Good day fellow investors. My name is Sven Kirlin and as you probably watched my emerging markets video, why it is important to invest in emerging markets, you know that I said I'll be doing a series of emerging market stock picks. I'll start with China because I find it extremely cheap at the moment and also Charlie Munger, if you look the Berkshire head to a annual conference said that if you want to fish for stocks you better go fish in China. Now I'll discuss Chinese stocks that are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. I have seen, especially in the last year or two after the beer market in China, stocks in the US have lower valuations than those in China. Thus it's better to buy them here for now. This is because Wall Street is a bit wary of investing in emerging markets and especially China. They think there is too much risk. China will not grow at 8% anymore. Now it will grow at 6% per year and that's too slow. It's better to invest somewhere where the growth is 1.5% or 2% per year of course. I have looked at the complete list, quickly scanned them and now as I analyze them one by one for the third or fourth time I will also make this quick video to give you the necessary information to find the best fit for your portfolio. Every stock is different. Every stock has different potential and different risks so therefore you have to see how that puzzle risk reward fits into your portfolio. The goal is always to minimize risks and increase the potential in that. So from the list of 70 stocks I have about 16 that I want to analyze a bit deeper so you can expect a series of 16 videos about Chinese stock picks, detailed, relatively detailed analysis over the next few weeks, month or so. But I will also be doing other things to keep a certain variety in the channel. So please subscribe and I'll do my best to add value to your investment returns, to lower your risk and increase your return. The stock I want to talk about is ZTO Express. That's a parcel delivery company in China that recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange at $19 a share and it was the second largest IPO after Alibaba. The company managed to accumulate about $1.6 billion dollars that it plans to invest in improving its infrastructure for its delivery system. New sorting hubs improve the sorting software and all that goes into a delivery business like ZTO has. ZTO is one of the biggest parcel delivery companies in China which gives its scale and potential for further growth. So what does ZTO do? Simply, the first mile pickup is attributed to partners, they sorted long-haul line transportation again sorted and then delivery to their networking partners for the last mile delivery. Simple, we know the business. Now let's see how the business will grow in China in the future. What are the expectations? As you know Alibaba is one of the hottest stocks around because everybody expects it to grow. If Alibaba and all other Chinese online businesses grow in China then a company that delivers those packages is also expected to grow. So we can compare the valuations of Alibaba and ZTO and you can see how it fits, what are the risks and whether you can buy the leverage Alibaba brings at a cheaper price. The market overview tells us that the growth in online retail sales in China is huge and expected still to grow at 19% per year. The express delivery parcel volume is also expected to grow at 27% per year by 2020. The express delivery parcel market is now at one third, one fourth of the US market and expected to surpass the US market in the next two decades. So a very interesting sector to be invested in. What's also important there are opportunities to grow. China cross-border e-commerce market is also growing very fast in micro merchants market. The Etsy's various are also growing enormously fast. So there will be plenty of growth ahead. In order to see what we can expect from ZTO we look at fundamentals a little bit at the structure of the company and then at the risks of course. What's significant about ZTO is its scale. It has 4200 and more line hall vehicles, 26000 pickup delivery outlets and this is very important because there are 35 000 delivery shipping companies in China and if you are the biggest one, if you have the best technology with the scale you can really grow faster. And you can see that even if the market was growing at 30% ZTO was growing at 44% with the parcel volume. Revenue growth was 46% operating profit increased by 51% per year. Also earnings per share are growing at 35% per year. If the market continues to grow at 20% a year ZTO thanks to its scale and the acquisitions it will make and they are already investing the 1.6 billion that they got at the IPO into new sorting hubs enlarging their spread over China buying more trucks so they are really investing the money into the growth and in addition if they continue to grow at these rates so let's say 50% faster than the market or even just at the market rate we are looking at a company that will grow at 25-30% over the next five years which is huge. Earnings per share currently are 0.42 dollars per share book value is 4.12 so there is not a margin of safety in the book value but it's very significant that the company has no long term debt and total liabilities are 15% of assets mostly current liabilities. So just quick comparison with FedEx the growth in the last five years was 5% per year 67% of assets are financed by liabilities the price earnings ratio is 30. UPS growth was 2% per year in the last five years total liabilities are 98% of assets price earnings ratio is 28.2. The largest Chinese competitor YTO express price earnings ratio is also 30 the price earnings ratio of ZTO express is around 33. Now a price earnings ratio of 33 is relatively high but let's see how the growth expected growth on off earnings will develop in the future and when will ZTO's valuation be at a sensible investment level. So if ZTO continues to grow at 25% per year and increase earnings in four years we are already looking at the price to earnings ratio of 14 on the current market valuation because earnings will be $1 per share and the price is now $14 per share. I don't see this staying so because the market is expected to grow for the next two decades so the valuation is possible that remains high so as the company grows so will the stock price as long as the growth remains as is the case with every growth stock as long as the growth is stable or increasing the stock price is going up if there is a temporary halt to growth then the stock will drop significantly because new growth projections will be implemented in valuations so that's the major risk ZTO has a decline in growth but seeing what's going on in China I don't attach a great probability but always possible and important to know that. If you're worried about FedEx or UPS entering China they have just 3% market share and this is because they are too expensive. To ship a two-pound parcel 450 miles across China costs from 30 cents to 50 cents yes 30 to 50 cents if you ship the same two pounds across the states for 450 miles you'll pay at least $10 so it's very difficult for foreign competitors to enter the field especially ZTO and YTO are already very large in scale. What's an interesting potential is that or somebody acquires ZTO from outside in order to grow but that would be under heavy government scrutiny so but that's always a potential and then the potential is also that these Chinese companies that are cheap have cheaper operation models scale into the world so that's also potential for future growth but now they are of course focused on China and the Chinese growth because when you have a market that grows 20-30% per year you're not going to compete with FedEx win a market that grows to 3% or 5% per year. Apart from the growth risk that's normal for any growth company the second risk is that ZTO's business is very dependent of course on the biggest online commerce platform in China Alibaba. The exposure to Alibaba has been 80% in 2014 78% in 2015 and now was 77% in 2016. It is declining but the company is extremely exposed to Alibaba so that's a risk or you might also say a benefit because also Alibaba is extremely dependent on ZTO to delivery so I think they will continue to cooperate and everything will remain the same but it's important to mention the risk always think about the risks. So apart from reading the 20th risk side I found that Alibaba was the most significant risk I also listened to the last conference call and the management expects to grow faster than the market they're investing the money received in the IPO into better infrastructure cheaper costs lower costs and the ability to process more volume. To conclude ZTO is really a growth stock. If you want growth in your portfolio then ZTO is definitely a company to look at. The price earnings ratio is 40 will be 15 in three four years if the growth continues so it's a very very valuable investment and if the growth continues over the next two decades it will probably be a gem in your portfolio. However there are always risks as there are with any growth companies but you can now compare ZTO to the other growth companies in your portfolio and then make the best decision. Thank you for watching leave your comments question below if anybody has something to add about ZTO please leave your comment below don't forget to subscribe as there will be 15 more videos about Chinese companies and in the meantime I'll also start looking at other companies around the world and discuss them in order to provide you interesting stock picks for your emerging markets portfolio and plenty more of course. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video


This past Monday night, we witnessed the Ravens take on the Rams and what was an epic showdown between both teams. But it proved to only be epic for one of them, and it wasn't the ones from the West Coast. Big Yikes! Yeah, this feels like a dream. I see my boy, he like... So, YouTube team keeping clean. What's going on? It's Engraven here with another video. And in this video, we're here to talk about the game that we watched on Monday night between the Ravens and the Rams. Before we get into it, I do have to let you all know that I do really, really, really appreciate y'all. Thank you for allowing me to take some of your time every single day.  But either way, whatever your schedule is, whatever your routine is for the videos, I appreciate it. And I appreciate it a lot. So, thank you for that. Thank you for supporting. Shout out to everybody that was in the livestream during the game yesterday. Shout out to everybody that was in the livestream after the game last night. We had a whole lot of fun. Shout out to all y'all that got to actually go out to the game and watch it in person, watch it live. Because I've told several people that and it's something that's true. Like, you can watch Lamar Jackson on TV. You can watch him all you want to on TV. It's different actually, like seeing him right there. Like, his speed. Like, you can see it on TV. But if you're actually there, it's a lot faster in person. It's a lot faster in person. But it is a beautiful thing to be able to watch, whether you watch it at home or whether you watch it at the stadium, wherever you watch it at, it's beautiful. And the game last night was nothing short of that. It was just a beautiful thing. The game last night, we're going to start this one off a little bit different. We're going to start with coaching. We're going to start with coaching. They're in this game. Weren't any bad coaching decisions. The only one that I didn't agree with. But at the same time, it's like, okay, this is who this team is. This is who this team is. They are going to be aggressive and they are going to continue to try to stomp you out. The only one that I didn't agree with was it was early in the first quarter. They were up 7-0 and it was fourth down. And they brought out the field goal unit at first. And then they were like, no, no, no. I think they were actually getting ready to punt. But the Rams had like a penalty or something. Maybe they had 12 minutes on a field. And then they were going to bring out the field goal unit. And then they were like, no, no, no. We're going to go for it. So then they went for it. And I was like, I would have just kicked the field goal. But they got it. They got it. And that is the type of team that this is. It's like we were joking. No, or maybe that was a different set of play, whatever. But on the fourth down where they went for it and they got it. But we were joking a little bit before that. I was like, oh, how about probably going to mess around and go for it, man? You're going to mess around and go for it. You're going to mess around and go for it. And he messed around and went for it. Because that is who these Ravens are. That is who these Ravens are. And they have not been playing it safe. They have not been playing it scared. Now there have been some, especially in that Chiefs game, I was like, no, don't. Why? Why? And again, for this one, like I said, I didn't agree with it. It worked out. I still didn't agree with it, but I'm glad it worked out. I'm so glad it worked out. But the Ravens, they just, they're not scared. And the thing about this team is that they are, they stepping on people's necks and they not taking their foot off. They're not. They're not. Eric DeCosta, he said it. And I got to keep going back to it. He said he wanted to build a bully. He said he wanted to build a bully. Ravens have been bullying the best teams. They've been bullying the best teams. So now they got another opportunity. We're going to talk about that game in another video. 49 is going to, oh, that's going to, oh, that's a game. That's a game right there, man. But anyway, in this game, Ravens from the, from the get go, from the jump. Oh, coaching. I said I was going to start with coaching anyway. But besides that, I agree with everything that they did.  They get it that their game is the best version of them that they can possibly play. Playing their game is the best version of that game they can possibly play. Being themselves is the best possible version that they can possibly be. And they need to stick to exactly that. Play your game. Be yourself. Don't try to be the other, be yourself. And now Ravens had to learn that the hard way, but they have certainly learned their lesson as we've seen over the past, what, six weeks? Seven weeks. They won seven in a row, right? Yeah. Because they're nine and two now, right? Ooh, yikes. Anyway, the Ravens, they came out in this game playing their game. They were running that ball. But, and again, they surprised me because I was thinking, ooh, Aaron Dono, yikes. They might have to run to the outside, bounce into the outside a little bit more because he is just such a force. But they ran straight up the middle. They did not play scared. They did not play worried. They ran straight up the middle, right? I was about to say right at Aaron Dono, but actually right past him because he ended this game. I didn't even remember that he was the defensive player of the year last year. I didn't even remember that. I would have figured it went to Khalil Mech. But anyway, this guy, Aaron Dono, he ended the game with, I think, one assisted tackle. That was it. One assisted tackle. Not saying that he didn't cause a little bit of a problem and eat up blockers, but he ended this game with one assisted tackle. Now, in this case, I mean, you could be like, well, hey, stats don't tell the whole story because they don't. I always say that. Stats don't tell the whole story, but you didn't hear Aaron Dono's name all game. So in this case, in this case, they actually did tell the story. They told exactly what the story was. The Ravens neutralized this guy and they made him a non-factor. They made him a non-factor. It was like, it was almost like he wasn't even playing. It was almost like he wasn't even playing because he didn't do anything, which was a great thing. But again, Ravens played their game. They ran it straight up the middle. They were passing it. They were doing all of that stuff. One of the biggest scares of the night, well, it ended up not even being a scare because it actually happened, was when Matt Scurro went out. Matt Scurro went out and they brought the card out. And I was like, oh, boy, that's not good.  Undrafted rookie free agent. Undrafted rookie free agent. And my guy, Kevin Redline, he was just telling me that this guy didn't play a lick of center in college. He didn't play not one bit of center in college, but he sure had to play it tonight. And he failed in just fine. So that, you got to give kudos to the Ravens coaching staff. Offensive coordinator, Greg Gromen. Man, he, my guy, Nitro, made a great point that I didn't even know. He said that Greg Gromen is only signed through this season. So he would be a free agent after this season is up. So trust and believe that Eric DeCosta and company, they are going to want to take care of him. Wink, Wink said last year, he said, hey, as long as hardball is here, I'm here. As long as he'll have me, I'll stick around. So we'll see if that holds true. Now, I wouldn't hold it against him if he decided he changed his mind and whatnot. And he was like, you know what, maybe I do want to be a head coach because you never want to, you never want to get on somebody. You never want to be negative about somebody wanting to grow, wanting to do more, wanting to be better, wanting to do better. You never want to hate on somebody for that. Whether it's a, you a fan of the team or it's somebody in real life or whoever, you never want to just, yeah, like I said, be negative about that.  Oh, so you think you're better? You're going to go get a better job?   But so if he changes his mind, he changes his mind. Let him do what he wants to do. But hopefully they can keep everybody in tech. Hopefully. We'll see though. We'll see. Because they definitely earning some raises, man. They're definitely earning some raises. But coaching, coaching was pretty good last night. It's pretty good. Special teams, Justin Tucker, he did this thing. They did have a few hiccups. On the, where there was all that confusion, when there was the penalty, then they were going to kick the field goal, then they were going to go for it. Things were just moving a little bit slow. Then they had to call a timeout. So they didn't end up losing the yard. So that was good. But overall, great night, great night. And Greg Gromen again, I appreciate how he has stuck to the plan. He has stuck to their strengths, stuck to them, took it right to these defenses, stuck it right to these teams. And they have continued just putting on the points too. Because again, something that we talked about, we were so used to the Ravens, they would get a lead and they could have a 10 point lead. They could have a 10 point lead. So that's not even, that's not a big lead at all. But they would, we were so used to them getting so conservative, so conservative. But these Ravens, oh no. And one of my favorite things about these Ravens is the plate calling on offense because even when the game is over with points wise, is Ravens have such a large margin. And when, like when they take Lamar Jackson out with RG3, they will still be throwing the ball. Because what they're trying to do is wear you down and really take you out, really take you out. Because they will still be trying to convert these first down. Like some teams bring out the backup quarterback. Okay, just run the ball, get us out of here. But no, Ravens, they will run the ball to try to get you out of there, but they will also pass it even with an RG3 just so they can really get you out of there. And I love that they have not been conservative with the scoring. They haven't been like, okay, we're up by 10, we're up by 14. Let's just run the ball, control the clock. Which they have been doing, but they also have been passing and scoring piling on points. And that's what you have to do. And that's the perfect definition of building a bully. Eric Dacosta is getting exactly what he wanted. This is exactly what he said he wanted to do. And he's done it. He's done it. Ravens are bullying these teams. They're bullying them. So anyway, to the players, of course, Lamar Jackson, he had a really good night. And it was very efficient. Very efficient looking at the exact numbers. 15 for 20, 169 yards. And I know some people may look at that. They may say, what? Okay, 15 to 20, that's cool, whatever. There's only five missed passes, but 169 yards. Guys, no quarterback. 169, that's nothing. Then you look at that efficiency. That efficiency, five touchdowns. Five touchdowns in 15 passes. That's a touchdown average every three passes. Every three passes he was throwing a touchdown. He also ran for eight times for 95 yards. Efficient. And again, I know some people, hey, 169 yards. Please, that's garbage. That's nothing. Overrated. And when those people, the people that say that, you can tell that they just, they don't have an idea of what this Ravens brand of football is. Because it is not conventional. It's not conventional. Usually conventional brand of football, the quarterback may have like 240, 240 to like 300, something like that. There'll be a lot more yards, but this is not your average offense. But for some reason, they are the number one offense in the league, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'm conventional and all number one offense in the league. And the thing about Lamar Jackson that we have to remind people of is that he has missed an entire game this season because he's been pulled from four quarters. There have been four different games where this guy has not even played the majority of the fourth quarter. Somewhere he's got taken out in the third quarter. But there have been four different games, four different occasions against the Dolphins. And I know some people, Dolphins, please. That's nothing against the Bengals. Some people are going to say, hey, Bengals, please. That's nothing. But what are you going to say about him also doing that to the Texans and the Rams? The Texans and the Rams, what are they going to say now? So people, one day they're going to run out of stuff. They're going to run out of stuff to say. And they're going to be like, well, but what are they going to say now? But anyway, he had a very efficient day, very efficient day. And I would take this any day over a quarterback. Oh, quarterback going for 400 yards. Okay, cool. But what's your team doing? How is that impacting your team? See, you can use numbers. You can use numbers to your favor, to fit your narrative, man. You can do that. You can say, oh, when the last time you had a 300 or 400-yard passing game, that's what the real quarterbacks are doing. But some people would fail to realize that a lot of these quarterbacks, they're having to have these games because they may turn the ball over and they may be having to play catch up with the other team. They may not have a running game that works as good as the Ravens' running well, actually, I mean, you could say that about any team in the league, really, because their game is just real deal. Their running game is just real deal. So that's that, man. So shout out to Lamar. Shout out to the Ravens. And it's not just Lamar Jackson. And there's something that we got to make sure we do not forget about as Ravens fans. Who are we going to talk about that in another video? Anyway, the offensive line, we talked about them briefly, but with the offensive line, they stepped up. With the absence of Max Scurra, a lot of us were in fear of what would happen to the offensive line moving forward. But they let us know like, hey, fear not, we got you. And he stepped in and it didn't even look like Max Scurra was out. He could have threw on Max Scurra's jersey. And we would have thought it was Scurra. We would have thought it was our starter for the past couple years at center. We would have thought it was him because they did not miss a beat. They didn't miss a beat. And that like this game, Max Scurra going out, it could have really sent us Ravens fans into not necessarily panic mode, but we could have worried a lot more moving forward. And not saying that, oh yeah, Patrick McCarney, just this one game, this sets him as, okay, we're straight. I mean, we could be. But it's just what I mean to say is that it was just a good sign. It's just such a great sign that he was able to come in. He wasn't expected to come in. He was able to come in, fill in right away. No drop off, no problems. He did his thing. He did his thing. So now the task is tougher against the 49ers. But again, we talk about that in another video, another video. We're going to get to them 49ers. I know, I know a lot of y'all really want to y'all just ready. Let's talk about San Fran. We'll get there though. Trust me, trust me. But anyway, the offensive line held up well.  He had a sneaky hundred yards. I didn't even realize he had a hundred yards. He had like 15 carries of, let me see, the exact numbers. He had 15 carries of 111 yards, average 7.4 yards a carry. And had his touchdown where he stretched over the goal line with the ball. Gus Edwards had four, oh yeah, 55 yards. I didn't even know that. He had 14 carries for 55 yards. Okay, check him out, Gus. And Justice Hill had his best running game of the year with eight carries for 27 yards. So he got a lot more involved than the usual. So that was good. And that's that all starts. You can't have those numbers if you don't have a good offensive line. No good offensive line, that stuff isn't happening. So Raven's offensive line has been very strong all year. More so in run-back blockings. I do often think that their pass protection, their like the PFF grades and stuff get a little overrated because of Lamar Jackson, because they may allow some pass rushers to get back in the pocket or whatnot, but Lamar will evade them and make them miss and whatnot. So they will give up like pressure or whatnot, but like the QB hits that there would have been had Lamar not been a mobile quarterback. The QB hits would have went up. The Sacks would have went up. A lot of that stuff would have went up. But since you have Lamar Jackson, then he can help those numbers stay down. But shout out to the offensive line. They've been pretty good this year. They've been very good this year. And I think I spoke about it in the stream yesterday that I know when Ravens, when fans of Ravens or not, when you think of who the most improved player on this Ravens team is, of course, everybody will go all the way down. But somebody that should definitely be a runner up would be Matt Scurra. It would be Matt Scurra. It would definitely be Matt Scurra. You can throw Bozeman in there too, but I think Matt Scurra will be over him. Because Bozeman, sometimes you still get a little happy feet. Sometimes he still gets a little happy feet. But now he's played a lot better too though. But yeah, Matt Scurra should be up there. Because this offensive line has just been a beautiful thing, man. It's been a beautiful thing. But anyway, something that somebody mentioned to me, let me see if I can find exactly who it is. Because it was such a great point. It was such a great point. Was it my guy Kevin Redline again? I'm not sure. I'm checking right now. No, it wasn't him. It was somebody else. But somebody mentioned that the wide receivers, they didn't even, excuse me, the tight ends didn't even catch touchdown pass. I'm trying to see who it was. But either way, man, it's just crazy, man. I'm trying to see who it was. But either way, man, it's just crazy, man. It's just crazy, man. It's crazy. Because we're so used to those tight ends doing their thing. I really forgot who mentioned it. Because I really want to give them their credit. Because they also mentioned like, hey, that just goes to show when you take away one thing, the Ravens could end up hurting you with another. I really wish I saw who it was, man. My apologies. My apologies. Because I really wanted to acknowledge them. Because I hate that. I hate not acknowledging the people who make these great points. So anyway, whoever said it, please let it be known. Claim your comment. Because you deserve to. But anyway, that was great. Because everybody knows Lamar Jackson, he loves tight ends. Ravens come out heavy with them tight ends. But they also could spread it out too. And that's why I say, when people ask the question, did this Ravens team peak too early? I don't even think they peaked. I don't even think they peaked. And shout out to the people that tried to correct me yesterday, but were dead wrong. Because they were like, no, peaked. I spelled it P-E-A-K-E-D. P-E-A-K-E-D. And somebody was like, no, no, that's wrong. Peaked. P-E-E-K-E-D. Two people. They tried to come for me in the comment section and I had to correct both of them. I said, no, peaking, the one that you're spelling, is when you're looking. When you're looking for something. I don't think the Ravens are looking for something too early. But peaking, the one that I'm spelling, P-E-A-K-E-D, is when you reach the top. When you reach the top. So, had to do a little corrections there. But it's all good, man. It's all love. I do it out of love. I do it out of love. So just know that. Anyway, when people ask if the Ravens are peaking too early, no, because they haven't even peaked yet. Because they haven't even consistently got the Y receivers involved like that. Now, last night, that was a little version. That just showed that the Ravens are versatile and they still got plenty more to offer. Hollywood Brown, two touchdowns. Willie Snead, two touchdowns. Mark Ingram had his touchdown. So they certainly got those Y receivers involved. Hollywood should have had three. And Willie Snead should only have one. But Hollywood was like, you know what? I'm going to drop it on purpose just so we can share the wealth a little bit. So I'm going to let somebody else get one. So Lamar put it right there, too. And Hollywood went pook. All right, I got my fake drop out the way. Let somebody else get it. Then they found Snead and Snead, though, for that in-zone touchdown. Lamar throws his fifth of the game. So it was a beautiful thing, man. It was a beautiful thing. And it's just nice to see that we have an offense that can do these things. Now, the Titans still got involved a little bit. But last night was a night for the receivers. And shout out to Seth Roberts, too. He didn't score a touchdown, but he continued to show that effort that he always shows. I love Seth Roberts' effort. Love it. Love it. Because he'll make a nice catch and then he'll get a lot more yards after the catch, too. He don't stop fighting for yards. He goes forward. Like he's like a running back at wide receiver or something. Just his mentality because he always falls forward, always going forward. Yeah, it was a great night. Mark Andrews, he had a drop, but he made enough plays, too. He made a really nice play where he got big yards running up the sideline. So that was nice. Hayden Hurst made a couple of catches. Boyle was kind of quiet. I think he had a few catches. Let me see exactly how many catches he had, man. Because he was kind of quiet last night, man. Andrews just had two. Oh, yeah, he had that long one. Okay. Boyle just had one. So quiet. Oh, Hayden Hurst didn't have a catch. I thought he did. Okay, I'll take that back, then. Oh, Boykin. He had two catches. I remember the big one. I remember the big one from RG3. I don't remember the other one, though. I don't remember the other one that Boykin got. Yeah, I really can't remember it. I can't. Of course, Hollywood. We talked about him, Snead. Mark Ingram on his nice touchdown catch. Where he looked like he was going now, but then he cut back in and a linebacker said, whoa. And boom, Lamar zipped it in there. Touchdown. Touchdown. So many weapons, man. So many weapons. And a lot of these guys were like castoffs. A lot of these guys were like, nah, that ain't nothing. A lot of these guys are young. And it's been a process. It's been a process. And it's still a process. But this has been pleasantly surprising from these wide receivers. And I think the Ravens just, they have guys that just have reliable hands for the most part. They got guys that can just catch the ball. And that's what you need first and foremost. Hollywood Brown for the most part. Willie Snead. Seth Roberts. Boykin. It's a little process. It's a process. He's been getting better though. It's a process though. But he don't get too much target still. So I think that plays a role in it too. But then of course all the tight ends, they pretty sure handed. Mark Andrews, I don't know what was going on with him in that Seattle game. But yikes. But yeah. That's cool though. We got a pretty sure handed team in the past catching department. Defense. Boy that defense. That defense has been just, they've been clicking. They didn't give up a touchdown. They didn't give up a touchdown. And that's great man. They allowed six points. Two field goals. No TDs man. None. For them to do that, that's amazing. That's amazing. They are clicking man. Marcus Peters, he got his pick, which I was so happy for. Jimmy Smith, he got his pick, which I was so happy for. It was great. It was great. Marlon Humphrey almost got a few sacks. Almost. There was one play where they sent in, I think, they sent in Marcus Peters and Jimmy Smith. Both on the blitz from both sides. And they almost got that like Ravens pass rush last night. Last night was the night where that pass rush was on point. Last night was the night. And last night, they were like getting so close. They were right there to get even more sacks, but golf would get it out at the last second. But the pass rush, definitely, they had a great night last night. They did not let golf be comfortable. He just continued to look really bad, man. He looked really, really bad. Somebody in the comment section yesterday, it was like, man, if golf is worth 100 mil, how much is Lamar Jackson worth? But yeah, it was a rough, ugly night for him. Ugly night.  Disgusting. But, yeah, that's the quarterback. That's that guy. Now, I didn't even realize, I was watching a Rams fan video, and he said that girlie only had six carries. Let me see. Yeah, that's true. He had six carries. It's crazy, man. And Rams, it's funny, they tried to do some of those little tricks, or they tried to do one of those little tricks, well, not really trick plays, but one of those little ender rounds or whatever, little reverses or whatever, where they brought Brandon Cooks. They brought him in motion. Then they hiked the ball, and then they handed it off to him real quick. Ravens were all over that. Ravens were all over really everything. They were pretty much all over everything. I know Robert Woods, he had, I think he had like 90-some yards. Why am I even questioning it? I can look it up right now. Yeah, he had 97 yards, but a big chunk of that, it came on that play at the very end of the game. It came on that play at the very end of the game, where he got, it says it was 39 yards, 38 yards, but with Brandon Carr, he pushed him out, and then Robert Woods got up, and he was flexing. He was flexing, but the score was 45-6. You're really flexing, and the score is 45-6. You got some stuff to think about, man. You got some stuff to think about. But, Ravens gave us plenty to think about, too.  Anyway, Cooper Cup didn't even know he was playing last night. Didn't even know he was playing. Ain't even know. Gurley was a non-factor. I think the, just as much as the Ravens did, the Rams also made Gurley a non-factor, because they ain't using. They ain't using.  He can chill. He can chill. He didn't do anything. Six carries. Todd Gurley. Six carries. Yikes. Everett. What did Everett do? Everett was pretty quiet. I remember a couple catches, but I don't remember much from him. So, let's see. Everett, oh, yeah. He had literally that. Two catches. A couple. Rams' offense just couldn't get anything going. All game and Raven's defense, they had everything going. It was just beautiful. Marcus Peters, oh, man, I was so happy for him because, I was even more happy for him because he almost had to pick early in the game. But he, I guess he started, he jumped on it a little too late and it hit the ground. He was like, oh, right there. If he would have been there a second sooner, that would have been picked, probably picked six. But I was glad that he ended up still getting his, man. He jumped it. He did one of them little madden animations where the ball gets thrown and they run and the receiver is in front of them, but they run it and they end up turning to the receiver. He jumped it. It was beautiful. It was beautiful. They got to pay these corners, man. And I said, Jimmy Smith. Jimmy Smith was, he was playing like he wanted to stick around in Baltimore, man. He don't want to go nowhere. And he wants all of us fans to remind each other of who Jimmy Smith is. And we don't even need to remind it, but I don't mind him reminding us. I love the reminders. Keep on feeding us those reminders, Jimmy. Keep on letting us know. Let us know who you are and what you're capable of, because we know, and again, with Jimmy Smith, it's just been the injuries. It's just been the injuries. That's been his only problem, the injuries, and of course there's suspension, but the injuries have been the only thing. And that's it. So we know how good of a corner he is. Now we got him, Healthy, Marlin, Humphrey, Marcus, Peters, Brandon Carr, Earl Thomas. He had a quiet night, but it was a good quiet. It was a good quiet. He didn't give up anything. He blitzed a couple of times. You know the usual. He's been having a good season, man. Earl Thomas has been having a good season. Chuck Clark. Chuck Clark continues to play well. Ever since they put the green dot on him? Playing lights out, man. Lights out. It is unfortunate how he got his opportunity. Of course, with Tony Jefferson and Deshaun, Elliott going down, or Tony Jefferson get going down because he had his opportunity when Deshaun Elliott was still there. But he's been great. He's been great. Matt Judon continues to get ready to get paid because he certainly will. That's going to be a lot of money, man. A lot of money. Josh Bynes, LJ Ford. LJ Ford was kind of quiet. Josh Bynes, he made a few plays. He's a little quiet today, but that means they were handling their business. That means this entire defensive unit was working together, working collectively as a unit, and they took care of their business. They took care of their business. So everybody played their part. Everybody played their role. Everybody executed what they needed to do in order to get the win. And they got it. They got it. So now 49ers are coming up. They're coming up. And that's going to be a... That should be a fun one. That should be a fun one. So anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I appreciate y'all. Ravens, hey, we appreciate y'all. We all on here, Team Keep It Clean. We appreciate those Ravens. It's fun. And we don't want it to end. But when it does have to come to an end, we want it to be with the Ravens in Miami celebrating. That's the only way that this season can go. That's it. That's the only way that this season can go. And that's it. It can't go any other way. Not this team, uh-uh. It can't go any other way. It has to be like this. It has to. So... We're going to see how it plays out, man. But the way that these Ravens are playing, it can't be any other way. Anyway, Team Keep It Clean, I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. Thank you for rockin' with us for these past very some knob minutes. And I'm out. Boy, he like gotta made it.


Item Number- SCP-5821 Object Class- Keter Special Containment Procedures SCP-5821 is currently contained through the efforts of PTF Lambda-27, codename Amazon Brigade, in preventing any individual from harming SCP-5821-1 in their efforts to neutralize, cook, and eat him. Members of PTF Lambda-27 are to be rotated out periodically so that they do not act upon SCP-5821-1 themselves. Description SCP-5821 is a persistent memetic effect throughout the human population of Earth that the flesh of Geoffrey Preston Bezos, henceforward SCP-5821-1, is the most desirable meat for human consumption. While all humans aside from SCP-5821-1 are subconsciously affected by the meme, and thus wish to consume SCP-5821-1's flesh, only a small number are aware of SCP-5821 to a degree where they will attempt to assassinate and subsequently cannibalize SCP-5821-1. Memetic degradation analysis pinpoints the origin of this memetic property between April and August of 1997, and the meme has gradually increased in power over time, with more individuals becoming taken by the concept and acting upon it. SCP-5821-1 is aware of SCP-5821 and is cooperating with Foundation containment efforts. Memo regarding Amazon Disillusion Memorandum regarding recent proposals for SCP-5821 containment. Date October 25th, 2019 To SCP-5821 Research Staff From 057 It has come to my attention that some alternate containment proposals have recently been discussed. I am saddened to inform you that, while your initiative in devising new and exciting methods of containment is commendable, the containment of SCP-5821 will not be subject to change for the foreseeable future. The models predicting the total domination of the human psyche by SCP-5821 by 2050, while alarming, are still very new, and consensus has not been reached by Foundation predictive divisions. I personally can tell you that some sources known to the O5 Council suggest that the meme may perhaps be dissipating. As such, drastic, unproven measures such as Foundation's seizure of the Amazon Corporation or the disillusion of SCP-5821-1's assets simply cannot be justified to say nothing of possible assassination. To address a specific point of contention some of you brought up, while letting the subject of an anomaly weigh in on the methods and intricacies of its containment may be unorthodox. Trust me when I say it's for the greater good. SCP-5821-1 understands intimately the difficulties the Foundation faces in containing the dangerous anomalies that threaten our world, and has generously compensated us for resources used. I understand fully that this may be difficult and confusing for you, and following the conclusion of my caravan yacht cruise, I am willing to take the time to discuss this issue one-on-one with anyone who continues to take grievance with these actions. Sincerely, O5-7 Addendum 5821-2 Possible expansion in subjects affected by anomaly Beginning on October 25, 2019, several members of the SCP-5821 research staff have exhibited a desire to consume O5-7. Research into this effect is currently ongoing.


part of liquid water. Where will the water go? It will be added to oceans. So the level of ocean is moving up. So the coastal areas of each and every country mostly and the most vulnerable are the islands and that two small islands which are present in the mid ocean agreement. So Vanuatu island is one of the island that is present in the southern part of Pacific region. This island was a member of the core group of islands which were demanding to set some penal action for the countries who are committing to play their role to fight climate change, to fight global warming. But if they are, if they fail to do that, there should be some compensation for other countries. And so the matter has been sent to international court of justice. Vanuatu island was the core member who raised this issue and very recently just within a week or 10 days, this matter has been adopted by United Nations and has been sent to international court of justice. What will happen? What will not happen is something else. It may fall on deaf ears, but a issue has been raised and so this becomes important for your PSC preparation. The question is asking the location. So it is located on the northern side of Australia, northeast of Australia, between Australia and New Zealand or northern Pacific. Have a look at the location of Vanuatu island. So Vanuatu island is located not exactly on the eastern side, not exactly on the northern side. It is northeast of this particular region that is Australia. So Vanuatu island is located on the north eastern side of Australia. This is one thing. Have a look at the detailed map of Vanuatu island. These are volcanic islands. Some part may also be having corals, volcanic islands scattered here and there, a group of islands, banks islands, number of islands are present over there. Port Vila is basically the capital of this particular region that is Vanuatu island and it is known for something that is exclusive to this particular region. The first underwater post office of the world and rather the only underwater post office of the world is located in this particular region that is Vanuatu island. Underwater post office of the world it is located in Vanuatu island that is present in this location. It was a location based question. The answer is not east, not north, rather northeast of Australia. It cannot be north of Australia. Northeast of Australia shall be correct. Between Australia and New Zealand it has nothing to do with New Zealand. Australia is here, New Zealand is here, Vanuatu is here. So it is not between Australia and New Zealand. Northern Pacific, this is southern part of Pacific. Equator is somewhere over here. If we draw equator it can be drawn somewhere over here. This is the location of equator. So no question of going to northern hemisphere. So it cannot be northern Pacific. So answer shall be northeast of Australia. That is option B before but that was question number 28. Question number 29. The second last question of our discussion. The coral triangle also known as Amazon of the sea. The coral triangle also known as Amazon of the sea is a roughly triangular area in the tropical waters and known for reef building corals. This is a statement which is telling you about coral triangle. Which of the following group of countries cannot be considered a part of coral triangle? Underline the word can not. Which of the countries cannot be considered a part of coral triangle? Now what is coral triangle? If you know that you will be able to answer that. If you don't know that then you won't be able to answer that. Because coral triangle is basically a group of six countries which are known for reef building corals but Australia having great barrier reef is not a part of coral triangle. So those who don't know that as soon as they will spot Australia they will eliminate option D that Australia cannot be there. Great barrier reef is along Australia. Someone among ABC has to be there because that is not having Australia. But coral triangle is not having Australia. It is having six member countries. Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua Namuera. So these six countries which are given over there if you have a look at this particular figure that is called as coral triangle. So coral triangle is having these six countries. So the question is which of the following group of countries cannot be considered a part of coral triangle? So the right answer shall be option D, D for dog Australia because Australia is not a part of coral triangle. The coral triangle includes six countries Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Papua Namuera and Timor-Leste. Why corals are so very important? Corals live in symbiotic relationships with a small tiny microscopic algae that is called zoosanthellae. They create or form a calcium shell taking calcium from the oceanic water, provide security, provide shelter to zoosanthellae intern. Zoosanthellae manufactures, produces food for the corals and also provide different colors to the coral. So they live in symbiotic relationships. Corals are very important for marine biodiversity for sustaining marine ecology. They serve as a breeding home for the fishes. They serve rather they are a part of the food chain. They sustain the food chain and they are very, very important for the sustenance of overall food chain marine biodiversity each and every. Corals are getting lost. They are at loss. They are getting bleached by global warming, by ocean acidification, dissolution of carbon dioxide into water forming weak carbonic acid which is altering the pH scale of the ocean and so the corals are getting destroyed. Excessive global warming increasing the temperature of tropical waters which is again harmful for the corals. It is not like that in recent discoveries in the last decade it has been found that corals can be found even in cold climates. Earlier it was believed that corals are absolutely dropping but now it has been discovered that corals are also present in Arctic. Earlier there was a conotion that corals can exist maximum till the depth of 77 meter on continental shell but now even 600 meters deep corals are discovered but they are not reef building corals. The reef building corals are practically found in tropical waters only. They require a fixed amount of salinity, a specific temperature range which makes them highly vulnerable. Any change in climatic conditions in tropical region is detrimental for the corals. Very recently just two or three days back there was a news in the newspaper that corals from certain regions they have samples have been preserved using some cryogenic technique by using that techniques corals can be replenished later on. I haven't followed that in detail but there was some news in within one week only two or three days or at the most one week. So however the answer to this particular question is Australia, Indonesia and Philippines that is option D and the last question for today's discussion time is also Indian government announced a discovery with massive implications for its environment international relations and political scene and untapped 5.9 million 10 stash of lead theorem reserves located within the region of. The question is trying to focus your attention on latest discoveries. It is not something very important that whether you know whether lead theorem was discovered or not or where it was discovered or not something that you must know or that you must inculcate in your meteorology for preparation to the UPSC is that anything that is discovered at least in any new technique that is been developed in our country you must be knowing the process and cons the location the region where it is lithium discovery lithium triangle is found in South America Chile Bolivia and Argentina these three countries Chile Bolivia and Argentina are known for lithium triangle and India was dependent on imports of lithium from various different countries lithium all your mobile phone gadgets are having lithium batteries lithium is having excessive use in all electronics and I did this lithium was discovered in this region of Ramoh and Kashmir and it is the fifth largest reserve I think so it must be mentioned somewhere India is now the fifth largest lithium resource in the world so this region of Ramoh and Kashmir region have discovered lithium reserves so the answer to this particular question shall be not Charkhand not Orissa not Arunachal rather D Jammu and Kashmir so Jammu and Kashmir becomes the right answer to this particular question right have a look at these figures Chile is having 19.9 Bolivia is having 39 Argentina 5.7 Australia 7.7 China 6.7 India is having 5.9 Argentina which is a part of lithium triangle is only having 5.7 million tons and India is having 5.9 million tons now right so the answer is the moment Kashmir this we come to the end of our discussion on this particular topic this particular session that was a series on civil services examination current affairs session for prelims of 2023 we have discussed 30 questions these 30 questions are having different themes you need to go through the theme of the questions and apply that team to each and every part of current affairs each and every part of your content whatever that you are using for your UPSC prelims examination along with the current affairs things come up in newspaper things come up in magazines things come up in username and kurushet in a yearbook but we are not able to use those topics use those things properly for our preparation because we restrict ourselves to that particular content that particular material which is available in that particular newspaper or magazine we need to do work on that we need to explore that only then we can consider ourselves as a true sprint for UPSC your next session will be on this particular in continuation of the series will be on coming Friday best of luck for your examinations all the best thank you


Good morning everybody. How you doing today? Today is 9-11. I want to play a quick tribute video to 9-11. I want you guys to participate today. I think it's really important that we share our feelings and what happened and how it's affected your life. I'd like for you to do that in the chat box there. You can do that throughout this session today. I know we have people on here who are from a couple different groups. Maybe you're on my survival list. Maybe you've purchased survival food from us. Maybe you are somebody who is learning how to make money online from my teachings there. But today is all about 9-11. We won't be selling anything at all. But I do appreciate your participation in this. So please participate and I will go ahead and play that video for you now. Okay guys, I want to share that video with you and kind of wake you up and let you realize how lucky you are today. Some of you may have been around during 9-11, but those of you out there who were not around during 9-11, it was a really weird time. I can tell you that. It was amazing. I will tell you and you haven't lived through it. You haven't seen it and we have so much division now in our country. But back then everybody cared about everybody else. It was a whole different time. Everybody supported everybody else. There were no racial divides or gender divides or any of that stuff. It was everybody was supporting everybody else. So if nothing else, but that came out of 9-11, that was a good thing that people realized that we're all just in this together. I mean, we really are. It's just life and stuff you've got to go through and handling it and being kind to other people matters a lot. I want you to share with me your stories. Some of you may be watching this live. If you're watching this live, you can put it in the chat box. If you would like to actually come on screen, if you're watching this live, I can facilitate that and actually put you on screen and you can actually tell part of your story. If you'd like to just tell it in the chat box, you can certainly do that. But either way, I would like to see a lot of participation guys. If you are somebody who is watching this and it's pre-recorded, all you have to do is put your comments in the comment section below in the video. I will go back through and acknowledge anybody who is kind enough to put their comments on this video. I think it's super important that you do that. I think a lot of people have a lot of different feelings about 9-11. I'm going to go through some facts today about 9-11 that you may not know, some stuff that's still going on, some stuff that happened back then. I think it's pretty interesting stuff that's out there. I hope you enjoy today's session. It's going to be something that may bring up some past memories which could be good or could be bad. But I think it's important that we do it. I want to start off really by letting you know some of the facts about 9-11. For those of you who don't know these facts, and even for those of you who knew some stuff, maybe you forgot. Maybe you didn't realize it. I think one of the most interesting facts about 9-11 is that the employee who gave the order to ground all the airplanes after the 9-11 attacks was Ben Slimley, S-L-I-N-E-Y. Here's the thing about Ben. It was his first day on the job. Imagine that. It's your first day on the job and that's what you get hit with. This is your first day on the job. That had to have been earth-shattering. It was one of the biggest disasters in American history. Those who were old enough can easily look back and think about what happened to them. I know I was in my office at my home in Virginia and I was having a guy doing some wiring for my computers to connect them to another office. I was actually in an entirely different line of business back then. I owned an executive search firm for medical devices and pharmaceuticals and that type of thing. I saw the airplane hit the Twin Towers and I was watching it burn. I didn't really know what it was. I don't think the newscasters knew what it was at that time. Everybody was really kind of shocked. We lived in a place called Chesapeake, Virginia, which was very close to the military bases where all the jets scrambled out of. I remember walking outside and standing up top of my staircase and seeing literally hundreds of fighter jets fly over in the sky. It kind of shook me. I was like, wow, what the heck is going on? Is this it? Is this it? I mean, that really kind of ran through my mind. Is this it? Is this the end of the United States? Is this all out war? What is going on? We didn't know. We didn't know. We didn't know who had attacked us. We didn't know if it was Russia or Iran or Korea. We had no idea. It was just a really scary time. The fact that there were 2,996 people who died on that day. But the interesting thing about the people that died on that day is that 400 of them were emergency personnel such as firefighters and policemen. Guys, respect your firefighters and policemen.  It's not true. They're not all bad. There's a lot of really good people out there doing really mundane and dangerous jobs. We had to go to the grocery store yesterday and one of the traffic lights was out and there was a police officer. He looked like he was 20 years old but sure he was older. Standing in the middle of an extremely busy and dangerous intersection directing traffic because that was his job that day. It was 95 degrees. He was in full uniform. It was hot. It was uncomfortable and he was doing that to keep everybody else safe. And that's a minor thing you may think, oh, directing traffic that's so minor. But that's uncomfortable for somebody. It's not comfortable for him to stand out there and do that. The number of people that were injured in 9-11 were 6,000 people.  Aside from the two airplanes that were flown into the traits in their building, a third one hit the Pentagon and a fourth one actually crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The plane included 19 men who were part of a radical group of Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda, however you want to pronounce it, led and founded by Osama bin Laden. The entire plot was actually organized by bin Laden himself. He originally denied having part in the invasion. He's denied it but later released a video in which he admitted to having orchestrated the assault. It's estimated that that attack caused a minimum of 10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. The cost of the cleanup was $750 million. Cleanup for 1.8 million tons of debris took 3.1 million hours. It was finally finished May 30th, 2002. That's a long time, guys, because you figure September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May. That's nine months. It took to do that. That's a long time. The ages of the victims range from 85 years old about 75 to 80 percent of the victims were men. That collapse of the second tower only took 10 seconds. Now, you think about the structure of that building and how big that building was and in 10 seconds that building went down. Guys, I want to hear your comments, your life experiences around 9-11, so please put that in the chat. If you're not live watching this, put it in the comments. If you're in that chat section and you want to come on screen with me and talk about your experiences, feel free to do so. Just put in the chat if that's what you want to do. I can click on you and I can bring you on screen, so I just want to let you know that. After September 11th, the Department of Homeland Security was created to prevent further terrorist attacks. They've been in existence since then. There were 184 people who were killed from planes hitting the Pentagon, including the passengers and hijackers. So we don't want to forget those people in the plane too. I think a lot of times we don't think about that. There were a lot of innocent people in those planes. As of August 2017, only 60% of the World Trade Center victims remains have been positively identified. So 40% never were. That leaves 1,113 of the 2,753 who have no biological confirmation of their death. They're just gone. So imagine the families having to deal with that guys. That's really pretty horrendous. It's estimated that it will cost $500,000 to carry out that 9-11 tragedy.  It's assumed that the destruction was actually a protest against America's support of Israel, which is insane in itself, but you know that's what it was. His participation in the Persian Gulf War and the ongoing military occupation of the Middle East. So you know, when we go around the world and try to help other countries, it doesn't always go well. Surprisingly enough, some of the terrorists that participated in executing the plot had lived in the United States for over a year and they actually took flying lessons within the United States. So they came here not knowing what they were going to do and then they took flying lessons. Others entered the country just a few months before the attack and these participants acted as the muscle for the plan. Only 12 survivors were pulled from the rubble after the collapse of the towers. Only 12 people guys, that's not much. Afterwards, 18 people were rescued from the rubble of the towers. The last survivor was pulled out of the rubble after being struck for 23 hours. That's a long time guys. Ages of the 19 hijackers ranged from 20 to 33 and most of them were from Saudi Arabia. In order to take over the planes, the hijackers, get this, were able to easily smuggle box cutters and knives through security. I don't think you could do that nowadays. I think it'd be very difficult to do that nowadays. But you know, that's how simple it was back then, how naive we were. Out of all four planes, three hit their targets. However, this is the one I want you to think about for a second. The fourth plane, Flight 93, okay, was reclaimed by the passengers before crashing into an open field. So those, those people, those people, and it's been theorized that the passengers of Flight 93 attack the cockpit with a fire extinguisher while the plane crashed. All 44 people aboard were killed. The target of Flight 93 isn't known for sure, but it's believed to be on the way to attack the White House or the US Capitol or Camp David retreat. We're not really sure where it was going. Or one of several nuclear power plants on the east coast, because that could have happened too. It took almost 10 years to locate and take out Osama bin Laden, but he was finally killed by US forces in 2011. Up until his death, there was a 25 million dollar bounty on his head. And yet it still took 10 years and nobody turned him in. Nobody turned him in, which is crazy. There were numerous occasions to capture Osama bin Laden from 1998, but for various reasons, such a probable civilian casualties, none of these plans were ever executed. So we knew about the guy before he did this stuff. We just didn't do anything to capture him for various reasons. And I'm not saying, you know, they were good or bad or indifferent. 9-11 was not the first attack on the World Trade Center in case you think it was. In 1993, there was a bombing that killed six people and injured over 1,000, okay? One of the men who was behind 9-11 also played a major part in the 1993 bombings. Both attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda. So we've known about this group for a long, long time. The plan was carried out by detonating a 1,200-pound bomb in a parking garage beneath the World Trade Center. Guys, 1,200 pounds. That's a big bomb. I don't know how they got it in there. I really don't. Originally, the intention for the 93 bombing was to ruin the foundation of Tower 1 enough to force it to topple onto the second tower. It just didn't work. So they had done this stuff before. Luckily the plan failed because of overcrowded parking in the truck that carried the bomb was not able to get close enough to its target location. Had that plan worked, it would have brought the towers down faster than the 9-11 attack and resulted in a higher death toll. So it's kind of interesting what's going on there. The week after 9-11, alcohol consumption in Manhattan increased by 25%. Tobacco intake rose 10% and church attendance rose by 20%. I guess there's some good and bad and everything, right? After the attacks, it took firefighters 100 days to extinguish all the fires around Ground Zero. Imagine 100 days, right? What is it? Over three months. It took them over three months to do this. There was $100 million worth of art that was lost in the collapse of the towers, including a memorial place or piece for the victims of the 93 bombing and paintings by Pablo Picasso. During the destruction, a guide dog named Roselle led her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs to the home of a friend. Dogs are amazing. I'm looking at my dog at the backyard right now and she's running around and she's just amazing. On a normal day, the towers up to 50,000 employees worked in the buildings and an extra 40,000 passed through the buildings. While workers were going through the debris, they found 65,000 items, including 437 watches and 144 wedding rings. That's some pretty sad stuff. Just about six months before the towers were destroyed, a property developer bought a 99-year lease on the World Trade Centers for $3.2 billion. After the tragedy, there was a three-day flight ban across the entire United States. Now imagine this. If you weren't around then, no airplanes flew in the United States. None. They didn't fly. Scientists took advantage of this and organized experiments on the effect of jet planes on the atmosphere. When the National Guard went after Flight 93, the two pilots who were in the air didn't have time to properly aim their jets. The pilots knew that if they intercepted a hijacked plane, they would have to fly their jets into the aircraft with no guarantee of their own ejection. In other words, the brave pilots went on a suicide mission. Imagine that. And I have a relative who actually is a fighter jet pilot. That's an amazing job, guys. It really is. I'm a private pilot myself and I can't imagine the speed and power of one of those airplanes. The 9-11 attack has been the largest loss of light on a foreign attack on American soil higher than even Pearl Harbor. The New York Times wrote an article about every single 9-11 victim. They called the series portraits of grief. At least 200 people jumped from the tower during the blitz. Imagine jumping from that building. The fall lasted less than 10 seconds. Rather than suicide, these deaths were ruled as homicides at the hands of the terrorists, which they truly were. These people didn't get up that day and plan to jump out of a building. That wasn't their plan. There have been several memorials for 9-11 erected around the world made from just rubble of the towers. Some locations included Israel, Italy, and more impressively, a piece of the towers has ended up in a memorial on some space tools on Mars. That's crazy, right? More than 1,100 people who work and live near the World Trade Centers during 9-11 have been diagnosed with cancer due to exposure from toxins from the site. Some of these include asbestos, smoke from jet fuel, and carcinogens.  A lot of those people don't have any benefits. That's something you want to look at. I know John Stewart led something. Hello, Hanman Chu. What's going on? Hustle. He says hustle, yes. So the employee who gave the order to ground all the planes, the horrible attacks, was Ben slimy, and like I said in the beginning of this session, it was his first day on the job. Imagine that. That's your first day on the job. While the planes were grounded, there was one exception made to this ruling. The former president of the World Trade Center Survivors Network support group. He had one of the most famous survival stories that was broadcasted in many interviews. It was later exposed that she was a fraud and was not even in the country at the time of the disaster. Imagine trying to capitalize on this stuff. It's a mind blowing, right? Upon the first plane striking Tower One, people in Tower Two tried to evacuate, but were urged to stay at their desk by an announcement. Some tried to leave anyway, but were turned back by security. Imagine you had a chance to get out. Canada took in 255 diverted flights in the United States on 9-11. Upon receiving them, the Canadians fed the stranded passengers and took care of them. Over a hundred search and rescue dogs were deployed to help find survivors in the rubble of the towers. September 11th is now commemorated as Patriot State to honor those who died in that tragedy. Guys, there is a lot of history. I mean a lot of history around 9-11. I think it's something that everybody, everybody should know about, be educated on. That first plane hit September 11th at 8.45 on a clear Tuesday morning and it was an American Boeing's 767 and it was loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel. Imagine that. Imagine that hitting a building. Of course the building would fall. In 18 minutes after that first plane hit, Boeing 767 United Flight 175 appeared out of the sky turning sharply toward the World Trade Center and sliced into the South Tower at the 60th floor. That collision caused a massive explosion that showered debris over the surrounding buildings going to the streets. It immediately became clear that America was under attack. And like I said in the beginning, you know, this was all under the, I guess, direction of Osama bin Laden, that Pentagon attack. As millions watched in New York and what was going on with Flight 77 circled over Washington DC before crashing into the west side of the Pentagon, and that's the military headquarters. Okay, that was at 9.45 jet fuel from the Boeing 757 caused a devastating inferno that led to structural collapse of a portion of the giant concrete building which is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. All told 125 military personnel and civilians were killed in the Pentagon along with 64 people aboard the airline. Now in less than 15 minutes after the terrorist struck a nerve center of the U.S. military, the whore in New York took a catastrophic turn when the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed in a massive cloud of dust and smoke.  Be thankful. I don't know what your situation is. I don't know what's going on, you know, in your part of the world. But you know, all these lives were lost. A lot of people went through some horrible things. A lot of people are still suffering from a lot of this.  Think about those people. Think about how lucky you are. Think about where you are right now versus all those people that died and you know, their families that were affected and everything. And be thankful and do something with your life.  I see so many people who I look at and I'm like, you're just getting through life.  You're probably going to a job you don't like. You're spending all day on that job. You're miserable in the job. You come home.  You live in a house you don't like.  You're wearing clothes you don't like.  You go to bed. You get up the next day and you do the same thing and you do this for years and years and years. And then you try to retire on Social Security or some small retirement amount that may be half of what you are earning.  And that's what you did with your life. Don't do that. Do something more with your life. Do something more with your life guys. Don't do that. Make your life count. Every one of you has a really greatness inside of you if you let it come out. And if nothing else today on 9-11, maybe that will wake you up to the things that you can do. The things that you should do. You can't change the past. Don't sit there and dwell on that. But imagine what you can do in the future at any age. Any it doesn't matter what age you are. It doesn't matter what capabilities you have. It doesn't matter physically what you look like. It matters what you do on a daily basis. So I want to play my tribute one more time to the 9-11 attacks. And I put together this little video here guys. And it's going to bring up some images and let you guys kind of see what it was all about. So I'm going to go ahead and stick it up on the screen now. Please don't forget to put your comments on there. Like this video if you would. Don't forget to subscribe. Ring the bell. Turn on all notifications. I have to say all that stuff of course. But let's watch that video one more time. Okay guys I'm going to thank you for showing up today. I want to thank you for participating. I really appreciate you being here. If you are watching this and it is no not no longer live if it is already been published. Please put your comments below. Let me know your feelings. Let me know your situation. Let me know what happened since 9-11 with you. I've been very fortunate since then. Very lucky. Worked really hard but I appreciate every day. I hope you guys do too. Okay maybe this will wake somebody up about their potential or make them thankful for what they have. They kind of changed their way of thinking today. Guys I really appreciate you being here. Don't forget to like this video. I really want to have your comments below. Put it there. What's going on in your world now. How you felt about all this. What your situation was. Where you were then. Where you are now. And I will come back and I will comment or I'll answer any questions you have too. Thank you so much for participating today. Thank you so much for watching. Love every one of you. Have a great day.


Some of my students are currently working on the brewery industry. And this video is going to show them how to actually find market research industry reports on the brewery industry in the United States. So here you go. Well, it would be awesome to hang out at Jacky O's all day long. Unfortunately, we probably wouldn't get much business research done. So I'm back in my office here to show you some of the excellent tools we have that can help you research the brewery and beer industry in the U.S. So here you go. Here's the tools. So the first place we'll look for industry information is Standard & Poor's Net Advantage. Once you get here, if you just click on Industries, and we're looking for basically anything to do with the brewing or beverage industry, here we have, there's an alcoholic beverage and tobacco industry right there. Click the little triangle. When we get a nice little report there, you can actually look at in PDF format if you want to. These average between 30 and 50 pages usually. Pretty good information there. We have all kinds of nice charts and some textual analysis of the industry, things like that. If you like, you can also go over here and click on downloadable company data, and that will open up an Excel spreadsheet with all these different kinds of materials or data here that you find in the report. You can get it in Excel format there. So that's one way to get really good information and really up to date, updated every six months industry data for the brewing and alcoholic beverage industry. Mintel Oxygen is another great place to look. This is more on the consumer side of who drinks beer and adult beverages and things like that. In order to use this, you've got to create a personal profile there. Just click there and use your Ohio ID and create a personal profile. I will log in as me here and show you real quick, agree there are terms and conditions there, and then the easiest way to do this is just go up and search for beer in the top search box, and you'll see the all kinds of reports that we can get here. So here is the U.S. Market and Beer from December of 2011. These reports average about 100 pages in length. So really nice place to get good, in-depth information, particularly as it pertains to the consumers and who is drinking beer. So a great resource to look at for consumer information, industry information, market research information. Passport Jima is another great tool when researching the beer and brewing industry. The easiest way to actually find information here is just to go up here and search for beer in the U.S. And you can see, as we start searching that, we have beer in the U.S. We click there, click the search icon there, little magnifying glass, and we get a good list of results from that search there. In our list of results, we have things like this global company profile, which is a good report, gives you things like strategic evaluation, things like that of the company, market assessment, a SWOT analysis, all kinds of good stuff there. You can see this is from last December, so pretty good recent information there. If you also look here, there is a beer in the U.S. category briefing. This is another place to find market research reports here. We'll give you headlines, trends, all that kind of stuff, competitive landscape, prospects. If we go on down, there's all kinds of category data down here that can be really useful when analyzing the U.S. beer industry. And your search also brings up all kinds of reports here. Beer for women, clever market, or just insulting. You know, some good information you can find there that would be really interesting. If you're finding too much information here, you can actually go on the left-hand side and limit by geography. So if we just want USA, we click USA there. And so now we have 187 reports versus the over 1,600 reports we got before. So a great way to limit your research there in Passport GMIT. Ibusworld is also a good place to get an overview of the beer industry. If we just go in here and search for beer or brewing, however you want to search it, you'll give us a list of results here. And here we have breweries in the U.S. Here's a nice little industry report. These are typically updated three or four times a year or so. We see this last week in February 2012. And it gives you basically things like major companies, competitive landscape, things like that. So all kinds of good information that you can find there. It references some of the major players in the industry, things like that. So a great place to look for analysis of breweries in the U.S. Business Source Complete is a great place to search to fill in some of the gaps of your information. Just kind of a quick tip here to show you, if you're searching for breweries, we see we get over 10,000 results. We find things from applied thermal engineering, things like that. So we really don't really want that kind of level of information there. What I'm looking for, and here what I'm looking for in industry analysis, is I'm looking for trade publications. And what you can do is go down and limit by trade publications there and click Update. So this will get rid of things like applied thermal engineering, but give us things from national liquor news, give us things from beverage industry. It's particular publications that are by people in that industry for people in that specific industry here. So we go down here, we see there's another beverage industry. So lots of good articles, good ways to find information from people who are in that industry written by people for that industry. So you can bet that folks from IBIS World and Passport GMed and Mantel also read these kind of reports or these articles. So it's a good place to get good information from other places other than just some of the major industry and market research providers. One Source is also a great place to look for this kind of information. Once you get here, you're going to click on One Source. And you can actually go in and search for a company. So we could go in and look for Ambev or Molson Coors or things like that. Or you can go over here and look for Industries. And let's just search for a beer. And here we have alcoholic beverages. It kind of puts it all in the kind of the same kind of broad industry category. You'll notice it lists breweries there, but it puts it in the One Source industry of alcoholic beverages. We'll click there. And what I'm looking for primarily are these market research reports here. Okay. And some that I find particularly valuable. These data minor reports are okay. The BMI reports are decent as well. But what I like to find is these Fredonia Focus reports. And here we have one for Beer United States. Also Distilled Spirits, Wine, Beverage Industry Overview. Beer United States is pretty nice. We have a, it looks like a 22 page report. And it covers these various industry overviews, trends and forecast structure and things like that. So another place to look for industry analysis of the beer industry in the U.S. Hopefully this helps you get more help. Look for the contact link on the business blog. We're glad it helped you. Anyway, take care and have a great day.


How would money be produced in a free society? Let us first observe that the fact that the quantity of money is irrelevant for the wealth of a nation must not be confused with the ideal of stabilizing the quantity of money. The latter ideal is in fact a spurious ideal and does not follow from the aforementioned fact. There is nothing wrong with increases or decreases of the quantity of money. The point is that such increases or decreases should not be mistaken to benefit society as a whole. Right and wrong in monetary policy does not concern the question to which end should the quantity of money be modified. Rather it concerns the question who has the right to modify the quantity of money? And in a free society the obvious answer is all producers of money have the right to produce more money, and all owners of money have the right to use their property as they see fit. In a truly free society the production of money is a matter of private initiative. Money is produced and sold just as any other commodity or service. And this means in particular that in a free society the production of money is competitive. It is a matter of mining precious metals and of minting coins, and both mining and minting are subject to the competition emanating from all other market participants. In selling his product the money producer competes with all other people who own money and seek to buy the same goods that he desires. And in buying factors of production the money producer competes with the producers of chairs, theatre performances, telephones, carpets, cars and so on. In a word, in a free society the production of money is constrained within fairly narrow limits, limits that are determined by the willingness of other members of society to cooperate with our money producer rather than with someone else. What kind of money would prevail in a free society? Theoretical considerations and historical experience all point to the same answer. A free society would use precious metals as money. Payments would be made in coins made out of gold, silver, platinum, copper or whatever other substance would combine scarcity with the physical advantages of these metals. By contrast paper money has always been fiat money, that is it has always been imposed by the coercive power of the state. It is not the money of the free market but the money of a partially enslaved society.


Where are we? We're on to the three-way mirror. The three-way mirror, this is pretty cool, okay? You're gonna zoom a moment by the Juss Ron. The Juss Ron, Juss Ron, Juss Ron, Juss Ron. Juss Ron, three-way mirror. Do it yourself, perfect hairstyle. 360 view, you can easily see all angles of the head and the face. High definition glass, no amplification, no deformation, no dizziness, better imaging effect. Height adjustable, so like it's height adjustable. Height adjustable, the hooks can be hung on a door or a wall or placed side-by-side on the table. So let's see what this thing is. Pretty cool, this is so as you wanna do your own hair or you wanna do your makeup and you can't see the other side, all right? It comes with USB, so maybe it's got a light on it too. I don't know, maybe it comes with a light. Take a look, what's this called? Jerson, it's Jerson, okay? Take it out of the box, take it out of the bag. Okay, now, all right, Jerson. So we're gonna open her up, all right? So there's the hooks and the hooks are adjustable. Different heights, different, so you're gonna hang that up on something, right? Like that, all right? Now let's open her up and see what we got here. We got that and we got this, okay? And it looks like it's lighted. You don't have any way to put, hang it up. Look at that and it's lighted, let me put the light up. I didn't know it was lighted, but it's lighted. So now you can look at it and you can see, I can see the sides, both sides of my head and this is adjustable if I wanna turn it around. That's pretty cool, you can see everything now. I wanna see how the back of my hair looks, right? And it's got the light on it, all right? That's pretty cool. Okay, and again, these are adjustable so you can make it any height, you can put it on your mirror, on the door, you know? Okay, so let's turn it off, all right? Close her up. The Jerson, right? This is pretty nice little mirror. Close that up like that, close that up like that, right? The Jerson mirror, there you go guys. Jerson mirror, adjustable height on any door, any mirror with the light. It comes with the light and it comes with the USB for recharging it and it comes with extra stuff here. And let's see what this says. The hook, the stretching rod, the LED, the switch, the hanging hole, charging mouth, all those are excess. Oh, that's if you wanna hang it on the wall. It comes with hardware to hang it on the wall. You can also put it on the table so like if you put these out like this, it'll stand on the table and you can do it like that. So then you would open it. So if you didn't wanna hang it on the door, you could hang it, you could put it on the table like that and it would stand on the table and then you could put the one light on, right? You could put it on your makeup table, right? There you go.  Pretty cool. This is a pretty cool little item, right? Jerson, Jerson mirror, three-way mirror. Okay, what do you think of that? Jerson, zoom out. I made a mess back here.


This study aims to synthesize eco-friendly nanocatalysts such as reduced graphene oxide, argio, zinc oxide, zeno, and reduced graphene oxide, zinc oxide, argio and zeno for efficient photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue dye using direct sunlight irradiation. The synthesized nanocatalysts were characterized using various techniques and their photocatalytic degradation efficiency reached up to 66 percent, 96.5 percent, and 99 percent, respectively, with a low catalyst load of 20 milligrams. This article was authored by us for Negash, said Mohammed, Hulu Giggish Dejafu Welder Kerstos, and others.