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Small-business owners are becoming increasingly unhappy about how vague the presidential candidates are concerning the issues that affect them the most and more critical of the government's failure to help them cope with the economic downturn. Neither candidate is "making any meaningful proposals about anything," said a Florida small-business consultant who also faulted the government for bailing out big businesses but not giving emergency credit to small companies. NFIB statistics indicate that small businesses represent 15% of registered voters, a bloc big enough to sway the election.
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More than 150 children on Indian reservations across Arizona were given the opportunity this year to leave their failing schools for better performing ones.Read More »
U.S. House OKs bill giving tribes more control over mineral resources
The U.S. House approved a bill Thursday that aims to streamline the process of licensing energy projects on tribal lands, by shortening the time for federal approvals and limiting public comment on environmental impacts.Read More »
Tribes: Domestic violence program 'very successful,' but challenges remain
The Pascua Yaqui were one of three tribes – along with the Tulalip of Washington and the Umatilla of Oregon – that tested the tribal prosecutions under the Violence Against Women Act before it became available to all tribes this year.Read More »
Handful of holdout tribes dig in against gay marriage
Even if a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this spring makes same-sex marriage the law, it would leave pockets of the country where it isn't likely to be recognized any time soon: the reservations of a handful of sovereign Native American tribes, including the nation's two largest.Read More »
Coconino County Jail adding sweat lodge for Native American inmates
Kelvin Long, a Navajo who will serve as cultural adviser for a Native American religious program at the Coconino County Jail, inspects a circular rebar frame that will be covered with blankets to form a sweat lodge.Read More »
Senate plan would provide nearly $1 million annually to Navajo college based in New Mexico
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Rations Day at San Carlos
With little else to look forward to, rations day on the San Carlos Apache Reservation was an event. As evidenced by this photo, taken about 1895, men, women and children, on horseback, muleback, and accompanied by their dogs, converged on agency headquarters to receive their weekly allotment.Read More »
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The New York Mets missed out on Vladimir Guerrero at the last minute, but word is they might have a backup plan for the money they would've spent. It's a simple plan: Pick up Greg Maddux.
Some members of the Mets organization think Fred Wilpon could be convinced to use the $10 million to $11 million aimed at Guerrero on the right-handed free agent, according to The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record.
According to the newspaper, two lessons were clear when the Mets failed to land Guerrero: Agents Arn Tellem and Fern Cuza were using the team to get a better offer from the ultimately successful Anaheim Angels, and the Guerrero-to-Shea Stadium fantasy spurred New York to realize it could be one superstar away from becoming a 90-win team.
The Record reported that a major league official said the Mets plan to talk with Maddux's agent, Scott Boras.
Although Maddux -- who needs 11 wins to reach 300 -- will turn 38 in April, Boras has been trying to get the former Cy Young Award winner a three- or four-year deal at $10 million plus a year, according to ESPN.com's Jayson Stark.
Maddux -- who wasn't offered arbitration by the Atlanta Braves, then was spurned by the San Diego Padres and the St. Louis Cardinals this winter -- would fit at the front of the Mets' rotation, according to the newspaper.
If Maddux does go to the Mets, he would be reunited with fellow former Brave Tom Glavine.
Although Maddux is a tempting target, there's no guarantee Wilpon will add his salary to the Mets' already prodigious $80 million payroll, The Record reported.


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A couple weeks into this spring semester, the unexpected happened when I lost my grandfather back home. That was the last thing I expected to start my final semester of college with. Looking back, I can say I am so thankful for my teachers, the Campus Church, supervisors,...Read more
Dr. Adkins and Diet Coke
In my opinion, people make a school special. PCC is FULL of amazing faculty and staff. I LOVE running into Pastor McBride, my teachers, and supervisors from work. But, I always love running into Dr. Adkins, a favorite preacher on campus. His ready smile, "Hello,"...Read more
Dedicated to Excellence. Committed to Service.
This is the motto of all the faculty and staff here at PCC. What a great motto that shows the heart of our faculty! I have personally experienced firsthand the dedication and service of these wonderful faculty members. As a freshman all the way up to my junior year, I never, NEVER went to ask my teachers questions. I...Read more
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A teacher's job is to teach, right? Give lectures, tests, quizzes--the usual classroom stuff. Maybe help us with homework or projects, and that's it. They do their duties, and we go on our way. Here at PCC, the teachers genuinely care and look out for us. For me, that really all started back with History...Read more
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During my freshman year, I was in a Principles of Drawing class. This was the first art class I ever took. And, while I thank God for the principles I learned in that class, I thank Him even more so for my teacher. She did a wonderful job, and we all learned so much. I haven't had her as a teacher since, but I stop and talk to her almost every time I pass by her.


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Weird Eye Robot with the Arduino Starter KitTuesday, November 6th, 2012
[Robotgrrl] made a nice project with the Arduino Starter Kit: The Eye Robot.
It reacts differently when you 'pet' it and 'poke' it. Beware when it ruffles its brow! It enjoys singing short jingles. Rumour has it that the light up googely eye can peer into your soul.
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Montana Retreat Locations
What a better place than a Montana Bed and Breakfast for your company retreat, family reunion, group meeting, holiday party or celebration!
Glacier Country
Gibson Mansion Bed & Breakfast
Tom & Nancy Malikie
Missoula, MT 59803
Gibson Mansion is the ideal location for your office Christmas party, Birthday party, Baby showers, Family reunion, Anniversary celebration, Victorian Tea Party, and more. We can handle all types of events and will customize our spaces, as well as the menu, to fit your event. We can host your business retreats and corporate meetings with a relaxed yet professional atmosphere. Call or e-mail (email@example.com) and allow us to assist in creating a stress-free event.
Rocky Point Ranch
Sam Bernhardt
Missoula, MT 59803
Rocky Point Ranch and Lodge, in the heart of Montana's incredible natural beauty, is located between Thompson Falls and Plains, Montana. One and half hours from Missoula, Kalispell and Sandpoint.
This destination will welcome you to a unique setting, spacious theme rooms, and the luxurious style of country splendor. We have 60 acres of property which means there is plenty of Parking space, including RVs and Trailers. The Lodge and the grounds are 100 feet from the beach on the Clark Fork River. A unique setting for a Wedding and Reception. In fact we have several locations where the ceremonies can be held: Under the Cottonwood trees; in front of the Gazebo; the Fountain Plaza; and our new Rock Garden. Our commitment is to facilitate your very special day.
Contact Sam Bernhardt for an appointment
(summer 406 827 6030) (winter 406 360 6464)
Yellowstone Country
Paradise Gateway B&B and Cabins
Carol and Pete Reed
Emigrant, MT 59027
Paradise Gateway Bed and Breakfast and Cabins can host up to 32 people. Additionally, we have a gorgeous meeting room overlooking the river, which can be used for business sessions or other events, and supports all modern meeting needs (wireless internet, projection, group seating). And, when the work is done, you can play pool and saddle up with a whiskey next to our 1890 Brunswick bar, which still has remnants of silver-dollar markings from the cowboys who used it at a local saloon over one hundred years ago
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- Meeting Room with Internet/Projection Screen (bring your own projector)
- Special Event Planning Services (fly-fishing, Yellowstone tours, river rafting, etc)
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Fox Hollow Bed & Breakfast
Nancy and Michael Dawson
Bozeman, MT 59718
Fox Hollow is the perfect home for your small family reunion, retreat, business meeting, birthday party, baby shower, tea party or just any reason at all to get together. Fox Hollow offers you five over-sized guest rooms, each with private bath, refreshments and full gourmet breakfasts. With plenty of gathering space, Fox Hollow will host you and eight additional guests comfortably and professionally. Please call us for all of the details.


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Serialization solution for existing cartoner
May 11, 2016
If you're reading this then you are no doubt familiar with the concept of serialization. To put it simply, the process includes printing, inspecting and rejecting. A unique identifier, often a number, is printed on the carton. The printed information is then inspected and if not compliant, rejected.
As serialization requirements increase, many companies are left scrambling for a solution. Especially companies with existing packaging equipment, such as a cartoner. There are a few options. One would be to purchase a new cartoner with serialization capabilities. The other is adding the MGS Machine CIM (Carton Inspection Module) to an existing cartoner. The CIM is a small, one meter unit that prints, inspects and rejects all in one. The CIM can be installed downstream from any OEM cartoner easily. This self-contained, discretely validatable unit can accommodate up to 350 cartons per minute.
More information, spec sheet and video are available at this link: Click here
New Vortex tray feeder completes the MGS product line
November 13, 2015
At Pack Expo in Las Vegas, MGS unveiled the Vortex™, a new high-speed tray denester capable of speeds up to 300 per minute. Featuring a single-sided cantilevered design along with four-axis stepper motor system and full washdown compatibility, this new cost-effective screw denester offers easy installation, five-minute changeovers, and superior sanitation.
The introduction of the new Vortex™ provides MGS with a unique position, being the only manufacturer offering three distinct solution methodologies within the tray denesting marketplace. The advantage of this uniqueness to the end user is that the solution alternative can now be matched to the application based upon the environment, tray design, rate, and other project specifications. By focusing first on the tray denesting application, MGS can now determine which of our three methodologies is suited to deliver the best results. As an example, our IPP style vacuum pick and place denester is probably best suited for thin-walled, plastic bakery trays that lack a rigid, consistent flange. However, the tray denesting solution for redi-serve plastic trays with consistent flange spacing is most likely our new Vortex™, which will provide very reliable dispensing at an economical price point.
MGS is excited about this new addition to our denesting product line and the new opportunities it will introduce.
Market-centric Design for CT200™ Pharma-cartoner
August 25, 2015
When the MGS team determined to develop a new cartoner for the pharmaceutical market and after discussions with key customers and channel partners we arrived at the following conclusions:
- It needs to be high quality, like most European equipment
- The new machine must have a reasonable price, unlike currently available many high quality machines
- We want a reasonable length delivery and we want it when promised
- Service and support is really important
As the theory goes, there is a "push-pull" situation when simultaneously attempting to increase quality and service while holding the price down. With the possible exception of identifying the key applications for which the machine is to be designed and limiting scope to remain within these parameters.
MGS has in its corporate DNA a high level of care for customers. Delivery on time is challenging with design-to-order equipment. MGS has always worked hard and communicated effectively with customers about due dates and are very successful at meeting customers' schedule requirements. But a shorter delivery would require a change in operational strategy.
After market support and service has long been a hallmark of MGS. Quick response to calls and questions along with 24/7 availability is no longer an option; it's part of who MGS is. So this need was mostly resolved before new product design even started.
So the MGS product development team set out to design the new cartoner, once having good comprehension of the market requirements for speed, size ranges and applications. It needed to be high quality, offered at a fair price with good, reliable delivery and service support – with the last two already accounted for as within current corporate culture.
In the design phase, we maintained our tightened scope of work. The employment of lean design techniques set the pathway for several "cut and combine" meetings, reducing part count and simplifying the engineering work. Prototypes of critical assemblies were built to shake out the bugs and arrest and concerns of robustness or effectiveness.
Throughout this, we were successful in sparing little expense in materials or methods. The final product is a world-class machine, offered at a reasonable price, with the good and reliable delivery coming from the company many know and trust will care for their concerns throughout the product lifecycle. Introducing the CT200™ Pharma-cartoner by MGS Machine. Check it out at http://mgsmachine.com/prodinfo.php?id=35&product=CT200™—Horizontal-Continuous-Motion
Consider the Food Drive Challenge
February 3, 2015
MGS has been deeply involved in serving those in our community that have less. We do a semi-annual blood drive, collect toys that are distributed by a local church and we've also collect funds while in the shadow of national disaster such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. One of our more active, local campaigns centers on collecting food for our local food shelf. We've followed a novel approach in doing this.
MGS joined The Food Drive Challenge (www.fooddrivechallenge.org) a few years ago. This isn't an organization but is more like a "movement" of several small to medium-sized businesses around the country that would like to engage their staffs in working to support those in need in their local communities. It works like this:
– The company determines who will run their campaign and he / she registers the company on the website "The Biggest Giver" challenge at the link above.
– PDF tools and tips are available on the website
– A strategy is determined…do we have team competitions, a company-wide prize like a Friday off during the summer or some other plan to spur on participation?
– The food drive is conducted – the suggestion is to do it during the month of March as this is one of the low points for food shelves
– Results are reports in and the site administrator will provide an update to all companies participating as to how they did against the other firms and what we raised as a group
The basic idea is that this is good for the company, good for the staff and good for those in the community that receive the direct benefit
– The company benefits because people that give are generally better employees. All companies want the best employees. We all would rather work with "Givers" .
– Employees that participate have the opportunity to be part of something larger than themselves and contribute to serving others. We're all busy now days and we might have good intentions of getting involved in some kind of service work, but who can find the time? With the employer providing the opportunity do serve, the employee can easily become a part of this.
– Obviously those in need are served by what is raised – food, household items, etc.
By the way, in recent years many food shelves would almost prefer to receive monetary donations as they have the ability to purchase items at a lower cost than individuals. Our company provides a $1 to $1 match with our staff donations as an incentive. We've found more people willing to give cash than scrounge through their cupboards or go shopping.
So, would you consider urging your company into considering becoming part of the Biggest Giver Challenge at www.fooddrivechallenge.org? We hope so. And so does your staff and your community.
MGS Machine Corporation
9900 85th Ave N.
Maple Grove, MN 55369
ST. PAUL – Nine Minnesota companies that have built successful global markets have been named winners of the 2013 Governor's International Trade Awards during an award ceremony at the State Capitol. The companies were selected for developing and continuing to grow a significant part of their business in foreign markets, for increasing or maintaining jobs in Minnesota to support international sales, and for developing novel approaches for competing globally.
"International trade supports of thousands of Minnesota jobs and communities across our state. I want to congratulate all of these fine Minnesota companies on their international growth and continued commitment to our state," said Lt. Governor Yvonne Prettner Solon. "The entrepreneurial spirit of these businesses will help Minnesota's economy build on the more than 133,000 jobs created since 2011."
Among the winners this year was MGS Machine Corp. of Maple Grove, MN. MGS designs and builds automated packaging equipment and has produced over 14,000 units and shipped to 27 countries since 1979.
"We are pleased to recognize the outstanding achievements of these Minnesota exporters and the positive economic impact that exporting companies, both large and small, are making in communities throughout the state," said Kathleen Motzenbecker, executive director of the Minnesota Trade Office. "We applaud them for their global vision, hard work and creativity in tackling new international markets." More on the Minnesota Trade Office The Department of Employment and Economic Development's Minnesota Trade Office (MTO) is focused on increasing state export sales in foreign markets and attracting foreign direct investment to Minnesota. The MTO promotes international trade by providing export information, export education and training, and one-on-one counseling to Minnesota companies that wish to sell manufactured goods and services in the international marketplace.
There are a many ways you can drag down your Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) rating, but make sure you avoid these common culprits…
1. Under training. Machine operators should know how to properly load commodities and quickly clear jams to get the line back up and running. Train them accordingly, and place simple how-to instructions–with more pictures and less text–near the machines for fast cleaning, troubleshooting and changeovers.
2. Shoddy commodities. Stay on your vendors to ensure they provide quality commodities. Inconsistent and out-of-spec materials are hard on equipment and are big-time OEE drags. By optimizing your commodities, you'll make it easier for the equipment to run smoothly. The extra cost–usually just pennies–is worth it.
3. Lack of buffer zones. Strategically place buffers to compensate for downstream failures while the upstream equipment, which can be more difficult and time-consuming to restart, continues to operate. It'll help reduce labor costs and overtime and could increase your line capacity.
4. Out-of-synch speeds. Making sure that downstream equipment outpaces upstream machines seems like a no-brainer, yet we still see lines in which equipment speeds are not properly synchronized. Each successive machine must outpace its predecessor, or it'll pull down your OEE rating.
5. Surge charges. Improper spacing of equipment can trigger harmful surges, shutting down upstream equipment unnecessarily. Be sure you've got enough surge coverage and that the location of sensors allows for an efficient run.
6. Excessive "reject" stops. Your OEE rating gets nicked with every stoppage, so tread carefully here. Plan for a "reasonable number" of items to come off the line without a shutdown. Rethink what's truly a critical error–and worthy of a stoppage– and what isn't.
7. Refill shutdowns. Don't let new web rolls, labels, and tape put a halt to your run. Work with your OEM to allow refill changes to be made online, and keep things flowing.
Our firm:
MGS Machine serves the pharmaceutical market with its automated packaging machinery solutions. We have over 14,000 successful installations in 27 countries around the world. Our main campus is located in Maple Grove, MN USA. We work with pharmaceutical manufacturers and their contract packaging suppliers to implement automated secondary packaging lines.
MGS Machine Corporation
9900 85th Ave N.
Maple Grove, MN USA 55369
Secondary Packaging Serialization – An Approach
October 8, 2012
Serialization is an anti counterfeiting strategy being adopted by CPGs globally. Government has begun to mandate this in certain industries. Product serialization is one approach. Firms adopting product serialization must deal with data management at an enterprise, plant and line levels. This commentary provides an approach to secondary packaging applications. Unique serial numbers are marked on the unit of sale, then the case or bundle, and finally the pallet. Aggregation of these numbers occurs at the case and pallet. The following suggests how this may be done and minimize risk.
Goods available for sale that are of high value and reasonably easy to counterfeit are the most likely targets. We see this in the pharmaceutical industry (MGS' core market) but it is also a concern in electronics and with items like ink jet cartridges. Counterfeiting is done by highly organized crime rings using the profits to finance and expand their illegitimate operations.
Harm to the public comes in two principal ways – financial and health / safety. Consumers are duped when buying an item that may not meet the published claims. Manufacturers experience lost sales. And in the case of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, the risk to our health is potentially life threatening.
Industries' response to secure our product channels is to adopt various anti counterfeiting strategies. Special printing, holographic foils and chemical signatures are all in current use. The global pharmaceutical community has largely adopted the application of serial identifiers (unique, non-consecutive numbers) to their products. Throughout the distribution channel this number can confirm the product is legitimate. Importantly, the end consumer can verify this as well.
The infrastructure required to implement this is significant. This barrier has delayed moving forward faster. Government has gotten involved to mandate serialization among health care products manufacturers. The governments of Turkey and Brazil are early adopters. In the U.S., the State of California passed legislation in which serialization requirements start January 1, 2015. The business case for implementing serialization on existing (and all new) packaging lines is challenging to build. Government intervention will see to it serialization happens.
Our discussion will be geared toward the use of serialization within pharmaceutical packaging operations. Generating a random, unique number for each unit of purchase (each packaging line could require hundreds of numbers for every minute of operation) is the first challenge. Beyond that, each number must be associated with each product; groups of numbers (aggregates) must be associated with other unique numbers (parent – child relationship). Then, all this data must be managed, stored and made available well into the future.
Both plant and line level information systems must be in place and equipped to deal with this data. There are a number of firms and partnerships in the marketplace providing solutions for this. Our discussion will be centered on implementation at the packaging line level and how it can best be configured to provide accurate data to the line level information system.
It has become customary to apply the first or lowest level of serial identifier on the unit of sale. Commonly, this is either a bottle or carton. In few instances, it has been considered to apply serialization at an earlier level, such as a blister, vial, pouch or even a tablet. Our requested implementations have only been at the unit of sale as the lowest or first lead thus far.
Our discussion will center on applying the unique serial number to the carton, then case and finally the pallet.
Applying a serial number to the carton
Cartons have allowed space and location for printing or labeling that gives data on the lot and expiration date for many years. Adding a serial number to this means allowing for the necessary space to apply it. It may also require an upgrade printer technology.
Typically the serial number is applied in a machine-readable format, with the 2D code being chief among those. The 2D code is small, can be printed with either a laser or ink jet printer and has the ability to contain a lot of data. A few years ago, we saw RFID tags being considered, but have not been widely commercialized largely due to the unit cost.
It can be challenging to add a printing head and a vision camera or scanner inside of a cartoner. This creates a lot of clutter in and around the area of carton flap closing, a common area of cartoner failure. So clearing jams and cleaning the machine becomes problematic.
We recommend a small, separate print, verification and reject module be added to the line immediately downstream of the cartoner. This keeps these functions discrete and separate from the customer and easier to manage. Also, some of the modules can have lockable bins that insure rejects are not added back to the line by operations or other personnel.
It's critical this module maintain positive control of the carton to insure high quality printing, particularly the case with 2D codes. Otherwise, unnecessary rejects will occur. Also, the carton can be inspected for open flaps prior to being conveyed to the casepacker or bundling machine, eliminating a potential jam and line stoppage.
Applying a serial number to the case or bundle
This is where the first level of aggregation occurs (all cartons in the case or bundle are now tied to a new, unique, single serial number). Where another, new unique number is issued and all the serial numbers for each carton are associated with it (parent – child relationship).
Each carton serial number is read by a scanner or vision camera and collected by the line monitoring system. Then, the new serial number for the case or bundle is issued. In some equipment, it's possible to scan the collated cartons all at one time just prior to loading the case or wrapping the bundle. We recommend this as it provides additional assurance of which cartons actually make it into the case or bundle.
At this point, the case or bundle is now assigned a unique serial number. The line monitoring system must store this data and track it until the next function of the packaging line is performed. Typically this is palletizing, the last function on the packaging line.
Applying a serial number to the pallet
Each case or bundle having its unique serial number now arrives at the palletizing operation. Just prior to this, often we are asked to apply a label to the case or bundle displaying its 2D code.
With some line monitoring systems, it is also possible to print this label and include printing the serial number in human-readable format. Also possible, is to print the serial numbers for each carton included in the case or bundle in human-readable characters. This makes a user-friendly system.
Once the label is applied, the case is added to the pallet, either manually or via an automatic palletizing machine. A new, second level of aggregation takes place. All cases or bundles are now tied to another, new, unique serial number. Now the function of the packaging line is complete.
Our firm:
MGS Machine serves the pharmaceutical market with its automated packaging machinery solutions. We have over 14,000 successful installations in 27 countries around the world. Our main campus is located in Maple Grove, MNUSA. We work with pharmaceutical manufacturers and their contract packaging suppliers to implement serialized secondary packaging lines.
MGS Machine Corporation
9900 85th Ave N.
Maple Grove, MNUSA 55369


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Candidates for the entry level jobs with the US Postal Service may obtain a free pamphlet entitled Publication 60-A that was created back in 2004. It is designed to give job seekers a general overview of the postal hiring process, but does not provide step by step instructions, nor does it serve as a study guide for the exam, or as a coach for the interview.
This USPS document includes sample questions for each section of the exam, which may give candidates a false impression that the exam is very easy. The questions themselves are not all that difficult. The issue is time. In order to score well enough on the exam to get invited to the interview, you must be able to answer the questions correctly, AND at a pace fast enough so that you complete the entire exam. For this reason, simply having the sample questions does not adequately prepare a candidate to score well on the exam.
In addition, the other three steps in the process are important, and often taken for granted. The Search process can be difficult because four of the five ways you can search for jobs at the USPS site do not work properly and indicate a "no results found" message causing most candidates to overlook the majority of jobs that actually are available. The online application is tricky and it's easy to make careless mistakes. Proper guidance can prevent candidates from getting eliminated. During the interview, certain question will be asked. Coaching ahead of time can dramatically improve your performance and outcome.
Because candidates are hired based on their performance throughout the entire postal hiring process, it's very important that candidates do well in each step. Assistance is now available for postal job candidates that provides all the tools, resources and live support needed to perform well enough in each step of the hiring process to keep moving forward.
For details on what is included, please visit The Program page of this website. In short, by registering for this program, you will have access to the following items, which are not provided by the USPS:
- Job Locator – All current job openings, updated daily, on a geo map to make it easy to find jobs
- Job Alerts – Receive an email each time a new job opening becomes available in your area
- Tips for Each Step – Easy to follow, detailed step by step directions for the entire hiring process
- Postal Exam Simulator – Allows you to practice taking full length exams ahead of time so that you have a chance to learn how to score in the 90's consistently before taking the official exam
- Live Support – Informed and helpful agents available to provide individual assistance and guidance
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|March 2014
|Sample Exam Questions
|Full Length Practice Exams
|Automatically Timed & Graded Simulated Practice Exams to Take Prior to Official Exam
|Job Locator Tool (geo map of all current job openings)
|Job Alerts (via email as new job openings become available in your area)
|Tips to Help You Perform Better in Each of the 4 Steps of the Postal Hiring Process
|Live Support for Individual Assistance
As you can see from this table, registering for the program enables candidates to receive far more in the way of assistance than those who do not.
Make a move in the right direction, and take advantage of the assistance made available to you.


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The Empire bites back! Return of the Jedi cast look a little less sprightly as they reunite 30 years on from third Star Wars film
Their galactic battles with lightsabers, a planet-destroying Death Star and a band of furry teddy-bear style Ewok warriors captured the imagination of the cinema-going public in 1983.
But 30 years on, the stars of Return of the Jedi are looking like they could do with an injection of the Force themselves as they reunited at Star Wars Celebration Europe in Germany on Thursday.
Co-stars Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew, 69, Anthony Daniels, 67, Warwick Davis, 43, Jeremy Bulloch, 68, and Ian McDiarmid, 68, posed together at the convention, looking a little less sprightly than when the film was released.
May the force be with you: Jeremy Bulloch, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Warwick Davis, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels and Mark Hamill as pictured at the Stars Wars Celebration convention in Germany on Thursday
Carrie, 56, who played Princess Leia in the George Lucas-produced trilogy, wore tinted glasses, black trousers and T-shirt and a pink cardigan for her appearance.
Her more conservative ensemble was a little different from the rather revealing gold bikini she wore in Return of The Jedi.
The star has also struggled with her weight since then - becoming a spokesman for Jenny Craig back in 2011.
Youthful battles: Hamill as Luke Skywalker and Fisher as Princess Leia in 1983 film Return of the Jedi
Despite maintaining his golden locks, 61-year-old Mark Hamill - who played leading man Luke Skywalker in the original trilogy - looked a little more portly than when he played the fresh faced Tatooine native.
However, Davis, who played Ewok Wicket; Mayhew, as Wookiee Chewbacca; Daniels - droid C-3P0 - and Jeremy Bulloch - bounty hunter Boba Fett - don't need to worry so much about a comparison, having not shown their real faces on film.
Harrison Ford, who starred as Han Solo, was conspicuous by his absence at the convention, which marked Hamill's fifth.
Youthful: Hamill was 32-years-old when he starred as the Young Jedi Luke Skywalker in the third instalment
Fresh faced and fancy free: Fisher, posing with Mayhew's Chewbacca on set (right) was 26 when she made the film
'[Return of the Jedi] had this feeling of closure, Hamill told Yahoo. 'It was sad in a way, because you'd never see these people again.'
'For me, it was the beginning,' added Davis. 'It was the most amazing experience. I never thought we'd be celebrating that film 30 years on.'
The reunited cast have plenty to discuss, following the sale of Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise to Disney who announced they would be making a new series of movies from the galaxy far far away.
Blast from the past: Anthony Daniels was 35-years-old when he played C-3P0 in Jedi
Looking better: Ian McDiarmid will always look a lot better than his evil alter ego Emperor Palpatine
It's a hit! Return of the Jedi was the last of the original films from the trilogy to be released in 1983
Fisher has since confirmed she would be interested in reprising her role of Leia, jokingly telling the Palm Beach Illustrated her character will be 'in an intergalactic old folks' home.
She added: 'I just think she would be just like she was before, only slower and less inclined to be up for the big battle.'
And the actress and writer believes her character will still boast the iconic look that fans of the original trilogy love.
'[She will wear] the bagel buns and the bikini, because probably she has sundowners syndrome. At sundown, she thinks that she's 20-something. And she puts it on and gets institutionalised.'
She is the second member of the original core cast to reveal they wanted to appear in the JJ Abrams directed sequel.
Hamill previously said: 'They're talking to us. 'George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested.
'He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out. 'I can tell you right away that we haven't signed any contracts.'
Meanwhile, Ford has remained tight lipped about a possible return to the role of Han Solo which launched his career.
Return of the Jedi made more than half a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, with prequel films The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith following in 1999, 2002 and 2005 respectively.
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Leadakiss: Blizzard only does about 3 quarters to it, and if it has Air Slash, it'll just about kill me, though I will survive bar a crit. Fire blast however, cleanly OHKOes. Switch Mamo out to a weakened Toge and Snipe it off with ice shard. Swampert: Wood Hammer. Nuff Said. Roserade: Blizzard it, then if it Sleep Poeders on me, Switch to Mamo as it sets up Toxic Spikes, and Ice Shard away! Ninjask: Easy enough. Swicth to Walrein as they set up a sub, sub my own as they SD, then roar the recipient back. It's also nice to stall the pokemon that comes out. Azelf: Can be pretty risky since it's hard to tell what they pack right off the bat. I usually would switch to Wish fearing a fire blast; however if they decide to use SR then i Rapid Spin to break the Focus Sash (and just in case they Taunt); Switch to Kawaii if its low on health and explodes. Breloom: Oh boy. With a scarf it outspeeds Storm, so I go to Starmie to take the sleep, having Natural Cure and all. Then Froslass comes, Takes the Seed Bomb, Then I proceed to switch To Mamo to take the Stone Edge, and kills it off with and Ice Shard. Shown Half my party in a few turns, which is never good. Dragonite: Blizzard it. If it has a Focus Sash, it will Kill me with fire blast (bar hax). If Storm goes down, I go to Mamo who Snipes with Ice Shard. Possible SR up to boot. Empoleon Lead: 2 Earthquakes from Abomasnow and this thing is gone. SR or an attack is all that really gets through. Mamoswine: Switch to Starmie on first turn ond OHKO with surf. Metagross: Starmie comes in, Surf it. When it decides to explode I go to Froslass. Weavile: HP Fire afteer the Fake out so Counter wont work as well. Hp fire again, and its one pokemon down for them. Tyranitar: Weather leads always need to be taken out quickly. Switch to Starmie, and proceed to kill with Surf. If it doesn't quite get killed and Starmie goes down then there's always weavile and Mamo. Machamp: /bangs face on keyboard/ Annoying. Switch to Froslass to take an immune Dynamicpunch, T-wave or Blizzard it and sacrifice Kawaii. Storm then kills with blizzard if it has been damaged already. if not, its off to starmie to surf it. Jirachi: Since it Can't trick me ( already scarfed, silly!), it'll go for the Iron head, so i switch to walrein, which takes two turns to break the sub. From there it's PP stalling until it decides to switch. Hippowdon: BLIZZAAARRD! Once its dead, switch out and come in later. Infernape: Starmie Kills after it switches on the Fire move. Heatran: Switch to Starmie whether it uses SR or uses a fire move. Outspeeds ond kills with surf before this lava bomb goes off. Gliscor: BLIZZZAAARRDD! 'Nuff Said. Celebi: Never seen one, but when I do, It'll fear the Blizzard. Clean 2HKO. duhhh.... Walrein @ Leftovers /Bold Nature / Ability : Ice Body 220 HP/ 252 Defense/ 36 Speed Moves Roar Protect Substitute Surf Behold the simple(minded) yet awesome might of Stallrein. Simple enough to explain. Will outspeed several walls and Toxic stalll them, gaining half a sub (54 HP) every turn. Very Useful to the Team for beating blissey down and generally causing havoc on the other team. With Toxic Spikes up, it can easily defeat blissey at its own game. Speed EVs Allow it to outspeed Skarm and Swampert (and all nuetral base 70s for that matter) and Sub (or Protect) before they retaliate . From there its Toxic Stalling or Phazing if there are enough entry hazards on the field. No one likes being hit by Stealth Rock and/ or 2 layers of Spikes (not to mention Toxic Spikes). Kawaii! Froslass@ Leftovers / Timid Nature / Ability: Snow Cloak 248 HP / 140 Defense/ 120 Speed/ Moves Substitute Thunder Wave Blizzard Spikes My Spiker and Snow cloak abuser.Since Snow Cloak reduces accuracy by 20% then perfectly accurate moves (bar machamp) will have about the accuracy of Fire Blast. All the more useful to evade moves (and pull up subs with that speedy base 110 zooom-zoom power). If I manage to Thunder Wave the opposition, then it will have only about a 70 % chance to hit at any time which is really nice to set up Subs, Spikes, and the like. Overall, Very Useful when it comes to Messing around with enemies. As for the Speed Evs, those are for whenever a Lucario comes on any Pokemon other than Starmie, and I switch while it uses SD. This way I can Pull of a T-wave, Crippling it for the rest of the match, bar a cleric. Then A double switch ensues and the match goes on. Kawaii is cute in Japanese, Hence. Sea Wasp Tentacruel@ Leftovers / Calm Nature Moves Surf Sludge Bomb Toxic Spikes Rapid Spin After realizing that Starmie was far too frail to be an effective supporter for this team, i decided to go with what is, apparently, a very good stall pokemon, Tentacruel. With Toxic Spikes up, Froslass and Walrein were given much less burden than with Weavile on the team. Toxic spikes means I can use Surf on Walrein so I'm not walled by Steels. For Froslass That Means when Snow Cloak is in Effect, It Won't have to resort to blizzard and Can Set up Subs instead. On another note, this thing helps alot in walling (and stalling (heheh it rhymes!)). Infernape is usually walled by the the Jelly, which is good, since most of his sets can sweep my team otherwise (That's when Tenta and Starmie are down, so It's not going to happen a lot.) Wish Starmie@ Choice Scarf/ Timid Nature 252 Special Attack/ 252 Speed/ 4 Special Defense Moves Hydro Pump Grass Knot Thunderbolt Ice Beam A revenge killer, like Mamo, though it's specially based this time around. Thunderbolt and Ice Beam are fairly obvious, as is Hydro Pump. Grass Knot instead of trick due to the fact that I am just about walled by Swampert, who, along with Infernape, is very troublesome when not a lead. STAB Surf obliterates in tandem with BoltBeam. This is what my team wished upon a star for. Siberia Mamoswine@ Life Orb/ Jolly Nature 252 Attack/ 4 Defense/ 252 Speed Moves Ice Shard Stealth Rock Stone Edge Earthquake Standard attacking Mamo with a twist. Ironically, this team hates Stealth rock, though it likes the enemy having it to net kills. Hence, Life Orb over Choice Band. You're probably thinking "You already have Weavile, so why this?" Well, before i posted this, I din't really think about using Mamo until it became clear that this was the only viable thing in the OU metagame that can use stealth rock. I lose out to the Obese Chunk Of Fail, But at least it Cant use Twave on me. In the case that a Blissey switches in, Here are some calcs: Stone Edge to Bold 252/252 Blissey - 35.9% - 42.3% (Barring no crits) Earthquake to Bold 252/252 Blissey - 53.8% - 63.4% So I don't really lose out by much. Keep in mind that This is a Jolly Nature. So you see, Mamo is now a really integral part of the team. Besides, who DOESN'T love seeeing their opponents Blissey smashed by a Crit Stone Edge and then Ice Shard? And that is all, Folks! I'm to lazy to put other matchups, so there. I usually just use the Smogon sets, though i may tweak a little. What do you all think? Comment below!


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I think this works better...keep the Zetas Wrong Again thread on the front page and let Nancy's thread sink to the bottom. If the bunkers want to come here and try to defend nancy's foolishness, let them have at it.
I see that Tmad1 posted over there. It was only once and he did post information that was relevant. The problem is - the person he was aiming it at (burkettgirl) isn't going to care. She had already stated she believed Nancy's version of the story.
Otherwise, yeah, her thread is rather void of any significan life. Just Free Store, burkettgirl and Andrew casually chatting. Oh, and Max posting a
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That will be just about the extent of it, too.
If we feel inclined to respond to anything she says or claims, or laugh at it, just cut and paste it over here. It won't be long before her threads die with less than 10 pages (half of them being Max's juvenile graphics) while the Zetas Wrong Again threads grow "exponentially"!
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Skip to comments.New Pterosaur Fossil Forces Re-think of Standard Evolution
Posted on 10/21/2009 8:28:27 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Charles Darwin admitted that the sudden appearance of fully formed creatures in fossil deposits was one of the biggest problems with his hypothesis that nature generated living creatures through natural selection. His vision of organisms gradually morphing from one kind to another over vast time spans predicted that most fossils should reflect that steady grading from one basic body plan to another.
Some scientists believe they have found a creature that bridges one of the many gaps in the fossil record, although it requires a significant reworking of evolutionary theory. The crow-sized pterosaur fossil from China has been named Darwinopterus in honor of the year of Darwin. This is certainly ironic, considering the fact that the creature had none of the partially graded features that would show transition from one to the other of the two major pterosaur types. Instead, it demonstrated a unique mosaic of fully functional body parts...
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Looks like they don't have all the answers yet!
The mosaic pattern (think Platypus) instead of gradualistic intermediates is significant even within creationary thinking. I would actually expect more gradation in nature, as much as allowable by design constraints. Instead we seem to have a more discrete, modular nature of living forms. It would be interesting to explore the degree to which this is driven by design constraints, and the degree to which it is presumably due to other factors (such as negating any evolutionary explanation).
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What a preposterous position upon which to attempt to refute Darwin. Do you even read this crap before you post it?
This condition can only be satisfied when ALL fossil evidence is available. Obviously no one can make the assertion that no fossil remains undiscovered and that a conclusion can now be made that the Darwinopterus "suddenly" and "spontaneously" appeared.
You see, if one pretends to have answers derived from such a "sophisticated position", it invents a theoretical barrier for public debate.
The fact is they have no such understanding and the "scientific logic" does NOT hold together.
Is it necessary to believe in a young earth creation in order to be saved?
Meaning that you would have thought that God would have created a more blended creation, or that the capacity for change within the created kinds would make it look more blended and gradualistic?...I'm not sure I follow you here.
Which is why Richard Dawkins is becoming a laughingstock, even among evolutionists.
LOL...the more fossils they find, the worse it gets for darwood's evo-religous creation myth. Do your homework for a change.
It is not nor has it ever been about 'humans'. What is and will be protected is the system of 'scientific methodology'. But as with any doctrine the person that gains power to practice the system of 'scientific methodology' is where the harm is done.
IF evolutionist want to practice their system fine well and have at it. The harm was introduced to all of humanity when they got stature handed to them by the Supremes as the law of the land, and thus taxpayers have been required, even without representation to pay for their system...
Just wait a few years from now when BamaKennedy puts his touch on this system of 'scientific methodology', and what has been accepted as fittest to survive will be turned on its collective head. Some people are going to have to have their literal noses rubbed in that system before they will smell the smell.
Seems to me he has. It is you who insists on misinterpreting information to support your mistakenly held beliefs.
"Looks like they dont have all the answers yet!"
What? Do you have any real understanding of science at all? Statements such as yours provide further reinforcement to the fact that creation "science" is nothing of the kind (not that any such additional evidence was necessary, of course).
Faith and science are separate and coexist nicely. When an article of faith is used as the presumed end state in scientific inquiry, however, the process that results is not science, but rationalization. Without falsification, it is instead the creation rationalizers who have all the answers, as evidenced by the last line from the article:
See? Just like it says in Genesis! The End.
The author, Brian Thomas MS*, remains a shameless rationalizer, easily contradicted by even the least prepared thinking person.
As usual, they have cherry-picked one sentence upon which to base their claims against evolution. Go to G-Cube's link, scroll to the bottom, click on the first link provided for the real story.
That makes sense because we don't see living things popping up out of nowhere, created by God or anyone else.
Now, Platonism is not Christianity, but various Christian thinkers have explored it and think it may be on to something. I don't think there is any reason to suppose God 'had' to fill all morphospace, but it does seem apparent that God produced a wonderful variety of life and delighted in it. If this intuition is correct, we should expect to see 'intermediates' insofar as present life is a subset (due to extinctions) of the original created variety of life. The pattern would not match evolutionism closely, but would superficially look like it if you did not attempt to fit the intermediates into a specific evolutionary framework.
(Attempts to do so would tend to fail, leading to lineages filled with question marks and competing lineages based on conflicting criteria - in other words, just what the evolutionary community is faced with today.)
I hope that you don't mind.
I have a question for you:
Jesus told the pharisees that they didn't't believe what He was saying because they didn't believe what Moses wrote about Him.
What did Moses write about Jesus? And...what didn't the pharisees believe in regard to Mose's writing about Jesus?
Instead of showing the expected transitional attributes, Darwinopterus was a mosaic of fully formed features woven into a whole and functional animal, now presumed extinct.
Lyin' Brian here cannot even accept that these animals are extinct. Imagine that...
However, there remains no empirical evidence for a process like this occurring today
That's right, Lyin' Brian Thomas MS*.....if we cannot actually witness something in real time that takes eons to occur....it doesn't exist. BUT, Man walked the Earth with 100+ species of large meat eating dinosaurs....right?
And without such gradual changes, the creation of discrete forms must be considered as a superior origins explanation.
False conclusion, lyin' Brian.
Of course, lyin Brian Thomas MS* thinks this is an erotic nude artistic recreation.....turns him on....
Actually the exact opposite is true. The greater the variation (sigma) in any population the greater the probability for unanticipated or unpredicted (rogue) outcomes. I would recommend you take a basic course in probability and statistics before "Laughing Out Loud".
For your Salvation question,....no, you do not have to believe in anything but that Jesus is God in the flesh, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, took your sins to the cross and died so you wouldn't have to pay the sin price, and was alive again in 3 days, and rose to sit in judgment of the world. BTW, you must also repent of your sins and agree with God that you are a sinner.
One aspect of all this is to stop your rebellion to God. We lost our relationship with God by our rebellion to His sovereignty. To come back to God and have His Spirit within us, we must agree with God. This is why a Christian cannot say homosexuality is ok, when the Bible says plainly in numerous places that it isn't. Did God repent of the destruction of Sodom?
Now, in Genesis, God says during creation that the evening and morning was the first day. That is why Jews start their days in the evening,... because God did. The 6 day creation is a prophesy from God of our history. What He is telling us is we will have 6000 years of man on earth and end with 1000 years of God on earth. He explained creation, Adam and Eve, the Flood, ect, pretty plainly. It is us that start to question what God has plainly said, just as we did in the Garden when we were told not to eat of the fruit of just one tree. We did it anyway, thinking God was a liar.
If you study the Bible, you will see that the prophesies have all come true in their own time, in order. We have but 3 more Biblical prophesies in the future. Feast of Trumpets should be the day we are Raptured, Yom Kippur, or Judgment Day will happen after that, and Feast of Tabernacles will mark the beginning of the 1000 year reign of Christ on earth.
Now, some questions about a young earth. Dis God attempt to tell His people the future events coming their way? Yes. Did Christ fulfill His prophesied coming on Earth at the specified time? Yes. When Christ preached in the Synagogue, did he say we came from pond scum or Adam was a monkey, or the Flood didn't happen? NO! He preached Genesis, Word for Word, because He wrote it. If Jesus failed to report that Genesis was a lie, did He not sin and would that not make Him no better than any man and unable to be a sinless sacrifice for us?
The question isn't whether a Christian has to believe in a young earth, but are you a Christian? Are you still in rebellion? The Bible makes it clear that there is no excuse for non belief in God. He says that fools deny there is a God. He says "Thinking themselves wise, they became fools". He says He will confound them and allow them strong delusion.
As we see in this thread, the evo's will have to re adjust their theory to fit their set of "facts", as they have done for most of my 58 years. I will be attacked as a Bible thumper and called names here. I have read and seen their " facts" since I was a young boy and have determined that God is my friend, God doesn't lie, and I trust God more than atheist men. It is a personal choice I have made over the years as I see a "God" explanation in every pronouncement that they make trying to prove there is no God. Years of Bible study have given me answers that have never changed and years of name calling and fact "massaging" from evo's haven't changed a thing for me but to highlight their "lostness."
We are commanded to "work out our own salvation" and that is just what we must do. No one can say if you are saved or lost if you believe that the earth is billions of years old, but at some point you must decide if your Savior lied to you and the atheists are telling the truth. They certainly don't know what happened, so it is a theory, not truth as they would have you to think. I wasn't there to see Creation so I can't prove Intelligent Design. So it boils down to faith in God, or faith in men. I chose God, and name calling doesn't change the facts. Since Darwin wrote his book, they have changed the theory. They continue to change it because the theory is flawed. It just boils down to whether you are still in rebellion to God? Are you really "His people"?
As we "work out our own salvation" we are confronted with many questions that MUST be answered. One is "Is abortion murder?" Most Christians agree that life comes from God and killing a baby is murder. They have their own DNA, heartbeat, fingerprint, bloodtype, brainwaves, ect, but "scientist's" can't seem to determine if they are human till they come out of the womb. Is homosexuality permitted by Christians? The Bible has scores references on the subject, yet churches are splitting every day over the issue. Evolution is just another attempt by sinful man to remove God from the world and turn Christians from the Truth. IMHO, of course. ;<)
(b) Documenting an evolutionary transition
Darwinopterus provides, to our knowledge, the first detailed insights into the transition from basal pterosaurs to pterodactyloids and, when combined with our rapidly increasing knowledge of the pterosaur fossil record (Barrett et al.2008), helps to pinpoint several key features regarding the nature and timing of this event (figure 4c). Two distinct phases are recognized. In the first, elongation of the skull, breaching of the bony bar separating the nasal and antorbital opening, reconfiguration of the cranium leading to an increase in the relative size and volume of the braincase and simplification of the dentition, together with changes to the shape of the cervical vertebrae and loss of the cervical ribs, culminated in the monofenestrate skull and modified neck inherited by Darwinopterus and all pterodactyloids
The authors cleary state that Darwinopterus is a transitional fossil.
It appreas that Mr Thomas should do a little research on Exodus 20:16
I've asked over and over for a description of what one of the "transitionals" they claim doesn't exist would look like. I finally got one to answer that if birds came from dinosaurs, we should find four-legged dinosaurs with little wing stubs that gradually got larger (as, I guess, the front legs withered away). Another one recently asked why, if animals evolved pairs of eyes, we didn't find fossils with just one eye, then fossils with, I guess, one and a half eyes, until we got two. Apparently a non fully formed creature is something that exists now with parts subtracted.
With the number of highly adapted predators and scavengers prevalent in the ecosystems the dinosaurs lived in the probability of any intact carcass surviving is incredibly remote. Its kind of like expecting to find a whole chicken in the dumpster behind an NFL training camp kitchen.
Those that are found relatively intact are nearly all the result of geological event, which feeds the YEC crowd's wrong stratum argument.
That's the most obvious baiting that I've seen in a long time.
I get that about once or twice a month. I used to give long and involved answers, but since I have learned to conserve my energy, I have found a simple "no" will do :o)
Wow, since the Temple of Darwin blessed it as a transitional, there must be no other interpretation...LOL!
The point is, they did not expect or predict (and were indeed surprised and frustrated) that the so-called "transitional" would be a mosaic of fully functional body parts. Do try to keep up, Ira.
As I stated in an earlier post, due to scavenging and predation, the probability of finding a complete or intact fossil is more remote than finding a whole, intact chicken carcass in the dumpster behind an NFL training camp kitchen. You just have to keep reminding yourself that discussing science with most of the YEC types is like trying to describe a sunset to someone who is color blind.
So what empirical evidence does the author cite to show any other interpretation?
Ira, Ira, Ira...why is it so hard for the evos to grasp that the empirical evidence is the same for both sides? The question is, which side explains the empirical evidence better. And seeing how the evos were "surprised" and "frustrated" by this new pterosaur, whereas biblical creation anticipates such mosaic creatures, I think it is clear which side has the superior exlanation for the same. Or in the words of the author:
Instead of showing the expected transitional attributes, Darwinopterus was a mosaic of fully formed features woven into a whole and functional animal, now presumed extinct. The researchers noted that it had a head like Pterodactyloids, but it also had the body and long tail of Rhamphorhynchoids. This bizarre combination came as quite a shock to us.[1]
Thus, these authors advocated a controversial new mechanism for the origin of speciesrapid, modular evolution. In this view, significant and whole groups of features (termed modules by the researchers) somehow shuffled between different life forms, then became rewired to make a totally novel form, very rapidly.[1] However, there remains no empirical evidence for a process like this occurring today.[3] Instead, modular evolution is entirely inferred from the fossil records lack of clearly transitional forms.
Darwinopterus still provides no evidence for gradual transitions between major functional body parts―neither within pterosaurs, nor between their supposed land-based reptile ancestors and flying reptile descendants. And without such gradual changes, the creation of discrete forms must be considered as a superior origins explanation. Thus, the admitted evolutionary frustration is quite understandable.
The creation model predicts that each living creature always existed in basic either/or forms. It is thus gratifying for Bible believers, and not at all frustrating, to learn that fossil creatures are found exactly that way.
Unwin admitted that whole groups of features
that form important structures
seem to have evolved together.[1] It would be difficult to find a better way to describe Gods creative activity as revealed in a plain reading of Genesis―whole groups of features that form important structures appeared together suddenly, when he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.[4]
The creation model predicts that each living creature always existed in basic either/or forms. It is thus gratifying for Bible believers, and not at all frustrating, to learn that fossil creatures are found exactly that way.
However this evidence directly contradicts the assertion shown above. ·
(b) Documenting an evolutionary transition
Darwinopterus provides, to our knowledge, the first detailed insights into the transition from basal pterosaurs to pterodactyloids and, when combined with our rapidly increasing knowledge of the pterosaur fossil record (Barrett et al.2008), helps to pinpoint several key features regarding the nature and timing of this event (figure 4c). Two distinct phases are recognized. In the first, elongation of the skull, breaching of the bony bar separating the nasal and antorbital opening, reconfiguration of the cranium leading to an increase in the relative size and volume of the braincase and simplification of the dentition, together with changes to the shape of the cervical vertebrae and loss of the cervical ribs, culminated in the monofenestrate skull and modified neck inherited by Darwinopterus and all pterodactyloids
Mr Thomas is dishonestly cherry picking the paper in an attempt to support a completely un-scientific position.
GGG may not know squat about science and evolution but he certainly has condescension down pat.
When that is all that you have you have to go with it.
may does not know squat about science and evolution but he certainly has condescension down pat.
There, fixed it for ya.
"Existence of Creationists Cause Scientists to Posit Two Evolutionary Paths from Homo Habilis: One to Modern Humans, the Other to Smaller-Brained 'Creationist' Species."
GGG is more of an AIDS expert. His homepage has lots of good links.
You don't actually have to go lower case. Upper case GGG still looks a great deal like 666.
another one hits the mat.
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