Hi Mopar fam we're down here at caffeine and octane in the land of georgia we got frostbite over here storms over here also over here down at the caffeine and octane show little frostbite in the show here the holly hyran what's up craig what you doing bro we're down here caffeine and octane haven't been down here in a long time we got project storm we got frostbite over here places packed guys places packed absolutely huge you guys um they're filming tv episodes today also so maybe frostbite got on tv show i don't know we'll see i got a awesome ram truck i want to show you guys here in a second i'm gonna go down here and uh show you guys this rumble rumble bee so i found this rumble bee parked over a few spaces over this guy's got a pro charger on it uh got a six speed swap cogged pulley drive system on this on the supercharger from pro charger look at that thing set thing is sweet trying to find the owner so i can talk to him about it look at that bee look at that bee got a six one intake manifold big pro charger on it cogged pulley set up i heard this truck pulling in here and that thing screams buddy those cogged pullies make some noise they sound good there's definitely a cool rumble bee right here six speed swap most likely out of the srt 10 oh yeah look at that bad bee baby bad bee got super cars over here coming down yeah craig a lot of people do the six one manifold honestly it's probably like the best best cheapest option for a long time over a stock five seven manifold i think i would still go with that holly high ram no myself or a six four manifold he's making us look bad guys making us look bad sometimes these guys will come out here and get on it lose it lose control who knows what happens ah he's not doing nothing i think we're gonna go down here real quick see what else we can find oh believe me craig they are here today is mostly mustangs unfortunately there's not a lot of mopars around here today i was on the hunt for the mopars you know me but really wasn't a whole lot got a lot of old old school muscle um but not really any mopars out here today the weather was kind of wishy washy it was kind of chances of rain so i think a lot of people didn't uh didn't come out yeah we'll go out there on the road we'll see if we find some uh mustangs lose it or something i'll blow a car right there not a mopar but it's cool got a respect to cool yeah lots of lots of donk cars out here for sure oh here we go here's finally a little bit of mopar challenger rt it's a nice shiny black got it like that oh yeah i got the old her first shifter yeah i'm digging that that's a nice bar what in the world we got going on with this rat rod things called the dirty rat the dirty rat got the mini gun over there got the skeleton dog blasting away the mini gun that's pretty dang cool right there that's too cool right there that's pretty awesome i don't know about that looks like we got a purge kit lots of shiny chrome stuff too much chrome for me got a fake nitrous kit on there just purging it away the mopar but definitely cool nice and clean got the old taz on there got the work truck going on Pontiac big old Pontiac boat right there looks like we uh going back to the future over here guys got the uh the old the old DeLorean does he have a flex capacitor though it doesn't look like it like yeah definitely a lot of cool stuff out here but i'm kind of disappointed not too many mopars out here this time not too many mopars but anyways hey it beats sitting around the house doing nothing get out here drink some coffee look at some cool cars talk to some cool people hope you guys are having a good uh good morning out there that's a sweet that's a sweet mustang right here old cobra jet i'm not the biggest four guy out there by no means you guys know that but that's a good-looking car i always love those cars yeah everything out here man purse i never know what you're gonna find out here i'm telling you here's uh one of them shelby trucks i mean not bad i'd still i'd rather take a tr x though i think most of you guys probably would too big old continental got your cruiser right there baby big old backseat come on that's a cruiser there nice color nice and clean i can dig it got a ram srt 10 back here seen this one earlier but i'm not really not really too much like in the rim the wheels and everything on it the ram srt 10s but i think that one that one needs a little love there i think them srt 10s look the best bone stock stock wheels and everything bone stock and them trucks look sweet well i know this is a mopar channel guys but we can walk over here and see some uh some supercars if you guys want to see some crazy supercars we'll take a quick look real quick before we hang it up for the day at least we'll go over here and see what's left some people's already rolling out almost bought one here in alabama yeah yeah they're hard to find who what's up there is mopar yeah dude i mean especially that one bro the srt 10 was just an iconic look by itself man i'm a firm believer that truck needs nothing just keep keep it clean keep it nice and that truck looks good for days man no need to change anything on it that is a bad looking truck by itself look at that some little super car stuff for you look at a horsepower huh look at these brakes going on with this thing guys yeah just a few ponies huh i don't know man i i think if i had all the money in the world i still couldn't buy something like that it's just not my thing i will drive uh lambo expensive brake change bro i bet you a brake change on that car costs more than our trucks that rotors huge i know man that's what i said dude that thing is probably throw you right through the windshield that thing stops so quick definitely green definitely green now see here here's all you need to know right here there's a super car baby bam get you some the fiero got the fiero haha right i would drive that what's up put two kits on it and send it believe it or not my first car when i started to drive as a teenager was a Pontiac so i got a little love for him here in there especially trans am i will take a black trans am t-top any day of the week come on love these old trans am man ta 6 6 with a shaker look at that dude shaking away bro oh yeah hell yeah that's probably still one of my favorite cars that i'd never have had the chance to own and one day maybe i will got something that's going on over here i think if i said that on uh on live video feed i'd probably get demonetized so i don't know about that that's the poor vets up in the house here another thing that not going to knock a man's leg they're these cars are fast they're cool i still just couldn't get one man i just not not for me not for me give me an old 70 something muscle car now we're talking dang right darin got a lotus over here definitely smaller than the uh the other super cars for sure a little bit smaller package now here here you go look let me show you something call me nuts someone probably say i'm stupid and crazy but honestly i would probably take this old bronco hell yeah this old bronco over a super car a real bronco at that not these fake new ones that i got out yeah i guess you could take the take the super car sell it and then get it we get whatever you want good point there that's a that's a beautiful bronco right there not the biggest fan on the wheel choice there but truck looks nice yeah wheels can be changed that's for sure i'd rather have like some old some old old school looking rock crawlers or like some weld wheels or something on it like that those wheels had a little too much bling for that type of that type of unit for me yep exactly man well done except for the wheels i'm not digging the wheels oh we got old old old square body dodge over here she's in works she's in works see hey everybody brings her stuff out whether it's done or not hell i've seen a couple guys over one parking lot over working on their truck or working on their car trying to get it to start to get out of here man dedicated car guys right there be working on your crap to get it here and work on your crap to get back home a gt 350 now this is pretty cool old rollback hammered with another project on the back of the bed that's pretty cool that's definitely neat right there i like that i like that hey camera guys my crew it's the frostbite crew hey i'm filming you filming me filming me we're watching you filming us oh yes i like the paint on this thing i don't know if the camera is going to pick it up but it kind of reminds me of that old mystic cobra thing where it changes with the angles pretty cool i can dig it i can i can take a spin in this car four speed on the floor come on that you cougar baby i can dig it see that's my kind of wheels something simple something simple nice still going on right here i can dig it craig says how you liking the holly high ram man i can't even really tell you how much i'm liking it honestly besides it is absolutely awesome i love that intake i'm telling you i haven't lost any power down low guys that intake all i can tell you is absolute gain period absolute gain as soon as it was put on definitely worth it i think especially for a boosted guy or a nitrous guy dude that holly high ram is going to be the way to go i'm telling you you're going to start seeing a lot of guys out there switching to that manifold especially in the trucks because the trucks can fit them without an issue pretty much because we got plenty of uh hood clearance now the cars it's kind of hard to fit them in there you don't have to do a hood swap or something but i'm telling for the trucks boosted or nitrous or even a serious na guy that manifold is the way to roll no joke old hudson i miss that yeah the wheels on that bronco definitely fit the year much better that's what i'm saying man you don't you don't need all these expensive crazy wheels man something simple and subtle like that sets off an old build like that or an old restore or just keep it simple yeah dude for the nitrous man on uh on your ram dude i'm telling you you would love it that manifold is bags for boost or nitrous or a big na build the amount of air that thing can move not to mention you know it's it's it's designed uh for moving air and a fluid better so spraying nitrous man that nitrous is going to get down those runners and right into them cylinder heads so much easier than a stock ram intake or even the six four swap man uh manifold that a lot of people doing um you know like the the stock the stock ram intakes like the five seven and the six fours you know them things are they're designed to move air not a liquid or anything like that um they work you can get away with it i mean hell i have you're doing it still many people are but man that holly high ram bro nitrous straight into the heads i'm telling you definitely the way to go especially for a power adder and the price of them is what you're going to pay for a six four manifold anyways hell i've seen somebody six four manifold people's asking like some ridiculous numbers for some of these things thousand bucks some of them i've seen over that because they're you know it's hard to find them sometimes the holly high ram's like eight hundred dollars so for the month and the gain that you get with it not to mention the appearance i cannot tell you about the the appearance difference is worth it in my book even if you gained no power and your power level stayed exactly the same the way the manifold looks on the hemi is absolutely awesome definitely makes the truck or your build look so sweet gets rid of all the plastic garbage makes it look like you got something going on in there um i'm gonna walk back over here to my truck so um um i've been meaning to put some videos up on that manifold guys i just my hands have been tied with so much other stuff lately so i'm gonna go over here and give you guys a good uh good video shoot of it of what it looks like on my truck so that's the high ram i'm still running the stock throttle body the high ram comes with these high the holly efi fuel rails so that those fuel rails come with it and again man like i'm saying look at these look at these runners these runners literally if you're spraying nitrous on a plate kit like say your plates here or if you was to get they got plates that go underneath the top hat where it will direct port basically almost like direct port shoot it into the runners um not only that if you wanted to do a direct port set up and have a nozzle on each runner these things are already set up right here they got flat spots on each runner to be able to drill and tap them but man that i'm telling you that manifold is begs for boost begs for nitrous and for an na guy still has tons and tons of potential for an na truck um telling you you're gonna start seeing these things on a lot of because people starting to try them out and they're starting to see that they do work and they do make power so i know my truck is moving out with that one and it's just gonna get faster from here but look at i mean look at it tell me that don't look so much better than even like a like a six four manifold swap you're not gonna get that with a six four manifold swap and then for instance here's project storm this is the stock five seven manifold all right and i mean we have it cleaned up as much as we can get it in here but even with a six four manifold you get that same look it's just a big plastic chunk of stuff just i mean it trans it trans it just completely changes the attitude of the engine bay with that high ramp on there guys i mean it's insane it's just crazy what's up david yeah dare i'm telling you man um look into it dude the uh i mean there's already some na guys going to that manifold as well i mean uh ricks bilman you know he just built that big stroker motor and he's all na he's running the high ramp you know so even na guys are starting to realize that manifold it'll move out it'll move out yeah i mean for the price of it and the quality of it and you get the you get the fuel you get the fuel rails i mean really it's a good price considering going with a drop in you know like a six four manifold swap or getting your five seven manifold ported i mean that is just i don't see the sense in going and putting money into a plastic manifold it still looks ugly um like i said even if that made no power gains i would do that manifold just because of how awesome it looks um but that's not the case i mean the manifold makes power there's no line about that i'm telling you bro it does it looks great david christie says glad to see ryan washed his truck i know i'm telling you that port storm gets washed like on it once a year and that's not an understatement once a year i hit him up the other day i said hey let's go out to the car show clean up storm let's roll out so he gave it he gave her a bath it's still dirty i mean hello dude i haven't washed my truck since we went to silver dollar last time and ran our record pass it's just been sitting under the cover and stuff it's dirty good night look at this guys i don't know what i'm gonna do with this that track was so sticky out there the other day look at what i got to deal with to clean this truck up when i get the time look at this i mean this blue that mo power rubber melted rubber absolutely everywhere look at all the rubber up here it is an absolute mess in this stuff off melted tire and melted glue and goo look back behind my roll pan the whole back of my roll pan is just caked and tired absolutely caked and tired it's nuts i need a tip on how to get that crap off daring dude i'm telling you man that's why i haven't cleaned the truck in a while because oh my god it's gonna suck trying to clean all that stuff off of there i think whenever i get it off if i can get it all off i think i might have to start being that guy that starts taping up the back of the truck or the fenders or whatever it's gonna it's not gonna be fun so if anyone's got a tip on uh a product or something that'll get all that melted rubber glue off that would be awesome what's up high style hemi uh yeah they do look cool man yeah i mean the sniper intakes didn't look bad either um there was just i don't know there's just so many people that said that they didn't make power um the runners weren't quite as long as the high rams i guess but i think if you're running nitrous or a boosted setup that sniper manifold still has tons and tons of potential to grow for sure so i think anything's better just get rid of the stock one as as a plus no matter what the what happens you know once you get it where you want to go you know you can make the manifold work for you that's for sure darin says uh you have a teenager maybe for a few bucks to put towards his own truck project he will clean it off for you i don't know did you catch that look a gasket scraper no i will have to murder you i said yeah maybe that might be it hey maybe uh maybe if i con him for some long tube headers for that for that rt maybe he'll go out there and start scrubbing huh you'll make it look brand new for long tube headers oh we might have a deal because i'm gonna tell you how much i don't want to clean that okay make sure you don't have a rattle can in his hand when he says brand new right david christie says furnish uh furniture polish really furniture polish will get that stuff off i didn't think about that i was thinking maybe some rubbing alcohol and one of those plastic trims yeah i was wondering if like maybe goof off or a goo gone or something like that would get it off i don't know for wd 40 what is that stuff i got that i use from work i use it to take trees up off of this hostile him he says pam cooking spray down the quarter panels in the morning when you get to the track makes rubber cleanup a lot easier dude you know what i didn't think about that i know people do that with dirt bikes and four wheelers that's actually a good thought man i didn't think about that um i'll tell you i've tried putting i've tried putting a whole bunch of wax on before and that didn't seem to do crap that's still stuck to it maybe the cooking spray is a good idea to try i might have to give that a give that a try for sure get the old chris go or to pam out hey zoos what's up bro morning uh just work uh woke up jumped right in anything new a project storm any new times um nothing new yet besides uh we got to do some we got to do a little bit of tuning changes just to kind of clean it all up get it running perfectly she's running good it's just she's still a little bit fat she's running a little rich still um and other than that i mean not really we got some some possible mods in the future we might try to do to it here soon but you'll have to stay tuned and see what happens um we are working on possibly getting a setup like this already done and built where this will drop in to somebody that wants to drop a setup on their truck like we have a storm setup um so we're kind of working around we're we got with torque storming between them and us we have an idea of how to make somebody's drop in intake tubes basically or charge pipes to basically just build a purchase and drop it on the ram and not have to fabricate it yourself so that's in the works i don't know when exactly but we're working on something for that yeah just just as long as the pam spray don't leak down on the rear wheels and cause tires to spin yeah that would definitely suck that would definitely suck use f11 top coat and the rubber won't stick you know i've never tried the f11 stuff maybe that maybe that'll work i don't know i just know it's going to be terrible to get that stuff off it'll inside the truck just like we ran it the other day and ran the uh the flat 11 basically 11 008 nothing back here no nitrous bottles she's still full interior except for the seats obviously and uh just like i said the other day when we was running down the track if i were to open the glove box and through the owner's manual out the window we probably would have ran a 10 9 but hey she's getting down guys she's getting down i'm not i am not disappointed at all definitely love my old coat racing shifter and transmission definitely doing the job for sure other thing we're uh working on too pretty soon is is what we're going to do with the motor on this truck obviously you guys know we're still a stock block 5 7 um i've been tossing up the idea of dropping in just some forged drop ins but honestly i don't know i don't know i've been saying for a long time i want to stay 5 7 but i don't know know i got some thoughts in um i'm possibly possibly thinking about doing a whole different short block and we might just go completely nuts on it i don't know yet but stay tuned for that because once that decision gets made we're going to start trying to move on that pretty quick um and hopefully have that done by mo party next year so we're going to hit the track a few more times on the stock 5 7 try to try to get some good 10 second passes with it and then uh put in a faster motor here soon so what do you guys think stay 5 7 or just go big with it darin uh yeah that 5 7 has been a good engine bro this is the original motor that's that's been in the truck from day one got 150k on this truck 150k i'm trying to find the right key here i got too many ram keys oh wrong key that's for the diesel that's for the diesel pusher 15477 buddy 150k on this truck and we have beat the crap out of it this truck ran with nitrous on it for over a year on the 545 transmission then we went to boost with the torque storm and i have pushed this motor with that torque storm past what a normal individual should probably do for uh for their for their stock 5 7 we have made plenty of passes around 910 psi got the train going by so the data log on the fastest pass i ran the other day the 11008 data log showed that we had we peaked out at about 10.8 psi we ran close to 11 pounds of boost on the stock baby 5 7 and she took every bit of that shit excuse my language she took every bit of it but a lot of that has to do with good tuning guys good tuning meth injection we're running a hundred percent meth injection and my washer fluid here that's where it sprays the meth right here so and we're running MS 109 fuel so we have lots of octane we got good fuel we got lots of cooling with the intercooler with the intercooler in here plus the meth injection plus the fuel and tuning and that's how we're that's how we've been able to keep going faster on this motor um hey i understand we'll probably find the limits before long with them stock pistons but until we do i'm gonna keep doing what i do i'm gonna keep pushing this truck hostile says drop in pistons with ring gap or just go full sin with a forged bottom in and add a second torque storm the forged bottom in is definitely going to happen i just don't know what size yet um second torque storm i would definitely love to have a second torque storm sitting right here that has been in the works or thoughts or the plans possibly um or the other thing i thought when we do get the forge motor is running the single the single kit that we have and possibly going back with some spray um run the blower and run maybe a hundred shots or so with the blower um and see what happens so those are kind of the ideas i've been juggling i just don't know what i just don't know if i want to stay five seven yet or go bigger with the motor um so i don't know we'll see i'm not gonna lie a 392 sounds good um a 426 sounds better so i don't know we'll see what happens trying to get out of some of these people's ways they're trying to check it out yeah maintenance has a lot to do with it man i mean i hey i changed the oil a lot with this truck you know we always run synthetic i run the 5w 30 uh lucas oil is what i've been running in this truck since we did the first cam shaft on this truck um and yeah i mean we just we try to take care of it boost level the meth is coming right now i have the i have the uh the meth is coming on at about six psi i think i've actually raised it i used to have it coming in at about four to five um but when it would come on because we're running basically a hundred percent meth when it would come on it would actually cause the truck to go a little bit too fat and it would kind of have a stumble or a little hiccup and then clean out and start going um so we raised it up to come on at around six or seven psi excuse me and that took out that little blip and it's it's got a smooth transition basically so as soon as the meth comes on basically you don't even notice it um and it just it just goes so that's kind of that's how we have it running right now uh sir says you should build the five seven build the internals it's still on the table i don't know man we gotta figure it out still 426 big chillin says 426 has thinner walls cylinder walls yeah yeah but some of the 426 i've been looking at man if they're based off the six four block they still have plenty of there's still plenty stout enough to build a run nitrous or boost um you know a three uh three forty five to five seven i've seen kids you can stroke them out to about a four ten um but it's basically an n a build the four ten is pretty much pretty much max for a five seven build um but a four ten makes the wall so thin that it's not good for boost or nitrous um biggest you really want to go with that would probably be about a 400 to a 397 so i don't know i'm just kind of torn like if we if we build the motor or stroke it um i don't know i'm just kind of leaning towards going over that 400 mark if i'm gonna go that far with a motor i'd rather just do it once and have plenty of motor then do it and then maybe want more later on if you know what i mean so yeah i mean that's kind of why i pulled the trigger on the cope racing transmission if i was going to do something i wanted to kind of do it and be done and have something that would hold up for pretty much whatever i want to throw to the truck oh there it is hi it sucks that it's so beautiful but you can never see it hostile him he says three one pulley yeah uh we are running the 3.1 pulley on my truck and on storm because we're trying not to run a lot of boost on his truck because this is literally a daily truck he drives all the time uh this truck's running the 3.5 pulley with no intercooler this truck actually makes pretty good boost on that big pulley uh we have actually seen data logs where we have touched a psi believe it or not um so that's why we kind of detuned it detuned the shift points down a little bit and lowered them just the tad and there's even been talked we thought about maybe possibly going with a slightly larger pulley just to raise the shift points back up but but yeah 3.5 pulley on this truck 3.1 pulley on this truck sir says uh bigger will always be better but one thing to remember is smaller v8s can rev higher and keep that power in the top end yes um that is true that's true the only reason I consider the bigger motor is one we have a truck and when you have a big heavy vehicle like this torque is basically your best friend not for say the horsepower torque is your best friend so the more torque you can gain the more it's going to honestly do for a heavy vehicle over the horsepower numbers the torque is going to be your best friend is my opinion of that and that's kind of why i'm leaning towards maybe that bigger motor if i was a go that big or change it from a 5.7 so i don't know um that's been the you know some of the engine builders i've been talking about that's kind of their idea on it too when you got a the heavy vehicle the bigger motor with the more with the torque is going to be it is going to be better than and then shooting for them higher horsepower numbers the torque is going to be your friend especially if you're looking for a track build or a quarter mile truck or something like that yeah big chill and rev and higher don't mean more power yes you are 100 right man um you get to a point with any motor where you can keep spinning it and spinning it but you're not you're not going nowhere you know sounds like you're going somewhere but you're not going anywhere um that's definitely right on it's not about more power it's about carrying the power exactly that it is exactly and torque like i said if you can build you can carry that torque out longer it's going to move you down the track much faster much faster out of the hole it's just going to do it's just going to be awesome so i don't know like i said it's not it's not cutting stone yet it's not 100 but one or the other is going to happen we're either going to stay with a 5.7 and do fours internals or we might just go crazy with it so no replacement for displacement more torque off the line more cubic inches it's going to make more power at the same boost level maybe go stroke 397 and keep the 5.7 block definitely and like i said i thought about that i thought about doing the 397 i tell you i've been looking really hard at the 426 errington blocks um errington's got some some nice cars out there some nice engine builds and i've been looking at some of their 426 blocks or 392 blocks um so i don't know like i said budget and uh overall time we'll see what happens what we can do with it yeah i want that biker too bro that'd be that would be freaking awesome yeah that thing's got to hit me in it for sure darren all right guys battery is about to die we're at about five percent so i'm going to kill it here before i lose everything um as always guys it's been awesome hope you guys had a great morning i know we had a blast out here at caffeine and octane always fun coming down here um as always everybody that chimed in on the video go down hit that like button give the video a thumbs up uh send me a comment down below what you think what should we put in the truck what motor should we build what what you guys take on as always guys stay safe out there we'll see you on the next one


into the seven heavens and Allah gives him the greatest gift that he can give to his ummah and that is the way to communicate to him and communicate with him which is the prayer. Articulation is the greatest gift and miracle of the human species. There is nothing that separates us from animals, they have needs like we have needs, they have to satiate themselves, they have thirst, they have to create families like we do, but the difference between us and animals and the beasts is that Allah dignified us with speech. We're called the hayawan or natiq, we're called the articulating animal. Allah Ta'ala ar-Rahman al-Alam al-Quran al-Khalaq al-Insan al-Lamahu al-Bayan, but he makes the book, the most merciful, he taught the book and then he created human beings and then he gave them speech, Bayan. He gave them Bayan al-Alam al-Adham asma'a kullaha, he created Adam and he taught him words, he taught him about our articulation.  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He's relating foul speech and acting by it. God is in no need of them staying away from food or hunger. Now you come to a moment where you're fasting and you still say terrible things to your children.  Allah is in no need of of your staying away, meaning if you think you're doing a favor from Allah, He's in no need of that. He's in no need of that. This is the reason why our tongue was created and this is the topic of the Khutba today. Be mindful of your speech. Be mindful of your speech. Use your tongue for what it was used for, what it was made for. The bayan is the sunnah of Prophets. We haven't sent a prophet except with the tongue of their people to clarify things for them, to give them speech, the speech of what? The speech of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the speech of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. When the prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he says, mankana yudminu billah, whoever believes in Allah in the last day, be people that say good or stay quiet. And what is the best of speeches to do da'wah to Allah, to call to Allah, to send infinite abundant salutations on your Master Muhammad, your beloved Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And to say things that are uplifting to people, to be sensitive of what is happening in the world before you say it, about people's needs before you say it. I was once a community member who came to me and he had a dog.  What have a Muslim as a dog? Had no idea, this brother was blind and he needed to support a dog and he started cursing at him. He started cursing at him. And what did the prophet say? A person says something. Ar-Rajul yukalim bi-kalimatin, they say something, walam yubayunaha, but they don't clarify, they don't think about what they've said and it drags them deeper, they're dragged deeper into the fire between the east and the west. May Allah protect us, because they haven't thought about the things that they were saying. They haven't thought about the community that they're responding to. And that's why our mother Aisha said, if the first thing the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did when he received Wahi, the first thing revealed to him was the prohibition of alcohol and fornication. We would have ran away from this affair. We would have all ran away from this affair. We would have ran away. We would have ran away from this affair. So what was the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam calling towards? Beautiful speech, speaking to Allah Ta'ala. When Sufyan ibn Abdullah, he said, O Masjidunj of Allah, tell me something, if I hold on to it, I'll be good. If I hold on to it, I'll be good. And the Prophet said, he said, say I believe in Allah and be steadfast. Stay I say I believe in Allah and be steadfast. He said, what is the one thing that you fear of me, O Masjidunj of Allah? He held his tongue, he said this, this thing. The tongue can be used to mend hearts or break hearts. The tongue can be used to call towards Allah or call towards the shaitan. The shaitan, Allah speaks to us in language. The Quran is a language. And the shaitan speaks to us in influence. What's what's up? They're all communicating to us. If you just listen. And if you're not mindful of your tongue, you won't be able to differentiate between satanic thoughts and divine angelic thoughts. You won't be able to do that. Be mindful of your tongue. And be mindful of the people that are around you and how you're making them feel. The Sunnah of Habib Salaam is to uplift people with the speech. Uplift people with the speech. And that's why the Quran says, as Sayyidina Luqman tells his son, he says, you know, don't score in your cheek away at people. And don't walk into the earth boastfully. Indeed, Allah does not like the self-conceited boasters. And then he says, walk, stay on the steadfast and lower your voice. Lower your voice. The most degrading voices, the most negated voices is the voices of brazing donkeys. Sheikh Mawlana Abdul Qadir Jilani, may Allah be pleased with him, was walking with his disciples once to the morning prayer, to the morning prayer.  And the man came in a conscience and said, Oh, servant of the one that gives ability. Are you the one that gives ability? Are you a Qadir? And the sheikh began to cry and the students said, why are you crying? But why are you crying? He said, did you not hear what he said? Did you not hear what he said? He said, if my lord, what did he say? He said, If my short want to get a snap of the finger, he will change my condition to your condition and your condition to my condition. And your condition to my condition. And don't call each other by degrading names. Don't label people. Don't call them by degrading names because Allah named you Muslims. This is the most honorific title. He gave you the ni'mah being human beings, we have been honored by Adam, and gave you the title of being Muslims. And how do you manifest this? How do you manifest this? It's easy to do. How do you manifest this? It's a secret. Sayyidina Mu'adda bin Jabal says. He said, Speak less with people, i.e. about people. Speak less with people. Speak less with people and speak more with Allah. Why? Perhaps your heart will see the face of Allah. How often do we just speak to Allah and just complain to Allah? You make your du'a and you read the Qur'an and then you just talk to Allah. You talk to Allah. Just talk to your Lord. Talk to subhanAllah. Have a conversation. Ya Allah, today was a tough day for me. I need your help. Ya Allah, I would really like to go on vacation. It's been a special week. What do you have for me? Speak to Allah and Allah will speak to you. Allah will speak to you and then you'll be able to see the wajhab of Allah. Meaning you'll see the reality of every single person is going through behind the veil always and you can lead them to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. You'll open their hearts to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We ask Allah to make this a reality. There was a story years ago on Newsweek that there was a man that was suffering from PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder coming back from war. And he had an anger. He would sort of snap very easily because of his PTSD. He was at a trader, Joe's or something, a grocery store in the line. It was incredibly long, a rush hour and he was waiting and waiting and waiting. It was about let's say like a 15, 20 minute line and you know when you're in a grocery store the 20 minute line feels like it's like an hour and a half. So he was at the grocery store waiting and there was an elderly woman with a baby with a baby in the in the front of the line and it was finally the lady in front's turn and she begins to have extensive dialogue with the cashier and this man is like are you not seeing we're on the clock we're waiting two minutes go by, three minutes go by, four minutes go by to the point where he's now getting livid and then the old lady takes the baby and gives it to the cashier. Jasho takes the baby throws the baby up so I was giving him kisses and all that and now this man is just about to he's livid and you could he's this close this close to flipping and flipping and just and just going off of this person and he takes a step back and he breathes it takes a moment and the baby is given back to the elderly lady and they check him out they said I'll see you later then it's her it's his turn to check out his groceries and he looks at the cashier and says babies am I right babies huh and the cashier says yeah that's my daughter I work two jobs this is the only time of the day that I ever get to see my baby daughter imagine if he said something imagine what would happen it reminds me of the story of your Habib sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that's related among kathir hatid minawi and by the sil sila of sidi abdel aizid the bakh where two parents came to the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when he was in the jama'a nabawiah his mosque said we lost our child we lost our child and where did they lose their child they lost them in the outskirts of the of the deserts of medina and you know how it feels may Allah protect our children to lose your children and like a store for just four minutes your heart goes straight to your summer or to not know when they're in the living room just you gotta know where your kids are you always gotta know where your kids are they lost them in the middle in the deserts of arabia there are nomads there are thieves there's jinnan so the prophet makes dua sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he goes and he looks for the child and obviously his spoiler your would say na wujud sallallahu alayhi wa sallam what do you think is gonna happen you're gonna find your son and they found their he found his children the they found their child and the father and son have this sort of cinematic moment where they run towards each other and they embrace each other and the father starts at alhamdulillah wa shukrillah wa jattu shuf wa jattu waladih wa jattu waladih all praise be to Allah all gratitude to Allah i have found my son i have found my i found my son i found my son and there there is the most amazing planning to sacrifice an animal and feed people and give sabaqah could kid could have died the child could have died i found my son and they're walking into madina and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam tells the father okay can i tell you something for a minute before we enter madina he said yassur masjidullah he said when we enter the city don't say i found my son say i found his name say his first name don't don't mark him as your son just say his first name what a odd request what a strange thing to think about why it's your son why wouldn't you say it's your son you don't call him by a son you call him it's my son i found my son he said of course or masjidullah he said why what he said he said why should i you know what what's the wisdom behind that my son and he says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said if i found my son what would the orphans of madina feel what would the orphans of madina who thinks like that who thinks like that except they're the greatest creation that i've ever learned so because he knew how he knew exactly how it felt to not have bb amina inside the Abdullah say i found you on muhammad i found you him he knows how that feels sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and he was aware of everybody in madina's feelings be mindful of your tongue say things that are sensitive to people that's the only thing the only thing i would ask you and myself to take away from this khutbah is two things first speak to allah practice speaking to allah speak to your creator and the second it's taking from the hadith if you love your brother or your sister tell them tell the ones that you love that you love them thank the ones that you who've done things thank them we don't know if tomorrow will come the body count in this last two years may allah have mercy upon all who have passed it's been hefty it's been hefty so say good things to people appreciate in this before Ramadan make it a thing to tell people that you love them tell your father tell your children tell your wife tell them how much you appreciate them and be sensitive to the needs of the people and be like say the muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we ask him to forgive us and to accept our juma'a ya allah ya da bilali wa quram


Hi, everybody, it's Sam at Meigslock Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I want to show you some really fun ways to use this self-adhesive felt. So these are sheets of felt and they've all got a sticky coating on the back.  So these are by Arteza. This is another one of the products that I got to choose. And the reason I wanted to get these is I want to create some really fun bunting and I want forever bunting. So I want it to be more of a fabric so that it's something I can use and take away. So I'm actually going away with a group of my close girlfriends from school and we're staying in a barn and I thought it would be quite nice. It's the kind of thing I like to do, but I thought I'd decorate a few areas.  And also I have been able to create some cards. So I'm going to show you two card styles that I've made once I show you what you can do with these. And it's just a really nice fun thing to have in your craft stash because it's a different texture. It's a different material. So it's nice to add this to our paper crafts. So it just kind of enhances that even more. So you get this sheet on top here, which has just got an overview of the colours, which is pretty standard for to be our taser packaging. They're really good at giving you an overview of what you get. And the reason I went for it and again, you know, their website doesn't lie. It is what it is. You see all these colours and that's exactly what you get. Just look at the vibrancy and they even says that 30 vibrant colours and my God they are. So these are your, I guess, fluorescence. That one, not so much. I'd say that's more fluorescent. Well anyway, you've got the three fluorescence there. Actually, I'm going to bring in that orange so I can keep them together because I think that's pretty, that's pretty much the same. There is a slight tonal difference. That is, it's coming up a little bit darker and it is, but I'll just put them together anyway. But this is, I've just kind of moved the order slightly of how they come. But if I just lay these down, there you have an overview of all of those beautiful, beautiful colours. Okay, so let me just pop them to one side. So I've already, there is another colour as well, but I've already started cutting into that. So I'll bring it in now in case any of you are thinking, it needs a really nice bright yellow. You get one. So this is what I've started to cut and this is to start my bunting. So what I want to create is some bunting where it's just lots of circles and they're going to be stuck back to back like so with string running through the middle. And I had something similar before in my old place, but it was made out of quite thin paper. It was all, it was one of those ones that you kind of pulled out from like a concertina style. It didn't have a lot of, you know, long shelf life, so it just ended up going in the bin. But I did think that would be nice to recreate again, but in a more durable material. And this is definitely going to hold up. So what I've done is I'm just going to cut strips of the size circle that I'm using. Now I would say when you're cutting the felt, just use a simple plain die. Try not to get anything too decorative in terms of like the detail being too tight together because you're not really going to see it. If it's quite a simple design then that would probably be okay. But if you wanted to cut a shape I wouldn't use like a stitched die for example because you're not going to see the detail.  So this is just a simple plain X cut die that I've got here. And I'm just cutting strips to the width of that. So I'm going to cut two more strips because I need a little bit more of the yellow for another project idea that I'm going to show with you. So I should be able to get yeah so that's perfect. So I can get three strips there and that's going to be saved for something else.  And just to show you just how easily this does cut. I just kind of worked my way from the top down. There we go. Look how great that cuts. So again just line that up on there and cut them.  So yeah if you've got the patience like me because I do have the patience of a saint apparently then yes this is going to be a really really fun thing to do. And then you don't have to make it as long as I am it's just I want a lot because I want to be able to decorate places for like parties but also have it in my craft room as well. So I like colour so I'm having literally multi-colours so if you want to just do for example if you want to decorate a themed coloured party then for example baby shower then yeah if you know that the baby is going to be a boy or that person wanted a specific colour then you can do that by all means and you can also die cut any shape. I think this would also look really nice in maybe a star shape and you could decorate the baby's nursery or you could you know have a classroom if you're a teacher you could do some really fun die cut numbers and have like a number kind of banner hanging somewhere but because they are self-adhesive you can stick these anywhere so I think they are brilliant I really do and because it's working for the idea that I had in mind yeah I'm really pleased with how this is um turning out and I'm also reading the top there it says strong adhesive it says reusable I'm not sure in terms of what it means by reusable I mean if I stuck it does it mean I can unstick it and then it will stick again and it says ideal for craft projects so I will check that out let's have a little look here because I can just peel off the backing it's pretty easy to peel off because it's really stuck in there now they're going to stick together perfectly I can already feel that let's just see I mean I'm just sticking it on my mat just to give you an idea of how well that sticks down yeah that's pretty strong I mean that's on plastic but you can it's got quite a pull on it so that's going to stick to paper really well and like I said I'm sticking mine actually together so they're going to be perfect so I am now going to go through all the colors I want to use and I'm going to get piles of my circles because obviously I don't know even if I'm going to have the same color on the opposite side I might have a pink on that side but I'm going to go and do piles of 12 so that's going to give me a lot of circles that should be give me quite a nice long length of bunting I'm going to get that one die cut add to my little pile here and I'm going to die cut a load more colors and then I'm going to start putting my little bunting together and also I will have the card to show you because you don't you'll once you see the card ideas that I've got they're very easy to do I don't need to talk you through that step by step it just really to give you inspiration so yeah I'll be back in a bit okay so I have just gone and cut one two three four five six of the A4 sheets so you can see the colors that I've chosen here this may be enough I'm not sure but I just wanted to show you as well I did after I started cutting whatever the first one was that I done I thought oh I've got my cricket machine I'm sure that can cut the felt and it does cut it however I don't have I don't think I've got the right blade for it I think I need the deep blade or something like that those of you that follow me you know that I'm very new to the cricket I've not had it very long but it has cut it but I don't know how well you can see it's it's not that's the beauty of a die there's one thing that you don't get from a cutting machine is what the die does it kind of seals them like bonds everything on the edge you get a really nice compact kind of finish so yeah it's not as neat but I think it would be better obviously if I had the right blade so all my settings were correct for it and everything but yeah and it's kept all the backing so it's cut the backs there and stuff but it's not perfect however I think once the you won't see that white that's just your backing paper once you take that off it's just clear adhesive yeah I just thought I'd point that out in case any of you were wondering so I've just got my baker's twine here I'm going to keep it on the spool there just so I you know until I decide how long I want this and I'm going to keep quite a bit at this end because obviously when I tie it to something I want there to be enough excess so I'm going to start mine about here and basically I mean the first time I'm doing this so I'm just going to remove the backing from this it's all the white so you just want to make sure you're peeling all of the white off I recently cut that my nails so it's a bit difficult there we go so it comes off still keeps its shape which is good and then I'm going to stick this one underneath I think once I get a kind of a system going with this and now I don't know whether I want I think I am going to keep the same colors I know I said before I think I was going to do different but I want to keep like an order so I think by doing it this way that's going to be easier if I stick to the same color so then I'm just going to marry it up with its color underneath picking up it's a bit easier and then all of your adhesive completely and it works disappears look oh I'm so pleased it works that's exactly what I want to do so now I'm going to move on is that the order I want them I think I'm going to change my order up a little bit I think I'm going to do maybe that I think I like that order so now I'm going to take this one so I'm basically going to go along now and see how long I can get my kind of string my bunting yeah I don't think I'm going to introduce any colors I think what will happen is if I feel I want it longer I will order some more felt because this is definitely something that I am going to you know go to a lot I think it's really like I said it's a really nice addition to have in your craft stash so I'm butting my circles right up you don't have to you can leave a little gap if you want but they actually become quite strong that glue in between you know almost stiffens them and keeps in their shape look how cute are they really really fun so I'm going to carry on now I'm going to put the rest of my movie on and I'm going to stick all of this down okay so here is my lovely bunting my polka dot bunting and I love it so I've doubled it up so there's the looped and then it goes all the way along and here is the end here so yeah that would easily fit in a window along like the top of the window so I may well put that up in my craft room so I think that's going to look really cool but like I said I'm going to take it away just at the weekend just to add a little bit of decoration I'm probably going to do a few other ones as well but this is using the whole a4 pink yellow blue purple green and orange and you can see the blue there once they're stuck together they're a little bit more fluffy around the edges to the others but once it's all together you can't notice that at all and just looking in my monitor I mean it may well come out better once I edit the video but these colors are really vibrant more vibrant in real life and they are coming through on my monitor so hopefully that will show up better like I said once you see the video yeah really really pleased with how this has turned out so next so that's the the one idea then I have started to do some other bits and pieces so I will add in now a quick video of me coloring my current favorite dye set which is the daisy may peony bloom dye set and matching stamp set which is here and I featured this already in the artesia video when I was using the ever blend markers so I've used them again but I'm just going to edit that in now it's just a quick couple of minutes okay so you would have just seen me create this and what I've gone ahead and done is I've cut a slit above the lip of the mason jar and just below it so that I can slide this in so you have that piece going over it and I just thought it made it look a little bit more authentic but then I'm kind of debating now whether to add the bow or not because kind of when you put it on there now you don't notice it but I don't know we'll see I quite like it without but anyway the next thing is die cutting your felt and they die cut beautifully so I've just used this leaf one again I would stick with something quite block in terms of its outline you don't want anything too detailed because I just don't think you're going to see it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to stick this down and also what I've done here is just die cut some larger flowers layered them on top of each other popped a little diamond in the middle hole punch stuck it onto card and just fussy cuts I've got a little border and you've got really nice gift tags how lovely are they just to kind of finish off any you know gift bags and gift boxes that you've got and I thought this will look lovely in red and you could do pensettia flowers for Christmas presents I thought that'd look really nice and also you could do holly and everything if you use the felt it just adds a really really nice texture to your project so you will see that featuring over Christmas okay so with this one here I want to get it stuck down so I'm just going to stick some foam onto that's not come out very well so I'm happy with where it is there so I'm going to stick a couple on the back there okay and then just to keep that in place I'm just going to pop a little bit of glue just under there just to tack that down okay so now that's on the foam it's lifted off and now I can kind of feed in some of these behind so I've done my green colouring similar colours to these leaves and I just want to kind of fill up the white area I've done two tones so I've got a lighter tone green there and I've got a darker tone so this one here I'm going to stick there on the top because this is the decoupage part which goes over the top there and then I can have another piece kind of coming underneath like so something like that and I think it looks really good it starts to really make it look quite real so now I'm just going to bring that in just hold it and just look I think it looks quite nice without I think I think I might have my sentiment they're like happy birthday or thinking of you or something like that but I actually quite like that arrangement so I'm going to get this back down so what I'm going to do I'm going to take the top one off okay so if I bring that up can you see now you've got that texture I just think it looks really cool I just absolutely adore this stamp and dice it anyway and I will link everything below as always but it's just really fun so yeah I mean you can do this anything the flowers can be felt you know the the jar here could be felt there's so many ways to incorporate it into your paper craft but I do like doing the leaves because I just think it's nice to have them with some texture so that is my card idea I'll finish it off with a sentiment and you'll see all that in the photos at the end and that like I said I was just playing around with some dyes but I really like how that's come out it's a really nice size tag and yeah you can like I said imagine that at Christmas time I think it's going to look gorgeous and I'm going to do one more card to show you okay so these are all of the things that I've made I'm really really pleased with it I think working with this felt has been really fun so one thing I just want to quickly mention is that when I was doing this card I was looking at it I thought something just didn't seem right and what it was is I needed to color the white around the bottoms of the stems that were in the water so if you do look back on the video you'll see it looked like it was just coming out of the the jar it didn't look right so I just went and colored all the white that was around the stems and I also where the black line is here I just continued it over the top of the stems here and it just now looks like the the stems are actually in the water so I just think it looks a lot better so I love that card I think it's turned out lovely I don't know what I'm going to put there so that's why I've left it without the sentiment for now because sometimes it's quite handy to just leave the cards blank until you know because that will work for quite a few occasions I think this one I love so this is for as you can tell for someone's first birthday um this isn't my idea I've seen this on Pinterest for a long long time but I hadn't seen it in felt and I thought it would look really good and felt and because it die cut so beautifully and it's obviously self-executive it's turned out I think really quite well so I'm hoping that they're going to really like that card and then these are little Christmas decorations and I thought they're so cute so just die cut two stars and just stuck them together so it's it's just really nice to feel and then I die cut one of my letters there so I just personalised it but the other nice thing about this is is if you like to send happy mail at Christmas time or just anytime during the year year year really but I thought this would be nice to send a Christmas present to someone because it weighs nothing it is so lightweight and it's completely flat but I think it looks really sweet so now if you imagine you pop that in the envelope I mean that you can see it's very very little bulk so I thought that was a great idea also I think if you die cut lots of stars you could have star bunting you could have merry Christmas spout out across them these are just again great things for craft fairs so lightweight and easy again for you to post if you've got an Etsy shop and things like that so yeah and then the little gift tag that I've got there as well but I love my bunting I can't wait to put that up I think it's just awesome and I love it all really I just think it's got us such a good use now and I'm glad I've been able to really play with it and as you do more kind of ideas will come to mind I think and yeah I think you'll really enjoy it so I do encourage you to get it I think it's brilliant and it is definitely a good extra to have in your stash so yeah as always I'll share all the links below I'll share the links for the Daisy Mae stamp set because I know a few of you like that when I last used it and it is great I like I said it's one of my favourites at the moment I will share the links also for obviously the Arteza felt also the ever blend pens as well that I've used a few few more people have been asking about that and I'll share the links to that video as well where I talk in more detail about how to do a really simple blending kind of process to get that effect so I'll share that as well and you will get a 10% coupon code just in the video description below as well so you can use that on anything across the Arteza website so yeah I hope you've enjoyed it please give me a thumbs up if you have and subscribe to my channel so you get to see more thanks for watching bye


Thanks, everyone, for joining the lightning talk. That was a great preface into this next topic, which is all about Google Tag Manager, how you can improve processes internally, and how you can utilize it for your website. Just a little bit about myself. My name is Stephanie Bernal. I'm a marketing account manager at New Target, Inc., digital agency based out of Virginia. So far, I have about five years of experience working in Google Tag Manager. We work with a lot of clients from B to B, B to C, some nonprofits, government clients, e-commerce clients, all sorts of clients, a lot of them using WordPress for their websites.  Very cute. You'd like to hang out. And then I have my contact info at the bottom of the screen. If anyone has any specific questions about how to track something, feel free to send me an email. This will be more of a quick overview of improving those processes, but happy to chat later. All right, so the common theme here for everybody here is you either work in a WordPress site, have a client that's using WordPress.  Your client has a Mar-Tech stack. Smaller clients may be three to five tools. Maybe it's 10 plus tools. Anywhere from analytics, Google Ads, heat map tracking, email marketing, social media, chat bots. I know chat bots are really cool last year, and then they kind of died out. The point being, we all have these tools we need to implement with our website. So the traditional way of doing that is through installing code on your site through a developer, which is fine, especially when it's just like a small set of tools. But once you're growing your Mar-Tech stack, you might have 10 plus tools in growing, right? So what does that do? And just to give a little context here, going through a developer is just fine, but sometimes could be time consuming and a lot of back and forth. So when you have a lot of code on your site, potentially you can start slowing down that website a little bit, which isn't great, right? So why is that important? Because website speed is important, especially nowadays with Google prioritizing co-ed vitals. That being a ranking factor for your website, definitely don't want to bombard with too much HTML on your site that could potentially slow it down. Not saying that that's the total reason why you might slow down a site, but it does contribute. So obviously with website speed, you can provide a better user experience that ultimately contributes to lower bounce rates and also conversions, right? Because at the end of the day, if you have a client or a user that's visiting your site, they're there for a goal, right? They're there to answer a question they may have. They're there to purchase something, sign up for something. So you want to make sure they're able to get to that end goal. And today also, everyone just expects a quick loading site, right? You don't want to go on your mobile phone, try and click a link and accidentally click something else. There's a shift there, right? Because your site's loading too slow. And we all hate those hero image banners that take like 30 seconds to load, right? So website speed being an important factor here. We'll get a little bit into tag manager. I'm sure some of you are already familiar with it. But in case you're not, it's basically a tag management system created by Google. I like to think of it as a home for all your party tools. So instead of adding it to your website through code, you just add the tags within Google Tag Manager. So that's where your house, all your analytics, all your events, all your conversions, and all your third party tools. So why should you use Google Tag Manager? We already talked about it a little bit. Help improve speed on your site. All the third party codes in one place. Less code ultimately results in better performance. And one of my favorites is the reduced need for a development person. No offense to any developers out there. But just talking to you from the marketing perspective and kind of helping bridge that gap between SEO and Dev, I know a lot of the times I'm talking to a developer and they want to do things through the code when you can easily do it yourself through Google Tag Manager.  But as you get more comfortable with it, it truly is super simple, especially with Google Analytics. You don't need to install any code. All you really need is the analytics ID and you just place it inside a tag, make sure it fires on all the pages and you're done. Versus having the developer install it for you. And then we go into the fact about GA4 when you have, basically you were saying like, you have to move all these events and these conversions into GA4. When you have it installed on your site as code, then you have to go back to the developer, ask them to edit all the code or install additional conversions or whatever it may be. Versus if you already have all these things set up in GA4 for your universal analytics, all the events, all the conversions, all you really need to do is create a new tag and add the GA4 ID in there and then you just apply the triggers that you had already created for all those events and conversions. So ultimately, definitely saves you a lot of time. Super simple. You can go in there, modify as needed, enhance. Honestly, it's definitely a lifesaver. And then also we have recipes. So like I said, for people who aren't as familiar, there's people online that dedicate their time to creating recipes that are basically templates that you can go online, download. It's basically a JSON file and then you just upload it to your Google Tag Manager container. Make sure you modify whatever it is. So for example, we were talking about enhanced e-commerce tracking. There's a recipe for that. All you need to do is make sure you add your analytics ID in there, tweak it a little bit, make sure it goes with the flow of your website, publish it and then you're done. So it literally cuts the time to implement that in half. And yes, you can do it through a plugin. It's preference honestly, but the thing about plugins is you always have to update them, right? Google Tag Manager, you apply it once and you're done. And obviously with all of Google's other tools, it's free. So that's just really the cherry on top for me. No reason why you shouldn't at least give it a try. It definitely does help improve processes. And I know when I've talked to even Google themselves when clients are trying to implement conversion tracking in like Google Ads, they usually ascend some sort of code or something and that's when you can be like, oh, well, you know what, I don't need it. I can install it with Google Tag Manager. So it's definitely helpful. So just some key takeaways and tips here. Obviously, Google Tag Manager can save you from overloading your site with too much code, potentially slowing it down. You can install anything super simple. So when we're talking about basic like tracking, wanna make sure we're tracking things like form fills, signups, I know GA4 already has everything built in. The click tracking, the page views, scroll depth, video engagement and things like that. But when you want more data, you're able to do that yourself. And then the third here is definitely plan before you implement. So for example, if you have, again, an e-commerce client, their end goal is probably revenue. So if you have a nonprofit, maybe it's donations. If you have a government client, maybe it's signups.  What are their KPIs? How are you gonna pull data in that's gonna help them get the bigger picture, right? Cause all this ties back to are your marketing campaigns working or not? So the more data you're able to pull in to analytics through GTM tracking, the more insights you can get and then you can make better informed decisions for your clients. And then last tip here is always test. I know in GA4 they have that debug view as well. That actually came from Google Tag Manager. So when you do implement anything before pushing it live, you're able to test everything from start to finish. I know there's times where I've implemented, for example, like navigation tracking and it ends up tracking something in a footer that might have a common CSS denominator, something like that. So then you have to go back, adjust it, re-test it, send it to someone else to just test if needed, make sure it all works and then from there, then you can push it live and then it'll automatically pull into your analytics data set. So yeah, that's definitely tests. I can't stress that enough. But other than that, I mean, happy to answer any questions on the side here. If anybody has any, feel free to email me. I wish I could show you guys a demo of like a full GTM implementation, but obviously only have 15 minutes. But yeah, that is the end of the slides. So thank you guys very much.


Well, while they're finding my slides, I will tell you that I got involved with the trans humanists quite a few years ago because I thought, here are a group of really bright, young men who are being responsible for the belief system that they have. Mormonism has a lot of strange beliefs about transfiguration and the second coming all of these kinds of things and I thought, okay, you can have a belief system that you put the responsibility on somebody else and maybe it will just appear someday or you can actually actively get involved with that way of thinking and figure out that that's something that you actually believe and you want to further those beliefs and you want to be responsible for the belief system that you have. And so I thought, okay, there aren't too many people in the Mormon Church that really follow through with some of the beliefs that they have. I also have to admit that even though I'm a Mormon, I was raised as a Mormon, I'm also a mystic and I know there are people in the Mormon transhumanists who are maybe agnostic, might be Buddhist, might be Christians, might be a lot of other religions and I really appreciate that because I think this group is thinking out of the box and I think when you're a member of an organization such as a Mormon, especially along the Wasatch Front or you are a Bible Belt Christian or whatever else, you contain your belief systems within the boundaries that Chris was talking about earlier and the one thing about transhumanism is that it's breaking down the barriers of belief systems and I think that that's a real important aspect of moving into the next few years because I think our belief systems and the walls around our belief systems are starting to break down and I think we're becoming more inclusive about how we think about who we are and what we actually believe in and what we're willing to put our efforts into. I've been going to India for the last 20 years. I hadn't gone back for a few years this last trip. I took a trip last month and I was there for a couple of weeks and I was amazed at the changes that have happened in India. It's not quite as exotic as it was 20 years ago. There aren't as many elephants, camels, water buffalo walking kind of pulling things down the roads but there are many, many more problems and many more people. When I first started going to India, there were probably 800 million people. Now there's over a billion. I'm thinking that the United States has approximately 350 million people. That many people have been born in India since the first time. Let's see. Oh, we've got a visit to India here, right when I'm talking about it. I have to say that India is, you talk about boundaries of belief systems, boundaries of realities. I know some of you have probably been there but the one thing that you come away from after being in India for a while is realizing that the reality that you thought you knew has expanded and that that reality is not the solid reality that you thought it was. It seems that almost anything that is possible can exist in India. It is the extreme of everything. It is the extreme of beauty of the opposite also. It is the extreme of wealth and poverty. It is the extreme of the very finest and the very worst. You walk away expanding what you thought could be possible on planet Earth. I spent some time in the slums of Delhi this time. As I mentioned before, the population of India has increased since I started going there as much as the whole population of the United States. It has over a billion people in a land mass that's maybe a third the size of the United States. The people are brilliant. You probably work with people from India. This is, I would say, an inside of a slum and it's fairly clean. The slums that I went to this last time were overwhelmingly problematic and I just felt like what is going on? What is the future of the people who live in these slums? In Delhi alone there are 20, sometimes when I'm talking I get my figures wrong, but there are 20 million people in Delhi and so I would say 20% of those people live in the slums. You've got 4 million people living in these circumstances like this in one city. India has at least three and maybe four cities that are close to 20 million people the size of Delhi and they all have huge slums. I've spent some time in Mumbai and the slums there, Calcutta is an incredible city and then just across the border you've got Bangladesh with Dhaka that is another city of 20 million people with huge slums. When we talk about the quality of life and the quality of life that we expect, the planet earth is shrinking and we're becoming a global society and we may not think that we have to deal with other parts of the world but we really do and I think it's pretty apparent now as we look at the problems on the other side of the planet that we're not going to avoid the problems of other countries, of other cultures, of what we think we can do nothing about. This is not a great photo but it's a little girl who is typical of the kids that you see in the slums in India and they always are smiling, they're always happy and you wonder how can they be happy living in this garbage and I just think they really need to, people around here need to really, really be grateful for the wonderful air that we breathe, the beautiful conditions that we have around us. These boys look happy now, they're faced with a lifetime of problems. Many of them will commit crimes when they get older, there's so much corruption in India that when you have that many people living in slum conditions you're going to end up with a lot of problems. This is a little village I visited in Chandigarh. Chandigarh is in the middle of the Indus Valley, it's the beginning of civilization, it's 10,000 years old, that civilization goes back 10,000 years.  This is a little Anganwada which is kind of a government based little preschool that allows children to get some education. The problem in this area is gender equality and you've heard that there's so many young children or I should say there are 75 girls born to every 100 boys born in this particular area and other parts of the world because of gender inequality and there's so many problems associated with raising girls, being a girl that at least 25% are aborted before they're even born. These are girls who are obviously in a pretty good school in Delhi, they're being well educated and they have a future if they're educated. If they do not have an education they are either married off at a very, very young age, 25,000 girls under the age of 18 are married worldwide. They have a future of poverty and servitude and really, really poor health and it's pretty obvious in India. This is an intern from the University of Utah assisting one of the NGOs that I'm working with in Delhi and we're feeding, the photo didn't come through too good, she's feeding a group of widows and widows are kind of thrown out basically after their husband dies or when they get older and there's no one there to take care of them. Their family is so traditional and it goes back for so many years that they really are underappreciated and neglected and so this group that I'm working with is really trying to help. It's too bad some of these didn't come through very good. This is another widow. These are some children from the slums who are happy, like I said, they're just the smartest, greatest kids in the world and yet they have so little opportunities at this point. This is the Delhi slum and I wanted this particular picture especially because you can't see it but the girl behind the blue balloon is wearing a princess dress. Now I don't know where she got the princess dress but everybody has a daughter or a niece or somebody who you know has been wearing a princess dress the last couple of years almost every time. So it's the same thing happens in India. These little girls, they want to be princesses and they want the best that is available to them but they have so little opportunity. So I know that we can't all go to India. We can't all help in a physical way but we can know what the problem is. We can use our technology. We can use our education. We can be supportive in so many ways to help educate and to help some of the situations in some of the developing countries that are right on our borders. I could go on and on and on but I'm not going to. But if anybody has a question I'll answer it at this point. Okay, all righty.


I would like to welcome you here to this breakout session. The seat says hi. My name is Sarah Pornet. I work at Media Evolution as a business developer. And the first speaker is Maria Papova. Welcome. So I want to start with a little clip from William White's 1980 film, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, which was the culmination of research that he and his team began in 1969. And this particular bit is called The Street Corner. Many people didn't think that it would be. But it was a movement to find out why. I, in search of the street corner project, have been observing other times of city traffic. There was a block on the 113rd street in the town. But within that time, but almost seven packets, the earlier we were to find that it was important for a city space, we couldn't have found that right here. Things were right under our nose. So what does The Street Corner look like today? And in the age of data are the clues to what makes robust public life more under our noses ever before. I think so, if only we're able to extract them. Backtracking to the 1930s when Louis Mumford was the first to sort of bring urbanism into the world of formal academia as a field of study. And he wrote a book called Technics and Civilization, in which he traced as far back as he could why humans adopted technologies and how they appropriated them and why they chose certain technologies over others and, above all, how those decisions shaped entire societies. And then in 1961, he followed up with The City and History, which remains one of the most influential books in urbanism. All of his writing, all of his work is very smart and very timeless in a lot of ways. But one particular bit stands out to me. He wrote, the chief function of The City is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. In the 1970s, Marshall McLuhan, the granddaddy of media theory, famously said, the quest for identity goes with bumping into other people. Now, fast-forward half a century since Mumford and we get physicist Geoffrey West, who studies complex systems from organisms to cities and looks at how data and data analytics can help us better understand them. He spoke at TED Global in Edinburgh last summer, and he told us that every week from now until 2050, more than a million people are being added to our cities. Now, think about that for a moment. A million people a week. Those are a lot of opportunities to bump into other people. And with other people come the technologies that they bring and all the personal data that we carry with us, both on our persons and our devices and all the metadata about our lives that is out there. So how does that change the social creativity that Mumford talks about? Another one of McLuhan's most famous aphorisms is that all media work is over completely. And indeed our media and especially our communication technologies have changed enormously even in the last decade alone. And what emerges from that is a whole new way of constructing our identity, not only as individual citizens, but also in how we relate to one another and to our cities at times of triumph and times of conflict using the city as a platform and as an epicenter of this collective self-creation. So this is what we're going to hear about today from Jake Barton and Mike Magurski, both of whom do amazing work at the intersection of cities, data and what it means to be human today. With that, Jake, take it away.


Suppose we have a product of powers of sine and cosine. Since the derivative of sine is cosine and the derivative of cosine is negative sine, then removing a factor of sine or cosine gives the possibility of using a u-substitution. For example, suppose we want to find the integral of cosine cubed x dx. So if we remove a factor of cosine, we can rewrite the remainder using the trigonometric identity, cosine squared plus sine squared equals one. And so cosine squared x can be rewritten as, and now if we let u equals sine x, du equals cosine x dx, our integral then becomes, and we can find the antiderivative, then put things back where we found them, u was equal to sine x. Or we might have a power of sine, so we can split off a factor of sine and then rewrite the remainder in terms of cosine. So sine to the fourth x is really sine squared squared, which is one minus cosine squared, which we can expand. And now if we let u equals cosine x, du is negative sine x, and so our integral becomes, which we can evaluate, then put everything back where we found it. Or if we try cosine to the fourth this way, we'd break off a factor of cosine and then try to rewrite the remainder in terms of sine. Now using cosine squared x plus sine squared x equals one gives us cosine x equals square one minus sine squared x square will omit the plus minus for now pending the determination of the domain. Then cosine cubed becomes, and so we have this integral. But we can't evaluate this integral. Fortunately we have another approach, we can reduce a power of sine or cosine using the half angle formulas, cosine squared x equals one half plus one half cosine two x, and then sine squared x equals one half minus one half cosine two x. And these emerge from the trigonometric identities for the double angle plus the Pythagorean identity. So if I want to evaluate cosine to the fourth x dx, well cosine to the fourth x dx is really cosine squared squared. We can use those half angle identities and take our cosine squared and reduce it to cosine of two x, expand. Now notice that this gives us a cosine squared again, and so again we can use our half angle formula a second time to reduce that. And since there are no powers of sine or cosine we can integrate this directly.