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Матеус Урібе (,  21 березня 1991, Медельїн) — колумбійський футболіст, півзахисник клубу «Порту».

Виступав, зокрема, за клуби «Енвігадо» та «Атлетіко Насьйональ», з яким вигравав Кубок Лібертадорес та Рекопу Південної Америки, а також чемпіонат та Кубок Колумбії. Крім цього грає за національну збірну Колумбії, у складі якої був учасником чемпіонату світу 2018 року.

Клубна кар'єра

У дорослому футболі дебютував 2010 року виступами за команду четвертого за рівнем дивізіону Аргентини «Депортіво Еспаньйол», в якій провів лише кілька місяців, взявши участь у 4 матчах чемпіонату.

У 2012 році Матеус повернувся на батьківщину і приєднався до «Енвігадо». Відіграв за команду з Енвігадо наступні три сезони своєї ігрової кар'єри. Більшість часу, проведеного у складі «Енвігадо», був основним гравцем команди. На початку 2015 року Урібе на правах оренди перейшов в «Депортес Толіма», де провів наступні півтора року.

У липні 2016 року уклав контракт з клубом «Атлетіко Насьйональ»,. Граючи у складі «Атлетіко Насьйональ» також здебільшого виходив на поле в основному складі команди. У своєму дебютному сезоні він завоював Кубок Лібертадорес, Кубок Колумбії і вийшов у фінал Південноамериканського кубка. У 2017 році Матеус допоміг клубу виграти чемпіонат та Рекопу Південної Америки.

Влітку 2017 року Урібе перейшов у мексиканської «Америки».

4 серпня 2019 року став гравцем «Порту», підписавши 4-річний контракт за 10 млн євро.

Виступи за збірну
26 січня 2017 року дебютував в офіційних матчах у складі національної збірної Колумбії в товариському матчі проти збірних Бразилії, а вже в наступному році поїхав з командою на чемпіонат світу 2018 року у Росії.

На мундіалі розпочинав як резервний гравець, дебютував на турнірі у другій грі групового етапу проти збірної Польщі, вийшовши на заміну вже на 32-ій хвилині замість Абеля Агілара. Заключну гру у групі вже розпочинав у стартовому складі, допомігши своїй команді мінімально здолати збірну Сенегалу і пробитися до стадії плей-оф. Гру 1/8 фіналу проти збірної Англії знову розпочинав на лаві для запасних. Вийшов на поле замість Карлоса Санчеса на 79-ій хвилині за рахунку 1:0 на користь суперників, а на останніх доданих до основного часу гри хвилинах наважився на дальній удар, який воротар англійців Джордан Пікфорд перевів на кутовий. Саме після подачі цього кутового захисник колумбійців Єррі Міна зрівняв рахунок зустрічі і перевів її в овертайм. У додатковий час жодна з команд не змогла забити, а в серії післяматчевих пенальті Урібе став одним з антигероїв для своєї команди, не реалізувавши, як згодом і Карлос Бакка, свою спробу, і колумбійці зазнали поразки 3:4 у серії.

9 червня 2019 забив перший гол в футболці національної збірної у матчі проти збірної Перу (3:0).

Статистика виступів

Статистика клубних виступів
Станом на 1 серпня 2020

Статистика виступів за збірну
Станом на 5 липня 2018 року

Титули і досягнення
 Чемпіон Колумбії (1): Апертура 2017
 Володар Кубка Колумбії (1): 2016
 Володар Кубка Лібертадорес (1): 2016
 Переможець Рекопи Південної Америки (1): 2017
 Чемпіон Португалії (2): 2019–20, 2021–22
 Володар Кубка Португалії (2): 2019–20, 2021–22
 Володар Суперкубка Португалії (2): 2020, 2022
 Володар Кубка португальської ліги (1): 2022–23
 Бронзовий призер Кубка Америки: 2021

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колумбійські футболісти
Футболісти «Депортіво Еспаньйола»
Футболісти «Енвігадо»
Футболісти «Депортес Толіма»
Футболісти «Атлетіко Насьйональ»
Футболісти «Америки» (Мехіко)
Футболісти «Порту»
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Футбольні легіонери в Аргентині
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Capiz, Philippines: The Rich and Mysterious Province in the Visayas
Shey Pornan
The province of Capiz in the Philippines is well-known because of the "aswang in Capiz" and other stories of supernatural and mythical beings believed to be dwelling in the area. At times, these stories can get preposterous but have already permeated into the community like a dark cloak causing doubt and even fear to potential guests, concealing the beauty and silent splendor of the region.
Are these stories even true or are they just myths and folklore being passed on from one excited storyteller to another? Have you ever wondered what's in Capiz behind the mythical stories of the old?
Roxas City Cathedral
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A Local's Struggles
I am a native of President Roxas, one of the municipalities of Capiz. I've lived in this quaint little town for 20 of my 30 something years. Since I was a kid, I've heard scary stories, sometimes even before bedtime which, by the way, is absolutely not a good idea, from my "manongs" and "manangs" (referring to people I look up to as older brothers and sisters). They would start telling stories then I would get scared but then I would be curious and ask them to continue until my active imagination would paint everything in my head. Come bedtime, I would be too scared to sleep alone I would ask my mom and dad to let me sleep in their bed.
Fast forward to years later, when I started working in Manila, people would look at each other weirdly (most of the time) as soon as they learn I'm from Capiz, which then I would ignore as if I didn't notice. My closest of friends would tease me if I could "fly" (referring to "aswang" (witches) that could fly) or would bombard me with questions to satisfy their curiosity. Pffft! And yes, I'm blaming most of it to the local movies with all their exaggeration about the "aswang in Capiz".
The thing is, I've grown up with these stories and I've come to believe that most of these are either just tales being told by the older people to kids to make sure they are not being bad or folklore being passed on from one person to another. But then again, I can't be a total unbeliever just because I haven't had any experiences on any of the supernatural stuff, right? Anyhow, I have my theories but before I go there, let me tell you more about my province, Capiz.
In the Western Visayas region, Capiz is one of the six provinces in the peaceful Island of Panay. The island is in the heart of the Philippine archipelago and Capiz can be found in the northeastern portion of the island. Its neighboring provinces are Aklan and Antique to the west and Iloilo to the south.
Capiz has 473 "baranggays", 16 municipalities and 1 city, its capital, Roxas City. Below is the list of the 16 municipalities of the province:
Capiz in Panay Island
Roel Balingit (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons
Subdivisions of the Province of Capiz
Capiz has 473 "baranggays", 16 municipalities (listed above) and 1 city, its capital, Roxas City.
Panitan
President Roxas
Mambusao
It was noted that the early Spanish explorers first set foot in the province of Capiz in the mid 1500s through the Banica River. Few years after their early exploration, the Spanish colonizers, as they searched for food, came again and established their first official settlement near the Banica River and called it Pan-ay. This is their second settlement following San Miguel in Cebu City. The town of Panay was first declared as the capital of the province but was later on moved to Capiz (now Roxas City) because it is near the sea and has access to ports.
Bodies of Water in Roxas City
Capizeños are known to have three types of ancestors; Aetas or Negritos, Indonesians and the Malays. Though majority of the population has already progressed, there are still cultural minorities who worship spirits and live like the old days with their primitive ways.
The main local languages are Hiligaynon and Capiznon. Filipino and Business English are also widely used.
Due to the Spanish colonization for hundreds of years, majority of the population in the province is Catholic. They are also very spiritual and religious with some still very superstitious.
Old Catholic Churches in Capiz
Panay Church
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The Pride of Capiz
Due to the vast bodies of water stretching in its boarders, Capiz became one of the richest fishing areas, catapulting the province to be famed as the "Seafood Capital of the Philippines". It is known to be the major supplier of prawn and milkfish in the country. Other harvests include oysters, squid, blue marlin, seaweed and shrimp.
Aside from fishing, farming is another primary source of income for the Capizeños. The province consists of broad plantations of rice, corn, sugarcane and banana. These are just few of the primary raw products.
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The province is also renowned for its beautiful Capiz shells and chandeliers. From picture frames and accessories to lamps and wall panels, the products made of Capiz shells are being manufactured and exported to the global markets.
These are definitely some of the things the Capizeños are proud of.
Reading: Wikipedia/Capiz
Capiz Shells
Roxas City, The Capital
Roxas City is the medium sized capital city of the province of Capiz. It got its name in honor of President Manuel Roxas, the First President of the Philippine Third Republic. It is just east of the north-central coast of Panay Island surrounded by the towns of Ivisan, Panitan and Panay. It is subdivided into 47 "baranggays"
It has the Roxas City Airport and the National Port of Culasi serving as the gateways for travelers from different parts of the country. From Manila, Roxas City is approximately 45 minutes by plane, around 16 hours by ship. From Iloilo City, the travel time by land is around 2 hours by bus or private car, around an hour if you're from Aklan and 4 hours if you're coming from the world famous Boracay Island.
You get around the city proper by tricycle and the city currently has a few malls and hotels to cater to locals and tourists. If it's your first time in the city, the most popular place to go is to the stretch of restaurants along "Baybay" beach where you can taste the succulent and freshest seafood products of the province.
Reading: Wikipedia/Roxas
Seafood Feast
How to Get to Roxas City, Capiz
My Thoughts & Theories on the Supernatural
Now that you have gotten to know and got a glimpse of what I'm proud of about Capiz, let's look at the mysterious side of it.
If you tour around Capiz, you'll see that most areas are fields and plantations and bounded by bodies of water. Though thriving, most towns are still either rural or sub-urban areas hence dictating the simple living of the Capizeños. A part of the population is still old-fashion, very spiritual and believes in superstitions and the supernatural. It is embedded in their everyday life. Especially in remote areas, some people would rather go to quack doctors first than to be checked by a licensed doctor. I have seen different types of quack doctors from different areas of the province in action and I've witnessed some patients get well to live another day. So who can blame them if they continue to believe?
Moreover, unlike the people in the cities, residents in remote areas usually have plenty of time after work just to bond with family and friends hence the opportunity to share their experiences. Thus my theory of why we have a lot of folklore and mythical stories circulating around the communities. And what's more interesting to discuss than the things you don't understand? Stories about an old scary woman living alone in the woods, an unknown woman stalking a pregnant girl in a village, a scary looking creature cut in the waist, flying and clutching a kid, an old man with fiery red eyes and pointed ears turning into a pig or a dog… the stories go on, and living in wooded grounds with towering trees and a very active imagination is not helping.
I don't have to witness and understand everything to believe. No, I haven't seen them but yes, I have felt them and I know there will always be opposing forces like the light and the dark. The mere mention of witchcraft, divination, spells and the likes in the Bible means they are real and already exist thousands of years ago and could be practiced anywhere, not just in Capiz.
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I am proud to be a Capizeño and I will always cherish my home province. I am tempted to say that maybe its mystery and obsession on the supernatural could boost the people's interest and be more intrigued to come over to the province but I will not go in that direction. At the end of the day, I still think the naturally rich and peaceful Capiz should continue to thrive, capitalizing on its workforce and highlighting its strong points as a province, and remain beautiful and proud as it simply is.
© 2015 Shey Pornan
Shey Pornan (author) from Manila, Philippines on October 18, 2015:
Hi, poetryman6969! Readers are curious of the supernatural so I decided to pique that curiosity then show the better, more appealing side of my home province. :) Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
poetryman6969 on October 18, 2015:
A look at the supernatural side of a place to visit is definitely a different spin on things.
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A Shameful Big-Money School Board Election in L.A.
By Charles Taylor Kerchner on May 23, 2017 12:51 AM | No comments
(Updated 6/12/17 to distingish between Ross Valley and Ross school districts)
Remember the little dog you used to have: the one that chased cars but was smart enough not to ever catch one? Nick Melvoin caught the car. Now, he and his big money backers have to figure out what to do with the nation's second largest school district.
Melvoin upset school board president Steve Zimmer winning 57% of the vote in school board District 4, and Kelly Gonez more narrowly defeated Imelda Padilla, 51% to 49%, for an open seat in District 6. Monica Garcia had won reelection in District 2 in the March primary. They join Ref Rodriguez, a former charter school operator, to form a solid majority of charter-friendly members on Los Angeles Unified School District Board
Melvoin won his race against Zimmer with the backing of uncounted millions in visible and dark money from charter school backers. Howard Blume followed the visible money in the Los Angeles Times. Counting just the money that has been reported so far, nearly $15-million poured into the election. Charter backers spent $144 a vote in the Zimmer-Melvoin contest, making it by all estimates the most expensive school board race in the nation's history.
In comparison, Donald Trump spent about $5 a vote in direct campaign contributions and Hillary Clinton about $10. (This doesn't count the estimated $5-billion in free media coverage Trump's campaign of outrage attracted.)
Charter school backers outspent Zimmer's main support—United Teachers Los Angeles and other labor organizations—nearly 2 to 1.
All this money produced one of the most negative, nasty, and slimy electoral contests in history. The group called "LA Students for Change" was actually a pro-charter political action committee that promised students cash for their participation.
The slime runneth over. My home is about 40 miles away from theschool board district involved in the Melvoin-Zimmer election, but when I retrieved my Los Angeles Times on Sunday before the election I was greeted by a rap-around ad featuring a smiling Melvoin. On the inside sheet was an attack ad against Zimmer with the incumbent's face artificially darkened: a favorite racist campaign trick; make the opponent look dark and scary.
This was the opposite of money laundering. The more that these folks spent, the dirtier they looked.
Soiled or not, the dog has caught the car.
The election is being touted as the beginning of something new because charter-friendly members hold a board majority. It's not. Instead, it represents just one more charge in the trench warfare that has dominated LAUSD politics since 1999. The board majority has turned over at least three times since then. There is no reason to believe that this board majority is to be any more stable than any of the previous ones.
In an election night interview, Melvoin repeated his passion for kids, parents, and school choice, adding "The district as a district is like an abstract concept."
Guess what, it's about to become a lot more real. LAUSD's chronic financial problems, which plagued its school boards for at least four decades, are now on Nick Melvoin's and Kelly Gonez's heads.
A blue ribbon review panel called together by former superintendent Ramon Cortines projected a $333-million budget deficit by 2017-18 and a $600-million deficit by 2019-20, driven primarily by pension and health care costs.
The report concluded, "Thus, if the District desires to continue as a going concern beyond FY 2019-20, capable of improving the lives of students and their families, then a combination of difficult, substantial and immediate decisions will be required. Failure to do so could lead to the insolvency of the LAUSD and the loss of local governance authority that comes from state takeover."
Charter schools add significantly to the fiscal threat. Enrollment drives revenue in California, where stable property taxes make up only a small part of the schools' revenue base. And over the last decade, LAUSD has lost 100,000 students, significantly more than the entire student population of Long Beach. About half the decline is attributable to changes in demographics: aging families and a decline in immigration. But the other half represents students who have left district-run schools for charters, 50,000 of them.
Welcome to school board reality.
Then, there's the matter of the labor contracts. United Teachers Los Angeles' contract expires in June, along with labor agreements with 10 other unions. UTLA, whose core strength is fighting, will come to negotiations with a war chest fattened with dues increase to $1,000 a year passed last year in anticipation of a strike.
No Easy Way Forward
Charter school advocates glibly mouth the phrase "that a Zip code should not determine the educational quality that a student receives," and that parenthetically student choice answers that problem.
But it doesn't.
(Side note to Nick and Kelly: the Zip code slogan has become a favorite of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in her stump speeches. If you want to retain any street creds as a Democrat, you might think about erasing that from your language system.)
One of the lessons from school reform efforts in other cities is that it is very difficult to expand charter offerings and improve district-run schools at the same time. Newark, New Jersey's, reform scheme tried to do both, but it left Cami Anderson, the superintendent brought in to implement district reforms, with a hopeless task. Charters were disproportionately attracting "the choosers."
Despite demographic similarities, the populations attending district and charter schools are different. "[P]arents who are savvy and proactive about their children's education—the kinds of parents who give their kids a head start on their schooling—are more likely to find out about charter schools in the first place, attend their meetings, enter the lotteries for admission and then help their children succeed at those schools," said a Los Angeles Times editorial.
The effects of more motivated students and families moving to charter schools has implications that go beyond losing attendance-based state and federal revenue. As the editorial said, "another important question as the number of charter schools grows is what the effect will be on the culture of schools and on their achievement levels as more motivated parents and their children abandon district schools."
The "chooser" issue will be particularly important as the demographics of Los Angeles change. In a reversal of the trend over the past half-century, the core of Los Angeles is becoming popular as a place of residence for the young and well educated. The critical question for LAUSD is whether its schools will be attractive to them or whether they will shun district schools in favor of charters or private schooling. The idea of "common schooling," an American hallmark since the early 19th Century, hangs in the balance.
There is a peace dividend, a big one, which I'll write about in future posts. Because the current battle lines in the charter war perpetuate stalemate, a productive peace requires creating a new goal, so that the question becomes how to design a 21st Century school system rather than whether the old system should have more or fewer charters.
Charter Wars Spreading Statewide
When I wrote about the Broad Foundation plan to increase charter enrollment to more than half the school population, I predicted a charter school war and that it would spread statewide.
By all evidence, it has. The California Charter Schools Association and its allied political action committees spent more than $19-million in legislative races last fall. And they mostly won.
In the legislature this spring, charter school money successfully defeated a bill (SB322) heavily backed by the California Teachers Association and supported by the American Civil Liberties Union. In this well-researched EdSource report, Mikhail Zinshteyn details the growing charter financial and political clout.
The politics of charters will be front-and-center in statewide races in 2018. Marshall Tuck, who is running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, was at Melvoin's victory party. So was former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is running for governor. Tuck sent out a "great news" email and linked his candidacy to Melvoin's campaign strategy.
Meanwhile, there are rumblings from wealthy districts where residents see charters as exclusive enclaves promoted by self-indulgent parents. The politics they cause in tiny districts, such as Ross Valley (a 2,200 student elementary district in Marin County) are as bitter and divisive as those in Los Angeles. (Ross Valley serves the communities of San Anselmo and Fairfax and not the community of Ross, which has its own one-school district.)
"It's a solution to a problem that didn't exist, and it actually creates a problem that need not exist," Manor Elementary School PTA President Heather Bennett told Capital & Main reporter Bill Randen.
An even more bitter controversy has raged for years in the high performing and wealthy Los Altos Unified School District, where even richer parents in Los Altos Hills ignited a litigious and long running battle over the Bullis Charter School. Just as in Los Angeles, charter backers are heavily financing local board candidates.
Cars Are Hard To Digest
I have a lot of empathy for the folks on the L.A. School board. They are faced with extremely challenging and very real problems. But they are both the product and the victim of dysfunctional politics, and the chances that they can think outside of the trenches they've dug are remote at best.
They need a better idea and a better organizing principle than charter schools.
As for Gomez and Melvoin, I'm certain they will find that chasing the car was much more fun that actually catching it.
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"Congratulations you are officially no longer in high school," said Board of Education member Rebecca Smondrowski to the 285 members of Seneca Valley High School's Class of 2017 just prior to handing out the diplomas at commencement exercises Friday morning in the Daughters of the American Revolution – Constitution Hall in Washington D.C.
The graduates were told by Commencement Speaker and Seneca Valley alumnus Dr. James Cherry of the "benefits of failure." Cherry is the Scientific Program Director for the Office of Scientific Operations at the National Cancer Institute at Frederick.
"Thinking back to the 18-year-old boy that was sitting in the audience as one of you so many years ago, and considering the 40-something man that stands before you today, I would say, 'Boy, I have I failed.' And I am fortunate to have those failures. Those failures drove me to be able to stand here before you as a graduate of Seneca Valley High School," said Cherry.
"I am not the smartest. I never was the smartest," he told the Seneca Valley graduates how proud he was to be alumni who'd had graduated as captain of the Screamin' Eagles football team. The work that his coaches, family, and teachers demanded of him in high school allowed him to earn an academic/sports scholarship to Shepherd University, as part of the liberal arts education at Shepherd he took a biologic science class. He told the graduates that his professor urged him to follow the sciences, which was something that he did not think was for him. "I was petrified. There was no way I was going to be a scientist. They are the smart kids." and he was going to play football.
One day his professor called him in and said, "Jim, The NFL isn't calling. This isn't Alabama. This isn't WVU; this is Shepherd College. It was hard to hear, and he was 100 percent correct." After that, Cherry's plan shifted, and by the end of junior year, he planned to go medical school and become a doctor. "I took the MCAT and failed terribly. Not one interview from a medical school." At the suggestion of his professor, Cherry continued studying biological science in grad school, he got good grades, because he wasn't playing football anymore. He took the MCAT again. "I thought this is a no-brainer. I will get into med school now. Wrong. I failed again. I didn't get in."
"Failure is not fun, but I learned something," Cherry told the graduates. "Failure stripped away the inessentials of my life. Looking at those failures, I realized that I had succeeded in a number of things, and the failures allowed me to move forward to be determinative. It gave me the drive to succeed in the one thing I truly love, which is the cancer research community."
"It also set me free of my biggest fear. I had failed, and I was still here. I was alive," he said. "I want you all to know that failure is a part of life, but I NEED you all to understand that failure is not life — and it is not who you are. Every graduate in this room has the talent and tools to be successful, but the question is do you have the guts to fail. If you don't fail, you are not even trying. To get something you never had, you must do something you never did. You will fail at some point in your life. It is impossible to live without failure unless you have lived so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you fail by default."
Cherry encouraged Seneca Valley's Class of 2017 to take chances as they move forward with their lives after high school.
Seneca Valley High School's Principal Dr. Marc J. Cohen talked about the Class of 2017 saying that collectively they had earned over $13 million in scholarships. "We also have at least seven students that have committed to joining the military following graduation," said Cohen.
He spoke of the dedication to community the Class of 2017 had point out the thousands of hours of community service the graduates had worked to achieve. Cohen said the class had amassed a total of 37,193 hours of service to the Germantown community. "More than 75 percent of the graduates have earned a greater number that was is required to graduate, and 39 have earned the certificate of meritorious service with more than 260 hours." He pointed out that two students had earned a amazing amount of hours, Vivian Truong who earned 750 hours, and Judy Ortega who earned 850 hours of service.
Four years of study, service, and friendship have prepared the Class of 2017 to take the next step and Student Speaker, Tania Otero-Martinez told her classmates that they were ready to move on.
"We share same roots, but we are all headed in different directions whether that means college, working, serving our military, or traveling it is about time we started heading in those directions. I want to wish you all good luck, wherever you are going," said Otero-Martinez who will attend the University of Maryland – College Park in September.
"Every year we countdown to June 2, but there is the unspoken anxiety about what will happen on June 3. We've been in school, with the same people, in the same town for 12 years. What is next? I can't answer that. But I am not worried, I see the future in all of us. Who you want to be and where you want to go, is in your hands. Take what you love to do and go for it. I will miss you guys. I hope you all find your place, your purpose, and most importantly your peace. Our roots at Seneca Valley are just the beginning of our journey now we are going into full bloom— to become who we want to be," said Otero-Martinez, who intends to study Criminal Justice.
"It is time we moved on and realized our full potential. It is all in our hands, and it begins right now," said Otero-Martinez as her classmates broke into thunderous applause.
Top: Graduation Day: The class officers of the Class of 2017 from Seneca Valley on Graduation Day at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. Photo courtesy Rebecca Smondrowski via Twitter.
Next: Commencement Speaker and alumnus Dr. James Cherry spoke about the "Benefits of Failure."
Next: Seneca Valley High School's Principal Dr. Marc J. Cohen.
Next: Student Speaker Tania Otero-Martinez told the Class of 2017 that it was time to become who they want to be. Photo courtesy Rebecca Smondrowski via Twitter.
Next: The presentation of the colors by the Seneca Valley Jr. ROTC.
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Woman cited in one of two crashes that shut Del. 1
The crashes caused delays for motorists traveling on Del. 1 in New Castle County.
Woman cited in one of two crashes that shut Del. 1 The crashes caused delays for motorists traveling on Del. 1 in New Castle County. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/traffic/2017/05/31/crashes-creating-delays-del-1-motorists/358009001/
Esteban Parra, The News Journal Published 10:55 a.m. ET May 31, 2017 | Updated 4:26 p.m. ET May 31, 2017
Another crash is creating delays on southbound Del. 1(Photo: DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION)
A 23-year-old woman has been cited for causing one of two crashes that shut Del. 1 and created traffic jams in New Castle County Wednesday morning.
The Delaware Department of Transportation website reported that two crashes on Del. 1 southbound and northbound shut various traffic lanes Wednesday morning.
The first crash was reported about 10:15 a.m. on southbound Del. 1 near the Pine Tree Road underpass in the Middletown area. Although the roadway was opened to motorists about 12:35 a.m., DelDOT officials cautioned people to expect major delays.
The second crash occurred about 10:20 a.m. on northbound Del. 1 north of U.S. 40 in Bear.
In that crash, Autumn L. Fisher, of Dover, was driving a 2005 Honda Accord when she lost control of it, veering off the roadway, said Master Cpl. Jeffrey Hale, a state police spokesman.
The car then struck a guardrail and spun back onto the roadway, Hale said. Fisher, who was not properly restrained at the time of the crash, was ejected from her vehicle through the passenger side window.
"She was then thrown to the ground and came to rest just east of the roadway," Hale said.
Fisher was treated by New Castle County Paramedics before being taken to Christiana Hospital with not life-threatening injuries.
She was cited for failure to maintain a lane of travel, Hale said.
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STORY: Heavy traffic on southbound Del. 1 following car fire near Townsend
The crashes occurred about an hour after a car fire shut Southbound Del. 1 near the Townsend area.
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Die Bonapartemöwe (Chroicocephalus philadelphia, Syn.: Larus philadelphia) ist eine monotypische Möwenart. Es handelt sich um eine nearktische Art, die sehr viel Ähnlichkeit mit der Lachmöwe aufweist, aber etwas kleiner ist. Ihren Namen trägt die Bonapartemöwe zu Ehren des französischen Naturwissenschaftlers Charles Lucien Bonaparte, einem Neffen von Napoleon Bonaparte.

Die IUCN stuft die Bonapartemöwe als ungefährdet (least concern) ein und schätzt den weltweiten Bestand auf 260.000 bis 530.000 geschlechtsreife Individuen.

Erscheinungsbild
Die Bonapartemöwe erreicht eine Körperlänge von 28 bis 30 Zentimetern. Die Flügelspannweite beträgt 90 bis 100 Zentimeter. Das Gewicht variiert zwischen 180 und 230 Gramm.

Im Prachtkleid hat die Bonapartemöwe einen dunkelgrauen oder schwarzen Kopf. Die schwarze Färbung erstreckt sich vom oberen Nacken bis zum Kinn. Der Schnabel ist schwarz, das Schnabelinnere ist leuchtend orange-rot. Sie hat einen sehr dünnen dunkelrötlichen Augenring, die Iris ist dunkelbraun. Über und unter dem Auge befinden sich zwei weiße halbmondförmige Flecken. Die Körperoberseite und der Schwanz sind weiß, die Brust und der Bauch wirkt bei einigen Individuen pinkfarben überwaschen. Die Körperoberseite ist blaugrau, die äußeren Handschwingen haben schwarze Spitzen. Die Beine sind rot.

Im Schlichtkleid fehlt die dunkle Kopfkappe. Lediglich in Höhe des Ohrs haben Bonapartemöwen einen schwarzen, meist halbmondförmigen Fleck. Ein weiterer, sehr kleiner dunkelgrauer Fleck findet sich vor dem Auge. Der Oberkopf wirkt schmutzig grau. Die Beine sind im Ruhekleid pinkfarben.

Jungvögel haben ebenfalls einen dunklen Ohrfleck, der Oberkopf und der Nacken sind schmutzig-bräunlich überwaschen. Die Körperoberseite ist blass graubraun. Die Dunenküken sind schwarz und braun gefleckt.

Im Verbreitungsgebiet besteht lediglich eine Verwechslungsmöglichkeit mit der Schwalbenmöwe. Diese hat jedoch einen gegabelten Schwanz.

Verbreitungsgebiet
Die Bonapartemöwe brütet im Süden Alaskas, sie ist allerdings sowohl an der westlichen als auch der nördlichen Küste selten. Sie ist außerdem ein Brutvogel des Yukon-Territoriums und kommt von dort bis an die südliche Grenze der Hudson Bay vor. Ihr Lebensraum sind Seen innerhalb des Waldgürtels.

Die Bonapartemöwe ist ein Zugvogel und zieht im Winterhalbjahr an die Ost- und Westküste der Vereinigten Staaten. Sie überwintert außerdem an den Großen Seen.

Lebensweise
Brütende Bonapartemöwen fressen überwiegend Insekten, die sie sowohl im Flug fangen als auch vom Boden oder der Wasseroberfläche aufpicken. Im Winterhalbjahr spielen Fische und Krustentiere eine größere Rolle im Nahrungsspektrum. In dieser Zeit sind Bonapartemöwen sehr gesellige Vögel.

Sie brüten gewöhnlich einzeln, gelegentlich kommen jedoch auch kleine Brutkolonien vor. Sie gehen nach jetzigem Wissensstand eine monogame Saisonehe ein. Sie bauen ihre Nester in Bäumen, was für Möwen sehr ungewöhnlich ist. Das Nest besteht aus kleinen Ästchen und wird mit Moos und Gras ausgelegt. Sie nutzen gelegentlich Nester aus dem Vorjahr, die sie dann weiter ausbauen.

Das Gelege besteht gewöhnlich aus drei Eiern. Diese sind rötlichbraun-olivfarben oder graubräunlich mit braunen Flecken. Die Brutzeit beträgt 22 bis 25 Tage. Beide Elternvögel sind an der Brut beteiligt. Die Jungvögel sind in einem Alter von etwa 35 Tagen flügge. Bonapartemöwen brüten frühestens im Alter von zwei Jahren das erste Mal.

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Literatur
 Richard Sale: A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife, Verlag Christopher Helm, London 2006, ISBN 0-7136-7039-8

Weblinks
 Factsheet auf BirdLife International

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There is nothing, nothing more important for your love life than truly, at the deepest level, having love and respect for yourself. And when you learn to honestly value what you have to offer, and tap into your own unique, passionate energy, the ability to get yourself noticed (romantically or otherwise) is easier than you could ever imagine.
Are you one of those people who dreads Valentine's Day?
Leave a comment below… what will you do today to benefit your future or current relationship?
I hear from women all the time who have lost hope. They complain about how men can't grow up. They get cynical and tarnish everyone with the same brush.
If you've had a shaky start to the year, and you're already feeling intimidated about getting off track, it's not too late.
Have you ever been forced yourself listened to a recording of your own voice in conversation? Or watched a video of yourself public speaking?
You're hanging out with your friends, waiting for a text that never comes. He didn't reply to your last message from three days ago. Why? What did you say wrong? How can you stop him slipping away?


Anyone with a good heart?
jeg er ei dame snill og jeg er christian er ønsker å treffe en som er christian agså.
i am good looking man and god fearing ilove going to chuch with my woman i am agentle man i like minding my way.
Loving caring and honest man. loves to go outon trips in the nature or on trips to other countries and cultures.
I'm just a simple person who is seeking for a man whom I can trust and will love me for what I am. It's very important also that the guy I will love is God-fearing and is matured when it comes to understanding. he has to respect me and treat me with gentleness and love with the love of the Lord.
Am someone who strive to be the best and never setle for less.


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Exactly what does the Bible say about God's parcel of land, and who has a right to it?
"Who has the ultimate authority to determine rights concerning this special piece of real estate?"
The biblical answer to that question is that God alone determines the "rights" that any of us have. Something is right or wrong because of Divine decree, not human feeling or human reason. The existence of God previous to the creation of the universe and mankind gives Him the right to determine our "rights."
What God has to say about the Land of Israel, the people He chose to possess it, and why:
Key #1: The Land of Canaan, renamed Israel by the Lord, was given by God to Abraham and his descendants as an everlasting possession.
In Genesis 12:7a, we read: "The Lord appeared to Abram and said, 'To your descendants I will give this land.'"
In Genesis 13:15, He repeated His promise when He said, "for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever." He said the same thing in Genesis 15:18, "To your descendants I have given this land."
Key #2: The gift of this Land to Abraham and his descendants was based on an unconditional covenant from God Himself.
Genesis 17:7-8 states: "And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. And I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."
The sign of that covenant for Abraham and his descendants was circumcision. Twice in this passage, God mentions the everlasting nature of this covenant. There are some today who say that this covenant was conditional, that it was based on Israel's faithfulness to God. The Bible teaches otherwise.
In Psalm 89:30-37, we read: "If his sons forsake My law, and do not walk in My judgments, if they violate My statues, and do not keep My commandments, then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. But I will not break off My loving kindness from him, nor deal falsely in My faithfulness. My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. His descendants shall endure forever like the moon, and the witness in the sky is faithful."
Jeremiah 31:35-36 declares: "This is what the Lord says, 'He who appoints the sun to shine by day, Who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar — the Lord Almighty is His Name; Only if these ordinances vanish from My sight,' declares the Lord, 'will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before Me.'"
We agree that God promised to judge His people if they disobeyed Him. That is true for all of us. However, we do not agree with those who say that Israel's disobedience would forfeit their gift of the land and their national status as a people.
Deuteronomy 28 shows that God's pronouncement of blessing and cursing only affected the quality of life of the Israelites, which was conditional upon their faithfulness. However, the promise of the land was not based upon Israel's performance, but upon God's oath and character — He will not lie.
Deuteronomy 30 shows that before they even entered the Promised Land, He knew they would violate His statutes and be evicted in a future day. Yet it also declares that He would bring them back into the land He had given their forefathers (see #8).
Key #3: The Land was given to Abraham and his descendants as part of God's redemptive blessing to the world.
In Genesis 12:1-3, we read, "The Lord has said to Abram, 'Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse; and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
Israel was chosen for three purposes:
1. to worship God in this land and show the world the blessing of serving the one true God of the Universe;
2. to receive, record and transmit the Word of God (through them we have our Bible);
3. to be the human channel for the Messiah from whom we have our salvation.
In order for God to protect His purposes for the Children of Israel in the Land of Israel, He promised to bless those who blessed Abraham and his descendants and curse him who cursed them.
Key #4: This land was not given to the descendants of Ishmael (one ancestor of the Arab peoples), but rather to the descendants of Isaac.
In Genesis 17:18, Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee." But God's answer was, and is, very clear. In Genesis 17:19, God answered Abraham, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him."
God promised to bless Ishmael and to make him a great nation: "And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation" (Genesis 17:20). However, the bloodline of the covenant promise concerning the Land would go through Isaac, not Ishmael: "…In Isaac your descendants shall be called" (Hebrews 11:18).
Key #5: This Land was not given to the other sons of Abraham, but only to Isaac.
After Sarah died, Abraham had six more sons by Keturah, as well as others by his concubines, who are ancestors of many of the Arab peoples today. However, the covenant of the Land was not for them: "Now Abraham gave all he had to Isaac; but to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living and sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east" (Genesis 25:5-6). Note that Abraham even sent these sons away from the Land of Canaan.
Key #6: This Land and covenant were given only to Isaac's son, Jacob, and his descendants, not Esau and his descendants.
Jacob received the birthright from his father, Isaac. The Lord God revealed to Jacob His message about this land. In Genesis 28:13-15, we read:
"I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants. Your descendants shall also be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And behold, I am with you, and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
Key #7: God told Israel to conquer the Land which He had given to them.
In Deuteronomy 1:8, we read: "See, I have placed the land before you; go in and possess the land which the Lord swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to them and their descendants after them."
On the east side of the Jordan River as the Israelites were about to enter into the Promised land, the Lord said to Joshua: "Moses My servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan river into the land I am about to give to them — to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert and from Lebanon to the great river, the Euphrates – all the Hittite country — and to the Great Sea on the west. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them" (Joshua 1:2-4,6).
Joshua then told his people with these words: "This is how you will know that the living God is among you, and that He will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites"(Joshua 3:10). He then told them how the Lord would part the flood waters of the Jordan River so they could cross over to the other side.
This is what happened and then the people knew that God was with them, and they conquered the land, region by region, starting with Jericho.
The reality of conflict over the land of Israel is nothing new and in no way indicates that God is not with the Jewish people concerning the land issue today.
From the moment Joshua brought the Children of Israel into the Promised Land, it was a fight to possess the Land.
King David was seemingly at constant war with his neighbors, the Philistines. Why should it be surprising that conflict is still happening today?
The enemies of God have always fought against His plans.
The prophet Zechariah makes it quite clear that at the end of days, God Himself will make Jerusalem a stumbling block for the nations and will judge them by whether or not they understand and support God's plans for Jerusalem and Israel. If they do, they will be blessed; if they don't, they will be destroyed:
"I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. On that day, I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem" (Zechariah 12:1-2,9).
Key #8: Israel's sin and subsequent exile from the Land did not change their divine right to this Land given to them by the Lord in covenant.
Many people have said that God's promise to give Israel this land was based upon Israel's faithfulness to God's laws, and that when they were disobedient and sent into captivity, this nullified God's promise.
The Bible teaches otherwise. In Leviticus 26:40-45, we read that God would punish Israel for its disobedience and send them into captivity. But, according to verses 44-45, God will bring them back:
"Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, nor will I so abhor them as to destroy them, breaking My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. But I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord."
In Deuteronomy 30:3-5, God promises: "Then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back. And the Lord; your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers."
Amos 9:14-15 thunders forth these remarkable words: "'Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, and they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, and make gardens and eat their fruit. I will also plant them on their land, and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them,' says the Lord your God."
Some opponents to Israel's right to the land say that these verses were fulfilled when the Jewish people returned from the Babylonian captivity. However, we know that there were other exiles and in-gatherings, as well.
Yet, Amos speaks of a return to their ancient homeland, Israel, once and for all, when he says, "'. and they will not again be rooted out from their land which I have given them,' says the Lord your God" (Amos 9:15). That has never happened in history and many believe that this return to Israel is that final return that will culminate in the coming of Messiah.
Key #9: The name of this Land is not Palestine, but Israel.
Twenty-five hundred years ago, the prophet Ezekiel spoke of the restoration of Israel to its land in the last days. Ezekiel spoke of dry bones coming to life. Never before in history has a nation been destroyed and scattered all over the world, and then been brought back to life. It is a miracle and a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. We read in Ezekiel 37:11-12:
"Then He said to me, 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.' Therefore prophesy, and say to them, 'thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, My people; and I will bring you into the land of ISRAEL.'"
Notice that the name of that land is ISRAEL, the land that so often is called the "land of Canaan" in the Bible. God says that in the last days it will be called ISRAEL.
The name, Palestine, was a regional name that was imposed on the area by the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, who suppressed the Second Jewish Revolt in AD 135. He was so angry with the Jews that he wanted to humiliate them and emphasize that the Jewish nation had lost its right to a homeland under Roman rule. The name Palaestina was originally an adjective derived from Philistia, the arch-enemies of the Israelites 1000 years earlier.
Hadrian also changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina after his own family name, Aelia. He also forbade Jews from entering the city, except on the 9th of the Hebrew month, Av, to mourn its destruction.
Since he was considered a god in the Roman Empire, this was his attempt to break God's covenant between the Jewish people and their land. This effectively declared his pagan authority over Jerusalem, which had been the place of the presence of the God of Israel.
To this day, the name Palestine flies in the face of Israel and the entire issue can be boiled down to a religious (spiritual) battle over a land whose fate will be decided by the God of the Bible, since it is His land (Leviticus 25:23).
Yeshua (Jesus), in describing the signs of the end of the age, said: "Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled" (Luke 21:24b). From the time of Hadrian until 1967, Jerusalem was controlled by Gentiles. It is now back in the hands of the Jewish people, which is one sign that Messiah is soon to come to Zion.
Key #10: The stranger (those outside the Covenant) will live among you and be treated with respect.
"They (God's covenant people) will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated: they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. The stranger will shepherd your flock; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards" (Isaiah 61:4,5).
"If you (Israel) really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave to your forefathers for ever and ever" (Jeremiah 7:5-7).
The "alien" or "foreigner" in these verses would include the Palestinian Arabs and other non-Jewish people who live in the land. They would receive a blessing by living and working in the Land of Israel, not the Land of Palestine.
This is what Moses taught: "The community (of Israel) is to have the same rules for you and for the alien living among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. You and the alien shall be the same before the Lord; the same laws and regulations will apply to you and to the alien living among you"(Numbers 15:15,16).
Key #11: The return of the Jewish people at the end of days will be initiated by God, and their return will signal the restoration of a barren and broken land.
The prophet Isaiah spoke of God's plan to bring His people back to Israel, saying: "He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel, He will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth" (Isaiah 11:12).
When the Jews began to return from the nations of the world at the end of the last century, the land was barren and sparsely inhabited. In the 1860s, the author, Mark Twain, traveled in what was then a backward region of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, called Palestine and described the land, thusly: It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land."
This description matches the Ezekiel's prophecy of the "barren mountains of Israel" in Ezekiel 36:1-7. However, Ezekiel goes on to say, "But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home. I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown, and I will multiply the number of people upon you, even the whole house of Israel. The towns will be inhabited and the ruins rebuilt. I will increase the number of men and animals upon you, and they will be fruitful and become numerous. I will settle people on you as in the past and will make you prosper more than before. Then, you will know that I am the Lord. I will cause people, My people Israel, to walk upon you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children" (Ezekiel 36: 8-12).
Truly, the return of the Jews from over 100 nations of the world is a modern-day miracle. Large waves of immigrants began to come in the 1880s. Since those early days, the deserts have been reforested, the rocky fields made fertile, the swamps drained and planted, the ancient terraces rebuilt, and the ruined cities of old re-established. Israel is now a nation of over six million people that is a food exporting nation that boasts high levels of literacy, health, education and welfare, high technology and agricultural development.
Key #12: The nations will be part of the return of the people and the restoration of the land.
The prophet Isaiah of Israel said: "Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish, bringing your sons from afar, with their silver and gold, to the honor of the Lord your God. Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Your gates will always stand open, they will never be shut, day or night, so that men may bring you the wealth of the nations. For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined" (Isaiah 60:1,9-12).
In Romans 11:11-14, Paul teaches us Christians that we are grafted into the olive tree, which are the covenants, promises and hopes of Israel. We do not hold up the tree, but it holds us up, so we should not boast against His people, Israel.
Paul teaches us Christians that we have a debt to pay to the Jewish people, by blessing them in tangible ways.
Romans 15:27 clearly states: "For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews' spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings." How much more direct can God be regarding our Christian relationship to Israel and the Jewish people.
What Does This Mean To Us?
The day of Israel's full restoration is near. Messiah will make it possible and we shall all live in peace. Until He comes, we, who believe the Bible to be God's Word and that every promise of God will come to pass, must stand and support Israel's right to its land. It is a Divine right.
We are patient with those who do not believe the Bible, nor accept Israel's right to the land. Yet, with love for all, we must strongly support Israel's right. We cannot do otherwise and have clear consciences. We cannot say on the one hand that we believe there is a God Who has revealed His perfect will in His Holy Scriptures, and on the other hand, deny Israel its right to the land God promised to her.
Our commitment to Israel was penned by the Psalmist so long ago in Psalm 102:13: "You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come." This is that day.
Again the Psalmist exhorts us: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper who love you. May peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will now say, 'May peace be within you.' For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good" (Psalm 122; 6-9).
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6115903.ece
Will She attack before she is attacked?
Like The Lord told me
'War is imminent. War is unavoidable.'
Pray for Her success!
Abigail said this on	April 20, 2009 at 8:00 pm | Reply
SOMETHING will cause the Ezechiel 38 war…..either something Israel does, or its ally, the USA, fails to do.
Myths of Modern Israel: Jews are not the Israelites of the Bible => http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-2
Biblicism Institute said this on	April 23, 2016 at 7:36 pm | Reply
this is all lies and BS…..
you need to get saved, and get a revelation of God's word, and the truth of science as well
The only open side of Israel will be the sea.
In the early part of December I received a word fro The Lord which I did give to an Israelite in writing … Here is apart of what I wrote the first Sunday of december 2009 …
'What if we are now in 2012?
What if THIS december 21 is the year 2012?
And what if this has all been hidden?
What if Israel is now from this last Sabbath permanently closed?
I heard this in my ear and I saw it written in Hebrew like a zipper being zipped.'
Today I read this story…
Abigail said this on	January 11, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Reply
i miss the point here.
I'm sorry,
To me this is so obvious but maybe not to everyone.
Let me explain … I heard The voice for God while I was in prayer on the first Sabbath of December. He spoke and said 'Israel is permanently closed.'
As he was saying this I saw in luminous colors written in Hebrew the words
He was speaking. These letters were forming a boundary unto the west side of the land of Israel and I saw these letters forming a zipper and being zipped.
I did not understand the vision until I read the news article today.
And so I was happy to have understood the vision.
The massive security fence which will be built on the side of Egypt by Israel is ordained by God.
In my letter I was speaking of matters of 2012 up to …
'What if Israel is now from this last Sabbath permanently closed?
Abigail said this on	January 12, 2010 at 1:04 am | Reply
I am presenting a map of Israel
When the construction of this fence is finished … the only portion of Israel which will not be fenced is the northern shore … the northern shore.
"Defence against terror activity clearly requires a fence," Defence Minister Ehud Barak told Army Radio Monday. "Good fences make good neighbours," Barak said, noting only Israel's western border – the sea – did not need to be blocked off. "Along the sea we don't need a fence," he said.
I know he calls it -the sea- west.
I call it north.
When Israel attacked Gaza, back in 2008 The Lord said …
This day has fulfilled the saying I spoke to them …
saying …
"'There will come a day when you will desire to see just ONE day of the son of man …
AND YOU WILL NOT SEE IT!!!!!'"
God Almighty did not sound very HAPPY!!!
Take this as you will.
abigail said this on	June 18, 2010 at 1:17 am | Reply
This song reminds me of Israel. When I hear it I think of being on the bus with the volunteers touring Israel.
http://christsbondservants.org/Endtime/Endtime_Index.html
http://www.pre-trib.org/articles/view/khazars-and-jews
The Khazars and The Jews
Dr. Thomas Ice
One of thetactics used by some anti-Christian Zionists is to say that most modern Jewsare not true descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This errant theory is based upon wrongconclusions that they have drawn from the history of a medieval nation in whichsome converted to Judaism. Khazaria was a nation composed largely of Turkish stock that livedbetween the Black and Caspian Seas during the seventh to tenth centuries.[1] Some holding to replacement theologyand many neo-Nazis are attracted to this theory in which they conclude that theJews are not really Jews.
The Khazar TheoryStated
Replacementtheology advocate, James B. Jordan speaks of "the heresy of Christian Zionism."[2] He then declares, "that most modernJews are not Jews at all: They are Khazars."[3] Jordan explains further:
The Khazari race seems tolie behind the Ashkenazik Jews of Eastern Europe. This kind of assertion can, of course, be debated. The real problem in the discussion isthe notion that Jewishness is a blood or racial phenomenon. It is not.
Biblically speaking, a Jew is someonewho is covenanted into the people of Jews by circumcision. . . .
All these people were Jew, but only asmall fraction actually had any of Abraham's blood in them. . . . What this demonstrates is thatcovenant, not race, has always been the defining mark of a Jew.[4]
Anotherreplacement theologian, John L. Bray asserts that, "the pure fact is that manyof the Jews of the world are not only not pure Jews, but not even Jews at all."[5] "In addition to findings about theKhazar Jewish beginnings, we need to consider also that because ofintermarriage, cross-breeding, etc.," declares Bray, "there is very little thatcan be called 'Jewish race' today."[6]
This particularinstance of historical revisionism is used to conclude the Jewish people inIsrael are not really the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and thus donot have a legitimate right to be there today. Not surprising this theory is very attractive to Arabs,Muslims, Holocaust deniers, skinheads, Nazis and too many within Christiancircles who hold to replacement theology. It is a convenient way of dismissing the modern state of Israel. This belief teaches that the Jews arelargely a people who are now extinct as an ethic people, therefore, it rendersmute, in their minds, the issue of the Land of Israel as a future promise thatwill be fulfilled by God to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This belief canhave significant implications on a Christian's understanding of God'sWord. Jordon wonders: "AreBible-believing Christians supposed to support a Jewish State, for theologicalreasons? Such is the assertion ofJerry Falwell, and of the heresy of Christian Zionism."[7] Let us now examine the veracity of suchclaims.
The Kazhar TheoryExamined
No informedperson on these issues question the existence of a country in the Middle Agesnamed Khazar that converted to Judaism in the eight century. However, it is still an unprovedtheory, as attractive as it may appear to some, lacking any scientific evidencethat Ashkenazi Jews (about 85% of world Jewry) are primarily descended from theKhazars.
In 1976, ArthurKoestler (a communist, Jewish novelist) suggested this theory in his book TheThirteenth Tribe,[8]which was never taken seriously by linguists and most other scientists. This is why the most vigorouspropagation of his views are usually found within the circles of propagandistswho have an ideological axe to grind and not by the scientific community. Like the Protocols of the LearnedElders of Zion, the forgeddocument supporting a supposed Jewish world conspiracy, they so much want theirtheories to be true when they are not.
Many scholars onthis subject believe that only the leadership of the Khazars converted toJudaism and some think that one of the reasons they converted is that many ofthe leaders were already Jewish, having immigrated there years earlier. When word got out that the nation of Khazariahad converted to Judaism we learn that many Jews, especially from the ByzantineEmpire and the Muslim world immigrated to Khazaria since Jews were commonlypersecuted in those Empires. Thus,this immigration greatly increased the number of Jews in the nation and it wasknown to have a very large population of Jews in those days. Since Khazaria was about the onlynation on earth at that time that practiced religious freedom, the nation hadlarge populations of Christians, Muslims and pagans who never converted toJudaism. This would mean that thebelief that thousands of Gentiles were added to Jewish bloodlines is simply notthe case. The Jews of Khazariaappear to have had just as strong Jewish bloodlines as other Jews of their day.
When the nationdeclined and was conquered, the Jews fled to other countries and most of thepopulation of Khazaria, which was not Jewish, either was killed in thesebattles, or converted to Islam and Christianity. Even though the Jews surely must have intermarried with someGentiles in Khazaria that does not invalidate their Jewishness any more thanintermarriage that was practiced in the Old Testament did not invalidate theirJewishness. Jesus Himself had anumber of Gentiles within His genealogical line, yet He was certainly Jewish. In the time of the New Testament thesepeople were still known as Jews-the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
It is the Biblethat divides mankind into Jew and Gentile, denoting one's descent bybirth. One may repudiate thereligious aspects of Judaism, but they cannot escape the genealogical fact thatthey were born within the Jewish race. The Nazis during the Holocaust made little distinction between deeplyreligious Jews and secular Jews. They killed them all when they had the opportunity. The same is true today. The Arab Muslims kill Jews todaywhether they are religious or secular. It does not matter to them.
It takes greatleaps of logic, which many anti-Semites are willing to make to conclude thatKoestler's theory has merit. Thisis evident when one considers that no one before Koestler's theory was putforth in 1976 had concluded that the Jews were not really descended from ofAbraham, Isaac, and Jacob. However, this information about the Khazars had been known all along,especially by historians, but no one before Koestler had supposedly connectedthe dots. Just because someonelike John Bray provides long quotes from many Jewish sources documenting thefact that Jews were indeed in Khazaria in the Middle Ages contributes nothingto prove the thesis that most of them were of Gentile origin. To think that requires too great a leapfrom the actual evidence to such a wrongheaded conclusion. Koestler's theory is groundless and canbe treated as nothing more than a casual theory with little or no foundation.
DNA and The Khazars
The opinion ofhistorians and genealogists concerning the Khazars is now confirmed with thedevelopment of using DNA as a reliable way to analyze one's genealogicalheritage. Kevin Alan Brook[9]is a leading researcher on the Khazars and tells us the following:
We no longer need to relyon speculation. It is now a knownFACT that German Jews mingled with other Jews when they cam east. It is also clear that the ancient Israelitespossessed those Y-DNA patterns that are found in common among Sephardic Jews,Ashkenazic Jews, Kurdish Jews, and Indian Jews, despite the fact thatultimately those patters may have earlier stemmed, in part, from somewhere inKurdistan or Armenia or Iraq. TheMiddle Eastern Y-DNA patterns in the J and E haplogroups cannot be explained byKhazars. Some of the mtDNAevidence and Levite Y-DNA can be, however.[10]
Brook'soverall conclusion of Khazar origins is as follows:
In summary, EasternEuropean Jews are descended from a mixture of German and Austrian Jews, CzechJews, and East Slavic Jews. TheEast Slavic Jews may have roots in both the Khazar and Byzantine empires, hencenecessitating our further study of Jewish life in those lands. But the largest, and most influential,proportion of Eastern European Jews came from Central Europe. By this analysis we can show that thedominate ethnic element among Eastern European Jews is Judean-the ancientJewish people of Judea in the Middle East.[11]
The Khazar theoryhas been completely refuted by both scholarly research into the history of the Khazarsand, more recently, by genetic evidence showing that Jews from all parts of theworld are genetically closely related to Middle Eastern Jews and not so closelyrelated to non-Jewish Russians, Eastern Europeans, or others from thatregion. "Dr. Michael Hammer showedthat based exclusively on the Y-chromosome (parental) shows that Ashkenazi Jewsare more closely related to Yemenite Jews, Iraqi Jews, Sephardic Jews, KurdishJews, and Arabs than they are to European Christian populations,"[12]notes Joel Bainerman. Trueresearch on the matter reveals that only a tiny percentage of Jews have anydescent through the Khazars. So itappears that the Khazar theory is just that, a theory, and not a very goodone. It is safe to conclude thatmost of the Jews living today in Israel and still in the Diaspora are cleardescendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Maranatha!
thanks for posting that. I have had to deal with the khazar argument on the website.
Hi Kitti,
I realise that your post is quite old going by the date, however, I hope you will find my late reply.
I found your post very interesting, and one thing for sure is this: that when God has declared His people will return to the land, then He will see to it that the Jews whoever and wherever they are will do so, or at least a substantial percentage of them will return to their historical homeland. Who do we believe God or man? Ok, it might be that there were non-Jews from the time of the Khazars who assimilated with the Jews, but to some extent that has always been the case, as with Rahab and Ruth. I agree with your understanding of who a Jew is, and that was always the precedent for being a Jew, as was the case even with Abraham..it was by faith in the eternal promises that God would create a nation for himself that would constitute a city made without human hands, whose maker and builder is God i.e. the Jew first and Gentile second.
Another interesting line of thought, and one I have been following the past few months, is the idea that Celts and Jews are connected, which to some extent concerns my family origins. A professor by the name of Yaacov Levi, has engaged in extensive research into the origins of the Celtic race. Dr Levi is not alone in his findings that the Celts were originally from the northern kingdom of Israel, with most having historical links with the tribe of Dan. There are a number of reasons for Dr Levi believing his assumptions are more that just mere coincidences, with too many to mention in this post.
The tribe of Dan was said to be the first of the twelve tribes, to adulterate themselves with the idolaterous Phoenicians, and possibly interbread with them. The tribe of Dan were a people with shipping expertise alongside the seafaring Phoenicians, who both engaged in trading with other nations. There is mention of the Danites remaining in their ships in the song of Deborah. With the close proximity of the tribe of Dan to the Phoenicians, and the Assyrians, it could well be that when the Assyrain invasion came, the tribe of Dan got wind of it first out of all the tribes in the northern kingdom. It appears that the tribe of Dan (from the song of Deborah) were the least loyal to their brethren in times of trouble, whereby they would prefere to remain in their ships, or were to busy doing business to be bothered offering any assistance. It seems that the tribe of Dan possibly made a quick exit and settled in places along their established trade routes, and who knows, could even have deserted their people in the face of the enemy? The tribe of Dan offers all kinds of possibilities, resulting in mixed feelings. On the one hand the Danites seemed to be a fierce people e.g. a snake that would bite back if trodden upon, a judge (like Samson) of his people, and possibly a deserter too! Also, they are omitted from the twelve tribes in the book of Revelation. What all this means is beyond me.
The work of Dr Levi and other experts, are of great interest to me for the very reason that I have Celtic origins. My family roots are in the County of Cornwall which lays in the far south west of England. According to Dr Levi the tribe of Dan along with their business associates the Phoenicians, had very strong trading links with the Cornish where tin ore was concerned. The tin was transported back to Israel for use in the process of making bronze. In the ancient history of the Cornish mines they were once known as Dan's mines, or 'Jews Houses', and the tine ore dubbed as 'Jews Pieces'. Linguistically there is a lot in common between the Celtic Irish and Welsh languages and Hebrew, of which the Cornish language is a sub-form. For example, the Celtic-Irish word for Judge is Dunn, but there are many more words and even whole sentances that though written with slight variations in spelling, sound and mean the same thing.
As a teenager my school colleagues would sometimes ask if I was English, with the suggestion that I may have Greek or Jewish roots. To my school mates there was enough facial evidence to make them believe I was different to them. I never thought anything of it, and if anything was embarrassed by the fact that others had seen something unusual in my appearance. The features that stood out the most was the shape of my nose, as well as dark brown eyes. My middle daughter has stronger features than me, whereas my other two daughters don't. In my thirties I was told I looked like a famous Jewish comedian by the name of Ben Elton. So, why with all of these objective comments in the light of Dr Levi's research would it not be true, or could the whole thing be just fantasy..not sure. If it is true, then it changes my whole perspective on life.
Curious about the truth! said this on	June 15, 2013 at 4:53 pm | Reply
This is so confusing to us who aren't Jewish, but it is just as confusing all the Christian denominations to Jews. I think?
Marianne's definition of who is a Jew:
As far as who is a real Jew….remember the race and the religion went together at one time…..now it can be either……if one practices Judaism, then they are jewish….if one is born into a jewish family lineage, or their DNA traces back to jewish bloodlines, then they are JEwish…..one can also become Jewish by conversion…..in any case they are still Jewish….so which country they come from is irrelevant.
Here's a good web site to get straight:
http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm
I have this map at home that shows all the expulsions the Jews endured in Europe. It uses arrows to show them and then there's this other map that shows how many Jews moved to Israel from each country. I thought I might try and find a map on the internet. I found something similiar. What does it mean? Whenever the Jews started to assimilate, God expelled them to another country and then in his timing he regathered them. It demonstrates Biblical prophecy and God's sovereignty. He had to preserve them for the time we are living in. Here's the web site I came across.
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/resource/gallery/maps.htm
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gallery/expuls.htm
http://www.hebrewisraelites.org/Exile.htm
interesting maps and info 🙂
I think this is a good article on
Who Is A Jew?
It's about more than blood.
Were I to submit my cells to DNA tests, results would doubtless show that —barring any surprises—I am a Jew. I have four Jewish grandparents. Genetically speaking, I share a common ancestry with most Jews, no matter where they live, what they look like, or how they practice. Thanks to generations of insularity and historically low rates of intermarriage, Ashkenazi Jews (80 percent of all Jews) are one of the most coherent genetic groups that exist; they are "a gold mine" for people who like to study heredity, says Jon Entine, who in 2007 wrote Abraham's Children, an exploration of Jewishness and DNA. "Jews are more homogeneous than Icelanders or Basques or Costa Ricans," he says.
What a DNA analysis won't show, adds Entine, is who my first Jewish ancestor was. Was it Sarah or Rebecca or Leah, the matriarchs of whom I sing every Saturday morning? Was it a 10th-century convert from Khazar, in modern-day Russia, which might explain my blue eyes? This information is lost to history, which is fine with me. Everybody's a mix. What isn't lost to history is when Jews as a whole became Jews—that is, how far back genetic identity can be traced. And the answer, according to modern DNA analysis, is: to the ancient Middle East.
In the modern world, however, the critical question for Jews is not whether we have Jewish blood. It's how much heredity should continue to matter to Jewish identity. Shlomo Sand, historian and author of The Invention of the Jewish People—much reviewed and rebutted, and recently translated into English—is provoking the international community by arguing that Jews have never been genetically or otherwise "a people." As evidence, he posits that the Khazars, a medieval kingdom of converts to Judaism, are actually the ancestors of most Eastern European Jews. (Entine calls this argument "illiterate.") If Jews aren't related to the people of the Hebrew Bible, Sand's argument continues, then Jews have no exclusive right to modern-day Israel. For the Orthodox, Jewishness is still inherited matrilinearly, according to Jewish law. In a case now before the British Supreme Court, a boy was denied admission to an Orthodox day school because the Orthodox authorities did not recognize the conversion of his mother as authentic. If she was not Jewish, then neither was her son. An appeals court ruled that the Jewish school's admissions criteria were discriminatory, like denying a Christian entry to a Christian school because her parents were born Jewish. The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon.
It is dangerous to define a people through blood. In 1935, an addendum to the Reich Citizenship Law attempted to do so: "An individual of mixed Jewish blood is one who is descended from one or two grandparents who were racially full Jews." A (full) Jew, the Nazis added in paragraph five, has two Jewish parents or three Jewish grandparents.
Ancestry is crucial to Jewish identity, but Jewish identity transcends blood. We share history (itself often bloody), culture, Scripture, and diverse expressions of a single faith. The mixing of DNA with politics is hazardous indeed. As Simon Schama so eloquently argued in his review of Sand's book in the Financial Times, "The legitimacy of Israel both within and without the country depends not on some spurious notion of religious much less racial purity, but on the case made by a community of suffering, not just during the Holocaust but over centuries of expulsions and persecutions." (Sand's larger point, that Israel needs to become more like other Western democracies and less obsessed with ethnic purity, is welcome; the genetic argument simply doesn't get him there.)
During persecutions, insularity is the only option. For those of us who now live, with luck and in freedom, in open societies like America or Britain, homogeneity is not just impossible, it's undesirable; insisting on heredity as the primary conveyance of Jewishness runs counter to the ideals of plurality and democracy. Rabbi Julia Neuberger, president of Liberal Judaism in Britain, wants to radically redefine Jewish identity. She believes Jews should invite all interested parties to join them in faith, culture, history—and the raising of Jewish children. Before Constantine, she reminds me, Jews sought converts. Why not open the tent wide again by making conversion easier?
"Just because the Nazis were obsessed with whether we had one Jewish grandparent or not doesn't mean that we should be," says Neuberger. "It would be an 'up yours' to the Nazis to be more accepting of converts. My view is that we should be incredibly grateful that anybody wants to be Jewish." It is perhaps useful to remember here that Moses' bride, Zipporah, was not a member of the tribe.
Kittii Doherty said this on	August 6, 2010 at 4:07 am | Reply
This is a video that's circulating on YOU Tube, to discredit the Israelis from owning Israel. They are being called "Khazars". A lot of different groups like to use this video: white Supremists etc.
There's six video clips total on this subject. I'm just posting 3.
Kittii Doherty said this on	December 1, 2010 at 10:10 pm | Reply
God's not real
Booger said this on	May 2, 2011 at 8:28 am | Reply
Osama bin laden is dead!!!! So yes, G-d is REAL! woo hoo 🙂
lyndsey said this on	May 2, 2011 at 10:37 am | Reply
If God's not real, then you aren't either.
IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST THE CREATOR OF THEUNIVERSE, CONDONES THE SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS IN PALESTINE, MOSTLY CHILDREN……IF YOU <<>>>>> BELIEVE THAT–YOU HAVE NO CONCEPT OF GOD's LOVE AND MERCY TO ALL PEOPLES. CHRISTIAN ZIONISM ONLY EXISTS TO SERVE THE FUTURE REIGN OF THE ANTICHRIST IN JERUSALEM. THE ISRAELI PEOPLE ARE WORSE THAN NAZI GERMANY WHEN IT COMES TO PALESTINE.
ISRAEL IS A. PEOPLE. NOT. A. LAND. ISRAEL IS ALL PEOPLE WHO CONFESS JESUS CHRIST AS KING OF THE UNIVERSE. ISRAEL AND HER ANTICHRIST WILL PUT A STOP TO THAT, REST ASSURED.
Giana said this on	April 1, 2012 at 3:29 am | Reply
Educate yourself before you reveal how ignorant you are
Hamas does all the slaughtering……Israel belongs to the Jews
This tells me you are not a reader or a researcher, that you believe everything you hear. You probably believe that the Muslims were the cause of the twin towers and 9/11…so tell me, how come none of those Muslims are dead, and none of them were ever prosecuted? PLEASE PLEASE. Do some serious research and stop propagating information that is utterly not true.
Giana said this on	April 2, 2012 at 2:45 pm | Reply
no i research what I say, and do not listen to crazy conspiracy theories on the internet.
Muslims did cause 911, and they bragged about it when it happened. Palestinians were dancing in the street with joy… the same ones you feel sorry for, and the same ones who shoot rockets into Israel to murder Israelis……the same ones who teach their children to lie and murder jews.
those Muslims ARE dead, they went down with the planes, shouting praise to allah….which was recorded, and people could hear what they said.
you cannot prosecute a dead person.
You are brain washed.
o my, there are some really confused ladies in here. the state of Israel to be the largest terrorist state. they are murders. know ur history, USS Liberty!! google it
Zach said this on	May 22, 2013 at 9:20 pm | Reply
Emmanuel Tabligan said this on	July 20, 2014 at 11:12 am | Reply
Iam atrue beliver in god,i may not do the right thing all the time,soi am a sinner but i believe and try
Thanks be to god. May god be with israel right now!
Ben Lopez said this on	July 31, 2014 at 12:25 am | Reply
ALL the land promised to Israel will be given to Israel. This happens to be the same land that Noah gave Shem but that Canaan stole and to this day still says is his when it never was to start with. Yahveh will not be cheated; He gave the land to Israel from the Euphrates to the Nile and Israel will receive it no matter what powers and principalities try to do.
Shoshana said this on	October 9, 2016 at 3:40 pm | Reply
Christopher Watts said this on	January 12, 2017 at 9:33 pm | Reply
Are you of the belief that all of Israel will be saved, but most of the Gentile world will go to Hell? Also I think only God knows who are descended from Isaac.
I know I don't.
Barbara said this on	June 8, 2017 at 1:03 am | Reply
I believe that salvation is and will be available to both gentile and jew…the rest is up to them…the original land will be taken from enemies and returned to israel, so that messiah can rule from there


Strong logic. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he is getting older.
Would imagine its moreso to do with the excessive tanning.
Powerless wrote: Strong logic. It has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that he is getting older.
what about the hollow eyes . those are also common propecia side effects. see?


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Q: How can I change my tor process' endpoint in stem? I'm using the stem to control a tor node created with stem.process.launch_tor_with_config.  I've also created a stem.control.Controller that is operating on the aforementioned process' control port.
How can I change the exit node?  I looked at stem.controller.Controller.new_circuit, but this appears to change the intermediate nodes, preserving the endpoint.
Does anybody know how this could be done?
Thanks!
Edit:
So I think I may be misunderstanding something fundamental, but I can't seem to wrap my head around it.  I tried calling Controller.get_circuits() and found a list of CircuitEvent objects.  Does this mean that a single process can handle multiple circuits?  If so, how do I select one for use?
Note that I'm directing HTTP requests to through Privoxy, which in turn is forwarding it to the tor process' SOCKS port.
Edit 2:
I found something that works, but I don't know how it works, which worries me.  I'll gladly award an answer to anyone who can either:

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*Explain why my approach works

*Show be a better approach and explain how that works

Here's what I've done:
for circuit in controller.get_circuits():
    controller.close_circuit(circuit.id)

There it is.  The external IP changed, so I know I've done something but hell if I know exactly what.

A: You have a couple options to use a specific exit...

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*Set the ExitNodes attribute in your torrc. This is exemplified in...

https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/to_russia_with_love.html

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*Call extend_circuit() on one of your present circuits to the desired endpoint...

https://stem.torproject.org/api/control.html#stem.control.Controller.extend_circuit
If the question you're trying to ask is really 'how do I get a new IP address' then that's a question we're more reluctant to answer. Partly because it's primarily for ban evasion or SEO, and partly because repeated circuit creation puts a high load on the Tor network.
As for why your IP seems to change when you call close_circuit(), that's because Tor then needs to recreate a new circuit on your behalf for the following request. There is no guarantee that the IP will be new, and doing so involves a fair bit of traffic to telescope your connection through three fresh hops.
I'm not often on StackOverflow so if you have further questions about scripting against Tor then I would suggest the tor-dev@ email list...
https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev/
Cheers! -Damian (stem's author)

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