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		<title>Meet the Human Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is quite possibly the most important video I have cut together to date. Not because I shot it. In fact, I&#8217;ve taken liberally from HOME, Journey of Man, and Short History of Progress. It&#8217;s important not because the ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flowers for Our Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election Day is like Mother&#8217;s Day; we pay special attention to our homeland on the one day because we feel guilty that we&#8217;ve neglected her all year. The easiest thing to do is just bring some flowers, check the box, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s Example for Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I confess. I&#8217;m overwhelmed. In a month of catching up from my trip to Sri Lanka, I&#8217;ve witnessed millions of people rise up to overthrow their government, observed revolutions spread like wildfire sparking events as far as Wisconsin, and seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If You Didn&#8217;t Pay the Banks?</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2011/03/01/what-if-you-didnt-pay-the-banks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, when I think of banks back in the &#8220;good ol-days&#8221; I think of the banks that bandits use to rob in the wild, wild west. And in that small frontier town, what is a bank? Well, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lankan Sampler</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've sampled the culture as best as I could. I've tasted the food, lived with a family, partook in religious traditions, had small and large conversations. I caught some scenes on camera but missed many more great moments. There's a lot to revisit in my memories. Here's your chance to let your curiosity guide my sense-making of my month-long trip in ancient Ceylon.]]></description>
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		<title>Rebirth in Bangkok</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/12/19/rebirth-in-bangkok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Learning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the miracle of human flight, I am transported inside a day from the deep freeze of Calgary to the hot, humid, and smoggy world of Bangkok. Like a baby seeing, smelling, hearing for the first time, I felt as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from TEDxCalgary</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/05/03/lessons-from-tedxcalgary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bio-Social Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TED.com has exploded in popularity as an online place to hear and see ideas from really interesting people from the around the world. Now that TED.com has licensed their name to encourage independent TED-like conferences, us locals can also participate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership is an Ecology not a Position</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/03/03/leadership-is-an-ecology-not-a-position/</link>
		<comments>http://uventure.net/blog/2010/03/03/leadership-is-an-ecology-not-a-position/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time, I provided a more detailed description of what leadership is. Today I wanted to explore this notion that leadership is more an ecology than a formal position or person. In any organization, we all recognize that there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Canada?</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2009/07/20/what-is-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful counterpart to Ronald Wright&#8217;s What is America? is John Ralston Saul&#8217;s A Fair Country which tells us a far richer story about who we are as Canadians. Growing up, I developed two impressions of the aboriginals. The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read Your Social Contract Lately?</title>
		<link>http://uventure.net/blog/2009/07/13/stigmas-in-hiring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Hsiung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a short post on the dangers of hiring only people who are employed: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hbr/mcgrath/2009/07/hiring-the-already-employed.html?cm_mmc=npv-_-WEEKLY_HOTLIST-_-JUL_2009-_-HOTLIST0713 It&#8217;s worth highlighting how important that social contract of taking care of others who are down whether it&#8217;s because of circumstance or bad choices. [...]]]></description>
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