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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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In today’s housing market, real estate agents and brokers have discovered the need to stand out in a market overwhelmed by supply and lacking in demand.
Savvy real estate professionals are recognizing the value of having a turnkey PR strategy for their business that gives them additional presence in the marketplace and allows them to meet... (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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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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Body Count Nation
By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com:
Judging by our wars, we're not much more advanced than ancient civilizations.
It may finally be 2009, but in some ways, given these last years, it might as well be 800 BCE.
From the ninth to the seventh centuries BCE, the palace walls of the kings who ruled the Assyrian Empire were... (read more)
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Satyam: One among the many corporate frauds
A head reeling corporate scandal has been exposed. Satyam the fourth largest software giant of India has finally agreed its misdeeds. The fraud is above Rs.7000 crores. In the own words of Ramalinga Raju, 54 year old USA MBA returned founder chairman of Satyam “The gap in balance sheet arose because of inflaed profits over several... (read more)
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