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Extend your treatment potential

Extend your treatment potential

Project on Student Editorial Committee: Comprehend, Extend and Master Your Body

Project on Student Editorial Committee: Comprehend, Extend and Master Your Body

When You See Someone Clinging to a Rigid Paradigm, Do You Extend Your Hand, Do You Reach for a Hammer or Do You Walk Away?

When You See Someone Clinging to a Rigid Paradigm, Do You Extend Your Hand, Do You Reach for a Hammer or Do You Walk Away?. Un article de la revue Paideusis (Volume 16, numéro 1, 2007, p. 1-83) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Thank You for Your Health and Extend Your Healthy Life

Thank You for Your Health and Extend Your Healthy Life

Practice makes perfect

Extend your Congress educational experience by practicing essential techniques with dedicated experts. Each practical or small group session is designed to give you confidence in key areas so you can return home inspired to use new skills in practice. Each workshop or small group is available to purchase when registering for Congress and is always very popular with delegates, so be sure to book early to avoid disappointment.

Extend your skills and competency this autumn

Extend your skills and competency this autumn

Extend Your Classroom Impact: Arrive Before Your Students

Extend Your Classroom Impact: Arrive Before Your Students

Guest Editorial: How To Thrive in a Downturn

Guest editorial The industry is in one of its periodic downturns. Jobs are uncertain or scarce. Profitability is challenged. Bankruptcy looms. Projects are being canceled. Deals are dropped or delayed. It seems there is bad news everywhere. So how do we survive in this environment? And, more importantly, how do we go from surviving to thriving? The leadership of the SPE Gulf Coast Section (GCS) has launched a new initiative called “Members in Transition” with the aim of providing support, advice, and best practices for thriving in a downturn. The key principles are the following: 1. Be innovative. Plan A is often not available these days. We have to look for alternatives. As an individual, whether you are a prospective graduate with an ambition to work for a major producer or a service provider, or have just lost your job, consider all alternatives. In addition to your first choices, also look for jobs in marketing, finance, regulation, midstream, or downstream. Your expertise is in the petroleum industry, as well as in petroleum engineering. Your skills are much broader than you might think. Extend your education by taking advanced courses or by earning a new degree. This will be time well spent preparing for the future. Explore the educational opportunities available from your SPE section. Start your own business. This could create a rewarding new career path. In partnership with the Houston Technology Center, the SPE GCS is establishing an Ideas Launch Pad program to match members’ ideas with angel investors. Entrepreneurs will need realistic financial projections and need to be able to tell the business story in a convincing way to potential investors. Employers value entrepreneurial skills. These business skills will serve you well if you eventually decide to move to a corporate role. Creating a great business story (Fisher 2014) for investors will help you develop skills that are useful for moving projects forward when you are hired by a company in the future. As a company, your previous business plan may no longer be viable in the current price environment. Take a clean sheet of paper, throw out all past preferences and prejudices, and start afresh. Develop a new plan that works in today’s environment. Now is the time to explore new technologies and new processes that improve performance. In the January issue of JPT (Rassenfoss 2016), the SPE technical directors talked about innovations needed for “Doing Better in Bad Times.” 2. Be curious. To come up with new ways of doing things, you need new ideas. To get new ideas you need imagination. This is a good time to look for ideas from other industries. 3. Cut costs. When prices are low, it is important to cut costs, whether you are an individual or a company. Now is the time to be diligent, even ruthless, with cutting costs. In the end, you will be more secure and better prepared when good times return.

Extend Your Journey: Considering Signal Strength and Fluctuation in Location-Based Applications

Reducing the communication energy is essential to facilitate the growth of emerging mobile applications. In this paper, we introduce signal strength into location-based applications to reduce the energy consumption of mobile devices for data reception. First, we model the problem of data fetch scheduling, with the objective of minimizing the energy required to fetch location-based information without impacting the application's semantics adversely. To solve the fundamental problem, we propose a dynamic-programming algorithm and prove its optimality in terms of energy savings. Then, we perform postoptimal analysis to explore the tolerance of the algorithm to signal strength fluctuations. Finally, based on the algorithm, we consider implementation issues. We have also developed a virtual tour system integrated with existing Web applications to validate the practicability of the proposed concept. The results of experiments conducted based on real-world case studies are very encouraging and demonstrate the applicability of the proposed algorithm toward signal strength fluctuations .

Virtues in action: new essays in applied virtue ethics

Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: PROFESSIONAL VIRTUE 1. Virtue-Centered Approaches to Education: Prospects and Pitfalls Gregory Bassham 2. The Virtues of Honorable Business Executives Dan Demetriou 3. Sport as a Moral Practice: An Aristotelian Approach Michael W. Austin PART II: SOCIAL VIRTUE 4. Sex, Temperance, and Virtue Stan van Hooft 5. Extend Your Benevolence: Kindness and Generosity in the Family and Beyond Heidi Giebel 6. A Virtue Ethical Case for Pacifism Franco V. Trivigno 7. Some Critical Reflections on Abortion and Virtue Theory Matthew Flannagan PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL VIRTUE 8. Environmental Degradation, Environmental Justice, and the Compassionate Agent Chris Frakes 9. Humility and Environmental Virtue Ethics Matthew Pianalto PART IV: INTELLECTUAL VIRTUE 10. Hope as an Intellectual Virtue Nancy E. Snow 11. Virtue Ethics and Moral Failure: Lessons from Neuroscientific Moral Psychology Lisa Tessman 12. Getting Our Minds Out of the Gutter: Fallacies that Foul Our Discourse (and Virtues that Clean it Up) Robert K. Garcia and Nathan L. King Bibliography Index

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Abstract Are You Exploiting Your Board? Icebreakers You Can Use Specialized Programs Good Match Is Essential for Companion Programs Principles 101 Take a Break Now and Then Nurturing Your Volunteers Four Key Elements to Successful Communications Screening and Placement Procedures Should Would‐be Volunteers Undergo Drug Testing? Extend Your Reach Consider the Benefits of Internships Policies and Procedures Make Your Volunteer Code of Conduct Interactive Does Your Volunteer Code of Conduct Address Key Issues? Elevate Volunteers to Next Level of Responsibility Helping Out Location Is Key to Inexpensive Consulting Services Motivating Volunteers Strategies to Help Volunteers Keep Their Commitments Motivation Principles Three Rules for Keeping Volunteers Energized Recognition Ideas Keep Volunteers Motivated — With A Little Heart Match Service Groups' Interests With Your Needs Icebreakers You Can Use Deal With Disappointment When It Strikes Planning Ahead Know How You Would Utilize a 10‐percent Budget Increase Community Service Projects Prioritize Your Community Service Project Possibilities Specialized Volunteers Special Qualifications for Police Volunteers Training Police Volunteers Remove Parking Obstacles for Would‐be, Current Volunteers Getting the Job Done Overcome Your Procrastination Barriers Understand What Drives You What's Your Life Goal? Keeping Records Why Mentors Should Maintain a Journal Regularly Extend Invitations For Involvement Be a Person of Your Word

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Abstract Level Options Offer a Membership Upgrade Option Recruitment and Retention Thoughts on Getting Former Members to Rejoin Build Conference Attendance Develop Themed Recruitment Programs Retaining, Recruiting Methods Seasonal Promotions Encourage Joining, Renewing Promotional Ideas Get the Most Out of Your Swag Top Promotional Products Grab Members' Attention Engage Members at All Levels of the Organization December Webinars Gauging Member Feedback Text Polling — Is it Right for You? Sound Advice for Addressing Member Groups Key Strategies Have Botanical Garden's Membership Growing Motivational Idea Get Existing Members to Mentor New Recruits Evaluation Procedures Membership Audit Boosts Membership Communications Tool Influence Members With Word‐of‐mouth Marketing Asking for Word of Mouth Buzz — OK or Not? Word of Mouth Marketing 101 Extend Your Subscription By a Month — For Free! Enable Members‐helping‐Members Programs Member Retention Idea Maximize Usefulness of E‐mail Signature Lines Recruitment Event Music, Margaritas, Sunsets on the Terrace Offer Midweek Break Subliminal Messaging More Inviting to Prospective Members Ideas Worth Considering Host a Membership 101 Event New Technology How Membership Organizations Can Use Google+ Targeted Recruitment Events to Reach Younger Members Should Lapsed Members Pay More to Renew? Sound Retention Measures Set Quantifiable Goals for Member Visits Communication Tools Revamp Your Nonprofit's Newsletter for Effectiveness Viral Videos Can Increase Membership

Extend your career shelf life

Extend your career shelf life

Making the Leap from Coach to Leader

Making the Leap from Coach to Leader

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Abstract Follow a Checklist For Each Realized Gift Go Beyond The Boilerplate Targeted Proposals Key to Securing Major Sponsorships ‘Giving Pledge’ Encourages America's Wealthiest to Give Individualized Cultivation Strategies Cultivation Helps Explore Next Moves Capital Campaign Planning Consider Structuring Capital Campaign in Phases Solicitation Strategies Using Back Door Solicitation May Be Appropriate at Times Naming Possibilities for Endowed Gift from Jon & Ana Wynn Campaign Leadership Could an Honorary Chair Boost Your Major Campaign? Mine Diamonds in the Rough Looking Beyond the Dollars How to Get Permission To Publicize Major Gifts Important First Steps Introductory Comments You Can Use Solicitation Wording Choose Words Carefully to Further Major Gift Efforts Know Your Donors Be Alert to Timing Issues When Asking for Major Gifts Identifying Persons Of Wealth Take a Four‐sided Approach to Prospect Identification Tough Letter Provides Basis For Future Communications Offer Flexible Payout Periods Research Techniques Methods for Assessing a Donor's Giving Potential Multifaceted Campaigns College Conducts Successful Two‐Phase Campaign Easy Ways to Identify Persons of Affluence Consultant Profile Old Friends Lead the Way With Milestone Challenge Gift Extend Your Subscription By a Month — For Free! Case Statements How to Sell Your Vision to Donor Prospects Short, Shorter, Even Shorter Yet

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Abstract Create Complaint Procedure Member Conferences iPod Touch Media Players Transform Conference Experience Extend Your Subscription By a Month‐For Free! Combine Holidays, Milestones Personal Planning Break Lofty Goals Into Achievable Parts Personal Goal: Recruit 175 New Members in 2011 Member‐driven Publications Guidelines Help Members Maintain and Build Public Trust Specialized Member Services Holiday Ministry Helps Members Out of Dark Places Seeking Member Input Open Ears Help Cycling Club President in New Role Online Survey Sites Pack Gift Membership Package With Mission‐oriented Items Advancing Marketing Through Word of Mouth Membership Awards Offer a Variety of Member Recognition Awards Online Recruitment Tools Forms ‘Sell’ Volunteer Slots to Members, Potential Members Create Youth Advisory Council Celebrate Your Members Four Ways to Spice Up Your Member‐of‐the‐month Program Board Grooming Techniques Make Board Member Recruitment, Evaluation Top Priorities Recruitment Techniques Offer Incentives to Join Beyond the Typical Top 10 Proven Recruitment Strategies Benefits That Bring Members Together Day Trips Offer Member‐friendly, Loyalty‐building Experiences Practical Tips for Creating, Operating Day‐trip Program

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Abstract Group Buying Electrifies Chamber Membership Internal Assessment Incorporate an Ethics Assessment Tool to Evaluate Practices Extend Your Subscription By a Month — For Free! Get Members On Board With Facebook Fan Pages Industry‐specific Offerings Association Initiates Publication as Member Benefit Buzz‐worthy Member Events Drive Yields $110,000, Draws 281 New Members Improving Repeat Events Layer Subsequent Years' Events With New Volunteer Duties Event Type: Annual membership kickoff reception for museum or art center Member Experiences Engaging Guests Fosters Tour Participation Corporate Partnership Creates Member Toolkit Option 10 Online Tools to Add To Your Event‐planning Toolbox Retention Techniques Recognize Persons With Consecutive Years of Membership Business Partnerships Focus Efforts on Acquiring Added Benefits for Members Business Partnership Tips Recruiting Tools How to Prepare and Draft a Membership Marketing Plan Six Online Survey Tools for Gauging Member Satisfaction Facilitate Virtual Discussions Cruise Fundraiser Offers Chance to Build Camaraderie Expert Advice Conference Planning Tips Focus on Sustaining Success Three Steps to a Successful Conference Going Global Membership Organizations Tap Into a World of Opportunity Expanding Overseas — Where to Start 10 Polished Ways to Help Your Tour Guides Shine Profiles In Growth Direct Mail Campaign Attracts Almost 2,000 New Members Unique Factors Make for Successful Campaign

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Abstract Move Annual Report Online Extend Your Subscription By a Month! Attention‐grabbing Events Photo Contest Engages Constituents, Introduces New Mascot Stay Grammatically Correct Avoid E‐Mail Blunders By Thinking Before You Send Positioning Statements Every Nonprofit Has an Enemy …. Who Is Yours? First Steps Marketing Plans Made Simple Target Publications Newsletter Provides Meaningful Links to Specific Audiences Tech‐savvy Tools Offer A Multimedia Online Press Kit Major Identity Changes Name Change Can Keep Your Nonprofit Relevant Name Change Toolkit Online Tools Monitor What Others Are Saying About You Use Employee Retirement to Highlight Your Organization Online Connections Get Young Audience Involved Through Social Media Effective Interviews Written Interview Questions Streamline Board Recruitment Telling Your Story Build Stats Into Your Speech Without Alienating the Audience Tips on Delivering Bad News Weigh Pros, Cons Of Skype Market Your Identity You're It! Twenty Places to Use Taglines Open House Events Involve 50 Volunteers in Staging Your Next Open House Seeking Outside Marketing Expertise Narrow Ad Agencies to Those That Will Get Best Results More Queries for Marketing Agencies Website Landing Page Keeps Subscribers in Loop Focus On Accomplishments, Not Financial Strength Great Lead Guides Readers To the Real Treat Assessment Tools Fine‐tune Messaging With a Communication Audit Assess Your Communication Program

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Finding the Opportunity to Teach Music to Students who are Visually Impaired

Everyone who becomes a professional in the field of visual impairment has a story worth telling. I was introduced to the field some years ago by students with visual impairments who wanted to develop music literacy in combination with instrumental skills. Today, I work with students who are visually impaired of every age and ability in an effort to encourage literacy in all its forms. In the course of this extraordinary journey, I have learned some valuable lessons from working with these students and music in integrated school settings. The five basic principles that follow apply to everyone, but they are especially meant for teachers of students with visual impairments who are new to the teaching profession or have little experience with music education. These principles are worth reviewing often because they remind us that anything is possible, not only for students who are visually impaired but also for their specialized teachers and families. PREPARE MENTALLY FOR THE CHALLENGE Every teacher of students with visual impairments will have students who want to or should be involved with music. This is not a problem. Recognizing and embracing the opportunity that music creates will allow you to prepare in every way possible, even if you feel inadequate at first. How you respond to the challenge makes all the difference--for your students and for you. REMEMBER THAT YOUR STUDENTS AND THEIR NEEDS DEFINE YOUR ROLE AS THEIR TEACHER Success in music is not dependent on the natural abilities of students with visual impairments, but on how dedicated the students are to learning, how carefully they are nurtured and encouraged throughout the process, and how readily available their necessary materials are. You do not have to learn everything your students do to help them progress; just make sure that they have the same possibilities that are open to every other student. Help them find instruments, adaptive materials, curricular and extracurricular opportunities, and teachers who will help them to discover and build continually on their talents and interests. You will be an invaluable resource as you prepare the students' music, teach the students to advocate for themselves in class, guide their teachers to make the learning process more accessible and natural, and strengthen your own abilities to serve them more effectively. BUILD A NETWORK OF SUPPORT Start with your students and their parents-your most important resources. They are the first ones for whom you need to find information, the ones you support and encourage as they make the final decisions about what opportunities they will pursue and which they will defer. Talk with them often to understand and alleviate their concerns and help implement their ideas and suggestions. Next, build positive relationships with your students' classroom music teachers that will allow you to communicate frequently and to troubleshoot together. You and they each contribute unique talents to this experience. Some music teachers may at first be nervous about working with students who are visually impaired. Demonstrate through your confidence and your students' positive independent examples that there are no barriers to musical or any other success for students with visual impairments. Be realistic and honest, especially about how much you know about music and what help you need, but make it clear that you expect your students to achieve and that you expect you and their teachers to help them do so. Extend your network further by talking with all music teachers and staff members on your school campus and then ask them for additional contacts at other schools and universities. Learn what online and other informational resources they use and how to obtain them and then share what you find with your students who are visually impaired and their parents and teachers. Organizations for students who are visually impaired, including specialized schools that staff music professionals and house libraries with braille music performance and instructional materials, will also prove valuable as you search. …