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Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food, and I am here today to share a Rice Krispie Treats recipe. Now, the recipe that comes on the box of Rice Krispies is absolutely fine, but I figured out a way to step it up a notch. I have added extra butter and extra marshmallows, and it is going to be extra yummy. So this recipe is something that you can do with your kids or just by yourself during this time when we are self-isolating and the ingredients that are used are things that most people typically have in their pantry. So you are going to need some crispy rice cereal. It doesn't have to be Rice Krispies. Any cereal will work. The generic is absolutely fine. And you're also going to need a 16 ounce package of marshmallows. And what I did was I took out one cup from that. You're gonna reserve it and set it to the side. And then you are also going to need one stick of unsalted butter. And then for your pan, I am using an eight by 11 and a half inch pan. And what I've done is put aluminum foil in it. And then I have greased the aluminum foil with butter. You can't see it very well. But I'm using this because it's much easier to lift out your Rice Krispie Treats when you're done and then cut them up. So we are going to move over to the stove and I'm going to show you how to do this quick and easy recipe. All right, so in a large pot over a medium high heat, I'm gonna actually turn it down a little bit. I have my one stick of unsalted butter in here. As you can see, it's just kind of melting down. And I am using a wooden spoon. I would not use metal, but you can also use like a heavy plastic because this is gonna get really thick and you want something that's gonna be sturdy enough for you to work with. So now I'm going to put in my package of 16 ounce, my 16 ounce package of marshmallows. And like I said, I did reserve a cup, oops, a cup of them, set them to the side. Now I think the heat may have gotten to my marshmallows a little bit because they stuck together a little bit. It's kind of humid here. And so all you're going to do is just kind of let this melt down. So it should take a few minutes. Okay, so my marshmallows and butter have melted. I have taken the pot off of the heat and I have it on another burner. And what I'm gonna do now is add in my eight cups of rice crispy treats. So you do need to move pretty quickly with this because once it pulls off, it'll be almost impossible to get everything all combined. So I have all my rice Krispies in there and I'm just moving fast to get it all mixed up. So everything is almost combined and now what you're gonna do is add in that one cup of marshmallows that you have reserved. It's gonna add some extra gooey and yumminess to these rice crispy treats. And again, you're still working kind of fast and you're just gonna try to fold the marshmallows in. Okay, so I have everything combined in my pot and what I'm gonna do now to make spreading out this mixture a lot easier is butter my hands with the wrapper that I used for the butter. Of course you don't have to. You can get a fresh pad of butter if you'd like or you can use cooking spray but I'm just trying to use what I have. So I have my hands lightly buttered with that butter and then I am just going to dump it over into the pan and you're gonna work pretty quickly and just pad it down the best that you can. Now, like I said, I'm using an eight by 11.5 pan. Of course, if you use a nine by nine or an eight by eight it's gonna be a lot thicker Or if you choose to use like a 9 by 13 1⁄2 inch pan, if I could talk, then of course your Rice Krispie treats are going to be a lot thinner. But to me this is a perfect consistency and just go ahead with your buttered hands. Just go ahead and pull off that yumminess from your wooden spoon. It is a little warm, but it's not unbearable. Just pull off as much as you can. If you don't get all the Rice Krispie mixed, all the Rice Krispies mixed in, that's okay too. And as you can see, I'm just working as fast as I can and I'm just patting this down. Patting it down. Smells so good guys. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. And you're going to let these cool for about an hour or more until they are completely cool. And I'm just making sure that they're spread to all the corners. And you may be wondering what makes this different than the traditional Rice Krispie recipe. And the difference is, is we're using more butter, so it makes it buttery. And we're also using a lot more marshmallows. And as you can see, we're also using some whole marshmallows in there too. So everything's not melted. So I think I have it pressed in there as good as I can get it. Also, once you have everything combined and you're adding in that cup of marshmallows, if you wanted to add in chocolate chips, you could do that. If you wanted to add in mini M&Ms, you could do that. I've also made Rice Krispie treats with peanut butter. So when you melt your marshmallows in your butter together, I sometimes add in a half a cup of peanut butter and half peanut butter Rice Krispie treats. So there are so many variations. All right, so there it is. It's all padded into my pan. I'm going to let this cool for about an hour at least or until it's completely cool. And then I will come back and show you what it looks like. Okay, guys, so here are the Rice Krispie treats. I let them cool for about an hour in the pan. And then I just pulled them right out of the pan in the foil, put them on a cutting board, and I cut them up. As you can see, they are pretty thick. So let me show you the texture. So here it is. You can see the marshmallows throughout is nice and gooey. So what I will say is that if you want a really firm Rice Krispie treat like this one, which is what I prefer, definitely use the eight cups of Krispie Rice cereal. If you want it a little bit less firm than that, use about seven and a half. If you want a really chewy, malleable Rice Krispie treat, use six cups of Rice Krispies instead of the eight cups. So it really depends on how much cereal you use. Don't change anything else, meaning use the same amount of butter, use the same amount of marshmallows, just use less cereal. But again, I like a firmer Rice Krispie treat and that's what I have here. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up. And if you have not subscribed to our channel, I hope that you'll do so and we'll see you guys next time.


I am... Sweetie.   Big Falsett. Instagram, Twitter, YouTube content. I've got some hatred on Twitter. Can't read the bubble. Guess what? Bye! He thought down go boom. And today we're doing a movie reveal. A film that came out this year! What? It's a 2021 Tamil film... Not... Tamil film, Karna. I almost said Tamil film, Karada. Not to be confused with Karna and the Barbarian. That's true. Do you like that one? Karna? Karna and the Barbarian? Conan, it's Conan, right? It was Conan. Conan. Yeah, I like Conan and the Barbarian. You liked it a little bit more. What was it? Death to Ming? What was that one? Death to Ming. Ming. It's... he's like... Flash! Oh! Oh, flash! Yeah! Wow! Let him save every one of us! Yeah, anyways, random. Sorry. Sorry. Stuff pops into my head. Yeah. So it came out in 2021. It actually came out in theaters in India, obviously, before all the lockdown stuff happened. Second wave. And then it dropped on Amazon, I believe, a week ago. And so this is a new Tamil film starring Dhanush. Dhanush? And written by Mari Salvaraj. Forgive me if I'm mispronouncing that. And obviously, starring Dhanush, Laul. There's a couple of them. Rajisha Vajayan, Yogi Babu. And then these two, I think. Yeah, Guri Kishan and Lakshmi Priya. And there's a lot of them. There's a lot of people in this film. So obviously, we can't say them all. So if you haven't watched it, go watch it. Come back if you don't like to be spoiled. It came out a while ago. So I think I'm more fine just doing this spoiler review right now. But Rick, your initial thoughts, please. My, ultimately, I'm sorry for Dhanush fans. I didn't like it, ultimately. Visually. The cinematography, especially at the outset of the film. Yeah, for sure. And then several spots throughout. Stunning. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, by far, the best thing about this is if you just want to watch some gorgeous cinematography. And if you have a lifetime of understanding the symbolism and mythology and the metaphors that are a part of the story that come from. And I always butcher the name of the Sanskrit text. The longest poem in the world, the Mahabrasha. I always run it. Yeah. If you have a framework for that, I bet you will like this 10 times more than someone who doesn't. Yeah, for sure. And it is for me, and I'll talk more about this. It falls victim, if I can use that word, I guess, to the same problems that the Christian film industry has in that the Christian film industry will incorporate things from the Bible. And because they've incorporated things from the Bible, the people in the industry consider it to be meritorious when there's other aspects of it artistically that fall short and they don't hear you when you say, but guys, can't you do what Mel Gibson does because he doesn't miss the artistic aspects of this and still does the stuff that you are holding up as meritorious. And the basic thing I think happened with this for me is it's not just lost in translation. It's the accentuation of that and the mythology and the metaphor and the symbolism when some of the other aspects artistically for me fell short. Overall, I did enjoy it. I do have problems with it, probably similar problems that you had with it that artistically I did have some issues. But overall, I actually really enjoyed it, especially obviously the cinematography and editing, it was absolutely gorgeous. I think I actually enjoyed most of the acting. I think one of the problems with some of the acting was more of the fact that it was synx sound as opposed to what is it called? I don't know what the technical term for it is. I know me too. I'm losing my brain right now. What is it? Sorry, Kim. When they actually take the audio from on set, which is obviously very common for here, I don't like ripping films too much because I know there's entire industries in Southern. That's just how they do it. And I can't just rip every single film for it. But that was probably some of the issues I had with some of the acting is because it's just so jarring sometimes when you can see their mouth and it's moving and it's a different emotional tone than what they gave. Yeah, there were other sound things as well. And more than that, the sound issue I had was by the time we reached the big battle sequence, all of the striking sounds, no matter how far away they were from camera, no matter if it was a sticker of hand, the striking sounds were uniform. They were the same sound level and they were the same sound itself. Yeah. But overall, I actually did enjoy it. And I did really... I did see some of those things that he saw at the end. I did enjoy the last bit, especially of the fight scene. This was a very mythological style. It wasn't obviously more realism in terms of the story of it. Even though it wasn't as visually carrying of this theme, it seemed to be reminiscent in the same way of Bahu Bali. Yeah. I did notice Denouche actually had, I think, a... Rajanakanth shirt on, at one point. And I actually think it was Tharabati. Well, then that would have been very... That would have been... Because we understand that there's parallels and it's interesting that we just saw that in the rest of this because it's the same story. But I did enjoy that. It was a mythological style of a story where, obviously, he's the hero. There's a ton of symbolism. Some, obviously, more obvious than others. Some, obviously, there was no way we'd be able to get being not in that culture. But I did enjoy a lot of that. I thought a lot of the actual fight was pretty good. Obviously, there was some stunt work that was a little cheesy, obviously, at times. And also, this did remind me sometimes of almost a Western sometimes a little bit. Even the music behind it sometimes, which reminded me of a Western. Which music was really good. Obviously, musical numbers with Denouche stuff, we were always going to be great. But I thought the overall score was excellent. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and so I could see a lot of that. Let's talk about the action. I thought Denouche actually did quite well. It was very similar to his other role that we've seen in Vada Chennai. Yeah. And so I would love to see something even more different from him. I get the feeling watching him, that this kind of a film doesn't really give him the kind of thing that would expand what he can do. Vespianatically, the coin in the phrase. He can tell he's a really talented actor. You can tell he can act. I actually enjoyed him both in this and in Vada Chennai. I know when there's a role out there where he could have sunk his teeth into and he could be like Fafa level at times. I can tell he has that level of talent in him. These two roles were just very similar to me. Yeah. Of those two. But obviously he's a laundry list of roles that we've yet to see. Yeah, they're brand new to him. I would like to see more from that. I think the main message of the film overall, there was a ton of messages actually. Yeah. But the fact that it was a small village who was being obviously oppressed by the neighboring villages, by the police, by the overall system. And they've basically overcome that and they had to fight for this actually. Right. It was like a brave heart. Or just a thousand stories like that where somebody who's a little guy is overcoming all the obstacles. And obviously this village is an incredibly passionate, tight-knit village. They have their problems with each other but they're all very communal and they will support each other if anything from the outside does happen. And so I did enjoy a lot of that. There were some moments that were, it happens in a lot of films that we've seen in Indian cinema. It's just some of the over-the-topness. Sometimes does creep in there and it does jar you a little bit. At least for us. Not for you guys, obviously. I know a lot of people really love this film and when we say stuff like that, you don't see it, but that's obviously where we're coming from. That's kind of what we saw. Sometimes. I actually thought, for the most part, everybody was pretty subdued except when you see some of the dubbing. Those are I think some of the main issues. Yeah, there wasn't anything very subtle and then you hear like this big, loud noise. I'm like, I know that's not coming from his mouth right now. Yeah, I didn't find there to be, while I didn't see anything brilliantly magnificent in the acting stuff, I didn't see anything glaringly horrifying where there's times where you're just watching it and you're like, okay, please just move on. I never experienced any of that. I'd say the two largest things for me that made it a challenge for me to become more engrossed and love the film, they both fall into that same category with, and I don't know how many of you have this frame of reference, there's the Christian film industry and they've made films over the years, Kirk Cameron's made a lot of films over the years there and the majority of them, nine out of 10, they fall very short artistically but they're applauded and heralded by the people within that industry in the Christian community and that's a very similar reminiscent to me of where you get an industry. I don't get that vibe because I have a really bad view of that industry and that did not touch this. No, no, no, but it was in this regard. It was in the fact that I think a lot of the applause for the film can be about the representation of the mythology and the metaphors and the connection from that ancient text and how it's being depicted on screen and that that in and of itself is enough to make it meritorious and that's what happens a lot with a film like Fireproof or a film like God's Generals or any number of films that have come out of the Christian film industry where I'll be talking to other people who are Christians and they're like, did you see and you see it and you're like, it was average and they're like, no, it was so and the reason they're so, they feel so good about it is because it's actually just presenting the texts and the moral compass that they want presented but it's lacking in some of the artistry and no matter what you say, they're like, the response isn't, oh, you're right, the artistry's lacking. The response that you get is you just didn't get it, you didn't appreciate it. That makes sense. Yeah, it makes sense. I don't know if I agree just because maybe I just have a very different view of the Christian film industry. This is nowhere near that style but I think I understand what you're saying, the messaging's part of it but I don't know if I would say that about this film. But like I said, my favorite part is probably, I mean, the cinematography in this. Unbelievable. It's my, I mean, at the end of the year review this might be in the conversation because some of the cinematography and editing of this film was so beautiful and brilliant, almost like Jalataku at times because some of the night shots were insane. The opening of the film, I thought if this is just the taste of what this film's gonna be, I'm astonished. Yeah. Because it was, it was a work of, there were moments in this where you're just appreciating the cinematography and this is fine artistry. Just absolutely breathtakingly stunning. Cinematography. Yeah. There was so many shots, especially when they, with the little, his sister who died obviously from the beginning. Yeah. And then she kept coming back with the mask which I believe I figured out was in some cultures, I believe in Tamil Nadu, you guys can tell me if this is wrong but when a woman or child dies they're really young, they almost become godlike. And so that was basically what it was. She became almost godlike and that was the god mask that she had on. Got it. And so that's why you kept seeing that symbolism. I believe that's what I read so you guys can tell me if that's correct or not. But some of those shots when she came in, they were stunning. Some of the, especially some of the night shots that they had in this thing were insane. I just looked at them like this is beautiful. And there were some things that we picked up on that you may think we missed but we got in symbolism like the kite slash bird aspect sequence when the bird comes and steals and takes the stuff of the tree as well as the police officer with his head off and the headless statues. What that meant, the sequence and structure of the film, how it runs and becomes that big battle, did some research because I wanted to see what is it I'm missing and you know it could pick up on and better understand. Even something, I understand that this symbolism but when it occurred for me it seemed not spoon fed but just so obvious that it just didn't make an impact for me like the untying of the donkey feet. Yeah, that one was the most obvious one. Yeah, the most obvious. And then the larger thing for the storytelling aspect it missed on two levels for me to connect me with the overall story. Because the story I think is a very interesting story and I think they do a very good job not knowing the original Sanskrit text by any stretch of the imagination. It seems that this is a very good adaptation of that. But the two aspects of storytelling that missed for me were the first one was a great storytelling has a sense of being universal and I felt like I was an outsider watching this thing take place. Again, the contemporary Christian film industry where it's like the only ones and then the other aspect was I didn't get an empathetic connection. I didn't get a human condition aspect where because you don't always have to relate to the circumstance to connect to the characters and what they believe what they're feeling, what they want. What I got, which happens a lot in some of the films that we see I got a lot of anger and then violence gets their anger out and gets the result of what they wanted. I didn't care very much about anybody in the end. I appreciated the metaphor and the symbolism but when we're getting to the peak of the climax of everything and what happens to grandpa I would imagine you'd want me caring and I didn't empathize with anybody. I think at least I thought they wanted you to probably care more for the community as a whole. Obviously, even though they were going through all the stuff they still very much wanted their village to be looked at well they wanted all their girls to go to school and actually I think the ending probably could have been cut I never liked those endings where they go ten years ever. I think it would have been a much stronger ending if they would have just cut right where they originally before the ten years later my personal I hate that I can probably assume what's going to happen in ten years I don't think you need to tell me I never liked those style of endings but obviously they I think they probably wanted you to care more about just the whole community but yeah I got that I think the love interest even though I thought they had good chemistry was a little underdeveloped I would have liked to have seen more of that and obviously I think the more of the story was about the community as opposed to them in their relationship but I thought she did really well and I thought they had good chemistry here in Denouche the songs were awesome I think it was the funeral of Denouche singing it was the promotional piece which was phenomenal really enjoyed that he has so much energy about him I think he's won a talented actor but he brings a good amount of energy to all of his roles so I liked the score overall of this and I think it probably could have been shorter as well I think the sweet spot for this would have been two hours to 215 is probably where I would have probably preferred it as opposed to 240 which I would imagine a lot of people would think 240 is a pretty trim run time when you consider the text that this comes from and how long this actually is but I thought for the most part the pacing did do pretty well maybe you guys can tell us why they do sync sound as opposed to in time sound maybe you guys can tell us why some industries decide to just not do that I don't know but that's always a struggle I know it's for both of us it's always a struggle when you see that I can tell that that's not the real voice so it takes me out of a lot of it it interferes with the suspension of disbelief so you guys can tell me why they do that sometimes I'm not going to blame this film because we've seen it in a lot a lot of films, no I don't know why they do it cost is it people don't care I can think of the fact that this is the way it's been done predominantly for so long so they're used to it and it's hard to change something that you're used to secondarily it is a time saver when you don't have to do retakes because of sound or then you have to do ADR work after the fact you just do everything post and when you're on set it's going to save you a lot of time to not have to deal with that which in turn will save you money especially when you want to make films and just pump them out if you're making a lot of films in an industry I guess for me it minimizes the artistry I would always prefer because the actor is in a different place in a studio than he is on set so I can tell in the voice the difference in his emotion than when he was on set because what he looked on camera was really nice and I actually probably would have preferred that over the audio of course because it's like what he was feeling he was in the moment just a little of where we're coming from when we talk about that that was probably my biggest but I hate griping on it just now because it's so prevalent I can't just gripe on it in every film I would like to understand why it happens but overall I did enjoy the film I would like to see more Dhanush as well as the main lead as well you know who else I did enjoy a lot we didn't talk about him Yogi Babu? I enjoyed him a lot I think he normally plays comedy roles I actually liked him a lot and his love interest is not Yogi's but Dhanush's I liked her a lot so let us know in the next Dhanush film that he really it's like a really great different character you know our style let us know what the next Dhanush film we should watch is down below


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Right. So let me jump right in. Google Analytics, I hope, I am going to share some things that you always wanted to know, things that we may know but may not know it in its locality or may have a different point of view or may have a different image apart altogether. Trust me when I tell you this that every day I learn something new about Google Analytics and I have been doing this for eight years and I have seen the product change. I have seen the product change trying to accommodate for social media, the evolution that happened, trying to accommodate for mobile and the apps which Google Analytics very unwillingly added a module for mobile apps also and it shows that their product is still a little half-baked when it comes to tracking Google Analytics for apps. So what I am going to do is I am going to cover in broadly these four things. Google Analytics setup. What are the eight most important points that you guys can use as a checklist? Ways to segment the data for greater insights that the insights guide us and guide us in the power of optimization. Naming conventions are best practices. This is something which I have learned the hard way. I have stumbled too many times to finally deduce that you have to follow and have a standardized naming convention for yourselves and this is something which I will cover very briefly and improve your Google Analytics skills which remains an everyday journey. But first, the sales pitch. You guys know that I am from Circles Lies. The Circles Lies is the new telco. I don't know how many people have you know that Circles Lies started full-fledged mobile services in this year and but before that I would like to throw a question open. What are you missing out from your existing telco? Some things that you would like to have. Some things that you are not getting. Tell us. Well, you had a sneak preview in my flies. That is why you caught up on that. But tell me something really. Something which is a real pain. Something that smack in the middle of those mission critical moments you find as a hidden charges. Well, that's something which we all don't like. But then again if they are hidden we always obviously don't know of them. What else? Who likes to be binded in two-year contract? Tell me. Show me hands. Actually I'm quite okay with that. Oh, there you go. I wonder if you're also okay when you want to move on to Circles Lies. Oh, you're with Circles Lies. But then you already got to meet. He's part of our beta. Oh, you already attained salvation. So we will skip you. But then I think this is what we're talking about. Too long a time we have now been shackled and we've now been suffering from something like no unlimited bonus data. No phones without contracts. If you want a phone and if you really want that phone for maybe a hundred dollars or maybe zero dollars, you have to bind yourself in a contract. No unlimited WhatsApp. And pretty much people don't even care because to them WhatsApp is unlimited. Well, you should have an eye opener too. No true roaming. Now when you guys, and I'm showing you guys travel, you guys travel, you would pick up a package, pay $30 a day and travel to various countries. And it's a bit of a pain that you've only touched touch ground or landed, say in KLA airport at 7 p.m. And because you bought a package, now you only have five hours left before that date spires in the new package will start. Imagine if there would have been a possibility that you would pay only the amount of data that you actually consume at maybe one tenth of what your prices are. Things like if you were dare to go without any package, finding a way on a Google map would have cost you about a hundred dollars and something which shrinks to maybe $1. Now would you like, I mean I'm sure you guys like the sound of it at least. So these are certain things which telcos are not revealing themselves about. They want to still bind you in a package. They want to still charge you for those five hours of $30. And the next day as well as the clock strikes 12, you will pay another $30 to the next day.  Imagine if you had a two hour layover or say a four hour layover in Japan before you moved to US, you would pay for those four hours in Japan the $30 and even if the day has not changed you will still pay $30. Anyway, so that's what true roaming is all about. They don't charge us, we don't like any charges. And we want flexibility in control, don't we? You can zap that code which essentially will take you to our website and it will offer you this. So Circus Light we launched services in June, full-fledged, full-voice data and SMS if you guys still use it. And targeting tech savvy people like you, people who understand how to use, how to get a cab through Ubers, get their food delivered through Reeds or Deliveroo, and people essentially who understand the value of an end-to-end integrated digital experience.  We don't even have a store. You go to a website, you can do a port in digitally. When I say port in means you have an existing number, you port it into a new carrier. And ideas are powered by data. And that pretty much is the reason why I'm here. All our ideas, all our data-led approaches to insights in user behavior, we do on the website, on the apps, which essentially guide us and form our now, next, and new. And there is a surprise waiting for you guys at the end of the presentation. So look out for it. So now back to GA. Google Analytics set up eight points checklist. Google account structure and raw data view. Now this is very important. As we all know that today we deal with multiple websites and multiple websites have to have various views. But one thing which we also try and do is we try and create some filters for ourselves. These filters, when you create on Google Analytics, to have your view segregated, maybe by devices or by geographies, if you're operating multiple geographies, what it takes away from you is any change is done over a course of time. You will lose out on the historical data. And that's the reason why the best practice is to always have one of the views, account property view, one of the views as raw data. Something that you can always fall back, something always you can extract and make use of. Most important, bot filtering. You guys all aware that you've got a lot of spam, a lot of bots, a lot of click farms which are out there. Now Google Analytics has been continuously improving their algorithms as well as the backend systems to identify these bots and have added in their filters. Now there's a specific place that you can find these filters and you can exclude all these bots onto Google Analytics and this is very important. This is something which is going to help you get a control even on your bouncers and we'll talk about it in just a moment. Goals and goal values. Again, every business has a goal. Some people want to sell. Some people want just to register people so that we can send out news netters. Some people we want people to come onto our website, consume a video or share. All these are some nothing but goals. Unless you want to set up yourself some goals and assign them a value, you would not be able to gain insights in data and make use of those insights. If you want to increase traffic so that it culminates into higher conversion and your cost per conversion comes down if there's a paid media at the back, then you need to establish goals. Now these goals essentially can be established either on an event level or it can be established on the level of by URLs. If you establish them by URLs, then you'll also be able to get a fund visualization, something which we can discuss about after the presentation. Firstly, identifiable information or something which we all also know as PII information. This PII information is something which we typically either are not aware or we tend to take it very lightly. Google has a mandate of terminating your account if there was any leak of PII information on your account. That's how seriously Google takes this PII personal identifiable information. It could be your email address, it could be user IDs. If for any reason this were to slip through in your implementation then this is taken very seriously. So watch out for this, there are ways of creating filters to be able to avoid getting stuck with these PII information being slipped over and if you want we can go through the presentation after the presentation. Bounce rate, this is what I was talking about. Now won't you all love if your bounce rate, first of all how many people don't know what I'm talking about right now. Okay so maybe I will take your questions maybe after the presentation. If there's anybody else for whom I'm being a little too techy maybe you can see me after the presentation. So bounce rate as I would assume everybody knows it'll be great if the bounce rate is below 30%. Bounce rate essentially is people coming to your website but not going anywhere else. It just bounce off. That's how simple bounce rate is essentially. Now it'll be great if it remains below 30%. That means 100 people came to your website only 30% people go off. But one thing which people may forget or take it very easy is sometimes any bounce rate which goes below 20% they tend to pad themselves back but it actually could be a problem could be an error and that is something you guys should look out for. If your bounce rate were to drop below 20% or below 10% for that matter it is a point of concern and you guys should then investigate whether there is any double click or any double tags on your website. It could be that your website is tagged twice which is actually filing the pixel twice and then Google Analytics Server tends to record that as two hits. Now that is and on the contrary if suppose you're seeing a phenomenally high bounce rate overall not only just from organic traffic but even not only just from paid traffic but even from organic then that also calls for investigation. Not set values. Now how many people have actually seen on their Google Analytics something which just comes in and reports as not set. This is something you guys can avoid by adding some filters but be watchful of this. One thing you guys may have also noticed is they should pop up most frequently on Safari or Safari in apps. That is something you guys cannot avoid. Safari does not, Safari is still sort of trying to get there things around how to report itself in Google Analytics. So that is something which you guys still have to watch out for or keep it at bay. But other than that not set is something that you guys could tackle by adding the right kind of filters and these can appear when you run a landing page report with landing pages or page titles or host names or even sources and mediums you might tend to see not set up or not set. Content reports. Now on content reports I would just quickly show you how many people have actually seen when you run a page report you may see some links with just IDs. Now while your links are the same you would see that they are all differentiated by different IDs. Now this might actually stew your data. In order to avoid this it is advised to set up some filters. Now again it is entirely upon what the purpose of your business is. But one recommendation is if you want to filter out any query parameters which are getting duplicated just because they have a different ID and we should create some filters around it. And the last bit is traffic sources. Now this is pretty much as what it is. You have to set up your traffic sources you have to make use of your UTM parameters and tagging to be able to differentiate various sources of traffic and be able to then dig into and inform yourself exactly which traffic to to to maximize on and which which traffic and media to continue. Okay so quiz time. How many people can tell me what direct non direct non source in Google analytics is? Anybody? Okay. How many people agree with him? That's all what it is. Should I take silent as everybody please? So direct is essentially and this is sort of widely accepted that anybody typing in the URL directly on the URL is a direct traffic but it actually is not the whole picture. Any traffic to the website that comes from any of these clicks is actually converted as direct traffic. In fact in other words if you do not have a UTM tagged on your on your traffic and if it doesn't come from an auto tagging auto tag the parameters everything unknown is basketted or is bucketed under direct traffic. Things like if you found a URL on a Skype or any other messenger, if you found the URL on a PDF or if you found the URL on a mobile app you clicked on it the traffic goes to the website that the website of the analytics cannot make out where it is actually coming from. It doesn't even have the ability of putting it on a referer because there is no website. There is no domain name and therefore it's all packaged under in fact look at this clicks on bookmarks. Now this is a is a no-brainer and this is something which I was talking to Google analytics and they have now trying to bring as much traffic getting accounted for and out of the direct bucket as much as possible. So fun fact yeah ways to segment the data for great insights. Date range now this is a no-brainer. We all need to segregate our data by date range to be able to then compare and see if the changes that you guys made over the last week how does the traffic has behaved over coming say from the last month or the last quarter. Now that is what pretty much what date range segmentation means here. Primary secondary and tertiary dimensions. Now we all know whenever we run a report we've got a primary dimension and we can also add a secondary dimension right. Okay now there is also a trick to add a tertiary dimension and this is really really cool. Let me show you this. Now what happens is you have your primary dimension. Suppose your primary dimension is sources and mediums. You would choose a you would just choose the primary dimension and here you would see a drop down and here you can change your primary dimension into a secondary dimension and then after that suppose your primary dimension that your first choice was sources medium.  Here you suppose you change a secondary dimension to say countries. Now it becomes your primary your your secondary dimension actually is shown as the first dimension. It shows countries and here you can you make use of the secondary dimension and make it a tertiary dimension and populate landing by landing pages the traffic. So now you have within being an organic search traffic you've got inside a specific country and that specific country you can see the traffic onto various landing pages coming from that specific country. So that I found something really cool. Basic table filters now this we all are familiar with you've got tables you can filter them but what makes it more cool is making use of advanced table filters. Now this essentially is making use of various options as advanced search in which you will go into try and segregate the data by maybe a mobile device or segregate the data using your regex. How many people don't know what regex are or regex however people pronounce it. I'm assuming everybody are fairly familiar with it. Okay I don't know what to take from that silence but let me show you what it essentially means. So this is what your classic table looks like right here you would see something called advanced. When you click that advanced you will be presented with something like this so you can actually segregate your data by landing pages or you can add more matrices or you can even add more dimensions. Suppose if you add a secondary dimension say source and medium then you can create you can use instead of containing you can use regex and you can give an exact parameter based on which you want to see the report. In this case however you've got source and medium and he's chosen the secondary media or the secondary dimension as the landing pages and within that we can choose containing 12 weeks and the bounce rate has to be less than 80 percent. This obviously will tell us which are the more higher performing landing pages and therefore we can start optimizing our traffic to go to those landing pages. Plot rows now on the same example you would see that there are these squares the checkboxes. If you were to click any of these checkboxes it'll help you give you an analysis on a time spectrum visa v the parameter that you've chosen. So if your main parameter is sessions you could actually choose specific plot specific rows on which you would like to compare and this simple trick actually helps you see how the traffic behave from various plotted parameters or variables visa v in general traffic. Segments now here we've always seen these segments and seldom have we played around with these segments but these are something really cool and very powerful. You could actually segment all your data by either mobile device or by even if you've got an e-commerce website that you're running you could even do it by sessions that actually converted into purchases and then you can do purchases made look at this made a purchase or you can even create a custom parameter with set did not make a purchase all you have to do is go into custom here and use transactions equal to zero and then you will get did not make a purchase. The the more cool part about this segmentation is not only helps you segregate your data and be able to see it by those specific variables or parameters you could actually make use of the same segments and create yourself custom audiences that you can further than make use of in the ad words to run your retargeting campaigns and that is the really cool part of it you would not only come to know which traffic has worked for you you already have a segment which is already created and available there and you can literally just populate or make use of it in google ad words. This primarily applies for custom segments that we can create. Custom reports this is fairly standard the same reports which are available on the on a standard you can even have you even have the option of customizing it and then be able to choose the matrices that you that makes make sense for you and delete the ones which we don't and the last is admin filters now here as i was previously telling saying you could have admin you could have filters or rather we should create filters around if you got mobile traffic that you expect like on our website we would 60 percent of our traffic actually comes from mobile mobile devices 60 percent of our transactions actually have started coming from mobile devices you'll be surprised of those 60 percent 90 percent is actually from a mobile from a phone and not from a tablet you could do a test you must do a testing view essentially any changes that you do must have a test testing environment where you can check whether it's actually firing whether it's actually recording the data or not and if suppose you're working in various geographies it is always advised to have different views by geography just helps you organize your thoughts and organize your data in an orderly fashion and so that you can make more sound inferences out of it so that's pretty much what you know basics of ways of segmenting the data and no matter how basic they are they pretty much uh can help you uh on almost all all walks of google analytics or web analytics for that matter and they don't fall short from from any angle so now is the question time question for you what the bounce rates of which i explained previously what do you guys what do you guys think what is a bounce on a google analytics like i previously asked do we all agree that a bounce is essentially anybody coming to the website and going off do we not agree i'm sure there's just one of them well actually it's just the only one in this in this case but a bounce essentially is if if i were to put in a way plain terms is a single engagement hit now what we know of is we know of websites get visits we know that we've got visitors visits are connoted as sessions on on google analytics and visitors are connoted as users or new users but there is something called hits every interaction on the website is essentially a function of a hit so suppose if you have a had a page view as soon as you landed on the page it's actually considered a page view already now if that were to be true how will it define on the bounce the reasons it's it can be defined on the bounces because then it is said that only one action one hit has happened and nothing else happened the guy did not create do an event did not go ahead on the website to culminate into an e-commerce purchase or did not even click on any of the social plugins so therefore has just been one hit so a singular hit or a singular engagement hit on a website can be connoted as bounce now who all would agree with me if i say or yeah if i say that scrolling on a page is it considered an engagement hit and therefore bounce will not be coming to effect any thoughts that's correct so it's and that brings me to my point that bounce is something that you guys do not have to succumb to its default definition you guys can change the definition you can change it by something called a non-engagement or non-interactive events could be a it could be as simple as scrolling on a page that'll a blog now a lot of word presses are actually word presses used to create a lot of blogs right and you typically see the traffic which comes to a blog has a high bounce rate the reason is because they've not customized the bounce rate definition if your bounce rates definition entails that anybody who scroll through a page or even if anybody has spent an extra a given amount of time or more than a given amount of time then that can also be considered as a non-bounce traffic and it is essentially becomes more important for us to make use of this be able to customize the bounce rate so that it gives us more realistic view of our traffic and analysis naming conventions and best practices account structure well account essentially is you've got your account you've got properties and you've got views but what we need to make sure is if you're dealing with multiple accounts and I'm sure you guys are make sure that your account is either the name of the company or maybe the website the properties I'm sure you'll have a production environment live staging and you'll have a something called a Google tag manager Google tag manager helps you create a testing environment and views raw data always have your raw data view then staging for all data could be IP filter could be production internally internal traffic only now what it said essentially saying is you and google analytics actually helps us to create a filter on domain level or rather on an IP level and create a testing environment suppose if you if you if you work in an office you've got a static IP and it doesn't work on dynamic IPs if you work if you have an office static IP you could actually isolate your traffic on and create a property to be able to see and test out your website thoroughly and see how the how the traffic is flowing how the analytics data is coming in and it will not be open for all the other traffic so essentially it'll be in a controlled environment and you could do the opposite you could exclude your IP and that's in fact is one of the best practices once you go out in the market you must exclude your IP traffic so that it doesn't artificially skew the data for all the testing and all the all the hits that happen within the company again disclaimer being that you guys have you have to have your own static IP to be able to exclude the IP campaigns now we all run paid campaigns or we probably run social campaigns this naming convention has helped me quite a bit and something which you guys should take note of in fact a few best practices one of the best practices is that create a spreadsheet if you guys if you guys build URLs and create utm tags by the loads i mean what i do you can zap that code and it'll take you to a spreadsheet which you can just download and start populating your URLs and be able to create your utm tags very simple and very handy don't pass the person again pia information make sure that you guys do not pass any pia information set up google analytics on a lowercase filter just so that if there is any kind of google analytics is case sensitive so suppose if you want to track emails and you wrote email with an e-capable and then there are other times when other marketers wrote the source as email with a small e it actually will not will start differentiating the traffic whereas it actually is all from the same source that's why you can avoid that problem by creating a filter on lowercase always test after setting it up and that's when your testing environment or testing view comes into play whenever you've created a utm tag before creating you must test the URL that you want to create it for just so that you don't end up with a 404 error or and after you've created a utm tag must always check because most of the times you'll be surprised the 90% of our traffic tends to get lost just because you do not check that there was a space in the URL and we all know what happens if there's a space in the URL and don't wait until you forget to create a utm tag this has happened with us quite some times we waited we thought oh we don't do it we'll do it when it's closer to the campaign time and then we forgot about it because the weekend came in so guys yeah don't wait and you guys can take a snap of that you are of that code events now during the course of setting it up a campaign or setting up a google analytics we've got various events on our page maybe a classic page what it looks like this is a page which i borrowed from our website when you enter our website you would see there are three dials which are movable dials you can create your own plan take however much data you want or talk time or sms if you still need it and so you'll see a bunch of clickable points you've got the journey bar you've got all these dials you've got the help section and you've got these links here and obviously you've got the next button all these events should be tracked when i run my events report i can track and i can run report based on people who have stacked up a lot of data on their plan and may have not may have not closed the sale or i can create a report around people who stack up a lot of talk time and they that starts telling me and starts helping me dig a little more into what they want and how they want it so again we are seeing more and more that while we've given the option for sms is the can you can you imagine the uptake on the sms is less than five percent people do not add sms we've just given this because we don't want to alienate anybody and make them feel oh there are no sms available having said that you also have your pay as you go and those rates are all here so the point i was trying to make is whenever you start a website you have um you have various interactive interaction points maybe you'll have a video there maybe you'll have a downloadable white paper and all those things should have an event track you should track that event so that tomorrow you're able to segregate the data by source by landing page and even by time to purchase and they and then you're able to slice and dice the data and be able to optimize towards the operation the highest opportunity source so if someone changes one of those five or six years that's tracking you yes it's tracking individual events and therefore i will be able to segregate people who have built up their plans with 5 g's or with 15 g's or with 17 g's exactly in fact i can run a permutation combination and be able to be able to run a report which tells me what is the most likeable plan in fact i ran the report last time i found out that the most likeable plan the most uh created plan is uh with six gb uh 300 minutes and zero sms that's the most likeable plan at the moment so yeah and then then that also tells you that okay these guys are uh medium low to medium data data users then i can actually create my media plans and my media pushes around that but it's time so what do you think happens what do you do if you ever or if one of your colleagues were to make a mistake in creating those utm tags for example um i would always write for an email campaign i would always write my source as email without the dash but maybe maybe she wrote the email with a dash what do you do and that's a very common mistake any guesses well close so what you can do is you can actually create a filter to make uh make a future proof if this is something which is going to be a common stumbling block create a filter already which automatically searches and replaces any of such anomalies so that the data is standardized last bit you prove your google magic skills now this is actually a broad uh understanding you gotta study you gotta ask more questions uh all the blogs and all the all the places always have forums also available ask more questions i have learned to come almost this far because i ask more questions share because there are some people whenever you ask somebody is sharing and therefore you come to ask so if you don't become a part of the sharing community people will not know where to get their answers when they're asking practice this is where your testing environments come create your own block create your own wordpress website and then test out just for the sake of knowing and playing around with this google analytics which is such a wonderful and powerful tool reflect this is where it all culminates reflect with your colleagues uh in your work in your environment and and thus for uh and thus for all of these things put together is going to help you grow if you want to know more sources where you can study 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Our next presenter is Bryce Haymond. Bryce is a designer, philosopher, and mystic. He received a BFA in industrial design and a minor in ballroom dance from Brigham Young University. He's formerly the product development and design director at Handstands in Salt Lake City where he led the design, development, and manufacture of technology accessory consumer products. During last year's 2017 MTA conference he launched a new website, ThyMindOMan.com where he writes about perennial wisdom and the mystical relationship between the human mind and God. He and his wife Raven have four children and live in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Welcome Bryce. Good afternoon. I propose that there never were any authentic ancient gold plates, but in Joseph Smith's persistent quest to find them, retrieve them, and translate this visionary golden treasure into objective reality, his work was like alchemy. The Book of Mormon was Joseph's alchemical great work, or magnum opus, and through it he eventually realized, and through it he eventually realized that the true gold was buried within himself all along, a deep inner spiritual wisdom and realization of humanity's divine nature and eternal life. It was a transfiguration of human consciousness from an egoic perspective to a perfected state of consciousness that has found eternal union in God. Transforming base elements into gold may seem quite archaic to us today until we consider things like Bitcoin and other projects that transform matter and energy into value. We are still alchemists today in many ways. Former board member of the MTA James Carroll has noted in particular, quote, religious transhumanists feel to me like the modern day alchemists.  And when you get the religious part in there, they put the two together very much like the alchemists end quote. Alchemy is generally thought to be the ancient quest to turn base metals like lead or tin into gold in a process called transmutation. What is generally not known is that there was an indispensable spiritual component to medieval alchemy. Alchemy is not merely an art or science to teach metallic transmutation so much as a true and solid science that teaches how to know the center of all things, which in the divine language is called the spirit of life. In the end, the alchemists may have discovered that the work that they were doing rather than creating gold was transforming their own self, their consciousness and perception of reality. It seems to me that Joseph Smith was likewise participating in an alchemical work, which is both material and spiritual in nature. And this Joseph may be considered the first Mormon transhumanist alchemists. Many Mormons think Joseph actually had ancient gold plates in his possession, yet there have been volumes written on the topic of whether the object he had was really ancient or gold. There were witnesses who claimed they were, but there is still a significant amount of mystery surrounding them, particularly since they were nearly always covered or concealed. The plates seem to be caught in a kind of mystical realm of existence. This doesn't mean that Joseph didn't have anything like the plates in his possession, but I think it was a mixture of material and spiritual realities. I suggest that the plates Joseph saw in mystical vision were the only gold plates and that the physical object that he had in his possession was a replica or representation of those visionary plates. Many think that such theories mean that Joseph was a liar, but I think that there may be good reasons to think that he was acting sincerely as an alchemical mystic and a genuine prophet. In 1829, Joseph's uncle Jesse Smith wrote a letter which references one that he received from Joseph a year earlier. Joseph writes that the angel of the Lord has revealed to him the hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge, even divine revelation, which has lain in the bowels of the earth for thousands of years and is the last made known to him. This seems to directly parallel the ancient Vajrayana or Tibetan Buddhist tradition of termitexts, also known as hidden treasure, and spiritual adepts known as tertans or treasure revealers who would discover and translate these texts. It has been recognized that these termitexts were not literally hidden away in the ground, but were concealed in the mind of the guru. I suggest that this may have also been true of Joseph Smith. An account from Joseph's mother Lucy notes that Joseph would often tell his family all about the contents of the Book of Mormon before he had ever obtained any plates. This was all revealed directly to his mind. I suggest that Joseph's meaning of hidden treasure should be reinterpreted rather than being in the literal soil of the ground. This precious wisdom was buried spiritually or mystically in the ground or earth of Joseph's own being deep within his consciousness. The Hebrew word for ground or earth is Adama, which is where the biblical name Adam is derived. All human beings are created out of this ground or dust of the earth, which is also why in Hebrew, Ben-Adam means human being. There are passages in the Book of Mormon which suggest this interpretation of wisdom being buried within. For example, Moroni says that the brother of Jared wrote of the visionary things which he had seen, and he was commanded to hide them up again in the earth. This knowledge is hit up because of unbelief, because of egoic hardness of heart and blindness of mind. This seems to suggest that the manifestations and revelations are not literally hidden down in the ground somewhere, but actually hidden within human nature. Several years after the publication of the Book of Mormon, Joseph dictated revelation known as the word of wisdom, which was a kind of health code, the promise to blessing for obedience to it. And they shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures. Here it seems evident that Joseph was not referring to people literally finding more gold plates in the ground somewhere, but rather that this wisdom was hidden as a treasure within the human being and maintaining a healthy mind was essential to discovering it. Joseph himself may not have initially understood it this way, but thought that the revelations were coming from an external source and that this wisdom was literally hidden on a golden treasure in the ground nearby his home. His understanding was likely heavily influenced by his prior treasure- digging activities in his culture's folk magic and hermetic traditions, which included alchemy. In pursuing the gold plates that he believed were a real external reality, Joseph may have initially thought that he would simply be given them by the angel of his visions, but later may have realized, like the alchemists, that he needed to do the work of bringing this hidden treasure into material existence. Ann Taves, a professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written an excellent paper and more recently a book introducing a theory of the materialization of the plates. She suggests that the discovery of the gold plates may not have been a literal discovery of gold plates in the ground of a nearby hill, but may have been a discovery of skillful seeing within Joseph, like an artist or designer. Taves notes a peculiar detail about the plates in D&C 17, verse 5. Speaking to the witnesses, God says, and you shall testify that you have seen the plates, even as my servant Joseph Smith Jr. has seen them, for it is by my power that he has seen them, and it is because he had faith. If Joseph could not see the plates, except by the power of God and with faith, then what was it that he had in his material possession? After several years of visits to the nearby Hillcamooran attempt to get the plates, Joseph may have decided that he needed to change his approach. Taves notes, Joseph reported to his anxious parents that he had just received the severest chastisement. The angel told him that he had been negligent and that the time had now come when the record should be brought forth. But Father, give yourself no uneasiness as to this reprimand. I know what course I am to pursue, and all will be well. It seems that if the plates had been a real tangible metal plate simply located in a stone box in the hill, then it would not have been a difficult task for Joseph to pick them up from out of the box and carry them home. Taves suggests that this vision convinced Joseph that he had to take an active role in the materialization of the plates. Taves hypothesizes that Joseph made a representation of the plates out of tin or lead, which are, incidentally, some of the very same base materials the alchemists used, having faith that they would become the sacred reality the Smith family believed them to be. Joseph may have believed that his making the plates in this way was the only way to manifest them in material objective reality, as Taves notes, co-creating the reality of the plates or a materialization of the sacred. Taves compares this with the story of the brother of Jared in the Book of Mormon who prepared 16 stones, which he molten from a rock, and then asked the Lord to touch them and cause them to shine in darkness. Similarly, Joseph may have felt that he had to exercise faith and prepare his own homemade tin plates, which he could then take to the hill, Camora, and asked the angel to transform them into the gold plates of his visions. This may be what Joseph did on that September night in 1827, traveling to the hill with his tin plates and returning home believing that the plates in his possession were now, in fact, the real ancient gold plates he had previously seen only in vision. Taves notes how this change of substance, like the Catholic Eucharist, may have only been visible to those who believed. Like the Eucharist, Smith didn't claim that the plates he had were a representation of ancient gold plates. He claimed that they really were those plates. Taves writes, in much the way that Jesus is said to have held up human-made bread and said to his disciples, this is my body, Joseph Smith may have made plates, placed them in a box, and said to his family, these are the gold plates. But merely having what he thought were the gold plates was not the end of this alchemy. It was a seven-year laborious process that ended up not with a set of real gold plates, but with a book, a real tangible spiritual wisdom text that any person could easily see, handle, acquire, and read. As the SES and philosopher William H. Gass once wrote, the true alchemists do not change lead into gold. They change the world into words. In medieval alchemy, there was a recognized difference between two types of alchemists, puffers and true alchemists, as discussed by James Carroll in a lecture on alchemy. Quote, a puffer is someone who is interested in producing gold. He wants to get rich. But for the true alchemists, it was a spiritual quest, the refinement of the soul produced by the process, transformed you, not metals. It turns you into the sort of person who no longer desired wealth or fame or fortune, end quote. I think we can see this in Joseph Smith. In Lucy Smith's autobiography, before he had any plates, we read that Joseph seemed to be concerned that people would want to get them from him because of their gold value. And in Joseph's 1838 account of the visions of Moroni, we see the temptation again. The angel added a caution to me, telling me that Satan would try to tempt me in consequence of the indigent circumstances of my father's family to get the plates for the purpose of getting rich. I think we see the sentiment reflected again in the Book of Mormon text, which may be Joseph's own intuitions, his conscious shift from materialistic to spiritual goals. And I am the same who hideeth up this record unto the Lord, the plates thereof are of no worth because of the commandment of the Lord, for he truly saith that no one shall have them to get gain. But the record thereof is of great worth, and whoso shall bring it to light, him will the Lord bless. Once Joseph's alchemical great work or magnemopus of the translation was finished, he may have realized he had no need for the physical object of the plates anymore, and so he discarded whatever object that was. It was indeed worthless. What mattered was what he had discovered within his mind and heart and translated as the text of the Book of Mormon. This was the true gold. Seek not for riches, but for wisdom, and behold the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto you, and then shall you be made rich. Behold, he that hath eternal life is rich. There are a number of stories of personal transformation in the text of the Book of Mormon. I think these are reflections of Joseph's own spiritual transformation from a treasure-seeking youth to one who found spiritual gold within himself, even eternal life. During the translation, Joseph seems to have realized his eternal life as recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants. And that you be firm in keeping the commandments wherewith I have commanded you.  The end of the alchemist's great work was known as the Philosopher's Stone. They thought that they would arrive at a final substance that was capable of performing transmutation, a stone of some sort, that was the foundation of perfection, a final enlightenment. Through the process of the translation of the Book of Mormon, Joseph may have found that transmuting his tin plates into real gold was not the final objective, but he had found and translated a source of wisdom and knowledge deep within his mind and soul. He had uncovered a hidden treasure within himself. And this discovery was eternal life, the alchemical Philosopher's Stone. This was the rock of Peter. It was the cornerstone of Christ. It was the rough stone rolling of Joseph Smith. It was the 16 stones of the brother of Jared that were shining out of darkness into light.  It was gazellum, the seer stone that Joseph used to transfigure his consciousness to perceive this wisdom deep within himself. It was the deepest being of the human individual and of collective humanity that is the rock upon which all of life and creation is built. As I mentioned earlier, all of humanity is made up of another great rock, this ground, this earth, this atom, which is this planet earth, which is made up of the mass energy of the cosmos. In the highest spiritual perception, one comes to see the self as the Arroboros, that one is the all. We are the earth and the cosmos. We are one in God that he's emerged from the dust of this earth and become living souls. We are the cosmos becoming aware and conscious of itself. This is known by Christians as Christ, by Buddhists as Buddha nature, by Hindus as Atman. Similar symbols are found in many of the world's religions and spiritual traditions. The real value of the visionary gold plates I perceive was the wisdom that Joseph found deep within his mind and consciousness. This wisdom existed within Joseph and the deepest part of his own being that was at one in divine consciousness, at one in God. He reified his visions into material reality, not through actually transmuting tin into real gold plates, but through the translation of this perennial wisdom into the text of the Book of Mormon. In that alchemical process, Joseph discovered that humanity and life itself are the true gold, the true riches, and the realization and embodiment of these in their purity is the goal of existence, even the philosopher's stone. As religious transhumanists, we are striving to transmute our deepest visions into new objective material realities, new technologies that benefit human society, including transforming and exalting human beings and our consciousness. And in doing so, we are doing alchemy, which is both material and spiritual. And just like alchemists such as Joseph Smith, this may not result in the transmutations we thought we were striving for, but in the process it may transfigure our perception of ourselves and of all of humanity. Thank you. We have a couple of minutes. If there's any questions. The storyline of the Book of Mormon, Dhi Dhi, and so that those characters did not live, but they did, in that book of Mormonism. My view is that the Book of Mormon is a great allegory. It's a great narrative. And I believe that it was Joseph's deeper consciousness that created this allegory as representative of his own life and his own experiences and his own consciousness and his own relationships with people and experiences. I don't think it's an actual depiction of historical reality, but of Joseph's own experience of life. Yeah. I'm curious about where you fit into this approach, the idea that Joseph himself did not see this work as completed with a large portion of the plates remaining untransfigured. Yeah. The question is about the sealed portion of the plates that the work was incomplete. And I actually have a section about that in the longer written version of this paper that's on my website. The idea of a sealed section of the plates I think is related to the alchemical idea of the hermetic seal. And that idea is related to the notion that truth is always, it's as if it was in a sealed book, one that we cannot read directly. That it takes a much deeper spiritual perception to be able to read and know and understand that truth. And I think that's the connection to the sealed portion of the plates. Yeah. Which one? Down here first and then up there. Yeah. You got time for one. Okay. All right. A couple of months ago, your church's story has been about six months old. I can't think of a question. Is there a smoking gun in some place in the library that you're about? I'm not sure if it's that. I said that not that I know of. And then someone asked in the crowd, well, what most impressed you in the story? I said, well, to be honest, it was the first attempt Joseph made to invite down this issue. The pictures both strike out, he couldn't spell or he couldn't put a sentence again. Yeah. He said, that could be the most inspiring piece of life. I've also seen the actual written text of the poem. How do you work that out, Joseph? Channeling decent grammar on my favorite brush. Yes. How would you respond? Yeah. There are questions about how Joseph would be very bad at writing his own history, his own, his grammar and everything is really terrible, but then the Book of Mormon seems to be, you know, this perfect manuscript. I think that when people enter into a much more meditative state of consciousness, a very deep unity of consciousness that such creative ability naturally is produced. That these abilities emerge naturally out of our person, out of our consciousness without our own personal, energies or conscious doing. They come from a much deeper place and I think Joseph was able to tap into that creative wisdom that's much deeper in consciousness. They just flowed out of him. But in his normal everyday life, trying to write his history, he was writing from a much different state of consciousness that where all those errors and the difficulty occur. So I don't know if that helps. Thank you.


Well, we thought we had a pretty good crop this year. Things were shaping up. We knew we were going to pay double for our input costs this year. It looked pretty good till July and we started getting these high nighttime temperatures. I began to get a little concerned in about how it was going to affect our corn and cotton and soybeans. And then harvest rolled around and the week before harvest, a rain came in. It rained for seven to ten days, pretty consistent. Not big rains for us. We had about three inches. The south part of the county had eight. State line had 12 to 14. They had sprouted beans down there in the pod, which are unharvestable. Then we got into harvest and we had damage. Mold and swiveled up beans. The swivel beans, we think, came from the heat in July. The mold came from excessive moisture. We have a real big problem with red banded stink bugs and not a lot of products to kill those. But we sprayed four times, so we think we should have kept them clean. But we still had damage. Running anywhere from five to thirty percent. And some of the elevators have changed their discount charts. Thirty percent, they're taking eight dollars and sixty cents a bushel off your soybeans. Pretty similar to what we saw in the northern part of the state in 2018. So what we're seeing is fields that look good all season. Probably some really good yields, but due to some circumstances and things outside of the farmers' control, we're seeing some of this damage. With the prices of inputs this year and then some of these farmers thinking they were going to get at least some profit with the good commodity prices. This is really kind of hitting them in the pocket books. I don't think there's any one thing we can put our finger on to exactly say while we're seeing this damage. You know, I think it's plenty of date, varieties, maturity groups. You know, the stress we had this summer on the crop. I think it kind of set us up for having some quality issues. Yeah, so I'll just key in on that. Definitely the environmental conditions had a lot to contribute to it. That rain in the middle of August, like Jeremy was saying, anywhere from three to 12 inches around the county is probably going to be your main cause. But it is a series of events that cause this. It's just not one thing. A lot of our farm was ready to combine. We try to be early. That's our scout likes that. This was a bad year to be early. We cut 63 trailer truck loads here. And we probably got up, I'm guessing I haven't had the girl added up yet, but I'd say at least $140,000 with the damage. It's in there. The rain was we had nine inches, eight inches, seven inches over a 10 day period. Different farms had different amounts. The temperatures were high. It did a lot of damage. Somebody my age, I'm going to get over it. But some of these younger guys, they're not going to get over it. If they have the damage that I'm having, and I'm saying everybody's going to have damage down here. The further south in the county, the worse it is. It's going to be very hard on them. They haven't had a chance to build up any equity, and it's going to be a disaster. You've heard some of these other guys talk about the excessive damage and things in our beans. And I know some of that is kind of hard to understand and put into layman's terms when you're not around it every day, but pretty much in a simplified form. When we're selling these soybeans to the elevators, like, for instance, we have one just a couple of miles down the road. They can set up their own discount schedule when you get graded on the test weight, which is the weight of one bushel of your beans. And if it's not exactly to their specifications, you're going to get docked for that. You can get docked for moisture is another big one. Damage, foreign material, splits, other factors such as mosty, sour or hot beans. If I'm spending $500 an acre to grow these soybeans, and I'm only making, you know, I'm projected to make $600 an acre to make a profit. If they're pretty much taking more than $100 per acre from us after we've got all this weather events, and you'll see some of these damage beans from these samples, and it's really, you know, just caused a conflict for us here this year. And this is going to be a sad harvest for a lot of people. Ours is way off from what we normally are. I'm not complaining. I mean, maybe it's my turn to lose. I know those guys in Dumas took it on the chin last year. I mean, devastation, but we are truly going to be in a bind around here.