On March 24, 2025, God called FBM Missionary Rich Marshall home to heaven. Rich and Anna were in Mali wrapping up 40 years of faithful service to Christ. Just ten days later, on April 3, they had plans to leave Mali and retire to the US. Instead, God said, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” to Rich and brought his time on earth to a close. Today, we would like to share some of Rich Marshall’s story with you and also bring you an update on what God continues to do in Mali.

Rich was born in 1955 in Timbuktu, Mali to missionaries Frank and Eleanor Marshall. His birth was not a worldwide headline. However, the impact of his birth is impossible to put into words.

In 1977, Rich married Anna and they began their life together. They spent several years in the US attending college and getting additional training. In 1982, they started raising support to return to Mali as missionaries. After a few years of support raising and language school, Rich and Anna returned to Timbuktu in 1985.

Upon returning to Timbuktu, Rich’s mindset was, “We’re here to share the Gospel!”

"There is no foundation to the climate scare... it's all based on models that don't work."

Ask and it will be given to you. . . . How much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! —Matthew 7:7, 11. //

Notion your mind with the idea that God is there. If once the mind is notioned along that line, then when you are in difficulties it is as easy as breathing to remember — Why, my Father knows all about it! It is not an effort, it comes naturally when perplexities press. Before, you used to go to this person and that, but now the notion of the Divine control is forming so powerfully in you that you go to God about it. Jesus is laying down the rules of conduct for those who have His Spirit, and it works on this principle — God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget, why should I worry?

They're not "journalists"—they're script readers.

They're paid to repeat narratives, not investigate and then report the truth.

Carbon dioxide is an essential nutrient.

"I am firmly of the belief that the future will show that this whole hysteria over climate change was a complete fabrication."

– Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace.

"Game over. We are dealing with a fraud".

Geologist Prof. Ian Plimer obliterates the climate agenda in under two minutes.

"No one has ever shown that human emissions of CO₂ drive global warming… And if it could be shown, then you would have to show that the 97% of

These are policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.

A pool is a collection of vdevs. Vdevs can be any of the following (and more, but we’re keeping this relatively simple):

single disks (think RAID0)
redundant vdevs (aka mirrors – think RAID1)
parity vdevs (aka stripes – think RAID5/RAID6/RAID7, aka single, dual, and triple parity stripes)
The pool itself will distribute writes among the vdevs inside it on a relatively even basis. //

striped (RAIDZ) vdevs aren’t supposed to be “as big as you can possibly make them.” Experts are cagey about actually giving concrete recommendations about stripe width (the number of devices in a striped vdev), but they invariably recommend making them “not too wide.” If you consider yourself an expert, make your own expert decision about this. If you don’t consider yourself an expert, and you want more concrete general rule-of-thumb advice: no more than eight disks per vdev. //

According to Dell, “Raid 5 for all business critical data on any drive type [is] no longer best practice.”

RAIDZ2 and RAIDZ3 try to address this nightmare scenario by expanding to dual and triple parity, respectively. This means that a RAIDZ2 vdev can survive two drive failures, and a RAIDZ3 vdev can survive three. Problem solved, right? Well, problem mitigated – but the degraded performance and resilver time is even worse than a RAIDZ1, because the parity calculations are considerably gnarlier. And it gets worse the wider your stripe (number of disks in the vdev). //

When a disk fails in a mirror vdev, your pool is minimally impacted – nothing needs to be rebuilt from parity, you just have one less device to distribute reads from. When you replace and resilver a disk in a mirror vdev, your pool is again minimally impacted – you’re doing simple reads from the remaining member of the vdev, and simple writes to the new member of the vdev. In no case are you re-writing entire stripes, all other vdevs in the pool are completely unaffected, etc. Mirror vdev resilvering goes really quickly, with very little impact on the performance of the pool. Resilience to multiple failure is very strong, though requires some calculation – your chance of surviving a disk failure is 1-(f/(n-f)), where f is the number of disks already failed, and n is the number of disks in the full pool. In an eight disk pool, this means 100% survival of the first disk failure, 85.7% survival of a second disk failure, 66.7% survival of a third disk failure. This assumes two disk vdevs, of course – three disk mirrors are even more resilient.

But wait, why would I want to trade guaranteed two disk failure in RAIDZ2 with only 85.7% survival of two disk failure in a pool of mirrors? Because of the drastically shorter time to resilver, and drastically lower load placed on the pool while doing so. The only disk more heavily loaded than usual during a mirror vdev resilvering is the other disk in the vdev – which might sound bad, but remember that it’s no more heavily loaded than it would’ve been as a RAIDZ member. //

Too many words, mister sysadmin. What’s all this boil down to?

• don’t be greedy. 50% storage efficiency is plenty.
  for a given number of disks, a pool of mirrors will significantly outperform a RAIDZ stripe.
• a degraded pool of mirrors will severely outperform a degraded RAIDZ stripe.
• a degraded pool of mirrors will rebuild tremendously faster than a degraded RAIDZ stripe.
• a pool of mirrors is easier to manage, maintain, live with, and upgrade than a RAIDZ stripe.
• BACK. UP. YOUR POOL. REGULARLY. TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY.

Billionaire Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone has done a 180 after blasting Trump's sweeping tariffs, explaining, "When you made a mistake, admit it."

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47
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LANGONE: "I am sold on Trump ... I think he's got a good shot at going down in history as one of our best presidents ever."

CNBC: "That is a real turnaround because you didn't want to vote for him!"

LANGONE: "When you made a mistake, admit it."

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12:16 PM · Jul 15, 2025

This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information.

Here are the essential items you should never pack in your checked luggage so you have them close when you need them.

All you need is a standard plastic grocery bag (nothing fancy). Start by placing one cup in the bottom of one side of the bag. Then, give the middle section of the bag two tight twists. This helps create a separation between the two sides and stabilizes the base.

Now, place your second cup on the other side of the bag.

When you lift the bag by the handles, you’ll notice that the cups balance perfectly on either side, almost like they’re in separate pockets. The twist in the center acts as a divider that prevents the cups from knocking into each other or sliding around. The added tension in the bag also keeps it firm enough that the cups stay upright as you walk.

The report focused on the moments after the takeoff, showing the aircraft’s two fuel control switches moved to the ‘cutoff’ position in quick succession. This action cut off fuel supply to the engines, immediately causing the aircraft to lose all thrust.

The switches are on the centre console of the cockpit, just below the engine thrust levers. They are used to control fuel flow to the engines—primarily during engine start-up and shutdown on the ground, or to shut down an engine in the event of an engine failure during flight. //

The fuel control switches are equipped with a spring-loaded locking mechanism that keeps them in position and prevents unintended movement. You would have to pull the switch up before moving it from run to cutoff, or vice versa.

Aviation experts say a pilot would not have been able to move the fuel switches accidentally. Once moved, the effect would be immediate, cutting off engine power.

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Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns

As a retired nuke plant employee I take it as kind of an insult to read the utilities caused this Dense-pack problem to save a few bucks. After 47 yrs of commercial operation Davis Besse is still waiting on the Federal Government to come and get even one of THEIR spent fuel assemblies. //

mjd
Aug 16

Here's a link to proof the the US Government owns the Spent Fuel and even has to pay the utilities to store it. It's a breach of contract for the government not to take their Spent Fuel and proven in a court of law: https://www.buildsmartbradley.com/2024/08/united-states-ordered-to-pay-breach-of-contract-damages-to-nuclear-operator-in-spent-fuel-dispute/

A 2025-07-12 WSJ article called the Linear No Threshold (LNT) radiation the model, the model that assumes "there is no safe level of exposure to radiation". LNT makes no such claim. LNT converts a dose rate profile into a cancer incidence prediction. That's it. LNT like many other possible models predicts a positive cancer incidence for any dose rate profile whose cumulative dose is positive. //

A far better definition of LNT is: the model that assumes radiation damage to our DNA is unrepairable. Harm just keeps building up. Therefore, the only thing that counts is total dose. How quickly or slowly that dose is incurred is irrelevant.

The no repair assumption was proposed about 100 years ago, at a time when we knew nothing about DNA. We did not even know it existed. We now know a providential Nature has equipped us with a remarkably effective DNA repair system. She had to do this to protect our DNA from our own oxygen based metabolism which produces double strand breaks of the DNA helix at least 25,000 times more rapidly than average background radiation. This repair system can be overwhelmed if the dose rate is high enough; but such dose rates will almost never be encountered by the public in a nuclear power plant release.

LNT denies well established, indisputable biology. In 2018 [2015], Nobel prizes were awarded to three scientists that have been in the forefront of figuring out just how the repair processes work.

So, what Musk is doing is brilliant... but also kind of evil. It's especially odd for a guy who has, on many occasions, raised the alarm about our birth rates falling to dangerous levels. However, he seems to think this will only encourage our birth rates to advance. I don't see how he thinks that unless there's something up his sleeve he hasn't told us that would completely counteract how AI companions affect our brains. //

Weminuche45 Brandon Morse
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Everyone will get whatever they relate best to delivered to them, whether they ask for it or know know it or not. Christian prophet, Roman philosopher, Jungian analyst, sassy girl, wise learned old man, brat. comedian, saintly mother figure, loud-mouthed feminist, Karl Marx. Adoph Hitler, Marilyn Monroe, Joy Reid, Jim Carey, Buddha, Yoda, John Wayne, whatever someone relates to and responds to best, that's what they will be served without asking or even knowing themselves. AI will figure it out and give you that.

Do I think Biden was making all the decisions on those pardons? I highly doubt it. But the way the power is allocated, there is no requirement for written approval. If Biden says he approved them verbally, and that's what he maintains, then there's nothing else to be done here. So it's a scandal worth exposing, but don't get your hopes up that anything is going to be found null and void. That's not going to happen. //

The pardons were sketchy, but they are not null and void, and they won't be found null and void. Unfortunately, as long as Biden himself denies he was duped, there is no mechanism by which to overturn the pardons. That power is given directly to the executive in the U.S. Constitution, and the legislative and judicial branches have no ability to challenge pardons or even change how the process works in the future.

neils @midwestneil
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Turns out you can just hack any train in the USA and take control over the brakes. This is CVE-2025-1727 and it took me 12 years to get this published. This vulnerability is still not patched. Here's the story:
wetw0rk @wetw0rk7
Perhaps one of the most badass CVE's I've ever seen from @midwestneil 💪😤

https://cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-191-10
12:25 PM · Jul 11, 2025

Back when it was first implemented in the late 1980s, it was illegal for anyone else to use the frequencies allocated for this system. So, the system only used the BCH checksum for packet creation. Unfortunately, anyone with an SDR could mimic these packets, allowing them to send false signals to the EoT module and its corresponding Head-of-Train (HoT) partner. This would not have been an urgent issue if the EoT had only sent telemetry data. However, the HoT can also issue a brake command to the EoT through this system. Thus, anyone with the hardware (available for less than $500) and know-how can easily issue a brake command without the train driver’s knowledge, potentially compromising the safety of the transport operation.

What’s frustrating for Neils is that the AAR refused to acknowledge the vulnerability back in 2012, saying that it was just a theoretical issue and that they’d only believe it if it happened in real life. Unfortunately, the Federal Railway Authority (FRA) lacks a test track facility, and the AAR has not permitted any testing due to security concerns on their property. It has got to the point that the security researcher published their findings in the Boston Review, only to be refuted by the AAR in Fortune magazine. //

By 2024, the issue still hasn’t been resolved — the AAR’s Director of Information Security said that it wasn’t really a major issue and that the vulnerable devices are already reaching their end of life. Because the AAR continued to ignore the warnings, the CISA had no choice but to officially publish an advisory to warn the public about it. This has got the AAR moving forward, with the group announcing an update last April. However, implementation is going at a snail’s pace, with 2027 being the target as the earliest year of deployment.

India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) found that fuel switches had flipped to cutoff position—a move typically done only after landing—just 50 seconds into the flight as the aircraft climbed to 625 feet. The cockpit voice recorder captured one pilot asking the other why he cut off the fuel, with his colleague replying that he hadn't. The switches flipped a second apart, roughly the time it would take to shift one and then the other manually. //

Both fuel switches were found in the run position with indications that both engines were attempting to relight before the crash.