive for long periods of time, the Persian breed rightfully owned the nickname Furniture with fur due to their inherent laziness. Although many Persians can be lovable and playful at times, they are not a hyperactive breed by any means. Looking that good must require lots of beauty sleep. The plus side is that this breed makes the ultimate lap kitty companion. 4. They are beloved in America. Sometime after 1895, Persians were brought to the United States. In 1906, the Cat Fanciers Association was formed in America, and a Persian was one of the first cats registered. Today, the Persian is one of the most popular cats in the United States. 5. Famous historical figures own Persian cats. Throughout history, many famous individuals have owned Persian cats. Florence Nightingale had 60 cats in her lifetime, and doted on a large Persian named Mr. Bismarck. Marilyn Monroe owned a white Persian cat named Mitsu. And Raymond Chandler reportedly read the first drafts of his novels to his most discerning critic, a black Persian named Taki. 6. They are low maintenance. Persians might look prissy and aloof, but they're actually considered to be one of the most low maintenance and friendliest cat breeds. 7. They've been immoralized in art. Recently, a 6x8.5 foot artwork that's purported to be the world's largest cat painting sold at auction for more than $820,000. The late 19th century oil portrait is called My Wife's Lovers, and it once belonged to a wealthy philanthropist who commissioned an artist to paint her vast assortment of Turkish Angoras and Persians. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high-quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out, BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife to get 20% off. 8. They come in many sizes, colors, and varieties. While iconic pop culture Persians are usually white or silver, the breed comes in a range of colors and shades. From tortoiseshell, calico to orange, gray, black and white, the varieties are plentiful. Other sub variants of the Persian include toy and teacup sizes, Himalayans which are a cross between a Persian and a Siamese, and chinchilla long hairs, which have pointy noses and black tip fur. 9. They are pop culture icons. Speaking of Mr. Bigglesworth and the Fancy Feast Cat, the Persian is perhaps one of the most well-represented breeds in popular culture. James Bond's supervillain Ernst Stavro Bluffield, and his parody alter ego, Dr. Evil, both love stroking their white, blue-eyed Persians. The 2001 movie Cats and Dogs features a diabolical Persian named Kitty Galore. Also, a species of Pokemon is named after the Persian. 10. Their faces are not always flat. After its coat, the Persian's most distinctive characteristic is its flat face. However, the breed hasn't always had a squished visage. Persians once had a more pronounced muzzle, but in the 1950s, a genetic mutation caused a batch of kittens to be born with scrunched features. Breeders like the aesthetic, and over the years they used selective breeding to taper down the cat's silhouette.  Others have a peak face, or an ultra face, which describes the kind of smushed-in mug the Persian is known for today. 11. They are similar to Turkish Angoras. Persians look a lot like Turkish Angoras, which are another breed of fluffy feline that arrived in Europe from the Mediterranean in the 1500s. The two were crossbred over the years to improve the Persian cat's coat so much, so that the breed nearly went extinct. Turkey set up breeding programs to help save the Angora. Persians have a stockier build, a larger head, rounder eyes, and a slightly longer coat, whereas Turkish Angoras have live bodies, pointed ears and a plume like tail. 12. They're quite a work at grooming. As any Persian cat owner can attest, owning one of these cats doesn't come easily. Grooming is a major requirement for a Persian, and she requires daily attention to keep her looking rightfully majestic. To manage all that fur, some Persian owners opt to keep their cat's hair short. 13. Queen Victoria had two blue Persian cats. The famous royal monarch of the United Kingdom was the proud owner of two blue Persian cats. Queen Victoria was very fond of her felines, which increased this specific type of Persians popularity in Britain at the time. 14. Persian cats and children don't mix. If there are children in your household, rethink your decision to get a Persian cat. This gentle breed doesn't handle loud noises and constant disruption well. Young children can also sometimes accidentally mistreat a Persian if they are not very careful to treat the cat gently. However, if a child is considerate of this breed's needs, then they should get along without a problem. 15. They are the ultimate lap cat. Part of the reason why Persians are so popular is because of their gentle temper and sweet disposition. These quiet felines like to cuddle. They prefer a peaceful and predictable environment to match their restful and calm personality, but they can adapt to a noisy household so long as they get the attention they want. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on, so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


Hi guys, Caleb Rebatt, fifth grade teacher at River Oaks Elementary here, and my teacher Bestie, Tina Medina and I have always valued collaboration and meaningful connections in the classroom. And in our February session, we'll show you how to combine Jamboard with SEL curriculum and traditional content to maximize collaboration and connection between your students and between yourself and your students. So I'm going to give you a quick tutorial of the Jamboard tool to see if this is something that might interest you. And then if we have some time, I may even show you a couple examples. So when you come to your application window in Google, of course you have all your choices. Jamboard is going to be one of those choices. You can also open a Jamboard straight from a Google Meet, which we'll be talking about and hopefully showing you in our session as well. So for this, I'm just going to start a brand new one. So of course you'd click your plus sign. And you can come and this Jamboard is like a digital collaboration tool. So similar to something like Padlet where students can post their ideas and see each other's ideas. This is the same type of idea, except with that Google piece, obviously it saves to their drive. They can share it with each other and just offers a little more in depth collaboration. So you can title your Jam, whatever you would like to title it. I'm just going to title this one Demo Jam. And you can make multiple slides, which is really, really awesome if you want each student to have their own slide, which is something we'll also talk about in our session in a little more detail. And then over here you have your tools. So you can do things like adding your text box. So just like I mentioned, if you want each student to have a slide, you can assign students names to each slide. And then they can find their slide if you wanted them each to have their own individual. You can add images. Students of course love this option so they can Google image search. They can pull as always from their camera, they can pull from their drive, any of those things. They can add a sticky note. So again, if this is more, if you have one Jamboard for everyone, what I really like with this tool and again we'll be giving you a lot of these ideas in our session. One thing I like with this is you could have them choose their color based on ideas that they agree with or group ideas together, which is really neat based on that color. And then it's going to appear on your Jam. And of course you can change the size of that sticky note. You can move it around, you can change the rotation. Students can draw with their pen. And then we'll talk about that. They can also do things like changing the color, changing the type of pen. So the highlighter, the marker. Again, this is great for connection and collaboration. We're going to talk about that. Of course they can erase their work. And just so, so many other options that we think make Jamboard a really neat collaboration tool that can really be beneficial in your face to face classroom, but also as we know in this environment, we never know. We could be back hybrid. We could be back virtual. And this could be a really, really awesome tool to keep those connections and that collaboration alive. All right guys, so I think that demos the tool. I've already been talking to you for a couple minutes, so I will leave it there. But we really, really hope to see you in February. If you need anything, as you know, please always reach out to, you can reach out to the Dear Dischannel for extra technology support. But you can also find us. Our emails will be linked with our session titles and all that good stuff. You're welcome to shoot us an email if you would like to know more about our session and just really figure out if it's for you. So thanks for watching guys and we hope to see you in February.


Let's find out. By the way, this is not a sponsored video Michaels had a $4 box that they were giving away or a bag they were giving away. It caught my attention So I had to go. So here is the bag that I got and let's see what's in it I think this is not a sponsored video Got it with my own money. I don't know if it's gonna be worth it or not. So let's start holiday wrapping paper Christmas tree thingies Another Christmas tree thingy Non-addable sponge Well, this is fancy velvet Christmas knoll. This looks nice Another matching Christmas knoll some Christmas balls and lastly Some more Christmas balls. So let's do a cost analysis Initial cost $4 Christmas knoll $15 two of these 15 times 15 is 30 Christmas wrapping paper valued at five bucks Had to correct the math Christmas ornaments $10 Christmas bushes $9 each that's nine times nine is 18 Rubber sponge thingy five bucks And grass element balls $10 Grand total being 5 plus 5 plus 8 18 18 minus 4 is 14 carry over 1 3 4 5 6 7 So was it worth the $4? based on my calculation Based on my calculations Yes, it's always like comment subscribe and I will see you guys and girls on the next one later people


Hello, everyone. Good evening. My name is Julie Backer, and I'm a librarian at West Vancouver Memorial Library. Welcome to Emergency Preparedness Basics, a webinar with Jocelyn Houston of North Shore Emergency Management. This presentation tonight is part of the library's recognition of emergency preparedness week. My colleagues and I were discussing what programs to offer during 2022 after 2021, which let's face it was a horrible year on many fronts. We chose dual themes, particularly in light of the ongoing climate crisis. Those two themes are preparedness and hope. Today's talk definitely checks the preparedness box, but I think it's also a hopeful talk. I attended this lecture with Jocelyn earlier this year, and it spurred me to start preparing for an emergency, which has lessened my anxiety levels, and that is hopeful. Thanks to Jocelyn's inspiration, I've now started putting together grab-and-go bags both at the office and at home, and I'm just going to dive down under my desk here. I have my partially completed grab-and-go bag all ready to go here at work. I add new things every month. Before we begin, a few housekeeping details. Today we will be using the closed caption feature for the hearing impaired. The program is automatically transcribed by Zoom, so please understand that it may not be a perfectly accurate transcription, especially with less common words. If you want to see the closed captioning, you will need to enable it by pressing the CC Live Transcript button in the menu area where you see the Mute button and all the other options. This is a webinar, so while you can see and hear us, we cannot see or hear you. Please do not use the chat or raise hand features. There is a Q&A option on your bottom menu bar, and you may use that feature to type in any questions you may have whenever you have them. We encourage you to do so throughout Jocelyn's lecture. I'll be monitoring the questions throughout the talk and ask them of Jocelyn as time permits after her talk. You can also contact me through the Q&A if you're having any technical issues. I'll attempt to assist you once Jocelyn has begun speaking. This event is being recorded and will be available on the West Vancouver Memorial Library YouTube channel. I'll be sure to send it out to all registered participants sometime next week in case you'd like to refer to a particular point or share the lecture with others. I'm now going to turn the virtual stage over to Jocelyn Houston, the Public Education Coordinator for North Shore Emergency Management. Jocelyn is a fierce supporter of the importance of personal emergency preparedness and is thrilled to regularly connect with members of the public to promote this. She has been a driving force behind MSEM's recent launch of Alertable, the North Shore's Free Emergency Notification System. Jocelyn lives in North Vancouver with her family. Her neighbors know how much water she has stored in her garage and are always very nice to her. Jocelyn, over to you. Thank you very much, Julie. Thanks so much for having North Shore Emergency Management. We are thrilled to be here, particularly during Emergency Preparedness Week and it's great to have such a positive turnout. So I am the Public Education Coordinator for North Shore Emergency Management. We'll take about the next 40 minutes to do an overview on the steps that you can take to get better prepared in the event of an emergency. No matter where you're at in your preparedness journey, whether you're just getting started or a seasoned prepper, I'm hoping that you'll be able to take away a few tips tonight. So if you aren't familiar with the North Shore Emergency Management Office, we are the Emergency Management Arm for the three North Shore municipalities.  We're located in the RCMP building that you can see on the picture here, and our main is to support North Shore citizens in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies. So I wanted to start our presentation by telling you a little bit about Alertable. This is our emergency notification system, not to be confused with Alert Ready, which is the provincial system that was tested today at 1.55pm. So Alertable was launched by North Shore Emergency Management about one year ago. Well, it's an app. It's free. It's something that you subscribe to, which is different than the Alert Ready that happened today where you don't subscribe to it. So we would use this to issue alerts to anyone who's registered whenever there's the possibility of a life-threatening situation. One of the examples of that would be evacuation, shelter in place, severe weather, natural disasters, etc. So who should use Alertable? Well, anybody who lives on the North Shore, travels through the North Shore, visits people on the North Shore, our objective is to absolutely increase the number of users. It's really simple to sign up, simply download the app from your favorite app store, or if you would like to receive your alerts through either text or email, social media. If you can go to the URL you see at the bottom of the slide, nscm.ca slash alertable, the directions there will guide you through how to sign up for one of those other options. So let's talk about preparedness and start with that very big question, why prepared? Why is it important to get prepared? We know that people who are prepared tend to be more resilient. If there is a significant event, it will take time for the authorities to be able to help the general community. We don't need to look after ourselves and our families for a minimum of 72 hours or even up to a week. Your most important resource is you. How do we get prepared? Three simple steps. The first is to understand the hazards in the geographical area where we live. So let's start with your plan, which is basically like your playbook, such as how will you communicate. And then finally, preparing a kit, gathering the supplies that you would need to make yourself comfortable, your family comfortable for 72 hours and possibly up to a week. So let's start with the first one, understanding your hazards. What is a hazard? Well, it's a danger or a risk. We may not be able to stop a hazard from occurring, but if we understand it and prepare for it, we can possibly reduce the impact. There are lots of hazards in the world. The hazards that we face here on the North Shore are very different than what others face in different parts of the world. For example, this is a sandstorm approaching in the Middle East, a swarm of locusts in Africa. People prepare for this very differently than preparing for, say, heavy rainfall warning or windstorm. So when we understand the hazards that we might face here, we can better prepare for them. What hazards do we face on the North Shore? Let's take a close look. Up front and center, extreme weather, so typical of British Columbia, particularly during the winter storm season. We live in this geographically diverse and beautiful area, oceans, mountains, freshwater rivers, but the geography lends itself to several natural hazards. Headlines we often see during the winter storm season are heavy winds, strong winds, heavy rain, king tide flooding, all very typical during our storm season. And of course, our extreme weather is changing in nature as we've all recently found out. These are typical headlines from 2021. We experienced the heat dome, pineapple express, water spout. We are having a new normal in British Columbia. Flooding is another hazard. We were fortunate to not experience the devastation that the valley experienced in November, but this was during the November rainstorms. This is the Seymour River in North Vancouver. And this is Ambleside in West Vancouver in January of 22. This took place during what we call the king tide, which is the year's highest tide. And when that's combined with high winds, it can often result in flooding, as you see here. This is flooding in Lynn Valley in 2014. This was a bad day for the old Argyle secondary school. And landslides, of course, another hazard, particularly in the winter when our soils are heavily saturated with the rains. Windstorms, very typical. This is a tree through a home in West Vancouver. And of course, structure fires. North Shore certainly has their fair share of them, whether they are commercial or residential. In the residential situations, residents get that dreaded knock in the middle of the night where they may have to evacuate with very little notice. In this particular case, this was the Masonic Temple on Lonsdale in March of 2021. And forest fires. With the longer, drier summers, our West Coast forests are starting to behave more like interior forests with the stress. And there has been a greater threat of forest fire on the coast. So this was White Lake in West Vancouver. The pandemic, I don't think I need to say anything more about that. And of course, earthquake. Now, thankfully, this is not a photograph from British Columbia. This was taken in New Zealand during the earthquake of 2011. Although as we are about to explore in more detail, we are certainly at risk of earthquakes on the West Coast. So when we understand what risks and hazards we're preparing for, we can more properly and accurately prepare. The North Shore has a top 10 set of hazards. There are actually 56 hazards on the North Shore, but these are our top 10. Earthquake, wildfire, floods, landslides, structure fire, disease outbreak, severe weather, power outage, dangerous goods or industrial accidents and gas leaks. So unfortunately disasters happen without warning and the time to prepare for them is now and not while they're happening. Now, I don't always include this slide, but this was something that was not on our list of hazards, which is tsunami. And the reason that it is not in our top 10 is the lower mainland of Vancouver is in zone E at the bottom of your screen. The lower right, that dark shaded area tucked in under the shelter of Vancouver Island. So as a general rule, we are not prone to tsunamis. We might experience tidal surges, heavy movement of water. We would certainly want to be staying away from the water line, but the threat is not the same as it is in other coastal areas of British Columbia. But I do want to spend some more time talking about this hazard earthquake. It does tend to make us a little nervous here on the BC coast. We live in what's called the Ring of Fire, which is a horseshoe shaped string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. We are in North America in the upper right of your screen. Roughly 90% of all earthquakes occur on the Ring of Fire and 75% of all active volcanoes are on the Ring of Fire. So why is there so much activity in this area? We'll have a really 101 geography lesson.  They move at about the rate that our fingernails grow, so maybe five to six centimeters a year. When they bump up against each other, that's when we have this release of energy in the form of earthquakes. In the Ring of Fire, you have the Pacific Plate bumping up against all of the plates around it, making it such a highly seismic area. We move into a little closer geographically to where we are. You can see Vancouver Island in the center of your screen, and you that red swoopy line that's coming from the center of the screen down to the bottom. That red line represents something called the Cascadia subduction zone, which is the most seismically active area of Canada. About a thousand earthquakes a year happen in the Cascadia subduction zone, although most are not not felt by us. What's happening in this Cascadia subduction zone? Well, we have the Wanda Fuca Plate to the left of that red line, and the North American Plate where we live to the right of that line. And those two plates are moving towards each other, the Wanda Fuca Plate being subducted under the North American Plate. Both of those plates are currently locked in friction, and scientists tell us that a significant quake, a quake, the big one as they call it, a megathrust earthquake, takes place about every three to 500 years along that Cascadia subduction zone line. When was the last one you're wondering? 1700. So we are 322 years into it. Unfortunately, an even bigger threat are what we call crustal earthquakes. These are along cracks or fault lines much closer to the Earth's surface, and we know that they fall underneath some of our heavily populated urban areas. Scientists tell us that it's not a matter of if, but when. And then moving in even closer, I just pulled this image off of Natural Resources Canada website today. This shows us the number and magnitude of earthquakes that have happened in our geographic area and we're looking again at Vancouver Island in the center of our screen. The number of earthquakes that have happened in the last 30 days. So for anybody who's doing the math, looking at that small chart at the bottom, 91 earthquakes in the last 30 days. And again, if we look at the summary chart, 52 of them were less than a magnitude of two, 16 of them were at a magnitude of two, 22 at a magnitude of three, and so on. This is very typical. It's not unusual. I think it's something that a lot of us aren't aware of though is how seismically active the area is every day of the year. And last one, I promise. This is that same area for the last year. And again, for those sharp minds who are adding up the line across the bottom that's 1000 and 10 earthquakes. It's very typical. People tend to refer to us having about 1000 earthquakes a year in this particular area. So getting back to the concept of when we understand understand a hazard we can better prepare for it. We know we live in a seismically active area. Scientists tell us it's not a matter of if but when they say there's about a 12% chance of the big one happening within the next 50 years. So how can we best prepare for this? Well, the number one thing is our drop cover and hold on earthquake drill. This is the standard safety earthquake drill. If you have children in the school system, they are doing this a minimum of three times every year. What we are trying to do is create that muscle memory because our natural instinct is to flee. That's what you see in the movies, right the dogs racing down the street. Everybody wants to run when they start to feel the earth shake and that is absolutely the wrong thing to do.  Take cover if possible under a heavy piece of furniture. If not up against an interior wall that is not underneath the window. If you are able to go under a heavy piece of furniture you would hang on hold on a magnitude eight or nine earthquake would have shaking possibly up to five minutes you want that furniture to move with you, rather than against you. If you are where you are, you do not want to be fleeing from the inside to the outside if you're in your bed, put your pillow over your head pull the covers up and ride it out. If you are outside drop to where you are. If you're driving in a vehicle pull over immediately wait out the shaking in your vehicle. The most important thing though you're trying to protect your internal organs from anything that might be falling from above. Our biggest worry in British Columbia is not so much the collapse of buildings, but from things being loosened from above light fixtures ceiling tiles, anything that might dislodge from above and become a bit of a flying projectile. So, don't flee the majority of injuries take place by people who are trying to move from inside to outside. And I'll demonstrate that here's a building from New Zealand, you can see the amount of rubble that is around the facade of this building. It's a brick of course in British Columbia but we certainly have a lot of glass in the lower mainland so do not run from the inside to the outside, drop where you are, protect your internal organs, huddle up against an interior wall, as I mentioned ideally not underneath the window which might break. A reminder that every year in the third Thursday of October we have a huge mass exercise we had over a million people registered for this last year in British Columbia it's called Shake Out and it always takes place, as I said the third Thursday of October. I encourage you to register for Shake Out at shakeoutbc.ca and you'll receive some really great informative literature throughout the year, and then of course reminders as that day approaches to join in the world's largest earthquake drill. All right, so let's moving into we've talked about our hazards, let's talk about how to make a plan. So your emergency plan is basically the playbook for how you or your household will respond to a disaster. When you know what you do and you have a nice plan laid out it will certainly reduce your anxiety and help keep you focused and safe. I'm sorry we're not meeting in person if we were I could hand you the household plan for you to fill out, but the next best thing is to go to prepared BC, you can Google prepared BC emergency plan and it will take you to the provincial site prepared BC and they have a wonderful household emergency plan that you can either fill in online and print or download and print fill out at your leisure so I would really encourage you to do that so that you can write things down and it will guide you through the types of things that I'm going to guide you through for the next few slides. The first thing you want to do with your plan is understand how will you communicate during an emergency so you absolutely want to ensure that in your phone you have contacts for someone or several people who live nearby who may be able to assist perhaps you are trapped on the wrong side of one of our North Shore bridges and you need a child picked up or a dog looked after make sure you know someone in your neighborhood or a friend who can help. You also want to have what we call an out of area contact someone who is living far far away from the site of the possible emergency incident and by far away I mean at a minimum a different time zone and even living in another country is is fine. Now our phones may not work in the way that we want them to the cell towers may be damaged or overloaded we may not be able to communicate with people in our community. We have found through emergencies around the world. If you can't communicate with someone within your community, you might still be able to communicate with someone who lives well away from the area of disaster so I'll just tell you about my out of area contact my sister Kathy in Toronto is my contact. If something were to happen and I wasn't able to communicate with any members of my family, even if they were living, you know, right next door. I still might be able to communicate with her and she may have heard from other members of my family as well so essentially she becomes a mission control, who can communicate individually with each of us when we can't communicate with each other. So pick your out of area contact, make sure they know that they are your out of area contact and make sure all your family members know who that person is it might really help in being able to communicate when we can't communicate with each other. If you're using your mobile use non voice channels, it's using less bandwidth texts will all make it eventually can't really be said the same of voice phone calls. You also want to think about creating two different meeting places. The first is quite close to home this is essentially your muster spot and I think we're also familiar with that from practicing fire drills, choose a spot close to your home. Maybe it's in the park across the street in a cul-de-sac in the parking lot. Just know where that spot is so you can all meet if you are forced to evacuate your home. The second spot is a little less straightforward and what we encourage is pick a spot outside of your neighborhood. For a number of reasons perhaps your neighborhood is unsafe because it's been flooded or there has been an industrial accident, or maybe you need a more central spot to meet because your home is off the beaten track. Maybe you live in deep cove, but you have one family member working downtown and another in Burnaby. If something were to happen and you are trying to find a place to reunite, it might not be that easy to get to a more far flung location so think about where would be a more central meeting place for you and your family to reunite in the event of something catastrophic happening like an earthquake and maybe that is a friends home or a relatives home or a community center. Everyone's scenario will be different, but it's so important to talk about this now and not after the emergency has happened when you may not be able to communicate at all using your your phone. You also want to think about where will you get your information sources during an emergency so of course North Shore Emergency Management and the three municipalities websites are great places to start checking out. For those who are following social media again North Shore Emergency Management and the municipalities and radio, of course, we're not sure which stations would be up and running first falling following a disaster but great to know where in the radio channel things such as CBC News 1130 are at a provincial level we have one primary trusted source that is called emergency info BC. You can follow it at at emergency info BC. And I'll just show you an example. Emergency info BC posts up to up to the minute information on things that have taken place emergency incidents so for example in January. There was the tsunami the volcanic eruption off of Tonga I know how quickly we forget that was only a few months ago, but I took a screenshot of what was happening on the emergency info BC website and they were indicating at this time that the tsunami had been cancelled so a lot of people aren't familiar with emergency info BC, a really valuable site of trusted source information. So breaking your plan you also want to be thinking about anyone vulnerable that you are in charge of maybe within your family someone living under your roof, roof children, seniors, anyone with disabilities. So important to create a support network that practices checking in on them. So what do we need to be practicing what, what requirements need to be met by these folks. Do they have special needs around transportation, medication communication. So important to build that support network of friends or relatives health care providers co workers, people who understand what those special needs are, and who may understand that perhaps you need help, maybe you're not able to get someone who needs your support within your house so something quite important to consider. And then the safety within your home. Our homes can be pretty dangerous places in the event of an earthquake. If you think of your home as being a ship that is rocking from side to side. What would be a danger in your house, would it be the framed glass art that is over your bed or over a couch. A really simple no cost fixes to make that could really reduce the chance of injury in your home. Another great thing that is an easy fix is securing your hot water tank to the studs in a new home that is law that it is done that way but for those of us who are not living in a new home who have a hot water tank that is freestanding in the event of an earthquake if that hot water tank goes over three bad things happen. You have lost a secondary source of water. You have probably broken your water pipe, and if it is fired by gas you have broken your gas pipe so super inexpensive and easy to secure your hot water tank. I'm just going to show you these hot water restraints that I picked up for less than $15 at one of the big box stores, Home Depot, a really cheap and easy solution to secure your hot water tank to the studs. And then just throughout your home are there heavy objects high that you could move lower and again I'm thinking about the kitchen. Often we have that covered over the top of the fridge that has those heavy vases and rejected waffle makers. Those things just become flying hazards in the event of an earthquake so move your heavy stuff down low, put your lighter stuff up high. That's sort of a great general principle to move through your home and make it a safer place in the event of an earthquake.  Do you know where your gases if you have gas now this isn't something that's always within our control if we're living in an apartment or a condo complex. If it is within your control, please know where your gas valve is what that valve looks like and how to turn it off because it is a rather unusual shape and generally needs a crescent wrench to turn it off. We often encourage people to get a cheap crescent wrench silicone it into place where it needs to be to shut off that valve and leave it close by thinking about your water if your water pipe were to break. Do you know how to turn that off. And then of course your electrical panel making sure that you understand if the authorities were asking you to turn off your electricity for whatever reason do you know how to do that so really interesting things that you should know about your living area. Also in thinking about our plan we are now of course so conscious about possible future extreme heat events and other things you can do to prepare your home. We know that window awnings and shades can lower the interior temperature by about 10 degrees and ceiling air gaps to keep cool air in and possibly smoky or hot air out. We know that any green space really reduces the temperature around home so plant a tree today to have a shadier tomorrow. If you are thinking about buying supplies for the coming summer we really encourage you to stock up sooner than later. Plans, air purifiers, floppy hats, air conditioners, demand and supply issues mean that these heat beating supplies are going to be harder to find this year so if you're considering any of those things you may want to act sooner than later. This brings us to the final step which is building your kit or gathering the basic supplies so in an emergency you're going to need basic supplies, some tools, food, water stores may be inaccessible or closed or out of supplies. You want to have enough supplies to keep everyone safe and comfortable until you can leave your home and as I've mentioned this could be a minimum of 72 hours and possibly up to a week. I think a concept that not everybody is really aware of is that any event of something happening like a widespread earthquake, we really want you to be able to stay comfortable in your own home. You may not have utilities, you may not have running water or electricity, you'd essentially be fancy camping in your home but this is such a preferable option for you than going to a reception center where you would essentially have a cot that would be marked out on the floor by a four foot by eight foot piece of masking tape. We want you to stay at home, we want you to stay comfortable with your things around you and your clothing and your shelter but you will need to make sure that you have the things that you need to be comfortable food and water and some basic tools. So we're going to take a little bit of a look at a standard emergency kit and I really want to stress that this is really just a starting point. These are the basic things that you would want to have there. You would want to customize it for the needs of your family. So for example would you want to be adding diapers to that or pet food. Only you know what your family needs to be comfortable but here's some basic things we want to make sure that you've got a first aid kit. If you are someone who relies on prescription drugs for your health, you would want to have an extra round of prescription drugs and your doctor can help you work that through. Having a battery powered or hand cranked radio is really important. You can listen to a radio in your vehicle but eventually you'll run out of gas so having a battery powered radio is really important. A flashlight of course used in so many scenarios for the power outages that we get just through wind storms and certainly for a more widespread emergency event extra batteries and emergency whistle. Having all of your important documents copies of your important documents in one place is pretty critical, especially if you need to leave quickly in the event of an evacuation. We talk about cash which is so different than what we've been going through recently in the pandemic where cash has not had a lot of value and we have all been working off of plastic but if there is a widespread power outage, we will not be able to use our cards and cash will be king for those of you who are wanting to buy something that someone is selling. A phone charger of course would be great non perishable foods but I'm going to spend a little more time talking about food and water. Now we get to an interesting one in the upper right, the garbage bags and moist towelettes. Now, if your mind hasn't yet made the leap. This would be your quick and dirty sanitary situation. With quake, we know that there will be a number of broken water mains and water pipes. Chances are that they will be advising you on the radio not to flush your toilet. You would just be contaminating the ground around your home or the walls of your unit or the walls of the units around you.  Liquid waste can be dumped safely in green belts. The solid waste at the point in time that only you and your family know is right. You would tie that up, seal it up and put it as far away from your eating area as possible. So is that a perfect solution? No, but it would certainly get us through in a pinch. Seasonal footwear and clothing, great items to have on hand, particularly in a grab and go bag, and then the ever important water. I did want to talk a little bit more around food. So often people equate having one of these things, it's a tetrapac that often comes in in emergency kits. These are pretty fantastic in the sense that they have an expiry date of about five to seven years. It's wonderful if you're really space starved or if you're in a lifeboat or something. This is what they look like inside.   I would really encourage you to do a little better than that. And just simply have more things on hand in your kitchen cupboards or pantry than you might normally need for a shorter time period. This is something that if there's a silver lining that has come out of COVID, we have all learned how to have food on hand that would get us through a couple of weeks, which has been a really important concept. So foods that you would want to have extras of and just keep them in your normal rotation of eating in your household, but things of course that have a longer shelf life, minimal preparation. Ideally don't require refrigeration are familiar. If you're in a really stressful situation and all you have to eat are these you and your family are not going to be very, very happy. So examples of this type of food that I'm talking about Tetra packs of juices or milk or soup, dried foods, canned foods, whether it's meats or vegetables or fruits, pet food, of course. So lots of food items that tend to be in people's regular daily food rotation anyway but when you see things on sale just pick up a little bit more of it so that at any given time if possible, you have enough to see you and your family through a minimum of 72 hours and and possibly up to a week. Now I did want to spend a few minutes talking about water. For me, this is absolutely the most important thing.  It means you are immediately vulnerable and you are going to be doing your best to search out water sources and that may take some time to have things like that delivered to the North Shore. So I would really encourage people to have as much bottled water on hand as they are able. The recommended amount across North America is the same thing four liters per person per day. Probably thinking well I would never drink four liters of water in a day. No, but it's not just for drinking. It is for cooking. It is for hygiene.  It is for pets. So having four liters you would never regret having that much. We do recommend bottled water just because this is a known safe source. There are a number of different water systems out there and many of you may be familiar with them. Some people bleach water. Some people take the large thicker plastic juice jugs like you'd get cranberry juice in and they fill them and line their freezer with them. That is an option as well. Lots of different water systems but the easiest and very inexpensive is to get bottled water. I personally buy the large 22 liter bottles at a place like Costco, the kind that you would use for a water cooler. I believe they are under $3 each. For a $15 investment I am good to go for at least a couple of years. Once the expiry date passes on those water bottles and by the way the water never expires it is the vessel that it is stored in that starts to break down. But once you are well and truly past your expiry date don't throw that water out. Just relabel it as non-potable and then you've got water for hygiene and for cleanup and the fresh water that you bring in would need to be much less because it is simply for drinking and cooking. So home purification systems are not really recommended by the health authority unless you've had a lot of practice at it. It's not an exact science and bleaching your water for your family is not really the type of thing you want to start doing during an emergency. By the way, water in your hot water tank. This is a source of water for cleanup or hygiene but not necessarily for water unless it's a brand new tank. If you've ever cleaned out that four inch layer of sludge in the bottom of your hot water tank you'd understand why it's probably not a great idea to drink it. So again, just like our food supplies we're looking to have water for everyone in your household for a minimum of 72 hours and up to a week. I also wanted to talk about the grab and go bag and this is really the last thing on our list. The grab and go bag is exactly as it sounds. This is a small version of an emergency kit that you can literally grab and run out your front door in case you need to leave immediately. What did we have 56,000 people evacuated in British Columbia over the last few seasons with the fires and the floods. I'm sure a lot of those folks were wishing they had created a grab and go bag. We don't think at our best under times of extreme stress that's not the time to start thinking about what you should be packing. If you have a grab and go bag the items in there are things that you don't need to put in your household emergency kit. I personally just use an old rejected backpack from my daughter's elementary school days as my grab and go bag stuff everything in it and when we're going on a road trip I throw it into the trunk of the car and then it also serves as a car kit. So the things to have in there are really the things that again, if you needed to leave your home for a few days would keep you comfortable. So a change of seasonal clothing, a little bit of food and water, having a flashlight and a whistle first aid kit. Again medications if you're a person that relies on medication for your good health and phone charger. All of these lists of things can be found on the nscm.ca website that's nscm.ca. Quite easy to find there and also on the prepared BC provincial website so lots of great lists that you can download of things suggested items to put in your kit. So as a bit of a wrap up, we started talking about our hazards understanding the hazards that we might face here on the North Shore are extreme weather flood fire earthquake, and the importance of the earthquake exercise drop cover hold on the most important thing you can do to prepare for an earthquake and then making your plan, understanding the meeting spots for you and your household members. Supporting anyone vulnerable who might be under your charge utility shutoffs, and then home safety what hazards around your home can you reduce making your home a safer place, such as the heavy pictures that might be over your bed or over a favorite TV watching couch, moving those away to an area that has less traffic. And then finally building your kit food and the all important supplies that you might need to keep you comfortable if you were fancy camping in your home for up to a week and the grab and go bag if you get that dreaded knock in the middle of the night and need to leave in a hurry having everything in one place will will bring you a lot of a lot of ease. To leave you with a challenge, and that is to take an old pair of shoes that is destined for the garbage can or the thrift shop. The important thing is that they have some a sturdy soul on them. Stick those under your bed and make sure everyone in your family has an old pair of shoes under the bed, ideally tuck a little flashlight in there. If an earthquake were to happen in the middle of the night, and there's a 33% chance that that could happen. So you might be absolutely fine. And but then you get up and walk through your home and step on broken glass and suddenly you've gone from being resilient to requiring attention. So I don't know where you're at with your preparedness journey. A lot of us haven't done done too much yet so I'd really just encourage you to pick three actions, maybe that means getting the shoes under the bed, buying water. If it was me and I hadn't done anything yet. That would be my starting point. I'd be going to London drugs tonight and buying that water. I'd be using flashlights with extra batteries, making sure you have extra food in your pantry, establishing your out of area contact there's so many things that you can do. But again, you know, pick away at it. It's, it's not a destination, it is a journey. But what is for certain is that during an emergency is not the time to start trying to plan. So now that you have some new knowledge, you want to be able to to take action and and be resilient. I'm going to leave you with these two great resource website URLs. This is our own website and a CM dot CA, and then at the provincial level prepared BC dot CA, which is just a wonderful source of knowledge lists, the home preparedness plan, and lots of great videos that demonstrate different things that you can do to to get prepared. So that ends my formal presentation. And I think we are still in good time where we've got a bit of time for some questions. Thanks very much Jocelyn, I do have some questions coming in. And a few people have asked about whether your presentation would be available. And well, basically I've told them that we will be sending everyone a link to the presentation so they can review it numerous times but we don't have printed copies of your slide deck. Currently at the library we've got a display up for emergency preparedness week. It'll be up until Saturday, and we have a number of handouts from and send from North Shore emergency management, an alertable postcard some grab and go bag tips, as well as a household preparedness plan brochure so those are available at the library until Saturday if you want to pick some of them up. So I'll answer those two questions to start with. The next question I have is from Judy, who would like to know, would it be better to seek cover in my underground garage instead of my fifth floor apartment in case of an earthquake. I think we, none of us really know how any structure is going to respond to a particular earthquake it depends where it's located. What kind of soil it's on bedrock. I, as a, as a general rule, I think people are less comfortable in underground parking lots than they, they are up above. So I would a not recommend, recommend moving around too much during an earthquake so if you are in your apartment you would want to stay in your apartment. I do hear people like Alison Bird who's the well known seismologist for for the province who's always on the news and giving seminars and she talks about not wanting to go into her underground. When there's been a few shakes over on Vancouver Island so I would say you are wanting to stay put and get down immediately if you feel the shaking start and not be going into into the underground. Great, thank you Jocelyn. I'm not seeing any other questions at the moment so I'm just going to ask kind of one last call if anyone has any questions. And I'll wait just a moment or two for that. In the meantime while I'm waiting for that Jocelyn, I would like to say that North Shore Emergency Management has donated a door prize of a 72 hour essential emergency kit and I'm just going to grab it here and show it because it's so, it's so lovely. Here it is and it's got I'll just read the from the the kit contents there's food and water. There's a thermal blanket or rain poncho, an AM FM radio and all sorts of other great things that Jocelyn would mention that would be handy in a grab and go bag. So Jocelyn if I could have you pick a number between one and 55 as we had 55 attendees tonight. I will be contacting a lucky winner tomorrow to let them know that they won the kit and they can pick it up at the library so Jocelyn if you could pick a number for me. Let's go with 1111 so lucky 11 I will be in touch with you tomorrow I'm just making a note of that. I've got one other question from an anonymous attendee. I'm in an apartment in Westman that was built in the 1960s before earthquake code was started. What I try to get out of my building at some point once earthquake that the earthquake starts. Yes, that is before some of the, the more important code came into play which was in the mid the mid 70s. Although I don't, I don't know how that directly impacts apartment buildings but again there's, there's, it's kind of the crystal ball thing. I don't know, given an earthquake, where the epicenter is, what kind of land the apartment building is on. So many factors at play here as a general rule again you don't want to be in motion, trying to leave trying to flee a building while something is happening so I'm going to stick to my guns here and say that if you feel the earth shaking or if you feel your building moving, you would want to just drop to the ground and ride it out. We are not anticipating widespread collapse. Again, it is things that are falling from the ceiling that we are most concerned with. Thank you, Jocelyn. This is an interesting question. She's the emergency preparedness coordinator for the pack at her child's elementary school. I'm organizing our container in the moment at the moment, and would like to know if there are ways that the container should be organized. We have all of the suggested items but is there a way that they should be put in the container. Yes. Maria, I'm not sure whether you're with School District 44 or 45 or one of the private schools. What is the short answer here? If you're in the North Van School District, you can contact the occupational health and safety person, and they will have a large amount of information to give to you. So, on the parent pack site on their website with School District 45, you can also contact their HR department and they will have information that they can give you as to what goes into the container and how it should be created. And if you're with one of the private schools, they as a general rule have an emergency coordinator who also can provide you with that information. So, there is, it's a great question. There are very specific answers for that and the information is there available to you. If you're at a loss, please contact me at North Shore Emergency Management. You can just find our general number and it will get to me and I can help you out with that specifically. Thanks very much, Jocelyn. Linda would like to know where you can get a battery charger, but I'm going to guess that Best Buy, London Drugs, any of those, any of those stores would be able to assist you with that. Yes. It used to be that emergency equipment was only available in specialty stores or some online places, but honestly it's fantastically so much in the forefront now that you can buy kits and supplies at most of the big box stores, places like London Drugs, Costco Online, home hardware, sales emergency kits. I mean, really there's no shortage of, no difficulty finding these things anymore. And then of course as well there are specialty sites you can order online from several of them located in BC that are excellent. Wonderful. Thank you very much. And I'm going to go to our last question of the evening. Sorry, an anonymous attendee who says, can you speak to carpooling in the event of evacuation? Yes, I'm not really sure how to answer that question. There certainly are evacuation plans in place that your municipality has on hand. We've also just released the North Shore evacuation plan. You'll find hard copies of that in most of the community centers and in the libraries and at the North Shore Emergency Management website. There are preferred transportation routes that are recommended in the event of an evacuation. I think the reality is we all know those are going to be clogged very quickly because traffic doesn't move very well at the best of times on the road. So carpooling is certainly encouraged to try and keep the numbers of the numbers down of the vehicles that might be on the road. We also really encourage people if an evacuation is required in your neighborhood and you know someone in your neighborhood who maybe doesn't own a vehicle or requires some assistance that really encourage people to be thinking of their neighbors and those around them who might need some support during an evacuation. Thank you very much. There are a few other questions that I have to apologize to our viewers this evening that we're just not able to answer them at this time. I can see there's some specific questions and lots of general ones as well. But I would recommend coming in. We've got lots of resources at the library that talk about what you need to do to prepare and we'll answer a lot of these questions as well. So I might encourage folks to do that. On behalf of the library, I want to thank Jocelyn for this evening's presentation. For those of you who are particularly looking to other ways to prepare for emergencies, not just the ones that Jocelyn mentioned, we have another lecture tomorrow night again as part of emergency preparedness week. Tomorrow night's lecture is a fire smart program and that's actually going to be in person at the library in the Welsh Hall from 630 to 730. You can learn how to significantly decrease the fire hazards in your neighborhood and around your home. So if you're wanting to attend that, there's information on the website and you can register there. Other than that, again, thank you so much Jocelyn for this informative talk. I caught so much more the second time around as well and it reminded me of a few things. Thank you everyone for watching. Enjoy the rest of your evening and to quote the Boy Scouts, be prepared. So good night everyone.


Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel as always. My name is Lee, also known as Osiris. Today we're going to be continuing on with our VGC Series 8 content. We've not got long left in this series until Series 9 is introduced. So taking advantage of it now, we've got about another week of teams. So thank you so much again for everyone that has submitted rentals or suggestions for next week, the final week of Series 8. I'm looking forward to covering as many things as possible next week before we launch into Series 9. And obviously a week today, Friday, Pokémon Snap will be coming out. So another thing for us to kind of get our teeth into. I'm very excited about that. If you're getting Pokémon Snap, I'm looking forward to it. Obviously, let me know down in the comment section below. We'll be covering it here on the channel. So stay tuned for that. I'll try and do some streaming as well around. Anyway, getting into today's team because we're a bit off topic. We're featuring another rental team from another top Japanese player. It is from Purokichi. Is the Japanese player's their handle is Ato Purokichi. You can find all of their links, their social handles down in the description below. Definitely go and give them a follow and the blog post as well with all the details about the team and the build and things like that is all detailed down below. So you can have a look at that and get all the information that you need. Here's the rental code though. Very cool team and the one thing that definitely sticks out. Well, there's a couple obviously, but the one thing that really sticks out is the Ditto. And I love the concept. The Ditto in series A and any sort of legendary format restricted format that we've got because you're able with the restrictions to kind of surpass the ability to have more than one restricted or two restrictives in previous formats with Ditto with that impossibility that is able to come in and kind of transform into those big powerful Pokemon that you're going to have access to. I really love it. The focus sash there gives it a lot of kind of leeway. It gives you a bit more stability and then you've got a really nice supporting cast, obviously double genies in here, one of them being the Thunderous Incarnate and players that you can see tending to go with the more supportive route than that defiant, more offensive route. And it really does kind of pay off here because the scary face is great speed control.  And then some nice supporting cast. You know, we've seen Umbrian do amazing work in series eight. So it's going to be nice to feature it again today. And then the Rotom a little bit forgotten a Pokemon, but still a very good one against especially all these steel types that are kicking around and it gives a nice another ground immunity for the Zassian. There's three ground immunities on this team. Love the team. Hope you do give it a try out. If you jump on the ladder, we'll have a couple of games now with the team. And then we will wrap up with the rental code at the end. So I hope you enjoyed today's episode as always and without further due friends will get into today's episode. Also friends, before we get into the matches today, I just want to give you a big shout out everyone a big shout out for all the kind messages and kind words and things that I got for my poor, poor finger. It's actually a lot better. So I was lucky enough for work yesterday to actually go down and get an x-ray and see a nurse about my finger to see if it was all right. And they've said there's no ligament damage and the there's no fracture as well. So I got I got an x-ray, but you can kind of see the extent of the the purple finger. It's pretty gross, but yeah, I'm pretty lucky. Really thankful. But yeah, just a big shout out to all of you for for all the kind messages about it. But it is on the mend. The gaming finger is going to be back in action in no time. Right. We've got a first opponent of the episode. They're playing a team of polytode, Kingdra, Sylvia and the Galarian Maltres, Luxury and a Zassian. So really interesting team. We've got some really cool picks in here as well. Obviously the Luxury, Sylvia and all things you see too commonly, but really nice picks nonetheless. The rain mode obviously supporting the Zassian and really, really oppressive mode that we need to be very careful of. Of course. Can we take advantage of the ditto here? I mean, there is a Zassian. So there is the opportunity. Of course, it will arise.  And I kind of like, I like, well, I love Rotom. It resists pretty much most things that Zassian kind of threatens us with anyway. Do we want landerous or do we want ditto? I think we'll go ditto. We'll go without landerous here. I think we can probably get away without landerous. We'll go ditto and Zashian in the back because they've got to bring ditto. There is a ditto team, of course. The sensible Lee in this situation would have brought landerous, but the Lee that wants to make something exciting where we can potentially have three Zassians on a field that wants wants to bring the ditto. So I hope you agree with me in this. We'll see. I will see what what happens. And yeah, another news as well. Obviously, players Cup three will be gone live. The broadcast will be starting today for the global finals. Very exciting. We'll be kicking off with me and Lou later on today. And then we'll be throwing over to Aaron and Sierra who will finish up the broadcast. But going to be amazing. Yeah. I hope if you can catch it, you do enjoy it. You reimpose is what we need to do on that Kingdra and we need to go for a do we go for a nasty plot? I think we do go for a nasty plot because I think the Kingdra is in one of those awkward spots. Where is it? It's like is this if they don't know the team is this a defiant thunderous because our best option here is probably Max Wyrmwind best option. Here's Max Geyser obviously into the the thunderous, but it's not going to be doing as much damage after an area impulse. And then we're going to be in a position where you know Rotom is going to be kind of set up going into the next turn thunderous should take a Max Geyser and I'm confident it will take it. I know it's still going to hit like an absolute truck, especially if the the Kingdra's life or it's got the rain up obviously boosting it further helping hand as well. Let's see. Can thunderous take this? I'm not I'm not feeling overly confident right now, but we will we will see. We will see. We will see guys are coming out. Come on thunderous. You just take this just this one. This is all we need. Just this one. Yeah, there we go thunderous. You are the Pokemon. I've always remembered you for being an absolute tank. I do love thunderous. You know, the more I play series eight, the more I just think thunderous is just literally one of them. It really is one of my all time favorite Pokemon. And now we can go for a scary face because I feel like now they've committed to the max. It feels a bit more safe to kind of go for that and like lowering the speed as well just opens up the door for like session to come in or ditto even probably not ditto to be honest. Well, Max Rotom will go for a lightning into the polytode before we do. We'll just check if they got any ground immunities, nothing that would be able to come in and not take redonky less damage from it. So we're kind of safe going into that slot. It's always good like looking in team preview just to have a look what resistance they've got. Could they switch it in? Look at this Rotom in the is that is that a sport ball? I think sport ball correct me if I'm wrong. Chat and but it's very cool. Very cool put together Rotom. I will just say that is probably the perfect ball for it. Yeah. It's always worth just checking to see if there's any resistance on the team to cut the can come in and and ruin your day a little bit and just kind of play around that and go for the safe option. Most of the time kind of pay off. Thunderous is going to go down here unfortunately, but it has done a lot of work and just kind of really nullifying what the King is going to be able to do. It does mean that the next turn that sassians are best option to come in because you don't want to bring the Ditto in on the King draw now because we'll replicate all of the stat drops the opposing King draw has got and it's not going to put us in the best position. So we kind of as well want to wait until the sassians out in the field from my opponent and then bring in the Ditto especially after it's got that intrepid sword boost so we can protect on the King draw this turn with session if we really knew to we can maybe max lightning to that slot as well. But it'll be interest. Yeah, the Luxray coming in. That's not ideal, but I mean a Max Max guys are from us against the Luxray is going to wipe it out like 100% going to wipe it out. So we don't really we don't need to be too concerned that we could go for a substitute as well. It's definitely an option. But I think just protecting this turn. Yeah, I think. No, no, no, I think actually, yeah, let's go for the sub here because we're going to outspeed the King draw and the rain and we'll go for Max guys are into the Luxray because we should outspeed it. So it does just mean then if the session from my opponent comes in the next turn then we are going to be in a position where we can protect whereas if we don't do that, then we're not going to be in that position. If that makes sense, we do see the Max Airstream as well, which is, you know, it's going to mean my opponent's Luxray pro. It's not going to speed session. I don't think it depends what the speed of session is, but it will outspeed Rotom. So it's going to have yet the option to get an attack off, which makes it a little bit more tricky to deal with. But the thing is now we're getting value out of our substitute because we're in a great spot gone into the next turn where sessions still got to protect to take advantage of and we can remove the Luxray from play if we want whilst going after the Kingdra, I think with a Max Lightning. It's better. It's just Behemoth Blade into the Luxray and yeah, Max Lightning. Yeah. So let's do that. Let's do that. Hmm. I don't think the Luxray outspeed session may do may do. That might not be so good because then I guess the big drawback here would be the Luxray breaking a sub Kingdra going for a hydro pump into session, which makes things a little bit more difficult. But again, it's not the worst. It's not the worst. So this is sub it does break. Okay. But we outspeed the Luxray still, which I was kind of suspecting that we did this will take the Luxray down even if it's resisted still enough and the Max Lightning even though we're kind of neutral now after the area impulse it should should probably doesn't take the Kingdra down. I can't imagine it will. Oh, it's very close. Very close. Very close. Okay. Oh no, sub didn't break. Okay. What am I talking about? So we still got a sub in intact. All right. Well, they get the intrepid sword boost. I think now we protect Zashin. We get rid of the Kingdra because the Kingdra is like the thing that my opponent is going to utilize to it outspeeds the Zashin. It means that you're going to be able to get rid of the substitute potentially and set up your own Zashin to take ours down. Put you in a better position and Rotem still not really that threatened here.  So there's the hurricane. The third attempt to break the sub on our Zashin behemoth blade coming out into the protect and we'll be able to remove the Kingdra from play and then we're going to be able to set up the fields for our own Ditto to come in and two on one this Zashin and it doesn't really matter that we're switching Rotem out at this point. We're not losing our boosts. They've already been taken away from us. So we're we're sitting in a great spot and you have to like if you're my opponent, you have to really concentrate down on our Zashin here because it's it's got the sub you need to remove the sub before you can deal with it. So it's like it's attracting all the attention. Oh, we didn't get to see the Ditto come in. Oh, I'm very disappointed about that. Good game to my opponent. Nice one for us to kick off with today, but we failed to get the Ditto on the field. So I feel like I've failed you all and that one. Okay, well, we'll move into our next one. We'll see if we can get the Ditto going again. It would be it would be nice if we can get it going today. Maybe we can lead it in a match. Maybe that will definitely guarantee it, but we got plenty of the Pokemon on the team to kind of take advantage of obviously wrote him there was just so invaluable for us, you know, made that match so much easier. Okay, we've got our next opponent playing a Whimsicott Shadow Rider Calyrex, Thunderous Incarnate, Yershafu, Incinero and Tapu Lele. So no, indeed, you know to redirection here. So but you've got the Lele, which is way more of an offensive threat alongside the Shadow Rider Calyrex, especially when you've got Whimsicott support with the tailwind. It's kind of like you're very standard Shadow Rider Calyrex team and just very hyper offensive. I'm going to be really useful for us here just disrupting, but we have to be careful around things like Yershafu for sure. And the Tapu Lele has potentially access to like Moon Blast, which could hit us for horrible damage, but I do feel like Ditto is going to be a such a valuable Pokemon in this game. Just because of the fact that we've got the Sashin, we can copy the Calyrex in a real pinch. So I think, I think, I think, I think, I think what are we going to lead? What are we going to lead? I mean Umbrian feels good. I think Zashin has to come. I don't know if I want to lead Zashin though. I think maybe Thunderous, Zashin and Ditto in the back. I think, yeah. Yeah, let's lock that in. Yeah, I want to bring like all six Pokemon, but that's just me being greedy and not fair on my opponent. It'd be cool. How cool would that be? How cool would it be to have a VG season where it wasn't bring four, it was bring all six, bring all six. It's like, it's like singles, but for VG, that'd be cool. I'd love to actually play a format like that just for a little bit, be a little bit of a mix up, wouldn't it? Put more emphasis on, yeah, it would be just, it would be just really fun, wouldn't it? Okay, well, we've got, we've got Umbrian. It makes sense to bring the Thunderous out as well to kind of prevent any sort of snarl, snarl support. I think I'm going to yawn into Thunderous and I'm going to go for an Eevee, the Eevee Impulse. I mean, the other option is we, yeah, let's go for the Eevee Impulse. I mean, the other option is going for a scary face and a foul player, but yeah, they're going to force it off the field. They're too worried about the Umbrian. They're too worried about, okay, the Tapa Leila coming out. Not ideal, not ideal, but especially with the psychic terrain, it makes it more difficult to utilize Thunderous, but we kind of knew that from Team Preview. So we are going to see the Thunderous on my pwn and send go for the Max, which is brilliant for us, to be honest, because it means that they're going to have to switch it out if they don't want to go to sleep and they're not going to get full use of that Thunderous. Eevee Impulse not going to work. Go for a Max Lightning, get rid of this. Yeah, there's the Airstream. Into Umbrian, does a nice chunk of damage. Probably puts us in Moonblast range, I would say. There's the yawn now. So Umbrian coming in quite clutch with that yawn. What else? What other options have we got? Helping her and Snorff, I'll play. We don't really have the Switch-ins.  It's just you kind of want Zashing to kind of come in. No, I feel like we preserve Umbrian. I think Umbrian is a really key member for this team. So we'll preserve Umbrian. What are we going to do with Thunderous though? We don't want to do really very much. I think maybe a Thunderbolt into... Do we just go after the opposing? We're not really too worried about the Lily. Although, yeah, the Lily is not Sash. Let's just go after Thunderous, get some damage onto it because then we can maximize Zashing when it comes in Thunderous being asleep. Hopefully we see another Airstream and either an Expanded Force or Moonblast into that Zashing. The problem is... Ooh, Max Darkness. We don't like seeing that. It's into Thunderous. Yeah, especially Defense Drop, not ideal. Not one little bit. You've got to go after the Umbrian. Oh, it doesn't game. Okay, it's better. Choose to so much damage, so much damage. Wow. Yeah, so much damage to Thunderous. Not really much return. Okay, then Thunderous going to sleep now. Brilliant. We've got a clear way to remove the Lily from the field, but I think we probably concentrate a little bit more down on something like the Thunderous here because... Like, does the Lily stay in? Does it stay in? Potentially. I do worry about the Lily because it has got... Okay, I think we concentrate down on the Lily a bit more. Like, does the Lily protect her? I think most of them are specs. That's the thing. Let's go after the Lily. And if it switches out, then we can capitalize here by doubling in on that slot. Nah. Behemoth Blade should be able to remove it though, so that's not the end of the world. No, that doesn't game.  But... Behemoth Blade going to be able to remove the Lily, and that's the end of the Max turns for my opponent. I'm just thinking now, like, what options have we got to Max? Can we Maxed it? Oh, I haven't used it in Series 8. I don't know if we can. Didn't really think that far ahead at the time. Surely we can Maxed it, alright? I don't want to bring it in now. I want to bring in Umbreon. And then we can probably yawn the Chaldex slot. But we've got to watch out for a superpower from the Thunderous onto Umbreon. Of course. Probably protect Zash in here. We could just file play it. And then remove it. Potentially. But it's got to protect. It's got to protect, right? It's in such an awkward...  We've got to protect Zash in in case they attack, because otherwise we lose Zash in. We could Max Umbreon. Has that ever been done before? I don't really want to do that, because we're going to be boosting... We're going to be boosting, like, Thunderous' attack every time. We're probably better off going for a file play into Thunderous. Yeah, because they're protecting. And then we have to sack Zash in the next turn. Depending on if we take down the Thunderous here. If we can. If this takes down the Thunderous, this would be amazing. Because then... Okay, it doesn't. So we're still in that bad spot where we... We can file play into... Okay. So I think what we do is... Behemoth Blade... Predict maybe a switch-out from my opponent with the Kal-Rex. Hope that the Thunderous stays asleep, so it can't superpower us. Yeah, and then the file play should take down the Kal-Rex. Unless it's Zashed. We will lose Zash in there now, which is not ideal. But if it is Zashed, it does mean that we can bring in our own... Ditto. And we've got... A good way to deal with the Thunderous. There's a grim near. We just need it not to be Zashed, to be honest. And then we probably can win with Ditto, depending on what their last Pokemon is. So let's see. Okay, perfect. No Zash, because there's a life orb there. What's their last Pokemon? Please be something good. Please be something good. It has to be something like Urshifu or something like that. And then we're in a... We're in not a bad spot with Ditto. If we can max it. If we can't, it becomes so much more difficult. I don't know all the mechanics though. Like, it's Urshifu. You would imagine it was. Okay. So it's probably better really in hindsight. Changing into the Urshifu rather than... The problem is now... We're gonna have to max. Oh, it's... Ah, okay. We can max. So we Aquajet. And then we max. Or do we go after... Huh. Yeah, we... Aquajet should get... Aquajet should get the Thunderous from that range. And we can just ensure that with a helping hand. And then we max. And then we go after the Urshifu. And then hopefully... Because they have to close combat. They have to close combat. Umbrian here, really. So there's the Aquajet. Helping hand. Just enough. Making sure. Let's see that close combat into Umbrian. Okay. There's a chopper berry. It's a nice item choice. Honestly, it is. Even though, you know, we're solo health in a minute. But the fact that they've reduced their defenses makes it so much easier now for Ditto to win this game. And the other thing I would like to say is with Ditto, when it transforms into stuff, when we look at it, it would be cool if it was like the anime with the Ditto face. You know, I'm just... It's too much, isn't it? It's too much wishful thinking. Okay, let's go after this Urshifu. We can max. They can't. Technically, we should win this. I'm not feeling massively confident, but I'm pretty sure we're going to be able to lock this one up. Pretty sure. We'll see. Let's see. Come on. At least we've got the Ditto working today, which is good. You know? Big ol'- And we now know, at least well, you all probably knew. But now I know. Oh my God, I don't- I think it's going to be a speed tie this next turn. I think it's going to be a speed tie. Honestly, it is. Yeah, because if they get another close combat, we're done. Oh, it's coming down to a speed tie. I don't like this. I don't like this. Come on, Ditto, you can win this first. You can end on such a high. Come on, Ditto. We're so close to take it down. Come on. Low roll. Nah, we lose. We lose. We lose. How can we lose? Unless it's scuffed. It is scuffed. I think it's scuffed because it's got- Yeah, it's got the four options there. Ice punch over protect. Makes sense. So we were never going to win. Very good game to my opponent. Very sad that we lost that one. To scuffed. It should be. Okay, our third and final opponent for the episode is here. They're playing a team of Whimsicott, Thunderous, Slanderous, Zashian, Regi Alecki and Suicune. So we got the opportunity again to take advantage of the Ditto. Let's see if we can do it in this final one today. We got speed control and abundance from my opponent's team. They've got the Whimsicott provides tailwind support. Potentially trick room. I doubt it on this team though. And then you got the Regi Alecki as well with the ElectroWeb support and the Suicune as well that can board the old tailwind. So lots of speed control from my opponent. The one thing I would say is here, you know, Rotom feels like a very good pick for us. It's pretty strong against most things. And we got the disruption to kind of help us out a little bit. I think what we'll do, we'll go with Rotom. Landerous. Maybe not Landerous up top. Maybe not Landerous up top. I think Landerous in the back. We could... Zashin gonna be a decent... Zashin's not a good lead. Top. Maybe Umbrian. Could Umbrian be good? It's not ideal against something like the Thunderous or the Zashin to be honest. Okay, let's go. I've got to bring... Yeah, I've got to bring Zashin. It means we're not bringing Ditto, which makes it very difficult because I like either sacrifice bringing Landerous here, which would be not the sensible thing to do, or I bring the Ditto. But I think, because I would prefer to get a win for us to end on today. I'm gonna opt for Landerous instead of the Ditto, which is a little bit sad, but we've seen Ditto do its thing today already. So it's not the end, end of the world.  So, right. Well, we've got a nice switch where we can bring in our own Landerous and a nasty plot. So that's an option. Or we could preserve Rotom. I think Rotom's quite valuable for us here. Where do you like he's likely to switch out? That's the only, that's my only, only issue where I think maybe Thunderous is the better one to preserve. It's got a nasty plot and let's go into Landerous. They know that we're not defined as well now. So maybe put a bit more of a kind of a target on Rotom's head here. It's because the Intimidate hasn't proc the Define ability. But whether or not they are more worried about maybe prankster support and want to get rid of that potentially. But I think that the kind of the running theme that you generally all going to see is let's kind of nail down that, that Rotom right now because if it gets a nasty plot up then things get very difficult very quickly. We are going to see the Landerous max on my opponent's end. Makes sense. Is it going to Rockfall into? Okay. Electra Web. It's not too bad.  What are we going to see? Airstream Rockfall. Rockfall into Landerous or Rotom? Landerous. So that's all right. Now we've got the ability to max ourselves after a nasty plot, which is ideal. We can preserve Landerous for later on in this game as well, which is I think probably the smarter player considering that we're probably going to see Zashin from my opponent. So and it's likely we've seen Airstream from the opposing Landerous. I don't want to pull the max. I think we go after Regi Alecchi here to be honest. And then pulling and pulling Landerous here because they got Airstream. I'm guaranteeing they got Airstream with Landerous here, not Rockfall. If they got Rockfall, they're going into Rotom. And they probably got hard into Rotom now with Thunderbolt Rockfall. That would be my guess potentially. So we'll see what they do. But I know if that was me, I think I'd be like, yeah, I'm going to go. I'm going to go hard into this Rotom now to make sure I can try and get as much damage to alleviate the damage that I'm able to do going forward. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. But it voids the gun for the screech in the Rockfall. They're going ham into into the Rotom. But the screech misses, which is so fortunate for us, like huge, huge. Honestly, huge, massive for us. The screech there, Rockfall, probably would it have been enough? Would it have been enough? I probably would have been enough, right? It probably would have been. But we get rid of the Elekity, which is it's always good. And we get a rain up, which helps us just be a bit more threatening. Man, we get lucky with some of this RNG sometimes on this channel. I'm telling you, I wasted all on these videos. And then when I got into a tournament, I'm like, why can I just had a little bit more luck? And I'm like, that's because it's because you use it. When you're doing this, when you're doing the episodes. Okay. Do we have really any options with, I mean, scary face is always a nice option to to go with onto the land or as they haven't went for air stream yet. I don't think they're going to go for it here. They're probably going to tell him with with wimmy or make a lot of sense. The other option is honestly just bringing in Zashan. There's no way they're going to Max Quake here. And we could bring Zashan. That's a pretty free switch here to protect our genies for later on this game. Like the one thing that I would think right now is is a room to bring in land or us to get another intimidate onto the board. But the problem doing that right now is that if we do remove something, Zashan's got kind of a free switch in, right? And we don't have the land or us to kind of bring out. So it's nice to keep it in the back where possible. Okay, well, there's a rockfall helping hand into a Zashan. It's going to overwrite our rain, but at the same time, Zashan kind of socks that up super well, even with that life over. It is minus one at the moment. So Max Geyser plus two should take it down. Yeah, and it paves a way for Zashan to come in now. And we still have the land or us like if we brought in land or us that turn, we probably go down to that rockfall or very close to and then we've got the problem of having to readjust that board for when the Zashan comes onto the field and it just gets very difficult from that point. So Zashan coming out. There's been a prime opportunity to bring the dead out here, but I think we need the full Pokemon that we've actually brought. It makes a lot of sense to do that. We'll go for another Geyser into Zashan and will this time cycle in the land earth. And the other thing that we haven't really taken advantage of at all has been the swagger with the lumber on the land or us which it also think from the thunderous is a really nice option there. We do see the battle cancel from my opponent. So we do pick up another win to end on today, which is brilliant and it's been a really exciting episode. I hope you have all enjoyed it. I've really had a great time with the team today. We'll hop on right now. Get the rent also just to remind you of the rental from today's episode right friends here is today's rental code just to remind you this is the team that we've been playing today and a big shout out again to Pirochichi who has provided us with the rental for today's episode like I say it's been a lot of fun featuring it. It's a great team great concept. The Ditto is amazing. I love it. I love everything about the team. It's been just a lot of fun to play around with and I'm sure if you do try it on the ladder you'll experience the same sort of thing. So let me know down the comment section as always if you do try that would love to hear but thank you so much for tuning in and just a big shout out. You know on top of everything just thank you so much for all the support that you give the channel. It's I love doing content like this and I really do appreciate each and every one of you that comes out. Watches the videos comments enjoys them anything. So just engaging with you guys through the channel is just a dream. So thank you so much for making that a possibility. I'm looking forward to wrapping up Series 8 next week is going to be a lot of fun. If you've got rental teams again that you'd like to see featured or anything particularly like to see featured before we end Series 8 next week. Do let me know down the comment section and I will do my best to make it happen in next week's episodes and obviously with players Cup now kind of being wrapped up as well after this weekend. There'd be a bit more time for me to start my stream schedule because it's been on the back burner for too long and it's something I need to do. So hopefully with Series 8 ending Pokemon Snap coming in we can schedule some stream times which will be really nice. So we'll be doing that very soon right have a great weekend enjoy players Cup 3 if you do catch it have a great weekend if you don't catch it and I'll see you all for another episode on the channel very soon. So until then friends take care of yourselves and bye bye.