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Upstairs at the Capitol Centre, in Sydney's Haymarket. Lots of those Japanese photo booths, and claw-based arcade games. This one struck me as particularly horrifying.
Mickey screams. And no one tries to help.
SPOTLIGHT SESSION
The Mental Well-Being of the Next Generation: How We Can Support Young People’s Mental Health Amid Multiple Existential Threats
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Location: Mercury Ballroom
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an existing mental health crisis, particularly among children and young people. The emergence of “climate anxiety,” new and ongoing international conflicts, and widespread use of technology have added to the stressors impacting our youth across the globe. A study last year estimated that one in seven children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced significant psychological challenges, and almost 10 percent qualify for a psychiatric diagnosis. Overdose rates among teens in the United States are on the rise. Youth are facing cultural and infrastructural challenges – from stigma in seeking help to barriers in accessing support – in finding the tools and treatment they need.
This session will explore:
•How can organizations take action to directly support the mental health of young people in their communities and around the world?
•How can we develop and implement effective models for delivering mental health care in schools, clinics, and community settings?
•How can we leverage technology – which has exacerbated much of the mental health crisis among today’s youth – to reduce stigma and give youth easier access to support and treatment?
Speakers:
•Dr. Tia Dole, Executive Director, The Steve Fund
•Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General
•Heather White, Author & Founder, OneGreenThing.org
•Tristan Harris, Co-Founder & President, Center for Humane Technolog
•Mahmoud Abdelwahab Khedr, Founder & CEO, FloraMind
•Dometi Pongo, Journalist, MTV News
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 20: Spotlight Session at the Clinton Global Initiative September 2022 Meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on September 20, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative)
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⛹️ Kinesthetic Body Intelligence
👨👩👧👦 Interpersonal Intelligence
🌲 Ecologicalist Naturalist Intelligence
️ Verbal-linguistic
🔭 Existential Intelligence
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️ eXploration (1) West Coast {USA}
🌟 West Coast {USA}
💫 United States of America/America World
🌌 City/Nature Galaxy
✨ eXploration Universe (️)
📝 Type : Ground eXploration
🎨 Style : eXploration of the west coast of the united states
🔊 Language : International (🇬🇧 description in English, but comprehensible by the whole world)
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By Grayson Perry
Glazed ceramic urn
Previously a furniture factory, the Victoria Miro Gallery lies just off City Road. The garden at the back also holds a reclaimed part of Regent's Canal at Wenlock Basin.
1. A book of fireside poems
2. Sensualist - Barbara Hodgson
3. The existential imagination - from Shakespeare to Sartre
4. Nausea - Jean-paul Sartre
5. The circle of innovation - Tom Peters
Gavin, just before we packed up our campsite and piled into the van for our 12+ hour drive back.
I'm currently have an existential film crisis. I love film photos so much but I am perpetually betrayed by my own. This batch is (for the most part) very dark and unsharp (even if there is an issue with my 1.4/me in regards to my 1.4, it supersedes even that) and there are barely any I like. I am going to send my next batch of film to my Michigan store and if I don't like those I'm going to stop using film. If I like them then I will only use them and I will protest the local store because I hate them. When I feel emotions, I feel them strongly and I HATE that store with a flaming passion.
This scanner is making me crop my photos and I don't like that.
This month is so packed with school stuff (and other miserable compulsories) but also potential photography activities and I can't figure out how to spend my time! I'd chose photography and other fun stuff, naturally, except for the fact that I've done that for the rest of the semester and I actually need to pass these miserable classes. Why can't all my classes be like Spider Biology and Classics and Fantasty!? I'm really feeling the "life is short/carpe diem" message but school goes against that and I haven't been able to resolve this. I have so many books to read and photos to see and take and edit and shows and movies to watch and things to do and places to explore and AH.
I've rediscovered the joy of This Providence. Here, have some!
Ideas for a Secret Santa gift for a photographer? She's really talented (you may know her!) and I don't want to disappoint her!
Chynna Highsted
Painting
Fictional body horror media awoke existential fascination and anxieties regarding mortality within me. These emotions are translated into narratives in my paintings.
The horror genre shows the event of death by excessive violence and bodily destruction and my work explores both of these themes. My comprises self-portraits which combine my love for horror with my own image but also reflect myself and humanity’s inevitable end. Much like death itself this body of work is neutral, I don’t intend for the viewer to feel anything in particular. Instead, this work is a reflection of my emotions and an invitation for the viewer to contemplate theirs.
Historical and contemporary body horror media has resulted in unease over our own bodies. My intention with this project is to explore this discomfort and the bluntness of death and decomposition. Our bodies will eventually betray ourselves through their inability to avoid death and this is the cruel fact of life my paintings represent.
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🌲 Ecologicalist Naturalist Intelligence
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🔭 Existential Intelligence
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️ eXploration / Corsica - Corse (South)
🌟 Corsica - Corse (South)
💫 United States of America/America World
🌌 City/Nature Galaxy
✨ eXploration Universe (️)
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My view is that there are three modes of being. I hold that we can directly observe them in elements of whatever is at any time before the mind in any way. They are the being of positive qualitative possibility, the being of actual fact, and the being of law that will govern facts in the future.
Let us begin with considering actuality, and try to make out just what it consists in. If I ask you what the actuality of an event consists in, you will tell me that it consists in its happening then and there. The specifications then and there involve all its relations to other existents. The actuality of the event seems to be in its relations to the universe of existents. A court may issue injunctions and judgments against me & I care not a snap of my finger for them & I may think them idle paper.
My second daughter - She was three weeks old here and likely marveling at color/patterns once she could focus.
The pillow she's lying on is on my stomach, so there wasn't much room to position the shot, it was just lucky that it came out OK with the sun coming in through a gap in the blinds.
Now for Thirdness. Five minutes of our waking life will hardly pass without our making some kind of prediction; and in the majority of cases these predictions are fulfilled in the event. Yet a prediction is essentially of a general nature, and cannot ever be completely fulfilled. To say that a prediction has a decided tendency to be fulfilled, is to say that the future events are in a measure really governed by a law. If a pair of dice turns up sixes five... times running, that is a mere uniformity. The dice might happen fortuitously to turn up sixes a thousand times running. But that would not afford the slightest security for a prediction that they would turn up sixes the next time. If the prediction has a tendency to be fulfilled, it must be that future events have a tendency to conform to a general rule. ‘Oh,’ but say the Nominalists, ‘this general rule is nothing but a mere word or complex of words!’
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🌲 Ecologicalist Naturalist Intelligence
️ Verbal-linguistic
🔭 Existential Intelligence
📋 WHAT :
️ eXploration / Corsica - Corse (South)
🌟 Corsica - Corse (South)
💫 United States of America/America World
🌌 City/Nature Galaxy
✨ eXploration Universe (️)
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🔊 Language : International (🇬🇧 description in English, but comprehensible by the whole world)
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Zio Ziegler says of his work. “My paintings begin with an existential journey, and can only end with an absurdist conclusion—the rest is just a vehicle for conveying this.” (Bay Area artist)
objects in existential graphs.
Representation, by which I mean the function of a sign in general, is a combinant, or trifile, relation; since it subsists between the sign, the object represented, and the interpretant or sign of the same object determined by the sign in the mind of the person addressed, or in other field of signification. The object is something external to and independent of the sign which determines in the sign an element corresponding to itself; so that we have to distinguish the quasi-real object from the presented object; or some may say, the external from the internal object, and the extrous object as it is in itself is to be distinguished from the feature of the external object that is represented. The interpretant is created by the sign; and since the sign as such determines the interpretant, it is in some sense represented in the sign, that is, it is called up by the sign. While in itself it is acted on by the sign, it is so acted upon as to represent the sign to be a sign of the object. Thus, while the object is bifiss, the
OTTAWA—Should all Supreme Court of Canada judges — or at least the next one — be bilingual? Should the next vacancy go to a Black, brown or Indigenous jurist, joinlive77.com whether they are bilingual or not, to reflect Canada’s population in all its diversity?
It’s a legal dilemma wrapped up in a language debate, tinged with electoral politics, and an existential question about what kind of country Canada is.
The Trudeau government has kicked off both.
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On the same day it announced the launch of a search for an Ontario jurist to take the seat of soon-to-retire Justice Rosalie Abella, the Liberal government said it plans to put into law Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s practice of appointing only “functionally bilingual” judges to the top court.
It was a campaign commitment, and with a whiff of a possible election in the air, Trudeau is ticking off political boxes.
But the “how?” he proposes to do it is less clear. And advocates of greater diversity say mandatory bilingualism will block many qualified candidates from being elevated to the Supreme Court.
Six months ago the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers wrote an open letter to the Trudeau government urging swifter action to address systemic anti-Black racism throughout the justice system and noting “only three Black judges have been appointed under the Trudeau-led government.”
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Raphael Tachie, senior counsel for TD Financial Group and president of the association, in an interview said the top court should be a bilingual institution but the requirement “that each individual justice be bilingual disqualifies a lot of really qualified Black and racialized jurists that we think would be great appointments to the court.”
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Many practising outside Quebec have not been exposed to French language or training, or “come to the language later on in life and might not always be as proficient as they ought to be. That’s the challenge,” he said, adding “I think the court can compensate for that,” using translators and interpretation. He urges Trudeau to look beyond the Ontario Court of Appeal to lower courts and the bar: “You need to elevate your talent,” he said.
Brad Regehr, the first Indigenous lawyer to lead the Canadian Bar Association, says the same is true for Indigenous candidates who “already face systemic barriers in terms of achieving that proficiency in official languages.” Regehr says it’s time for Trudeau to name someone who is Black, Indigenous or a person of colour to the Supreme Court.
A member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan who lives and practices law in Winnipeg, Regehr argues that Canada is “not just a bijuridical state where there’s English common law and French civil law; Indigenous legal traditions form part of the law of Canada and that seems to be forgotten or ignored and the only way you’re going to get any perspective on that is by having an Indigenous judge.”https://joinlive77.com
Both want Trudeau to walk his progressive talk, and do something concrete to promote reconciliation and diversity.
Right now, the Supreme Court of Canada is the only federally-appointed court that is exempt from the Official Languages Act which says all Canadians must be able to access services in federal courts in either English or French. In other words, it puts the onus on federal courts to provide bilingual services, not on prime ministers to appoint only bilingual judges. The Liberals propose to drop the exception.
Trudeau does not intend to change the Supreme Court Act which sets out the eligibility criteria for judicial appointments to the top court.
Rachel Rappaport, a spokesperson for Justice Minister David Lametti, says the bilingual services exemption for the Supreme Court “was never intended to be permanent.”
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In 1988 Conservative justice minister Ray Hnatyshyn said during debates on the Official Languages Act that, “It is probably in the national interest at this time that we not put any constraints on the court in the way in which it does its business.” He said that “until we reach a more developed stage of bilingualism across the country,” governments should be able pick from among “the best people who are unilingual, in both languages.”
There have been at least 10 bills introduced over the past 10 years to require top judges be bilingual, according to Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, a doctoral candidate at University of Toronto’s faculty of law. None has passed.
But unilingualism has had an impact, says Bédard-Rubin, who with a colleague has done the first empirical study of the impact of unilingualism on the Supreme Court’s operations. They analyzed cases from 1969 to 2013. In an interview, he said, “There tends to be a linguistic separation of labour at the Supreme Court.”
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Chynna Highsted
Painting
Fictional body horror media awoke existential fascination and anxieties regarding mortality within me. These emotions are translated into narratives in my paintings.
The horror genre shows the event of death by excessive violence and bodily destruction and my work explores both of these themes. My comprises self-portraits which combine my love for horror with my own image but also reflect myself and humanity’s inevitable end. Much like death itself this body of work is neutral, I don’t intend for the viewer to feel anything in particular. Instead, this work is a reflection of my emotions and an invitation for the viewer to contemplate theirs.
Historical and contemporary body horror media has resulted in unease over our own bodies. My intention with this project is to explore this discomfort and the bluntness of death and decomposition. Our bodies will eventually betray ourselves through their inability to avoid death and this is the cruel fact of life my paintings represent.
A statue of Sigmund Freud on a rooftop in Prague, looking like it is getting ready to jump. Perhaps in the city that produced Franz Kafka, even the statues face existential crises?
Taken somewhere in the Old Town part of Prague, Czech Republic.
Moustakas, C. (1994). Existential psychotherapy and the interpretation of dreams. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
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⚡ Intelligences : ️ Spatial Intelligence
⛹️ Kinesthetic Body Intelligence
👨👩👧👦 Interpersonal Intelligence
🌲 Ecologicalist Naturalist Intelligence
️ Verbal-linguistic
🔭 Existential Intelligence
📋 WHAT :
️ eXploration
🌌 City/Nature Galaxy/Monument
✨ eXploration Universe (️)
📝 Type : Ground eXploration
🎨 Style : eXploration
🔊 Language : International (🇬🇧 description in English, but comprehensible by the whole world)
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👑 8 Senses
⚡ 6 Intelligences
WHO :
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📡 Posted by LG
© Etoile Copyright
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❓ WHY : To eXplore the west coast of the united states
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👑 Senses : 👀 Vision 👆 To Touch 💃 Proprioception 👂 Hearing Equilibrioception 👃 Smell ♨️ Thermoception 👅 Taste
⚡ Intelligences : ️ Spatial Intelligence
⛹️ Kinesthetic Body Intelligence
👨👩👧👦 Interpersonal Intelligence
🌲 Ecologicalist Naturalist Intelligence
️ Verbal-linguistic
🔭 Existential Intelligence
📋 WHAT :
️ eXploration (1) West Coast {USA}
🌟 West Coast {USA}
💫 United States of America/America World
🌌 City/Nature Galaxy
✨ eXploration Universe (️)
📝 Type : Ground eXploration
🎨 Style : eXploration of the west coast of the united states
🔊 Language : International (🇬🇧 description in English, but comprehensible by the whole world)
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❓ WHY : To eXplore the west coast of the united states
📍 WHERE : West Coast (🇺🇸 United States of America)
🕓 WHEN : 12 June 2011
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Those questions that I have faced from myself, inescapably, for decades
That silent tumult they cause at the very core of existence
The answers that I search in every turn of life
A Meaning that forever seems to elude.
Recently I’ve been experiencing one of those existential photo crises. Low motivation, cliché results, slumping Instagram likes. When I get bummed about my photography I do what any self-respecting unprofessional photographer would do – put on some soft jazz, pour...
A strangely philosophical find in the middle of the road toward the end of the brutal Josephine/Arlington Street climb at the start of Pittsburgh's Pedal PGH ride.
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Meit Kamdar Avlanii was born in Mumbai in a Gujarati business family that had roots in Yemen. Textiles and cross-border trading was the mainstay of their business. Meit joined the family business at the age of 21 years in Uganda. After a few years, he faced existential angst when he asked himself if he was happy doing what he did and began contemplating on the bigger purpose in his life. Here’s what he revealed about his exciting journey.
How It All Began
The seed of designing was subconsciously planted in my mind at a very young age. My curiosity was aroused when I accompanied my mother one day to our family jeweller in Bandra. She wanted a special bespoke design and I watched wide-eyed as the jeweller spent time sketching, and during subsequent visits, saw the sketch turn into a captivating piece of jewellery. Then, I was oblivious that this instance would play a huge role in the next chapter of my life … but in hindsight, that steered me to my present vocation.
Cut to 2014, I discovered my designing abilities by chance when trying my hand at Photoshop. I had designed a few jewellery pieces for a girl who I wanted to marry. Unfortunately, the relationship did not progress further.
However, our family jeweller was impressed with the designs and with my permission submitted it for a jewellery design contest. The design was shortlisted and won an award.
Existential Crisis
Upset with the way things turned out in my personal life, I had a strong urge to find the purpose of my life. I sought advice from my family and started reading books on spirituality and got hooked on Bhagvad Gita. That’s when I got clarity. The words of wisdom that brought about a change in my thinking and have stayed with me ever since: Choose your work that is your passion, make that passion your life’s purpose and you will never have to work even for a day in your life.
While I accidentally discovered my latent design skills, I decided to hone my skills. I moved to GIA, London to study more about diamonds and gemstones, and post that I acquired a Masters degree in Luxury Brand Management from Regents University.
At Regents, I met Dr. Eric Chan, professor and life coach, who changed my life completely. He helped me identify my strengths, weaknesses and helped me find my calling in life.
I had made up my mind to pursue a career in jewellery, and returned to India and joined the Indian Academy of Jewelry and Design (IAJD).
Birth of the Brand
Armed with knowledge on the manufacturing side, I opened a retail outlet at an upscale location in Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, in January 2020.
Within three months all activities came to a standstill as the entire country was under a lockdown. I was stressed and decided to permanently close down the store.
Work from home became a way of life, and from my premier residential apartment in Lower Parel, Mumbai, I started reaching out to potential consumers for private viewing. I sent out personal invitations to each of the 300-plus residents and their relatives living within a radius of two kilometres. To my good luck, each of the invitees who attended the viewing, went home buying a piece of my jewellery. This boosted my confidence and in order to widen the customer base and generate volumes, I invested in an atelier on the same floor where I live.
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