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LUXURY AND ED YOUNG JR
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist pastor Ed Young, Jr is the very popular Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven pastor of a megachurch known as Fellowship Church (FC) in Grapevine, TX. Young's bio at FC tells us:
Ed Young is a pastor, author and conference speaker noted for his creative communication style. He has a passion for making the complex, simple as he speaks truth to people in ways they can understand and apply to their everyday lives. He has written 13 books, including The Marriage Mirror, Outrageous, Contagious Joy, Beauty Full, and Kid CEO.
Ed is a frequent conference speaker, and he provides resources for church leaders through CreativePastors.com and the Creative Church Conferences (C3)… Ed Young Ministries broadcasts a weekly television program throughout the world. Ed Young Television can be viewed nationally and internationally on TBN, Daystar and God TV. (Online source)
Apprising Ministries told you yesterday in Ed Young Jr Says He's Setting Things Straight that Young has now responded to allegations of living an overly luxurious lfestyle by ABC affiliate WFAA News 8 in Dallas/Fort Worth. We also pointed out that Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough, host of the Fighting for the Faith (FftF) program on Pirate Christian Radio (PCR), has been examining this issue further.
Rosebrough shares some of his findings in Ed Young's Admissions Are More Damning Than The Original News Story at his A Little Leaven (ALL) website. In addition last night Rosebrough revealed via a tweet:
I'm gonna put @EdYoung 's admissions in proper perspective on tomorrow's program. His admissions are VERY damaging. (Online source)
Then today ALL takes us Inside Young's "Parsonage" via a post where we can view a couple of videos:
We're not sure if this is his previous home or his current "crib" (it really doesn't matter). Do you think Young is living the life of luxury or the life of a humble shepherd of Christ's flock?… Here's Ed making espresso in his current kitchen.
How many thousands of dollars do you think that commercial quality Italian La Marzocco espresso machine cost? Answer: $12,000 – $15,000 We wonder what a $15,000 shot of espresso tastes like. As Ed Young says in the video below, "if you want great espresso then you've got to pay the price". (Online source)
It's important to keep in mind here there are many pastors who would struggle personally to make that in an entire year. And one wonders, for example, with the current situation going on in Haiti why someone like Jonathan Falwell would be so quick to attempt to justify this kind of obviously ostentatious lifestyle:
Praying for @EdYoung this morning. The world doesn't like it when we are effective for Christ so they attack. Glad Ed built on THE ROCK! (Online source)
A reminder that the apparently "worldly" Chris Rosebrough will be putting even more perspective to this troubling tale on his FftF program today, which airs at 6pm EST.
BUT SOUTHERN BAPTISTS SAY OK TO "BISHOP" T.D.JAKES
LETTER TO ED YOUNG, JR. REGARDING ONENESS PENTECOSTAL DR. T.D. JAKES SHARING THE PULPIT IN HIS SBC CHURCH
SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR ED YOUNG, JR.: CHURCH LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE IS NOT ABOUT THEOLOGY
WORD FAITH MOGUL "BISHOP" T.D. JAKES – A SOUTHERN BAPTIST PREACHER?
SBC SECOND VICE PRESIDENT DR. WILEY DRAKE COMMENTS ON ED YOUNG, JR. SHARING HIS SBC PULPIT AGAIN WITH ONENESS PENTECOSTAL T.D. JAKES
RESPONSE FROM GARY LEDBETTER OF "SOUTHERN BAPTIST TEXAN" CONCERNING DR. T.D. JAKES AT ED YOUNG, JR'S CREATIVE CHURCH CONFERENCE 2007
KEEPING YOU APPRISED OF: T.D. JAKES ON THE TRINITY

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White Sox News
Slowing down the running game still starts with Pierzynski
By Jim Margalus Mar 1, 2012, 8:27am CST
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Mark Buehrle won't be able to help prop up A.J. Pierzynski's defensive numbers.
It's fun having a new manager in town from an educational perspective, if only because fresh leadership inevitably reveals what the previous regime did or didn't do in contrast.
Usually the comparisons are made in a subtle fashion (Robin Ventura running his camp, for example), and often times they're more observational than judgmental. But there's little that's subtle about A.J. Pierzynski, and he dropped a potentially revelatory quote about Ozzie Guillen's leadership in a story about the White Sox's renewed efforts to stop the running game:
"We have the ability to be very good at it," catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. "Over the past couple years — especially me in general — we've taken a beating for something we never cared about. (The previous coaching staff) just didn't care about it. They had other things to worry about, and it's refreshing and it's nice to know that it's a high priority and it's something we're going to try to do.
"We've talked about this before. It takes three people to stop the baserunning — the pitcher, the catcher and whoever is covering second base. It's something we needed to work on. It cost us runs in the past and hopefully with the work we're putting in, it will help once the games start."
Alas, any story that has Pierzynski as the primary source can't be taken at face value, because he's like the unreliable narrator in a Randy Newman song. Objective evaluation is not his strong suit -- he grades himself extremely easily while occasionally shifting blame onto others, and in this case, it's always easy to blame people who are no longer around. And it also has to be tempting considering one of those people (Ozzie Guillen) called out Pierzynski for pointing fingers and told him to wear his terrible caught-stealing percentage last year.
It was one of Guillen's few redeeming moments in 2011, and more meaningful than usual since he covered for Pierzynski earlier in the season.
From watching the White Sox and then watching other teams .. well, the problem very much starts with Pierzynski. His throws just don't get there. White Sox pitchers aren't awesome at holding runners, and sometimes Alexei Ramirez fails to help him with a close call, but Pierzynski's throws simply take a loftier trajectory compared to other catchers.
I look at Gavin Floyd as the litmus test. He slide-steps and varies his timing to the point that it seems like he's paying too much attention to the runners. In 2010, he held runners to just seven steals in 11 attempts. In 2011, they ran wild on him, swiping 23 bases in 25 tries. Pierzynski, of course, thinks Floyd still doesn't do enough.
I'm sure Pierzynski's defensive stats are a sore spot for him, and given how Pierzynski can't control everything about caught-stealing rate, he would probably appreciate as much help as possible. However, the available evidence suggests the ceiling for improvement is a low one. They might already be bumping up against it.
Times isn't on Pierzynski's side. Hoping a 35-year-old can improve his defense at any position is asking for the impossible (Jermaine Dye in right field, for instance), and now we're talking about a catcher to boot. Even if he were the type to take the bullet, I don't think that would help the Sox truly turn the tables on the opposition.
But it certainly doesn't inspire faith if Pierzynski is as unaccountable as his public quotes indicate. He needs to buy into the solutions more than anybody. Otherwise, the root of the problem will remain untreated.


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Q: Vim: Easy way to convert recorded macro into let I want to save a certain macro permanently so that I can replay it in future sessions.
For instance, I record the macro which surrounds selected words with ** (like **this text is strong**):

*

*Switch to the visual mode

*Select some words

*Start recording "a"

*Press c, **, Ctrl-r, ", **, Ctrl-; (to switch to the normal mode); and

*Stop recording.

From the next time, I can just select words and press @a to replay these actions.
Now I enter :reg a and see this output:
--- Registers ---
"a   c**^R"**^[

How can I define this using the :let function so that I can add this to .vimrc and make this macro permanent?
:let @a='c**^R"**^['

didn't work.

A: The ^R and ^[ in the output of :reg a are literal control codes, not ^ followed by R or by [. Usually, Vim uses a special color to hint at that difference.
You can do either of two things…

*

*In your vimrc, type out the macro directly, using :help i_ctrl-v to insert the literal control codes. That is, press <C-v> then <C-r> to insert a literal ^R:
let @a = 'c**    " type this out
<C-v><C-r>       " press <C-v><C-r> to insert ^R
"**              " type this out
<C-v><Esc>       " press <C-v><Esc> to insert ^[
'                " type this out
<Esc>            " leave insert mode

*In your vimrc, insert the register directly between the quotes with :help i_ctrl-r:
let @a = '
<C-r>a
'
<Esc>

Note that it doesn't protect the register in any way so @a can be overwritten  accidentally. A mapping, the right hand side of which is a macro, seems safer to me:
" again, use <C-v><C-r> to insert `^R`
xnoremap <key> c**^R"**^[

" or use the angled brackets notation
xnoremap <key> c**<C-r>"**<Esc>

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Category: Counter Insurgency
Seeds of Doubt: The El Adde Edit
On April 12, 2016 April 12, 2016 By ourmanonthehornIn AMISOM, Counter Insurgency, Counter Terrorism, Somalia, Terrorism1 Comment
It's all about the video… An al-Shabaab cameraman films during the El Adde Attack
As al-Shabaab video products go, it's not one of the better ones. While not as sprawling as the one-and-a-half hour Mpeketoni product, it is still a ponderous 48 minutes long (try blue-toothing that to your pal). Like the Mpeketoni video, a great deal of the build-up focuses on imagery of Muslims being abused by Kenyan security forces, followed by a reminder of the 'body count' of al-Shabaab's various forays into Kenya (Westgate, Lamu County, Garissa, Mandera) carried out in apparent direct reprisal for and in defence of the oppressed Muslims of East Africa. (The logic of reminding the audience of atrocities, each almost exclusively against civilians, is questionable.)
Monoped Farhan: not much use for anything else except suicide bombing
After the obligatory, lengthy suicide bomber 'leaving speech' (monoped Farhan of the Habargidir – not much use for anything else after he lost his leg, we must assume), the attack begins in the same old way, with a flash against the dawn skyline.
The attack, too, is very much akin to the previous video products produced on al-Shabaab's behalf by al-Kutaib, al-Qa'ida's media house. Technicals mounting Dushka heavy machine guns, twin 23mm anti-aircraft cannon go back and forwards. Plenty of ammunition is expended (sometimes aimed, mostly not), PK machine guns are fired from the hip and above the head, RPGs and heavy recoilless rifles engage targets (although two unfortunates standing behind one of the recoilless rifles appear to take the backblast in the face). Loose lines of troops advance at a gentle pace and begin to overrun the hotch-potch AMISOM position. Apparent leaders, rifles slung over their shoulders, kneel, speak into Tetra-style radios, give some direction. Most of the troops wear the proud badge of the Abu Zubayr Brigade, a bright orange flash, either as a head or arm-band.
A profusion of orange head- and arm-bands: not so much bravado as a simple control measure for troops unused to fighting as a unit
But there are jarring notes throughout, not just for the two clowns who forgot that some of the fiery fury that comes out the front of the recoilless rifle also comes out the back as well. Those bright orange bands must make nice aiming marks and, as much as they might be a piece of bravado, they might also be a unit marker, needed to a coordinate a loose rag-tag that has come together for the operation, probably never having worked as a formed unit before. (There are also some blue bands to be seen later in the video.)
More questioning of what we seem to be seeing. A colleague comments, 'it's some men firing at some bushes': and she is right. For most of the video, we willingly suspend our disbelief and go along with al-Shabaab's version of events. But most of the video is just that, men firing at some bushes, or a tarpaulin, or something, maybe a running man, in the distance.
Occasionally the fighters do shoot at a target – it takes a section strength group a few minutes, a few hundred rounds to hit a prone, probably already dead AMISOM soldier at a distance of about 30 metres. Despite the apparent profusion of anti-armour weapons (according to the editing at least), an AMISOM-tagged armoured car meanders through melee, does some 'turning in the road using forward and reverse gears' and goes away again.
Al-Shabaab uses the Kenyan government's ill-judged messaging against it – again
The fighting putters out and, again, to a format, we view some burning vehicles, the shooting of some soldiers who are already dead, boxes and boxes of ammunition being carried away, imagery of al-Shabaab fighters wandering around a deserted town, a slideshow of dead bodies. The video product ends with the standard judo flipping of ill-judged Kenyan government and military messages set against apparently contradictory video evidence (the Kenyans really must ditch the 'aspirational messaging'– al-Shabaab throws this back at them every time).
But numerous seeds of doubt are planted by this product. Yes, the Kenyans obviously lost a lot of troops: it was pointless and it continues to be pointless to claim otherwise. But virtually every one of the corpses is in helmet and body armour, holding a rifle. These men died fighting, and, small compensation to their families as that is, it is how soldiers are meant to die in battle. That deserves recognition.
Which leads to another point: where are the al-Shabaab casualties? Recently defected former fighters claim that al-Shabaab suffered something like 50% dead and wounded in the El Adde attack. Judging by their still-much-too-close spacing, their gentle, strolling pace as they advance and the atrocious marksmanship, that is feasible, especially when the Kenyan light armour started engaging. It is easy to forget that this is an edit, a propaganda product with a deliberate effect in mind, something to be taken with a very large pinch of salt and set against a backdrop of a disastrous, illogical amphibious assault in Puntland (probably 200+ killed out of 400) and a series of drone strikes (Raso Camp: nearly 200 killed) and special forces raids (various senior leaders killed). But, and in spite of over $20 million worth of communications projects focussed on Somalia, a plethora of radio stations, TV channels, websites and a purported 'getting' of Strategic Communications (after ten years of trying to 'get' Strat Comms in two other long CT/COIN campaigns), there is still no real challenge to al-Shabaab's inconsistency-ridden messaging. No-one is answering the questions these video products pose.
Hardest to forget, though, is the chilling sequence where a dazed Kenyan crewman appears out of the hatch of a stalled armoured vehicle. After a long section that captures his bewilderment all too well he is fired at, finally some of the rounds hit, he slumps, dies. That, along with an ominous message that many of the captured-and-paraded Kenyan troops subsequently 'succumbed to their injuries while others still remain in captivity and their fate hangs by a thread', has ramifications that we should not forget whilst caught up in an exciting video re-enactment of a battle. These are war crimes, outrages against humanity, and, one day, some of these murdering bastards should be held to account for that.
War crimes: a captured AMISOM soldier whose life, ominously, 'hangs by a thread'
NOTE: as a matter of policy and out of respect to the dead we do not publish imagery of the dead: we counter propaganda, not amplify it
Everything Ends in IS
On November 9, 2015 November 9, 2015 By ourmanonthehornIn Counter Insurgency, Counter Terrorism, Somalia, TerrorismLeave a comment
The Islamic State Releases a Confusing Video of its new al-Shabaab Members
I was speaking to a group of military men a few days ago, playing the age old soldierly game of wargaming: not with little metal soldiers, but sitting around, beer in hand, working through scenarios.
In this case, we considered the fate of al-Shabaab. The group's leader, Diriye, is killed: IS takes over. Al-Qa'ida's Zawahiri dies: IS takes over. Al-Shabaab descends into a civil war over allegiance to al-Qa'ida or IS: IS takes over. Everything ended in IS.
I disagree. Being an only child, I've always found being contradicted hard to take.
But my fellow wargamers proved hard to shift in their beliefs – understandable, when the presence of the Islamic State is fundamental to your existence (armies need enemies to fight, after all) and Islamic State presence means more budget for fighting that particular bogeyman.
This was still preying upon my mind last night (being an only child, I dwell on things), when the Islamic State, through its media house, ar-Raqqah, released a video product celebrating the shift of allegiance by a group of al-Shabaab members led by the ideologue, Mumin.
The video is short, running to just under seven minutes (compared with al-Shabaab products released through al-Kutaib, which run up to 90 minutes.)
Sexy M4 with fore grip and light unit – you don't see many of them in Somalia
The first three speakers are all in Iraq/Syria (although this is never stated, allowing for the assumption to take hold that this is all set in Somalia). The talking heads switch between Somali and Arabic, quote from the Q'ran. They provide a religious argument for mutiny, explicitly asking aS fighters to leave 'the battlefield' if al-Shabaab's leaders refuse to let them shift their allegiance. But they speak poor Somali – Diaspora, possibly never having set foot in Somalia itself. (This not the first time the Islamic State have commited a faux pas in their messaging to Somalia. See Do We Want al-Shabaab to Join the Islamic State?)
Sexy MP5 and a sprinkler in the background – don't see many of either of those in Somalia
Their weapons are sophisticated (an MP5, an M4 with a foregrip and a sexy sight unit) – too sophisticated for Somalia. There is a sprinkler in the background of one shot – you don't see many sprinklers in Somalia.
Fighters follow a man carrying an Islamic State flag through some bushes
The production quality shifts dramatically down and fighters with faces covered are shown wandering through the bush (well, some bushes), following a flag-bearer, swearing allegiance – they might be in Somalia. (It is also reasonable that they should cover their faces given the ongoing Amniyat purge of Islamic State supporters.) The terrain could be the Galgala mountains. Or it might not.
Mumin, who leads the al-Shabaab-Islamic State faction
Mumin himself appears, but this is a lift from his original video statement.
Group shot – 27 fighters, which matches the number of Mumin's group
Then group shot: there are 27 fighters and, adding those recording, this could be the group of fighters who fled with Mumin. But where is Mumin, then? (Perhaps he was the one filming. I suspect not.) The video ends with a few fighters watching an Islamic State video on a laptop.
Watching an Islamic State video product on a laptop
The product feels wrong, as wrong as al-Shabaab feels within the context of the previously moderate, Suffist Somalia. Too often there is a 'could be…'
But it is probably convincing enough for those who haven't developed fingerspitzengefuhl for all things Somali. Or for those who have their conclusions pre-formed.
And that is dangerous. This is a period when the Islamic State might be changing form and becoming an international terrorist organization, rather than a territory-focussed entity. (Although that assumption is based on events over Sinai, and I might be the one with the prepared conclusions. But I'm not the only one.)
There is a battle going on right now in Somalia, but the battle is not the Islamic State trying to control Somalia. It is between factions within al-Shabaab, young and old, globalists and nationalists, foreign fighters and Somalis, Diaspora and homelanders, even. (And there is also a battle going on between the Somali government and their international partners against al-Shabaab.) Unless there is a widening of the strategic view of those in the military, in government, in the media, the elements of the international community who might actually have some influence over events, then this scenario might well end in IS after all.


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Lavish Perez Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Lavish Perez Quick Info
Date of Birth April 8, 1998
Zodiac Sign Aries
Lavish Perez is an American social media star and rapper, best known for his Instagram account which has amassed a fanbase of more than 300k followers. He 1st gained prominence by posting short videos of himself rapping, primarily freestyle, on a social media platform, TikTok.
Lavish Perez
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Lavish Perez in an Instagram selfie as seen in August 2018 (Lavish Perez / Instagram)
Havelock, North Carolina, United States
The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
Social Media Star, Rapper
Siblings – He had a brother who passed away from cancer.
Lavish Perez as seen in December 2017 (Lavish Perez / Instagram)
Lavish Perez has dated –
Meredith "Mere" Reeves (2018) – Rumor
Lavish Perez in a selfie in November 2018 (Lavish Perez / Instagram)
Sunken cheeks
Lavish Perez has endorsed brands such as STNDRDZ Jewelry.
Lavish Perez Favorite Things
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Source – Twitter
Lavish Perez in an Instagram post as seen in December 2018 (Lavish Perez / Instagram)
Lavish Perez Facts
He started singing/rapping in the 4th grade. He got obsessed with Chris Brown and wanted to be like him when he heard his song Yo (Excuse Me Miss), released in 2005.
Lavish met Meredith Reeves at a mall in December 2015. She was a fan of his music and followed him on social media. When he announced he was going to be there, she urged her mom to hurry and drive her to introduce herself.
It takes him and Meredith Reeves around 4 hours to film one rap freestyle video.
He collaborated with a fellow rapper RJ RAP on an original song, Dub Song, in August 2018.
Lavish has seen 2 people die as of October 2018. One was his grandmother and another was a guy that was stabbed on the street, whom he just passed and kept running.
In October 2018, he had 3 tattoos, one of which was on the biceps of his left arm.
Lavish broke his left hand in November 2018.
One rap video he regretted was titled Be Careful Challenge, not because it was bad but because he forced himself to be something he's not.
Lavish admitted he's "a lot to deal with" as a person.
He has kissed someone on a 1st date.
Lavish has never skipped a class in school.
Lavish has been in a car accident when he was leaving his girlfriend's house to go to work. He got into an Uber car and was a passenger when it happened, so he did not have to pay. He decided never to use Uber again, bought a car for himself, and later had another crash.
Lavish never made fun of Justin Bieber and thinks whoever did was just a hater.
Lavish thinks that falling asleep while watching a movie is one of the best naps he can take.
He opened the 1st page of the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, thought that it was "too intelligent" and never read it.
Lavish tried alcohol while he was under the legal age.
He has tried marijuana.
Lavish has attempted to commit suicide in the past.
He sings in the shower every time and sees it as a way to practice.
Lavish has been to a church and to a bar in one day.
He ran away from home in the past and accused his parents of not loving him enough. However, he had no intention of really leaving forever.
He has grabbed an electric fence out of curiosity.
Lavish has stolen something in the past.
He likes Mexican food.
He has a bad habit of spending money when he's mad.
Lavish has suffered from depression in 2019 and early 2020.
He likes older women.
Lavis is a sensitive person but is not affectionate and never opens up to anyone.
He is an introvert.
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Don Lemon clapped back against Bill O'Reilly on Twitter over accusations that Lemon was refusing to cover allegations that former Obama official Susan Rice wrongly "unmasked" Trump aides.
During a segment on Monday, Lemon set out to debunk allegations that for political purposes, President Barack Obama's national security advisor Susan Rice had requested the identification of Americans mentioned in intelligence reports. The "CNN Tonight" anchor referenced a Washington Post column and said there is no evidence to support those claims.
I'm skipping over some smaller developments and plenty of details. But today, we have the following series of events: Trump officials leak that Rice requested the unmasking of the identities of Trump associates who were in communication with foreigners under surveillance; those reporters publish their stories; then the president himself calls attention to them on his Twitter feed.
Next, O'Reilly took to Twitter to call Lemon out on refusing to cover the story.
Lemon fired back in the best way possible. He brought up allegations of sexual harassment that have been made against O'Reilly and the subsequent pay outs given to the accusers.
Disgusting. Lemon for the win.


Peter Stifner, 39, of Bossier City, pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud.
A Bossier City man pleaded guilty on Jan. 7 to using a merchandise price changing scheme to steal more than $180,000, according to a news release from the Western District of LouisianaDepartment of Justice.
Peter Stifner, 39, of Bossier City, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to three counts of wire fraud. According to the guilty plea, Stifner conducted a scheme to steal merchandise from Walmart, Sam's Club and Target. He obtained barcode stickers of lower priced merchandise, brought the stickers into the stores and placed them over the barcodes of higher priced merchandise. Stifner purchased merchandise at the lower price and would then resell it online for a profit.
As a result of his fraudulent activity, the defendant stole more than $180,000 during the course of the scheme.
Stifner faces up to 20 years in prison, five years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine for each count. The court set the sentencing date for May 2.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Cadesby B. Cooper is prosecuting the case.


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A roasted chicken from the market is the jumping off point for all three of these dishes. There's absolutely nothing wrong with someone else doing the first step toward delicious!
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Galentine's Day Retreat with Carrie Sue Casey of OODALOOP!


A cold but bright day on Sunday, my girls and I got the bus to Breukelen for a freezing walk.
Lee had the week off and has been cooking each night, which is very nice. And Lily made a fab nutella cookie traybake last night.
This morning I braved the wind on my bike to cycle up to Marcia's. On the way I saw lovely colourful flowers, you'd never think it was late November. There was a bird of prey sitting on a fence. I must have cycled past not 6 feet away from it.
Marcia and I talked and prayed about BSF and watched an episode of her current fave, a "hoarders" type show. She made a gorgeous colourful salad. Just right in this cold weather when it's easy to eat nothing but carbs!


WASHINGTON - Hunterdon County may be nearly 2,000 miles from the Mexican border, but Sheriff Fred Brown went to Washington on Wednesday to ask Congress to act on pending legislation to increase border security.
Brown joined with almost 50 sheriffs from across the country to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House and hold a press conference at the Capitol.
"The purpose of this visit is to express the urgency of Congress passing legislation immediately on the security aspects of immigration reform," Brown said. "It is our intention to tell Congress that their failure to deal with this issue for 20 years has made our communities less safe and has undermined our promise to the people who elected us to keep them safe."
Brown was the only sheriff from New Jersey to go to Washington.
Brown said immigration reform is key to local law enforcement.
On Wednesday morning, the sheriffs, joined by some members of Congress, held a press conference on Capitol Hill to share their experiences and public safety challenges presented by illegal immigrants. They called on Congress to act on legislation to increase border security and reform the immigration system.
Later in the day, the sheriffs participated in a roundtable discussion at the White House with administration officials and policymakers. Hosted by the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the round table focused on immigration and border security.
"You're doing an incredible job," Trump told the sheriffs, adding that during his administration crime has dropped dramatically.
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Q: Prime factor of 300 000 000 000? I need to find out the prime factors of over 300 billion. I have a function that is adding to the list of them...very slowly! It has been running for about an hour now and i think its got a fair distance to go still. Am i doing it completly wrong or is this expected?
Edit: Im trying to find the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143.
Edit:
Result:
{
    List<Int64> ListOfPrimeFactors = new List<Int64>();
    Int64 Number = 600851475143;
    Int64 DividingNumber = 2;

    while (DividingNumber < Number / DividingNumber)
    {
        if (Number % DividingNumber == 0)
        {
            ListOfPrimeFactors.Add(DividingNumber);
            Number = Number/DividingNumber;
        }
        else
            DividingNumber++;
        }
        ListOfPrimeFactors.Add(Number);
        listBox1.DataSource = ListOfPrimeFactors;
    }
}

A: One last thing nobody has mentioned, perhaps because it seems obvious.  Every time you find a factor and divide it out, keep trying the factor until it fails.
64 only has one prime factor, 2.  You will find that out pretty trivially if you keep dividing out the 2 until you can't anymore.

A: Are you remembering to divide the number that you're factorizing by each factor as you find them?
Say, for example, you find that 2 is a factor.  You can add that to your list of factors, but then you divide the number that you're trying to factorise by that value.
Now you're only searching for the factors of 150 billion.  Each time around you should start from the factor you just found.  So if 2 was a factor, test 2 again.  If the next factor you find is 3, there's no point testing from 2 again.
And so on...

A: Finding prime factors is difficult using brute force, which sounds like the technique you are using.
Here are a few tips to speed it up somewhat:

*

*Start low, not high

*Don't bother testing each potential factor to see whether it is prime--just test LIKELY prime numbers (odd numbers that end in 1,3,7 or 9)

*Don't bother testing even numbers (all divisible by 2), or odds that end in 5 (all divisible by 5). Of course, don't actually skip 2 and 5!!

*When you find a prime factor, make sure to divide it out--don't continue to use your massive original number. See my example below.

*If you find a factor, make sure to test it AGAIN to see if it is in there multiple times. Your number could be 2x2x3x7x7x7x31 or something like that.

*Stop when you reach >= sqrt(remaining large number)

Edit: A simple example:
You are finding the factors of 275.

*

*Test 275 for divisibility by 2. Does 275/2 = int(275/2)? No. Failed.

*Test 275 for divisibility by 3. Failed.

*Skip 4!

*Test 275 for divisibility by 5. YES! 275/5 = 55. So your NEW test number is now 55.

*Test 55 for divisibility by 5. YES! 55/5 = 11. So your NEW test number is now 11.

*BUT 5 > sqrt (11), so 11 is prime, and you can stop!

So 275 = 5 * 5 * 11
Make more sense?

A: $ time factor 300000000000 > /dev/null

real        0m0.027s
user        0m0.000s
sys         0m0.001s

You're doing something wrong if it's taking an hour. You might even have an infinite loop somewhere - make sure you're not using 32-bit ints.

A: The key to understanding why the square root is important, consider that each factor of n below the square root of n has a corresponding factor above it. To see this, consider that if x is factor of n, then x/n = m which means that x/m = n, hence m is also a factor.

A: Factoring big numbers is a hard problem.  So hard, in fact, that we rely on it to keep RSA secure.  But take a look at the wikipedia page for some pointers to algorithms that can help.  But for a number that small, it really shouldn't be taking that long, unless you are re-doing work over and over again that you don't have to somewhere.
For the brute-force solution, remember that you can do some mini-optimizations:

*

*Check 2 specially, then only check odd numbers.

*You only ever need to check up to the square-root of the number (if you find no factors by then, then the number is prime).

*Once you find a factor, don't use the original number to find the next factor, divide it by the found factor, and search the new smaller number.

*When you find a factor, divide it through as many times as you can.  After that, you never need to check that number, or any smaller numbers again.

*If you do all the above, each new factor you find will be prime, since any smaller factors have already been removed.

A: Here is an XSLT solution!
This XSLT transformation takes 0.109 sec.
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
 xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net/"
 xmlns:f="http://fxsl.sf.net/"
 exclude-result-prefixes="xs saxon f"
 >
 <xsl:import href="../f/func-Primes.xsl"/>

 <xsl:output method="text"/>

 <xsl:template name="initial" match="/*">
   <xsl:sequence select="f:maxPrimeFactor(600851475143)"/>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:function name="f:maxPrimeFactor" as="xs:integer">
   <xsl:param name="pNum" as="xs:integer"/>

   <xsl:sequence select=
    "if(f:isPrime($pNum))
       then $pNum
       else
         for $vEnd in xs:integer(floor(f:sqrt($pNum, 0.1E0))),
             $vDiv1 in (2 to $vEnd)[$pNum mod . = 0][1],
             $vDiv2 in $pNum idiv $vDiv1
           return
             max((f:maxPrimeFactor($vDiv1),f:maxPrimeFactor($vDiv2)))
    "/>
 </xsl:function>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This transformation produces the correct result (the maximum prime factor of 600851475143) in just 0.109 sec.:
6857
The transformation uses the f:sqrt() and f:isPrime() defined in FXSL 2.0 -- a library for functional programming in XSLT. FXSL is itself written entirely in XSLT.
f:isPrime() uses Fermat's little theorem so that it is efficient to determine primeality.

A: I wouldn't expect it to take very long at all - that's not a particularly large number.
Could you give us an example number which is causing your code difficulties?

A: Here's some Haskell goodness for you guys :)
primeFactors n = factor n primes
  where factor n (p:ps) | p*p > n = [n]
                        | n `mod` p /= 0 = factor n ps
                        | otherwise = p : factor (n `div` p) (p:ps)
        primes = 2 : filter ((==1) . length . primeFactors) [3,5..]

Took it about .5 seconds to find them, so I'd call that a success.

A: Here's one site where you can get answers: Factoris - Online factorization service. It can do really big numbers, but it also can factorize algebraic expressions.

A: The fastest algorithms are sieve algorithms, and are based on arcane areas of discrete mathematics (over my head at least), complicated to implement and test.
The simplest algorithm for factoring is probably (as others have said) the Sieve of Eratosthenes. Things to remember about using this to factor a number N:

*

*general idea: you're checking an increasing sequence of possible integer factors x to see if they evenly divide your candidate number N (in C/Java/Javascript check whether N % x == 0) in which case N is not prime.

*you just need to go up to sqrt(N), but don't actually calculate sqrt(N): loop as long as your test factor x passes the test x*x<N

*if you have the memory to save a bunch of previous primes, use only those as the test factors (and don't save them if prime P fails the test P*P > N_max since you'll never use them again

*Even if you don't save the previous primes, for possible factors x just check 2 and all the odd numbers. Yes, it will take longer, but not that much longer for reasonable sized numbers. The prime-counting function and its approximations can tell you what fraction of numbers are prime; this fraction decreases very slowly. Even for 264 = approx 1.8x1019, roughly one out of every 43 numbers is prime (= one out of every 21.5 odd numbers is prime). For factors of numbers less than 264, those factors x are less than 232 where about one out of every 20 numbers is prime = one out of every 10 odd numbers is prime. So you'll have to test 10 times as many numbers, but the loop should be a bit faster and you don't have to mess around with storing all those primes.

There are also some older and simpler sieve algorithms that a little bit more complex but still fairly understandable. See Dixon's, Shanks' and Fermat's factoring algorithms. I read an article about one of these once, can't remember which one, but they're all fairly straightforward and use algebraic properties of the differences of squares.
If you're just testing whether a number N is prime, and you don't actually care about the factors themselves, use a probabilistic primality test. Miller-Rabin is the most standard one, I think.

A: I spent some time on this since it just sucked me in. I won't paste the code here just yet. Instead see this factors.py gist if you're curious.
Mind you, I didn't know anything about factoring (still don't) before reading this question. It's just a Python implementation of BradC's answer above.
On my MacBook it takes 0.002 secs to factor the number mentioned in the question (600851475143).
There must obviously be much, much faster ways of doing this. My program takes 19 secs to compute the factors of 6008514751431331. But the Factoris service just spits out the answer in no-time.

A: The specific number is 300425737571? It trivially factors into 131 * 151 * 673 * 22567.
I don't see what all the fuss is...

A: You could use the sieve of Eratosthenes to find the primes and see if your number is divisible by those you find.

A: You only need to check it's remainder mod(n) where n is a prime <= sqrt(N) where N is the number you are trying to factor. It really shouldn't take over an hour, even on a really slow computer or a TI-85.

A: Your algorithm must be FUBAR. This only takes about 0.1s on my 1.6 GHz netbook in Python. Python isn't known for its blazing speed. It does, however, have arbitrary precision integers...
import math
import operator

def factor(n):
    """Given the number n, to factor yield a it's prime factors.
    factor(1) yields one result: 1. Negative n is not supported."""
    M = math.sqrt(n)  # no factors larger than M
    p = 2             # candidate factor to test
    while p <= M:     # keep looking until pointless
        d, m = divmod(n, p)
        if m == 0:
            yield p   # p is a prime factor
            n = d     # divide n accordingly
            M = math.sqrt(n)  # and adjust M
        else:
            p += 1    # p didn't pan out, try the next candidate
    yield n  # whatever's left in n is a prime factor

def test_factor(n):
    f = factor(n)
    n2 = reduce(operator.mul, f)
    assert n2 == n

def example():
    n = 600851475143
    f = list(factor(n))
    assert reduce(operator.mul, f) == n
    print n, "=", "*".join(str(p) for p in f)

example()

# output:
# 600851475143 = 71*839*1471*6857

(This code seems to work in defiance of the fact that I don't know enough about number theory to fill a thimble.)

A: Just to expand/improve slightly on the "only test odd numbers that don't end in 5" suggestions...
All primes greater than 3 are either one more or one less than a multiple of 6 (6x + 1 or 6x - 1 for integer values of x).

A: It shouldn't take that long, even with a relatively naive brute force.  For that specific number, I can factor it in my head in about one second.
You say you don't want solutions(?), but here's your "subtle" hint.  The only prime factors of the number are the lowest three primes.

A: Semi-prime numbers of that size are used for encryption, so I am curious as to what you exactly want to use them for.
That aside, there currently are not good ways to find the prime factorization of large numbers in a relatively small amount of time.


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