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- Solutions to common problems when working in the Hadoop environment
- Recipes for (un)loading data, analytics, and troubleshooting
- In depth code examples demonstrating various analytic models, analytic solutions, and common best practices
Book DetailsLanguage : English
Paperback : 316 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : February 2013
Author(s) : Jonathan R. Owens, Brian Femiano, Jon Lentz
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Big Data and Business Intelligence, Data, Cloud, Cookbooks, Open Source
Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Hadoop Distributed File System – Importing and Exporting Data
Chapter 2: HDFS
Chapter 3: Extracting and Transforming Data
Chapter 4: Performing Common Tasks Using Hive, Pig, and MapReduce
Chapter 5: Advanced Joins
Chapter 6: Big Data Analysis
Chapter 7: Advanced Big Data Analysis
Chapter 8: Debugging
Chapter 9: System Administration
Chapter 10: Persistence Using Apache Accumulo
- Chapter 1: Hadoop Distributed File System – Importing and Exporting Data
- Introduction
- Importing and exporting data into HDFS using Hadoop shell commands
- Moving data efficiently between clusters using Distributed Copy
- Importing data from MySQL into HDFS using Sqoop
- Exporting data from HDFS into MySQL using Sqoop
- Configuring Sqoop for Microsoft SQL Server
- Exporting data from HDFS into MongoDB
- Importing data from MongoDB into HDFS
- Exporting data from HDFS into MongoDB using Pig
- Using HDFS in a Greenplum external table
- Using Flume to load data into HDFS
- Chapter 2: HDFS
- Introduction
- Reading and writing data to HDFS
- Compressing data using LZO
- Reading and writing data to SequenceFiles
- Using Apache Avro to serialize data
- Using Apache Thrift to serialize data
- Using Protocol Buffers to serialize data
- Setting the replication factor for HDFS
- Setting the block size for HDFS
- Chapter 3: Extracting and Transforming Data
- Introduction
- Transforming Apache logs into TSV format using MapReduce
- Using Apache Pig to filter bot traffic from web server logs
- Using Apache Pig to sort web server log data by timestamp
- Using Apache Pig to sessionize web server log data
- Using Python to extend Apache Pig functionality
- Using MapReduce and secondary sort to calculate page views
- Using Hive and Python to clean and transform geographical event data
- Using Python and Hadoop Streaming to perform a time series analytic
- Using MultipleOutputs in MapReduce to name output files
- Creating custom Hadoop Writable and InputFormat to read geographical event data
- Chapter 4: Performing Common Tasks Using Hive, Pig, and MapReduce
- Introduction
- Using Hive to map an external table over weblog data in HDFS
- Using Hive to dynamically create tables from the results of a weblog query
- Using the Hive string UDFs to concatenate fields in weblog data
- Using Hive to intersect weblog IPs and determine the country
- Generating n-grams over news archives using MapReduce
- Using the distributed cache in MapReduce to find lines that contain matching keywords over news archives
- Using Pig to load a table and perform a SELECT operation with GROUP BY
- Chapter 5: Advanced Joins
- Introduction
- Joining data in the Mapper using MapReduce
- Joining data using Apache Pig replicated join
- Joining sorted data using Apache Pig merge join
- Joining skewed data using Apache Pig skewed join
- Using a map-side join in Apache Hive to analyze geographical events
- Using optimized full outer joins in Apache Hive to analyze geographical events
- Joining data using an external key-value store (Redis)
- Chapter 6: Big Data Analysis
- Introduction
- Counting distinct IPs in weblog data using MapReduce and Combiners
- Using Hive date UDFs to transform and sort event dates from geographic event data
- Using Hive to build a per-month report of fatalities over geographic event data
- Implementing a custom UDF in Hive to help validate source reliability over geographic event data
- Marking the longest period of non-violence using Hive MAP/REDUCE operators and Python
- Calculating the cosine similarity of artists in the Audioscrobbler dataset using Pig
- Trim Outliers from the Audioscrobbler dataset using Pig and datafu
- Chapter 7: Advanced Big Data Analysis
- Introduction
- PageRank with Apache Giraph
- Single-source shortest-path with Apache Giraph
- Using Apache Giraph to perform a distributed breadth-first search
- Collaborative filtering with Apache Mahout
- Clustering with Apache Mahout
- Sentiment classification with Apache Mahout
- Chapter 8: Debugging
- Introduction
- Using Counters in a MapReduce job to track bad records
- Developing and testing MapReduce jobs with MRUnit
- Developing and testing MapReduce jobs running in local mode
- Enabling MapReduce jobs to skip bad records
- Using Counters in a streaming job
- Updating task status messages to display debugging information
- Using illustrate to debug Pig jobs
- Chapter 9: System Administration
- Introduction
- Starting Hadoop in pseudo-distributed mode
- Starting Hadoop in distributed mode
- Adding new nodes to an existing cluster
- Safely decommissioning nodes
- Recovering from a NameNode failure
- Monitoring cluster health using Ganglia
- Tuning MapReduce job parameters
- Chapter 10: Persistence Using Apache Accumulo
- Introduction
- Designing a row key to store geographic events in Accumulo
- Using MapReduce to bulk import geographic event data into Accumulo
- Setting a custom field constraint for inputting geographic event data in Accumulo
- Limiting query results using the regex filtering iterator
- Counting fatalities for different versions of the same key using SumCombiner
- Enforcing cell-level security on scans using Accumulo
- Aggregating sources in Accumulo using MapReduce
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Errata type: Technical | Page number: 34
On page 34, in step number 6, the JAR file of PIG should also be copied along with the other components to $HADOOP_HOME/lib on each node
The weblog_entries.txt file is present in the folder named "code" in the code files of Chapter 4.
Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Data ETL, compression, serialization, and import/export
- Simple and advanced aggregate analysis
- Graph analysis
- Machine learning
- Troubleshooting and debugging
- Scalable persistence
- Cluster administration and configuration
In Detail
Helping developers become more comfortable and proficient with solving problems in the Hadoop space. People will become more familiar with a wide variety of Hadoop related tools and best practices for implementation.
Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook will teach readers how to build solutions using tools such as Apache Hive, Pig, MapReduce, Mahout, Giraph, HDFS, Accumulo, Redis, and Ganglia.
Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook provides in depth explanations and code examples. Each chapter contains a set of recipes that pose, then solve, technical challenges, and can be completed in any order. A recipe breaks a single problem down into discrete steps that are easy to follow. The book covers (un)loading to and from HDFS, graph analytics with Giraph, batch data analysis using Hive, Pig, and MapReduce, machine learning approaches with Mahout, debugging and troubleshooting MapReduce, and columnar storage and retrieval of structured data using Apache Accumulo.
Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook will give readers the examples they need to apply Hadoop technology to their own problems.
Cookbook recipes demonstrate Hadoop in action and then explain the concepts behind the code.
Who this book is for
This book is ideal for developers who wish to have a better understanding of Hadoop application development and associated tools, and developers who understand Hadoop conceptually but want practical examples of real world applications.


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In Part Four of our exclusive interview with Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill we continue talking about selling writing to film and exactly what producers are looking for to make into a movie.
Even in prose you are writing for the sales team. If your agent sends it to a publisher, the publisher passes it on to the sales team. If they come back and say they don't know how to market the book the publisher doesn't buy it.
C. ROBERT CARGILL - It also comes with the additional problem of the audience who doesn't go out, in this day and age, and seek out stories that can't be properly sold to them. Like John Dies at the End. How do you market a movie like that? It's one of those movies that people look at and think "I don't know what it is so maybe I'll catch it on cable."
SCOTT DERRICKSON - When I speak to writing students in film schools, which I try to do whenever asked, the number one lesson I always try to convey to them is that there are three reasons why a Hollywood producer or executive will not make your movie. First and foremost is that it's not any good. Your writing's bad. You're story's bad. That's 99% of the rejects. But let's say that you have a good story. Let's say that you can write. There are two reasons that your movie is still not going to get made. This is the irony and the conundrum of screenwriting. The first reason that they are going to give you is, "We've seen it before." This is like such-and-such movie.
Yet the man on the street would think "Since when in this world of re-dos and sequels does that play any part in it?"
DERRICKSON - But the other reason is that they are going to say "Well, we've never seen this before." When you break it down to that equation you realize, and if you look at the movies that get made, the vast majority of movies exist somewhere between those two statements - "We've never seen it before" and "We've totally seen it before".
They want to have seen it before just enough to identify it as "It's this, but with this."
DERRICKSON - In my mind I've broken it down to a very simple equation which is that it needs to be about 75% familiar, 25% fresh. If you have that people will buy it. It's cynical and sad but that's the movie business. If you make the 75% that is familiar really good and the 25% or 30% that's really fresh, really fresh you make a good movie. Every once in a while somebody comes along, usually a person with a lot of power, who will take a risk on doing something totally original, like The Matrix, like Seven. Movies that were hard movies to get made, that the studios didn't want to make, like Pulp Fiction.
CARGILL - Like Magnolia.
DERRICKSON - These are all amazing movies. Every once in a while a great filmmaker will push something through and then they establish a credibility to continue to do that.
He's carrying the power with him though when he comes with it originally.
DERRICKSON - That's correct. It's a bit of a complicated game understanding why movies get made, why some get made and some movies don't. I think that once you accept those basic realities I'm still convinced that you can make extraordinary work within those parameters. I just don't believe that the boundaries that are set for you by the system are inherently limiting in that because of those parameters you can't make something good.
What kind of walls or boundaries did you run into trying to sell this book Shadows and Dreams?
CARGILL - The way got cleared for me. It really was a weird thing in that once I had a movie that I was working on and once Ethan Hawke was attached to it people realized it was a real movie.
"This is not some small thing you're making in your backyard this is a film. This is a horror movie starring Ethan Hawke. I've never seen Ethan Hawke in a horror movie. Oh wow! Who is this guy?" At which point people wanted to do the book. The people that were into it were really into it.
DERRICKSON - He needed a representation. I basically told my agent and my attorney and my manager. I told all of them. I said this guy's gonna have a big career.
But he's not a literary agent?
DERRICKSON - No. But the point being ...
CARGILL - My manager got me my literary agent.
DERRICKSON - That's it. I told them all that (A) You need to represent him because we're going to keep working together and (B) They're wired in to that entire publishing world. So once Cargill had finished the manuscript he had a pipeline where he could go and get it published that might not have been so accessible.
I believe that everybody gets their first book published via a million different ways. There is no one WAY.
CARGILL - I get asked by a lot of people how do you get in? What's the secret? How did you do it? The way I explain it is that the entertainment industry, Hollywood, is like an amazing party happening at this huge mansion. There's all these different rooms with all these different types of parties going on. There's a big line at the door and there are bouncers at the door who are checking to see who gets in. But it's very slow because the people who are there don't want to leave and only a few people can go in at a time. Your job is to figure out how to break into that house and get in. Sometimes, like in my case, where you have a buddy who is like "Hey, I know where there is an open window in back… you come in here and join our party. So you crawl in and once you're in the party you can go to any of the rooms. Because once you are there everybody assumes you are supposed to be there.
Then you are "one of us."
CARGILL - Yeah. So the secret is - How do you break in to this great party? You can go in the normal way. You can do the "I'm going to move to Los Angeles and go to auditions" and try to get in that way. Or you find your way to sneak in as you hear a hundred different stories in this town of how people found their way to just kind of lie or cajole or steal or just luck their way into the party. I just had a friend hold the window open for me and now here I am. Now I've got other people asking, "Do you know where the window is?"
I think we all had some friend that held a window somewhere open for us.
DERRICKSON - Yes. But the thing that is different with this is that Cargill was already my friend before we ever had any inclination of working together. Not like we were good friends. We were long distance email friends. For me it wasn't an act of friendship… it was belief in the book. I just thought the book was great. I felt that the book was special. The only real thing I did was what I think every artist ought to do when they encounter something that is great that doesn't have that pipeline yet, which is just lay down the pipeline. If you can do it, just do it. I have people ask me to do it all the time. I have people send me scripts all the time. Most of the time I don't read them.
For legal reason?
DERRICKSON - Even for legal reasons but I'll have my assistant read some of them. If he thinks they're good maybe I'll read them. But this was a very rare occurrence. I read something and I genuinely, with nothing personal to gain out of it, I just thought that this book needed to be out there.
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Both Scott and Cargill (his preferred tag) can be found on their Facebook sites
Del Howison is a journalist, writer and Bram Stoker Award-winning editor. He is also the co-founder and owner of Dark Delicacies "The Home of Horror" in Burbank, CA. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.

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My second dose of Riley Jantzen came at the Brewhouse, with him fronting his new band, Riley Jantzen and the Spirits. They play what I call train-whistle rock'n'roll: twangless country rock that crunches pretty hard, but not in the modern rock sort of way. Whatever you want to call it, Riley Jantzen and the Spirits are incredibly good at it. I got shivers twice during their set, and it's rare for me to feel goosebumps once during a good show. It helps that Jantzen's voice molds perfectly into whatever genre he wishes, and that his songwriting sensibilities are razor-sharp. His supporting cast is also a critical element; the bassist get props for being especially vital. I can't recommend this band highly enough to you; if you take nothing from NMF but Riley Jantzen, you're gonna be doing alright.
My second go-round with John Calvin came at Michelangelo's, where John Calvin and the Cavalry played their final show as an entity. Members may be leaving him for far-off places, but they didn't show any signs of distraction in their locked-in, 90-minute set of rock, pop, blues and folk.
John Calvin is most fun performer in Oklahoma to photograph, because his guitar faces are just absolutely incredible. He can make guitar faces because about half of the fun of a Cavalry set is listening to Calvin totally wail on his acoustic guitar, which he turns into an electric with a combination of pedals. He let no opportunity go un-soloed in this set, too. Calvin has come a long way since his first shows, and his current versions of his oldest songs show it. "Song to Make the Stars Fall," one of his oldest songs, sounds completely transformed, from a nice pop tune to a tour-de-force. It's a shame that the Cavalry is splitting up, because they certainly know how to turn a tune inside out.
The set felt a couple tunes too long, but when you're headlining a stage at NMF and it's your last show, you pretty much have permission to throw in the kitchen sink. It was a blast, and the band looked like it was having as much fun as the audience.
Montu's electonic jams brought the audience out to Jagermeister stage. I stopped in to check out the sound, and I thoroughly enjoyed the few tunes I caught. They will be headlining Groovefest next weekend, so if you haven't witnessed their clubby, electronic, party grooves, it will be a good opportunity to see them. Melodies and rhythm galore.


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NORMAN — Evelene Peltier, 86, of Norman, passed away Saturday evening, March 16, 2013, at the Holiday Heights Nursing Home in Norman. Evelene was born Jan. 15, 1927, in Lexington, the daughter of Ben and Dora (Hill) Graham.
Services for Evelene will be 10 a.m. Thursday in the Havenbrook Funeral Home chapel, 3401 Havenbrook St. in Norman.
Evelene was raised in Cleveland County, where she attended country schools. She lived in Noble for more than 30 years before moving to Norman in 1993. Evelene was employed as a housekeeper for the University of Oklahoma for 12 years, retiring in 1987. She also worked for Clark's Cleaners of Norman for many years.
During her retirement, Evelene surrounded herself with what she loved the most: her family, her church and listening to gospel music. She was a simple lady with an incredible faith and commitment to Jesus Christ and her children. She was happiest when she was with her family and worshiping in her church.
Evelene was a member of the Riverlife Church of God in Moore.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Virgil Woods in March 1982; her husband, Gene Peltier in July 2004; two daughters, Virginia Woods in November 1972 and Roberta Woods in December 1975; two sisters and five brothers.
Survivors include her two sons, John Woods and his wife Joyce of Norman and Jeff Peltier; one daughter, Deborah Allred and her husband Ralph of Hugo; four grandchildren, John Paul Woods of Norman, Jim Allred of Norman, Stacy Allred of Hugo and Ralph Allred Jr. of Hugo; and six great-grandchildren.
Arrangements for Evelene and her family were placed in the care of the Vice family at Havenbrook Funeral Home in Norman.
Online condolences may be shared at www.havenbrookfuneralhome.com.
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---- — Some treasure it as a community gem to be polished and restored to its previous luster.
Others see it as a money pit symbolizing the community's refusal to let go of a past that is never coming back.
Most are in agreement, though, that something must be done about the Wigwam, Anderson's mothballed 9,000-seat basketball gymnasium.
Bringing the Wigwam back to life or razing it both come with a significant set of problems.
To save the Wigwam, someone needs to strike on a purpose for the facility. Crowds of 9,000 (or even 3,000) no longer attend Anderson High School basketball games, which the Wigwam hosted before the facility was shut down in 2011. Over the years, the Wigwam complex was also used for various Anderson Community Schools offices and academic programs. But ACS officials determined that the cost of keeping the building open and heating it was draining the school system of $350,000 a year.
So now it stands basically abandoned, with no suitors stepping forward to reopen the building and adapt it to a new use — for concerts, or antique markets, or museum displays, or trade shows or any other purpose you can think of.
Part of the problem is that the Wigwam will need a new roof, possibly within the next five years, at a projected cost of more than $1 million.
So why not raze it? Well, there are principally two reasons, one practical and one sentimental.
First, the practical. It would probably cost several hundred thousands dollars to destroy the facility and rehabilitate the property.
Now, the sentimental.
Many Andersonians love the old building for its character and history. Locals of a certain age remember attending sold-out basketball games when the crowd thundered with such enthusiasm that little children covered their ears and opposing players trembled at the knees. The pageantry of green and red and the magnitude of Indians games made the Wigwam the place to be, and drew sportswriters and Hoosier Hysteria enthusiasts from across the country.
To these folks, tearing down the Wigwam would be tantamount to destroying an important chapter of Anderson's rich history.
So, the Wigwam stands waiting for a purpose — or a demise. Meanwhile, vandals have become fond of the place while weeds grow up around it and time takes its steady toll. Some worry that the 1997 fire that destroyed the rest of the old Anderson High School facility, which stood with the Wigwam, could be repeated, posing grave danger to neighbors and firefighters.
What's to be done about the Wigwam? Nobody has the answer right now, but it's up to the City of Anderson and Anderson Community Schools to seek solutions. So far, they don't have anything to show for their efforts and, in fact, no signs that they have made a sincere effort to solve the Wigwam puzzle.
One thing's for sure, the longer the Wigwam stands empty, the more it will slip from the heights of its historic significance toward the sad fate of becoming nothing more than a colossal eyesore.
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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A movie starring actor Brad Pitt is filming in El Paso, but Pitt's nowhere to be seen.
El Paso Film Commissioner Susie Gaines says film crews are collecting "pick-up" shots to be included in the move "The Counselor," which is supposed to open in the fall. That means the scenes will be filler for use between scenes or while someone is talking off camera.
The action Monday focused on an alley featuring three vehicles being driven. Several extras also walked in front of the alley while cameras rolled.
Gaines tells the El Paso Times (bit.ly/12pzZwS) the rest of the movie was shot in Spain.
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MARGARET G. LAVARNWAY, 89, of Jersey Swamp Road, Beekmantown, died Monday, Feb. 5, 2013 at Evergreen Valley Nursing Home. She was born in Beekmantown on Sept. 28, 1923 the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Moriarty) Thornton. There will be no public calling hours. A Mass of Christian Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, at St. Joseph's Church in West Chazy. Burial will be in St. Alexander's Cemetery in Morrisonville in the spring. Arrangements are in care of the R. W. Walker Funeral Home, 69 Court St., Plattsburgh. A full obituary will appear in tomorrow's Press Republican
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Phone: 770-420-4388
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Mailing Address (for US Mail, inter-campus
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Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591
Physical Address (for deliveries/UPS/FedEx):
3805 Canton Place, Suite 3051
Kennesaw, GA 30144
Directions to the Residence Life Main Office:
From 75 north, exit Chastain Rd heading west. Turn right
onto Frey Rd (Shell station on the corner, sign to the
left says Barrett Lakes). Continue on Frey Rd around the
curve and get into the left lane. This lane becomes a
left turn only lane onto Campus Loop Rd. Continue on
Campus Loop Rd. to a traffic circle. Enter the circle
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An experimental drug that shuts down construction of virus-making factories could become a new weapon against MERS and similar respiratory diseases. The chemical, called K22, halts growth of a panel of different coronaviruses, including the strains that cause MERS and SARS, researchers report May 29 in PLOS Pathogens.
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- Combine the white sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, cream, and melted butter in a bowl. Whisk until well blended. Fold in the pignoli nuts. Pour filling into the pie crust.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 50 minutes.
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Really delicious! I reduced the sugars down to a little less than 1/2 cup each; added an extra Tbsp. cream, a full cup of Pignoli (toasted in the oven for about 6-8 min at 175°C (350°F)) and a few drops of almond extract; also baked in pastry dough instead of a pie shell. I served this to guests - there were only 4 of us and it was gone by the end of the evening! Thanks for this simple, divine recipe!
This recipe was quick and easy. The taste and texture is almost like a pecan pie. The only change I made was toasting the nuts before putting them in the pie to make the flavor more powerful. Wait until completely cooled before cutting - although when you smell this baking you'll have a hard time waiting! Great recipe!
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I was given a huge bag of pine nuts and looked for recipes I could use them in besides salads and pesto. I was delighted when I found this recipe. It was very easy to make. Use butter and not margerine for the richer flavor. I used a full cup of pine nuts, toasted them on a cookie sheet before using them in the pie, which filled a regular 9 inch frozen pie crust. I brought two pies into work and they were gone in no time. Everyone wanted the recipe.
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- 39%
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- 14%
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- 29%
- Sodium
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Company: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A.
Brand: Toyota
Medium: TV
Ad Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, LA
Product: Toyota Camry
Campaign: It's Ready. Are You?
What We Like: What makes the Camry the right car for so many families is its overall competence in all aspects of everyday driving, and this advertisement does a good job of reminding consumers that the 2012 Camry has all the bells and whistles you could want while also managing to be safe (10 airbags) and efficient (43 miles per gallon for the hybrid).
There's a techy side to the ad, but it's not full of techno-babble and it comes across in an easy manner. Plus, the pooch at the end adds just the right amount of levity.
What We Don't Like: Not much. The ad hits all the major points Toyota wants to put into the minds of consumers, and does so in a clever way. As enthusiasts, we always love to see great driving footage and ad copy that focuses on the actual act of piloting a car, but that's really not what the Camry – and indeed most of this entire automotive segment – is all about.
Strategy: There isn't a single model that Toyota sells in the United States that's more crucial to its success than the mid-size Camry sedan. This car, along with the Corolla, is the machine that Toyota's stellar reputation for quality and reliability was built on.
Toyota needs to get the message out that the Camry is all new while also reminding everyone how great past Camry models have been for the car's intended segment, and it's hoping to do that with a campaign that stretches from radio and television to billboards and print media and straight on through to social networking. The company will also be putting on 125 events all around the country to put drivers in the seat of its latest Camry.
None of that even touches on all the bad press Toyota has gotten in the past few years for recalls and supposed safety concerns, and Toyota certainly wants to forget all about the dark days of its past. This campaign will look to put Toyota in a positive light again and the 2012 Camry is the car that will lead Toyota's hoped-for sales resurgence. For more on its overall strategy, hit the jump for a complete press release... but feel free to watch the video first.
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'It's Ready. Are You?' Touts Vehicle Innovation and Performance
TORRANCE, Calif. (October 17, 2011) – Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. today announced the official launch of its marketing campaign for the all-new 2012 Camry: "It's Ready. Are You?" The campaign demonstrates how the seventh-generation model addresses changes in consumers' vehicle needs, expectations and driving habits through the combination of new innovations and improvements to interior and exterior styling.
Camry has built a legacy of success, establishing itself as America's best-selling car for nine years running and 13 of the past 14 years. Leveraging nearly 30 years of Camry innovation and know-how, Toyota has created its most technologically advanced Camry ever-a car that keeps up with American drivers' 21st century lifestyle. The 2012 Camry debuts a bold, sophisticated new design with a more spacious and refined interior, improved driving dynamics, class-leading fuel economy and a level of safety features unmatched in the segment. The 2012 Camry is among the first Toyota vehicles to offer the award-winning in-car experience, Entune™. Owners will be able to download a collection of popular mobile applications and data services via touch screen or voice command. Applications include Bing™, IHeartRadio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable® and Pandora®.
"When building the best-selling car in America-a car with nearly seven million vehicles on the road today-you learn about what people want and expect from their cars," said Bill Fay, group vice president of marketing for Toyota. "We recognized the need to give Americans a smart, safe and worry-free vehicle they can rely on, and our marketing campaign communicates this message."
Understanding that today's drivers want the complete package, the "It's Ready. Are You?" campaign, created by Toyota's advertising agency of record, Saatchi & Saatchi LA, touts the reinvented Camry's class-leading innovations in safety, efficiency and intuitive mobile media technology. Campaign messaging focuses on performance, innovation, safety and MPG, showcasing key product features and packaging.
The fully integrated campaign includes six TV spots, launching with "Built" during NBC Sunday Night Football. The spots will air during several top-rated and high-profile programs such as Two and a Half Men, AFC/NFC Football and the World Series. Broadcast momentum continues into next year with two spots in the Super Bowl and the Toyota Halftime Report.
Print & Digital
Camry will have a significant presence in print outlets, appearing in publications such as TIME, Oprah, People and Business Week. Toyota will continue its ongoing partnership with TIME Person of the Year through print, digital and tablet placements. Camry will also be part of Toyota's Sporting News tablet integration, exclusively appearing in the NFL, NASCAR and MLB sections. The 2012 model will also be supported by digital media, including banner ads, rich media units, homepage takeovers and gaming integrations.
In a nod to Camry's racing heritage, sporty performance videos starring NASCAR driver of the #18 Toyota Camry, Kyle Busch, will be available on the Toyota USA YouTube channel and Toyota.com.
Social Media
In September, Toyota introduced the "Camry Effect" (http://www.toyota.com/camryeffect), an initiative to connect the nearly seven million Camry drivers in the United States through an intuitive, interactive, online experience. For nearly 30 years, Camry has been a part of many Americans' best memories-first dates, road trips, soccer games, interviews and college days. The Camry Effect provides past and present Camry owners a platform where they can share these stories, moments, memories and milestones while witnessing the collective "Effect" they have.
Fully social, the site connects people with other Camry comrades and allows them to invite friends, tweet their Effect or post their progress on Facebook. As each Effect grows and becomes more personal, visitors can see the true power in numbers behind the Camry Effect and gain a better understanding of how one car connects millions of people. An experience that continues to grow with each new Camry moment detailed, this dynamic, interactive initiative is a fresh way to tell a 30-year heritage story through the people who've lived it.
Out of Home
Outdoor boards will drive awareness of specific vehicle attributes such as fuel efficiency and blind spot monitoring. Additionally, digital billboards featuring Camry imagery will run atop the Walgreens building in Times Square to spark the public's interest and build intrigue for the 2012 model.
Consumer Experiences
Beginning in November, consumers will have the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the 2012 Camry at over 125 events through March 2012. The Toyota Drive Center national ride and drive tour, along with activations at select Life Time Fitness locations across the country, will give the public a chance to experience the vehicle firsthand.
Diversity Marketing
Diversity marketing will continue to be an important component of the product launch and sustainment for Toyota, the top-selling automotive brand for African American, Hispanic and Asian consumers. To maintain that leadership, Toyota has developed tailored campaigns with its multicultural agencies of record, Burrell, Conill and interTrend to highlight the key attributes of the Camry for the African American, Hispanic and Asian American markets, respectively.
For more information on the reinvented 2012 Camry, visit www.toyota.com/camry.


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We provide: Community Health Services (Health Accessing, Trauma/Stress Reduction, and Marriage /Relationship Education for Refugee Families); Children and Youth Services (pre-school activities for 2-5 year-olds; after school activities for school-aged youths, focusing on academic improvement, character development, career exploration, and health; and parent education); and Employment-Related Services (ESL, job placement and long-term supportive services). Our clients now come from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Africa, Mexico and more.
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The Minnie Street area of Santa Ana is an overcrowded, high crime, low-income "ghetto" for more than 12,000 Cambodian refugee and Latino immigrants. Cambodians are one of the most traumatized populations in the United States, suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome and chronic health problems. Both populations lack knowledge about preventing and recognizing disease, skills for navigating the health care system and the personal ongoing support they need for creating healthy habits. The project aims to reduce these disparities through increasing awareness of symptoms, risky behaviors and health-promoting activities, improving access to health care and increasing health-promoting behaviors, while increasing the awareness of stakeholders about minority health disparities.
Bilingual Family Coaches access the community to provide health awareness, education, translation and health assessments. Community partners include: St. Joseph's Hospital, Jamboree Housing Corporation and Lestonnac Free Clinic, who will assist in providing venues, equipment and access to health professionals for education and health screenings. Uninsured clients who are identified as at-risk or symptomatic will receive further medical services. Clients will be encouraged to enroll in the "Health Club" for more intensive behavior-changing, self-management activities, such as reducing or eliminating tobacco, eating healthier foods, exercising on a regular basis and learning skills for reducing stress and increasing inner calm. Cultural competency materials are produced for healthcare providers, including written materials to increase awareness of minority health disparities and a manual for replicating the organizational program.


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In his report, presented to the Board of School Committee on Monday, Brennan recommended "retaining the current configuration of our current elementary and middle schools" for the next school year, as well as for the high schools.
Brennan's report also made no proposal for the establishment of a central preschool, which was seen as a way of freeing up space at the district's elementary schools.
He did note, however, that there was enough capacity at Manchester High Schools Central and Memorial to eliminate West High. Any plans for a "new educational model" for West, Brennan stressed, should not be implemented until the 2014 school year and would require "a comprehensive plan and the appropriate vetting of the concept."
In the fall the school board, at the urging of Mayor Ted Gatsas, directed Brennan to press forward with a suite of reforms, following the uproar over crowded classes.
Progress has been made on several of those initiatives, including virtual learning and partnerships with local universities, but the redistricting component has proven far more challenging, Brennan told the school board.
"It's like squeezing the balloon - every time you put pressure one place, it pops up somewhere else," he said. "Whatever I came up with was not workable in many people's minds. We've spent a lot of time on this, and this is the best assessment based on what I have at this time."
Gatsas has pushed for redistricting since he was elected, as a way to make better use of school facilities. Some elementary and middle schools, such as McLaughlin, have considerable excess capacity, while others are overcrowded, such as Beech Street Elementary.
"We're trusting him with doing the redistricting," Gatsas said in September when the decision was made to give Brennan unprecedented authority over redistricting. "It is not an easy decision, but it must be done."
Several proposals for redistricting have come and gone in the face of parental resistance and high cost estimates.
The centralized preschool proposal was seen as a more workable alternative, with the more than 300 preschool students possibly sent to McLaughlin.
Brennan in his report said this option was not "educationally sound" and could have a fiscal impact of around $2 million.
Gatsas did not offer any comments in response to Brennan's report on Monday.
Brennan said there was no easy fix to the district's imbalanced school attendance patterns.
"You're either going to have to add a (elementary) school or expand a facility. It's unfortunate, but there wasn't a lot of long-range planning in terms of where schools were built," he said.
Brennan noted that there has been significant population growth on the northern outskirts of the city, while many school facilities are located on the West side, where the number of families has declined.
Board member Sarah Ambrogi said it may be time to consider a school assignment plan that bridges the two halves of the city.
"I think we may have to ignore the fact that there's a river in the city and look at moving children across that river," she said. "We have the buildings, but don't always have the families there."
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RaleighUnited States, August 5, 2009
Winners selected for innovative use and technical achievement with Red Hat and JBoss solutions
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the award-winning finalists in its third annual Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards. The awards are designed to recognize the outstanding use, innovation and extension of Red Hat and JBoss solutions by Red Hat customers, partners and the open source community. From the finalists, one Red Hat Innovator of the Year and one JBoss Innovator of the Year will each be selected and announced during the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, co-located this year in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2009.
There are five categories recognizing winning submissions and one category that recognizes a winner who is deploying both Red Hat and JBoss solutions. Red Hat Innovation Awards category winners will be provided with complimentary admission to the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, where each will be recognized through an awards ceremony in a general session for both Red Hat Summit and JBoss World attendees.
From the category winners, an overall Red Hat Innovator of the Year and a JBoss Innovator of the Year will each be selected by the community through online voting and announced at a special awards ceremony on September 4.
The 2009 Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Awards winners include:
Management Excellence:
- Red Hat: Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market, www.wholefoodsmarket.com, a leader in the U.S. natural and organic foods industry and America's first national certified organic grocer has more than 275 stores, nine distribution centers, and more than 54,000 team members in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company was selected for its use of Red Hat Satellite to manage its Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems that resulted in reduced costs, reallocated resources and the ability of the Whole Foods IT department to focus on strategic business initiatives.
- JBoss: American Family Insurance
American Family Insurance, www.amfam.com, is the nation's third-largest mutual property and casualty insurer and the 14th-largest property and casualty insurance company with more than $4.1 billion in policyholder equity, and a network of 4,000 agents who serve 19 states. American Family Insurance is migrating to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform from WebSphere, and was selected for its use of JBoss Operations Network to manage its servers and its close work with the JBoss engineering team that plans to provide benefits to the open source community and commercial enterprises looking at JBoss ON.
Optimized Systems:
- Red Hat: Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc., www.verizon.com, a Dow 30 company, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to mass market, business, government and wholesale customers. Building out the nation's most advanced all-digital, fiber-optic network straight to customers' homes and businesses, Verizon was selected for its consolidation and standardization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its SAP and PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning applications to reduce costs, increase performance, and allow the ability to scale for growth. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the company now runs its servers more efficiently, with minimal need for additional equipment, bolstering Verizon's extensive energy conservation efforts.
- JBoss: Harvard Business Publishing + Rivet Logic
Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), www.harvardbusiness.org, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University, providing a wide range of publications - both print and online - that target academic, enterprise and individual manager markets. Rivet Logic, www.rivetlogic.com, is a consulting and systems integration firm that provides professional open source services and solutions for organizations such as HBP. Rivet Logic and HBP were selected for the innovative use of open source solutions from Red Hat, JBoss, and Alfresco at HBP, that have enabled increased stability and the ability to develop products faster, bundle existing products more efficiently, and generate new revenue opportunities by increasing site traffic and offering richer, fresher, and more varied content.
Superior Alternatives:
- Red Hat: Union Bank, N.A.
Union Bank, N.A., www.unionbank.com, has 335 branch offices in California, Washington, and Oregon; two international offices; and facilities in six other states. It is the 16th largest bank in the U.S. based on assets at March 31, 2009. Union Bank was selected for its operating platform migration from AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its Websphere to JBoss migration to support its mission critical applications at an improved price, greater performance and less up-keep. Union Bank used open source solutions to increase time to market, reliability and return on investment.
- JBoss: GEICO
GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company), www.geico.com, is the third-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States. The company provides auto insurance coverage for more than 9 million policyholders. GEICO was selected for its evaluation and choice of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to reduce total cost of ownership by more than 30 percent and overall resource utilization went from above 50 percent to under 10 percent, which allowed significant room for scalability without having to acquire additional hardware.
Carved Out Costs:
- JBoss: Allianz Australia Ltd
Allianz Australia Limited, www.allianz.com.au, Australia's fourth largest general insurer with over two million policyholders, operates across Australia and New Zealand and offers a wide range of insurance and risk management products and services.
Extensive Ecosystem:
- Red Hat: Hilti Corporation
Hilti Corporation, www.hilti.com, a leading-edge technology provider to the global construction industry, with almost 20,000 employees in more than 120 countries around the world, offers products, systems and services to the global construction industry. Hilti was selected for its standardization of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to handle its SAP® applications, including SAP ERP and SAP Customer Relationship Management, with more than 5TB of data. Hilti migrated its critical systems from a Tru64 UNIX based system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System (GFS). The migration to Red Hat solutions delivered increased application performance, reduced electricity costs and provided the company with a long-term platform strategy.
- JBoss: Optaros + Massachusetts Convention Center Authority
Optaros, www.optaros.com, is an open source consulting firm that specializes in the development of custom applications for clients through the Assembled Web. The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA), www.mccahome.com, owns and oversees the operation of four major facilities, including the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC). According to the MCCA, it has generated $2.3 billion in economic impact over the past five years in the greater Boston area and is the eighth busiest convention center in North America. Optaros and MCCA staff worked together to rebuild the MCCA's event management system. The product, known as ShowBiz, helps streamline the detailed process of setting up large-scale events, and is now completely run on an open source stack that was designed and assembled by Optaros. Approximately 90 percent of the MCCA's day-to-day operations now run on open source solutions from JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
Red Hat and JBoss: Outstanding Open Source Architecture:
- Ecommerce Inc. + Vizuri
Ecommerce, Inc., www.ecommerce.com, is a global web hosting and ecommerce services provider with a sound customer base of several hundred thousand individuals and businesses from around the globe, and currently hosts more than half a million domains on its infrastructure. Vizuri, www.vizuri.com, is a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner and Preferred JBoss Certified Systems Integrator committed to delivering innovation by utilizing open source solutions to provide cost-effective, enterprise solutions. Ecommerce and Vizuri were selected for their work in developing Imperia, an Intelligent Data Center web services hosting platform that aims to increase customer service, reduce customer turnover, reduce operational costs, and increase customer reliability using Red Hat, JBoss, Hyperic and EnterpriseDB solutions. Ecommerce chose Vizuri to develop the project because of its excellent track record with Red Hat based open source solutions and strong placement within the industry.
"The submissions are more impressive each year as nominees creatively utilize Red Hat and JBoss solutions to solve problems and achieve significant results such as increased performance, cost savings and enhanced service, among others," said Lee Congdon, CIO at Red Hat and a 2009 Red Hat Innovation Awards judge. "It's exciting to see how partners, customers and the community are leveraging the full advantage of the open source development model to overcome challenges and create value."
For more information on the Red Hat Innovation Awards, or to read the winning submissions and vote for the Innovator of the Year, please visit http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/awards/.
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I get myself in trouble, when I have issues with the school district. I feel like writing a long disclaimer, but I'll keep it simple. I love our city, and I love our schools. I do, however, take issue when I believe the district's email database is being used improperly.
I have a child in elementary, so my email address is in the district database. Many of you received an email from the district this morning, in which superintendent Hughes voiced his concerns over a piece of legislation being considered in Lansing. Since I haven't fully researched the details of the legislation, I won't venture an opinion on its merit. My problem is with Dr. Hughes, using the district's email database to circulate his political opinion.
Here's how Dr. Hughes opens:
"Although all the news from Lansing lately is about "Right to Work," behind the scenes there is still education legislation that is moving forward and, if passed, would have profound effects on Michigan's public schools, and on P-CCS in particular. This legislation pertains to the EAA (Education Achievement Authority). The EAA was formed a year ago as a kind of separate "school district" in Detroit that would take over the Detroit schools that fall in the bottom 5% of schools based on student achievement. The legislation now in Lansing would expand the EAA's authority and allow it to take over any school in the state that is in the bottom 5%."
In our politically charged environment, is it really appropriate to use a school district resource for politicking? The last time I checked, our community is made up of people with many different beliefs and political views; most of whom did not submit their email addresses, to receive propaganda pieces. When we need opinions concerning politics, there are enough of those out there. Dr. Hughes then goes on to explain that the legislation, about which he is opining, will probably not affect schools in our district:
"Although the likelihood of that ever being the case in Plymouth-Canton is slim to none, wherever it did occur it would be taking local control away from elected school boards. It would, in essence, be creating a statewide school district."
Followed by a bit more fear-mongering, over an issue that we are not likely to face:
"Of most concern to us in Plymouth-Canton is the provision that would allow the EAA to take over vacant school buildings, wherever they are located. If we closed a school in Plymouth-Canton, we would be required to put that school on a state listing of vacant school buildings and keep the school (even though vacant) in operating condition for two years. During these two years, the EAA could, by paying the appraised value of the building, purchase it without our consent for the appraised value, even if we could have got more than the appraised value by selling it to a old-school entity."
Dr. Hughes concludes, by explaining that he has only expressed his opinion, and not that of the school board. He then provides the email addresses for our state legislators, presumably for you to share his opinion with them. The superintendent is entitled to his opinions, he has every right to express them; but is the district's mailing list the proper vehicle to distribute anyone's political views? The last time I got involved in a school district issue, it was to openly support Dr. Hughes; when he unilaterally removed the book Beloved from the high school's AP English curriculum. I wrote an op-ed in the Observer, as well as here at Patch, to express my concerns; the same options are available to the superintendent, for expressing his opinions. I don't think superintendent Hughes should be using the district's website as a political blog, and I don't think he should be treating the parents in his district like subscribers.
This is about a principle. The email databases of public schools should not be used as a bully pulpit for the advancement of someone's political opinions. These emails should contain objective information, and facts relevant to parents, students, and faculty inside the district. If legislation actually does affect our district, give us the facts when they become reality. Let's save the hypotheticals for Facebook, and politics for politicians.


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MANKATO — Firefighters were able to respond quickly Sunday to a kitchen fire thanks to a neighbor's sharp hearing and a fresh set of smoke detector batteries.
The neighbor called 911 to report the fire at 316 Dolph Road at about 1 p.m. A fire had started in the kitchen, possibly by faulty wiring in the stove, said Cmdr. Donald Lehne of the Mankato Department of Public Safety.
"The good news is the owners had just changed the batteries in their smoke detectors and a neighbor heard the detectors," Lehne said.
Most of the fire's damage was caused by smoke. Lehne said his preliminary estimate for repairing the damage is about $5,000.


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The world's most famous monster is pitted against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
Starts Friday, August 1
A soldier fighting in a war with aliens finds himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle, though he becomes better skilled along the way.
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pain or pleasure
pain or pleasure
pain or pleasure408steve on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 5:36pm
i would have to say pain for pleasure
pain or pleasurespanked on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 2:00am
To quote some old buddies of mine. "how would you know if something was cool if nothing sucked?" Pain and pleasure is the perfect combination leave it alone.
pain or pleasurechris myers on Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 3:16pm
i luv pain, but i also luv pleasure
pain or pleasureRanger5150 on Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 4:27pm
They go together like PB&J
pain or pleasureTwistedcherry on Friday, November 17, 2006 - 3:58am
The is a fine line between the two. Both mean the same exact thing. And if given the right way, they both create the same end result. Im a masochist, and have a very high threshold for physical pain! >=)
pain or pleasuresynn90 on Friday, November 17, 2006 - 4:11am
Now i enjoy being slapped around as much as the next guy, but i don't enjoy broken bones, stitches, so i guess i like a little pain.
pain or pleasurejacked on Friday, November 17, 2006 - 3:55pm
I get pleasure out of other peoples pain. It makes me want more.
pain or pleasureXTheHazMatX on Friday, November 17, 2006 - 5:59pm
I'm gonna have to agree with this band called Blitzkid and their song "She Dominates"
She dominates, i need some pleasure with my pain, she dominates, i forgot the rest
pain or pleasureLucyindasky on Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 7:43pm
They go together like PB&J
My thoughts exactly!! Cheers!!


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Indoor pool and whirlpool Just off the US 131 X-Way off Exit 139 Right across Ferris State University Area Activities including Golfing, Tubing, Skiing, Snowmobiling, White Pine Nature Trail Area Shopping; Wal-Mart Super Center, Meijer Thrifty Acres, K-Mart Super Center, Mini Malls, Small Town Specialty Stores Area Restaurants; Bob Evans, Applebee'...
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Okay 5.0
Not crowded. Was quite. Rate was good though. We stayed because our team was suppose to be stating here which moved and went to another hotel. Are room was prepaid so we couldn't cancel.
When we came in down the hall it smelled of smoke or something for as we had a non-smoking room. Tv remote didn't work. Breakfast was just ok, no hot meal variety like at other hotels.
Mediocre 4.0
Bed was terrible, breakfast not good, not the best room..... Was by the side door & it squeaked all the time
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Big Rapids, Michigan Hotel's at Ferris State University The great outdoors meets small town charm at this hotel's home in Big Rapids, Michigan. Since the 100% nonsmoking Holiday Inn® Big Rapids hotel & conference center is located off Business Rt. 20, it's easy for guests to get to local corporate & leisure destinations. Does business bring you to town? With...
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Excellent 9.0
Staff very friendly and accommodating.
Unfortunately, the pool and whirlpool were being cleaned while there and we could not use the facilities.
Good 8.0
Great staff. Nice newly remodeled rooms.
Lot's of people drinking in the lobby. Kids running around without supervision. Hotel changed their pet policy. One of the key reasons we visit here often - 2nd time this year.We might be back, but we will definitely be weighing our options.
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Winner of the 2013 be our guest award. Brand new 63 unit property with indoor pool and whirlpool, exercise facility and game room. Deluxe complimentary breakfast bar featuring fresh homemade waffles, usa today newspaper and free local calls. Conveniently located just minutes from ferris state university, area restaurants, world class golf, downtown big rapid...
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Ferris State University within walking distance. The Quality Inn and Suites of Big Rapids offers: outdoor heated pool, exercise room, FREE wireless high speed Internet, FREE continental breakfast with hot items, and FREE HBO and STARS. Big Rapids is home of the Bulldogs, and area attractions such as hunting, fishing, canoeing and tubing. Convenient to restau...
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Excellent 8.6
Good quality for great price! Hot breakfast and outdoor swimming pool. Even a laundry room and work-out room.
Poor 1.0
Breakfast was good. Bedding good.
grounds were a mess. Carpets and room side chairs were disgusting. Parking area around back extremely seedy with old appliances laying around.Gets worse each time I stay. I shall not stay again.
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The Herald Bulletin
ANDERSON, Ind. — After years of waiting, State Rep. Terri J. Austin (D-Anderson) announced today that Ivy Tech Community College has been authorized to proceed with construction of a new facility in Anderson.
According to a press release, Austin said members of the State Budget Committee gave final approval to the $24 million project during the group's monthly business meeting today in Indianapolis.
The new 76,000-square foot facility will be built on nearly 40 acres of land – located on 60th Street near Interstate 69 – that was donated to the college by the city of Anderson.
"This new building will house programs from four of the College's academic schools – Business, Technology, Public and Social Services, and Liberal Arts and Sciences," Austin said. "It will include classroom lab space, faculty offices, a student lounge and a library.
"In short, we are talking about a full-service site that will allow for growth of degree programs, address current and projected shortages in space, and alleviate the college's past reliance upon leased space," she added.
With the new facility on line, Austin said the existing Ivy Tech buildings at Main and 53rd Streets will be turned over to the School of Health Sciences and allow for expansion of programs there.
"Consider that the existing campus was designed to accommodate 1,200 when it was opened back in 1990," Austin said. "Thanks to the quality of programs offered there, as well as the efforts of a dedicated faculty in meeting the needs of a student population eager to pursue an affordable higher education, the current enrollment at Anderson is well over 2,600 students.
"New facilities will allow Ivy Tech to meet the needs of that expanded student population, and enable the college to proceed with additional programs and services that can help meet goals in areas like community workforce training and economic development," she continued.
Ivy Tech officials have been planning for new construction at the Anderson site as far back as 2007, when the Indiana General Assembly gave them the authority to start preparing for it. In 2009, lawmakers approved bonding authority for the project.
"I know there have been times in recent years when it has seemed like this project was stuck in neutral and we couldn't get the previous administration to give final approval for it," Austin said.
"But persistence has paid off, and the benefits from today's decision will pay off for many years to come," the legislator concluded.
The Herald Bulletin will continue to update this story throughout the day.


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ST PETER — Like most bird dog owners, Paul Ostoff is keenly aware of nuances of his canine hunting partner's behavior.
And seven months after his Munsterlander pointer (picture a dog resembling a tall springer spaniel with a long tail, Ostoff says) was struck by a car while crossing the street to greet a neighbor, it was apparent that something was amiss with the 7-year-old dog.
"I took her to the vet after being hit and every thing checked out — nothing broken, nothing out of whack," he said.
But while the dog initially seemed to recover from the encounter, over the next several months, Ostoff noticed a significant decline in the dog's physical abilities.
"She was struggling just to get up steps," he said. "I was started to think it was time to look for a new hunting dog."
Then Ostoff's wife heard of a chiropractic clinic in St. Peter that in addition to treating humans, also offered chiropractic treatment for animals.
"Instead of investing all the money and emotion in a new dog, I though it was worth a try," he said.
He made a call to the Dr. Seth Nelson at Rising Sun Chiropractic for an appointment.
A change in state law four years ago now allows chiropractors who take a 220-hour, seven-month-long course in chiropractic treatment for animals to expand their practice to include dogs, cats and other animals.
Nelson, a Lake Crystal native, is one of about 20 chiropractors in Minnesota licensed and certified to treat animals.
While he has treated cats, alpacas, even a snake, he concentrates mainly on dogs and horses.
Working on patients referred by area veterinarians, he maintains separate hours and exam spaces for his small animal practice. He performs on-site treatment for horses within about a two-hour radius of St. Peter.