In today's hectic world with its ever-increasing traffic congestion the intricate mechanisms which regulate vehicle flow are vitally important. This video was produced to help you understand the way traffic detectors work and the best methods of installing, maintaining and repairing them. Because the information to be presented is so far-ranging the video has been divided into four sections, detector theory, applications and evolution, detector design, detector installation and detector maintenance. You may view this video all at once or in several sessions. However you should first obtain a copy of the Federal Highway Administration's Traffic Detector Handbook, the resource reference for this videotape. The Traffic Detector Handbook is a valuable reference book for exploring a topic further. In addition there is an accompanying companion manual specifically for this Traffic Detector videotape. Throughout the video we will list a variety of installation and maintenance sites. We will discuss detector engineering theories and design criteria as well as the basics of installation and repair. Our first section covers the basics of how traffic detectors work, their applications and the ways they have evolved to accommodate modern traffic needs. There are nine different types of detectors, pressure, push button, magnetic, magnetometer, inductive loop, radar, sonic, radio frequency and light emission. Of these the two types of traffic detectors most commonly used today are the inductive loop detectors and the magnetometers. Each of these systems has three main components, a roadway sensor, a lead-in cable connecting the sensor at a pull box to the controller cabinet and an electronic unit in the controller cabinet itself. Over the years detector equipment has kept pace with modern needs. Early forms of detection such as sonic, radar and pressure pads are still in use and are occasionally installed in special situations. However as traffic has increased and research progressed traffic detection has come to rely primarily on inductive loop detectors. This type of detection system consists of one or more turns of wire in a saw cut slot in the street surface at the exact area where the vehicles need to be detected. The ends of the loop are connected by cable to an electronic amplifier which is usually placed in the controller cabinet. The vehicle passes over the loop and disturbs the loop's magnetic field. This in turn is sensed by the amplifier. Because the loop detector can detect either the presence or passage of a vehicle it has introduced a new dimension to traffic control. For years many manufacturers have developed and sold loop detector amplifiers in a variety of sizes, methods of connection and designs. To overcome the interchangeability problems NEMA the National Electrical Manufacturers Association developed a set of loop detector standards. Now all loop detector amplifiers must conform to these standards for configuration, mode of operation, output type, cross talk and timing. There are two detector unit configurations defined by NEMA. The first is the shelf mounted detector unit available in both single and multi-channel models. The physical dimensions and the connector requirements of shelf mounted units are defined by NEMA. The second configuration is the card rack mounted detector unit. When large numbers of detector amplifiers are needed the card rack mounted unit fits into a multiple card rack requiring less cabinet space. NEMA standards have also been developed for the presence output. A detector unit must be able to sustain a presence output for a minimum of three minutes before tuning out the vehicle. Of the two types of output, electromechanical relay and solid state, solid state is more desirable. Solid state outputs have no moving parts and are more reliable and more accurate in tracking the actual presence of vehicles. Cross talk and electrical coupling that occurs between two loop channels can cause brief, false signals of vehicle detection when no vehicles are there. NEMA standards require some means to prevent cross talk such as a frequency selection switch to vary the operating frequency of adjacent loop channels. Today detectors are used almost every place there are moving vehicles. The most common use of detectors however is still on city streets where most intersections are signalized. These most common detector applications fall into six categories. Isolated intersection control, arterial intersection control, closed network control, area wide system control, priority vehicle system control and pedestrian signal control. Intersection control regulates the flow of traffic without considering the operation of adjacent street signals. Arterial intersection control or open network ensures that traffic progresses along a roadway by the display of successive green signals. Closed network control coordinates a network of intersection signals within a defined area such as a city's central business district. Area wide system control treats all of the traffic signals within an area as a total system. Individual signals within this area may be controlled by isolated arterial or closed network concepts. Priority vehicle system control helps certain vehicles such as ambulances, fire trucks and buses move continuously through busy intersections. Day in and day out detectors keep more than vehicles moving smoothly. Pre- and signal control gives people the right of way through push buttons and pedestrian signal heads. There are two basic types of traffic signal operation, pre-timed and actuated. The pre-timed controller operates in a fixed cycle length with preset time intervals. Intersections with predictable traffic patterns with few variations can use the pre-timed controller successfully. An actuated controller does not set fixed lengths for the signal phases. This controller uses vehicle detectors to assign the right of way based on the actual traffic volumes. The semi-actuated controller keeps one street, usually the intersection's main street, in a non-actuated mode. Only the cross street has a detector because the main street has a uniform flow of traffic and the cross street has low volumes with variable peaks. The fully actuated controller is used at intersections with sporadic traffic distribution. In this case all of the phases require a detector. The fully actuated controller may allow phases to be skipped, split, overlapped or interrupted for pedestrian timing. A special class of actuated controller, the volume density controller, provides an even more complex set of criteria for assigning green time. Depending on a continuously variable cycle length, these controllers need accurate traffic information to react in time to varying traffic volume demands. Volume density controllers require specially placed detectors on all approaches. This controller is particularly effective at locations with a heavy traffic demand and high travel speeds. Earlier we discussed one of the special uses of detectors on city streets, priority vehicle system control. With priority control, the right of way must be given automatically to certain vehicles. There are two ways of accomplishing this. In preemption, the normal signal sequence is interrupted in deference to the special vehicle, such as an ambulance. In priority operations, the green is held longer for the vehicle or the timing reverts to green as soon as possible. There are several different types of equipment used to signal a required right of way. The most frequently used is the light emitter receiver. The priority vehicle has a transmitter which flashes a high-intensity, high-frequency light code. The intersection controller has optical receivers which read the code and determine what kind of right-of-way the vehicle requires, either preemption or priority. The next detection system used for priority vehicles is the vehicle identification concept. Again the vehicle has a mounted transmitter to signal the controller. The roadway has a loop to pick up the signal and the detector unit has a discriminator module. The system recognizes the vehicle and provides preemptive or priority control. The transit vehicle signature loop detector doesn't require transmitter equipment mounted on the vehicle. Instead, this special detector recognizes the vehicle passing over the loop by the unique pulse form of each vehicle. The last type of equipment used for providing vehicle priority is the radio transmitter receiver. Functioning very much like a light emitter system, it uses radio frequency instead of light. Now that we have examined the most common and well-known detector applications, let's discuss several alternatives. For example, traffic detectors can serve an important, highly functional use as a system sensor. Traffic flow information provided by detectors is used by the system to compute signal timing as well as selecting and developing timing plans. These system sensors sample traffic at strategic locations. The type of sensor used is determined by the type of information needed. To control arterial street systems, traffic detectors need information on volume and occupancy. Inbound and outbound traffic is sampled at free-flowing mid-block locations. Then the arterial master controller selects a traffic pattern based on this information and keeps the traffic moving. To move traffic efficiently within a network control system, the sensors need to provide data on traffic trends within the network. This traffic information is used along with a time of day which is provided by a system time clock. Another use of traffic detectors is freeway surveillance and control. In this application, two types of congestion are detected. Recurring congestion, such as rush hour, which happens regularly at the same time and location, and non-recurring congestion, which includes such unpredictable events as a stalled vehicle or an incident. One way to control freeway flow is to control the ramps. Freeway ramps can be regulated through several detection methods, including a pre-timed system, traffic responsive metering, gap acceptance merge control, and integrated ramp control. There is also interest in using traffic detectors for the metering of the through lanes of freeways. So far, this mainline control concept is rarely used in the United States, but it's gaining in acceptance. Mainline control capabilities include driver information, variable speed control, lane closure, mainline metering, and reversible lane control. As we have seen, traffic detectors have many alternative applications. Your traffic detector handbook details the applications mentioned in this video, as well as speed monitoring, traffic counting, vehicle classification, and pedestrian control. Now, let's look at today's detector technology and where it's going. The control and surveillance of traffic is a priority for the 90s, and new technology is a major investment in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. This technology includes new concepts, new products, new applications, and new procedures. Loops have a relatively short life for a variety of reasons. Therefore, we are also looking into substitutes for loop detectors, which are at least as accurate as the loop detector. One such system, the self-powered vehicle detector, or SPVD, consists of a cylindrical in-road sensor containing a transducer, an RF transmitter with antennas, and a battery. The in-road sensor is powered by an internal battery, and it is connected to the relay by a radio link. The roadside receiver includes a commercially available FM receiver and a tone decoder electronics package. No lead-in or interconnecting cables are needed. This detector can measure vehicle passage, presence, count, and occupancy. Also, two SPVDs placed a predetermined distance apart can measure speed. Another promising emerging detector technology is the video detection system, called VIDS for short. It uses a single video camera with processing hardware and software to provide data similar to that of multiple loop detectors. VIDS can detect traffic at multiple spots within the camera's field of vision. Detection lines across the traffic lanes are inserted on the screen using the keyboard. Every time a vehicle crosses a detection line, a detection signal is generated. Then data is extracted on occupancy, volume, queue lengths, and speed. This technology has been refined to a point that field evaluations are currently being made. The microwave radar detector beams microwave energy toward a section of the roadway from an antenna. When a vehicle passes through the beam, this microwave energy is reflected back to the sensing unit at a different frequency. The detector senses this change in frequency. Although this type of detector has been available for several years, it has been too vulnerable to vandalism to be feasible. However, with new research and better unit designs, microwave radar units are viable alternatives to loop detectors. Ultrasonic detectors operate on the same principle as radar detectors, transmitting a beam of energy and receiving a reflected altered beam from a vehicle. Not very reliable when first introduced. Ultrasonic detectors have advanced in efficiency through continued research and improvements. The last system we'll examine is the infrared detector. One infrared detector producer makes both a passive and an active model. The passive model simply measures vehicle motion. The active model illuminates detection zones with low power infrared light. This light is reflected from vehicles passing through the zone and focused onto a sensor matrix. Then a processing technique analyzes the signal and determines the presence of a vehicle. This information on vehicle presence can be used for traffic signals, vehicle counting, speed measurement, length assessment, and cue detection information. Another advancement in detector technology is the digital loop test instrument. This device can be applied to testing new loop installations, diagnostics, and repair of failed loops, preventive maintenance, and data collection. In the past, detector technology was too complicated to be tested accurately. The digital loop test instrument operates in the ranges necessary to fully diagnose loop detector systems. Traffic detection is a complex, rapidly advancing field. Now that we have an overview of detector theory, applications, and evolution, let's proceed to section two for a look at detector design.


Okay, here we go. Royal Apache Buffet, Route 46 West, Saddlebook, New Jersey, James P. Madonna, Megalife 21, and progressive discussions. I want to give a shout out to Jeff Sanbello and the exorcist Bishop Brian, the star of the show, Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel. Okay, here we have a cornucopia of seafood and I think breast of lamb with lamb ribs, I believe. So, what I'm gonna do is start off with what looks like cod. This is cod fish, right, sir? Like a lull? Nobody answers me. Okay. All right, it's okay. That's all right. It looks like cod's gotta be. Look at the thick flakiness of the fish. Here we go. Gonna have some surf and turf.  That I have plans for later. I have an idea. Instead of using brown rice, I'm gonna use the chow mein fun rice noodle. And here, I'm gonna get some nice, what I believe is, look at that. It has to be lamb because it smells like lamb. There's no sign there. It's almost like getting a rack of lamb, you know? The gentleman just put this out. I say gentlemen, I don't know why, because when I asked him a question, he didn't even answer me. So, therefore, he's not a gentleman. But I say that anyway for the sake of the video. The guy needs a smack right across the head. That's what he needs. All right. Okay. I'm just gonna walk around here. Here's the Chinese section. And I'll check the soups out. Hey, seafood soup is here. Potato soup? No, that's for peasants. Chicken noodle soup, peasant food. Where's the crab soup? I don't think he has it today. Egg drop soup. Drop from the top of the Great Wall of China. Hot and sour soup. Very good for colds and congestion. Vegetables, egg roll, peasant food. Or unless you're a vegan, unless you want to know scrawny marathon runners with no muscle mass, then I will check the lemons. Hey, here we have some nice chow mein fun rice noodles. Chow mein fun rice noodles. I'm gonna use that at the bottom of the plate as a bed for when I put the seafood, the shellfish with the broth, with the seafood broth on top. Not this, not these cockles, clams, which are actually not bad. That's not a bad idea. I'm gonna use the other one with the mussels and scallops and shrimp and squid. I might as well... I have no idea. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Now, lemons are ready. So I'm assuming there's no lemons in the buffet, so I'm gonna use this color to get limes because limes kind of go with beige. But then again, you know what? Green limes actually go with this color too, because you never know. They might bring out lemons. So I'm gonna save myself a trip. Okay, here we go. Here's the ice cream. Let's see what if there's any mess that the kids made. You know, the fattier buckles. Wow, they've been really going at it. Must be a lot of Chris... a lot of little Chris Christie's today. Let me get a steak conife. I'm gonna save myself another trip. Ah, bless her heart. Look at that. She got me a whole bunch of limes. Nice girl, nice girl. Very nice. I'll use this for... I'll use this for bones. There you go, succulent cod with lamb ribs and breast-o lamb, sacrificial lamb. Let me see, whoa. Let me see what we got here for fruit, fresh pineapple, grapes, cantaloupe, orange. Oh, look at this kiwi. I've never seen kiwi of this color. Interesting. It's not leechy. I know it looks like leechy. Look at that. They mixed the limes with the lemons. They mixed limes and lemons. Here we have the giant New Zealand green-lip muscles. See, wait a minute now. Wait a minute. Let me get my bowl again. I didn't know they had some lemons out. Maybe the price of lemons went up. Hey, look at that. Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin pie. Let me get some real lemons, man. Limes for the codfish. See, I don't care about putting lime in my ice water because lime is very nice refreshing. As far as the catch of the day goes, I gotta have lemons unless I'm making ceviche. Here at the Royal Hibachi Grill in Bafay, Route 46 West out of Brooklyn, Jersey. Okay, that should do it. Look at the size of these New Zealand green-lip muscles. Look at the labia on that side. It's not really a labia. I'm just saying that. It looks like one. Babies crying because they can't get their way. And then they grow up to be president of the United States and they continue to cry in the White House. What I'm going to do is I'm going to put all my special delecables together so nobody takes them away. And then I'm going to set up my napkins.  It's all mixed with very nice codfish fillet, very thick. There's that very rude person that works at the front desk. I think she's the one that overcharged a good friend of mine before 3 p.m. charging for dinner. The Asian girl at the front desk. That's why I've been I've been scolding her lately. Very, well, I can't eat. I don't expect a lot from waitresses because they're even in diners, you know. They're weird. They're strange people, lack manners, lack courtesy.  You know, they take these jobs. Same thing with retail managers. They're assholes. Supermarkets are the worst. Okay, it's round two. The Royal Hibachi, Lafay, Route 46 West, South of Brooklyn, Jersey. Instead of doing a bed of brown rice and making my own custom-made paella like I did last Friday, custom-made paella Valenciana and using the brown rice. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use the chow mein fun rice noodle as a bed to place the seafood shellfish with the broth on top of it. This way the rice noodle absorbs the broth. Okay? No, no hardcore sushi yet. Just the, you know, the California roll type. What happened to the Mongolian barbecue, man? All right, here we go. Put that on top of this. That's it. With the chow mein fun, angel hair rice noodle, absorbing all the seafood broth or the liquid from the shellfish, which came from that. All right, that looks really good. The angel hair chow mein fun rice noodle, absorbing all the seafood broth. All right. Hey, look at that. Got roasted peppers, squash. Look at that. Yellow squash, zucchini. I don't know what that is. Oh, there's the eggplant. Look at that. Look at that. See? This is a good idea. There's the ice cream. Roasted eggplant. Very good here. That's it. I return to my table where there's a lot of light to get a good view of this succulent seafood delight. Seafood salad doesn't look bad at all. The only thing is I'm stuck. It looks like couscous salad, to be honest with you. Couscous, the larger Israeli style couscous. I'll see what's going on here. I'll tell you one thing. When football season starts, it will be a fantastic idea to put a sign in the front window, advertising the hot chicken wings here, have people come in and do take out, you know, buy it in bulk. I told the owner already, he thought it was an excellent idea. I would start it in pre-season when, you know, the pre-season games start in late summer. They have the best buffalo hot chicken wings you'll find anywhere. Really? Here we got here. Matt the Royal Hibachi buffet. We're 46 West out of Brooklyn, Jersey. Let's see what we got here. Any dumplings in here? Steamed dumplings. I've been refraining from the white flour products. Oh, sticky buns. Maybe I'll have some of them. Steamed. Okay, I'll get some, no, not dumplings. I'm sorry, I'm on the wrong side. I'll get some, some steamed, steamed sticky buns. What they have inside stuffed, but shrimp and tuna, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Salmon and tuna sashimi with two steamed sticky buns. No squash, no squash, no eggplant, I'm not in the mood. But I am in the mood for ice cream. I am in the mood for ice cream. Of course, this my so-called Kavon friend didn't even bother to say goodbye. They have no manners here once they become Americanized. All right, I was, it's so busy here, it's so crazy here on a Saturday at the Royal Hibachi buffet. We're 46 West out of Brooklyn, Jersey that I forgot to take you on a tour as I was procuring the food. But anyway, I have cream of broccoli soup, calamari or marinara sauce. I like tentacles. I don't know why these, these Americans are babies. They don't like the tentacles. They got to have the body, the rings, and then I got some succulent flan. But I did have a nice conversation with some young lady with very powdery lips, which was nice. And I'm here with little Jimmy Pesto. What is that? Snow crab? Snow crab, look at that. Snow crab. Little Jimmy Pesto's got snow crab. All right. The lady was spilling up on my face. I'm lucky I got that. You mean they were like grabbing it like they never ate it before? Yeah, that's why the lobster tails are gone. They didn't look too tasty though. No, no. Those that are remnants that nobody wants. What they did was they picked out the tails when they first bring it out. Okay, James P. Medan, Omega Life 21, aggressive discussions here at the Mongolian barbecue. Roy Lobachi, buffet, root 46 West out of Brooklyn, New Jersey. I got shrimp. I had chow mein fun, angel hair, rice noodles, a lot of shrimp. I got cabbage, onions. The usual Muay Pocante, and a lot of garlic. Yeah, that's mine too. Together. Wonderful, vaporized rice with steam. Look at that. Okay. I'm gonna, I'm gonna get my hot and spicy. But yeah, beautiful, beautiful, singing happy birthday to someone. They don't even know the words to the song. Do you believe somebody has a copyright on that damn song? You believe it only in greedy capitalist America would they actually have a copyright on the happy birthday song? Incredible. The greed that they get away with.  You want to copyright happy birthday to you happy birthday to you. This man is very busy on Saturday. Very busy. So busy. I'm tired. Just watching them work. I hope they they leave him a nice propina. Nice. Nice. They deserve it. They absolutely deserve it. I got one here. Let's take a point. Pretty soon mine over the shrinks. Got the young ins got the Asian cabbage, lots of shrimp, chow mein fun, angel hair, rice, noodles. A lot of garlic, hot pepper is the king of Mongolian barbecue. It happens to be Saturday. Towards the end of February 2019. The Royal Hibachi Grill and Buffet. 46 West out of the Jersey. It's the James P. Madonna of Megalike 21 Friends. Progressive discussions as well as the wonderful show about craft beer called Wild Card Wednesdays as well as other fine wine shows conducted by Mr. Ronald J. Cheerio of Louisiana craft beer reviews as seen on the web. James P. Madonna. Progressive discussions as seen on the web. Look at the vapors.  Everything is food and holistic health talk. As well as the International Brotherhood of Polyvance, which represents old school physical fitness. But in terms of the topic of this video, join everything is food on Facebook. I started the group in 2012.  Another food expert of Wayne New Jersey, Mick Von Raven, Anthony Laura, Jeff Zandalo, Sam Hunt, Donald, Donald Booth. Okay, if you can, if it's not far away, if it's far away, don't worry about it. You're busy. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. By the time you get to Sesame oil, you'll have 1000 people online. That's it. Hey, my food is done. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Now, I am bringing my very large Mongolian barbecue.  Is the sun going down already here? What's going on here? Sun's going down already. Mongolian barbecue extraordinaire. Okay, I was going to go for the ice cream. But look at the surprise I found here. You know what this is, people? This is fun. Oh, yeah. This is wine. Succulent wine. Latin American specialty. This is very rare to see this. It's not a caramel sauce. Look at that. It's a work of art. Look at that. Look at that beauty. I'm going to have Jeff Sambo. Look at that. And also, Texas's Bishop Brian, here we got Trey Leche, another Latin dessert. Trey Leche. With the Trey Leche sauce. But I'm happy with the flan. See what kind of ice cream they have. The same flavors they have every week. Okay, here we go. Strawberry, chocolate, coffee ice cream. Okay, that tops off. This week's lunch buffet at the Royal Hibachi Grill and buffet, Rue 46 West, out of New Jersey. Succulent eight custard flan with vanilla ice cream. Okay. And it looks really good. That's it. That should top off this week. It is the end of February 2019. This has been a Megalive 21 production.


Good morning, everyone, Basel Chapman here for the 9 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Market Update. I've just recorded my show 8 to 9. It will be replayed at 10 to 11. We're looking at the e-mini futures down 35. You can see this nine period moving average below the 14 period stayed pink all the way from about 7.30 this morning. Still pink. We'll see now it's flattening out. Is it able to turn around? I would just say, from my perspective, that the 10 minute chart suggests that it would take a rally into the 43.99, 44.05 area to really make a big difference. And you're at 43.89 right now. So that's going to be key. And certainly the 43.80s has to hold the support. That's the e-mini we're looking at. We're looking at the YM, which is the Dow futures down 205. Normally in this kind of seller from a peak, if you get really big strong triple digit down days in the Dow, that's a bad sign. But in this case, it's actually been just a whittle away to the downside. It hasn't really been big moves. You can see red candles, but it's not 400 points or anything like that. It's 200 points. So we'll see whether or not this sustains. The nine period is still over the 14 period moving average. If the Dow futures start to trade in the 33.900 to 33.800 area, that's going to be a big negative. But in the meantime, there could be a bounce. And we'll see if the Dow itself after 130 is more than minus 50 or minus 60. That says, uh-oh, it's really struggling. But if it actually even gets close to minus 20 or plus 20, that's going to be a good turnaround situation. So let's just go through this again. We've got the QQQ, the NDX100 down 3.81. Finally, they catching up to the others down at 360, Q36, but still the technicals on the daily and really look really strong. Well, I'll go to the gold right now. Gold was up a little bit earlier on, now it's up 16. And that means the dollar is probably giving back some of those big gains. It is up 39 ticks, nice scandal so far at 102.81. TLT is something I'm watching because so far it's been stuck in a range up $1.41 and 103.71. And Crude Oil, I didn't do that at all in my show. I meant to. Crude Oil is just down. It's making that H-pad. And I've been saying Crude Oil looks very weak. And it is down to 150. Have a wonderful rest of the day. Stay tuned for Morning Market Ficker with Tommy Jr., great programming here at TFNN, and I'll see you on Monday.


What's up everybody? James here for Jasper's CaseBrace.com. We just sold out another brand new release, 2022 Tops Luminaries Baseball. This is a 12 box case break, random teams number one, and again guys, one card per box. This is a high-risk, high reward type of break, but you do get one in case auto or auto relic in each box. Collect hit kings, homeroom kings cards, look for book cards, past and present greats, find cut autograph 101s. So this is a very fun product for us. We pulled some very big hits out of here, including that 50 autograph book back in 2020. Maybe looking to do it again here soon. Now, everybody that bought in straight up is from Jeremy down to Carl, and we have one filler, which was Anthony down to Gary. Jumbo 14. So congrats to those six winners. Then here are the teams. So we're going to randomize the customer names and teams, distribute the hits out. Here we go. Guys, roll it. We got a three and a two five times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five. Five times, two, three, two, five. Carl down to Jeremy, and we got three, two, five. One, two, three, four, five. Cleveland Guardians down to the Miami Marlins. All right, again, five, five, five. So Carl, you have the Cleveland Guardians, Gary with the Reds, Carl with the Blue Jays, Steve with the Brewers, Carl with the Giants, Angels, Phillies, Micah with the Tigers, Tommy John, you have the Yankees, Carl with the Red Sox and Cardinals, John with the Cubs, Carl, you have the Astros, Nationals, and Mariners, as well as the Diamondbacks, Micah with the Orioles, Logan with the White Sox, Carl with the A's, Pirates, Steve with the Braves, Carl with the Rangers, Royals, Padres, Mets, Gary with the Rockies, Carl, you also have the Rays.  Good luck. And Anthony with the Twins, Carl with the Dodgers, and then Jeremy Taylor with the Miami Marlins. If anybody wants to trade, this is a quick little trade window for you guys right now. If anybody wants to trade, give you guys a quick minute. Jeremy's saying, don't suppose any of you want the Marlins for trade, White Sox for trade, so if it's only you guys, you guys want to trade with each other, if not, I'm gonna close it. GMT saying actually Reds and Rockies for trade, so just let me know guys. I think if you're looking for a specific team, it's not bad to actually ask for it in the chat, but if you don't hear any responses and you don't want the team that you have, I'd probably just start trying to trade with in each other. That's chatty. All right, I got some proposed trades. Rockies for Marlins and then Rangers for Reds. All right guys, I'm not getting any responses. I'm gonna start closing the trade window. T. Please respond guys. If not, I'm gonna close it. W. C. C. W. C. When I put that period down, I'm gonna close it. W. Period. T. C. W. Trade. Window. Closed. All right, everybody decides to just keep what they got then. All right, so again, a pretty big case. Funny, we have a huge table here, but like this monitor is just ginormous. So it kind of like eats up a lot of space and then we have a bunch of like top loaders or to the side, but Anyway, let's open up this here. Got a little box right there and move it over here like this to get that out of the way. And then it should have no problem. Again, you know, huge boxes for just one card though, I must say. Yeah, unfortunately, Jeremy, you know, there's gonna be some better teams than others, that's for sure. So random team is good in a sense that everybody's paying the same price, but obviously not every team is worth that price. And also too, you know, not every team is also as cheap as that 180 price point either. I have no idea what the raise or like Mariners probably would have cost in this. All right, what do you guys got a 12 box case though? You never know. Here we go. Oh, I think we got a book.  No. Wait, yes, we did. Wilson Contreras. We got a guiding light booklet. Andre Dawson, which is three of three. We got Sammy Sosa and Wilson Contreras. Nice triple relic autograph book as the first hit. Look at that. That is pretty sweet. All Cubs and that is going to John. There you go. Very nice one. Next box. I must say that the boxes are very nice. We have 13 and 15 for the Devil Rays. Look at that Wade Boggs. He's wearing his glasses when he's batting. That's wild. 13 and 15. 3,000. Says right there. And there you go. Hit for 3,000 on 8, 7, 1999. That's Devil Rays, which is Tampa Bay Rays going to Carl. 8 of 10. Jaren Duran for the Boston Red Sox. Boston. That is going to Carl. A Shohei Otani for the Angels. That is 9 of 10. A little Jersey and autograph. And that is going to the Angels and Carl. Showtime. Salvador Perez for the Kansas City Royals. And that is Kansas City going to Carl. Alright folks. Halfway through here after this. How about Nolan Ryan? Texas Rangers. Where's the Rangers on the trading block or no? Is that tripping out? Was it Rangers? No. I don't think it was. Carl with the Rangers. 7 plus 5. And that is number 2 of 10. Alright. Halfway through folks. 6 more hits going on. Good luck. And 2 of 3, Eddie Murray. With a 304 batting average. That's for the Baltimore Orioles. Going to Michael. 5 left to go guys. And Ronald Acuna Jr. for the Braves going to Steve Birch. 7 of 10. And another one for the Braves. Freddy Freeman. 15 of 15. So that's our first double hit right? Alright. 3 more to go guys. That's Dodgers. Cody Bellinger. Dodgers that's going to Carl. Alright. 2 more to go folks. I feel like we've seen a big player like Shohei. We hit a book. And then rookie wise. What if we hit rookie wise. Man they really stuck these this year. Jeremy Durand. Kevin. What else could we be hiding in here? Good luck. Another Dodger. That's Mike Piazza. 7 of 15. So that's our second team double hit. Nice one there to Carl. Alright. Last box folks. So again I know this is a high risk. High reward type of break. We did pull some nice stuff out of here. Yes it was J-Dope. Last one here folks. Good luck. It's a 9 of 10. Looks like a red card. And it is Carl Yastremsky for the Boston Red Sox. And that is going to Carl.  No. Career home run totals but good joke. Alrighty folks. And there you go. Just like that. I know a lot of teams may have gone hit this. But that was a good one. Again Carl Yastremsky, Mike Piazza, Cody Ballinger, Freddie Freeman, Acunia, Eddie Murray. We got a Nolan Ryan, Salvador Perez, a little Shoahail Tani and Jairan Durand, Wade Boggs. And of course we got a 3 of 3 booklet here. Of these guys right there. So I appreciate it guys. That was Luminaries Baseball 12 box case. Thanks for watching.


Maria Sacre vs. Irina Camilia Bagou is the second quarter final for the Madrid Open for the ladies for 2023. Both players have been very impressive to get to the quarter final stage. Bagou entered the tournament as the number 31 seed and we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round she take on Mukava. We're just taking Contebaid out in the first round and after a close second set, Bagou would get through in straights 6-4-7-5. In the third round she take on the 33rd seed Rodgers who was a replacement for Anstjaber who was injured. This was no problem for Bagou getting through in straight sets 7-5-6-2. In the fourth round she take on the 14th seed Samsonova who had just destroyed Osterpenko in the previous round. And after a slow start she was forced to come back getting through in straights sets eventually 6-4-6-4 to get to the quarter finals. Sacre entered the tournament as the number 9 seed and we're going to buy in the first round. In the second round she take on the Qualifier Ruse. This was no problem for Sacre getting through in straights sets 6-4-6-4. In the third round she take on the Wildcard Massarova who had just taken out Vecic in the previous round. And after dropping the first set Sacre would have to fight back to win 3-6-6-3-6-3 to get to the fourth round. In the fourth round she take on Bodosa the number 26 seed who had just demolished Coco Goff in the previous round. Sacre looked amazing serving extremely well getting through in straights sets 6-4-6-4 to make it to a first quarter final in Madrid. These two have played three times before with Sacre leading the head to 2-1 with their previous match being last year in St. Petersburg in the semifinals. Sacre having to fight back in a 3-set victory was a bit the first time they've ever played on a clay court which might give Bogu a bit of an edge. If Bogu's going to win this one she needs to limit the errors. She's looking very confident this week hasn't dropped a set for the entire week up until the stage and those wins over Sampson over especially are very very impressive so let's see if she can keep that confidence going and try and limit those errors and not give Sacre anything. If Sacre's going to win this one she needs to serve well like she did against Bodosa. She played very strong against Bodosa and she also dictated the rallies as well. She needs to continue doing that but she also needs to keep it out of her head that she is the favourite and also the moment the fact that she might be able to make a semifinal. She will be the very big favourite in this one so keep that out of her head and not to get distracted. This is going to be an interesting matchup because again we didn't expect Bogu to be in this stage and Sacre hasn't had a great season especially being in that section with players like Bodosa and Goff and with Jabernoff being here it's a little bit random and I'm going to go with Sacre to make the semifinal. She doesn't lose the quarter finals of these tournaments very often. She's made a lot of semifinals I think she might make one again in Madrid but let me know down in the comments below who's going to make it to the semifinal.


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Now, on to the decals. And the set we're looking at in this video is for War for Cybertron Trilogy Netflix Soundwave with Ravage and Laserbeak. And this decal set includes four decal sheets on a combination of foil and vinyl backing. So now, without further ado, let's take a look at Soundwave, both before and after Toyhacks decals. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. In robot mode, straight out of the packaging, Ravage and Laserbeak look pretty good. Though Laserbeak looks a lot better. Take a quick look at Ravage first.  And he's got the silver launchers, some gray painted eyes. A Tampa Graph 60 right there for tape mode. And he's got a purple Decepticon logo there. Really not much to look at. There's some detailing here on top. I like the fact that this Ravage actually transforms into a tape instead of a shield like Siege Soundwave. Siege Ravage, excuse me. But still, the figure leaves a lot to be desired. Laserbeak, on the other hand, looks great. Look at all the paint applications there for the wings. Damn product number right there, very blatant. Purple Decepticon insignia on the forehead. Love the yellow eyes. I actually love the head sculpt on this Laserbeak figure. He looks so good. Silver right here for the back. And really, that is it for the paint applications. So there you go, guys. There you have Ravage and Laserbeak in robot modes before and after. Now in robot mode here, Ravage doesn't really get any new decals for the robot mode specifically. All the new decals you see are for his cassette mode. But they do show up there on the legs and on his back. But I'll go into more details with those decals in his cassette mode. Laserbeak, on the other hand, gets a brand new silver decal right there.  A decal that covers up the product number. Decals here on the back tail fin sections. And he gets new eye decals. And man, those were a challenge to put on. But they do look really good. I love how they catch the light. So there you go, guys. Ravage and Laserbeak in robot mode after. In cassette mode, straight out of the packaging, Ravage blows Laserbeak out of the water. Ravage actually looks like a cassette. You got the MC-60 up here in the corner. Japan, you got the little marks right there where the tape would be. You got the details that look like the spools. I mean, I dig it. Ravage looks pretty good in this mode. At least from the front, from the back, not so much. Laserbeak, on the other hand, he's just, all his details are the same details he had in robot mode just folded up into a rectangle. So there you go, guys. Ravage and Laserbeak in cassette mode before. And after. Now, in cassette modes, Laserbeak here doesn't get any decals. So we'll be focusing our attention here on Ravage. And he gets a lot. He looks fantastic now, just like a micro-cassette. There are all kinds of decals that Ravage gets. So you really want to pay attention to where everything goes because unfortunately, on Toyhack's sticker map online, he's shown in robot mode instead of cassette mode. But if you look at the decals and the way they're placed on the sheet, like right here, these are all of Ravage's decals, they line up perfectly. Got them upside down. They line up perfectly with how they go on the figure. You start right here and you can see like this little shape here is the middle. Right here is there. So just follow along with here or follow along with the decal sheet and you're good to go. And I really like how Toyhack's made him look like a real cassette. Of course, I had him upside down. You got the 60 up here, the MC-60, Japan. It looks like the spool there on the inside. The spool details there, metal position A. I really like the looks of this. It looks like a cassette and it is glorious. So there you go, guys. There is Ravage after. In robot mode, straight out of the packaging, Soundwave looks amazing and very faithful to his generation one counterpart. Taking a closer look at the figure. Love the head sculpt, especially his light piped eyes. I mean, this figure has some of the best light piping ever. Let me get him under the light here so you can take a look. That is awesome. I love that. Look how deep red that is. And it really doesn't take much light to really fire that off. I love the looks of that. Paint applications around his chest tape deck door. Decepticon insignia right there in the middle. My one complaint. I do not like that translucent plastic. You can look right through and see Soundwave's interior. I know the original G1 figure had to clear chest. I'm just not a fan. We've got some yellow paint applications here on the side. Moving on down to the waist. We've got the silver buttons that carry over from tape deck mode. Let's see. We've got some silver here on the shoulders. Down here on the legs, we've got silver knees. Gold underneath the knees and silver for the shins. And that's pretty much it for paint applications. Some silver up here on the shoulders. So all in all, a great looking Soundwave figure. And I cannot wait to see what Toyhacks can do for him. So there you go guys. Soundwave in robot mode before and after. Soundwave gets a superior upgrade thanks to Toyhacks. And the first decal you're probably noticing is the new decal for his chest. You do get a couple different options.  I of course went with blue because it looks more like his cartoon and comic book appearance from generation one. And of course you also get a brand new purple Decepticon logo for the chest. Taking a look at the head. It gets a new chrome decal for the mouth plate that I think looks really good. Love how that chrome catches the light. New decals here for the shoulder cannon. You've got these red and black stripes and some red right there in the center. On the shoulders you get these tiny red decals along with these three yellow decals and this little blue one and those are all individual and they are fun to put on. You also get new red decals there for the wrists. Down here by the crotch or on the crotch you get the chrome decals for the buttons that actually now say play, stop and record. His concussion blaster also gets the red and black stripes and red there at the base of the barrel. Moving on down to the knees he gets new red decals and right here on the knees you get these black decals with the red and yellow squares. Now cool hidden decals within Soundwave's chest cavity. There's a decal right there that shows a cassette and flip him around. He's got a technical readout for the nemesis. I dig that. That is really cool. Now Soundwave did come with IDcals but I just couldn't bring myself to put decals over that glorious light piping. So if you want to see what Soundwave looks with those IDcals let me bring in the Toyhack's Siege version. So right there that's what those IDcals would have looked like. They look great and I didn't mind putting them on the Siege figure because he had the yellow eyes and I've never been a fan of Soundwave with the yellow eyes. Also I want to point out, let me put Netflix Soundwave here beside Siege Soundwave, Toyhack's did not reuse the same decals. So kudos to Toyhack's right there that could have been an easy out but they make these two look completely different and I love it. So there you go guys, Soundwave in robot mode after. In micro cassette recorder mode, straight out of the packaging Soundwave looks great and still retains a lot of the paint applications from robot mode. There are a few sculpting differences though. You see the right and left right there with the molded in speakers. Down here on the buttons you've got the play, the stop, record, fast forward and rewind, the record battery right there and that's pretty much it. Not a lot of new paint applications but man does this guy look good. This is the Soundwave we were waiting on for years. He doesn't turn into some weird spaceship. So there you go guys, there is Soundwave in micro cassette recorder mode before and after. Soundwave's micro cassette recorder mode gets quite a few new decals thanks to Toyhack's. Of course we've seen all these before in robot mode but the cassette specific decals include new decals right here on top of the figure. These are vinyl decals that wrap all the way around so you want to get a heat source to make sure those mold correctly to the figure. There's also a counter decal right there. New silver decals here for the speakers. Moving on down you get new decals here for the bottom of the cassette mode that covers what was light blue and now has a darker blue that matches the rest of the figure including a new recorder battery logo right there with a light. So that's pretty cool. New decals right here that went on that light gray plastic that makes it match more with this center plastic piece here. There's also a decal that says Walkman. Also on top of Soundwave, new blue decal right there that covers up that gray section. So all in all really nice job on Soundwave's recorder mode that makes you look even more generation one. So there you go guys. Soundwave in micro cassette recorder mode after. Toyhack's once again knocks it out of the park with this decal set for Netflix Soundwave. I thought this figure was awesome before but as usual Toyhack's greatly improves the looks of this figure. I wish more could have been done with Ravage and Laserbeak. What they did get is not too bad and there's no amount of decals that can fix Ravage anyway. Now guys if you enjoyed the video don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos. Once again this is Patriot Prime signing out. Hoorah!