The following is a presentation of TFNN. Good morning, Market Kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good morning everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN 8.30 a.m. Friday morning, 60 minutes ago until the opening bell and we got markets in negative territory, extending the losses we had from yesterday. Right now you're looking at S&P, negative by about 10 points, trading at 32.17. We actually dipped below 3200 briefly by less than half a point, but overnight at about three in the morning Eastern Time, S&Ps at 31.99, currently trading 32.16, still negative by about 10 points. You look at the action we had yesterday, quite the sell-off from 32.84 overnight yesterday morning. We reach a high intraday of we'll call it about 32.70 and about 11.30 a.m. Eastern Time and then the acceleration began from 32.70 down to a low point. We hit at about 2 o'clock of 32.18, so you're talking about 50 plus points in the S&P. We finish out the trading day somewhere around that range and then we trade lower overnight. NASDAQ, NQ Futures, quite the acceleration. You had Apple, you had Microsoft, both of those companies down almost 5% yesterday. Remarkable numbers when you compare that to the market capitalization and the amount of money lost in those two equities alone. NASDAQ, really from 10,900 down to almost 10,500. We're talking about almost 400 points that we traded lower. We reach a level of 10,377 overnight just off those levels at 10,452. The Dow, 26,447 made it to a low of 26,290. So much for Dow, 27,000 that we had early, early yesterday morning. Gold contract, excuse me, gold contract. It just doesn't stop folks yesterday. We make it up to 18.97, holding up relatively well right now, 18.92 and the price of the gold just under $1,900. Silver down 20 cents at 22.78. Notes and bonds, pretty muted action, sitting right above that 139.15 price level. We made it as high as 139.25 overnight, currently sitting 139.18, the 10-year yield, .587% right now. All right, when you get into Asia, so how about the Hong Kong markets, Shanghai, Shanghai down 3.86%, you have the Nikkei down about 6, 10th percent, Shanghai really getting hit overnight. And then as far as Europe, checking in on Europe numbers, the DAX down about 1.5%, FTSE down 1.1, CatKurl down 1.2. So some negative action on Europe, on Asia, on our markets, we're at some frothy levels up here folks putting the S&P just for some context. I mean, you wouldn't even know that yesterday's pullback was as dramatic as it is. We're basically just sitting right up at these levels. The high that we had back in early June, $32.31, we're within about 14 points of that price level. I'd say that's a pretty comfortable point to be at in the market when you have so much uncertainty going on. We had Intel earnings after the bell last night, jumping into their numbers, we're down about $8. How about that folks? From $60 to $52.19, my goodness, right, $8, $6 move representing about 10%, you're talking about 13 plus percent to the downside on Intel, they're going to be delaying one of their chips. Let me see. I think I got that article up there. There we go. Intel earnings, okay. Disappointing Q3 earnings, guidance as it delays next generation chips. You don't want to be delaying the next generation of the product that is the only product you're making, which is microchips. Intel beat on the top and bottom lines, earnings guidance for the current quarter, lighter than expected, companies started giving full-year guidance again. So EPS, $1.23 versus $1.11, look at that beat on revenue, right, 19.7 versus 18.55. One quarter ago Intel chose not to give full-year guidance, but on Thursday, they gave it again. Now sees 485 a share, 75 billion in revenue, applying 4% growth. The company announced delays to the release of chips, sporting tiny seven nanometer transistors or higher performance as it seeks to catch up with AMD, which already has seven nanometer products available. So seven nanometer transistors, that's the wave of the future, I guess. Intel discovered an issue with the manufacturing process that caused lower yields of flawless chips last year. Intel executive said seven nanometer chips would launch in 2021, and that came after delay of Intel's 10 nanometer products, looks like delays, delays, delays, right? So the company's seven nanometer-based CPU products timing is shifting approximately six months relative to prior expectations. That's a big one, folks, six months. The primary driver is the yield of the process. Well, the primary driver is the fact that they can't turn out flawless chips, which based on recent data is now training approximately 12 months behind the company's internal target. So investors, not happy Intel trading down pretty sharply today at 52.08 right now on their earnings from last night. It's just not stopping. I mean, we're down three bucks from where we were last night, when you were already approaching 10% down in that stock, it just keeps going, folks. All right, what else we have going on? So it was all but expected, but China retaliating against the US as we kick out China out of their Houston consulate. China orders the US to close the consulate in Chengdu. China's foreign ministry announced Friday revoking the license for the US consulate general in the southwestern city of Chengdu. The consular covers the autonomous region of Tibet, the municipality of Chongqing maybe, and the province, these are some tough ones, folks. The announcement came after the US ordered China to close its consulate in Houston. So tensions ratcheting it up. You look up where we are, US embassy and consulates in China. We got a lot of them. Chengdu, there's the one that's been highlighted, order to close consulates, embassy in Beijing. We'll see how this plays out. Tensions ratcheting up in a big way. Okay, stock's making a lot of moves. You know what? We got to get into Goldman. Goldman, the price of doing business, it goes up. But for a company like Goldman, $4 billion, $3.9 will round it up to four Goldman Sachs and Malaysia agree to almost a $4 billion settlement over one MDB scandal. They were talking about criminality here, folks. And when you come to the table with $4 billion, those criminal charges, they go away. Goldman Sachs, they reached the sentiment with the government over a multi-billion dollar scandal, $2.5 billion cash payout by Goldman and a guarantee by the bank to return at least 1.4 billion in assets linked to those bonds. Confident that securing more money from Goldman Sachs compared to previous attempts, which were far below expectations, so that's Malaysia. Goldman Sachs has consistently denied wrongdoing saying that certain members of the formal Malaysian government and one MDB lied to it about how the proceeds of the bond sales would be used. Man, poor Goldman Sachs, they're getting lied to. That's a bummer. Yeah, the sarcasm, folks. The units of Goldman Sachs put it not guilty to the charges, nonetheless, pretty remarkable. Now the US and Malaysia authorities say about $4.5 billion was stolen from one MDB in an elaborate scheme that spanned the globe, an implicated former prime minister and Goldman Sachs, among others. So Goldman Sachs though, let's check it out, right, GS, look at that, nothing like it, trading higher folks, 20474 from 21188 overnight. And for some context on where this stock has been holding up pretty relatively well, we go from 130 to 203 to 205, you back it up on for some longer context. Pretty remarkable when you look at 208, right? 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Go to TFNN.com then hit Watch Tiger TV. That's TFNN.com then hit Watch Tiger TV for the latest market information. Folks, S&P's right now negative by 12, Nasdaq futures negative by 113, the Dow negative by 84. I got a chart up here of Verizon. So Verizon out with their numbers, this a super duper long term chart going back to 2004. It's interesting now, my mom had worked for Verizon, little bit biased in this full disclosure. She's got some Verizon shares out there, so I'm always following it. Verizon, that long term channel, it doesn't get much more defined on a monthly basis, folks. You take that low from whether it's 2010, you take the low from 2015, you take it 2017, 18, that low we just had from COVID, somewhat near the end of it. We'll get into the numbers in a moment, putting it into the timeframe we have. Here's their earnings action, talk about a little bit of volatility on Verizon. We closed at 55.85, we're up currently at 56.14 to get into their numbers, what they said. So quarterly profit of $1.18 a share, 3 cents above estimates, revenue beat forecast as well. Not surprising, they said experienced a negative impact from COVID, which hurt wireless service. That one little interesting, right? Everyone's got to be on their phone how that's happening, but guess what? Money, money is tight for a lot of people right now.  Maybe you spend a little bit too much on your cell phone bill. Maybe you'll spend a little bit too much on your cable bill, right? All that stuff, you trim it up, save some money during this time, which hurt wireless service and of course, ad spending revenue. American Express out with their numbers this morning as well. Quarterly earnings, 29 cents a share. The estimate was 11 cents loss. How about that? Revenue came in below estimates, however. So they made 29 cents a share. The market said they were going to lose 11 cents a share. But the revenue came in below estimates. The company said spending volumes hit a low point in April followed by gradual rebound in May and June. American Express shares so far this morning, AXP is their symbol, a little bit lower to 95.80 actually spiked to almost 94, yeah, 94 on the dot on their number at 7 AM. That conference call just beginning seems like maybe they're liking what they're saying as it's ticking up a bit within about 50 cents or where we closed yesterday on American Express. Honeywell out with their numbers, beat estimates by 5 cents a share, quarterly earnings at $1.26. Revenue beats as well. Industrial conglomerates said it will face ongoing sales challenges in certain segments due to the pandemic, including aerospace and oil and gas. Well, we know oil and gas has been in big trouble. Rebounded somewhat nicely recently, but I guess aerospace as well. I'll tell Elon Musk that though. Slumberj, oil field services company, quarterly profit, 5 cents a share. The estimate was a penny a share loss. Revenue in line with expectations as with others in the industry, Slumberj customers reduce their activity as oil prices swamp. Not surprising. So Honeywell and Slumberj, HON is Honeywell. There's a little volatility for you right now. We're trading at about $155, so up a bit from $153.73, SLB, Slumberj with their numbers, they beat so from 1930 to 1970 so far on Slumberj shares. We covered Goldman, we covered Intel, Mattel out with their earnings, $0.26 a share for the latest quarter, smaller than $0.34 that the market, excuse me, they lost $0.26 a share, smaller than the $0.34 loss the market was looking for. They beat on revenue as well, Barbie brand, 35% growth. How about that Barbie, Coronavirus, the slump good to the Barbie brand, MAT is their symbol. I mean, quite a pop folks, from $11.63, we were up more than a dollar on their numbers last night to $12.67, we're still up about 50 cents, decent move on an $11 stock up to $12.14 right now on Mattel earnings. Disney, so they just keep pushing back the Mulan movie folks, they're gonna delay the release of its Mulan movie while also pushing back new installments of Star Wars and Avatar at the same time. The Paramount unit of Viacom pushed back the release date of its Top Gun sequel, Top Gun Maverick, you got Tom Cruise back in the saddle, Top Gun. I'm interested in on checking that one out, I'm sure with a lot of people. Long awaited sequel, these movie companies, it is just you can't overstate the difficult nature they're dealing with here in terms of trying to be in a world. And there you see the reaction on Disney, right? Even from yesterday, we are at 119, you see the pop from 118, 115, 50 right now, long term Disney plus, growing at rapid numbers. But in the short term, you can't overstate, trying to produce movies, trying to put them into movie theaters. And then the parks business as well as you have Disney down at about 115, 50 this morning, almost $2.50 from the close yesterday of 118, 12. All right, let's check in on some of the tech stocks before we get around. Microsoft, I mean, look at this drop off, right? So you get Microsoft earnings after the bell on Wednesday. The cascade really begins middle of the day on Thursday, and you had Microsoft. It spiked to 2, 10, 92. We were within a hair of where we closed at. And then we basically finished the day at about 202, spiked down to 199, Microsoft at about 200, lost about $10 folks in the span of 24 hours, 5% from Microsoft, we were to the downside. Apple shares similar action on Apple, look at that cascade. I mean, this week, we were at 398, we just dropped to 363. Talking about $35 in the span of three trade. In 365, 75, some of these tech stocks just maybe getting a little bit ahead of themselves, folks, this is a daily. I mean, it's remarkable that even during COVID, we barely, barely saw Apple pay the price of that big of a bar, right? Check it out, I mean, maybe the worst of the worst, March 20th around. We dropped from 251 to 228. Like I just mentioned, this bar here, oops, we're talking about on Apple from 388 to 368, overnight you saw that a little bit even wider in terms of the highs to lows, but big action for sure. Amazon shares under 3,000 this morning, we're trading at 2948 give or take. We closed yesterday 2986, Amazon just been bouncing around between about 3,000 and 3,200 since about July 6th, since we eclipsed that level. And we got check in on our man Elon Musk and Tesla pulling back yet again as well. Quite the day for Tesla yesterday, zoom on this daily bar. How about a $209 bar from 1689 to 1480? We closed at 1513, but the action this morning, these volatile stocks, man. It's just from 1716 to 1407 in this span of almost 24 hours. You almost can't overstate that, folks. 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You know what else is trading higher? Beer. Boston beer, more than double the consensus estimate of $243 a share. Quarterly earnings, how about $488 a share for the second quarter? New? Not surprising when you beat by profit like that. Top forecast as well. Help by a surge in demand for home consumption of its products, even as bars and restaurants were shut down. Pretty remarkable when you think about the amount of beer that's probably consumed outside of the home in terms of bars, restaurants, parties, even parties at Friend's House, if you're talking about. But Sam Adams, look at this, from $660, we're trading with a pretty wide bid ask right now. 32 by 718, but nonetheless, charging higher for some context on this stock, folks. It's a good time to be a Samuel Adams beer holder from 400 down to 300, and we're gonna open probably about 690 to 700 this morning on Sam Adams. 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We have made it to day five post-surgery and I have made it upstairs all by myself because I was in desperate need of some caffeine. So we are making some English breakfast tea. Close competitor for first place on my favorites list between English and Irish breakfast tea. Is that a joke? To all my tea drinkers out there, are you guys milk and sugar ignore tea people or are you purists? Today is a milk and sugar kind of day. So as I am allowing my tea to steep, I thought I would talk about something that I realized I have completely neglected to address and I have a prop which I think you guys might find interesting. Why was there a screw in my amputated leg or the part of my leg that was still attached to my body? So like my residual limb, my stump. I talked in my surgery video which I will link above and below about how they were able to remove the screw. I was really happy because there was risk that it might start unscrewing itself, so on and so forth. But if they are just chopping off a limb, where would a screw go? Why would you even need a screw? So let's talk about that. Comforting and warm tea check. So let's talk about why there was a screw through my leg. I'll pop an x-ray up on the screen. So this was taken maybe a month and a half ago. Why was there a screw through my leg? This is not common for all below knee amputees and I don't know that this ever happens for above knee amputees. I feel like the last five months have definitely been an education and one of the things that I learned is that not all amputations are created equal and I mean that also in that you know it's going to be different for every person and what is right is going to be different for every person. But there are different kinds of procedures. Different ways legs can be amputated and different body parts can be amputated. So in my case, the kind of procedure that was used, the amputation technique that was used was called an ERDL, E-R-T-L. Quick side note because I realized I just did that on camera. I have a weird tick in that I will often fingerspell things randomly, usually to myself. I learned the American Sign Language alphabet when I was a kid and so I think it's almost like a, it's like an unconscious thing. I will like, if I'm saying ERDL, like E-R-T-L, I will, my hands will just do things. Anyways, moving on. So this particular technique can be done actually a variety of ways.  So it looks like this. I hope I did that right on screen. Essentially it creates a bone bridge. They don't always use a screw. Sometimes I believe that they can use stitching. I don't know how you stitch bones together honestly. I believe that that was the original technique used. I know that it's generally like better long term if you don't use a screw. However, I do not know how you get bones to fuse together without a screw. So it's very common practice to actually use a screw. My surgeon used a screw. That's right. This screw was inside my body. I can't lie to you guys. It actually wasn't. It was a wood screw that I found in my garage. I was a screw. Where would I be? I semi-organized the garage and now I can't find anything. Success! I tried. I tried really hard to get the screw back from my body and if I tried really hard I mean I called the hospital after the fact like two days after surgery because I was like I need that back. Like I really want that back. I could make something cool. Like I could make a bracelet or a necklace or something neat and slightly morbid but cool out of it. And I could show you guys. Yeah, that was a really late afterthought and I called this surgeon on call and he was like yeah it's against hospital policy. We couldn't do that anyways even if we still had it and I got really sad.  So actually it is probably a fairly accurate representation. Lame. I know. So there was a screw in my leg so that bone bridge would fuse. That bone bridge makes it so that my amputation is a lot stronger. Otherwise you kind of have I guess you could say chopsticks coming down. Like both your bones, your tibia and your fibular coming down and they just end. That's okay too. That definitely works. That's been a technique that has been used on many people for I mean I guess centuries probably. But because I'm younger because I'm active this definitely provides a lot more stability. Someone else actually asked about this general concept in the comment section a couple of days ago about like why can't they just make something permanent like screw something into your bones and then make it come out and they actually have that. They have a procedure called osteointegration where essentially they put a rod into your actual bone and it comes out of your skin and then will attach to basically a permanent prosthetic. That is not commonly practiced yet and I was literally about to tell you I don't know that it happens with bologna amputees but then I was like Joe do some research first and it does actually. It looks really interesting for bologna amputees. Check this out. It is more common in other countries and I think Australia does have kind of the leading centers for this stuff. So a fellow YouTuber actually did have osteointegration done. I watched her videos before I ever had my amputation. Her name is Ashton Murdoch. I'll link her videos down below and she had to go overseas to Australia to have this procedure done. There are definitely risks with it. I think there is a little ways for it to come to be more commonly practiced but it's super promising. I think it's a really cool idea and I would love to see it more commonly practiced if it's a safe thing to do. It's like super interesting isn't it? It feels like it kind of looks like the future doesn't it? It would be a lot faster to put on and take off prosthetics if you just like clipped it in to yourself rather than having to go through the kit and caboodle that we have to go through to put on prosthetics the other way. Some of the reasons why osteointegration is not more commonly practiced are definitely the risks. Infection risk is really high because it's literally like coming out of your skin. It's out of your bone and then out of your skin. So you can understand where there are risks with that. Skin breakdown is a serious concern and breakage of internal and external parts due to how the pressure loading of everything. So I think there is more research to be done but it definitely works for some people. So there are a lot of different techniques that can be used depending on what kind of amputee you are, depending on what your lifestyle is and where in the world you are, but the kind of procedure I had was an hurdle procedure. Whenever I say that, I think I'm saying hurdle weirdly. So that is why I had not this screw but a very similar screw through my leg. Unfortunately, one of the big problems with actually keeping this in though it does provide stability is that it starts like unscrewing itself in your leg which you can understand is really painful and then you actually have to have surgery again to have that taken out, which is why I begged my doctor like please for the love of God, if it is safe, just take it out now so we can avoid surgery in the future. A friend of mine had surgery with the same surgeon actually and ended up having her screw back out, I think it was about a year or a year and a half after her amputation and so I really wanted to avoid that happening so I was incredibly grateful that he could just get it done all in one fell swoop. Also want to let you guys know my leg continues to heal really well. I am feeling much better on day, I think it's five today than I did even yesterday. Strength is coming back, everything's going wonderfully and I super appreciate you guys being here and following my journey. By the way, random question of the day for you guys, if you had surgery and had hardware taken out, would you want it back? Because I really did, I was bummed that I couldn't get it back and I've also had screws back before when I had all my ankle surgeries, I had lots of screws in there, the big old plate and I got those back because it was through a different hospital system and it was also years ago and I kept those for a very long time until I lost them in a house fire which was a bummer. So what about you guys, would you want them back if you had surgery and had hardware removed? And with that, I bid you adieu for today and bye to this screw which is actually a wood screw that we use to fix our fence when it fell over in a windstorm not that long ago. I love you guys, I'm thinking about you and I'll talk to you soon. Bye guys.


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If you've ever paid more for a software subscription than you've strictly had to go ahead and type a capital Y in the chat. I'm sure there's going to be lots of people who can empathize with that feel. What we're going to do is take a quick look at the Nacho Nacho platform. And as you can see, we'll actually be able to see exactly how much money on the company has been spent on a month-to-month basis as well as how much has been spent in total. Our solution is really centered around creating a separate, virtual card for every single subscription and every user within your company. You're going to get granular spend control for every single subscription. So I'll come to Nacho Cards here and create a virtual Nacho Card. And we're going to assign it to a member of the team. We're going to give it to Bob Ross right here. And let's say we're trying to use our Nacho Card to manage our Google Wars. So I'll type in Google Wars right here. And it's going to ask us to set a limit for how much money we're spending with this card per month. Let's say we're spending in the company maybe about $50 per month. I'm going to set a limit that's slightly higher than that, so $60 per month. And boom, the card has been created. This one is not an actual card number. You're not going to be able to spend any money with this information. If you were in a real account, you would actually be able to take this and you'd go directly to Google Payment Portal and input this information. And you would be able to use this as your payment source for a card. If you had any issues, you can actually click a single button right here and suspend the card. What happens now is if somebody else tries to charge the card, it's not going to go through. So you'll get a notification in your email saying this card has been charged, but it didn't go through. And if we were to resolve whatever issue you had with the vendor, you can actually click a single button and reactivate the card. Now, very, very simple to update the restrictions on the card. Let's say we wanted the amount that we can spend on the card to be $80. So let's say we added a couple more people to Google subscription that you could just click here and save. Another thing that you might be able to do is, for example, if you wanted to create a card for free trial, but you didn't want to to cancel the trial in a couple of days. What I used to do is create a calendar notification to remind myself to cancel the card in a couple of days. What you can do right here is actually set the expiry date. So, for example, the trial is for one month and we can set the card to end in a week. And right here, after the week, the card is going to be expired already. And when the vendor tries to charge the card, it's not going to go through. It's very, very simple. You're not going to need to set any other reminders. Something else that I can show you here is we can take a look at the members within the company. You're going to be able to see exactly who's paying for what and how much they're spending on a month on the basis. You'll be able to see the different subscriptions that are associated with them, as well as the most recent transactions that they have. The other thing that I'll show you is Nacho Nacho Marketplace. So, you're actually eligible for thousands of dollars of credits. For example, AWS, Twilio, SendGrid, just to name a couple. Just for Nacho Nacho user. You're also eligible for up to 30% lifetime cashback just for being a new user of these software subscriptions if you're already paying for Nacho Nacho. So, for example, if you want to try Canva, then you'll be able to get 20% cashback for the first year of the Canva plan. You're using as long as you're a new user. The final thing that I'll show you is over here on the subscriptions tab. You're actually able to see exactly what kind of subscriptions are being paid for within the company. So, for example, if we wanted to take a look at, well, I know that our company is paying for LinkedIn. And we can see that, oh, okay. The company has three different LinkedIn subscriptions. The first one being for Bombras, second one for Vanessa, their one for Nazareth. And one of these subscriptions is suspended, so it's not no longer being paid for. If you wanted to off-board a member of your company, then you can come here and come into here and members. And let's say we wanted to off-board Vanessa, she's no longer with us. Very, very simple. All you have to do is click a single button and you'll be able to suspend all of their cards. Very, very simple. Very, very painless. Thanks. Yeah. Nacho Nacho here is really here to help nonprofits succeed. So if you're looking to stretch your software budget further, you're...


Hi everyone, Joe for jazbyscasebreaks.com, quick little number block randomizer for Redskins, Jags, Ravens, Vikings, Rams, those five teams right there, pick your team 11, I think everyone knows how this works by now, but there, if you're new to this, got all the instructions right there. Big thanks to these folks for getting into it, there are the numbers right here, let's roll it, let's randomize it, three and a four is seven times for each list. And seventh and final time, after seven, we've got Kurt down to Gerald, Gerald with last spot mojo in the last spot, three and a four, seven times for these two. And seventh and final time, good luck, we got one down to zero, one down to nine, seven, seven, seven, there we go. All right, Kurt with one, Rick with four, Mark with eight, Bernard with three and two, Tim with six, Bernard with five, Stephen K with seven, Chris with zero, so you'll get any and all redemptions for those teams in that tab down there. And then Gerald with nine, let's order these numerically. And in a separate video will be the break itself, pick your team 11, stick around for that, jazbyscasebreaks.com.


For this review of Rampart, I broke out my Rampart cosplay. Huh? Huh? The subject of this week's review is a video game whiz. Estimating Rampart's age based on when the figure was released, his first video game console would not have been your Xbox 5 or your PS 360. No, his first console likely had stylish faux wood grain. Back in the early 80s, we didn't need ergonomic controllers with lots of buttons and triggers. We just needed one joystick and one button. Our games didn't need good graphics, or interesting characters, or realistic environments, or sound effects. Those games weren't very good. Hello everybody hooded co-recomander788 here. This is the show where we review every vintage G.I. Joe toy from 1982 to 1994. I'd like to thank a couple new patrons. Thank you Dustin T. Kordish and Rebel Dad 13. It's thanks to the support of people like them that I can continue doing these videos. Thank you very much. Imagine a cold, windy gray day. You're in a stone bunker looking out on a beach. There's a light rain making everything damp and gloomy. Just beyond the horizon is the enemy. They're coming by sea and by air. They want to get by you, and they'll happily destroy you on the way. You are ready. You will give them all the fight they can take. Any ground they gain will come at a cost they are not willing to pay. If you can imagine that scene, then you understand Rampart. G.I. Joe went through a lot of changes in the 1990s, but the 90s weren't all bad. In fact, there were a few toys that embodied the spirit of G.I. Joe, and that's what we're going to look at this time. HCC 788 presents Rampart. This is Rampart, G.I. Joe's shoreline defender from 1990. This figure was available in 1990 only. It was discontinued for 1991. There were no other versions of Rampart in the vintage era. There was one modern version of Rampart in 2018 as part of the G.I. Joe Collectors Club Figure Subscription Service. As a shoreline defender, his role involves fending off attacks by sea. He should not be confused with the small G.I. Joe vehicle, the Coastal Defender, though it would make sense to have a shoreline defender on a Coastal Defender. A Rampart is defined as a barrier or embankment used as a fortification. The name Rampart is probably a reference to a line in the Star Spangled Banner. Prototype names for Rampart included Counterfire, Groundfire, Airburst, Checkmate, and Deadline. Honestly, all of those prototype names are good. They all would have fit well with the character. You may notice this figure is both a 1990s G.I. Joe and a realistic looking figure. There are no neon colors on this guy. No spring-loaded missile launchers. Not a spot of orange. For G.I. Joe, the 90s didn't really start with 1990. The tropes we most associate with the 90s didn't really take hold until later. The spring-loaded missile launchers were introduced in 1991. The garish colors of eco-warriors also hit in 1991. Proliferation of absurdly specific sub-teams started in 1992. Mega Marines mutants were added in 1993. Space aliens were introduced in 1994. Rampart wasn't a space trooper or a ninja or an eco-warrior. He fulfilled a role that made sense for a military team. When Cobra Morays and Hydro Sleds and Sea Rays attack, they need Rampart to fight back. Although Rampart is clearly a land-based fighter, he is in the U.S. Navy that puts him in G.I. Joe's limited Navy lineup with torpedo, deep six, shipwreck, wetsuit, topside, and tracker. That does not include Cutter. Cutter was in the Coast Guard. Rampart has something in common with the 1990 G.I. Joe vehicle, the Hammer. He also has finger flick technology. That was discussed thoroughly in my review of the Hammer, and we will talk about it again with Rampart. Let's take a look at Rampart's accessories. Starting with his main weapon. The card contents call this a cannon. It looks more like a machine gun. It is in black plastic. It is three pieces. The main body of the weapon is one piece, and then it has a mount, and that mount is two pieces. First pieces slide together, and then peg into the bottom of the machine gun. There is a hook on the back end of the machine gun, and that connects to a peg on the side of the figure. The machine gun has a grip on the side, and another grip on the top. It could be a grip or it could be a magazine, I'm not sure, but I think it works better as a grip. The mount suggests the machine gun can be placed on the ground and fired in that position, but this thing on the top gets in the way of the sights, so it would be difficult to aim that way. It kind of looks like it's designed to be shot from the hip. His next accessory is the missile launcher. This missile launcher is in light gray plastic. It has a strap. That strap is a separate piece, and it has a barrel that will fit a black missile that comes with the figure. In fact, he has two of these missiles. The other one can be mounted on his leg. This is where the revolutionary finger flick technology comes into play. These missiles can be placed in the barrel of the launcher, and when they go all the way to the back, this peg sticks out the back and the missile can be launched. As with the finger flick technology on the hammer, you just flick the back of the launcher to fire the missile. This is not a spring-loaded missile launcher, so I'm pretty sure it cannot knock down Dr. Maynbender, but let's try it anyway. Just take aim and flick. I missed, but I have two shots, so let's try again. Let's take aim at Dr. Maynbender and flick. I hit him that time, but it just bounced off. You can get some good distance with these finger flick missiles, but they just don't have a lot of power. On the front of the launcher, there is a grip, but it's a bit too thick to fit in my action figure's hand. He can hold onto the strap and fire the launcher from his shoulder. In 1991, the year after this figure was released, G.I. Joe would introduce spring-loaded missile launchers. That gimmick would take over the line for the remainder of its run. Finger flick technology was an attempt to add a new dimension to G.I. Joe. No longer would kids just imagine the weapons shooting. Some of them could really shoot. These accessories are flawed. The machine gun and the missile launcher are a bit cumbersome, but there's still a lot to like about them. Despite having a lot of accessories, Rampart can hold all of them. The strap on the missile launcher allows it to be slung on Rampart's back. The peg on the leg allows the extra missile to be stored. That's all great. Let's take a look at the articulation for Rampart. He had the articulation that was standard for big years well before 1990. He could turn his head left to right and look up and down. He could swing his arm up at the shoulder and swivel his arm up the shoulder all the way around. He had a hinge at the elbow that allowed him to bend his arm at the elbow about 90 degrees. He had a swivel at the bicep that allowed him to swivel his arm all the way around. This was an O-ring figure, meaning he was held together with a rubber O-ring that looped around the inside. That allowed him to move at the torso a bit. He could move his legs apart about so far. He could bend his leg at the hip about 90 degrees Let's take a look at the sculpted design and color of Rampart starting with his head. On his head, he has a tan cap with a green panel on the front just above the bill. He has a cloth over the top of the cap and stuffed down the back of his shirt. There is a texture pattern on that. That looks really good. Excellent details. He has goggles with dark gray frames and blue lenses. He has a dark gray microphone on the right side of his face that is sculpted on and painted with a separate piece which I prefer.  This head has a remarkable number of colors on it. It has the Caucasian flesh tone, tan, green, dark gray, and blue. On his chest, he has a dark gray jacket with some pockets and buckles. There is a tan belt that is sculpted on the bottom of the torso. It is not on the waist piece. Minimal details on here, appropriate. His arms feature long dark gray jacket sleeves. The same dark gray as on the chest. He has tan cuffs and black gloves. On his waist, he has the tail of that dark gray jacket. The belt is on the torso. It's not on the waist piece. That's a little different from most GI Joe figures. He has a couple pockets and he has the peg on the right side for attaching the machine gun. His legs feature tan trousers. There are pockets on the front of the right leg. On the left leg, there is a peg for one of the black missiles. He has camouflage boot covers and under them, black boots. It is astonishing how much effort went into this figure. It has texture, camouflage, extra connections for the accessories, and a lot of paint applications. It would have been tempting to eliminate any of these elements, but this figure has all of them. This is what the 90s could have been with effort and attention to detail. Yes, it is a bit gimmicky for the accessories, but the gimmicks were a lot more subtle than the ones we would get later in the decade. Let's take a look at Rampart's file card. His file card has his factionist GI Joe. There is a portrait of Rampart. His codename is Rampart and he is the shoreline defender. His file name is Dwayne A. Felix. His primary military specialty is shoreline defender. His secondary military specialty is ADA missile specialist and ADA has an asterisk. It stands for air defense artillery. On his prototype file card, Rampart's secondary military specialty was going to be tuba player. Never had one lesson. This paragraph says Rampart spent most of his teenage years in video arcades or glued to his own video game monitor. Being gifted with abnormally rapid reflexes and extraordinary hand-eye coordination, he quickly mastered every known video game in existence. By the time he graduated college, Rampart realized there was only one line of work best suited to challenge his abilities, the military. He enlisted in the Navy specializing in air defense artillery and in no time attained the highest combat success ratio in the 7th fleet for splashing enemy aircraft. Rampart is a college graduate. He would have entered the Navy at an older age than some of the other Joes and he would have been older still by the time he made it to the GI Joe team. So that suggests to me that a lot of his video game playing would have happened in the early 80s. This paragraph has a quote. It says, Rampart gets his jolly seeing a Cobra heat seeker explode just before it hits the target. It beats the heck out of logging initials into a video game's top 10 listing. Both of these paragraphs say basically the same thing. Rampart is very good at video games and applies his skill to shooting down enemy aircraft and missiles. War is a video game, kids. Brings a lot of fun. Rampart gets his jolly seeing a Cobra heat seeker explode before it hits the target. War is a video game, kids. Bring your quarters. There was a GI Joe video game released for the Atari 2600. GI Joe Cobra Strike was released in 1983. The gameplay was very simple. A giant Cobra shoots rectangular pellets at some soldiers running between two buildings. You control a shield that can block the attacks. Sometimes the Cobras will shoot lasers.  How did the Cobras get so big? Why don't the Army guys just stay in the buildings instead of running outside to get shot? What does any of this have to do with GI Joe? Hey, it was 1983. It was enough that you could make things move on your TV screen. What do you want? Looking at how Rampart was used in GI Joe media, he first appeared in animated form in the episode United We Stand in the Deke era of the animated series. He had the most screen time in the episode Cold Shoulder. In that episode, Rampart pilots a space shuttle. What? I would say this episode is weird, but I already said it's a Deke episode, so that would be redundant. In the GI Joe comic book series published by Marvel Comics, he had only one appearance that I'm aware of. He was in issue number 115. He and Backblast supported a mission for the Phantom X-19. Rampart wasn't even the main support person. He was the backup. Looking at Rampart overall, it's a really good figure. It's not perfect, but still really good especially for the 1990s. Rampart has a lot of paint applications. There are no unpainted details, even though there aren't a lot of details on the torso. The details that need paint have paint. The designers threw the kitchen sink at this guy. He has realistic colors, texture, camouflage, numerous accessories, attachments for those accessories. He even has FFT. He's finger-flicking good. If there's any problem with this figure, it's the machine gun. It doesn't attach very securely to the peg on the figure, so it can be a little unwieldy. It doesn't have a normal grip so it's designed to be fired from the hip, even though it has a mount. It still looks good. It's not a weird color or anything. GI Joe got pretty weird in the 1990s, but it wasn't all weird. Rampart proves that. My biggest problem with the figure is not with the figure itself. I don't like how the file card equates combat with video games. In video games, you can restart. You can get extra lives. You can't do that in real life. Rampart is not British, but I imagine him as a World War II British soldier standing on a shoreline looking out across the channel ready to repel invaders. That was my review of Rampart. I hope you enjoyed it. 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Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. Today, we're going to do a comparison with the Taurus G3C versus the Stoker STR-9C. Both are pretty much the smallest double-stack nine-millimeter handguns that each company makes. Now the Taurus G3C also has the Taurus G2S. That's a single stack, but this is the newest and And it's a remake of the G2C that is extremely popular. Both are budget handguns. And over here we've got the STR-9C, which is basically a remake of the full-size STR-9. It's just a little bit shorter with the grip, a little bit shorter with the barrel. And then when this was released in the summer, this last summer, many people said, hey, compare that with the G3C. And so we're doing that today. Now both are budget guns. The MSRP on this is 305. The MSRP on this is 329. And I think they're both great. You know, I've had excellent shooting reliability experiences with both with, you know, brass steel case, self-defense loads. And I just speak very highly of each. So we'll do a little size comparison here. Now there's no question the Stoker is larger. It's got a 3.8 inch barrel. This has a 3.2 inch barrel. So if we look at the slide length, we'll see that the Stoker is about three quarters of an inch longer. And then in comparing the grips, we could see that the grip length is approximately the same. The Stoker is a little bit wider. Now this comes with various packages. I bought it for basically the MSRP price of 329. That comes with one backstrap. Actually, it's like a grip module and one magazine holds 13 rounds in the mag. It will take the 15 round mags from the larger STR-9. But you could also get it with additional backstraps, additional magazines, night sights. And then of course, the price increases from there. We're looking at 305 here as an MSRP.  So both budget guns, both Palmer frame, Stryker fire handguns, both night shooters, and both have been reliable for me. Let's start with the G3C. They made some improvements. I'm not going to go through each one of those, but I will say I do like the front serrations. Okay, they're rather small, but they are there. And I do like the grip texturing. And then the trigger is actually a single action trigger. What is one of the greatest advantages is three 12 round magazines that they're offering with the G3C. And I find that advantageous. Three does have an accessory rail and a thumb safety that the Stoker does not have. And it also has a single action trigger that's breaking right around four and a half pounds. And you're looking at the reset right there. Additional features include pretty heavy texturing on the grip.  It also has restrike capability. We already showed clear. So initially it's a single action, but if you need to restrike that primer, it goes into double action. And of course, that is a heavier trigger pull. But a nice carry gun, you know, it would compare well with the Sake P365 and the Springfield Hellcat in terms of its size. Now here we have a larger gun with the str9c 3.8 inch barrel already mentioned that 13 rounds. So you get the additional round. What I like about this are the sights. Now they are also metal sights, but these are larger dots. So it picks up very well. It does have a loaded chamber indicator bar that will pop up there with a loaded route, a full pick rail. So those are some advantages with the Stoker. What I like with this, I mentioned a four and a half pound trigger, this is right around six pounds. It does have a nice clean, crisp break, but a little bit of a heavier trigger. Both have trigger bar safeties in there. The G3 is a little bit wider, makes it real comfortable on the finger when pulling that trigger. But overall a fine handgun, you know, the deep cut serrations, you know, for the press checks are more pronounced. I like that with the Stoker. I like the reliability and I do like the ergos on this. Now it is a little bit wider, but the ergos feel amazing when gripping this gun. So we're looking at more of a subcompact 9 millimeter, a compact size 9 millimeter and both are very nice handgun. Both these handguns disassemble the exact same way. We'll move the slide back, use these takedown levers, pull the trigger and off comes the slide. A dual recoil spring with the G3C and a polymer guide rod. And there's what we're looking at with the poly frame. Over here with the STR9C, it will disassemble the same way. Pull these takedown levers, pull the trigger and off comes the slide. Here we have a single recoil spring, but an all steel guide rod. So both are easy to disassemble and reassemble, no doubt about that. We're going to get them on the scale and see what these are weighing in at. Now we know that the Stoker is larger and we know that the Stoker has a longer barrel. So it's actually more of a compact size, well it's called the compact, you know. So here we're looking at one pound and a quarter ounces, 24 and a quarter ounces. I've got 13 rounds here, we'll go ahead and throw that on the scale. Looking at 29 and three quarters ounces. Now the magazine holds 13, the magazine here holds 12. And we'll look the unloaded weight, 21 and three quarters ounces. There's 13 rounds, then considering that it's a, there has one in the chamber, 27 and a quarter ounces. You heard me say both of these are reliable handguns and I went into the archives and pulled out the Limpris test. Let's start with the G3C. How about a Limpris test with the Stoker STR9C? Both these handguns have proven to me to be reliable and accurate and both are mine, so I don't have a bias. If I were going to carry, I would take the G3C all day long. It's lighter, it holds 12 rounds, it's a smooth shooter, but for home defense or, you know, range fund, this, there's a little more girth to this. And it's a flat shooter, both are great. I love them both, but I would take the Stoker. So for carry, I'm going G3C and for range or home defense, I'm taking that additional round and going with the Stoker STR9C. Which one would you choose if you could only choose one? If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


The Appalachian Wireless, 30th anniversary holiday sale is going on now from now until the end of the year. Visit us in store or reserve online for an unbelievable sale and give away. We know what you want for the holidays because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Thursday, state and local leaders gathered for the 6th annual Colerun Community Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony. After the ceremony, Mountain Top had the opportunity to speak with Colerun Mayor Andrew H. Scott about the event. Primarily what we are doing tonight here is our 6th annual Tree Lighting Ceremony for Christmas. We do this every year. We invite the community to come in, we provide food. Sometimes Santa stops by, sometimes we have other guests as well as we did tonight. But we are just blessed as a community to be able to get together as friends and family members and loved ones and our work family too. The people here at City Hall worked very hard on this event for about a week trying to get everything ready. We are just blessed to be able to get together, to enjoy each other's company. It has been a rough 20-some months for all of us and it is good to get back to normal and get out and be with our family and our friends. In conjunction with the ceremony, local leaders took a moment to recognize and bring attention to local organizations, helping children and families in need this season. I think the consensus among the speakers we had tonight was that we pay our blessing forward. That we look to those who are less fortunate. We have an event coming up next week in addition to the one that we talked about here earlier where we are going to provide presents and clothing for homeless children. There are a lot of homeless children in the school systems, in the Pye County school systems. It is not talked a lot about. If we don't actually get out there and reach out our hand, reach out a helping hand to those who need a step up and we help them step up the step ladder, if we don't do that, what good are we to our friends and our neighbors? So what we are trying to do is we are trying to help those who need help and be the best versions of ourselves that we can be here in the City of Coal Run. And that includes reaching out to help those who have fallen or to help those who just need a leg up to get a little bit higher. If you would like to donate or make a cash donation, you can contact the Coal Run Community Center at<PHONE_NUMBER>. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Porgyl.


Polymeric foams have become ubiquitous due to their unique properties, which include low density and thermal conductivity, making them ideal thermal and sound insulators, as well as structural and comfort materials. However, the production of these foams is heavily reliant on petrochemicals, which will soon be subject to increasingly stringent regulation and consumer demand. To address this challenge, existing processes and materials must be adapted to use renewable resources and new technologies, such as 3D printing. This paper reviews the fundamentals of polymeric foam production, discusses the impending challenges facing the industry, and presents potential solutions. These include recycling, enhanced properties, and improved sustainability. This article was authored by Muno V. Gama, Artur Ferrera, and Ana Barostimans.


Good morning, everybody. Welcome to my talk. Thanks for coming. It's called Sensly, Office Automation with the Internet of Things and Python. I'm going to stand because this feels really awkward. There's a good crowd in here. I think there would have been an even bigger crowd had I put, like, deep learning in the title or something. It's hard to hear. I'll speak louder. Cool, thanks. So the goal of this talk is to discuss the results of a 24-hour hackathon that my team and I put together at my last company, namely in which we put together a wireless sensor network for detecting whether or not conference rooms were actually booked in real time or people were actually in these conference rooms. So there's a hardware component, a networking component, and a backend data component. And I'm going to speak, of course, that happens. I'm going to speak about the Python code that I wrote and my team wrote to put all of this together. So before I go any further, although I'm giving this talk, the results are due to my entire team, some of which are here today. So I want to thank them before I go any further. Who am I? My name is Luigi Petruno. I'm a data scientist or a software engineer, depending on the day and what needs to be done. I'm also an adjunct professor at Fordham University where I teach statistics. My background is in computer science and mathematics. The slides can be found online at my GitHub. And there's my LinkedIn, just in case you want to check me out. As a graduate student at Fordham, I studied application of machine learning to wireless sensor data. So I'm kind of going back to that field with this project. And part of the reason that I'm drawn to the internet of things in particular is the engineering challenges that are presented with each of the components. Because of the hardware and networking components and software together, it's kind of a fun challenge. So what is the internet of things? If you look at Wikipedia, it'll say that it's a network of physical devices that are embedded with sensors, software, and network connectivity that enable them to share, collect data, do an analysis on this data, and then make decisions. The sensors are able to sense within an environment and operate within a larger network. And there's an estimated 50 billion devices to be part of the internet of things by 2020. And this presents various challenges having to do with infrastructure scale. There are privacy concerns. And of course, the network challenge. Although the internet of things has picked up very recently in the news, and you hear it's a buzzword and you hear a lot of stuff about it, people have been talking about it for some time. And actually, there's a seminal paper in 1991 by Dr. Mark Weiser at Xerox Park. The paper is called The Computer of the 21st Century. And I really encourage you all to read it if you're interested in these things. And within this paper, there's a really profound quote, I think. And he says that the most profound technologies are the ones that disappear. So they become so embedded within your life that you don't even realize they're there. And how he introduces this with the technology of writing and reading. Previously, before the stuff existed, all of human knowledge was just contained within an oral tradition. And it was just after the stuff started being written down that we've been able to pass knowledge on. And we don't think about that anymore. You don't think about writing as a technology. But it's probably the biggest technology that's existed. And another fun part of this paper is he talks about how this technology is going to affect our lives. And in particular, he discusses it in terms of office life in the 21st century. And it's with this that I show you this picture. So who here works for a company that uses Google Calendar to manage booking conference rooms? All right, a few of you. If you do, then this photo might be rang true to you. This is the schedule for a particular day on one conference room. And as you can see, there is no availability whatsoever. I assure you there's nothing special about this room. There's nothing in there that might want to keep you there. This picture is the same for every conference room, at Namely. And Namely is a fast-growing company. They've quickly outgrown their office space. And due to recurring meetings, it's almost impossible to book a conference room the day of or a day before a meeting. A co-worker and I have actually been able to convince numerous newer employees that we're holding meetings within the office restrooms. And as an HR company, HR has frowned on me for saying these things. But so the idea my team had to conquer this challenge was, what if we put up some sensors within each of the conference rooms and try to detect whether or not people are actually within these rooms? The goal of this is, let's say there's a scheduled meeting that ends early and we can now actually use this conference room. Well, maybe we'll be able to detect that's available and be able to use it. Otherwise, let's say there was a meeting scheduled and no one actually showed up. Due to the Google interface that we're using, we don't actually know that. No one goes online and cancels their meeting, actually. So the meeting room stays booked and you're unable to use it. And this is the sort of architecture that we put together to conquer this challenge. And again, this happened in 24 hours. So the physical network is made up of this set of Node MCUs, which are these really, really cheap hardware units. And I actually have one right here. If you're in, I'll pass it around, so check it out. I'll talk a bit more about the Node MCU. But it's basically a small computer within a breadboard and you can connect different types of sensors. The network component actually uses the MQTT transfer protocol, which is a very, very lightweight transfer protocol on top of TCPIP. And basically, data is published to certain topics. And there's a Daemon Python process that runs in the background. Subscribes to this topic, collects this data, persists to Postgres. And then we set up both a Flask interface or a web application to this data. And we actually wrote up a Slack bot as well because we use Slack at Namely. So Slack would speak to Postgres, read some data for a particular room, and show whether or not someone was in the conference room. So I'll give a bit of background on the hardware component and then show you some Python code for both MQTT, Postgres, and Flask. So like I said, the Node MCU is the actual physical computer that we're using. It's an open source IoT platform that uses the Lua scripting language. Its Wi-Fi enabled supports MQTT and is extremely, extremely inexpensive. These units cost $10 each. And the sensors cost anywhere from $5 to $20 apiece. So we were actually able to hook up a small computer and three sensors in each conference room for the cost of about $20 to $25. And we hooked up 15 conference rooms for less than $300. So it's actually a very economical way of setting up a sensor network. And it's very, very easy to program these things. And it just makes prototyping extremely, extremely simple. So I've mentioned MQTT now about five times, and I haven't said what it is. MQTT is the messaging protocol that's used to transfer the sensor data from the physical devices to our Python back-end data service that's collecting and persisting this data. It's a public subscribe messaging protocol, which means that you need a message broker to transmit this data from some source to some sync. And there are several message brokers out there, and we decided to go with Mosquito. It's an open source implementation. It's really, really simple to use. And there's a Python client that we're going to look at some code for. So there's a lot of network protocols out there, and it's hard to talk about how relevant they are. But actually, MQTT is used both by Facebook and Amazon. I'm not sure if it's used any longer, but Facebook used it for Facebook Messenger, and Amazon uses it for its IoT platform. So this is actually a useful thing. So I've heard this from several people. There's been a lot of introduction and a lot of these talks. Just show me some Python code. So what I want to do now is change microphones. Can you hear me? So what I want to do now is show you guys some code. And I'm not actually using the sensors in this talk, but we're going to just publish some test messages to Mosquito and process them to Postgres and just display them in a very simple flask application. The goal of this is just to get you guys up and running if you want to start your own sensor network. So you can use this. And it's fully dockerized, so you can just take this docker image and run it on your own computer. You almost have to touch the microphone. Very good. So like I said, this application is fully dockerized. And I use Docker Compose to run multi-containers and link them together. So the first thing I want to do is just launch Mosquito and publish and subscribe to some topics and show you what the messages look like. So can you see this? So the first thing I'm going to do is just launch the Mosquito Broker. If you're wondering what these commands are, I just have aliases set up for Docker Compose and Docker Machine. So DCO stands for Docker Compose. So now I have the Mosquito Broker up and running. And if I open another terminal window, so what I'm doing here is connecting to the Docker container from my local machine and subscribing to the PyGotham topic. And if we navigate back over to the window, you see that there's a new connection from some IP address and some port. The port 1883 is the default port for Mosquito. And I'm connecting as Luigi sub. And that's actually the identifier I used right here. So if I open another window and publish a message, you'll be able to see that to the screen. So what I've done here is, again, I'm using the command Mosquito pub, which just publishes a message. I'm identifying myself as Luigi pub. And if I go here, you'll see there's a new connection from Luigi pub. I'm speaking to this host address, which is actually the IP address to my Docker machine. Again, I'm publishing to the PyGotham topic. That's the dash t flag. And dash m is for message. And I'm posting Hello World. And if we go to the terminal window where I'm subscribing to the PyGotham topic, you see Hello World pops up here. I can do the same thing and write some other message. And if we navigate back over, you'll see Hello PyGotham. So what's going on here is that the Mosquito message broker is up and running in my Docker machine. I've subscribed to a particular topic on my local machine. And I'm publishing a message to that topic, again, on my local machine. And we're communicating back and forth to the Docker container. So this is all nice and fun. But whereas Python, I still haven't shown you any Python. What I want to do now is basically show off the Python data collecting service, which will accept this data from Mosquito and persist it to a Postgres database. So this Python module right here, data collector.py, it's tasked with actually connecting to the Mosquito broker, accepting this data, and then doing something with it. So the first line here is I import paho.mqtt.client. And this is the Python library that is used to connect to Mosquito. There are some global configuration variables here, such as host, port, topic, client ID, username, and password. Again, the host is the IP address of my Docker machine. The port 1883 is the default port. I'm using the PyGotham topic. And I'm identifying myself as data collector. So if we actually look at the main method here, what I'm doing is instantiating a client object from the MQTT library. I'm setting a username and password. And these are just empty strings here, because I'm not authenticating really. And I'm registering two callback methods, an onConnect method and an onMessage method. And these are the methods that are called when first connecting to the Mosquito broker and when receiving data from the broker. I'm connecting.  If we look at the onConnect and onMessage Python methods, they're actually very, very simple. In onConnect, I'm just subscribing to a particular topic. And that topic, again, is PyGotham. And in the onMessage method, I'm receiving data, which is a UTF-8 encoded. And then I'm writing it to the database. And I'll show you the db.py. All I'm doing here is importing PsychoPG2, which is a Python adapter to Postgres. I'm connecting to it in the connection method here. I just passed the authentication variables. And I set auto commit to true. I returned that in the write record method here. And I just have some very, very simple SQL to insert just the raw data into Postgres. If you have any questions, you can ask me afterwards. So if we run this now. So if I publish the same message, go over to the database. And the message is there in the database. So we can do the same thing, write something else. Hello, PyGotham2. And what's going on is that Python is collecting this data and persisting it to the database. How much time? I have very little time left. I'll just show you the last component, which is just adding Flask. The Flask app is actually just really simple. I just basically want to display some data to the screen. We run that. And that data that we persisted to the database is just being recalled from the database and posted as JSON to a simple endpoint. And we can continue to post messages, and we'll see them. So if you want to know anything more about Flask, see the Miguel Greenberg tutorial online. You'll learn everything you want to learn. So in short, also we had a project manager on my team, Jordan, who took notes on the hackathon as it went on. And basically, our spirits were very high when we started. He took progress reports, and we basically worked in an agile manner with goals every hour.  At 2 o'clock, we were maybe doing some things. And at 3 AM, one of us was asleep. I had drank three Red Bulls already. And there was much, much trouble until, luckily, at 10 AM, right before the hackathon ended, we were able to actually get the Flask application working. And the results were that we were actually able to see in real time whether or not people were in the room. So somehow it came together at the very end. And our team was able to win what we call the Sequoia Capital Moonshop Prize, where we're going out to dinner with some venture capitalists from Sequoia. So we've actually teamed up with a team of designers, at Namely, and are looking forward to putting out this mobile application, which looks much better than our Flask application did. And basically, you're able to, from your iOS device or Android device, see room availability, as well as other statistics like temperature, and the availability of certain equipment within conference rooms, like projectors and couches. So it's pretty cool. That's it. Thanks. Any questions? Yeah, it's using Flask in the back end. No, so we actually, due to this very, very short time, we have putting this entire thing together, we used a very, very simple model. We had a motion sensor. So basically, if there was any movement within the past minute or two, we said that somebody was in the room. And given more time, we would like to make the model much more robust, obviously. But we're able to use that. We're showing that data in some data visualizations, so you're able to still access it. Yeah, so we talked about shaming people that way. What the Slackbot currently does is just, if you send in, like, backslash, sense, Kent. Kent is one of the names of our meeting rooms. It just returns the data from that room for the past several minutes. It was being used when we first started, yeah. Yeah, we teamed up with some, none of us are designers, and the design of our first application was pretty funny. So we got together with some of the designers at Namely to start designing a mobile application. It's not out yet, though. Those are just mock-ups. No, it's just within the organization. Yeah, there's a few more minutes left. So I actually didn't work on the hardware aspects of it. Our co-worker, Attila, was like the hardware smee. And he went with these devices primarily because of the simplicity, and it's pretty cheap. Now, no data is stored on the device. It's just actually pushed to Mosquito over MQTT, and Python is in charge of collecting and persisting to Postgres. So we were actually, within the first several hours, we were persisting. We persisted like 600,000 rows of data. So Postgres is going to be a bottleneck rather soon. But we just wanted to get something up and running that we were comfortable with. I think there's one more minute. No, my name is Luigi. That's fine. Thanks a lot, guys.


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