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coal pollution is lowering solar production in China...
The researchers found that, over the entire record between about 1960 and 2015, the average potential solar generation declined by about 13%. Expressed in terms of capacity factor -- the fraction of a solar panel's maximum output that is actually produced on average -- the drop from the start to the lowest point in 2008 was 0.162 to 0.142. The change wasn't the same everywhere, though, as air pollution and local conditions varied. The five worst provinces actually saw potential generation drops of fully 20-28%. These included industrial centers in the east but also some clearer high-elevation areas in the west where a small amount of air pollution can have a big impact.
If China could go back to its 1950s air quality, its existing solar installations in 2016 would have produced an additional 14 terawatt-hours of electricity for free. As more solar panels are built, that number would only grow. By 2030, cleaner air could net an additional 70 terawatt-hours of electricity each year -- about 1% of total projected electricity generation at that point. To put some dollar signs on these numbers, the researchers used the current feed-in tariff of $0.14 per kilowatt-hour and a projected drop to $0.09 per kilowatt-hour in 2030. In 2016, this would mean cleaner air would have brought $1.9 billion worth of electricity. In 2030, the extra 13% or so of solar potential could be worth over $6 billion per year.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/07/10/2314246/chinese-air-pollution-dimme...
This is another case where the full costs of fossil energy are externalized, skewing the numbers and distorting markets. US skies are less polluted than China's, but they are polluted -- without a doubt the same thing is happening here to some extent.
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Re: coal pollution is lowering solar production in China...
more on the hidden costs of coal:
Mercury: Coal plants are responsible for 42 percent of US mercury emissions, a toxic heavy metal that can damage the nervous, digestive, and immune systems, and is a serious threat to the child development. Just 1/70th of a teaspoon of mercury deposited on a 25-acre lake can make the fish unsafe to eat. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Emissions Inventory, US coal power plants emitted 45,676 pounds of mercury in 2014 (the latest year data is available).
Sulfur dioxide (SO2): Produced when the sulfur in coal reacts with oxygen, SO2 combines with other molecules in the atmosphere to form small, acidic particulates that can penetrate human lungs. It's linked with asthma, bronchitis, smog, and acid rain, which damages crops and other ecosystems, and acidifies lakes and streams. US coal power plants emitted more than 3.1 million tons of SO2 in 2014.
Nitrogen oxides (NOx): Nitrous oxides are visible as smog and irritate lung tissue, exacerbate asthma, and make people more susceptible to chronic respiratory diseases like pneumonia and influenza. In 2014, US coal power plants emitted more than 1.5 million tons.
Particulate matter: Better known as "soot," this is the ashy grey substance in coal smoke, and is linked with chronic bronchitis, aggravated asthma, cardiovascular effects like heart attacks, and premature death. US coal power plants emitted 197,286 tons of small airborne particles (measured as 10 micrometers or less in diameter) in 2014..
Other harmful pollutants emitted in 2014 by the US coal power fleet include:
- 41.2 tons of lead, 9,332 pounds of cadmium, and other toxic heavy metals.
- 576,185 tons of carbon monoxide, which causes headaches and places additional stress on people with heart disease.
- 22,124 tons of volatile organic compounds (VOC), which form ozone.
- 77,108 pounds of arsenic. For scale, arsenic causes cancer in one out of 100 people who drink water containing 50 parts per billion.
https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil-fuels/coal-air-polluti...
Solar is cool.... for an MP3 recharger.
14 terra-watt-hours would charge up more than some mp3 players...
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Coal will still have a place, for a long time too, but as a percentage of energy production, it can't drop fast enough. The "Clean Coal", fantasy coming from Appalachia is wishful thinking and little more than a vote getting measure. Most my neighbors still long for the good old days when getting a job right out of high school, at the plant or mine was the norm. I empathize and understand but the past gets better and better with the passage of time. They forget the strikes, the black lung disease and denial, the accidents and the shortened life span.
The conservative culture refuses to adapt to the new reality.
Head up the Ohio river just a bit and there's Pittsburgh, a former steel city powered by coal. The plants are mostly idle or gone, the mines empty or abandoned, yet the city is alive and prospering.
Acknowledge reality and adapt...resistance just drags out the economic pain and demands scapegoats.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a longer table, not a taller fence.
Oh noes! Virtue Signaling!!
forgotten centrist wrote on Jul 11th, 2019 at 1:06pm:
But could it whip the Ruskies?
Mojo-Jojo wrote on Jul 11th, 2019 at 5:30pm:
The conservative culture refuses to adapt to the new reality...
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Q: Error 1010 in ActionScript After compiling and running my program, i run into runtime error 1010:
TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at DC/updateScore()[DC::frame74:36]

This is the piece of code:
function updateScore(e:MouseEvent) {
var i:uint=0;
for(;i<balls.length;i++)
    if(balls[i]==e.target)
        break;
if(balls[i].isCorrect) {
    score++;
    timeField.text = new String(score);
}
else {
    score--;
    timeField.text = new String(score);
}
}

What's the problem? I'm using updateScore function for MouseEvent listener, as you can see.

A: Please put { and } to your for loop!
function updateScore(e:MouseEvent) {
    var i:uint=0;
    for(;i<balls.length;i++) {
            if(balls[i]==e.target)
                break;
        if(balls[i].isCorrect) {
            score++;
            timeField.text = new String(score);
        }
        else {
            score--;
            timeField.text = new String(score);
        }
    }
}

Its allowed not to use { and } with a loop but then only the first statement will be excuted.

A: The error means that you are trying to manipulate properties of a undefined variable. You are probably trying to access balls[i] when there is no element on the i-th position. Or possibly there is another object without the property you want to access.
At what line do you get the error. Are you sure balls[i].isCorrect is a valid property.

A: @Jens answer has it, but his explanation is confusing.
When your loop exits,
i = balls.length

On the next line, you're referencing
balls[i].isCorrect.

On that particular line, i is 1 greater than the greatest index in balls. Hence, exception.
While you may not want each of those lines to execute for each repetition of the loop as Jens thought, you've got to address this.

A: You've missed the first rule in your for loop:
for(;i<balls.length;i++)

I think you meant
for(i;i<balls.length;i++)

A: try adding
if(!balls){
   trace('balls missing');
   return;
}

before loop declaration

A: based on the little code you've provided, you've either not instantiated the balls vector or the timeFiled textField.
var balls:Vector<Ball>;
balls.push(new Ball(whatever), new Ball(whatever), new Ball(whatever));
trace(balls);

//ERROR
//you must initialize the vector:  var vector:Vector<Ball> = new <Ball>;

which part of the code is on line 36?
the problem may also be with the Ball object's isCorrect property.

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Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections, 13 results 13
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Leonard F. Parker. Notes for his book, History of Poweshiek County 1906- 1911 1906-1911
The collection contains "historical manuscripts, notes and correspondence of Professor L.F. Parker in regard to material for his History of Poweshiek County. Most materials are handwritten, although a few of Parker's manuscripts are typed.
Parker, Leonard F.
John P. Ryan Papers 1923-1953
Consists of notebooks containing records of the books Ryan read. His daughter, Jean, noted: "It shows his thoroughness, organization, and wide range of interest." Only a few Lesson Plans are included in Ryan's papers, including some for Fundamentals of Speech, Parliamentary Law, and one of his adult education classes in Des Moines. Correspondence includes two letters from Ryan to his daughter and son-in-law. The letter dated October 22, 1947 was "Ryan's last letter written from Grinnell after retirement, and just before leaving to live on the West Coast." [Jean Squires' note] The typed letter was received after Ryan's death by his wife from a Des Moines businessman who was a former member of Ryan's classes there.
Ryan, John P.
Julius Reed Papers 1831-1890 1845-1869
The bulk of the collection contains correspondence and reports concerning Reed's work of the American Home Missionary Society of the Congregational Church in the 1845-1869. Among the topics addressed are slavery and how the church should regard congregations in slave-holding states, founding of churches in Iowa, church finances, and founding a college in Iowa. This is a rich collection for the study of early Congregationalism in Iowa.
Sanderson Letters 1872-1930
This collection is nearly entirely made up of correspondence. Some letters include small clippings, pamphlets, or drawings.
Sanderson Family
B.J. Ricker House Papers 1966-2001 1998-2001
William Salter Papers 1843-1907
The collection contains letters written to Salter and notes written by Salter. The letters include both personal correspondence and that relating to his affairs: church business, business of Iowa College, Salter's research into the history of the Dodge family, and a variety of other concerns. One letter of note is from James S. Graham in 1884 who recounts his experience watching President Lincoln while he reviewed the 68th Illinois Infantry Volunteers. Also included is a Saloon Passengers' List and Track Card from an 1881 voyage on the S.S. Bolivia.
Salter, William
United Church of Christ- Congregational (Grinnell, Iowa) records 1850-2009
Contains records, finance material, and publications from throughout the history of Grinnell's United Church of Christ-Congregational, roughly 1850-2000s.
(Information gleaned from the UCC's Centennial Booklet, published in 1955, and Memories, Legacies Challenges: 150 Years in the Life of Grinnell's United Church of Christ-Congregational):
In 1854, almost immediately upon their arrival, J.B. Grinnell and the other settlers in the area began worship services. Though they were held as Congregational events, settlers of any faith or creed were welcome at these meetings. One year later, the First Congregational Church of Grinnell was founded. The first permanent church building was constructed in 1860, and the years that followed saw the congregation growing steadily in size. In 1877, the cornerstone for what is now known as the Old Stone Church was laid, and over the next 74 years it would expand to hold 1,000 and host events as prominent as the General Association meeting of the Congregational Christian Church. In 1953, the new church was dedicated, and the UCC has been flourishing there since.
The growth of the church and the town are closely intertwined. The founding members of the church, listed below, were instrumental in developing the town's abolitionist spirit, helping the needy of the town, and bringing Iowa College from Davenport to Grinnell. The character and leadership of the church helped ensure the college's early success, and when the tornado of 1882 struck, the church proved vital to the recovery effort. In the history of the town of Grinnell, it would be difficult to argue that any institution has played a larger role than the Congregational Church.
The charter members of the First Congregational Church of Grinnell:
Rev. J.B. Grinnell, Mrs. Julia A. Grinnell, William R. Ford, Mrs. Lydia W. Ford, Thomas Holyoke, M.D., Mrs. Marc C. Holyoke, Gideon Gardner, Mrs. Naomi Gardner, Anor Scott, Mrs. Harriet B. Scott, Emory S. Bartlett, Sumner Bixby, Mrs. Sarah H. Bixby, Miss Lucy Bixby, Abraham Whitcomb, Mrs. Mary Whitcomb, Levi H. Marsh, Mrs. Charlotte Patterson.
Searchlight Club Records 1896-1994
Consists of meeting minutes, treasurer's records, programs, photographs, one issue of the Searchlight Magazine, and a book manuscript.
Searchlight Club

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There's nothing like waking up on a weekend, reading the newspaper with coffee in hand and staring at a beautifully manicured, tree-lined fairway. If you're like the 34% of residents who live in golf communities and play the sport, a trip to the first tee is a five-minute golf cart ride void of traffic lights.
When golf isn't a penchant, homeowners revel in impressive schools and behind-the-gates safety as part of the high quality-of-life mix. Throw in economic security as homes within golf communities, although purchased at higher prices, typically hold their values over 15-year horizons. In many regions, demand for re-sales is 50% higher than properties in other neighborhoods.
Lots and single-family homes in master-planned golf communities average a 9% premium at daily-fee and semi-private courses, 14.5% at private clubs and 16.2% at resorts. Add 6% for homes abutting courses with frontage, another 3% for lots exceeding 1.5 acres and 2% if in eyeshot of the 1st or 18th holes. Then 1% for homes with second-floor balconies overlooking the course. Cut these numbers in half for condos and by a third for townhomes.
The economics are potentially off-the-charts huge for developers of golf communities. Unfortunately, too many have watched Kevin Costner in "Fields of Dreams." His "if you build it, they will come" proclamation need not apply. With 91% of all real estate searches originating online, an integrated marketing strategy and precise timeline involving paid search, social media, public relations, gripping and purposeful creative campaigns, and all-things digital – backed by data analysis – are imperative.
As more golf courses populate out-of-bounds land with rooftops, developers must beat competitors by getting assertive or be left holding inventory.
Once upon a time, sports turf managers across America were unsung.
They received airtime, but inherently limited to rolling out tarp upon rain. Moreover, media incessantly and most often inaccurately blamed them for players' injuries.
There weren't many positive reports about their craft that fuses science and art, and prioritizes safety.
The pendulum of respect has changed. The past five years – led by the Sports Turf Managers Association and Buffalo's public relations and social media stewardship – there's been aggressive and thoughtful promotion of all that's great about these professionals around the globe. After all, they surgically curate acres upon acres of fields to provide athletes with immaculate and secure conditions to perform their best.
At 37 years young, public perception about STMA's 2,700-plus men and women members – many of whom hold PhDs – is decidedly favorable. Across 34 local chapters, they oversee facilities at schools, colleges and universities, parks and recreational facilities, and professional sports stadiums. Sports include football, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, softball, rugby and horse racing. High-profile members represent Real Madrid C.F., the Green Bay Packers, Washington Nationals, University of Oklahoma and City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department.
A spate of recent STMA publicity includes a spotlight in this past Sunday's "Parade," America's most popular magazine with a print circulation of 22 million and website visits eclipsing 2.5 million monthly. Adjacent to a "Play Ball" cover story featuring Mark Wahlberg, STMA member Andrew Marking, head groundskeeper for the Quad Cities River Bandits, the Class-A affiliate of the Houston Astros, garnered praise. His "Banks of the Mississippi River" design won the organization's Stars and Stripes mowing pattern contest.
Exposure like this helps STMA members significantly increase their importance and stature among employers, resulting in salaries rising past all-time highs.
Here's to continuing to shed the misguided Rodney Dangerfield label of yesteryear.
Giving back to an industry we serve is important.
That's why we just launched Buffalo.Collective, designed to promote a limited number of early-stage and emerging golf, sport and lifestyle brands with high-appeal offerings and storylines. We create and execute affordable, custom programs around core public relations, supported by digital-social media, experiential activations and industry introductions.
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Sparking our inaugural, up-and-coming partners in an exciting, incubator environment is, well, exciting.
Next week, Golf Channel debuts "Vantage Point with Mike Tirico." Its news magazine format balances shows like "Golf Central" that – akin to ESPN's "SportsCenter" – provides digestible news items.
Call it genius. Despite Americans' hurry-up lives, there are stories so rich with fascination, they can't be shortchanged. One or two minutes don't do the trick. Six to 10 minutes provide detail and a beginning, middle and end. NBC's "Dateline" extends to one and occasionally two hours, and its ratings have held steady since 1992. CBS's "60 Minutes" debuted in 1968.
Data doesn't lie. At a 4:1 ratio, viewers prefer either quick items less than 75 seconds or reports more than six minutes. Content consumption between these bookends falls precipitously. Stories more than 15 minutes doubly hold attentions.
There's correlation between demographics and story length. As expected, the higher the household income, the greater the interest and ability to absorb more detail over time. These viewers are also more likely to gravitate to stories which touch emotional chords, no matter the happy or unfortunate conclusions. Golf Channel brass and Tirico will play to this characteristic.
Human-interest stories head the class. Throw in investigations and exposés of controversy, overcoming adversity, friendships and team bondings, and innovation that bucks trends and conventional wisdom. Tales with impact on global scales amplify interest levels. Therein lie trappings of TV ratings bonanzas.
Who says the egg timer is running?
"Kill or be killed" is a phrase oft-maligned as kitschy yet frequently apropos.
It provides backdrop to the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America acquiring First Green five months ago. And it becomes even more real when First Green unveils its new website – designed by Buffalo – in early August.
Growing the profession among future generations is the mandate. There are 17,000 plus GCSAA members who meticulously present well-conditioned layouts to golfers. "Pay it forward," they say, about their agronomic labor of love. The GCSAA is poised to take First Green to the next level.
We all know golf courses are great places to play, but did you know they can be great places to teach and learn?
First Green is an innovative environmental education and outreach program for youth. It uses golf courses as STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) "learning labs" where students from middle school to 12th grade perform hands-on experiments and tests. Studies at these outdoor classrooms fall within the focus of their schools' environmental science and horticulture curriculums.
Students test water quality, collect soil samples, identify plants, perform math activities and work with local issues such as stream-bed or owl-nest restoration.
Since 1997, First Green persevered through cooperation with school districts, golf courses, institutional grants and individual donors. More than 15,000 students have been on First Green field trips. Each workshop reaches an average 75 students who learn about golf and the environment. For most kids, it's their first exposure to the game.
Teachers and golf course superintendents work together to tailor lessons, providing kits and study guides, making it easy to quickly organize and host a field trip. From there, the course environment becomes the star. Putting greens morph into math problems; sand, clay and silt offer lessons in soil science; and a small stream transforms into a big laboratory for experiments with water sources, quality and flow rate.


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Bernie Sanders Deludes Himself
Do we really need a Democratic version of Trump?
Bernie Sanders is back on the campaign trail.
According to the New York Times "Bernie Sanders Courts Black Voters Anew. But an Obama Reference Stings,"
"Senator Bernie Sanders insists he hasn't decided whether to run again for president, but a 14-hour sprint across the Deep South on Wednesday made clear that he is not only thinking about it but is already trying to remedy his most significant vulnerability in 2016: his lack of support from black voters."
According to his leftish supporters, Sanders is a paragon of honesty who has never wavered in his progressive politics and who has always run as an Independent because he is left of Democrat.
Why do they think that? Because it is what he says in his speeches.
Why don't I believe that? Because I knew about Sanders long before he ran for President, when he was an obscure Representative and then Senator from Vermont. I had heard how he parried the various progressive groups I worked with, refusing to co-sponsor bills.
More important, I looked up his record on the internet before he geared up his propaganda machine. When I looked, a lot of the articles, those within the first few hundred articles on Google search, were relatively old and written by local bloggers and news people, many of them written by the leftists Bernie claims to front for. By the first primary they were buried under an avalanche of propaganda.
What I learned was that Bernie could be as forked-tongued as any politician, that he often sold out his progressive friends on specific issues, and that he ran as an independent because when he started running Vermont had a Republican majority, so being an independent, outside of a few small urban areas, was the only way to climb to a more powerful, better paying job.
Also, I looked at his voting record, and it was mixed, and about as progressive as Hillary's. I would argue that because she was a prime mover in getting federal medical insurance for America's children, her record was more progressive. Both were too pro-military for my taste.
While I agree with BS on some issues, I also see him as Trump-like in too many ways.
He is against trade. He wanted to kill the TPP (trans-pacific partnership), and Trump killed it. Bernie is essentially a white nationalist, like Trump, who does not see that white American workers are not entitled above other workers. The genuine grievances of white American workers are against the American ruling class, not workers in other nations. I do agree with Bernie that trade agreements should, when possible, provide for environmental and labor protections for all nations signing the agreement (which the TPP had).
Like Trump, Bernie does not like to compromise, even when a compromise would improve things. That is not how American politics works. Refusing to compromise usually gets you nothing.
Bernie does not believe women are as competent as men. I won't go into the history of this in Vermont, but I will point out that Bernie could support and mentor a younger, progressive woman candidate for President in 2020, but so far he is not doing that.
Finally, Bernie was not really vetted in the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton was very gentle in her criticisms of him because she assumed she would win the nomination and did not want to alienate him or his supporters. The Republicans and Russians did not attack him, and in some cases supported him, because they wanted to weaken Hillary.
Hopefully Democratic primary voters will show more sense in 2020, but humans in general have erratic learning curves. As a political scientist, I would not count Sanders out of the race until the beans are counted.
I have not chosen a horse in this race yet, but I hope we have another female nominee. If Trump runs again, I want a woman to kick the ass. And Jail Him.


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On behalf of Neville & Cunat, LLP posted in felonies on Friday, April 7, 2017.
A North Georgia city official is facing felony charges after allegedly attempting to buy drugs from undercover local law enforcement. The city councilman, who had served for nearly 15 years, became the subject of a local sting operation after the town's Sheriff claims he heard that the councilman was looking for certain prescription drugs without a prescription.
The details are still scarce, but police records indicate that the councilman was recorded over several conversations with undercover police. In the recordings, the man allegedly negotiates a price for certain prescription drugs and determines a time and place to meet. The police then arrived at the meeting and arrested the councilman.
The chargers against him include use of a communication facility in commission of a felony involving controlled substances, as well as criminal attempt to violate Georgia's Controlled Substances Act. Not of these charges are felonies, and will carry harsh penalties that may determine the rest of the 56-year-old man's life. Unlike most other non-violent crimes, drug convictions can carry years or even decades of jail time — a punishment that may essentially be a life sentence in the councilman's case. The situation is surely heartbreaking for the family of the man, who must have been in significant pain to go such great lengths outside the proper channels for prescription drugs.
If there is any good news for him, it is that he seems to have wasted no time in securing a strong legal defense. If you ever face drug charges, especially felony charges, it is crucial to secure strong legal guidance as quickly as possible. With proper legal representation, you can ensure that your rights will remain protected as you fight for your future.


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Spinoparapachymorpha is a genus of stick insects in the tribe Medaurini, erected by G.W.C. Ho in 2021.  Species have been recorded from: China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

Species
The Phasmida Species File lists:
 Spinoparapachymorpha daoyingi (Ho, 2014)
 Spinoparapachymorpha jinpingensis (Ho, 2017)
 Spinoparapachymorpha pseudospinosa (Ho, 2020)
 Spinoparapachymorpha sinica (Ho, 2017) - type species
 Spinoparapachymorpha spinosa (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893)
 Spinoparapachymorpha tetracantha (Chen & He, 2001)
 Spinoparapachymorpha xishuangbannaensis (Ho, 2014)

References

External links

Phasmatodea genera
Phasmatodea of Asia
Phasmatidae

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I imagine a few of you have seen this already on the WSC participants discussion board, but for those of you who have not, one of the US zones has formed a small workgroup to look into a few questions regarding the future of the WSC, and what it might look like if they would have "pooled" their CAR votes.
1. Tally how we vote as regions after the WSC and put those votes together and see how we would have voted if we had been seated as a zone.
2. Would it have been completely different than some of our regions? The same? Somewhere in between?
3. How much of a difference and on what topics?
4. Are our differences because of our diversity or a complete different set of philosophies on what the WSC is for and how we make decisions? 5. Can we see the forest through the trees or can we let go of the trees?
6. Are we willing to let go?
They have taken some initiative to look at this, and this may be a starting place for us to go as well. I personally don't think this is a discussion for our regions yet, but looking at this from the delegate point of view might prove to be worthwhile.
This looks like a great conversation to have at September CANA: in particular, would our vote have been any different if it had come from our zone rather than the regions?


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ITZY's Yeji Reveals What She Thought When She Heard Her Recorded Voice For The First Time After Debuting
She opened up to fans.
ITZY's Yeji held a live broadcast for fans leading up to the start of their promotions for Guess Who, their latest mini album. She touched on numerous subjects ranging from the song that she recorded fastest to the group's latest dorm arrangements.
One fan also breached the topic of her past, asking, "How was it when you heard your recorded voice for the first time?"
She confirmed that their debut song, "DALLA DALLA," was the first recording that she ever did, and unexpectedly, she wasn't completely satisfied with the result.
The first song would be 'DALLA DALLA' right? My voice…I didn't really like it.
— Yeji
Yeji actually preferred to be reborn with another voice if she could. For some reason, she prefers other tones when speaking and singing.
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The Refiner's Fire Blog: How can we call Yeshua "Nazarene" when that place didn't exist at the time?
How can we call Yeshua "Nazarene" when that place didn't exist at the time?
Today we are continuing with our challenge to some of the teachings of Jewish Rabbis who loudly proclaim that Yeshua and the New Testament are myths. As believers in Yeshua know, our Messiah was always about Master YHWH. Always! He was ONE with the Father, never veering from Torah – YHWH's Divine Instructions.
Yet, the "counter-missionary" Jews will fight you to the death to prove otherwise – and if you attempt to show scriptures of ANY kind, they adamantly reject them. One of their assertions is that there is no scripture suggesting the Messiah would be from Nazareth, or that the Messiah would be referred to as a Nazarene. "There is none," they insist, often with a chuckle.
Well - not so fast! Bear with me now! Matthew 2:23 tells us Messiah would be called "Nazarene" and the prophet Isaiah gave us a hint about this. Isaiah 11:1 says: "But a branch will emerge from the trunk of Yishai, a shoot will grow from his roots." Aramaic scholar and author Andrew Gabriel Roth of the website One Faith One People Ministries explains that the word netzer is Hebrew for "young shoot" or "sprout" and it does refer to the Messiah because Isaiah 11, verses 2 through 4 go on to reveal the "spiritual branches" of the Menorah as attributes of Messiah! Even in the Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a, recognizes Isaiah 11:1 as a prophecy of the Messiah and renders the word netzer as a branch – netzer being the key to this whole mystery.
Without going into a deep word study – because I am not qualified in that department - other prophets reveal Mashiyach, Messiah, as the "Branch" but use the Hebrew term tzemach, thus eliminating the obvious wordplay by Matthew. The prophet Daniel uses the word netzer, but not in the context of Messianic prophecy. Still, netzer is the basis for the name Nazareth, which at that time was a very small village in the Land of Israel.
Y'shua (as opposed to "Jesus") means "Yahweh is salvation". It is the shortened form of YEHOSHUA (Joshua in English, again, not "Jesus"). Moshe told the nation that THE PROPHET would come after him that the people must listen to, so is it any coincidence that THE PROPHET has the SAME NAME as Moshe's successor?
In Zechariah 6:1-12 we are told (actually starting in chapter 3, and then into 6) that the high priest and his colleagues are "symbols of things to come" and of the high priest, "here is the man WHOSE NAME IS THE BRANCH", not that he IS the branch, but his NAME is the branch.
This is an integral part of Messianic prophecy. In Exodus 23:20-22 YHWH warns the Israelites of a messenger who will lead them. He gives a proviso for this messenger: He will NOT forgive your sin. Now why say this? Has any "messenger" EVER been able to forgive sin? No, but as Y'shua said, "Which is easier to say? That your sins are forgiven or to the paralyzed, "Arise and walk, take up your pallet and go home? BUT SO YOU WILL KNOW THE SON OF MAN HAS THE AUTHORITY TO FORGIVE SINS, I say, Arise and walk." (See Daniel 7:1-14).
In Hebrew the word for MESSENGER--malakh--can also be pointed to mean MELECH (king). This is a remez (a hint).
Andrew Roth continues by writing: So, understanding all that, also understand that since only YHWH can forgive sin, Y'shua must be God to do so also, and it is this role conducting YHWH's Ruach that Messiah filtered through his human voice to proclaim YHWH's kingdom on earth. (In other words, the Son of Man/Messiah, is given authority on earth to forgive sin by His Father in a way no angel, prophet or other messenger was.
This messenger/king then COULD forgive sin (or why warn that he won't?), and the reason he can is that, UNLIKE the ANGELS who have only the TITLE of ELOHIM within their own names (such as Gabri-EL, Rapha-EL and Micha-EL), Y'shua HAS THE NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES within HIS Name - Exodus 23:20-22 says clearly 'FOR MY NAME IS IN HIM".
Yahweh has ONE NAME and there is ONE NAME under heaven by which men are saved, as seen in Acts 4:12. Messiah Y'shua comes in the NAME, and therefore POWER, of his Father YHWH. As the Word of YHWH, He was with the Father in the beginning (John 1:1, 17:5 and Revelation 19:13). The Father gives life to the Son (John 10) and the Son then has the power to lay that life down freely and pick it up again, thus allowing the rest of us access to eternal life.
So, the Jewish anti-missionaries and their converts can argue against Y'shua and the New Testament all they want, but that won't change the context of what the WHOLE of the Bible says. I can certainly understand why Judaism rejects the Torah-less "Jesus" described by most of Christianity; but I cannot understand why they would reject "Y'shua!" Consider Exodus 23 verses 20 – 23 where YHWH talks about a special messenger who has HIS Name residing within his own.
This can only be referring to Y'shua because Y'shua is the ONLY Heavenly Being who has YHWH's Name within His own name! All the angels/messengers only have His Title (ELOHIM) within their names: Micha-EL, Rapha-El, Gabri-El….) Please join me next time as we continue to counter some the challenges designed to debunk Y'shua and the New Testament.


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Bad bots on the rise – what risks do you face?
By: Linda Manly
While the internet population continues to grow, there has also been an increase in bots as well.
In 2016, approximately 185 million new internet users came online, with the vast majority of these coming from nations like India. This represents a huge increase in the market. However, while the internet population continues to grow, there has also been an increase in bots as well. The word 'bot' covers a wide variety of automated programs: while some source data for search engines and help people match their queries with the most appropriate websites, others are not so helpful.
In the past year, bad bots accounted for 19.9 per cent of all website traffic—a 6.98 per cent increase over the same time in 2015. Bad bots interact with applications in the same way a legitimate user would, making them harder to prevent. However, the results are harmful: for example, bad bots can take data from sites without permission while others undertake criminal activities such as ad fraud and account theft.
Bots enable high-speed abuse, misuse, and attacks on websites and APIs. They enable attackers, unsavoury competitors and fraudsters to perform a wide array of malicious activities, including web scraping, competitive data mining, personal and financial data harvesting, brute force login and man-in-the-middle attacks, digital ad fraud, spam, transaction fraud, and more.
The bad bot problem has become so rampant it has earned its first piece of US federal legislation. In an attempt to make the use of ticket scraping bots illegal, the US Congress passed the Better Online Ticket Sales Act. Similarly, governments in the UK and Canada are also looking at introducing new laws to stop automated ticket purchasing by bots. While legislation is a welcome deterrent, it's difficult to legislate against those you can't identify. Bad bots continue to exist under the radar and they are looking to stay.
What does the data say?
Using our network, we looked for trends in how bots are developing, including hundreds of billions of bad bot requests, anonymised over thousands of domains. As part of this, we focused on bad bot activity at the application layer as these attacks differ from the simple volumetric Distributed Denial of Service attacks that typically grab the headlines. Here are some of our top findings:
1. Bigger site? Bigger target
Bad bots don't sleep - they're everywhere, at all times. But even though bad bots are active on all sites, the larger sites were hit the hardest in 2016. Bad bots accounted for 21.83 per cent of large website web traffic, which saw an increase of 36.43 per cent since last year.
Larger sites are generally ranked higher in search engine results because humans rarely look past the first few search engine results. Smaller sites don't get the same level of SEO traffic uplift so large and medium sites are more enticing targets for bad bots.
2. Bad bots lie
Bad bots must lie about who they are to avoid detection. They do this by reporting their user agent as a web browser or mobile device. In 2016 the majority of bad bots claimed to be the most popular browsers: Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. Chrome was at the top spot.
Alongside this, there was also a 42.78 per cent year-over-year increase in bad bots claiming to be mobile browsers. For the first time, mobile Safari made the top five list of self-reported user agents, outranking web Safari by 17 per cent.
3. If you build it, bots will come
When it comes to the attractiveness of a website, bad bots have a type. There are four key website features bad bots look for:
Proprietary content and/or pricing information
A login section
Payment processors
In 2016, 97 per cent of sites with proprietary content were hit by unwanted scraping, 96 per cent of websites with login pages were hit by bad bots, 90 per cent of websites were hit by bad bots that bypassed the login page, and 31 per cent of websites with forms were hit by spam bots.
4. The weaponisation of the data centre
Data centres were the weapon of choice for bad bots in 2016, with 60.1 per cent coming from the cloud. Amazon AWS was the top originating ISP for the third year in a row with 16.37 per cent of all bad bot traffic - four times more than the next ISP.
But why use central data centres rather than the traditional 'zombie' PC that is part of a botnet, which is more typically used for DDoS attacks? The answer here is that it's never been easier to build bad bots with open source software or cheaper to launch them from globally distributed networks using the cloud. These data centres can scale up faster and more efficiently for bot attacks on application layers, while steps like masking IP addresses has become easy and essential within bot deployments. This centralised approach is easier to manage when it comes to fraud and account theft campaigns.
5. Out of date? Out of luck
Humans aren't the only ones falling behind on software updates; it turns out bad bots have the same problem. One in every ten of bad bots said they were using browser versions released before 2013 - some were reporting browser versions released as far back as 1999.
But why are bad bots reporting as out-of-date browsers? Perhaps some were written many years ago and are still at work today. Some may have been targeting specific systems that only accept specific browser versions. Others may be have been out-of-control programs, bouncing around the internet in endless loops, still causing collateral damage.
6. The continuing rise of advanced persistent bots
In 2016, 75 per cent of bad bots were Advanced Persistent Bots (APBs). Today's advanced persistent bots are more sophisticated as they can load JavaScript, hold onto cookies and load up external resources – this makes them more effective in their attacks. Similarly, bots can carry out obfuscation techniques to randomise the IP address, headers, and user agents associated with their activity. This helps them to hide in the noise of everyday activity.
APBs can carry out highly progressive attacks, such as account-based abuse and transaction fraud, which require multiple steps and deeper penetration into the web application. If you're using a web application firewall (WAF) and are filtering out known violator user agents and IP addresses, that's a good start. However, bad bots rotate through IPs and cycle through user agents to evade these WAF filters. You'll need a way to differentiate humans from bad bots that are using headless browsers, browser automation tools, and man-in-the-browser malware campaigns.
7. Is the USA the bot superpower?
The US has topped the list of bad bot originating countries for the third year in a row. In fact, the US had a larger amount of total bad bot traffic (55.4 per cent) than all other countries combined. The Netherlands generated 11.4 per cent of bad bot traffic and was the next closest country, while China reached the top three for bad bots for the first time. South Korea made the biggest jump, up 14 spots from 2015.
But does over half of all cybercrime really come from US citizens? A spammer bot might originate from a US data centre, but the perpetrator responsible for it could be located anywhere in the world. Thanks to virtual private data centres such as Amazon AWS, cyber crooks can leverage US-based ISPs to carry out their attacks as if they originated inside America and avoid location-based blocking techniques.
What can you do about bots?
As much as they try to hide their activity, there are some results from bad bot attacks that can be noticed. Normally, these results may not be explained within traditional monitoring tools. For example, you can tell significant volumes of bad bot traffic when unexpected spikes in traffic cause slowdowns without a concomitant increase in sales traffic. Another example might be where your site's search rankings plummet due to content theft and data being scraped. Similarly, you might see poor results from misguided ad spend as a result of skewed analytics.
Other pointers to bad bot activity might be that your company sees high numbers of failed login attempts and increased customer complaints regarding account lockouts. Bad bots will leave fake posts, malicious backlinks, and competitor ads in your forums and customer review sections.
In order to filter out bad bots, it's worth taking the time to learn about the most attractive areas of your website and find out if they are all properly secured against bots. One way to choke off bad bots is to geo-fence your website by blocking users from foreign nations where your company doesn't do business.
Similarly, it can be worth looking at the audience profile for your customers – is there is a good reason why users would be on browsers that are several years and multiple updates past their release date? If not, having a whitelist policy that imposes browser version age limits stops up to 10 per cent of bad bots. Also consider if all automated programs, even ones that aren't search engine crawlers or preapproved tools, belong on your site. Consider setting up filters to block all other bots - this can block up to 25 per cent of bad bots.
The best way to deal with bots is to monitor and respond on all your web and mobile traffic in real-time so that you see the next bad bot attack coming and stop it in its tracks. This approach relies on using more intelligence and automation to spot activities – rather than relying on human oversight of analytics logs, security can be maintained through better use of data and machine learning over time.
Stephen Singam is MD of Security Research at Distil Networks
Image source: Shutterstock/Toria
This article was published in itproportal.com by Stephen Singam
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Mount Rushmore: Gators Volleyball
By ainslielee on August 1, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )
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While Florida volleyball had humble beginnings after the program's birth in 1984, as the program aged, it has become one of the most decorated sports on campus.
With a program that boasts a .829 win percentage through 35 seasons, a statement can be made with certainty that a plethora of elite athletes have waltzed in and out of the program since it's beginning 35 years ago.
In the event that athletic director Scott Stricklin decided to recognize Florida volleyball's "best of the best" and construct the Mount Rushmore of Florida volleyball, which players would be chiseled in stone?
Aury Cruz – 2000-2003
Assuming that everyone, everywhere needs a Mount Rushmore to celebrate great athletes, Cruz would more than likely be found not only on the University of Florida volleyball's Mount Rushmore, but also Puerto Rico volleyball's Mount Rushmore and possibly the NCAA volleyball's Mount Rushmore. She was that good.
During her time as a Gator, Cruz won the SEC Championship all four years of her career as well as guiding the Gators to their first ever NCAA final, where they lost to the USC Trojans.
Cruz's name crowds the Florida volleyball record book as she holds the school record for career kills with an impressive 1,815 and career points with 2,188.5.
Cruz also has a list of accolades that goes on for miles. Highlighting her accomplishments are two MVP selections for the NCAA Final Four (2002, 2003), three time SEC Player of the Year awards (2001, 2002, 2003) and a three time AVCA All-America selections (2001, 2002, 2003).
Cruz went on to represent her home country of Puerto Rico in the 2016 Rio Olympic games.
Kelly Murphy – 2008-2011
Kelly Murphy represented Florida in a time where the Florida Gators were nationally recognized for being a powerhouse all across the board. With men's basketball and football claiming national titles, Florida's national presence was greater than ever before.
For Florida volleyball, although unseeded they were able to make a decently deep run into the NCAA Tournament, making it into the Final Four before being eliminated by Illinois. All the while, Kelly Murphy, even as a freshman made considerable impact.
As she finished up her freshman year at Florida, Murphy was awarded the 2008 AVCA Freshman of the Year award, becoming the first Gator to win the honor. Murphy made it known quickly what kind of player she would be when only 27 matches into her college career, she broke the school record for career triple-doubles; a record that still stands today.
Murphy continued to surge into her junior year where she yielded an AVCA All-America selection as well as winning the 2010 SEC Player of the Year award.
Once her career at Florida was through, Kelly Murphy went on to represent Team USA in the 2016 Rio Olympic games.
Angie McGinnis – 2004-2007
Much like Kelly Murphy, McGinnis was at the University of Florida during a prime period. She saw a national championship in both football and men's basketball as well as a Heisman winner.
As for her time with the volleyball team, her career was nothing shy of impressive.
In 2004, McGinnis took home SEC Freshman of the Year honors as she set the assists per game record at UF with an average of 11.03. As a sophomore, McGinnis spent the summer with the USA National Team during the 2005 Pan-American Cup.
McGinnis' accolades really piled up during her junior year as she was named an AVCA first-team All-American, Volleyball Magazine first-team All-American, Volleyball Magazine Most Improved Player in the Nation, SEC Player of the Year, and Ben Hill Griffin's award for UF's top female athlete.
While her senior year died down in terms of honors, McGinnis was still an AVCA second-team All-American selection; becoming just the fourth player in school history to be named an All-American three times. McGinnis also claimed the 2007 SEC Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year.
McGinnis also went on to represent the United States as she joined the women's national team at the conclusion of her senior season.
Rhamat Alhassan – 2014-2017
If you pay attention to Florida volleyball, Alhassan's name likely sounds very familiar; and it absolutely should. Alhassan is the most recent Gator to be chiseled onto the Florida volleyball Mount Rushmore after her storied career.
As a freshman, Alhassan won the Freshman of the Year award for both the SEC and the AVCA Southeast region. She also led the country in hitting efficiency at .458… as a freshman.
Alhassan's impressive career at Florida continued in 2015 where, as a sophomore, she was second in the country in blocks with 189 as well as setting the UF record for most blocks in a game (14) during the 2015 season opener against James Madison.
Alhassan finished her career in glorious fashion as she again won award after award and continued to lead the nation in the stat book.
As a senior in 2017, Alhassan led the nation with 1.70 blocks per set, becoming the first SEC player to lead that category. In 2017, Alhassan also won the 2017 SEC Player of the Year award as well as the 2016-2017 Honda Sport Award winner for volleyball, becoming the first Gator to win the honor.
During her career at Florida, Alhassan became just the second player in Division I history to record at least 1,250 kills, 605 blocks and a .420 clip before going on to win a gold medal in the 2017 Pan-American cup.
Inspired by Steve Russell's radio show, Sports Scene, we have opted to determine the Mount Rushmore of each UF program that we cover. Let us know if you agree or if there are any omissions.
Also, we chose to omit coaches intentionally and will do a totally separate post on the top coaches at UF.
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Tagged as: Angie McGinnis, Aury Cruz, Florida Gators, Kelly Murphy, Mary Wise, Rhamat Alhassan
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Mount Rushmore: Gators Soccer
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Top of Gator Volleyball Mt. Rushmore should be MARY WISE. Success of program is 100% Mary Wise!!!
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Ibrahim Michael Ibrahim, BS (born March 22, 1962) is the current archbishop of Zahleh and Furzol of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Lebanon. He was previously the eparch of the Eparchy of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal in Canada, the spiritual leader of the 43,000 Melkites in Canada.

Biography
Ibrahim was born in Jinsnaya, Lebanon, on March 22, 1962, and he was ordained a priest on July 18, 1987.

Prior to his consecration as bishop, he served as pastor of St Elias Church in Cleveland, Ohio, protopresbyter for the Great Lakes region in the United States and regional superior of the Basilian Salvatorian Order.

Episcopacy
He was elected bishop by the Melkite synod and patriarch on June 18, 2003, following the death of Bishop Sleiman Hajjar. Ibrahim was consecrated bishop and enthroned as eparch on August 17, 2003.

In June 2021, he became Archbishop of Zahleh and Furzol of the Greek Melkites in Lebanon.

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Police search for man who robbed Uber driver at gunpoint in Miami
Aug 3, 2019 | Uber news | 0 comments
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who allegedly robbed an Uber driver at gunpoint in Miami.
Surveillance video captured the crook walking northbound down an alleyway off 80th Street and Biscayne Boulevard, just before 4 p.m. on July 12.
Uber driver Julio Peña said a man he thought was a passenger got in his car, but instead of giving him a ride, the victim said, he gave the subject his two cellphones and his wallet.
Peña said he was taking a break during rush hour along a sidewalk on 80th Street, near Biscayne Boulevard, when a man opened his passenger's side door and jumped in his back seat.
"[He said], 'I don't want a ride. This is a robbery,'" said Peña through a translator.
The victim said he told the man he was not working when the subject pulled out a gun and told the victim not to look at him.
"'Give me everything. Don't move, don't turn around and see me, OK?'" said Peña.
The victim said the man demanded his valuables and fled within seconds.
"I stop. I don't see more of the guy," said Peña.
The driver was not injured during the armed robbery.
Surveillance video also captured the robber walking along a sidewalk near Biscayne Boulevard and 82nd Street. Peña's phones are visible in his hands.
Detectives describe the crook as standing 5 feet 7 inches tall to 5 feet 8 inches tall with a slim build.
He is believed to be 23 to 25 years old and was last seen wearing a blue jean jacket, white shirt and dark pants.
"Whether you're outside or home, or in front of a store, be very vigilant of your surroundings and please ensure all doors are properly secured," said City of Miami Police Officer Kiara Delva.
Peña said the robbery did not change his daily routine as an Uber driver.
If you have any information on this armed robbery or the subject's whereabouts, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $1,000 reward.


In "ugly duckling", a fairy tale by H.C. Andersen, an elegant cygnet was regarded to look uglier than ducklings, because the outward appearance of a swan was appraised based on the standard shape of ducks. When we look at an object, we appraise the shape based on an established idea. The image conjured up by most people about a specific object is called "archetype". The reason why the cygnet looked uglier than ducklings is that the cygnet did not fit the archetype of ducklings. Archetype comes from the inherent attributes and functions of an object, and it is familiar to us because it has been exposed to us for a long time. However, people feel stressed and think the well-organized idea become complicated when they see things that are out of the order that is familiar to them, because people feel unaccustomed to things that are unfamiliar to them. And these things may become the ugly duckling that is not loved by people.
However, if there was a reason why the outward appearance is different, if what was thought to be the ugly duckling turned out to be the object of different archetype, and if it is a completely new idea, the realization would be more dramatic than the case of the swan's finding.
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Use language they can understand: Use language and examples that children can relate to and understand. For example, you could explain that it's not okay for someone to touch them without their permission, just like it's not okay to take their favorite toy without asking.
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Q: Consulta de Transação PagSeguro Opa
Estou gerando o pagamento via pagseguro e armazenando seu transaction code para consulta posterior.
Na consulta da transação, pelo transaction code estou fazendo assim:
$email_pagseguro = 'email@hotmail.com';
$token_pagseguro = '****************************';
$url = 'https://ws.pagseguro.uol.com.br/v2/transactions/'.$tabela_itens['usuario_checkout_transactionCode'].'?email='.$email_pagseguro.'&token='.$token_pagseguro;

$_h = curl_init();
//curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);

curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,  2);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE, false );
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, 2 );
$output = curl_exec($_h);

var_dump($output);
//$transaction = simplexml_load_string($output);

O var_dump está retornando um texto com todos os dados da transação, uma string, onde acredito eu deveria ser retornado um xml.
Doc para esta consulta

A: Solução para Consulta de transação por código.
$email_pagseguro = 'email@hotmail.com';
$token_pagseguro = '*******************';
$url = 'https://ws.pagseguro.uol.com.br/v2/transactions/'.$tabela_itens['usuario_transactionCode'].'?email='.$email_pagseguro.'&token='.$token_pagseguro;

$_h = curl_init();
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: application/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1"));

curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,  2);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE, false );
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, 2 );
$output = curl_exec($_h);

//var_dump($output);
    $transaction = simplexml_load_string($output);

    $status_compra = $transaction -> status;

    echo '

'.$status_compra;

A: O texto que estás recebendo nada mais é que o XML de retorno. Para trabalhá-lo com PHP, você deve efetuar o parse com simplexml_load_string:
<?php

$xml = <<<XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<checkout>
    <currency>BRL</currency>
    <items>
        <item>
            <id>0001</id>
            <description>Notebook Prata</description>
            <amount>24300.00</amount>
            <quantity>1</quantity>
            <weight>1000</weight>
        </item>
        <item>
            <id>0002</id>
            <description>Notebook Rosa</description>
            <amount>25600.00</amount>
            <quantity>2</quantity>
            <weight>750</weight>
        </item>
    </items>
    <reference>REF1234</reference>
    <sender>
        <name>José Comprador</name>
        <email>comprador@uol.com.br</email>
        <phone>
            <areacode>11</areacode>
            <number>56273440</number>
        </phone>
    </sender>
    <shipping>
        <type>1</type>
        <address>
            <street>Av. Brig. Faria Lima</street>
            <number>1384</number>
            <complement>5o andar</complement>
            <district>Jardim Paulistano</district>
            <postalcode>01452002</postalcode>
            <city>Sao Paulo</city>
            <state>SP</state>
            <country>BRA</country>
        </address>
    </shipping>
</checkout>
XML;

$xmlObject = simplexml_load_string($xml);

var_dump($xmlObject);

Retornará:
object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (5) {
  ["currency"]=>
  string(3) "BRL"
  ["items"]=>
  object(SimpleXMLElement)#2 (1) {
    ["item"]=>
    array(2) {
      [0]=>
      object(SimpleXMLElement)#5 (5) {
        ["id"]=>
        string(4) "0001"
        ["description"]=>
        string(14) "Notebook Prata"
        ["amount"]=>
        string(8) "24300.00"
        ["quantity"]=>
        string(1) "1"
        ["weight"]=>
        string(4) "1000"
      }
      [1]=>
      object(SimpleXMLElement)#6 (5) {
        ["id"]=>
        string(4) "0002"
        ["description"]=>
        string(13) "Notebook Rosa"
        ["amount"]=>
        string(8) "25600.00"
        ["quantity"]=>
        string(1) "2"
        ["weight"]=>
        string(3) "750"
      }
    }
  }
  ["reference"]=>
  string(7) "REF1234"
  ["sender"]=>
  object(SimpleXMLElement)#3 (3) {
    ["name"]=>
    string(17) "José Comprador"
    ["email"]=>
    string(20) "comprador@uol.com.br"
    ["phone"]=>
    object(SimpleXMLElement)#6 (2) {
      ["areacode"]=>
      string(2) "11"
      ["number"]=>
      string(8) "56273440"
    }
  }
  ["shipping"]=>
  object(SimpleXMLElement)#4 (2) {
    ["type"]=>
    string(1) "1"
    ["address"]=>
    object(SimpleXMLElement)#6 (8) {
      ["street"]=>
      string(20) "Av. Brig. Faria Lima"
      ["number"]=>
      string(4) "1384"
      ["complement"]=>
      string(8) "5o andar"
      ["district"]=>
      string(17) "Jardim Paulistano"
      ["postalcode"]=>
      string(8) "01452002"
      ["city"]=>
      string(9) "Sao Paulo"
      ["state"]=>
      string(2) "SP"
      ["country"]=>
      string(3) "BRA"
    }
  }
}


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ENGEL: $20 MILLION AWARDED TO FIX HURRICANE SANDY ROAD DAMAGE
Press Release from Eliot Engel's Office
Congressman Eliot Engel announced last week, that $20 million in federal funds were awarded to New York State for emergency repairs of roads damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
Rep. Engel said, "Sandy caused heavy damage in lower New York State and these funds, from the Federal Highway Administration, are for repairing roads in designated counties, including Rockland, Westchester, and the Bronx.
"When natural disasters such as Sandy hit wide areas, it is up to the federal government to assist individual states in making the necessary repairs and rebuilding. This FHA money will help to restore traffic services and make emergency roadway repairs including removal of debris, repairing sign and signal damages and road washouts on federal-aid highways."
These funds are awarded to a State after the President or the Governor issues a formal emergency declaration and the State files a request for the cost of damages to its eligible highways.
Rep. Engel added, "This is a small amount needed to fix the extraordinary damage inflicted, but it is a necessary first step. I will continue to fight in Congress to secure the necessary funds for our district, and the other regions, affected by the disaster."
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