 TIGblogs
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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The other day I sat down with Mai Ngo , another TakingITGlobal staff member and got to know a little more about her. Mai grew up in Ottawa , Canada. She studied Psychology and English at Carleton University and then got her Bachelors... (read more)
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Had Makhaya Ntini strode the civilised streets of Florence and Venice a century or five ago, Michelangelo might have chosen to chisel flared nostrils. (read more)
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A war between the spirit and self
You can't be a child of God and a child of the world:
By KARAN MINNIS, Guardian Lifestyles Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Christians fall from grace daily, but it's what you do after "backsliding" that counts, according to many Christian leaders.
"To live a Christian life is a continuing warfare," says Bishop John Humes, National... (read more)
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Latest News: Sub-Saharan Africa
Congo (DRC)
The United Nations says it is alarmed by the number of deaths in a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least 26 inmates have died from acute malnutrition at the main prison in the city of Mbuji Mayi in Kasai Oriental province since February. Four inmates died of hunger Since July 13 alone. The UN says it is... (read more)
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Dreams
Many great dreams die because the dreamers lack the confidence to declare them.
the happiest people in the world are those who are living out their dreams. Dr john C. maxwell
You need a big vision of where you are going and what you want, locate the power to seize opportunities and get into action to reach your bigger dreams and vision.
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2 Commitments; Common Purpose
Better Commuities via YOUTH!
Youth have an important role in creating a positive change in the world, yet many of them are not aware of the important role they can play to make the world a better place for all. So it's a responsibility of us to inform them about their important roles and inspire them to take positive actions!
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Zim talks: EU has no role to play
Zim talks: EU has no role to play
By Caesar Zvayi
SIX years ago, April 7 2002 to be specific, Tony Blair’s chief policy advisor, Robert Cooper, published a candid essay that outraged right-thinking people across the world but which put into perspective Western dealings with Zimbabwe today.
The essay titled, "The Post-Modern State",... (read more)
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Canadian Health report to get ‘low-profile’ release
Globe And Mail Article
BILL CURRY
July 23, 2008
OTTAWA — The Conservative government is planning a quiet release for a major Health Canada report that warns of the harmful impact of climate change on the health of Canadians, particularly the young, elderly and aboriginals.
Should the department follow through with its communications... (read more)
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you can
Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end. / You must make your own map.
—Joy Harjo (read more)
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Militancy and Nigerian Government's gullibility.
Recently, it was published in the national dailies that the Nigerian government has paid the militants in Nigeria to help put an end to their activities in the Niger-Delta region... This was what our president was defending in front of the senate as said by the national dailies. And this is believed to reduce their acts or put an end to it..Well... (read more)
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Malnutrition linked to DRC prison deaths
Prison Deaths in the DRC
UN voices alarm at increasing prison deaths in DR Congo
www.chinaview.cn 2008-07-22 12:01:43
UNITED NATIONS, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Human rights officials with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have expressed serious concerns about the living conditions in the... (read more)
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