Female Genital Mutilation. To Attain the SDGs, We Must End Female Genital Mutilation October 24, 2023

To Attain the SDGs, We Must End Female Genital Mutilation   The tips of our fingers have densely packed nerve endings. That is why a miniscule paper cut activates our pain receptors and causes stubborn pain for a day or two. Now consider that a clitoris has over 10,000 nerve endings. It is the human female’s most sensitive erogenous zone, explaining the sexual pleasure it elicits […]

Brazil: A Step Forward for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights October 24, 2023

 

Brazil: A Step Forward for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights   Brazil’s Supreme Court has delivered a long-awaited ruling upholding Brazilian Indigenous peoples’ claims to their traditional land. It did so by rejecting the ‘Temporal Framework’ principle, which only allowed for the demarcation and titling of lands physically occupied by the Indigenous groups who claimed them by 5 October 1988, when the current constitution was adopted. […] Bringing the Piratininga Lagoon Back to Life in Brazil   Houses with balconies facing the street or the surrounding hills, when they are not hidden behind high walls, reflect a neighborhood where people live on the shore of a lagoon but reject the landscape it offers. Piratininga, a 2.87 square kilometer coastal lagoon in the southern part of the Brazilian city of Niterói, began to […]

Wednesday, November 1, 2-3:30pm Eastern The 2024 Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program (Farm to School Grant Program) Request for Application (RFA) is open! October 24, 2023

 

 

Fiscal Year 2024 Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program – An Opportunity for Faith and Community-Based Organizations

 

Wednesday, November 1, 2-3:30pm Eastern   The 2024 Patrick Leahy Farm to School Grant Program (Farm to School Grant Program) Request for Application (RFA) is open! Join us for an upcoming call on the Farm to School Grant Program. On an annual basis, USDA awards competitive Farm to School Grants that support planning and implementing farm to school programs. USDA's Farm to School grants are an important way to help state, regional, and local organizations as they initiate, expand, and institutionalize farm to school efforts. This webinar highlights faith and community-based organizations that have been awarded a Farm to School Grant and is hosted by the USDA Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and the Community Food Systems Division at the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. To register, please click here.   Application Info To apply, visit Grants.gov and follow the instructions found in the FY 2024 RFA. Be sure to visit the Grant Applicant Resources page to access other helpful resources, including links to webinars that provide assistance on applying for a Farm to School Grant.  

 

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This is how subcontracting works.

Contractors bid on house to paint

CONTRACTOR #1:   Bid $3-million 

• One million for paint
  
• One million for labor
• One million for profit

CONTRACTOR #2:   Bid $7-million

  

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CONTRACTOR #3:   Bid $10-million

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Who was awarded the contract?

When life hands you lemons. Own the lemons.

 

A short scene about life giving us lemons from The Fall of the House of Usher Episode 3 talking about how opportunities should be made well-off, with a rather extra addition of more realistic concepts of what people do with lemons these days.

Bold statement to be made of something we all fall for on a daily basis. Marketing has always been part of business however the question is, where do we draw the line? Perhaps in this era where information is so accessible, we may need to question what is true, false, real, fake or as the trend says, question the matrix? Spotless acting though.