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SNOW HILL – The exemption from the flush tax may end for Ocean Pines wastewater customers this year, after a mechanical problem slightly skewed nitrogen numbers for 2007.
The Ocean Pines wastewater plant is the only wastewater treatment facility in Maryland exempt from paying the $2.50 per month flush tax into the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund because of the high quality of treated and discharged effluent.
The county learned that the service area would no longer be exempt in mid-February. The letter from the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) reads, "We have carefully reviewed your submitted documents and found that your facility is no longer meeting the requirements to be exempt from paying the Bay Restoration Fund (BRF) fee."
Worcester County Public Works Director John Tustin told the County Commissioners this week, "It's not good news."
In February 2007, a mechanical breakdown combined with the cold weather to release more nitrogen than expected from the Ocean Pines' plant discharge point into the St. Martin River.
"Our nitrogen limits skyrocketed," said Tustin.
Nitrogen levels reached 8.75 mg/l (milligrams per liter), compared to 2.9 mg/l in February 2008.
To be exempt from the flush tax, the service area must post an annual average of no more than 3 mg/l.
With the February 2007 spike in nitrogen levels, the annual average slightly exceeded the nitrogen limit. Phosphorous levels remain under the acceptable limit.
Tustin suggested an appeal letter be written to MDE explaining the higher level. There is no formal appeal process.
"We ought to go to MDE. This is bragging rights. Ocean Pines has the best plant in the state," said Commissioner Judy Boggs, whose district lies entirely within southern Ocean Pines. "I would hate to lose this just because we had those two unfortunate circumstances."
Commissioner Louise Gulyas asked staff to copy the appeal letter to Delegates Norm Conway and Jim Mathias and Senator Lowell Stoltzfus.
Boggs suggested asking the shore delegation directly for help, but county attorney Sonny Bloxom said he did not think a separate letter was necessary. Copying the letter to their attention would be enough, he said.
If the appeal is not successful, the service area must show a calendar year's worth of data confirming an average nitrogen level of 3 mg/l or less before regaining the exemption.


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Short version: Which places could we add extra days to (excluding cities before the 13th, because of the match in Lviv)?
We are especially interested in things that are not the typical thing to do or that it is hard to find information about online.
Long version: We are a group of 6 that are planning a road trip from June 9th to July 1st next summer and would greatly appreciate some ideas on what to see and what to do at the specific places. We have searched a bit on sites like Tripadvisor and found interesting things to do in some of the places, but are looking for more! Especially things that are not easy to find/common.
The plan right now is:
- June 9 - Norway to Stockholm
- June 10 - Stockholm to Tallinn (by ferry)
- June 11 - Tallinn to Riga
- June 12 - Riga to Vilnius
- June 13 - Vilnius to Lviv (watching the UEFA EURO match)
- June 14 - Lviv
- June 15 - Lviv to Krakow
- June 16 - Krakow to Bratislava
- June 17 - Bratislava to Budapest
- June 18 - Budapest
- June 19 - Budapest to Zagreb
- June 20 - Zagreb to Ljubljana
- June 21 - Ljubljana
- June 22 - Ljubljana to Salsburg
- June 23 - Salsburg to Praha
- June 24 - Praha
June 25 to 27 is open for ideas
June 28 - Praha/Other City to Werchter, Belgium (Music Festival)
- June 29 to July 1 - Werchter
Then home in one way or another. The main goal is to have fun and the second goal is to cross off the maximum amount of countries.
June 25th to June 27th is open and some of the cities after the 13th can be added extra days. Which cities do you propose? Or do you propose a different route between Lviv and Werchter entirely?


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Points and Rewards for WooCommerce is a points management plugin that engages customers by offering them points on store activities like signup, purchase, referrals, etc. Customers can redeem WooCommerce rewards using the WooCommerce reward points plugin to buy products at your store or participate in your membership program with the WordPress loyalty points plugin. With the WooCommerce Points and Rewards plugin at your WooCommerce Store, you can improve sales, Return On Investment(ROI), conversion rate, Customer Lifetime Value(CLV), and referral marketing scope.
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1) User Level & Badges: The Points and Rewards plugin is designed for customer engagement and loyalty! Admins can now motivate customers to earn reward points through various activities by awarding unique user badges. These badges represent different levels of achievement. The admins have full control over their position and level names. They can also set the milestone threshold for customers to reach their desired level with ease, and reward point values that the customers will get.
Plus, we understand the importance of aesthetics. Merchants can easily customize badge images to align with their brand. It's a powerful, flexible, and visually appealing way to boost customer loyalty!
NOTE: The merchants can only add two user levels in the free version. The pro version on the other hand offers unlimited user levels and badges.
Want to know more about the working of this feature? Check out the User Badges & Level Documentation
2) Gamification: The WooCommerce rewards plugin now enables merchants to make their websites more engaging and interesting with gamification settings. After enabling the settings your customers will get a chance to spin the "win-wheel" and earn rewards and points. The settings of this feature are completely dynamic. The merchants will be able to fully customize the win-wheel. Admins take the reins! Tailor your win-wheel down to the last detail: choose positions, colors, and segments, and set the loyalty points for each section. Craft an experience that's uniquely yours. Decide whether customers can spin freely or implement cooldown periods. Keep the engagement level just right for your audience.
After the enhancement, the guest users can also see the wheel but will have to log in to be awarded the WooCommerce loyalty points.
Want to know more about the working of this feature? Check out the Gamification Documentation
3) Restrict Rewards Points: With this feature of the WooCommerce loyalty program plugin, merchants can restrict customers from earning reward points on the purchase of products that the customers have bought by redeeming their existing reward points.
4) Assign Woo Points on Previous Orders: With the WooCommerce Rewards points plugin, the merchants get a chance to assign Woo points on previous orders. For example, before installing the points and rewards plugin, there might be a lot of orders that customers might be involved with. This setting enables the merchants to assign points to those orders.
5) Order Reward Points: With the WooCommerce point reward system, the admin can select the maximum number of orders for the customers to earn a certain number of points and rewards. For example, if the admin has set the maximum number of orders to 10 and the number of points to 5. Then, the customer will earn 5 points, after successfully ordering 10 times from the website.
6) WooCommerce Rewards Points on Actions: With the WooCommerce Points and Rewards plugin, customers have the opportunity to earn points for rewards through various activities like:
- Sign Up: Merchants can offer reward points and rewards on unique customer sign-ups.
- Referrals: When user A shares his referral link and user B signs up using user A's referral link, user A receives reward points. With the WordPress point system plugin, users can share their referral links on Facebook, Twitter, Email, and WhatsApp directly from their accounts.
- Total Amount Spent: Merchants can set the WooCommerce loyalty points for rewards to be credited to the customer's account against each penny they spend on their store via the conversion feature.
- On Purchase Of Product: Merchants can assign global WooCommerce points and rewards value to all simple products of their store so the customer gets the same number of points on the purchase of any product.
- On A Set Range Of Order Total: The merchant can set the number of rewards and points the customer will get if his order value lies within a set range.
7) Easy Woo Points Redemption: In the WooCommerce loyalty program plugin, customers can redeem their Woo points either on the cart or at the checkout page by entering the points in the "Apply Points" field. Merchants can select where they want to show the "Apply Points" field, on a cart or at the checkout page. He can also set the conversion rule to determine the value of points and rewards using the conversion table feature. The merchants can also decide whether they want to show the "notice message" to the customers or not.
For Example: If the order costs $20 and the customer has 10 points in his account, the merchant can determine whether the customer will get a discount of 10, 5, or 2 dollars by redeeming those 10 points.
8) Membership System For Exclusive Offers: Merchants can create their membership system based on the WooCommerce Loyalty Program plugin. This helps them to offer exclusive discounts to customers based on the loyalty points they collect. Merchants can add WooCommerce reward discounts on some categories and their products. If the customer subscribes to the membership, he can purchase those discounted products. Merchants can grant exclusive WooCommerce points based on membership levels.
9) WooCommerce Points Log Report: In the WooCommerce rewards plugin, the WooCommerce points Log Report feature is available for both customers and the admin:
- For Customers: They can check and monitor each point transaction they have done so far. The log table shows the details for each point they earned and redeemed.
- For Merchant: They can view the user points history to track the points transaction for each customer. Along with it, they can add or deduct points from any customer's account using this feature.
10) Customer Notification Feature: With the Points and Rewards for WooCommerce plugin, merchants can notify their customers of each point transaction. Merchants can customize the email subject and message for different notification types. The notification is sent to the registered email of the customer.
11) WPML Multilingual Compatibility: The WooCommerce Rewards plugin is compatible with the WPML Multilingual plugin which allows you to reward your customers in your local language.
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- The admin can now decide whether to show the "notice message" for the per currency & redemption settings over the cart page.
- Encourage your customers to earn reward points by awarding them with user badges for different levels.
- Utilize the gamification feature that takes your WooCommerce loyalty program to the next level, and elevates your websites by enabling customers to spin the wheel and unlock rewards, enhancing interaction and excitement.
- Merchants can now restrict customers from earning WooCommerce rewards on the purchase of items that they have purchased by redeeming the existing rewards points.
- Offer WooCommerce loyalty points and rewards on previous orders
- Offer woo points and rewards on signups, referrals, purchases, etc. to engage your customers
- Create a membership program to reward loyal customers with exclusive membership rewards and points. Merchants can grant exclusive WooCommerce loyalty points based on membership levels.
- Track the loyalty points transaction of every customer with a point log report
- Manually update the points and rewards of your customers from the points table feature
- Notify customers through email for every rewards and point transaction
- Offer WooCommerce rewards points in different languages with WPML Multilingual support
- Change the value for WooCommerce points and rewards on the order total and cart redemption.
- Assign a similar loyalty point value to all simple products with a global point-assigned feature
- Offer a specific number of points and rewards for a set price range of the order value
- Hooks to extend the WooCommerce loyalty points tab for the admin.
WooCommerce Points and Rewards is now compatible with Membership with WooCommerce and Membership for WooCommerce Pro. This allows the admins to award a specific set of points, after the successful completion of a Membership Plan – gold, silver, platinum, or any other kind of plan.
The WooCommerce points and rewards plugin is compatible with Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce and Gift Cards for WooCommerce Pro Plugin. This allows the merchants to give a specific set of points on the purchase of gift card products.
WooCommerce rewards plugin is compatible with Wallet System for WooCommerce and WooCommerce Wallet System Pro plugin. This compatibility allows you to convert your earned points and rewards into wallet credit based on a specific conversion rate. The admin can set points conversion into wallet credit he wants to allow.
For example, 10 points equals 2 wallet credits. Customers can later use this wallet credit for purchases in the store. -
The WooCommerce Points and Rewards Plugin is compatible with Currency Switcher for WooCommerce.The Currency Switcher for WooCommerce plugin allows your customers to select the currency unit for their purchase. They can choose from the currencies for the Points and Rewards plugin. This increases the user experience. All transactions will happen in the currency they select. For example, if 10 points = $1, but the customer chooses INR as a switch, it will show as 10 points = ₹82.36.
The WooCommerce loyalty points plugin is compatible with WooCommerce PayPal Payment for operating secure online payments.
Elementor Page Builder is compatible with the Points and Rewards plugin. This compatibility lets you use Elementor's capabilities to add "apply points" snippets to the cart page and checkout page efficiently.
WooCommerce store owners use the customer's loyalty points plugin is compatible with the WordPress Multilingual (WPML) plugin for localization of the rewards plugin's strings.
The WooCommerce Points and Rewards Plugin is compatible with Subscriptions For WooCommerce Free and Subscriptions For WooCommerce Pro allowing the users to get points on subscription products
For example, if User A has bought a subscription product from your website for the first time, he/she will get points as per the reward system. But now with this compatibility, the user will also get points on renewal of the purchased product.
1) Assign Products Points Feature: Merchants can assign reward points to the products as well as different categories using Points and Rewards for WooCommerce
2) Referral Purchase Point: The customer can earn loyalty points if their referrer makes a purchase using their referral link.
3) Purchase through Points: Users can also purchase items with just rewards and points, through the Purchase through Points feature.
4) Point Expiration: The admin can set the expiration period for the points earned by the customers from the Points Expiration setting of the WooCommerce rewards plugin.
5) Multi-Level Membership: The admin can create multiple tiers of the membership and add the required number of WooCommerce rewards to join it.
6) API Settings: API settings for integrating the WooCommerce Rewards plugin with other applications have been provided for the admin. Admin can get complete user details through API settings.
Points and Rewards for WooCommerce help merchants create a points-based loyalty program to reward customers. This reward system involves earning and redeeming store credits as points and discount coupons on activities performed by the customers.
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Automatic installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don't need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of the plugin, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu, and click Add New.
In the search field type "Points and Rewards for WooCommerce" and click Search Plugins. Once you've found our Points and Rewards for WooCommerce plugin you can view details about it such as the point release, rating, and description. Most importantly, of course, you can install it by simply clicking "Install Now".
Manual installation
The manual installation method involves downloading our Points And Rewards for WooCommerce and uploading it to your web server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.
Automatic updates should work like a charm; as always though, ensure you backup your site just in case.
Is it possible to assign Points Badges to users based on the points they have accumulated?
Yes, you do have the option to assign point badges to the user based on the points they have accumulated. However, if you would like to add multiple levels, you will need to purchase our Points and Rewards for WooCommerce Pro for this feature.
Do you have a Gamification feature on your plugin?
Yes, we have a gamification feature in our plugin and you can find the "Gamification settings" in our plugin settings from where you can make various changes to showcase this feature as per your need.
Can we restrict reward points when the user applies points while placing an order?
Yes, you can restrict reward points when a user applies points while placing an order.
For this: Go to other settings>Under Restrict reward points section>Enable Restrict reward points settings. Now the user will not receive any reward points if they apply any points while placing an order -
Can I assign Points to all Previous orders that are completed?
Yes, you can assign points to all previous orders which are completed. For this: Go to Points Table>Under Assign Points on Previous order section>Enter Points to assign>Click on Assign Points Button.
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How does the WooCommerce Rewards Points plugin work?
Merchants can create a WooCommerce rewards point management system using this plugin. In this point reward system, customers get rewarded with loyalty points for their store activities like purchases, signups, referrals, and many more. Customers can further redeem earned point value as a discount for their purchase.
Who can use the points Loyalty Points and Rewards plugin?
Any WooCommerce store owner who wants to build a loyalty rewards program for their customers can use this plugin.
How can points be redeemed using the WooCommerce Reward Point plugin?
The plugin allows merchants to let their users redeem earned points either on the cart or the checkout page. Customers need to add the points in the "Apply Points" field and the points will be redeemed.
How and where can we manually add, remove, or view the points for the user?
You can view, add, or remove the users' points manually through the points table section. To do this, go to your WordPress Dashboard then navigate to WooCommerce > Points and Rewards, and in the plugin, go to the Points Table section. Under that section, you can select whether you want to add or deduct points for a specific user, add your remarks for updating the points, and click on Update and you're done.
Is there any feature in the WooCommerce rewards points plugin by which we can give the points on the order total?
Yes. Through the "Order Total Points" setting, the admin can offer points on the order total. Merchants can set the number of points a customer will receive if his order value lies within a set price range. For example: Merchants can offer 100 points whenever a customer spends an amount between 100 to 300 dollars. So you can add 100 in as the minimum and 300 as the maximum price and the customer will receive 100 points whenever they spend this much amount.
To enable this feature, go to your WordPress Dashboard > WooCommerce > Points and Rewards > Order Total Points and click on the checkbox that says "Enable the settings for the orders". Then set the maximum and minimum price on which you want to offer points to your customers. Enter the number of points you will offer if a customer spends the set amount at your store. Save Changes and your customers will receive points if they shop within the set range of amounts.
Admins can also create memberships using this plugin to offer exclusive discounts to customers. Customers can join the membership using the earned points.
Are coding skills required for using the loyalty points and rewards plugin?
No. Coding skills are not required to use this WooCommerce reward points plugin. You can easily install, activate, and use this plugin.
Can I provide points to the customer for signup?
Yes, you can offer points on Signup by enabling the Signup Points feature. To do this, go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to WooCommerce > Points and Rewards > General. In the General tab, you'll see the Signup section. Enable the checkbox that says "Enable Signup Points for Rewards" and enter the number of points you want to offer to customers on every unique sign-up. Save changes once you're done and the customers will receive rewards for their signup.
How will customers get the benefit of the membership feature?
Admin can create the membership and set a specific number of points to join the membership. When a customer collects a set number of points, he/she can spend that amount of points to join the membership program.
Do customers receive an email notification about the reward points they have earned?
Yes. You can notify the customers about the transaction of their loyalty points through emails. There are different scenarios to notify customers of their points transactions. You can create a different subject line and message for every notification. The email will be sent to the registered email of the customer.
How can a customer or admin check the point's transaction history?
Our WooCommerce Points and Rewards plugin offers a points log report feature that allows both customers and admins to check the point's transaction history.
For customers: Customers can check their points transaction history on your online store by going to My Account > Points > Viewpoint Log. All the points transactions are shown in that report.For admins: Admins can check the points transaction history of each customer by going to their WordPress Dashboard and then navigating to WooCommerce > Points and Rewards > Points Table. In the points table, the admin can click on the View Point Log to checkpoints the transactions of every customer.
Can customers earn points on the referral signup?
Yes. The admin can enable this feature to offer loyalty points on referral signups. To do this, go to your WordPress dashboard and navigate to WooCommerce > Points and Rewards > General. In the General tab, you'll see the Referral section. Enable the checkbox that says "Enable Referral Points for Rewards" and enter the number of loyalty points you want to offer to customers on every referral sign-up. Save changes once you're done and the referrer will receive the loyalty points whenever a referee signs up to your website using the referrer's referral link.
How do I see my points balance with the WooCommerce Loyalty Points and Rewards plugin?
Customers can see their points balance in the Points tab under the Account section.
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Contributors & Developers
"Points and Rewards for WooCommerce – Create Loyalty Programs, Reward Customer Purchases, Referral Points, User Badges, and Gamification" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors"Points and Rewards for WooCommerce – Create Loyalty Programs, Reward Customer Purchases, Referral Points, User Badges, and Gamification" has been translated into 26 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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2.1.4 – Released on 1 March 2024
- Fix: Email Issues
2.1.3 – Released on 26 February 2024
- New: Compatible with latest WP( 6.4.3 ) & WC(8.6.1)
- Fix: Thank you page shortcode issues
- Fix: Membership discount issues with sale product
- Fix: Decimal points redeem issues
2.1.2 – Released on 15 January 2024
- New: Option to enable/disable redemption notice.
- New: Option to enable/disable per currency notice.
- New: Go-Pro tag
- New: Compatible with latest WP(6.4.2) & WC(8.4.0)
- Fix: Order cancel issues
2.1.1 – Released on 12 December 2023
- New: Compatible with the latest WP (6.4.2)
- Fix: Coupon remove issues
- Fix: Points deduct issues
2.1.0 – Released on 1 December 2023
- New: Compatible with Membership Plugin
- New : Compatible with latest WP( 6.4.1 ) & WC( 8.3.1 )
2.0.1 – Released on 27 October 2023
- New: Compatible with the latest WP (6.3.2) & WC (8.2.1)
- Enhance: Badges features (Admin has control to show accumulated points )
- Enhance: Gamification features (Guest users can also have visibility for gamification )
- Enhance: Membership features (Option to reward the user with points according to his membership level)
2.0.0 – Released on 10 October 2023
- New: User Badges Features
- New: Compatible with latest WP ( 6.3.1 ) & WC ( 8.1.1 )
- Enhance: Overview section
- Fix: General issues
- Fix: Points Discount issues
1.9.0 – Released on 01 September 2023
- New: Gamification Feature
- New: Compatible with WP( 6.3.1 ) & WC( 8.0.3 )
- Fix: Cart page discount issues
- Fix: Per Currency conversion issues
1.8.0 – Released on 04 August 2023
- New: Compatible with Ultimate Gift Cards for WooCommerce by WP Swings
- New: Compatible with Advanced Dynamic Pricing for WooCommerce By AlgolPlus
- New: Restrict Rewards Points Settings
- New: Compatible with latest WP( 6.3.0 ) & WC( 8.0.0 )
- Fix: Grammatical errors
1.7.0 – Released on 16 June 2023
- New: Assign Points on Previous Orders
- Fix: Failed Order return points issues.
- New: Compatible with latest WP( 6.2.2 ) & WC( 7.8.0 )
1.6.1 – Released on 31 May 2023
- New: Compatible with latest WP(6.2.2) & WC(7.7.1)
- Fix: Points table issues
1.6.0 – Released on 24 May 2023
- Enhance: Points table layout
- New: Compatible with latest WP( 6.2.1 ) & WC( 7.7.0 )
- Fix: Vulnerability issues
1.5.0 – Released on 19 April 2023
- New: Multisite Compatible
- New: Option to show user per page
- Enhance: Points Table
- New: Compatible with latest WP( 6.2 ) & WC( 7.6.0 )
1.4.2 – Released on 17 March 2023
- Fix: Currency Switcher Issues
- Fix: Assign points not removed from the cart page
- New: Compatible with the latest WC (6.1.1) & WP (7.5.0)
1.4.1 – Released on 15 February 2023
- New: Order Rewards Points
- New: Compatible with WP & WC
- Fix: Validation Issues
1.4.0 – Released on 17 January 2023
- New: Compatible with Subscriptions for WooCommerce and Subscriptions for WooCommerce Pro
- New: Compatible with latest WP & WC
- Fix: Redeem Points
- Fix: Cart Page getting stuck for a long time
1.3.0 – Released on 07 December 2022
- New: Compatible with WooCommerce Currency Switcher (WOOCS)
- New: Compatible with the latest WC & WP
- Fix: When debug mode is on there is a warning on the dashboard with the latest WP(6.1.1)
- Upgrade: Enhance Notice layout on the Cart Page
- Upgrade: Enhance the Account Page layout in the Points Tab
1.2.12 – Released on 28 October 2022
- New: Compatible with the latest WC & WP
- Fix: Static Referral Link is not changeable
- Fix: String translation issues
- Fix: Assigned Membership roles are not removed from the user account
1.2.11 – Released on 10 October 2022
- New: Compatible with the latest WC & WP
- Upgrade: Enhance search in the points table
1.2.10 – Released on 30 September 2022
- New: Shortcode to show Apply Points section on Cart Page.
- New: Shortcode to show Apply Points section on the Checkout Page
- New: Compatible with the latest WC 6.9.4 and WP 6.0.2
- Upgrade: Change the message on the popup modal when the referral purchase type is selected as a percentage.
- Upgrade: Enhance sorting in the points table
- Upgrade: Update viewpoints log on the admin panel
- Fix: When the order is canceled it is refunded more than one time
- Fix: String translation issues
- Fix: Applied points go into negative
1.2.9 – Released on 05 August 2022
- New: Option to redirect referral user on any page
- New: Shortcode to show points log
- Upgrade: Enhancement in Enter Ways to Gain Points settings
- Upgrade: Enhancement in API
- Fix: Minor Fixes.
1.2.8 – Released on 29 June 2022
- New: Minor Bug Fixes
- New: Minor compatibility issue fixed
- New: Compatible with the latest WP and WC
1.2.7 – Released on 27 May 2022
- New: Minor Bug Fixes
- New: Minor compatibility issue fixed
- New: Compatible with PayPal
- New: Compatible with the latest WP and WC
1.2.6 – Released on 19 April 2022
- New: Minor Bug Fixes
- New: Minor compatibility issue fixed
- New: Compatible with the latest WP and WC
1.2.5 – Released on 8 April 2022
- New: Some substantial changes across different areas of the plugin.
- New: Minor Bug Fixes
- New: Compatible with the latest WP and WC
1.2.4 – Released on 03 February 2022
- New: Change author from MakeWebBetter to WP Swings
- New: Notice display of current version for WP Swings.
- New: Minor Bug fixes
- New: Compatible with the latest WP and WC
1.2.3 – Released on 22 December 2021
- New: Hooks to extend point tab
- New: Compatibility with WooCommerce 6.0.0
- Fixed: Notification fixes
1.2.2 – Released on 3 December 2021
- Fix: Minor issues related to per currency fixed.
1.2.1 – Released on 16 November 2021
- New: Compatible with Wallet System For WooCommerce and Wallet System For WooCommerce Pro
- New: Compatibility with WC 5.9.0 and WP 5.8.2
- Fix: Refund issues solved
- Fix: Minor bugs
1.2.0 – Released on 16 October 2021
- Fixed: Designing Fixes
- Fixed: Assigned Points not consistent with quantity on cart
- Fixed: Translation issue
- New: Latest WPML compatibility
- New: Compatibility with WC 5.7.1 and WP 5.8.1
1.1.4 – Released on 28 June 2021
- Tweak: QA standards
1.1.3 – Released on 10 June 2021
- Fix: Product Assign point issue
- Tweak: Compatible with WC 5.4
1.1.2 – Released on 20 April 2021
- Fix: Update manual points
1.1.1 – Released on 16 April 2021
- Fix: Per currency Point
1.1.0 – Released on 15 April 2021
- Fix: Minor issues
- Fix: Product assigned point
- Fix: Sorting issue in Points Table
- New: Compatibility with WooCommerce 5.2 and WordPress 5.7
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point. Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet. A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands, who introduced himself as Melquíades, put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia. He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots, pans, tongs, and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge, and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades' magical irons. "Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls." José Arcadio Buendía, whose unbridled imagination always went beyond the genius of nature and even beyond miracles and magic, thought that it would be possible to make use of that useless invention to extract gold from the bowels of the earth. Melquíades, who was an honest man, warned him: "It won't work for that." But José Arcadio Buendía at that time did not believe in the honesty of gypsies, so he traded his mule and a pair of goats for the two magnetized ingots. Úrsula Iguarán, his wife, who relied on those animals to increase their poor domestic holdings, was unable to dissuade him. "Very soon we'll have gold enough and more to pave the floors of the house," her husband replied. For several months he worked hard to demonstrate the truth of his idea. He explored every inch of the region, even the riverbed, dragging the two iron ingots along and reciting Melquíades' incantation aloud. The only thing he succeeded in doing was to unearth a suit of fifteenth-century armor which had all of its pieces soldered together with rust and inside of which there was the hollow resonance of an enormous stone-filled gourd. When José Arcadio Buendía and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman's hair around its neck.
In March the gypsies returned. This time they brought a telescope and a magnifying glass the size of a drum, which they exhibited as the latest discovery of the Jews of Amsterdam. They placed a gypsy woman at one end of the village and set up the telescope at the entrance to the tent. For the price of five reales, people could look into the telescope and see the gypsy woman an arm's length away. "Science has eliminated distance," Melquíades proclaimed. "In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house." A burning noonday sun brought out a startling demonstration with the gigantic magnifying glass: they put a pile of dry hay in the middle of the street and set it on fire by concentrating the sun's rays. José Arcadio Buendía, who had still not been consoled for the failure of his magnets, conceived the idea of using that invention as a weapon of war. Again Melquíades tried to dissuade him, but he finally accepted the two magnetized ingots and three colonial coins in exchange for the magnifying glass. Úrsula wept in consternation. That money was from a chest of gold coins that her father had put together over an entire life of privation and that she had buried underneath her bed in hopes of a proper occasion to make use of it. José Arcadio Buendía made no attempt to console her, completely absorbed in his tactical experiments with the abnegation of a scientist and even at the risk of his own life. In an attempt to show the effects of the glass on enemy troops, he exposed himself to the concentration of the sun's rays and suffered burns which turned into sores that took a long time to heal. Over the protests of his wife, who was alarmed at such a dangerous invention, at one point he was ready to set the house on fire. He would spend hours on end in his room, calculating the strategic possibilities of his novel weapon until he succeeded in putting together a manual of startling instructional clarity and an irresistible power of conviction. He sent it to the government, accompanied by numerous descriptions of his experiments and several pages of explanatory sketches, by a messenger who crossed the mountains, got lost in measureless swamps, forded stormy rivers, and was on the point of perishing under the lash of despair, plague, and wild beasts until he found a route that joined the one used by the mules that carried the mail. In spite of the fact that a trip to the capital was little less than impossible at that time, José Arcadio Buendía promised to undertake it as soon as the government ordered him to so that he could put on some practical demonstrations of his invention for the military authorities and could train them himself in the complicated art of solar war. For several years he waited for an answer. Finally, tired of waiting, he bemoaned to Melquíades the failure of his project ...
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By Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Recently, a National Park Service employee visited a rock art site known as the "Descending Sheep" panel, below the Grand Canyon's Glen Canyon Dam. Scratched into the artwork was the name "Trent." The employee had noticed a guided fishing boat there a little before. A quick-acting ranger found the boat downstream and the guide pointed him to Trenton Ganey of North Carolina. When confronted, Ganey told the ranger he defaced "Descending Sheep" because he thought it would be "cool."
Not cool. Ganey pleaded guilty to one felony violation of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act. He will pay $10,000 in restitution.
The last several months have seen an increase in reports of damage to America's most ancient art. In Idaho, two men were charged with spray painting an ancient panel in Hells Gate State Park. In Arizona's Agua Fria National Monument, unknown vandals damaged Native art with white paint and scrawled obscenities. In fact, this recent spate of wreckage represents a historic epidemic. Most rock art sites across the American West have been despoiled by modern graffiti, gang tags, and bullet holes.
While the looting of the Egyptian Museum made front-page news and became part of the national dialogue, only one newspaper even reported on the Ganey case. We have become immune to the everyday destruction of heritage in our own backyard.
But how would Americans react if vandals regularly used Mount Rushmore for target practice? What would the world do if "Trent" was scratched not across "Descending Sheep" but across the "Mona Lisa"?
Only a $10,000 fine? How about a $100,000 fine and a year in jail? Or more. And perhaps a year or two of probation involving community service: helping a tribe preserve its cultural resources.
I suspect people deface rock art for the same reason they commit other attacks on Indians. Which is a subset of the reason they attack women, minorities, and gays. To refresh your memory on what that reason is, see Whites Feel Like a Minority, Pro-Tribal Legislation Spurs Conservative Threats, and Fischer Worships "God" of Racism.
For more on rock art, see Oprah to Visit Aboriginal Rock Art and Rock Art = 3rd-Grade Doodling?
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I am desperately in need of your help. After eight years of marriage, it turns out that the blow jobs I give are "good but not great" and are now getting "boring." My husband is unable to tell me anything specific that he wants me to do, just that I should do something different and "be creative." I've done pretty much everything I can think of over the years, fingers and hands included, so I have no idea where to go from here! My husband is my first partner, so I have no past experience to draw from, and porn hardly seems the proper inspiration: visually exciting (for a guy) but no visible technique other than some rather extreme deep-throating, which I am incapable of, as I have an annoyingly sensitive gag reflex. Is there anything nonstandard but fun that you (or your fans) could suggest? I'm not exactly vanilla, so I'm willing to try pretty much anything at this point. —Thought I Was Doing It Well
Seeing as I think saying, "You're doing it wrong, do it better, but don't ask me how I want it done," is an asshole move, TIWDIW, I'm tempted to give asshole advice. Something along the lines of "take a swig of Tabasco sauce immediately before popping his dick in your mouth."
You seem like a nice person, TIWDIW: a good sex partner, GGG, open to constructive criticism. But "I grow weary of your blowjobs, they bore me — do something about it!" isn't constructive criticism. It's destructive criticism, the kind of feedback that can leave a sex partner feeling inadequate and self-conscious. To be constructively critical, your husband needs to come through with some suggestions and direction — something more helpful than "surprise me." (I bet he'd find that mouthful of Tabasco sauce surprising.)
Now, maybe your husband has no clue what he wants you to do. But that's still no excuse for "Your blow jobs bore me. Fix it! Creatively!" Your husband should've tossed out some suggestions, invited you to do the same, and you two should've given 'em all a whirl until you found a few new tricks that worked.
Minor unfairnesses slosh around relationships like water in the bottom of a canoe, of course, but "Be creative!" in this context isn't just unfair, it's paralyzing. Putting all the responsibility for busting out new tricks on the shoulders of the person whose blow job (or assfucking or bondage) skills have been criticized rarely results in the criticized person busting out new and mind-blowing blow job (or assfucking or bondage) moves. A destructively criticized sex partner is apt to shut down. So your husband isn't just guilty of unfair behavior here, TIWDIW, he's guilty of self-defeating behavior. Meaning, you may be able to give better head — we all have room for improvement — but this is not the way to go about getting better head from you.
Finally, TIWDIW, you mention that your husband was your first partner. Can I ask how many women he's been with? If the answer is "not many," then I would respectfully suggest to your husband that his frame of reference may not be large enough to craft a truly informed critique of your blow job technique. For all he knows, you give amazing head. (Cue the straight men who'll tell your husband that he should be happy he's getting blow jobs at all, that you wouldn't catch them complaining if they were getting regular and enthusiastic blow jobs eight years into their marriages, etc.) But routine can make even the best blow jobs seem boring. So it may not be the how of your blow jobs that bore him, TIWDIW, but the when and the where. Give him the same old head in a new and exciting place (outside?) or in a new and exciting circumstance (his hands tied behind him?) and see if that doesn't make your blow jobs exciting again.
And while we're on the subject of oral sex: How are your husband's cunnilingus skills these days? If they're not all they could be, now's the time to tell him.
I'm a straight guy into intense bondage — extended scenes, sensory deprivation, whole-body casting — and the only people who have the gear and are willing to do it for free are gay guys. I "laid my kink cards on the table" at three months, per your instructions, and told my girlfriend that I sometimes get tied up by guys. She understood. It turns out that she's been reading your column since she was 15. She's not worried that I'm gay; she didn't ask me to stop. Just writing to say thanks. —Only Gay For Bondage
You're welcome, OGFB. Give my regards to the girlfriend.
I was upset by the letter in last week's column about the devotee who posted pictures of her disabled girlfriend's body and wheelchair online without permission. I cannot speak for all devotees, but I was disgusted by the behavior of GIMP's girlfriend. I do not date people solely for their bodies and would never see my partner as "just a body" or post pictures of them online. As a devotee, I do find particular disabled bodies more attractive and sexually appealing than most "able" bodies. But physical attraction is only a starting point. In order for a relationship to move forward, there must be attraction on other levels and compatibility on an interpersonal level, and there must always be mutual respect. I wanted to put this perspective out there for people who, like GIMP, are wary of devotees. I'm sorry this happened to her. In any "group," there will be people who are perverted and disrespectful. But when a devotee acts up, it contributes negatively to an already largely misunderstood attraction. —Good Dev In Canada
A programming note: People typically write to me when someone has done them wrong or when they've done someone wrong. When the bad actor in a particular situation is someone like a devotee — the kind of person who is unlikely to be out to friends and family members about their deeply stigmatized sexual identity or interest — my readers can't weigh what they're learning about this one particular devotee against what they know about the other devotees they know and love ... because the other devotees they know and love aren't out to them about being devotees. It's something to bear in mind, gentle readers, when someone with a rare or deeply stigmatized sexual interest makes an appearance in the column. Remember: GIMP's girlfriend doesn't represent all devotees any more than TIWDIW's husband represents all straight men.
With that said ...
GIMP's letter appears to have been a fake. There's a disturbed person lurking on the Web who pretends to be a woman in a wheelchair, as a number of readers wrote to inform me, and this person has peddled the exact same story before. A fake letter is going to make its way into the column from time to time — there's no way to verify every letter — and as every question that does make the column is a good hypothetical to every Savage Love reader save one, I try not to get too worked up about the odd fake question. But it is a problem when a fake question contributes to the negative public perception of a group of people whose sexual desires are already so stigmatized.
While the news that GIMP's letter is fake will come as a comfort to everyone who thought my advice for GIMP sucked, it's cold comfort for all the good and decent devotees out there who had to see yet another story about a shitty — and, in this case, completely fictitious — devotee make it into print. My apologies.
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I wanted to share with you a dozen things that personally perk up my day to day life. I'm sure you can all relate to a few of these little pleasures. Some of them are things that come unexpectedly, some are planned well in advanced, some are rare and thus even more precious and some are just life's fabulous everyday simplicities that make you happy to be alive. Here's are the top twelve things that are making me smile for this month of May:
1. Free samples at the grocery store of the thing you wanted to try but were too scared to buy. Score!
2. Going to bed and not setting an alarm. Zzzzzzzz
3. Snagging the last pair of shoes in your size.
4. Guilty pleasure TV shows…. I bet you're thinking of one right now. Don't feel bad, we all do it.
5. A radio station that plays a bunch of good songs in a row saving you from searching other stations. (I also enjoy singing along to said songs even when I don't know all the words.)
6. Eating the marshmallows out of childish cereals (even more silly/fun when you don't have children…. like myself.)
7. Watching artists take a spill during a performance. Evil I know but so satisfying to see they're human and fall on their butts like the rest of us.
8. Getting in the car to find your mate already refuelled it for you. I love that man.
9. Catching a rerun of the show you missed but were dying to see while channel surfing.
10. When all the dishes are done for the day. Time to relax those pruny fingers.
11. Your mate telling you, "you're worth it," for any reason at all. Doesn't it make you feel extra special? *sigh* I really love that man.
12. A pet sleeping so soundly it makes you yawn. Yes, that's my bebe snoozing away and making my eyelids heavy. However, I don't look nearly as cute as this when I sleep…
I would also love to know some of yours favourite things. What little things make all the difference for you? A specific smell? A soothing sound? Maybe something as simple as your favourite flavour ice cream? I want to hear all about your personal perks that make your day a little sunnier and keep watching for more of mine as they come.


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But the final number of Gannett jobs lost is expected to be higher, because three of the biggest worksites haven't disclosed figures: USA Today; the Detroit Free Press and affiliates, plus The Cincinnati Enquirer. Combined employment at those three is around 4,500 to 5,000. Excluding USAT and Detroit, Corporate now says total job reductions will be about 2,000.
In Salinas, General Manager Terry Feinberg was struggling to find something to say when he told his paper: "As difficult as this is, it does provide us with an opportunity to take a look at everything we do.''
The paper reports: "Layoffs started Tuesday and finished Wednesday, with 21 people losing their jobs immediately and another 14 positions to be cut over the next six to eight weeks. Four positions were removed through attrition, and one person took a voluntary buyout, for a total of 40 jobs eliminated.''
California is one of four states where Gannett markets were especially hard hit when the real estate bubble collapsed (the other three: Arizona, Florida and Nevada). Plus, the Californian's circulation tanked recently, Deutsche Bank says. It plunged 13.3%, to 14,240 as of Sept. 30, from 16,416 a year before.
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Talk:Inside Somalia and the Union of Islamic Courts
From WikiLeaks
While I find this article generally excellent in content and form, I have concerns about the content of the section "UN-, US-led intervention (1992-1995)" and with the general tone of the article concerning the US and UN in general. While I agree that the motives of the US and UN were and are suspect, I do not believe that this is the right place for a critique of those motives or politics.
First, the point of this article is to provide a background to the situation in Somalia, and then to provide an analysis of the leaked document. Criticism of the United States should only be presented as necessary for an understanding of the facts of the situation. I do not believe the article has held true to this standard.
Second, the article should present the objective facts, and a detailed accounting of the events and motives of the United States and UN interventions would require more time and energy than I believe the topic deserves. If we were to get documents relevant to those topics, I would support it, but this article is about the Aweys secret order. If we want this community to spend time reviewing the events of Operation Gothic Serpent or Ma-alinti Rangers, we should do so on a page devoted to that topic.
Finally, this appears to be our flagship article, and I believe that the tone of the article is likely to be off putting to the American population. While many will agree with the criticisms (even in the US), I think that with an article that is this important we should be extremely careful to present a neutral point of view.
I am not going to make any changes to the article immediately, I want to see responses to my opinion first. Please let me know your view point. Patrick Shifley 19:14, 11 July 2007 (BST)
- Yes Patrick, you are correct. This article was not originally written for Wikileaks as an example analysis. We wanted to mention Wikileaks very gently (the author name was not 'Wikileaks') as a source in some journalistic circles. The article was written for another publication with that goal in mind; as such it is a little stronger than what we envisage WL articles will be and shouldn't be considered the perfect example to follow, although it's not bad in places. For a European audience what is "common knowledge" and doesn't need to be argued is quite different compared to a US audience, due to different media markets and perceived group allegiances. The only real question is whether time is spent making this article more appealing for US readers or doing something else. Feel free to have a go at it, but your energies maybe better placed elsewhere (lots of educational/practical articles need to be written and expanded) since we'll have new articles soon. Wikileaks 20:00, 11 July 2007 (BST)
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Sam, you'll love this: check out the bottom of this page, download and read the original document (zip-file) and afterwards read this: Inside the Somali Civil War and the Islamic Courts food for thought here! BurningMonk @ 04/14/07 10:05:19
When that letter surfaced I kind of wrote it off as either a) a joke or b) a clumsy bit of forgery from the transitional government (which was fishing for support from African countries and the wider world at the time). I wouldn't put it past our friends at Select Armor and ATS tactical to have slipped it to the Chinese actually. But why did the Chinese bother to leak it? Maybe they didn't. After all, the analysis only says "our chinese source" or something like that doesn't it? It does seem odd that the "Islamic Republic of Somalia" should be plotting everything in advance back in late 2005. It's almost as tragic-comic as the Islamic Courts-Hezbollah connection made by the UN report before the invasion. Szamko @ 04/14/07 10:21:44
have you read the analysis? I was thinking b) but the fact that it was written in 2005 doesn"t strike me as "odd", not if you know the background of the alleged author, the UIC have been around for a good while now read the analysis, it's good BurningMonk @ 04/14/07 10:34:55
Yes, its very good. Who wrote it? Is it from the Wikileaks staff? It has some Chomskyite flourishes e.g. "To those who believe in the essential benevolence of US power and foreign interventions – which includes the entire permissible spectrum of US political thought – the intervention in Somalia is the prime example of such benevolence." I guess the timing of the memo isn't implausible, but I really don't know what Aweys was up to in October 2005. He only became known to me during the battles against the warlords armed by the U.S. last year. It could be genuine. Mind you, I'd like to see a full translation. Why doesn't wikileaks provide one? One thing that the analysis doesn't ask is this. Is the leaked document intended to enhance the profile of wikileaks.org? It certainly attracted some media interest. From the Washington Post, and from Time, and also the Guardian. Wikileaks itself is using its analysis of the document as an advert for its services in the future. Szamko @ 04/14/07 11:13:23
I saw a really interesting interview with Sheikh Sharif Ahmed this morning on Al Jazeera but I'm having some trouble finding it online. The IHT has an article about the interview here but it doesn't really tell you anything much. How frustrating. Look out for it on the TV. Al Jazeera don't seem to have posted the interview onto their website. Szamko @ 04/16/07 05:52:45
Who wrote it? Is it from the Wikileaks staff? yes, I think it is It could be genuine. Mind you, I'd like to see a full translation. Why doesn't wikileaks provide one? do you know many people who speak Somali? (fascinating language, just like Amharic from neighbouring Ethiopia) the zipfile provides a translation btw but I don't know if it's a full one, I'm at work so I can't download it Is the leaked document intended to enhance the profile of wikileaks.org? good point, but if they wanted to that they surely would've used something else, more "sexy", like those missing white house emails or something BurningMonk @ 04/16/07 09:17:39
Likely forgery
There are many problems with this document, some chronological, others rather obvious.
The first is the purported date of November 9th 2005, where Aweys discusses the persecution that Muslims and Islamic leaders and scholars are facing by the Transitional Government, and the need to turn Puntland against the Transitional Government.
In November 2005, the Transitional Federal Government was a joke. It wasn't even in Somalia, it only managed to take over Baidoa by literally bribing a Mirifle warlord to invade his own autonomous state of Southwestern Somalia and take over a rival's fiefdom, the city of Baidoa, and this took place in February of 2006.
On November 9th 2005, the Transitional Federal Government was a bunch of tired old politically dead warlords shuffling their feet in Nairobi, Kenya. Now re-read the letter again, with this knowledge in mind.
It gets better. The letter then talks about "Faction leaders fighting against this government". Where, in Kenya? There IS the SRRC in Jowhar, but that is never mentioned. Nor, most bizarrely of all, is there any mention made of the CIA-funded Mogadishu warlords, which were the UIC's top priority at this point.
Most glaring of all however is the name. The official name of the UIC changed three times. From 2000 to 2006 it was called the Joint Islamic Courts, then the Islamic Courts Union in early 2006 and finally the Supreme Islamic Courts Council in mid 2006. Aweys was only the overall leader after the LAST name change, and in 2005 was in fact simply the Sharia jurist for his particular court. The leader of the UIC was Sharif Sheikh Ahmad until the Shura Council was created, in which case power was shared between Aweys and Ahmad.
Finally there is the location. Dusamareb is ruled by the local Ugas of the Ceyr, a man noted for his absolute power over the city and rejection of the UIC. Dusamareb was never held by the UIC, and in fact supported Abdi Qeybdiid's invasion of the UIC in December 2006. Any pretense of Dusamareb being part of the "Islamic Emirate of Somalia" in Dusamareb, in 2005, is laughable. The UIC studiously avoided any hostile moves towards Dusamareb precisely to avoid a conflict with the Ugas.
Finally there are far too many references to modern concerns. 2005 may seem like just 7 months prior to the UIC taking over, but considering the vast restructuring of the entire political order in the ensuing year, the national issues were completely different than those expressed in the "leaked" document.
- Good comment. Do you think there are any other motives than that mentioned in analysis? 126.96.36.199 13:21, 25 November 2007 (GMT)
- Well, to westerners it may seem pointless to smear the UIC, but to Somalis they are the "good guys". They were and are against the warlords (who make up the TFG) and the regional states (who to Somalis represent the betrayal of Somali nationalism) and "clannism" (which Somalis blame for the civil war) and were for justice and Islam and national pride. It is the UIC that has popular support, not the government. The government has been literally trying everything to reverse that trend.


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Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment and the American Museum of Natural History
This workshop has already taken place.
The appeal of wilderness and the great outdoors that drew so many current geoscience faculty to the discipline is just not relevant to many students who have grown up in an urban environment. How do we make geoscience relevant to students in an urban setting? How do we engage urban students in geoscience? How can we better integrate into all geoscience courses the very real geoscience issues that disproportionately face the populations of our cities? Successfully addressing these issues is crucial not only to increasing diversity in the geosciences but also to building a geo-literate urban population.
Join us for an exciting collaborative workshop focused on reaching urban students and teaching urban issues in geoscience at the undergraduate level.
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Journal of Creation 9(2):138–139, August 1995
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The 'principle of least astonishment'!
So ran the heading in the journal Nature, as geophysicist Ronald Merrill of the University of Washington (Seattle) tried to grapple (unsuccessfully) with the newly published evidence confirming that 'extraordinarily rapid' reversals of the Earth's magnetic field have indeed occurred.1,2
A decade ago, Prévot and Coe (and colleagues) reported in three papers the evidence they had found of extremely rapid changes of the Earth's magnetic field recorded in lava flows at Steens Mountain in southern Oregon (USA).3,4,5 Scientists regard Steens Mountain as the best record of a magnetic reversal because the volcano spewed out 56 separate flows during that episode, each of these rock layers providing time-lapse snapshots of the reversal. Within one particular flow, Prévot and Coe discovered that rock toward the top showed a different magnetic orientation than did rock lower down. They interpreted this to mean that the field shifted about 3° a day during the few days it took the single layer to cool.6 Such a rate of change is about 500 times faster than that seen in direct measurements of the field today, so,
most geomagnetists dismissed the claim by applying the principle of least astonishment—'it was easier to believe that these lava flows did not accurately record the changes in the earth's magnetic field than to believe that there was something fundamentally wrong with the conventional wisdom of the day'
on the origin and history of the field.7
There the story would have ended, except that Coe and Prévot have continued their painstaking work. Now they have reported that the rate at which the orientation of the ancient magnetic field rotated reached an astounding 6° per day over an 8-day period, and have argued that these field changes recorded in these lava flows at Steens Mountain do reflect changes in the Earth's main magnetic field.8
These findings veer far from the textbook image of how the Earth is supposed to work. Says Roberts of the University of California, Los Angeles, 'to a theoretician like myself, these results are almost inconceivable'.9 Yet earth scientists lack a firm understanding of the Earth's magnetic field. According to current theory, swirling currents of molten iron within the Earth's outer core create a dynamo that powers the magnetic field. It is believed that once every few hundred thousand years, the field flips orientation, swapping north pole for south pole. These so-called magnetic reversals supposedly take about 10,000 years from start to finish.
Most geophysicists questioned the original finding. 'I can't really understand the mechanism', says Hoffman of California Polytechnic State University.10 In the face of this conundrum, some geophysicists are trying—so far unsuccessfully—to pin the rapid shifts on something other than the core itself. Critics have thus pointed out that the magnetisation might not be primary; it is not uncommon to find lava flows that have been remagnetised long after they cool, for example, because of chemical alteration. Thus they concluded that the alleged rapid changes in the Earth's field really reflect an imperfection in the magnetic recording process, an 'artefact' according to Bloxham of Harvard University.
However, Coe and Prévot (with Camps) have now tackled such criticism head-on, making a convincing case against the 'magnetic artefact' argument. The two lava flows they have studied have quite different magnetic properties and yet show similar signals, making it harder to blame some glitch in the record. Hoffman agrees:
'We haven't found anything really questionable about the rock magnetics.'
Similarly, they have convincingly countered other hypotheses, such as that the changes in the magnetisation reflected changes in the external magnetic field associated with, say, a magnetic storm.
Bloxham acknowledges that he and his geophysicist colleagues are having a hard time explaining away the findings. 'People are taking them seriously', he says.11 Indeed, Merrill agrees. 'They are some of the best experimentalists in the world. They've made it much more difficult to be a skeptic', he says.12
'In short, if Coe et al. are correct, then the consequences could be much more profound than they say' concludes Merrill.13
'All this leaves us with a dilemma; we would like to apply the principle of least astonishment, but to which data and interpretations? Some scientists will accept the view as given by the authors [Coe et al.]. Others, I suspect, will choose to believe the rock magnetic record is still inaccurate …'
However, Merrill and all his uniformitarian colleagues have failed to consider his own stated—alternative that there is
'something fundamentally wrong with the conventional wisdom of the day'
on the origin and history of the Earth's magnetic field! Why? Because they would have to abandon their dynamo theory and its millions of years time-scale? In fact, there is a viable alternative explanation for both the origin of the geomagnetic field and for the rapid field reversals (in days and weeks, not thousands of years) that fits all the data—freely decaying electric currents in the Earth's core, as proposed by young-earth creationists Barnes and Humphreys,14,15 with the rapid field reversals associated with the Flood event. Indeed, Humphreys predicted that evidence of rapid reversals would be found before Coe et al. announced their 'discovery'. How much more data then do Coe et al. need to generate before the geophysical community is prepared to abandon its failed dynamo theory? Perhaps Merrill could be right on one point –
'Eventually, the consequences should be profound'
We may yet all be astonished!
- Merrill, R. T., 1995. Principle of least astonishment. Nature, 374:674–675. Return to text.
- Coe, R. S., Prévot, M. and Camps, P., 1995. New evidence for extraordinarily rapid change of the geomagnetic field during a reversal. Nature, 374:687–692. Return to text.
- Prévot, M., Mankinen, E. A., Grommé, C. S. and Coe, R.S., 1985. How the geomagnetic field vector reverses polarity. Nature, 316:230–234. Return to text.
- Mankinen, E. A., Prévot, M., Grommé, C. S. and Coe, R. S., 1985. The Steens Mountain (Oregon) geomagnetic polarity transition, 1. Directional variation, duration of episodes, and rock magnetism. Journal of Geophysical Research, 90:10,393–10,416. Return to text.
- Prévot, M., Mankinen, E. A., Coe, R. S. and Grommé, C. S., 1985. The Steens Mountain (Oregon) geomagnetic polarity transition, 2. Field intensity variations and discussion of reversal models. Journal of Geophysical Research, 90:10,417–10,448. Return to text.
- Coe, R. S. and Prévot, M., 1989. Evidence suggesting extremely rapid field variation during a geomagnetic reversal. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 92:292–298. Return to text.
- Merrill, Ref. 1, p. 674. Return to text.
- Coe et al., Ref. 2. Return to text.
- Monastersky, R., 1995. Earth's magnetic field follies revealed. Science News, 147:244. Return to text.
- Appenzeller, T., 1992. A conundrum at Steens Mountain. Science, 255:31. Return to text.
- Appenzeller, Ref. 10. Return to text.
- Monastersky, Ref. 9. Return to text.
- Merrill, Ref. 1, p. 674. Return to text.
- Humphreys, D. R., 1986. Reversals of the earth's magnetic field during the Genesis Flood. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Creationism, R. E. Walsh, C. L. Brooks and R. S. Crowell (eds), Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, pp. 113–126. Return to text.
- Humphreys, D. R., 1990. Physical mechanism for reversals of the earth's magnetic field during the Flood. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Creationism, R. E. Walsh and C. L. Brooks (eds), Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, pp. 129–142. Return to text.


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Sony outlines PlayStation Network revival plans
Creates security officer position, promises incentives for gamers
At a Tokyo press conference this morning Sony executives apologised for the PlayStation Network outage that has seen the theft of millions of gamers' personal data - possibly even credit cards.
Sony revealed its "Welcome Back" programme designed to reward customers affected by the outage.
Sony will offer "selected PlayStation entertainment content" for free download on a region by region basis. It will announce the content soon.
All existing PSN customers will get 30 days free membership in the PlayStation Plus service. Existing PS+ customers receive 30 days free. Qriocity subscribers receive 30 days free.
Sony promised more Welcome Back "entertainment and services" over the coming weeks as PSN is turned back on. Sony reconfirmed the news that some PSN and Qriocity services will be available this week. Sony will first turn back on gaming, music and video services.
Meanwhile, Sony went into a bit more detail on last week's cyber-attack that rocked the game industry and left personal data tied to 77 million PSN accounts stolen.
Sony has implemented a variety of new security measures to provide greater protection of personal information. Tests have been conducted with third-party security experts to verify the strength of PSN, and the job of Chief Information Security Officer has been created to "add a new position of expertise in and accountability for customer data protection".
The new security measures include:
- Added automated software monitoring and configuration management to help defend against new attacks.
- Enhanced levels of data protection and encryption.
- Enhanced ability to detect software intrusions within the network, unauthorized access and unusual activity patterns.
- Implementation of additional firewalls.
Sony has come under fire for not encrypting personal data, such as passwords. In the UK the Information Commissioner's Office plans to discuss the security failure with Sony to see whether it was in breach of the Data Protection Act.
But Sony has insisted it encrypted credit card information, and this morning stressed that it has found no evidence "at this time" that credit card data was stolen.
Hirai confirmed the number of exposed credit card numbers was about 10 million. Sony is unsure if those card numbers were actually stolen, and it doesn't know if hackers are trying to use them in fraudulent purchases.
Once PSN comes back online, it will force a system software update that requires all registered PSN users to change their account passwords. The password can only be changed on the same PS3 in which that account was activated, or through validated email confirmation.
"This criminal act against our network had a significant impact not only on our consumers, but our entire industry," Sony deputy president Kazuo Hirai said.
"These illegal attacks obviously highlight the widespread problem with cyber-security. We take the security of our consumers' information very seriously and are committed to helping our consumers protect their personal data. In addition, the organization has worked around the clock to bring these services back online, and are doing so only after we had verified increased levels of security across our networks.
"Our global audience of PlayStation Network and Qriocity consumers was disrupted. We have learned lessons along the way about the valued relationship with our consumers, and to that end, we will be launching a customer appreciation program for registered consumers as a way of expressing our gratitude for their loyalty during this network downtime, as we work even harder to restore and regain their trust in us and our services."
Sony is working with law enforcement to track down and prosecute the hackers, it said.


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The Rationale Why God Created Woman
This is a partial reply to a comment made by my reader, Scott Fogg, regarding the article entitled, "The Church Of The Bible: The Only 100% True Church". In the first part of his comment, Scott wrote the following:
Dear Scott,
There is a saying that, "Behind every great man is a great woman". Esther is not a leader, but an influential figure to Mordecai, the chief minister of King Ahasuerus, and to the King himself. She is not a prophetess as Seventh Day Adventists claim for Ellen G. White.
Understanding the Bible in its context will teach you that women are not intended to be leaders of God's people. Consider the following reasons:
Throughout the history of God's people, the Israelites, it is God's will that His chosen nation or people be perpetually led by a man.
Such principle was applied to the people of God in the New Testament times.
Consider the rationale for the creation of the woman.
By this, God does not "indiscriminately discriminate" women. He is just standing on His principle and the original idea of creation. Authorities of the New Testament understood this.
In the Church of God, we have a high esteem and respect for our women brethren; but we stand to the divine principle outlined by God in the Bible, and we respect God above our women.
There are collateral realities to consider. Women have caused the fall of some of God's great men in the Bible. Adam, the best example, was convinced by Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. Solomon was separated from God by his women. Samson fell prey to the Philistine through Delilah.
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
There are also prophetic realities to consider:
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Just the thought of a woman leading God's people spells destruction.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken.
For God's will to be fulfilled that His people or chosen nation be led perpetually by a man, He proclaimed the coming of an eternal leader in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Remember, as promised by God, the throne of David will be ruled by men, not by any chance, a woman!
Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
I welcome your notion that God has the right to use those that are willing and able to be instruments in making His will be known unto people. But I am sorry you gave a wrong example when you mentioned that a mule was used by God to speak to one of His prophets. For your information, Balaam is not a prophet of God. Neither the mule is willing nor able because animals were not given the free-will like men, to be willing to obey God. They are always subjective to God's will, whether they like it or not.
Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Korah.
For your information, Balaam is a Mesopotamian prophet for hire! He is not an Israelite and his home was Pethor, near the Euphrates River in Northern Mesopotamia.
It would have been better if you used Luke 19:40.
And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Even stones can be made by God to cry out or to speak God's will, but that is if and only if the apostles will "hold their peace" and keep silent.
See the point?
God Bless!


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Any decks, additions, or other attachments to any home on a metal chassis must be self supporting.
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