Tuesday, October 7, 2014

CM PRESS # 735

NATURE TRUMPS NURTURE IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SAYS STUDY REPORTED IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

Is the LA TIMES finally catching on to the importance of DNA and genes?

By the way, nature also trumps nurture in various sports  abilities such as running.

Wouldn't it be nice if humans were all the same and all had the same abilities and that genes didn't matter, and that those who excel in various ways excel because they were raised right or worked to perfect whatever it is that they come to excel in?   Unfortunately, that's not the way of nature or evolution.

Of course, not every individual of  the various general genotypes has the abilities or lack of abilities of the general genotype into which one is born, and personal effort to be the best is always a good thing.

Also, in thinking of sports, and in particular boxing, those born with what appear to be natural advantages--say, long legs and arms and fast feet and hands--often lose to those who seem to lack these natural advantages.

I'm thinking of Rocky Marciano, the only undefeated World Heavyweight champ. Marciano had short legs and arms and he wasn't that fast.  Of course, what wasn't recognised until too late by many of his opponents was that Marciano didn't try to fight their fights.  He didn't try to stay on the outside.  Had he done so, he would have lost.  Instead, Marciano moved inside where  his short arms were like battering rams or pistons.  One opponent said Rocky hit him so hard in the arm in the first round that the arm was useless the rest of the fight. Another advantage Rocky had was that he had a strong jaw and could take the punches while getting on the inside.
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THIS JUST IN...

Costa Mesa finishes 2013-14 fiscal year with at least a $6 million budget surplus
Posted Date: 10/7/2014

Costa Mesa’s General Fund finished the 2013-14 fiscal year with at least a $6 million surplus, according to the city’s preliminary audited numbers.

The surplus—which represents 5.5% of the General Fund budget—was achieved through a combination of higher-than-expected revenues and disciplined spending and financial management, allowing the city to finish in the black for the fourth consecutive year. Over the past four fiscal years, the city’s budget surpluses have added up to $19.4 million ($6 million for 2013-14; $7.1 million for 2012-13; $2.5 million for 2011-12; and $3.8 million for 2010-11).
“We are pleased to deliver to taxpayers another significant surplus,” said the City’s Chief Executive Officer Tom Hatch. “We look forward to discussing with the City Council and community how to incorporate the surplus into our future financial planning.”

Final audited numbers will be available in November when the city’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) is completed.
[Above press release just as received from city hall]
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LIKE OR DON'T LIKE COFFEE?

It's your genes.

Genes are us.

Free will is much overrated.
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CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT!

If you want Costa Mesa to get even nicer, be sure to vote for two candidates who will keep improvement moving forward.

The improvement obstructionists are running campaigns that say they listen or that they'll be polite or some such nonsense.  In other words, they're saying nothing.  It's just emotion.

Let's work to keep gangs and criminals from taking over the streets as they did back in the '90's.

If you weren't here then, or if you weren't paying attention, you may not know that we had a number of shootings and killings back then and the council at that time had no clue as to how to stop it.

Let's not turn back the clock to those days, folks.  Think and vote for improvement minded candidates.
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SOME EXPERTS NOW THINK EBOLA SPREADS MORE EASILY THAN THE AUTHORITIES ARE LETTING ON

What did we tell you?

The Ebola virus is trying to survive and spread and it is more than likely mutating to overcome obstacles.*

*We've anthropomorphized this for effect but, of course, the virus does not have a "will," as we know the term. What is going on is that viruses produce many generations in a short time. With each new generation (as with any organism) certain mistakes of replication creep in.  These mistakes are mutations.  If the mutations give those organisms a greater chance of survival than those without the mutations, then those with the mutations will tend to replace earlier forms via natural selection.
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AMERICAN FREEDOM PARTY HAS SEVERAL NEW COLUMNS ON THE RECENT DUST UP IN HUNGARY THAT RELATE PHILOSOPHICALLY TO BOTH THE ITEM BELOW ABOUT AUSTRALIA AND THE ONE FURTHER DOWN ABOUT ISRAEL

The blending and  homogenization of humans.
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AUSTRALIA BEING FORCED TO BE LESS WHITE

Here's a situation similar to the one we wrote about down below concerning Israel.

In both cases, the charges of racism are being used to force these nations to give up self-determination and identity of distinct peoples in favor of being like the Star Wars Bar.
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STUDY DISCOVERS THAT MESSENGER MOLECULES CAN DOUBLE AS HORMONES

The deeper message here is that if you observe something in an organism and you don't know what it does, don't dismiss it as doing nothing.  Nature is a frugal engineer and designs life in a form follows function manner with no junk added.  If it's there, there's a reason for it. Just find the reason.
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MICHAEL SAVAGE TALKS ABOUT A SPIRITUAL DISEASE AND A NEW CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA IN HIS NEW BOOK.

WND column.
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ISRAEL: COURT THROWS ISRAEL INTO LEGAL CRISIS OVER ILLEGAL ALIENS

Israel is facing the same problem as many other nations:  Can a nation in the modern world be a nation of one people [however you define "one people"] or must every nation become a Star Wars Bar?

Or to put this another way in direct terms about self-determination and identity: Is it okay for a distinct people (defined by religion or ethnicity) to seek self-determination and identity for this distinct people within the boundaries of a defined geographic area that is a nation state?  Or, must the defined geographic area--the nation state--only be allowed an artificial self-determination and identity based not on religion or ethnicity, but on its geographic boundaries as a nation state?
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GREAT BRITAIN:WHITE BRITISH WORKING CLASS KIDS TURNED OFF BY ENDLESS STUDIES OF OTHER CULTURES

British culture was intentionally left out of such studies.

One teacher said the White working class kids might have lost their identity [and also their self and group esteem and sense of being worth something as human beings].
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COSTA MESA--AGENDA FOR TONIGHT'S CITY COUNCIL MEETING
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