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		<title>120 Things to Help You Create Your Bucket List</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This list was used in our 2/1//10 Table Topics Discussions.  Enjoy and let it help you create your own bucket list.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pillowtalktm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10182300&amp;post=184&amp;subd=pillowtalktm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your speaking ethos is critical to ensure that your audience is present, listening, and open to being persuaded by your ideas. But, how do you maximize your ethos for a given speech and a given audience? Is ethos fixed before you open your mouth? Is there anything you can do during a speech that makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pillowtalktm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10182300&amp;post=180&amp;subd=pillowtalktm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Ethos and Why is it Critical for Speakers?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is your audience listening even before you speak your first words? Do they have high expectations? Are they prepared to be convinced by what you have to say? If not, you are suffering from poor ethos. The first article in Andrew Dlugan&#8217;s Ethos, Pathos, and Logos series introduces these core concepts for speakers. In this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pillowtalktm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10182300&amp;post=174&amp;subd=pillowtalktm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tip of the Week: Run Amok</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, at the Golden Globe awards, host Ricky Gervais opened strong and received warm audience response. Then he steered off course, and set in motion a comedy death spiral. It all centered on his private body parts. An inappropriate topic, the audience withdrew their support. The more strained and feeble their response, the more desperate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pillowtalktm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10182300&amp;post=166&amp;subd=pillowtalktm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog by Andrew Dlugan titled &#8220;Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Pillars of Public Speaking&#8221; identified Artistotles secret to being a persuasive speaker. He introduces us to the three pillars that Aristotle outlined.  He identifies Ethos ad the credibility or character of the speaker.  He then tells us that Pathos is the emotional connection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pillowtalktm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10182300&amp;post=158&amp;subd=pillowtalktm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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