Okay, where we are. The claim which is also on our website is and which we wrote into the proposal two years ago when we applied for the project that the EU Commission was to revolutionise access to handwritten documents. I know that this is a big claim, but I think that not only because of the project, but because of many technical developments going on, this claim could be realised. In order to realise the claim and to really make something happen, we tried to follow five key concepts. We said we want to set up the culture of cooperation, we want to provide breakthrough in handwritten text recognition and similar fields, we want to set up a service platform so that's Transcribos. We want to initiate the cycle of growth and we want to make innovation happen. Okay, the culture of cooperation. I always stress in my presentations that this slide really is for me one of the core concepts of the project and of the platform, that I believe that real, really good results can only be achieved if different user groups are working together. So all the user groups who are dealing with historical documents should be on the table, should provide their knowledge, their competence and also receive of course benefits from this infrastructure or from this service platform. And we really try to follow this concept so Transcribos understands itself as a platform mediating between the different user groups and to be able to satisfy the needs of the different user groups. Breakthrough in handwritten text recognition and related technology. One important component of this are scientific competitions organized by the READ partners. So since years, especially from Valencia, but also from here from Vienna, they are organizing competition, scientific competitions within the framework of scientific conferences. And if you look at the results of these competitions, you can say that you make somehow a few to the future. So what is in keyword spotting is something which was already part of research some years ago, but took of course some while to get realized as a service. So these competitions are, from my point of view, a very good indicator of what is actually happening in the research field, but also a means to guide somehow a little bit the researchers and to feed them with interesting material. Because that's really one of the key things of this cooperation that real stuff, real world material needs to be provided to the research competitions. And this will increase the applicability of the algorithms developed and the technology. So there is a long list of institutions providing material for the competition, CG for wide identification or for the baseline detection. And actually next week or two weeks, the ICTA 2017 will take place in Kyoto and Japan and READ partners will be there. And also some of them are very successful in these competitions. A breakthrough in handwritten text recognition actually took place already, as I said in my introduction, maybe some years ago. But to make it really happen, that's something where we can say that is part of the Transcriber's platform. For my point of view, for my knowledge, it is the only way where users really have access to the technology and this relatively simple means just transcribing line by line text and then train a model that this technology is really available. And as you have maybe experienced, the technology is very robust and not dependent on language in the background, but just focusing on the characters on the alphabet. And it's also able to read from right to left, so Hebrew, Arabic and other character-based language, character-based alphabet. It is possible to process it. So it's often, that's one of the nice things when we are approached by people and they ask us, this is a medieval document, a Latin document, or a Greek document, or this is an Arabic document. Can you process that? Do you need a dictionary? And we can say, of course we can process it and no, we don't need a dictionary. It might help sometimes at the end, but for a first shot or for many operations that's not necessary. So it's really a big breakthrough for my point of view. All those who have worked with transcribals will know that segmentation and segmentation is, in our case, the detection of baselines is an important issue because the computer has to know where is the text. And all of you will have experience that there are typical problems with lines which are narrow or lines which are very short table structures which are very complicated and both cards where text is written around in different angles and so on and so on. And actually during this summer we can say that there was a real breakthrough in research and a colleague of the team from Rostock was very successful with this and I think it's no exaggeration to say that this is probably now one of the best layout or probably the best layout analysis or baseline detection tool available anywhere. And as you can see here there's only one little, little tiny mistake that one baseline is a bit too short. The rest was detected automatically with the standard model and here the same is a complicated table structure. Nearly all baselines are correctly bound by the engine. That really will make a difference and there is a little bug still included that the reading order of the lines is not correct so you might experience this in the workshop but that will be fixed probably next week or so when Tobias is back from holidays. Yeah, but what you can see is that there's a real difference. And that's of course extremely important for automated processing. Then I think we achieved the breakthrough in keyword spotting. We said that's the next big thing and you will see more details on that later on. But keyword spotting is simply said a way to search in a very effective way directly in the image and not in the transcribed text. That's a new concept for all of us who are coming from the humanities and it's hard to understand and we have a lot of discussions in the project how to get this concept but you will see the results and you will be surprised. Then the third point was that we said the third key concept was that we want to set up a real service platform. So not the demonstrator, not something which works very nicely for certain kind of material or certain collection. We wanted to really provide services and an important role plays here of course the expert interface. The idea behind this expert interface was that we tried to integrate all important things which are necessary to set up a project from importing or uploading files to exporting to processing them to measure the results to cope with user management and so on and so on. And of course that gets a bit complicated or not complicated is the wrong word. Sophisticated it needs some time to understand all the functionality but then it's of course a tool which allows you to do a lot. That will be accomplished by web interface which reduces the complexity and is designed for supporting users who are mainly interested in transcription. We will show it in the evening to you and which is also very abstract for non-technical people but which is from the concept very very important that all the services in transcribers are also available via an API so they can be used by other machines. So the machines can talk to each other, can exchange information, can exchange documents and that's extremely important if we think on larger scale projects. Then the fourth concept was the cycle of growth and for me it was also one of the very nice experiences in this project that so many institutions all over the world are interested and I just listed here some of these memorandum of understanding partners. Of course a lot here in this room and I really am very very thankful for those who concluded such an agreement with us. It will help us definitely to proceed with the platform to look for new funding to come up with new services and so on. So you see we have institutions from Australia, Austria of course, Canada, Denmark, Finland, from France of course many institutions from Germany, from Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, from the Netherlands or actually in the Netherlands it's really fantastic what is going on there with digitization, with archives really having understood that they need to open their collections and to make it available in digital format and also it seems that the government has understood it and is willing to invest some money in this. I think that's really great. Norway, Serbia and Spain, Switzerland, that's also a strong country and United Kingdom, also in here we have a lot of requests and many interesting projects and also the United States we have some some institutions. Currently there are more than 7,500 users registered in transcribers, 10-15 users are registering every day and are downloading the expert client. Not everyone of course starts then the work but many people are uploading their files and trying it out and yeah it's always interesting to see that so many people actually somehow involved in this. Usually we have 20-30 users always online, someone is always working, we are of course thinking how others could benefit of that fact. From the users of course many are family historians and they I mean they have the real request they say I have here an old contract from my father's house and I cannot read this old writing so is your software able to read this. Currently in most cases we have to say no, we first have to train a model and we are heading for global models but that's not actually the case. But the other half I would say of these users are researchers, archivists, librarians looking for options how to make their collections available, trying it out and which is also a good portion are students. Students involved in digital humanities courses, students writing their master's thesis. We had here a student just 14 days ago writing a master's thesis about the war diary from the grandfather and she just provided 50 pages. We trained the model and she run it against the whole diary and was excellent results so it was really really funny to see that. Services, thousands of documents, hundreds of thousands of images are actually uploaded to the platform. We are currently using three terabytes of storage but many more terabytes are actually reserved on our computing center in Innsbruck. If you look at the job ID you will see that about 160,000 jobs were completed in the platform mainly segmentation, HDR and so on. We have now trained hundreds of HDR models. The training is standard activity but I would say in 30% of the cases it fails at first and then some parameters have to be changed and then it will work and of course we have answered thousands of emails. The last item or key concept we had was make innovation happen. Innovation is now one of the buzzwords in the university environment and also in the EU commission. I think there is somehow a connection between research and innovation but often innovation is not connected directly to research so we wanted to have a space in the project where also new ideas can be developed and might come up and as it is the case with ideas of course not every idea is a breakthrough so it makes also sense to just try out things and that's that's one of the fields so one of one of these ideas is that we said okay can we use the documents also to train people, students, volunteers to read historical handwriting documents and there is now an interface where you can try it out yourself which is dedicated to self-study. Then another idea was to use the mobile phone in an archive for taking pictures sending them to the transcripts platform and from this idea actually the scan tent resulted so you will see this and you will be able to try it out tomorrow. So that's the scan tent the idea is that both hands are free and another idea was that we want to motivate people to look for famous hands we called it for writings of famous people and to give them the chance to upload the writings because there is a big community fascinated by handwriting itself and this was something we also developed during the summer you will see this tomorrow as well. Okay so this is what we did a small part but the most important issues of course were mentioned so where would we like to be? Of course our main objective is that we would be we would like to be there the search infrastructure for everyone interested in transcription recognition and searching historical documents. Something which will be important what is in the core of my thinking but still not realized in the way I would like to see it are these network effects which we can gain due to the fact that we are such a large community and due to the fact that on a technical level so much synergy can be used. So one of these network effects could be or will be that isolated models become global models so that ground truth or training data which are produced on the one side can also be used from other users and that's something we hope to work on in the future or we will work on in the future and I'm convinced that it really will be one of the success factors for the next years that you really feel a benefit that others are using the platform as well. Yeah large scale demonstrators of course many of you are representing archives libraries with large collections and it's nice to work with hundreds or thousands of images but of course the direction goes into hundreds of thousands or millions of page images so that's something which is also on our list that we want to show and demonstrate how the technology can work on large collections and where we would like to be is that we are able to provide a centralized access via keyword spotting to the collections in transcribers this will require also that we have the chance to make collections publicly available so that's also a big step because as you know currently everyone is working in his own collection which makes a lot of sense for for many projects but for public collections that also needs to be adopted. So how will we will we approach it these objectives of course the read project is still running for one and a half years so 2018 was full power 2019 six months was a bit reduced but just for rollout and dissemination but of course there are still resources in the project also a lot of services or several services are planned for 2019 like these global HDR models or document understanding so document understanding means that the metadata which are included somehow in the structure of documents can also be exploited for your purpose. Table recognition falls under this issue last cave demonstrators crowd sourcing services so that's on our list and should come during the next year. Yeah of course we are involved in a lot of small test projects with many MOU partners so that's also on our list and to keep the services running and to answer the user requests is a big thing. So this was the read project but the EU Commission expects from us also to come up with a sustainability concept and within the sustainability concept the business component will play a role as well so one of the ideas is to come up with a subscription model so that's meant for permanent cooperation and will very likely be yearly fee which enables users to upload pages into process them such a subscription model could look like this and I'm happy also to receive your feedback on this and we are currently in the process of discussing this so one of the ideas would be to have of course all services for free for a certain amount of documents e.g. 1000 pages per year or more depending also from where the images are coming or whatever so that someone really is able to do test projects and try out all the services or even do smaller projects on a free level when it comes to the processing of more amounts of pages e.g. 10,000 per year or 30,000 per year or 100,000 per year then a certain yearly fee could be applied and that would also include special services such that users are able to train their models on their own or text to image matching or crowdsourcing and so on large scale projects so to process to have a permanent connection with transcripts would be for this subscription model but of course there will be projects which need to process large amounts of documents in a relatively short time so that would be based on an API so that images are coming transferred via an API processed and the results are transferred back and that would be calculated on a page based basis of course some projects will have special services or requests for special services e.g. development or research is involved and that's something which can also be provided as long as it is as it does not fall on the standard services which are there anyway. We will try to implement the business component in 2018 don't worry there will be no surprises for those who are actually working with this but for the long-term sustainability and for the commitment I believe that this really makes sense and will also increase the flexibility with which we can react to requests and special projects and the third component which will be important for the future is the European Open Science Cloud actually last week the EU Commission provided European Open Science Cloud declaration you should have a look on this document you find it easily under this heading EU EOSC and it outlines the main principles for research and for research infrastructures in the European community for the next years so it's a very high-level strategic document but I have to say it's it's from first glance it comes relatively to the spot and is not a bad document from my point of view many good ideas are in open research data open access the connection of services with research research infrastructures and so on and so on so this is not the project it is really the European Open Science Cloud shall also be a top-level research infrastructure under which other research infrastructures are working or connection with this and that will be important also for us because as I said at the very beginning we want to become one of the research infrastructures for processing historical images okay here are some citations from the document but I think I used my time so what is important is that the infrastructure I mentioned here as well and we are one of these infrastructures and of course billions of euro will be guided to this to this field okay this means that it will offer a number of chances for us to connect with transcribers we have this interdisciplinar cooperation I think we can show that real needs that we are driven by real needs and a user requests that we have running services and not just demos and that standardization also plays a role in our case yeah this means that the more users are working with transcribers the higher the chance to indicate the need for this research infrastructure on a European level so once again thanks for your interest MOUs and later on the subscription model will be a very good way to express commitment and interest and of course we want to have critical users so we want to learn and we are thankful for your input and for your critical remarks yes thank you for your attention questions feel free yes please the ad can be made available to everyone but it is mainly a question of so the user interface is there user interface is simple and some users are already using it why we are a bit careful about this is just that the that the amount of computing power on our side will be very high if every user can start the training so we are a bit waiting on users who are asking us currently sorry for that but I have last week I ordered via the university I hope that they will will agree to GPU servers and then things will improve I think as far as I know the Google team this octopus is working also in this direction a part of the Google team comes from the handwritten text recognition I heard from one user that they are now also opening octopus API for handwritten texts but I haven't heard anything more about that so of course there are other groups I think there are groups in Paris in in America yeah but I think it will be hard to find a group which really is able to provide such standard services as you can find here it's more research prototypes I would say but of course technologies is more groups are working on this okay yes


This is a great, great honor and a blessing for us to be with you during this week. I'll just start with, as we were worshiping the Lord, I just, I just had the impression of the, of the little boy that had a few loaves and a few fish. And I felt like the Lord was saying to me that if I, if we can give away our few loaves and fish to you, then the Lord is going to use it to, to reach multitudes. So that's, that will be my prayer during, during this time that in somehow we are able to, to impart to you what the Lord has entrusted to us. And before I say a couple of words, I just, I think I want to tell you a little story about a ninth grade science teacher who was really trying to teach his students about learning. And sometimes when you, sometimes when you teach something, people miss the point. So this, this teacher took, came in one day and he had four worms and he was very excited about this experiment and he, and when the kids saw four worms, they all went crazy. And so he took one worm and he put it in some alcohol and some, another one into some sugar and a third one into some tobacco and a fourth one. So you understand the purpose of the whole thing. He put it into some good soil and the next day comes in, students are all excited about these worms, pulls one out of the alcohol, it's dead, pulls one out of the sugar, it's dead, pulls one out of the tobacco, it's dead.  And, and he says now, now students, what did you learn from this experiment? Johnny raised his hand, says, I learned that if you drink alcohol, eat sugar and smoke tobacco, you'll never have worms. So, so for some of you, that might be the best takeaway of the week, you know. Now, it's a great honor to be here in this long tradition of the priest, deacons and seminarians conference at Franciscan and I'm just so grateful for Father Dave for entrusting us with this, with you and with bringing this message to you this week. And of course, we're all, it's all good news that Father Dave is, is now the president of the Franciscan University. It's just, it's just a great, brought a great joy to my heart. Father Mike was my cousin, was my cousin, is my cousin. And so we've followed the history of Steubenville and Franciscan from the beginning. And I know Father Mike is rejoicing in heaven right now. So we're here as a team. Here's my lovely wife, Janet, who's been a partner in Unbound from the very beginning. There would be no book or anything if it wasn't for her. So you can say hello, Janet. And this is my amazing son, Matt, who is the future of part of the Father Ministry. So we're just really so delighted to see him come into his anointing. So tomorrow, oh, Father Boniface. Father Boniface, ah, Father Boniface is the last member of our team. I don't know, did you hook on to us or did we hook on to you? But Father Boniface really has taken up the message of Unbound in a very powerful way, and he brings something special to it as a spiritual director. And you will be delighted to hear from him this week. Tomorrow, during the message, Janet and Matt and I will introduce ourselves a little more to you, but I'm going to tell you one fact that I'm not sure many people don't know about me. I was a student here in 1967-68 at the College of Steubenville. And Father Mike used to tell me, he said, if you spend one year at Harvard, everybody goes around and says, I'm an alumni of Harvard. And he said, you should be saying you're an alumni of Franciscan. So today is the first time. I'm an alumni of Franciscan University and proud of it. So I'm also very grateful to all of you who have responded to the Lord, to the call to the priesthood, the deaconate, and the seminarians that are responding to the call of the Lord. I know in my life, there's always been a priest there at the significant times, at those moments of greatest need, greatest joy. There's been a priest bringing the presence of the Lord, bringing the wisdom and the counsel and that fatherly presence. And so I just feel just such a great privilege and honor to be able to speak to you. And as I said, if we can give something even small to you, I'm sure it's going to affect multitudes. Part of the Father Ministries really began in 1997 when I began to... So I prayed for people for healing and for deliverance for many years. But in 1997, we just got a few pieces of wisdom that put together a picture of how to minister to people in a powerful way, in a way that did not provoke or challenge or bring forth a response from demons, but set people free at a profound level. In 2003, my book, Unbound, A Practical God Deliverance, was published. It took several years after I wrote it because I was unknown to actually get it published. And since then, it's traveled around the world. It's been translated into 15 different languages and there's a few more on the way. And we've been producing the training materials and we're just getting to that point where we feel like we can say to people like yourself, we've just about got everything you need to be able to establish an unbound ministry team in your parish. And Matt's going to share a little bit more about that in the coming days. So our message is a simple message in a certain way, but it's profound because it really touches the human heart. But everything we speak about this week will revolve around what we call five keys. And they are repentance and faith, forgiveness, renunciation, authority, and the Father's blessing. And we're going to want to help you to put them together because they feed off one another. You might know four of the keys and just get one key fresh and it might just change everything for you. Using the unbound model has helped people around the world to unlock people's hearts. We have friends that are in Japan right now. And they were told when they went and started going to Japan on a mission strip three years ago, they were told, oh, the Japanese, they don't share anything. They're kind of closed. They're really personal. And after hearing the message, they're lining up for a ministry session. They're lining up ready to share some of the deep things of their heart that they've never told anybody before. And so unbound is called a practical guide to deliverance. It means that it really gives you practical tools on how to help somebody respond. You're going to have a lot of opportunities this week to grow closer to the Lord. We're going to celebrate the Eucharist together. There's going to be holy hours. There's going to be time for personal prayer unless you nap throughout that time. There's also going to be time for the sacrament of reconciliation. And we hope you take advantage of every aspect of this retreat. One more aspect of our team is going to show up on Wednesday evening. And we have 20 leaders from four different states, 20 leaders of Unbound Ministry showing up from four different states to be available to you if you want to sign up for a session. We're going to explain that more tomorrow, but that can, for some of you, can be a real significant turning point. And so as you're listening to our message about the five keys and you're hearing the story, just be aware, is God tapping me on the heart? Is he urging me? Is he moving me to take advantage of these teams that have, and thank you, Franciscan University, for hosting them, but they're all paying their own way to get here. And so they will be here for you on Wednesday night and throughout the day on Thursday.  So if someone wants just brief ministry with them, you'll have that opportunity as well as have an opportunity with the Franciscan teams to pray for you for healing and anointing. So tonight what I would like to do is I would like to speak about Unbound and the power of the gospel. It's mostly about the power of the gospel, but I want you to understand that Unbound Ministry, whatever you might associate with it, is really an expression of the power of the gospel. And so we have been able to bring this message far beyond charismatic events, far beyond, we've been able to bring it to bishops and priests and many different countries, and they've been able to receive it because they understand the power of the gospel even if they distance themselves from the power of the Holy Spirit. It's kind of a sneaky thing. It kind of gets at them in a sneaky way. Don't tell them I said that. We make a statement at every Freedom in Christ conference that Unbound Ministry, we make no promise that Unbound Ministry will help everyone with their specific impairment, but we have confidence in the power of the gospel to help everyone in need. The gospel is the answer to the deepest questions of the heart. So I'm going to read one testimony to you just to get a picture, and I like this testimony because of the way she used the words, the way she expressed it. It was actually someone after conference she came to me for ministry, and when she left she looked a little bewildered, and so I said, Rachel, would you call her and make sure she's sorting this through? Because something deep happened, but I don't know if her mind could catch up to it, and this is what she wrote. Many years ago, I always saw myself as average, that all took a turn for the worst between the sexual abuse I endured, many surgeries, and infertility issues. I felt like a monster until the Unbound Conference. I never felt more beautiful. In fact, I never felt more beautiful in all my life. The issues that came up were healed. I no longer cry or feel terribly sad when I think about them. They've gone from subjective to objective. I know they were there. I remember. I see those as part of my past, but I have not attached to them anymore. It was a huge release. I really did not know what I was supposed to feel. That's what I was watching. But as I drove home and digested everything, I realized it was just gone, and the weight of the emotional ties I wrapped around my heart were gone. I felt physically lighter. It was amazing. We hear stories like that all the time. Matter of fact, it was one time I gave his presentations to his priests, his priests, and a couple weeks later, he wrote me an email and said, since the conference, there's miracles happening in my parish. I quickly wrote him back and said, I called him up. I said, could you tell me about the miracles? He said, well, I can't, because they're all happening in confession. We're going to be teaching you the long way to be able to interview and to train laypeople to participate in this ministry, but we want you to understand that the principles can be applied and integrated in the way that you hear confession, and maybe Father Boniface will share a little bit about that. We see unbound ministry as assisting people to access the power of the gospel. We see unbound as evangelization, and the freedom that comes is part of our ongoing sanctification that the Lord desires for us all. So I just want to put it in a context so that you understand it and don't label it simply as a deliverance ministry associated with other words associated with deliverance. As you know, the gospel means good news, or it's translated glad tidings. In Luke chapter two, it says, but the angel said to them, do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David, a savior has been born to you. He is the Messiah, the Lord. The savior will cause great joy to all who receive him. We carry a message about a savior, and that savior is able to save us from whatever oppresses us, whatever binds us. And when we receive the savior into those areas of darkness, it causes great, great joy. Pope Francis wrote about the joy of the gospel, and he challenges us. The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept his offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. Now when I read that, I felt challenged. Sometimes we proclaim the joy of the savior. We proclaim salvation, and we invite them to a life in the spirit seminar. We invite them to something, to encounter the Lord, which is awesome. But here Pope Francis is proclaiming that the savior doesn't only save you from sin, but the effects of sin and sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. It's a powerful proclamation of what's available to us in the gospel. The gospel has power, and whether we're accessing that power through the unbound model or any other means, there's a pattern. There's a pattern that we need to understand, because if we miss something of the pattern, we might miss the effectiveness of the gospel. The first thing to know is we carry the good news of salvation within us. We proclaim it by the power of the spirit, and we assist people in making a response, which will help them to accept and surrender to the power of God's love that saved them in Jesus Christ. So there's a pattern, and as I go through this, I want you to try to catch us there. Part of that, that maybe you can grow in, because that will open the door for you to understand unbound ministry in a new way. Pope Francis spoke about the object of our sharing the gospel. He spoke about the goal being a new heart, a changed mind that leads to a changed life, and so when we're ministering to people, that's what we're looking for. We're looking for a changed life, a new heart. And so he writes or spoke, there have been so many revolutionaries in history, many indeed, yet none of them have had the force of this revolution, which brought Jesus to us. A revolution to transform history, a revolution that changes the human heart in depth. The revolution of history, of history, the revolutions of history have changed political and economic systems, but none have really changed the human heart. True revolution, the revolution that radically transforms life was brought about by Jesus Christ through his resurrection. Moreover, Benedict the 16th said this revolution is the greatest mutation in the history of humanity. And further on it says, in this day and age, unless Christians are revolutionaries, they're not Christians. They must be revolutionaries through grace. Grace itself, which the Father gives us through the crucified, dead, and risen Jesus Christ, makes us revolutionaries. Because once again, as Benedict the 16th said, he is the greatest mutation in history of humanity because he changes the heart. As Ezekiel said, I will take out of you, I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you the heart of flesh. So for some of you this week, you have an appointment with the surgeon. He wants to take out that stony part of your heart. And so we've done like six of these five-day retreats for priests, and I've discovered that there are those that have never really even yielded their heart to Jesus. They've been really good at serving the Lord and dedicated their life to Jesus, but there's something of their heart that was withheld. And I imagine there's some here that either, I prayed with one priest, he said, I said, did you ever have an encounter with Jesus? He just really knew, he loved you. And he said, yeah, when I went to Franciscan University, I had that encounter. And what happened since then? It's just been a distant memory. He's living off of it for so long, but Jesus wants you to encounter him again, and he wants you to go away with that sense of a living power of the gospel, with great hope and expectancy that you're going to have opportunities to see people's hearts change in a regular way or in a more impactful way than you've seen recently. Power of the gospel is the love of God. There's no greater power than the power of the love of God flowing from the heart of Jesus. In Romans 5-5 it says, and hope does not disappoint us or put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. And we're warned, we're warned in the scripture not to complicate the gospel. If you do, it's going to be detached, it's going to lose its power. And for some of us it's like going back to the beginning and being renewed and really believing in the power of the message that we proclaim. 1 Corinthians 1-17 says, For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, not with elegant wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. You know the core of the gospel is the krigma, and the apostle Paul understood the importance of the core of the gospel. He says in 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 1 and 2, When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom, for I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Some of us need to go back, go back to the core, to the center. I'd like to share with you three aspects of the gospel. That's the foundation for unbound ministry and for any other ministry as well. The first is the gospel is a gift. So what do we need? We need more faith. The second is it must be proclaimed, so we need more anointing. And the third is a response is required. So what do we need? We need to understand the human heart at a deeper level so we can help people make a response from the depths. The good news of salvation has been initiated by God. Romans 5-8 is one of my favorite scriptures to remember, but God demonstrates His own love for us in this. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus loved us while we were separated from Him. Sometimes we don't act like we believe that. We sin, we mess up, we fail, embarrass ourselves, we fall again, we fall into darkness and disillusionment and bitterness, and we're in that dark place. And more than a couple of you are, you know, it's likely that more than a couple of you have been in the past or presently struggling with bondage to pornography or something else. And you know, and we distance ourselves from God and we think God is that judge and He's kind of crossing His arms and He's just looking at us and maybe disdain or some other way that we project upon Him something other than His true character. But the truth is, in your very darkness and in what you are facing and what you are struggling with, the Father is saying, here is my Son, right now in this darkness, in this moment my Son died for you, that you could be saved, that you could be free, that you could be redeemed. It doesn't belong to you anymore. Your sin, as you confess it, doesn't belong to you anymore. I found that many times when we minister at these priest retreats, there's something about the tragedies of the past that are still subjective and still reigning and still present, not transformed like that lady shared with me from something that's subjective and painful to something that is now objective. God wants to take the sting away. He wants to take the stain of sin, the oppression that comes with sin, the deception, the twisting of the image of God that comes with it. He wants to take that away and restore us. The second aspect of the Gospel is that it needs to be proclaimed. Disciples were sent to preach, to testify, to make disciples, and so too we have been given this ministry of reconciliation. I'm just going to read a couple of scriptures real quick, but I want you to just notice what I emphasize as I read it. In Mark 16, 20, it says, then the disciples went out and preached everywhere and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by signs that accompanied it. They went out and preached.  The Lord is working with you. It's not up to you alone. Matthew 28, 18. We take great comfort out of the scripture that says, I will be with you always, even to the end of the age, but listen to the context. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Holy Spirit and teach them to obey everything I've commanded you. And surely I'm with you to the end of the age. I'm always with you. The prime place without spoken is when you go and when you preach, when you're making disciples, he is with you to do it. We do our part. He changes the heart. The third aspect of the gospel is the response. So we have the gift, needs to be proclaimed, and there needs to be a response. Unbound is specifically designed to help people make a personal response to the gospel and encounter the Lord in deep places in their hearts. And Acts chapter two, verse 37, when the people heard the proclamation of the gospel by Peter, it says they were cut to their hearts and said to Peter and the other apostles, brothers, what shall we do? They were cut to the heart with the proclamation. They were cut to the heart and wanted to change, wanted to know what to do. God wants to release faith. I'm a kind of simple thinker, and I need things to be simple. So I've often wondered, people said, well, you've come to faith, you know, you love, live the faith, you're in the faith, and people keep talking about the faith. And sometimes I wondered, well, what exactly does it mean? Or Lord, could you give me a simple way of understanding faith so that I could translate it? And this is what I think he gave me, which I might have got from somebody else. I don't know. It's simply faith is our grace filled response to the revelation of God. Faith is our grace filled response to revelation. The response of the heart, people can hear the gospel for 60 years and never be helped to make a response. And that's what we're focused on doing in Unbounded Ministry. We want to create an atmosphere of love and acceptance where people are safe to expose the darkness and respond to his saving power. So at all of the conferences that we do, and I'm going to speak about the first key tomorrow, which is repentance and faith, but we've learned how important it is to help people to make a personal and verbal expression of what's in their heart. Now if you've been doing life in the spirit seminars or discovering Christ or various Alpha or various evangelism programs, you know how important it is for people to profess what the message is that they've received, that they make a verbal response. But we've learned that it's really helpful to stand with people all the time and to help them pray that prayer of surrender. And God uses it to transform their hearts in light of whatever issue is right there right now. Romans chapter 10 verse 8 and 9 it says the word is near you on your lips and in your heart because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised them from the dead, you will be saved. Your will is so extremely important. God will not violate your will. People actually get in trouble with with the demonic and for issues of bondage because of of the expression of their will. And we need to help people give expression to their will in response to the good news. And it's really clear to me through all my years of experience that speaking with the lips unlocks the heart and opens people to respond. When people come to us for unbound ministry, we know that they're not coming for pity. They're not coming to be hugged, to have their hands held. If they understand what unbound ministry is about, they're coming to be set free. And what they need is my faith. They need your faith. They need to believe in the Savior that delivers them from loneliness and inner emptiness and the bondage that they're facing at this present time. So what I'm doing in this message so far is I just want you to understand the temptation, you know, unbound is called the practical guide to deliverance. Some people get hung up on their word deliverance because they have associations with it. Matter of fact, the first talk we give at every conference is deliverance is a good word and because it needs to be recovered because our greatest deliverance was in our baptism. We were delivered from the kingdom of darkness and brought into the kingdom of the beloved Son through baptism and we experience it by faith. Deliverance is a good word. What I'd like to do in the next few minutes is just share with you a little bit about how evil spirits influence us. There's a lot of many of you. Maybe many of you might be exorcists and there might be a number of you that have been in deliverance ministry for many, many years and I'm so grateful to your labor of love and how you're ministering to the people of God. What the Lord has entrusted us with is a non-confrontational approach to deliverance meaning that we're doing nothing to provoke evil spirits or confront evil spirits what we're interested in doing is ministering to people's hearts and helping them to understand how evil spirits affect us, influence us, and seek to gain, to bring us into bondage. So a lot of times when people hear the word deliverance they think about the devil and one of the things that we want to do is to transform that so that people start thinking about deliverance as freedom. I have been delivered, I've been transferred into the kingdom of the beloved Son. Jesus when he cast out demons on one occasion it says the spirits went out and wandered around looking for a place to rest and then they came back and they found an empty place and they brought some of their friends and they rested there. The most interesting thing about that passage to me is they were looking for a place to rest. Where do you rest? I rest in places that are familiar to me like my home or I rest in places that are beautiful. Nature like the ocean or in the forest it gives rest to my soul. Where do demons look to rest? They want to rest in places that are familiar to them, places that are like them, sin, darkness, rebellion, lies, deception, the things that we carry around in our heart. They want to gain influence and then they want to twist it and they want to gain, they want to enslave us and to bring us under a level of bondage. This is the most helpful quote from Saint John Paul II says, the wisdom of Christ makes you capable of pushing on to discover the deepest source of evil existing in the world and it stirs us to proclaim to all men the truth that we have learned from the Master's lips and he's referring to Mark 721 that evil comes from within people from their hearts so the root of evil is within man. The remedy therefore must also begin in the heart and it is precisely here that our Lord wishes to lead us. So the shift that some folks have to make in applying unbound ministry or to learning unbound ministry is that we're focused not on evil spirits but we're focused on people's hearts. As you know evil spirits are intellect and will. They're fallen angels, they don't have bodies, they go where they focus their thoughts, they focus their thoughts on darkness that is what that's what's familiar to them. To go means they carry their presence and through carrying their presence they want to affect our emotions and our imaginations and they want to find an entryway into our thinking so that their presence can attach to something we're holding, some lie that we're holding, some deception that's been planted in us from the beginning like there's something wrong with me or it's all my fault or I'm responsible for everything or I don't belong anywhere. We just grabbed on to some thought along the way and the truth of the gospel as you've learned it has been coming up against it but its power hasn't been broken and God wants to break the power of that lie that we carry and you're going to hear in Matt and Janet's story and my story that for years as believers we carried something that the Lord I know is coming up against but until we could name it identify it and make an act of the will and take back the territory we were still affected by it. See we welcome or reject the enemy's presence based upon what is in our hearts how our character is formed. If you're formed in virtue and the enemy brings a thought to you a pornographic thought you might just oh that's disgusting what no part of that if you're not formed in virtue and that same thought were to come to you you might go huh see it's what's in your heart is going to reveal how you respond to the enemy's temptation and so when he has an opening in our hearts his presence gets entangled in our thoughts and our emotions and the design of the enemy is to enslave us to bring us into bondage so it says in the scripture is anyone who sins goes on sinning becomes a slave what happens we start to think about sin in the wrong way so that's just a small thing or that's something I need we rationalize it and we start to come under that that deception that surrounds that sin and we may confess it because we know it's wrong but our thinking about it hasn't changed and it's our thinking about it that needs to be confronted and challenged so that the forgiveness we receive in the sacrament that transforms us so the enemy's design is is that we move from a problem with our flesh to a problem that has become spiritually empowered demonically empowered so sometimes people think this is abnormal or this is you deliverance is is like over there it's in the back room if you believe in angels and demons then you believe that angels influence us and they they present things to our imaginations that come from God and and you believe that the favor of God they carry the favor of God to us and and demons do the opposite it's just normal so and I think the enemy wants to make us to think you know this is something special something different something big something you know that we need an exorcist for just a normal christian life we believe in angels and demons don't we so what I want to say as we begin is that if we're driving out spirits we need to deal with people's hearts if they're going to remain in freedom you can in the as the authority of your ordination and the authority as a child of God you can drive out spirits with a word but unless the person's heart is changed it's just going to return so to conclude I just want to say I want to read from Romans chapter 1 verse 16 for I'm not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes tomorrow I'm going to I'm going to lead you in a prayer of surrender after I do the first key and but let me give you a homework assignment tonight I want you to think about the Savior I want you to ask the Lord you know for me I go through seasons in my life and my journey with the Lord sometimes it's you know I wrote a book on on the obvious heart my son and I wrote it and it just was captivated by being by Jesus as the Son and there's other times especially when I began years ago as baptized in the spirit Jesus is Lord Jesus is Lord Jesus is Lord I mean I spent years it's not that I forgot the rest but there's a shifting that goes on in our journey as we go deeper with the Lord and and there's been times that at Christmas when we're reading the about the birth of Jesus that says a Savior has been born I've just wept I've wept just tears come to my eyes where I mask because it was the Holy Spirit just penetrating me with the awareness of him as my Savior and as the Savior and the mercy of God in sending a Savior so would you stand for a moment and I'm just gonna pray I'm gonna pray in the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit and Lord I Lord I want to ask you I want to ask you but you know where each man here is at today and for some you're gonna be leading them to Jesus the Son and some Jesus is Lord but I want to I want to ask you for all of us and especially for those you're tapping on their shoulder tonight is I ask you Jesus to reveal yourself as a Savior make yourself known to them a Savior and just imagine that there's parts of your heart frustrating parts where maybe you've confessed the same sin over and over again maybe it's just a thorn in your flesh that just never goes away and and the Lord just wants you to know he knows your name and he wants you to know that he is your Savior and this power available to you to the simplicity of the gospel and Jesus we glorify you and Father we honor you through your Son amen


We've been talking quite a bit as so many have about a lawsuit, a class action lawsuit, if you will, against Buffalo Wild Wings for allegedly having boneless wings that are not supposed to be boneless. But is there any merit to this? Let's bring in local patent attorney, John Rizvi, joining us live. Hey, John, good morning. How are you? Yeah, good. Good. Always a pleasure to be here. We're glad you are. So I actually have two suits in mind that I want to talk to you about, but let's see how we do on time. Let's start with this one. So this Buffalo Wild Wings lawsuit, you're the lawyer, set it up for us for folks who may not be aware, then let us know what you're thinking about the legitimacy of this. Yeah. So under the Lanham Act, there's liability for false advertising. So basically you claim a product is either source produced or endorsed by a party that had no involvement. So that's the basis of this lawsuit is that the Buffalo Wild Wings sells boneless chicken wings, and the meat does not come from the wing of the chicken. It comes from the chicken breast. And the class action lawsuit is claiming that that's misleading. And the harm is that the consumers are claiming they would have paid less had they known that it was breast meat and not wing meat. I mean, what's reality? Does, I mean, is there, that's going to say are there legs here, but I probably don't want to say that. So is there any merit to this? So it's going to come down to what the reasonably the consumer of average intelligence, education and knowledge, what they believe. And there's, there's other examples, like, for example, like a hot dog.  A hamburger, it's known it's not ham French fries are, are, you know, are American and they're not they're not from imported from France. And that's the worry. And the question is, does this fall in the same category, like, do consumers know that boneless chicken wings are not wing meat? And this particular plaintiff argues that it's that it's false advertising that he would have ordered chicken nuggets. And essentially that the chain is profiting by calling the boneless chicken wings when they're actually essentially chicken nuggets, dipped in sauce, and that's that's the crux of the argument. John, if you were on this case, if you were the lawyer on this case, which side would you want to be on? I would not want to be the plaintiff in this case. I mean, clearly, there's a tweet by Buffalo Wildlings that it's, you know, the public and the court of public opinion is certainly on the side of the restaurant chain. And that's why the chain put out a tweet saying it's true. Our boneless wings are all white chicken meat. Our hamburgers contain no ham. And our Buffalo wings are 0% Buffalo. So it's kind of a tongue-in-cheek, a humorous tweet that they put out a little bit risky because there's clearly admissions in that I don't know if as a lawyer, I would advise a client to be publicly tweeting something like this. It comes across as really arrogant and cocky as if the plaintiff had like no case as if it's a frivolous lawsuit. But the reality is from a PR standpoint, that's probably how most people view this as a frivolous lawsuit. And if that's the case, that means most consumers know that boneless chicken wings are not really wing meat. They hope it's chicken meat, but they don't necessarily think it's wing meat. And if most consumers already know that, then it's got a really low chance of this case going anywhere. Yeah. And that's kind of what I was thinking. It's interesting that you mentioned the tweet thing because I was thinking to myself as a non-lawyer, this was either very, very lawyered or a very, very big risk by whatever PR person put out that tweet because that seemed to be real questionable. The other one that I loved is somebody had put out that a Chick-fil-A, the waffle fries are not made out of waffle batter and nobody thinks that they are. So all right, we'll see how this one plays out. John, always a pleasure. We'll talk to you again soon. That's local patent attorney, Coral Springs, John Rizvi joining us live.


Hey, what's good? Welcome back to Don't Flop Leads. We are one week away from the 7th birthday of Don't Flop. We had to come back to Leads as our birthdays in London.  Make some noise! We have to peace soldiers, shout out to all my Leads crew in the building. We had to bring it back to Leads, they're always supporting. We are at the acapella rap battle, main event of this Leads event. We didn't even give it a name, we're just coming and reviving the Leads team.  MC on my right hand side, straight into the battle.  Absolute killer on my left hand side, Harry Baker, make some noise! Are we not all... All right, cool, final acapella battle of this revival, number 3 event in Leads. Shout out to everybody in Leads show and love. It's all my man Matt, round number 1, let's go. I will. Skivity Bob. Skivity Bob, Bob, Bob. How many poets does it take to change a light bulb? Four. One to change a light bulb, and three to make it seem a lot more complicated than it actually is. Skivity Bob, Bob, Bob. You know what rhymes with Harry Baker? Massive Faker. What? Massive Faker? All right, Harry Baker is a massive faker. Spars. You have a swag that says I did my dissertation on battle rap.  But you can hear that. That's exactly what I'm mad at. See, I know in these rap battles, the art of raping's on its closing scene. I've seen the scene cut from its roots and tried to branch out with the poetry.  I don't care how many Radio 4 co-signs Harry's riding. I don't care how much hype you've got for poems about manly crying. See, Matt is writing, represents humanity's last horizon. The way I'm consuming tiny humans, you can't attack the titan. And if you're the last surviving, I've got to paralyze him. First probe punches and I'm not talking about battle rhyming. Yo, you'd have a better chance of asking Trident for a gank consignment. Agonising. Yo, agonising torture won't make the news. I brought the gag for silence. See, this battleship ain't getting him any higher. And position is important when defending enemy fire. Get out of place. There'll be many medics required. I harass the poet. That's Benjamin Zephaniah. Jesus. Jesus.  Boy, I'm too ill to quit. Yo, I first stole my hood pass. But yo, P, am I still legit? Yo, 100%.  Yo, I'll catch Harry walking home from a non-gender-specific poetry reading on a dark night. Run upon him and split his... Live, win or play. Live, win or play. Yo, run upon him and split his opinions like Marmite. Leave him separated like citizens in apartheid. I call my gun Sally. Cos when Harry met Sally, we saw sparks fly. I'll pull up and get the long nose out of the back homey. That's archaic.  It's out of the dark ages. Got reinforcements creeping forward in their cars waiting. Soon you'll see more beams than an Amish family barn raising. You can't blend into the background. Try running. I'll give you backgrounds. Miss first time I'm swinging background. Paying pictures with a pipe like Gandalf. Boy, I bet in school your best friends were the teachers. I'm cold-blooded. Definitely. I'm cold-blooded. Must be why I'm always next to the heater. Remember when... Remember when Osh told you he had the Colombian round hair like Carlos Valdorama? Yeah, big bar. And you were thinking, could it get any deeper? But he answers yes. Cos my Colombian got a crazy kick like the legendary keeper Renny Higuita. People had him catching the dub. I'm like, what a joke, me? I'll butcher bacon just to rock the boat.  You ain't fooling anyone. Only Harry that runs with animals is Henderson. Two bar combos even battered in days that'll push Harry around like shacking the paint. Boy, you know that one, don't you? Yo, you strike me as the snitch on the guy growing weed next door tight. You used your real name to battle. That's how I know that you're the fall guy. See, we all use aliases cos we're on the run from the law, right? Yeah? Boy, for standing by your government, you getting stuck with some war crimes. Slogan. First off, I need to address Jay Dillon calling me out. If you don't believe it, I heard it straight from the horse's mouth. See, I figured it's a birthday, right? Week away.   So if we're talking wrapping presents, you don't know the half of it. And you said that my poetry readings are non-gender persistent, there. You said my poetry readings are non-gender specific. That's not true, cos I get plenty of bitches.  I'm a monstrosity. Ain't pushin' mixtapes, I am shottin' anthologies. And even Andrew Weber hasn't ever seen a castle clever, no one rappin' better, I'm the magical Mr. Mostofferly. In Judge Battles, I'd get 5 O's like proto-zoology. Honestly, your head looks like a golf ball on its teeth. Honestly, when did Abe get lost on his odyssey? Do you look like a default character on the Wii? On the Wii, the wanted to be on Wii, but was succumbed to on Wii and he realised his whole life that he'd be playing tennis on repeat. Unevolved glue means his head retains that odish gleam.  A turtle? An owl, I mean a turtle. I mean I saw it see you as tortoisey, turtley, you're some combination of the two, I'm not turtley short. But that does explain his horrible tone. And why he'll never mark the set. My man is literally flowing with a permanent turtle head. And you can't beat poets just by rocking a turtle neck. See, I heard you and Luna met on the internet. On the forum exchanging neck tips. He invited you back to his to chill and watch Netflix. Nectar. Nexpert.  I still know you got boys in Bradford, right? Place the news would have to terrapin'd. Slow it down as a matter of his boys are terrapins. But I respect that turtle life, man. I'm about it as well. My last few battles I've been slowly coming out of my shell. And I've got great things ahead of me. Gone overseas to rep the league. It's Destiny, I won a Bagnell's favourite man on 23. You look like how I felt when I was 17. And ever since it's got confirmed, and I've seen geeky motherfuckers, I've thought he could be a brother, he could be a brother, he could be a brother, she could be a mother. And if you want something to do this next round when you get bored with his lyrics, Google Robin Hood Toby Turtle and tell me your aintless bitten image. Yo, it's round two. About to give this clown hell. He called me a turtle. Generic gunline about shells. Spoken word. No punchline. Already heads are dropping from boredom. Well not me. I think spoken word is proper important. I use spoken word to order a coffee this morning. Shit. Now you're the type of guy that rates biggie, but got a couple problems with him. He's like I think they'd like him more if he turned down all that pop the biscuit if he was a teeny little bit less misogynistic. Pussy. Your fan base is Christian youth workers. They're blunt like that, that's your bar, I stole it and got a laugh. There's not a con like that. I heard you joined Lightwork. No? Well still, that is heavy dawn, because that is shaping up to be one deadly squad. You've got Harry, Danny Jack, Heretic, some other guys repping strong. When they meet up they don't drink chardonnay but they've always got the Semi on. But if I get work off like working this light I'm letting the Semi off.  That doesn't work in a Leeds accent but I still said it. What? You've got a face like a 70s vagina. That's an angry beaver. Two, two, put him on his toes, that's a ballerina. Balled up with a pipe like a zappatista. If I can find space to trap I'm flipping like cabin fever. Boy you've got teeth like a rodent. So you better tremble before the mighty owl. Before I grip the arm with the glove on. Kinda like an owl. Swooping through the skies on the nightly prowl. See food and let my talent show without Simon Cowell. It's like what has this man started? Having run out of the room like his nan farted. Boy, see these are Robby's memories.  See my two front teeth, here, respect each other's space. Yours look like they're trying to start a turf war.  Your teeth pointing more directions than a sat nav. And I commiserate. Well, lucky for you, I brought the gas and drill today. Ninja blade, send this head and body in different ways. Body left in a tub of acid to dissin, a great head left in sync to get bigger like Timberlake. Yo, multi-syllabic rhyme patterns. That's the flavour. Well, if that's the case, then Harry Baker or Speedway passed him like it's Talladega. Twin Latin forties get to dancing like the Macarena. Leave him a ghost writer like Frankie Fraser. See each line handcrafted by a master tailor. Nah, I put a bomb on each bar like I'm tanking Yeager. Yo. Yo, 40 years from now, I'll finally be recognised for my vast intellect. They'll say I'm one of the illest ever to do it. People queuing up to give respect.  They dragged out the darkest corners of the internet.  And you'll be but a footnote in my illustrious rise to be a king of men. And they'll build a statue in my honour like Bill and Ted.  Alright, let's go and make some noise, let's go.  That was so dumb.   Let's go Harry. See it's Harry Baker versus Matta. Lion's haircut, that's the main event. They said go in and get Matta in his home town. I hope that you ain't placing bets. I said I came here to do two things. Win a rap battle and pay my rent. And I've already, when I just moved back with my parents we've not had that conversation yet. See last year I battled ocean leads. Didn't go how I'd hoped in leads. So I told myself I'd make a list of do's and don'ts in leads. Do-do jokes in leads. I've seen this do-do, do-do jokes in leads.  Proceeded to rhyme that with I heard your mum turn blue and pooed in a onesie. It's poetry mum. Imagine it. He really captured the zeitgeist of the time by using the onesie. And we think Mark also happened to say poo because it's funny.  I heard that from a mate at the hostel. So you can look me in the eyes and say that it's not true but the way Matta Mark looks on the John at Take It As Gospel. Don't get carried away in the third with whirply and get a little too sciency at the end. Going up against somebody called Matta there's no way I'm doing that again. Do-do flows in leads. I've seen this do-do, do-do flows in leads. Why? When you start rapping do you go like this?  The guy you were trying to be. Who lives in a pineapple under the tree. From SpongeBob that's how I know this square. Pants. Of course he try and make SpongeBob work for him when this turd looks like Squidward. SpongeBob bars. I just didn't know that you were taking this far. You've been a sponge your whole career by being mates with a star. Do-do flows in leads. But if you really want to be lacked in leads get hyped in leads. It seems like you have to do grime in leads. So now I'm in leads. Don't do it. It's got a tense, hasn't it? What?  Now I don't condone violence or necessarily cosign this but I thought it would be funny to ask Pedro to ghost write this. So. Silence. No one will come by holding the crowbar. Go for the blunt knife, go for the bow gun. My man will get jumped like I drove in a gold cart. Might get punched till I've broken my own arms. Using the knife stick it right in your armpit. Moving your wife put her right in a basket.  You've got to lose your life on the side of your glasses. What? Pedro channels. And I've got more Pedro written than the Pedro battle. I'd like to apologise to the grime scene as well as the part. Time. Alright.  And let me tell you why. Pay close attention and try to absorb every line. See all the best poets in history, alcoholics and drug addicts. And I don't think it either. You'd have the same reaction to a single sheet or as a hand kid has been dipped in ether. You, you haven't got the commitment for addiction.  Listen. Let's go. You ain't hard on Dalkey like Charles Bacowski. The only time you're splitting that white is eating half a bounty.  See, I saw the best... Had a drinking problem. Yo, I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed. Staring at empty bottles facing the void. The best minds in your circle got generous funding, centre discussions and seminars, company credit card hell of a budget. You never faced no pressure for nothing. Daddy kept the kid loaded. How's that old saying go? Come on, all you pricks know it.  See poetry is supposed to feel like you almost died with your life flashing before your eyes, but yours is like a morning drive in the countryside under urban skies.  You write poems for couples that give each other pedicures or guys that use a beard as a substitute for a set of bowls.  You never met a force that made you redirect your course. You just make up numbers on set. That's what we need these extras for. See, Earl looks at you and sees that pseudo-intellectual money, that guardian money, that Edinburgh festival money. And it was you thinking you was the bestest of buddies. Sad fact, your boy Rowan's just following the pound sign like a hashtag. Yo, in this ring here, the gods reside. Tales of war to be heard through the ages, but what you posh poets bring into the table. You are even reserved any spaces. It's time to pop up shop, shop, shop on a permanent basis.    They're like...  Matt is stuck in a head-trip. He's flogging a dead horse.  Yo! A good part about pressure. I need to see my life flash before my eyes.  I'll give you that one. I said it's owl joke time!  You have irritable owl syndrome. The love child of the bird man in Al Capone. See, I was going to leave this owl alone, but this is where it gets big for you. I hear he likes to chat out birds on Twitter. Matta likes to tweet to Wu.  If only they could see the truth. You ain't got barns like that. All that looks like a turtle, bruv. Your barns type whack. And women are not mice. There's something that you can't quite catch. Because you don't get no Tinder matches. Y'all just don't think he is attractive. Bio says he's sick of rapping because he thinks that this has traction now. It's a little tragic if you see this kid in action. His idea of witty banter.  Has to beg to dip their stands and says that he'll pay if he has to. Notice that there is a pattern. Realize on that pity factor. Now it's got me thinking back to solid gas, liquid plasma. If he wanna force dates, that's just how it is with Matta. See, unlike your previous opponents, I actually like science. You tell girls I'm called Matta and it's actually like science. So if I say you're Dark Matta, that's a bit of a pre-tention.  I think we all know Matta consists of particles. So if his phone rings and he claims that the particles, we know that his evening consists of particles. Because you called your album Greasy Spoon Rendezvous. That sounds like a cuddle after he's just used lots of lube. But let's talk about your music. I mean it ain't exactly passionate.  Maybe it's the creativity that lacks in it. Maybe it's that you can't differentiate the tracks in it. But if there's any scrutiny to which we subject Matta, you release very quickly. There's no subject matter in battles.   But you are funny in your doubles matches. You're great when you're one of two rappers. I just think this work, he needs a hand solo. That's too back up. And I had a whole set. And you had the audacity to mock youth for his attempts at changing the system.   And a whole bit about this, but you did the Jeremy Corbyn thing. So let's just kill it. Oh, sorry, Mum. It's fine. No, you were a good human. So undermine my bits and you weren't a good human. I'm trying. I'm just going to have to throw the towel.


Hey guys Tashi here from start of school crochet. This week's stitch is actually a flower motif So I thought it'd be fun to do something different this week since it's summertime So this flower motif is really easy. It looks like it might be a little difficult, but it's actually pretty simple so I'm using a four millimeter hook and I'm using a three weight yarn, which is a DK It's called ship ship as and I never pronounce that properly, but I'll put those links down below for you And I'll also put it in the blog post.  So let's undo this and then I'll show you again So use your middle and index finger use your thumb To position it between your middle finger then kind of cross it around hold it with your ring finger grab the yarn twist it around and then grab The loose piece and Pull it through It's an easy way to make a magic circle then untwist your tail and kind of get it like that So we're going to work a Standing or a starting double crochet. I'm new to this. I've never really done it before so pull up a loop Then you're going to hold the loop and then twist it around grab your free yarn yarn over and pull through one loop and It's a little tricky. I used Mowgli's blog to learn how to do this then you yarn over and pull through two So I'll put that link in the blog post as well. So you can see how Mowgli does it, which is a lot Classier than what I just did so situate your tail and Your magic circle and then we're going to work 15 double crochets into the magic circle actually a 15 total including the standing double crochet that you just did and I really like using magic circles. You don't have to use a magic circle. You can chain and Work into the chain After joining them. So go ahead and create those 15 Pause the video And we're back already See my little chain didn't my little thing didn't work so well right there So we're going to do a slip stitch, but we're going to join with our new color And I'm not sure if you're familiar with new color changes, but you just Lay your new color over your hook and then slip stitch it through And I found a knot in my yarn You can go ahead and cut your main color So here again, how you change colors insert your hook into the first stitch lay your new color over and Then slip stitch it back through And then pull everything tight So here we're going to work a series of single crochets And we need to get 32 The written pattern on the blog is slightly different than what I'm doing here So I would follow the written pattern on the blog. We're going to work in between the double crochets and You can see not through the top two loops, but in between them There's a little hole right there in between them. So we're going to do two single three three single crochets into the first space between the two double crochets And then you're going to work two double crochets I'm sorry two single crochets through the center of those two double crochets and you're going to work that around with Working another set of three single crochets Between the two we want to get up to 32 stitches. So we had 15 double crochets to start We would normally increase to and get up to 30, but we want to get to 32 So however you get there is up to you or you can follow the written pattern on the blog because I made it a Little more detailed than what I'm doing here. So once you get around make sure you have 32 stitches So go ahead and count them make sure and we're going to join the new color Using a petal color. So I used pink. You can use whatever color you'd like Go ahead and snip that color number two and I used shape-a's I'll never pronounce that right. Maybe I will I'm stonewashed and I think the color was 820 And I'll put all those colors in the blog like I said before so join the new color The same way we did it before you insert your hook into the first top two loops of the stitch Put your new color over your hook and then slip stitch it through and so here we're going to create a chain a chain five So we've got one two three four and five and then we're going to work a Double crochet four together. That's wrap your yarn around three times We're going to work into the back loop of the starting chain the base of the starting chain So find that little back loop back there It's kind of hide kind of hiding a little bit Insert your hook into the back loop yarn over and pull up a loop Then you should have five loops on your hook yarn over pull through to Yarn over and pull through to and then don't complete it all the way yarn over and pull through to so you'll have Two loops on your hook. We're going to repeat that into the next back loop So you're doing a double treble crochet But we're working them together. So we're going to work a total of four our starting chain Counts as a stitch in there. So we just kind of leave that as is We're going to work one more into the next two So you have quite a few loops on your hook. Just remember yarn over and pull through two You're an over pull through two. You're an over pull through two. So you do that three times So now we have four we need one more so we can make five posts and There you'll have your five posts and we're going to yarn over and pull through all of those And there's your first petal After that we chain nine so we've got one two three four five six seven eight and nine and We're going to work our first half of the double crochet or double treble five together into the same Space of the last stitch we just worked so you're going to work at the base and go through the back Yarn over and pull up and then yarn over pull through two three times one two and Three and then we work five of those working into the next stitch The back loop of the next stitch. So there we have two and this is creating a double treble five together Sounds like double treble I'm going a little bit slow here Okay, so this is something that's new to you. So there we have four we need one more Into the back loop and there we have our five so we're going to yarn over and pull through all the loops on the hook and Then again we chain nine and do a double treble five together. So you work your chain nine and you work that The same as you did the previous petal and we do that eight times total six seven and eight So when you get those complete come back So here I have my seven and I'm going to work the eighth one again these go pretty fast too once you get the hang of doing the Double treble five together. All right, so we've got one more Working into that last stitch then yarn over pull through all and We're going to chain nine one more time And then we're going to join into the top of the double treble four together from the beginning of the round and It's kind of my stitch is a little loose there, but that's good because you can actually see it So we're going to join our new color, which is the green. I used to kind of create Where it looks like a leaf go ahead and cut your color three and of course you don't have to change colors you can do it in solid and Slip stitch through and then we're going to work on our last round Pull all the little loose ends tight So our last round is basically single crochets, so we're going to chain one and Then we're going to work single crochet nine single crochets around and into the chain space the chain nine space and It's good to get good tension on these They can create little gaps, so if you want to make ten of them, so they're a little more solid This pattern is pretty forgiving and since it's the last round you can pretty much do what you want So there we have it, but you see there's a little space there. You can just kind of Slide those around until you Get rid of the little holes or again like I said you can always do another single crochet and Where we continue is we're going to skip the pedal and we're going to do nine single crochets into the Chain nine space and that's it So after this you continue around you skip the pedal and you work nine single crochets Around each of the chain nine space pretty simple, huh? I really love it and When you get finished come back You could see the difference between what it looks like when you block it and when it's not blocked So here I am mine looks a little messy Just go ahead and pull all those little tails and then you get to weave them in So here You can do a regular slip stitch join Into the first single crochet that we did or You can use a different method and it's an invisible join So go ahead and snip your yarn, and then I'll show you how to do an invisible join So the way I learned how to do this and I don't really know if I'm right, but I'll show you So you go ahead and you pull out Your yarn Then you take your hook and you insert it into the front from the front to the back into the first single crochet of your round Grab that that yarn Hook it over Pull it through and just slide it on out the front oops. I got snagged so just grab it pull it through and then Yank it on through the other side then go to the last single crochet you created Insert it from the back to the front through the back loop only Grab your yarn again and pull it through And that creates less of a knot and adds a little bit more flow to it and Then if you have any loose little ones like that just pull them tight a Lot of it helps when you block it Oops, excuse me to make it put it a little bit more together So the one on the left here is when I blocked the one on the right obviously is the one we just did you can see the Pedals bunched up a little bit, but blocking it really helps so Highly recommend blocking it and if you use this yarn, it dries super fast All right and see that little hole right there Well, I had a little bit of trouble with the shape is because it's it can snag a bit So when I tried to make it go tight and pull it real tight it snapped and That kind of oops that snapped it bumps me out, but it's okay No big deal All right, you guys thanks for watching and if you have any questions leave them down below Hit the like and subscribe button and head on over to the blog for the full written pattern Hope you guys have a great afternoon evening weekend and all that Happy crocheting


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I don't think they have a killing of a sacred deer I want killing of a sacred deer or a cure for wellness is only 1199. It's pretty good deal Let's see. Yeah, it looks like everyone else in here has him blocked.  I would if I had enough money Ooh, look at all these steel books Look at these steel books Time to buy this No, I Anything you guys have seen that I should pick up that you guys don't think I already have Okay movies a through the killing of a sacred deer. Let's find Really underrated movie from last year. I still want to see that Casablanca is one of the best films ever made Okay, trendy now I already got Dunkirk. I got that action for $10. Don't ever watch this one by the way Look at all these steel books Nice nice nice nice deal looks right here. Oh I didn't own what flash I would so buy that Yeah, guys, I don't think they have killing of a sacred Yeah, I Really wanted that film. Let's go pick up my copy of Thor Ragnarok I'll show you guys it off show it off in my car. I think that'd be pretty cool for you guys to see Yeah guys, this is this is a pretty entertaining time I love doing these like live streams of blu-ray hunting next weekend. I'm probably gonna do one on Today or Wednesday whenever I get off work It's a sign off the party K. Yeah Mac you buy baby driver me. You know what? I Want to do more giveaways and I most likely will eventually Want to Other things happen at work. I do pirates of the Caribbean three or five I own every part of the Caribbean I gotta love the Pirates of the Caribbean series. I know a lot of people do not all right guys Just give me one second. I'm gonna walk up soon Make sure you guys you give me some questions in the chat if you want me to answer any have seen snow piercer That's a really good movie My day is going good Yeah, I'm playing with the things right here pretty cool Oh I'm just taking up something. I know you're fine. No, no, I believe it. I work at CJ Matt I'm picking up Thor Ragnar on Really? It's really it's really funny No, it was like a full-on comedy like this one was like a one I didn't I didn't I didn't like the first one and I didn't really like the second one Fine for me, but I also I've watched it and probably like I'm watching like a year and a half something So usually kind of things either like a film work. You're seeing it, right? So it kind of depends. Do you want a bag? Well, enjoy your I need to recede or anything or? Thank you Bubbles bubbles bubbles you guys talking about the the girl. I was talking to you. Oh, yeah, she's cute I guess I was only paying attention. I love I love women a talk movies. It's always my favorite thing Let's get in this Secky car mine. Let's set this thing right here for me for a second Let's see. What were you guys saying in the chat while I was doing that? What if a customer were to recognize you there? I doubt it. I probably run into more friends. All right guys So let's look at the steel book. I'm gonna pause this for a second So here's the steel book Thor Ragnarok. It's a pretty solid steel book like this is a really beautiful steel book I like the back with the helmet. I'm really digging it. I'm really Overall dig in this steel book. It's nice. It's cute Let me leave it right there for a second. We'll show the inside of it Nice Guessing he's probably fighting the Hulk. I'm actually really excited. I'm actually gonna rewatch this tomorrow Because I don't know if we twice in the theaters and don't get me wrong. I'm doing with Thor Ragnarok I don't think this is definitely the best No, well, it's the best store film but it doesn't after thinking on it like I like the film But I think hella was a very disappointing villain in my opinion Um besides that a wrinkle in time tomorrow look out for my review of gringo and strangers prey at night on Thursday morning somewhere around There I know they both have their markets that drop those days Yeah, that's gonna be a ton of fun guys and I can't wait to bring you guys back more reviews I think this weekend might be taking a break from reviewing just for the week because I have a ton of stuff going on Next weekend, and I cannot wait to bring you guys more. You guys are all the best. You know this for sure. I love all you guys Have a great rest