Opinion | Biden’s ‘bottom up, middle out’ economic plan is succeeding – The Washington Post

Workers at the lower end of the wage scale are improving.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/13/biden-economy-wages-increasing-inflation/

Prince’s Legendary Concert at First Avenue in 1983 – (first public Purple Rain)

Bobby says. “It’s just so raw for him. I remember those two minutes. Because the room is silent except for the pattern you’re playing. He was in the moment, and you’re in it with him, and it was a special place to be. It was a whole different planet.”

Source: Prince’s Legendary Concert at First Avenue in 1983

Paulo Freire

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

“A palavra descaracterizada, não coicide com os atos. Dizer uma coisa e fazer outra, não levando a palavra a sério, não pode ser estímulo à confiança.

Falar por exemplo, em democracia e silenciR o povo é uma farsa. Falar em humanismo é negar os homens é uma mentira.”

Paulo Freire. Pedagogia do Oprimido

FREIRE, Paulo. 71 ed. Rio de Janeiro/ São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2019

Marii Freire

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Santarém, Pá 13 de fevereiro de 2023

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A hairy solution to oil spills

Darcy Hitchcock

Before you sit down in a hair salon, the hair dresser sweeps away the last person’s locks. Most of that hair gets tossed into the landfill, but it’s an amazingly effective tool for cleaning up pollutants like oil spills.

The earliest commercial research, however, seems to be in1998, when Alabama hairdresser Phillip McCrory approached NASA with the idea.The idea came to him when he was watching coverage of the 1989 oil spill in Alaska. Consequently, he experimented in his son’s paddling pool, spilling motor oil on the surface, and creating a ring of human hair in his wife’s nylon tights to clean it up, finding that it was a highly effective method.

Although patents for similar ideas using sheep’s wool and duck feathers existed, human hair was found to be more effective than either. Furthermore, while wool and duck feathers had other uses in the market, for…

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Mondays Are For Jollyness And Joyfulness!

Filosofa's Word

Wh-Wha-WHAT???  It’s Monday again???  Already?  Wh-where did the weekend go?  Sheesh … the days keep getting shorter and shorter!  Well, welcome to Monday … since it’s here, we’ll just have to make the best of it, won’t we?  On that note, let’s go see what Joyful has cooked up this morning, and then we’ll go in search of some fun things to start the week on the right foot!


I hope you guys are in the mood for some … PIZZA this morning, ’cause that’s what I’ve been workin’ on all morning long!  Gwammie likes hers with pineapple … do you?


Our friend Larry has been AWOL for a year or so, thanks to WordPress glitches, but he’s baaaaccckkk now, and so in honour of perhaps our biggest bacon lover, we found a few new bacon memes!


Who’s in the mood for some funny puns?


I been over at Phil’s…

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