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I hear clicking noise in the serpentine belt area in my Camry 2005 (4 cyl). It has its original serpentine/drive belt at ~100 kilometers (~62 k miles). I guess there is many components that the drive belt moves, so it can be many things...
Any common issues in this regards? I have set up an appointment at Toyota delership in a week for the serpentine belt replacement (based on this news group info, it's about time to change it).
I have also noticed that idle RPM somtimes drops to 600 and results in kind of car "shaking". I am not sure if these two symptoms are connected. Possibly someone has already seen something similar.
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I thought 1998 and newer Camrys recommended timing belt replacement at 80K miles. My 1997 Camry 4 is supposed to be 60K miles. The anecdotal evidence is they tend to last another 20K miles
The drive/serpentine belt has been replaced at Toyota dealership, but the "clicking", "diesel like engine" noise remains. The repair shop did not indicate anything out of unusual in their written comments. I have found a similar symptom in this news group, and one comment says that 4 cyl engines on Camry can get pretty noisy. The noise is not much noticable when the hood is closed, only with the hood opened. I would appreciate any comments.
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Arizona shrugs off loss, tops Beavers
Solomon Hill had 16 points, including five 3-pointers, to help fourth-ranked Arizona bounce back from its first loss of the season with an 80-70 victory over Oregon State on Saturday in Corvallis, Ore.
The Wildcats (15-1, 3-1 Pac-12) were coming off a 70-66 defeat Thursday night against Oregon. Arizona, which had made a habit of pulling off late victories, couldn't manage one against the Ducks, but the Beavers (10-6, 0-3) didn't give the Wildcats that much trouble. Ahmad Starks had 18 points to lead Oregon State, which dropped its third in a row.
Mark Lyons added 16 points for the Wildcats, who were plagued by 16 turnovers but made 10 of 25 3-point attempts.
The Wildcats pulled ahead 13-6 early on Grant Jerrett's 3-pointer, but Oregon State made it 17-16 on Starks' 3-pointer with 12:18 to go in the first half.
Trailing 34-33, the Beavers had a chance to go ahead but Jamal Reid missed a pair of free throws. The Wildcats finished out with a 9-2 run to lead 43-34 at the break.
Brandon Ashley's layup early in the second half pushed Arizona's lead to double digits, 47-37. Kevin Parrom's 3-pointer made it 60-45 with 12:22 left, and Hill's 3 extended the lead to 67-50 midway through the half and the Wildcats cruised the rest of the way.
Cal 67, Washington State 54: Tyrone Wallace scored a season-high 16 points, Justin Cobbs made six free throws in the final two minutes, and the Golden Bears (10-6, 2-2) overcame a sloppy offensive performance to beat the Cougars (9-7, 0-3) in Berkeley.
Cobbs finished with 10 points, five assists and five rebounds for the Golden Bears, who won for just the fourth time in 10 games after opening the season 6-0. Allen Crabbe had 14 points for Cal.
It was a victory, but it definitely wasn't pretty.
Cal was held without a basket over the final 4:59 but went 11 of 12 at the free-throw line down the stretch to hold off the Cougars.
Washington 65, Stanford 60: C.J. Wilcox scored a game-high 27 points on 10-for-16 shooting, leading the Huskies (11-5, 3-0) over the Cardinal (10-7, 1-3) in Stanford.
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If only Clinton could have gotten the kind of pass Bush got these 6 years. well bush is going to feel these next to years... hard. My vote stub says so.
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Win a Copy of The Last Place on Earth!
May 12th
When I talk to groups, a question that inevitably pops up is: "What advice would you give aspiring writers?" After imparting my wisdom about the power of snack foods to boost creativity (it's all about balancing salty with sweet), I generally say something along the lines of, "Go live your life so you have something to write about."
So there you have it: it is now May, and this is the first time I have mentioned my latest book, The Last Place on Earth, on this blog, even though it hit stores in late February. Which is so weird because I blog so often!
(I have been living my life, people! Just ask my cat!!)
So, while I am late to the promotions party, I hope will check out The Last Place on Earth, which Publishers Weekly calls, "a winning story" and about which Booklist says, "its original premise and crisp, unpredictable characters are a compelling reason to pick it up." (Was that smooth? I thought so. It is right up there with "My friends say I have a beautiful singing voice" — which none of them say, but whatever.)
From now through May 26, 2016, you can enter to win one of five copies via this GoodReads giveaway! Or you can just, you know, buy the book. (Links are posted to the left, because I'm helpful that way.) Just don't download it illegally because that is bad karma and my cat will come after you.
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Nice location nice staff
Stayed here for 4 nights...excellent location and staff were very nice and helpful. Room was clean and excellent value for the money. If you want all the trappings of more luxurious hotels pay more money !! I can make do without TV remotes (especially when my Italian can appreciate the football channels but little else) and if you want a slap up breakfast stay at home !!
This hotel was in the thick of things without being noisy. Vaporetto just round the corner, excellent fruit stalls in the market outside, Internet Cafe 3 doors away and more restaurants and shops than you can shake a stick at !!
Enjoyed it very much - recommended - good value !!
Not sure about this one.
First the positive stuff -
It's in a good place near the top of Strada Nova,
It's close to what looks like the only bar open after 10PM,
There are some good restaurants nearby,
If you are on a budget the local 'Brek' food place is just over the Ponte Guglie (good food for the price),
There is an excellent coffee bar just over the bridge as well,
The revamped rooms look nice.
Now the negative stuff -
When we arrived the hotel thought we were staying for one night. We told them it was two. This seemed to confuse them and we were led to a room upstairs (up the stairs just before you go in reception). This room was RUBBISH. It was grim (lit by one 40 watt bulb I think) and dirty. We complained and were put in the nice room at the front. The decor was nice and it was clean. No proper shower - just a hand held thing and there was a tiny hole in the sink! Expect to be woken up by the market. For the next night we had to move to a room at the back - which was much the same but smaller. Couldn't find a remote for the tv in any of the rooms we were put in! Breakfast was 'adequate' at best. If I went back I'd try somewhere else.
Great location!
We recently stayed at this hotel in late June 2004. First glance, the hotel seemed a bit below average, our room was dark (with dark blue wallpaper and decoration) and gloomy. The beds (2 singles pushed together to make a double) were sagging and lumpy. But the view of the courtyard from the 2 windows were charming! We immediately became friends with the house cat who was sunning beneath our window and who seemed very attached to our room! The staff at the hotel was nice and friendly. Breakfast for 2 was very minimal: a small bag of pre-made toast, some rolls, 2 pieces of butter, 3 little jams, and coffee or tea. The best thing we like about this hotel was the location! Right outside the hotel was the market, fun & bustling all day long! Shops and restaurants were also just steps away from the hotel. Two vaporetto stops sandwiched the hotel nicely - the Guglie stop and the San Marcuolo stop - so it was very convenient to get around Venice from there! Great location aside, our bathroom smelled like "sewage" the entire time we were there! Most unsettling! Well, at least the non-luxurious aspect of the room kept us outside all day long! A good thing when you travel to new places!
Short Break
We stayed for my birthday 19th March. We found the hotel easily and it was very central. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The room was a little small but very clean. The resident cat liked to use our room as a throughfare to his favourite sun bathing place on the roof outside, although this was never a problem - the staff were more upset about this than we were.
All in all we really enjoyed our stay and would recommend it to anyone.
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Venice 02 – A tale of two t*tties!!
... been taken in to account. A cruise card is your cabin key and as the ship promotes a cash free environment, also acts as your currency whilst on board. It has information printed on the front of the card such as muster station, dining room, number of dining table and whether 1st or 2nd sitting. On looking down at my card the dates specified were 19.09.2014 (that's good!) to 22.09.2014. (that's not so good!!) I have only ...
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The weather today was a bit colder than yesterday, with a little rain. We avoided the crowds by deciding to go to Murano on the vaporetto. Despite the weather, we sat outside which turned out to be a great decision as we were protected from the rain and wind and had a fabulous view. It was good to see yet another side of Venice. On the way to Murano we decided we were happy just taking the trip so ...
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... taking up my seat for so long so I went back over to the train station. It was just as easy here in Florence (as it was in Rome) to find the correct platform for my train. This ticket was called 1st class (rather than Business) but it also cost just $40. My seat was again on the single row side of the aisle except this time the seats all faced the same way (so no one was facing me). It was pretty noisy, lots of people speaking lots of different ...
Venice: Overcrowded, overpriced, overrated!
... the ferry with no impediment to our vision. The sun was shining, it was warm & we weren't crammed in like sardines. The only problem was, we were on the wrong ferry! This ferry gave us a great trip around the Grand Canal, stopping at every terminal, except the one we wanted. No big deal, we had plenty of time & plenty of hrs left on our ticket. A very nice ferry attendant gave us clear directions, & we were heading in the right direction across to S Giorgio Maggiore Island ...
The most beautiful city in the world
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We took the ride into our hotel which was situated really close to st marks square, which is like the center of Venice. After checking in and a quick shower and change of clothes, we were ready to go exploring.
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Top ten speed traps in Denver, 2013 edition
About this time last year, we shared a collection of the top ten speed traps in Denver -- our second annual list culled from the most recent entries on Speedtrap.org, at site at which those who've been trapped attempt to prevent others from being similarly ensnared.
Once again, it's time for an update. Below, see interactive graphics of the ten latest speed traps as chosen by users of the site, complete with their descriptions of why you should hit the brakes as you approach them. Check out the full list below.
Number 10: 5900 Block of Pecos
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Beware if you are going northound. This is the bridge that goes over the railroad tracks on Pecos and 60th. Unmarked cop car sits diagonally at the bottom of the bridge pulling people over and giving unsuspecting law abiding citizens a $175.00 ticket for going a little over the speed limit which is 35 miles per hour. This is an industrial area and there are no schools nor homes in the area. It's a speed trap. I got pulled over and given a ticket and before I even left the scene he pulled over another poor unfortunate soul and ruined this persons day as well. I had not even left the scene yet and he had already pulled over someone else.
Number 9: Southbound Speer Blvd just past the Pepsi Center
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From my window at work, I watched two Denver patrol cars work in tandem stopping cars just about all afternoon today. There must a really big bill coming due because a car was stopped by one or the other about every 10 minutes.
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The act of fucking the living shit out of something or someone, preferably a female.
Damn dude, I fuckin' railed that ho all night.
Beküldő: Anonymous 2002. december 28.
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To fuck in a rough, hard manner.
I railed that bitch so hard, when I shot it, it fuckin' came out her nose.
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Fucking a person within an inch of her life. Or just as hard.
I wanna rail the fuck out of jackie rust.
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To have wild wild sex. Usually pinning someone up to a wall and given'r. Suggesting a women is on the rails of a train track and you keep pulling her into the station.
"Just fuckin railed her"
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To have snorted something.
Dude, that shit we railed last night was good!
Beküldő: Mr. X 2005. február 20.
To slam, or "bang" the sexual organ out of the opposite sex.
Jake railed Christina every Thanksgiving.
Beküldő: JGreeneeee 2006. április 25.
When you "rail" something that usually means that you cut up something, like a pill, into a fine powder and then you snort it.
Fuck man, I can't beleive you railed a quadstack in one go!
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CC Blooms ,Phuket paradise
This hotel is wonderful. Big,clean rooms with all the special touches...fresh orchids daily and complimentary water. The mini bar is one of the best stocked I have seen.More importantly the host "Skip" is delightful,nothing is a bother to him. His staff are friendly and warm and go out of their way to assist your every requirement. A paradise away from the chaos and crowds of Patong.The meals from their cafe are well priced and tasty. The view of the ocean from up here on the mountain is spectacular.The bar is open till the wee small hours for patrons needing a nightcap after returning from a big night out.
They have free internet use and a well stocked library of books and dvds to borrow in your "down time"
Any tours or shows you wish to see, can be booked on site.After staying at a few large resxorts on this trip it was great to come to a place where they make you feel truly welcome.
I know I will be back again.
CC Blooms, un paraíso en Phuket
Este hotel es maravilloso. Las habitaciones son grandes y limpias con todos los detalles especiales, como orqu�deas frescas todos los d�as y agua gratis. El mini bar fue uno de los mejores abastecidos que he visto. Lo m�s importante era que el anfitri�n, Skip, fue encantador, y nada fue demasiado problema para �l. Su personal fue amable y c�lido, y hac�a lo imposible para asistir cada uno de tus requisitos. Fue un para�so lejos del caos y de las multitudes de Patong. La comida del caf� fue sabrosa y ten�a buenos precios. La vista del mar desde la monta�a en la que est�bamos era espectacular. El bar lo abren hasta horas tempranas para los patrones que necesitan una bebida despu�s de regresar de una gran noche afuera. El Internet es gratis, y hay una biblioteca bien abastecida con libros y DVDs para llevarse prestados. Cualquier tour o show que quieras ver puede reservarse por Internet. Despu�s de hospedarnos en unos cuantos complejos grandes durante este viaje, fue estupendo llegar a un lugar donde verdaderamente te hac�an sentir bienvenido. S� que regresar�.
¡Una caminata muy larga!
Como parte de nuestras vacaciones, quer�a hospedarme en un lugar un poco m�s aislado, lejos del ajetreo de Phuket y lo suficientemente cerca para disfrutar de la vida nocturna, etc. Nos hospedamos en CC Blooms por las Playas Kara/Karon. La playa era hermosa, y quedaba lo suficientemente cerca de Paton, como a 15 minutos en tuk tuk. Encontramos el CC Blooms en Internet y las fotos eran incre�bles. �Parec�a ser un destino profesional y muy rom�ntico! Llegamos, y aunque la piscina y el entorno eran hermosos, queda entre diez y quince minutos a pie de cualquier cosa, bajando una colina de 80�, lo cual les falt� mencionar. B�sicamente quiere decir que es casi imposible ir a alg�n lado sin tener que pagar un viaje en tuk tuk de regreso. Sin embargo, proporcionan un viaje a las playas cercanas. Lo �nico es que es dif�cil regresar para cambiarte r�pidamente despu�s de haber estado en la playa. Los conductores de tuk tuk te cobran m�s s�lo para subir la colina. Nuestra habitaci�n estaba limpia, excepto por el hecho de que llegaron muchas lagartijas y mosquitos durante la noche, al igual que unas cuantas cucarachas. El agua caliente en la ducha dur� aproximadamente dos minutos. Mi esposo tambi�n alquil� una bicicleta. Les informamos que nunca hab�a montado en una y estaban demasiado ocupados para darnos una lecci�n, �as� que mi esposo se accident� tres segundos despu�s de montarse! �Con una rodilla profundamente cortada y un ego estropeado, recibimos la cuenta de 1000 BHT cinco minutos despu�s! Demasiado por el deber de cuidar. Tambi�n encontramos que estaban teniendo algunos problemas con el personal, lo cual discutieron abiertamente mientras com�amos el peor desayuno buf� de Phuket. Este hotel es bueno si te gustan las caminatas largas y empinadas, si no quieres ir a ning�n lado, o estar cerca de las playas a�n m�s tranquilas, si verdaderamente no deseas un hermoso desayuno, y si te gustar�a estar involucrado en los problemas del personal que tiene este hotel. Recomendar�a que te hospedaras un poco m�s cerca de la playa.
A very long walk!
As part of our holiday i wanted to stay some where a litlle secluded away from the hussle and bustle of Phuket yet close enough to enjoy the nightlife etc. We stayed in Kata/Karon beaches at CC Blooms. The beach was beautiful and far enough away from Patong (about a 15 minute tuk tuk). We found CC Blooms on the internet and the pictures were amazing and they seemed to run a professional and very romantic holiday destination! We arrived and although the pool and setting were beautiful it is a good 10-15 minute walk away from anything and the 80 degree hill which they failed to mention basically means if you want to go anywhere without paying for a tuk tuk ride home it is near impossible.. They do however provide a ride to near beaches, it's just hard getting back for a quick change after being at the beach! The tuk tuk drivers charge more just to get you up the hill!. Our room was clean except for ALOT of gecko's and mosquito's that came in at night also a few cocroaches! The hot water in the shower lasted approx 2 minutes. My husband also hired a motorbike which we informed them he had never riden one, and they were a little to busy to give a lesson so he had an accident 3 seconds he got on! With a deeply cut knee and a bruised ego we received the 1000BHT bill 5 minutes later! So much for duty of care. We also found that they had a few staffing issues going on which they openly discussed while we were eating the worst buffet breakfast in Phuket.
This hotel is good if you like long and big hilly walks home, don't want to get anywhere or be close to the even quieter beaches, don't really want a lovely breakfast, and would like to be involved in the "problems with staff" at the hotel! I would recommend you stay a little closer to the beach!
A Hidden Treasure
Just returned from a trip to Phuket and had our bookings made online for our flights as well as accommodation. With the plethora of hotels to choose from in Phuket, making our choice was pretty confusing and daunting. But let us assure you that we had a great time staying at ccbloom's.
The hotel is located on a hill just off the main road. A very quiet and breezy location, away from all that noisy and busy streets/night life. A place where you can easily find some private space of your own.
The rooms were decent and clean with almost everything in good working condition. Nicely decorated and the best part was just relaxing on the deck overlooking the swimming pool and enjoying the lush green scenery. If you are looking for good quality time with your other half or your family, this is the place to check into.
The staff are friendly and almost always ready to assist. They'd drive you down for free to Karon and Kata beach and even pick you up when you are done (latest pick up is 10pm though). For a small fee, they'd take you to Patong. If you prefer to walk, Kata is just a stones throw away. No fuss. But if you are intending to walk back up the hill to the hotel, it is a little steep and challenging.
Lots been said earlier about this little gem so we are not going to repeat all that again which is all true.
Overall, we enjoyed our stay there and defintely 5/5. A BIG thumbs up!!!
¡Un descubrimiento poco frecuente!
Creo que la mejor forma de dar mi impresi�n general de CC Blooms es decir que vine aqu� tres d�as, y me hosped� seis. �Por qu� dejar el para�so cuando lo has encontrado? Desde mi primer contacto con el hotel cuando los contact� para que me dieran informaci�n sobre las reservas, no pudieron haber sido m�s serviciales, personales y amables. Cuando llegu�, not� que esta �tica era parte de todos los que trabajaban all�. No encontrar�s a un personal m�s amable. Est� ubicado sobre una colina con vistas al mar, con vegetaci�n exuberante a ambos lados. Tienes la belleza del oc�ano y de la monta�a desde una colina alta con una brisa fr�a, refrescante y relajante, en la tranquilidad del lugar. Si quieres ir a la playa, ir de compras, o cenar fuera, felizmente de conducir�n si lo solicitas, y regresar�n para recogerte. La playa, las tiendas y los diferentes restaurantes no quedan ni a cinco minutos en coche. El hotel es enorme. Si disfrutas de un lugar abierto, lo encontrar�s en el vest�bulo y en el comedor, los cuales se abren por los cuatro costados para dejar que entre el aire limpio y refrescante. �La piscina est� justamente all�! Como es un hotel de dise�o peque�o, tienes le oportunidad, si lo deseas, de conocer a otros hu�spedes de todas las partes del mundo. No fue como hospedarse en un hotel. Fue m�s como hospedarse en la casa privada de un amigo, s�lo que era grande. Cuando te vayas, sentir�s que est�s dejando tu casa. Recomiendo sumamente este hotel para quien desee unas vacaciones relajantes y despreocupadas. -TB, Nueva York
A Rare Find!
I think the best way to give my overall impression of CC Bloom's is to say - I came for three days, and stayed for six ! Why leave Paradise when you found it?
From my first contact with the hotel for booking information they could not have been more helpful, personal and friendly. When I arrived I could see that this "ethic" was part of everyone who worked there. A friendlier staff you will not find.
It is located on a hill overlooking the ocean with the lush mountain vegetation on either side of you. You have the beauty of the ocean and mountain as you sit high on the hill with a cool refreshing breeze, relaxing in the quiet of the place. If you want to go to the beach, shopping, out for dinner, they gladly drive you "On Request" and return to bring you back. The beach, shopping and varied dining is a mere 5 minutes away by car.
The hotel itself is tremendous. If you enjoy "openness" you will find it in the lounge and dining area, which are open on four sides to allow the clean, refreshing air all around you. The pool is right there!
Being a small boutique hotel you the opportunity, if you want to, to get to know the other guests from all over the world. It was not like staying in a hotel, it was more like staying in a friends private (but large) home. When you leave, you feel you are leaving home.
I HIGHLY recommend this hotel for anyone who wants a relaxing, care free vacation.
TB New York
Lovely place...great to chill out
After lengthy research we booked CC Blooms in Phuket, as the name suggests (as i found out from all knowing girlfriend) CC Blooms was Bette Midlers character in the movie "Beaches". We decided to stay there mainly because it was up in the hills behind Kata beach and looked serene...and it was cheap!. This turned out to be a wise choice as there are millions of hawkers & tailors and other salesmen outside all the beachside joints at Kata which can be very annoying..at CC Blooms, there's nobody.
Now then, straight to it, CC's is a gay friendly hotel, this translates to me as "well kept, attention to detail and friendly prompt service with no ripoffs"...The hotel is great, only ~17 rooms with most facing the valley view and some facing the pool view...it's cosy, private and well maintained...it's not the Sheraton or Club Med but they are cheap and well beyond their price in terms of quality. I wouldnt say it's a family hotel, more of a singles or couples place..purely because they respect serenity and likely a quiet time in the evenings - after 10pm if you are jumping around in the pool and making lots of noise - they will politely tell you to keep it down..if you wanted to Party, i guess you would have gone to Patong, so the rules are great. Night time visitors are permitted, but they must leave id at the bar and residents are called when they pick up their id again...all in the name of security which is great. Not to say that the place is a walk in place for outsiders (we saw none during our 5 day stay) but probably not the family type establishment - at least for the family types who are shall we say, "more bohemian" than most.
The hotel is run by 2 Hawaii'an guys - Skip and Ken, both excellent amigos who will happily let you know where to go with their 2 years of local knowledge. We wanted a spa, and were recommended a local place which was half the cost (and twice as brutal i discovered...Thai massage is akin to being tortured...except you pay for it!) as the other smelly soap places. Having said that, the guys can recommend from penny dreadful places all the way up to 5 star rock-star establishments that they have tried themselves...just depends on your level of comfort. Whilst i write this, Ken is organising our boat trip transfer to the next hotel in Krabi, as well as sorting out the shops we should visit so we dont get ripped off european visitors prices...it's all just so easy!.
The only slight drawback as many other reviewers have mentioned, is a huge hill outside the hotel which leads down to the beach, probably a 20 minute walk. Dont attempt if you have heart problems - however Nok, the hotel accountant will happily drive you down and bring you back from Kata or Karon with 5 minutes notice...you can also rent mopeds at the hotel. So essentially the hill isnt a problem as the hotel does it all for you.
The reception is in the bar, so keys are dropped off with the barman, completely securely. Rooms have a safe also but we didnt feel at all threatened. There's free wi-fi broadband throughout and 2 terminals at the bar to be used anytime. Breakfast is simple...fruits, fresh juices, muesli (continental brekkie says wise girlfriend) and as many espressos as you can drink till 11am. Dinner is nice also, but you are probably just as good in town. The bar does play some cool club tunes and chilled out music at night which is great.
I would definitely recommend this place to most people, it's small and cosy and very very friendly, families of 5 kids should probably look at club med - for everyone else you need look no further. I would come back in a second if it weren't for the fact that we have to go to see the rest of Phuket. It's cheap too...great value for money..staff are genuinely friendly and every request is responded to, quickly and efficiently but with an air of complete relaxation. If you want to learn to become a trapeze artist, do face painting and never get any culture..go to Club Med..for chilling out...go to CC's.
This one's a real find!
After plenty of research, and largely due to the positive Trip Advisor reviews, we choose CC Bloom for our stay in Phuket. We weren't disappointed.
The hotel was a lovely quiet place (low season) with a beautiful pool and restaurant area and friendly, helpful staff. It was fantastic value for money, especially as we went in the low season.
The room was very nice and spacious. there was an (almost) separate kitchen and separate bathroom. Everything was very clean and all the comforts and mod cons you could want are right there.
The place has a nice friendly and quiet feel, not like large hotel complexes but more personal and intimate. We avoided a pool-side room in case it was noisy - but it didn't look like noise would have been a problem. Our hillside room had a great view.
CC Bloom is not far from a main strip of shops/restaurants etc (10-15 min walk), but it is situated at the top of a very steep hill - the unfit, the unenergetic and older folk should not even consider walking up it - but the staff will drop you in town or the beaches whenever you like, so there was never trouble getting anywhere. It's positioned well to visit Kata and Karon (towns and beaches) and if you like walking, you can walk to both from CC Bloom.
We were very pleased with CC Bloom and would definitely stay there again. In my opinion it is a place that best suits couples who want to stay in a lovely setting, slightly away from the hustle and bustle.
Fabulous Hotel
CC Bloom's is exactly as beautiful as it looks on their website if not more so! The staff and management are wonderful and really make you feel part of the family during the stay. I can't reccommend this hotel enough!! The rooms are just great too - it has everything - what more can I say. 10/10.
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Day 1 - Phuket
... Around lunchtime, we headed off to Patong to check out Jungceylon and other bits and pieces. TBH Jungceylon was extremely disappointing. Not many good shops and Robinsons department store looks as tired as Tokyu in Bangkok. Probably the only highlight of Patong at all was a fresh food market called Banzaan, where we saw them selling live ...
Day 3
A relaxing day today... Sort of, The most incredible thing happened. I got up before Vicki ! Unheard of. Shay stayed in bed while we headed to breakfast and out towards the beach. It's a hot one. The sun just almost tears into your skin sometimes. Cash converted so more money to spend. Hired a chair and umbrella on the beach. Vick chilled and I hopped in. Very warm but nice. Not many yet in the ...
One More Time
... Thailand at 56kg. I may have 15kg on him but he was throwing me across the ring with no effort at all, the strongest guy I have ever met. Weighs 56kg must be 55kg of muscle. I took him out for breakfast twice in the last week just to say thanks as he was such a nice guy and always made the time for me. He was really pleased and so greatful, its mad �2 is nothing to me but meant so much to him he kept ...
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Karon is okay, the majority of tourists are Russian, all of the menus and signs are in Russian, I suppose it's a sign of the times but the Thai people are not too happy, they say that the Russians don't spend money, we notice they often take their own drinks into the restaurants . When a waiter said ' thank you' to me in Russian we knew it was time to go!
There are some great hotels there, a nice beach and good nightlife but sadly not much there ...
Quiet, Beautiful and Really Friendly People
... bottles of water knowing it was going to be a flipping hot day.
I'll do up a separate entry just on Soi Dog alone!!
After returning from Soi Dog a shower was in order. I was full of slobber, pee and poo. Hot water on demand and the showers here are not stand alone - they are part of the open washroom concept. The higher end places would be like what folks are accustomed to. Not these awesome lower end places!!
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The Chicago Bears have some major issues they need to address during this week's bye week.
Yes, they are 4-1 and fresh off a 41-3 thumping of the Jacksonville Jaguars. Yes, the Packers are 2-3 and struggling.
But the Monsters of the Midway shouldn't be crowned NFC North champs just yet after beating up on some weak competition in the early going.
Following the Week 6 bye, the Bears host a desperate Lions team on Monday Night Football, and they still have to play the league's two top teams, the Houston Texans and San Francisco 49ers, in back-to-back weeks.
After that, the Bears still have to play the Vikings twice, who are a surprising 4-1, and the Packers and Lions again.
Let's take a look at a few things this team needs to focus on during the bye week.


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Finding out about suspicious behavior in time is an important task in many current IT applications. Imagine, for instance, credit card transactions. If a user shows highly unusual buying behavior (for example, shopping at a discount store regularly and then buying expensive jewelry), then it could be a good idea to check the corresponding transactions for traces of fraud. Still, deviations can be used in other scenarios than just to detect fraud or malicious manipulation. Human resource departments use deviation detection to find employees or applicants that do not fit into the usual categories and might be overlooked when applying fixed rules to identify high potentials.
Data records that deviate from the global distribution of data records are called outliers. Outlier handling is usually not a fully automated task. Rather, data mining is used to point out data records that deserve a closer look by a human analyst or expert who must then decide whether to take action or not. A sophisticated user interface and interaction model is therefore a prerequisite of successful outlier handling. Cognos is well suited for this task. Actually, a report similar to the one created in the first article of this series can be used to visualize outliers. To leverage the full potential of Cognos for displaying outliers, however, you need to employ some more advanced features. First, see show how to use "drill-through" to create interactive Cognos reports and how to link reports. This will help to summarize information and still allow for a fast access to relevant outlier data records. Second, learn how additional information can be extracted from the data mining models that helps the human expert to understand the nature of an outlier.
The running example in this article is an application that helps employees of a bank identify customers that show unusual behavior. This can be used to avoid fraud or to detect customers that deserve special attention. In the following section, get an overview of deviation detection and see how InfoSphere Warehouse can be used to find outliers in large data sets. The subsequent sections cover the basics of drill-through and extracting information from mining models, and show how both of these techniques can be used to make deviation detection results easier to understand and to utilize.
Deviation detection with InfoSphere Warehouse
What is deviation detection?
Deviation detection is defined as the task of finding unusual data records in large datasets. These records are called outliers. How to define "unusual" exactly is subject to academic debate and may also depend on the domain where deviation detection is applied. On a general level, deviation detection aims to find data records with properties that do not follow the general statistical distribution of the majority of the data records. Depending on the application area, deviations may be:
- Incorrect data (for example, if a person has an age of 300, this is probably an incorrect entry in the database)
- Unusual behavior of underlying processes (for example, credit card transactions that do not follow the usual patterns)
Correspondingly, deviation detection can be used for different tasks. If you assume that your dataset contains incorrect data, then you can apply deviation detection for data cleansing, thereby finding incorrect entries in your database. In the second case, the data is correct, but indicates that some of the processes that are reflected in the data show unusual behavior. This can be used for fraud detection, which is, together with data cleansing, the second major application of deviation detection. As pointed out above, unusual behavior is not necessarily fraud. It can, for instance, also indicate new emerging patterns, say "elderly customers that make excessive use of online auctions". Detecting such emerging patterns early on, allows companies to offer new products or services early on, giving them an important advantage over competitors. A similar application can be found in the financial sector. Deviation detection is used to find promising investments that do not fit the usual patterns and therefore went unrecognized so far. In all of these cases, a human analyst must check the outliers to see whether data values are incorrect or whether some action must be taken to avoid fraud or to leverage some so far unrecognized opportunities. In the following, learn how InfoSphere Warehouse detects outliers and how you can apply deviation detection to your data. The remainder of this article discusses how to visualize outliers interactively in Cognos.
Deviation detection in InfoSphere Warehouse
In recent years, many different methods for detecting deviations have been proposed. InfoSphere Warehouse uses a particularly powerful method for deviation detection that is based on data clustering. Clustering denotes a data mining technique that groups data records into clusters of pair-wise similar records by their properties. Let's take a look at Figure 1. Each point in the diagram represents a single customer. In this simple case, customers are only described by age and average balance. InfoSphere Warehouse uses a statistical clustering algorithm to group customers that are similar in those two dimensions into clusters. As you can see, some of the clusters are larger and more central than others (Cluster 1, as opposed to Cluster 3). InfoSphere Warehouse combines several properties to assign to each cluster a "deviation" degree. The higher this degree, the more likely the records in the cluster can be considered outliers.
Figure 1. Deviation detection by clustering
Thus, there is not a sharp distinction between outlier and non-outlier. Rather, the user must specify a threshold for outliers. All clusters with an outlier degree above this threshold are marked as outlier clusters and all their members as outliers. This threshold can be set in two ways. First, if you only have a limited number of experts that are able to check outliers, you simply use the data records that belong to clusters with the highest deviation degree. If you are looking for promising companies in which to invest, you would probably start with clusters that have the highest deviation degree and then work your way down, as long as you have the resources. Second, the threshold can be fixed. This would be the case in alerting scenarios that require that action is taken if any new data record is assigned to a cluster with a deviation degree above the given threshold. InfoSphere Warehouse allows you to do both by simply assigning a cluster id and a corresponding deviation degree to each data record. You can either filter the records, or sort them to obtain the outliers you would like to review or that you must check. The following section provides a step-by-step example of how to find outliers with InfoSphere Warehouse and how to assign deviation degrees to individual data records.
A practical example
In the following example, deviation detection is applied to entries about bank customers. Sample data of the corresponding table is shown in Figure 2. The table BANK.BANKCUSTOMERS is shipped with the samples of InfoSphere Warehouse.
Figure 2. Sample data from the BANK.BANKCUSTOMERS table
To detect outliers in this table:
- Create a new mining flow, as shown in the last article.
- Also, as shown in the last article, you must drag a table source operator to the editor.
- Double-click on the operator to open it, specify
BANK.BANKCUSTOMERSas the source database table, and click OK to confirm.
- Now, drag a "Find Deviations" operator onto the canvas next to the
table source, and connect the output pin of the table source with the
input pin of "Find deviations". Change the model name of the cluster
model that is generated by the "Find Deviations" operator to
IDMMX.OUTLIERMODEL. Double-click the operator to open the properties, and change the model name on the second wizard page.
- Finally, create a suitable target table by selecting "Create Suitable
Table..." from the right-click context menu of the output port of the
"Find Deviations" operator. On the first wizard page, select the
schema BANK and enter the table name
CUSTOMERS_OL. Click on Finish. A "Table Target" operator will be connected to the flow. If you want to run the flow multiple times, it is sensible to select the check box "Delete Previous Content" in the properties of the "Table Target" operator.
This flow simply loads the customer table, passes it to the deviation detection algorithm, and writes the results into a new table (see Figure 3). An extract of the results can be seen in Figure 4.
Figure 3. The mining flow used to detect deviation.
As you can see, there are two additional columns, namely DEV_DEGREE and CLUSTER_ID. The first denotes how strongly the record is considered an outlier. The cluster id is the id of the "outlier" cluster to which the record belongs. Additional information about these clusters can be extracted by analyzing the cluster model that was internally created by the find deviation operator. (This article discusses this more later.)
Figure 4. Sample data from the result table, BANK.CUSTOMER_OL
Creating an interactive Cognos report for deviation detection
In this section, learn how to create a Cognos report that allows you to interactively inspect outliers. As a point of departure, you can use a similar report as in the first article of this series. Instead of a table of patients with an indicator on who of them should be proposed for a medical check-up, you now have a list of customers with an indicator on which customers should be checked for fraud or potential. While this approach works well for a smaller number of customers, a list with several thousand entries is not very convenient. Also, an analyst may like to see what makes a particular customer an "outlier". You need some additional information to provide such an explanation. Therefore, let's extend the simple approach in two ways:
- Group customers by profession and provide an overview on how many outliers can be found in each profession category. Using this kind of grouping is a good way to deal with large amounts of information. One could, for instance, imagine that each category is reviewed and analyzed by a specific employee responsible for this category. Instead of profession, other aspects would have be possible as well (for example, location).
- Enrich each outlier record by information on why the given record is considered to be an outlier. As mentioned above, each record is assigned to a cluster, and all members of a cluster share the same deviation degree. You can use the properties of a cluster to describe outliers. If a cluster contains, for instance, mostly very young people with high average balance, then this is probably a good explanation of why this cluster was identified as an outlier.
The following section first shows how to enrich outliers with additional information. Then, you will create an interactive report that groups customers by their profession and allows you to interactively select outliers in a specific category by using the "drill-through" feature of Cognos.
Extracting additional information from mining models
The table CUSTOMER_OL contains relevant information about outliers. As mentioned above, each record is assigned to a cluster. The "Find Deviations" operator creates a cluster model in the background that stores detailed information about these clusters. This information is stored in the PMML (Predictive Model Markup Language) format in the database. It contains information on:
- The distribution of values in a cluster
- Number of records in a cluster
- Importance of variables for each cluster
- Homogeneity of clusters
- More
You can use stored procedures that come with InfoSphere Warehouse to extract this information into result sets that can be consumed into Cognos. Such result sets can be regarded as "views" that are not explicitly created in the database but are created on the fly by the stored procedure.
If you want to extract textual information about clusters, you can use the following command:
This will give you a table that contains the following columns:
- ID: The id of the cluster (corresponding to the ID in the CUSTOMER_OL table)
- DESCRIPTION: A textual description of the cluster
Such result sets can be consumed by Cognos as regular views or tables. The only thing you have to be aware of is that these stored procedures are not included in DB2 but added by InfoSphere Warehouse. Let's come back to this in a moment. Figure 5 summarizes the two ways of how to get information from InfoSphere to Cognos: as simple database views/tables, or as extracts from mining models using stored procedures. Such stored procedures do not only exist for cluster models but also for many other mining models. For a full list of available model extraction functions, take a look at the InfoSphere Warehouse documentation (see Resources). In the following we will show how you can use the Cognos framework manager to combine both kinds of information.
Figure 5. Two ways of accessing mining-related information in Cognos
Import and combine mining results in the Cognos Framework Manager
For your report, you need two query subjects in the Cognos project that you then join to obtain a textual description for each outlier:
- A simple query subject that accesses the outlier table BANK.CUSTOMER_OL created in the first section. This query subject contains the customer records together with the deviation degree and the cluster id.
- A query subject that uses a stored procedure to access the cluster information of the clustering model created by the mining algorithm. As described above, the cluster information contains, among others, a short text description of the cluster (which is, in this case, a description of all outlier records in this cluster).
First, you have to create a Cognos Framework Manager project that is connected to the sample database DWESAMP of InfoSphere Warehouse and has the BANK.CUSTOMERS_OL table, which was created previously. Detailed instructions on how to achieve this is provided in the first article of this series. It is good practice to create a query subject in the PresentationView namespace that contains the information you need from the database to have an abstraction layer over the query subjects, which are created from SQL statements. This also enables you to change the column names to more descriptive texts and add additional columns. You want an outlier-flag query item that indicates whether a record is considered an outlier. Compute this from the deviation degree query item DEV_DEGREE.
To create the outlier table query subject used by the report:
- Create a new query subject "OutlierTable" in the PresentationView namespace from the model (existing query subjects and query items).
- Add all query items from the CUSTOMER_OL query subject and change the names to more descriptive labels.
- Add a new query item with the following expression definition:
IF ([PresentationView].[OutlierTable].[Deviation factor] > 1000) then (1) else (0)
This query item will be "1" if the deviation is higher than 1000; else it will be "0". The deviation factor 1000 has been chosen as a sensible cut-off factor for our dataset. It may be useful to make this deviation sensitivity parameterized to return more or less records as outliers.
Your query subject definition should look similar to Figure 6:
Figure 6. The query subject definition of the outlier table
The second query item is a table with information about the clusters of
the clustering model that has been created during the find deviation run.
This tabular description of the clustering model can be extracted in
InfoSphere Warehouse Data Mining with the user defined function
IDMMX.DM_GETCLUSTERS that returns a table of
the clusters in the model together with a short text description about the
field distribution in this cluster. Clustering models are saved as CLOBS
in the IDMMX.CLUSTERMODELS table together with a "MODELNAME" column that
can be used to select the correct model. The user-defined function needs
to be wrapped into a
SELECT statement to be
used by Cognos. Since the InfoSphere Warehouse Mining table functions are
not standard DB2 functions, some Cognos options need to be changed before
this query subject can be created.
To create the cluster description query subject from the DB2 table function:
- Select the database DWESAMP in the Data Sources folder of the Project Viewer and change the "Query Processing" property in the properties view to "Limited Locale". This enables query subjects from SQL that are not known by Cognos.
- Create a new query subject "OutlierClusters" in the PresentationView namespace and choose to model the query subject from a data source. Modeling it from a stored procedure will only support the stored procedures known to Cognos.
- On the "Select a data source" page, select DWESAMP and clear the Run database query subject wizard check box. The query subject wizard only works for standard SQL. Click on Finish.
- After the query subject has been created, the Query Subject Definition
wizard will open. Enter the SQL code to return the clusters from the
model, where IDMMX.OUTLIERMODEL is the name of the clustering model
generated during the "find deviations" run.
- Since this is no Cognos conform SQL, the SQL type of the query needs to be set to "Native", which tells Cognos to pass the SQL to the database, instead of interpreting it. To change this setting, open the "Query Information" tab of the query subjects properties. Select "Options", and change the "SQL type" under the "SQL settings" tab to "Native".
- A "Test Sample" run should return a table with the clusters of the
model, as shown in Figure 7:
Figure 7. The test results of the outlier cluster query subject
Using a stored procedure as query subject input has the advantage that no unnecessary tables or views are created in the database. More importantly, the stored procedure will be executed during report generation. This makes it possible to dynamically execute mining computations at report generation time. This subject is covered more in the upcoming articles of this series.
To create reports that have joined tables of the OutlierTable and the OutlierClusters query subjects, you have to create a relationship between the scored cluster id of the outlier records and the cluster id of the cluster table.
To create a relationship between the OutlierTable and the OutlierClusters query subjects:
- Select Create Relationship from the context menu of the OutlierTable.
- For the left query subject, select the cluster id of the OutlierTable and set the cardinality to 1..n since there are many records belonging to the same cluster.
- For the right query subject, add the OutlierClusters query subject, select the ID column, and set the cardinality to 1..1 since there is one row for each cluster.
- Select OK.
Figure 8. The relationship between the OutlierTable and the OutlierClusters query subjects
You have now created the query subjects you need for the Cognos report and can deploy an "OutliersPackage" containing the PresentationView of the project to the Cognos Content Store. Creation and deployment of the package are achieved just as described in the previous article of this series.
Figure 9. The created resources in the Framework Manager
Linking Cognos reports by drill-through
The original concept of "drill-through" refers to the task of navigating
from aggregate values to individual records. This is a common task in OLAP
applications. In Cognos, this concept is used in a broader sense as any
kind of "linking" reports together. Thus drill-through definitions serve a
similar aim as hyper links in HTML. Linking reports would not be a very
powerful feature by itself. What makes drill-through definitions a
powerful tool is the use of parameters. Each report in Cognos may contain
parameters that can, for instance, be used to create parameterizable
queries. If these parameters are not set, the user is prompted for them.
In a drill-through definition, these parameters can be defined as part of
the hyperlink (just as in
HTTP GET requests).
The values for these parameters can be drawn from the context of the link.
The following section exemplifies this concept using two reports that are
Create an outlier report with Cognos report studio
In this section, create a project with two report pages based on the deployed OutliersPackage:
- The main page that shows an overview of the customer records grouped by profession with the respective number of outliers for each profession
- A report page that shows the actual deviating records for a given profession
Both reports will be linked so that its possible to drill through to the deviating records from the main overview page.
Since the overview page contains links to the details page, let's create it first. The outlier details page contains the customer records that are flagged as outliers, which belong to the profession selected in the main report page. To create this interaction, you need to add a parameter for the profession to the report and use it in a filter on the records. You also need to add a condition to the filter that only returns records that have a Outlier Flag query item of "1" (all records with deviation degree over the threshold).
To create the "Outlier Details" report page, do the following:
- Create a new Report in Cognos Report Studio using the OutliersPackage.
- Add a list object to the report.
- Add the OutlierTable query subject to the list by dragging it from the "Insertable Objects" view.
- Add the DESCRIPTION query item of the OutlierClusters query subject to the list.
- Add a filter to the list by selecting the list and pressing the "Filters" icon on the toolbar or Data > Filters from the menu.
- In the wizard, add a "Details filter" with the "Add" icon.
- In the "Detail Filter Expression" page, add the following code to the
"Expression Definition".
([PresentationView].[OutlierTable].[Outlier flag] = 1) AND ([PresentationView].[OutlierTable].[Profession] = ?Profession?)
Cognos will automatically detect the "Profession" keyword that is surrounded by "?" as a parameter and add it to the parameter list of the report.
- Confirm the filter by pressing OK.
Figure 10. The filter for the Outlier Details page
- Change the report header text and column headers to your liking, and
save your report as
Figure 11. The Cognos Report Studio with the Outlier Details report
The overview page contains a list of all professions with the number of customer records and the number of outliers per profession. The number of records will be computed by using Cognos aggregation functions.
To create the OutlierOverview page:
- Create a new report in Cognos Report Studio using the OutliersPackage.
- Add a list object to the report.
- From the OutlierTable query subject in the "Insertable Objects" view, drag the query items: Profession, Customer ID, and Outlier flag to the list.
- The Customer ID column is used to show the number of customer records per profession. To compute this, you need to change the aggregate function of the column to "Count" in the properties view of the column.
- The OutlierFlag column is used to show the number of deviating records per profession. Since the column contains a "1" for every deviating record and "0" for non-deviating records, you need to add the values of the column. Change the aggregate function of the column to Total.
- Change the "Data Item" > "Name" and "Data Item" > "Label" properties of the "Customer ID" and "Outlier flag" columns to Number of customers and Number of outliers.
- To enable a drill through to the OutlierDetails Report, select the Number of Outliers column (not the header, but the column below it), and choose Drill-Through Definitions from the right-click context menu.
- Add a new drill-through definition".
- In the Target Report tab of the properties, select the OutlierDetails report as target report.
- Select Run the report as action.
- Select the Open in new window check box.
- Add a new linked parameter with the Edit button below the parameters list.
- In the Parameters dialog, select Pass data item value as the method to link the parameter to a value of the row in the list.
- Choose the Profession query item as data item source, and
select OK.
Figure 12. The drill-through definition parameters.
- Press OK to save the drill-through definition.
Figure 13. The drill-through definitions page
- Change the header text, and save the report as
- You can now run your report from the Run > Run HTML menu or from Cognos Connect.
- Click on a link from the number of outliers column to see the detailed
Figure 14. The outlier overview page
This simple project consists of just two reports. By using a "drill-through" definition that contains a parameter defined by the context of the link, you do not need to create a link for each profession individually. The upcoming articles of this series show how to do more powerful things with drill-through definitions, such as invoking data mining dynamically.
In this article, you learned about deviation detection and how to perform deviation detection with InfoSphere Warehouse. Deviation detection is a highly interactive task, and outliers must usually be checked manually to see whether they indicate fraud, errors in the data, or some interesting opportunity. Cognos is very well-suited to support the task of interactive outlier analysis. In addition to the simple techniques used in the first article of this series, you learned two additional techniques. First, additional information can be extracted from the mining models that is not yet contained in the scored table by using stored procedures. Second, Cognos reports can be linked by using the "drill-through" feature, enabling interactive reports. In the upcoming articles of this series, learn how to go even further by invoking data mining dynamically from Cognos.
- Integrate InfoSphere Warehouse data mining with IBM Cognos reporting, Part 1: Overview of InfoSphere Warehouse and Cognos integration architecture: Get an introduction to the basic integration architecture involved in integrating InfoSphere Warehouse data mining with IBM Cognos reporting. Examine a technical case study to gain a basic understanding of how to achieve the integration.
- Integrate InfoSphere Warehouse data mining with IBM Cognos reporting, Part 3: Invoke mining dynamically from Cognos using a market basket analysis example: Learn about the task of association rule mining and how to achieve it in InfoSphere Warehouse. Then, see how to invoke data mining dynamically from Cognos. Finally, read an example of how this mechanism could be used in real time.
- Integrate InfoSphere Warehouse data mining with IBM Cognos reporting, Part 4: Customer segmentation with InfoSphere Warehouse and Cognos: Learn the value of customer segmentation as a marketing tool. A detailed example uses Cognos to build an interactive report with drill-through capabilities and data distribution visualization.
- "Dynamic Warehousing: Data Mining Made Easy": Gain a better understanding of data mining and the data mining algorithms in InfoSphere Warehouse.
- IBM InfoSphere Warehouse: Find out more about InfoSphere Warehouse.
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Nursing Assistant Education Certificate FAQ
How old do I have to be to take this course?
You must be 16 years old by the course completion date.
Do I have to be a high school graduate to take this class?
You must have a minimum of an eighth grade education to take this class.
Do I need to speak English?
You must complete RDG 090 with a grade of "B" or higher, the ACT Reading test with a score of 18 or higher, the COMPASS® Reading Placement test with a score of 48 or higher, or ENG 151 with a grade of "C" or higher. The COMPASS® Reading Placement test can be taken in the Testing Center. See Testing Center information.
Do I need to have a physical exam or proof of any immunizations?
You must present proof of a physical exam, using the Basic Nursing Assistant Medical Form, which states there are no restrictions that would interfere with your ability to complete the practical portion of this class, and a 2-step Mantoux TB test. The Mantoux TB tests are offered at the TB Clinic in Woodstock for a reasonable fee. Moderate to heavy physical activities will be required in the clinical setting.
Will I incur any costs besides my tuition and fees when I take this course?
State law requires you to take the Nurse Aide Competency Exam after you successfully complete the class. The Competency Exam costs $65. Your instructor will tell you when to pay the fee. Only a money order will be accepted.
You will be expected to have a white uniform, white shoes and a watch with a sweep second hand.
How do I enroll in the Nursing Assistant Education course?
If you haven't taken a class at MCC before, you must first apply to the College.
- Admissions and Academic Planning
- All students must complete RDG 090 with a grade of "B" or higher, the ACT Reading test with a score of 18 or higher, the COMPASS® Reading Placement test with a score of 48 or ENG 151 with a grade of "C" or higher. The COMPASS Reading Placement test can be taken in the Testing Center. See Testing Center information
- Review Basic Nursing Assistant (NAE 100) course availability
- Review the list of requirements (and their deadlines) that must be completed before the first day of class.
- Fill out the Health Care Worker Background Check form, print it and return to MCC, E212.
What's the typical salary for a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in McHenry County?
A graduate of MCC's Nursing Assistant program can expect an entry-level salary of $11 to $13 per hour. Graduates are qualified to seek jobs in hospitals, hospice centers, home care, physician offices, walk-in clinics and day care facilities.
Does MCC offer any other health-related career training?
Student interested in continuing their studies in health care are asked to contact the Advising and Transfer Center, located in A257, at (815) 479-7565.
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About two months ago, we predicted what the Miami Marlins starting lineup would look like in 2014.
Now, we're going to take it a step further and predict what the Marlins starting lineup might be in 2015.
The same rules still apply. The Marlins chosen to start in 2015 must be under team control in some shape or form. This means guys such as Greg Dobbs, who signed a $1.7 million extension for next season months ago but it only became official last month, according to MLB.com, were not selected because it would be unfathomable to think what would then be a 36-year-old career pinch-hitter would start for any organization. Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria might have the ability to negotiate Dobbs extension without his top baseball officials' knowledge, which is what a source told the Sun-Sentinel, but we're pretty sure Loria can't write Dobbs name in the lineup card.
This also means free agents such as Clayton Kershaw, Billy Butler, Asdrubal Cabrera and Pablo Sandoval probably won't be coming to South Beach anytime soon.
The names on this list are probably familiar to you, but remember these players are predicted to grab the starting nod either through outstanding production or by default. Of course, with nearly 18 months before the 2015 Opening Day, a lot can change.
Without further ado, let's present the starting nine for the 2015 Miami Marlins in lineup card fashion.