Hey everyone Shaber 1000 here today, we're gonna be trying out this from What is that mr. Heater? Mr. Heater the little buddy buddy heater. I know these have been done a hundred million times But I always wanted one and I'm gonna do it because this goes under the free stuff playlist so Let me get you at a better angle maybe with better lighting and let's check this out Hey guys, so sorry about the lighting. I'm just I'm outside because I want to do this outside I can't go out back because they're playing music the neighbors and You know how that goes so Here's the box like I said, it's been done a lot of times we've been wanting one But couldn't really afford the extra money or a lot going on there And here's some pictures a guy with a dog.  I'm in front of the garage door and The washers running so I got to close this garage door We'll read some of this we'll get it out of the box and we'll try it out because I Happen to have a brand new bottle of propane so Let's go ahead and get the garage door closed down I wanted to go out there where there was more light, but It's awful windy. So I don't know. We'll we'll see Maybe I can move out there We'll find out the wind did calm down a little bit. It's a beautiful day But we're in Florida. Why do you need a buddy heater because it's gotten down it gets down in the 30s every year coming up and about January February I know in January I changed the fuel pump in that Toyota and it was it was 30 degrees even Right on the money 30 degrees. So At nights it does get chilly you usually hangs around The high 30s low 40s, you know come come about January February so This could come in handy in the tent So let me get this garage door closed and we'll see if we can film something Okay, guys. I'll try not to overexpose you too bad kind of kind of cloudy the Sun's out over there, but if I get out here anymore then I'll be overexposed on the sign Then we could have some wind problems. So if you hear any winds, sorry about that. I'll speak up So what we got here is we got the little buddy heater My friend Ryan I worked on his pressure washers He brought another one down It's out of time But it's not the sheer key so Trying to get you Okay, so Indoor safe propane heater. It's the model mh4 b indoor safe propane heater Heats up to 20 he's up to 95 square feet 25% more heat than the largest catalytic heater hmm Uses a one-pound disposable propane cylinder Which is this right here? It's the one pound Five and a half hours of continuous heat one button start odorless It also I think it said it weighs I've seen the weight on the back Pretty much the same thing back here easy grip handle push button off Push button start with single control gas valve heavy wire guard Provides added safety Of course, it's a it's a 3800 BTU so Low oxygen safety shut-offs with System I do like that.  I Yeah, I weigh six pounds. I don't know if I'm willing to to try that But in our tent The whole tops open it's netting So and then like you put Excuse me guys you put a rain fly over so it's very well ventilated Compact heat you can take anywhere Easy to use easy to store the little buddy is perfect for heating workshops hobby areas porches hunting blinds and campers and With 3800 BTUs, that's an hour the little buddy is The right-sized Solution for instant heat when you need it where you need it And then again, it says, you know the bottles and stuff like that So yeah, let's go ahead and open this up. Let me raise you up here Seagund so we can open this up It's been open, but it's never been used any way Ryan gave this to me. He told me he had one He said be perfect for you guys. You guys do a lot of camping. So I was like, okay It's like sure. I'll check it out. He brought it to me today He said here's a Christmas present for you as I put an alternate alternator on these Dodge pickup So try not to move you around too much. There it is. See you can tell This thing has never been used. You can tell that never been heated up caution hot there's a push to shut off and igniter here Here's the bottom piece. I Forget where he said he got it probably a sale Here's your instruction manual Let me put you on automatic and we're gonna set this down here now Bring you back down again Okay, so says here Push to ignite pilot after lit hold for 30 seconds released to start heater so Sorry, I'm just on one of these little Fold-up tables. It's like I can never film anywhere wanted to film out back Can't film out back because the neighbor's music you know just My garage is Too messy to film in there Besides they're doing their laundry stuff today. So it sits in the stand Just like that. So now Okay, push to ignite pilot after lit hold for 30 seconds released to start heater Okay, so we're gonna push this. I don't know can't tell if it's lit There I heard it Okay, so we're gonna wait 30 seconds. I'll speed you up. I don't know how you can tell if the pilot's lit. Oh, I see it All right now I'm gonna speed you up take 30 seconds. Okay, so there's there's the 30 seconds Now it's supposed to light. Oh it is You guys see that? Wow That thing's quiet You don't hear I you know, you're not hearing that this is what you're hearing. It is lit.  Whoo Wow Things amazing do not remove do not tamper with pilot light system Carbon monoxide poisoning may lead to death State of California. We're not Requires the following warning warning Combustion just in case you are in California Combustion by products produced when using this product Contained carbon monoxide a chemical known To the state of California to cause cancer. Well, yeah in birth defects. Yes, of course or other reproductive harm You can't remove that Wow that that is hot It is so quiet Wow, that's amazing so you just Push it hold it for 30 seconds and it's lit. I think it's throwing out some heat now Cool. Thank you Ryan Appreciate that very much. He said here. I got an early Christmas present for you I said, oh, you don't have to you said now We talked about this before It was that a little buddy heater. So that's that's pretty cool Yeah, I can see the white now starting to get red. I Don't know if you guys can see it Maybe if I turn the lighting down on here a little bit I Don't want to get too close to my lens Yeah, it's starting to it's starting to get red. So Yeah, I don't know if you guys can see that. Let me see if I can zoom in on it a little bit Yeah, see it now Starting to get red and it's quiet. I hear it a little bit because of the wind. Yeah, there you go Yeah, see it's getting red Wow This thing's amazing. You can't get over how quiet is you cannot hear the gas going through it This is really cool Up to 95 square feet So that's you know, I mean It's like a bedroom, you know awesome Too cool. Oh, yeah, she oh man that thing is really kicking now So like we was talking that you know a lot of times Once you get your sleeping bag, you're warm your warm rest of the night.  Did you see that?  I think it's gonna be fine Yes, you getting a Yes, you're getting hot Wow So we'll hit the off button That's it It's still giving off radiant heat You know until that ceramic or whatever it is cools down But it's not lit. No, it's not lit anymore So wow That is amazing can't wait to try it out in the tent. I Could set it in the truck. We could set it in the truck and see and the SUV and See how see how warm it gets Yeah, let's do that. We got to try it out somehow right hang tight. Okay guys, so we're in the Chevy We got that sitting right back there on the floor Can't hear it running. I just put that in there. I can already feel it This be perfect for a bunk heater for you know truck drivers Car camping. Wow. It's hot in here already. I granted.  We got t-shirts on you know Down here 40 degrees. It's cold. It's like a different cold, you know Kind of like gets into your your bones, you know what I mean So yeah, that that will come in useful in the garage Once that garage cools down it stays cool I do have electric heater in there for in the winter time and But yeah, that's there it is. It's getting hot in here already Yeah, it doesn't seem to have a low or medium or anything like that, but that's okay. I mean I'm already sweating in here guys and I I darn sure Wasn't sweating outside with the breeze. So sorry about the wind, but Yeah, it's uh, it's hot in here It's super hot in here. So yeah, I mean like I said a good bunk heater Small camper, you know, I know some some guys they they reviewed that thing said it wouldn't keep their camper warm and You know, it's it only run five and a half hours.  It's just kind of like a one season Might be a two season summer and fall, but You know, I mean, we're technically not into winter yet. So But yeah, we we've had some some cold mornings here through through january and into february Towards the end of february. It starts getting again about like it is right now. So Man, yeah, that's that is nice cool I like it again. Thanks, Ryan. I appreciate it And thanks for watching guys. I appreciate it. Uh, I don't know what these cost. I'll look it up and put it on the screen if I can find them And put a link in the description below Uh, where you can get one of these like I said, this one was free. He gave it to me. It was never used So yeah, I really appreciate that So anyway guys again, shea bearer met the man legend. I'm gone for now We'll see you guys in the next one Stay safe everyone. Bye. Bye


Coaches and principals just need an opportunity in a private setting, facilitated sometimes by a coaching champion, coach champion, to have that conversation with each other. I agree to do this to keep you safe. You agree to do this to support me, and let's make it this public, because what I'm talking about in this safe environment that would happen coaches and principals, facilitated, is not just there. It now comes back to the school, the coach and the principals stand right next to one another in front of the faculty, and they talk about their agreements. So the whole staff now knows those agreements and can ask questions about those agreements. These are the... We used to say these were nuances of successful coaching programs and unsuccessful coaching programs, but the reality is friends, these are not nuances. A single breach of this issue of confidentiality, of a coach and a principal ending up having some kind of an evaluative or judgmental conversation will do a coaching program in, and it's not what you want. And I think as we think about how do we prepare coaches and principals to work in this arena well together. It requires opportunities for teachers to ask lots of questions about what the coach is going to be doing and all of those kinds of things, and for the principal and coach to be standing side by side to be giving the same responses publicly to the entire faculty. So we do several things when we prepare coaches and principals. We talk about the kind of data that will be gathered. We talk about how coaches and principals work together and communicate. We model a coach and principal conversation. What does that sound like?  We do the three T's, three T's permissible topics in a coach and principal conversation. The topic? What was the topic of our conversation? What was the time that I spent and what is my task as coach associated with that? Not what the teacher's task is, but that's a simple way I frame what those conversations look like. So preparing principals and coaches for success, principals and teachers is as important as preparing coaches for success.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2007 film trick-or-treat which I have right here now This is my only my second year in October having this wonderful Blu-ray to watch it off of prior to this I was just watching this film from a DVD which was the best quality we could get now This is a 2007 film, but it was only released in 2009 because after it was finished in 2007 The studio didn't know what to do with it for two years So it just sat on a shelf until they decided to just release it direct to DVD now I was lucky enough that in 2009. I just happened to find it. They didn't really promote it or anything It just become more of a cult following film as people have discovered it over time And I think this year is kind of the peak of its popularity And I think it's just gonna keep going and going and going from there So I've been loving this film for what 11 years now, and I'm loving seeing other people joining me with this It is a it's a tradition of mine that I always watch it every Halloween night after I'm done giving out candy or this year Was a little bit different, but typically after I'm done giving out candy. So Anyway, let's get into more details about this film, which I love Written and directed by Michael Daugherty who wrote X2 X-Men United Urban legends Bloody Mary Superman Returns I didn't know that one and wrote and directed Krampus, which by the way if people don't know the film Krampus It's been confirmed Michael Daugherty said in an interview that in his mind when he did Krampus Krampus is in the same universe as Sam from trick-or-treat. So technically they could meet each other at some point So when I heard that I got excited. That's pretty cool. They're in the same universe He also wrote and directed Godzilla King of the Monsters and I don't think he's directing But I think he's involved in Godzilla versus King Kong that's going to be coming out So just so people know that the big names in this obviously at the time Anna Paquin Who plays Laurie in this which by the way? Yes The name Laurie was picked because of Laurie Strode in Halloween. So just know that there are a lot of a Lot of small things that were done in trick-or-treat that were kind of pointing to Influential horror films and Anna Paquin's character being named Laurie was one of them So Paquin was in the X-Men films. She was in the film darkness. She was in the show Trueblood, which I Really did not like that wasn't a good show Although I know a lot of people loved it. That's just my personal thing And scream for now Brian Cox is one of the other big names in this and I love Brian Cox He's such a good actor and he's wonderful in this film. I mean all the acting for the most part is quite good in this Brian Cox has been in. Well, first of all, he has 224 IMDB credits, which is pretty crazy But a few select films he's been in manhunt manhunter braveheart kiss the girls rush more supertroopers the ring Zodiac rise of the planet of the apes the autopsy of Jane Doe and more recently the show Succession on HBO. I love him in the autopsy of Jane Doe by the way If you have not seen that film definitely see that film not just for Brian Cox, but also for Emile Hirsch He does a wonderful job in it. It's just an awesome film. I love the story on that film So good and then maybe a lesser-known actor, but I think is awesome Dylan Baker Now this individual has been in such things as the last of the Mohicans Happiness the sell along came a spider changing lanes and Fido, which by the way Fido is a pretty solid horror comedy Just so people know but Dylan Baker awesome. He plays Wilkins Awesome awesome actor other considered titles for trick-or-treat were October the 31st Halloween terrors and jack-o-lantern tails. I'm glad they went with trick-or-treat honestly But if I had to pick one of the other ones, I would have said jack-o-lantern tails would have been the best of the other ones But glad they went with trick-or-treat So this is based on an animated short that Michael Daugherty had done in 1996 that he called seasons greetings And if you get something like this blu-ray or I think it's even on the the old DVD that I have back there My stacks somewhere. They have the animated short Available on those as a special feature So it's kind of interesting to see where it all started and it features Sam and that's where everything started from so very good I already talked about that initially a sequel to this film was talked about in 2009 Then it was announced in 2013 that they were gonna do it and then in 2017 it was said to hopefully be worked on after Daugherty is finally done with all this Godzilla business Now I remember hearing at one point that after he was done doing Godzilla King of Monsters that he was gonna start working on the script for trick-or-treat To maybe he has started working on it a little bit But now they're basically saying that he has some involvement with Godzilla versus King Kong So most likely we wouldn't get anything after that now Fingers crossed it actually happens I'm wondering if maybe they get done with that and then it's like on to something else and then it's delayed again So we'll see Krieg the character of Krieg played by Brian Cox is supposed to look like John Carpenter in this film Just so people know that's the thing that's been said I think Michael Daugherty said it before they made him intentionally look like John Carpenter and there are a bunch of John Carpenter Things in this film obviously the fact that Anna Pacwan's named Laurie for Laurie Strode The fact that Krieg looks like John Carpenter the fact that also if you look closely in the flashback Scene with the school bus situation There is a 1958 Plymouth Fury that shows up which is obviously an homage to the John Carpenter film Christine based off the Stephen King book Christine Yeah, and Sam is named for Sam Hain You know the one of the origins or the origin of Halloween In the school bus mask. Oh, I literally just said that I'm sorry No deaths actually happen on screen in this film That's something to note and it's interesting because that's not something I thought about but when I read that in my research I was like wait a minute. Is that true? Do no deaths actually happen on screen because we have this tendency as as human creatures For our brains will kind of fill things in so when there are things in In films where it like alludes to someone being killed our brain will fill it in and make us think that we saw The death happened when it was actually off-screen so I had to kind of like reach back and be like I'm like Oh, yeah, there really aren't any like on-screen deaths Even though the kid in the beginning is throwing up blood and chocolate and stuff and then like falls over That's not necessarily him dying Yeah, and then also the I guess the next closest one would be the the werewolf situation Some other small things to note about the film that were very interesting So there's a portion during the fight between Sam and Kreeg where a gumball comes kind of Bouncing down the stairs that was meant to be an homage to the film the changeling Which if you have not seen the changeling you should definitely see it. It's a good film Kreeg's line where he says you got to be effing kidding me I don't want to say it on here because of you know, you know I'm saying That is actually a nod to John Carpenter's remake of the thing Because there's that part where one of the characters says that about I think it's the portion where the head of the one guy Had detached from the body when they're burning it and then they see it walking in they say that exact same line So another nod to John Carpenter The beginning portion, okay, this is where I'm actually starting to talk about like my feelings on the film and what I see in the film So the beginning portion of the film is actually the end of the events which you end up finding out at the end of the film I like how the fact that Everything is represented and in this portion of it. So if you note the very beginning it shows Who you find out later is Rhonda pulling with her wagon a pumpkin Through the street and then a car almost hits her So in the end you find out that for a that is Rhonda be the people in the car who almost hit her are the werewolf females You also see in the background of one of the shots in the very beginning Krieg's house and then also it's important to note that the Pumpkin that is in the wagon that Rhonda is pulling is the pumpkin that they get from Wilkins house when they ask them Ask him if they could have one of his jack-o-lanterns and he says you're not gonna smash it are yeah So all of the stories are represented in that opening shot And I think it's really cool that you don't really know that until the very end so much So that's one of the things I like how things are kind of cleverly cleverly done in this film And one of the big things being kind of the how this the story is really intertwined with each other Now that wasn't initially what was supposed to happen initially the film was supposed to just be blocks of these stories and Sam would just show up in all of them the kind of time all together now It was the studio's idea to actually mix them up and have the timelines all all mixed up And they kept kind of crossing over and Michael Dougherty. I think to this they still doesn't like that idea He kind of wishes he did it as blocks, but I'm glad they went that way because I think it's better I think it's more interesting it took me a bunch of viewings honestly to figure out kind of the events of like Okay, now this person showing up in this and and this takes place before this and you know The implications that it ends up having for that reason, so I'm glad they ended up doing it that way The very very beginning which is the the part where the girl gets killed eventually with the lollipop typical middle-aged couple Done well because they're very Believable as being that age, you know 30-some things who are kind of you know, they went out they partied. They're tired the woman The guy just wants to go to sleep the woman wants to clean everything up So they don't have to deal with it in the morning. So yeah, although, you know in every relationship I think there are two people like that in every every relationship for the most part But it can end up switching it can be you know The guy wants to clean up and the girl wants to go to sleep, which is kind of how it is in my relationship Sam attacking the woman I think it's very interesting to note that this sounds that are being made when he's actually attacking her under the sheet Sound like a feral animal. They really do and I think for that reason it ends up being particularly Effective and kind of scary initially, especially with the music that they have coming in at that point The reveal the woman's head on the that wouldn't I guess kind of like two by four or whatever Is a little bit comedic? I mean it is gruesome and it's kind of scary But it's also a little bit comedic because of the fact that it's a giant lollipop that's jammed into her mouth And how it stretches her mouth out so it's like gross and shocking and scary But it's also kind of light-hearted and comedic just because of that lollipop and I love the fact that in the fight Where you know, I'm kind of going back and forth on the stories here But in the fight that he has with Krieg when you first see the lollipop come out And he bites it that they give you that at the end and then lead you right back up to the scene Where in the you're shown in the beginning where the woman ends up getting killed with it and it shoved in her mouth So I love that you see the creation of it when he bites into it The werewolves trying on costumes is great Because on the second viewing you kind of start to catch all the extra dialogue and then I mean really throughout their storyline You catch all these hints at wolves and werewolves and you know She was always the runt of the litter was one of the things and how they talk about People in a food way, but you don't really get that until you watch it a second time such as The part where the one girl says I eat bad Mexican. She doesn't see Mexican food. She just says I ate bad Mexican So you kind of get it, you know on the second viewing The other thing to point out is in that scene with the costume when There's that little kid and I think it's like a monkey costume And he's he's eating a lollipop, which is a signal right there and he's kind of peeking in on them changing That is Quinn Lord who's the kid who played Sam in the film. So that is what he looked like without his Sam stuff on I just thought that was cool. If you notice when the two girls are talking to the film crew guys When they're trying to you know find their dates if you notice one of them kind of spaces out until the other one Kind of like, you know elbows her and you can tell on the second viewing that it's because she's she's not Ogling him from like in like a sexual way.   I mean, but I'm gonna backtrack a little bit on that Note what candy bar Sam gets when he shows up at Wilkins house and he sticks his hand into His bowl of candy and pulls it out It it noticed that it's it's that candy bar that full-size candy bar with the red wrapper Now that's the one he pulls out during his fight with creed the one that he uses to cut his Achilles tendon Which is a reference to pet cemetery by the way By steven king. Um, so just know that when he sticks his hand out from under the uh The bed and cuts his Achilles tendon. So that candy bar came from Wilkins So once again another thing of something from this story passing over to one of the other stories. It's very cool Um, the interactions that Wilkins has with his son and creed. I think are very funny I love the comedy of that portion of the film and I love when you see creed ending up getting tackled by Sam But Wilkins isn't even looking anymore because the other great thing is that you see that same scene that same event But from the other perspective from inside of creed's house And that's just it's cool that you get that Um, and that's like like I say it's one of the things I love about this film They really do set things up for you to think that Wilkins is going to stab his son But what's revealed is actually even more shocking Uh Because the kid is involved you realize at that point not it's not a situation where Wilkins is hiding this from his child He's indoctrin indoctrinating him with this killer I want to say killer instinct, but no this killer um Occupation I guess in a way, but it's it's disturbing. It's gross It's crazy, uh, but it works really well The kids pulling the prank on ronda is something believable for kind for kids of that age And it's effective because you and you actually end up feeling bad for some of those kids Before they end up getting killed because they show some remorse Shrader in particular, you know, he's the one who kind of cozy's up to ronda in the beginning And then he goes along with the the plot to scare her which he realizes gets out of control Then he starts feeling bad. He wants to take care of her.  So you then feel bad for him You don't you know as much feel bad for macy, but you feel bad for people for like Schrader So yeah, it effectively done in in my opinion The story of the school bus is incredibly sad It's also very deeply affecting and the way they shot the aftermath When when it's the shot of you know The bus going over the cliff and then the camera going over and then You know looking down into the quarry and you see the bus sinking in as all the bubbles are coming up And then they focus more on the water and the masks start coming up to the surface That shot looks amazing. It looks so so good. Uh, I really really enjoy that Lori looking at all the couples at the halloween celebration gives you the idea that she's looking for companionship That she's kind of looking at all these people and thinking Oh, you know, why can't I have someone but on the second viewing you realize that's not what's going on at all But it's it plays like that to make you think that this is a relationship related thing The werewolf reveal scene at the bonfire is probably my favorite part of the film The only crappy aspect to this film is the fact that the cgi the the bit of cgi that's used Doesn't hold up and this goes back to one of the things that I say all the time and all my reviews is If you can use practical effects use practical effects because the cgi will never hold up cgi always looks better in the future It won't hold up for practical effects will hold up for the most part So, uh, but that scene is so well done. I love the fact of all these, you know, all the girls tearing their skin off That's a cool aspect of the werewolf change. They're taking them off the way they take off clothing I love that kind of parallel of that.  Oh my gosh, none of this was about a relationship This was all about eating people. This is crazy. And this is anna pakwin's character. Well, lori's first time eating someone at this bonfire and the music the maryland manson cover of sweet dreams works So so well with that. Uh, there was another song that was supposed to be playing during that initially I can't remember what it was But i'm glad that they didn't go with it because I I remember whatever it was when I found out I was like Oh, yeah, that would not have been as good Uh, there is a great job done of, uh, painting krig as a terribly grumpy old curmudgeon And brian cox pulled that roll off very very well This probably stems from the bus Situation which you don't actually connect until the very end of the film When you see that photo of him with the kids and the bus burning in his fireplace The krig versus sam fight is a good length and it actually stays pretty fresh throughout. So I like that Once again, like I said, note that the achilles tendon cut is like pet cemetery I love that you see the lollipop turned into weapons since it was the an important piece of the beginning of the film Once again, kind of bringing things full circle I do like the dead kids coming for krig and it ending in the comic book version You know not actually showing what's going on But go over to the artwork of the comic book of him getting torn apart by these kids. So Love it So some closing thoughts on trick or treat This feels like halloween because it's steeped in it and plays like a love letter to the holiday And that's one of the things I love about this so much halloween is my favorite holiday I I love it every single year And so movies like this end up becoming favorites of mine because It puts me even more in the mood. It makes me feel The holiday even more. So, um, michael already did a great job with that This has so much rewatch value like I was talking about, you know on your first year You see this on your second year you see this but it keeps going you see new things all the time and um It's just a fun. It's a fun film has a lot of rewatch value. It's funny. It's scary. It's gross. It's interesting all that stuff The four stories chart the typical humans experience with halloween and how that changes during different ages Because if you notice each of these stories has to do with a different stage of life You know with the kids playing the trick.  So, uh It was intentionally done this way from what I read that michael dowherty Wanted it to be that way. He wanted it to be each story would represent a different Phase in a person's life and how they typically interact with the holiday of halloween So I think that's really really cool If you notice sam always shows up in each story when deaths occur But in the bus flashback, he shows up before death occurs And I don't know if there's a significance to that But it's just something that I observed that I was like every time he's showing up in these stories It's when death is happening or just happened Uh typically when it's happening um now For some reason it's not the case with the with the flashback and I don't know what that is So if you have a theory on that go ahead and put it in the comments But that's all I have to say about trick-or-treat now. I know I said it's one of my favorite films I love it so much, but I will also admit it's not a perfect film. It's it will not garner a five star rating It's not the most phenomenal thing ever so out of five stars with half stars in play I am giving it a four and a half star rating I can't give it a perfect, but I get it pretty close. I love this film. I think it's very good at there And like I said a lot of rewatch value. So let's nerd out about it. Let me hear your thoughts on it There I'm sure there are people out there who don't like it and that's fine and you can tell me why that's totally good So let's talk. Let's get nerdy. 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Former National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Adam Sosho-Mole, has said that the abstention of five governors of the People's Democratic Party, PDP known as G5, is good for his party's performance in the 2023 presidential election. The ex-APC chairman took a swipe at PDP presidential candidate Atikua Bubaka, saying leadership is about character and keeping agreement. According to him, the APC has 23 governors to walk for the party's presidential candidate Bola Tunubu at next February's poll, while Atikua has just seven governors with the exclusion of the G5. Leaders must have character. And that if you are not yet president, I will not obey in agreement. And Nigeria is a Tokyo of national unity. I will disobey the provision of your party constitution with talks about rotation in order to service that unity. And you can go to some part of the country and say, don't vote for Ibu. Don't vote for Yoruba. Those are very damaging statements. If you then ask me how we are doing, we are doing very well. Whereas the other candidate now is badly with the five governors have backed out and you find out how many governors they have. We have 23. Now if you have 23 with five, I'm not saying the five are with us, but you have 23 with five. I guess that is 28. You supplied 28 from 36. He means only eight governors, in fact, seven because that one in Africa is not there. So while he has several governors working for him, we have 23 working for us and we have five who are neutral.  Abstention is as good as voting against. So however you look at it, our condition, our campaign is going smoothly.


The research explores the Benitos-Galit geothermal field using an audio-magnetoluric survey to understand the link between the geothermal fluid path and main geological structures, suggesting a deep-rooted NS fault system controls the flow path. A conductive heat-driven system is proposed, taking into consideration the geologic setting and low geothermal gradient of this tectonic environment. Further investigations are needed to assess the geothermal potential of the study area. This article was authored by H. Barcelona, G. Perry, D. Winniker, and others.


And my goal here is not to teach you how to fix the hard drive so you can put it back in your computer and make it work again. Now hard drives are cheap. If you can repair the hard drive, get the data off of it as quick as possible, then you don't need that hard drive again and you just throw it in the garbage or do whatever you've got to do. So let's find out for real if this is going to work. Alright. A little bit about my presentation. It is all done in flash. So PowerPoint was not hurt. Thank you. We did not harm PowerPoint making this. So on the CD, you will find the Swift file. You can drag and drop into any browser and you can play it. You can also go to forensicspeak.com and I have it up live with a couple of spelling errors fixed. So one of the things that I want to describe to you is some of the common things that you might not know about a hard drive rather than the things that people always seem to say. I was at a drinking contest a couple of days ago and a guy sitting next to me who is a high-end tech said, you can't do that because those hard drives are hermetically sealed. How many people think a hard drive is hermetically sealed? No? How many people think it is sealed at all? Oh, look, a couple of hands. Well, if it was hermetically sealed, it means that there would be no air transfer from the inside of that hard drive to the outside. And that just absolutely isn't true. Every hard drive, there are hermetically sealed hard drives. Let me just state that the DoD or somebody who is flying in an airplane very high would have to have a hermetically sealed because when the air gets so thin, the air will not support a head floating in the air. So the hard drives that you buy at the store are not sealed at all. They have a little hole, a filter sometimes in the top and sometimes there's some underneath the platters themselves to try to help equalize the pressure as you turn on that hard drive and get it running. Usually, let's see if this works, usually it's in a gap in an area over here and it's sometimes on the lid of the hard drive that you will see this hole.  Now the first thing I can tell you about a data recovery is if you did happen to open this drive and look at it. If you look at that filter first, you may save yourself a lot of time and a lot of energy because if it is silver when you open it, it means that the head was scraping the platters somewhere and little fragments flew off and went into this filter. Why that is important is because you cannot always see where the scratch is on your platters because you cannot take off a multi-platter system. There might be a scratch on the bottom of a platter and you can't see it where the head hit it. The only way you know it is there is to look at this little pillow to see if it has any silver oxide on it at all. I'm going to go through this component as a separate component but the two components that I don't really cover in any other slides is this thing here called the actuator lock and the spindle. Now the spindle is the motor.  Underneath the cover after you take off this first piece, there's a silver cap and underneath the silver cap is actually the part of the motor that has the coils wrapped around it that helps it spin. And in there, at least all modern hard drives would have some fluid bearings to help it spin. So if something bad happens to that motor, that motor is actually mounted in most cases physically on the chassis that the hard drive is in. So because one of the other questions I get all the time is, well what happens if my motor goes back and I just pop that motor out and put another motor in? Well obviously if it's mounted there, you've got to go through the platters and everything else before you can get that far.  And what happens when a hard drive starts up is power is applied to the board itself and then power is applied to the motor. The motor starts to spin the platters. The platters will create something called an air bearing. There is just enough air to cause the end of the head of the hard drive to start floating in the air. Well before that happens, if your head was not locked in some fashion, it would just slide back and forth across the platter all the time, thereby scratching your platter and damaging it. So they came up with this very simplistic method of air flow as the air bearing starts to spin and the air is starting to be created. All it does is it just causes the little piece of plastic to teeter back and forth. And it comes out of the rock position. At that time hopefully the head is floating in the air and it won't scratch the platter. So that's a preventative measurement. Just a note, most people think that it might not be too important, but you do need that lock back in place if you happen to disassemble your hard drive and try to put it back and try to keep it running again. If you don't, there's a chance that the head's going to go too far one way or too far another way before it actually locks. And that would be bad news even in a data recovery. I'm going to go break down the rest of these components now. The integrated board on the bottom is probably the most important piece of this whole thing. It does a lot of things that most people don't realize are actually happening. How many people think that they have a hard drive in their laptop right now that does not have any errors on it? Well, a lot of faith in their hard drives. Your hard drive in the normal use of itself has errors all day long. Even while you're using it and it's a good hard drive, it has errors in its normal cycle. It has gotten to the point where because the hard drives are so fast and there's so much data passing through it, they don't even bother to try to get a hard drive that doesn't have errors anymore. What they do instead is they use ECC, an error correction code, and they embed that in the drive when it's writing the data. So if it's coming along and it's reading the data off your hard drive and it runs in, wow, these video problems, aren't they great? We have audio. Just hit cancel on that. I don't need it, cancel. If you have what? What about Windows? Well, I think all OSes have their own issues. So that is one of the major topics I'm not going to go in because I don't want to battle up here on what OS is best. I actually use all of them to do a data recovery and you'll see why when I get to one of the further slides. I break it down, but sure, Windows makes it scream. So there is a chip and a component on here that tracks your ECC errors as it's reading off the drive. If the ECC detects a problem, it tries to do what it can to repair the problem on the fly and they don't even count that as an error. It never even gets seen anywhere. Next time it gets overwritten and data comes, it's just going to keep going and it will retry a certain number of times as well. So when the head passes by that piece of the hard drive and it reads the data, it will retry before, you know, whatever the manufacturer set a number to before it will even mark it as a bad sector on the hard drive. So that's very common that every hard drive is going to have those kind of problems. So the chips are the most important thing here is the firmware. From one manufacturer to another, you may have some changes just even within a week or two week cycle. In this particular case, this is an IBM hard drive. The chassis and all the platters and everything are made at one particular manufacturer, but you may have your board manufactured at two completely different places. So one week it may be made in Korea and the next week it may be made in China. And as you can see with these two boards, it's the exact same hard drive. They changed the model number and they changed the manufacturer date. If you notice every hard drive has that date on it. Well, this is one of the reasons why. If they don't know when it was made, they don't know which firmware they used. So in this particular case, you can see that the chips are in different places for the same hard drive. That becomes really important in doing data recoveries because if I get a hard drive that came from 2001 and it was made May 1st, 2001, dude, man. Okay, so if it was made in 2001 and I want to do a recovery on this drive, I need to try to find the most likely drive that's going to match that to start doing some part swapping or to change that board. If the firmware is not exactly the same, it's not going to work. The two drives are conditioned to work with whatever components are in the drive at the time and they are low level formatted by the manufacturer at that time to work only with those boards. So if you swap them, they will actually work on the hard drive, but you won't ever be able to read your data back because they have to be low level formatted and go through that whole process again. So if you want to, what you need to do is find a hard drive. I can go usually as much as two months out. So whatever day it was made, I either subtract or add two months and usually I'm pretty safe. I try to get it as close to two weeks as possible so that I can get the most likely drive that's going to match this part. If something goes bad with the drive and you've got to change this out, it's really easy, there are no components on these boards that are actually like soldered to the drive or wired to it in any way.  So this is going to be one of the items that you're going to have to find to solve most of the problems. So now let's disassemble the hard drive and look at all the internal parts. This component right here, we're going to go through as one solid piece. Even though technically it's made separately, the heads are mounted together in a sequence, they cannot move and the logic board that goes with it is typically wired directly to this little green string that goes down the arm of the hard drive. So we're going to treat those as one component. In the old days when you would have, anybody have an MFM hard drive? You remember you could low level format those things? And then IDE came along and there was no low level format anymore. The heads somewhat would guess where they needed to go because they used a stepping motor before 1986. And in 1986, Connor released one of the first ones that used something called the voice coil. So the big change between this is that the data that was written to the drive had this server info, the alignment info. So written in a little space that you cannot read with your equipment at all. There is some servo info, which is geographical information about where your data exists in those sectors on the hard drive, so that at all points in time the head is reading that data, sending it back to the electronics and telling it where the head is on the platter at all times. You can't read that data at all. And this is one of the reasons why you can't do a low level format anymore is because they use a special machine to do the low level format and write the servo information into it called a servo writer, which is very expensive and we don't have one. So anybody can think of what happens when you have multiple platters in a hard drive? If you took out the platters and tried to put them back in? The heads are aligned, they knew that they were going to move as one solid piece and so all the servo information fits in a pie slice in a cylinder. So if you move that, even a micro inch, it is not going to be able to read that data because the geographic information will no longer be there and it will no longer be correct. So that's the other question I get all the time is, oh, if my hard drive is dead and these heads are such a pain to replace, why can't I just pop out these platters and move them over to another drive? Well, here's the key on the top of the drive that I showed earlier. There's one screw, sometimes there's a couple of screws. If there's more than one platter, they spin freely. There is nothing in between them except the little locking ring and once you unscrew it, the two platters will spin independently and you will never be able to get them to align again at all, period. So the hint here is we're not going to be moving platters from one drive to another if there's more than one. So let's go into the head a little bit. Most of the technology that we use is actually extremely old. Almost everything that we do was invented by IBM and most of it happened before 1950-1956. The first hard drive that came out was released by IBM in 1956 and they used a magnetic oxide, an iron oxide. Anybody know the other name for iron oxide? Rust. And it's very soft on their platters. In 1956, the heads actually touched the platter. They had a lot of wear on those platters and in order to get five megs, you would have to have 50, 24-inch platters in order to get five megs. So you've got heads scratching these platters all day long. So they had to come up with another method to make these things work. Originally, there was a slider at the end on the tip of this head. There still is a slider but they call it a pico slider now because its original function was to kind of work like a railroad with two rails on each side and the head reading the data in the middle so that the head could be suspended enough that it could read that data. Today, since it floats, we don't have to worry about that so it needs to be small enough just to mount the information, the pieces on it so that it will be light enough to float in the air. But they discovered because of that wear that they needed to do this and an engineer figured this out and released a hard drive in 1963 that the heads actually floated and that's called the fly height. He says it's kind of like vinyl. It's not really like vinyl at all because on a vinyl on a record, right, you're reading the magnetic information off of it. There's no laser yet. They're actually working on that. Right, one touches, the other one doesn't. So the arm of the hard drive is actually manufactured in such a way that wind resistance is what helps it float. That's why it looks a lot like the wing of an airplane. Everything on that arm is optimized for speed to try to keep that thing floating in the air where all the holes are cut and everything and that includes the triangle piece down here that was cut that way so that it would have strong rigidity but still be light and able to be lifted off. But we're going to go into how the voice coil works since we've got every hard drive uses a voice coil today. Basically at the end of this area here the voice coil uses resistance like the speaker does. When you supply energy to the voice coil, it causes it to move back and forth in very small areas. So that's why they needed the servo information so that they could try to track where the head was because with a stepping motor it would move in certain increments but with a voice coil it doesn't move in those increments at all so they supply small amounts of energy so that it can move in small increments and then find out where the head is so it can go and read the data. Now today almost all the platters are made with aluminum or glass. Now there's some advantages to using glass. One of the things with glass is that it's smoother than aluminum. It doesn't expand as much when it's heated and they can do a number of different things with it to make it spin faster because the same amount of glass that would weigh the same amount as aluminum is more rigid so they can make the platters thinner. If they can make them thinner they weigh less and they can spin faster. So over the years it has increased the speed of the ability for us to read data from this hard drive. The airflow that causes the head to float in the air that is one of the big things that may possibly change shortly. The head of the hard drive right now flies at two one millionths of an inch off of the top of that platter. And just to give you some idea, hair, your thin hair is two thousandths the size of that. It is twice, it is two thousand times the size of where this is over the platter. Now Seagate just came out with some different ideas about trying to move the head of this platter closer so that they can read more information off of it to affect density so we can get more data off of it. This is where this comes into play. Right now currently all of the hard drives that we use with the exception of two or three that have come out in the last year and one of those is that 750 gig Seagate hard drive does not use this particular method of recording but for 50 years we've used long intudinal recording where there is a north and south pole and the data that's written to the hard drive is written in one direction and the other direction is basically ignored so any time that the head picks up traffic going over that it will detect that as one bit and it will read that information and put it back out there. Now there's been a major change in the head. The head itself, this was done for simplistic reasons to make it look like this. On the website that I told you earlier at ForensicsSpeak.com there is a link to what IBM has made that is the new GMR head of the platters itself and the head has changed quite a bit and they use a type of metal now that they glue together that can read differences and magnetic information as it passes under it and it's very complicated. So this piece was done for simplicity to give you an idea of how this data is written back and forth. Now as time has gone on they needed to write more data to the drive so any drives that have been larger than 16 gigs have started to use this new head so that they can write more and more data to it. Now for those of you who can't see that those are flipping bits so the bits themselves as you are writing and the aerial density increases they started having problems reading more and more data from it to the point that the ECC on the board didn't even help to be able to correct errors so they'll have bits at different places that will flip just because of the environmental items that are going on around it. So there's been this big push to try to go to a new type of recording mechanism so this last year we've gone to the perpendicular recording they decided if we didn't have enough space to increase that we could write the data up and down instead and that we could read that bit and store more bits in the same amount of space so that's how Seagate came out with that 750 gig hard drive. Now this new technology that they patented the day that I released this particular presentation is called Hammer, H-A-M-R and it's heat assisted magnetic recording and as the head goes across the platter in this new technology it zaps it with a laser which causes the lubrication on the top of the drive to evaporate and they came up with this new idea that they can use a reservoir inside the hard drive and make a vapor and have it go back to the hard drive's platters to get lubrication back on the drive's platters while it's running. I don't know about you guys but that sounds like a pretty bad idea to me. I'm thinking that as they increase this that this reservoir that they claim is going to live the life of the hard drive. I don't know what life of hard drive means to them and thinking legal terms it means seven years but in this particular instance I'm thinking warranty because coincidentally the same time that they released this new information they started their own data recovery company. Maybe they know something we don't know but I love Seagate hard drive so we'll find out as they make them but I'm thinking you know a year out what's going to happen to that hard drive if all of a sudden you start having problems. I have not seen a perpendicular hard drive in for a recovery yet so I don't even know what my methods are going to do for trying to do a data recovery with the changes that they've made but my guess is because the data is so much closer together it's going to be incredibly hard to try to get this data back. This is what it looks like when you're writing and reading with your OS pretty much no matter what OS it will move quite violently back and forth across the disk and it can move back and forth 60 times across that platter depending on the size of your platter and where that data exists. So if you've got a hard drive that has a bad sector on it and it's moving back and forth at that speed and you hit that sector it's going to constantly start giving you errors and basically the drive is going to slow down you'll hear some sounds and you may think that your system's locked up or something bad's happened most people don't have a lot of patience with them but even if it was going to recover it may error out and your system may crash or blue screen before you can do anything about it. If you're going to do a recovery one of the ideal methods to do this is going to be imaging you're going to try to do an image from beginning to end. The downside to this is that something like ghost or something that really can't recover from errors in the process is basically going to die in the middle of doing this. So from a software perspective some software that at least knows how to handle some of the basics of retrying and going through that process or at least saving the amount that has already imaged as it's writing across the disk. If you're using a RAID controller and you have a RAID failure imaging is a must because you cannot read the data you cannot mount it in the OS and go after those files so you have to image it using some software or something that's a little bit more redundant and able to write out the pieces that you've already saved. So my suggestion would be there's a couple of free packages out there that do some things, some for Linux, some for Windows, some for Macs and there should be some ways of trying some of this stuff before you have to go through this process but there is a program called TestDisk that has basically been written for most of these applications that can go in and try to read sectors and retry and do things like that on forensicspeak.com. So one of the basics that we're going to do now with trying to reassemble the hard drive is we need to go through some of the items that I think are a little bit different that you might not be aware of and so we're going to go through how I break down what kind of errors that I'm dealing with because if you have a scratch platter in most cases there's not going to be much you can do about it. I'm going to break these down into two different categories. By software I mean that in most cases when you do a recovery you might be able to use the OS to get your data back you might be able to switch back and forth between different OS's to read the data but it's going to be something that doesn't really require you to open the hard drive or to get parts and replace them. So 85% of all the hard drives that I get in for our recoveries are some method like this. For instance a Mac a Mac hard drive I get a number of these where someone has one Mac and their hard drive died they got there's thousands of pictures on it maybe they have another Mac and they go and they plug this hard drive into the Mac and it can't mount it or read it either but there are some simple methods that you can use say use windows with Mac drive or something on it it will mount a lot of damaged Mac OS drives for some reason there are some things that even Mac can't recover or repair from that you can plug into something else or boot on a Nopix disk and try to read the partition or something along those lines and it may even skip some of the errors that are already occurring. Hardware is the big one and that's basically what we're talking about here so I'm going to break hardware down into these categories most of the items that we can do are just with the electronics itself the IDE board so if you're able to find this board that matches exactly what you are looking for with the firmware you pop off four screws put this board on and go for it and in most cases even if you've got the wrong board you can try it and it won't do any more damage to your hard drive that you just won't work so sometimes two boards or three boards might be the trick here depending on what firmware is on those boards and where they came from so sometimes it's worth shopping eBay especially for these older drives because in some cases you can order them on eBay and get them for 20 bucks or something and maybe actually get a recovery done so if 85% is software and 10% is hardware that's 95% of your drives right there that you can somehow get data back using one of those formats the heads and the platters are put together because sometimes the heads and the platters cause each other's problem and so you have to treat them simultaneously and then the motor which I described earlier is very difficult to deal with so these are the laws according to Scott that I try to teach some of my employees when we're trying to do something to try to get now the first one don't be emotionally attached listen guys you do not need your porn back this week you can wait another week so the other one is damaged hard drives do not do the same thing twice I get all kinds of hard drives that one day of the week they do one thing the next day of the week they're doing a completely different thing I had a situation where I had a hard drive I struggled with every day all week long and I still could not get it to mount or do anything and I plugged it into a machine and I just went home frustrated on a Friday came back on Monday it took it a while it was acting very very slow part of the reason is because the heads have to keep retrying whenever there's an error sometimes it works itself down to a smaller piece of data that's not corrupt and then it actually will mount and you can do something with it so in some cases plugging it in leaving it for three or four days you come back it actually is functioning it's not going to be fast there's no data recoveries that I can think of that are extremely fast unless it was just like your partition got corrupt you can image it and go back and carve it out with some data readers or something along that line persistence is not futile the persistence is that same thing it ties directly to your hard drive doesn't do the same thing twice so sometimes when you're trying one thing tomorrow it might actually work and it might do something different the other thing is too is that the tech document out there freeze your hard drives, try to blah blah blah those kind of things a lot of the times it will work but your problem is when you freeze a hard drive is that you've got condensation problems almost immediately after you start that hard drive up so you've got like 10 minutes if you're able to read the drive if you're not you probably shot most of your chances of trying to get that data back anyway because it will just further damage the drive most drives are hurt by any kind of humidity any kind of condensation that's on the platters hits the heads and it's ruined it I would say that if you cool it instead maybe down to 45 degrees it seems to work a little bit better one of the ways that I've been doing this is if you guys are familiar with a pelter cooling system at all some of them are used for some CPUs and things like that what's that these things typically cost like $50 basically it's a ceramic piece that on one side will read the heat off of whatever item that you're touching and spit it off on the other side so it makes one side cold and the other side warm there's this particular thing that just came out that's one of these USB plug it in and it cools your drink while you're sitting around at your computer if you take it apart this thing's only $20 and if you take it apart this thing's got this particular ceramic in it you can take off all the pieces except for the ceramic and the heat sink and you can strip off the label of your hard drive put this on top of it and let it sit for a couple of hours and it will cool the casing off enough that it will stay somewhere close to 45 degrees when you plug it in and you get it running it will typically go up a little bit but you'll still hit something in the neighborhood of 60 degrees while it's running and you may actually be able to go directly after the software mounted go directly to what you want to get now one of the things I can tell you about a damaged hard drive and you got damaged sectors is that when you're doing a copy you don't want to go get three or four or five things you want to go find the one piece one at a time and be very surgical about it and go after exactly what you're looking for so if you went and got your JPEG files because your hard drive is working you think and you're fine and then you go over and you get your QuickBooks files well since the head's going to have to move more back and forth while the hard drive is mounted you have a better chance of damaging it further and not getting any of that data back so take your time and go one step at a time and copy out individual components as you can and then go back and get the other ones that are less important it would be terrible if you went and you got your grandma's JPEGs and she really wanted her Quicken files so time is not your friend in that case you want to get it as fast as you can and you want to go just after those components free space is your friend if you started doing a copy and you actually got it mounted and you were able to do a copy if you had that drive die while you're doing the copy you don't want to go back the second time you start it back up if you're able to read it again and copy over the same files that you have you want to have a lot of free space you also sometimes want to have as much space as you can to do an image because when it mounts in the OS if you can't copy those files out sometimes it doesn't mean you can't get an image if you get an image of the file then you can go and process it on another hard drive or do something else with it completely separately and not have to worry about whether or not there's bad sectors on it because you're on a new device at that point there's a lot of software that will carve out different independent pieces one of the pieces of software that I like a lot is called NTFS Explorer it's made by a company called Runtom.org and I don't work for them or anything but it is one of the better packages because if you're doing an NTFS recovery for Windows you can skip most of the other files it will actually go in, read the MFT it will give you your sectors back you can go back and find the exact cluster where your data is and you can drill down to that particular directory and copy out just the piece you need and skip all these other bad sectors of the OS and things that you might not need a lot of data recovery programs don't do that a lot of them will scan the whole hard drive come back and build you a list they're not taking into account that it may die in the process of scanning this hard drive and trying to go through that whole thing when it hits a sector that's bad further down the line so I try to be as surgical as possible and get those things down heat is not your friend we kind of went over that already try not to freeze your hard drive you could refrigerate your hard drive just do anything to try to keep that condensation down but one of the things that happens to metal when it gets hot and it's starting to spin up is it expands so if your head is only floating two one millionth of an inch over the platter if it expands it will sometimes hit the head at that point in time so the cooler you can keep it the better off you're going to be some of the only hard drives I know that use the glass platters which will happen a little bit less from a standpoint of expanding and hitting the heads that's typically going to be like the Hitachi's, the IBM hard drives things along that line everybody on eBay is your friend because you are going to look up every hard drive you can you're going to email those guys find out what the model number is and the date to go get that board so you want to try everything you can before you open the case and I'm going to show you what the inside of some of this stuff looks like the big thing is on the logic board itself on the IDE controller board on the bottom of the hard drive heat is the big problem because a lot of times you'll be able to touch the board and you'll be able to feel where it's overheating sometimes when you take it off you can actually see where it's burned through the chip or done something else different type of connectors make a big difference sometimes sometimes moving from an IDE connector to a USB connector you're actually able to mount it on another device a lot easier and you would be amazed at the number of times I could just plug one in from a USB device into a firewire and it actually work and get past that problem so that can help you get past some of the basics even if there's sector problems different OS's make a big difference Nopix is actually really great for trying to go after those files because it opens almost anything and you can have a driver for almost any type of RAID controller or anything already on the drive Mac OS like I described already you can stick that on a Windows box with Mac disk sometimes just taking the hard drive flipping it over flipping it upside down plugging it in and waiting a little while actually works too you may actually see that it will mount on Windows but it will show you that there's no known type of file system on it those are the times that you want to image the drive because if you can image it you can skip all those other problems because it basically means that there might be damage on the drive but it's affected something that's going to tell it to NTFS is on this drive or FATS on this drive or Linux is on this drive if you see it mount on there just go straight for an image and just skip all the other stuff that you can use as many fans everything else that you can electronics this is what it will look like when you go to look at these chips and look at the board and this is very simplistic to replace like I said before screws this happens a lot I see a lot of boards that once you take it off you flip it over like I said this is the 10% of the other problem that I can't read I've got to go find that board I will find either something burned through the chip or some spot where something burned up head crash typically it doesn't fall off like that but it can usually it will hang there and sometimes do some platter damage along the way but if you've got some heads that look like this where there's actually head damage the platter was actually pretty good I was actually able to deal with the platter once I replaced the heads so this is the basics of how I have to do this there are no tools for trying to replace heads on the platter so what you've got to do is build your tools out of paper and believe it or not this is the best way to do it you take a little piece of paper and you fold them up so that there's enough resistance that they push back and forth and you slip it in now it's a little more complicated than this from a standpoint of lining it up I'll show you a picture of that in a second and if you're lucky enough some drives have this ramp on them and the ramp is really cool because it will help you line up the heads when you get them back on there because you cannot be off on these heads so you need to take your time when you move this component to another drive you find the other drive, you take the other stuff out you go ahead and have it ready and you go ahead and disassemble this part you slowly pull these out making sure that your paper is stuck there and keeps them apart and then you will go ahead and move it over now this takes about two hours of time once you're good at it so I'm thinking three or four but it can be a life saver and once you do it a couple of times you'll have it down so if you want to start your own recovery business so again you've got to pull these parts exactly from the same drive same manufacturer, everything's going to be exactly the same this is what the piece of paper looks like when it's stuck in there and it keeps those heads apart those heads cannot touch if they do touch then you have a mess and it will not work but typically you can do this I've done it up to three sets of heads six heads altogether I've never been successful at more than that so far but that's what it looks like and once they slam together the head itself is actually mounted at the end of the slider down here and they hit each other and it ruined it so there's nothing you can do you just put it aside, go buy a new eBay hard drive and start all over again this is what the ramp looks like on some of the drives that are out there the ramp itself will help you line that up and you can get that right back on and once it's there, you're good but take your time and make sure you look to make sure that they're mounted on there correctly and you'll end up the second that you start up the drive it will hit the edge of the platter as it starts to move back on to the drive and once you've done that you've just got metal scraping all the way across the platter because it doesn't know the heads aren't there anymore so that'd be it for the drive this one I think is possible this is one that I actually did a head replacement and I did the same exact thing and because it has ramps it doesn't matter that there's four heads there it took me a little bit more time but I got it done this one is also possible what you would use for your tools here is tweezers tweezers expand out so you can bend them just right so that you can try to hold them around this but it's a little bit like operation you've got to try to make sure that you do not touch your platter when you're putting them back on but these heads park in the middle and there's no outside ramp so you've got to be extremely cautious with that while you're reassembling that trying to get it back on this one I would say is not possible this is where you pray because you're not going to get that data back that's a SCSI 9 9 platter 16 heads that's not going to happen so looking at platter damage this is what it would look like and before you start buying parts this would be one of the first things I say to do is to go ahead and take a quick look at the inside of the drive and make sure that you don't see the silver on the platter sliding off or you don't see anything on the pillow because if it's on that little pillow on the filter then it's underneath and you won't be able to see it but once it's already done this it's too late and this is what it looks like now this is a glass platter has a little bit of ceramics in it this is from an IBM drive in the pictures on the disc you'll be able to see a little bit better but you can actually see right through this hard drive you can actually see the metal underneath it on the bottom both heads on both sides ate the oxide ate the thin film right off of it and destroyed the drive this is another one where the heads hit it that's impossible you're not going to be able to do anything with that one either and when you get one like I described earlier where the head actually falls off or hangs off it'll start writing these little S's all over the place and eventually you'll get grooves all the way around and you can just have to tell your grandma that she's not going to get her pictures back so your motor failure this one it may actually move it may not but here's a good indication of when your motor isn't working properly the plastic piece over here if the motor doesn't reach its maximum velocity that little plastic piece will not teeter out of the way so if you want to take off the top look at the hard drive and power it up if that plastic piece doesn't move your motor is not working correctly so you may be able to move a single platter to another system when you disassemble it this is the spindle piece right here you cannot take this out it is manufactured to be exactly in the right spot if you take that out I doubt seriously you'll ever get it back together correctly enough that it will move but in this particular case the two platters as you can see have nothing on them they are just pieces of glass and they have a little ring that sits in the middle which is on top of that screwed together and that's all that's holding it together there's nothing to keep them aligned so this would be the reason that you could not move two platters to another drive it would be easier to move the heads that's the problem the way you tell if the motor is frozen is if when you open it up you take a screwdriver and you put it at the edge of the spindle right here you can actually spin it then it's spinning freely you're in good shape you could probably replace the board on the bottom and it will probably work most of the time this is why it looks like that through the cylinder the cylinder actually cuts through the disc that information again and so your chances are gone at that point


At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. On Saturday, December 3rd, the City of Prestonsburg Christmas Parade made its way through downtown. Lots of folks and attractions put together by community members took to the streets to ring in the holiday season. Spectators were delighted to see the show. It was wonderful. It was a really great parade. My little two-year-old, she loved it. She was catching the candy and she really enjoyed it. Thanks all over the place. She did. It was really good. And especially Les Stapleton, he's awesome. He was walking the street, passing out the candy, talking to the kids and everybody else. The flocks were great. You can tell they put a lot of work into it. They did really good. From churches to marching bands to Santa Claus himself, the parade was packed with Christmas cheer. With each year, the event continues to grow in size and scale. I think this year, well, last year, they didn't, I don't think they passed out the candy last year. But this year, it wasn't as big. This year, it seemed like they had a lot more floats and it's just bigger, bigger and better. You know, thank you to the community to come together and put this parade together for everybody, especially this time of the year. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.


Welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Just Paths where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Workers are the world's largest copper mine in Chile set to go on strike. Noomsa calls on workers to unite as wage talks hit deadlock in South Africa. US Labor Relations Board reports says Amazon interfered with union elections and for our final story we look at the case against real-estrone program whistleblower Daniel Hale. In our first story we go to Chile where over 2,300 miners have announced a strike. Workers at the Escondida copper mine rejected the latest contract offered by its owners by 99.5%. In the vote held over the weekend, 2,164 workers approved the strike while 11 voted against. Located in the Atacama Desert Escondida is the world's largest copper mine producing around 5% of all global supply. It is controlled by the Anglo-Australian BHP company Rio Tinto and the Japanese GECO Corporation and GECO2 Limited World, the remaining shares. The strike would follow nearly two months of negotiations for an agreement. The workers are being represented by union number one at Escondida. In its last offer the company had proposed a benefits payment of 18 million pesos. However, the union stated that the agreement would increase working time and operation demands and reduce breaks. It would also impact the protections given to sick workers. The contract also included a 1% pay rise which fell way short of the 5% hike demanded by workers. They are asking to be compensated for working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement by the union, the mines owners are set to earn $10 billion in revenue in 2021. It has demanded that 1% of the dividends given to invest distributed equally among all workers. Other demands include performance-based compensation, education for their children and a better system for career development. Meanwhile, BHP approached the labor directorate in an effort to avoid work stoppage. Filing negotiations will now take place for a mandatory 5-10-day period after which the strike will begin. Escondida workers had previously held a 44-day strike in 2017. This led to $740 million in losses and contracted the Chilean GDP by 1.3%. In our next story, we look at the ongoing wage talks in South Africa's steel and engineering sector. The National Union of Metal Workers or NUMSA has rejected an offer made by the CSR. The Federation had proposed a 4.4% increase across the board for the first year. This would be followed by a 0.5% increase in the second year and a 1% increase in the third. Meanwhile, NUMSA had sent a revised proposal of an 8% increase in the first year. This would be followed by a 2% per year increase with some flexibility. The union has stated that workers had signed a stance-still agreement during the lockdowns in 2020. Despite this, they faced a retrenchment during the pandemic. It has also rejected the special dispensation measure proposed by the employer's association. This will introduce a new entry rate between 20 to 29 grand for employers not paying the minimum wage. NUMSA argues that this will essentially drive down wages in the industry. The union has now registered a dispute against the CSR and other associations in the bargaining council. It has also asked workers to prepare for the mother-of-all strikes if employers refuse to settle the talks. Here is NUMSA General Secretary Irwin Jim to talk more about this issue. In so far as us as a union that takes care of the interest of workers, that in every round of negotiations we go the duty not only to take care of the workers but to engage employers and understand their concerns but also look on what is being presented on the table. The current offer on the table left us with no option but to reject it. We got our backs against the wall. There's no way that NUMSA can even think to consider what is on the table. I think in essence what employers are attempting to do in a very sneaky way is basically to continue to want to offer a 0% on increase this year and maybe to sum it up they just want another standstill agreement. We reject that. We are very firm that workers this year against the backdrop of many many workers in the industry we have not received increases since 2014 with us in 2020 not having signed a standstill agreement which was basically a wage freeze employers must make a real offer in the first year that's why we're putting 8% on the table and we're saying we're flexible in there in the following year we're giving them a very flexible position and in our view they should grab that and there should be no need for us to end up in a strike because we're saying they should offer CPI plus 2% improvement factor if CPI plus 2% improvement factor we're putting on the table fall below 6% they should give us 6% if they feel that CPI is harsher for them then they can reopen negotiations so the union we're flexible for the following two years but we're saying the first year they must make an offer because that will be crucial and we are amenable because it will ensure that we have a base that ensure that the following years are a bit better as the economy is recovering and we're open to negotiations in the form of bilaterals to engage with employers to understand their situation but we are not willing to take a blanket approach where we say to employers you're not going to give an increase you are going to have a new entry rates in the industry on a basis that you can afford when you have not opened up your books and disclosed so genuinely we're saying to employers if they are honest and transparent there's many ways of skinning the cat united we stand divided we fall is about the fact that what any sector that is confronted with what we're confronted with it is engineering today it is going to be the auto sector tomorrow we live in a community that have survived any particular crisis at the back of standing together when workers are on strike it's important that the entire community must basically understand what are the demands must understand that every worker work in that community support five to six extended families and if there are social activities those work make particular contribution to uplift the community they are of their source of assistance and support in whatever that have been in the community we're simply making one point that we cannot discuss solidarity at engineering with engineering workers only when engineering workers are on strike all other sectors must begin to debate that because if engineering end up indeed in a strike workers in other sectors can embark on a strike in solidarity with those workers it is engineering this year it will be the auto sector next year and the motor sector we need these sectors to begin to give support to each other because we're facing a government that has adopted austerity measures if we had a progressive government it could announce that employers in any industry can't pay less than this particular national minimum wage which must be a living wage which must break with the apartheid past of super exploitation of black and African labour the US National Labour Relations Board initiated that Amazon interfered in the union election in Alabama over 3,200 out of the nearly 6,000 workers at the BHM one-way house cast their ballots in February and March if the vote passed they would have become members of the retail wholesale and departments to a union however the action failed after 738 workers voted in favour of a wild 1,798 voted against hundreds of ballots were left uncounted after Amazon raised objections the RWDSU then filed appeal citing anti-union propaganda and surveillance of ballot boxes by Amazon workers had received brochures and text messages instructing them to know reports claimed that Amazon had also worked with local officials to change the timings of traffic lights outside the warehouse red stop lights would have given organisers the main issue raised by the RWDSU was the place where the ballot box was installed right outside the exit gates of the warehouse the union stated that this gave the impression that Amazon would be involved in counting the ballots the NLRB report found that this on-site placement was a unilateral decision of Amazon it argues that this destroyed the laboratory conditions necessary for the election the board's hearing officer has recommended that the results be avoided and a fresh election be held the findings have now been sent to the regional NLRB director who will issue a final ruling continuing with the US for a final story we look at the case of drone warfare whistleblower Daniel Hale he has been sentenced to 45 months in prison after pleading guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act Hale is a former US intelligence officer who was deployed to Afghanistan's background airbase he later worked for a defense contractor which is when he leaked 17 documents to the press these documents showed that 90% of the people killed during a drone operation were unintended targets they also showed how the US government placed people on watch lists over 40% of people in the database of suspects had no recognised terrorist group affiliation here is a video feature on his case of these only 19 were intended targets 136 were bystanders they were labelled as enemies killed in action just because they were near the target this means 90% of the victims of those drone strikes were not the intended targets they were likely civilians this information became public when Daniel Hale released 17 intelligence documents 11 of those were marked secret and top secret the documents also revealed that over 40% of the people labelled terror suspects by the US government had no clear affiliations with terror groups and that the US government targeted US citizens as well in Afghanistan and other countries Daniel Hale is a US Air Force veteran and former intelligence analyst during his military service he participated in the US drone program at Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base in 2019 he was arrested and charged with the espionage act and theft of government property in March this year Hale pleaded guilty to one count of the espionage act admitting that he leaked confidential documents in 2015 he has now been sentenced to 45 months in prison by a federal judge at his sentencing Hale said I am here because I stole something that was never mine today precious human life I couldn't keep living in a world in which people pretended that things weren't happening that war please your honor forgive me for taking papers instead of human lives Hale is the first prominent whistleblower to be handed a jail sentence under the espionage act since President Joe Biden took office documents released by Hale have brought to light the crimes committed by the US through its drone warfare then President Barack Obama had stated in 2014 that there had to be near certainty of no civilian casualties for a drone strike to be carried out Hale who provided intelligence for some of these strikes during his service saw the operations to be quite different ahead of his sentencing Hale's lawyers submitted an 11 page letter written by him in jail to the judge Hale wrote not a day goes by that I don't question the justification for my actions he said that the strikes may have been permissible by the rules of engagement but he did not believe that they were in any way necessary for the protection of the United States of America he also argued that the war in Afghanistan had very little to do with preventing terror from coming into the US and a lot more to do with protecting the profits of weapons manufacturers and so-called defense contractors Hale was indicted in 2019 around the same time as Julian Assange he is among the eight people who have been criminally prosecuted for leaking documents to the media under Donald Trump's administration he was the fifth to be charged with the Esplanade Act his indictment and conviction have been sharply criticized by activists, anti-war groups and rights organizations Court Pink organized a demonstration outside the courthouse where the sentencing took place they stated Hale had exposed the US government's criminal drone murder of innocent children and received a 45 month prison sentence Edward Snowden called Hale one of the great American whistleblowers the American Civil Liberties Union said leaks to press in the public interests should not be prosecuted under the Esplanade Act Daniel Hale helped the public learn about a lethal program that should never have been kept secret he should be thanked, not sentenced as a spy


Image Augmentation is a powerful tool for increasing the size of datasets and machine learning applications. This paper reviews the most common image augmentation techniques and classifies them according to their implementation strategies. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of these techniques on the segmentation task of two classical material microscopic images. The unit model was selected as a representative benchmark model for image segmentation tasks as it is the classic and most widely used model in this field. The results show that the use of image augmentation techniques can significantly improve the segmentation performance of the unit model. Furthermore, the advantages and applicability of various image augmentation techniques in the material microscopic image segmentation task are discussed. This article was authored by Jin Chow Ma, Chen Fei Hu, Ping Zhou, and others.