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		<title>Soft Skills versus Hard Skills</title>
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This is a very insightful speech by Daniel Goleman who spoke to the staff at Google.    Through technology and Youtube, we are able to participate and benefit from his speech, in the comfort of our tiny cubicle or office.  Hope you enjoy the above video as much as I do.
New York Times science writer Daniel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/07/soft-skills-versus-hard-skills/</link>
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		<title>The Beauty and Intelligence of Arabic Algorithms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have  you wondered what is the origin of Arabic algorithms or numbers?
How is it that Arabic numbers are written
1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0?
What is the story and the logic behind?
The Answer is ANGLES.
Watch this little animated clip and you will see that
the number 1 has one angle
the number 2 has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/06/the-beauty-and-intelligence-of-arabic-algorithms/</link>
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		<title>Visit to Longjing Tea Plantation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have heard of the famous Longjing Tea Plantation of Hangzhou, but was not so keen to pay a visit, as I wondered what would be so exciting about some tea bushes.  Reluctantly I agreed to go along for a visit to the tea plantation and museum of Hangzhou and boy! did I get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/06/visit-to-longjing-tea-plantation/</link>
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		<title>A $10 cup of tea at Huxingting Tea House</title>
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Another &#8220;must visit&#8221; place in Shanghai is the Huxingting Tea House, the word Huxingting meaning &#8220;pavilion on the center of the lake&#8221;.  This is the place which hosted foreign dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth II and President Bill Clinton.   When I read the menu at the tea house, I couldn&#8217;t believe that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/06/a-10-cup-of-tea-at-huxingting-tea-house/</link>
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		<title>Zhou Zhuang Water Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zhou Zhuang is a 900 year old water village in China located only 30 km away from Suzhou and 1-1/2 hour by bus from Shanghai.  Marco Polo also visited this place in his travels and called it the &#8220;Venice of the East&#8221;.
During my visit, I bought some snacks which I took to the office today [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/06/zhou-zhuang-water-village/</link>
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		<title>World&#8217;s best Xiaolongbao restaurant in Shanghai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having arrived in Shanghai, I was told that I MUST visit the world&#8217;s best xiaolongbao restaurant in Shanghai.   Most likely true, since Xiaolongbao was invented in Shanghai.
So, the best xiaolongbao restaurant in Shanghai is located in the Medieval Yu Yuan Garden,  right smack in the middle of big city Shanghai &#8211; and it&#8217;s called [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/06/worlds-best-xiaolongbao-restaurant-in-shanghai/</link>
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		<title>Legends of West Lake, Hangzhou</title>
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This is part 2  of my Hangzhou travel.  Read  Part 1 about my Marco Experience 
Hangzhou is the romantic capital of China, and all along the West  Lake, couples, young and old, hold hands as they strolled along the  lakeshore.  There are no private homes along the lake, the entire lake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/06/legends-of-west-lake-hangzhou/</link>
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		<title>My Marco Polo Experience at Hangzhou</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the next two weeks, I will take a break from &#8220;business speak&#8221; and take you with me on my travels.  First stop is Hangzhou, the famous city that Marco Polo visited during the late 13th century.  Marco Polo was so enchanted with Hangzhou that he proclaimed it to be the &#8220;most beautiful and magnificent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/06/my-marco-polo-experience-at-hangzhou/</link>
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		<title>Free Online Tools for the Entrepreneur</title>
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For the budget conscious entrepreneur, here are some free online tools that are quite powerful and useful.  They can be used for email broadcast, communication/marketing, file storage, document creation (word processing, spreadsheet), social media.
1.  Prezi &#8211;  www.prezi.com &#8211; an alternative to Powerpoint presentation software.  Free.  A zooming presentation editing software. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/05/free-online-tools-for-the-entrepreneur/</link>
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		<title>The New Entrepreneur of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting slideshow on the the New Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 and beyond.  It is based on US statistics, but if you work with the ratio of 1 Canadian to every 10 Americans, you&#8217;ll get the approximate numbers.  The percentage works out the same. 
The New Entrepreneur: Research Review
View more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.shirleyshannon.com/Blog/2010/04/the-new-entrepreneur-of-2010/</link>
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