Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching today. So this week I've got a few things to show you. I have received these refills from Taser. They very kindly sent me these because I love using this one here. So this is their tape runner.  I really like it. In the past tape runners haven't been my favorite thing. I'm not going to lie it's something I find myself fighting with and they get gunged up and clogged and all that kind of stuff but these ones I've never really had an issue with. I really enjoy them. So yeah they're all the refills I've been sent. I will share things with you. Anybody you know is new maybe hasn't seen something like this before it's just a glue runner. You just literally do that. I find this one really easy like I said I've had other branded ones before and they have not lasted you know long at all. So yeah that's your sticky obviously tape and then you just will you know I use it a lot for my mats and my layers and then you just yeah push it all down and like I said it seems to be working well. I've not had my cards fall apart. It's obviously good for speed if you're doing multiple things so I really like it and the other one I enjoy as well is this one here which is the glue stamp and this one you just stamp down and it's great if you're doing small things as well. So if you've got something small you want to stick down can you just see there you go just the little squares perfect. So if you are sticking some small mats and layers down you literally just do you know all the corners one in the middle and then stick it down. Again seems to be working really well so I have shared these before. I've got them over on my Amazon storefront linked in but I'll link them below as well for you but like I said really enjoying this one and yeah I've got my other spare there so they sent me I've got 10 refills so I've got enough now to yeah last me a while. And then I have just received these so these have just arrived today and these are well I haven't got the ones that are called the life changing blending brush. Basically it's exactly the same brush as the cosmetic brush but a company or some companies now are changing the name of them to make them more craft related and for using with your inks and they've changed them to life changing blending brushes and also increase the price by like triple the price and more. These cost me I think £6.99. I've got two packs and I thought I'm not going to be paying out £40 to £50 and it is an identical brush. Now I know some of them may be slightly different and if anybody has those ones do let me know but I thought I'm going to try them for the first time I'm not paying out that much money. So I've picked up two boxes purely because the reviews and the people that I've seen use them say that the ones that they tend to go for are these sizes here and maybe this one. These ones here don't tend to really get used so I thought I'll get this one here so I've got the four there and then I've also got the four in this pack. So these ones are designed in Britain and they look just like makeup brushes. Now I did choose the kind of pinky rose gold ones purely because I thought they'd be you know look pretty when they're stored away and stuff oh no I thought I got two extra there so yeah they're just super super soft but like I said those ones don't really tend to get used. I'm not saying I won't use them but they're not going to be I guess when you're doing very small areas then yeah you know you may use them but they're probably going their own separate pot or they might get used maybe with paints and things like that I'm sure they will get used but these are the bigger ones and they are extremely soft brushes so again obviously you can't feel these but they are just packed absolutely packed with thousands and thousands of bristles and you can see that and so many people now are starting to use these instead of the sponge brushes so I thought right I'm going to try them so I'm going to quickly show you what you do. This is the first time with me using them so I'm just going to bring in my barn door distress oxide and carved pumpkin and we'll just work with those ones and from what I've seen is they literally just brush it on and then just go in and it is meant to be actually first impressions are really good you don't get any marks you don't get any lines you don't get any it doesn't matter what kind of blending sponge I use whether it's the square or the circular ones I always get a line or a circle when they come to you know when they actually hit the the card stock but already I'm really pleased with that so I am not buying those really expensive ones and shame on you companies that are and I reckon soon they're going to be on the TV channel network you know crafting channels if they haven't already and I haven't seen it first impressions these are really really good now they did also someone did say is also once you brush it off of it you can then use that same one in another color and I did see a girl use it and it didn't yeah look if I start going into this it's very faint you can hardly see so all the color has almost come off so I'm going to use the same one and it's not contaminated that at all and now let's bring this up here and see how well we get I can't believe how easy that is going on that is amazing wow I can see why they get the name life change in but don't buy the life-changing ones just buy cosmetic brushes don't waste your money like I said eight pound wow that is that is pretty good look at that really lovely blend and I haven't got any lines sorry my focus is just going out there here we come back in again there we go so I can work that a little bit more wow wow wow wow but that is a really lovely like ombre that is beautiful I think I've really surprised myself I wasn't expecting it to be that good honestly really was not expecting it to be that good so yeah let's flip this over just see how much comes off but they said you literally just brush them sorry my bangles are probably annoying people let's put one underneath there just said you just literally brush it off and the the color will just that's it once it's come off yeah you can't feel it on there or anything and now I think that's just from me putting my fingers down on there so I can see why they say the bigger ones I mean it'd be great really if a company would bring out but then this is when they're going to shoot up the prices would bring out maybe just you know these sizes or something because I can see why people don't really go for the smaller ones let's just try let's try these little tiny ones because like I said I think they will work though if you're doing yeah yeah it does work but you get it kind of I bring it up it kind of does that like squashes it goes out the other way but still okay I'm sure it would work in something I just want to try one more I want to do some dark colors just so you can again get a fair let's try chipped sapphire and I'm going to blend it into pine needles let's just see how that works and you'll really be able to see if we can get the color so I'm going to use that same one so let's just go into the blue and it said you don't really need to because I know with the foam ones you really have to work them into your kind of ink pads but let's just wow it is really good guys do you know what even if I just had this one for the £8 I would have paid that because it is they are certainly yeah life-changing and so quick and easy I am really really really surprised at how well this has gone on and these are makeup brushes don't don't don't buy the ones that are actually branded as life-changing because it is a rip-off I was refusing to pay that so I'm just going to just take off the color here I mean it has stained but I don't think let's bring it on to this one yeah look you're not getting much excess at all bearing in mind that's the yellow so other than maybe a stain itch because I wouldn't imagine I don't I haven't seen anybody say about washing these because they're so compacted I would have thought they're going to take quite a while to dry and you might end up getting maybe mould in them and things like that so I'm probably I mean there's nothing nothing coming off these at all I'm really pleased with it so then I'm going to go in now you can see it's not left any blue whereas you get that with the sponges you can't just I see people and they've got literally every Tim Holtz color and every sponge stuck underneath these and it's really expensive and I'd rather spend my money on stamps than things like that so now I'm just going to bring in this color let's see if we can get a really nice blend I really feel like I'm using less ink than I did with the sponges this is amazing guys I'm really not trying to sell this well I am because I would think you should get it but this is awesome and then I'm going to go in again let's see I would say what I'm probably going to have when I use these is just to scrap it a card to the side because there's a bit more green coming off that one now but there's not a lot of excess coming off and then I'm just going to go in with the blue now and just come back in I am completely sold on these these are absolutely amazing that would have taken me ages to do that and I've instantly got a really nice background to now you know use as I please so these are way above my expectations this is just amazing so yeah I will share the links to the ones that I used you don't have to have rose gold you can choose just normal black and yeah I think these are wicked I like that you're not going to need many I mean I'd probably just be fine with just those two but unfortunately the packs come with all of this but I think they are going to be along with them they're going to be my go-tos definitely so what have I got there so I would say yeah I mean if you just want to get one one box I think one box is going to be more than enough especially if you maybe don't do a lot of blending or stamping things like that you know using inks in general but you can just see there what I've created with complete ease and that's the first time you've seen me just take them out and use them apart from a little bit of stainage there is hardly very little if I was to just keep staying here now and just work that for a while you know yeah what I will probably do is keep one for dark colors and one for light maybe put a little sticker there or something with just light and dark so that way I know I'm not gonna you know if I was to put that now on my yellow ink pad you know maybe I would get a little bit of the color transferring but otherwise yeah brilliant and they feel really comfortable as well I like that I sometimes I get a really bad wrist ache or you know holding those tiny and I'm on about these things here you know holding that and really really working it can be yeah can take quite a lot of you know of hard work so this yeah and then obviously if you want to keep some to put your makeup for you know your foundations on as well you can but I think they're great guys love them okay so next um I've got these from Hobbycraft they're just some ribbons I don't tend to go for these satin ones because in the past they're just the kind of ribbons very cheap and if you've got any dry skin or nails maybe you know a little bit rough they hitch and they just yeah they're not very good and if you pull them too tight they actually pull all of the kind of weave away from each other but these ones seem okay they feel really nice they're a little bit thicker and I just needed a nice white and a cream and then I just thought that yellow was going to be really nice with obviously summer and I loved that wine color which I used on my bouquet flower box this week but you get 15 meters and they were a pound each so I should be able to link those below and because they're from Hobbycraft and obviously they're online so yeah just thought they were nice they have lots and lots of colors as well so I always say if you're starting up these kind of ribbons are great because they're very inexpensive and you get a lot so they will last me a while then my lovely Nan she picked me up this from I did have the little tag but it come up but it's from Sainsbury's in the UK and it was a pound it was in the wedding section and they're basically table scatters and you just sprinkle them over the table but these are really nice I don't have the copper color hearts you can see them there they're just little heart-shaped sprinkles and they will be used in a shaker card no doubt very soon because I love making shaker cards but yeah I like the little kind of test tube that they come in as well so that's always handy to keep things in and just get the rest of those in there there we go so yeah that was very sweet of her and she said they were only a pound so if you're going to do your weekly shopping have a little look in the wedding section you might pick up some I don't know if there's other colors but yeah just thought they were quite cute and then also in hobby craft I picked up this this is their lux lux craft collection and it's the ombre glitter pack so this is a premium card you get it's a four size you get 16 sheets 220 gsm it's acid-free and this is the rose gold but it's half price so these are actually normally six pound for the 16 sheets but I got them for three there's other ombre kind of blends but I really liked the rose gold and I thought this is going to go really nicely with my happy you collection by dove craft just bring out one of them here you can just see it's a really smooth glimmer kind of paper it's not a glitter as such it's a very very smooth um yeah glimmer paper and I love it really really like this one just a nice kind of subtle sparkle in the background there and you'll certainly be seeing that used a lot when I use the happy you collection I also popped in the works again because whenever I'm near it I go in and I've seen these in there they're always in there and you get three of these paper bags for a pound I bought two packs and they're really thick I've got a project lined up to use these so again you will be seeing that soon but the reason I love these ones so much is they're really thick card or paper and here how thick it is some paper bags are really really thin but these ones are not so yeah I've got like I said I've got six now and I think that's all I'm going to need for the project that I've got in mind so yeah I've got those and then lastly I put in an order with hunky dory I am a huge fan of the for love of stamps collection I have quite a lot of theirs now I find them to be quite timeless they're just beautiful images and I tend to always buy ones that I know I will use you know a lot and it doesn't matter whether I use it now or in 10 years time they will you know still work and be you know well loved so I have this one here now I did get a quite a good deal because all of these stamps plus the double sided sticky sheets here that I'll share with you and talk to you about in a minute came to 29 87 that was including postage so I thought that was really good but I did get a deal with these I think it was like if you buy three you got one no buy two got one free but also I found a voucher code so all I do sometimes when I do an order online is I will whatever company I'm with I will then do a separate search for and I'll just type in hunky dory voucher codes and sometimes they work sometimes they don't but this one did and I it's not broke it's broke it down but it's just saying discount eight pound so with the the deal with the stamps and then the discount code that was a total discount of eight pound so this would have all actually come to 38 pound but I got it for 29 including postage I thought that was quite good considering these on their own I usually like 799 699 I got these all for a bargain so I've got this one here which is delicious donuts you've got your large donut here the other donut and all the different toppings this is the Krispy Kreme logo but it says happy birthday with sprinkles on top if you stamp that in green and then the writing in red as they've done with some of the design team inspiration it looks just like a Krispy Kreme one and some really clever um DT on their team done six of these on a card and then with this and made it look like a box of six Krispy Kreme donuts and I just thought that was wicked and there is a special lady in my life who is obsessed with donuts so this will be no doubt a card will be made for her using this set here so this one the delicious donuts this here was 199 which is a bargain the photopolymer they're just beautiful stamps and yeah love it so head over there you know deliveries quick as well and you can't go wrong love their stamps always have then I got this one here this is shop till you drop and this one was 199 and the reason again I love their images so much is they don't add a lot of detail so you see here the gift bags are just completely plain so they're perfect to add color you know whether you're using watercolors or your alcohol markers you can get really nice shading yeah just just really really easy to color and that's why I love them so much you've also got some lovely sentiments here you got a little credit card which I like hope your day is full of shoes and shopping a birthday is no time for sensible shoes and happy birthday girlfriend love it you got the bill there you got shoes hats and everything else so love it and also the good thing is if you ever need any inspiration you just type in for the lover stamps and shop till you drop and you'll get all of the cards that the designers have made and yeah if you're stuck with you know what colors and how to color them in you'll be able to see what they've done so it's always good this one here is a grand adventure and this one I'm just looking on my invoice this was also 199 the reason I actually was drawn to this one was because of this lovely creature here I just think the bear looks wonderful but I also like these trees and they're going to be really nice for Christmas you know cards as well so you know you can stamp them in like an embossed silver and then have like snow on them and there's so many different ways to use this stamp set not just as it's you know meant to be used it's more for like a traveling kind of theme but you do have have a berry special day but I've got some lovely stamped balloon images and I had an idea of putting lots of balloons behind him um yeah I just think it's lovely and it's great for you know again if you do want to make some cards for a little boy or something I think that's always quite fun so again 199 bargain and then I've got this one here which is delightful decorating and this one was 299 and the reason again I love this one so much I love these big kind of paintbrush strokes and you've got the paintbrush there so the idea is is you would stamp this and have the paintbrush kind of here so it looks like you've just painted it if you stamp it in like a light color and then you can add your sentiments over the top or whatever it is you want really but these will look great and I've got some really nice ideas I need to do some new home cards as well I love the roller again the and like I said these are just very very kind of timeless stamps you know how many people will always be decorating their home or buying a house moving into somewhere just think they're great and I love it's got new home this one here is a lovely sentiment I've not seen this before happiness is decorating your new home and I think that's quite nice because everything I always see is usually just good luck in your new home or you know just new home so it was nice to have something a little bit different you color my world again really lovely sentiment so if you were to just stamp this in lots of different colors and have you color my world you know like rainbow colors it would just that's it card done so love that one like I said bargain for $2.99 and then I've got this one here which is a slice of happiness this is probably up there is my favorite along with the donut one and this one here was $3.99 so all of them were reduced the reason I love this so much is that really nice large stamp there of that slice of birthday cake and that lovely big stamp there of the plate for it to go on you've got the little candle and then you've got strawberry you've got raspberry you've got cherry you've got a rose you've got sprinkles love the fork then you've got make-a-wish and then these two lovely sentiments which is hope your day is filled with extra icing and wishing you a big slice of happiness and they're really easy to cut out or you can scan them through as well stamp and scan them and then get them to cut them out but I just think yeah love it really really nice again can't wait to make cards with these you're going to really like them I think so it's that one and then this is their new collection so this is the golden oldies they have papers and stuff to match but I don't ever really get them I just like the stamps I've already taken them out of packaging so you can see them a bit closely now these are more expensive and obviously smaller but they are the new collection and the golden oldies they've done this before and they're just very classic stamps now this is my favorite one so all of these are $4.99 each and this one here it's such a good image if I show you there's the image on the back okay and it says I'm not saying you're getting old but we've started having to warn the fire brigade before we light your candles I mean that is brilliant I think I love it and again can't wait to color it in you can see how nice the the images then I've got this one here you bake me so happy and it's this lovely lady here stood in a kitchen with a cake and then it's got the sentiment there you bake me so happy but the ideas I've had for this one as well is to mask off the background have her stamped on a card and have again balloons and you could change the cake and stamp a different cake and have that in front of that one so and this would work well for Valentine's Day as well and you can see how it looks on the back there really really like these a lot another favorite are these cool dudes here this is old friends you've got these three guys here each with a beer in their hand he's got a mobile phone there and he's trying to take a selfie of the three of them and he's there got the piece signed behind his head I just think it's really lovely old friends are the best friends and there is a picture of it a little bit closer so again and really not like I said they're easy to color in there's not a great deal of detail i.e you know like wrinkles on the skin or all the hair strands that someplace some stamps do I don't like that I just like the outline so that's what these have got and then the last one here this is birthday babe and that's how she looks and you can basically on her sash you can have magic mum special friend glam grandma or birthday babe and I I love that I thought that's really really good and then you've got birthday wishes there and you've also got a little gift bag and the little parcel they're all little presents balloons and bouquet flowers so yeah love them I saw them on the shopping channel the craft channel and I just thought yeah I want those but I went and looked at hunky dory and saw the better deal that they had so I get my ideas sometimes from but I can say creating craft but I don't always shop there because they just they shoot their prices up ridiculously you can always find it much cheaper if you shop around which is what I do okay so that is this week's craft stash these have just absolutely blown me away and I can't wait to use these with my stamps because you know already I've got these lovely again those black backgrounds these usually will take me quite a while to do it's not something that's just done as quick as that that took literally a matter of minutes to create but these are going to look great now you know even like him you know imagine him just now stamped on there yeah just it's easy I love it I'm going to shut up it's too nice outside now I'm going to go and have a cold drink enjoy the sun and yeah enjoy this I'll share all the links below as always and I'll be back tomorrow with my Friday tutorial thanks for watching bye


Righty, we have quite a bit of details to go over in today's construction update, I'm going to give you guys some random facts about things that are going on at Wonderland, things that are potentially about to happen at Canada's Wonderland, and just about the construction over at the restaurant area. But let's get right into it, why isn't Kingswood's tent taken down quite yet? Well, again, this is going to be a slow land development project, nothing exciting, there's nothing planned for Kingswood at the moment, the tent is just coming down because it is unused and there's no reason to have a damaged tent remain up, so the tent will come down similar to other sister parks, and then potentially a couple years soon now we could start to see this land being used for something in the park. Outside of that, lots of work going over on at Vortex Hill, from what I'm gathering here, removing the sprinkler system and all the electrical from the grass land, so then they can start to dig up the land, so right now they are just doing land prep, removing the sprinkler systems, removing the electrical, you can see there's holes everywhere. Based off of the size and how far down they're going, I do suspect this restaurant to take up at least half of Vortex Hill, if not more in terms of even the pathway that'll go around it, and then Cedar Faire's typical kind of land development around projects that they build. Again, Cedar Faire is very famous for beautifying the area around attractions or restaurants that they put into their parks. Random fact, Black Hole was repainted last weekend, or right before last weekend, we actually caught it on our last drone update, you can actually go back and watch it and you'll see them painting it, that was something I didn't know about in the video, but nonetheless, it is finished getting repainted, one will be hemoth get repainted, I have no idea, is this roller coaster becoming one of the longest unpainted roller coasters in the Cedar Faire chain? I have no idea, I'm just kind of spitting that out there, but 2008 to now and no paint touch up, getting kind of long in terms of no paint touch ups, kind of scaring me a little bit, I don't know if it's because it's expensive and it's over water, so getting a company to go out there and paint it, it's a little complicated, that's probably too hard of a reason, but yeah, I mean we're getting into that territory where Leviathan's about to hit ten years, so that's typically when roller coasters do get repainted ten years, so the fact that behemoth hasn't been touched yet and Leviathan's about to hit that year frame where it should start to get a little paint touch up is a little shocking. I don't know if there's a bigger story or picture to this, like are they thinking about re-changing its colors completely, like is action zone kind of being phased out at Wonderland and they're going to go back to their old era and does that mean a completely new theme? Again, that's a huge stretch and there's no information backing that up, but nonetheless, Mindbusters trains are out of the storage shed as they go back to the maintenance bay on the north end of the park, a lot of you may not know, but what Wonderland does at the end of every season is they take their rides and they completely disassemble the trains and reassemble them to make sure there's no missing parts and that all the parts are in extremely healthy shape and that there's no repairs needed outside of that. Again, if a part looks like it needs repairs, they'll replace it. It's the whole point of taking something apart and rebuilding it, it allows you to completely find any flaws or attention areas that may need attention on that ride. So that's something Cedar Fair and Canada's Wonderland do every year for rider safety and a lot of people don't know that. It's an extremely tedious process, but extremely safe. So yeah, that was something exciting. I'm trying to think if there's anything else that I'm missing, there probably is. There are signs. Again, this is another reach. I don't have any confirmation from the park and I will always communicate moving forward if something is a reach or a stretch. My fam is saying take it with a grain of salt or if it is coming from the park. Again, you should always wait for park confirmation or the park to make an announcement in terms of anything, but it does look like Skyhawk path might open up to connect the two areas. They have set up a construction fence going down along the Immelman of Yukon now. So there's an actual metal construction fence, which could be a sign that it's going to open. A lot of people who were at Winterfest last weekend did see Christmas lights down there. So it would make sense. Why else would they set up Christmas lights? But also why else wouldn't they have it on the park map? So there's two counteracting arguments in terms of Will Skyhawk path open for Winterfest, but they definitely need something to draw more guests down there. I did notice that it is kind of a dead zone by Holly Jolly Trolley, even Santa's workshop. So definitely they need something down there or better flow to get guests in there instead of that one entryway and one exitway. Some similar mistakes that they made in 2019 that they're probably learning really quickly to fix. So definitely if they open that path, super excited about that. Lots of action going on. The electrical company is back on site down by Mindbuster, the trailer that is permanently on site. There are a lot of electrical workers from that electrical company that are back on site and moving around and doing work. You're going to see a lot of sound barriers added to the outside of Wonderland moving forward. On the hospital side, you're going to see an actual sound barrier added. And then on the east side of the parking lot facing Jane Street, you're going to see a lot of trees being planted. A lot of them have already been planted. We're going to see more being planted as a sound barrier for the community over there. It is a project that Vaughn is actually working on as a sound barrier to protect the community around. They're working on it with the highway, Canada's Wonderland and the hospital. So you're going to see a lot of work around there. In terms of anything else, I don't know if any of you watched our Winterfest interview with Grace Peacock, but I don't suspect any new rides coming in 2022. I think that Wonderland will be releasing all the restaurant details after Winterfest, but there won't be any ride announcements a part of that. And in terms of 2023, I'm definitely going to start putting my money down on an action theater dark ride. And that 2024, 2025 will be our roller coaster year. And it's most likely going to be a mock double launch as they are winter proof. And Wonderland is needing something desperately for Winterfest. The comments are all over TikTok and social media that people are starting to expect more rides. Again, that's a little outside of Wonderland's control and not their fault, but guests don't understand that. So the Wonderland stuff is going to be looking to adding rides that are more Winterfest proof. Anyways, thanks so much for watching my update guys. Hopefully you enjoyed this one. Have a good weekend. Bye


You're tuned into the COVID-19 community report here on KDRT, 95.7 FM in Davis, California. I'm your host, Autumn LeBae Renaud, and today is Tuesday, March 31st. We're here to share local news and resources focusing on what's impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 crisis. My guests today are Jessica Hubbard, Executive Director of the Yolo Community Foundation, and Heidi Kellison of the business blog, Downtown NorCal. We'll be talking about the impact of the crisis on nonprofit and for-profit small businesses, respectively, and we'll have that first interview in just a few minutes. This show airs live at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays, and repeats at 5 p.m. both days. You can also listen online anytime at kdrt.org, and you'll find a compilation of show resources there as well. And this Friday, I'll interview Congressman John Garamendi. I'm going to do something a little bit different at the first part of the show here. Because we're focusing on nonprofits and small businesses today, I'm going to take a couple of minutes here to reflect on running this nonprofit in a time of crisis. Believe it or not, it wasn't actually my plan to produce and host live radio twice a week at this point in my life. If you don't know me, my job is Executive Director for Davis Media Access, the Community Media and Technology Center that operates Davis Community Television, DJUSD Educational Access TV, and this here, Grassroots Radio Station KDRT. I'm working from home most of the time, but twice a week, I come here to host this show. The KDRT studio window in the DMA building at 1623 5th faces westbound traffic on 5th. And as most Davis Knights know, it's a street generally clogged with traffic, both cars and pedestrian. As I look out of it twice a week, the street's pretty empty, the sidewalk's pretty empty too, and it's in those moments that I start to feel the distance and the isolation a little bit. This usually bustling facility normally pushes out a great deal of local content from public affairs and music programming on KDRT to local talk shows, public service announcements, election programming and event coverage on DCTV and school board meetings and school-based productions on DJUSD TV. Fact is, much of what we do in a normal year, we can't do, and I know many of you are faced with that same situation in your work and your organizations. I want to take a minute here to express my pride in my staff and our board and volunteers here at DMA. Right now we're working hard to help KDRT programmers get back on the air remotely, and we're also getting ready to launch Life in the Time of COVID-19, Yolo County Community Diary, which is a collaborative video storytelling project about our shared experiences at this moment in time. On DJUSD Comcast Channel 17, we're providing a wealth of science and foreign language distance learning programming. So I'm here. I do this work because I believe in the importance of local community-based media. We need ways to connect with those around us. We need to know where our local resources are, or we need to find out how we can offer help. I do this show because I know what important role community radio in particular plays in a time of crisis. When cell towers and broadband fail, as they did during widespread wildfires last year, radio can be a lifeline. So I hope KDRT is a lifeline for some of you, and I hope the show is helpful. And I hope everyone out there is doing your part to stay put and help flatten the curve. As we watch the news unfold, it seems increasingly likely we may be social distancing for some time yet. And I wrote on the Davis Media Access webpage last night that we're closed until further noticed. At first it was to the end of March, and now it's we don't know. So with you in the spirit of we don't know and we're doing our lives anyway to the best we can. Let's take a moment for music while I get ready for our first call. A few weeks ago, I was feeling rather concerned about the lack of attention being paid to nonprofits and the overall discussions about economic relief. I'm happy to report that has shifted, at least locally, with county and city governments and community foundations now addressing the potentially devastating impacts of COVID-19 on the nonprofit sector. Here to tell us more is Jessica Hubbard, Executive Director of the Yolo Community Foundation. Thanks for joining us, Jessica. Thank you so much for having me. Good to hear your voice. Let's start. Why don't you let listeners know just a little bit about what Yolo Community Foundation does? Sure, absolutely. So the Yolo Community Foundation works to inspire and support giving and provide philanthropic leadership in Yolo County. More simply what that means is that our goal is to increase the quantity and quality of giving locally. We do that by setting up philanthropic funds, which are like many foundations for local families, as well as endowments for local nonprofits. Great. I've had conversations with other nonprofit leaders in the last couple of weeks, and I'm hearing from some of them they don't, they fear they might not survive this year. What are you hearing out there? And let's take that question first and then let's talk about how the attention on nonprofit needs has shifted in really just the last week. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm hearing the same. Well, I would divide local nonprofits into two groups. One is the nonprofits that are directly involved in relief efforts, and they are working harder than they've ever worked before. They still need significant financial resources because the scale of the response is so tremendous, but they also have money coming in. It's just that they need more from all of us so that they're able to meet the need in the community. And then the second group is nonprofits that are not directly involved in relief efforts. They still have a role to play in all of this, a significant role when it comes to mental health and education and recovery, but they're less involved in the immediate disaster response.  A lot of those organizations were funded with earned income, like classes and field trip fees and performance tickets, and that's just stopped. Their fundraising and buzz have been canceled, and their donors are scared. They're financially scared. So I have a significant concern that a lot of the organizations that aren't drug responders might not survive this crisis. A lot of nonprofits do rely on volunteer help for their projects, and they get grants that utilize large numbers of volunteers. Those are off the table too. So it's a conundrum. I've noticed in the past that our retired Yolo County residents really carry the nonprofit sector on their back when it comes to volunteering. And that's the segment of our population that has been most impacted by the stay at home orders. Of course, all of us are home, but they're the ones with the greatest concerns about even relatively safe volunteer opportunities, of course. So I agree that that's just really a tremendous impact. So you and I chatted at an, it was actually a big day of giving event a couple of months ago, and I remember you asking me point blank, what can the community foundation do to help nonprofits more? And you and I batted around a lot of ideas. I didn't think at that time, and I'm sure you didn't either, that we'd be having that conversation in a new context, but here we are. So on March 24th, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors approved a plan and with $250,000 of seed money and plans to bring in large scale donors into a community action fund. I know the cities are going to be in Yolo County are going to be folding in. What's the community foundations role? What can you tell us? Yes, absolutely. So we're collaborating with the county and other partners on a free prom strategy for disaster relief for crisis response. First, we're working to provide technical assistance to nonprofits on issues that this crisis is raising, like access to government funding, cash flow management, the villainess in both issues. Secondly, we're launching a community wide donor education campaign to help local residents understand what needs this is creating in our community, what local nonprofits are doing to address those needs, and how critical it is for each of us to do what we can to support our nonprofits. And we're really encouraging people to give directly to nonprofits. The third part is the fund that you referred to and that's really intended to coordinate and maximize large donations, very large donations, from institutional donors like cities and companies and so on. That's still in progress, but we expect to have an official announcement in the next couple of days. OK, so if I'm not going to use Davis Media Access as an example, but I'm a random nonprofit and I'm struggling and I'd sure like to get in on some of that funding, what should I do? So you should go to our website and follow the link. It's www.yolasdf.org. There's a link on our website where you can sign up. Anyone can sign up to stay updated about our COVID-19 relief efforts. That said, we will also be reaching out to all of our nonprofits in our network, through all of our partner organizations, through the cities, et cetera, to really get the word out once we have the grant making process defined and once we're open for business, which we are working to do as quickly as possible. And are lots of nonprofits already contacting you? I would assume. Yeah, not as many as you might think. I think because people are so flat out immersed in the day-to-day business of their work, but we have been doing a lot of outreach. We hosted a call with about 50 nonprofit representatives pretty early on in all of this and did a survey. We've been following up with a sampling of executive directors to get more detail about what their needs are. And we're hoping to launch both our actually really all three elements of the strategy in the next couple of days. All right, so that's kind of the picture in Yolo County and local efforts. Are you aware of how nonprofits can gain anything under the federal stimulus bill? So that's one of the key areas where we're looking, we're hearing from nonprofits that they need support. So right now we're working to understand exactly what their needs are. Again, through speaking with a sample of executive directors as a representative group and then I'm working with a couple of consultants to scope out who are the experts in these questions and what's the simplest, fastest, easiest way we can provide some training to nonprofits as well as potentially one-on-one support to nonprofits to help them answer these questions. Because right now the quantity of information is varying people and so we need to figure out, so what we're working right now is figure out how do we make this digestible and simple knowing how hard people are working right now and how important this is going to be for them. Okay, I wanna thank you for taking time here today to talk about this. As you said, it is overwhelming. Again, from my perspective here at DMA we've had to learn how to run a highly technical organization remotely. So that's been one challenge. We've had to distribute workloads, put grants on hold. We're afraid of what's gonna happen to our donations this spring, et cetera. So I appreciate the opportunity to talk with you and also the fact that you're out there and you're addressing this head-on. Thank you, I appreciate that. All right. So it's not us, we're doing in support of our local nonprofits and they're the ones on the front lines. And like I said, it's the nonprofits working in healthcare and social safety not and it's also all of the nonprofits that are important to each one of us for various reasons. All are critical and it's important that we really all do what we can no matter how big or how small that is right now. All right, well thanks again for your time. Thank you. Bye. That was Jessica Hubbard, Executive Director of the YOLO Community Foundation. She's someone I have cross-passed with a number of times this year and it's always a pleasure and it's really nice to hear from her about the efforts going on. Again, their website is YOLO-CF as in catfrog.org A little bit of music and we'll be back in just a minute. All right, we're gonna take another call in a few minutes and as is my practice I'm gonna squeeze in as many announcements as I can. I do wanna say there's a on the catart.org there's a separate blog where we're categorized where we're putting all the resources that have been mentioned on this show since the beginning with links. And so, you know, if you're listening something goes by a website, a phone number goes by pretty quickly but you can actually find that information catart.org. All right, I learned yesterday that the California Department of Public Health is doing a daily press release on the COVID-19 situation. This is in addition to, you know, what you can get from the county's fine resources but it's a daily update and before warned it has all the numbers and all the statistics so if you don't like that kind of thing don't visit this website but it is cdph.ca.gov California Department of Public Health. And abc10.com broke a story yesterday that free coronavirus testing is actually now available in Sacramento County. Their questions are, who is eligible? How do you get an appointment? What is the testing process? Turns out you must be 18 years or older live within 50 miles of Sacramento County which actually applies to all of us here in Yolo County and you have to go through an online screening process so you can learn more about that at abc10.com. And if you've lost income due to COVID-19 or shelter in place, you may be eligible for paid sick leave, family leave or unemployment insurance. Find out more from the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency's website labor.ca.gov And the city of Davis also directs us to these resources. City of Davis on Facebook, just go to Facebook and plug in cityofdavis and cityofdavis.org forward slash coronavirus. And you can sign up to receive emergency notifications at yolo-alert.org. And I think that's tied into both city and county. Moving on to food. Food not bombs delivers free vegan meals in Davis to anyone who is interested. You don't have to explain yourself in any way. If you'd like to request meal delivery, contact them on Facebook at Davis food not bombs or email davisfnb at gmail.com. Please include your name, address, food allergies and any other notes. All meals will be vegan and they're taking safety precautions while cooking and delivering to homes. The Minetti Shrimp Museum at UC Davis shares new content on its social media every Friday. These include long reads about their artist as well as fun ideas to keep your creative juices flowing. By the way, I'm seeing this come forward from a lot of the arts nonprofits. So go to your favorite's website, find out what they're offering at home. I know the Pence is doing this, I know the Davis Art Center is doing this, et cetera. But you can connect with them at Minetti Shrimp Museum at ucdavis.edu or on Facebook or Instagram. And that's M-A-N-E-T-I-S-C-H-R-E-M. And I talked last week about Sutter Davis Hospital's PPE donation line, personal protective equipment. They're still accepting donations but they ask that you please call. Don't drop things off without calling and talking to someone.<PHONE_NUMBER>. And as school is working hard to get teachers back online and connected with students, you can find out all about that at djuust.net. And there's links there for it's learning at home portal which went live last week. And also information about Chromebooks and internet access. The school district right now is doing a really bang up job of trying to get everyone who's not connected connected so that they can continue learning during this time. And finally from our friends at the Yolo Public Library, Ms. Maria hosted interactive storytelling time every Thursday at one on Yolo County Library's Instagram feed go to Instagram and plug in Yolo County Library and that'll get you there. All right, we're gonna do just a little bit more music as we get set up to talk with Heidi Kellison. Davis resident Heidi Kellison launched a blog last year called Downtown NorCal which at the time was devoted to her love of shopping small and supporting small businesses. During the COVID-19 crisis, she's retooled her work to focus on interviews with local business owners, getting straight to the heart of their struggles and how we as a community can help them. Here to tell us more, Heidi Kellison, welcome. Thank you, Autumn. It's so great to be with you today. Good to hear your voice. So a lot's changed since you launched last year. And I noticed in getting ready for this, you were formally directing people to your blog on your website, downtownnorcal.com. And now you're all Facebook and Instagram and you're getting a lot of videos out there. So tell us about what that transition's been like for you. Well, I mean, we're all learning new technologies to be remote. And so that has been, I'm technologically challenged already, so not to have an IT person with me has been complicated, but it's the least we can all do. And I really felt like, especially when we needed to be remote, and I did get some in-person interviews before we were sheltered in place. But in order to be remote, I really needed to get a, I needed to put the voices to these stories because we know there are community members, there are the people we love, there are the people we go to for speaking to your last segment, non-profit support. They're the ones who make sure that nonprofits can have good events and raise money. Absolutely. So I knew I had to adjust and do what was needed to help. Well, this is what we do here on Community Media too. It's about the power of storytelling. So I would love if you'd share with us a few stories from the field. Who have you been interviewing and tell us what you're hearing from them? Well, I'm interviewing all segments of small business economy. And I have had some very special stories. To me, they're all, it's like choosing a child. They're all special. They all have something that's unique to share. I think the thing I'm hearing most, and these are really tough people. And that's why I have always volunteered my advocacy efforts on their behalf because I admire the guts it takes to hang your own shingle and make payroll and all of those things. But despite their tenacity, there is real fear. I've never heard before. And I think a lot of that stems from the unknown, but especially for them, I think it's one of those sectors where aside from the SBA loans at this point, there's not a lot of attention to what they can do. And for them, an SBA loan may be incurring more debt. So the lack of guidance and support around that is very complicated. Also locally, but every city has adopted an ordinance to delay rent. And so we've got April 1st tomorrow. And that is a concern for some businesses. How are they gonna make their home mortgage payment or rent and the same for their business? And they just don't know. And they're zero income, or some are operating remotely by a thread. But that certainly does not make the rent that they are accustomed to having to pay. And we have a situation at least here in Davis anyway, where downtown business rents are beyond exorbitant. They're really up there in the stratosphere. And I personally know local business owners who have had to downsize their quarters or before this crisis or had to move out of the downtown. So we could be looking at a very different business landscape when this is all done, right? Well, I agree. And I think that that is the hard question. And I almost hate to ask it, but I do get a lot of offline comments about that. People want to put their most optimistic self forward in my interviews, but behind the scenes, they are sharing with me that fear that they may not reopen. And of course, I'm not out and about, we're all sheltering in place. But when I emerge back into the world, I want to see a thriving commerce out there. I want to see a downtown that's active. I want to see people having places to go. And so that's the most essential thing that I feel I can do right now is to make sure that our community can remain intact. Yeah. You shared a post on the COVID-19 yellow community response group on Facebook yesterday that had, you broke it down into basically, businesses have two options at this time. Can you kind of backtrack a little bit and go over those? One of them was a, you mentioned SBA, that small business administration. And then there was another part to that post you did. Well, it's essentially the guidance and there's very little information. I was listening to the Yolo County Board of Supervisors meeting today and there was lamenting about the lack of information coming out to support small, but really that folks need to work with their own financial institution. And if they don't have one that they're working with, there are free services and that was listed in the post so people can view that at downtownNorCal.com or they can go directly to Facebook and find the post. But yeah, you can also work with your account. So I've heard from some businesses that they go through the, they're working hard to stay afloat and do what they can do behind the scenes. Was talking with a restaurant owner last week and he said that he was getting through the SBA application which is quite lengthy and by page 20 each time for the three days it would crash. And so really that's very frustrating when you're trying to keep everything going. And I really would encourage small businesses to work with their lending institutions. Okay. Well, it's a daunting process and I'm really glad to have you here to share a few note firsthand notes from the field and I wanna encourage people to, they can find out more about what you're doing and see interviews on both Facebook and Instagram at downtownNorCal. Heidi Kelsen, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks again. Take care. It is, I try to stay somewhat upbeat while delivering a lot of bad news here these days but I'm really trying to include the resources and to hammer home the feeling that though we may be socially distanced we are in this together. So at this point I'm gonna say thanks for tuning in and I'll be back this Friday with an interview with Congressman John Garamendi. Looking forward to that and from the KDRT studio I'm Autumn Laberino and this has been the COVID-19 Community Report.


This video is called ratios. What we're going to do is practice writing ratios and then reducing our answer to the lowest term. Ratios can be written in a number of ways. You can write them as a fraction, or you can write the two numbers with a colon in between them. I think we will stick with writing them as fractions because that will be the most helpful for us when we do our story problems in geometry. Very quickly, the statement we're going to be working with says, out of the 925 seniors, 405 are boys. Let's do some quick subtraction and see that if 405 are boys, then 520 must be girls. That will just help us with our problems A, B, and C. Alright, so problem A, the first one says, what is the ratio of boys to the total number of seniors? What's important in writing ratios is what order you put things in. Since boys was listed first, it would be written first if we were going to use a colon. So we would say 405 colon. And then so the ratio of boys to the total number of seniors. So total of number of seniors was listed second. So that would go after our colon of 925. If we were going to write it in fraction form, which is what I recommend you do for math class, we're going to have what's listed first, the boys. That will go in the numerator. And the total number of seniors of 925, since that was listed second, goes in the denominator. So that is a correct ratio, but I'm going to reduce it a little bit. Since both 405 and 925 end with a 5, I know I can divide both sides by 5. So I end up with 81 over 185. For my second example, what is the ratio of the total number of seniors to boys? Since seniors was listed first, that's what you would write first, 925. Then you write the colon and we're comparing it with boys. And there was 405 boys, so that would be written after the colon. If we were going to do it in fraction form, which is what I recommend for math class, we will do 925 because that was listed first over 405. Notice these are the same numbers as our first example. They are just written in a different order or put in a different spot because the ratio was different. It's all about the order it was listed to you in the problem. So here when I divide both sides by 5, I get 185 over 81. My last problem says what is the ratio of girls to boys? So in this case girls were listed first, so it would be that number will be put in the numerator. Boys was listed second, so that number will be put in the denominator. So girls 520, boys 405. So that would be a ratio, but I can definitely reduce this one as well. Since the numerator ends in a 0 and the denominator ends in a 5, I can divide both the top and the bottom by 5 and that will give me 104 over 81. So that would be my ratio written in reduced terms. Having this scale will be important starting now this chapter when we look at similar triangles. We will be looking at ratios and scale factors a lot and they will be written like this. So practice writing your ratios, make sure you understand what's listed first, goes in the numerator, what's listed second goes in the denominator.


Well, folks, we had some really important elections take place tonight and I wanted to get to the results Um, I think that you already know if you're watching this video that it wasn't a great night for Democrats or Progressives and the race that I was watching the closest was the mayoral race in Buffalo, New York between India Walton and Byron Brown Which in theory should have been over when she defeated him in a Democratic Party primary But as you all know, he launched a sore loser writing campaign So we learned the results of that race tonight But first I want to get to the gubernatorial race in Virginia because the ramifications for that are pretty broad it sends a huge message about the Democratic Party and How it's looking come 2022 and not good because in the race between Terry McCullough the Democrat and Glenn Yonkin the Trump Republican Well, it's been called for Glenn Yonkin who narrowly defeated Terry McCullough and he did not run a Substitutive campaign. It was all culture war nonsense Critical race theory this cancel culture that and it was enough He elevated the salience of those non issues in voters minds because the Democrat didn't run a substantive campaign This is a corporate Democrat who's an ally with the Clintons. Terry McCullough was a governor of Virginia before and I guess that Democrats didn't have anyone else to put up and The Democrat lost because not enough people were inspired perhaps in that race or just nationally by Democrats because look at what's going on right now But you're not gonna be surprised to learn That it's the left who's being blamed for Terry McCullough's loss Heather K. Gold tweets out dem members are already texting me blaming progressives for debacle in Virginia and Blake Houndshell tweets out some in Biden land are already asking themselves if the president has allowed himself to be tugged Too far to the left while in office and those voices are likely to get louder now So of course when all else fails blame the left. It's their fault not the fault of the corporate Democrat Now it's not just the left who's getting blamed because on Amazon BC according to Chip Gibbons They are blaming increasing likely Democratic loss in Virginia on Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan So, I mean you see so many weird Rationalizations here. None of them are based on policy substance whatsoever I do want to get to demographics here because that's crystal ball says the wine mom give it and the wine mom Take it away because as Sahil Kippur tweets out Virginia in 2020 white women 50% voted for Biden 49% for Trump, but in 2021 white women went for Yonkin 57% to 43% That's a 15 point swing to the GOP in this group So that's just a small hint of what we can expect in 2022 if there's already this big of a swing in at least this one state I am expecting a bloodbath for Democrats in 2022. So they Should use this time very wisely make sure they do electoral reform in the form of Banning partisan gerrymandering make sure you do voting rights reform They're not gonna do that and as a result they're gonna get wiped out and Trump is likely gonna win again in 2024 But before I get to ahead of myself, I do want to get to the race in Buffalo So when it comes to third-party candidates and right in campaigns They usually don't win because we have a first-past-of-post Winner take all majoritarian electoral system and once you win a primary if the district leans in your party's direction You're gonna win So I think that it was reasonable to assume that India Walton was the favorite to win The problem is that in the sore loser right in campaign that Byron Brown ran His campaign was funded by Republican donors He had big money on his side and guess what even if he was running a right in campaign It paid off because it looks as if Byron Brown is going to defeat India Walton 59 to 41 Percent now at the time that I record this the race has yet to be called There's still less than 70% of precincts reporting So I'll post the final results if I have it by the time this video goes up But this proves that this notion of Democratic Party unity is a fucking sham it goes one way and That's not in progressives favor Unity means if a progressive loses in a Democratic Party primary you shut the fuck up fall in line and endorse the progressive or endorse the person who beat the progressive But when the corporate Democrat loses, it's fine. You don't have to Try to unify everyone you don't have to rally support for the opponent who beat you You can run a sore loser campaign and take Republican money and win somehow It's sad because this isn't just about Buffalo in my view I think we desperately need a leader a National leader to a leader to emerge on the left and India Walton was someone who I viewed with potential But now it appears as if It's over. I don't know what happens next. I hope that she stays engaged and maybe she runs for Congress or something, but Byron Brown ran a right-wing campaign and he defeated India Walton It goes to show you that with big money Anything is possible even overcoming our electoral system, which is a two-party slanted system so I can't Pretend as if I'm surprised because I knew that the deck was stacked against India Walton Even if this is a right-wing campaign, he had a catchy slogan right down Brown and he had money most importantly But on top of that to see the way that corporate Democrats and Democratic Party Loyalists will deflect when it comes to the gubernatorial race in Virginia I Mean I'm not I'm not gonna pretend to be like super exasperated and flustered because I knew that this would be the case Again, whenever it's convenient. They're gonna blame us and they're gonna come to the wrong conclusion Even if they don't blame us, they're gonna assume that maybe they Move too far to the left or wasn't Corporateist enough or didn't lean into the cultural war issues and also condemn critical race theory in our schools either way This is really bleak shit, but it's it's kind of predictable We live in a system that is fundamentally broken to its core and things just continue to get worse and even when we have a small opportunity to fix some of the issues Democrats completely bungle it and This shows that voters aren't enthusiastic about what they're doing. I think that this in a way is a Temperature check for how you know voters more broadly speaking feel about the Democratic Party nationally and Joe Biden should see this as a wake-up call, but odds are he probably won't so either way I'm gonna try to not let this Get me to down Even though I think it's inevitable the more that I think about it But I'm gonna try to distract myself and I encourage you to do the same as well Because you know, it's it's America, right? So you can always expect the dumbest thing to be the likely outcome and that was the case here in Both of these races


A film in three minutes, Speed Racer. Sometimes cinema should just be fun, and by fun I mean fast, and by fast I mean real fast. Fast like the Wachowski siblings 2008 live action adaptation of, you guessed it, Speed Racer. A film which pays loving tribute to the campy Japanese anime from the 1960s, just as much as it leaves its own mark on the filmic racetrack thanks in no small part to a visual approach, high octane tone, and one of the best music scores of the last 30 years. The story follows driving prodigy Speed played by Emil Hirsch, whose racing talents catch the eye of the devilish EP Arnold Royleton played by Roger Allam. Royleton offers Speed the opportunity to sign with his gigantic racing corporation, however, after Speed refuses, he is made aware of a conspiracy to control the results of all major races. A conspiracy which may have led to the mysterious death of his brother Rex Racer years previously. But if one is expecting a gritty, down-to-earth portrayal of racing and the behind-the-scenes politics that drive it, then it's safe to say that this film isn't for you. What Speed Racer is, however, could best be summed up as a real-life anime, utilizing oversaturated colors, screen-screen multi-layering, and computer-generated racetracks to create a look that pays loving tributes to the style of the original series, whilst also maintaining a high-budget gloss for modern audiences. This visual style, although perhaps jarring upon first viewing, makes the film stand out from other live-action adaptations of his beloved anime series, and enhances the overall look and feel of Speed Racer's world, rather than just blandly recreating it in live-action.  With countless moments of extreme racing-related peril made all the more believable thanks in no small part to the earnest performances from Hirsch, Christina Ricci as Speed's lover Trixie, and Matthew Fox as Racer X. Gravitast 2 is also gratefully donated by Roger Allam's performance, who critics noted at the time was channeling a dark, tempestuous energy reminiscent of the late great Christopher Hitchens. Speed Racer's journey to the silver screen was a troubled one, with the film previously having languished in development hell since the early 1990s, changing hands with numerous producers, writers and directors, until the Wachowskis and producer Jill Silver were brought on board. Upon release, the film was a box office disappointment despite a heavy marketing campaign. Critics too gave the film a mixed reception, often finding the film's look and narrative approach over-stimulating, or too incoherent to follow. And after changing the face of popular cinema forever with the release of The Matrix, the Wachowskis at first misunderstood motor-powered family drama initially took the backseat by comparison, but since release, the film has found new life, or maybe I should say new road, and is now viewed as a masterpiece of its own popcorn bubblegum genre, leaving me with only one thing left to say. Go Speed Racer, go.