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Berenice Bento (Campina Grande, 1966) é uma socióloga brasileira, professora da Universidade de Brasília.

Vida
Bento é formada em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Federal de Goiás (1994). É mestra em Sociologia pela Universidade de Brasília (1998) e doutora pela mesma universidade (2003).

Sua pesquisa concentra-se em temas como gênero, sexualidade e direitos humanos. Foi considerada "uma referência incontornável para os estudos recentes de gênero no campo das ciências sociais". Lecionou na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (2009-2017), onde coordenou o Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Diversidade Sexual, Gêneros e Direitos Humanos (2010-2013).. Desde 2017 é docente da Universidade de Brasília. Suas atividades de ensino, pesquisa e extensão estão articuladas com sua inserção nos debates políticos nacionais e internacionais em torno dos Direitos Humanos, numa perspectiva interseccional.

Foi colunista da Revista CULT entre 2015 e 2016, e também exerceu as funções de Secretária Geral da ABEH (Gestão 2008) e Coordenadora Geral do I Seminário Internacional Desfazendo Gênero (2013).

Conceitos

Dispositivo da transexualidade
Berenice Bento se apropria do conceito de dispositivo da sexualidade de Foucault para problematizar a estrutura do discurso médico sobre transexualidade. Além de abordar como o dispositivo da transexualidade se organiza teoricamente a partir de estudos biologizantes e psicanalíticos, a autora realizou pesquisa de campo com pessoas transexuais no contexto hospitalar que demandavam a cirurgia de transgenitalização para analisar a operacionalidade desse dispositivo. Bento concluiu que o dispositivo da transexualidade explicita a heteronormatividade como matriz de inteligibilidade de gênero, classificando a experiência transexual como uma doença por meio do poder do discurso médico, respaldado por práticas jurídicas e por algumas concepções psicanalíticas. A socióloga entende que a transexualidade é um conflito identitário que contraria as normas de gênero e que a patologização da transexualidade se insere no campo da medicalização das condutas sexuais, em uma estratégia concebida por ela como assepsia de gênero, que intenciona assegurar a prática da heterossexualidade como norma.

Heteroterrorismo
A socióloga discute esse conceito ao relatar o processo de socialização de crianças e adolescentes e mostra que a escola é um espaço de replicação e monitoramento das normas de gênero. A ordem reproduzida nas escolas, segundo Bento (2011), enquadra-se na norma de gênero heterossexual, que de acordo com a autora é alcançada por meio da prática do heteroterrorismo. Para Bento, o heteroterrorismo não se limita aos espaços escolares, ela permeia, primeiramente, todo o ambiente domiciliar, desde o momento em que o gênero da criança é anunciado e se começa a ser reforçadas expressões como: "isso é coisa de menina" ou "meninos não choram". Todos esses atos heteroterroristas têm continuidade no espaço escolar. A formação subjetiva, portanto, não pode ser analisada sem considerar que os sujeitos são produzidos a partir do medo sistemático de serem reconhecidos ou confundidos como gays ou lésbicas.

Transfeminicídio
Sua análise da violência contra a população trans no Brasil redefine o conceito de feminicídio, que se originou de reflexões sobre o assassinato sistemático de mulheres cisgênero no México. Bento aponta que, com base em relatos de violência contra pessoas LGBTQI+ documentados no Brasil, percebe-se que as pessoas gays com performances mais femininas são mais propensas a serem alvo de algum tipo de ataque do que os gays não femininos, mostrando assim que a finalidade da violência é, antes de tudo, contra qualquer atribuição entendida pela sociedade como expressão da feminilidade. Além disso, há o sentimento de abjeção direcionado às identidades vistas como desviantes de gênero pela sociedade heteronormativa, ressaltando uma violência intensa sobre os corpos trans femininos. O transfeminicídio é descrito, portanto, como uma política disseminada, proposital e sistemática motivada pelo ódio e nojo à população de mulheres trans, travestis e/ou transexuais. Ao mesmo tempo, a sociológica aponta níveis de continuidade e comunicação sistêmica entre a violência contra as mulheres cis e as mulheres trans.

Necrobiopoder
Bento sugere o conceito de Necrobiopoder para analisar a violência do Estado contra os corpos abjetos. Para isso, ela estabelece uma reflexão sobre as concepções de biopolítica - dar a vida (Foucault, 1999), de necropolítica - promover a morte (Mbembe, 2013) e de Homo Sacer (Agamben, 2013), ao mesmo tempo que se distancia desses conceitos para afirmar que na história brasileira não se pode pensar de maneira separada as noções de "dar a vida e dar a morte". Como forma de exemplos analíticos para demonstrar o funcionamento do conceito de Necrobiopoder, Bento refere-se à Lei do Ventre Livre, aprovada no Brasil em 28 de setembro de 1871, que concebia as crianças nascidas de mães negras escravizadas como corpos libertos, mas mantendo as mães no regime de escravidão; aos Autos de Resistência no Brasil após o período de Ditadura Militar; e a Política do Medo, organizada através da disseminação do pânico social e implementação de técnicas de vigilância. A socióloga, então, define Necrobiopoder como sendo "um conjunto de técnicas de promoção da vida e da morte a partir de atributos que qualificam e distribuem os corpos em uma hierarquia que retira deles a possibilidade de reconhecimento como humano e que, portanto, devem ser eliminados e outros que devem viver" (BENTO, p. 07, 2018). Assim, a autora compreende que esse conjunto de técnicas são sistematizadas e racionalizadas para provocar a morte daqueles corpos que não são reconhecidos pelo Estado como dignos de habitarem o Estado-nação.

Genocidade
Bento classifica genocidade como uma operação diferente do genocídio, que por sua vez, ela entende como atos de violência letal em grande escala que tem como objetivo final o extermínio de todos os indivíduos integrantes de um mesmo grupo humano específico. A genocidade funciona de outra maneira: é uma técnica microfísica da produção contínua da morte. A autora apresenta esse conceito ao analisar o conflito Israel x Palestina e afirma que a genocidade promovida pelo Estado israelense é uma técnica de fazer morrer distribuída em todo o tecido social da vida palestina. Segundo Bento a genocidade existe e se move no detalhe:

[...] no pequeno gesto do burocrata do "Estado" que nega permissões de mobilidade, nos controles militares nas barreiras, na fragmentação de famílias, na burocracia para se conseguir qualquer tipo de autorização (construção/reforma de casas, saída do país, direito de ir a um hospital), na presença ostensiva dos colonos (tipo de sujeitos que atualiza, na contemporaneidade, as práticas do Irgun e que são incentivados pelo "Estado de Israel") que roubam terras, humilham e agridem palestinos/as. E assim, aqueles/as que se dizem donos/as da "terra prometida" transformam a vida dos/as verdadeiros donos/as em inferno. Um inferno que opera no detalhe.

A socióloga conclui sua linha de raciocínio apontando que é só quando a genocidade encontra o genocídio, ou seja, quando Israel executa grandes operações militares na Faixa de Gaza e na Cisjordânia contra o povo palestino que a grande mídia toma conhecimento do conflito existente na região. Em períodos onde não há grandes confrontos, com um grande número de baixas de vidas palestinas, é da genocidade que o Estado sionista israelense se utiliza para oprimir a população palestina cotidianamente.

Prêmios
Em 2011, foi agraciada com o Prêmio Direitos Humanos, considerado "a mais alta condecoração do governo brasileiro a pessoas e entidades que se destacaram na defesa, na promoção e no enfrentamento e combate às violações dos Direitos Humanos no País". Recebeu o prêmio na categoria Igualdade de Gênero da presidenta Dilma Rousseff. A premiação de 2011 está associada à contribuição de Bento na compreensão e afirmação da transexualidade. Sobre essa temática, a socióloga afirmou: "Gênero e sexualidade são dimensões constitutivas das subjetividades e que são hegemonicamente naturalizadas. Acredito que este campo de estudos/ativismos tem contribuído para a desconstrução desta aparente natureza anistórica, mediante análises das configurações discursivas de determinadas épocas".

Escritos
 Sexualidades, gêneros e violência: estudos sociológicos. Natal: EdUFRN, 2019. ISBN 978-85-425-0919-9
 Transviad@s: gênero, sexualidade e direitos humanos. 1a. ed. Salvador: EDUFBA, 2017. ISBN 978-85-232-1599-6
 Estrangeira: uma paraíba em Nova Iorque. São Paulo: Annablume, 2016. ISBN  978-8539107926
Homem não tece dor: queixas e perplexidades masculinas. Natal: EDUFRN, 2013.  ISBN 978-85-425-0022-6
O que é transexualidade (Coleção Primeiros Passos). São Paulo: Brasiliense, 2008 ISBN  978-8511001242
A reinvenção do corpo: gênero e sexualidade na experiência transexual. Garamond, 2006, 1a. edição; Natal: EDUFRN, 2014, 2a. edição. 3a. edição. Salvador: Devires, 2017. ISBN 978-8593646072

Outras produções

 Exposição: "Palestina, Meu Amor" (2021).
 Exposição: "Viagem aos Campos de Refugiados Saharauis" (2020).
 Curta-metragem: SAHARAUI: Memória e Exílio" (2020).

Sociólogos da Paraíba
Feministas do Brasil
Nascidos em 1966
Naturais de Campina Grande
Ativistas dos direitos LGBT do Brasil
Professores da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Sociólogos do Brasil
Mulheres cientistas do Brasil
Professores da Universidade de Brasília
Transexualidade
Transgeneridade
Feminismo interseccional


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Gucci Wallpapers
3840x2160 An Italian high-end luxury fashion house based in Florence, Italy
2160x3840 Romee Strijd, A Dutch model, A former Victoria's Secret Angel
3840x2160 Alessandro Michele, Aria, The House's new collection, Fashion show
3840x2160 One of the world's leading luxury fashion brands, with a renowned reputation for creativity
3840x2160 25H Watch collection, The art of high watchmaking, Inspired by the sleek forms of contemporary architecture
3840x2160 Fall 2020 Runway Show, Fashion show, Luxury brand
2020x3790 Founded in Florence in 1921, One of the world's leading luxury fashion brands
2030x2560 GUCCI: The Making Of, An unprecedented publication, A book, The world-renowned fashion house
2880x1800 Creative director, Alessandro Michele, Fashion company, Florence, Italy
2560x1600 The interlaced double G logo, Designed by Aldo Gucci, Representing his father's initials
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Q: Azure ADLS - azcopy copy inside Python I don't have permission to get access keys for containers.Due to this unable to use "azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient".I can use only ContainerClient class using SAS key.
I can copy data including subfolder using "azure azcopy" on the command prompt from a windows machine.
subfolder:456 and data copied to target adls container using below command.
azcopy copy "https://[account].blob.core.windows.net/[source_container]/abc/def/123/tst/456?[SAS]" "https://[account].blob.core.windows.net/[target_container]/tgttst?[SAS]"
Please let me know how to automate to create subfolder on target ADLS and to copy data inside Python script.
Thanks in advance.
getting an error message "Attribute Error: 'BlobClient' object has no attribute create_container"
    from azure.storage.blob import ContainerClient
    sas_url="[account].blob.core.windows.net/[target_container]/tgttst?[SAS]"
container=ContainerClient.from_container_url(sas_url)
container_client = container.get_blob_client("abc/def/123")
container_client.create_container()

Note : SAS token has READ/WRITE/LIST privileges

A: I have found the solution, thanks for your help:
from azure.storage.blob import BlobServiceClient, BlobClient, ContainerClient

def azure_connect_sas_url(source_container_sas_url, source_container_name):
    try:
        blob_source_service_client = BlobServiceClient(source_container_sas_url)
        source_container_client = blob_source_service_client.get_container_client(source_container_name)
        print ("SAS URL -- Connected.")
        return source_container_client

    except Exception as ex:
        print ("Error: " + str(ex))

def main():
    try:
        azure_sas_url = input ('Please enter SAS URL: ')
        container_name = input ('Please enter Container name: ')

        ## SAS URL
        connection_instance = azure_connect_sas_url(azure_sas_url, container_name)

        print ('Done')

    except Exception as ex:
        print ('main | Error: ', ex)

if __name__ == "__main__":
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I was driving down University, the road by the college, yesterday completely caught in a daydream when I suddenly snapped out of it and was a bit terrified. Have you ever been driving and reached your destination wondering "How the hell did I get here"? You don't even remember driving. That is terrifying to me, right up there with sneezing while driving. The route you are driving is so routine that you mentally check out.
Such was the case for me. Todd had just given me the OK to purchase the bookshelves we had been mulling over for the last week so I was on my way to the store. I was picturing how I would arrange our books and how perfect they will look framing our fire place in the living room. It all seems quite ridiculous now looking back at it. What a superficial thing to be thinking about when I should be thinking about what is going on around me on the road. I admit I am a bit embarrassed. I get all wound up about distracted drivers just to end up a hypocrite. I just have a different distraction, my thoughts.
We are all hypocrites though, no one wants to admit it but we are not made to be perfect which means at times it happens.
I am a serial daydreamer, constantly lost in my own thoughts when alone. It is when I get my best ideas, it is where my creativity stems from. I just need to be a little more aware of it when my mind should be focusing on a specific task, like driving. As excited as I am to finally have bookshelves large enough to hold all of our books it is not worth causing an accident over.


I prefer to keep my Bible translations literal. . . and trimmed to fit my sense of humor.
I'll see ya on Monday with a new comic, if there is a Monday.
I'd love to be in Harold Camping's shoes on Monday. All he has to do is say "Oops…" and he'll still have 70,000,000 dollars.
that't an awfully small knife the lord uses.
Slightly ironic that there is an advert for a bible at the side of the page as I read this?
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Ask Amy: Mom RSVPs yes but doesn't show to weddings, funerals, family brunches
By The Oregonian/OregonLive
Dear Amy: Recently my nephew got married.
My mom RSVP'd for the wedding and made the five-hour drive with her husband to the city the wedding was in, but then didn't attend the wedding and reception.
Her excuse was the fact that my stepfather had forgotten to pack dress clothes (there was no dress code for the wedding; jeans would have been acceptable).
The next day all of our family members had brunch at a local restaurant. Again, my mom RSVP'd "yes" for her and her husband, and then didn't attend. This time her excuse was that she couldn't find her sunglasses and therefore couldn't drive to the restaurant. (My stepfather doesn't drive, and my mom has macular degeneration, but my brother offered to pick them up.)
We had flown across the country to attend this wedding, and I resent that my mother didn't even bother to see us.
This is not the first time my mom has done this. When one of my mom's nieces died, she made the five-hour drive and then didn't attend the funeral. (I flew in to attend.) And a few months ago, her brother died, and she did not make the drive and did not attend the funeral.
What should I do? I am so angry that I feel like disowning my mom, but I realize that's not rational or mature.
-- Upset Daughter
Dear Upset: If your mother proactively declined every invitation and obligation, you would have a more obvious hook to hang your anger upon.
Here she is, driving for hours with macular degeneration (yikes!), trying mightily -- in her way -- to show up! And yet ... she can't quite get there.
Your mother might be extremely socially anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted, or undermined by her husband. She might be self-conscious and afraid of facing questions or criticism. She might be wrestling with a serious medical issue that interferes with her functioning. She's working very hard to show up for her family, and yet she cannot seem to face her family.
Your response to her should not be anger. You should be concerned.
You are focused on the fact that your mother didn't "bother" to see you at this wedding. But once it became clear that your mother and stepfather would not be showing up for these events, why didn't you bother to hop in a car and pop over to check on them? She's your mother. Maybe it's time for you to show up for her.
Dear Amy: I am a 60-year-old woman. I moved to a new neighborhood about six months ago. At first my next-door neighbors were quite nice, and I was hoping to get better acquainted with the wife.
Now every time I see them, they act like they don't see me.
The wife is an interior designer, so I asked her over to look at my plans for new paint. She didn't like them and made another suggestion. I did consider her suggestion, but in the end I decided it's my house and I was going to do what I liked.
I saw her later, told her I got the painting done, and said that she could come look at it, but she might not like it, and she quickly said, "As long as you like it."
It sounded like something she had rehearsed. Do you think this would be enough to make her and her husband now dislike me?
I can't really think of anything else, and they've been frosty ever since. Should I do anything about it? I have never been a very popular person and I'm used to being snubbed, and when someone ignores me as she is doing, after a few stabs at friendliness, I just ignore them right back.
I'm already thinking maybe I should move.
-- New Neighbor
Dear Neighbor: Do not move. But do move on. Maintain a cordial boundary with these people. Do not push for more.
Dear Amy: "Expectant" was worried because her husband said he would be with his father for scheduled heart surgery instead of attending the birth of their first child.
I asked my husband what he would do if given the dilemma presented in your column.
My husband was very thoughtful and asked if the man's mother was going to be there. It sounds like she will be. My husband then said, "Well, if the father has his wife for support, the son should support his spouse, too."
-- Supportive Spouse
Dear Supportive: The older mother's role was not stated, but your husband makes a great point.
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Q: cant use function into another one from imported file? Dealing with a sapui5 client app. I'm trying to use a function from one common js file in another function  located in a controller js file but I'm getting a error "is not a function".
the controler file -> controller/controller.js
sap.ui.define([
    "path/js/error"
], function(JSONModel) {
    "use strict";

    onInit: function() {
        var type="servidor";
        var oModelServidores = new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();
        oDataModel.read('/ServersSet', {
            async: false,
            success: function(data) {
               //do something
            },
            error: function(type, err) {
                errHandler(type,err);  //here I'm getting the error
            }
        });
}
});

the js file where is the function I want to use in controller -> js/error.js
function errHandler(type, err){
    var ErrorResponse = err.responseText;
    var ErrorResponseBody = JSON.parse(err.responseText);
    var msgError = ErrorResponseBody.error.message.value;

    switch(type) {
        case 'servidor':
            console.log('Ups! se ha producido un error a nivel de servidor: ' + msgError);
            break;
            default:
                console.log('Se ha producido un error inesperado');
    }
}

Any idea why getting this issue?

A: define is an AMD convention and it looks like you are dealing with AMD modules.  You should read about how AMD works.  require.js is one implementation of AMD.
The code
sap.ui.define(["path/js/error"], function (JSONModel) {...}

means: "load the file at path/js/error and populate what it returns into the variable JSONModel.
The way you have written your code means that JSONModel is either the reference that contains the function errHandler (if that is what is defined by path/js/error) or an Object that has a property that contains errHandler.
So, your code should look something like this instead:
controller/controller.js
sap.ui.define([
    "path/js/error"
], function (JSONModel) { // This is where the module defined by path/js/error is stored
    "use strict";

    onInit: function () {
        var type = "servidor";
        var oModelServidores = new sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel();
        oDataModel.read('/ServersSet', {
            async: false,
            success: function (data) {
                //do something
            },
            error: function (type, err) {
                // Use the errHandler function of the dependency
                JSONModel(type, err);
                // or if errHandler is attached to an object that is returned
                JSONModel.errHandler(type, err)
            }
        });
    }
});

path/js/error.js
define([], function () {
    return function errHandler(type, err) {
        var ErrorResponse = err.responseText;
        var ErrorResponseBody = JSON.parse(err.responseText);
        var msgError = ErrorResponseBody.error.message.value;

        switch (type) {
            case 'servidor':
                console.log('Ups! se ha producido un error a nivel de servidor: ' + msgError);
                break;
            default:
                console.log('Se ha producido un error inesperado');
        }
    }
});

A: you should import the js file at the beginning and give it a handle.
Your code should look like this:
    sap.ui.define([
        "path/js/error",
        "sap/ui/model/json/JSONModel"
    ], function (Error, JSONModel) {...
...
      var oModelServidores = new JSONModel(); <-- note
...
      Error.errHandler(type, err)   <- you could call the handle to the js file something else

ensure the js file is in relative path you have specified


In my practice I notice that most people spend lots of time listening to their thoughts instead of listening to their experience. That pattern is the same when it comes to listening to others. If you are thoughts focused you create lots of pollution in your system. When you pay attention to your experience you nourish yourself. That is the essence of self-love.
Many of you are amazing achievers. Your accomplishments are often outstanding yet your self-care and self-love are lacking. You have used your will and your brilliance in a limited way…and my wish is that you choose to open your sky.
When you choose to listen to your experience your life opens up to unknown possibilities. Are you courageous enough to love yourself? Now…I am not talking of the love and peace movement of the 70s or romantic love; I am talking about love, the ultimate form of commitment, the ultimate discipline that will expand your awareness and intuition.
This discipline goes way deeper than a discipline that comes from your will. I have experienced both and I know the difference.
In my mid 30s and early 40s I was will driven. I ran the NY Marathon (and I never liked running), road bike races and played in golf tournaments. Everything was outcome-driven. Each time I won I felt empty, sick and dry inside. When I did not win I had to focus on the next event.
Self-love has a different flavor. You are curious, sensitive to what is and stay with any type of discomfort. From that ever-changing place of yours you listen and you create your day.
When you choose to connect to your essence there can be pain but no drama. There can be joy but no frantic excitement. You dramatically enhance your awareness and make decisions aligned with your true essence.
Are you ready to open your sky?
One of my beautiful true friends, Catherine, is a comic and mother of three. She has been diagnosed with LAM lung disease; a rare form of cancer in the lungs that they have not yet found a cure for.
In 2006, she was given 5 to 10 years to live and she is now more vibrant than ever. Her life force and heart are priceless and her humor is contagious. She has been able to raise 2 million dollars and attract some top-notch scientists to find a cure for this disease. She touches so many with compassion and great laughter that you can only do one thing when you are in her presence…open your heart and laugh really loud.
Here is a newly documentary about Catherine and her website if you would like to make a donation. Please watch it! You will be inspired!
Why am I talking about Catherine's journey? In many ways Cat helps me to answer that question that has became louder for the past couple of months. How do I show up in this world? What do I stand for? What do I fight for?
I got my answer…I simply need to connect to my gifts and uplift moment to moment. That is where I heal others and myself; that is where I keep my inner light going.
If we listen to the Yogis, the heart's projection has a 60-degree angle. By nature the heart uplifts.
Uplifting has nothing to do with motivating; there is no agenda to make the other person feel better or have more energy. Each time you expect an outcome you are not in the heart center you are in your will, convincing, forcing and pushing.
Uplifting is not about ignoring what does not work either. You still commit to glow no matter what. If you embrace that quality, every cause you stand up for will not eat you up. More than ever before we all need to glow.
How do you uplift in your day-to-day life?
As a child the way I understood humility was: "be less, be small, be invisible". The focus was on the ego; make it as small as possible. Later in my life I realized that humility is not about asking the ego to be small but is relying on the heart to be big. And moment-to-moment we have to choose what we say yes to: is it our heart or our ego?
The path of humility may not be the easiest one but the other one carries way too much suffering. We did not come on earth to win; we came on earth to heal. When humility is at the center of your life you are at peace with learning the same thing over and over.
This year I choose to celebrate as much as I can with the quality of humility at the center. In this context, it is not about how great I am but how blessed I am.
Now what about you? What is your theme for this new year?
Book a transformation session with me.
We are not linear beings we are spiritual beings. Our focus is to increase our vitality. More than ever before we need our vibration to be strong as we are constantly reminded of the political, economical and ecological chaos in our lives. We can pretend to ignore it but because everything is a vibration we still are impacted.
If you want more vitality keep it true. Stay connected with your wholeness, that means your light and your shadow. If you are running away from your darkness you will not experience your spiritual dimension you will not be vibrant. Stay human.
In this period that the Yogis have called "The Grey Period", we can fall into our reactive patterns and be stressed or we can stand up in our light and be vibrant no matter what. More than ever before we need each others' light. Yogi Bhajan used to say "Be the Light House".
Twelve years ago I was working with a therapist who was a Sikh and a kundalini yoga teacher, her name was Guru Ravi Kaur Khalsa. One day she mentioned about a kundalini yoga teacher coming to town to lead a workshop and in her detached usual way she said: "you may like it." As I was longing for deep personal transformation I went without hesitation.
When I arrived, I saw students seated on a sheepskin with their head covered. There was a wide diversity of people…old and young, male and female…I was taking it all in. After a couple of chants at the beginning of the class we started some series of exercises; some of them were odd and made me laugh. Our eyes were closed to stay within and be present to our own experience. Some of the exercises were physically challenging because of the repetition but very quickly I ended up experiencing my being as pure vibrant energy, invincible and free yet connected and present. As an energy healer working with energy patterns with my clients I was amazed of the sensation and the brilliance of this approach. At the end of the class I went to talk to the teacher and asked her for a daily kryia and meditation. I also mentioned that I wanted to become a teacher. She laughed and said: " I created a bomb!"…Her name was Gurmuk Kaur Khalsa. I left the class with a sense of complete renewal… I was hooked.
At a very young age I was touched by anyone who committed to a spiritual practice. I explored many traditions and practiced essentially Vinyassa Yoga, Siddha Yoga, Bikram Yoga, Nichiren Buddhism and Qigong. One day I got introduced to Kundalini Yoga and at the end of my first class, I knew "I found home" and that I would become a teacher.
Every spiritual practice has unique gifts to offer. Kundalini Yoga has this no BS essence in it that fits my style. It has been called the Yoga of Awareness. This practice helps you break unnecessary patterns, take responsibility for one self, develop your intuition and support you to go through any layers of confusion, worries, anxiety or depression to connect to your true essence. In fact in the seventies, there were a lot of centers that used the technology of Kundalini Yoga to help people with drug addiction. It is a "cut the crap" practice …whatever the crap of the day maybe.
After ten years of teaching students and future teachers, I am always amazed of the efficiency of this practice. The transformation one goes through is a gift to witness. It brings simplicity clarity energy and inner stability in one's life and from that place true happiness can emerge.
Now this practice touches me. I experience very quickly energetic shifts and a sense of expansion that I never came close to before. Often it will bring in me energy and pleasure and at time old emotions of anger or anxiety will come up to be cleared. One thing is sure; the practice of Kundalini Yoga has been my best teacher to love myself deeper than ever before.
Every culture has its own tradition. If we look at death in China people buy their coffins before they die and put it in a place where everyone can admire the luxury of it. In America, death is still taboo and we are doing everything we can without clarity to avoid aging or simply dying.
How do you say goodbye when it is time to let go of painful situations? For years I used to say goodbye by slamming the door with a lot of conviction stating how much I was right and how much "they" were wrong. We all know that never works: I was not able to deeply learn and surrender and in this process I was not able to say goodbye.
Saying goodbye is a vital skill that needs to be learned particularly in the time of uncertainty we live in. What do you want to say goodbye to in your life? Is it a person, a behavior, a thought? When you choose to say goodbye you truly grow from within.
If you say goodbye to some habits, a good amount of focus and determination are not going to be the answer. Your focus has to be towards your desires not your will. How clear and strong your desire is?
If you say goodbye to a person you need to allow your emotional body to go through its convulsion and commotion. That is the first stage of any transformation and each time you dismiss it you will prevent any healing to happen.
The culture we live in does not teach you how to say goodbye. If you go on a business trip you text before you take off, you text when you land, you text when you check in your hotel….and it keeps on going.
Saying goodbye is not rejecting, reacting, accusing or blaming, it is a healthy way of living…not always easy but it will bring you closer to your own truth and to your heart, closer to your spiritual dimension.
Be curious and explore…What and or who do you need to say goodbye to?
First write down a list and then connect to the clarity of your desires for each item. In some situations the fear may be to overwhelming and you may not be ready to take actions yet invite consciously your intent and trust that at some point you it will reach a level of simplicity.
Do you want to explore how to say goodbye? Book a transformation session with me.
Every one has heard that sentence before and right there lays some ancient knowledge about the power of breath. Each time you change your breathing you change your thought patterns and with this your feelings. Any yoga practice includes conscious breathing to help you stay present to your inner experience and prevent your mind to run your life.
The practice of yoga started approximately 5000 years ago and its intent was to yoke/bring together the mind, body and spirit. Many schools of yoga emerged then focusing on different aspects. Patanjali (200/800 AD) was interested in creating a system that embraced all the different forms of yoga. He organized and codified into a system of 195 sutras the different knowledge approaches and philosophies. In this system he describes the eight limbs of yoga, which are essential for a yoga practice.
One of the limbs is called Pranayam, which is the ability to control the movement of Prana through breathing techniques. Prana means life force and Ayam means expansion. Pranayama is energy management. By practicing different breath techniques you develop your Prana and therefore promote your health, vitality and intuition.
There are many breath patterns from many spiritual traditions that create a very specific impact on your being. Do you want to develop your intuition? There is a breath for that. Do you want to reduce your anxiety? There is a breath for that. Do you want to develop your focus? There is a breath for that. In fact there are many breath patterns for the three mentioned above.
Most people breathe too shallow at a rhythm of fourteen times a minute, which does not bring a lot of vitality or stability of the mind. When you breathe eight times per minute you feel more relaxed. If you breathe four times a minute you increase your awareness and if you breathe one time a minute you develop dramatically your intuition.
Your breath gives you a glow. In fact the yogis used to say that your attraction factor is your Prana, therefore your breath. Do you want more glow in your life then come to Miraval and dive into the many practices of yoga you will be glad you did!
In my 30 years of working with thousands of men and women I have noticed that most people misunderstand forgiveness.
The forgiveness process is a healing method to help you release old pains you are holding onto. The biggest obstacle lies in your attachment to the outcome. Too often you get so caught up in wanting to make the situation better that you skip the crucial phase of the forgiveness process, which is focusing on what hurts.
We don't know how to connect to our pain. We live in an environment that promotes running away from pain. The amount of drugs available to relieve physical or emotional pain is humongous. The list of distractions to never experience our own feelings and thoughts is endless. By running away from our own pain we simply don't know who we are, we have no identity. From there nothing can happen.
"If I connect to my pain I will hurt more" or "I need to stay positive I don't want to dwell in the negative".
In these above statements, there is no heart connection, just an ego or mind connection. When you connect to your pain from the heart center you heal and grow.
Everyday for three minutes or so list your pains (physical, emotional, heart or spiritual) without analyzing them, just write them down. Depending on the amount of healing work and personal process work you have already done, this process can take ten days or six months. For each of you it will be unique but if you trust the process, you will be able to drop in a place of neutrality where you become curious; that is the sacred space of the heart center.
If you want to truly forgive you need to connect to your pain. There is simply no shortcut. Trust this process if you want to feel more vibrant in your life.


If you have recently completed addiction rehab, you must be keen to get back to living a normal life. The period after rehab is critical since it will give you a confidence boost, as long as you can navigate through it without slipping. If you meet someone you like, it is okay to entertain thoughts of dating them. However, you must always keep in mind that you have a problem that you are handling. Should you date successfully, it could mark a new and bright chapter of your life. So what should you do?
Once you decide to date a new person in your life, you must find a way of telling them that you are undergoing addiction recovery. Do not fear that the person will judge you harshly. If they do, they do not deserve to be in your life as you seek sober living in Los Angeles. If you need to avoid questions before the discussion, you ought to meet in places where there is no alcohol, such as a coffee house.
Recovering from addiction requires mental and emotional healing. Once you start dating, you may be tempted to progress things fast. If you do, you may end up opening the wounds after the discovery that you were not meant to be. The best strategy is to take the relationship slowly, so that by the time you are taking it a notch higher, you understand your partner well.
As you go about your post-rehab life, you ought to remember that you cannot afford a relapse. Dating sometimes presents you with tempting situations that might test your resolve. Stay true to the course and keep off activities that may jeopardize your full recovery. No matter what you are going through, stay committed to sober living.
When you get back in the dating game, you should not date someone from your immediate group of friends. In the unfortunate event that you have to part ways, you do not want to see them everywhere you go. Doing so may affect your overall state of mind and possibly affect you enough to go back to drinking.
Dating is not a bad thing, but you need to approach it with caution in a time you are particularly vulnerable. Heed the above advice, and you're sure to be on your way to an exciting, healing new beginning.


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Selected works of Lorna Simpson
www.lsimpsonstudio.com
Born in 1960, Brooklyn, New York
Lives in Brooklyn, New York
1985 M.F.A. in Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA
- Focus : Lorna Simpson , The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
- Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover (Massachusetts)
- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Newcastle, UK
- Jeu de Paume, Paris
- Haus der Kunst, Munich
- Works on paper , Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- New work, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
- Salon 94 Freemans, New York, NY
- Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,
- Lorna Simpson: Duet, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
- Lorna Simpson, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL,
- the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC.,
- Lorna Simpson: 31, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
- Videos / Photographies, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
- Lorna Simpson, Walter E. Terhune Gallery, Owens Community College, Toledo, Ohio,
- Lorna Simpson, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio,
CORRIDOR,Wohnmaschine, Berlin
LORNA SIMPSON, Sean Kelly Gallery, NY.
LORNA SIMPSON: 31, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
LORNA SIMPSON, Consejo Nacional Para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
LORNA SIMPSON, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
LORNA SIMPSON, CAMEOS AND APPEARANCES, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
LORNA SIMPSON: 31, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
LORNA SIMPSON, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
LORNA SIMPSON, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Salamanca, Spain (inaugural and traveling exhibition)
Presentation House Gallery Vancouver, Canada
SCENARIOS: RECENT WORK BY LORNA SIMPSON, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; and The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Sean Kelly Gallery, NY
SCENARIOS: RECENT WORK BY LORNA SIMPSON, Artist in Residency, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1999 SCENARIOS: RECENT WORK BY LORNA SIMPSON, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN,
LORNA SIMPSON, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan
CALL WAITING, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
LORNA SIMPSON, CALL WAITING, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LORNA SIMPSON, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
LORNA SIMPSON, Sean Kelly Gallery, NY
LORNA SIMPSON: INTERIOR/EXTERIOR, FULL/EMPTY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
LORNA SIMPSON: NEW WORK SERIES, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
DETAILS, Karen McCready Fine Art, NY
THE BODY AND DECEPTION, Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
LORNA SIMPSON, Sean Kelly, NY
LORNA SIMPSON, 'WIGS,' Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
LORNA SIMPSON, Cohen/Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO
LORNA SIMPSON, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
9 PROPS: A NEW EDITION BY LORNA SIMPSON, Richard Levy Gallery/21 Steps Edition; Albuquerque, NM
WIGS: AN INSTALLATION OF PRINTS ON FELT, Richard Levy Gallery, Alburquerque, NM
LORNA SIMPSON: AN EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS, Manchester Craftsmen's Art Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
- Mir Ist Das Leben Lieber, Weserburg/Museum Fur moderne kunst, Bremen, Germany
- Soulèvements, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
- PhotoLab 2: women speaking art, Institut canadien de la photographie du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
- Greater New York 2015 , MOMA PS1, New York, USA
- I am your sister, tête-à-tête, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
- Nothing personal: Zoe Leonard, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Gallery 188, Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, USA
- 30 Americans, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Who We Be, Cantors Arts Center, Stanford University, USA
- Contemporary Redux, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, USA
- Citizens and States - Tate Modern Displays, Tate Modern, London, UK
- Physical: Sex and the Body in the 1980s, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
- Free Radicals: Remixing History Through the Power of Print, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
- CAPP At 10: The Shape of Remembering, Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
- Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
- Belief + Doubt: Selections from the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- All the world's futures, Arsenale, 56th Venice Biennale, Italy
- Portraits and other likenesses from SFMOMA, SFMOMA/MoAD, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Et autres identités..., Pavillon Vendôme-Centre d'art contemporain, Clichy, France
- African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, USA
- Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions,, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
- America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
- In Light of the Past: 25 Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
- Nero su Bianco, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
- Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
- Andy Warhol to Kara Walker: Picturing the Iconic, Sonoma County Museum of Art, Sonoma, USA
- MATRIX, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- ICA Collection: In Context, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
- The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, USA
- Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, FL, USA
- Light Borne in Darkness: Photography Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA
- I Like it Like This, MASH-UP The Dialogue of Music and Black American Contemporary Art, S/2 Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Salon Style, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
- A Life Journey, The Granary, Sharon, CT, USA
- Body Doubles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
- Speaking of People: Ebony, jet and Contemporary Art, Studio Museum, Harlem, USA
- Civil Rights: We have it in our power to begin the world over again, oid Gallery in Derry, Ireland
- Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, MCA Chicago, USA
- The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize show, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
- Out (o) Fashion Photography : Embracing Beauty, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
- Straddled : selections from the permanent collection, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama
- Blues for smoke, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
- Seeing is Believing : a History of Photography , Harvard Art Museum
- Portraits, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels
- Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
- Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, UK
- Dress Codes, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
- Nos, Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Undercover, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
- Locks in Translation, A.I.R. Gallery II, Brooklyn, NY
- Archive Fever, The International Center of Photography Enwezor, New York
- Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970, Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
- Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin,
- Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warschau, Polen,
- In Sight, MoCP - Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College Chicago,
- Big Juicy Paintings (and more), Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
- Masquerade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
- Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI.,
- Bodies of Evidence: Contemporary Perspectives, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island,
- Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY,
- Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Collection, MoMA, New York, NY,
- Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas.,
- Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut,
- Transcending Time: Recent Work by Bill Viola and Lorna Simpson, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,
- Adams and 21 Eves: Women Photographers from the Vault, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA,
- Beginning Here: 101 Ways, School of Visual Arts, NY,
- Public/Private, Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand,
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.,
- Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
- Depicting Love, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany,
- Collection in Context, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY,
- Conversations: Text and Image, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL,
- Lorna Simpson and Bill Viola, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
- Open House: Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY,
- Soft Edge, The MCA, Chicago, IL.,
THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE: SCULPTURES FROM THE FIA'S COLLECTION, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI.
IMPERFECT INNOCENCE, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL.
From the Collection of Norrece T. Jones, Jr., Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA.
PUBLIC/PRIVATE/TUMATANUI/TUMATAITI, The Second Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand.
IMAGE STREAM, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. Taktiken des Ego, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany.
ONLY SKIN DEEP: VISIONS OF THE AMERICAN SELF, International Center of Photography, New York, NY.
YANKEE REMIX, MassMoCA, North Adams, MA
RETROSPECTACLE, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co
FRAGILITE, Printemps de septembre, Toulouse
Group Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,Greensboro, NC
MIAMI CURRENTS: LINKING COLLECTION AND COMMUNITY, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
DOCUMENTA XI, Kassel, Germany
WHITNEY BIENNIAL, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
CAMERA: WOMEN, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ.
SURROUNDING INTERIORS: VIEWS INSIDE THE CAR, Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.
EMBRACING THE PRESENT; The UBS Paine Webber Art Collection, The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
ART DOWNTOWN, Wall Street Rising, New York, NY
CAMERA: WOMEN, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
SIX CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, The Clifford Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY.
RED, BLACK, AND GREEN, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
mis.com, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
A WAY WITH WORDS: SELECTIONS FROM THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Whitney Museum of American art at Philip Morris, New York, NY.
I'M THINKING OF A PLACE, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
RE-LOCATION: ON MOVING, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY.
OPEN ENDS: ACTUAL SIZE, The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
InSite2000, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Converge, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL.
CORCORAN BIENNIAL 2000, The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC.
ACTUAL SIZE, The Museum of Modern Art, NY.
INSITES: INTERIOR SPACES IN CONTEMPORARY ART, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, CT.
CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
BEYOND THE PRESS: INNOVATIONS IN PRINT, Hand Workshop Arts Center, Richmond, VA.
RIVERS OF SPIRIT: ART WOMEN OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Champaign, IL.
THE 46TH BIENNIAL EXHIBITION MEDIA/METAPHOR, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC.
PHOTOGRAPHY NOW, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA.
ART WORLDS IN DIALOGUE, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
ART IN THE NEWS, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL.
REGARDING BEAUTY: A VIEW OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
IMPACT: REVEALING SOURCES FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD.
TRANSMUTE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
OTHER NARRATIVES, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.
MATRIX/BERKELEY: 20 YEARS, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
MCM – Y2K: A CENTURY OF ART ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
PHOTO IMAGE: PRINTMAKING 60 TO 90'S, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
ART AND IDENTITY: AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN THE COLLECTION OF THE NEW SCHOOL, curated by Lisa E. Farrington, New School, NY.
BETRAYAL OF MEANS/MEANS OF BETRAYAL, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, VT.
DECADES IN DIALOGUE: PERSPECTIVES ON THE MCA COLLECTION, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
SELECTIONS FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN ART, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
THE AMERICAN CENTURY: ART AND CULTURE, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
RE/RIGHTING HISTORY, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
IN THE BLOOD, exhibition that accompanied the opening of the play written by Susan-Lori Parks, The Public Theater, NY.
INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL, New York Studio Events, NY.
CON(TEXT): WORDS, TEXT, AND MEANING IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY.
ARTISTS SPACE 25TH ANNIVERSARY SPRING BENEFIT, Artists Space, NY.
MIRROR'S EDGE, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 1998, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Soho, NY.
INVISIBLE LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND CLASSIFICATION IN ART, SCIENCE AND THE EVERYDAY, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
PHOTOIMAGE: PRINTMAKING 60S TO 90S, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; traveled to Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
HISTORIES (RE)MEMBERED: SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, Paine Webber Art Gallery, NY (selections from the Permanent Collection of The Bronx Museum of the Arts )
EL CAMPO EXPANDIDO, Graphics Studio, Colecciones del Contemporary Art Museum y de Graphicstudio, University of South Flordia, FL
DEFINING EYE: WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, traveled to The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM; The Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, MA; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN MASK, Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
MYSTERIOUS VOYAGES; EXPLORING THE SUBJECT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, InSite '98, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
BRAND NEW EDITIONS, Karen McCready Fine Art, NY
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
DESLOCAÇÕES: FROM HERE TO THERE, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal traveled to Centro Português de Fotografia, Porto, Portugal
EVIDENCE: PHOTOGRAPHY AND SITE, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; traveled to Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
FROM BODY TO BEING: REFLECTIONS ON THE HUMAN IMAGE, Des Moines Art Center, DesMoines, IA.
LIFE'S LITTLE NECESSITIES, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
INSITE 97, San Diego, CA
tHE oBJECTS IN THE hANGAR 2, Sand Point Naval Base, Seattle, WA
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE AVON COLLECTION, International Center of Photography, NY
STRUCTURES: BUILDINGS IN AMERICAN ART, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
IMAGE, Lance Fung Gallery, NY
DREAM III, Miami Art Museum, Miami FL
CHIMEAT CONCRETE BOOTS, Brooklyn, NY
ESPACIO 204, Caracas, Venezuela
TERRA FIRMA, Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD
CIVIL PROGRESS: LIFE IN BLACK AMERICA, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
QUEENS ARTISTS: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE, Congress Centrum, Hamburg, Germany
NO SMALL FEAT, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
THINKING PRINT, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
INCLUSION/EXCLUSION, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
URBAN EVIDENCE, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
BEARING WITNESS: CONTEMPORARY WORKS BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS, The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA; traveled to Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; African American Museum, Dallas, TX; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX; African American History and Culture Museum, Fresno, CA
TO LIVE IS TO LEAVE TRACES, Expoarte Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
SILENCE, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
ABSENCE, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
GENDER BEYOND MEMORY, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, Anne Garry Pannell Center Art Gallery, Sweet Briar College
CONCRETE BOOTS, Chi Meat, Brooklyn, NY
FACT & FICTION: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
OUTBURST OF SIGNS, Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich, Germany
LONGING & BELONGING, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
TRACES: THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, The Bronx Museum of Art, NY
ACT UP/ART BOX, Josh Baer Gallery, NY
IMAGINING FAMILIES, The National African American Museum, Washington, DC
WHITNEY BIENNIAL EXHIBITION, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY


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Gasol signs option to stay with Raptors
Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) drives to the basket between Toronto Raptors' Marc Gasol, left, and Danny Green (14) during Game 1 of basketball's NBA Finals, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Toronto. (Gregory Shamus/Pool Photo via AP)
By Jarvis Greer | June 27, 2019 at 7:14 AM CDT - Updated June 27 at 7:14 AM
TORONTO (WMC) - Former Grizzlies star Marc Gasol is exercising his one-year player option for next season, which means he'll return to Toronto.
It's for $25.6 million, the final year of a five-year deal he signed with Memphis back in 2015.
Big Spain could've declined the option to become a free agent, but he chooses to return to the NBA Champion Raptors.
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Jarvis Greer celebrated his 40th anniversary at WMC Action News 5 in April 2019. He's won a number of awards on his way to becoming sports director, including an Emmy and Memphis Magazine's "Best of Memphis" award.


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Other exclusions may apply depending on optional benefits chosen.
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For the first two years of your policy, the benefit is limited to the return of premiums paid to the date of your death (unless death is the result of an accident before your 85th birthday. In this case, we will pay the Accident Death Benefit). After two years, coverage is in effect for life and will not decrease. Premium payments end at age 95, but you are covered for life. Coverage will end if you cancel your policy or do not pay your premiums as due.
Note that probate fees are applicable if you have not designated a beneficiary and the proceeds of your policy become part of your estate.
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Big East bout pits Red Storm against ninth-ranked Huskies
Hartford, CT – The ninth-ranked Connecticut Huskies continue their run throughthe Big East, as they welcome the St. John's Red Storm to Hartford this afternoon for a conference clash at the XL Center.
Jim Calhoun's Huskies have won 11 of their first 12 games this season, with the lone loss coming to UCF in the Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament in the Bahamas. Since that defeat, the defending national champs have strung together six straight wins, including a hard-fought 60-57 victory over USF in Tampa this week to open league play.
Steve Lavin's Red Storm have played to mixed reviews this season, looking like world beaters in some games and a mediocre squad in others. St. John's is on one of those rolls right now where they look for real, as evidenced by the team's 91-67 whipping of a good Providence squad this week. The win was the third straight for the Red Storm, which will play a second straight ranked opponent next week at home against Louisville.
The Red Storm have won each of the last two meetings with the Huskies and now lead the all-time series 34-27. However, St. John's is just 3-14 all-time on the road against UConn.
A defensive team by nature, St. John's erupted against Providence, posting a season-high 91 points. Freshman forward Moe Harkless made his presence felt and my have thrust his name into the ring as far as Big East Newcomer of the Year, as he poured in a career-high 32 points, the most ever by a freshman in his Big East debut. Harkless was 14-of-17 from the floor and completed a double-double with 13 rebounds. D'Angelo Harris had a huge offensive performance as well, finishing with 25 points on 8-of-12 shooting. Phil Greene rounded out the top scorers with 12 points, as St. John's shot a sterling 56.5 percent from the field against the Friars, and scoring 34 points off of 20 Providence turnovers. Harkless has made an immediate impact, averaging team- highs of 15.7 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. Harrison provides a potent second scoring option at 15.1 ppg. God'sgift Achiuwa has been solid along the front line, netting 12.0 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. The scoring pool dries up quickly after that, as St. John's is averaging a modest 68.8 ppg this year.
UConn shot the ball extremely well in the first half against the Bulls this week, but despite knocking down 55.6 percent from the floor, the Huskies led by just two points at the half (30-28). Still, the team was able to open league play with a victory even with a season-low 60 points on the scoreboard. In a game where not many players stood out offensively for UConn, All-American Jeremy Lamb carried the torch, hitting 8-of-11 from the floor and 6-of-8 from the free-throw line to lead all scorers with 23 points. No other player finished in double figures in the win, as Ryan Boatright got closest with nine points off the bench. The Huskies are fueled by their talented backcourt, namely Lamb and point guard Shabazz Napier. Lamb has been on fire this season and is averaging 19.3 ppg on an impressive 51.6 percent shooting. Napier can fill up the basket as well at 14.5 ppg, but is also a terrific distributor, doling out 6-4 apg. Boatright and Andre Drummond have both made their presence felt despite being freshmen, netting 12.5 and 9.5 ppg, respectively.