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TIGblogs are TakingITGlobal's online space for you to reflect on events, talk about your travels, comment on the news, or just chat about your day! Below you can read about what's new at TakingITGlobal in our staff group blog, check out the featured TIGblog, or browse through TIGblog entries from the last 24 hours. Did you miss something important? Check out the most popular entries this week on the right hand side of the page.
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On Tuesday December 16th TIG celebrated the official launch of the latest version of the site - V6 - with a party in downtown Toronto! It was attended by TIG staff, alumni, members of our board, supporters and TIG members in the Toronto area. There are photos and read more)
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Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
Wishes for a very happy and prosperous 2009! (read more)
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The Batista and Bush clans have their candidate for 2012
By Jean-Guy Allard:
MAFIA FOREVER
EVEN before the conclusion of the George W. Bush mandate, the most recalcitrant of Miami’s Cuban-American mafia, fleeced by their blind alliance with John McCain, have selected their Republican candidate for the 2012 presidential elections; no less than Jeb Bush.
The association of the heirs... (read more)
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to the america president, on the global economy crisis
HI MR PRESIDENT .
I KNOW YOU WILL BE WORRIED OVER THE WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS...
I WANT TO SHARE A THOUGHT WITH YOU. LOOK AT THE BACK OF A DOLLAR BILL, YOU SEE A WORD WRITTEN ON IT " IN GOD WE TRUST "
TAKE A LOOK AT JEREMIAH 17:7 (THE HOLY BIBLE) BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT "TRUSTED IN THE LORD" AND WHOSE HOPE IS THE LORD. FOR HE SHALL BE AS A... (read more)
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Is it either Israel or Palestine?
Is it either Israel or Palestine?
I believe I express the sentiments of the people of Kenyan when I say that we will be eternally grateful to the people of Israeli for their quick and helpful response after the 1998 bombings in Nairobi. This being said and seeing what is happening in Gaza and in Israel, I empathize with the Palestinian people... (read more)
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Child Literacy Program Sponsorship
Hello,
Thomas Mitchell here with a request for assistance and support as we march forward into 2009 with increased awareness of the plight of young Liberians who so desperately seek regular schooling and higher education facilities that many other countries take for granted. Hence the need for sponsorship for a scholarship program and the... (read more)
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Women's Day Coincides With Global Women gathering in Liberia, March 7-8
What a great coincident…….., interestingly, come March 7-8 2009 is one of the greatest event in the world of women to happen in West Africa, Monrovia – Liberia, when powerful world women leaders will be meeting to discuss Empowerment of women to be more effective leaders by linking them with their peers from around the world and sharing... (read more)
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painting Gandhi is a passion for this man
The year was 1947. India had won independence but the country was partitioned.
Partition saw many families migrating to India and an equal number of families moving to Pakistan. Suraj Sadan, an eight-year-old boy, was a part of one such family that walked from Pakistan to Delhi.
The life in the refugee camp had a bright lining, remembers... (read more)
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Untitled
REFLECTIONS OF HEALING EVENT IN NAIROBI.
The event took place on the 27th of December 2008 . the event was to commemorate i year of peace in Kenya after the post election violence.It included 2 peace football matches that were played by different youth groups in Dandora and the winning of a peace goat for the winning team.
for more details on... (read more)
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can't we all just get along???
When does profiling go too far? When did baggy jeans and your favorite color t-shirt turn from a fashion statement into jail jumper? Due to profiling mixed with lethal aggression two lives have been taken; Oscar Grant 22 and Robbie tolan 23. Oscar’s incident happen at an Oakland Bart station New Years Day. Robbie Tolan was in front of his... (read more)
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Women's rights in the Mormon Fundamentalism church (FLDS)
"The government of the wife is therefore placed in the husband by the law of God;for he is the head. I suffer not a woman saith the Lord to teach, or to usurp authority over a man, but to be in subjection...Here, the wife is pronounced the husband's property, as much so as his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, or his horse...polygamy... (read more)
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Racism...It's more common than you think
A new study published Thursday in the journal Science suggests many people unconsciously harbor racist attitudes, even though they see themselves as tolerant and egalitarian.
"This study, and a lot of research in social psychology, suggests that there are still really a lot of negative associations with blacks," said Kerry Kawakami,... (read more)
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Songs, more applications and dinnertime
I Love: orange juice
Song Stuck in My Head: Paper Planes by M.I.A.
Currently Discovering: beat-tastic artists like DJ Blaqstarr, Enur ("Calabria"), CSS ("Music Is My Hot Hot..."), and Justice ("D.A.N.C.E.").
Off to applications!
A few days ago, I sent an email to Lund University and they responded very fast. The point was to find out... (read more)
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Canadian Peculiarities
This morning I was walking around campus with a mate of mine that was visiting from Manchester, UK and we were talking about some of the odd things that he had noticed since arriving last Thursday. One thing in particular that had struck him as extremely peculiar was behavoiur surrounding the lift (or the elevator here). Unlike in the UK, he... (read more)
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K-!2 Opportunity to Create a Win for Us All in Innovative Energy Compeition
Students Invited to Submit Their Creative Energy Project Entries
Web site: http://www.ignitingcreativeenergy.org/
Johnson Controls, a global multi-industrial leader in energy efficiency and sustainability, invites kindergarten through 12th grade students across North America to enter the Igniting Creative Energy competition. The challenge, a... (read more)
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