#the yearly bomb threat was a celebrated event.

[mayra-quijotescx]

So I used to be a librarian, right.

And the city's series of piss-poor responses to COVID is definitely part of why I am only a librarian in the past tense, barring some wild utopian shift in society before I die. But it's not the whole reason.

No, the reason I was looking to leave the library system I worked for even before COVID, and why that library system had been suffering a queer brain drain of its own making long before I even thought to update my resume, is because admin was queerphobic.

Oh, they'd never call you a slur to your face. Goodness, no. But when someone came in to lob threats and accusations at any visibly queer staff member, nothing would happen. (Unless said staff member got upset by this, in which case the staff member would face disciplinary action.) One of the largest Pride celebrations in the country got moved to the doorstep of the system's central campus in 2015, and yet the system's outreach team was conspicuously absent from the festival and parade unless individual staff members managed to force our presence in. There were a million microaggressions so small and plausibly deniable that they don't warrant individual mention, that left those of us affected wondering if they'd been truly accidental or cynically calibrated to seem accidental.

Then in 2018, when a small band of out-of-town extremists with no hobbies to speak of and an axe to grind against literacy and drag started threatening Drag Queen Story Hour (our highest-attended youth program outside our yearly summer camp event), the community showed up to protect attendees and block the protestors from view. Admin did nothing, except to cancel the entire program in 2019 over a wild false accusation made by the bigots against one of the performers.

That was when we all got to learn the hard way how much appeasement works.

The almost daily called-in threats of violence, ranging in detail from vague to clearly masturbatory and involving everything from firearms to explosives to bare hands, kept pouring in, hardly slowing down for months. Efforts to keep our helpline usable while minimizing staff exposure to vitriol failed and virtually the entire communications team resigned. Queer staff members faced wild accusations and threats of personal violence from people who only entered the library to cause problems, often while security stood in earshot and watched like a bump on a log because they were there to 'protect' the library from people who were too visibly poor for their liking, not from suit-clad agitators. Those of us who recognized said agitators and pointed out what they were doing to us, however calmly, were reprimanded for not showing proper respect to our "customers" (yes, that's what this system called patrons.) This bullshit torrent of victory laps continued until the pandemic closed our doors to the public nearly a full year later.

Because showing bigots that you will side with them over your own employees doesn't deter them. It kicks open the door for them to keep doing it. It doesn't matter how quietly you demonstrate that allegiance. They will get the message, and they will act on it.

So yeah, when Target pulled their Pride collection on 05/23, I knew exactly how well that was going to work out for the employees they claimed they were trying to protect. And sure enough, bomb threats were called in against several stores not three whole days later. (05/26)

Appeasement does not make employees safe.

It makes bigots bolder.

Not one step back, goddammit.

[revddan]

Disfiguration or Transfiguration? A Sermon for the Feast of Transfiguration

The 6th of August (a couple of days ago) marked the 77th anniversary of the day the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing more than 100,000 people. (The 9th of August marks the bombing of Nagasaki). 

We continue to live under the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. Violence and war are daily fixtures in our newspapers, TVs, radios, and news feeds. 

Ever-increasing military spending suggests that humankind, more than ever, is committed to the unholy myth that violence is redemptive. Humankind's imagination is shackled to the death-dealing logic that the way to peace is through the barrel of a gun. Despite our yearly cries of "lest we forget," nothing changes.

And violence is not limited to war.

We live in the aftermath of colonialism, a dehumanising project that has marred the humanity of the colonised and, to a lesser extent, coloniser. Homophobia and transphobia are alive and well in our community. Suicide is at epidemic proportions. And the environment, through human greed and over-consumption, is in a dire state of disrepair.

Today, then, is a solemn day to lament Disfiguration, the many ways God's world is not as it should be. 

The 6th of August (a couple of days ago) also marks the day church celebrates the Transfiguration of Jesus, that moment in Jesus' ministry when he was transformed in some way, shape, or form. 

Today we remember and reflect on both. Disfiguration, the blinding light of nuclear devastation and all the other devastations that inflict destruction on individuals, communities, and the planet and Transfiguration, the blinding light of Christ's glory bursting forth in a hurting and broken world.

To be "transfigured" means to be transformed, to change form or appearance, usually into an improved, more beautiful, or spiritual state. The writer of Luke describes Jesus's transformation, in Luke 9:28-31.

Jesus, with James, John and Peter, had ascended a mountain to pray. While Jesus was praying, his face changed (Matthew and Mark tell us Jesus was "transfigured"), and his clothes took on a brightness akin to a flash of lightning. In this moment of transformation, Moses and Elijah, two prophets who symbolise the Law and the Prophets, joined Jesus and talked together. As their conversation draws to a close, the disciples wake from their slumber, clouds roll in, the disciples are in awe, and a voice from the cloud says, "This is my son, whom I have chosen; listen to him." And then it's all over.

What to make of all of this?

Mountains hark back to Moses's trip up a mountain, where he encountered God, and his face shone like the sun. Clouds recall the exodus and God's guiding presence with God's people as they wandered through the wilderness. The voice from the cloud recalls Jesus's baptism, and in the same way that God affirmed Jesus then, God now affirms Jesus again. "This is my son, whom I have chosen; listen to him." God was present. The light of Christ burst forth and shone with incredible brightness. Jesus's eschatological glory erupted in the present. 

The transfiguration of Jesus is good news.

At one level, Jesus's transfiguration, the unveiling of Christ's future glory, is a crucial reminder of who Jesus is. It is a reminder that Jesus is God incarnate, the word made flesh. The transfiguration of Jesus, however, is more than a revelation of his divinity.

Oscar Romero, martyred bishop of El Salvador, saw the "transfiguration" not as a glimpse of Jesus's eschatological [future] glory but as a happening, an event, that had profound implications for followers of Jesus: disciples must be made anew; the church, societies and nations, and history itself, must be transfigured. 

As Christ was transfigured, so must we be transfigured. As Christ was transfigured, so must the church. As Christ was transfigured, so must our neighbourhoods, towns and cities, nation, creation, and history.

The transfiguration of Jesus is a call to and for transformation.

Jesus's transfiguration reminds us that the light of Christ must shine not only on the mountain but in every dark corner of the world. In the disfigured places. In the disfigurement that we experience within us. In the disfigurement that we see around us. Jesus' transfiguration reminds us that the church, as an extension of Christ's body, Christ's hands and feet in the world, is how Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, is an agent of transformation. The church's job is to shine the light of Christ in a broken and hurting world. The church's vocation is to be a place of justice, reconciliation, and peace, to stand at odds with the death-dealing logic of the world, and to stand in solidarity with those who suffer. The church's vocation is to embody an alternative politic, rooted in the ways of Jesus, that hopes, dreams, prays, and struggles for transfiguration amid disfiguration.

In a disfigured world, Jesus's transfiguration is a profound reminder that God will prevail, the world will, somehow, in some way, be transformed, made new, that God will transfigure all that is disfigured; and that we have a part to play.

This is good news!

As followers of Jesus, the question for us is, what will we choose? 

Disfiguration or Transfiguration? Will we succumb to the debilitating light of disfiguration, or will we root ourselves in the transforming light of Christ?

Let's choose transfiguration. Let's be transfigured. Let's be bears of God's transfiguring love.

In our meeting together. In our reading of scripture. In our shared meals together. In our praying. In our singing. In the Eucharist. In our shared life together. In all these things, may the transfiguring light of Christ burst forth amongst us, on us, and in us. May the transfigurating light of Christ surprise and unsettle us, heal and transform us (individually and as a church); may our faces shine with the love of God. And, as the light of Christ transfigures us, may we be bearers of God's transfiguring love in the world, and may we shine the light of Christ in ways that embody the transforming love of God.

Disfiguration or transfiguration? Let's choose transfiguration.

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Resources:

Wisdom Commentary (a Feminist Commentary): Luke 1-9, by Barbara E. Reid, OP, and Shelly Matthews

Light that Conquers the Darkness: Oscar Romero on the Transfiguration of Jesus, Michael H. Kibble

Belief Commentary: Luke, by Justo Gonzalez

[itsfinancethings]

If you’ve been going to sleep recently to the deafening roar of fireworks, you’re not alone. From New York to Los Angeles to Hartford, Conn., complaints and reports about fireworks have ballooned over the last month. Boston police, for example, recorded 1,445 fireworks complaints in the first week of June, compared with 22 in the same week last year, according to the Boston Herald.

But just because fireworks usage is skyrocketing doesn’t mean that its industry is thriving. For the companies that sell smaller consumer fireworks, this enormous uptick is simply allowing them to get back on track after multiple months of no sales. Meanwhile, the companies that put on huge displays have been decimated by the cancellation of virtually all major events, from baseball games to concerts to parades. And because these companies rely disproportionately on July 4th shows, the widespread cancellation of Independence Day celebrations has left many wondering if they will make it to New Year’s without federal intervention.

“I’ve worked with these guys for 30 years—They’re desperate,” Julie Heckman, the executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, says. “I’ve never seen anything impact this industry like what’s happening right now.”

“It was hard to keep track of the cancellations”

Until March 2020, it was a very good time to be in the fireworks business in America. In 2019, revenue hit $1.4 billion, according to research gathered by the American Pyrotechnics Association. Three quarters of that came from retail fireworks—like sparklers, snaps and Roman candles—that can be bought by consumers and set off in backyards (and all too often, in the street).

Retailers that sell those types of smaller fireworks have been buoyed by a widespread relaxation of state laws over the last few decades. Since 2000, 17 states have liberalized their fireworks laws, with Massachusetts the lone state that completely prohibits people from owning and using them. Store owners like Anthony LoBianco of Intergalactic Fireworks in Langhorne, Penn. have seen their business expand, with more and more people putting on backyard shows or elaborate gender reveal parties.

The remaining quarter of the fireworks industry is the sale of display fireworks: the monumental, intricately-choreographed shows you might see at a parade or an Independence Day celebration. Display companies have seen enormous recent growth due to a rising economy and the booming live event business, in which food and music festivals have sprouted up all over the nation. Pyrotechnic technology is also constantly improving, spurring increasingly lavish and jaw-dropping spectacles with all sorts of whimsical shapes and deft color mutations. “Over the last decade, we tripled the size of our operation,” Steven Vitale, who runs the company Pyrotecnico in New Castle, Penn., says.

Pyrotecnico, which has existed since 1889, previously supplied and staged the fireworks for Super Bowl halftime shows and Democratic National Conventions, and was projecting 2020 to be its best year on record. But in March, as COVID-19 emerged as a serious threat to public health, his clients started cancelling one by one. “Coachella cancelled. Live Nation announced no more concerts. The MLB, the NBA, the NCAA Final Four: It was hard to keep track of the cancellations,” Vitale says. (New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has said that the famed Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks show, the biggest pyrotechnic celebration in the U.S., will go on despite the coronavirus).

Companies like Pyrotecnico might have been able to weather a few months of silent skies, provided that the country was back up and running for July 4th. Typically, Pyrotecnico puts on more than 600 shows for Independence Day, accounting for more than 50% of their yearly fireworks revenue. But at the moment, less than a third of those shows will happen. He says that as as a result, he’s had to lay off 65% of his workforce.

Jim Souza, of the California-based Pyro Spectaculars, says that of the 400 shows the company was going to stage on July 4th, they’re currently looking at 40 and decreasing—and that the company is down 90% in revenue. “I say that with stomach pains,” he says. He had to put 25 people on furlough before Payroll Protection Program funds arrived.

In New England, Atlas PyroVision Entertainment Group had booked about 235 shows for July 4th, including for the cities of Boston, Plymouth and Hartford. “Right now, we’re looking to do about 18,” Steven Pelkey, the owner, says.

These cancellations’ negative effects will linger long after the first weekend in July. Production typically takes longer than a year: Ironically, the supply for these patriotic goods is shipped from China, and there are many safety regulations and protocols surrounding massive international shipments of explosives. For many companies, July 4th shipments have long already been ordered and are now sitting in warehouses around the country.

Given the state of the pandemic, there’s little hope for these companies to offload them in the foreseeable future. Souza was hoping to offset his July 4th dependence with a fireworks festival and competition, the Sparks Fly Festival, that was supposed to unfold over a week in October in Glendale, Ariz. “It was signed, sealed, delivered. We were about ready to launch the website and tickets,” Souza says. That was cancelled, too, leaving him with a bare schedule over the next ten months. “We have to find a way to stay in business until next April, when more deposits will be due and hopefully major league baseball starts,” he says.

The idle storage of fireworks could cost each company heavily, due the security and liability insurance that comes with protecting highly dangerous materials. Pelkey says he is sitting on $4 million of heavily insured inventory that will continue to burn a hole in his pockets until whenever shows resume. “That’s going to be tough to recover, because customers are not going to accept a 25 or 30 percent price increase,” he says.

And the product surplus could wreak havoc on the supply chain next year. “We are going to really face some headwinds going into next season because we have high inventory levels now, and there will be less orders going into 2021,” Vitale says. “That’s going to destabilize a very fragile industry within China.”

A Tale of Two Cities

As the display side of the industry sees red, the consumer side has fared better, perhaps in part due to the former’s plight. “We’re experiencing a tale of two cities,” Heckman says. “The display side is on life support, but it’s been quite surprising to see this early activity on the retail side.”

In early June, the Florida-based Fireworks Lady & Co. created a marketing campaign highlighting the fact that most displays would be cancelled for the year. “We’re sorry we have to do that to our brothers and sisters in the industry, but that’s what we’re doing,” Patricia Taime, who runs the company, says. Since then, business has taken off, to the point that Taime had to hire nine extra employees to deal with the influx. “It’s been very nice,” she says. “We’ve been dealing with more and more inquires, and working some extra hours.”

Anthony LoBianco, who runs Intergalactic Fireworks in Pennsylvania, has seen a dramatic increase in sales since reopening after being closed for two-and-a-half months. “Usually there’s one week before July 4th where it’s like a mad rush,” he says. “But that level of activity is happening now. Everyone is buying radically: they’re bored, and they have nothing to do at night. Fireworks fill in that little void instead of sitting at home and watching TV.”

Pelkey says that since Memorial Day, Atlas PyroVision’s retail stores in New Hampshire are up 40 percent compared to the same time frame last year. “For the most part, people don’t have anything to spend their money as far as entertainment,” he says. “They’re going to do what they can do.”

Still, this increase in interest is barely making up for the months of lost revenue. Many stores are holding their breath to see if the activity sustains through the crucial July 4th weekend. “We don’t know if people are just buying early for the holiday,” Pelkey says.

And while sales have increased, store owners are growing concerned about the ways in which fireworks are being used once they leave the store. Over the last month, fireworks have been weaponized at demonstrations across the country. And several municipalities that have banned fireworks, including New York City, have seen a rash in illegal usage. “It weighs heavily on us,” Pelkey says. “If products get used in a manner that is not consistent with their safe use and intent, you could have state fire marshals or even governors not allowing them.”

“All we can do stress the safety of their usage and the laws until we’re blue in the face,” LoBianco says.

If fireworks continue be used in an illegal manner, that could inadvertently result in continued financial strife for the entire fireworks industry—if further restrictions are imposed, or if municipalities with planned July 4th celebrations rethink the idea of setting off bomb-like bursts over communities. The American Pyrotechnics Association is asking Congress for $175 million in loans for roughly 150 small businesses, as part of the next stimulus package.

If many of these businesses go under, it may be hard to replace them: the fireworks industry is riddled with complicated regulations, making the barrier to entry extremely high. “I think the industry is going to be crippled,” Vitale, of Pyrotecnico, says.

Assuming that America starts to emerge from the pandemic, Pelkey expects cities and towns to want joyous firework displays next July 4 or the year after. COVID-19’s economic damage, however, could complicate these plans. “For a few years, some of them are not going to be able to have a display,” he says, “because there just won’t be enough of us around.”

[bharatiyamedia-blog]

‘Biodegradable’ balloons could also be posing critical threats to marine wildlife, time to let air out of the business

http://tinyurl.com/y672mayp My thoughts and physique have, instinctively, at all times had the best emotions in direction of issues which can be dangerous for the planet – it’s nearly as if my relationship with nature is so profound that we predict as one. I’ve at all times hated kites and plastic straws, for example, lengthy earlier than I knew what number of hundreds of thousands of lives they took. One other phobia of mine is balloons. My household is aware of that I cannot contact one and won’t enter an area that has them. Individuals who launch pigeons and balloons at rallies have my timeless hatred as a result of the pigeons will die and the balloons will kill. Fortuitously, as a result of we have now been so vociferous about chook releases at ceremonies, it’s now not carried out. Now, we have to cease the balloons as effectively. The deadliest ocean rubbish for seabirds is balloons. In a small survey carried out on one coast, 1,700 lifeless seabirds have been picked up. Over 500 of those birds had swallowed plastic, with 40 % of these deaths attributable to balloons. Big fish installations made with plastic are exhibited at a seashore in Rio de Janeiro. Reuters Seabirds regularly snap up floating litter as a result of it seems like meals. When items of latex or mylar are mistaken for meals and ingested, they lodge within the digestive tract, inhibiting the animal’s potential to eat and inflicting a sluggish and painful loss of life by hunger. Birds, turtles and different animals generally mistake balloons for meals. As well as, many animals can turn out to be entangled in balloon strings, which may strangle them or minimize their limbs. A balloon floats to a excessive altitude the place it bursts. The burst sample makes it seem like a jellyfish. It then comes down, is washed into the ocean and is swallowed by predators like dolphins, whales and sea turtles. If a seabird swallows a balloon, it’s 32 instances extra more likely to die than if it had gulped down a bit of arduous plastic, researchers reported in a brand new investigation carried out by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Research on the College of Tasmania in Australia, printed in mega journal Scientific Experiences. “Among the many birds we studied, the main explanation for loss of life was blockage of the gastrointestinal tract, adopted by infections, or different issues, attributable to gastrointestinal obstructions,” a report reads. Birds are particularly more likely to swallow balloons as a result of they carefully resemble squid. Sea turtles, amongst different wildlife, eat shrivelled or exploded rubber balloons as a result of they seem like jellyfish. Once they floor to breathe, sea turtles generally eat balloons. Scientists doing necropsies on turtles that washed ashore lifeless have typically discovered the necks of latex balloons blocking the doorway to the small gut from the abdomen, and 4 ft of hooked up ribbon within the gut. In July 2018, a handful of boats held a contest on selecting up balloons within the ocean. In at some point, over 600 balloons have been collected. The Sea Turtle Basis estimates that 1,00,00zero marine mammals and turtles and two million seabirds die yearly from ingesting or changing into entangled in marine particles, together with indigestible plastic that blocks stomachs. In 2016, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Analysis Organisation (CSIRO) named balloon litter as one of many three most dangerous objects for marine wildlife. Balloons are made from latex, mylar or foil and fall to the bottom as litter. They’re as dangerous as cigarette butts and plastic baggage. Those which can be pumped with helium journey 1000’s of miles and their items are discovered within the remotest locations, like wildlife refuges, the place they pollute the earth. For instance, greater than 100 balloons have been lately collected on the Edwin Forsythe Nationwide Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey at a single cleanup on one seashore. Petrels swallow shrivelled up balloons and die. On any seashore on this planet, you’ll be able to decide up not less than 10-15 balloons on daily basis. To make use of helium in balloons needs to be made a criminal offense punishable by life imprisonment. Helium is a finite fuel and shouldn’t be wasted on fripperies. Helium is used as a defend fuel for non-ferrous welding and for cooling the superconducting magnets in MRI scanners. There isn’t a substitute for it, resulting from helium’s low boiling level. It’s also utilized in respiration ventilators for infants and sufferers. In 1996, Nobel Prize winner Robert Richardson issued a warning that provides of helium are getting used at an unimaginable fee and may very well be gone inside twenty years. Due to balloons? In accordance with the US-based Shopper Product Security Fee, balloons are linked to extra toddler fatalities than some other little one product, and loss of life by helium inhalation persistently takes lives annually. Balloon firms say that latex, or rubber balloons, degrade. They offer completely different names to the balloon – Qualatex, for example. This isn’t true. There are not any protected balloons. They degrade in many years and are eaten lengthy earlier than that. Whereas conservationists everywhere in the world are asking for an finish to balloons, the businesses in America have predictably bought collectively and have created the Balloon Council to struggle any legal guidelines that prohibit the shopping for and launch of balloons. They’re reinventing their promoting methods by calling themselves biodegradable. This nonsense, that they use “pure” latex so it’s biodegradable, doesn’t maintain, as a result of the latex has had chemical substances, plasticisers and synthetic dyes added to it. It could degrade finally, as even rocks do, however it’s actually not biodegradable. Individuals who dwell within the deserts have discovered 1000’s of them, some over 20 years previous. The ribbons, or the string that’s generally tied to balloons, whether or not it’s “biodegradable” or “naturally dyed”, will final years and entangles animals that come into contact with it. The balloon business claims that when a balloon pops, it bursts into many little items, and that the items land distant from one another. How does that matter? Each bit is a time bomb. Folks see balloons as an uplifting factor. Going to the skies and the heavens. They don’t attain heaven – however this flying trash makes 1000’s of animals and birds attain it earlier than their time. Have a look at the positioning Balloons Blow with the intention to see photos of the lakhs of creatures killed by balloons. Birthday events, weddings, graduations, sport occasions, political celebration jamborees – all these at the moment are mass balloon littering occasions. It’s time to make them unlawful. They’re pointless, ineffective, and an anachronism that no one will miss in the event that they have been gone. I’m shocked that the atmosphere and forest ministry has not moved to cease this business. However then, it has been equally ineffective in banning fireworks. Are you, as a guardian, not involved concerning the state of the world? Begin by altering the party balloon use. Have enjoyable, have a good time with environment-friendly alternate options. You need to have issues that make your events memorable and completely satisfied? Flowers are one of the simplest ways. Colored lights, vibrant streamers, flags and banners save time and money. Pinwheels, with flashy colors fluttering within the wind, appeal to consideration. Tissue paper pom-poms in numerous colors are fairly. Blowing bubbles is at all times enjoyable: watching them bounce round in direction of the sky and twist with the wind like rainbow butterflies. There are firms that create large bubbles that are a sight to behold. Chinese language paper lanterns should not an environment-friendly different. Sky lanterns have began big fires. Rubber Jellyfish by Carly Wilson, a documentary concerning the results of launched helium balloons on ocean wildlife – particularly, Australia’s inhabitants of critically endangered sea turtles, is a movie that needs to be proven in each faculty. Carly Wilson discovers that helium balloons, which can be typically launched ceremoniously, normally land within the ocean. She examines the phenomenon that causes balloons to imitate the looks of jellyfish, a prey that every one sea turtles eat, once they rupture excessive within the earth’s ambiance. She meets a number of turtles affected by the excruciatingly painful and sometimes deadly “float syndrome”, which is attributable to the ingestion of balloons and different ocean waste. By way of the movie, Carly seeks to grasp why and the way the multibillion-dollar balloon business has led the general public to imagine that latex balloons are biodegradable and environment-friendly, regardless of huge proof on the contrary. She meets marine biologists, turtle activists, representatives of the balloon business and coverage makers, to query why Australia has not taken motion in opposition to mass balloon releases, when its waters host all six sea turtles on the CITES endangered species checklist. Hearken to the experiences that scientists, wildlife rehabilitators and conservationists are submitting concerning the impacts balloons have on animals and the atmosphere. Cease utilizing them. Or invent edible, natural, biodegradable balloons made from unwaxed paper, or straw and even soya, which disintegrate when they’re moist. Your information to the newest cricket World Cup tales, evaluation, experiences, opinions, dwell updates and scores on https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2019.html. 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