Ciro

For The Love Of Cockroaches Most people hate cockroaches and assume no one could love these insects. It's not true. There are people who recognize the value of cockroaches. Cockroaches are favorite laboratory animals in both research and teaching. This is partially due to the ease with which cockroaches can be maintained. A large colony of cockroaches requires little space and minimal care. This probably comes as no surprise to anyone who has had a cockroach problem in their home. In fact, one scientist once wrote, ”The laboratory investigator who keeps up a battle to rid his rat colony of cockroaches may well consider giving up the rats and working with the cockroaches instead.’ Cockroaches have been used widely to introduce students of all ages to the study of entomology. The cockroach serves as a model animal from which to learn the anatomy and physiology of insects. In many biology classes, students care for live cockroaches and, in the process, learn about the life habits of the insect. There is probably no greater spectacle in nature than the molting process in the insect world. Many students are first exposed to this biological phenomenon when caring for a cockroach. You can imagine their surprise when they find a newly molted white cockroach in their insect cage. The American cockroach, Periplaneta americana, B.D. is used widely in teaching because of its large size. B.D. stands for Big Dick! :D/

Michael, Daymnnnn, what worries me is that some of these joke bored me once, and now instead make me laugh I am scared! Am I getting old?

The only way to encourage people to venture into new areas of thought is by creating a benevolent environment. Few people are willing to venture onto new ground if they believe any level of disagreement will be met with a pitiless attack. Charles, who are these "few people" that are willing to venture onto new ground? CD.

After his exam the doctor said to the elderly man, "You appear to be in good health. Do you have any medical concerns you would like to ask me about?" "In fact, I do," said the old man. "After I have sex with my wife I am usually cold and chilly, and then, after I have sex with her the second time, I am usually hot and sweaty." After examining his elderly wife, the doctor said, "Everything appears to be fine. Do you have any medical concerns that you would like to discuss with me?" The lady replied that she had no questions or concerns. The doctor then said to her: "Your husband had an unusual concern. He claims that he is usually cold and chilly after having sex with you the first time, and then hot and sweaty after the second time. Do you know why?" "Oh that crazy old ass hole," she replied. "That's because the first time is usually in January and the second time is in August."

Patrick, Jack A. Naglieri, Ph.D is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Development at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. For his scholarly effort, Dr Naglieri was awarded the American Psychological Associationn's 2001 Senior Scientist Award. Dr Naglieri is a good friend of mine. His teenage son, Jack, works at my restaurant on weekends. Dr Naglieri and I, have long discussions on how parents can help children to learn academic and related skills. His book "Helping Children Learn" provides practical methods for teachers and parents to use to help children acquire academic Knowledge and skills. In his book Dr Naglieri refers to a theory called PASS, which stands for Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive cognitive process( Naglieri 1999). The Pass cognitive processes are ways in which people think, learn, and solve problems. I suggest you to buy his book. It will be very useful in helping with your son's problems. You should be able to buy the book at www.brookespublishing.com Best Ciro D'Agostino

A man, his wife, and mother-in-law went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there the mother-in-law passed away. The undertaker told them, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here in the Holy Land for $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your mother-in-law home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?" The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead...... I just can't take that chance

Great job Kat!

Kat, this recipe is more an Italian version of chicken cacciatore, and not an Italian-American version like you have mentioned. I would love to add pictures to recipes... How do I do that? I am sorry that you don't find me in the kitchen most of the time , the reason is that I am working on a new restaurant, and that keeps me very busy. I promise to be more diligent in the future. I don't like chicken with tomatoes, I had a bad indigestion once, I can't eat chicken with tomatoes since then! :-& Ciao

Chicken, Hunter's Style POLLO ALLA CACCIATORA Ingredients: 2 lbs. chicken parts , 6 Tbs. olive oil , 1 carrot , 1 stalk celery , 1 lb. tomatoes, peeled, seeded , and chopped , salt, pepper , 1 bay leaf , few juniper berries , 1 glass dry white wine , 1 oz. dried mushrooms , 1 clove garlic, 1/2 cup chicken broth , 1 Tbs. chopped parsley Wash the chicken parts and pat-dry. sauté the carrot, celery, onion, and garlic in olive oil. When tender, but not crisp, add the chicken parts, salt and pepper, bay leaf, juniper berry and let brown over high flame. Add the wine and, when it has evaporated, add a few mushrooms, which have been previously re-constituted in warm water, the tomatoes and 1/2cup broth. Cook for about 1 hour over medium heat. When ready remove from heat, add the chopped parsley and arrange in a pre-heated serving platter. Serve Ciao Ciro.

BTW, Eddie Willers did not die. Last I heard from him, he said that he rides his horse to go places now, and that he likes it even better than before when he used to travel by train. He is merried to Cheryl, she didn't not die, hers was a faked suicide. CD ps. He also said that people are punished with death penalty, not only if they commit a crime, but also at the first sign of improving their life at someone else’s cost . You are allowed to invent things, only, if you will work as any person would for your inventions, other wise you must keep the inventions to yourself. For instance, you cannot built a ship if you will not navigate with it. You cannot open a restaurant if you would not cook, you cannot be a president if you would not fight in first line during a war etc…

I am sorry the guest is me! So, I think that the man with plenty of food in his knapsack needs help!!! I would feel compassion at this point for the man!

I wonder why Michael keeps a Sciabarra corner. CS never posts here anyway! He is not 82 isn't it? CD

Michael&Kat,my friends, I love you both!!!! Thank you! Ciro

kat, I usually use veal. Why do you want to pop it in the oven? [-o< Make single portions. I never use cooking wine, regular wine is better. Ciao

I can understand why some have said they have no desire to read her journals. Ayn Rand was a great innovative thinker. Her journals do not represent what was great. They represent her weakness. Paul Mawdsley I agree, Paul.

BB:Does this make it clear, Ciro? Yes it does, Barbara. Thank you.

Ciro, about my statement that Rand's eyes "never held an inward look -- a look of turning inside to learn one's own spirit and consciousness -- you asked: "Barbara, what if she did?" Barbara, when you say that Ayn Rand never learned her own spirit and consciousness, what do you exactly mean? Wasn’t her own spirit expressed trough her heroes in her novels.? I understood your message as if she was not in touch with reality.? CD

BB:There was something I never saw in Ayn Rand's eyes. They never held an inward look -- a look of turning inside to learn one's own spirit and consciousness Barbara, what if she did?

J:The situation you are in is not metaphysically normal This is true James, but it is also true that we learn by thinking, and creating realities that are not metaphysically normal. CD

Michael:Now from the child's view. Do you believe that the child would imagine his right-to-life was being violated? (Just the child and the man, not others.) If you were that child, for instance? If I were the child I would not see it that way, I would smile to the man as much as possible, and hope that he would have pity and save my life. [-o<

Michael, I think that because you lived for so many years in Brazil, and have witnessed, in first person, the death of so many children killed for sex, organ transplant,etc...you are more sentive to such issues. It is not just about objectivism i guess? CD

Do you believe that a man who camped out in the wilderness for several days with a child he encountered by chance, had plenty of food and refused to share it with the child resulting in the child's death from starvation, violated that child's right to life? Michael, I personally think that if I encounter by chance out in the wilderness a child, his right to life has been violated by someone else already, and not by me. Now, to save or not the child's life, depends on what I would think at that particular moment( I know that I will give him my food) but I don't think I should be responsible for his death if I decide to let him die. CD. I didn't copy james' post i just read it after i posted mine!!

Michael, I find this link very interesting.http://teach.valdosta.edu/chjames/jcs.htm CD

Michael: Are you telling me that you sometimes make decisions in a dishonestevasivesecondhandersocialmetaphysicianintrinsicistsubjectivistfaithbase attilawitchdoctor type manner? wow! Michael, that's what I said? I thought i was a good person. Dayaamm! BTW, I got it! thank you my friend!!!

Michael you write:It is temporarily allowing yourself the benefit of your prerational and subconscious knowledge without filtering it through reason. It is a choice. I have made many choices like that, Michael. Choices that today would not be appropriate. Choices made on feelings, choices made more on a raw mind than on an erudite one, but choices nevertheless, which turned out to be so right that I could not be happier than what I am today. I think that unless we live our life--it doesn't matter how much we know and how much reasoning we do-- things could always turn out differently than what we have previously thought . I am not talking about man's fallibility here, but choices that we would not make because considered wrong based on an ethical philosofic system, or of a religious one. So I would say that even a philosophy could not fit everyone the same. We can only compare man to man on how many similarities they have in common, but no two men will ever be similar. And no one can tell me that by doing what Ayn Rand, or Jesus said, will make us at the end happy! CD