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Give the Gift of Aloha with a High Seas Gift Card!

High Seas aloha gift cards are always a great idea for for the discerning collector. These can be used used online, by phone or in-store.

We have a huge stock of over 120 aloha shirt designs in sizes Xsmall-4xl in exclusive Hawaiian tropical and novelty designs. Come browse one of the largest selections of Hawaiian shirts in the world with more than 15 collections including car shirts, parrothead, under the seas, surf, music, seasonal and patriotic Hawaiian shirt designs.

All shirts are made in the USA locally with premium 100% high thread count cotton with authentic coconut buttons, side vents for comfort, and a perfectly matched to the design. We are passionate about art and design and you will always find new bold and finely illustrated prints.

2 locations to serve your aloha needs. Visit our flagship store or boutique inside the Open Market OC South County:

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Laguna Hills, Ca 92653

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24100 Laguna Hills Mall

Laguna Hills, Ca 92653

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Men's Hawaiian Shirt Gallery

We are excited to announce a new collection of ladies' aloha shirts in sizes Small-XXL . Our new women's shirts features 15new designs that are made of 100% high thread count combed cotton in bright tropical prints and are all made in the USA. The ladies' cut has a contoured fit with shorter set in sleeves, real coconut buttons, and 4" side slits so shirt can be worn outside or tucked in.

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Aloha Face Mask Co.

In March 2020, at the request of Southern California Hospitals, we began making PPE Face Masks. We then created Aloha Face Mask Co. to bring the "Aloha Spirit" to these challenging times and now have over 110 designs of Hawaiian and novelty designs in our best and boldest designs. These face masks are made in Huntington Beach, Ca and are double layered with the same high thread count combed cotton as our premium Hawaiian shirts.

Aloha Safety Face Masks

Inspired by the Aloha shirts from the golden era of the 1930s-50s, we are committed to make our garments in that same tradition. We start with fine artistic illustrations and convert them to high thread count combed cotton which is tailored in the USA, one of only 2% of manufacturers that still do. We use authentic coconut buttons and have side vents for comfort. For more than 32 years we have been passionate about art, culture, and design and are committed to creating collectible wearable art. View more than 140 designs for men:

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Company History:

Three Decades ago, the journey began in the coastal city of Dana Point, Ca. Drawing inspiration from the ocean, nature, travel, and culture, we are dedicated to converting fine art to cloth which is tailored and brought alive on each one of our Hawaiian shirts. Our shirts have been designed and made in California since 1988.

High Seas Trading Co. is a family run company and is proud to be in the less than 2% of apparel companies that manufacture in the USA. Being a local company gives us the speed and flexibility to make limited edition and small runs of rare fabrics. We are passionate about art and design which drives us to constant design and release 7-10 new prints monthly.

High Seas Trading Co. would like to thank our many customers who have supported us for more than 32years. We have gained valuable feedback and great ideas which has helped us to continually improve our line.

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High Seas and High Stakes Communications: Securing the Maritime …

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Recall the last time that you stood on the shore, enjoying the briny breeze that gently caressed your skin, and the sounds and smells of the sea.You may have noticed in the distance a large sailing vessel.Have you ever considered all the moving parts that contribute to these floating cities? Beyond the logistics of setting out to sea, a ship contains an impressive array of communication devices and capabilities. Whether that ship is in port, or 500 miles from shore, the ship is never without communication.

There are often more than 150,000 ships at sea over a 24-hour period. To add some perspective, this is three times greater than the average number of airplanes that are tracked by the Federal Aviation Administration on any given day. When combined, all the ships at sea form one of the largest mobile communication networks imaginable.As is often the case with a security mindset, this level of complexity creates great challenges.

A ship is capable of ship-to-shore communication at close range through the use of traditional terrestrial radio, or shore stations, and when far out to sea, satellite communication is used. To add to the complexity, there are more than ten satellite companies that provide maritime communication services.The international scope of sea-based communications is governed by both multinational organizations, as well as advisory organizations, such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

It is easy to think that these impenetrable hulls are immune to security problems. After all, they are somewhat akin to a remote island, far removed from our land-locked security concerns. However, there are threats to maritime vessels, both physical, and virtual. In the event that the physical criminals increase their technological competencies, the results to a fleet could (Read more...)

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Romance on the High Seas (1948) – IMDb

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Doris Day was a huge radio and recording star when she appeared in "Romance on the High Seas". However, she was not a movie star...as this is her first film. Some of this shows...particularly her makeup as she is very freckly...which I thought was quite cute but which the studios hid in subsequent movies. She went over very well regardless and Warner Brothers soon signed her to a seven year contract...and she soon became a mega-star in pictures.

The plot is a bit silly. Elvira Kent (Janis Paige) suspects her husband, Michael (Don Defore), is cheating on her. And, he suspects the same thing of her. So they each come up with a plan...she pays Georgia (Doris Day) to pretend to be her and take a cruise while she stays home and secretly keeps an eye on him. And, he hires a detective (Jack Carson) to take the cruise and follow Elvira and prove she's been cheating! But there's a problem...the detective slowly begins to fall in love with the woman who he THINKS is Elvira!

The plot is quite slight...but the picture excellent for many reasons. Carson and Day are simply terrific and Day sings some very lovely tunes. The picture also is quite romantic...and fun and made more so by the presence of some wonderful character actors (S.Z. Sakall, Franklin Pangborn and Oscar Levant). All in all, this is the sort of fun picture Warner Brothers could make best...and you can't help but enjoy it.

By the way, while Defore and Paige receive higher billing, clearly Doris Day was the star or at least co-star of the film. I guess the studio just didn't have much faith in her drawing power...but that wasn't to last!

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Review: ‘The Sea Beast’ is a high-seas animated adventure with surprising depth – WTOP

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The film is done with a nuance that will win your heart regardless of politics, keeping its core themes at the center of the story with beautiful animation and lovable characters.

WTOP's Jason Fraley reviews 'The Sea Beast'

Live-action audiences have set sail in blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean (2003), but theres never been a high-seas animated adventure with this much social depth.

The Sea Beast premieres on Netflix this Friday for families to embark on a voyage that will dazzle the kids and teach parents a thing or two about lauding heroes of the past.

Set in a time resembling Medieval Europe, the film follows a young orphan named Maisie (Zaris-Angel Hator), who stows away on the ship of the famous sea-monster hunter Captain Crow (Jared Harris). She soon finds a father figure in first mateJacob Holland (Karl Urban) as they sail into uncharted waters to pursue the legendary red Sea Beast.

While Jacob looks a lot like Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid (1989) with his white shirt, red sash and blue pants, the rest of the cast is refreshingly diverse from Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast) to Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies), drawn withracial ambiguity and gender fluidity to reflect the real world rather than whitewashed stereotypes.

Directed by Chris Williams, who storyboarded for Frozen (2013), won an Oscar for Big Hero 6 (2014) and should have won for Moana (2016), the computer animation is visually striking right from the opening shipwreck with dynamic flames on realistic waves. The characters are rendered with round strokes compared to the sharp lines of anime.

Sure, hardened cynics could argue that the premise of The Sea Beast borrows heavily from How to Train Your Dragon (2010) with another brave youngster teaching Medieval adults not to fear the unknown, this time replacing Toothless with a sea monster named Red and an adorable sidekick named Blue that acts a lot like Lilo & Stitch (2002).

However, youll mostly forget youre watching a cartoon as Williams crafts a high-seas adventure that feels ripped from the pages of Hemingways The Old Man and the Sea, Melvilles Moby Dick or Benchleys Jaws with seafaring, swashbuckling action echoing Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) or Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk (1940).

The spell is only broken twice. Early on, Captain Crow is dragged underwater by a sea monster, but the next scene hes back on the ship without explaining his apparent rescue. Later,Maisie and Jacob ride inside the Sea Beasts nostril, but no water rushes in. Even if the creature waits to breath above water, some residual water would splash inside, no?

No matter, these are minor nits to pick compared to the brilliant character work byWilliams and co-writer Nell Benjamin, who joined her husband Laurence OKeefe to adaptLegally Blonde for Broadway in 2011, then adapted Mean Girls for the stage in 2018. From Elle Woods to Cady Heron, Benjamin knows coming-of-age pathos, making Maisie a bold hero.

Beneath the action is adeceptively deep social commentary painting the king and queen as tyrants stoking a fear of sea monsters to control the peasants. Its Maisie who first realizes that her monster-hunting ancestors might not have been the heroes she thought, questioning what she learned in history books: They can be heroes and still be wrong.

The idea is that key historical figures (Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee) were deeply flawed. Theres no shame in admitting it, Maisie says, as were all just trying to grow. Perhaps the next generation wont fear cable-news buzzwords like Critical Race Theory because The Sea Beast effectively teaches how to fairly reassess history.

Its all done with a nuance that will win your heart regardless of politics, keeping its core themes at the center of the story with beautiful animation and lovable characters who lift our spirits as thescreen cuts to black for a closing line,Im going to have a great life.

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Canada hopes to lure more nations into fighting illicit fishing on the high seas – Canada’s National Observer

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Canada aims to tackle illegal international fishing and lead global commitments on marine protected areas with the close of the United Nations Ocean Conference last week.

Joyce Murray, minister of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), headed a delegation at the five-day summit in Lisbon with a focus on sharing science and data to solve the ocean crisis driven by climate change, overfishing, biodiversity loss and pollution.

The nations and other stakeholders such as policymakers, scientists and environmental groups at the conference all agree on the urgency and need to protect oceans, Murray told Canadas National Observer on Monday.

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Oceans are critical to buffering a changing climate, absorbing 90 per cent of the excess heat generated by human activity. But theyre in trouble: since 1993, the rate of ocean warming has doubled, leading to the bleaching of coral reefs, shifting fish populations, declines in biodiversity and ocean acidification that negatively impact shelled marine animals.

The global community has to work together on turning things around with the oceans, Murray said, noting climate change is the challenge of a lifetime and healthy oceans are a critical piece of the solution.

But the plague of ocean problems is not the sole focus of international co-operation, Murray added.

It's also about the importance of the ocean to communities and the variety of economic activities from food production to tourism that make (them) so incredibly important to our future.

At the gathering, Canada advocated for priorities such as sustainable fisheries and a global commitment to protecting 30 per cent of ocean area by 2030 in tandem with developing a blue economy, the minister said.

Canada, along with the United Kingdom, United States, Iceland and a number of scientific and ocean protection groups, agreed to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing on the high seas, Murray added.

The scale of the IUU fishing threat is significant, representing 30 per cent of fishing activity globally and taking 26 million tonnes of fish from international waters annually, DFO reports.

Valuable Canadian fish stocks, including salmon and tuna, migrate beyond national boundaries into international waters where an increased threat of IUU fishing exists, the agency said.

The IUU Fishing Action Alliance Pledge commits members to implementing global agreements to prevent illegal fishing, step up monitoring, control and surveillance of illicit fishing and encourage transparency and data sharing.

Canada also shared information at the conference on the technology and methods its using to track IUU fishing, such as its Dark Vessel Detection program, which uses satellite data to help smaller coastal states, such as Ecuador, track illicit fishing in regions of concern like the Galpagos Islands, Murray said.

This ocean conference is about sharing ideas and best practices and being able to move together as a collective of nations more quickly by collaborating, she said.

As a member of the Global Ocean Alliance, Canada also encouraged other countries to commit to the 30x30 pledge to establish marine protected areas (MPAs) that conserve 30 per cent of ocean areas by 2030, Murray said.

While DFO has faced criticism from some First Nations on the West Coast that are tired of waiting on the federal government to establish MPAs, Murray said shes confident any stumbling blocks have been resolved. The MPA process integrates an Indigenous-led conservation model with the departments framework for fisheries management, which has resulted in temporary delays, she explained.

We have a renewed optimism as to how this is working and Im going to do my level best to be a problem-solver, Murray said.

The minister said she expects to make an announcement concerning the B.C. Northern Shelf Marine Protected Area Network on the West Coast before February. Thats when Vancouver will host the fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5), a UN-endorsed conference where stakeholders, scientists and policymakers will hash out baselines for international parameters and protections for MPAs.

Canada took the opportunity of the UN Ocean Conference to invite international partners to IMPAC5, Murray said.

At this point, every country has its own definition of marine protected area and there is no co-ordinated approach, she said.

These kinds of collaborations are all really important for the global community to make progress that's real and measurable and to do it together.

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7 new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV Plus and more (July 8) – Tom’s Guide

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Beat the heat with a sizzling slate of new movies and shows to watch this weekend on Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV Plus and more streaming services. Theres something for everyone, from a true crime drama to a family-friendly animated adventure to teen comedies.

The lineup is led by Black Bird, which features the last TV performance by the late Ray Liotta. The psychological thriller, which is based on actual events, follows a young man (Taron Egerton) looking to get out of a prison sentence by eliciting a confession from a suspected serial killer.

If youre looking for laughs, several new comedies make their debuts. Maggie poses the question, What if seeing the future makes dating even harder? Meanwhile, To All the Boys reverberates in Lana Condors new supernatural outing Boo, Bitch! and Jordan Fishers high school romance Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between.

Fun for the whole family is in store with The Sea Beast, a charming swashbuckling fantasy epic set on the high seas.

Heres our guide on what to watch this weekend.

The late Ray Liotta turns in a final, masterful TV performance in this true crime thriller based on James Keenes autobiographical novel. Hes in a supporting role as a decorated policeman whose son Jimmy (Taron Egerton) has turned out to be a disappointment. The former high school football hero is now facing 10 years in minimum security prison.

Jimmy has a chance to avoid time behind bars, but its a dangerous gambit. He must enter a maximum security facility for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser), in a bid to get Larry to confess to his murdering a string of girls. But Jimmys freedom could come at the steep price of his own life. Black Bird has a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, making it the latest acclaimed Apple TV Plus series.

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The ability to see the future sounds like something that would come in handy while dating, but it turns out to be a total bummer for psychic Maggie (Rebecca Rittenhouse). She has had the gift of foretelling most of her life her schoolmates used to call her Thats Not So Raven and regularly gives readings to family, friends, clients and even random strangers on the street.

Then, Maggie meets a cute history teacher named Ben (David Del Rio) and is shocked when she sees herself in his future. Things get even more complicated when Ben moves next door with his high school sweetheart Jessie (Chloe Bridges). Despite that, Maggie begins to fall for him. Now, her ability seems like a curse.

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The sci-fi mystery/thriller features a big ensemble cast including Joe Manganiello, Dominic Monaghan, Kadeem Hardison and Emma McDonald. Its set a century in the future, when Earth has been ravaged by overpopulation, a toxic environment and wars over dwindling resources. The planets only hope is Moonhaven, a 500 square mile lunar colony where residents with the help of a power AI are racing to find solutions.

Just as the long-awaited rescue/return to Earth is to occur, the idyllic colony is shocked by a murder. A pair of detectives, a pilot, an envoy and a bodyguard are pulled into the investigation, which uncovers a deeper conspiracy that could destroy humanity.

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Netflix may have another family-friendly animated hit on the level of Mitchells vs the Machines on its hands. Oscar-winning writer/director Chris Williams (Big Hero 6, Moana) is behind this action-packed adventure set in a fantastical universe where giant monsters roam the seas.

The brave crews who hunt the monsters are celebrated as heroes. A young girl named Maisie Brumble (voiced by Zaris-Angel Hator) dreams of fighting alongside her favorite hunter, Jacob Holland (Karl Urban) and stows away on his ship. Led by Captain Crow (Jared Harris), they sail into uncharted waters to pursue the biggest conquest yet, the legendary Red Bluster. But Maisie and Jacob soon discover the monsters are not what they seem.

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This cheeky supernatural teen comedy brings To All the Boys star Lana Condor back to Netflix as a motherf*%king ghost. High school senior Erika Vu is a bit of a wallflower whos spent more time on academics than her social life. Her best friend Gia (Zoe Colletti) convinces her to go to a big party, where she attracts the notice of handsome Jake C. (Mason Versaw). Think Booksmart, but with a supernatural twist.

After the successful outing, Erika decides to let loose for the rest of the year just before shes hit by a semi and dies. Somehow, shes able to stick around as a ghost but only if she becomes famous in the afterlife. With newfound confidence, Erika embarks on a quest to achieve popularity (and a big social media following). But her no f***s to give attitude may turn her into a truly horrific monster: a mean girl.

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Based on Jennifer E. Smiths young adult novel, this teen romantic comedy comes from the producers of the To All the Boys franchise and stars P.S. I Still Love Yous Jordan Fisher. Seniors Aidan (Fisher) and Clare (Talia Ryder) have a meet-cute at the beginning of senior year, but shes skeptical about whether love can last. So, while theyre on their first date, the couple makes a pact to break up before heading to college.

After a whirlwind courtship, the deadline approaches, so Clare and Aidan go on one last epic date which they spend retracing the steps of their relationship, like their first kiss and their first argument. But when the night ends, will these two crazy kids actually say goodbye?

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Television has seen plenty of emergency responders saving lives in hospitals and fighting fires. In SkyMed, theyre soaring through the sky. The Canadian medical drama follows nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote northern Canada.

They experience triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations as they face life-or-death situations in remote, rural areas. Out in the wilderness, they have no one else to rely on but each other. The ensemble cast includes Natasha Calis, Ace Nadjiwon, Morgan Holmstrom, Praneet Akilla and Aaron Ashmore .

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Man Accused Of Killing Mother At Sea To Inherit Her Millions Seeks Pre-Trial Release – Oxygen

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The Vermont man awaiting trial for his mothers high seas murder hopes to be released from federal custody.

Nathan Carman, 28, is accused of killing his mother on the high seas in 2016 in what prosecutors say was a diabolical plot to inherit millions. He has been in jail since his arrest but, on Wednesday, Carmans attorneys filed a motion seeking the defendants freedom between now and the upcoming trial, according to the Associated Press.

The motion, filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, promises that Carman is not a flight risk, despite prosecutors' claims.

Defense attorneys also argued that Carman would not pose a threat to society, citing his behavior during the years-long investigation.

At no time during that lengthy period has Mr. Carman ever attempted to threaten a witness, contact a witness inappropriately, or sought to influence a witness in any way, the motion stated. There is no evidence to support such a claim now.

During Carmans May arraignment, Vermont U.S. Attorney Nikolas Kerest claimed that because Carman was capable of killing his own relatives, nothing is off the table, including the possibility of harming others, according to CT Insider.

In Wednesdays filing, Carmans legal representation called the evidence against him tenuous at best.

Attorneys offered to attach conditions to Carmans potential release. If approved, Carman would be required to surrender his passport and be subject to electronic monitoring. They also claimed Carman would have to leave all of his confiscated funds a total of $10,000 to a separate party or contribute those funds as part of his bail.

Federal agents found the aforementioned $10,000 in cash during a May search of Carmans home, according to CT Insider. It was part of the foundation for why prosecutors considered Carman a flight risk to begin with.

Wednesdays filing also referenced Carmans strong ties to the community formed during his eight years living in Vernon, Vermont. According to his attorneys, Carman has maintained a quiet life between attending church and participating in town forums.

Linda Carman and her sonset off from the Ram Point Marina in South Kingston, Rhode Islandaboard a fishing boat named Chicken Pox"shortly after 11:00 p.m. on Sept. 18, 2016,according to the Associated Press.

The U.S. Coast Guard initiated an extensive search and rescue mission when the pair failed to return the next day as previously planned.

Nathan Carman was rescued near Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts eight days after the two set sail. Hetold Coast Guard investigators that the Chicken Pox began to take on water, forcing him to swim to a nearby inflatable life raft. When he called for his mother, he was unable to find her.

Neither Linda nor the boat was ever recovered.

Investigators, however, believe Nathan Carman murdered his mother on Sept. 18, 2016, off eastern Long Island before purposefully sinking the boat, according to the Hartford Courant. He then tried and failed to cash in on an $85,000 insurance claim for the loss of the boat one month after his rescue.

Federal prosecutors say Nathan Carman stood to gain $7 million from his mothers death money she inherited after the as-yet unsolved murder of her father, 87-year-old John Chakalos, in 2013.

Per the eight-count indictment charging Nathan Carman with his mothers murder and several counts of fraud, he has long been suspected of gunning down his grandfather on Dec. 20, 2013, as the elderly man slept in his Windsor, Connecticut, home.

Nathan Carman has not as yet been officially charged with Chakalos homicide.

Prosecutors accuse Nathan Carman of lying when they asked and he denied ever purchasing a Sig Sauer rifle weeks before Chakalos murder. According to the indictment, Carman had, in fact, bought the rifle using his New Hampshire drivers license.

Authorities believe Nathan Carman spent his portion of Chakalos inheritance about $550,000 in total between 2014 and 2016. When that money was gone, prosecutors say, he began concocting a way to kill his mother.

During Nathan Carmans arraignment, federal prosecutors claimed he lived with untreated mental health issues, citing his alleged history of social difficulties and explosive rages, according to CT Insider.

Carmans alleged conduct clearly illustrates danger to the community, U.S. Attorney Kerest stated. The evidence shows that he killed not once but twice.

Whether or not Nathan Carman will be granted conditional release has yet to be decided.

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Ubisoft finally shows us Skull and Bones, and it just makes me want to play Sea of Thieves – PC Gamer

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After years of waiting, Ubisoft's open-world game of high seas piracy Skull and Bones (opens in new tab) is just about ready to set sail. We got our first proper look at it during today's Ubisoft Forward event, and more importantly we have a release date too: November 8 is when it finally arrives.

Skull and Bones is set in the Indian Ocean at the end of the 17th century, during the so-called Golden Age of Piracy. From humble beginnings at a small pirate outpost, players will set out to build their empires and legends by taking contracts, earning treasure, and expanding their fleets in "visceral, fast-paced, rewarding" PvE and optional PvP combat, according to Ubisoft. The only currency that really matters, though, is reputation: As a player's infamy grows, access to new ships, weapons, armor, and other equipment will become available, as will more lucrativeand more dangerousopportunities.

Players who prefer a life of solitary plunder can take on Skull and Bones solo, but it's built with a focus on co-op play. Each server can handle up to 20 players, who can team up in groups of two or three to attack convoys, plunder outposts, or square off against others who have opted into PvP battles. And yes, it's a live game: Ubisoft plans regular updates with new content, activities, and challenges "for many years to come."

For as long as Ubisoft has been working on Skull and Bones, I'm not entirely convinced it looks fun. It's essentially a spinoff of the naval exploration and combat in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, which came out in 2013, and it shows: I may be spoiled by Sea of Thieves, but the first thing I looked at in the live Skull and Bones gameplay presentation was the water, and it just does not compare. Neither does the movement of ships, which to my eye seem to handle like something you'd jack in a Far Cry game.

Gameplay didn't really knock my socks off either. Plundering ports is completed by entering a specific area of water and waiting for a progress bar to fill up, which isn't what I'd call the height of excitement, especially compared to (again, sorry) Sea of Thieves, where if you want the treasure you actually have to get off your ship to go get it. And there are no player-controlled crews, either: Each ship in Skull and Bones is controlled by a single player, while crews are made up entirely of NPCs. That might be better for workplace safetyyou won't have your whole damn ship and crew blown up (opens in new tab) because Dread Pirate Wes was horsing around in the captain's quartersbut getting up to shenanigans with the gang is what made Sea of Thieves so much fun for me.

I can only judge so much based on a video, and maybe Skull and Bones will play better than it looks. But I'm not convinced that a "darker and grittier approach" to piracy, as Ubisoft put it, with a greater focus on grinding than on goofing around, is all that interesting an idea in the first place, and what Ubisoft showed here today isn't changing my mind.

Skull and Bones will be available on PC through Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Store, and will feature crossplay and cross-progression on other platforms including the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X-S, and Stadia. Pricing has not been announced.

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Battling Mountainous Seas Powerless Bulker is Moved to Shelter – The Maritime Executive

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Portland Bay has been anchored in a sheltered areas to ride out the weather (Peter Williams/Twitter)

PublishedJul 5, 2022 4:20 PM by The Maritime Executive

Australian authorities were forced to switch to an alternate salvage plan for a disabled bulker caught in a fierce storm off the southern coast after a towline parted and the crew aboard reported that they were not able to complete repairs to the ships engine. After a struggle against high seas and heavy winds, they are now reporting the Pacific Basin bulker Portland Bay has been positioned in a more sheltered area where it should be able to ride out the storm.

Forecasting a temporary break in the bad weather that has plagued the bulker, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority early on July 6 has ordered that the vessel must move to a berth at Botany Bay on Wednesday."Bad weather preventing the movement of the vessel into harbor has now subsided. The vessel must comply with the direction to move to harbor today as more bad weather is forecast for Thursday," wrote AMSA in issuing its legal direction to the ship's master.

The efforts to secure the bulker began early on July 4 when the vessel reported that it had lost power after an engine failure. Unable to hold its position with its anchors, the vessel was in danger of being washed ashore onsome of Australias most pristine coastline. Fearing that the vessel would be driven onto the rocks, the authorities first attempted to airlift the crew off the ship, but the winds and high seas made it impossible, so they decided to pull the bulker out to sea.

The ongoing severe weather conditions makes moving the Portland Bay extremely hazardous so the vessel is being supported in position until the weather eases, said Captain Philip Holliday, CEO of Port Authority of NSW which is overseeing the efforts. Based on current weather forecasts, it is expected that the ship will remain offshore until at least Wednesday.

Three tugs were being used to reposition the vessel and as of Monday evening were making progress traveling at approximately 1.5 knots. The goal was to maintain a position approximately 12 nm offshore while the crew attempted to make repairs. However, the efforts to reposition the vessel stalled overnight as the towline parted.

With 11-meter swells experienced last night, an operational decision was made to suspend further attempts to tow the ship out to sea, explained Holliday.

The Premier of New South Wales spoke to reporters on Tuesday saying "I thank very much the crews of those tugs for the heroic work they did overnight. The Maritime Union of Australia echoed a similar sentiment, saying that crews reported the seas mountainous. The Ports Authority also posted a short video to show the challenging sea conditions.

They elected to move the vessel to the north into a sheltered area. The 28,000 dwt bulker has been positioned approximately 1.2 nautical miles off Port Botany with one tug remaining attached to the vessel. In addition, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority arranged for Svitzers heavy-duty tug Glenrock to travel from its homeport in Newcastle to provide support.

The third Emergency Tow Vessel, Glenrock has arrived onsite after punching through southerly headwinds and over 10-meter seas during the passage from Newcastle, said Holliday. The specialized vessel with additional deep-sea response capability, Glenrock, will be key in the next phase when moving the Portland Bay to safety.

The crew had initially reported that they had spare parts aboard and believed they could complete the repairs. However, as of Monday evening, they reported that it would require additional work. The plan is now to tow the Portland Bay to Port Botany where it will complete repairs.

Those smaller tugs have done amazing work over the past 24-36 hours ensuring the stricken vessel did not drift into the coastline," said AMSA Executive Director Response Mark Morrow. Explaining that the larger Glenrock has now secured towing cables, he said it is vital that the Portland Bay be moved into safe harbor before the next front of bad weather arrives.

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Taika Waititi Explains His Vision For Representation In Thor: Love And Thunder – Looper

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From a representation standpoint, one of the highlights of the God of Thunder's (Chris Hemsworth) latest adventure is the characterization of Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), who is canonically bisexual in the comics. Before the film's release, Taika Waititi stated his support for exploring Valkyrie's sexuality in "Thor: Love and Thunder."

In a more recent sitdown with IndieWire, Waititi talked about his efforts to introduce queer characters and relationships into projects like "Our Flag Means Death" and his latest MCU outing. "What I love about [Our Flag Means Death] is that it's so normalized. No character ever says, 'I can't believe they're gay,'" said Waititi, adding that he was interested in the portrayal of the concept that "it's just a given that there's queerness on the high seas."

Similarly, he wanted the sexuality of characters like Valkyrie and Korg (Waititi) in "Love and Thunder" to be seen as no big deal within the narrative of the film. "It's the idea that these things just are, in a Marvel film, in a mainstream film that young, queer people will see," shared Waititi. "No one bats an eyelid and there's no monologue about it. Nobody ever stands up and says 'This is OK!' It just is OK. I think that's very important."

Now, it's up to the fans to discuss whether the latest "Thor" adventure lives up to Waititi's stated vision of representation in movies and TV.

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The Metals Company and Allseas – GuruFocus.com

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NEW YORK, May 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TMC the metals company Inc. ( TMC) (TMC or the Company), an explorer of the worlds largest estimated undeveloped source of critical battery metals, today announced the successful deployment of a riser system and flexible jumper hose which, alongside the robotic nodule collector vehicle, represent key components of the pilot nodule collection system designed by the Companys strategic partner and shareholder, Allseas Group S.A. (Allseas).

Engineers aboard the Hidden Gem vessel deployed the flexible jumper hose, connected it to the base of the riser and then launched the pilot riser, lowering the assembly to a depth of around 650m meters. Using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) installed on the Hidden Gem, engineers then made a sub-sea connection between the jumper hose and collector vehicle which was previously deployed to the seafloor in 745m water depth. Allseas used the derrick onboard the former drillship for at-sea construction of the pilot riser system which will ultimately extend to 4km deep when deployed later this year in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean.

The pilot system being tested by Allseas will be the basis for TMCs first commercial production system, and in March the companies announced a non-binding term sheet outlining the terms for developing and operating the worlds first commercial system to collect deep-sea polymetallic nodules to meet surging demand for critical battery metals.

Straight off the back of our collector trials, Allseas have once again shown why nobody else in the offshore business can think as big, or move as fast, said Gerard Barron, CEO & Chairman of The Metals Company. With the first deep-water deployment of the riser system and subsea connection between the collector and the riser successfully under our belts, we look forward to applying the lessons learned as we hook up and deploy the prototype collection system in the Pacific later this year.

Since 2019, Allseas and TMC have been working together to develop a pilot system to responsibly collect unattached polymetallic nodules from the seafloor and lift them to the surface for transportation to shore. Nodules contain high grades of nickel, manganese, copper and cobalt key metals required for building electric vehicle batteries and renewable energy technologies.

Previously, TMC and Allseas announced successful trials of the nodule collector vehicle in deep-water in the Atlantic [see video] as well as harbor wet-test commissioning and shallow-water drive tests in the North Sea. All trials to date are in preparation for full pilot nodule collection system trials later this year over an 8 km2 section of the NORI-D contract area in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean. The trials are an integral part of the International Seabed Authoritys regulatory and permitting process and the environmental impact data collected both during and after the upcoming nodule collection test work, together with many terabytes of existing baseline data collected by TMC, will form the basis of the application for an exploitation contract by its wholly-owned subsidiary, Nauru Ocean Resources, Inc. (NORI).

Development of technologies to collect polymetallic nodules first began in the 1970s when oil, gas and mining majors including Shell, Rio Tinto (Kennecott) and Sumitomo successfully conducted pilot test work in the CCZ, collecting over ten thousand tons of nodules. In the decades since, the ISA was established to develop the regulatory framework to govern mineral extraction in the high seas while technology development efforts have largely focused on scaling proven nodule collection technologies and optimizing for minimal seafloor disturbance and environmental impact.

About The Metals Company

TMC the metals company Inc. (The Metals Company) is an explorer of lower-impact battery metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules, on a dual mission: (1) supply metals for the clean energy transition with the least possible negative environmental and social impact and (2) accelerate the transition to a circular metal economy. The company through its subsidiaries holds exploration rights to three polymetallic nodule contract areas in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean regulated by the International Seabed Authority and sponsored by the governments of Nauru, Kiribati and the Kingdom of Tonga. More information is available at http://www.metals.co.

About AllseasAllseas is a world-leading contractor in the offshore energy market, with dynamism, rapid progress and pioneering spirit at its core. Allseas specialise in offshore pipeline installation, heavy lift and subsea construction. The company employs over 4000 people worldwide and operates a versatile fleet of specialised heavy-lift, pipelay and support vessels, designed and developed in-house. More information about Allseas is available at http://www.allseas.com.

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Certain statements made in this press release are not historical facts but are forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements generally are accompanied by words such as believe, may, will, estimate, continue, anticipate, intend, expect, should, would, plan, predict, potential, seem, seek, future, outlook and similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters, including related to upcoming trials in TMCs NORI-D contract area and future offshore operations. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Most of these factors are outside TMCs control and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: Allseas ability to conduct a full pilot nodule collection trial in the Clarion Clipperton Zone; TMCs ability to enter into definitive agreement(s) with Allseas with respect to the proposed strategic alliance to develop and operate a commercial collection system on terms and conditionals substantially similar to those set forth in the non-binding terms sheet; the successful completion of the pilot collection tests; TMCs ability to obtain exploitation contracts for its areas in the CCZ; regulatory uncertainties and the impact of government regulation and political instability on TMCs resource activities; changes to any of the laws, rules, regulations or policies to which TMC is subject; the impact of extensive and costly environmental requirements on TMCs operations; environmental liabilities; the impact of polymetallic nodule collection on biodiversity in the CCZ and recovery rates of impacted ecosystems; TMCs ability to develop minerals in sufficient grade or quantities to justify commercial operations; the lack of development of seafloor polymetallic nodule deposit; uncertainty in the estimates for mineral resource calculations from certain contract areas and for the grade and quality of polymetallic nodule deposits; risks associated with natural hazards; uncertainty with respect to the specialized treatment and processing of polymetallic nodules that TMC may recover; risks associated with collective, development and processing operations; fluctuations in transportation costs; testing and manufacturing of equipment; risks associated with TMCs limited operating history; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; risks associated with TMCs intellectual property; and other risks and uncertainties, including those under Item 1A Risk Factors in TMCs Annual Report on Form 10-K for the quarter ended December 31, 2021, filed by TMC with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 25, 2022, and in TMCs other future filings with the SEC. TMC cautions that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. TMC cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. TMC does not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in its expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based except as required by law.

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AscendTMS Becomes The First TMS Software To Provide Live Trucking Insurance Quotes With New Program – DC Velocity

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Tampa, Florida June 6, 2022 CarrierHQ, a rapidly growing Indianapolis based Insurtech firm today announces a partnership with InMotion Global, Inc., maker of AscendTMS, the worlds #1 rated and most popular TMS software, to bring Aons Small Fleet Advantage program to AscendTMS users.

Small Fleet Advantage is the trucking industrys first and only commercial trucking insurance program to support 100% online quoting, buying, and binding of policies that offer monthly in-term adjustments based on driving data from electronic logging devices (ELDs). This program gives carriers with 1-20 trucks control of their insurance costs.

A service offering focused on this segment of trucking has long been missing from the market. By partnering with AscendTMS, we are bringing an attractive insurance solution and transforming its delivery with instant quotes, same day binding, and hassle-free online enrollment designed for a fleet on the go. This offering provides an advantage to the largest segment of the motor carrier market, carriers with 1-20 trucks, by giving them direct control of their insurance costs including the opportunity to save up to 30% each month with safe driving, said Brion St Amour, COO, CarrierHQ. This launch is particularly important to us as it brings our rapidly growing program to AscendTMSs industry leading platform.

Tim Higham, CEO of AscendTMS, said; An overwhelming request we get again and again from our fleet users is the ability to quickly quote and bind competitively priced liability, physical damage and cargo insurance coverage. They want the ability to quote and bind quickly, while also getting credit for safe driving. Aon and CarrierHQ offers the only insurance program that offers fleets the ability to start saving up to 30% each month on their policy, as long as they are driving safely. AscendTMS is the only TMS software to offer this program. In fact, we are so excited to partner with CarrierHQ to bring Small Fleet Advantage that we are offering a Premium AscendTMS subscription, for free, for a full 3 months for just for getting started with a CarrierHQ quote.

To get the CarrierHQ free TMS offer, see: https://thefreetms.com/features/carrierhq

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Chris Parker - AscendTMS(813) 681-5000 x1344CParker@InMotionGlobal.com

About InMotion Global InMotion Global, Inc. provides their free and award-winning Transportation Management System, AscendTMS, to freight shippers, freight brokers, and trucking companies. AscendTMS is used by thousands of companies in over 30 countries, from small single-person logistics operations to multi-billion-dollar international corporations and can manage any logistics operation. AscendTMS is the worlds leading cloud-based TMS software and ranked as the number one TMS software by Crowd Reviews, Capterra, and Software Advice (a Gartner company). InMotion Global, Inc. is headquartered in Brandon, Florida. Learn more at http://www.TheFreeTMS.com or at http://www.InMotionGlobal.com.

About CarrierHQCarrierHQ (www.carrierhq.com) is a leading technology firm providing industry-leading insurance technology and related products and services to help a new or existing fleet to make growing their business easier. One convenient place for insurance, factoring, ELD's, and more.

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BrainsWay Announces Insurance Coverage by Israeli Ministry of Health for the Treatment of Depression – GuruFocus.com

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BURLINGTON, Mass. and JERUSALEM, June 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BrainsWay Ltd. (NASDAQ & TASE: BWAY), (BrainsWay or the Company), a world leader in advanced and non-invasive treatment for brain disorders, announced today that, for the first time, the Israeli Ministry of Health has approved coverage applicable to its Deep TMS system for the treatment of depression. The inclusion of the treatment within Israels health basket of essential medical services means that the countrys health funds must now make the treatment available to qualifying patients free of charge.

Qualifying patients include adults over the age of 21 with depression who have either not responded to two prior antidepressants, or who are intolerant to other treatment alternatives. Coverage may be provided for up to 40 treatment sessions, which are to be administered in hospitals.

We are excited to have achieved this significant milestone in accessing treatment with our Deep TMS system, which is renowned as an Israeli innovation. This is good news for many Israeli patients who have been waiting for greater access to our unique technology," said Dr. Christopher von Jako, President and CEO of BrainsWay. Since BrainsWays inception, the Company has always maintained an important presence in Israel, with key management, research, development, and operational roles, as well as leading physicians, based in Israel. "Facilitating insurance coverage through Israels health system is a key component of our growth strategy. We remain committed to further expanding insurance coverage in Israel and around the world in order to expand access to our groundbreaking treatment for the benefit of patients across the globe."

About BrainsWayBrainsWay is a global leader in advanced noninvasive neurostimulation treatments for mental health disorders. The Company is boldly advancing neuroscience with its proprietary Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Deep TMS) platform technology to improve health and transform lives. BrainsWay is the first and only TMS company to obtain three FDA-cleared indications backed by pivotal studies demonstrating clinically proven efficacy. Current indications include major depressive disorder (including reduction of anxiety symptoms, commonly referred to as anxious depression), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and smoking addiction. The Company is dedicated to leading through superior science and building on its unparalleled body of clinical evidence. Additional clinical trials of Deep TMS in various psychiatric, neurological, and addiction disorders are underway. Founded in 2003, with offices in Burlington, MA and Jerusalem, Israel, BrainsWay is committed to increasing global awareness of and broad access to Deep TMS. For the latest news and information about BrainsWay, please visit http://www.BrainsWay.com.

Forward-Looking StatementThis press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements may be preceded by the words intends, may, will, plans, expects, anticipates, projects, predicts, estimates, aims, believes, hopes, potential or similar words. These forward-looking statements and their implications are based on the current expectations of the management of the Company only and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In addition, historical results or conclusions from scientific research and clinical studies do not guarantee that future results would suggest similar conclusions or that historical results referred to herein would be interpreted similarly in light of additional research or otherwise. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: inadequacy of financial resources to meet future capital requirements; changes in technology and market requirements; delays or obstacles in launching and/or successfully completing planned studies and clinical trials; failure to obtain approvals by regulatory agencies on the Companys anticipated timeframe, or at all; inability to retain or attract key employees whose knowledge is essential to the development of Deep TMS products; unforeseen difficulties with Deep TMS products and processes, and/or inability to develop necessary enhancements; unexpected costs related to Deep TMS products; failure to obtain and maintain adequate protection of the Companys intellectual property, including intellectual property licensed to the Company; the potential for product liability; changes in legislation and applicable rules and regulations; unfavorable market perception and acceptance of Deep TMS technology; inadequate or delays in reimbursement from third-party payers, including insurance companies and Medicare; inability to commercialize Deep TMS, including internationally, by the Company or through third-party distributors; product development by competitors; inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications, which could cause the actual results or performance of the Company to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward-looking statements.

Any forward-looking statement in this press release speaks only as of the date of this press release. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by any applicable securities laws. More detailed information about the risks and uncertainties affecting the Company is contained under the heading Risk Factors in the Companys filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Contacts:Scott Areglado SVP and Chief Financial Officer617-771-2287[emailprotected]

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Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy is now available for Utah businesses to offer as an employee benefit – Utah Business – Utah Business

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Salt Lake City Numinus Wellness Inc. (Numinus, the Company) (TSX: NUMI) (OTCQX:NUMIF), a mental health care company advancing innovative treatments and safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies, is pleased to announce the launch of aUtah-based pilot program to help businesses improve employee mental health by offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) as a health benefit for eligible employees (Corporate KAP).

While NuminusUtahclinics, operating under the Cedar Psychiatry brand, have secured insurance coverage from select insurance companies for direct billing of ketamine for treatment-resistant depression, access remains a challenge for many patients. To bridge this gap, Cedar Psychiatry andUtah-based HempLucid have been piloting Corporate KAP since 2019 to ensure that its employees with a mental health diagnosis can access the care they need. Per the arrangement, HempLucid covers the cost of ketamine infusions while leveraging its existing healthcare insurance plan to support the therapy component of KAP.

Its been revolutionary to how we operate as a business, saysChase Hudson, founder and CEO of HempLucid. Offering ketamine treatments to our employees has shown incredible benefits for healing, positivity, and productivity in the work environment. We are in a new era. A new social contract is being formed between employees and employers, and businesses are being forced to take a look at the mental health of their employees. Were working hard to get out ahead of it and take care of our people in a proactive way.

With mental illness considered among the highest cost drivers for employers, investing in workers mental health is becoming a top priority for business leaders. Mental illness accounts for 70 percent of workplace disability costs.1A study by Deloitte found that the median yearly return-on-investment of CAN$1.00 spent on mental health programs was CAN$2.18 among companies that had mental health initiatives in place for three or more years.2Corporate KAP is an innovative way to help employers increase productivity, lower absenteeism, and reduce disability costs by improving employee mental health.

Dr.Reid Robison, Chief Clinical Officer, Numinus, commented: Its more important than ever to take care of our individual and collective mental health. This pilot expands access to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in the interest of not only helping individuals and families but also a global workforce that continues to report increases in stress and burnout. It is truly inspiring to see a company like HempLucid take care of employees in this way.

Numinus recently completed the acquisition of Novamind, which includes eight clinics inUtahoperating asCedar Psychiatryand two clinics inArizonaoperating asFoundations for Change. Numinus is currently exploring how the Corporate KAP service offering can be expanded throughout its 13 clinics across North America.

Numinus Cedar Psychiatry clinics offer patients access to a range of mental health services, including ketamine therapy, transcranial-magnetic stimulation (TMS), Spravato, talk therapy, and medication management.

To learn about Corporate KAP for employers, visit:www.cedarpsychiatry.com/corporate-kapTo see a video about the Corporate KAP program being offered at HempLucid, visit: https://youtu.be/RIu1axMAS7k.

About Numinus

Numinus Wellness (TSX: NUMI) helps people to heal and be well through the development and delivery of innovative mental health care and access to safe, evidence-based psychedelic-assisted therapies. The Numinus model including psychedelic research, production, and clinic care is at the forefront of a transformation aimed at healing rather than managing symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma, pain, and substance use. At Numinus, we are leading the integration of psychedelic-assisted therapies into mainstream clinical practice and building the foundation for a healthier society.

Learn more atwww.numinus.comandwww.cedarpsychiatry.com, and follow us onLinkedIn,Facebook,Twitter, andInstagram.

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Traffic Management Software Market is set to Fly High Growth in Years to Come | MercuryGate TMS, Cisco Syst… – Brits in Kenya

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Cisco Systems, Inc. (United States), MercuryGate TMS (United States), Keysoft Solutions Ltd (United Kingdom), Transoft Solutions, Inc. (Canada), Chetu Inc. (United States), BioEnable Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (India), Assignar Pty Ltd (Australia), PTV Group (Germany), Elgin (United Kingdom), McCain, Inc. (United States),

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Traffic congestion is a major problem across the globe. A traffic management software is used to ensure safety of the road construction workers and for the traffic which is using the roads. Further safety, it is also essential to make sure that the flow of traffic is slowed down as less as possible. A traffic management enables pedestrians and vehicles to move around a live carriageway safely according to certain conditions such as roadworks, heavy transport or large events. The global traffic management software market is expected to witness a high growth in near future owing to rising demand for effective traffic management solutions.

The Global Traffic Management Software Market segments and Market Data Break Down are illuminated below:

by Type (Smart Signaling, Route Guidance, Traffic Analytics, Smart Surveillance), Application (Urban Traffic, Inter-Urban, Parking Management, Others), Deployment Mode (On-Premises, Cloud Based)

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Region Included are: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Oceania, South America, Middle East & Africa

Country Level Break-Up: United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Nigeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Turkey, Russia, France, Poland, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand etc.

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Chapter 4: Presenting the Traffic Management Software Market Factor Analysis, Porters Five Forces, Supply/Value Chain, PESTEL analysis, Market Entropy, Patent/Trademark Analysis.

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Chapter 6: Evaluating the leading manufacturers of the Traffic Management Software market which consists of its Competitive Landscape, Peer Group Analysis, BCG Matrix & Company Profile

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Ex-atheist Uses Car to Show Jesus’ Love on the Streets of Curitiba – Adventist News Network

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Eric Cristofher is 26 years old and lives in Curitiba, capital of Paran. Since April, he has been working for an rideshare transport company. As a Seventh-day Adventist, on Sabbaths, he sets aside this day for communion with God and rest with his family. However, it was not always like this. Several challenges and trials are part of his trajectory.

An atheist for eight years, Cristofher met Jesus at 20, and after studying the Bible, he decided to be baptized. At the time, I understood that only Jesus saves, and that's why we live here, he highlights. His clinging to the side of Christ would bring him challenges and a life of daily evangelism in his future work.

Even at the beginning of his adult life, Cristofher felt a strong desire to buy a car to evangelize. Always attentive to promotions, he awaited the dreamed-for day when he could have his own car. At that time, he understood God always meets the needs of human beings and therefore made a deal with the Lord: God, I want to have a car to serve You. If [You] give me a car, all the songs played in it will be from Rdio Novo Tempo, Cristofher recalls. He understood life as a rideshare driver would also be a ministry of evangelization, and in this context of faith and fidelity, he managed to acquire a car.

Proof of Fidelity

In addition to his activity as a rideshare driver, Cristofher was looking for a second job. He managed to schedule an interview for the position of driver in a transport company. It seemed everything was heading towards the much-desired hiring until the secretary informed him that candidates selected for the vacancy must work on Saturdays.

As Cristofher left that place with a broken heart, he prayed to God, saying he would honor the agreement made and not accept the proposal. The same day, the company secretary called to say he had been accepted for the position. He rejected it in order to honor the Sabbath commandment. In response to the young Cristofher's position, the secretary declared, "The company does not [concede] Saturday."

A week after that call, the same company returned the contact and informed Cristofher that management had talked about his situation, as they were interested in his profile, and would give the young man the opportunity to work with Saturdays off.

Excited, still not believing what had happened, Cristofher thanked Jesus for the gifts He gives to those who are faithful.

My Work, My Ministry

Currently driving through the streets of Curitiba, Cristofher is the only employee for whom the company made an exception regarding Saturdays. The young man makes the most of his two jobs to evangelize. In a ride, the passenger was going to buy drugs. My car always runs with Rdio Novo Tempo tuned in. At that moment, all I thought about was saving that boy. That's when I started talking about Jesus. Soon he started to get emotional and gave up going to that destination, he says.

Crisofher has a motto in his heart: "The car is mine and Jesus'. We are partners." He concludes, "I'm passionate about cars and all this mechanical area. My big goal in having a car has always been to evangelize and save souls for the kingdom of heaven."

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I have a Christmas present for all you Christians out there. This atheists going to tell you whats wrong with your religion.

Mohandas Gandhi was a Hindu who read passages from the New Testament every day. When asked if he ever contemplated converting to Christianity, he said he had, and then I met one. Who the Mahatma probably ran into is one of the plethora of hypocrites who degrade a religion that, if its original precepts are strictly followed, would lead one to a pure and righteous life. The problem isnt Christianity. Its Christians.

In 1 Peter 4:8, the Apostle says, Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins, yet many of those who call themselves Christians hate their brothers because of their race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual preference, social standing, or any other feature thats different from theirs.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you, said the Prince of Peace in John 14:27, yet people who profess to be his followers kill their brothers in the name of Jesus Christ. Throughout history, religion has been a major cause of war and Christians have been at the forefront. Since the Reformation, Catholics and Protestants have gone at it repeatedly, both sides professing to represent the one true way.

The Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 6:10 writes, For the love of money is the root of all evil, yet so-called Christians worship the false god of money as if it will buy their way into heaven. The only time Christ lost his cool was when he threw the money changers out of the temple.

The vast majority of Muslims just want to work, support their family, and praise Allah, but a few murderous fiends grab all the headlines with heinous and cowardly acts of violence. But theyre not being hypocrites. Theyre just following the teachings of their religion. The Quran has over 100 verses advocating killing the infidel.

Of the five major religions, Buddhism and Hinduism are primarily about love while Islam and Judaism preach a lot of hate. Christianity is divided. The New Testament is one of the most beautiful expressions of love there is. Theres much hate in the Old Testament.

Refer to Samuel I and II. When King Davids army conquered a Philistine village, they killed every man, woman, and child in it. That might be appropriate for Game of Thrones, but I expect something more loving in the holy scriptures.

I quit believing in God the same time I outed Santa Claus, and for the same reason. I figured they were both imaginary figures my parents told me about to try to get me to be good. If I was bad, Santa would put a lump of coal in my stocking. For the same sins, God would damn me to Hell. Of the two, the lump of coal seemed much worse. What does a six-year-old kid know about Hell? Anyway, it occurred to me religion was just another form of government. The objective was controlling people.

About this time, my best friend and neighbor and I started taking early Sunday morning walks to the black neighborhood a couple of blocks away to listen to the music coming from the Koinonia Baptist Church. Black folks hold their meetings early, 7:00 a.m., while the honkies cant roll out of bed and get to church until ten.

After a while, an elder noticed us and invited us inside. We realized the congregation not only sang to the Lord, but they danced for Him, too. I mean, these people knew how to worship. They did it with such passion, you could feel the spirit of the Lord filling their breasts.

Later in the morning, my friend and I would go to our boring-ass white churches where the minister was droning on about how the congregation ought to put more money in the collection plate, while the choir was offering a lifeless rendition of Bringing in the Sheaves, which was almost drowned out by the snoring coming from the pews. Looking back, I think if Id grown up in black Baptist church, I might be a devout Christian today.

I went all through Sunday school, appreciating the Bible stories for their narrative value, but convinced they were fiction. During my high school years, I attended regular services, partially because a pretty teenager depended on me for a ride to church, but also because I soaked up the quiet, contemplative atmosphere.

Im an atheist whos read the Bible cover to cover and am guided by it. Obviously, the Bible doesnt always convict. In college, I took a course called The Literature of the Bible. It approached the Bible, not as a holy book, but as a piece of literature. I learned its a magnificent text containing fascinating stories with object lessons and words to live by that can and should guide your life.

A student of history, nobody has any more admiration for the Roman Catholic Church than I do, not even any Catholics. The history of the Western Civilization in the Middle Ages is the history of the Catholic Church because thats all there was.

It established the great institutions of learning and brought order to the chaotic period of feudalism. However, if the Catholic Church is going to take credit for all that, it also must accept responsibility for the many horrors, like the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, and, implicitly, the Holocaust.

My grandmother, who I lived with for four years in the 70s, was the finest Christian Ive ever known. She lived her life like Christ. Not the least bit judgmental or evangelical, when I told her of my atheism, she responded, Oh! Thats interesting.

We proceeded to have a dispassionate discussion of the foundations of her faith and the reasons for my lack thereof. My grandmother led by example. She put her character on display; her compassion, her courage, her capacity for love, her serenity, her wisdom. The unspoken message was, if you admire those qualities, follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. For me, it was a powerful temptation.

During this Christmas season, I implore all you pseudo-Christian hypocrites (you know who you are) to examine your faith and ask are you living up to the standards set by your Savior. Gandhi would approve.

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A French teacher dressed in drag, strutted his stuff before students at a Wisconsin high school.

In Michigan, state attorney general Dana Nessel mocked conservatives during a civil rights summit, saying that drag queens are not a problem for kids seeking a good education.

"Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun. Drag queens are entertainment. And ya know what else I'll say that was totally not poll tested? I say this: a drag queen for every school!" Nessell exclaimed.

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In school districts throughout America, parents are demanding that teachers stop instructing children about gender fluidity and Critical Race Theory. They also want pornographic materials removed from school libraries.

The authors of the new book, Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation, say socialist beliefs like these weren't introduced overnight they started creeping into U.S. public school more than one hundred years ago.

"It happened gradually, and then it happened suddenly, as Hemingway would put it," Pete Hegseth explained.

Hegseth is a best selling author, and co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend.His co-author, David Goodwin is president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools. They write that educational reformer John Dewey advocated progressive teaching in the 1920's. And in 1935, after they fled Nazis Germany, Marxists from the Frankfurt School of Social Research introduced their views to students at New York's Columbia University.

"These were all atheists. These were all socialists, or almost all of them were and their goal was social change, and they knew the schoolroom was the place they could do it. And it started with the removal of God," Hegseth said.

David Goodwin believes the biggest change sidelining Christian education occurred when the U.S. Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, removed God from the classroom.

"They gradually took prayer out of school, they then took the Bible out of school, and they then forbid really any teaching of Christian instruction in school, " explained Goodwin. "But that was the kind of the capstone of a long effort. It wasn't the beginning, it was really the end."

Also, Goodwin and Hegseth contend that progressives intentionally replaced classical Christian education with American nationalism.

"We look at our Pledge of Allegiance at least we do as conservatives and patriots and say, 'Hey, that's a great thing under God.' Well, the original pledge was written in the late 19th century by a socialist who ultimately wrote it without under God, because the pledge was meant to shift kids away comfortably from God at the center of the class, from the cross, at the center to the flag at the center of the classroom, which was an easier sell to parents at the time," Hegseth explained. "And now, of course, fast forward to today, and they're happy to get rid of the flag."

So, do Hegseth and Goodwin believe that America's elites possess a well-devised spiritual strategy that transcends politics?

"You see, we fight in terms of politics now and may win incremental battles here or there. What the left understood is they had to go to the heart of what made us who we are. What do we value? What's our vision of the good life? What do we consider our virtues?" Hegseth explained. "And when they targeted that, they targeted at the foundation of who we really are, really the current underneath the top waters of the stream of cultures, the top waters, the current is paideia underneath, and they targeted that."

Goodwin explained further, "Yes, I think if we turn to Ephesians 6,really, it's a great chapter that kind of encapsulates the responsibilities and the upbringing of you know, pretty much all the classes of society at the time, but which says, 'Fathers raise your children in the' and there's a whole bunch of words that are used there education, instruction. The two that are most commonly used are fear and admonition. All of those are derived from the one word, 'paideia.' So, it's a command of our Lord to raise children in the 'paideia' of the Lord."

But many parents who want to raise their children up in the way of the Lord have discovered they cannot afford classical educational alternatives.

Many Americans are now being forced to choose between putting gas in the tank, or food on their table so, how can they afford it?

Hegseth said it's a fair question to ask during this challenging period of skyrocketing inflation.

"I'm going to start as a parent who has three of my kids and soon all seven of them in classical education, and I'll tell you, first and foremost, it's worth every dime and I have to sacrifice in any other place to make sure they can afford it. I will. I will say, first of all, look, look inside your life and the things you spend money on, the things you value and how much are the hearts, souls, and affections. How much are your kids affections work in your mind? Kids deserve to go to a school that reinforces what you believe and teaches them to be free thinkers. Education should be number one," Hegseth insisted.

"If you love God and you love this country, how we train up the next generation will determine whether we have a republic or not in future generations. Because right now, we're pumping out kids who don't know God and hate America, and their minds are captured by indoctrination that will not perpetuate a free society."

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Elon Musk resurfaced on Twitter in a big way ... this time with a pic of someone arguably more famous than him -- the Pope!!!

There's Elon at the Vatican, mugging with Pope Francis and 4 of his 7 kids, saying "Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday," adding, "My suit is tragic."

Here's what's interesting ... Elon's talked in the past that he's an atheist -- nevertheless, the Pope is the Pope so no reason not to shake hands and have a chat.

One of the kids who did not attend -- Vivian Jenna Wilson, previously known as Xavier, who announced a few weeks back she's a transgender woman and wants no relationship whatsoever with her dad.

As for Elon's religious history ... he was not raised a Catholic, although he did attend Anglican Sunday School. He has said in the past he is not Christian.

He seems to embrace elements of Christianity, once saying "I agree with the principles that Jesus advocated. There's some great wisdom in the teachings of Jesus, and I agree with those teachings," adding, "Things like 'turn the other cheek' are very important, as opposed to 'an eye for an eye'. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind."

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What is truth? Truth is the revelation and acceptance of what is genuinely real.Time. What is Truth?

The public theologian needs an answer to the question, what is truth? Further, this answer needs to be intelligible. Why? Because of the relentless and merciless shelling against the theistic citadel by new atheist artillery. Believers in God, allegedly, cannot live in the truth because there is no deity. God does not exist. This makes all theistic claims not only false but unintelligible. It is time to ask this question: what is truth?

Despite the diversity of atheists, the American Atheists website makes clear that the common thread that ties all atheists together is a lack of belief in gods. Some of these atheists load their cannons with scientific ammunition. Is there a connection between science and atheism? Really?

Atheist Feldmarschall Richard Dawkins demands that the question of Gods existence be treated as a scientific hypothesis. If so treated, the evidence will show that no god exists, rendering the theistic hypothesis disconfirmed. Dawkins contends that religious belief is not true in the scientific sense. This makes religious belief one of the worlds greatest evils.

Not so, according to Cambridge University hybrid physicist and theologian, the late John Polkinghorne. Polkinghorne finds the natural world intelligible and celebrates this intelligibility. Polkinghorne also finds that the intelligibility of the natural world is enhanced when grasped as the creation of a loving and gracious God. God and the world are most intelligible when viewed together.

The universe is astonishingly open to us, relationally transparent to our enquiry.The most we can require is an interpretation that is coherent and persuasive. Theism provides just such a response to the meta question of intelligibility. If the world is the creation of the rational God, and if we are creatures made in the divine image, then it is entirely understandable that there is an order in the universe that is deeply accessible to our minds. Putting the same point in a different way, one could say that science discerns a world in which its rational beauty and rational transparency is shot through with signs of mind, and the theist can understand this because it is indeed the Mind of God that is partially disclosed in this way(Polkinghorne, 1998, pp. 72-73).[i]

In other words, the most coherent understanding of the many scientific propositions which disclose natures secrets requires a worldview inclusive of natures creator, God. A worldview that incorporates both God and what we learn about nature through science is more comprehensive and more intelligible than science without reference to God can provide.

So, when we ask, what is truth?, we are asking that genuine reality reveal itself to us.[ii] This happens in science, we trust. This happens in faith, we also trust. How might these cohere with one another in worldview construction?

Unless the claims of Holy Scripture and the Christian tradition are true, no one would want to believe them. The task of the public theologian is to make Christian claims intelligible, so that those within the church and outside the church can test them for their truth value.[iii]

What is truth? That was Pilates question to Jesus in John 18:38. Elsewhere, in John 14:6, we find Jesus saying, I am the way, and the truth, and the life What does truth mean here? And everywhere we use this word?

If truth is propositional, then the assertionJesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the lifecould be either true or false. How would we measure the truth or falsity of this proposition? On the basis of what appears. On the basis of what has been revealed to be real. On the basis of what is yet-to-be revealed to be real.

In the Johannine passages cited above, note the Greek word for truth, aletheia. Philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) analyzed this term (Heidegger, 1947). He noted how aletheia means unveiling or uncovering or revealing, Entdeckung. Truth is an event in which something concealed becomes unconcealed, Unverborgenheit.

Curiously, the unconcealing of one truth sometimes requires the concealing of another truth, leading to an ongoing dialectic of revealing and hiding. In sum, truth is the unconcealing or disclosing of being (Water, 1969).

What modern culture loves about science is that scientific facts and theories are transcultural. Scientific claims are universal, according to Polish philosopher Jsef Tischner. The fundamental property of scientific truth is its universalityscientific truth is the truth for everyonebasic truths are the same for all people(Tischner, 1982, p. 33).

Scientific truths come in the form of propositions or assertions. Truth and falsity areproperties of propositions (Inwagen, 2009, p. 33). Propositional truth presumes a correspondence between what is thought or asserted via language with objective or mind-independent reality. So far, so good.

Yet, phenomenologically speaking, the truth of propositions is dependent on a more fundamental and more comprehensive human experience, namely, the ostensive self-revelation of reality. Only what has been uncovered or disclosed about natures mysteries can rise to articulation in assertions or propositions.[iv] Then, when propositions or assertions correspond with what has been unconcealed, they are said to be true.[v]

Here is the takeaway. A propositional claim is like a single Blue Gill hooked by someone fishing, reeled in, and landed in the boat. Even though this single fish is real in every respect, it is abstracted from the fishermans total experience with the entire lake and the unknown number of fish that have not been seen, caught, or reeled in.

So, we must grant with Stuart A. Kauffman that Science is not the only pathway to truth (Kauffman, 2008, p. xii). Or, perhaps more precisely, scientific truth is an abstraction. It finds its meaning within a more comprehensive horizon of truth as experienced.

This applies to true living as well, living in behalf of the common good. The truth is deeper than facts, contends Patheos columnist, Victorious Living. More important. More real, even. We cannot pursue truth while avoiding facts. But we cannot make sense of our facts while avoiding the deeper truths.

Let me tell you about Charles Townes (1915-2015). Charlie was a Nobel Prize winning physicist. Among his achievements was the discovery of a black hole in the center of our galaxy, designing the scientific agenda of the first astronauts on the Moon, and inventing the laser and maser. The final decades of his career were spent at the University of California at Berkeley, where I had an opportunity to get to know him and his vibrant wife, Francis. Charlie served on the board of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

Charlie loved physics. Physics was his passion. Even as he neared the age of a hundred, he spent almost every day engaged in scientific research. I get to do physics all day. What could be better than that?, he once said to me with glee.

Now, heres whats startling. Charlie told me and then an audience that I assembled that the invention of the laser was due to a special revelation. The laser came to him as a vision. While sitting on park bench in Washington DC, a vision appeared before his eyes with the physics and engineering necessary to make the first laser. He copied on his brown lunch bag what appeared in the vision. And, thus, the laser was born.

Charlie did not describe the vision as supernatural. Yet, is was a revelation that came to him as a gift.

One evening, Charlie and Francis were visiting at my Berkeley condo. A number of students were seated around Charlie, eagerly asking questions. Ya know, Charlie began one of his rare pontifications, I believe all scientific discoveries are revelations. Oh, yes, discoveries come at the end of experiments. But, whats really happening is that nature is revealing itself to the human mind. Isnt it wonderful!

Before a scientist can enunciate a proposition, nature must reveal itself. Thats Heideggers phenomenological insight. Revelation as disclosure applies as much to science as it does to theology.

If you are motivated to harken to the call of truth, then you will want to understand truth. To understand truth, is to subject your mind and your will to the reality that is uncovered in a truth event. Understanding requires us to stand under the authority of truth.

Truth is self-defining. And truth compels us to respect it by submitting to it. Here is theologian Alan Padgett: I want to stand under the truth and receive (understand) what light it brings(Padgett, Alan 2006). Truth asks us for submission so that we can gain understanding.

Or, more completely: I will simply propose that we understand truth as the mediated disclosure of being (or reality). Sometimes that truth will be mediated through everyday experience, or common sense, sometimes through the specifics of propositions (Padgett, Alan 2006). In short, truth calls the human mind to humility. This applies to truth in all forms, especially theological truth.

Grace to Youproposes an understanding of theological truth.

Heres a simple definition drawn from what the Bible teaches: Truth is that which is consistent with the mind, will, character, glory, and being of God. Even more to the point:Truth is the self-expression of God. That is the biblical meaning of truth. Because the definition of truth flows from God, truth istheological.

Truth is alsoontologicalwhich is a fancy way of saying it is the way things really are. Reality is what it is because God declared it so and made it so. Therefore God is the author, source, determiner, governor, arbiter, ultimate standard, and final judge of all truth.

Now, we turn to hermeneutics. Truth is tied to interpretation.

Our human receptivity for revelation is conditioned by our personal past experience, our historically inherited culture, our linguistic capacity, and our willingness to learn new things. You and I come to every new experience with a pre-understanding, a Vorverstndnis, to use the terminology of Hans-Georg Gadamer(Gadamer, 1965). An open-minded person ready to learn avoids allowing this pre-understanding to become a prejudgment (Vorurteil) or prejudice. A prejudice prevents new learning. A pre-understanding is always necessary for receiving new truth. But, a prejudice is optional.

Because each one of us lives within a specific context with its own horizon of pre-understanding, our experience with a truth event will be inescapably perspectival. A purely objective or absolute truth with no pre-understanding is not an option. All of our seeing is seeing-as. We must grant a certain level of relativity to our truth experience. What passes for objective truth is, for all practical purposes, an inter-subjective interpretation.

Theologian Catherine Keller acknowledges the inescapability of relativity in perspective. Relativity, which we must strictly distinguish from relativism, just describes the reality of a relational universe. The human observer belongs to that universe. Therefore all human truth-claims are relative to context and perspective(Keller, 2008, p. 4).

The truth of Godthe truth that brings knowledge, forgiveness, comfort, and joyis always pro me, says Martin Luther. The objective truth of God is revealed within subjective trueness for you and for me. To understand God is to stand under Gods Word addressed to you or me.

The uncovering of what is genuinely real is the essence of all truth. This applies to Gods emergence from hiding as well. God defines God-self in events of self-revelation. And because God is the ultimate reality, all truth becomes dependent on what is revealed by God about God. At least according to Calvinist philosopher Alvin Plantinga. There is such a thing as truth, and it is intimately connected with God (Plantinga, 1998, p.36).[vi]

This is the theme that runs through Karl Barths Church Dogmatics. The freely acting God Himself and alone is the truth of revelation. (Barth, 1936-1962, p. I/1 15). According to Barth, the Bible mediates Gods Word through the human words on the pages.

T.F. Torrance, a scholar quite concerned with the interaction between theology and science, elaborates with regard to Scriptural truth.

When all is said and done in biblical interpretation and theological formulation, the ultimate criterion to which appeal is to be made is the Truth itself, that Truth independent of themselves too which the Holy Scriptures direct us and to which they themselves are subject. All faithful interpretation must allow the Truth to assert itself in its own intrinsic weight and majesty and to maintain its own ground over against us and our prejudices, for in the last resort we have to reckon with the fact that God alone can name himself and bear witness to himself and prove himself to us (Torrance, 1982, pp.118-119).

On the one hand, what we assert in propositional or second order form derives from what is uncovered in first order experience. Reality comes out of hiding and becomes unconcealed at the level of first order experience. Then, when we formulate an assertion about what has been revealed, we abstract from the embedded first order experience. In sum, propositions are second order discourse reporting on the first order experience of disclosure.

One task of the systematic theologianalong with the public theologianis to press for coherence between what has been revealed to us by God and what has been unconcealed for us by our scientists. But, constructing coherence requires distinguishing prejudice from pre-understanding.

Here is the late Wolfhart Pannenberg on overcoming prejudice in constructive theology.

The truth of Christian doctrine cannot be maintained where Christian proclamation gives priority to adaptation to the secular mentality. It has to challenge that mentality and its prejudices.Since secularism produces meaninglessness, the human person suffers from the lack of meaning. There is a need, then, for the Christian message, perhaps more urgently so than in other periods of human history. But the message can reach its addresse only if the prejudices of secularism against Christianity can be overcome (Pannenberg 2002, 1).

Pannenberg advocates a coherence theory of truth, not a correspondence theory of truth. Coherence provides the final criterion of truth, and it can serve as such a criterion because it also belongs to the nature of truth: so that truth is only one, but all -embracing, closely related to the concept of the one God (Pannenberg, An Introduction to Systematic Theology 1991, 6). How coherence works should become clear in what follows.

Belief in God requires belief in the truth. No rational person would place his or her or their life in the hands of a God who does not exist. It all depends on truth, says Pannenberg when asking why a non-Jew might believe in the God of Israel. If we suppose that the God of Israel and of Jesus is the one and only true God, then and only then is there sufficient reason for believing in that God, even if one is not a Jew (Pannenberg, An Introduction to Systematic Theology 1991, 4-5). Belief includes confidence and trust in truth. And, truth depends on revelation. Did divine revelation take place in Israels history?

Revelations from God about God always leave some residue, some dimensions that resist codification in assertions or propositions. This is because God remains mysterious even in unconcealment. The more that God reveals, the more we become aware of the divine mystery. Religious propositions, then, must convey the dialectic of concealment with unconcealment. Religious propositions must be symbolic at their most fundamental level.

A holistic self-disclosure of reality rises to articulation only in symbolic speech. Binoy (Jacob) Pichalakkat, mathematician and theologian in Pune, India, makes this observation. In symbols reality becomes aware of itself and mirrors itself (Pichalakkatt, 2006, p. 26). Note the direction of movement: reality discloses itself, and we mark the event of this disclosure with a symbol. Symbols both reflect and participate in the reality they disclose.

Please get this point. Propositional truths are literal assertions that intend a single meaning. Symbolic truths are multi-valent with two or more levels of meaning. We live in a worldview with both.

Austrian philosopher Eric Voegelin reminds us of the distinction between symbols and propositions. Truth is not a body of propositions about a world-immanent object; it is the world-transcendent summum bonum, experienced as an orienting force in the soul, about which we can speak only in analogical symbols (Voegelin, 1956-1987, p. 3:363). Symbols point to and even participate in the reality they uncover; but symbols cannot exhaust the meaning of what they reveal in propositional form. Symbols come first. Propositions come second.

As double-valent, symbols connote concealment and unconcealment simultaneously. Religious symbols are pre-propositional in character. Symbols participate in the truth, to be sure. Yet, first order symbols stop short of reducing truth to proposition. Second order propositions interpret first order symbolic experience. Scientific propositions interpret experience in the form of empirical evidence and experiment.

Do religious people believe in literal truth? No. Scientists do, though.

Well, wait a minute! Some evangelicals and fundamentalists pridefully exclaim that they stand on the literal truth of the Bible. Patheos columnist Vance Morgan was born into a fundamentalist family. He has since become a Progressive Christian. Morgan explains what it means to believe in literal truth.

I was born into the fundamentalist Protestant worldand I am thoroughly familiar with how literalists read the Bible. I was taught that the Bible is the inerrant and infallible word of God, dictated by divine inspiration to specially selected human beings, then assembled into the Word of God that we call the Bible. The Bible is Gods final word to us, I was taught; all the guidance a Christian needs to live a life pleasing to God can be found between its covers. Many of the vehicles in our church parking lot sported a bumper sticker expressing the appropriate attitude toward Scripture: God Said It. I Believe It. That Settles It.

Because the linguistic expressions of Holy Scripture include deliberately non-literal formspsalms, aphorisms, parables, metaphors, and suchit would be irrational to treat all biblical texts literally. Contrary to common belief, Protestant fundamentalists do not believe in the dictation theory of the Bible.

The predominant view of Scriptures inspiration within fundamentalism derives from the late 19th century Princeton Theology. According to that Princeton Theology, the Holy Spirit inspired the New Testament writers who then mediated Gods Word through their own language and experience along with the their own writers agenda. In the heat of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the 1920s, fundamentalist Clarence E. Macartney announced in his famous sermon, Shall Unbelief Win?, the following. Those who hold the New Testament idea of inspiration, that holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, have never thought of the Holy Ghost dictating to Moses, Isaiah or St. Paul. What could be more clear! There is no warrant to believe that the words of the text were dictated by God, even for a fundamentalist. So, what Morgan reports here seems a tad extreme.

Biblical speech is fundamentally symbolic and double-valent. Biblical speech connotes invisible realities while it denotes ordinary experiences. This is why Jesus strained to convey truths about God through parables. We today must always treat Holy Sculpture hermeneutically, soliciting the Holy Spirits inner witness when we apply scriptural truth to our own daily lives.

Not so with scientific propositions. The laboratory scientist swims in eddies of experiment, fact, data, hypotheses, theories, and revisions of theories. Then, with corroboration and caution, the scientist tenders a proposition. That proposition is intended to be a literal assertion. It is intended to denote a fact. And only a fact. Thats it. Nothing more. No meaning. No significance. No metaphysical implications. Just a fact.

Keep clear: it is science that communicates literally through propositions. Not religion.

Do theologians ever make propositions? Yes, indeed. The Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed are collections of propositions. To theological propositions we now turn.

Theological propositionscalled dogmasare hypothetical assertions about ultimate reality. They are hypothetical because their truth depends upon confirmation or disconfirmation by Gods future actions. Drawing from the multi-valent symbols found in Scripture, dogmas point prophetically to truths about divine promises yet awaiting fulfillment. Only future fulfillment can determine the truth or falsity of such Christian theological claims.

Such dogmatic propositions are also doxological. That is, the reality yet to be revealed will be far more glorious than these propositions can convey. Even if a theological proposition gets confirmed by God, its literal meaning will be engulfed with a penumbra of glory that will bring an unanticipated fullness. Here is Pannenberg on dogmatic statements requiring eschatological confirmation to determine their truth value.

Dogmatic statements have a proleptic tendency in that they have all of reality, history as a whole, in view, since in Christ, the consummation of history, the future of us all, has already begun.Thus, the doxological element in the dogmatic statement is founded upon the proleptic, and both are interrelated through the universal meaning that inheres in this particular event(Pannenberg, Basic Questions in Theology, 2 Volumes, 1970-1971, p. 1:205).

Right now, the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed are statements of faith awaiting divine confirmation or disconfirmation eschatologically. These collections of Christian propositions about God are abstractions from more robust multi-valent biblical symbols. Even in propositional form, dogmas still resonate with symbolic meaning that is suprapropositional. Historically, creedal collections of dogmas are frequently called, symbols.

Creedal symbols remain second order discourse, still subordinate to the first order discourse of Holy Scripture. The more basic biblical symbols articulate what our ancestors experienced in revelatory events where truths about God were disclosed. Today we look forward to the eschatological future anticipated by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:12: For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

The scriptures themselves tell us that the universal recognition of Gods glory will not occur before the eschaton. Until then, the truth of his revelation continue to be in dispute. (Pannenberg, An Introduction to Systematic Theology 1991, 17)

Not everyone is dedicated to standing under the truth in coherent form. Wikipedia management, for example, holds that multiple truths exist without cohering with one another. We all have different truths. We all have different biases. We need to listen to voices other than Western white men. We should share power. Rather than talk about the truth, then, we should focus on what we believe and what we can agree on. What is important is that we all get along, according to Wikipedias Katherine Maher. Yet, despite this well-intentioned gesture toward social harmony, my question here is still this: what is truth?

In this Patheos post, we have been asking: what is truth? In addition, we have been asking whether a theological worldview could be intelligible when coherently incorporating scientific knowledge. Standing under the truth requires the theologian to strive not only for coherence but also intelligibility.

No theologian need answer atheist shelling with a counterattack. Rather, the theist may simply live truly within the symbols which participate in Gods self-revelation. Then, of course, the theologian should formulate intelligible propositions. Such constructed propositions will be hypothetical. They will turn out to be proleptic assertions, awaiting divine confirmation or disconfirmation in the eschaton.

Every searching soul welcomes truth whenever an event of unconcealment makes something invisible visible. Scientific truth along with personal truth and divine truth belong together in a single worldview. Pannenberg rightly reminds the public theologian: The question of the truth of Christianity cannot be enquired into without also enquiring into the question of the truth of all areas of human experience, including scientific knowledge about the natural world (Pannenberg, Theology and the Philosophy of Science, 1976, p. 255).

Ive been working with the following hypothesis: truth is the revelation and acceptance of what is genuinely real. If God is the ultimate reality, then all truth must come from the one God. All truth, no matter by whom it is uttered, comes from the Holy Spirit (Omnis veritas, a quoquo dicitur, e Spiritu Sancto est). Ascribed to St. Ambrose of Milan.

Thank God that our minds hunger and thirst for truth. Thank God that truth comes to us. Thank God that truth satisfies that hunger and slakes that thirst.

Ted Peters directs traffic at the intersection of science, religion, and ethics. Peters is an emeritus professor at the Graduate Theological Union, where he co-edits the journal, Theology and Science, on behalf of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, in Berkeley, California, USA. He authored Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom? (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002) as well as Science, Theology, and Ethics (Ashgate 2003). He is editor of AI and IA: Utopia or Extinction? (ATF 2019). Along with Arvin Gouw and Brian Patrick Green, he co-edited the new book, Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics hot off the press (Roman and Littlefield/Lexington, 2022). Soon he will publish The Voice of Christian Public Theology (ATF 2022). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com.The fictional spy thriller, Cyrus Twelve, follows the twists and turns of a transhumanist plot.

[i] Truth cannot contradict truth(Pope, 1998).

[ii] No religion is genuine unless it be joined with truth, according to John Calvin(Calvin, 1960, p. I/v.3.50.).

[iv] Fuller systematic theologian Veli-Matti Krkkinen promotes the dialogue between theology and the natural sciences, because the doctrine of creation itself requires the access to reality provided by science. Specifically, the scientific worldview differs from previous worldviews within which theology worked. This engagement happens under a radically different worldview from that of the past: ours is dynamic, interrelated, evolving, in-the-making(Krkkinen, 2015, pp. 10-11).

[v] Lets compare correspondence with coherence. Scientific propositions rely on the correspondence theory of truth, according to which propositions correspond to reality as revealed. The coherence theory of truth, alternatively, relies on the coherence of one proposition with others in a web of claims. Borrowing the metaphor of the web or net of beliefs formulated by logician W.V.O. Quine, Nancey Murphy at Fuller abandons the correspondence model of truth in favor of a coherence model. Truth is found in coherence, where beliefs require one another is a web or net. This new picture of knowledge is salutary for religion scholars, she writes. No longer is there a need to find an unquestionable starting point, a theological foundation, before we can begin the task of theology proper(Murphy, 2018, p. 71).

[vi] Truths from God belong together with truths from science. The task of the systematic theologian is to make them all coherent. A limited rational validation of the truth of the Gospel is possible.Negatively the Gospel must and can be validated by exploring the limits of historic forms of wisdom and virtue. Positively it is validated when the truth of faith is correlated with all truths which may be known by scientific and philosophical disciplines and proves itself a resource for coordinating them into a deeper and wider system of coherence(Niebuhr, 1949, p. 152).

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