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		<title>In praise of silence</title>
		<link>http://hubbs6.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/in-praise-of-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Baird]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'd rather have the base-line of my working life be anchored in a kind of silence that encourages intelligent thinking and discussion, rather than have it be anchored in noise, over-stimulation, distractions and constant rush.  I'd like to enter public spaces - stores, medical offices, health clubs, malls and elevators - without being bombarded with constant noise disguised as music.   I know that's asking a lot, and most people will never have that luxury.  But I think we're far the poorer for it.
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		<title>Our uninformed public dialogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conservative Bible]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[News moves at warp speed anymore, and in trying to keep up, much of which passes for news is just not credible stuff.  How do we educate our young people to have discerning minds without turning them into complete cynics?  How do we once again grow a country which is intellectually rigorous and willing to consider different information which may actually change our minds?  These are questions we'll be having to answer for a long time in the future.
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		<title>Career at a Crossroads: Managing your Career in a Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARYLHURST UNIVERSITY
17600 PACIFIC HIGHWAY (HWY. 43) MARYLHURST, OREGON
Career at a Crossroads –
Managing Your Communications Career in a Recession
6:30-9:00 pm Wednesday, October 14th:  Flavia Hall Parlor, 
Marylhurst University 
Free and open to the public; RSVP requested at www.marylhurst.edu/homecoming 
 
Released Oct.1, 2009
The Communication Department at Marylhurst University and the Portland Metro Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubbs6.wordpress.com&blog=3965655&post=213&subd=hubbs6&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the beach at Yachats</title>
		<link>http://hubbs6.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/from-the-beach-at-yachats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anthrax vaccine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gifts from the Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Semester at Sea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound of the ocean is a steady rhythm against life here; and the beach reflects the entire cycle of life and death and the tides that bring both.  I think often of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's "Gifts from the Sea," and know what she meant.  Here - for someone who has spent a lifetime dealing with what it takes to establish those "mutually beneficial relationships" between a business or organization and its publics; who has studied and worked in public relations since 1980 - here my relationship with myself and the world around me settles into something peaceful and quiet.  Here I understand a lot more about the ties that bind.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubbs6.wordpress.com&blog=3965655&post=206&subd=hubbs6&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Check your facts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CNN fact checking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Wilson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama's health care speech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the same rant: I can&#8217;t stand it that our public discourse has turned rude, ugly and cynical.  I watched all of President Obama&#8217;s health care speech tonight, and was as stunned as a lot of people were when Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted out &#8216;You lie!&#8221; when the President said the proposed health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubbs6.wordpress.com&blog=3965655&post=203&subd=hubbs6&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Education Speech Today &#8211; why all the fuss?</title>
		<link>http://hubbs6.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/president-obamas-education-speech-today-why-all-the-fuss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[education speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn't Camelot, we all know that now.  But in those days, there was no shame in respecting the office of the President and the man who held the position; and there was no outcry over being asked to fulfill our better natures.  He helped shape our dreams - most leaders do.  Why are we, in this country, so determined not to dream, not to aspire, but only to throw spit balls and whine and complain?

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		<title>Social media, multi-tasking, and rapidly updating everything</title>
		<link>http://hubbs6.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/social-media-multi-tasking-and-rapidly-updating-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big picture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contemplative thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multi-tasking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public Relations Society of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retreat]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[strategic analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have a question: are we so involved in the minutia of our lives and others' lives through the massive amounts of updating we're doing on social media sites, that we're losing sight of the big picture?  Do we even have the ability to stand back and look at the big picture anymore?  Isn't there a massive disconnect going on here?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubbs6.wordpress.com&blog=3965655&post=195&subd=hubbs6&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woodstock?  Not this Boomer.</title>
		<link>http://hubbs6.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/woodstock-not-this-boomer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anthrax vaccine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baby Boomers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did I protest? Are you kidding? There was no way I would have him be that demoralized. I wasn't happy about anything that was going on; I didn't understand war then, don't understand war now, and have no wish to every see another member of my family face such a hell. Father, husband and son - that's enough. They all came back. Sort of.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubbs6.wordpress.com&blog=3965655&post=192&subd=hubbs6&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A summer filled with public relations of a different sort</title>
		<link>http://hubbs6.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/a-summer-filled-with-public-relations-of-a-different-sort/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Estonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Choral Festival]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a breather here in the middle of the summer to talk about public relations of a different sort - the sort offered by Missoula, Montana's wonderful International Choral Festival (http://www.choralfestival.org).  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hubbs6.wordpress.com&blog=3965655&post=181&subd=hubbs6&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye from me to Newsweek and Reader&#8217;s Digest</title>
		<link>http://hubbs6.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/goodbye-from-me-to-newsweek-and-readers-digest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Hubbell</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newsweek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody does flash now, and everybody thinks flash is substance.  Well, I beg to differ - it's not.  Granted we have lots of bells and whistles at our fingertips online, and we can stay entertained for endless periods if we like.  But I like to read, and I look to read news of substance and stories that enlighten me in some way, that tell me something about myself in reflection, and about the world I live in.  I like to read.  Is there anybody out there anymore who also likes to read?
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