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Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority
From Cvillepedia
The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) is a quasi-governmental entity separate from the City of Charlottesville that receives its funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). CRHA does, however, receive federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from the City for capital projects and other specific programs.
As 2019 ends, the CRHA is at the beginning of a major redevelopment and expansion initiative. [1]
1 Functions
2.1 Early development timeline
2.2 Post Vinegar Hill era
2.3 Redevelopment-era timeline
2.3.1 2005
2.3.8.1 Residents file suit over utility surcharges
2.3.10 2014
2.3.13.1 Materials for October 28, 2019 meeting
4 Communities in progress
5 Personnel
5.1 Board of Commissioners
6 Current commissioners
7 Former commissioners
7.1 Director & Staff
7.1.1 Former Directors
The CRHA manages 376 public housing units in Charlottesville and administers approximately 300 Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) rental units that are supported through federal funding. It has an annual budget of approximately $4.5 million.
Approximately 2,000 people are housed through these subsidy programs. Participants typically pay 30% of their income for rent and HUD pays the rest. While 70% of the public housing households have an annual income under $10,000, 13% have income under $3,000 per year according to the CRHA.
In order to encourage homeownership, the CRHA provides loans through the Housing Opportunities Program to assist families in purchasing homes if they do not qualify for large enough mortgages. Additionally, through their Down Payment & Closing Costs Assistance Program and the Housing Choice Voucher Home Ownership Program the CRHA helps low income families with down payments and closing costs.
Since 1978, the CRHA has been headquartered in the basement of Charlottesville City Hall. [2]
Map of CRHA sites
Council passed a resolution calling for an April 15, 1954 referendum on creating a housing authority. [3] The vote was close with 1,105 voters approving the authority, and 1,069 voting no. [4]
Early development timeline
February 1, 1951: Daily Progress reports a study of the city's sub-standard housing would be given to City Council that month [5]
Early 1958: The CRHA estimated it would cost $1.95 million to redevelop the area. $1.6 million to purchase the land, $200,000 for site improvement and $150,000 for planning and administration. [6]
January 1959: The CRHA began a survey of "substandard" housing to determine the number of affordable housing units it would build. Director George Price told the Daily Progress the survey would be confined to "substandard dwellings occupied by Negro families." Seven African-Americans were hired to do he work and had letters of introduction stating the purpose of their visit. [7]
April 1959: General Assembly passes a bill requiring a voter referendum before a public housing project could go forward. [8]
Summer 1959: CRHA abandons plans to use site on Cherry Avenue and Fifth Street SW [9] Plans to build at South First Street were also abandoned.
October 1959: The federal Urban Renewal Administration approves relocation report but withholds funding due to uncertainty over whether those displaced would be rehoused elsewhere. [6]
November 19, 1959: Junior Chamber of Commerce rejects Vinegar Hill proposal [10]
January 18, 1960: CRHA selects 18-acre site near south end of Ridge Street for 200 black families. The site was to be bounded by Ridge, Hartman's Mill Road and the city's southern boundary with Albemarle County. [8]
January 21, 1960: State Senator Edward O. McCue Jr. introduces legislation for referendum bill in case 1959 struck down as unconstitutional [11]
January 27, 1960: Chamber of Commerce and Retail Merchants Association endorse Vinegar Hill redevelopment. [10]
May 23, 1961: Charlottesville holds referendum on whether Cox's Row area of town should become a public housing site[12]
January 28, 1960: Young Men's Business Club endorses resolution supporting activities of CRHA [13]
February 13, 1960: Daily Progress reports that the CRHA hired realtor James M. Marshall to appraise properties in an 18-acre area bounded by West Main Street, Preston Avenue and Fourth Street. The Atlanta based Harland Bartholomew and Associates was retained to assist in final planning. The work was to have included engineering for new streets and utilities. [6]
May 23, 1961: Charlottesville holds a referendum on whether Cox's Row area of town should become a public housing site. [14]
Post Vinegar Hill era
In September 1990, the Charlottesville City Manager still served as the executive director of the CRHA. At a retreat in September of that year, Council decided to separate the position. [15] Soon afrer, Earl Pullen was elevated to the position. [16]
Redevelopment-era timeline
Noah Schwartz was hired as executive director. [citation needed]
Schwarz gave an assessment of his first year in office on July 17, 2006. He pointed out that HUD does not cover the full cost of raising the agency and so it is short by at least $100,000 every year. [17]
In November, the CRHA was notified that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has taken the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program off a list of "troubled" programs. [18]
The CRHA began community meetings on the topic of forthcoming redevelopment.
The agency placed ads seeking a new position of director of redevelopment. The position remained unfilled as the year came to a close. The job was to have helped coordinate the day-to-day activities involved with creating and implementing a master plan. [19]
The CRHA hired a prevention specialist in January 2008 partially funded through a $20,000 grant from the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation. Schwartz believed that having a CRHA staff who doesn't work in lease enforcement would be good for the agency as they prepared for redevelopment. [20]
By the end of the year, Schwartz told C-Ville Weekly that he was worn-out and he left the position on December 12. [21]
On March 12, 2009, it was announced that the CRHA will receive around $797,000 from the federal government as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in order to improve and modernize some aging public housing buildings. [22]
In August 2010, the CRHA voted to approve a master plan to shape the future of the city's public housing stock. A final draft is expected to be finished in the spring of 2010. [23]A Residents' Bill of Rights guarantees that no resident will be displaced during the redevelopment process.
In December 2010, the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation awarded CRHA $10,000 for salary support for a resident services coordinator position[24].
On October 3, 2011, City Council was asked to allocate 140,000 in the Charlottesville Housing Fund towards the purchase of two properties in order to redevelop them as part of the CRHA master plan. One is located at 204 8th Street NW and will be purchased for $60,000. The other is 210 8th Street NW and will be purchased for $80,000. Both sales were well under assessment. The ultimate goal is to develop the whole block, even though the city does not own all of it yet. The city cannot directly purchase the properties, but will buy them on behalf of a non-profit. [25] The Charlottesville chapter of Habitat for Humanity holds the deed for the properties.
Residents file suit over utility surcharges
In June 2012, seven residents filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against the CRHA claiming surcharges on utility bills were higher than allowed by law. [26] Their lawsuit was filed with help from the Legal Aid Justice Center and former city councilor John Conover.
In February 2013, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a preliminary report that outlined several area of mismanagement at CRHA. The CRHA responded in March that it would address the issues. Meanwhile, the Public Housing Association of Residents complained that both HUD and CRHA both failed to take tenants rights sufficiently into account. [27]
In response to the HUD report, CRHA sought to increase the minimum rent from $25 to $50 and to increase late fees from $10 to $15. PHAR responded that such moves would be "barbaric." [28]
Later in the year, PHAR became concerned about the potential that CHRA would opt to become a pilot participant in HUD's "Rental Assistance Demonostration" project. That would change the financing structure between HUD and CRHA. [29]
Grant Duffield was hired as executive director and took office in May 2016. [30]
The CRHA Board of Commissioners hired Colonial Webb to service heating and air conditioning in all of its units at a cost of $50,000 a year. [31]
Years of talk about redevelopment turned to action as the first approvals began to be granted for various projects.
Rehabilitation of Crescent Halls is set to get underway in late 2019, with a price to come forward in December 2019. The estimate is $12.8 million with $1.125 in city taxpyer funding [1]
Forty-eight new units are slated to be built at the Levy Avenue site
Two phases of development at South First Street proceeded through the city's approval process [32] [1]
A HUD audit released in August found that CRHA could not properly document that it followed procurement procedure when purchasing $728,516 worth of goods and services. [33] [34]
Materials for October 28, 2019 meeting
Agenda for meeting
Final draft of Relocation Plan for CHRA
January 5, 2021 6 p.m., the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority's safety committee was scheduled to discuss finalizing a policy to govern its use of surveillance cameras before sending it out for public comment. The policy under consideration would apply to all CRHA properties, although not all would get cameras. The CRHA safety committee held several meetings since Dre'Shawn Rayvon McDonald was killed in November 2020. [35]
In 2020, the Police have responded to 14 shots-fired calls on South First Street in 2020, more than 2016 through 2019 combined, according to CPD data, leading to a push for crime enforcement and cameras from residents. CRHA has decided to finalize a policy to govern its use of surveillance cameras before installing them. [36]
Charlottesville communities with CRHA-managed public housing include:
Westhaven
Crescent Halls (in Strategic Investment Area)
Sixth Street (in Strategic Investment Area)
Michie Drive
South First Street (in Strategic Investment Area)
Levy Lot / Avon Garage
Name of Site
604 10 1/2 Street NW ca. 1978 10 1/2 St NW R-1SU
Crescent Halls 500 1st Street S 1976 1st Street S R-3
South First Street 1st Street S (Parcel B) 1st Street S MLTP
South First Street 1st Street S (Parcel C) 1st Street S MLTP
South First Street 900-1000 1st Street S 1981 1st Street S MLTP
715 6th Street SE 6th Street SE DE
405 Avon Street Avon Street DE
712 Elsom Street 712 Elsom Street 1992 Elsom Street WME
Westhaven 801-836 Hardy Drive March 1964 Hardy Drive R-3
613 Hinton Avenue 613 Hinton Avenue 1992 Hinton Avenue R-1S
405 Levy Avenue 405 Levy Avenue Levy Avenue DE
Madison Avenue 1609 Madison Avenue 1980 Madison Avenue R-2
Michie Drive 2021-25 Michie Drive ca. 1978 Michie Drive R-3
905 Monticello Avenue 905 Monticello Avenue ca. 1988 Monticello Avenue R-1S
815 Page Street ca. 1978 Page Street R-1S
715 Ridge Street 715 Ridge Street 1995 Ridge Street R-2H
Riverside 0 Riverside Avenue 1980 Riverside Avenue R-2
Riverside 311 Riverside Avenue, A & B 1980 Riverside Avenue R-2
Riverside Riverside Avenue 1980 Riverside Avenue R-2
Communities in progress
South First Street, Parcel B, Phase 1 (planned start date: Late 2020 / early 2021)
The CRHA is governed by a seven member Board of Commissioners that consists of at least two CRHA residents and one former or current recipient of Section 8 vouchers. The board meets on the fourth Monday of each month in City Council Chambers[37]
Current commissioners
Betsy Roettger - Chair
Nikuyah Walker, Commissioner (term expires December 31, 2019)
A'Lelia Henry
LaTita Talbert - Vice-Chair
Audrey Oliver - Treasurer
Nicholas Yates - Resident Commissioner
Mike Osteen - Commissioner (re-appointed May 20, 2019)
Laura Goldblatt (appointed May 20, 2019)
Julie Jones, Chair term expires June 30, 2016)
LaTita Talbert, Vice Chair (term expires June 30, 2017)
Keith Woodard, Commissioner (term expires June 30, 2016)
Audrey Oliver, Resident Commissioner (term expires June 30, 2017)
Betsy Roettger, Commissioner (term expires June 30, 2018)
Nicholas Yates, Resident Commissioner (term expires June 30, 2018)
John Sales - appointed on June 22, 2020 [citation needed]
Kathleen Glenn-Matthews, Interim Director [38]
Dave Norris, Redevelopment Director
Gene Arrington
Earl Pullen (1989-1998)
Paul Chedda
Noah Schwartz (2005-2008)
Randy Bickers (2008-2011)
Constance Dunn (2011-2015)
Grant Duffield, Director (May 2016 – November 2019) [1]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Web. CRHA provides update on public housing redevelopment, Nolan Stout, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, November 22, 2019, retrieved November 23, 2019. Print. November 22, 2019 page A1.
↑ Print: Council Okays Bare Minimum, Ray McGrath, Daily Progress, Worrell Newspaper group September 6, 1978, Page .
↑ Web. Charlottesville City Council meeting minutes, .pdf, Council Chambers, City of Charlottesville, January 18, 1954.
↑ Web. Charlottesville City Council meeting minutes, .pdf, Council Chambers, City of Charlottesville, May 3, 1954.
↑ Web. Study of Housing Completed, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, February 1, 1951, retrieved February 1, 2017 from University of Virginia Library. Print. February 1, 1951 page 2.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Print: Vinegar Hill Appraisals Started, Staff Reports, Daily Progress, Lindsay family February 13, 1960, Page .
↑ Print: Authority Begins Citywide Survey of Housing Needs, Staff Reports, Daily Progress, Lindsay family January 9, 1959, Page .
↑ 8.0 8.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named 19600118-DP
↑ Print: New Site Chosen for Housing Units, {{{author}}}, Daily Progress, Lindsay family January 18, 1960, Page 13.
↑ 10.0 10.1 Print: Businessmen Endorse Vinegar Hill Project, , Daily Progress, Lindsay family January 5, 1960, Page .
↑ Print: New McCue Housing Bill May Alter City Charter, , Daily Progress, Lindsay family January 22, 1960, Page .
↑ Web. Voting Heavy in Cox's Row Referendum, Staff Reports, Daily Progress Digitized Microfilm, Lindsay family, May 23, 1925, retrieved May 23, 2016 from University of Virginia Library. Print. May 23, 1925 page 1.
↑ Print: Business Club Backs Housing, Staff Reports, Daily Progress, Lindsay family January 29, 1960, Page .
↑ Web. Charlottesville City Council meeting minutes, .pdf, Council Chambers, City of Charlottesville, September 22, 1990.
↑ {{Minutes-citycouncil|newid=|when=February 4, 1991|accessdate=October 12, 2020|id=|url=http://weblink.charlottesville.org/public/DocView.aspx?id=46499&searchid=ed3c42f5-0ed5-49ac-b490-8f2e56cb5978&dbid=0}
↑ Web. Council thanks heaven for Noah Schwartz, Jayson Whitehead, C-VILLE Weekly, Portico Publications, July 24, 2006, retrieved February 22, 2016. Print. July 24, 2006 .
↑ Web. CRHA Out of "Troubled" Status, City of Charlottesville, November 29, 2006, retrieved February 22, 2016.
↑ Web. ["Enormous Task" still needs leader "Enormous Task" still needs leader], Scott Weaver, C-VILLE Weekly, Portico Publications, January 8, 2008, retrieved February 22, 2016. Print. January 8, 2008 .
↑ Web. Housing authority readies for redevelopment, Scott Weaver, C-VILLE Weekly, Portico Publications, January 22, 2008, retrieved February 22, 2016. Print. January 22, 2008 .
↑ Web. "I am just worn out", C-VILLE Weekly, Portico Publications, October 27 2008, retrieved February 22, 2016. Print. October 27 2008 .
↑ Web. Housing authority awaits stimulus, Rachana Dixit, Daily Progress, Media General, March 13, 2009, retrieved February 20, 2016.
↑ Web. August 2010 Minutes, Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority, retrieved June 28, 2012.
↑ Web. More than $500,000 in grants awarded, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, December 15, 2010, retrieved December 15, 2010.
↑ Web. Allocation of Charlottesville Housing Funds Towards the Purchase of Properties on 8th Street and Page St. - $140,000, Kathy McHugh, City of Charlottesville, October 3, 2011, retrieved September 30, 2011.
↑ Web. Charlottesville public housing residents sue over utility surcharges, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, retrieved June 12, 2012.
↑ Web. Housing authority responds to report, Ted Strong, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, March 25, 2013, retrieved March 27, 2013.
↑ Web. Local housing authority met with opposition over proposed changes, Aaron Richardson, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, April 23, 2013, retrieved April 24, 2013.
↑ Web. CRHA to hold public meeting today on new avenue for funding, Aaron Richardson, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, October 10, 2013, retrieved October 11, 2013.
↑ Web. [ ], retrieved January 2, 2017.
↑ Web. Charlottesville Hires New Firm to Manage Public Housing Maintenance, Nora Neus, December 13, 2016, retrieved December 22, 2016.
↑ Web. Planning Commission to hold work session on South First Street redevelopment, Nolan Stout, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, October 26, 2019, retrieved October 27, 2019. Print. October 27, 2019 page A1.
↑ Web. Report: CRHA can't prove it followed procurement laws on $728K in purchases, Nolan Stout, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, January 4, 2020, retrieved January 5, 2020. Print. January 5, 2020 page A1.
↑ Web. The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Charlottesville, VA, Did Not Always Comply With Applicable Procurement Requirements, Office of Inspector General, Report, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, August 2, 2019, retrieved January 5, 2020.
↑ Web. Louisa County man killed in shooting on South First Street, Nolan Stout, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, December 27, 2020, retrieved December 27, 2020.
↑ Web. Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority - Commissioners, City of Charlottesville, retrieved November 3, 2014.
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I wanted to change the sticker on my daughter's computer.
Céline sent me several patterns she shares on her website.
First one : the "owl and moon" folded book.
– it is made with 187 sheets.
Happy birthday Philippine (very, very late…).
My health is better and I can (almost) work with my two arms.
It's spring and my barcode umbrella was demoralizing !
Great thanks to Aline who send me her "carnival mask" folded book pattern.
– the owl is made with 250 sheets.
Great thanks to Céline who send me her "dog" folded book pattern she shares on her website.
– the owl is made with 203 sheets.
As Serge told me wich font he used for his "Marie" folded book pattern, it was easy to modify it to write "Marc".
– it is made with 268 sheets.
As every year, I visited Créativa (regional fair) but I also went in Paris to visit l'aiguille en fête (needle celebrating).
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Microsoft has mentioned for a long time now, their strategy of "three screens and a cloud". As always, there were many naysayers who criticized it even though it was never fully implemented. That's until the end of 2013, when Windows 8.1 and Xbox One will be launched to market. What did this strategy mean when it was first envisioned and how it will look like when it is fully implemented, with Windows 8.1 and Xbox One?
"Three screens and a cloud" - What did they mean in back in 2009?
"So, moving forward, again I believe that the world some number of years from now in terms of how we consume IT is really shifting from a machine-centric viewpoint to what we refer to as three screens and a cloud: the phone, the PC, and the TV ultimately, and how we deliver value to them."
Basically, Microsoft envisioned a future in which the consumer of technology was using his PC, smartphone and TV to work, view content and be productive. All these devices were sharing applications, settings and data between them. The user was free to use any of these devices, anywhere, the only condition being access to the Internet and to a cloud-based service that was synchronizing all these devices.
At that time, Microsoft was working on launching its Windows Azure cloud-computing platform. Cloud storage and synchronization services were at their beginning: for example, SkyDrive did not exist as a brand and Microsoft was using Windows Live Mesh. Also, Dropbox was recently launched and seeing its first versions being developed.
As always, many tech pundits rushed to call this strategy a failure when the reality is that this strategy was not fully implemented. Until now - 4 years later. Only with Windows 8.1 and Xbox One will this strategy become a reality. But how it will this vision look like, after 4 years?
The initial vision was good on but it had to evolve very quickly from three screens and a cloud to four screens and a cloud. As of 2010 onward, when the iPad was launched, users were using four screens instead of three: the PC, the tablet, the smartphone and the TV. The tablet is an important element which, unfortunately for Microsoft, was ignored for a long time. Only now do they have real competition to the iPad. But that's another discussion.
The vision was great also because it claimed the cloud as the key to connect all these devices, their data, settings and the apps used on them. Without the cloud, the vision wouldn't be possible. At the end of 2013 there are only two companies delivering this vision: Apple and Microsoft. Nobody else has all these five elements. Not even Google. And no, Chromebook is not a real PC in a productivity sense, only a tool for using Google's cloud services. As a result, is market share is insignificant and it will remain so for the next couple of years.
Apple uses its iCloud to connect all its devices: Mac PCs, iPads, iPhones and Apple TVs. At the end of 2013, Microsoft will finally have all the pieces together: PCs with Windows 8.1, tablets with Windows 8.1, Windows Phones and the Xbox One. Apple dominates Microsoft in the tablet and smartphone market while Microsoft dominates Apple when it comes to PCs and TVs. Many forget that Xbox One will be a multimedia device, capable of offering what Apple TV offers, plus the gaming experience specific to consoles. To its ecosystem Microsoft has added a very important product - Office 2013 and Office 365 - a productivity tool that's perfectly integrated with SkyDrive and all Microsoft devices.
But are these elements enough to turn the balance into Microsoft's favor and make it the market leader when counting the market share of all mainstream computing devices?
This remains to be seen but, until the future becomes the present, let's take a look at how SkyDrive will be integrated with the upcoming products from Microsoft.
In a previous article - SkyDrive at the Core of the Windows 8.1 Experience - What Does it Mean? - I mentioned that SkyDrive has become a part of the Windows 8.1 operating system. This is a very important change because, whether you use it or not, SkyDrive is there. Also, it is the only Windows 8.1 feature that cannot be uninstalled using the tools available in Windows. You can only choose to ignore it, just like many users ignore Internet Explorer and use Google Chrome or Firefox.
I find it ironic that you can now remove Internet Explorer with ease and you have to hack Windows 8.1 to remove SkyDrive, which can negatively impact the way the operating system works.
Regarding Xbox One and its integration with SkyDrive - very little is known at this point. Xbox One will have three operating systems (the console operating system, a modified Windows kernel and another operating system managing the communication between the other two), which means that porting SkyDrive won't be a huge deal, technically speaking. Keeping in mind how SkyDrive is promoted in Windows 8.1 and Office 2013, I expect that Xbox One will have a similarly aggressive integration with SkyDrive.
What will consumers & the market think about the four screens and a cloud?
Now that we will finally have all the elements in place, it is very important how consumers and the market in general will receive Windows 8.1 and Xbox One. Will they be successful enough to incline the balance in Microsoft's favor? Will these products bring back Microsoft to its former marketshare glory?
What about the aggressive integration of SkyDrive in Windows 8.1? Will it stir controversy and bring it into the attention of the European Union, which forced Microsoft to give users the option to uninstall Internet Explorer? It remains to be seen.
What's clear is that the true war of ecosystems will begin only as of 2014 onwards.The fight has just began, it is far from over and I'm really curious to learn the winners and losers. Whatever the result may be, one thing is for sure - the world of technology will change dramatically in the next few years and those four screens can quickly turn into 5 or more. Microsoft and other big companies will have to pay more attention to the important trends in technology and offer ever increasing, stronger ecosystems consisting of both devices and services.
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When you live in cold climates, scarves are more than a fashion accessory; scarves are a necessity. However, many stores sell scarves that are intended only for fashion and not for warmth. Sports stores and active wear stores charge more for scarves than they are worth. A good, warm scarf can be made for your children (or for yourself) with a minimal outlay of money and time.
Decide on how long you want the scarf to be. Remember to take into account the length of fringe that you want. It is a good idea to make the scarf long enough so that you can comfortably put your hands into the pockets. Add 8-12 inches to your measurement to use for a fringe. If at all possible, try to get the entire length out of one piece of fabric. If it is not possible cut the length out of two pieces, leaving enough room for a seam sew them together to make the necessary length.
Cut out two pieces of fleece at the desired length by 6-9 inches wide.
Measure the length of the wearer's hand. Cut two pieces out that are the same width as the scarf by the length of the wearer's hand plus one inch.
Select the piece of fleece that will be the top of the scarf. Sew the pockets onto the right side of the fleece about 4-6 inches from each end of the length. The remainder will be the length where you will cut the fringe. Remember to leave the topside of the pocket open for the hands.
Place the two lengths of the scarf wrong side together and topstitch around the entire scarf. When topstitching the ends, topstitch just below the pockets leaving the bottom open for the fringe.
Carefully cut the ends of the scarf up to the top stitching to create a fringe.
For children who lose their gloves or mittens, these scarves can do double duty. Have your children put their gloves in them whenever they take them off and when your children do lose their gloves, at least they have their scarf, to keep their hands warm (providing they did lose the scarf).
This is an ideal project for people who have not done much sewing. The seams are simple straight seams. However, if your sewing skills do lack, it is a good idea to use a busy or printed fabric for the scarf as it will help hide any small mistakes.


Sarah Blake's dazzling Naamah offers a new vision of storytelling and belief, rendered through the body of a woman. In between hope and hell, and up against the divine, Naamah reminds us that the bodies and voices of women were always the heart of the story. Naamah is a new myth-making triumph.
No longer a forgotten name, Naamah is achingly alive here, pulsing with questions and desires. Sarah Blake's prose is sensual, hallucinatory, dream-sharp—a beguiling debut from an immensely talented writer.


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Marvel Could Reveal Their First Openly Gay Superhero Soon
By Travis Hopson5/09/2019View Comments
In Avengers: Endgame, the Russos introduced the first openly gay character in the MCU, played by Joe Russo himself. It was a minor character who will never be seen again and had no impact on the story, but the Russos tried to act as if they did some real groundbreaking shit. Not really. Well, now it sounds as if the LGBTQ will get proper representation in a Marvel movie very soon.
Appearing on Entertainment Weekly's Sirius XM show, the Russos were asked about Joe's character in Endgame and whether he was truly Marvel's first gay character....
"Yes, openly gay. There's been insinuations about other characters' sexuality, but this is the first openly gay character."
Asked whether there are other Marvel heroes out there who are gay, Joe replied "We're gonna find out." Anthony then added, "That's a story for another day."
Chances are they are referring to Tessa Thompson's character, Valkyrie, who she revealed was bisexual. While it hasn't been seen on screen yet, a deleted scene from Thor: Ragnarok would've confirmed it. I kinda took Valkyrie's comment to Thor in Endgame that she would "make changes" to Asgard after he left to mean something along those lines, too.
Kevin Feige has been saying since last year that we'd be seeing more LGBTQ heroes, with rumors suggesting The Eternals could be where the first major one shows up. It would make sense considering their cosmic nature. They probably don't look at sex as rigidly as we humans do. Otherwise, we could see an established hero reveal their sexual preference in an upcoming movie, and depending on who it is that could be a very big deal.
There's part of me that says Disney will interfere in this happening somehow. That we haven't seen an openly gay lead cast in The Eternals yet could be due to their influence. Maybe they'll skirt around the issue by revealing that Quicksilver was gay the whole time and we just didn't know. That darn Ultron.
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Thinking In Parallels
Why do we find historical parallels so interesting for analyzing current events like the coronavirus—and what do they leave out, anyway?
By Ernie Smith Mar 10, 2020
Filed under: coronavirus, covid-19, historical parallels, history, research, research materials
Today in Tedium: I've been thinking a lot about the way that history can create parallels we can build upon and learn from. In part, it's because I've seen things that I've written take this status of historical parallel for some people without me really having to do much to push it. First, I wrote about the saga of Ayds, the "diet" candy that was removed from the market amidst the AIDS crisis, which spoiled its brand strategy; and second, I wrote about the tale of American Samoa, which effectively avoided the worst of the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak due to some quick thinking on the part of a government appointee. For some reason, without being explicitly promoted this way, these two stories have drawn interest from readers looking for a way to contextualize what is looking to be the biggest news story of the past two decades: the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19, the disease popularly known as the coronavirus. Tedium is not a news platform and has never promoted itself as such, so I find this spontaneous grasping for parallels interesting. So, for an issue, I'm going to lean into it. Today's Tedium ponders our constant hunt for historical parallels to understand the world. — Ernie @ Tedium
"If our curiosity is not satisfied by a comprehensive view, the remedy is to be found by multiplying pictures of its most striking parts, not by introducing into one canvas a multitude of objects which must fatigue and confuse the mind, and obscure those leading features which ought to stand out in prominent relief."
— Arthur Thomas Malkin, a British writer and historian, in the introductory paragraph to his three-book series Historical Parallels. Malkin, whose 19th-century titles can be found on the free Project Gutenberg website, attempted with the work to present important details from Greek and Roman history in an objective form, while noting the parallels the historic tales offered "The object of this work is to supply, in part, these details from the original historians, and to compare or contrast them with other remarkable incidents of ancient or modern times; in hope of forming a collection of narratives of some interest to those who are not largely read in history," he wrote.
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The wealthy former soldier and military historian who influenced the Civil War far away from the battle lines
There were a lot of things going on in 1863, so it's to be forgiven if you weren't aware of a speech that Major General John Watts de Peyster of the New York Militia gave to the Vermont State Historical Society in October of that year.
At the time of de Peyster's speech, the Civil War was well into its Chattanooga campaign, a long slog of conflicts in the fall of 1863 that the Union won, raising the profile of future president Ulysses S. Grant. That month, Abraham Lincoln declared the first federally sanctioned Thanksgiving holiday.
So what was de Peyster doing in Vermont, making a speech to about the parallels between the secession that led to the Civil War and a forgotten civil war in Switzerland two decades prior? (Hey, nobody said Switzerland had to be neutral with itself!)
In one sense, he was rich and had a lot of time on his hands, being the great-great-great-great-grandson of Johannes de Peyster Sr., one of the earliest residents of New York and a man whose family tree runs so deep it has ties to multiple New York city mayors, a Revolutionary War hero, and even some indirect affiliations with the Roosevelt family.
But John Watts de Peyster, while still a militia man, found his assistance rebuffed during the early years of the war. (He was in his 40s and his children were already fighting age.) So instead, he found an equally valuable role—as a history-minded thinker. He contextualized what was happening, because someone had to. (Perhaps a speech at a historic society might not be as quick as a tweet, but not everyone gets the perfect vessel for their thoughts.)
A military critic, may have in some ways been the first Civil War historian, and he was both documenting and analyzing that history as it was happening. His knowledge of military tactics was such that he actually at times influenced what was happening on the ground.
The Swiss federal army shown during the Sonderbund War. (Wikimedia Commons)
And in his comparison of the United States' civil war to Switzerland's civil war, he was dead on, too. A passage from the book produced from his forgotten speech:
Here we should observe a fact extremely pertinent to our own situation. Notwithstanding the extreme defensibleness of the mountains Of Switzerland—particularly those of the original Forest Cantons, embraced within the limits of the Sonderbund—as soon as Lucerne had yielded, the Rebel Leaders, at once, acknowledged that the fate of Swiss Secession depended upon the pos-session of the large fortified towns, and upon the maintenance of the armies massed in and about them. This should be a consolation to those who fear that a guerrilla war in the South can lead to any successful result or defer, for more than a short period, its entire subjugation. The Sonderbund Generals saw at a glance the game was up, after their armies had been dissipated and the principal places taken. So it will be with our Southern Secession. It will collapse at once when the armies of Lee, Bragg, Beauregard, Johnson and Magruder are destroyed.
The result was that, even though de Peyster didn't pick up a weapon during the Civil War, he ended up receiving an increased rank during the war, reaching the level of brevet major general. (His three sons also fought in the war as well.)
The next time someone tells you that knowing your history won't get you anywhere, make sure you bring up John Watts de Peyster. It literally got him a promotion.
"You can put in a motif of Saturday-afternoon serials to make it relevant to kids of today, but the political situation of the Empire and the Republic —that's a scenario that's been played out thousands of times over the years and that never seems to change much."
— George Lucas, discussing in 2005 how he used historical parallels as a key storytelling framework for the Star Wars franchise, something he had a strong enough interest in that he actually collaborated closely in a book on the topic, Star Wars and History. History.com notes that the book cites specific parallels between Nazi Germany, Richard Nixon, and the Vietnam War, among other historic events that helped inspire the film. Another major entertainment franchise in recent years, Game of Thrones, has also bandied heavy in historical parallels, though its comparison points were much more obscure than the ones Star Wars used.
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The problem with historical parallels is that they encourage us to think about hugely complex things in shorthand
Over the years, I likely have written about a number of things, big and small, through the lens of history. And it's a good lens, one that I think lends itself to some deeper thinking that the modern news cycle doesn't afford us.
But obviously, I wasn't in the room with the brand marketers who decided that Ayds had to go despite years of putting up a brave face over a branding conundrum they didn't create. And nor was I sending radio missives to John Martin Poyer, the naval governor whose quick thinking saved many lives in American Samoa.
I honestly can't ask them what they were thinking then. I can only see things through my modern pair of eyes.
Perhaps it's for this reason that I felt fairly impressed by a recent essay written by Dr. Charlotte Lydia Riley, a professor of 20th-century British History at the University of Southampton, that challenges a truism about how the layperson thinks about history.
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Writing for The Guardian, Riley discouraged people from prejudging how future generations of historians will think about the long-running, well-debated, but ultimately past-the-finish-line Brexit saga. While it will take time to see what happens next, the fact is, it happened.
It's the kind of situation that journalists, writers, and pundits of all stripes will attempt to use this saga as a form of shorthand, an easy way to explain a general idea to their audience. And trying to explain it in a handful of words will boil down to something like this: "A saga in which the people of Britain misguidedly voted against their own long-term interests out of a sense of national pride." Perhaps you'll have your own spin on it, but the general idea is pretty clear—it has all the elements of a historical shorthand, a Benedict Arnold of the Twitter age.
And it's already influencing how people are talking about what happened, which—long story short—boils down to this insight: "Future historians are going to look in disbelief at what we did."
Riley, an actual historian, throws some cold water on that idea, resisting the idea that historians boil things down in this way, or that they'll look at the scoreboard the same way that we do now. She explains that historians look at these issues from numerous perspectives and have many other considerations at play when considering the issues they research, and one of those issues is bias. From her essay:
Invoking historians of the future often supposes that they will be neutral actors. But this is not how historians work. We come to the archive with our own ideas and perspectives. And the archive is often overflowing, and we cannot possibly read everything. We have to make choices about which narratives we emphasize. Those choices are shaped by our existing principles and the ways that we already understand the world: what schoolchildren are taught to call "bias." Historians of the future will probably already have strong ideas about Brexit: their narratives and stories will not necessarily be less neutral or more trustworthy than ours.
Simply put, they will have a fractured viewpoint just like everyone else, and it will be informed by the time in which the live. "Appeals to historians of the future are self-aggrandizing in the context of the present," she added.
All of this is to say that actual historians are going to be looking at things differently from the way we are, in part because of their viewpoint. They won't have the perspective that we do, even on things that many of us think they might have.
And I think it's worth keeping in mind that many individuals won't have that perspective, either, nor the time to dive into a story that the average person might. They might only be exposed to it through a third-person retelling of the kind I've tended to write over the years.
Which in some ways is great, if the source is good and the research is good, but they're not often looking at these stories on their own terms. As with the stories around Ayds and American Samoa, they're trying to apply an old experience to a new one, despite the fact that it has the potential to threaten some nuance along the way.
With access to so much information at our fingertips, we can basically look up anything, research it for two seconds and feel like we've learned everything there is to know about a topic. But the truth is, we'll always be simplifying.
We'll never have the true perspective of those who lived before our time.
I write all this not to discourage the use of parallels, which obviously have a time and place in this world, and often are telling in ways that fictional accounts aren't.
But I think it's important to know their time and place, and to understand the fact that they have a simplifying effect on historic explanations.
Certainly, there are worse things that people can do with their internet—you're not going to necessarily be misinformed by reading stories simply for the sake of historical parallels—but you might be losing out on some broader perspective.
The truth is, when these stories were happening, the players did not have the advantages of simplification at their fingertips. They had to live though all this stuff in real time.
And while having access to historic shorthand is nice, reading it in long form might provide a different kind of picture. So I encourage you that, if you find a story fascinating enough to draw a modern parallel to, you spend a little more than five minutes researching it. After all, that's why I leave links to everything.
Historical parallels can be the start of some important, useful conversations. But only if we're willing to give the full history a seat at the table, too.
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Citing 'zero lethal threat' to students, Purdue works to reopen college for fall 2020
Emily DeLetter
Lafayette Journal & Courier
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nothing beats the campus experience at Purdue University, not even the coronavirus. That's what officials at the Indiana university are hoping anyway, with President Mitch Daniels floating plans to reopen campus for in-person classes in the fall while saying the COVID-19 virus "poses close to zero lethal threat" to young people.
Purdue was among the first wave of colleges to announce a shift from in-person classes in early March, leaving students, faculty and staff to adapt quickly to an online setting by transitioning course material and operating online video platforms like Zoom for classes and meetings.
Now, as some states move to reopen nonessential businesses and boost the economy, Purdue and Daniels are at the forefront of efforts to put students back on campus for the fall.
"I can tell you for the moment, there is strong, strong interest for a Purdue education for this fall," Daniels told the university Senate on April 20. "We have every intention of being on campus this fall. We are sober about the challenges that will bring. We believe in the value of the on-campus experience, and we're determined, if we're permitted to do so by the public authorities and medical circumstances. If at all possible, we intend to be open and operating."
College upended:Colleges scrambled to react to the coronavirus. Now their very existence is in jeopardy.
Daniels, a two-term Republican governor in Indiana, was appointed as president of Purdue in 2012. Under his tenure, tuition has been frozen at the public land-grant institution in West Lafayette, Indiana, and enrollment has surged – from 39,256 students in 2012 to just under 45,000 last fall.
That growing enrollment – at a time many schools are experiencing or fearing a decline – puts Purdue in a strong position to consider reopening, Daniels said, but there's no time to wait to start developing those plans.
"If we're going to do this immensely difficult undertaking, we don't want to sit and wait and watch for two months," Daniels said.
In his letter, Daniels outlined a number of "preliminary" practices that would allow the school to reopen in August, most of them aimed at keeping the university's younger population separate from older demographic groups that are more at risk from the virus. "Literally, our students pose a far greater danger to others than the virus poses to them," he wrote.
Among the measures he proposed:
Spreading out classes across days and times to reduce their size;
More online instruction for on-campus students;
Allowing – or requiring – people more at risk to the virus to work remotely;
Pre-testing students and staff for infection and post-infection immunity and using the Purdue laboratory to ensure fast results;
Tracing contacts for those who test positive and asking contacts to self-quarantine for 14 days.
Reaction to Daniels' announcement has been mixed. Some took to social media to express their eagerness for a return to normalcy, while others accused Daniels of trivializing the effects of the COVID-19 virus on students.
"Mitch Daniels, leader of Purdue and the new Purdue South Bend high school, is willing to endanger our lives based on false information and an immoral valuing of economy over human life," one Twitter user wrote.
Students are weary of online classes:But colleges can't say whether they'll open in fall 2020
University Senate Chair Cheryl Cooky raised concerns about the potential risk for faculty and staff in light of warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about a second wave of coronavirus in the fall and winter.
"While there are still many questions yet to be answered," Cooky said in a statement, "I am confident in the leadership of Purdue and our shared commitment to maintaining the safety of our community while ensuring the best education for our Purdue students."
A number of difficulties come with restarting a campus with a population larger than some towns, said Jeremy Adler, health officer for Tippecanoe County.
"I'm a bit surprised the decision came so early," Adler said. "That being said, if it's going to be done, it needs to be done very carefully, and more than likely Purdue will need to make significant modifications to its day-to-day operations."
Other colleges that say they intend to hold regular classes in the fall or are developing plans to do so include Santa Clara University in California, the University of Missouri and Clemson University in South Carolina.
In a presentation to Clemson's board of trustees on Thursday, Clemson officials said they were planning for three scenarios for the fall, including a full return to in-person classes.
Clemson has been holding classes online this semester, and the campus is partially closed until Aug. 8. Continuing with the online learning is also an option for the fall, along with a hybrid of online and in-person classes.
But a return to in-person classes for the fall is the university's "laser focus," university police chief Greg Mullen told board members via the online meeting platform Zoom.
Mullen and Clemson's emergency operations center staff are putting together a "critical timeline" that a university spokesman said they are hoping to present sometime next week.
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Taking the opposite approach is California State University, Fullerton, which announced Tuesday it would begin the fall semester with online classes only.
Many more schools are still weighing their options. For example, the University of Tennessee formed a task force to prepare options that will be presented in May to its chancellor; Ohio State University created a "post-pandemic operations task force" but has not shared any recommendations; University of Texas at Austin officials said the school will make a decision in late June; and schools in the University of Wisconsin system will wait until mid-July.
The risk schools face was made clear after Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. opened the Lynchburg, Virginia, campus following its spring break. Falwell had been dismissing other colleges' response to the coronavirus as irresponsible.
After news coverage of Falwell's decision and a subsequent outbreak of cases in the region, he sought arrest warrants for trespassing against two journalists. A Liberty student filed a class action lawsuit in federal court claiming the school and Falwell had placed students in danger.
Zoe Nicholson of The Greenville News in South Carolina contributed to this report.


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Texas Tech University Press
384 page; $34.95
The U.S.-Mexico border lacks a rebel and Honoré del Castillo lacks a cause in Carlos Nicolás Flores' novel, Sex as a Political Condition. Honoré, a former drug runner, has given up the smuggling life and moved back to his Rio Grande Valley hometown of Escandón, "El Barrio Sal Si Puedes … El Barrio Get-Out-If-You-Can," where he chases his sexy wife, Maruca, around the bedroom and manages his dying mother's Mexican curio shop. But Honoré is growing disillusioned with domestic life and increasingly afraid of dying in front of the television set like a pendejo. He still dreams of the old revolutionary heroes: José Martí, Che Guevara, Don Quixote. "People in this barrio are like possums," he narrates. "When life or history confronts them, they play possum. They play dead. Then, life or history just runs over them." Luckily, Honoré finally gets his chance to play the hero when his friend Trotsky, who has dedicated himself to the Marxist cause in Central America, arranges a convoy to carry humanitarian aid to the Sandinistas.
What follows is a hokey, jokey, postmodern romp that combines all the conventions of action-adventure movies with a kitschy take on Latin American politics. Honoré teams up with his old drug-running pals, a Harley-riding gringo called the Governor and Chicano clown Joshua T. "Tequila" Cuervo. Along the way they meet a motley assortment of idealists — Chicana lesbian activists, Mexican anti-corruption crusaders, drug-smuggling rednecks, idealistic Vietnam vets — and an equally motley assortment of antagonists: corrupt border cops, femme fatale hookers, torturers, narcos and CIA informants. "Some strange-looking women stormed inside," Flores writes. "With close-cropped hair, they would have looked best in Nazi uniforms, swaggering around in construction boots, slouching hangdog style. He couldn't tell if they were from Escandón or from out-of-town. Maybe Austin."
Flores, an El Paso native who teaches English at Laredo Community College, is clearly having fun, but at times the action is so frantic that it's difficult to follow through the nonstop onslaught of kitsch. His book is a black velvet painting of all things Mexican: a wrought-iron mariachi figure with bandoliers and a sombrero holding a shot of tequila, a Day of the Dead sugar skull and a picture of Frida Kahlo eating enchiladas. Breasts proliferate with reckless abandon. They bob and wiggle, they roll and pour, they spread like swirls of chocolate. They are compared to onions, tomatoes, mangoes, calabazas, gourds, scoops of ice cream, ivory pudding, flan, cupcakes, blowfish, boulders, boxing gloves, tulips, smooth mounds of Mexican cheese, B-52 bombers, twin puppies and vanilla malts topped with pink cherries. ¡Ay, Mamasota!
But humor is a two-edged sword, and Flores sometimes impales himself on it. It is difficult to tell whether Honoré is supposed to be heroic or ridiculous. Is he saving the world, or just shepherding a crowd of eccentric egomaniacs? As Honoré complains near the beginning of the novel, "The revolution is beginning to feel like a free-for-all among freaks."
The mood becomes more somber as the convoy moves south, but even in the teeth of battle, Flores can't bring himself to abandon the silliness. A character farting when confronted with a mixed-race hermaphroditic torturer may be considered a gesture of defiance, but here it comes across as cartoonish, even unrealistic, as if Flores' revolutionaries are totally incapable of seriousness.
In fact, one gets the feeling that Flores believes no revolution can ever take place in a world so full of boobies and bodily functions. That a revolution might be fought and won by a cast as weird as the one in his book is an indignity too insane to imagine.
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