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Rocky / by Avildsen, John G.,1936-director.; Winkler, Irwin,producer.; Chartoff, Robert,producer.; Stallone, Sylvester,screenwriter,actor.; Shire, Talia,actor.; Young, Burt,actor.; Weathers, Carl,actor.; Meredith, Burgess,1907-1997,actor.; Conti, Bill,composer (expression); Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;
DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital mono, dual-layer.Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith.Director of photography, James Crabe ; editor, Richard Halsey ; music, Bill Conti.MPAA rating: PG.CHV rating: PG.Academy Awards (USA), 1977: Best Director (John G. Avildsen) ; Best Film Editing (Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad) ; Best Picture.Golden Globes (USA), 1977: Best Motion Picture - Drama.Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time. He works in a meat factory in Philadelphia for a meager wage so he also earns extra cash as a debt collector. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer. The promoters are touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a "somebody". The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time.
Subjects: Sports films.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Balboa, Rocky (Fictitious character); Boxers (Sports); Boxing matches; Boxing managers; Meat industry and trade; Man-woman relationships;
© [2006], MGM Home Entertainment : Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment,
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Repositioning reference : new methods and new services for a new age / by Saunders, Laura,1975-; Rozaklis, Lillian,1978-author.; Abels, Eileen G.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The evolution of reference services -- Competitive pressures facing reference services -- Implications of change : competencies and philosophies -- Thinking outside the box : entrepreneurship in reference service provision -- Leveraging environmental scanning for repositioning -- Leading and managing change for organizational renewal.To compete today, librarians need to provide not only old services in new ways but also new services. Repositioning Reference: New Methods and New Services for a New Age re-images reference services in libraries and information organizations and the role of reference librarians, taking into account rapid developments in technology and information-specific services in non-library sectors. It traces the history of technology adoption for reference services, describes competitive pressures facing reference services, identifies untapped opportunities for reference services and librarians, details innovative and creative solutions for energizing the profession and engaging library user communities, and prescribes means to evaluating technologies for reference services. -- from back cover.
Subjects: Reference services (Libraries); Reference services (Libraries); Reference librarians; Organizational change.;
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Managing hypertension : tools to improve health and prevent complications / by Moulton, Sandra A.;
Hypertension: an overview -- Hypertension prevalence -- Cardiovascular disease -- Vitamin D -- Kidney disease -- Stroke and cerebrovascular disease -- Nonpharmacological management for hypertension -- Pharmacological management for hypertension -- Hypertension case stories -- HYpertension: prevalence, consequences, and lifestyle modification factors."Hypertension is a common chronic disease affecting people of different ages, cultural backgrounds and socio-economic statuses. This book provides an up-to-date illustrated overview of hypertension, covering risk factors, increase in prevalence, cultures affected and challenges to treating and managing the disease in specific populations. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods for managing hypertension are discussed"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
Subjects: Hypertension; Hypertension; Hypertension; Hypertension; Health Behavior.; Antihypertensive Agents;
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Business plans handbook. a compilation of business plans developed by individuals throughout North America / by Mallegg, Kristin B.,editor.; Gale Group.;
Agritourism attraction -- Auto detailing business -- Children's art, dance, and play space -- Commercial pool cleaning and maintenance -- Craft glass jewelry business -- Ghostwriting business -- Gift box business -- Homeless shelter -- Homemade candle company -- Housesitting and property management business -- Ice cream retail and manufacturing business -- Land clearing business -- Mentally disabled care facility -- Painting contractor -- Scrap metal salvage business -- Self-published author business -- Seminar retreat business -- Senior citizen yoga instructor -- Tree removal and stump grinding service.Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans.Description based on print version record.
Subjects: Small business; Business planning; Small business; New business enterprises; Entrepreneurship;
On-line resources: https://libproxy.kirtland.edu/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/pub/9781410311108/GVRL?u=lom_kirtlandcc -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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A Dublin student doctor : an Irish country novel / by Taylor, Patrick,1941-;
Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become. In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to box and play rugby and to romance a fetching, gray-eyed nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan.
Subjects: O'Reilly, Fingal Flahertie (Fictitious character); Medical students;
© 2015, c2011., Tom Doherty Associates, LLC,
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New beginnings : a reference guide for adult learners / by Simon, Linda,1946-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- 1: Becoming A Student -- Looking back and moving forward: applying life experiences to being a student -- Juggling responsibilities -- Evaluating information -- Working with others -- Researching a problem -- Box: Assessing your strengths -- How being a student affects your relationships with others -- Friends and family members -- Instructors -- Classroom protocol -- Diversity -- Box: Dos and don'ts in a diverse community -- Key words in academia -- Presenting your work -- Written work -- Oral presentations -- Collaborative projects -- Box: Guidelines for oral presentations -- Box: Guidelines for collaborative projects -- Learning online -- Box: Classroom do's and don'ts -- Getting your work done -- Box: Communication and goals -- Setting goals -- Additional resources -- Box: communication and goals -- 2. Assessing Learning Needs And Course Requirements -- Types of learners -- Visual learner -- Kinesthetic learner -- Auditory learner -- Worksheet: Evaluating your learning style -- Box: Tips for capitalizing on your learning style -- Understanding classroom formats -- Lecture -- Seminar -- Workshop -- Worksheet: Assessing your preferred class format -- Recognizing different areas of study -- Choosing your classes -- Deciphering course descriptions -- Box: Identifying your course requirements -- Evaluating a course syllabus -- Box: Questions to ask about a course -- Worksheet: Your college career plan -- On line learning -- Finding an on line provider -- What you can expect from an on line course -- Additional resources -- 3: Identifying College Resources -- Educational advisors -- Study skills classes -- Instructors -- Classmates -- Testing services -- Counselors for students with disabilities -- Career counseling -- Personal counseling -- Mentoring programs -- Tutoring networks -- Box: Making the best use of support resources -- Writing center -- Computer center -- Librarians -- Box: Planning a meeting with an advisor -- 4: Strategies For Managing Time And Stress -- Time commitments of being a student -- Ten hints for time management -- 1: Be realistic -- 2: Build in "safe time" -- 3: Keep a planner -- 4: Find a space -- 5: Look at the big picture -- 6: Speak up about your concerns and commitments -- 7: Work a little every day -- 8: Make a checklist each week -- 9: Just say no -- 10: Get a study buddy -- Procrastination -- Perfectionism -- Six tips for managing stress -- 1: Identify a source of comfort -- 2: Try relaxation techniques -- 3: Use exercise -- 4: Try imagery -- 5: Find an anchor -- 6: Connect with your support system -- Box: Relaxation exercise -- 5: Developing Note-Taking, Studying, And Test-Taking Skills -- Taking notes from different kinds of instructors -- Organized lecturer -- Storyteller -- Discusser -- Box: General pointers for taking class notes -- How to prepare for tests -- Assessment -- Study time -- Preparing for a multiple-choice or short-answer test -- Preparing for an essay test -- Test-taking -- Box: Types of essay questions -- Understanding your grade -- Additional resources -- 6: Strategies For Reading -- Taking an active approach to reading -- Reading a textbook -- Reading a theoretical or critical book or article -- Reading fiction -- Reading poetry -- Box: Analyzing your reading assignments -- 7: Strategies For Research -- Choosing a research topic -- Formulating a research question -- Distinguishing primary and secondary sources -- Using the internet for research -- Evaluating internet sites -- Box: Internet lingo -- On line searches -- Article databases -- Box: Some useful databases -- Library resources -- Dictionaries -- Encyclopedias -- Popular magazines -- Professional and scholarly journals -- Dissertations -- Book review digest and book review index -- Biographical indexes -- Newspaper indexes -- On-line catalogs -- CD-Rom -- Taking notes based on your research -- Using quotations -- Paraphrasing -- Summarizing -- Documenting sources -- Styles of documentation -- Organizing your notes -- Index cards -- Notebooks -- Tape recorders -- Computer files -- Plagiarism and over documentation -- What is plagiarism? -- When does plagiarism occur? -- How can you avoid plagiarism? -- Are you over documenting? -- Box: Useful guides to research -- Additional resources -- 8: Strategies For Writing -- Writer's block: what is it and what causes it? -- Box: Writing assignment checklist -- Generating ideas -- Journal writing -- Free writing, brainstorming, and mind-mapping -- Box: Example of freewriting -- Starting with passages from source material -- Outlining -- Box: Sample paragraph outline -- Visualizing a reader -- Planning -- Drafting -- Writing an introduction -- Developing paragraphs -- Writing a conclusion -- Box: Useful transitional words -- Revising -- Box: Revision checklist -- Three qualities to aim for in your writing -- Conciseness -- Clarity -- Box: Eliminating unnecessary words -- Coherence -- Word processing -- Box: Tips for writing on a computer -- Appendix A: Grammar Brushup -- Parts of speech -- What is a sentence? -- Pronoun protocol -- Handling verbs -- Placing phrases and clauses logically -- Punctuation -- Using the active voice -- Possessives -- Common usage errors -- Additional resources -- Appendix B: Math Brushup -- Math anxiety is a learned behavior -- Overcoming mathematics anxiety -- Language of mathematics -- Arithmetic -- Multiplication -- Fractions -- Decimals and percentages -- Scientific notation -- Algebra -- Number line -- Real number system -- Expressions and equations -- Prime numbers and factoring -- Working with exponents -- Ratios -- Method for dealing with word problems -- Appendix C: Financing Your Education -- Worksheet: Assessing your college expenses -- How to find financial aid -- Scholarships and grants -- Loans -- Assistantships, internships, and work-study plans -- On-line resources -- Index.Synopsis: Adults who enter college have unique challenges and concerns. New Beginnings is entirely devoted to helping adults develop skills to succeed in college from how to manage time and stress to how to develop strong writing and study skills. Specifically addressing adults by building on skills they already use in their everyday work and lives, this friendly, accessible, and supportive guide shows readers what to expect and how to create success in college. The 4th edition offers an expanded section on internet research and writing with a word processor. Eight chapters include information on test-taking, note-taking, classroom protocol, resources for help, strategies for reading and thinking critically; plus a basic grammar and math review.
Subjects: College student orientation; Study skills; Adult learning; Adult college students;
© c2010., Pearson/Prentice Hall,
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Retail 101 : the guide to managing and marketing your retail business / by Reyhle, Nicole,author.; Prescott, Jason,author.;
Being indie in a big-box world. Standing out among the crowd ; Stepping outside your comfort zone ; Leaning on outside organizations ; Identifying your unique store story -- Practical steps to increase your store visibility and sales. Sourcing products through trade shows and the internet ; Buying for customers versus yourself ; Selling your products ; Applying press and marketing to your business -- Making a mark in the economy. Making your presence online ; Taking part in shop-local initiatives ; A crystal ball for independent retailers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Retail trade; Marketing.;
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Handbook for community college librarians / by Crumpton, Michael A.; Bird, Nora J.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index."An in-depth understanding of the complexities, dynamics, and emerging trends in community college libraries today."--Publisher information.1. Introduction : History ; User communities ; Plan for the book -- 2. Administrative structures and competencies : Organizational structures ; Competencies of community college library workers ; Defining a work culture -- 3. Reference and information seeking : The reference interview ; Reference success ; Modeling the affective domain -- 4. Standards, accreditation, and supporting the home institution : ACRL standards ; Your regional accreditation agency ; Other licensure activities ; American Association of Community Colleges -- 5. Information literacy : History of the information literacy concept ; Considerations in instructional programs ; Advocacy and assessment ; Instructional formats ; Knowledge commons -- 6. Instructional design : Learner characteristics ; Learning styles ; Instructional learning objectives ; Teaching strategies ; Distance education ; Assessing your instruction -- 7. Managing yourself : Paradoxes in personal productivity ; Time robbers ; Project management ; Managing meetings ; Making your emotions work for you ; Having the conversation ; Learning to change ; Developing leadership -- 8. Place, budgeting, and facilities : Library as place ; Exhibits and displays ; Facilities ; Budgeting ; Security -- 9. Collection development : Collecting ; Managing ; Unique collections -- 10. Diversity considerations : The scope of diversity ; Responding to the challenge of diversity ; Relationship building -- 11. Introduction to technology : Document production and other office processes ; Audio, photographs, and video ; E-learning ; Web skills ; Content management systems ; Personalized information organization and management ; Staffing for technology -- 12. Assessment : Purposeful assessment ; Data types and methodologies ; Using your results ; LibQUAL+ and more -- 13. If you supervise : Skill sets ; Selected concerns ; Leadership ; Strategic planning -- Appendixes : A. IMLS grant proposal from 2010 ; B. The 21st-century community college librarian survey results.
Subjects: Community college libraries;
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Short-term staff, long-term benefits : making the most of interns, volunteers, student workers, and temporary staff in libraries / by Bird, Nora J.,editor.; Crumpton, Michael A.,editor.;
"This book offers a novel, more efficient, and mutually beneficial approach to attracting, training, and working with short-term staff in ways that benefit all involved: the organization, the short-term staff, and library personnel in general"--Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction to short-term experiences / Nora J. Bird and Michael A. Crumpton -- General considerations: individual and organizational learning / Nora Bird -- Working with faculty and sponsors for academic credit / Nora J. Bird -- Working with grant funding and project-based staff / David Gwynn -- Residencies / Michael Crumpton -- Virtual internship / Mark Coltrain -- Academic libraries: learning is central to the mission / Nora Bird and Michael Crumpton -- Public libraries: managing volunteers and interns / Katrina Vernon -- Special collections and archives: thinking outside of the box for innovative staffing / Keith Gorman and Kathelene McCarty Smith -- Final considerations / Nora Bird and Michael Crumpton.
Subjects: Interns (Library science); Volunteer workers in libraries.; Student library assistants.; Library personnel management.;
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A Dublin student doctor : [electronic resource] : An Irish country novel by Taylor, Patrick.; Keating, John.;
Narrator: John Keating.Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal -- and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become. In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to box and play rugby -- and to romance a fetching, gray-eyed nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan. Dublin is a city of slums and tenements, where brutal poverty breeds diseases that the limited medical knowledge of the time is often ill-equipped to handle. His teachers warn Fingal not to become too attached to his patients, but can he truly harden himself to the suffering he sees all around him—or can he find a way to care for his patients without breaking his heart?Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 436124 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Historical Fiction.; Literature.;
© 2011., Macmillan Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=642756 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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