Welcome back folks. For today's video we're going to be taking a quick look at the newly released Dragon Quest illustrations book that Vizmedia put out. It's a nice hardcover art book illustrated by Akira Toriyama of Dragon Quest fame and it shows a lot of his drawings throughout the years. So we're gonna take a nice look at the book and I'll show you guys some of the pages. You can get a little bit of a feel for it before you buy it. So on the side here we have Dragon Quest illustrations Akira Toriyama and on the back there's a little collage of different images throughout the years. 30 years of genius on display in this comprehensive collection of over 500 Akira Toriyama stunning illustrations. And as you can see it it's a nice it's a nice book it's nice it has a nice cover and everything and if you look closely you can kind of tell that the character portraits on the cover are protrude a little bit they're kind of bumpy which is nice not sure if you can tell from the video but it's a very it's a very nice cover overall. So now taking a look on the inside there appears to be a little fold-out kind of poster with all of the main characters of the Dragon Quest series. Let's fold this out. There you go. It's not really a poster it's more of a fold-out. And behind it there is a timeline of all of the Dragon Quest releases over the years to the present which is pretty nice and tells you the year came out which game it is what console is for and I do like that they included this in the book as well. It's very nice and this appears to be the Japanese release dates they're talking about so the timeline includes Japanese releases that have not been localized yet. So moving on there is a excerpt from Akira Toriyama himself in the first page. So there's his self-portrait right there he's dressed like Dragon Quest 3 protagonist. It says here he was born April 5th. If you want to read this you can always pause it. So basically Toriyama met Yuji Hori when working at Shonen Jump and Toriyama of course was working on the manga Dragon Ball and Yuji Hori was a writer for Shonen Jump and basically they decided to work together on this new role-playing game and they promoted the game Dragon Quest through Shonen Jump which is how it became so successful. So if you want to read that you can just pause the video I suppose we'll keep moving on. Here is the first section which covers the original trilogy of Dragon Quest on the NES. That's some monster designs here from the original Dragon Quest. There's Dragon Lord different kinds of monsters as well on the other pages and these are very nice and glossy sort of high resolution images. This is probably the best art collection we've had of Dragon Quest for a long time. We've never had anything this big before. This in particular is a very interesting page. Toriyama once famously mentioned that he had trouble doing pixel art and we didn't really know what that meant but turns out he actually drew the way the pixelated sprites are supposed to look like next to the original portraits which I thought was cool. So there's more Dragon Quest 2 art here on this page. Very cool and this continues Dragon Quest 2. Now we move on to Dragon Quest 3 and these are the heroes of Dragon Quest 3 including the main character, the Usha also known as the brave hero of DQ3 and these are some nice images especially the one on the left. Toriyama actually drew that on my gray piece of paper for the cover art of Dragon Quest 3 and here are the rest of the character classes that you can play as. These are all the character classes from the original NES version and this is the Game Boy Color promotional art of Erdrick on the cliff with his sword and these are the new classes with the thieves of Dragon Quest 3. Now these are the bosses of Dragon Quest 3. There's Zoma, Baramos and the red the red character right there that's it an unused monster design unused boss that they did not use in the original Dragon Quest that was originally planned but it was scrapped. So that's some pretty cool trivia right there I've never seen that before ever this is the first time I've seen that picture so it's pretty neat. Moving on use some more Dragon Quest 3 images and the next section is the Zenithian trilogy 4, 5 and 6 with SNES well this is the NES version so there's Solo the main character there's Sophia there's Ragnar, Alina, Tornico you know the sisters this is all original artwork not the remake so this is still original art and this would be the remake artwork here's Sorrow and he has very sort of elf looking appearance and this is Sorrow's original look from the NES artwork so in the original Dragon Quest he had this yellow form which was later retconned into becoming the character Estark but in the original his name was Sorrow the manslayer and he would throughout the fight transform graduate into the green image you see on the right so the one on the left is now known as Estark but originally he was Sorrow the manslayer's first form and Sorrow the manslayer's final form so he had two different forms in the original NES version which they changed in the DS remake later on which I thought was pretty cool so moving on there's more Dragon Quest 4 monsters and these drawings are very very nice they're very high quality printings I probably recognize that from Dragon Quest 11 a lot of familiar familiar monsters around here and now we're moving on to Dragon Quest 5 and this is the SNES artwork so you have all the characters there lots of monsters this is mostly artwork you might have seen on the internet it's nothing exclusive yet but you know we have Dragon Quest 6 here some nice images from there and these are the DS remake portraits for the the remake of course which are a little bit nicer and here are some of the villains of Dragon Quest 6 and here is an unused character drawing this looks kind of like an early concept for Terry but this character has no name and he's unused from Dragon Quest 6 here if you want to get a little closer look at this character he definitely does look like an earlier version of Terry but yeah this character is not in Dragon Quest 6 and is just a concept drawing of an unused character as you can see 1995 unused so that's some pretty neat stuff I've never seen that drawing before it's very cool and now we're moving on to spinoffs and tv shows this is the Dragon Quest anime this is actually not by Toriyama himself this is made in the style of Akira Toriyama which is very faithful to the original style of Dragon Quest the Dragon Quest TV shows I don't believe he worked on any of the Dragon Quest TV shows they're all just based off of his work so as you can see this is the first Dragon Quest anime and it looks a lot like his art style and here are some spin-off games Tornico's Mystery Dungeon games very good games there's Terry's Dragon Quest monsters and these are original drawings for the promotional art with the Game Boy Color version of Dragon Quest monsters you can see Tara and Kobe there too so I'm moving on we have Dragon Warrior 7 which was that's what it was called here but that's the original artwork for the cover and it's a very big drawing it's very nice looking and there's a lot of art here I've never seen before additionally these are some pretty good pieces here are some more images from the original release of Dragon Quest 7 different characters and some enemies as well I also like the little notes by the characters it looks like it's written in pencil so here is the motion controller game for Dragon Quest Kenshin Dragon Quest that is the reboot version of Erdrick's descendant he has blonde hair in this version this is a a game with like a TV TV game with like a motion controller where you fight monsters so there's Zoma who appeared in the game and there's a dragon lord on the left so uh yeah that's some pretty clean art that right there that's very nice looking and there's Rocket Slime of course everyone's favorite spin-off so we have the original Rocket Slime for Game Boy the DS version of Rocket Slime which is a very nice game and that's the cover art right there on the right and moving on we have Dragon Quest 8 for the PS2 and there's a lot of art here I've never seen before like this drawing on the right I have not seen before promotional art for Dragon Quest 8 with the hero with his fist in the air it looks really nice but yeah I've never seen that before so that's a new picture I've seen the one on the left is of course is the box art for the game I've never seen the one on the left right here that's a new picture I've seen the one on the right right here before but uh yeah the one on the left I've never seen before so that's that's a nice drawing I've seen and continuing onwards there's the 3ds cover art here are some character sketches for the main character some for Yangus and Jessica showing off their expressions and the little black and white drawings and here's some more art I have not seen before here's Princess Medea I haven't seen these drawings before so that's pretty nice and there's dual magus on the left and some NPCs on the right and more NPC designs from the rest of Dragon Quest 8 and it looks very authentic it looks very close to the final product more NPCs we'll zoom in a little closer I bet you guys like this one the bunny girl and the dancer yet Toriyama knows how to he knows how to draw the ladies really well so anyway we'll be moving on from there and just more character designs from Dragon Quest 8 and there's Raphthorn very cool and next we have Dragon Quest 9 art and there's not much new here that I haven't I haven't seen because Dragon Quest 9 came out when the internet was still a big thing so most of this art is pretty much on the internet right now there's not a lot of new stuff but it's still pretty well it's nicely printed either way now there is some cut content from Dragon Quest 9 which is put on display here there are some costumes and character classes right here on these two pages that have been unused and are not in the final game for Dragon Quest 9 as you can see there these outfits are not in the final game this uh this outfit looks kind of like the main protagonist of Dragon Quest 7 a little bit like him and this one looks a little looks a little goofy he's got his animal ears and looks kind of like a shaman like like a wolf kind of it's kind of weird would have been cool though if it was in the game and here are the spin-off illustrations there is Erdrick's Ascendant from the motion game there's the Prince of Middenhall Erdrick the hero on the right the main character Dragon Quest 3 and these are some nice drawings as well they're all in the same pose there's Solo the hero and on the right that is the legendary monster tamer from Dragon Quest 5 that's what they're referring to him as in this in this book the main hero Dragon Quest 6 is referred to in this book as Wreck the Hero so that's his canonical name i'll show you a little bit closer yep Wreck the Hero so that says official name if you ever want to use the canon name when playing Dragon Quest 6 next time and here we have some artwork from Dragon Quest 10 the MMO and it's pretty nice here but not nothing we haven't really seen before it's a lot of familiar stuff because you know Dragon Quest 10 came out during a time when the internet was still pretty big so here's some more spin-off stuff Dragon Quest Heroes illustrations and got some nice designs here from Dragon Quest Heroes 2 i like the way these characters look yeah it's very nice looking those Caesar he's very berserk looking and we'll continue onwards here's Dragon Quest Builders that would be the front and back art of the game i actually own a poster of this exact artwork right here moving onwards that would end Dragon Quest Builders coverage and for Dragon Quest 11 there's only one picture in the entire book for Dragon Quest 11 it's just it's just a picture of luminary and that's it so i guess they just don't want to spoil the game or something but uh it's a little bit disappointing with the Dragon Quest 11 already anyway there's some analysis of Dragon Quest illustrations back here which is really cool and i would recommend checking this out it gives a lot of insight into the history like for example Akira Toriyama had his own newsletter called Birdland Press and right here as you can see he actually spoils Zoma from Dragon Quest 3 who's the secret boss of Dragon Quest 3 this magazine came out before DQ3 came out and he still has Zoma on the cover so he actually completely spoiled the game with his newsletter and here's a postcard from Toriyama first fan club anyway if you decide to pick up this book this is a very interesting section which talks a lot about the production of Dragon Quest and the art behind it and it's very insightful it's very it's very neat so moving onwards there is some more interviews here some more information and in the very back there is a message from Yuji Hori the game designer behind Dragon Quest the creator of Dragon Quest and it talks about how he met Toriyama i'll let you pause the thing and of course he drew that himself Yuji Hori drew this because that's his art style he's also a little bit of an artist himself and i would know because i own his autograph so that's that's his drawing thanks for everything over the years Toriyama san and right here talks about how they met at Shonen Jump you could pause that if you want to read it but it's a it's a neat story it's a pretty cool story and on the back page we can take a quick look at some of the details this is a first printing first edition of Dragon Quest illustrations as you can see December 2018 so this is this is the first first edition of the book and it will likely be worth millions of dollars in the future so that is Dragon Quest illustrations the newly released Dragon Quest art book by viz media and i'm just amazed that we even got this to be honest like it's it's really cool that viz actually put out a Dragon Quest illustrations book in english for you know the few fans who want to check something out like this and i'm very very happy with this book if you're like a big Dragon Quest fan and you want to see behind the scenes things and art and how the characters were created i would 100 recommend picking this one up see i hope you guys found this video helpful in case any of you are thinking of picking up this book and i'll see you guys next time


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Okay. Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the commission's weekly online event, where a webinar, a webcast, an online show. The terminology is up for debate to some people, and nobody's ever come up with what they want to call these things or what they like to call these things. But whatever you call us, we are here live every Wednesday morning online at 10 a.m. Central Time. But we do record the show, so if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. You guys go to our website later and watch any of our recordings. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where all those recordings are that you can see. We post a recording of the show onto commission's YouTube account. If there are any presentations, like there are slides here today, documents, handouts, anything that is included in the presentation, we share those as well. And any websites that are mentioned, we collect into our delicious account for bookmarking websites and give you all those together as well. So you have everything you need after the show to watch it again. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open to anyone to watch, so please do share with your colleagues, friends, neighbors, family. Anybody who think you may be interested in any of the topics that we have, they're welcome to join us on Wednesdays or to watch any of our recordings. We do have recordings, and Compass Life started in 2009, and we do have all of our recordings going back that far on the website still. Some of the information, of course, could be updated at this point, but we are librarians, so we archive things. So for historical purposes, things are all there. Go ahead and check out what we have. And we do a mixture of things here on the show, book reviews, interviews, mini-training sessions, demos of software products and services. Basically, our only criteria is that it is something library-related, something libraries are doing, a service that we think they might be able to use, something that might be important of interest to them, something they might want to partner with, events happening. Some of our topics, when you look at the title, you might wonder, libraries, what? But trust me, everything comes around to libraries in the end. That's my only criteria, is that you have to have something to do with libraries to be on our show. We do have a Nebraska Library Commission staff that sometimes come on the show and do Nebraska-centric things or things that we're doing here at the commission. But we also do bring guest speakers, which we have this morning, as you can see from our slides, too, here. To my left here is Linda Reddish, who is an extension educator from UNL Extension Offices, University of Nebraska, for those of you who are not Nebraska people. And you're out of, from Douglas County, right? Yeah, officially, that's where I'm housed, but I have a statewide appointment. Okay, great, so officially up just near Omaha area, but we'll go anywhere. Yeah, we'll go anywhere. And she reached out to me about doing this presentation. This is something about, as you can see the topic here today, co-parenting for successful kids, a program that our University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension Offices has. And it's a great program, and I'm going to have Linda explain it, of course, but specifically wanting to partner with some libraries to get some of this information out, which is what libraries do. We work with children and teens and all sorts of things. I will just hand it over to you, Linda, to go ahead and take it away. Well, good morning, everyone. And thank you for joining us this morning, too, and then expressing your interest in learning a little bit more about what is co-parenting for successful kids and possibly discussing some opportunities here to blend the work around co-parenting for successful kids. I'm pretty passionate about our local libraries and utilize them all the time. I have a three-year-old son who is turning into a pretty voracious reader, so I'm pretty happy about that. We were actually there last night checking out books again. So I spent lots of time there, and it was actually, while I was there with our son, checking out books that I sort of had a moment going, hmm, I wonder if this would be an opportunity to reach out to our local libraries, but really think about this statewide because I was sitting with our son, and we were reading books, and I just was looking around thinking from the perspective of our co-parenting for successful kids program and wondered if parents or family or children were interested, so we'll talk a little bit more about what is co-parenting for successful kids, but where this idea sort of originated is co-parenting is for parents who are in the process of separating or divorcing or in that transition of moving into co-parenting, and so it can be a pretty stressful time, you know, even if the separation is amicable, it's still pretty stressful, but the part of me when I was sitting there was wondering if you were a co-parent and you were thinking about where could you go to find some resources to assist your child and in particular books, especially for that sort of early childhood background which is where I come from, how would you find those? And so that's where I had my sort of moment of clarity as I was sitting in the children's section with my son going, I wonder if this would be an opportunity to direct parents and families, so that's sort of why I'm here today, the intention and where this little spark to reach out to Christos sort of came from, just so you have the history and the context behind why I reached out today and very appreciative of the opportunity to share with everyone. I think it's definitely a great thing that libraries could do. Extension offices have worked with libraries and lots of other projects and programs and things as well. Thank you. You should be able to use the keyboard if it holds up. We have a temperamental keyboard here, but we have a mouse back up, no problem. So the goals for today are, what is co-parenting? I'll share a little bit about what are our current trends that we're seeing within our program. Data is sort of helpful to look at and make decisions from, and so I'll be happy to share with you that. And then I'm really hoping to sort of leave some time in the opportunity, so as we first got started, please share any feedback or questions, comments, those types of things, and we'll talk about the bulk of that time to talk about as little or as big as we can sort of think about once you have an opportunity to hear more about the program. So the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, we offer co-parenting for successful kids. It is a research-based class. We developed the course, leveraging research that we knew was best practices around co-parenting and how to best support young children during that transition and their parents as well. We offer it both on-site at our local extension offices throughout the state, and we also offer the program online. The goal of it is really to develop respectful and responsible co-parenting. Our course, as I was sharing, is rooted in research, but the other part of our course is that we are a class that's approved by the Nebraska Supreme Court as a basic parenting class. The class is mandated. It is a state statute requirement for parents experiencing divorce separation or custody. But we are one of the approved courses and we work closely with that administrative office to make sure that we continue to keep our course current, informed, and very relevant for the topic. As shared, our program content is really focused on the child. Actually, our logo right there says co-parenting for successful kids. There are other co-parenting courses, but ours, which is pretty unique because it's really focused on the child and we offer it online. We're one of the few that offer it online. We offer it in English and Spanish and participants can be able to take the course in their own home language. The class is approximately three hours. If they completed it on site, we have an instructor. All of our Extension educators have a background. We have previous instructors and professors from the University who have taught the class and we really work with co-parents to take that time to really reflect on as they're going through this transition, how are they going to be able to support their child to be successful. Every parent, right? We really want our children to be successful and so that's the main focus of the class. If they participate on site, they complete worksheets, we have a booklet and they go through it with the instructor. If they do it online, they complete quizzes and we actually have a journal where parents are able to enter in and answer specific questions to sort of reflect around their transition and their process and it's, again, we have the questions linked to skills and strategies that we know are really effective for helping at that, helping reduce the stress for both child and parent at that time. The other thing is that we actually offer feedback. So Extension educators, there really is another person on the other side and it's not just you're doing an online course there's no interaction with any anyone else. And that's what really makes our course unique. We have some really interesting data from our participants that say that they really value the instructor's feedback. You know, there's opportunities to ask questions. One of the questions we typically get asked about is I'm noticing that my child is experiencing some grief. Can you point us in the right direction for resources and so we're able to do that. So yeah, their journal entries are really reviewed by Extension educators and we really take our time to make sure that we're responding and providing feedback to co-parents who are taking the course. There's a cost to taking the course. We certainly never turn anyone away from an inability to pay and we have scholarships available as well. So and it's on really a sliding fee and our scholarship application is available on our website as well. And I'll have that contact information at the end but the other thing that really makes our program content pretty unique is whether they register online or on site we continue to provide resources afterwards. So it's not just a sort of one stop, take a class and then move on. We continue to link with parents and have additional resources available to check in and we actually have the UR parent app that can be downloaded through the app store. If you have an iOS or an Android system that's accessible and you can sign up for it and you get text related to your child's development regardless of what period of development they're at. So if they're at early childhood it's very focused around early childhood. If you have an infant toddler strategies around how to calm a fussy baby those types of things. Get into adolescence, how do you sort of nurture that autonomy and self-direction and all of those things. And we certainly include handouts and again related resources that have been pretty vetted to make sure that it's good quality information. Here's just some examples if you'd like to see what it could look like. So on one side of the screen you have where it says Nebraska Resources Legal Support Services if the individual is in a high conflict transition we have some resources there. Again these are offered in both English and in Spanish too. So and then on the other side there's the information where they're able to access on our website and see where could a parent go to learn more if they have questions or things like that. So there's an example just some of our additional resources. What we're noticing is an enrollment trend. So when the course first started about 80% of our classes were online but we've been seeing a shift and I'll have some data to sort of show you in the next slide. But our enrollment since 1999 we've had over 18,000 parents have participated in the course and 42,000 children have been impacted by that and we've had participants from 85 of the 93 Nebraska counties participate in it. Here's just some of the data trends that we're seeing. So as I was sharing you know in 2011 we were 100% online then we started to see a shift so 2012 half then you can see in 2014 we were 80-20 that's where we've been and actually I just updated our numbers last week we are actually for 2016 it was 93% online. Wow. Okay. Look at the convenience of it I think. Yeah. And I share this information how does it relate back to you. We have families who share with us and co-parents who share with us that they go to their local library and utilize the computers there to take the course and that was another sort of moment that I was wondering oh are our local branches aware of and throughout the state that parents are actually coming in and taking this course there and using that as a resource so I hope we can talk a little bit about that too how we can for individuals who want to take the class online because maybe the onsite class is not offered in their county where we can direct them if they do not have the computer easily accessible to them. So what are sort of the benefits for both onsite and online and sort of tracking you know here what we see for as a benefit for both parents and children but again it's research based practices and all extension is all about bringing research out into the field and sort of we teach and partner with others around how do you bring that information out into the field where it impacts and extension actually does that with children and families too that's one of the areas that we're really trying to share as we work closely as the learning child team around that for most participants we've learned that this is their first parenting class and they learn a lot of information I'll share a slide a little bit from a quote from a parent who shared said I wish I had known about this before you know very vulnerable in her quote but she did share this was a real learning curve for her and it really strengthened her families and understanding as a parent you know knowing what's best for their children and most parents really do and then we also evaluate our program so we're constantly striving again to keep the program both relevant rooted in what we know as research and then responding to the feedback that we also receive from co-parents we really do take the time to read through their feedback and the evaluation and use it to improve our program so as I was sharing I'll just leave this up for a little bit and give you a minute to sort of skim through it but here's a comment from one of our class participants I wish this course was mandated before having kids yes I sure many parents would think that going into that blind is just when you're not worrying about divorce or anything at all just parenting in general we you know is an interesting journey to go on as a young mother myself you know with my three year old and he's now transitioning to preschool and that's you know he's three and a half that whole thing you know so but being able to know you know how do you best support a young child who might be experiencing grief what are some of the appropriate ways for disciplining and parenting styles and that can be effected even during separation or custody or transition and then the part that's really helpful about this is that very effective common sense materials it's very practical and so that you can take the information and really apply it right away so here's where I'm hoping we can spend the bulk of this particular presentation I am happy to continue the conversation afterwards too especially for those who might be watching this after that please please do not hesitate to call me and have conversation afterwards again this could be as little as working closely with you to identify which books you have at your particular branch so that we can add them to our resources to say here are books that are available within the Bresva libraries that you can go to and you can check out yourself to use or you know if you're open and willing to having information on site and we can refer parents back to that location if they're in that particular county and they need access to take the class online or something you know larger scale where we possibly look at creating some resources to be available and station there so as I shared we know parents are using computers at the local library I literally walked a parent through this like two weeks ago and we were coordinating because she was going back and forth and taking the course and I was helping her through it so we know we have participants who are going on site and using them and we're happy to have them you know refer back to the local library definitely you know depending on what age of their child to deferring them back there to find books and those types of things within our class we talk about magical ordinary moments and one of the things we suggest is to read with your child but those are that that is a magical moment with your child and something seemingly ordinary is actually quite quite magical and wonderful so important for that bonding with the child and keeping things good and steady while turmoil may be happening elsewhere in the family yeah that opportunity to bond and read books and the other part of it is we would obviously like to build being Nebraska we're very Nebraskans and so building on local resources to check out materials and having materials available within local areas and one of the things I actually did when I was there at my local library last night was I looked up the books on divorce and you know and there was a few there were a couple books there but it was it was one of the other things I had kind of wondered is when you want to go and look up those materials you don't just go and say I'm looking for these materials and so how could we even sort of make that question a little bit easier and not so maybe intimidating to go and to ask the parent for the parent and then the bigger thing could be is possibly looking at some additional opportunities of partner whether that's you know sharing the resources we have NebGuides when I say sharing the resources developed at UNEL that we have had instructors we have extension specialists who have their background and family or children and so they review all of these articles it's a very much rigorous peer reviewed and so we could even provide those and have them available and accessible maybe in a little kit of some sort that parents would be able to access when they're checking out books or something like that so again I'm happy to have a conversation on what this could look like but please if you have any questions or comments here's an opportunity to do that and has anybody out there I was actually curious has anybody out there known of anyone coming into your library is doing this have you had experience helping with anybody who has gone through this program and as you said you've got 93% of your people who need to take this class are doing it online so a lot of those probably are in that public library how many how many classes is 93 how many individuals or is that how you count it or how many so access to the how many have access to the course we usually come to by how many have access to the book by person so we know that for all of our participants for that year 93% of them from the class online okay so if anybody has had any encounters with this or any ideas about it let us know in your chat something I was wondering about the partner and you said you do have the onsite still do in person classes would that be something that you would do at a public library or do you guys just use your own offices around the stage so so far we've only been using our extension offices for the most part and simply just because that's where extension offices are and we're educators and they're there and they're there we had we used to have it in I think more spaces but again we've been seeing the shift right yeah so it's this balance but there's opportunities to offer in other places that may be more accessible to families certainly open to sort of exploring that too and what that might look like and I know there people do when you're talking about going to taking college courses or school courses people do learn better online some better online some do better in person I think the interaction online is important though too because we do that here we have classes that we teach basic skills classes to librarians and the same kind of thing it's online but there's always an instructor there that's monitoring every single class and if you have questions and they participate in the discussion boards and things they participate in that as well so it makes it more than just like a mindless screen that you're interacting with and you know there's other people in there yeah it is not passive in many times it's just to sort of click and move it is this back and forth interactive our on-site course we also have interpreters available so if a parent would need an interpreter our class is happy to accommodate that with proper notice we are able to find someone you said you have Spanish have there been requests for any other languages I know we have a lot of other communities that Vietnamese that are big at least here in Lincoln has there been any requests for any other languages or so far we have not not yet we we certainly have it on our radar you know if they're additional where we typically have other languages pop up as far on-site class that's usually we get an interpreter who requests or a different language if it's not primarily Spanish okay yeah cool if individuals are interested in learning more about the program they can visit it's child.unl.edu that's where you can go to learn more information about co-parenting for successful kids a little bit more about the learning child team it is a team of extension educators beyond just co-parenting co-parenting is my particular program area of focus but we have other extension educators on the learning child team and again our focus is birth through third grade but that also includes family we're very focused on that young child but we do everything from offering childcare provider training to coaching those types of things we also have different extension educators who do some pretty unique things online too we've got some pretty remarkable long distance online opportunities so there's a little bit more than just co-parenting that's my particular area that I'm passionate and focused on but and again we have extension educators throughout each county on the learning child team so you can certainly look specific to your branch and see who's your extension educator I'm a statewide appointment because the nature of co-parenting is statewide but there are lots of opportunities to sort of explore on that website looking at the site here I was looking at it on the laptop lots of the different areas the specific things for military families which is a whole other situation to deal with healthy kids and I there's another thing I saw about grandparenting obviously the grandparents have to be more participating in the raising of children just because of the situations we have a pretty robust health and nutrition program so lots of go active get play very robust nature explore program too we have extension educators who talk a lot about going outside into the classroom or into the child care program or into the home program if you're a family home provider so yeah cool here's my personal information so please feel free to email me at any time typically pretty quick in responding that is my direct office line so you can call me there we certainly have a more toll free number for our co-parenting course but if you're really interested in co-parenting materials you can call me and I can mail you co-parenting information to and send it directly out to you we're going to be doing our big mid-year mailing here in June we share a lot of our information so if you'd like to get on that I'd be more than happy to send that to you or if you'd like to talk about partnering opportunities like I said I'm statewide so wherever you're at I'm a person to contact and happy to connect with you so if anybody have any questions about the program or what you would do as far as partnering with them type into the questions section so you can get your questions answered now while you're here we do have one that you just get typed in here to I'll start with well it sounds like your program is Nebraska specific yes of course being through UNL and she says I'm a youth services librarian in Virginia I don't know if classes like yours are mandated in our state but it sounds like a great program that'd be something to look into Shwasa are you aware of any similar programs in other states that are out there yes there's like a few other states do similar we actually have partnerships with two other states who utilize our course material so we are more than happy to partner and they are with actually two other universities too so we work closely with them to provide this information into their own state I'm not as familiar if it's mandated in Virginia or not we do have individuals who take our course from out of state so I've had people from that was which is a second question was could our residents access your program and materials online yep so is the online are the online is the online version of the class restricted just to Nebraska no it is not we've had other people from out of state who have used it so you are certainly welcome to follow up with me we can have a conversation a little further around that and I'd be happy to even point you in the right direction to around who to contact then if you're interested in assessing if it's accepted as parenting course within Virginia so the course itself then obviously is not the fact that we have things that are mandated for Nebraska and it's Nebraska specific with the course content is not Nebraska specific it's broad enough that anybody can use it yep and we've had other people adapt the content and made it a little bit more unique for their particular state and then tweak their resources for their own state and things like that so yeah happy to follow up about that so yeah so share just like libraries share the information it's not like it's copyright protected that kind of thing yeah we use the course material what program does the online course we're on Moodle so yeah you can only access the course content obviously within the class because that particular information you know is just accessible through the course and that's sort of unique to the program but we have resources available online that are accessible free to access those types of things yeah Moodle is a great program there's lots of different online university type things you can use Blackboard and other ones some are easier to use than others we've found Moodle is pretty good that's actually the basic skills classes that we have for our librarians in the state we use Moodle for it's their online modules on different topics in librarianship to keep up to speed we're doing continuing education and things like that don't usually have too many problems with people being able to get in, log in and use it so it works pretty well I think we're happy with it we're even extending into other classes that we're teaching now it's a great platform to sort of get that content and that information so any other questions go ahead and type them in we can ask them now or obviously Linda's contact info is there the question I was thinking of this is through the UNL extension office so the funds to run this program, does that come from the university or is it part because the state is mandating these classes are the supports do they help make them happen would be nice the funding courses offered independently of its own so the course is pretty self-sustaining so there's no budget really that's all I was thinking about the budget to put on the courses and materials and whatnot and each co-parenting class charges something a little bit different if you did mention there was cost but then there is also scholarships because obviously we're a university so we have things that are accessible and available and scholarship and sliding fees they don't turn anyone away from an inability to take a course especially in this case they're making them take it typically our course costs $50 and of course those funds all go back into the program which is what helps the class continue to maintain itself and run the program and all of those different things and you said it's a three week how long does it take to go through it it just depends so it's three hours on site the online class our average says it could take you 30 days to complete it just depends on the individual how long you want to spend sitting there working through it so if you do it on site when it's just three hours then you're done which is a lot of information to take in especially if you can then in the online version it's go at your own pace the thing you could take up to 30 days to get through it all exactly not bad for 50 bucks it doesn't look like anybody has any questions right now alright so then I think we can wrap up any last words anything else you want to share before we do wrap up for this morning show just thank you all for your time this morning and your openness to sort of hear a little bit more about it as I share please do not hesitate to call me if you're interested in any other possible opportunities to sort of think about offering co-parenting information either at your local branch or what I could be doing to provide additional resources available even just to have it there I know many of you have sections with community resources and newsletters and as I said I spent a lot of time at my little library with my son and so certainly familiar with how you have lots of information there available so I'd be more than happy to send you information you can shoot me an email with your address or if you want to continue the conversation after this please don't I'll say this is a great resource for libraries across the state definitely I know there's always new services and programs you're trying to think of how to serve the community and you already know these people are coming into the library to do this and how do you help support them and create and get the resources together and figure out what are the books and the journal articles and the things that could help them and that can take time but Linda I'll do that part for you that's the great thing you can just contact her and say we know people need this in the community give us the resources and then it's just kind of already done and all you've got to do is kind of guide them to it which is what we generally are all about so I strongly recommend you reaching out to her get this into your libraries and even if you're not sure some of these people are probably coming in like you said don't want to talk to the librarian about it necessarily but they just want the resources to know that it's there privacy issue or embarrassment issue especially in small towns and whatnot get the resources out there have the flyers handouts whatever available to them and Linda can get that off to you so that you can just make it available and they can use your library and it's nice to know that you have materials that are sort of rooted in best practices and research too and that's I think too I'm sure it's hard, librarians we don't study generally child development and things like that but you do so you know these are the good ones, these are not so good ones so yeah and again our program goal is really focused around the child in no way that's respectful and responsive and so yes please and certainly if you are interested like you were saying and having those materials there or being a spot that we can refer parents to and say this if you're looking for a place to go and take the class we know that your local library is familiar with that and they are happy to have you come there and use their computers and public library having this university research level of information available to them is a really great partnership I think well thank you alright nobody typed in any desperate questions you had right now so I think we'll wrap it up for today contact info, reach out to her let her know what you'd like to work with her on so we'll officially wrap up for today we are recording the show so the recording will be available later probably later this afternoon I'll give you guys all the link to that I'll let you know too if you want to share it like I said all our recordings are out there free I've got her presentation here at the PowerPoint so you'll have that as well and I have been saving the links that were mentioning the main page for the learning child child.unl.edu as well as the specific sub-page there's lots of stuff in that page for the what we were just talking about today the co-parenting and then a link to the information about the app the UR parent app great there's a specific page out there that I link to as well so you can get more information about that after the fact alright thank you thank you for your time oh thanks so I'm going to grab back control here and escape to the bottom trying to find there alright so that will officially wrap it up for today's show and it will be posted on our website this is the library commission's website and I'll see you at Nebraska.gov where we do have our Encompass Live page off here but you can just Google us so far we're the only thing called that on the internet so if you Google Encompass Live that's it so far nobody else call anything this please you can see it's off of our NLC website Encompass Live so the recording will be available right here these are upcoming shows coming up the rest of May but here is where Archive will be all of our other previous shows are archived this is the one from a few weeks ago we had a recording presentation link you'll have the same thing for today's show available for you I'll send you guys all a direct link when it's ready and available I'm at the mercy of YouTube and how quickly they will process our recording and everything but usually it's done the same day so that will be where those will be next week's show is Nebraska Libraries on the Web I just added this to the schedule it wasn't up there previously you're still working out some details on it here at the Nebraska Library Commission we do offer free hosting of websites for free for public libraries across the state it's called our Nebraska Libraries on the Web program WordPress based we do the hosting it doesn't cost you anything just your time to maintain your website Craig Lefteroff who is our technology innovation librarian will be with us next week to talk about the program so if you are a library looking for a website, if you don't have one if you want to upgrade your current one you're just looking for a change you want something easy to maintain quick to set up and under your own control rather than potentially your city or your county I know sometimes that's where the library is situated check in with our show next week to see how you can participate in the program we've got at least 50 libraries over 50 libraries in the state on the the Nebraska Libraries on the Web so far so please do sign up for that show and any of our other future shows coming up we've got our Mays booked and I'm working on sessions for June and July and future ones of course just keep an eye on our website you'll see all the new ones as I confirm them added to our schedule and Compass Live is also on Facebook you can see up here we have a Facebook link so you can pop over there if you are a big Facebook user yeah no I don't want to log in right now and you can see what's going on on the show you can see here I have a reminder about today's show reminder is when previous recordings are available are all on here so if you are big on Facebook please do give us a like and you will be notified through that route of what's going on within Compass Live other than that I think that will wrap it up for today this is really great I'm glad to get this information out there I'm glad that you reached out to me to share it because this is I think a good thing for libraries more partnerships more things you can do to not have to do get someone else to do the work for you get their information out that's what we're all about is partnering and community and helping with whatever they need out there this is a great program they've already got set up ready to go and they're coming into your library anyways whether you know it or not no alright so thank you very much and we will see you next time on Compass Live thanks everyone


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Hair and makeup, please can we do touch ups now? Because I'm looking oily, and I don't like looking oily. Jessica, please stop talking, we're filming. Sorry, let me, sorry about that. Just, Jessica! Sorry about that, what's up my beautiful babes? How are we doing today? You guys obviously want me to react to Jenna Marbles new hair video, and I'm here girl. We're here for more Jenna Marbles. We're always here for more Jenna Marbles, aren't we? I'm a little cleavy today. I'm showing a lot of cleavage, and I feel like we're both okay with it, so I'm gonna go with it. She keeps banging out these hair videos, and I just keep banging out these reaction videos. I feel like we're just a team, but it's like a one-sided team, because I don't know Jenna, and I don't know if she likes me or not. I don't know, maybe she doesn't.  I don't know, whatever. Well, let's just get started you guys. As you guys know the deal, I'm a hairdresser. I'm here to react, and we're gonna watch Jenna Marbles give Julian a carrot in treatment. Should be very interested. Let's get it started. Fear fingers. Me. I'm sorry, but Jenna's getting close to being an actual qualified hairdresser. You know how colleges give out those honorary degrees? I feel like Jenna needs an honorary hairstylist license. Your hair is not like the nerve, and I'm excited because I've never gone back with it. That was a good time. Carrot and anti-curl. That's like, I haven't seen those carrot in treatments since like 2005. Russ Carrot in, oh my God, I used to use that so long ago. No, you're just not supposed to use it on hair that's not virgin. Well, okay, I know there's me a bunch of comments being like, yes, you can use that on hair that's not virgin. Listen, it's not recommended, and certain carrot in treatments are way too harsh for people with already colored hair. Look at her.  Me has a hair style. It's a success story, so I'm gonna say it's a lifestyle. It's a two-step process. Oh, God, literally no idea what she's doing. How are you coming back here?  Oh, the other thing's John has done. He said, hey, that's my camera. She's putting so much of this on his hair. You need like half of that. 20 minutes, what kind of carrot in treatment is this? This is like a 2007 carrot in treatment, 2005, whatever I said. Oh my God, I just came up with the best idea in the entire world of YouTube. Okay, what if Jenna and I, what if I brought Jenna to a hair school and had her learn, had her have a day at a hair school and learn all like how to do haircuts, how to do hair color, and how to do perms like professionally. How funny would that be? Oh my God, one day I should just really reach out to Jenna.  Oh, this is why I don't do keratin. It's like just way too much work. I'm just fighting. Okay, I feel like she's doing a good job.  I can see you mocking me in a view partner. Me when I get my hair done. Look sorry, go ahead.  That's a lot of heat.  It doesn't feel impressed right now. I'm actually high-key impressed with myself. I'm high-key impressed with you, Jenna. Just be careful, I don't wanna hear it fall out. High-key, low-key, high-key. I'm not dishing people. I'm dishing people. I'm dishing people, I'm dishing people, I'm dishing people. This is very, like, niche for pentatonics. So is. Living for the bull cut. You guys know how to love a good bull cut. That's how clients act, Jenna. I always just wanna tell my clients, please just put your head here and leave it here. I feel like she's doing a very thorough job. I'm very happy. I'm very proud of her. Just like sit up. Yes! Yeah, it's probably, I don't know why that's hot though. Vine. Neutralizing? I don't know. What am I supposed to do is a warm, I agree. It's easier. You just comb it and it's straight. Doing a perm is, like, shape and spine. Very artistic and very complicated. I actually kept my bottoms on this time because I was cold. Wow, his hair is. That looks so good. His hair is gorgeous. I'm gonna straighten your hair. No, no. This is slimy. Napster, June and Jenna. I'm just really, like, nervous. This looks good. It's such a look. Oh my God, his hair looks so lush. It looks like feel it. This feels like smooth and nice and not like a. You did a really good job. Wait, really? You like it? Yeah, like, I never thought that this would be. I feel like every video of Jenna, she's just becoming a better hairstylist every time. It'd be, like, so doable. I thought she was trolling him. Really? And then I, because, like, when they started getting popular, it was, like, this really expensive treatment seemed like a big long process. It is. It's hard, you know? He has, like, three inches of hair and it's only on, like, the top half of his head. Doing that, carried in treatment on a girl who has hair down to here, which is most of the people who want carried in treatments. It takes, like, six hours. It's actual torture. It's terrible and that's why it costs so much. Not that it's that hard to do, but it's just torture and nobody wants to do it. It's hours. I wanna see how it looks when he air dries it. That's the true test of a carried in treatment. If you can air dry your hair and it comes out either straight or, like, way less wavy than you had it before and less frizz, and no frizz, then that's when you won. That is when you know you did an amazing job with your carried in treatment. Okay? You give me a score of $26 and it's really not that difficult. Don't be pulling that out there. That's what I did. Don't say it. How many people do you think I will curl your hair? To the carried in treatment after watching this? My hair made my day worse. At home by themselves. It's happened to him from yesterday.  My hair is... Well, there it is, ladies and genties. That was Jenna doing a carried in treatment and to be honest with you, she did a fabulous job. Like I said before, I just feel like she's getting better and better and better at doing hair and I'm very proud of her. I'm watching her growth has been truly inspiring and touching for me. Why don't we do an Instagram shoutout right now? I wasn't planning on it, but you know what? We're gonna do one. I'm gonna pick somebody right now. And today's Instagram shoutout goes to Brittany. This is her Instagram name and this is what she looks like. So adorable. She says, Hey Brad, I'm new to your channel. Well, welcome. It's great, isn't it? Like also, if you're not already subscribed, definitely you should definitely subscribe. It's right down there. Just press the button and then press the bell icon right next to it and it'll give you notifications when I post. So that'd be great. Okay, back to this. I'm new to your channel and I'm living for it. I've had short hair for a few years since I cut it off to donate it. And I'm kind of bored with my hair. What do you think I should do with my hair? Should I keep it short or should I grow it out? So basically, I feel like your hair looks amazing short. I dig it. I really dig short hair on most of the time on people. Got it. Just got a vision. Just got a vision. You should do a bit of balayage.   I think if you enhance that red in your hair, it's gonna look so, so, so cool. And then keep the cut the way it is. That's my recommendation. So I hope you got something from that. If you guys haven't checked out how I live your extra life merch yet, obviously you should do that, okay? I just came out the new shirt that says if you look and girl, it is a look. Thank you guys so much for watching today. Don't forget to live your extra life and I will see you all next time. Peace.


The moment that maybe someone out there has been waiting for is here. Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey 2 has just released its first trailer and I'm gonna talk about it today. ["Blood and Honey 2"] Before I really dig into this honey pot, I would appreciate if you threw a subscribe my way. I post a lot of movie commentary every single week. Be great if you stuck around. Because of the honey, let's talk about this. First off, I wanna start with a compliment. Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey is a great title for a horror film. It was the best thing going for the first film and really nothing else.  I wanted something a little bit more creative, like Tigger Rises or The Wrath of Piglet or Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey Endgame.   They took a property that was not renewed in time and they ran with it. They were able to churn out a garbage film on a shoestring budget and the results speak for themselves. Now they're back, not even a year later with a sequel and that doesn't scream high caliber, right? It doesn't scream we're putting all of our best eggs in this basket. No, but let's see what the trailer has to offer. I'll give my thoughts as it goes. Okay, instantly I can tell you this movie looks far better than the first. I believe the budget was a million dollars this time and not 10,000 or 2,000 or $2 like the first one was and you can see it on the screen. So they're making use of the cameras, they're making use of that increased budget. It appears we're following a young Christopher Robin who's played by a different actor this time around, gonna be diving into a psyche, gonna be diving into the backstory of Winnie the Pooh. There's even a young Winnie the Pooh on display here. Boy Pooh as I'm referring to him.  Winnie the Pooh has resurrected, risen again anew from the ashes like a Pooh Bear rising. And I can say his look is completely different. Nothing like the first movie, Piglet's back in the mix, Tusk's no longer there. We got Tigger in this one, Owl's in this one. I mean, it looks like they're putting in at least a little bit of effort, visually far better.  Taking place in the woods, but also going to a party. We get a camper sequence. I gotta tell you, I hated the first movie with a passion. This looks like there is at least a small amount of effort being put in. It's not the schlocky trash they put out the first time. Now trailers can be very deceiving. We're probably seeing everything good. This film has to offer and the rest is gonna be, again, a complete waste of time. But who knows? My hope for this movie is that they looked back on the first one and they said, all right, we accomplished our goals. We made a ton of money. We got people invested in this property for some reason. Maybe. We'll see how this one does. And now we can actually put some effort into it. We can get what we need to make these costumes look good and the action look great. And some of the actors may be a bit better than the first and it remains to be seen. But I'm not at least worried to go to this movie. I think I'll have a decent time. I also hope they have fun with this one. Give me some poo puns. I wanna hear an old bother. I want there to be at least a little bit of tongue and cheekiness to it. The first one is just so serious the whole time and the concept's so ridiculous. It just doesn't work out. It doesn't match up. But I wanna hear from you. What do you think about Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey 2? No fun little subtitle or anything. That's just what it is. You think this one looks great? You think it looks at least a little bit better than the first? Let me know. Leave a comment below. Please like the video if you like the video. Subscribe. If you love the video, I'd love to have you stick around. I post movie commentary, reviews, roasts all the time. It would be great to have you stick around the channel. All right. Hopefully. I'll see you next time.


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece. Today we have a review of chapter 940, The Spark of Rebellion. And look, I'll be pretty honest with the get-go from this one. I think I'm in a bit of a slump with One Piece Manga over the past month and a bit, which is not to say that these chapters have been bad, not at all. We're just in that awkward middle period of an arc where it feels like it's taking forever to get to anything. We've gone through this before with Okay, Kyle, Interest, Rosa, Pancasa, the list goes on. And this chapter continues that tradition quite strongly. And if I was to identify why, I'd say it was because half of the chapter focuses on an arc exclusive character who up until this point was fairly minor. And the other half focuses on progressing stuff we already know in the prisoner mine with very little new information provided. Once again, this isn't bad at all. It's just the nature of reading such a mammoth story on a weekly basis. In fact, I really liked the Yasu stuff this week. He's gone from somebody who I thought would have very minimal impact on the story to quite possibly one of the most intriguing characters introduced thus far. And a lot of that spawns from the fact that neither Kandra or Shinobu knows who he is. As a result, Yasu has this newfound air of mystery about him. And I have a profound desire to see more of him and discover his secrets. I'm also beginning to get an incredibly tragic vibe from Yasu because it would be a very odour thing to do to juxtapose his smiling and seemingly joyous attitude with something so incredibly terrible that it informs why he behaves this way. What I'm thinking of is something along the lines of Jagwadi's soul's fate and how he laughed through it and taught Robin to do the same. So then when you see shots of the two of them laughing it's even more tragic than if they'd simply been crying. So as of right now, I'm very much mentally preparing myself to be completely emotionally wrecked by either Yasu's past or whatever the future has in store for him. And I'll give this segment another piece of credit as well because I think this is the first time that I have felt legitimate sympathy for the citizens of Wano. I mean, they've been through some pretty horrific things but just like I mentioned above, juxtaposing that with laughter and smiles makes it all hit home so much harder. Like seeing all of those people, most of whom are likely to die imminently. Being taken care of essentially by the medicine of laughter is heartbreaking. It's like Yasu is a doctor attending to their wills and spirits as their bodies fail them. We did also learn that Toko is his daughter which, you know, explains a lot about her. But when everything is said and done, it's looking a lot less like Yasu was going to turn out to be Dendro, the third of the missing Scabbards we're looking for. And if anything, I'm starting to feel like his role may be even more important than being one of the Scabbards. And hey, look, I might be going overboard here but I could see a situation in which the entirety of the Wano arc rests on his shoulders at some point. Like at some desperate point during the final showdown when all hope has turned to despair, he'll pop up with his usual smiley persona and inspire everyone to keep going and turn the tide somehow. And maybe that could even be his tragic ending like he decides to take on Kaido alone, gets killed and causes a massive emotional response from everyone else shifting momentum to the good guys. Or maybe not, who knows? I just think that with this chapter, Yasu is being seeded to have a very important action coming up in the future. And speaking of that thing, the future, if there's one reason why Kandro and Shinobu wouldn't know who this guy is, it may have to do with that whole time travel thing. Like here's a crackpot idea. What if Yasu is actually a future version of Momonosuke who I just picked up because the two have very similar top-not things going on and that would explain why he knows everyone but they don't know him. I mean, yes, of all the time travel ideas I've had, I feel like this one is the least likely because it would involve traveling back in time and that's supposedly impossible. But you know, what if it were possible and there was a whole bunch of stuff like that happening right now all across Wano with Komorosaki being future Hiyori and Yasu being the future Momonosuke and maybe even some others. We've all come back to ensure that the events of Wano play out exactly as they need to. It would add such an amazingly incredible layer of tragedy that it is very unlikely to be the case. So the other half of this chapter happens in the prisoner mine and starts out with Luffy training which I find quite boring to be honest. One of the things I've always loved about One Piece is that it generally skips any form of training. Like looking back on the series, all of the gears just came out of nowhere and even in the new world when an explanation is needed for how Luffy can do something, it just comes in the form of a satisfying Rayleigh flashback which is great. The only thing I would really call training is when Luffy was honing his observation Haki against Katakuri but that was wrapped in such a nice package of glorious battle that it doesn't really matter. This is a bit different. It's just Luffy facing off against Komiko villain after Komiko villain and I do appreciate that he does now need to advance his arm and Haki but I'm getting a little tired of seeing him just try and fail. I also thought that this portion of the Sumo Inferno ended incredibly abruptly. Like Queen just says, it's bedtime and everyone just goes to sleep. I thought that the whole point of this Sumo Inferno thing was to bombard the combatants with endless waves of opponents so as to completely drain overcome and eventually execute them rather than giving them any time to rest. And yes, I appreciate that a line was dropped about not getting any food and blah blah blah but it still feels just a bit jarring to have this sudden interlude. Although it did go on to give us a very funny shot of Rizo popping out of Karabo and Luffy hilariously quick forgiveness off him. And it even started to remind me of Impel down a bit when Rizo said something along the lines of Karabo's power being quite useful in a very similar way in which it was even called, I think, said crocodile's powers would be very useful in their escape. That's not the only similarity to Impel down either as it looks like the plan is now to conduct a mass breakout to assist in the battle against Tokaido. And with that, the chapter ends with Olin encroaching on the prisoner mine which is very exciting but it was a bit of an underwhelming shot.  However, I'm definitely thrilled that Chopper's group is approaching and I cannot wait to see how Luffy will react to Big Mom. And there were some other tidbits in this chapter like Haki and Wano being named Ryu all as well as Law leaving the group to go and save his own crew. He has a bit of a threat in regards to ending their alliance as well but I don't think that anything is going to seriously come from it. If anything, this seems like an excuse for Law to perhaps encounter Hawkins or Drake and start getting them involved in this whole plot. Look after going through the chapter like this it was actually pretty great. Although I can't deny that my immediate feeling after reading it was a bit meh but I think that's just how it goes in the mid-arc blues. There were a lot of great character moments this week and some fine storytelling so there's really nothing to complain about except that the things that are promised to come are seemingly so great that at times they overshadow chapters like this. But that pretty much does it for chapter 940. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. Also do check out my Teespring store if you're interested in shorts, witties and other miscellaneous items with the proceeds going directly to support the channel as well. And if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my Discord server where a wide array of shenanigans takes place on a daily basis. And finally please do comment with your thoughts on the chapter. This has been the Grand Line Review and I'll see you next time.


Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. For today's video, I'm pumped, okay? I'm going to be reviewing the ABH Norvina Collection Pro Pigment Palette Volume 5. So, if you want to hear my thoughts on this palette, then just keep watching. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a product and knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all the new makeup on the market and sharing my thoughts with you guys and I have collected Oh, this, you're gonna have to ignore this. This is going to fall down a lot probably in today's video. Okay, back to business. I've been collecting the ABH Norvina Collection Palettes and while I will admit, she definitely came in a little too hard with these big palettes way too many at once. I really like them. I have always really liked the quality of them. I've always liked the premise behind them. So, Norvina took a chill pill, okay? She slowed down the releases on these. So, after a year, she came out with Volume 5 and it was the right time. I was pumped for this. I absolutely had to pick this one up. So, let's go over the major details of this guy first. So, this is $60, you know, ending that cheap, but you are getting 25 shades. This is currently available on this Forer website and the ABH website. I picked this up from the ABH website because it launched there first. But wherever you want to get it, get it if you want it. So, they do say online that this is called the Lilac Colored Palette. So, it is a Lilac Palette. I didn't know they had names, but okay, we will take it. It does not seem to specify whether or not this will be limited edition, but who knows what is and isn't anymore. But this is a professional grade artistry palette featuring 25 deluxe size, high performance, high pigment shades with a gorgeous lilac color story. So, let's take a look at the packaging. It's the same packaging as the other Norvina collection palettes, but obviously it has a little bit of a different design. Very definitely something that looks very attractive to me. It is vegan, cruelty-free, 12 month shelf life, and it is made in the PRC. Now, the regular 12 p.m. palettes are normally made in the USA, but all of these ABH Norvina palettes have seemed to be made in the PRC. I will say, normally when companies have their palettes made in the USA or Italy or wherever, and then they'll shift to the PRC, I noticed a change in quality with the ABH Norvina collection palettes. I swear, the quality is a little bit better, normally. Odd, but I'll take it. Anyways, you open up the palette. It is a magnetic closure.  It's very easy and convenient to use as a real mirror actually for your makeup. And then you're going to reveal the 25 shades as per usual. They do not have names, which I much prefer if I'm being honest. It's just easier to say the shade names, and you have different kind of textures ranging from matte to shimmer to glitter to really, really sparkly shade. I don't know, so many of you guys messaged me on Instagram, and you were like, this palette was made for you, Morgan. And I'm just thinking like, yes, yes it is. Like, I knew I had to have this because if you're new to my channel, I love purples, specifically a good cool toned purple palette, and Norvina delivered with this. Now, Norvina is known for loving purple shade, but she really outdid herself. She's thrown a lot of purple shades in a lot of her palettes, especially in these big palettes, but there's never been like a purple color story. This is a palette that I feel like has a true purple color story, and I just think it's very thoughtfully done. There's no weird pops. A lot of times in her big palettes, I feel as though these palettes have weird pops, there really isn't a cohesion to the palette itself. This is the first palette where I can really feel like there's an inspiration and there's a purpose behind this palette, and I love these colors personally. This is a palette when I looked at it. I knew it was a color story that was for me, and you might look at this. I think the complete opposite, but just now I'm coming from a stance of I love the colors in here. If you're curious about how this palette compares to the other palettes at the end of my review, I will have a comparison section. I will also be linked down below if you need it. I have played with this palette before, so I do have some experience with it. I had a couple weddings this weekend, so I just played with this palette to get ready. So the first look I did was this look. It's a little bit more wearable-ish. I didn't play with too many colors. I just wanted to throw it on. I wanted a look that was going to look good without false lashes, and then I did another look this morning, a little bit more wham-bam. So I wanted to keep it without some false lashes. So I have had some experience with this palette, and so far, so good. But there are some other things that I do want to test out that I'm going to be talking about today. So let's get into it. I'm going to zoom us in. One thing immediately that I noticed with this palette, when I was blending the purples in my crease, it wasn't the easiest to work with. I definitely had to spend a little extra time blending it out to get a seamless look. I used Urban Decay Primer Potion both times as a base for that. So today I'm going to try Concealer as a base to see if that makes any sort of difference. Because like I said, it wasn't the easiest to blend out those matte purple shades. And I wasn't surprised by that because matte purples, I mean, they're tough to work with. If you're familiar with this brush, why did I think I would be successful with that? If you're at all familiar with purple shades, and trust me, I've been around the block when it comes to purples, purples are really tough to formulate. And normally, you know, when you sign up to wear purple eyeshadow, sometimes you just gotta know it's going to be a little bit more work than a brown shade or something that's easier to formulate. So I'm using Elf Chemo Concealer. I'm just going to put that down. This dries down almost feeling powdery. So it's not as sticky feeling as the Urban Decay Primer Potion. So we will see. I'm going to do two different looks on two different eyes just to be able to get more looks in because there are so many colors in this palette. This palette inspires me. I just, I see so many different looks that I want to create. I'm brainstorming right now. I think I want to do looks with colors that I haven't used yet. I want to talk about a few of the colors that I've used. This shade, absolutely stunning. This is in the look that I wore earlier today. This shade is really beautiful. It has a strong pink shift that you actually don't see in the pan. So even though this looks more neutral, it still plays in with this pinky purple kind of vibe here. Now I've played with like these shades. One, two, three, and then this one right here. These are the ones that I was like, hmm, about the blending. So I want to try it with a different base, but I've been very impressed so far with all the shades that I've tried today. I definitely want to use this one on this side, but actually first I'm going to do a smokey eye. I'll do smokey eye on this one. Oh, no, I don't know. Okay, let's start off with our base shade. I'm going to take some of A4. I'm using an Esum B34 brush for this. We're going to test and see that this is as difficult as I thought it was to blend out. Um, no, it doesn't seem to be already. We're doing better. I think that primer potion just made the purple stick a little bit too much and it was harder to work out. So I'm already liking this concealer base since it's set and it looks super nice. Okay, there we go. That solves that. Just be thoughtful of what base you use. Let's deepen it up with a little bit of D4 right here. This is a tough color to formulate. So we're just going to give it a go. Oh, it's something that I forgot to mention and this is kind of a big deal for some of you guys. A number of these shades are pressed pigments. So technically they are not deemed eye safe. Not all of them. There's a few of them. Now this is not new to the industry or these palettes. I do not have sensitive eyes. So normally I'm unaffected by this. The products still work fine on me without irritation but if you're sensitive to like red and purple pigments then this is not the palette for you because it's called a pro pigment palette because they are pressed pigments and not eye shadows. I would say though, unless you have those sensitivities, you'll be fine. Eyes personally would say away from the pressed glitter. I'm always a little bit wary about pressed glitters and there is one pressed glitter in here which is stunning by the way but I'm personally not going to put that on my eyelid but that's just personal choice. Do what you want and this shade is blending out really pretty. Wow, do you see that? It's not overly pigmented either which I really like. I did use I think the shade or at least a shade kind of similar to this earlier today and it did leave slight staining behind so just be aware you might have a little bit of pink eye happening.  We are going to go into some more depth. We're going to use some of C5. I used, I believe, E5 as a liner today and it worked fabuloso, so let's try C5 and I'm just going to pop this very gently out here to give us some smokiness. Even a little bit in here. See how nice this is blending? Oh my gosh, I don't know what it is about these Norvina collection palettes but they are always so long. I love the formulation she has for these. I feel like people aren't normally thrilled with these palettes but I swear they have amazing quality. Norvina 4 kind of failed on the quality for me but this palette seems to be back in business. Let me put just a little bit of that deep shade C5 right down here on the lower lash line. Ready? Okay. I want to try out D3 right here. It's like a sparkly shade. It almost has like a matte base to it but with some intense purple sparkles. We're just going to put that all over the lid. Ah, yes. Oh my goodness, I love this palette. I feel like there's so many different directions you can go with looks that I want to create and I want to wear. The palette that inspires me is always super exciting because there aren't a lot nowadays that do. Oh yes, you can see. Are you guys seeing these intense shades? Little to no fallout. I've also been wanting to play with A3 and E3. I haven't played with these yet. Let me show you them. Here's E3. Now A3 swatched a little bit softer than what I was hoping. But this E3, look at this metallic goddess over here. Oh my gosh. E3 is like liquid battle. Whoa. I'm going to show you A3. Makes A3 look boring. But they're both very pretty. I'm going to take that lighter shade A3 and we're going to use that as an inner corner color but that E3 shade, what can I do with that? Where can I place that? We're going to see if we can use that. But I also really like how pretty this sparkly shade is right here. It's got like a strong gold shift. I use this as an inner corner color. It's got really beautiful. It has some intense sparkles in here. So what I love about this palette is the way that they play with the textures. Some of them are just so sparkly. I feel like for me to do this palette justice, I need to do a 10 looks one palette video. I will not be doing that. My poor eyes would not be able to handle that. I feel very inspired by this if you can't tell. Okay, we're going to move on to the other eye. We're going to create a different look. Then I'll do a big reveal with the lashes afterwards. There's so many colors that deserve to be played with. I just don't know. Okay, concealer is on. We're going to start off with B2 right here. I have not used this shade. It has a little bit of pinkiness to it. Oh, do you see how pigmented that is? Love it. This shade is definitely going to stain your eyelids. So just, you know, if you have an event that you're going to the next day where you're not wearing makeup, just be mindful of that because you'll be pink and you look like you're sick. Won't be a cute look. So pretty though. Because I can't help myself, I have to use this lilac shade right next to it. This one I've already used and I was so impressed with the opacity that I gave him my lid. And a lot of times with this type of shade, you'll notice wear time is bad. Not with this shade. It lasted all day. I wore all day to work and the vibrancy was insane. Do you see that? This is with a blending brush. I didn't even pack it on. Whatever factory Arvina uses for these palettes, I hope she continues creating shadows from them because they just create such a good formula. This is like 20 minutes of me talking about how much I love this palette. I do want to add some depth now. I'm going to do a true purple look. Let's take some of C3. And this is going to give us some depth here. Nothing too crazy because I already have a smoky eye on my other eye. See, I could put a silver on this lid and it would look super pretty for a nice contrast. And the silver, by the way, this is C2 in the palette. Look how pretty that is. So many choices. No, but I want to use E3 because look at this. That's that liquid metal shade. It just comes right on my banger. Oh my goodness. Yes. She's just as pretty on the eyelid. Let's give it a try to E1 because this is like a light pinky shade that I've been wanting to try. The sun came out and now it's too bright in my room. Ooh. This is pretty. This is going to be a really great color to go with a lot of different looks in this palette. So cute. Okay. We're going to take some of C3. Put that out here. Definition. I'm going to take some of E3. Put it right on the inner half of the lower lash line. And finally, we're going to take B1 which has a strong gold shift to it. I know the lighting is making it look white but it has gold in it. I'm just going to put that right here. Right here. This one has some sparkles to it. Two very different, gorgeous purple looks that are semi-wearable. I'm going to put on some liner and lashes and do the big reveal for you. Okay. I'm back. Here are the looks with some lashes. I'm going to line cover it. So you can kind of see. Here is the smokey eye that was so easy and quick to do. Everything blended great. No fallout which is a big one. Definitely looked like it took more time than it actually did. And here is our more open-eyed purple look, lilac look I guess is a better way to describe it. I love it. You'll see I went with a lighter liner and the water line just to open up my eyes even more. Two opposite looks here. You can definitely see the difference of what a dark look does compared to a light look. But anyways, let me kind of round things up here. I couldn't catch my vibe. I'm really into this palette. I think it is absolutely stunning. The quality is superb. I really haven't had any problems with any of the shades here. I would say maybe. And this is me really being nitpicky. I would like to see more formulas like E3 in the shimmer. It's just so metallic and wet and creamy because there are some that aren't as creamy but they're so gorgeous on the eyelid. So I don't even know if that's a bad thing. But I just love how many different textures there are in this palette. How many different depths there are in this palette. I could argue that there are a few redundant shades. I don't think these two are necessary. I don't think all of these mid-tone purples were necessary. But I don't care. I really love this palette. I think regardless, it's a great value, the quality that you're getting, the amount of shades that you're getting for $60. Of all the big Norvina collection palettes, this is easily my favorite because it's the most cohesive story that she's ever come out with. And it's like my kind of color story as well. These are colors that I would wear. And none of the big Norvina palettes are wearable. All of them seem to contain so many different vibrant neon colors and just all over the spectrum. They're not wearable. This is easily the most wearable. But it depends who you are, of course, because if you look at it, I mean, it's not a neutral palette by any means, but I think, you know, as in terms of being wearable, this is the most wearable. And for me, because I'm so comfortable in purple tones, I find it to be very easy to create an everyday look with this as long as you're into those kind of tones. And I think just the overall curation of this color story, getting more into it is perfect because even the non-purple tones complement purple tones. All of these shades work together cohesively, but they're still so different, which allows you to create so many different looks. So I just think I'm going to have so much fun with this palette. And I really think you guys will, too, if you like purple shadows. So if you're a fan of purple shadows, I think this is one that is definitely worthy of being added to your collection.  If you like purple palettes, it's really, really nice. I don't think you'll regret it. I have always liked her Norvina collection palettes, and this one did not disappoint. If anything, it's almost elevated. It's almost better. So that should tell you something. Now, as far as comparisons and how this palette compares to the other palettes in the APH line, we're going to get into that section. I wanted to do a comparison between the Norvina 5 and the OG Norvina palette. This is part of their regular line. You can pause this and take a look if you need to if you really want to compare the shades, but I'm going to show you them on my arms right now. So this top row up here, sorry if it gets out of focus, is the Norvina Volume 5, and the bottom is the original Norvina palette. So I put the colors that I thought maybe had some similarities to the Norvina 5 colors down here, and the colors on top are the colors that I thought could have been close. And to be honest, there really isn't a very close shade match. The closest are going to be, this is eccentric in the Norvina palette, and there's this one terracotta-y brown-orange shade. Okay, I'm out of focus. That is in the Norvina 5 palette, but it's such a versatile color. I'm not even mad. They are very close to each other. The rest of the shades, I would say, are pretty far off. So you can definitely have both of those palettes. You can pause here if you want to see shade-to-shade comparisons between the Volume 5 and the ABH Norvina Propigment Volume 1. So this is the first big palette to come out. And these, you can see those pops of purple look extremely similar. Obviously, there's a lot more warm pops in the Volume 1. It's a different color story all around, whereas, you know, the Norvina Volume 5 is much more cool-tone, definitely more in a true color family, a little bit less sporadic, which I like. But let me show you what colors are close. So once again, the top row is the Norvina 5. The bottom row is the Norvina Volume 1. And obviously, you can see there's matte whites in both palettes, which I don't mind. But really not as many similarities as I thought. What's going to be similar are there a lot of these mid-tone to deep-toned purples that are matte, that are very similar, and they're going to translate very similar on the eyes. So if you are only interested in the Volume 5 for those matte mid-tone to deep-toned purples, you already have them in the Volume 1. You do not need both. But really, other than the mid-tone purples, which there are quite a few in both palettes, everything else seems pretty different. I didn't find too many for dupes, other than you can see all of these purples, all six of them honestly kind of look very, very close to each other. So unless the dark purples are what you're after, I think you're fine between both. Now we are going to compare Volume 5 to the most recent launch before this one. This came out last year. This is the Volume 4. And these two were the ones that I was most curious about how they would compare side by side. Because by looking, I feel like I see so many similar shades. So let's take a closer look. Once again, Volume 5 is on top. Volume 4 is on the bottom. And this palette by far had the most similarities to Volume 5 out of all of them. So if you really aren't into repetitive tones, then if you have the Volume 4, I don't think you need the Volume 5. That being said, there's definitely a lot of similar shades as you can see on my arm. Overall, I prefer the color story of Volume 5. I feel like Volume 5 is almost the improved version of Volume 4. Volume 4 was the palette that I didn't like the most out of all of them. I feel like Volume 5 came to replace Volume 4 because it has a very similar color story. Obviously, Volume 4 has more pops of pinks and warm tones that the Volume 5 doesn't have, which I love. I love that Volume 5 sticks to one color story. But as far as swatch to swatch comparisons, you can judge this for yourself. But there definitely are a higher number of similar tones between these two compared to all of the rest. All right, you guys, that is all I have for today's video. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you found it helpful. Obviously, I love this palette. I really don't have anything bad to say. I think it's a perfect palette. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so. I will see you all in the next one. Bye, guys. Have a good one.