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Hardware Tricks: How to Not Fix a Crashed Hard Driveby Jarred Walton on 9/13/2013 12:51 AM EST
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efeman - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linko.O Reply
ImSpartacus - Saturday, September 14, 2013 - linkMy reaction was similar, but I seriously respect him for recording his experiences regardless of their success. This helps others. Reply
kdebugx86 - Thursday, September 19, 2013 - linkagree Reply
Pbryanw - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkThanks for the interesting follow-up article Jarred. I know the hard-drive recovery service I've used in the past here in the UK (Retrodata) doesn't charge any fee for diagnosis and if they're unable to recover your data, you pay nothing at all. I think this should be the standard when dealing with these companies.
As far as backing up to to the cloud, I think this is the way to go, especially if you have a fast fibre or cable connection. I'd also look into using Crashplan. $59.99 gets you an unlimited service so 200GB of data would be no problem. I've found it to be the best personal online backup service I've used so far. Reply
plm2678 - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - linkCrashplan is awesome! Reply
bah12 - Thursday, September 19, 2013 - linkI keep a local backup, but if you don't mind the downgrade in quality just use Google+ Photos with Picasa. If you use Picasa's default scaling, the images don't count toward your size limit. Reply
EnerJi - Sunday, September 29, 2013 - link+1 for Crashplan. I back up both my PCs with it. Reply
robbie77 - Wednesday, October 02, 2013 - linkAmazon Glacier is the best! With Zoolz I'm getting an unlimited account for 3$ a month crashplan can't beat that Reply
HeyImHJ - Sunday, January 05, 2014 - linkAfter the Megaupload shutdown I lost my hopes with the cloud, I also had plenty of my videos and photos stored there for backup purpose, when HDD broke I couldn't count with it to get some of my stuff back, I guess I had bad luck, from now on I'm getting an extra hdd for backup. Reply
The Von Matrices - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkI have a feeling that one the donor drive in "Round 1" probably could still work after it had been reassembled but was reassembled incorrectly causing the "click of death." One thing that you may not know is that the screw over the spindle is extremely sensitive to the torque applied. There is a very narrow range of tightness in which the drive will work; over- or under- tightening the screw will result in the "click of death" even if the drive is otherwise perfectly fine. This video gives a good explanation of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CAn22TiVV0
I think that anyone who has any care about their data needs to consider a serious backup solution. Unfortunately, most people don't even know where their files are located on their hard drive let alone the importance of backups. I keep thinking there have to be a significant number of families who are missing a decade of digital photos, videos, files, and family history because they didn't maje any backups. I have seen it occur and it saddens me that all those memories were lost.
I have come to realize over the past few years that my data is my most valuable possession. My entire life is stored on hard drives; I can replace any other valuable but not the data stored on my hard drives. My hard drives contain about 10,000 scanned family photos spanning 110 years, digitized family videos spanning 60 years, and of course every document I have ever created. If I lost my data I would have lost most of my life's accomplishments and family history. So my backup plan to I currently have 4 copies of my data - the primary drive, one backed up nightly and inside my computer case, a third backed up monthly and stored outside my computer (so that a virus or electrical surge can't kill it) and a fourth backed up every other month and stored off site in case a disaster destroys my house or the other drives get stolen. Reply
The Von Matrices - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkMistake in the first paragraph: I meant the screw on the head stack, not the screw over the spindle. Reply
Fujikoma - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkOur family photos go back through the late 1800's, so I'm paranoid about the same thing. I'm fortunate that my grandfather took great care with his photos and negatives.
My mom didn't want to back up anything until she lost a few months of digital photos. She's in her sixties and has a difficult time with computers, but she actually paid attention (for the back-up rehash) and currently backs stuff up (a little excessively, but not a bad thing). She mails me copies every few months and stores copies in a fire file. I keep 6 TB of movies/photos backed up at the house (plus the 6TB originals on my computer) and a duplicate 6 TB at the parents. Photos are the only thing I put on another drive in a fireproof case.
Most people don't organize things from the beginning, so it makes it more difficult. I had to spend the time and organize most of my mom's stuff. It took her a while, but she eventually got the rest set up correctly (my methodology, with the dates and location as part of the file name in the same format). Now it's easier for her to search for a file, since I showed her how to wild card the searches. I tell people to just start organizing and worry about the older stuff later. Better to get bad habits changed and minimize future problems. Reply
friend1300 - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkhi. I can understand. Reply
Freakie - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkGreat to hear back about your adventures with the drives! Every once in a while I would wonder what progress you've made. Like I commented before on your original article way back when, I've had success transplanting platters the one time I tried it before. It just seemed like an easier process to me than doing the drive heads because of how fragile I know they are. Maybe you could give it one more go with replacing the platters? Yes it means greater risk to losing the data, but this way you can usually ensure you don't mess up any working parts in the donor drive. The problem I had when choosing what part to swap was that I knew I could easily kill both drives by trying to transplant the heads, but by just doing the platters I at least knew that the donor drive would stay working. Where as you can't know for sure that the drive heads will stay intact and good between drives so there just seems more room for failure to me. Platters are of course tedious in a different way and that is ensuring they are incredibly clean when you put them back in, but compressed air cans takes care of most of that. Ideally I would have like just an air compressor so that I don't run the risk of blowing chemicals from the can, but we make do with what we have, right? Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkI can't see transplanting the platters (in this case) as being any safer, as to get to the platters I have to pretty much remove everything else anyway. There's always the chance that the problem is in the spindle or motor on the original drive, sure, but I did actually try to do the platter transplant -- most likely after already killing the heads, unfortunately. Reply
LauRoman - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkThe only repairs i had to make is exchage a capacitor for four smaller ones on a toshiba laptop that would just shutdown/reboot when plugged in, use superglue gel to stick some tiny nuts back in the holes they used to be embedded in a laptopcase that wouldn't close properly or exchange a controller board on a hdd. Else i had someone else fix the issue, or just threw away the widget. Reply
ShieTar - Friday, September 13, 2013 - link"I don't need a guarantee of success, but there's no way I'd pay $1000 or even $100 for a failure."
So, you expect those recovery companies to gamble instead of billing their work? Because they will do the same work either way, use the same installations and tools, and spend the same amount of time.
If you expect them to only bill success, they need to figure out the probability of success, and then they bill you for a successful attempt the work it took on your HD, also the work it took on the 1 or 2 drives they failed on, and a nice bonus in order to generate a financial cover for those statistical occurrences where they fail several times in a row and need to continue working without cash influx.
Its not a stable business model. Medical facilities don't work like that, they bill the work and the medicine cost even if the patient does not recover. Construction people don't work like that either, if you half-built house gets hit by a meteor, they still get paid for the work they did. Reply
Egg - Friday, September 13, 2013 - link"If you expect them to only bill success, they need to figure out the probability of success, and then they bill you for a successful attempt the work it took on your HD, also the work it took on the 1 or 2 drives they failed on, and a nice bonus in order to generate a financial cover for those statistical occurrences where they fail several times in a row and need to continue working without cash influx."
Yes. We expect them to do that.
With regards to healthcare, there's been a growing movement towards outcomes based healthcare. With regards to construction, if they screw up and their house falls apart, you do not have to pay them anymore (and probably can sue to recover anything you've already paid.) Reply
sheh - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkAgreed. Reply
codylee - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkWith regard to construction, general contractors carry Builders risk insurance" for meteors etc.
I think the original example of the lawyer worked best for this scenario. Reply
MichalT - Saturday, September 14, 2013 - linkAs soon as I saw the platter exposed to the air I knew he was never going to get the data off the drive. The tricks mentioned (fridge, tapping, dropping, etc.) work for particular kinds of drive failures; if your drive doesn't have that particular failure they won't work. If its really a crashed/broken head, the platters are extremely sensitive to dust and you need to have a clean room to replace the heads or put the platters in a working drive assembly in order to have any reasonable chance for the drive to function again. Or you can just cowboy it in your living room and almost certainly lose all the data. After all, all those manufacturers and the tends of millions they spend on clean rooms is just wasted cash. :-/ Reply
uhuznaa - Monday, September 16, 2013 - linkNot that I ever had to try it, but: Clean your bathroom (it's usually the room with the smallest amount of dust anyway), run hot water for a while to create a bit of steam and then wait and let the steam condense. This should get most of the dust out of the air. Still no "clean room" but probably as close at you'll ever get in a normal house. Reply
2kfire - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkGreat article!
I really enjoy reading how-to's (or how-not-to's in this case!). You get some interesting ideas!
Thanks Jarred! Reply
RonanH - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkI used to work for Seagate assembling HDDs. The biggest cause of hdd failure during assembly was of all things ESD. The heads are EXTREMELY sensitive to ESD, we used to wear two shoe straps in addition to a wrist strap, all of which were tested before entering the line.
While you may scoff at the need for a clean room, the heads of the drive actually float over the platter when it's spinning. I can't remember the height but it was a fraction the thickness of a human hair, so even a small amount of dust will cause damage to the heads in operation.
While it's possible to DIY a transplant the chances of success are probably pretty low. Reply
tuxfool - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkSeconding this. AFAIK the heads float over the platters at single digit nanometer heights so most household dust can ruin the Heads. Looking at the pictures in the article, I can see loads of dust. Unless this is cleaned before turning on the drives, you're seriously ruining your chances. Reply
rchan016 - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkNot sure about in America, but here in Canada, Seagate does data recovery. I think the one where they do all the fancy taking apart the drive and such is about $1200; if it succeeds, you get your data on a new drive. If it doesn't, you don't get charged anything. Reply
gaborb - Friday, September 13, 2013 - link"get the data off of either drive" is prison talk, correct English is "get the data off the drive". Reply
ShieTar - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkThere is sufficient discussion about data recovery happening in English prisons to justify the creation of new terminology? Reply
psuedonymous - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkIt's hard to tell form the single image, but was the platter-stack of the first drive a single fixed unit, or several platters placed on top of each other and held together by the friction of the top platter being bolted down onto the spindle? Because as soon as those platters are shifted relative to each other by the tiniest amount, the drive is essentially unrecoverable. If the tracking data written to the platters no longer aligns for each head, then it's no longer possible for the heads to track correctly.
If you had a few hundred thousand pounds to hand for building custom equipment and a detailed knowledge of how that specific model of drive stores alignment data, you might[ be able to create a franken-drive by bypassing the drive controller entirely and just processing the raw head data yourself, and re-aligning the platters in software, but I've never even once heard of someone actually attempting this, let alone succeeding. Reply
Daniel Egger - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkHell of a funny read, Jarred. Not quite sure how you came up with the silly idea of attempting this but thumbs up for courage and documentation. I tried this myself 10 or so years ago as an experiment but screwed up badly just disassembling the drive (a Maxtor IIRC). Just a note: You really want to do this only in a sufficiently dust free environment, every second of exposure to room air will make the platters pull in dust and if that manages to disturb the flying head later you'll have your next headcrash faster than you can say shit... Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkAs noted in the Maxtor section, I took the working drive drive apart, got everything ready to remove, then put it back together and it still worked for at least 10 minutes and the reading/writing of 5GB or so of data to the drive. So any dust didn't immediately kill the drive. Long-term, sure, it's a time bomb, but we're dealing with trying to resurrect a dead drive anyway. :-) Reply
willis936 - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkI've never even heard of a drive transplant but it seems genius! I can't believe this thought has never even crossed my mind. It's not for the faint of heart but there is no shortage of people eager to tinker and if the drive's already dead you don't have much to lose. Thank you for posting this. Reply
The Von Matrices - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkNo, you have a lot to lose, as in all the data that is on the drive. This is not a CPU or motherboard where if you can't fix it you just replace it and have an identical system to what you started with. Reply
willis936 - Saturday, September 14, 2013 - linkThe sentence you replied to ended with "if the drive's already dead" for a reason. Who in their right mind is going to spend $1.2k on data recovery? This is a hack, through and through. You do it because there is no other reasonable option besides accepting the loss and moving on. Reply
sheh - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkScary stuff. :) I've never attempted any of this. There is one drive I'd want to recover: an old Micropolis SCSI drive that died right after its 5 years warranty. So much for "professional storage" being more reliable... Reply
lostdata.ca - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkI agree with the "no data no charges" policy, in fact this is what we do here. It's sad to spend 40 hours on a drive and not getting a penny for it but at the same time, we call ourselves a "data recovery" company so if we don't recover anything, we didn't really offer the services we're selling. It's our way to guarantee to we'll do all we can to recover the data. This being said, I wouldn't like to receive more and more disks that has been tampered with. There are certainly people savvy enough to fix things by themselves or trying to recover data that isn't worth the price but really, what I see from other companies and ourselves isn't a scary tactic. We're not saying you can't succeed. What we say is that if it's really important, you need to know that the more you try to recover your data by your own means (hardware but also software), the higher the risks even people with the correct tools won't be able to recover it later. Fine, rip these read/write heads off on your dad's pictures drive but please, if your data really matter, keep your greasy fingers out of that casing ;-) Reply
obiwanjerkobi - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkI literally have a stack of five dead WD2000JB--00DUA3 laying on my desk next to my Blue Yeti. I attempted a platter transfer on my first one and failed miserably (rest in peace Talking Heads discography from my dad's collection before he moved to London and sold all his CDs). The rest are all split between click of death and flat no-spin-up. Reply
psuedonymous - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkFor those looking to do some HDD recovery of their own, Scott Moulton's "http://myharddrivedied.com/presentations-resources">MyHardDriveDied.com" is an excellent resource. He's got plenty of freely available videos of talks he's given about data recovery techniques, programs to use, tips & tricks, etc. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkI didn't spend much time looking, but for those that want a working link:
http://myharddrivedied.com/presentations-resources Reply
bobbozzo - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkYeah, he did a nice presentation, at DefCon iirc, on recovering drives from a dead RAID controller using software only (in case a replacement controller with the same firmware cannot be found). Reply
Maltz - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkIt sounds like your experience actually confirms the "industry rumors" that you shouldn't go mucking around inside your drive if you care about the data. All you've done is destroyed these people's data when the pros probably would have had a very high chance of success, even if it was expensive. How much is all your data worth, anyway? If I lost everything I had, I'd bite the bullet and pay $2k in a heartbeat to get it all back.
Which is why you should never skimp on backup hardware and routines.
Anecdotally, I've had the freezer trick work on about half of the dozen or so drives I've tried to recover over the years. But whatever you do, if you suspect a hardware failure, do NOT try a software tool to fix it! It will just mangle the data even further, making data recovery much, much harder if it should come to sending it off to a data recovery shop. Reply
ruiner5000 - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkEarlier this year, I posted a short story and video of my attempt at – and success – repairing a Gateway notebook that was suffering a Code 43 GPU error. The "fix" seemed almost too good to be true: dismantle the notebook and blast the GPU with a hairdryer for a couple minutes in order to reflow the solder.
Don't be stupid, and use a hair dryer to do this. Have your laptop properly reflowed by a technician. I reflow several motherboards a day for PS3s, Xbox 360s, and laptops as well. Don't be fooled by this story. The only things I can't usually fix, or have the hardest time doing is they guy who watched some video on youtube. Reply
anneoneamouse - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkJared -
Can you estimate how long you spent trying to fix the drive, and the cost of all the hardware bought?
I bet that if you ballpark your time at $40 / hour, the $1000-2000 cost of professional recovery is probably cheap.
AoN Reply
Impulses - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkI think he mentions spending 10hrs on two drives... You'd think a pro would be equipped to do it in half the time tho so maybe 2-3 hours per drive? Even at $50/hour and factoring in some other costs that should make it <$500, guess that's why having to pay thousands seems a bit much. I'd drop $500 into recovery, maybe even without a grantee, but over a grand with no grantees seems excessive. Some things you can't put a price on tho and I'm sure those offering said services are aware. Reply
Hrel - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkWow, that sounds like an unpleasant experience. Thanks for sharing though! Reply
cbf - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkPeople --
I don't know if there's any rule against commercial endorsements here, but I've used this company:
for data recovery in the past (although not for some years now).
They're *much* cheaper than the better known companies that do this work.
They will give you a free estimate online, prior to your sending them the drive (based on the parameters of the drive -- bigger drives cost more.)
They don't charge you if they can't recover any data.
Assuming they're still as reasonable as they were a few years ago, I highly recommend them, and I think they'd meet Jarred's requirements. Hell, Jarred should probably just have Anandtech pay for this so he can do a follow-up article on data recovery services.
Of course, as Jarred points out -- it's much better to make sure our friends and family are doing proper backups than help them recover after the fact. Reply
name99 - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkIf your concern is with a failing hard drive (rather than with the house burning down or ninjas stealing your computer or whatever) why is it so important to use an online backup service?
Pay the damn $100 to get a 2TB drive and use it for backup. Heck, do what any sane person does, buy two such drives, and alternate backups between them. Reply
dac7nco - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkGood lord. Taking a drive apart platter by platter?! This should be called "Trek of the moron". For shame... Anand wouldn't try shite like this. Reply
Alexvrb - Friday, September 13, 2013 - linkWell, if you fail, you can always fashion the dead drive cases into crude shanks. Or lash them to your fists for a pair of non-brass knuckles. Reply
ct760ster - Saturday, September 14, 2013 - linkHello, and Thank You for your brave attempt at DIY jury rig fixing of mechanical storage. I have a first generation 750 GB Seagate hard drive (the first one that made the switch to vertical write pattern), it's failed to show on the mainboard starup due to accumulated S.M.A.R.T. error logs that showed up thermal warnings and reallocated blocks. It also displayed the boot up click of dead, even without the SATA cable attached. What I stumble with luck was my tinkering with an scavenged CCTV digital video recorder that have a 500 GB hard drive by the same maker but newer manufacturing process and totally different PCB and maybe internals. At first I suspected the reason why they throw out that unit was due to hard drive failure so the prospect of having a replacement hard drive out of it was dim. But as I always said nothing ventured, nothing gain. So I proceeded to test the working condition of the DVR. It was in apparent perfect working order, next I swapped the hard drives between my PC and the DVR and formatted the 500 GB one with the hard drive diagnostic MHDD that came bundle with the LiveDVD of Gentoo Linux, just a quick format, out of curiosity I formatted the dead one with the DVR system menu which seemed fine booting up and reading the patient unit. For some reason it put it back into working order, so I re-transplanted the patient drive back to my computer because is of bigger capacity, all the data from previously is gone by this point because the way the DVR format the hard drive is not by a readable partition table but an unknown proprietary format, curiously the FAT32e first partition that was put on the 500 GB one when it was read by the DVR it was indifferent to it ( it could start recording right away without reformatting) but when you try to look for the recorded video hooking it back to the PC it don't have any apparent file recorded on it. So my conclusion it that what repaired my failed 750 GB drive was an apparent low level PCB S.M.A.R.T. warning reset, because after re-scanning it with MHDD it showed the same amount of warnings of potential errors leading to an impending failure, but have remained in working condition without a glitch up to today, almost a year after. It should be noted that I run it doing bit torrent file transfer almost 24/7, so is a stressful working condition. By the way the DVR I pass it to a friend who needed it and it worked for a month or so until it started making a clicking noise, probably due to the hard drive, so the 500 GB hard drive was probably had a mechanical fault wich was the primary reason the original owner throw it to the recycle bin. Hope you find my story amusing and contributed to your knowledge of how a hard drive work. ;) Reply
SharpieTM - Saturday, September 14, 2013 - linkLoved the article.
Maybe it's because I was in the same boat as you. A friend of mine had his HDD go (the notorious Seagate 500GB drive that dropped like flies). He also made no backups (what's that?) and since I build the computer for him naturally it was my duty/responsibility to fix that. *sigh*. Anyways, I rely on backups to keep information save. As far as I am concerned, once a drive is dead (or dying) the information on it is as good as gone. Granted I had at least a couple HDD's that worked long enough to get the information off them with the freezer trick.
But anyways, long story short, I tried everything you did. First freezer trick. Then I swapped the PCB with a donor drive and had to swap the IC too that held the factory settings for those platters.
Nothing worked, and my friend gave me the go ahead to open the drive up and see if I could swap the insides to make it work. I told him that the chances of me making that work were small, if not impossible.
I am not sure what all I did wrong (I am sure it was plenty) but I certainly was unsuccessful. But I still remember my nerves being shot after a couple of hours trying to pry apart the drive as carefully as possible. And also the sunken feeling in my belly when I plugged it all back in and it was "deader" than before.
Moral of the story: When information is saved in perpendicular oriented fashion in nanometer width, my fat, oily fingers won't get it back. Reply
Kougar - Sunday, September 15, 2013 - linkThat was a great read, thanks for sharing your experiences! I never realized read heads were so fragile that even having them touch would ruin them.
For offsite data security, instead of paying a fortune for Terabyte+ online backups why not just buy a multi-terabyte drive, backup the data to it, and then stick it in a bank safety deposit box? That'd run $15 a year and capacity is only limited by the size of the drive or size of the box.
Combine that with a simple home NAS using RAID 5 or RAID 6 and that should provide plenty of redundancy for data protection. Banks exist on every corner, and dropping by every 3-6 months to update the data via laptop (or switching out drives) shouldn't be much of an inconvenience. Reply
jubjubbinks - Sunday, September 15, 2013 - linkWhat a timely article. I've been battling with a failing an external USB Seagate Freeagent 750GB drive.
After several different attempts, I successfully recovered 4000 photos off the drive....and have now backed them up twice physically and via online storage.
- Drive spins up, no clicking
- Windows sees NTFS partition as RAW
- After about 2-3 minutes drive disappears from Disk Manager in Win7
- Window of time is too short to use Recuva, Testdisk, PhotoRec
- Tried freezer trick, which worked for me once - Failed this time
- Removed drive from Seagate Fort Knox enclosure and connected SATA via external port on another system
- Same result
- Ordered exact PCB from online store that had identical part# and firmware - http://www.hdd-parts.com/
- PCB board was swapped and drive was staying alive for roughly 10 minutes. However still RAW and not readable for long enough to execute recovery apps.
- Windows also ran chkdsk which showed a motherload of unreadable sectors
- Linux message was less dire, and basically said this drive was going to fail soon.
- Try Ubuntu Live CD and now I can see my folders!...hell yes!
- I plug in a 32GB thumb drive and beging coping folder by folder onto thumb and verify pics are readable
- In some cases there were several hundred photo's in some of the folders. When the drive would hang, I would cold pull the SATA power and plug it back in right away. Amazingly the copy would resume in most cases. I had to analyze each root folder as in some cases the half or some of the files showed zero bytes. I just recopied those particular ones and all was good.
- Bonehead didn't back up his wifes photos to another location
- Linux is more tolerant of a dodgy drive
- PCB replacment board gave a longer window to recover files
Hope this helps someone else. Reply
boris81 - Monday, September 16, 2013 - linkI got a story of improvised hard drive repair, granted much more low-tech than replacing the heads and platters.
My friend back in college was working an IT job and brought one day a customer's hard drive to do something on it at home. Five of us were standing around chatting about something as the guy began flipping the hard drive casually in the air. Not a lot of imagination is required to guess what happened next - another friend reached to snatch the hard drive in mid air and it slipped and hit the pavement. Sheer panic follows but soon we determined that the only visible damage is that one of the pins on the IDE connector is bent. Maybe if we are VERY lucky the heads haven't crashed. Somebody produces a set of pliers and proceeds to bend the pin back in place. The pin then breaks of and the panic rushes back, this time accompanied of course by a series of jokes directed at my IT friend.
I examined the IDE connector and determined if we could possibly run a wire in place of the I/O pin. The IDE connector was through hole soldered on the hard drive board so it looked like it could actually work. I unfolded a paperclip, placed one end in the IDE connector and pressed it against the solder joint on the board. We had an open computer handy so I plugged it in to see if it will get recognized. "Oh my God, it works!!!" shouts my friend and proceeds to copy files. I go "Look, I'm just holding a paper clip to it, let's go have it soldered in place and you can do your thing then." To which he shouts "DON'T F***ING BREATHE!!! OK, breathe but DON'T move!!!"
I did not move for 17min which was enough for him to copy the data. I paid with a small skin rash on my finger where I pressed the paper clip as hard as I could the entire time but I gained a ton of street cred for fixing a hard drive with a paper clip and saving the day. Reply
frenchy_2001 - Monday, September 16, 2013 - linkI've dealt with data recovery once, about 10 years ago. The most expensive calendar I ever paid for... ;)
I had 2 computers and a degree of redundancy in my data between the 2 of them.
The first one had an IBM Deskstar ("DeathStar") 30GB, reputed for failing. One late evening, I read that IBM had a firmware out to fix the failure issue. It was late, I pushed updating till the next day, saying it had been working for over a year, what's one more night? By morning, the drive was gone.
As most of my data existed on the 2nd computer (with better hardware to boot), no big loss.
However, I postponed replacing the IBM drive and about 3 weeks later, the Maxtor in my main computer died too. I was distressed as all of my data so far (years of email, contacts, pictures...) was lost. I searched data recovery services and found one that would recover my data for ~$500, with me supplying the new drive. I bought a new drive and sent both to the recovery service. A week later, they announced they had recovered 98%+ and sent it back to me.
Since then, I've stored my data on RAID volumes and I've added online backup more recently.
My data exists in no less than 3 places (main, backup, online backup), sometimes more.
I've been using Crashplan for online backup, taking advantage of their Black Friday Sale (~$2 for a family plan), also enabling some friends and family to backup on my server through Crashplan (free for them. I have a RAID 1 3TB available for backup purpose).
So, once bitten, twice shy.
To come back to the opening sentence, added in my package when I received the recovered drive was a nice calendar for the year, the only added value compared to my starting situation. Most expensive calendar ever... Reply
JlHADJOE - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - linkWhat I learned here is to leave data recovery to the experts, lol.
Not only does the average person not have the correct tools, he also does not have a sufficiently clean room. And if you have the tools and the room, you're probably an expert or close to one anyway. Reply
lyeoh - Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - linkIf you haven't ruined the drive too much with your attempts perhaps you could try one of those data recovery companies that don't charge if they can't recover data. It would be an interesting experiment/test to see which of these "no recover, no charge" companies succeed in recovering the data. An expensive test/review maybe but one more worthy of Anandtech than failing to recover data yourself and then claiming the data recovery bunch are spreading FUD. Car analogy - many people can repair their own cars, but it's not necessarily FUD if car mechanics discourage amateurs from trying to fix their own cars but make things worse in the process. Esp mechanics with a "no fix = no charge" policy. Reply
hot120 - Saturday, September 21, 2013 - linkGreat article! Reply
coyote2 - Sunday, September 22, 2013 - linkPutting dead drives in the freezer has worked for me 5 of the last 6 times. Reply
HeyImHJ - Sunday, January 05, 2014 - linkI do have the same HDD as you (WD 250GB black), from your description mine have exact the same problem as your, it died about a year ago and since then I kept it until I -hopefully, some day- could win the lottery so I can afford the service to recover the info lol, I have at least 70GB of important data in it (included all my photos from childhood and videos), today to be exact I was looking for an homemade alternative to fix it, I'm getting impatient to get these info back, I also thought on opening it and replacing the platters as you did. But glad I read your experience, thank you! I guess I'm gonna calm myself down, and leave it to luck. ;) Reply
PandaBear - Thursday, November 13, 2014 - linkThe heads are controlled by servo marks written on the platter actively, you will not be able to pull the head off when the drive is spinning because you will be fighting with the controller trying to keep it on a track.
The platter is coated with a very fragile layer and when the head is not working because of previous crashes (most likely cause of dead head), your platter are likely already damaged more than the head and transplant would likely not fix it.
Other than the rom boot loader on the PCB, most of the firmware and calibration data is on the platter written in low density. If your drive is not recognized with the right model and capacity, chances are the head / platter is so damaged that it cannot boot, and chances are you won't be able to read back the user data written in the even higher density area.
Most hard drive head these days are parked on a ramp when spin down and do not land back on to the platter until it is spinning fast enough to fly. So freezing trick (to dislodge a stuck head on the platter) or knocking the drive sideway (same theory) doesn't really work anymore. Reply
GreenXemas - Friday, June 12, 2015 - linkGood luck on getting your drive to work. I've got a WD10TMVW that the arms arent moving to the pallet when it spins, so I'm not entirely sure what's wrong, but I am optimistic about fixing this drive, ima buy the tools first though. Reply
Waffa - Monday, August 03, 2015 - linkRespect for that post man, this is well written and helps people to prepare mentally for these kind of thing, saving a ton of time and drives top of that. Reply
joneyahamed - Saturday, December 03, 2016 - linkyou can use hirean for test your hdd what is the health condition. <a href="https://www.techco.vn">more information</a> Reply
Plethorius - Sunday, June 04, 2017 - linkThis is interesting, thank you for documenting it. I've been gearing up to give it a try myself on a drive a friend gave me, by taking apart old failed drives I don't care about. Basically making sure I know exactly how each piece comes out and goes back in with the least potential for damage. From my research, the drive I actually want to repair uses only a single side of one platter (10gb Seagate) so theoretically it will be a cake walk if I can find a donor to pull a head assembly out of. My friend doesn't care that much about the data, but it'd be great to successfully do this at least once in a "real" scenario.
As for backups, I completely agree. I keep all my most important stuff from the desktop backed up on at least one other drive now and each of my laptops has it's own full backup for easy restoration. I can say with some confidence that I haven't lost any important data since the Great Hard Drive Failure of 2008 when I learned that it can happen to anyone, at any time. All of (my) drives I'd dealt with at that point had gradually failed, and being somewhat tech savvy I was able to catch them in time and transfer everything. I guess I assumed that would always be the case, but one day when I plugged in that drive it just gave the the click of death with no prior warning. Reply


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The 15th Annual Live Nativity is coming up again. Plan to take your family and friends to see this spectacular play depicting the reason for the season, the birth of Our Lord and Savior. There will be 2 live performances nightly at 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. beginning on November 27 and continuing each evening until December 1. The live Nativity will be held at the Van Buren Co. Fair Grounds on Hwy 16 E., there will be plenty of parking. Local children and animals participate. Dress for the weather, cocoa & coffee will be served. For more information, call Paul Rhoda at 501-745-8377 or Tamie Aday at 501-745-8255.
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03 May 2012
The 2011 Tigers finished with a 95-67 regular season record, an AL Central Division championship, and an appearance in the ALCS. Even with the loss of designated hitter Victor Martinez, the team was supposed to be even better with a full year from Doug Fister and the addition of Prince Fielder.
But we're now through the first month and change, and still the Tigers find themselves with a .500 record and in a tie for second place in the division. What's wrong with the team? Why is such a loaded roster struggling to meet expectations?
There's chatter around the internet and on talk radio about Jim Leyland needing to be fired, Ryan Raburn's sub-.200 batting average, and the lack of Victor Martinez's clubhouse presence. It's true that this team has had some issues, most notably with hitting and relief pitching, but is it really time to blow everything up? Isn't our panic premature?
Every win and every loss seems like such a huge deal at this time of the year because they can cause wild swings in winning percentage. But really, for all the talk about how badly this Tigers team is struggling, they're really only two games off last year's (final) .586 pace (that percentage would yield a 14-10 record in 24 games). Is that really all that big of a deal, especially when considering (1) the team's #2 starter has only pitched two innings (leading to three starts for Adam Wilk) and (2) 14 of the 24 games were against clubs that won 90 or more games a season ago?
Players sometimes slump. And when multiple players slump at the same time, the team often slumps. It seems like the end of the world because it's April and there's no buffer in the W-L record yet. I'm not trying to excuse away all the struggles – the team truly hasn't been playing very well – but the toughest stretch of schedule is probably in the past already.
Ups and downs have always happened in baseball but, more often than not, players end up hitting and pitching just like they always have. This team will be fine – they have too much talent not to be – and I'm still confident in their ability to win the division by a double-digit margin.
Matt Snyder is the editor of The Tigers Den. He can be reached on Twitter @snyder_matthew.


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NEW YORK - Johnny Football just got himself a way cooler nickname: Johnny Heisman.
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, taking college football's top individual prize Saturday night after a record-breaking debut.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o finished a distant second and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was third in the voting. In a Heisman race with two nontraditional candidates, Manziel broke through the class barrier and kept Te'o from becoming the first purely defensive player to win the award.
Manziel drew 474 first-place votes and 2,029 points from the panel of media members and former winners.
"I have been dreaming about this since I was a kid, running around the backyard pretending I was Doug Flutie, throwing Hail Marys to my dad," he said after hugging his parents and kid sister.
Manziel seemed incredibly calm after his name was announced, hardly resembling the guy who dashes around the football field on Saturday. He simply bowed his head, and later gave the trophy a quick kiss.
"I wish my whole team could be up here with me," he said with a wide smile.
Te'o had 321 first-place votes and 1,706 points and Klein received 60 firsts and 894 points.
Just a few days after turning 20, Manziel proved times have truly changed in college football, and that experience can be really overrated.
For years, seniors dominated the award named after John Heisman, the pioneering Georgia Tech coach from the early 1900s. In the 1980s, juniors started becoming common winners. Tim Tebow became the first sophomore to win it in 2007, and two more won it in the next two seasons.
Adrian Peterson had come closest as a freshman, finishing second to Southern California quarterback Matt Leinart in 2004. But it took 78 years for a newbie to take home the big bronze statue. Johnny Football really can do it all.
Peterson was a true freshman for Oklahoma. As a redshirt freshmen, Manziel attended school and practiced with the team last year, but did not play in any games.
He's the second player from Texas A&M to win the Heisman, joining John David Crow from 1957, and did so without the slightest hint of preseason hype. Manziel didn't even win the starting job until two weeks before the season.
Who needs hype when you can fill-up a highlight reel the way Manziel can?
With daring runs and elusive improvisation, Manziel broke 2010 Heisman winner Cam Netwon's Southeastern Conference record with 4,600 total yards, led the Aggies to a 10-2 in their first season in the SEC and orchestrated an upset at then-No. 1 Alabama in November that stamped him as legit.
He has thrown for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns and run for 1,181 yards and 19 more scores to become the first freshman, first SEC player and fifth player overall to throw for 3,000 yards and run for 1,000 in a season.
Manziel has one more game this season, when the No. 10 Aggies play Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 4.
The resume alone fails to capture the Johnny Football phenomena. At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Manziel is master of the unexpected, darting here and there, turning plays seemingly doomed to failure into touchdowns.
Take, for example, what he did in the first quarter against the Crimson Tide. Manziel took a shotgun snap, stepped up in the pocket as if he was about to take off on another made scramble and ran into the back a lineman. On impact, Manziel bobbled the ball, caught it with his back to the line of scrimmage, turned, rolled the opposite direction and fired a touchdown pass — throwing across his body — to a wide-open receiver.
He might as well have been back in Kerrville, Texas, where he became a hill country star in high school.
Manziel thought he was going to be the next Derek Jeter — hence the No. 2 he wears. Instead he became the biggest star football star in College Station since Crow won the Heisman.
His road to stardom was anything but a clear path.
Manziel competed with two other quarterbacks to replace Ryan Tannehill as the starter this season, the Aggies' first in the SEC and first under coach Kevin Sumlin.
Manziel came out of spring practice as the backup, and went to work with a private quarterback coach in the summer to better his chances of winning the job in the preseason.
It worked, but still nobody was hailing Manziel is the next big thing.
Then he started playing and the numbers started piling up.
He had 557 total yards against Arkansas, 576 vs. Louisiana Tech and 440 against Mississippi State.
He also had some struggles against Florida in the season opener and in a home loss to LSU. The question was: Could Johnny Football do his thing against a top-notch opponent?
The answer came in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Nov. 10. Going into the matchup against the Crimson Tide, Manziel said he and his teammates heard a lot of doubters.
"You can't do this and you can't do that," he recalled Saturday at the podium
Manziel passed for 253 yards, ran for 92 and the Aggies beat the Tide 29-24. Klein had been the front-runner for most of the season, but Manziel surged after beating 'Bama.
Still, Manziel was still something of a mystery man. Sumlin's rules prohibit freshmen from being available to the media. Johnny Football was off-limits, but not exactly silent.
Manziel gave glimpses of himself on social media — including some memorable pictures of him dressed up as Scooby-Doo for Halloween with some scantily clad young women.
Before he became a celebrity, Manziel got himself into some serious trouble. In June, he was arrested in College Station after police said he was involved in a fight and produced a fake ID. He was charged with disorderly conduct and two other misdemeanors.
After the season, Texas A&M took the reins off Manziel and made him available for interviews, allowing Johnny Football to tell his own story.
Though in the end, his play said it all.
KPRC Local 2 Sports Director Randy McIlvoy reported live on the historic Heisman moment from New York City Saturday.
Manziel's acceptance speech
The following is a transcript of Johnny Football's Heisman acceptance speech in its entirety:
"This is, this is a moment I've dreamed about since I was a kid, running around the backyard pretending I was Doug Flutie (gestures to Flutie) and throwing Hail Marys to my dad. Now I'm so blessed to be on a stage with such a group of great guys and to be invited into this fraternity. What a pleasure it really is."
"I'd like to start by thanking the Heisman Trust and everybody who made this weekend possible. What a great experience it was to be meet the people I have -- Manti and Collin – not only great football players, but great guys off the field as well. It's been a pleasure to get to know you guys better and I wish you all the best of luck."
"It's such an honor to represent Texas A&M. My teammates here tonight, I wish they could be on the stage with me. Texas A&M, choosing that school was one of the best decisions I've ever made in my entire life and I'm so proud to be a part of that."
"To Mom, Dad, Mary, the entire family watching, you mean the world to me and I just want to thank you for the encouragement, love and patience over the years. Grandpa, to all the times we used to play in the hallway and throw the ball until we couldn't anymore. I love you with all my heart and you've inspired me to play football. And Grandma, I'm sorry for all the things we broke in the house."
"To my coaches back at Kerrville Tivy – Mark Smith, Julius Scott and everybody there -- you taught us all what it meant to really fight and work for something you wanted more than anything in the world. You taught us about passion and about heart and what it truly meant to say Tivy fight and never dies. To Coach Sherman, Coach Rossley, Coach Sumlin and Coach Kingsbury, and everyone that's been a part of me playing football my entire life, you've been truly a blessing. You taught me not only what it is to be a football player but to be a man as well. For that, I thank you so much."
"I wish my whole team could be up here with me tonight, especially my great offensive line and the whole offense: Luke Joeckel, Jarvis Harrison, Cedric Ogbuehi, Jake Matthews, and Patrick Lewis. I'm as safe standing right here as I am in the pocket with you guys. You've done a great job of keeping me off my back and I can't thank you enough for everything. To all my teammates back home, I love you with all my heart."
"I'd especially at this time like to honor somebody who is near and dear to everybody at Texas A&M, Joey Villavisencio. Around this time last year, a center on our team passed away in a tragic car accident. It was something as a whole team that we really had to fight through and press on through…To Mr. and Mrs. Villavisencio, if I had a son, I'd want him to be exactly like him. I know Joey's in a better place."
"Most of all, I want to thank God for allowing me to be here. All that he has blessed me with in my entire life, I'm so thankful for. For the love and the grace that you've shown me, I'll be forever grateful. For the values that I've learned from my parents and that have been carried over my Texas A&M: leadership, respect and putting others first. It's what the 12th Man is all about. I believe the 12th Man is one of the greatest traditions in all of college football. 40,000 students standing not as fans, but as members of our team. To the 12th Man, to Texas A&M, Kerrville, Texas and Aggies everywhere, this Heisman Trophy is for you. Gig 'em."
Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Get an overview of this hotelAll-suite Florida beachfront hotel with free WiFi
Popular property highlights
Melbourne Square shopping
Just steps from the sand, DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Melbourne Beach Oceanfront is a 15-minute drive from Melbourne Square mall and Melbourne International Airport (MLB). Andretti Thrill Park is 20 minutes by car, and there are 12 golf courses in the area. Kennedy Space Center is an hour by car.
Fitness center and pool
After a day at the beach, guests can sip a cocktail by the pool at tiki-themed Seagrapes Bar, and some fresh seafood at Seagrapes Restaurant. There's a 24-hour fitness center, parking (surcharge), and a free hotel shuttle to locations within a 4-mile (6.4-km) radius.
Beach balcony, free WiFi
Sunny suites have a classic seaside holiday vibe, with bright decor and a private balcony or patio with beach views. All suites come with free WiFi so that guests can stay connected, plus 2 flat-screen TVs for entertainment. There's also a sofa bed, a mini-fridge, and a microwave.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Beach
- Pool
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Overall room comfort
- Bathrooms could've been nicer
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Melbourne Beach Oceanfront
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an outdoor pool, DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Melbourne Beach Oceanfront provides a spa tub and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at the poolside bar. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and several meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 2500 sq feet (232 sq meters). This beach hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and a TV in common areas. An area shuttle within 5 mi and a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) are complimentary for guests. Onsite self parking is available for a fee.
DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Melbourne Beach Oceanfront is a smoke-free property.
- Fitness facilities
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free airport transportation
- 24-hour front desk
- Express check-out
- Express check-in
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Number of floors - 9
- Bar/lounge
- Elevator/lift
- Concierge services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Pool umbrellas
- Airport transportation
- Free WiFi
- Computer station
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- ATM/banking
- Meeting rooms 3
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 207
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Beach cabanas (surcharge)
- Beach towels
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 232
- Smoke-free property
- Spa tub
- Outdoor pool
- Wedding services
- Television in common areas
- Free shopping center shuttle
- Free area shuttle
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 2500
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Separate living room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Premium bedding
- Balcony or patio
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free weekday newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Access via exterior corridors
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- MP3 docking station
- Separate living room
- Microwave
- Pay movies
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Shower only
- Sofa bed
- Designer toiletries
- Room service (limited hours)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Separate bedroom
- Sofa bed size
- Flat-panel TV
- Down comforter
Where to Eat
Seagrapes Restaurant - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant specializes in seafood and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available.
Seagrapes Bar - This poolside bar serves up drinks. Lunch and dinner is available.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 3.00 and USD 16.00 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: USD 8.00 per night
- Late check-out fee: USD 50.00
Hotel Name
- DoubleTree Suites Hilton Melbourne Beach Oceanfront
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- DoubleTree Suites Hilton Oceanfront Hotel Melbourne Beach
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We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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It was 5 in the afternoon on a "Packer Thursday," which means print deadline day, and a column due from me was still in the developing stages.
Which, of course, for a journalist like me means I hadn't even come up with a topic yet.
A fellow editor approached me in the company break room, where I was in the midst of a TV break to try to derive inspiration.
"How's your column coming?" he asked.
"I'm feeling like I'm about ready to rattle off a Pulitzer Prize winner in like 10 minutes' time, but I'm at a bit of a loss for a topic," I said. "Any thoughts?"
"Well, it's always good to write about something you know, and, of course, even better if it's also something you love," he said.
"So what do you plan to do? And is this episode of 'VH1 Classic Pop-Up Video' helping you write it?"
Just then popped up David Lee Roth's "California Girls" video from the 1980s. With the first glimpse of him at that video's opening, I had my column.
I had wanted to work a bit about one of my favorite fruits, California Cuties clementines, into a column but didn't have a clue how. But seeing Dave, I decided right then I was going to rework the "California Girls" song into my own take about how great California Cuties clementines are.
Well, Florida fruits are hip
I really dig those apples of the East
And the Southern peaches with the way they taste
They always provide me quite a feast
The Midwest growers put out some great stuff
They really make your stomach full
And the Spanish clems, with the way they eat
They keep the fields from needing cull
I wish they all could be California...
I wish they all could be California...
I wish they all could be California clems!
The West Coast has the sunshine
And the fruit all gets so sweet
I dig the easy peel, I'm all about seedless
They beat the heck out of eating beets
I've been all around this great big world
And I downed all kinds of fruit
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the States
Back to the Cutest fruit in the world.
Editor's note: Sun Pacific Cos. now has the exclusive sales rights for the Cuties brand, leaving Paramount Citrus little to do but pack clementines and w. murcotts for Sun Pacific, its somewhat estranged trademark partner.
A trademark ownership dispute between Sun Pacific owner Berne Evans and Paramount owner Stewart Resnick landed the two California citrus companies in federal court and then in an arbitration proceeding in 2012.
The arbitration panel ruled in favor Sun Pacific, giving that company the exclusive sales rights to the Cuties brand for this season and next season, said Barney Evans, vice president of sales of Pasadena-based Sun Pacific.
He said the companies continue to share ownership of the Cuties trademark, with each company owning 50% of the brand.
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Thursday Feb 05, 2009
America the Beautiful
Below please find a link to a Jackie Lawson card which displays all the state flowers and assembles them in a patriotic way. Enjoy!
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ATLANTA | Georgia Tech received a late boost with the signing of running back Myles Autry.
Coach Paul Johnson said that Autry, whose brother Anthony is a receiver with the Yellow Jackets, is one of six newcomers who have a chance to fill a variety of roles in summer camp.
Georgia Tech signed 21 players to national letters of intent Wednesday — six offensive linemen, four defensive backs, three defensive ends, three linebackers, two running backs, two receivers and one quarterback.
"When you recruit them, you hope they'll all have an immediate impact," Johnson said. "Realistically, how many guys in the freshman class are going to come in and play? Maybe half, and it's hard to say which ones it would be, but we'll give them all the opportunity."
Like Autry, receivers Qua Searcy and Clinton Lynch, running back CJ Leggett and twin brother defensive backs Lance and Lawrence Austin might take snaps at multiple positions, offensively and defensively.
"Today very few guys play in one spot," Johnson said. "Unless you're a really big high school, guys are pretty versatile. There's a lot of guys in this class that could go either way."
Autry, a local standout from Norcross High School, signed late in the afternoon. He also considered Florida State, Florida, Ohio State and Oregon.
Four signees — defensive back Step Durham, defensive end KeShun Freeman, linebacker Tre' Jackson and quarterback Matthew Jordan — enrolled in school last month.
The Jackets, who went 7-6 last season, had several injuries that hurt depth at offensive line and defensive back in 2013.
National rankings (Rivals 47; Scout 47).
Best in class: RB Myles Autry, DB Step Durham
Best of the rest: WR CJ Leggett, C Andrew Marshall, WR Qua Searcy, DE KeShun Freeman, DB Lance Austin, DB Lawrence Austin
Late addition: Autry
One that got away: DT Mike Sawyers of Nashville signed with Tennessee.
NOTE: Johnson summoned up his customary annual critique of Georgia Tech getting ranked low in recruiting services when he said, "If you go back and look for the last six years, there's four teams in the ACC who've won more games than all of the others. Those teams are Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech. And that's my view of the star system. So if our recruiting is so bad, and that is so accurate, then we must be great coaches. And from what I read from you guys (media) I don't believe that. You can't have it both ways. So that's the facts. That's not spin. That's just facts."


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By Kimi McBryde, 2013 Teen Science Scholar
August 8th, 2013
Morning routine, to Chocope, through Mocan. Clare and Airielle headed back to cateo (cut) 3 to continue sampling and to draw the cut in diagram form. Lauren and I were set on sifting detail and supervision of cateo 4 with Pancho, Neri, and Guillermo again. They finally finished that cateo at about 11:40.
Sifting detail means that at every capa, we would sift through the sediments using a 0.5mm sifting frame to look for any organic material caught in the layer. A capa is basically every layer, in that it is defined where the sediment changes. In the three cateos we dug near 44 there were 3 capas each. Each capa is defined with a letter-A, B, C, etc. We had sifted the sediments at cateo 4, filled out the log sheets, with all sorts of information, and also taken surface sediment reference samples from the north and south sides of the cateo.
While we had been supervising, Ari and Michele had headed off into the desert with the police man to go find another old field as placement for a 5th cateo. They marked this cateo with a waypoint and a fluorescent pink flag. When they returned to base camp, they sent Lauren and I out to find the marker and set up the next cateo. We walked the 600 m out to the location, and using stakes, string, and some sticks, laid out the 2 m x 1 m cateo (double checking the rectangle using the Pythagorean theorem). Once that was done, we returned to get the digging team and show them where the cateo was.
As the guys were finishing the cateo, Lauren and I had been filling out the lab tickets for each sample. Unfortunately, this means that we had to write the exact same thing twice for each sample, and roughly the same thing 16 times for each capa, with an addition to capa B because of all of the organic material we found in the sifting process. Each sample was taken with a different spoon, in a different bag. For each capa, there are 2 sets of samples and 2 samples within each set. The two sets of samples are for Ari and Michele (AM) and for Jeff Quilter (JQ). Within those sets we take one sample for pollen testing and one sample for sediment testing. Also, if there was a lot of organic material in the sifted sample, we took another sample for AM for floating tests.
Thankfully, we didn't get stuck again on the way back, but the driver had both windows down the entire trip back. Although that did create a weak vacuum, it also allowed a ton of dust to pour through the windows into the back of the van. Michele got some pictures of everyone sitting there with their faces covered. I don't think I've ever felt so dirty in my life-the layer of dust on everyone and everything was pretty gross and not very comfortable.


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eBooks and eReaders
The library often receives questions about eBooks and eBook readers, and borrowing eBooks from the library. Below are some of the most common questions we get along with answers and links to information you can download and print out.
To check out our eBook collection (and audiobooks too!) visit the BRIDGES website.
Most common Questions and Answers:
Q: What is an eBook?
A: eBooks are digital books that can be read on a PC or Mac® computer, an eReader device like the Amazon Kindle, Sony® Reader, as well as iPads, iPods, and Smartphones.
Q: Are all eBooks usable on all eBook readers/devices?
A: No. eBooks are digital files and some are in PDF format, some are in EPUB format, and some are in Kindle format (to name the three most popular). eReaders are formatted to read one or two of these file formats but no reader is capable of reading all three except a tablet (iPad or Android) or Smartphone. The most popular eReaders and their formats are:
- Nook - EPUB or PDF formats
- Kindle - Kindle formats
- iPad/Smartphone - EPUB, PDF, or Kindle formats depending on which application you choose to use (click here to download instructions on how to download these book apps to your iPad).
Q: What's the differences between the eReaders?
A: All of the Nook, Sony, and Kindle eReaders have different models with different options and functions and memory. Attached is a quick overview of all the types of devices. The one you pick depends on which one you like best and if it does what you want it to do and if the price falls within what you can afford. For more information about all e-readers we recommend you go to a store that sells the device(s) you are interested in so you can touch them, see how they work, and get your questions answered.
Q: What's the difference between an e-reader and a tablet?
A: A traditional, black & white e-reader is designed specifically to allow the user to read ebooks and some newspapers. Some of the new color e-readers by Kindle and Nook also give the user the ability to read magazines, newspapers, and download apps to play games. A tablet does all of these things plus more. iPad, Kindle Fire, and Nook Tablet are the most popular tablets available. You can read ebooks on all of them but you can also watch videos, surf the internet, and download music (just to name a few). For more information about all tablets we recommend you go to a store that sells the device(s) you are interested in so you can touch them, see how they work, and get your questions answered.
Q: Do you have to purchase ebooks?
A: No. Many ebooks are available for purchase but there are thousands that are either free or can be borrowed from your library. Here are lists of websites that sell ebooks and have free ebooks.
Q: Are ebooks available to borrow from the library?
A: Yes! James Kennedy Public Library is a member of the North Eastern Iowa Bridge to Online Resource Sharing (NEIBORS), a consortium of libraries that provides eBooks and downloadable audiobooks books to their patrons. Anyone with a JKPL library card can use this service. Currently, NEIBORS has 3,176 ebooks and 2,489 audiobooks with more titles being added every month.
Q: What do I need to borrow ebooks from the library?
A: In order to borrow ebooks from the library you need the following items:
- a library card with the James Kennedy Public Library (you'll need the barcode number off the back)
- Must live within the Dyersville city limits, live in a town that pays for library service, or have a paid membership at the JKPL
- an e-reader or computer that can support ebooks
- an email address
- access to the internet
- access to a WiFi internet connection (if using Sony or iPad e-readers)
- Adobe Digital Editions software (NEIBORS will give you this for free) if using the Nook or the Overdrive app on the iPad
- an account with Amazon.com (if using Kindle or the Kindle app on iPad)
Q: How do I borrow ebooks from the library?
A: Ebooks can be checked out from the NEIBORS website at www.neibors.lib.overdrive.com or follow the link from the library's website on the Books & Reading tab at www.dyersville.lib.ia.us. Basically, you find the book you want on the NEIBORS website, check it out, then download it to your e-reader. Below are instructions for how to download books based on your e-reader:
Q: How do I know which file format I should select when picking a book on NEIBORS?
A: Which file format you use depends on what type of e-reader you are using.
- Sony: EPUB or PDF
- Kindle: Kindle
- Nook: EPUB or PDF
- iPad: Kindle if using the Kindle app, EPUP or PDF if using the Overdrive app
Q: How many ebooks can I check out at one time?
A: You can check out 3 books at a time.
Q: How long can I check out an ebook?
A: You can check out an ebook for 14 days. After 14 days the book will expire from the computer and be automatically returned to the digital collection.
Q: Can I renew an ebook?
A: No, you cannot renew an ebook. However, once your loan ends you can check the book out again if no one else has.
Q: Can I return a book early?
A: Yes, you can return an ebook early. The instructions to do so are included in the instructions for borrowing books (listed above).
Q: How will I know if an ebook I put on hold is ready for me to check out?
A: BRIDGES will email you once the ebook you put on hold is ready to be checked out. You will have 3 days from the date of the email to log in to NEIBORS and download the book.
Q: Do I have to be in the library to check out ebooks?
A: No! You can check out ebooks wherever you have access to a computer, the Internet, and your library card.


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Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is promising "swift and appropriate" punishment for any employees who may have been involved with medical appointment delays and subsequent coverups at VA hospitals in Arizona and Colorado.
But Shinseki urged patience in waiting for investigators to fully uncover and report on the problems.
In an interview with Military Times on Wednesday, Shinseki also spoke about recent criticism of his leadership style and the American Legion's demand that he and two of his top deputies resign from their jobs.
He acknowledged frustration over the controversies, but said he has no intention of resigning and worries that the recent headlines will discourage veterans from seeking care in the system.
Below is a partial transcript of the interview:
Q. How do you feel the department has responded to the Phoenix allegations?
A. Any time allegations like these come up, we're going to take a look. We take them seriously. When we heard about these allegations, in congressional testimony, that afternoon I invited the inspector general to go down to Phoenix and get to the bottom of things, do a complete and thorough review and get me a response as soon as possible. So that is underway.
I also ensured he had the ability to do that, and the resources he needs. I have checked several times, and he feels he is resourced to do that, so I await the results.
As this is happening, I just want veterans to know that VA is here to provide care for them. That's our only mission. We intend to do that well. Care has everything to do with quality, quality of service and quality of benefits. They've earned them, and we're going to deliver them.
I'd just like veterans to understand when they walk into one of our facilities that they're in a safe facility. And I want employees to understand it's our responsibility to provide that high-quality care. We have the responsibility to ensure that confidence is high.
Q. Why should veterans have confidence in the system?
A. That's why it's important to me to make sure veterans know they have high-quality care and that VA is committed to them. They are the reason we have a mission. Across our system, there are 1,700 points of care. Outpatient clinics, vet centers, even mobile systems that travel to the most remote areas. So it's a complex and a large system.
Whenever an incident pops up, like in Fort Collins [Colorado] or Phoenix, we go and investigate. We take it seriously. And we tell people what we find. And then we survey the entire system, so if there is any place where concerns are being expressed, we find them and we take corrective action.
In Fort Collins, it's an internal report that has surfaced this, and I've charged [VA Undersecretary for Health Robert] Petzel to look into it, to make sure corrective actions are taken, and to make sure no similar incidents are occurring anyplace else. That's underway.
Q. But is the department responding fast enough? Is the department moving as quick as it can on these problems?
A. We try to move as quickly as we can in these reviews. It's not just looking at a single incident. That takes time. It takes longer than I'd like to be able to get those findings and get corrective actions. But sometimes these processes take time. We go back five years, 10 years to do a thorough review.
That takes time. It takes longer than I'd like to be able to get those findings and get corrective actions. But sometimes these processes take time.
When we find anything, we're in position to take corrective action across the system. In a large health care system like we have — 85 million appointments a year, 25 million consults a year — if we're going to do the deep dive and find out what the root causes were, we have to wade through that information. Once we have the findings we need, we take corrective actions.
Q. Why should veterans feel confident someone will be held accountable?
A. Our record is pretty clear. As a department, in the last two years, we have removed roughly 3,000 people a year who didn't meet our standards or couldn't live by our values. So we do have tools. And we have demonstrated that, even at the executive level, we're willing to take action.
That's why I want the independent IG to provide us with findings. If any of the allegations are substantiated, we're going to take swift and appropriate action. I don't like the allegations, and I want to find out more.
Q. What was your personal reaction to the Phoenix allegations?
A. We didn't have any details. This came up in testimony. There apparently is a list with 40 veterans' names on it. We tried to acquire that, we were never given that list. So we asked the IG to get involved in a formal review. He has those lists, and we're waiting for those outcomes.
Q. Do you feel like you've been a visible enough leader on this?
A. I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions, where I speak to the veterans membership. I do travel. I've been to all 50 states. When I do, I engage veterans locally. So I get direct feedback from those veterans.
That feedback provides some grist to our discussions.
Q. But is that enough on a national level?
A. That's part of the reason we're talking today, and you'll see me doing more of this.
But I am sensitive to the IG's independent review in Phoenix, and am careful not to get out ahead of him. He has an important responsibility, and anything I declare or if I suggest there are outcomes is not helpful to him.
Q. Were you surprised by the American Legion's call for your resignation?
A. I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.
I didn't know [the Legion announcement] was going to happen. I learned a long time ago these things aren't personal. It's a demonstration that I need to work harder here, redouble my efforts, improve communication with all the VSOs, especially with the American Legion.
That's what I'm focused on, that's what I'll go to work on
Q. What about their calls for the resignation of Petzel and Undersecretary of Benefits Allison Hickey?
A. [Petzel and Hickey] are doing what I asked them to. They have expectations they're going to deliver on those tasks. Hickey has a [disability benefits claims] backlog to end in 2015. She's knocked a good piece of that off.
Q. How quickly will we see a response after the IG's report on Phoenix is finished?
A. It'll be quick. But we ought to wait to see what the IG report says, and what it tells us.
Q. Should you have had a better handle on what was happening in Phoenix, and elsewhere in the VA?
A. It's tough. It's a big system, and it's demanding. But it doesn't lessen the importance of leadership here. Whenever an allegation like this comes up, we're going to react. We're going to thoroughly investigate, get to the bottom of things. And, if substantiated, we'll take swift and appropriate action.
What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system — health care wise, safety wise — highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.
I also want our employees to understand that serving veterans is our only mission. I expect them to provide the highest quality of care to veterans, as they have been. Veterans themselves, in the feedback I'm provided, over 90 percent are confident and comfortable they are receiving quality care.
That's want I want to make sure we continue, that veterans have that confidence.


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The Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act of 2000 (CSCPA), signed into Law October 28, 2000, amends the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act.
CSCPA provides special requirements relating to registration and community notification for sex offenders who are enrolled in or work at institutions of higher education. In addition to Wetterling, the Act also amended the Clery Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.
As provided in the Wetterling Act, any person required to register under a state sex offender registration program must notify the state as to whether the person is a student, or works at, an institution of higher education, identify each institution of higher education in that State at which the person is employed, carries on a vocation, or is a student and must also alert the state of any change in enrollment or employment status.
The Louisiana State Police maintain the Louisiana Sex Offender and Child Predator Registry (SOCPR) for the State of Louisiana and are responsible for the enforcement of the applicable sections of law cited above. Information about any individual affiliated with Louisiana State University in regards to this matter may be found at the public SOCPR website: http://www.lsp.org/socpr/ .


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March 3, 2014 by in AZ Business Magazine | Featured | Nonprofit
Looking for a chance to give your "less than loved" clothes a new lease on life? Cocktails & Clothes is the chance to donate new or gently used clothing to the Arizona Women's Education & Employment (AWEE) free Clothing Boutique for participants to have for job interviews or first week on the job. Clothes can… Read More →


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The Nebraska Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus recognized Lisa Burke Monday at the annual Nebraska Travel Conference.
"Upon arriving at the North Platte CVB, Lisa was compelled to elevate the CVB's purpose beyond distributing tourism related material," said Dana Markel, Director of the Omaha Convention and Visitors Bureau. "She set out to establish a role in developing North Platte's destination appeal and introduce more people to its culture and heritage. Lisa's business plan has always emphasized 'the experience' as she has collaborated with local attractions, festivals and events to develop an experience that provides a visitor memory and a strong marketing message."
From the other end of the state, Gering's CVB Executive Director Karla Neidan-Streeks said, "Not only has Lisa helped develop her community as a tourism destination, she has served as a take action leader on a state level. The Crystal Compass award recognizes individuals who have given of themselves to lead this association of statewide Convention and Visitor Bureaus which in turn, strengthens our state tourism industry."
In addition to serving in various leadership capacities with the Nebraska Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Lisa has also been active in the Nebraska Travel Association and the Western Nebraska Tourism Coalition.
"Lisa Burke continues to lead her staff to thinking "what's next," said Clarine Eickhoff, the chair of the CBV advisory board. "Their office excels on building partnerships within the county and state for international positioning."
"Burke's role as the Executive Director of the CVB requires seeing the big picture and working on the details to accomplish sustainability and growth," Eickhoff said.
Burke has helped attract more than $81 million in visitor spending in 2011 in North Platte, supporting 1,500 jobs in Lincoln County, according to figures compiled by the CVB.
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Location: London (Central), London (North), London (East), London (South), London (West)
Sector: Government, Media and New Media
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This consulting business is pioneering a new, strategic approach to communications – advising blue-chip brands on how to address and overcome the challenges they face in an increasingly competitive world. A new hire is needed to join the team, an experienced Associate Director with a unique set of skills: an individual with the ability to use quantitative and qualitative research techniques to analyse and measure a diverse spread of data; the consulting prowess/gravitas to advise and influence at CEO level: the strategic ability to get straight to the heart of an issue and develop a fire-proof communication strategy around it; and the leadership and negotiation expertise to manage commercially viable outcomes for both the client and the consultancy itself. You'll need to be more than a good, all-round corporate communications practitioner; this is high-end consulting of the most strategic kind, so you'll need to be intellectually impressive, an inspirational leader and highly commercial. It's one of the smartest outfits around and career-defining move for the right individual. If you'd like to hear more, please get in touch with Lynn Beaumont….
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The Emmi Roth Havarti Cheese and Sausage Gift Box includes an assortment of Havarti specialty cheeses and other snacks. The Gift Box includes Havarti Original, Havarti Dill, and Havarti Horseradish Cheeses, Beef Summer Sausage, mustard and crackers. Enjoy this outstanding selection of Wisconsin cheeses and snacks yourself or send as a gift for the holidays.
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We're tucked into a cozy canyon community about 30 minutes up the freeway from downtown L.A , the beach or Hollywood!
That's a great question because there are so many choices. First off, you should know that our doors are always open. Drop in whenever you want. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are great because that's when we hold chapel services, but you can experience our heart for the Lord any day of the week. If you're up for a more structured event, we hold College View Weekends twice a year. You can also schedule a personalized tour with a few mouse clicks.
They are:
The important thing to know here is that a TMU education is a LOT more affordable than you think. We offer federal, state, institutional aid in the form of grants, loans, need based and merit based scholarships, and work study programs. Most of our students (93% at last count) receive some form of financial – why not you? The average TMU student receives over $20,000 in financial aid each year. Just make sure to get your application in early and to submit your FAFSA!
Great question! Seeing how everyone's financial situation is different, we recommend using our Total Price Calculator. To access our Total Price Calculator, click here.
This answer surprises people because they think we only offer Bible classes. The truth is we are a liberal arts college built on a biblical foundation, and that means variety. We offer 13 majors and over 55 areas of study.
Hmmm … that's a tough question. We think all of our majors are great. But if we must rank them, our most attended are: Business, Biology, Communication, Bible, and Music.
We get this one a lot. The answer depends on a few factors: Namely, where are the credits coming from (the college must be accredited) and what kind of grades did you earn (nothing below a C is accepted). And yes, we do accept CLEP, AP, and IB credits. Check out our articulation agreements with CA schools at www.masters.edu/articulation
The magic number here is 24 semester units (36 quarter units), and those need to be credits that you completed after high school graduation. But don't sweat it. If you have less than 24 units, we'll just go off your high school transcript and test scores.
We love this question because it highlights one of our best features: personal attention. Our lower division classes range from 30-40 students, and our upper division classes are limited to about 8-15. Some Bible classes are bigger (close to 100 students), but over the past four years, our average class size is 20-25 students. That's a great environment in which too engage your professors – and for them to engage you!
The ratio is 10-to-1. In other words, you will get to know your profs. And they will get to invest in you.
The first place to look for answers to this one is in our Academic Catalog – lots of helpful specifics there. After that, you should talk to one of our counselors (they're extremely helpful and they speak in plain English) or go straight to the Registrar's Office – the buck stops there. You'll be glad to know we have articulation agreements with most community colleges in California, Oregon, Washington, and some in Arizona. We'll contact them for you and help you sort it all out.
The most important rule you need to know about is also the rule that's most important to us: we call it the Rule of Grace. It governs the rest of them, so we'll start there. After that, we have a small handful of parameters (recently revised). Check out the Student Handbook for the details.
Chapel is the hub of the TMU community and attendance is required. Chapel meets three times per week and students can miss up to eight per semester.
You'll find Mustangs competing on the following teams:
We also offer a fierce (and fun) menu of intramural sports: Basketball, Volleyball, Ultimate Frisbee, Softball, Golf, Tennis, Flag Football, Soccer, Dodge Ball.
Pack your cleats.
While many Christian colleges operate on a female/male ratio of two or even three to one, we've got a level playing field here. Translation: our guy-to-gal ratio is 1-to-1. Sorry, guys.
Remember, this is L.A. Of course you can bring a car (but you can get by without it). Just pack an extra $45 per semester to cover the parking fee. And make sure to read the parking signs!
A few. The first is obvious – make sure your car is properly registered and adequately insured (the state of California came up with that one). You should also know that you can't just park anywhere. But you do have dorm parking. Finally, for you do-it-yourselfers, make sure you get permission before you decide to throw your car up on blocks and change out the transmission in front of Hotchkiss Hall.
Absolutely. Our students are our most precious commodity, and we take our stewardship of them seriously. We are situated in a quiet, safe neighborhood, but we take nothing for granted. Our campus security officers patrol the campus 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our annual crime report speaks for itself--find a copy here.
What? And miss all the perks of campus life? If you must, there are some restrictions. Full-time students can live off campus, if they're over the age of 22 or are married. Some students live off campus (usually with Mom and Dad) and commute. But most prefer the TMU community. You can check out the Student Handbook for more specifics.
Early Action Deadline: Your application must be postmarked by November 15, although financial aid applications can come later. We'll let you know if you've been accepted within 2-3 weeks of receiving your completed application.
Priority Deadline: March 2nd. However, we continue to asked applications on a "rolling" basis even after our Priority Deadline.
Let's put it this way, if you don't, you're in the minority … way in the minority. About 93% of our students qualify for financial aid.
Take your pick. Either one works for us. But if you take the SAT, make sure it's the SAT I because we don't use the SAT II.
There are a number of factors, so we don't publish specific minimums. We're looking for students who have succeeded in college preparatory high school classes, and have earned above average test scores on the SAT or ACT. If a student falls below the recommended test score or grade point average, the student could still be admitted as part of our Program for Academic Support and Success (PASS).
We believe the Bible is literally true and divinely inspired. If that's a denomination, then that's us. Other than that we are non-denominational. Click here to read over our doctrinal statement.
Is this a trick question? We hold firm to our doctrinal statement and so does our faculty — all of our faculty … 100%.
It may be easier to answer this one by telling you which countries aren't represented. Right now, our student body looks like an international shepherd's pie. We have students from 30 countries.
Check out our step-by-step guide for International Students here.
We love this question because we're not only accredited, we're WASC accredited (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) and a member ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International) and other associations. That's a lot of letters, and they all add up to one thing: TMU is a seriously decorated, seriously recognized academic institution.
What can't you do with it? Build an economic empire, write the great American novel, cure the common cold. A TMU education will help you find God's plan for your career … God's unique and perfect use for your unique and perfect array of gifts. Can't beat that.
Yes. Our graduates continue their educations at such institutions as Pepperdine, UCLA, Georgetown, Oxford, Duke, and USC. Twenty percent of TMU students attend immediately and 35% attend within five years. Medical schools attended by TMU grads include Baylor College of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Loma Linda University, University of Michigan, and College of Osteopathic Medicine. About 95% of our students who apply to med school get in. Seminaries: TMU grads have attended Western Conservative Baptist, Talbot School of Theology, Dallas Theological Seminary, The Master's Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Home school students constitute about a third of our student body, so we've got a nice mix. The other 2/3rds are split between public and private high school.
We can answer that question with two words in Spanish: Los Angeles. Being 30 minutes from the heart of L.A. means you are 30 minutes from (you can fill in the blank here). Want sun? How about a quick drive to Santa Monica or Malibu Beach? Like to shop? We've got a fantastic mall here in town, or you can always zip down the Hollywood freeway to Beverly Hills or Melrose Avenue. Like museums? The Getty is close and it's free. How about a trip to Hollywoood, Disneyland, or Six Flags (which is right here in Santa Clarita)? You won't ever be bored. Just don't forget about your homework!
Even with everything Los Angeles has to offer, our students also enjoy just hanging out together on campus. Between dorm life, intramurals, sporting events, plays, concerts, or just kicking back at the Mustang Grill, there's always plenty to do. Just make sure not to park your car next to Reese Field during a baseball game. Watching foul balls bounce off of windshields is another weekend pastime our students enjoy every spring.
We have 8 dorms on campus.
All-girl dorms – Sweazy and Dixon Halls
All-guy dorms – Slight and Waldock Halls
"Split" dorms (guys' halls separated from girls' halls by a common lounge area) – Hotchkiss and Smith Halls
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Feds: Fla. owes $12M in Medicaid overpayments
Published: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 1:22 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 5, 2013 at 1:22 p.m.
MIAMI — Federal health officials say the state owes them more than $12 million in Medicaid overpayments.
The feds released a report Friday that says the Florida Department of Children and Families identified $22.3 million in Medicaid overpayments between 2007 and 2010, but noted the department had only collected $4 million.
The report says the state Agency for Health Care Administration owes federal health officials $12.2 million.
The report by the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general notes the state did not return any of the collected funds to the federal government.
State officials did not immediately comment Friday.
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