 smoke-free housing policy movement. In 2018, all public housing sites became subject to a federal ban on indoor smoking so as to reduce smoking-related hazards in properties owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). At the same time, public housing authorities nationwide have increasingly implemented the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program to address outstanding capital needs in public housing. The present study is unique in that it examines indoor smoking behaviors, exposure to secondhand smoke, and residential satisfaction in the context of HUD’s smoking ban and the RAD program. This study is the first known study to assess indoor smoking and secondhand exposure before and after the construction phases of the RAD conversion. The authors’ findings indicate a significant reduction in secondhand smoke exposure and improvements in individual smoking behaviors, which included reduced daily smoking, less indoor smoking, and some successful quit attempts between baseline and followup assessment periods. Furthermore, respondents were significantly more satisfied with their housing units and building conditions, except those who remained bothered by secondhand smoke. The latter result suggests that secondhand smoke exposure may detract from satisfaction with housing improvements and marks a critical opportunity for continued efforts at addressing quality of life concerns. The discussion focuses on strategies used to improve housing conditions and ways in which that may have impacted study results.RAMSEUR — Free Haircut Day in Ramseur for all K-12 students will be a grab-and-go drive-by event this year. It will be on Saturday, Aug. 15, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Jordan Memorial UMC, 1511 Main St. Book bags filled with school supplies, as well as snacks for school, will be given out.
This community event is sponsored by Ramseur Ministerial Association and local businesses and individuals.Big thanks to my dear Menomena buddies Danny, Brent, and Justin ~ and to Sascha and Severin for managing this adventure.
Miriam, Marta, Carlos, Lisa, Thais, and all the kind folks we met.
Thanks to all of you who made it to the shows, and thanks to all the venues that hosted and cleaned up our messes.
Check out Danny’s satisfyingly detailed tour log at LOCALCUT. Now back to serious work. Cousin Brianna, please e-mail!
Oh wow Craig. This is wonderful. I just came back from a show last night- Caribou- and I can only imagine how amazing it would have been to see your hands at work; set with soundtrack and awesome dramatic lighting. Thank you for sharing these photos!!
Wonderful draw! I love it!
Every now and then I hear about something that sounds like it was a once-in-a-lifetime type of performance and this seems like one of those times. Please tell me you are doing this again and somewhere near Ohio. I love your work and I really like Menomena.
Very nice illustration. Your brushwork is top-notch. While I personally felt Blankets was a tad too long, the story overall was very touching. It’s nice to see your blog. I will continue to check back for updates.
â€œGreat job!â€ or â€œI am a huge fan of your work!â€ (This is no doubt a fact.) But, alas, I believe I am going to go with the generic response.
Great Job! A graduate student living in Firenze, Italy, a few years ago, craving something to read (which I could comprehend at the time), I ventured toward the illustrated novels for (what I consider to be) a healthy dose of â€œsoul foodâ€ at Edison located in Piazza della Repubblica. Glancing through numerous books I stumbled upon your work and have been lured in ever since. So I wanted to say â€œThanksâ€ for giving that Mid-western lady, lost in translation her comfort â€œfixâ€, all while aiding in the learning experience of the Italian Language.
â€¦ and to this I must sayâ€¦.
Cazzoâ€¦ sei veramente una grande! Continui, prego, il tuo lavoro.
Hi, Craig! I wish I had some kooky, quirky story about “this one time” when I went to a book signing of yours and totally blanked on what to say when it was my turn, or how I ran into you in some warm hole of a cafe in Paris a few years back and I waved to you, but you really looking at something just past my shoulder. But really, the only thing I can think of to tell you is this: I have yet to find a hand as sure as yours. Wow. I hope that doesn’t sound as sappy on your end as it does on mine. I mean it, though. Thank you for doing what you do.
AAAAHHHH!! Ripped it to shreds?! Say it ain’t so. My most prized autograph is the one you gave me in my copy of “Goodbye Chunky Rice”. You did an awesome little drawing of a man in a “fish-car-bicycle contraption”. You had come to talk to my Comics as Literature class at CCC. It was quite awhile back, in fact, you were still working on Blankets. I just want to say: “Thanks again”.
I really like the domestic drawing at the top, is that colored in Photoshop, or a traditional media?
Ooh I wish I could draw like you..
Glad to know you’re back home safe – and ready to draw! Thanks for the updates.
The show in brussels was great!
Thank you for this drawing!
I put it on my wall!
I hope that menomena will come back soon in belgium!
Feedback would be wonderful, but no worries if you cant.
Hey is your shadow single?
more and more i only seem to run into people on the internet, so i had to find you here. hello indeed! we miss you. do you know our little girl is a big girl now? insane. even insaner, is that we have #2 on the way. megans belly is getting round. we thought of having it in france, so one of us has a chance of getting out of this place! find us someday in sleepy little n.portland. or not; we think of you! hope all is spiffy.
man, i’m in love with your work. that show must have been amazing.
Was reading the Metro magazine in the hair shop today, and saw an article that Menomena is playing the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis next month. Will you be hopping the tour bus again? I’d love to see the show in person, rather than UTube.
This is random, but I just wanted to tell you that you have a new fan. A friend loaned me Blankets and I loved it. I grew up in Indiana and went to a fundamentalist church, la-la-la. Then I bought Goodbye Chunky Rice and Carnet de Voyage. Bravo! Especially loved the Carnet de Voyage. I would follow your drawings anywhere. Very honest and fun. Spent three weeks in France myself this spring and I loved the revisit with you.
I bought and read blankets yesterday after months of a friend asking me if i had done it. It was a long time since the last time i felt so moved. Thanks. Today I’ve discovered your blog and i feel bad because i missed a chance to meet you and see your art live. Well, hope you come back to Barcelona soon!
I’m really sad to learn that you were in Paris last month and I missed the opportunity to see you. I’m a writer from New York currently studying in Paris. I brought “Carnet de Voyage” along on my trip, which was an appropriate book for a lost gal wandering around alone in France for five months. It was comforting to read about someone else being lonesome in a foreign land; it made my experience seem less scary and pointless and reminded me that an adventure’s beautiful moments are well worth its cruddy ones. Since savoring “Carnet,” I’ve been entertaining wild fantasies of running into you in a cafÃ© here and getting a chance to tell you how much I enjoy your work. Since I sadly missed that chance, I’m telling you here.
Thanks for decidin’ to create.
we have a website abiut comics, we went to the menomeno show at Barcelona and we make a little review about with some pictures and video.
what happens to the backdrops after the show?
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He leido tu trabajo Blankets espectacular y sobre todo emotivo. Esta lleno de literatura y cargado de bienestar. Ya formas parte de mis favoritos. Toda mi admiracion, te deseo mucha salud. Muchas gracias por enriquecerme.
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