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Viola Bonaldi interviews Bobby BeauSoleil

This is the raw interview Viola Bonaldi did with Bobby BeauSoleil in the summer of 2018. Viola Bonaldi wrote an article incorporating the raw material below for Salmuria.

You can read the English version here: https://salmuria.it/emailing-with-bobby-beausoleil/

… Or if your first language happens to be Italian, read it here: https://salmuria.it/corrispondenza-con-bobby-beausoleil/

How did your passion for art — first music and then visual art — come about? Do you remember a specific moment or an episode that enlightened you? Did the Sixties atmosphere play an important role?

As far as I can tell, I mean, to the best of my recollection, I already had a passion to express myself in creative ways when I was born. According to what my mother told me later, about the time I took my first steps I was playing her pots and pans and making drawings on the walls of the house.

Honestly, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t feel like I had something to say in the arts. I believe this is the case with most if not all artists. For some a passionate desire to express in the arts may lay dormant for a time, and then suddenly something happens that triggers the calling, awakening the latent artist within. In my case it seems that I was born turned on. I didn’t need the social explosion that happened in the 1960s to bring the creative urges out of me, but it did provide a playground for them, and sometimes I found inspiration in the passions of people I encountered during that period.

When you haunted the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles you were known as “Cupid”, the archaic Roman primordial god of love, because of the way girls liked to be around you, a young, vibrant, beautiful, multicolored artist. From that capricious god you eventually turned yourself into “Lucifer”, the “angel of light”, fallen from Paradise as a consequence of his pride. Your life is largely connected to archaic myths, and this is often reflected in your work as an artist, both musically and visually, which is full of esoteric symbolism. Now, more than four decades after your work on Lucifer Rising, who are you? Lucifer, Cupid, or some other “creature”? And how do you explain your interest in the arcane?

Wow! Big questions! Well, first of all, I have never pretended to actually be any “creature”, as you put it, that I’ve been associated with. I am just me, an innately nameless soul. As an artist, I have sometimes used my own physical being as a canvas, willingly adopting personas from mythology that others have seen in me. My parents gave me a name at birth and I have been happy to be that person most of the time. Occasionally I have taken on the personifications of archetypes from myth as a way of allowing them to live for a brief time, and in a limited way, in the world of the mundane. There are, by the way, some common traits between Cupid and Lucifer. Both of these mythological beings are imagined as angelic, both known to have a naughty streak, to be creatively rebellious, and both are associated with love. I can think of far worse things to be known for expressing in the world.

What attracts me to the myths is the wealth of story and allegory that can enrich our larger capacity for understanding. Myths are often used as a tool for deepening cultural identity, and to give a hand up by way of providing context and instruction to those who aspire to higher truths. And mythology is an artform that can inspire new art, and thus myths can be alive and continue to grow and influence. As for other arcane interests, I have found little of any real substance in the so-called “dark arts” or silly practices like devil worship. However, as a mystic seeker I have found that treasures are often hidden in dark places. Following a shadow to its source will invariably lead one to the light.

You write that your works are rarely borne out of direct observations of the natural world, from the perception of real things, but come instead from your own mental reinterpretations and from the world of dreams. Is this a consequence of your limited conditions in terms of the space you live it? What is your process for drawing subjects from your recurrent dreams?

Certainly, there are no beautiful vistas to be seen through the dirty windows of the place where I live. I can see moving images from nature in photographs and films, and sometimes these inspire me to produce a visual interpretation. For the most part, though, I tend to see the beauty of nature as paintings made by God, ever changing in the light of consciousness, awesomely inspired and breathtaking, far beyond the capabilities of any human artist to do them justice. Rather than producing poor imitations of the moving paintings created by God, my natural inclination is to make a few humble additions to God’s creation, as one of the forces of nature.

So, for the most part, I draw inspiration from my unfettered and fertile imagination. You can fly in your dreams, right? What can be seen, imagined or experienced is not limited to what is possible in the physical world in some states of mind. I cultivate some of these states of mind, such as lucid dreaming, as a source for concepts that may be made manifest in the physical world through my arts. This works for visual imagery and for music as well, and even sometimes for written words, like poetry. In the vast territories of dreams especially — both daydreams and the kind that happen during sleep — the mind plays freely, in safety, amorphously creating odd mash-ups, evolving patterns, astonishingly wonderous sounds. Much of my work is an attempt to bring these experiences into the physical realm, or at least to hint at them.

What does a young man think when he is sent to death row? You couldn’t play an instrument or have contact with other people, right?

When I arrived on San Quentin’s death row in 1970 I was a total wreck, broken and shattered, far more devastated than I ever let anyone know during that period. As difficult as it was, in some ways that 26 months I was on death row was a blessing. I needed that time alone to grapple with my conscience, to fully face what I had done head-on, to begin to learn how to think things through and begin the process of accepting responsibility for how I was going to deal with the consequences of my actions and eventually find a way to redeem myself. It was a tall order, one that seemed utterly insurmountable at the time. Think of a complicated picture-puzzle with about a million pieces.

Having a guitar was not allowed on death row, like you say, but I could get a little manual typewriter and a few pencils and sketch paper. Writing and drawing helped me to focus on my inner world and begin the process of putting the pieces of myself back together.

Where did you learn to create musical instruments? How did you manage to do that in prison?

Finding ways of making new or different kinds of sounds has been a fascination for me since I was a small boy. The first time I built a musical instrument was when I was about 8 years old. It was a contraption I called a “jazz band” — basically a percussion instrument made out of a wooden crate, with a variety of found objects like tin cans, pie plates, glass jars, spoons and whatnot nailed or attached to the crate in some way. I made a lot of noise on that thing, beating on it with sticks. A couple of years later I made an electric guitar — or rather, something that looked like a guitar I had seen in the window of a music store — in the workshop class at my school. It didn’t work, but from that experience I learned a lot about what is needed to make one that would. I have customized, or “hot-rodded”, every guitar I’ve had since, and built a few guitars from scratch.

In the mid-1960s, when I was putting together a band that would become known as The Orkustra, I was faced with the challenge of figuring out how to go about electrically amplifying different kinds of woodwinds and stringed instruments. This was a necessary step in fulfilling my desire to assemble the first electric orchestra. This experience became invaluable ten years later when I took on the Lucifer Rising soundtrack project. After I was given a permission from the warden at the prison to produce recordings for the project I successfully sought an additional permission to build some of the instruments I would need in the prison handicraft shop. I was allowed to build several guitars and keyboard instruments, and to experiment with music electronics and synthesizer design. This led to the invention and development of some instrument innovations.

Things have changed in prisons since then, with most of the prison handicraft programs having been shut down. Though I’m not able to build instruments at present, I still manage to find ways to hot-rod guitars. Fortunately, the technical skills I acquired earlier opened doors to my being in prison jobs that have given me access to advanced tools for producing work in various media, including video and sound design. I have been blessed with some unusual opportunities to employ my abilities in ways that are helpful and beneficial to others. Despite the imprisonment, I count myself fortunate to have had these opportunities, and I am grateful.

How can a human being detained for decades in prison survive in such a place without becoming a “monster”, as you have reflected in some of your writings? Can we say that Lucifer Rising saved you?

Prisons are unnatural places. They are ill-conceived responses to social problems like crime and mental illness — and in the US, anyone who breaks a law, mentally ill or not, is subject to incarceration in the prison system. In practice, imprisonment worsens these types of problems, generally speaking. Imprisonment warps the mind, not only of prisoners but also of the people who are paid to supervise them and keep them locked in.

Fairly early in my incarceration I became aware of the effects being in prison was having on me, and on others around me. By that time, I had already begun to slip into involvement in violent situations. When I saw what was happening I began to take steps to mitigate those negative effects. I resolved that I would never allow the prison environment to define me. Making a personal vow of non-violence that I have maintained to this day was one of those steps. By pouring myself into creative expression as an artist, along with promoting and maintaining healthy relationships with people on the outside, I have been able to gird myself against the insanity around me. It takes continuous effort and resolve, and a lot of vigilance, but it is possible to empower oneself to rise above the snares and pitfalls of prison life and maintain one’s personal integrity.

Yes, you could say that the Lucifer Rising soundtrack project saved me, in a way. It took years to complete the soundtrack compositions and recordings. During that time the project consumed me utterly. And it did so in a positive way. My concept for the Lucifer Rising themes was to musically describe the fallen angel’s desire to redeem himself, tracing his path through the dark passages he would pass through in his journey toward reconciliation and the light. The story, as I decided to interpret it, has certain resonances in my own life, so working on the project was cathartic.

Did you like Charles Manson’s music?

Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn’t. Charlie was a uniquely talented musician, but he had a tendency to be inconsistent in the way he approached musical performance. Much of this had to do with context. Some of his songs were a lot like songs for children, and were obviously meant to be sing-along songs for the people in his commune. Those songs would not have had much appeal to a general audience, and I have seen them used in sensationalist media to ridicule his musical ability. There were songs of Charlie’s that would not stand the tests of time, like much of the music that was made during the sixties, but many of his songs were entirely relevant for that period and some of them had real depth of meaning. The ones I liked best were those that he sang and played spontaneously, in a stream-of-consciousness style, like some rappers of today. As an improvisational player, I particularly enjoyed playing with him on songs he created in this mode. My accompaniment seemed to inspire him and helped to bring out the best qualities in his performances. This type of collaboration formed the basis of my relationship with him, such as it was. Unfortunately, no good recordings have survived.

You appear to have a deeply spiritual conception about purpose in relation to destiny. You have written that every person is born with some special ability or message they are meant to express in the world, a unique hand of cards to play in life. If you had not done “a bad thing” as your Professor Proponderus character said in the animated film you made, and been sent to prison, what do you think your life would have been like? Who would Bobby Beausoleil have become outside of jail? How would he have played his cards?

Taking my cue from the cards metaphor seems like the best place to begin a response to your questions ... The thing is, most human beings are not dealt only one hand of cards in life. Each time one makes a major decision in life, or has a significant accident, Destiny deals the individual a new hand of cards to play. It is impossible to say what my life might have been like had I not made the dire decisions that caused me to be sent to prison.

Some imaginative writers have postulated that each major decision creates a new timestream in a parallel universe. Well, I don’t know if that’s true, and it’s doubtful any of us ever will in our lifetimes, but let’s play along for the sake of giving due respect to what you are asking. Had I played my hand of cards differently in 1969 it’s conceivable that the Bobby Beausoleil of that alternate universe would have become a famous rock star, as I once hoped to be. Just as conceivable, the Bobby Beausoleil of another parallel universe might have wound up in some dark alley, dead of a drug overdose, something I have never had any aspirations to be.

We don’t get to choose beyond playing the cards we are dealt as well as we can in the hope that our decisions will take us to where we want to go. It is when we play our cards willy-nilly, without care, that we may instigate disasters in our lives and the lives of others. That said, I have done my best to play my cards well in the intervening years, and to overcome, to the extent that may be possible, the failings of my past. We shall see what the cards I play now will bring in the future.

Reading the transcript from your last parole hearing one can note that your artistic activity, and publishing communications with people outside of prison via the internet, has sometimes been used against you and your release. But you still do it. Do you do this out of a philosophical sense of duty, or because you feel safer in prison and don’t really want to be released? I mean, it seems like you’re shooting yourself in the foot ...My idea is that it’s only an excuse. It doesn’t matter what you do. For some people you will always be condemned because you have the Manson stigma on you.

Excuses are made by people who shirk the responsibilities they have agreed to accept, and who fail to have the courage to do the right thing and uphold those responsibilities. After long and very careful consideration, I resolved years ago that I would not restrict or limit my life in accordance with the excuses made by other people.

This is not an act of defiance by any means. I carefully follow the rules I am given to follow; none of my art or publishing actually violates any of them. And I assure you, I have no desire to wrap myself up in the dubious security of prison life. I want to get out of prison as much as any imprisoned person ever has. In the end, what it comes down to is that my spiritual obligation to fulfill my purpose in life trumps any of the rationalizations or excuses that may be used to justify keeping me in prison, and all the nonsense related to them.

A soul comes into the world for only a brief time and for the purpose, however slight it may be, to contribute to bringing sentience to the physical universe through expression of a God-given ability. This is called dharma, the purpose in life. Failing to uphold this responsibility is a breach of the sacred covenant a soul makes when coming into the world.

As an artist, it is my role to express creatively and to share the work I produce in such efforts with the world. Perhaps this will serve to uplift another soul, or to inspire someone to make their own dharmic contribution to the human mission. Or maybe it’s of no real value at all. In any case, I feel very strongly that I must remain true to my calling, and to fulfill my sacred obligation as a sentient soul, come what may.

In the years past I fought long and hard to restore myself to integrity. Too great an investment has been made to retreat from what I know I’m here to do, or to otherwise compromise my integrity out of fear of some arbitrary, politically motivated resistance. Clearly, nothing in the work I create is indicative of any violent tendencies. Excuses aside, this is what should be the focus in a parole consideration hearing. At some point I may be fortunate enough to have my case in front of arbiters who recognize that my creative efforts have been the instrument of my rehabilitation, restoring me to a responsible human being, and who will, in consideration of this, support my release from prison.

From your experience, what do you think of the use of social media and the internet?

My direct exposure to the internet has been limited by restrictive prison policies, but studying technological advancements is a hobby of mine. I won’t be left behind like Rip Van Winkle! As a multi-media artist, I am interested in how computers and computer devices like tablets and cell phones can be used to express creatively in new ways. There are artists out there who are doing amazing things with these new technologies!

The internet is a mixed bag, mostly because it is still like the wild west — a work in progress. For the everyday person to have rapid access to so much information is truly marvelous, extremely empowering, but this is only beneficial if the information is accurate. With every person able to have their very own pulpit there is way too much fake news and click-bait gossip poised to ensnare the unwary. I believe this will improve in time as the search engines incorporate better algorithms to snag and tag the suspicious content. On the other hand, there is the wonder of streaming media. I can’t wait to be able to catch up on come of the films and music I’ve been missing!

There is a lot about social media that doesn’t seem very sociable to me. The ability to communicate across vast distances in real time via texting and chatting on Facebook and other social media sites, with pictures and video, makes for an extremely valuable tool. That’s just it: a tool. There is no replacement for real sensory contact between human beings. We are hardwired for touch and direct eye contact. There are reasons why suicides are occurring more frequently in these times; it seems to me that too much reliance on social media platforms is part of the reason for this. It worries me that many young people will sit side-by-side and text to each other instead of looking at one another and talking. And too many people are cocooned in their personal bubbles, insulated from empathic connection to humanity, making derogatory, harsh, even hateful judgements of other people, often only because they are isolated and lonely and need to share their misery. Emojis are cute but they are a poor substitute for communicating real emotions. Humans are complex creatures. We can actually choose to be less anxious and depressed as a species by relying less on virtual socializing.

You took your freedom early, still a child, but soon you lost it. Unlike the stories of most prisoners, however, you affirm that your family situation was very positive when you were a child. Do you remember the happiest episode of your childhood, and the saddest one? Do you recall your childhood home and the scents of that time?

I remember my childhood home vividly, smells and all. Although I tended to be more adventurous than most of the kids I knew, my childhood was pretty average, growing up in a tract house nearly identical to all the other houses in the neighborhood. My happiest times were when I was sent off to stay with my grandmother during the summer, because the world seemed so much bigger in the Los Angeles area where she lived. My happiest memory there was finding an old guitar in my grandmother’s attic. Destiny dealt me a new hand of cards that day! The saddest day of my childhood was, at age 15, going with my family to my grandmother’s funeral. That was the day I left home for good, for some reasons that didn’t actually have anything to do with my grandmother’s death. I loved my family, but the family home was just too small.

Silvio Pellico, an Italian writer and patriot imprisoned for life in 1820, then given a commuted sentence and released after 10 years, stated that, without a doubt, free living is much better than living in prison, yet even in a miserable prison you can enjoy life. What do you think about this?

Prison is generally a pretty miserable place, that’s a fact. Spending my time in a puddle of self-pity has always been an option, just as it is for people on the outside. Choosing that option is what turns a miserable place into a hell. Many people in prison do just that. There is not only misery but a good deal of anger and rage in here as well. I mentioned earlier, I made the decision to not allow prison to define me. As a result, I have managed to do the extraordinary while in prison, and I have inspired some other prisoners to do similar things. While prison is a miserable place, being a miserable prisoner is not a must. Transcendence of misery is always possible no matter how hard it gets.

Your answer to a question no one has ever asked you ...

“Do you wear boxers or briefs under shorts?” No, I don’t.

Describe the room you live in and what your days are like at the prison where you live. What do you do for entertainment. How are you feeling?

My mind is much younger than my body, so naturally I have my share of aches and pains to deal with. To help preserve my health and activity I do hatha yoga on a semi-regular basis. I am also one of the two teachers for the yoga class here. A couple of times a week I play with other musicians here and once in a while we perform together in the prison house band. We have a music class once a week and I help with teaching guitar to students. Even though my spiritual orientation is grounded in the traditions of West Asia, I’m perfectly comfortable playing in the Gospel band in the prison chapel. Also once a week I take my guitar to the Hospice part of the prison hospital, and play music for men who are in the process of dying.

My cell is about the size of a typical bathroom in someone’s home. There’s a door in one end and a window in the other end that lets in daylight; there is a small sink, a toilet, and a large metal locker for storage. I use the top of the locker as my work surface. I’m using it now while typing these words. My bed is the size of a cot, a concrete block with a mat stuffed with jute fiber; of course, it serves also as a seat and a place where I set my art materials when working on a painting or drawing. My guitar shares the space, and I’ve got a small television and a radio. I would say that I live like a monk if my cell were not so cluttered with stuff for work, play, eating and sleeping. I manage to figure out ways to make the space work for me fairly well under the circumstances.

I currently have a job five days a week in the prison library. It takes up a bit too much of my time and sometimes conflicts with things I’m trying to do. But then, most people who have jobs have similar problems.

Much of my time has been going into writing and editing. A couple of books are in the works, one of which is scheduled for publication in 2019. This leaves me little time for reading, though I manage to find some time to read, mostly books on spiritual philosophy, mythology, media technology. But when it comes to words it’s the writing that gets most of the juice. I love good films and some television dramas, if they are done well. I will watch the TV for two or three hours in the evening if there is something on worth my attention. Some of my writing time naturally goes to communicating with family and friends, creative collaborators, and, when I can fit it in, some of the fans of my work as well.

My long-awaited double vinyl LP, Voodoo Shivaya, a concept album I worked on for seven years, recently debuted. The response has been gratifying, quite favorable so far, even though the music does not fit in any of the established categories or genres. So I’m feeling pretty happy that I’ve been able to share this music with the world.

Do you have a suggestion you can give us?

Try to avoid killing anyone, if you can. It is very very difficult to come back from something like that. And if you find yourself faced with a seemingly insurmountable challenge, don’t be too shy to ask for help. The best place to look for help is deep within yourself where you will surely find great resources of strength and courage you may not yet be aware of. And remember, there is always at least one way to play your cards that will allow you to prevail over and ultimately transcend any challenge.

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devildroids · 6 years ago

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If you are a systems administrator in charge of keeping a mail server running then spoofing emails is probably one of your biggest headaches. Spoofing techniques used by spammers are becoming more sophisticated every day, many of them even employing artificial intelligence to exploit your mail system vulnerabilities.

I’ve been researching ways to combat and prevent spoofing emails for years because it always has been a big issue at the place where I work.

There are ways to minimize or even eliminate spoofing emails completely, but managing a mail system is complicated as I’m sure you are aware of, and our focus, in my opinion, should be in striking a happy medium.

So our focus shouldn’t be to eliminate spoofing emails completely but to mitigate and stay ahead of the game so the objective of spammers through spoofing emails is never achieved.

You might be wondering, why can’t we just focus in eliminating spoofing emails? and the answer is that you cannot eliminate spoofing emails without disrupting the normal legitimate mail flow. That’s why I said above, striking a happy medium is your best bet, otherwise, you might end up with a bigger self-created problem of legitimate emails being caught up in or rejected by the spam filters, mail server rejections, undeliverable messages, etc.

Remember, people don’t care much about your benevolent intentions of preventing a catastrophe caused by a spoofing email. they just care about their mail, so they will complain about spoofing e-mails, and they will complain even more when legitimate emails are not being delivered to their mailboxes in time or not at all, so you are always in a lose/lose situation if you are trying to go rogue in eliminating spoofing emails on your own.

But it shouldn’t be that way, you can make it a win/win situation if you play your cards correctly.

And your first card should be:

Education

Educating your mail users should be the first step combating spoofing emails. There are many ways you can approach educating your users, but simple email reminders reminding people that not all emails are created equal is a good start. Outline the characteristics of a spoofing email and train your users how to distinguish them from the regular mail flow. Most spoofing emails are very genetic and with a trained eye is easy to spot them. Some of them are not as easy but train your users that when in doubt to always consult with you before taking any action.

Most spammers sending spoofing emails are after either money or private personal information like social security numbers. So make sure the finance and HR departments have processes in place for disbursing money and handling personal private information.

That could be your first “cover my ass” plan.

The reality is that when the shit hits the fan, the first person they will go to for answers will be you, but if whoever fell for the spoofed email didn’t follow the proper procedure, then you will have something to fight back.

Of course, the objective should be to never get to that point, but if you have been working in this field long enough then you know that

Shit happens.

So after you get the education thingy going, what should be the next step?

Get to work goddamnit!

No, I’m just kidding. Before we proceed though, I can’t emphasize enough that educating your users is the most crucial step, and its a lot of work because most people don’t like hearing the IT guy talk about like its gonna be the next world war if they click on a suspicious email, so it’s hard to grab their attention, so yeah, its a lot of work to get your message across, but after awhile they’ll get it.

So let’s get into some technical stuff now.

The four technical components that will help you fight spoofing emails are:

Spam Filtering Software

SPF

DKIM

DMARC

We will go through each of this component individually.

The spam filtering software is a given. with the amount of spam hitting your mail server I wonder how it would be if you didn’t have a spam filter, right?

Most spam filters are cloud-based now with many of them using artificial intelligence and machine learning to adjust to new spamming trends quickly, so if you are not using a cloud-based spam filtering software yet, start looking into it.

SPF or Sender Policy Framework is a DNSentry that you create in your domain that prevents other domains from using your domain to send emails as you. In other words, an SPF record is designed to prevent spoofing emails.

SPF was invented in early 2000 and is considered indispensable for fighting spam nowadays. The record you add to your DNS should look like this:

“v=spf1 a:ittutorials.net -all”

In this example, only the “ittutorials.net” domain is authorized to send emails. The record will check for “ittutorials.net” IP address, including the “reverse DNS” IP to make sure the email is authentic.

If it finds anomalies in any of those things, it will reject the emails, so make sure your Reverse DNS is set up properly.

If you are not sure what Reverse DNS is, call your Internet provider and ask them, they will set it for you if don’t have it.

There is a tone of information online about SPF and how to set it up properly so hit Google if you need more info about it.

DKIM or DomainKeys Identified Mail is a cryptographic email authentication method designed to detect email spoofing. It allows the receiver to check that an email claimed to have come from a specific domain was indeed authorized by the owner of that domain. It is intended to prevent forged sender addresses in emails, a technique often used in phishing and spoofing emails.

If you are using a cloud-based spam filtering software, most likely you can get the domain keys from them to enter in your domain DNS. Microsoft Exchange 2010 or 2013 doesn’t support DKIM authentication natively, but there are third-party tools you can install to create them. be careful with that though.

And the last thing that almost put the nail in the coffin when it comes to spoofing emails, but it can be the most disruptive on legitimate email flow is DMARC.

DMARC is fairly new in the spam combating arena and is not widely adopted yet that’s why it can be disrupting. DMARC builds upon SPF and DKIM so you need to have those two records implemented first before you get to DMARC your mail server.

DMARC closes the security vulnerabilities inherent in email protocols so it could be the holy grail we’ve been waiting for to put all our spoofing emails woes to rest, but like I said, I don’t think the industry is ready for it yet, so is not widely adopted.

I tried setting up a DMARC record for the company I work for, and because DNS records sometimes can take awhile to replicate, we didn’t see the impact of it until the next day.

It was a chaos, and I sweat my shirt a couple of times

Maybe I didn’t do it right, there is a lot of legwork you have to do before implementing a DMARC record because nothing that has the characteristics of a spoof email will come through, that includes newsletters, emails from spammy looking domains, etc they will be automatically rejected at the domain level, they won’t even hit your spam filter for you to sort through.

There are policies you can set with a DMARC record to minimize the impact, but even with that, it was a chaos for us.

Check online to learn more or how to set up a DMARC record.

So there you have it, my friends, I hope this overview on how to stop spoofing emails is helpful to you.

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“Embrace the power of salvation’s full deliverance, like a helmet to protect your thoughts from lies.”

Today’s reading of the Scriptures from the New Testament is the 6th chapter of the Letter of Ephesians:

Children, if you want to be wise, listen to your parents and do what they tell you, and the Lord will help you.

For the commandment, “Honor your father and your mother,” was the first of the Ten Commandments with a promise attached: “You will prosper and live a long, full life if you honor your parents.”

Fathers, don’t exasperate your children, but raise them up with loving discipline and counsel that brings the revelation of our Lord.

Those who are employed should listen to their employers and obey their instructions with great respect and honor. Serve them with humility in your hearts as though you were working for the Master.

Always do what is right and not only when others are watching, so that you may please Christ as his servants by doing his will. Serve your employers wholeheartedly and with love, as though you were serving Christ and not men. Be assured that anything you do that is beautiful and excellent will be repaid by our Lord, whether you are an employee or an employer.

And to the caretakers of the flock I say, do what is right with your people by forgiving them when they offend you, for you know there is a Master in heaven that shows no favoritism.

Now my beloved ones, I have saved these most important truths for last: Be supernaturally infused with strength through your life-union with the Lord Jesus. Stand victorious with the force of his explosive power flowing in and through you.

Put on God’s complete set of armor provided for us, so that you will be protected as you fight against the evil strategies of the accuser! Your hand-to-hand combat is not with human beings, but with the highest principalities and authorities operating in rebellion under the heavenly realms. For they are a powerful class of demon-gods and evil spirits that hold this dark world in bondage. Because of this, you must wear all the armor that God provides so you’re protected as you confront the slanderer, for you are destined for all things and will rise victorious.

Put on truth as a belt to strengthen you to stand in triumph. Put on holiness as the protective armor that covers your heart. Stand on your feet alert, then you’ll always be ready to share the blessings of peace.

In every battle, take faith as your wrap-around shield, for it is able to extinguish the blazing arrows coming at you from the evil one! Embrace the power of salvation’s full deliverance, like a helmet to protect your thoughts from lies. And take the mighty razor-sharp Spirit-sword of the spoken word of God.

Pray passionately in the Spirit, as you constantly intercede with every form of prayer at all times. Pray the blessings of God upon all his believers. And pray also that God’s revelation would be released through me every time I preach the wonderful mystery of the hope-filled gospel. Yes, pray that I may preach the wonderful news of God’s kingdom with bold freedom at every opportunity. Even though I am chained as a prisoner, I am his ambassador.

I am sending you a dear friend, Tychicus. He is a beloved brother and trustworthy minister in our Lord Jesus. He will share with you all the concerns that I have for your welfare and will inform you of how I am getting along. And he will also prophesy over you to encourage your hearts. So may God shower his peace upon you, my beloved friends. And may the blessings of faith and love fill your hearts from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Abundant grace will be with you all as each of you love our Lord Jesus Christ without corruption. Amen!

Love in Christ,

Paul

The Letter of Ephesians, Chapter 6 (The Passion Translation)

Today’s paired chapter of the Testaments is the 10th chapter of the book of Jeremiah that warns against the worship of other gods:

This message is for all of Israel. Listen to what the Eternal is saying to you.

Eternal One: Don’t learn the strange practices and beliefs of other nations.

Don’t be terrified by signs in the sky

just because the other nations are.

For their traditions and customs are useless; there is nothing to them.

A tree is cut down in the forest;

then an artisan takes out a tool and carves it into an image.

They dress it up with gold and silver to make it more impressive.

Then they nail it down so it won’t fall over!

This is what they worship? The idol just stands there—

lifeless, powerless like a scarecrow in a cucumber patch.

It cannot speak. It cannot move. They must pick the thing up and bring it along.

Do you see why there’s nothing to fear from these dead pieces of wood?

They cannot harm you, and they cannot help you either.

O Eternal One, there is no comparison.

You are great; even Your name is powerful.

Who wouldn’t worship You? It is only right;

You are the King of all kingdoms.

The wise and powerful men of all nations in their realms

are still nothing compared to You.

They are stupid fools for taking their cues from blocks of wood,

as if that idol could lead them anywhere.

Beaten silver from Tarshish, and hammered gold from Uphaz—

materials made by artisans and goldsmiths—

Draped with royal blue and purple,

even with the work of craftsmen—still a lifeless object!

Just look at the contrast! The Eternal is the True God:

He is the living God and eternal King, not some lifeless idol.

The whole earth trembles when He is angry; nations crumble beneath His wrath.

Say this to anyone still worshiping idols: The so-called gods you worship did not make the earth and starry sky above it. And one day, they will all be blotted from the earth beneath those stars.

Know whom you’re dealing with!

God alone is powerful enough to create the earth.

He alone is wise enough to put the world together.

He alone understands enough to stretch out the heavens.

His voice thunders through the heavens, and the waters gush from the sky;

He summons the clouds to build up over the earth.

As the rain falls, the lightning flashes at His command;

the wind rushes in from where He alone can store it.

All of humanity is stupid and bankrupt of knowledge.

Those who make idols are shamed by their creations.

What they fashion out of gold are imposters—

breathless, lifeless frauds.

Their idols are worthless, the work of their hands an embarrassing mockery.

They are doomed to perish under God’s judgment.

The portion of Jacob, the Eternal One, is not like any of these.

He was not fashioned out of human hands.

Instead, it is He who made all things and appointed Israel to inherit it all.

His name is the Eternal, Commander of heavenly armies.

Pack up what you have; take what you can from the land.

You’ll soon be under siege!

The word I have from the Eternal is clear:

Eternal One: Look, I will pitch out these people who live in the land of promise.

Now is the time for Me to bring hardship on them, so they may be found.

When I think of what is about to happen,

I can’t begin to express my hurt; the wound is so deep, so painful.

But I keep telling myself,

“This sickness is mine to bear.”

Like a tent, my nation has collapsed, all the ropes cut apart.

My sons are gone,

And there is no one left to help me put things back together.

So I am exposed, with no tent and no shelter.

The shepherds of my people have lost their senses;

they never thought to ask what the Eternal would have them do.

So now they are in trouble,

and all their flocks are scattered.

Listen! The news we’ve dreaded is finally here:

Rumblings are being heard in the north; an army is moving into our land.

The villages of Judah will be laid to waste;

their rubble will be the haunt of jackals.

Jeremiah: O Eternal One, I know our lives are in Your hands.

It is not in us to direct our own steps—we need You.

Discipline me, Eternal One, but do so fairly.

Hold back Your wrath, or I’ll be destroyed completely.

O God, pour out Your wrath on those nations that do not acknowledge You,

on those peoples who never call on Your name.

For they have ravaged the land of Jacob and devoured it completely.

They have made sure nothing is left of our land.

The Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 10 (The Voice)

A link to my personal reading of the Scriptures for monday, August 23 of 2021 with a paired chapter from each Testament of the Bible along with Today’s Proverbs and Psalms

A post by John Parsons about the Torah reading this week:

Shalom friends. Our Torah portion this week (Ki Tavo) includes instructions for the people to ratify the Sinai covenant in the promised land by means of a special ceremony performed in the valley between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerazim (that was later fulfilled by Israel, see Josh. 8:30-35). During this ceremony the blessings for obedience and the curses for disobedience would be declared, and Moses warned the people by providing a seemingly endless description of terrible consequences that would befall the Jewish people if they disobeyed the terms of the Sinai covenant (Deut. 28:15-68). In Jewish tradition this litany of woe is called the “tochachah” (תּוֹכָחָה), a word that means "rebuke" or "reprimand."

Reading the tochachah is difficult and painful, though it serves as a bitter medicine to wake us up and prevent us from falling into a lethal coma. In that sense the tochechah may be regarded as a great blessing, since it shocks us into experiencing the gravity of God’s grace. This is similar to Yeshua’s grave warnings about the dangers of hell. If we refuse to listen or rush past his words, we are missing the substance of God’s lament given through the Hebrew prophets. Sin is a lethal problem, and we must turn to God for healing or we will die. As Blaise Pascal once wrote, “Between heaven and hell is only this life, which is the most fragile thing in the world.” Therefore shuvah! -- turn to God and receive the blessing of life! [Hebrew for Christians]

and another about opening up to see Light:

Shalom dear friends. The great holiday of Rosh Hashanah (i.e., “Yom Teruah”) will begin in about two weeks (i.e., Monday, Sept. 6th at sundown). During the time leading up to the High Holidays, it is customary to engage in cheshbon ha-nefesh (“soul searching”) and to derive comfort that God is forgiving and loving to those who sincerely turn to Him. Because of this, the Jewish sages chose seven “Haftarot of comfort” to encourage us to make our hearts ready for the upcoming High Holiday Season.

The haftarah for Ki Tavo (i.e., Isa. 60:1-22) is the sixth of the seven readings from the prophets that are consecutively read before Rosh Hashanah. These “haftarot of comfort” foretell of the restoration of the Jewish people and of the coming of the Messianic Era. In this week’s reading, the haftarah portion describes the long-awaited future salvation of the nation of Israel. The LORD promises to shine His glorious light upon the Jewish people and to reveal His glory, despite the hour of darkness and tribulation that comes upon the earth: "Arise and shine (קוּמִי אוֹרִי) for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD (כְּבוֹד יהוה) has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will shine upon you (וְעָלַיִךְ יִזְרַח יהוה), and his glory will be seen upon you (וּכְבוֹדוֹ עָלַיִךְ יֵרָאֶה). And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip" (Isa. 60:1-4).

Sometime during the “plague of darkness” that represents the time of the Great Tribulation (i.e., the Day of the LORD and the judgment of the world, or Yom Adonai), Israel will finally turn to the LORD and receive Yeshua as their long-lost Messiah (Zech. 12:10). The veil will finally be taken away, and all Israel will be saved (Rom. 11:26; Isa. 59:20). The Light of Salvation (אור הישועה) will be revealed and the glory of the LORD (כְּבוֹד יהוה) will radiantly shine (זָרָח) upon the Jewish people. The land of Israel will be like Goshen during the times of the plagues of Egypt as the world powers are all judged and destroyed. Then the survivors of the nations will understand that the LORD is indeed with Israel and will turn to Him in surrender as well. "And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken" (Isa. 40:5). Yeshua will return to Zion to establish the Kingdom of God upon the earth (Zech. 2:10-13).

The LORD said to Moses from the midst of the shining flame: 'Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy' (Exod. 3:5). The Chofetz Chaim comments: We all need to rise higher... Never say, I will be able to lift myself up at another time or different place. By faith see that this place, right now, is holy ground, and awaits your response. May God open the “eyes of your heart” to help you see (Eph. 1:18-19). [Hebrew for Christians]

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Today’s message (Days of Praise) from the Institute for Creation Research

August 23, 2021

Offering Willingly

“Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.” (1 Chronicles 29:9)

As the people brought gifts for the construction of the temple in Jerusalem, it is mentioned no less than six times in this chapter that their offerings were willing offerings (once in verses 6 and 14, twice each in verses 9 and 17). In fact, they were not only willing but also joyful in their giving.

Joyful giving is not the usual response to a fundraising effort for a religious cause. The great proliferation of causes today—not only for churches but for multi-church or para-church projects, usually associated with high-pressure solicitations by professional money-raisers—has developed a growing cynicism in Christians toward all such appeals.

That is not the way it should be, “for God loveth a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7). The churches of Macedonia, though going through “a great trial of affliction” and in “deep poverty,” nevertheless “abounded unto the riches of their liberality,” and they did so in “the abundance of their joy” (2 Corinthians 8:2). What made the difference was that they “first gave their own selves to the Lord” (2 Corinthians 8:5).

No doubt another vital factor leading to the joyful offerings of the people for the building of the temple was the example set by David’s great personal joyful generosity, followed by that of all the other leaders of Israel (1 Chronicles 29:3-8). This encouraged the people also to give “with perfect heart” (today’s verse). They had evidently, like the Philippians of Macedonia, also first given themselves to the Lord. David had led them by example, not coercion, reminding himself and his people as he prayed a prayer of thanksgiving that “all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee” (1 Chronicles 29:14). HMM

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Notwithstanding the scale of repair, our team provides seamless integration of the latest and recent drywall, the effort makes the wall sleek and prepared for painting.Drywall repair experts always use prime quality drywall, tape, and putty, all told of our drywall repair work and make sure that the drywall answer is firmly planted into the present structure – this suggests your drywall won’t crack or bend over time.Drywall Repair services in McAllen TX Why to Hire a Professional Drywall Repair CompanyThe reason is that if drywall is put in improperly, then you risk the possibility of issues occurring later. those that do have the unfortunate expertise of getting improperly put in drywall perceive the troubles.They’ll have walls that don’t seem to be even and cracks within the walls and therefore the ceiling. they’ll additionally realize that even the tiniest of knocks into the wall leads to an agape hole. This is often why there are corporations out there that are dedicated to repairing those unskilled drywall installations.How does a Drywall Repair Contractor Repair Drywall?First off, we conclude why there’s a problem. If we realize that the matter is with a selected space of the house, then we’ll simply repair that space. However, the bulk of the time the matter with the drywall is found all over that those that put in the drywall worked.This suggests you’ll be facing an enormous quantity of cash being paid so as to repair the issues that ought to not be there in the initial place, once this happens, the recent drywall needs to return off whereas new drywall is placed up, that may be an immense job for anyone to undertake and will take several days to finish.When having drywall put in, home house owners ought to make sure that they’re employing a skilled company that is aware of what it’s doing. That way, we will avoid having to create any future repairs to the drywall.McAllen TX Drywall Removal: Drywall Repair in McAllen TX can mean fixing a hole in the ceiling to texturing walls to skim coating a bathroom wall smooth. Perhaps even doing this to dozens of Apartments and Homes. There are many different ways to patch drywall / plaster and get it ready to paint. Quickly and Effortlessly. Have a solid concrete ceiling that is peeling or beginning to fail? We can help! Perhaps you have had a water leak due to a plumbing issue or AC unit that needs addressed. We can help! And with giving you options, you are sure to have the project completed to your liking. In a timely, professional manner and with little to no effort on your part. Another example of a RGV HAULING JUNK & MOVING may be that you decided to sell. You would like to take care of a few minor cracks and cosmetic defects in your drywall ceiling and walls. We are happy to get your ceiling or walls ready for paint. Or help you with painting as well. Another most common repair we see is damage to a bathroom ceiling or wall due to poor ventilation and a shower that runs daily collecting steam. It is not uncommon for us to fix 3 or 4 bathroom ceilings a week that are like this, just for this common occurrence. Whatever your drywall repair may be, we can help! We have even been known to travel and perform Drywall Repair during a storm cleanup.How to Remove DrywallRemoving drywall may be necessary when renovating a room, repairing localized damage, or when gutting a house after a flood. Learning to approach the job properly will help it go a lot faster. Learn to prep the walls for removal and a few simple steps to get through the process efficiently. Shut off the power, water, gas, and other utilities to the area you are working on. If you want to remove drywall, it's very important that you shut off any utilities in the area of the house that you're working on. Water and electricity should be shut off at the source before you start working on the drywallUse a stud-finder to locate obstacles. Any time you're going to start digging around in a wall, it's important to use a stud-finder and find out exactly what you're messing around with. Most modern stud-finders will come with pipe and electrical settings, meaning that you can use it to identify and locate any fixtures that might be built into the wall, to make sure you can avoid them successfully.[2] ● Mark areas with studs or fixtures with tape and work carefully around them, working toward the sensitive spots. ● If you don't have a stud finder, go around the room carefully knocking on the wall. Hollow sounding spots should be unobstructed drywall, but harder knocking spots will have studs and possibly piping throughout. Use caution in those areas, slowing working in that direction.Remove the molding first. Usually baseboards and ceiling moldings must be removed first, before you can access the drywall and begin removing it. This is done with a flat bar or other prying tool. Both types of moldings are usually affixed with nails, and should be pried from the walls slowly, working from nail to nail. Do the same thing with any molding or trim around windows and doors before you access the drywall.Use a utility knife to score the seam between moldings and drywall. The seam is typically filled with paint, caulk, or some combination of adhesive. If you want to reuse the molding, score the drywall edge of the seams to help fracture the wall where the molding and drywall surface will split.Remove the trim from electrical devices. Make sure the power is off on these circuits, then carefully remove the trim from around any electrical devices in the area, including wall switches, receptacles, and thermostats. The drywall is usually fit around the device boxes underneath these covers so they won't be damaged when removing the drywall. COSTCost to Remove DrywallDon’t let your remodeling budget go overboard by hidden surprises – understand what the average Cost to Remove Drywall is in your zip code by using our easy to use calculator. If you’re looking for 2020 Cost to Remove Drywall with labor and haul-away and how much a contractor might be, you’ve come to the right place. As an experienced licensed home improvement contractor, I know firsthand what it should cost for various levels from Basic, Better, and of course the best. The Cost to Remove Drywall estimator will provide you with up to date pricing for your area. Simply enter your zip code and the number of needed to remove, next click update and you will see a breakdown on what it should Cost to Remove Drywall at your homeRemove Drywall Cost Low Mid High Remove Drywall – Labor & Material Prices $325.00 - $360.00 $425.00 - $525.00 $550.00 - $650.00 Remove Drywall – Waste & Haul-away Costs $50.00 - $50.00 $60.00 - $65.00 $75.00 - $85.00 Remove Drywall – Total $375.00 - $410.00 $485.00 - $590.00 $625.00 - $735.00Remove Drywall – Total Average Cost per square ft. $3.92 $5.38 $6.80● Cost can add up quickly, especially if you’re a novice and have never attempted to Remove Drywall before. I would strongly recommend you hire a licensed and Insured Remodeling, or General Contractor to Remove Drywall for you.Remove Drywall – Pricing and Removal Cost Checklist● Get at least 3-5 estimates before hiring a Remodeling, or General Contractor estimates are typically free, unless it’s a small job. ● Expect Drywall removal prices to fluctuate between various Remodeling, or General Contractors – each and every company have different operating expenses and overhead. ● Try to get prices in late Fall, early winter – you should expect aggressive pricing discounts by waiting for a contractor’s down season. ● Try to budget and additional 7-15% more on top of what our calculator gives out I.e; difficult configurations, Mechanical area space, the additional complexity of your home will add to the Drywall removal costs. ● Remember, there are multiple styled homes in the U.S from: Contemporary, colonial, cape-cod style, ranch, bungalow, victorian, etc. So keep that in mind and try to budget a little more, before starting your Drywall removal project.FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSHow long will it take to complete the drywall?A typical basement install and ﬁnish with delivery of material will take 7-8 business days.Who supplies the materials?We prefer to supply the materials for the project.Does somebody need to be home?No, A simple hidden key or lock box works great.Do I need a dumpster?No, We can haul away all debris for you.Do I need to wash the dust of the walls before painting?No, A light sweep of the wall should remove the dust and a dry paintbrush in the corners is sufﬁcient. The remaining dust will melt into the primer.Do you require a down payment?No, You are trusting us with your home so in return we trust you to pay us when we are ﬁnished.Are you licensed and insured?We are not required to be licensed however we are registered with the Department of Labor and Industry. We carry liability and workers compensation insurance.What tools and supplies will I need to tackle the repair work myself?You will need some or all of these tools: ● Drywall Saw ● Drill ● Electronic Stud Finder ● Flexible Knives ● Hacksaw ● Hammer ● Hand Sander ● Inside Corner Knife ● Ladder ● Level ● Pry Bar ● Sanding Sponge ● Screwdriver ● Tape Measure ● Utility Knife In addition, you should plan on purchasing fresh drywall for patching, drywall tape, drywall nails and screws, and joint compound. Spray-on elastic crack coating can be useful too.Can damaged drywall be recycled, once it's removed?Yes, it usually can. You may have to do some detective work to find a recycling transfer station in your area that will accept it, though, especially if it contains asbestos. However, moldy drywall cannot be recycled and should be handled with care. Wear rubber gloves, eye goggles, and a respirator during removal. 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Best Drywall Removal Service and Cost in Wichita KS|WICHITA HAULING JUNK & MOVING

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BEST DRYWALL REMOVAL SERVICE IN WICHITA KS

WICHITA DRYWALL REMOVAL

Removing Dry Walls & Ceilings

Remaining a wall or ceiling is not a simple task. depending on the age of your home, you’ll have plaster walls and ceilings, otherwise, you could have a contemporary drywall construction. Regardless, this sort of repair work is not any simple task and will be left to the professionals.

WICHITA HAULING JUNK & MOVING is here for you!

If your walls have cracks, nail holes or other damage, then our drywall repair services is what you need. Our drywall experts can repair all your drywall needs and they are able to provide a fresh coat of paint for a new look if it is needed. Our drywall experts can arrive on time, check the issue, repair your wall or ceiling, re-inspect the work before completion and clean up the property after they are done.

Our services: ● Drywall Hole Repair ● Drywall Crack Repair ● Drywall Patch Repair ● Drywall Ceiling Repair ● Sheetrock Repair ● Drywall Repairs ● Drywall Seam Repairs ● Replacing Drywall ● Drywall Refinishing ● Popcorn ceiling removal ● Drywall Installation texture matching and more!

Drywall Removal in Wichita KS

Drywall repair may be a slightly simpler method compared to plaster repair, however, it too is best left to the pros. Notwithstanding the scale of repair, our team provides seamless integration of the latest and recent drywall, the effort makes the wall sleek and prepared for painting.

Drywall repair experts always use prime quality drywall, tape, and putty, all told of our drywall repair work and make sure that the drywall answer is firmly planted into the present structure – this suggests your drywall won’t crack or bend over time.

Drywall Repair services in Wichita KS Why to Hire a Professional Drywall Repair Company

The reason is that if drywall is put in improperly, then you risk the possibility of issues occurring later. those that do have the unfortunate expertise of getting improperly put in drywall perceive the troubles.

They’ll have walls that don’t seem to be even and cracks within the walls and therefore the ceiling. they’ll additionally realize that even the tiniest of knocks into the wall leads to an agape hole. This is often why there are corporations out there that are dedicated to repairing those unskilled drywall installations.

How does a Drywall Repair Contractor Repair Drywall?

First off, we conclude why there’s a problem. If we realize that the matter is with a selected space of the house, then we’ll simply repair that space. However, the bulk of the time the matter with the drywall is found all over that those that put in the drywall worked.

This suggests you’ll be facing an enormous quantity of cash being paid so as to repair the issues that ought to not be there in the initial place, once this happens, the recent drywall needs to return off whereas new drywall is placed up, that may be an immense job for anyone to undertake and will take several days to finish.

When having drywall put in, home house owners ought to make sure that they’re employing a skilled company that is aware of what it’s doing. That way, we will avoid having to create any future repairs to the drywall.

Wichita KS Drywall Removal:

Drywall Repair in Wichita KS can mean fixing a hole in the ceiling to texturing walls to skim coating a bathroom wall smooth. Perhaps even doing this to dozens of Apartments and Homes. There are many different ways to patch drywall / plaster and get it ready to paint. Quickly and Effortlessly. Have a solid concrete ceiling that is peeling or beginning to fail? We can help! Perhaps you have had a water leak due to a plumbing issue or AC unit that needs addressed. We can help! And with giving you options, you are sure to have the project completed to your liking. In a timely, professional manner and with little to no effort on your part. Another example of a WICHITA HAULING JUNK & MOVING may be that you decided to sell. You would like to take care of a few minor cracks and cosmetic defects in your drywall ceiling and walls. We are happy to get your ceiling or walls ready for paint. Or help you with painting as well. Another most common repair we see is damage to a bathroom ceiling or wall due to poor ventilation and a shower that runs daily collecting steam. It is not uncommon for us to fix 3 or 4 bathroom ceilings a week that are like this, just for this common occurrence. Whatever your drywall repair may be, we can help! We have even been known to travel and perform Drywall Repair during a storm cleanup.

How to Remove Drywall

Removing drywall may be necessary when renovating a room, repairing localized damage, or when gutting a house after a flood. Learning to approach the job properly will help it go a lot faster. Learn to prep the walls for removal and a few simple steps to get through the process efficiently.

Shut off the power, water, gas, and other utilities to the area you are working on. If you want to remove drywall, it's very important that you shut off any utilities in the area of the house that you're working on. Water and electricity should be shut off at the source before you start working on the drywall

Use a stud-finder to locate obstacles. Any time you're going to start digging around in a wall, it's important to use a stud-finder and find out exactly what you're messing around with. Most modern stud-finders will come with pipe and electrical settings, meaning that you can use it to identify and locate any fixtures that might be built into the wall, to make sure you can avoid them successfully.[2] ● Mark areas with studs or fixtures with tape and work carefully around them, working toward the sensitive spots. ● If you don't have a stud finder, go around the room carefully knocking on the wall. Hollow sounding spots should be unobstructed drywall, but harder knocking spots will have studs and possibly piping throughout. Use caution in those areas, slowing working in that direction.

Remove the molding first. Usually baseboards and ceiling moldings must be removed first, before you can access the drywall and begin removing it. This is done with a flat bar or other prying tool. Both types of moldings are usually affixed with nails, and should be pried from the walls slowly, working from nail to nail. Do the same thing with any molding or trim around windows and doors before you access the drywall.

Use a utility knife to score the seam between moldings and drywall. The seam is typically filled with paint, caulk, or some combination of adhesive. If you want to reuse the molding, score the drywall edge of the seams to help fracture the wall where the molding and drywall surface will split.

Remove the trim from electrical devices. Make sure the power is off on these circuits, then carefully remove the trim from around any electrical devices in the area, including wall switches, receptacles, and thermostats. The drywall is usually fit around the device boxes underneath these covers so they won't be damaged when removing the drywall.

COST

Cost to Remove Drywall

Don’t let your remodeling budget go overboard by hidden surprises – understand what the average Cost to Remove Drywall is in your zip code by using our easy to use calculator. If you’re looking for 2020 Cost to Remove Drywall with labor and haul-away and how much a contractor might be, you’ve come to the right place. As an experienced licensed home improvement contractor, I know firsthand what it should cost for various levels from Basic, Better, and of course the best. The Cost to Remove Drywall estimator will provide you with up to date pricing for your area. Simply enter your zip code and the number of needed to remove, next click update and you will see a breakdown on what it should Cost to Remove Drywall at your home

Remove Drywall Cost Low Mid High Remove Drywall – Labor & Material Prices $325.00 - $360.00 $425.00 - $525.00 $550.00 - $650.00 Remove Drywall – Waste & Haul-away Costs $50.00 - $50.00 $60.00 - $65.00 $75.00 - $85.00 Remove Drywall – Total $375.00 - $410.00 $485.00 - $590.00 $625.00 - $735.00

Remove Drywall – Total Average Cost per square ft. $3.92 $5.38 $6.80

● Cost can add up quickly, especially if you’re a novice and have never attempted to Remove Drywall before. I would strongly recommend you hire a licensed and Insured Remodeling, or General Contractor to Remove Drywall for you.

Remove Drywall – Pricing and Removal Cost Checklist

● Get at least 3-5 estimates before hiring a Remodeling, or General Contractor estimates are typically free, unless it’s a small job. ● Expect Drywall removal prices to fluctuate between various Remodeling, or General Contractors – each and every company have different operating expenses and overhead. ● Try to get prices in late Fall, early winter – you should expect aggressive pricing discounts by waiting for a contractor’s down season. ● Try to budget and additional 7-15% more on top of what our calculator gives out I.e; difficult configurations, Mechanical area space, the additional complexity of your home will add to the Drywall removal costs. ● Remember, there are multiple styled homes in the U.S from: Contemporary, colonial, cape-cod style, ranch, bungalow, victorian, etc. So keep that in mind and try to budget a little more, before starting your Drywall removal project.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How long will it take to complete the drywall?

A typical basement install and ﬁnish with delivery of material will take 7-8 business days.

Who supplies the materials?

We prefer to supply the materials for the project.

Does somebody need to be home?

No, A simple hidden key or lock box works great.

Do I need a dumpster?

No, We can haul away all debris for you.

Do I need to wash the dust of the walls before painting?

No, A light sweep of the wall should remove the dust and a dry paintbrush in the corners is sufﬁcient. The remaining dust will melt into the primer.

Do you require a down payment?

No, You are trusting us with your home so in return we trust you to pay us when we are ﬁnished.

Are you licensed and insured?

We are not required to be licensed however we are registered with the Department of Labor and Industry. We carry liability and workers compensation insurance.

What tools and supplies will I need to tackle the repair work myself?

You will need some or all of these tools: ● Drywall Saw ● Drill ● Electronic Stud Finder ● Flexible Knives ● Hacksaw ● Hammer ● Hand Sander ● Inside Corner Knife ● Ladder ● Level ● Pry Bar ● Sanding Sponge ● Screwdriver ● Tape Measure ● Utility Knife In addition, you should plan on purchasing fresh drywall for patching, drywall tape, drywall nails and screws, and joint compound. Spray-on elastic crack coating can be useful too.

Can damaged drywall be recycled, once it's removed?

Yes, it usually can. You may have to do some detective work to find a recycling transfer station in your area that will accept it, though, especially if it contains asbestos. However, moldy drywall cannot be recycled and should be handled with care. Wear rubber gloves, eye goggles, and a respirator during removal. Then dispose of it in well-sealed plastic bags.

CALL FOR US: ● Drywall Removal Near Wichita KS ● How To Remove Drywall Ceiling ● Drywall Removal Tools ● Drywall Removal Cost ● How To Remove A Section Of Drywall ● How To Remove Drywall Without Damaging It ● How To Install Drywall ● How To Remove Drywall In Bathroom ● How To Replace Drywall Wichita KS ● Cost To Remove Drywall Ceiling ● Cost To Remove And Replace Drywall ● Cost To Install Drywall ● Interior Demolition Cost Calculator ● Cost To Install Drywall Ceiling ● Cost To Finish Drywall ● Interior Wall Demolition Cost ● Labor Cost To Hang And Finish Drywall Wichita KS

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Drywall Removal Service near Las Vegas NV: Are you looking for the Best Drywall Removal Service near Las Vegas NV? LAS VEGAS HAULING JUNK & MOVING, Our drywall experts can arrive on time, check the issue, repair your wall or ceiling, re-inspect the work before completion and clean up the property after they are done. Cost? Free estimates! Send us a message or call us today. Best Drywall Service around Las Vegas NV. We serve Las Vegas NV and other areas. Get a Free Quote Now!

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Drywall Removal in Las Vegas NV

Drywall Repair services in Las Vegas NV Why to Hire a Professional Drywall Repair Company

How does a Drywall Repair Contractor Repair Drywall?

Las Vegas NV Drywall Removal:

Drywall Repair in Las Vegas NV can mean fixing a hole in the ceiling to texturing walls to skim coating a bathroom wall smooth. Perhaps even doing this to dozens of Apartments and Homes. There are many different ways to patch drywall / plaster and get it ready to paint. Quickly and Effortlessly. Have a solid concrete ceiling that is peeling or beginning to fail? We can help! Perhaps you have had a water leak due to a plumbing issue or AC unit that needs addressed. We can help! And with giving you options, you are sure to have the project completed to your liking. In a timely, professional manner and with little to no effort on your part. Another example of a LAS VEGAS HAULING JUNK & MOVING may be that you decided to sell. You would like to take care of a few minor cracks and cosmetic defects in your drywall ceiling and walls. We are happy to get your ceiling or walls ready for paint. Or help you with painting as well. Another most common repair we see is damage to a bathroom ceiling or wall due to poor ventilation and a shower that runs daily collecting steam. It is not uncommon for us to fix 3 or 4 bathroom ceilings a week that are like this, just for this common occurrence. Whatever your drywall repair may be, we can help! We have even been known to travel and perform Drywall Repair during a storm cleanup.

How to Remove Drywall

COST

Cost to Remove Drywall

Remove Drywall – Total Average Cost per square ft. $3.92 $5.38 $6.80

Remove Drywall – Pricing and Removal Cost Checklist

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How long will it take to complete the drywall?

A typical basement install and ﬁnish with delivery of material will take 7-8 business days.

Who supplies the materials?

We prefer to supply the materials for the project.

Does somebody need to be home?

No, A simple hidden key or lock box works great.

Do I need a dumpster?

No, We can haul away all debris for you.

Do I need to wash the dust of the walls before painting?

No, A light sweep of the wall should remove the dust and a dry paintbrush in the corners is sufﬁcient. The remaining dust will melt into the primer.

Do you require a down payment?

No, You are trusting us with your home so in return we trust you to pay us when we are ﬁnished.

Are you licensed and insured?

We are not required to be licensed however we are registered with the Department of Labor and Industry. We carry liability and workers compensation insurance.

What tools and supplies will I need to tackle the repair work myself?

Can damaged drywall be recycled, once it's removed?

CALL FOR US: ● Drywall Removal Near Las Vegas NV ● How To Remove Drywall Ceiling ● Drywall Removal Tools ● Drywall Removal Cost ● How To Remove A Section Of Drywall ● How To Remove Drywall Without Damaging It ● How To Install Drywall ● How To Remove Drywall In Bathroom ● How To Replace Drywall Las Vegas NV ● Cost To Remove Drywall Ceiling ● Cost To Remove And Replace Drywall ● Cost To Install Drywall ● Interior Demolition Cost Calculator ● Cost To Install Drywall Ceiling ● Cost To Finish Drywall ● Interior Wall Demolition Cost ● Labor Cost To Hang And Finish Drywall Las Vegas NV

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Fuck Abuse, Kill Power: Addressing the Root Causes of Sexual Harassment and Assault

The past year has seen a wave of revelations about powerful people—nearly all men—perpetrating sexual violence against those beneath them. The #MeToo moment has provided a platform for countless courageous survivors. Yet although some men have been made to face consequences for the harm they have done, we are far from being able to solve the problem of male sexual violence. Focusing on the wrongdoings of specific men tends to exceptionalize them, as if their actions took place in a vacuum. This is consistent with the mechanisms of a criminal justice system focused on individual guilt and a reformist politics premised on the idea that the existing government and market economy would serve us perfectly if only the right people were in power. But with the bad behavior of so many men coming to light, we have to consider the possibility that these are not exceptions at all—that these attacks are the inevitable, systemic result of this social order. Is there a way to treat the cause as well as the symptoms?

Trigger warning for descriptions of sexual violence.

Virtually all recent mainstream coverage has treated sexual harassment and assault as an issue distinct from capitalism and hierarchy. When writers admit that capitalism and hierarchy play some role, they imply that what is harmful about these systems can be fixed through reform. They exhort us to appeal to power to solve the problems power causes: we are to pressure corporations to fire their executives, to use the media to shame media moguls, to use democracy to punish politicians. In short, we are supposed to use the very structures through which our abusers hold power to take it away from them.

On the contrary, we can’t be effective against rampant sexual assault without confronting its root causes.

A tattoo by Charline Bataille inspired by Jenny Holzer.

A Very Brief History of Sexual Assault in the United States

Sexual assault and rape are woven into the very origins of the United States. The original colonists did not consider the indigenous inhabitants worthy of the same moral considerations as white Europeans. Sexual assault and rape were systematically employed as colonial tools. Michele de Cuneo, a nobleman and a shipmate of Columbus, described the following scene in a letter, apparently without shame or remorse:

While I was in the boat I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me, and with whom, having taken her to my cabin, she being naked according to their custom, I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want it and treated me with her finger nails in such a manner that I wished I had never begun. But seeing that (to tell you the end of it all), I took a rope and thrashed her well, for which she raised such unheard of screams that you would not have believed your ears. Finally we came to an agreement in such a manner that I can tell you that she seemed to have been brought up in a school of harlots.

Slaves, too, were routinely sexually assaulted. This was an essential aspect of the system of slavery: in addition to domestic labor, enslaved women were forced to engage in sex and reproduction that served to add more slaves to their captor’s holdings.

Workers have also experienced egregious sexual harassment and assault for as long as there has been a workforce.

Throughout all this, women were never passive victims. Women have always fought against their abusers with ferocity, creativity, and diversity of tactics. For example, in the mid-1800s, a slave named Harriet Jacobs fought fiercely against her captor; after resisting his sexual advances, she hid in a crawlspace for seven years to avoid him. She eventually escaped to New York and obtained legal freedom. An early forerunner of the #MeToo movement, she wrote letters to the New York Tribune detailing her experiences and in 1860 published Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, one of the first books to detail enslaved women’s experiences of sexual assault.

Starting in the early 1900s, women formed labor unions that fought for the rights of female workers, including the right not to be sexually harassed and assaulted. Black women’s struggles against workplace harassment led to the creation of the first laws against sexual discrimination and harassment. In 1993, Lorena Bobbitt cut off her abusive husband’s penis and threw it in a field after he raped her. A jury acquitted her. These are all legitimate forms of resistance.

“They passed round the bleeding stump, as if they had finally exterminated a wild animal that had been preying on each and every one of them, and saw it there inert and in their power. They bared their teeth, and spat on it.”

-A passage from Emile Zola’s 1885 novel Germinal in which a mob of starving women workers castrate the corpse of a shopkeeper who has been extorting them for sex in exchange for food.

Corporations Won’t Solve This

It was no secret that many of these men were abusers. Nothing is different now except that corporations have taken a bit more notice. Corporate media outlets have published women’s accounts; some corporations have fired rapists if what they have done is deemed egregious enough. Should we be grateful to corporations for firing serial sexual predators once enough accusations pile up that it becomes a problem for their brand?

These corporations are just plugging the oil leak that finally made the news. But who creates and maintains this pipeline? They do. Let’s not pat them on the back for solving a problem that they caused.

Most of these companies have known about these accusations for years without doing anything. Worse, they’ve allowed these men to rise up the ranks of power to the point that their serial abuse warrants national news attention. In other words, these corporations have facilitated these men’s behavior by giving them additional opportunities with which to harass, assault, and rape women. For every Harvey Weinstein whose actions are finally brought to light, there is another Harvey Weinstein who gets away with serial assault thanks to the assistance of the institution that gives him power.

Why do corporations have a vested interest in helping rapists succeed in business? While misogyny is partly to blame, we have to look at the bigger picture. Corporate success is determined by how much profit a business produces, not by whether it protects women from sexual assault. In capitalism, whether to oust an assaulter becomes a simple economic equation: how is his presence affecting the bottom line?

Take the case of Bill O’Reilly. Since 2002, Fox News and O’Reilly have paid out many millions of dollars to settle sexual harassment claims. During this time, O’Reilly continued to be a rising star at Fox, negotiating a $25 million a year contract as recently as January 2017. While media coverage and exposés finally forced Fox to fire O’Reilly, Fox knew he was an abuser for more than a decade and shelled out millions to silence women he abused. Fox’s behavior is not so mysterious when one learns that in 2015, O’Reilly’s show earned Fox more than $180 million in advertising.

This is not an anomaly; this is a standard utilitarian calculation that businesses make all the time. Imagine you’re O’Reilly’s conscientious supervisor. Having just discovered O’Reilly’s long history of harassing women, you go to your bosses and demand that they fire O’Reilly. Even if your bosses agree with your demand from a moral standpoint, how could they explain the loss of O’Reilly, the golden goose, to their shareholders? Capitalism is designed to maximize profit over everything else, including ethics and safety.

This system also makes it difficult to fight back against abusers. In a hyper-competitive market, a single setback can mean the end of your career, your healthcare, your ability to pay rent. The stakes are higher for women and trans people, especially those of color, who are far more likely to experience poverty than men. Those who have gained a footing in the economy may be understandably hesitant to risk losing it, and it’s no secret that those who resist abuse or call out their abusers often face adverse consequences for doing so.

Targets of sexual harassment face impossible choices: do I allow this abuse to continue or risk losing income I desperately need? Do I report this abuse and risk deportation? Do I leave this job without reporting this abuse? If I do, does that mean that others will be preyed upon after me?

Capitalism, the state, and other forms of hierarchy offer sexual predators many ways of doing harm to those who resist them. O’Reilly, Weinstein, Ailes, Farenthold (the list goes on and on and on) all routinely harmed or ended the careers of those who opposed them.

Fears about job security also affect those who are asked to witness or even abet abusers. Weinstein used his employees to make his victims feel a false sense of security before he assaulted them, often asking staffers to come to the beginning of nighttime meetings and then dismissing them so he could be alone with his victims. One former employee described a scene in a nighttime meeting in which Weinstein demanded she tell a model that Weinstein was a good boyfriend, and became enraged when she said she no longer wished to attend these “meetings.” It is easy to feel self-righteous anger at staffers who abetted Weinstein, but it is undeniable that Weinstein’s position of power enabled him to ruin people’s lives. While we deserve for others to be brave in standing up for us even against the most powerful foes, it is unrealistic to think we could put an end to sexual harassment and assault in a system in which people have to martyr themselves in order to protect each other.

Abolishing capitalism and all other systems that concentrate wealth and power into the hands of a few would not put a stop to sexual assault, but it would greatly reduce the coercive economic power that the rich and powerful wield over the rest of us. Without those structural imbalances in power, assaulters would not have the means to manipulate anyone into complicity and silence. This may sound utopian, but it is the only realistic solution if we’re serious about combatting sexual assault. No system that centralizes wealth and power can prevent that power from being used to coerce or harm people.

No, we really don’t.

The Criminal Justice System Won’t Solve This

The law is no friend to victims of sexual harassment and assault. Police officers across the United States have brought charges of false reporting against sexual assault survivors who went to them for help, only to later see these victim’s stories confirmed when their assaulters were identified and convicted. Sexual assault survivors who manage to convince the police not to arrest them for false reporting can find themselves jailed in order to compel their testimony in court.

ICE uses courts as a trap for undocumented people. Undocumented people cannot even enter a courthouse without risking arrest and deportation. In this way, the state systematically facilitates the sexual assault of those whose papers are not in order.

Even if the police don’t throw you in jail, only three to six percent of workplace harassment claims ever make it to trial. Some of these cases are settled, but many are dismissed due to the law’s high bar for what constitutes harassment (the harassment must qualify as “severe” or “pervasive”). In one typical example, a construction worker brought a case against a supervisor who talked about raping him multiple times. The worker’s case was dropped because the supervisor’s actions occurred over a ten-day period and therefore did not meet the standard of being “pervasive.”

The court system not only punishes those who attempt to utilize it—it also targets those who try to defend themselves. In the New Jersey 4 case, a group of black women defended themselves against a catcaller who threatened and attacked them. They were prosecuted and four were sentenced to between 3.5 and 11 years in Rikers.

The criminal justice system exacerbates all the problems we have already seen in the corporate sector. While corporations implicitly hold people hostage in the context of the capitalist economy, the criminal justice system explicitly holds people hostage via the coercive apparatus of the law and the state. It is the epitome of power being distributed to the few and entirely denied to the many, and as such it is a site of terrifying abuses of power. People in prison are routinely sexually assaulted, often by their jailers. When we appeal to the violent authority of the state to punish our abusers, we are complicit in perpetuating the power dynamics that we claim to oppose.

We need to explore systems of justice that hold people accountable to each other, rather than to a higher power. Wherever we concentrate power, we will see abuse.

Viewing Sexual Harassment through an Intersectional Lens

Although we are framing this primarily in gendered terms, the identities “male” and “female” are just proxies with which to discuss different degrees of power and privilege. Whose voices we hear and how we respond to those voices is determined by a myriad of other factors including race, sexual orientation, economic status, ability status, and first language. In seeking to disentangle ourselves from patriarchy, we need to internalize the way our privileges protect us from harm that others face. We need to listen to the stories of those most likely to be harmed under patriarchy and capitalism: black women’s stories, trans people’s stories, undocumented workers’ stories, poor people’s stories.

We need to take note of whose voices those in power seek to discredit. For example, the only sexual assault charges Harvey Weinstein has specifically disputed came from the only black woman, Lupita Nyong’o, who has accused him of harassment or assault.

This Is about Power, not Sex

Although women also perpetrate sexual assault, we are statistically far less likely to do so than men. Is this because women are inherently better, more moral, or less violent than men? If we are, it is in part because we, as non-men, are not taught that we must embody the norms of toxic masculinity that are symptomatic of patriarchy, i.e., that women are objects, or that our self-worth is based on the number of women we fuck. Men’s internalized toxic masculinity accounts for many of the reasons they sexually assault women.

Some have suggested that the solution to rampant sexual harassment and assault is that women should replace men in all positions of power. But the problem is not the condition of maleness; the problem is patriarchy, an unequal distribution of power. As long as some hold power over others, the powerful will prey on the less powerful, regardless of who occupies these roles.

Patriarchy is not the bad behavior of a few specific men, but the framework of relations that fosters it.

So What Do We Do?

To call out sexual predators without seeking to dismantle the system of power that created them is like bailing water out of a sinking ship. The fundamental problem isn’t a shortfall of publicity, law, policy, or education; the fundamental problem is that the systems that purport to keep us safe make us vulnerable.

We have to weave together the ways that we respond to specific instances of sexual harassment and violence with a determination to confront and undermine the social order that gives rise to them. In every case of male violence, we should be clear that we are not dealing with an exception, but with a problem that is a structural feature of our society. At the same time, we need to create models of transformative justice that can replace the criminal justice system without replicating any feature of it, and to foster new ways of relating in which patriarchy, white supremacy, and other forms of authority do not determine the possibilities of our lives. Every person of every gender stands to gain from this.

Let us join hands, teeth bared.

“I’m not your prey, I still have teeth” by kAt Philbin.

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.

SCUM will not picket, demonstrate, march or strike to attempt to achieve its ends. Such tactics are for nice, genteel ladies who scrupulously take only such action as is guaranteed to be ineffective… If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President’s stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.

–Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto