Lasting peace, built on justice and understanding among nations. This is the objective of the United Nations. This is another program in the United Nations series of the Pacific story, one of the five special series presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations who further world unity and world peace through understanding. For hundreds of years, the Pacific and the lands it touches have been the scene of struggle, conflict for gain and power, people against people, western nations seeking to dominate and exploit the people, and the millions caught in the political and economic cross current. Today with most of the world's population concentrated around and in the Pacific, the events of the Pacific are a vital world concern. The Pacific story dedicates this series to the objective of the United Nations. Lasting peace, built on justice and understanding among nations. Philippines, the birth of a nation. It was a good thing the paper sent me out a few days early because independence isn't something you can cover up a fire. In the streets of Manila, they were nailing streamers, putting up bells and popping a few preliminary firecrackers. The way kids do back home when they just can't wait for the forum. I stood and listened to a couple of young fellas on a painter's scaffold. They hardly knew I was there. Enough testing of the firecrackers, Ernesto. I have no fear, Ricardo. There will be enough for the big celebration. The Fourth of July is but a few days away. Everything must be in readiness. Independence finally, Ernesto. Is it not wonderful? Yes, wonderful. I will go and see if they have more one thing. The bell. Remember, we must put up the bell. It must ring out the good news on the Fourth. It must tell the world the Philippines are free. I will be back in plenty of time. Juan, come here, lend us a hand with the bell. All right. Oh, pardon me, senor. That's all right. Sidewalks, superintendents usually get stepped on. Say, isn't this the bell from that broken church? Yes, the bell free was shut away by cannon. So we will hang it here. From the rafters of a gambling house, eh? That's funny, Ricardo. The course is good. What does it matter? All Manila and the islands and the world must hear it ring. There should be an exciting day for you. Oh, yes, senor. Our independence day won. Is it not wonderful? For a nationalist like you, perhaps. What if you are of the Democratic alliance? We can't compose our differences on the eve of independence one. Perhaps we can. Yes, by getting independence of a sort.  What are you doing here in Manila? I have worked here, old one. My name is Streis. I am a salesman. What is your line? I sell labels. Labels? What kind of labels? Various kinds, fascist, communist, collaborationist, radical, reactionary. And do these labels you sell fit? What does that matter? Here in the Philippines, business is good. Very good. I do not like your business, Streis. Who are you, old one? And what is your line? I am known by many names and in many lands. In France, they call me liberty, or egalité, or fraternité. In Russia, it is for daughter. In the United States, I am known as liberty or democracy. So, one of ideals, what do you do? I am present wherever men yearn for independence. And you think you can sell humans your line while I am peddling mine?  You cannot compete with me. We shall see. Still standing around, which was just as well because I did not want any of that polite reticence reserved for foreigners. I stood the wrong way. The bail is heavier than I thought one, but it is worth it for the birth of a nation. It takes an ordinary baby nine months to be born. It has taken this one more than 300 years. Oh, this is no ordinary baby. We will be a free and sovereign state one with our own flag, political independence. It extends, unfortunately, to too many who trafficked with the enemy, to collaborators and fascists with power and money. That is always the cry of those without power and money. You are one of the landlords. My father owns larger states, yes. Would you have us give them away? I ask you only this. How much real independence? How much of a voice can the majority of the Filipinos, the tenant farmers, the cows have, slaving for 30 centavos a day, while men, like your father, get millions of pesos a year? In the greatest lands of democracy one, there are economic inequalities. Such things cannot be adjusted overnight. Come, my friend, let us not quarrel. If we have differences, we must work them out together. You and I, and 17 million of us. Only by working together can we build a great nation. My pony, Karomata, this year. Yes, you can call that little snail a pony. Glad to see you, Jose. Thank you, senor, thank you. Welcome back. Your paper has sent you to Manila again. Yes, but it looks so different now. I expected some changes from the war, but this... You are shocked, so were we, and shelled and tortured, and robbed of everything by the devils from Japan. How's your wife, Jose? They killed her. Target practice. I'm sorry, Jose. I had to buy the body back from them. They demanded a bribe before I was permitted to give her a proper burial. But I have shed all my tears. I must keep working to provide for the little ones. It's hard to concentrate on the coming celebration when I see the destruction here. The beast did not leave without destroying what he could on Mad Rage. Did you see the port area? Yes, shambles. Seventy percent of Manila has been destroyed or badly damaged. Half of the machine industry of the island's also. Well, it will all be rebuilt, Jose, better and finer than before. It will take time and money. They spared very little. Where are you living now, Jose? My castle is behind me. No. You don't mean... It is a roof or part of one. That is all that is left of my house. Oh, don't I look so pale, my friend? I am one of the fortunate ones. What about your business? They dynamited the store. I have a small open-air market now when I can get things to sell. Here it is difficult to get things. Transportation was wiped out, you know. Army equipment helped a little. Mostly, produce was moved by pony caromatos and buffalo back. Besides this, the prices... Inflation here, too. Very great inflation and black markets. If I had much money and no conscience, I could buy merchandise. United States Army surpluses and imports and charge four times what I pay. Some do this, but I have few pesos. You see, I did not buy and sell for the Japanese. Some had no such scruples. Nearly every merchant wasn't a collaborationist. No. Some had greater reserves or greater luck than I. They tell me the island industries are in bad shape, Jose. They speak truth. Our first exports, sugar, poof. The enemy put cotton and vegetables in the fields instead. Much land they permitted to turn sour. Sugar refining sentels were burned. How long before sugar is back to normal again? Who knows. With money and machinery, maybe a year or two or three. How about the copper industry? Oh, no more. Coconut groves have gone unattended too long. Crops rotted. Mills were blown up and machinery destroyed. It will be years before these can be restored. How about the hemp industry? This was in Japanese hands, you know, in Mindanao. Gone now. Not a bright outlook, is it? Oh, no, Sr. Carter. But we are counting on this freedom to give us the will and the strength to become a nation among nations.  How do you feel about independence for the Philippines? Oh, it is a marvelous thing, Sr. Carter. Only, only you will not quote me on this. I am a little disturbed that it should come at this time. Oh, why? Your exports to the United States will still be tax-free for 28 years. Yes, and for this I am glad. It would mean a loss to us of $150 million annually if we had to pay the tax on our exports. That would have meant lowering wages and living standards while we are trying to emerge from the ruins of war. But that isn't happening. Why are you disturbed? Well, these are days of social unrest. There are forces who are not satisfied with things as they are. Oh, I know we do not have for perfection. But these, these radical forces would seek to change everything. Our agriculture, industry, economy and one revolutionary sweep. When most of the American forces leave the island, we may have trouble with these radicals. You mean the Democratic Alliance? Yes. And with all of its left-wingers, peasant unionists, socialists and communists, consider those terrorists the Hukbalahabs. That means people's anti-Japanese army, doesn't it? Yes. Well, weren't they the fiercest of the guerrilla fighters against the enemy? Yes. They fought well, though others fought too in various ways. But they have decided to become politicians as well as soldiers. How many do they have? Perhaps 150,000 followers. But there are some 60,000 Hukbalahab soldiers in Lausanne. More than 12,000 are armed. They refuse to give up their guns. Have they committed much violence? Not yet. But they are disgruntled by their return to power of our conservative nationalist party. They have been marching in parades of protest, carrying red banners. Or the banners we can dismiss. But what if they decide to march with guns? That, Sr. Carter, is why I do not like the return of your military to the States. Well, we're retaining military installations here. We aren't leaving the Philippines absolutely unprotected. Yes, I know. I hope the garrison remains strong for the protection of your interests and our own. Hold on there. What is all this? Let me go, Sr. Carter. Thank you. You have caught him, Sr. Carter. My thanks to you. As for you, T, you were the largest in prison where you belong. Give body bread. No. I need it for my family. I said I would repay you when I have the money. You have the money. You can't buy the bread when you have the money. Give it here, I say. No. Is that all that's bothering you, this loaf of bread? The story from my shop. I cannot stay in business if thieves turn off with my goods. I am not thief. How much is the bread? Your money, $1.50. For a loaf of bread? Isn't that a little steep? It is the price here today. Pretty steep price. Here's your money. Thank you, Sr. Carter. Now I return to my business. I'll be many thanks, Sr. Carter. Bless you for your goodness. I would not have taken the bread if we did not need it. Haven't you had rationing and price ceilings here? Yes, also black markets. And when you have no money, how much did you make before the war? $0.30, $0.15 a day. But living was cheaper then. Oh, see. Tell me, how do you feel about your coming independence? Independence is fine for a nation, Sr. But a nation is made of many people, is it not? The rich fascists. They are independent, yes. But people like me, how much independence do I have today? How much more will I have next year? Shadow of ideals and liberty. They buy the merchandise of strife. Only where there is insecurity can you benefit your label strife. What I offer is a fire that burns in the heart of flame that is never put out. Very lofty words. But mortals need more. You will see. Hi there, how about a lift with me? Mike Robert, well, imagine seeing you again. Well, how's the old reporter, Carter? Fine, thank you. You're beating out your brain so the folks at home can read the headline and then turn to the funny. Sometimes I'm inclined to agree with you. Say, you're a captain now. I should treat you with more respect. Sure. Last time we met you were shavetail. A guy has to get up in the world sometime. Hop in if you're not doing anything special or buy a drink somewhere. Well, that's the best offer I've had today. You're covering the Independence Day celebration. Yeah, imagine me quite a shindig. Yeah, they've been stashing away all kinds of fireworks. We'll have plenty of big guns and ships and planes and brass bands to help the Filipinos celebrate. Mike, how does this independence strike you? They've waited long enough and been promised it often enough. The Philippines will still rely on Uncle Sam for military defense, won't they? Oh, not exactly. You see, for a long time, the U.S. and other United Nations have to maintain strong land, air, and sea bases throughout the Pacific. Some of these bases will be in the Philippines. But it's supposed to be a kind of co-op deal in case of any new enemy bobbing up, the Filipinos put up as big an army as they can and we fight side by side. Oh, in other words, you feel that while we help the Philippines in case there should be another regressor like Japan, the army of this new republic will also help us in keeping the enemy from American George. That's about it. From where I sit, we aren't doing all the giving or all the getting. I see. What about the business set up here, Robin? Well, that's a little out of my bailiwick, but I do know Uncle Sam's coming through with a dough to help rebuild all this. Yeah. Don't worry about the Philippines, John. They're smart, industrious.  If they think they need any reforms, whatever the majority wants, they'll get it. Come on, I'll buy you that drink now. Grows with the wisdom and strength of its people. Grows with every new nation. I remember when I sold wigs and Tory labels to a young nation called the United States. It grew stronger and wiser thanks to its faith in liberty. Not so wise that it didn't buy labels of states' rights and federal rights of freedom and slavery almost a century later. Not so strong that my words didn't in a civil war. And not so far afield that out of this troubled cauldron didn't grow a new unified nation. I say we hook Balahots who were never defeated by the Japanese are now being strangled by politics and diplomacy.  Do not also be hasty and unwise. Work of lasting value takes time. We have wasted enough time. All of us, 150,000 strong, resisted the Japanese throughout the war. Now they would like us to give up our guns in our military organization. But who asked us to do this? I'll tell you, men high in the nationalist party. Men who collaborated with the Japanese. There is still argument as to whether they collaborated against or for the Philippines. What about Andres Soriano, a Spaniard, leader of the Falangist movement in the Philippines before the war? Honorary council of the Franco government. Yet, he is one of the richest men in the islands. A power in politics. What about that? True, but his later record was different. Quezon made him secretary of finance in the refugee government, you know. He was also commissioned a colonel in the United States Army. And he was on MacArthur's staff after MacArthur returned to Laity. Does that change anything? In the eyes of many Filipinos and much of the world it does. And what of the new president? It is a fact that Manuel Rojas was attorney for the Soriano interests before the war. Is it not? Yes, that is a fact, Juan. He dealt with the Japanese, didn't he not? He and his many followers claim it was under duress that he was really laboring to weaken the dictatorial power of the Japanese. And to serve Filipino interests. After the Americans landed, he did escape from Japanese custody and came over to the American side. Trains are always on the opportune side at the opportune moment. Whether we are right or wrong about him is not the question one. He was elected president. I believe in action. Everyone must have a fair chance, even President Rojas. You know what he told US newspaper reporters after his election. Despite charges that I have fascist tendencies, I am going to be the greatest champion of democracy in politics as well as economics that this country has. That is what President Rojas said once. Two months is too short a time to judge our new president. No, enough of politics. When is your wife expecting the baby? In one week now. Ah, but a long week this will be for you. But at least you have the knowledge that your baby will be born into an independent Philippines Republic. Yes. But what I keep ice-fing myself is how much independence this baby will have in his lifetime. What do you say now, one of ideals? Who is supreme here now? Not you, seller of labels. Ah, but there is so little time and so little wisdom in the world. I work fast these days. And I work slowly, but surely and inevitably. The eyes of other people are upon the Philippines. Others in Asia want to watch and see what happens here. Mr. Wong? Yes. We were expecting you, Mr. Carter. This is Mr. Kim of Korea. And Mr. Ritam of Java. I'm Mr. Carter. I wanted especially to see you three visitors attending the celebration here, Mr. Wong. As members of other Asiatic groups, you must have certain views on what this means to you. Yes. Now you, Mr. Wong, as a Chinese, what is your impression of what's happening here? The granting of economic rehabilitation to these people is a deed that will contribute to peace and progress in the Pacific. I'm glad to hear such expression from you, Mr. Wong. However, my opinion is not without reservations. I note that the same economic interest still ruled in the Philippines. Doesn't that make for stability? That is the question. I also note that Philippine trade is still to be almost entirely with the United States. Yes, for 28 years. The preferential tariff makes that the best interest of the Philippines. It gives your country a favored position. Well, is that unrealistic? After investing half a century of effort and expense in developing and building the industry of the islands? No, it is a realistic policy. Aren't the continued trade relations of the United States and the Philippines to the mutual advantage of both nations? Well, that may be. But while encouraging the American interests, what have the Filipinos been doing with my people? There are about 125 Chinese in the islands, in addition to Indonesians, Spanish, Negritos, and the various groups that have intermixed. The Chinese invested more than $100 million in the Philippines, controlled much business here before the war. Yet the Philippine government has encouraged Filipinos to oust the Chinese here. Yes, I recall there was friction here. It still exists. Also legislation against Chinese residents of the islands. Remember, we paid more than three-quarters of the internal taxes here. Supported our own schools, hospitals, social clubs. Yet in 1941 they excluded all but citizens of the United States and the Philippines from engaging in any form of business in the public markets of Manila. We Indonesians are also watching the Philippines with interest, Mr. Carter. We wish to learn whether the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter are to be promises or fulfillment for the benefit of the large nations only or the small also. And a new world isn't built overnight, Mr. Ritam. Many days and many nights have passed already. We who are still struggling against our Dutch marstals are glad to see that the United States policy is more liberal in the Philippines. We would welcome a repetition of such a pattern in Indonesia. In Korea, too, so many years on the Japanese domination, we seek our long-awaited independence. Independence for the Philippines is encouraging to me perhaps Korea will not have to wait too long for her freedom. You may tell your paper, Mr. Carter, that asiatics watch closely every action undertaken by the great powers in their relations with weaker nations. The days, months and years ahead will determine whether there is to be peace or unrest in the Pacific. This is such mortal strife. In their hearts burns the fire of independence. But still lacking it's the infertile prospects for me. Not if wisdom prevails among men. Not if there is patience on one side and forbearance on the other in the movement towards self-determination. My wares destroy patience and forbearance. Mine restore them. As the government official here in the Philippines, you'll get a glimpse of this picture from an angle that I may overlook. That's why I ask you, just what does this independence mean? The United States is making good her promise. What does our reconstruction aid do for the Philippines? The appropriation of $625 million permits both our government and individuals here to make a substantial start in rebuilding. As you know, materials and technical services are to come largely from the United States. All of this should speed our recovery, and we are highly gratified by it. What about the Bell Bill, the Philippine Trade Act of 1946? What does that mean to you? Our exports to the U.S. will be duty free, as they are now until 1954. During the 20 years following, our exports will be subject to a progressively increasing tariff. By 1974, United States trade with the Philippines will be on the same basis as trade between the U.S. and other independent nations. That is right. We need this extension to gain our economic feet. What about the other provisions? We must amend our constitution to permit American businessmen in American capital to enter the islands on the same terms and with the same rights as our businessmen in capital. That on the surface is a distinct advantage for you. But it may prove to our advantage too, ushering new capital and more rapid prosperity to our nation. We have worked together in the past. We will work in harmony in the future as close friends among sovereign nations. This is in the heart. I say it is a state of mind, old one of ideals. I can put other things in their minds. There are great problems here and mixed men and motives. The problems will be solved. The men unified. You have strange confidence in mortals. A nation like other beings is not born without pain. This republic will grow older and stronger. You may find it troubled as other nations have been troubled in the growing years, but you cannot trample a spirit by which men live. A spirit of freedom. We shall both work, wait and see. Time is on my side. Philippine Islands, July 7. Three days ago, the population of the 7,000 islands of this commonwealth celebrated a great day in its history. Independence Day. Now the citizens of the new republic have returned to the grim task of reconstruction. While many problems face them, some pre-war, many war-inspired, there is a surge of enthusiasm that the United States has made good the promise of independence. Our record in the Philippines is not entirely without blemishes, but it should stand as a bright beacon to the people of the Pacific and all Asia. You have been listening to the Pacific Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated independent stations to clarify events in the Pacific and to make understandable the cross-currents of life in the Pacific Basin. For a reprint of this Pacific Story program, send 10 cents in stamps or coins to University of California Press, Berkeley, California. The Pacific Story is produced and directed by Arnold Marquess. The original musical score was composed and conducted by Thomas Paluso. The principal voice was that of William Johnstone. 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Well, speaking of remnant theology our last questions from Greg in Acts 13 You briefly discussed Old Testament remnant theology and how it fits into the predestination Election debate he would love to hear more on this the Old Testament idea not so much how it fits in the New Testament And also appreciate any resources you could suggest on this topic. Yeah There are a couple things that I will make sure Trey has and Trey will make sure gets up on the the website to deal with remnant theology a couple articles So you could look for those I think to sort of try to summarize an answer here And remnant theology in the Old Testament and sort of broadly speaking is that God will never he'll never let his plan for a kingdom die Entirely and therefore he will never let his people be entirely exterminated by evil He's not gonna let evil win even even so as bad as it gets it's never as bad as as that because God will intervene I he'll interview when needed But he won't eradicate evil because that would mean eradicating humanity He will not get rid of evil and free will because then you know that that's an admission that would be an admission in God's part That you know what this was just a bad idea, you know God's not gonna do that He is committed to humanity. He loves the idea of humanity. He created humanity like to be like himself Which includes again communicable attributes one of which is freedom. These are on the surface These are just the most obvious things theologically in the world that just jump out at you from the text I think we need to affirm, you know, what what's there in the text and then you know Come up with with our best understanding of how to handle it and sometimes, you know people like us I just get married to systems someone's attempt and then You know love it so much that they'll defend it at all costs even if one of the cost is coherence But remnant theology again is just this idea that God is not gonna let this thing die And if he needs to intervene he will and he does that in the Old Testament Noah I mean he doesn't wipe everybody out.  He does it with the tribes of Israel You know, he there's 700 who have not bowed the need of bail. He uses Obadiah to hide them He's never gonna let the thing die, but he will not again erase humanity to get it done He will not erase the image to get it done. He has chosen to use people and use people. He will there is no plan B There is only plan A and the New Testament you have God acting to ensure Really consistent with the old he's gonna act to ensure that a remnant of believing Israel the true Israel will not be exterminated You know, he's not gonna just gonna forever forget the Jews now and the Jews can all be exterminated and whatnot No, that they are going to there. They're gonna be believers Among the tribes of Israel who embrace the Messiah their Messiah and become part of the people of God But there will also be Gentiles. There'll also be people among the nations who are not of the 12 tribes of Israel And he is going to lay claim to those nations as well as his own through them He's going to make sure again that he's gonna preserve a remnant He's gonna make sure that there are people from the nations, you know Embrace the gospel and and you know that it never dies, you know, it never there's never a single nation That doesn't have a witness. There's never a single nation that doesn't have God's people in it infiltrating it to again multiply Multiply that situation to take the gospel to every nation to every corner, you know of the world and get the job done You know if God needs to intervene he will he will not let it die So that that that's essentially the the overarching idea of remnant theology, you know By just think about what the New Testament is you have the people of God. It's circumcision neutral It's the tribes plus the non-tribes it goes all the way back again we're trying to restore an Edenic vision God's rule over over the entire planet and Originally, there were no nations.


Well, I think there are two components to setting a boundary. So the first component is identifying what you need and then communicating that to the person. But the most important part of setting a boundary is maintaining the boundary. So just because you said it, does it mean that it's going to be respected? And by the way, I should say this, a boundary is something that you set with yourself, not with another person. If this person does X that I've asked them not to do, then I know what I'm going to do. So it's a boundary you have with yourself. So you see how maintenance is so important that you have to be consistent every single time.


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Welcome everyone, this is a session about our new website from Bonn. And let me control the slides in a different way. And we will have two parts of this session. In the first half, we'll have Ben, the general manager from Bonn, to talk about customer delivery. Then in the second half, I will talk about the Drupal solution.  Thank you Josh, if we can go to the next one. Probably just want to introduce this presentation with a little bit about the why, and in particular why it was so important to get customers involved in the first part of the process. So if you don't already know, the Bureau of Meteorology is one of the most used websites in Australia. Our brand is one of the most trusted and reliable brands that provide weather, water and climate and ocean services to a broad range of customers. Not only the Australian community, the people on the street but also quite sophisticated customers, either in industry or in sort of other government agencies. And I'm sure that there's a lot of audience members that use our website for this or use Bureau for this. The most common way that our customers and the most I suppose the biggest coverage way that customers receive all this information is through our website. Our website's been there for a long period of time and I'm sure all of you guys are probably smiling and seeing sort of all the great things that our website does today. But that's sort of one of the most important ways that we get to transmit and inform our customers about key services and products that we do have. Just moving on to the next one. Josh, please. Okay, cool. So on the right hand side there, a lot of you might sort of see the common pages that you have on our website today. So many different styles, many different designs, many different ways to find information via our website. And it's really quite inconsistent from an experience perspective. Obviously, because it's been built organically over a number of years, it's been built in a way that does have some vulnerabilities in it with stability and resilience. And it's actually not intuitive at all. One of our biggest findings from our customer research was that our customers have reams and reams or files of bookmarks which they go to to almost navigate to different sections of the website. So it's been there for a while and it's served its purpose and it will continue to serve its purpose but not in its current format and current looking field. I mean, we have sort of close to over 100 million hits on the website per annum, a large amount of... If you should depend on who you're talking to, it's one of the top 15 websites that are hit in all of Australia. It's two thirds more traffic than any of our government agency peers. So it's quite a popular website. Funny enough though, if you look at the website, there's probably about only 15% of some of the information in there that's hit 96% of the time. And no guessing that that's sort of, you know, in particular the radar. It's one of our most popular features. It's one of our biggest branding issues that we've got with the Bureau. We will continue to sort of have that sort of branding moving forward. So what are we moving to? And why? Next one, Josh, thanks. So our customers, what would they tell us? They wanted a more simple, modern way of looking for information and finding information on our website. We know that the radar and our mapping is almost like a cop, has a cop following to it. However, though, we know just from a consumer perspective, the way that you navigate and look for information on a map has changed dramatically. And you know, this is not us changing it, but the looks, the likes of, you know, Google Maps and Apple and the way that you sort of look and direct. So we need to sort of also increase our standards today to make sure that we meet those types of expectations. Improve navigation. So our current website is almost departmental based, i.e., you know, we have an aviation department or we have a water department and then you go into that. We've moved that around to make sure that it's architectural based, archetype based. So what are customers jobs to be done? And what are the most common things that they will need to find to do their job? So it's a bit of a shift in the way that the navigations go into navigate, the way that the new websites can navigate. Our South Service Portal is an interesting one because we've got a whole range of customers, as I mentioned before, to sort of small to medium-sized enterprises all the way up to quite important and large industries. But what we need to have is as much self-servicing as possible on the website because we just don't have that workforce to have one sort of met or one forecast for every customer. So it's really making sure, really uplifting the new experience about servicing their needs through our South Service Portal. And because we're moving to a modern architecture and API-led architecture, we'll find better ways to share in data and obviously sitting on a quite a robust cloud native sort of infrastructure as well. Next one. So what can you expect from our delivery process? And I sort of hear you talking a little bit about or mostly about the upfront process of designing or co-designing the look and feel on the website with our customers. And obviously that's a really big theme as part of the DTA delivery process that we all, it is all good practice to utilize to deliver to. In addition to that, comprehensive customer discovery phase which has been going on now for over 12 months was a key element to that and also delivering incrementally. So we've got MVP that's coming out early next year and then we'll start and then from there we'll sort of incrementally deliver more features as we go until we sort of get the whole website transitioned across. So it's been quite exciting up until now. I think we're in the heavy build and just about to go into sit testing for some of those MVP features and really looking forward to the next phase and really looking forward to launching this really new look and feel next year. But I'll hand over to Josh and he can tell you a little bit more about sort of the underlying tech that we're using. I'm here myself. Thanks Ben. All right, let me jump to my slides. For anyone who doesn't really know me, I'm Josh and the solution architect from Accenture. Accenture has been selected by the Bureau as a delivery partner in this really exciting journey. We selected Drupal, mainly based on the three reasons. Drupal has been really popular in the government. There are a large number of Drupal websites in our student public sector and a big part of it is Dupal Synapse Client. And now we do that at Gunstom S. We do leverage from Gunstom S module and call review process to be able to do our module shopping. And Drupal offers huge flexibility that we allowed our content author or Synapse admin to be able to create a really complicated layout or landing pages from the UI. And also Drupal offers its feasible entities that we leverage from the field to allow the content author to be able to configure particular paragraphs or widgets. And Drupal is open source. That means that it's free licensing. We are actually leveraging from the really large global level of support from the security level and from the module and the code level, of course, from the local Drupal community as well. Okay, we are using a progressively decoupled architecture for anyone who doesn't really know what it is. Architecture, I'll just give you a brief. And this means that we embed our React component and our React application into the Drupal theme layer and we deliver the React application to the browser via the CDN. Each React component itself has its own logic and it can actually contact any external API services via the API gateway. In this way, we have less traffic from the browser to Drupal. We chose this architecture mainly from three perspectives. From the performance perspective, we try to minimize the traffic between the browser and our web server, giving that huge amount of weather data are required in the user's browsers. So we try to leverage the traffic between the browser and the gateway from the bureau straight away. In this way, we don't have a really high number of traffic directly coming to our web server, so we can protect our web server better. And from the developer experience perspective, I'm pretty sure you all know that it's pretty hard to actually find a good Drupal developer in the market. It's even harder to actually find a developer who knows React and Drupal in the market. But with that said, if you become one of those, come to talk to me, let's have a coffee. So that we try to have our dedicated team only focusing on what they're good at. So we have a dedicated React team. We have a dedicated Drupal team. React team doesn't really have any knowledge about Drupal framework. And Drupal team doesn't really know anything to do with the React framework. What we do is React team can focus on their own education development. Once they are done, we embed the artifacts into Drupal theme layer, and we tell the Drupal developer which are the props. How do you configure the React component? So that our website can be built with blocks, paragraphs with all the fields, then we can pass the field value to React. Lastly, from the components reusable perspective, all the paragraph types are reusable and available in all the content types globally in our website. And React components is independently available for any other React application to use directly. In this way, that we can reuse the entities that we create in this project in two perspectives, from the front end and from the back end. As I mentioned, we are building a really, really React heavy website with Drupal. So I will talk about how did we use React in Drupal from three points, the Bureau's design system and the widget we built and prioritization. The Bureau has its own design system. What is the design system? Design system is a collection of components that defines the look and feel for the digital product. The Bureau has a requirement to have all the digital products from the Bureau to follow this design system. This design system is developed in React framework. That means that when we create our Bureau's website, we need to use those React components in our website. The way that we use the React components in our website is that similar to the DTA pancake library, if you know that, as you remember in the old time, we created a custom JavaScript library to actually wrap the components made by React. That wrapper will be able to actually expose the HTML markup into the tweet, so that when our theme in our quickbar dump in an HTML markup, then our library will know, okay, we need to load these particular devices and components into HTML. In this way, React is embedded in there. With that said, the Bureau has its own app, Bonweather, is using the same design system as well. If you are not using that, try that. I'm pretty sure that's better than other better than that. So far, we've created about 80 widgets. Using the Drupal terminology is 80 paragraphs times. We're using the paragraphs to represent the widget. The way that we embed the Bureau's design system components into paragraph template is that, as I said, we use a React library and we put the HTML markup into the tweetbar. In the property of the D, we tell the library which component, what is component name we're going to use and the following the particular markup that we will actually load the components into the page. And using the paragraph with a lot of fields, we allow the content author to be able to actually pass in any parameters and then our theme will actually pass the value of that parameter to the prof in React. In this way, we can create unlimited number or versions of widgets in each page. I'm listing like three examples of the widget we're creating here. As you see, there are really simple one, the static one, like the link list that we use the design systems. Oh, sure, only five minutes. Yes. All right, I got it. All right, I'll speed up. So then we have a math and already forecast that's more complicated that we actually grab the forecast and observation data from the Bureau's API. The logic is handled within the widget in React. We are on the journey of personalization. The Bureau will keep continue offer the personalized service to different groups of audience starting from their homepage. If you are the first time visitor in your homepage, you will see they actually they forecast details and observation detail and warning details for the major city. But you can actually set up your favorite location in the site and then we save it in the cookie. When you come back next time, we will actually load all the details with the details of your favorite locations. So this as a start, we will keep learning from our user behavior on the website. We actually integrate third party services in Google. Alchemy is our CDN. And we, of course, we use Alchemy and purge to dynamically purge the page. Once the page is updated by the content author, we use followback as a search engine to be able to actually return multiple websites search results. When we are in the transition period, we will have the new and the old website running in parallel. And React components is interacting with followback API independently. We use Google Tech Manager to actually learn from the user behavior. And we use the ID management to be able to allow the external user and internal user in theater to be able to log into the websites using their own credentials. I'm not allowed to tell the details about ID management due to security reasons. And the website is hosted in private cloud using infrastructure as code. And we do have the latest technology to design the CI CD pipeline for dedicated React and Drupal team. Of course, we have a high percentage of the automated test. I think I just rushed to the end. This is my contact and Ben's contact if you have any questions. But I assume we have a couple of minutes left and we're happy to take any questions. I can put in the questions now, Josh. The first question is, how do you manage routes and paths? Are they served in Drupal or are they served in React? Sorry, how do we manage which? Routes and paths. It's in Drupal. So we define our own path in Drupal and Drupal is able to be able to tell which React components to load in which page based on the URL. Then there is another one which says, is the personalization done Drupal site or front end? At the moment, it's done in Drupal site but in future, this is a possibility that we will do it in front-end. What mix of front-end, back-end frameworks are you moving to in terms of JS frameworks, etc.? I'm not sure about these questions but we relay on the React framework and in future, we'll continue working in React framework. There's another one. Is there a pop-in load effect? Do you have any SSR, SSG in React? I can't really see the question. Where is the question? It's in the live Q&A. Live Q&A? No. We do not really have the SSR, SSG but we do have some pop-in load effect but it's all dependent on the USC. So as we continue developing the new website, there will be new USC coming up. And probably the last one. Can you touch on Borm as a provider of data to other agencies, consumers and how that works? Fantastic question. That's Ben's question. Yeah, we have six seconds but yes, we are currently working mainly on the data to data type element but moving forward would be more API based share technology for sharing data between not only other agencies but also third party organisations as well. All right, it looks that that's the end of all the questions. Thanks a lot and it was an awesome presentation. Bye. Thanks all. Bye.


Excellence, to me, is a student going above and beyond what they think they can do. I never really knew that that was growing power. I've been past it a couple times. I just thought it was a place where they sell flowers and fruits and stuff. I didn't know they grew all of those types of fish in the aquaponic system. Will said at Growing Power, this is the best group he's ever had come through a tour. And this is the same class that I was given because other teachers couldn't handle. I think where it got around in the school, that about this aquaponics class, like, you know, people didn't really know what it was, and when we explained it to them, they seemed kind of skeptical as to what it was, like they didn't know. An aquaponic system is like a system where it cleans out the fish tank and it fertilizes the plants to help them grow. I gave them projects and they continued to do their projects. They did their own research. They came up with their own questions and answers. Seeing the fish and the vegetables and the compost peeps and the worms and all that, it was great. Keep in mind that when students come to class, they're looking for some action. They're not looking for nouns, they're looking for what can they do. Aquaponic systems, they cost a lot. You'll end up spending like thousands of dollars on a homemade one. I've been doing a basic aquaponic system just out of recycled materials. And we found the five gallon jugs and we cut those open and they kind of tip over so we use aluminum foil rolls and paper towel rolls to hold them in a balance. A major success story for this project is how the teachers began to look at their own learning differently and that has inspired them to teach differently. One out of the days we throw a lot of stuff away like just garbage.  I was really proud that it was a success because at times I would have doubts about it. Who would think a water gallon would hold fish on top of aluminum cans? This project has also been successful because teachers have learned that with larger class sizes, with fewer resources, they need to be much more creative. I brought a couple of people in, showed them the fish that we were growing and they must have thought it was good because a lot of people signed up for the class. My students are excited about science. I never had students come in in between periods to look at their individual product. It just shows what teaching the right thing or having the right plans or teaching it in the right way can do to students that other people say are too tough to teach. This is fun. I did it. Now it's your turn.


A sixth place finish in the WCHA and their first winning season in six years last year was the story of the BSU men's hockey season. That season they'll cut short by Bowling Green who knocked out BSU in the first round of the WCHA playoffs as the Beavers hosted number 15 Bowling Green tonight to kick off their season with some revenge on their mind and conference points on the line. Just over six minutes into the game Beavers on the power play Jerry Fitzgerald gives it to Zach White-Cloud who fires from the blue line for the goal the first in the freshman's career. BSU goes up one. Just over seven to go now in the first fill Marinaccio.  We fast forward to the third. Beavers up to one under 10 seconds left BG's Matt Polkamp fires a couple of shots but Michael Bitzer makes the two biggest of his 20 saves to preserve the lead as BSU wins their season opener over number 15 Bowling Green two to one. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hi, I'm John Furrier with Silicon Angle theCUBE. We're on the ground here in Silicon Valley at Mintagos headquarters for CUBE Conversation. I'm here with John Bear, president and CMO of Mintagos. John, good to see you. Great job here. You're president now and CMO of a marketing company using technology. How do you feel? Nice to see you, John. Thank you very much. I feel great and thank you for coming to Mintagos today. So I got to ask you, you've been a marketer. You've been a CMO. You've been quite a lot of successful operations. Marketing's changed, so I want to get your take first of the Mintagos story. What attracted you to this? Because as a marketer, you've seen every trick of the trade. You know the playbooks, the old school blocking and tackling of marketing. But what's the big deal of Mintagos? Share your thoughts. Well, things are changing so rapidly in B2B marketing here in Silicon Valley and throughout the world with the emergence of social, mobile, all the new technologies. CMOs in many ways have become an endangered species. If they don't adapt, they will become extinct. And so in that regard, for my career and my interest, I was looking for something that was new, modern and solved, a top three pain for CMOs. And Mintagos fit the bill directly. What's the big thing, honestly? Data science is a no-brand. People see that and they can look at it and say, okay, I can get behind that. It makes a lot of sense. But there's a lot of tactical challenges that people migrate to this new world, the Internet, of things that's connecting not only devices and databases, but people. People are things, right? So you have mobile, the mobile infrastructure is dwarfed. And so now you can really use signaling data to actually get information, the hands of the customer, in this case, salesperson or marketing person at the right time. That seems to be the in-the-moment, real-time aspect, which never had been done before. What's your take on that and the impact of that for organizations? And what's the low-hanging fruit for the CMO? What do they do first? Well, you're exactly right, John. So you know I coach football, and that's one of my passions is to coach youth football and high school football. And great football coaches have a playbook that has three sections, offense, defense, and special teams. Similarly, great CMOs have a playbook with three sections. Build and create your brand, create and nurture demand, and arm and aim your field and channel. So those are the three big playbooks for any great CMO in my opinion. So if you break that down with building and expanding your brand in today's world, it's just explosive. With all the social endpoints, with millennials getting involved, with consumers taking over your brand and helping to find your brand every day, every minute it's happening. There's been an explosion of data. And the definition of your brand has become real-time in that regard. If you take the next section of the playbook, which is to create and nurture demand, I would argue it hasn't quite become real-time. If you think about sales cycles that in some cases are six weeks, six months, or longer, that's not real-time. And so when I discovered Mintigo and I first met Jacob and Tao, I was struck by the ability of the data and the science to help dramatically shrink the sales cycles for sales and marketing. I got to say, one of the things that's going on is the skeptics. I'm not a skeptic, I'm bullish on data, that's all I was talking about on theCUBE. I love Big Day, I've been covering for many, many years now and living it with the CrowdChat product. But a lot of people are skeptical of another platform, another dashboard. It's almost like someone said to me, if someone comes in with a dashboard again, I'm going to kill myself. That's the level of noise in the market, some say snake oil. So how do you guys break out of the noise? What's your comment for the folks that, for customers out there that are trying to differentiate, what is noise, what's value, and what do you do in that space? Because that's a legit concern. Are you real? Is it snake oil? Do I need another platform? Well, I don't think sales and marketing need yet another system. And Minzigo is not yet another system, it's not yet another dashboard. It's a capability that is embedded into your existing workflows and your solutions of choice. So whether it's Marketo, or Eloqua, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Salesforce, or even LinkedIn, the major channels that sales and marketing are using today, we fit right in. We work within the existing workflow, and that's a real differentiator for Minzigo. So it's basically an invisible part of those applications. So it's easy to stand up. If I'm a customer, it's easy to stand up some Minzigo tooling to get going. It's very easy to stand up. In fact, we had a demo on the Oracle Marketing Cloud platform yesterday for some executives, and our engineer set it up in a matter of minutes.  So it's come a long way. Well, a lot of people are dealing with this. I want to ask you that point. It's a good question, a good segue question there. It's that old way, new way, old way was by a multi-million dollar, six to eight month rollout, professional services, millions of dollars, to now the Splunk, the Tableau, the sales force. These are easy to entry points for the customer to get the value. So two questions. Pricing value equation, how much does it cost to get the value? Is that now the new normal, get a little taste, and then get the value, and then get the sale, or is it still the old, big enterprise sales license? I think the old way is dead. I think the huge licenses, long-term commitments, those days are long gone. With the flexibility that's afforded by things like Amazon Web Services, you can spin up servers very rapidly. All the technologies from people like VMware, Zen, Citrix, you know, it enables that instant computing, the instant on computing, and that's what a company like Mint2Go does, is it enables a marketer to just kind of pay as you go, pay by the drink, buy some licenses, fire up the model, use it again and again, and that's really the new way. It's on demand, it's cloud-based, it's grabbing the data and applying it to solve your business problem. So you've got a great team here, and the founders really impressed, certainly, you know, to see the synergy, great partnership there, and they have the chops, technically. So you're the new player, you're the draft pick, so to speak, come on board, you use your football analogy. What's your plan?  You need a wide receiver? What's going on? Give us the Mint2Go update, and what draft picks you're looking to take, and who are you hiring, and give us a state of the playbook? Well, we're always looking for the best athletes, absolutely, and we are ramping up our go-to-market, so that means that we're adding in sales, marketing, and business development because we're taking this market by storm. So there is no, I guess there's no agents in the tech-athlete world, so you've got a couple key positions for go-to-market, mainly, right, for now. Mainly go-to-market, we just added a very strong new enterprise VP of sales. Building out the marketing team, we've already got some great players here using our own technology, so, you know, as they say, we're drinking our own champagne. What's the final question for you? Tell the folks out there about Mint2Go, if you can bumper sticker or summarize it, about what they might not know, and the value they could get by working with it. Well, to me, the elevator pitch on Mint2Go is, find more buyers faster, because no marketer wants to see the shadow in their door of their head of sales saying, I need more leads, or your leads suck, or your programs and campaigns aren't working, I'm not able to hit the cash register, I'm not going to make my number, I'm not going to go to club, I'm going to have to fire some people, no marketer wants to go through that. You want to do the victory lap, you want to go to club, you want to help sales beat their numbers, and Mint2Go can help B2B marketers provide those tools for sales to beat their numbers and find more buyers faster. All right, John Bear, the president and CMO of Mint2Go here at Mint2Go, I'm John Furrier on the ground in Silicon Valley here at the Cube Conversation in Silicon Valley here at Mint2Go's headquarters, thanks for watching.


Hi, I'm Mary Harrell for tan books. There's no question that the sacrament of matrimony is under attack You may now kiss the bride has become hey We'll just get in the nulman if it doesn't work out, right? And while it's easy to blame the outside culture for the Disrespective marriage and the demise of it We've got to look at what's been happening inside the church as well And that's just what author John Clark is doing with his new book be trade without a kiss defending marriage After years of failed leadership in the church John is both an author and a speechwriter He has authored two previous books on fatherhood and written hundreds of articles about Catholic family life and apologetics For the National Catholic Register Seaton magazine and Catholic Digest John and his wife Lisa know just a little bit about marriage and family life They have nine children and have been married going on three decades. My goodness John kick things off for us with that title It takes some guts to say that the church has failed at any topic, but especially at defending marriage. Why do you make that claim? so It is it's off title, but I thought it was appropriate and you know I came with a title and a friend mentioned to me said boy, that's that's pretty rough And I thought yeah, maybe something about that but the more the research that I did the more I thought that title was warranted The problem is is that We ultimately the argument I make in the book is this That there are seven sacraments But only one of them stands under what I call unrelenting scrutiny so None of us is ever really called upon to prove the validity of his baptism, right? I mean, I've never heard of that or Prove confirmation was correct or for that matter. How about a penance 20 years ago? It was invalid and yet for matrimony We're constantly trying to defend it And I thought you know the church in some sense the church is a primordial sacrament and We the church needs to respect the fact that you know, it has to uphold marriages not not find ways and I'll give you a quick example. I'm sure we'll get to this but So let's say that my wife and I after 30 we you know 30 31 years of marriage Talk to a priest and say, you know father I don't know if our marriage is valid or we're thinking about it a moment is impossible a Standard response and I don't know how many what percentage of these responses would go this way but the standard responses Well, let's get it a brochure about anomalies. Let's see if you can check any of these boxes That's a standard response it's not reconciliation and Yeah, it's pretty big problem So I'll give you an example so years ago wasn't wasn't too long maybe four or five years ago But there was a priest. I want to say on Arizona, but I'm not sure The the place doesn't actually matter, but there was a priest who Had been baptizing with a formula. We baptize you we baptize you now That's invalid because it's I because the I meaning Jesus, right? So when the bishop found out that the priest had been doing this for apparently years, he sent out almost almost frantically sent out a An email or some, you know directive from from his office and said look if you've been baptized to buy This priest come in and you know, let us know we'll set something up because you need to be validly baptized In other words, it's pretty big deal to get the sacraments, right, right? so Why is a matrimony treated differently? So if the same thing it happens so if the same thing happens with couples Why are we pulling out? Anomaly brochures in the first place does that make sense? Yeah, like it's a vacation at Costco just here. See if this fits your lifestyle Yeah, it's really sad and in the back of you know, sometimes these are in the back of You know, you see this brochures in the back of churches and I'll say there's there's a brochure that one of the dioceses has It's called select it says on the front selecting the grounds as Though we're picking out coffee Selecting the grounds like so many boxes we can check and some of these brochures are pretty bad So they'll say well, you know back when you got married. What was your state of mind? What about this? What about that? Seriously 30 heart 31 years ago. That's a long time and some people have their marriages annulled well beyond that that that time frame So my argument to begin with is look what happened to reconciliation? What happened to saying, okay? If your marriage weren't valid, but if you have some doubt about that, well, let's you know, let's let's you know fix that You know, there's a procedure for doing that But I think that that that is why I say That that the betrayed without a kiss is is appropriate. It I do I like saying that I do not I am a I go to daily mass I mean, I'm in Florida. So unless there's a hurricane or at least and I are a daily mass So yeah, that's what I want I just simply want to see that that matrimony treated as a sacrament and I think that it's we've we've we've largely failed the leadership of the church not that every member of the leadership of course, but The leadership of the church has largely failed in the respect to protect the sacrament of matrimony John, where did you see or could you pinpoint maybe it just in the timeline in the last 60 years, maybe where did you see this change? Either in your own experience or in interviews that annulments almost like like abortion on the Democratic platform safe legal and rare, right? annulments used to be that sort of what we don't like them, but they're there and Yet now they are part of mainstream conversations about marriage in the Catholic Church Where did you see this sea change the shift in attitudes towards their frequency? Well, that's really the question, right? So it's great question So in the late 1960s There were approximately per year about 350 annulments, you know as an annual number 350 Wow By the late 80s it had grown to 70,000 annually So you're talking about a number going from 350 to 70,000 within basically 30 years, right? Or I'm sorry less than I'd be even it'd be less than that it'd be more like two decades, right about 20 years So the reason that I started writing this book was is that a friend of mine was going through You know potential divorce and he started asking my advice and I said he would mention things to me like well, you know in the church You know in most dioceses you have to get I think it's every diocese actually you have to get a civil divorce Prior to an annulment hearing So you have to come in divorce civilly before you can determine if your marriage is sacramentally valid Now that's actually exactly right. It's shocked like it when he's first when he told me I didn't believe him. I said I said that that can't be right. Well, of course it is correct Where it all began was in the late 1960s. There was a petition to adopt what's called the American procedural norms and I go into detail about the book. There's there's a there's a lot of there's a lot of detail, but suffice it to say that the American procedural norm has made it easier to Have a finding of nullity Right annulment. It's not a great word actually because it finding of nullity is it's much more technically accurate so That basically did it so the so which so within a year following the adoption of the American procedural norm the numbers went up, I believe Over 5,000 in the year following so in other words you went almost immediately from 350 to over 5,000 and So that to me was the key thing But then what tends to what happened from there was they were just getting started because then as I just mentioned It rose over 70,000 in the year So you're talking about having if you think about the math there You talk about having 140 that because you have two people and marriage obviously, right? You have 140,000 people have their marriage annulment in a year That's What words should we use for that because I don't think staggering quite does it? You're talking about the numbers are there. They're frankly shocking and so What's the response been well so far? the response of Many of the bishops Has not been what's going on in other words you and I are harassing having a conversation like well, what's going on? Well, that's a really good conversation to have right and Yet, I wonder if that actually goes on and I think ultimately what happens is is that I think that you know people come into Their parish to speak to the priest and I think maybe they've had the civil divorce and then they want to go back to mass and Then it's what conversation of well, maybe we can maybe we can you know get get in an omen through I think that that's probably how many of these begin Here's the problem Matrimony, you know, we have that scene in the Gospels a recount of the Gospels where Jesus institutes the Eucharist and many people walk away and Assurance the Apostles and asks them if they're going to leave too and of course we know, you know the answer of the Apostles and Ultimately many people regarded the Eucharist as a difficult teaching. It's a hard teaching right Now the sacraments are our beautiful teaching, but they can't be hard teachings Many people don't like they don't enjoy going to confession So the idea that that is the normal way for God to forgive sins. It's a hard teaching for them It's a beautiful teaching, but it could be a hard teaching. And so the job of the leadership of the church is to stand by the sacraments and Whether that strikes one as a beautiful hard teaching because if you simply are not following the sacraments And defending them with everything you can It creates a lot of chaos So it just to put it mildly so that that's essentially a problem But I just gave you the long answer to the question But largely it was in the late 1960s I would also stress that a lot of times people sort of laid the problem at the feet of the Second Vatican Council in this particular case That is actually that actually was not the impetus for the changes. It was the American procedural norms You might say that it was you know the sort of the spirit of Vatican II But really if you're looking at the documents and I go over this in detail The second Vatican Council could have phrased things more clearly But marriage was not redefined by the second Vatican Council It was simply and so and again, you don't see the numbers go right from you know The mid 60s it was the late 60s in 1970 where we started to see the numbers increase Also, if we're if we're in the 60s, we'll stay there for a minute We'll talk about a manna vitae of course Pope all the six encyclical on human life and marriage and contraception largely and the rejection of it I had known this maybe on the periphery But reading your book really brought it into such clarity the rejection of Humana vitae came from within the church It came this came from a professor at the Catholic University of America, and it didn't it didn't stop there certainly tell us a bit about that so you had a lot of dissent but but probably the the The most vocal dissenter was named father Charles Kern taught at Catholic University, and I believe it was the day human vitae was released might have been the day after it was like 24 hours after the release of your money vitae He took objection to it called the press and said, you know, he didn't he didn't buy into it The thing we have to remember about a human vitae is is that you money vitae was simply restating what the church had taught since You know many things Since the ink was dry as Dr. William Marster puts it since the ink would before the ink was dry on the New Testament the church's help this help this and So for him to say well, I don't like what's being taught Well, his problem wasn't with you money vitae so much as it was with scripture tradition castee Kenobi You know half a dozen sego calls You know again the fathers of the church so But anyway in any case father Charles Kern took it upon himself to raise a stink when it came to dissenting with you money vitae a lot of other priests joined in The interesting thing about that for our purposes of this book here would be is that The church has consistently maintained infallibly That's the primary purpose of matrimony is the is the procreation and education of children So when you have an objection you money vitae you're essentially your your ultimate objection is not to an encyclical It's to the sacrament of matrimony itself and That's the key part here. So if you're not really going to going along with it There there is with the problem wise but what father current was not alone. This became a very popular opinion And when we go back to the title of my book, we might consider the fact that Father current could have been fired. In fact, I think I think if they try to fire him And then there was a student protest or something and he stayed on for teaching another 20 years or so well That's 20 years worth of heresy. How do you so how do you bounce back from that? So I think that there was a failure to police. There's a failure in the part of the the American bishops to police heretics and Sadly, it wasn't the only case But it was certainly that was that was a significant problem Johnny make a great connection in the book between Frequency disbelief and respect for all of the sacraments and that you can't have Disrespect and disbelief in one sacrament happen without a correlation with another one or with all of them and your primary ones here between the Eucharist and Marriage go into that for us So ultimately I would look at it this way. So it's very simple words matter So are we are we saying that words matter or that they do not so I Do matters this is my body matters And I think ultimately, you know right now we are seeing a Crisis and a crisis in Eucharistic belief. I think that's fair to say and So yeah, I've seen different numbers a third of you know, Catholics don't believe in the Eucharist two-thirds Don't believe in the real presence. Whatever the numbers are the numbers are if they're at all if they're there at all the numbers are high But the problem is is that When you're not defending one sacrament, you're really not defending any of the seven, right? The seven sacraments They're symbiotic they they that's that's how they're structured and so when you create a confusion At least with the sacrament of matrimony like was it valid? We don't want to leave the faithful in a position where they're asking questions like was that sacrament valid? That's very that's very bad. That's not the way that Jesus drew this up And so that creates a huge worry. It's a huge it's a huge concern for the faithful But ultimately it comes down to this one thing words matter. This is my body This is my blood those words matter and the connection between the Eucharist and by the way I I should say that I actually believe that the best part of this book is the part that I didn't write It was it was a forward written by Catherine Godfrey Howell who is a PA who is a doctorate in Canon law and she actually goes through this Very clearly very succinctly. It's a beautiful forward And she talks about this in detail the connection between the Eucharist and matrimony and it's it's you know It's beautiful and I'm hoping that the powers that we actually see that connection because I think that So right now we have a Eucharist revival going on in the church But I think that if that is not accompanied by a matrimonial revival, I don't think it bears much fruit I don't want to say that but I think that's reality and I because I think that People get that idea the problem now is of course is Not as you know, they say that there aren't as many anomalies as they used to be. Yeah, that's true They're also far fewer marriages marriages exactly and so there are fewer marriages to a no and You know at the I highlighted in the book that that you know within my lifetime or so There were over 400,000 marriages annually in the Catholic Church In the year 2020 there were less than 100,000 So you're talking about 75% fewer marriages Today or in 2020 then then there were 50 years prior That's a problem. So people say well, there are fewer in all months now Of course, I'm gonna write at a certain point. They're they're just a few or two and also it's a problem And so what does that tell me? It tells me that many people made a lady aren't even taking marriage seriously They're not taking it seriously because it didn't seem to be taken very seriously when it came to a knowing And my shot I get married if we're just gonna get the filmed anyway, and it's a problem People are getting married. So yeah, the numbers are there. Yeah, what's the point? Talking about people preparing for marriage and the so-called pre pre Kena programs across the the country I'm sure there are great ones, but there are a lot of really awful ones as well I remember the people the couple that did the pre Kena for my future husband and I Told us that we didn't have to be open to life as long as we were open to Being generous with our community and being generous in friendships, right? Isn't that really good? Yeah, really sound Warming heartwarming. Yeah, so much so much diversity so much justice so much compassion and yet no dogma Jaw-droppingly bad stuff across the country How do people like that? Find themselves in charge of pre Kena programs in our American diocese so there was a there was a I Don't know what you'd call this maybe like a trial balloon for Expanding pre Kena to like 16 months or or 18 months or something. It's pretty long But let's do a long pre Kena because it was basically the way that was marketed are at least suggested would have been that it is a Sort of a way to evangelize which I get the idea. I get the good intention but the problem is is that we people have a natural law right to marriage and I don't and I by the way I don't think that 16 months is is fair for lack of a word. I don't think it's just These are two people in love the fact of the matter is is that if the primary purpose of marriage is the procreation education of children Why are we waiting six months to begin?  I was only 21 which I guess is I guess is young didn't feel young Honestly, I met the girl I loved and I wanted I would have gotten married at 18 but you know, I went to college and whatever but I got married at 21 and People sometimes think well, that's really young and they'll they'll they're not shy a lot of times people are not shy about telling you But you know and then they'll say well, you know, do you have the money? Do you have this and that and ultimately What they're really objecting to I think in a way is where you might have a lot of kids I at least that's what I was hearing like you might you know, you might have a lot of children Well, Lisa and I understood Very well That the primary purpose of marriage was the procreation and education of children We understood that quite well and we wanted to get on with it and We have nine children. So I guess we did a pretty decent job But the point is is that to wait 16 months? I don't think that's fair. I don't think that follows the natural law What I would say is this I actually think and I outlined this in the book as you know That's pre cana should start in a cradle my my parents Who were married? decades There if I had to say well, who taught me pre cana was it the priest by the way, I love the priest that taught a pre cana Was it the priest that met with us three or four? Tuesdays in a row and went over some things. I think he did a great job But but primarily my pre cana was my mom and dad It was it was watching Husband and wife in love whose love brought forth children and I Probably couldn't told it told you much about matrimony when I was in my my crib But what I did see is two people to love each other that seemed very intent on caring for me and I think that so the pre cana starts very early and If our job is to teach people about marriage, I really think That that has to count from the pulpit teaching Young young men and young women. What a look for in a spouse I don't remember hearing this sermon and yet. I mean I've been going to mass a while now And I don't remember ever hearing a sermon about that. Who is what you should look for in a spouse? It seems to me that's a very fruitful sermon. I mean Especially when you know when the when the gospel is you know, the wedding feast at cana or there's something pertaining to marriage Why not have that? There's your pre cana By the way, if you're waiting till a few well 16 months is too long But typically if you're waiting, let's say six months to your pre cana You should have already known at that point. What a Suitable a good spouse looked like right, right? You found me So so I really think that in terms of saying no, no, no They're engaged now. We should wait 16 months and make sure they know their faith That should have been going on their whole lives, right? This is like this is a new thing Are we gonna teach them about marriage now? I don't think that's fair to them I think you want to teach them. How do how to be virtuous yourself in other words? If I were hearing that if I were in the pew Listen to that sermon Here's what you young lady should look for any young man. I'd want to be that young man. I Would I would feel you know compelled to like, okay? How do I live more virtually? What how do I? How do I become that I just think we should concentrate on that more so To the myriad of problems surrounding marriage annulments Marriage prep does it feel too overwhelming of a problem? For it that you to see addressed by the Episcopat in The US by the bishops by your local parish priests How do you start to fix this problem that is so just endemic and large in the culture? Well, that's the trick but but the here's what we know for sure we know for sure that sacraments don't break So that means that matrimony is not broken that we know So what does that mean? It means the system is is faulty that means somewhere along the way Something is not going the way that it should be. I think that's fair to say So there is a way to solve this this this issue in the large measure One of the things that we really need to do is get the priests more involved with With with the couples in the young married lives and that doesn't mean just meeting with them a few times before they're married I think it's great the priests meet a lot of times. They really don't or it's sort of a very informal type of thing But you know the priests have to be involved It's a great time for priests to recommend, you know that the couple go to confession It's a great time to get to know them I think they should you know, the priest should remain in their lives In the first few years to like bless their homes, you know I mentioned this in the book and I hope that people realize this is a I think there's a pretty valuable suggestion The blessing of the homes used to be it was pretty common now. It's really rare I think that should be something. I think there's that I think that You know staying with a couple and trying to help them live sacramental lives is good I think the priests the involvement is good. I mean again, look, I'm you know, I'm a solid I'm a Roman Leroy, you know, I Should say I'm a solid Catholic, you know as I mentioned we go to daily Mass. I love priests I want them more involved in in the in lives. I think that's a key part of this I think structurally and The bishops of America could take this as as a bit of a bit of a friendly challenge Please explain why it is that there is a divorce mandate I want to know why there is a civil divorce mandate prior to hearing the annulment because I'll say this How it if reconciliation is possible and I think that many times it is It strikes me that that's awfully hard after you've gotten a civil divorce for one that contends Just divorce is probably gonna run what a hundred thousand dollars. Maybe more. It's not cheap Right, especially in the in the age of you know, you're a lateral divorce and makes it trickier So there's that so there are structural things we can do Again from the pulpit key thing The There has to be some talk from the pulpit about why matrimony is good. Why it's great The fact that God loves marriage God hates divorce. We know that it's in the Bible God loves marriage. How do we know he loves marriage? Well, if you start if you go back to the old testament So when I started in this book, by the way To try to get a sense of like how God designed marriage. I thought it would be a good idea to Let's go all the way back. Let's go back to the garden, right? and God loves marriage and he's you know, adam You know feels a sense of loneliness and then and then and then eve is created So it's actually very beautiful in the sense that in a lot of ways but consider that One so one flesh becomes Becomes two and then two it becomes one. It's beautiful We have to talk about that. We have to emphasize the fact that that God loves marriage and then we go obviously adam and eve messed up pretty badly and You know creation fell But you know, it's interesting too when you read the old testament Thing that that that's that really stood out to me as I did my research is is that as bad As things were around them. I mean you want to talk about the tumultuous relationship. I mean adam and eve. I mean, that's That's pretty rough. I mean it's creation fell And but you know what's interesting is they never get divorced and they don't ever seem to have considered divorce and I say in the book I think that they always remembered how great marriage could be So we go from that story we go to the new testament The new testament The gospel of john, uh, so essentially we're opening up at our wedding scene. We have a wedding at cana We don't know the name of the couple. It's interesting um, we do know that from the beginning of The husband and wife's life together Christ was at the center. He was literally present at their wedding In the east in the eastern church at least and I were married in the eastern right and The first thing we deal with that ceremony is that we walk We put on we we put on crowns and we walk around the gospel book Literally we walk around the gospel so they got to remind us just at the very beginning The gospel is the center of our lives but We go to the the gospel of john mary says they have no wine Now mary knows something is going mary knows that If jesus begins his public life that is the beginning of his road to calvary and yet she asks him And jesus turns water into wine So we know that jesus loves marriage. We know that mary loves marriage And one of the great things that I think is so important for us to focus on particularly in age that is um It's so difficult in so many ways, but it's it's no secret that we live on a pornographic age How do you get out of it? You have an devotion to mary You you you turn to our lady. This is key. This is what we all should be doing But I think we have to remember that from the pulpit what we need to hear is god loves marriage I don't remember ever hearing and maybe I forgot that's Maybe I forgot a priest saying that I don't remember A priest ever saying god loves marriage. Why why aren't we hearing that? Why aren't we hearing that? Five or ten times a year. Why are we thinking it? Why aren't we talking about that? in the book I talk a lot about the book of tabias And uh, the book of tow that I should say and tabias and sarah and their wedding um Because that really shows us what would happen to a wedding to a marriage if You go back and look at the question What if adam had cast the serpent out? He could have done it What if adam had said no? No, no, you cannot you're not going to break our marriage up We just clearly but the serpent was trying to do the serpent was trying to break up a marriage That's that's pretty clear so so what What tabias? Is doing in that and I go into detail about the book of tabias. It's a it's a beautiful It's beautiful. Sadly, uh, the book of the book of tow. But it's not read On any sunday. I believe in the current calendar. It's read every three years And I think that's only part of it. I think part of it is is taken out. Yes, and I talk about that in the book That should be at least once a year we talk about that because because tabias essentially cast a demon out Uh that wanted to wreck his marriage And the demon never came back and they lived a happy life and it was it was great But we need we need to focus on that god loves marriage We need we need to hear that and we we we desperately need to hear the positives It's not just you know, that's one of the that's one of my my hopes for this book is that um This is not a book about annulments per se. Yes, it's in there I I go over that the longest chapter is about annulments because I think that is it's a very significant problem My my my belief though my my stance is not that No marriage should ever have resulted in a finding of nullity. Okay I I think that there were marriages out there. Yes, properly speaking. There should be a finding of nullity It shouldn't be 70 000 but my position is is that that um There are there are relationships that are reconcilable There are we need to know about the goods of marriage We need to know about the beauty of marriage and we need to hear about it from the priests We need to hear about it from the bishops and I can I can talk and you know You know talk about how great marriage is that's that's that's fine. I hope people get a lot out of that I hope I inspire people But the fact of the matter is is that if the church is going to change on this the leadership of the church is Going to change we need to hear it from the priests Precy to tell us how great marriage is they they should know this this is a sacrament I have to keep in mind this is a sacrament. So we need to hear about the beauty of the sacrament I had a reading for the book of tobit at my wedding. I am proud to say beautiful excellent excellent Again, the book is betrayed without a kiss defending marriage after years of failed leadership In the church you can find it here on tan books.com or at your local catholic bookseller john Congratulations on this powerful book very timely for our culture today I hope some of those bishops are watching this are listening and pick up some things that we are couples so desperately Need to hear today all of our families. Thank you so much for being with us Thank you. Mary. I appreciate it so much


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