#monica mayer

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Mónica Mayer

Mónica Mayer, artista, curatrice, critica d’arte e attivista femminista, ha esposto e tenuto conferenze in diversi paesi del mondo. 

Critica il sistema sociale patriarcale attraverso l’arte con performance, grafica digitale, disegno e fotografia.

Si è sempre posta in una posizione di rottura rispetto alle definizioni tradizionali di arte. La sua opera è caratterizzata da spirito irrequieto, spiccato senso critico e grande umorismo.

Ha iniziato con dipinti e collage per poi dedicare grande attenzione alle performance e installazioni. Negli anni, il suo contributo artistico si è sviluppato anche attraverso la scrittura, l’insegnamento, l’archiviazione e la partecipazione attiva nella comunità.

La maggior parte delle sue performance consistono in interventi sociali interattivi progettati per contesti specifici.

È nata a Città del Messico nel 1954 e si è laureata in Belle Arti all’Università Autonoma del Messico nel 1976.

Il suo attivismo è iniziato quando, ben presto, ha realizzato quanto fosse discriminante essere una donna nel mondo dell’arte. Nel 1975, ha preso parte al Movimiento Feminista Mexicano e al Colectivo Cine Mujer.

La sua prima esposizione è stata Collage íntimo nel 1977. L’anno successivo ha partecipato alla Muestra colectiva feminista. 

Nel 1978 alla biennale Salón 77–78: Nuevas tendencias al Museo d’Arte Moderna di Città del Messico, ha presentato l’installazione interattiva El tendedero (La corda da bucato), che ha inaugurato il suo stile e la ricerca di nuovi mezzi per comunicare attraverso l’arte. 

Nello stesso anno si è trasferita negli Stati Uniti dove, nel 1980, ha conseguito un master in Sociologia dell’arte al Goddard College, con una tesi intitolata Feminist Art: An Effective Political Tool (Arte femminista: uno strumento politico efficace). In quel periodo ha frequentato il  Feminist Studio Workshop presso il Woman’s Building di Los Angeles con pioniere del movimento artistico femminista statunitense come Suzanne Lacy, Leslie Labowitz e Judy Chicago.

Al suo ritorno in Messico, nel 1983, ha fondato il collettivo artistico Polvo de Gallina Negra diminutivo di Polvere di gallina nera per proteggerci dalla magia patriarcale che fa scomparire le donne, che combinava critica sociale radicale e umorismo e che è stato attivo per una decade.

Nello stesso anno, ha tenuto un seminario su Donne e Arte presso la Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, che ha poi portato alla creazione di un altro collettivo artistico femminista, Tlacuilas y Retrateras.

Nel 1989, col marito, Víctor Lerma, ha fondato Pinto mi Raya, spazio artistico indipendente e archivio online la cui funzione principale è stimolare il sistema dell’arte in Messico attraverso incontri, workshop e performance collettive di attivismo comunitario.

Un’esperienza che si è gradualmente trasformata in una piattaforma da cui lanciare progetti di arte concettuale applicata per cercare di trovare soluzioni. Per lubrificare il sistema dell’arte per farlo funzionare più agevolmente. 

Come estensione della sua pratica artistica, Mónica Mayer ha parlato e scritto ampiamente di arte, donne e femminismo.

Tra il 1988 e il 2008 è stata editorialista del quotidiano El Universal e ancora oggi scrive per diversi blog.

Ha pubblicato diversi libri, saggi e contribuito a creare riviste d’arte e dibattito femminista. 

Nel 2012 ha partecipato alla creazione del Sistema Nazionale di Artisti per il Finanziamento Nazionale per la Cultura e le Arti messicane.

Nel 2016 il Museo d’Arte Contemporanea dell’Università Nazionale Autonoma del Messico le ha dedicato la mostra “Si tiene dudas… pregunte: una exposición retrocolectiva de Mónica Mayer” (In caso di dubbio… chiedi: retrospettiva di Mónica Mayer).

Nello stesso anno, l’Istituto femminile di Città del Messico le ha conferito la Medaglia Omecíhuatl per la sua “eccezionale partecipazione all’istruzione, alle arti, alla cultura e allo sport, che hanno ispirato e influenzato lo sviluppo e l’empowerment femminile”.

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Marc Bolan performing at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica on August 11, 1973. 

Photos by Jeffrey Mayer

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Catherine Zeta-Jones during The 1999 MTV Movie Awards at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, United States. (Photos by Jim Smeal/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images /Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

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9 March 1976, Queen on stage @ Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California Queen’s deliberate avoidance of electronic keyboards are mutations thereof have left them practically alone on the purist hard rock podium, and while it allows more attention to be focused on Freddie Mercury’s fiery though flexible vocals and Brian May’s precision guitar, it too often finds the band’s members overworked to produce a full sound.Their best moments were unquestionably the more solo-ized segments, which were nearly perfect — and God Bless them for that. This nears the end of their current American tour, and from coast to coast reports, and their own statement (coupled with the crowd’s) at Santa Monica, there’s no question where Queen are going in America — straight to the top!  They have waited for this long enough, but by the next time around it won’t be the three and four thousand seat places they’ll be filling.  It will be the 10,000 and greater bracket! Long Live Queen The beautiful pictures were taken by Jeffrey Mayer

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Greta Garbo, the “Furious Lesbian,” and a Classic Hollywood Love Triangle

In this exclusive excerpt from her new biography of the silent star, author Lois Banner explores the period in the early 1930s when Garbo was entangled with both the acting coach Salka Viertel and the glamorous writer Mercedes de Acosta.

BY LOIS BANNER

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

GETTY IMAGES

reta Garbo began her acting career in her native Sweden and moved to Hollywood in 1925, where she quickly became one of the industry’s most beloved stars. She was in a relationship with her frequent co-star John Gilbert, who also served as her acting coach. At the dawn of the 1930s their relationship was over, but Garbo’s star remained on the rise.

After the break with John Gilbert, Garbo had no acting coach. In April 1930, a year after she and Gilbert parted, she found a new coach at a party at the director Ernst Lubitsch’s home, a center for the Hollywood German community, where she met Salka Viertel, a Berlin stage actress. Garbo and Salka spent most of the evening talking on the terrace. Salka, who was sixteen years older than Garbo, found her “hypersensitive, although of a steely resistance,” while her opinions about people were “just, sharp, and objective.”

Salka had come to Hollywood in 1928 from Berlin, at the age of thirty-one, with her husband, Berthold, and their three sons, David, Peter, and Christopher. Fox studios had hired Berthold, a writer and director known in Germany. Salka had been a successful actress in Berlin, but she was rarely cast in roles in Hollywood films; she was, she said, “too old” and “not beautiful enough.”

Garbo and Salka Viertel in a scene of the German version of Anna Christie (1930).BY METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER/DE CARVALHO COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES.

Salka had a sensual glow. For several years she had an affair with her next-door neighbor, Oliver Garrett, a successful Hollywood screenwriter, who helped her navigate the ebbs and flows of Hollywood. She then had a long affair with Gottfried Reinhardt, the son of Max Reinhardt, the Berlin theatrical impresario. Gottfried was twenty years younger than she, but he was stocky, with a solemn manner, and they didn’t seem that different in age. The Viertels had an open marriage, and Berthold was so often in Europe and with other women that Gottfried often lived in her home and functioned as her husband. He worked as an assistant producer at MGM.

In 1929 the Viertels moved to a large house in Santa Monica Canyon, near the beach. Salka held Sunday afternoon get-togethers, with coffee and homemade cake, conversation, ping-pong, and walks on the beach. Garbo didn’t always attend Salka’s salons, partly because of attacks of shyness, but also because eventually she sometimes went to other Hollywood gatherings—at Vicki Baum’s home in Pacific Palisades, for example, a few miles up the coast from Santa Monica, or at director George Cukor’s home in the Hollywood Hills. Baum, from Berlin, wrote the novel on which Grand Hotel was based. Cukor, who was homosexual, held luncheons for gender-crossing friends. His home was a showpiece, with six acres of gardens terraced up a hill.

Salka often joined Garbo in hiking in the hills or swimming in the ocean early in the morning. Following Swedish practice, they swam in the nude. When together, they discussed films, the theater, literature, and their lives. Both Garbo and Salka wanted to return to Europe, but they felt they couldn’t. Garbo had her screen career and her drive to be financially independent, while Salka and the boys were dependent on Berthold, still employed by Hollywood studios. Jacques Feyder suggested that Salka play Marthy, the prostitute in Anna Christie, in MGM’s German version of the film, which he was to direct, and Garbo agreed. She and Salka grew close; Salka was the mother Garbo wanted; Garbo was the daughter in Salka’s family of males.

Fred Zinnemann, Berthold’s assistant, later an eminent Hollywood director, described Salka as “one of the world’s most generous and opinionated women,” and she dominated Garbo. At their meetings, Salka was the star and Garbo the audience. After reading a biography of Sweden’s Queen Christina, Salka suggested to Garbo that she play the queen in a biopic. Garbo agreed—and suggested that Salka write the screenplay. Salka wasn’t a writer, but Garbo knew that, at her request, Thalberg would partner Salka with MGM’s best writers. Garbo gave Salka a career—as a writer and an acting coach. Salka participated in writing the screenplays for Queen Christina and most of Garbo’s subsequent films. Deeply impressed by Salka, Garbo developed an abiding love for her. But Salka was never certain how she felt about Garbo.

Mercedes de AcostaBY NICKOLAS MURAY/ULLSTEIN BILD/GETTY IMAGES.

In the summer of 1931, while Garbo was making Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Salka was persuaded to introduce Garbo to Mercedes de Acosta, who had come to Hollywood to write a screenplay for Pola Negri—and to seduce Garbo. Mercedes had heard through the lesbian grapevine that Garbo wasn’t a lesbian, but she could easily become one. De Acosta, openly lesbian, had a reputation for skill as a lover, and she was on a mission to turn prominent actresses into lesbians. It’s not surprising that she wanted to meet Garbo, but Salka was worried about what might happen if that meeting took place.

Mercedes de Acosta, born to parents descended from the Spanish nobility, was raised in a wealthy section of New York’s West Side. She met celebrities through her sister Rita Lydig. Eighteen years older than Mercedes, Rita was a fabled beauty, a leader in New York high society, and a reformer who worked for women’s suffrage and birth control, as well as labor rights. The de Acosta family once had money, but Rita’s and Mercedes’s money came from their wealthy husbands.

Rita introduced Mercedes to her famous friends: the actress Sarah Bernhardt, the sculptor Auguste Rodin, Jack and Ethel Barrymore of the famed Barrymore acting family, and others. Raised a Catholic, Mercedes attended Catholic schools. In 1914 Vogue featured her as a New York debutante, and in 1920 she married Abram Poole, a New York society painter. She followed Rita into feminism, working for women’s suffrage and then for the Lucy Stone League, formed to persuade women to keep their maiden names after marriage, following the example of Lucy Stone, a leader in the nineteenth-century U.S. women’s movement.

Like Rita, Mercedes wore distinctive clothing, but she had her own style. She often wore capes, tricorne hats, and pointed shoes with silver buckles on them, looking like a pirate. She was also known for wearing a dark coat fitted at the waist, with wide lapels and a full skirt, designed by the Paris couturier Paul Poiret. Garbo liked the coat so much that she had a copy of it made for her. Mercedes dyed her hair black, painted her face white, and wore blood-red lipstick—prompting some people to call her “Madame Dracula.”

Mercedes wore only black and white clothes, so Garbo and Salka called her “Black and White.” Aldous Huxley described her as “a small but most exquisite woman, both in features and figure, and in the manner of her dress.” She was five feet four inches tall. Close to Cecil Beaton, she provided him with information about Garbo to use in his writing about her, until he and Garbo became close friends in the late 1940s.

Mercedes lived a dramatic life, engaging in what Cecil Beaton called “glorious enthusiasms.” She also had periods of deep depression. Until she was seven and saw the male sex organ, she thought she was a boy. Discovering her mistake devastated her, until she formed romantic friendships with girls and studied ancient Greek ideas of sex. She interpreted those ideas as suggesting that everyone has a masculine and a feminine side. She took up lesbianism as a cause. Cecil Beaton called her “a furious lesbian.”

Mercedes studied Hindu and Buddhist texts and followed Eastern mystics; her knowledge of Eastern religions was part of her attraction to Garbo, who continually looked for a spiritual path and never seemed to find one. And Mercedes always knew about the latest healers and remedies. She consulted Dr. Henry Bieler, who promoted vegetarianism. Not long after she met Mercedes, Garbo consulted Bieler and became a vegetarian.

Mercedes knew the two great dramatic actresses of the turn of the twentieth century: Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. She had had affairs with prominent female performers, including Isadora Duncan, a founder of modern dance, who promoted dress reform; the English actress Eva La Gallienne, with whom she exchanged wedding rings; and the Russian actress Alla Nazimova. When Nazimova came to Hollywood in 1916 to act in films, she formed a Sapphic circle, which some say was called “the sewing circle.” Isadora Duncan wrote passionate poems to Mercedes, extolling her sexual ability and writing paeans to her beautiful white hands.

Once Salka introduced Mercedes to Garbo in July 1931, Garbo initially fell for this aristocrat, with her tales of famous friends, knowledge of Eastern religions, and skill at sex. After finishing Susan Lenox that summer, Garbo took Mercedes to a cabin on an island in a lake in the High Sierras, where they swam, caught fish, talked, and began an affair. Mercedes was known for her sexual skill and Garbo for “the unbounded freedom of her life.”

After her trip to the High Sierras with Mercedes, Garbo displayed deep feelings for Salka, which suggests that the Sierra trip was a failure, that she was comparing Salka and Mercedes as friends and lovers, or that she was forming a triangle with the two of them. On September 18, which was Garbo’s birthday, she seduced Salka, who described what happened in a letter to Berthold—her confidante as well as her husband. Greta decorated her house with white gardenias, a symbol of femininity and of secret love. She served Champagne and played Sapphic songs on the gramophone. It was, according to Salka, “a gigantic temptation apparatus.” She concluded: “So we were together—it was harmonious and beautiful.”

By the late fall, Salka’s infatuation with Garbo had dissipated for a time, as Garbo became demanding. She was filming Mata Hari and spending time with Mercedes, in the first flush of their romance. Then, looking at Garbo one day, Salka realized that not only did she slouch but she also had a hump on her back. Salka wrote to Berthold, who was in New York, about the hump, but he replied that she should forget it because Garbo had influence in Hollywood and could damage his career. Salka stayed with Garbo as a close friend and mentor but kept her at a distance by having affairs with men, first with Oliver Garrett and then with Gottfried Reinhardt. After the episode of sex in 1931 between Garbo and Salka, there is no further evidence of sexual relations between them.

Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina and John Gilbert as Alexei Vronsky in a scene from the silent movie Love (1927). FROM BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES.

Even before Mercedes appeared in Garbo’s life in the summer of 1931, there were references to Garbo’s presumed lesbianism in the Hollywood trade journals and in movie magazines. In 1929, Variety’s review of Garbo’s movie The Single Standard slyly referred to Garbo’s free love views. In January 1931, in a review of Garbo’s movie Inspiration, a Variety writer called her “one of the strangest personalities of all the freaks or odd ones that have littered Hollywood for years.” And Mercedes persuaded Garbo to become more open about her masculinity. The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood’s first tabloid, was launched in 1930. On August 21, 1931, a month after Mercedes and Garbo met, the tabloid noted that “Greta Garbo has a new love.” On September 23, 1931, the tabloid referred to “an ambidextrous foreign star.” (“Ambidextrous” means being able to use either hand for tasks; it was then a common circumlocution for lesbians, homosexuals, and bisexuals.) The tabloid also referred to “the two Garbos.”

But Garbo was ambivalent about Mercedes. After Salka, in her subtle, poetic way, informed Garbo that they could be close friends, but not lovers, Garbo turned to Mercedes for sex. That action unleashed Mercedes’s obsessive nature, expressed in constant demands for deep expressions of love. After several months, Garbo fled to New York to get away from her. When she returned to Hollywood after a month away, she found Mercedes living in a house near hers. Ever after, when Garbo moved, Mercedes moved to a nearby house. Garbo wrote to Hörke Wachtmeister, a close friend in Sweden, that Mercedes made her nervous. She also disliked Mercedes’s love of gossip, and she was incensed when she learned that Mercedes told Cecil Beaton about her doings, which he then used in writing about her.

Mercedes and Salka didn’t like each other, which isn’t surprising. Mercedes didn’t attend Salka’s salons; she formed one of her own, which may have been a continuation of Alla Nazimova’s “sewing circle.” She also had an affair with Marlene Dietrich, Garbo’s major Hollywood rival. Garbo eventually forgave her this breach of faith; free-love principles permitted it and forbade jealousy. And Mercedes was lavish in spending on Garbo; she once had an elaborate gate built overnight around her mansion when Garbo mentioned a need for it.

Mercedes’s husband divorced her in 1935 and married his mistress, but he didn’t cut off his large stipend to Mercedes for years. It was her major source of income, financing the mansions she rented and her largesse to Garbo. But she was indomitable. When the stipend ended, she managed to find jobs editing and writing for small magazines, moving between New York and Paris. She became friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and was often a guest at their Christmas celebrations. But when she died in 1968, she was destitute.

Garbo didn’t permanently break with Mercedes until her autobiography was published in 1960. Even though Mercedes hid their affair in a cloud of circumlocutions in the memoir, she included a photo she had taken of a topless Garbo on the island in the High Sierras. And her description of her research methods for the autobiography must have alarmed the perfectionist and secretive Garbo. Mercedes’s major source, she stated, was her memory. She had kept neither a diary nor a datebook, and when she wrote her appointments down on scraps of paper, she promptly lost them. She did keep letters written to her and other memorabilia; they are in her collection in the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia. The biographer can figure out a lot about their relationship from that collection, but far from all of it.

From IDEAL BEAUTY: The Life and Times of Greta Garbo by Dr. Lois W. Banner. Copyright © 2023 by Dr. Lois W. Banner. Excerpted by permission of Rutgers University Press.

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Commons Vote

On: House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill Committee: New Clause 7

Ayes: 93 (69.9% LD, 9.7% SNP, 4.3% Ind, 4.3% DUP, 4.3% PC, 4.3% Green, 2.2% SDLP, 1.1% RUK) Noes: 355 (96.9% Lab, 2.3% Ind, 0.3% Con, 0.3% UUP, 0.3% TUV) Absent: ~202

Day's business papers: 2024-11-12

Likely Referenced Bill: House of Lords (Exclusion of Hereditary Peers) Bill

Description: A Bill to amend the House of Lords Act 1999 to remove the by-election system for the election of hereditary peers; to provide for the exclusion of hereditary peers from the House of Lords over time; and for connected purposes.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Commons Bill Stage: 2nd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Liberal Democrat (65 votes)

Al Pinkerton Alex Brewer Alison Bennett Alistair Carmichael Andrew George Angus MacDonald Anna Sabine Ben Maguire Bobby Dean Brian Mathew Calum Miller Cameron Thomas Caroline Voaden Charlie Maynard Charlotte Cane Chris Coghlan Christine Jardine Claire Young Clive Jones Daisy Cooper Danny Chambers David Chadwick Ed Davey Edward Morello Freddie van Mierlo Gideon Amos Helen Maguire Helen Morgan Ian Roome Ian Sollom Jamie Stone Jess Brown-Fuller John Milne Josh Babarinde Layla Moran Lisa Smart Liz Jarvis Luke Taylor Manuela Perteghella Marie Goldman Martin Wrigley Max Wilkinson Mike Martin Monica Harding Olly Glover Paul Kohler Pippa Heylings Rachel Gilmour Richard Foord Sarah Dyke Sarah Gibson Sarah Green Sarah Olney Steff Aquarone Steve Darling Susan Murray Tim Farron Tom Gordon Tom Morrison Victoria Collins Vikki Slade Wendy Chamberlain Wera Hobhouse Will Forster Zöe Franklin

Scottish National Party (9 votes)

Brendan O'Hara Chris Law Dave Doogan Graham Leadbitter Kirsty Blackman Pete Wishart Seamus Logan Stephen Flynn Stephen Gethins

Independent (4 votes)

Ayoub Khan Iqbal Mohamed Jeremy Corbyn Shockat Adam

Democratic Unionist Party (4 votes)

Carla Lockhart Gavin Robinson Gregory Campbell Jim Shannon

Plaid Cymru (4 votes)

Ann Davies Ben Lake Liz Saville Roberts Llinos Medi

Green Party (4 votes)

Adrian Ramsay Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns Siân Berry

Social Democratic & Labour Party (2 votes)

Claire Hanna Colum Eastwood

Reform UK (1 vote)

Nigel Farage

Noes

Labour (343 votes)

Abtisam Mohamed Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Al Carns Alan Campbell Alan Gemmell Alan Strickland Alex Baker Alex Ballinger Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Davies-Jones Alex Mayer Alex McIntyre Alex Norris Alex Sobel Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alison Taylor Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Hack Amanda Martin Andrew Cooper Andrew Lewin Andrew Pakes Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy McDonald Andy Slaughter Angela Eagle Angela Rayner Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anneliese Dodds Anneliese Midgley Antonia Bance Bambos Charalambous Bayo Alaba Beccy Cooper Becky Gittins Bell Ribeiro-Addy Ben Coleman Ben Goldsborough Bill Esterson Blair McDougall Brian Leishman Bridget Phillipson Callum Anderson Calvin Bailey Carolyn Harris Cat Eccles Cat Smith Catherine Fookes Catherine McKinnell Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Bloore Chris Curtis Chris Elmore Chris Evans Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Ward Chris Webb Christian Wakeford Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Clive Efford Clive Lewis Connor Naismith Connor Rand Damien Egan Dan Aldridge Dan Jarvis Dan Norris Dan Tomlinson Daniel Francis Daniel Zeichner Danny Beales Darren Jones Darren Paffey Dave Robertson David Baines David Burton-Sampson David Pinto-Duschinsky David Smith David Taylor David Williams Dawn Butler Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Douglas Alexander Douglas McAllister Ellie Reeves Elsie Blundell Emily Darlington Emma Foody Emma Hardy Emma Lewell-Buck Emma Reynolds Euan Stainbank Fabian Hamilton Feryal Clark Fleur Anderson Florence Eshalomi Frank McNally Fred Thomas Gareth Snell Gen Kitchen Georgia Gould Gerald Jones Gill Furniss Gill German Gordon McKee Graeme Downie Grahame Morris Gregor Poynton Gurinder Singh Josan Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Henry Tufnell Imogen Walker Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jacob Collier Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Murray James Naish Janet Daby Jas Athwal Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Jess Phillips Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim Dickson Jim McMahon Jo Platt Jo Stevens Jo White Joani Reid Jodie Gosling Joe Morris Joe Powell Johanna Baxter John Grady John Slinger John Whitby Jon Pearce Jon Trickett Jonathan Brash Jonathan Hinder Jonathan Reynolds Josh Dean Josh Fenton-Glynn Josh MacAlister Josh Newbury Josh Simons Julia Buckley Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Kanishka Narayan Karin Smyth Karl Turner Kate Dearden Kate Osamor Kate Osborne Katie White Katrina Murray Keir Mather Kenneth Stevenson Kerry McCarthy Kevin Bonavia Kevin McKenna Kim Johnson Kim Leadbeater Kirith Entwistle Kirsty McNeill Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Edwards Lauren Sullivan Laurence Turner Lee Pitcher Leigh Ingham Lewis Atkinson Liam Byrne Liam Conlon Lilian Greenwood Linsey Farnsworth Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Lorraine Beavers Louise Haigh Louise Jones Lucy Rigby Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Myer Margaret Mullane Maria Eagle Marie Tidball Mark Ferguson Mark Sewards Mark Tami Markus Campbell-Savours Marsha De Cordova Martin McCluskey Martin Rhodes Mary Glindon Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matt Western Matthew Patrick Matthew Pennycook Maureen Burke Maya Ellis Meg Hillier Melanie Onn Melanie Ward Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Wheeler Michelle Scrogham Michelle Welsh Mike Reader Mike Tapp Mohammad Yasin Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Naushabah Khan Navendu Mishra Neil Coyle Neil Duncan-Jordan Nesil Caliskan Nia Griffith Nicholas Dakin Nick Smith Nick Thomas-Symonds Noah Law Oliver Ryan Olivia Bailey Olivia Blake Pam Cox Pamela Nash Pat McFadden Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Davies Paul Foster Paul Waugh Paula Barker Paulette Hamilton Perran Moon Peter Kyle Peter Lamb Peter Prinsley Peter Swallow Phil Brickell Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill Rachael Maskell Rachel Blake Rachel Hopkins Rachel Taylor Richard Baker Richard Quigley Rosie Wrighting Rupa Huq Rushanara Ali Ruth Cadbury Ruth Jones Sadik Al-Hassan Sally Jameson Sam Carling Sam Rushworth

Samantha Dixon Samantha Niblett Sarah Champion Sarah Coombes Sarah Edwards Sarah Hall Sarah Owen Sarah Russell Sarah Sackman Satvir Kaur Scott Arthur Sean Woodcock Seema Malhotra Shabana Mahmood Sharon Hodgson Shaun Davies Simon Lightwood Siobhain McDonagh Sojan Joseph Sonia Kumar Stephen Doughty Stephen Kinnock Stephen Morgan Stephen Timms Steve Race Steve Reed Steve Witherden Steve Yemm Sureena Brackenridge Tahir Ali Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Terry Jermy Tim Roca Toby Perkins Tom Collins Tom Hayes Tom Rutland Tonia Antoniazzi Tony Vaughan Torcuil Crichton Torsten Bell Tracy Gilbert Tristan Osborne Uma Kumaran Valerie Vaz Vicky Foxcroft Warinder Juss Will Stone Yuan Yang Zubir Ahmed

Independent (8 votes)

Alex Easton Apsana Begum Ian Byrne Imran Hussain John McDonnell Rebecca Long Bailey Richard Burgon Rosie Duffield

Conservative (1 vote)

Desmond Swayne

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Robin Swann

Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)

Jim Allister

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jcm is the ship name we made up for joey/chandler/monica. it gets its name from jbm, of course. i love what you found though tell me more

ahh that makes so much more sense XD I am fully on board the good ship jcm, that is 100% a dynamic I would love to see play out. now as for the rabbit hole that is the apparent John Mayer crusader, I found this post on reddit and basically I'm obsessed with this person

There are so many gems, but for me it's a toss up between the pairing of 'fingernail painting emoji + getting clowned on in the comments', and the "think before you speak next time, swiftie." I need study this reddit user like a bug in a terrarium.

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lo normal (monica mayer, 1978)

minha obra de arte favorita do mundo em exibição no museo de arte latinoamericano de buenos aires

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Villes de Mexique

Mexico est une ville qui surprend par ses contrastes : gratte-ciel de verre et musées modernes, pyramides et palais anciens, nombreux jardins, immenses places et cathédrales - toutes les vacances ne suffiront peut-être pas à tout voir !

Que voir : Palais des Beaux-Arts, Chapultepec, Palais de Chapultepec, Musée National d'Anthropologie, Maison-Musée Frida Kahlo, Cathédrale, Parc Alameda, Place Zocalo, Avenue Paseo de la Reforma, Pyramide du Temple Mayor, Place de la Constitution, Place des Trois Cultures, le musée Franz Mayer et bien plus encore.

Guadalajara est la perle baroque du Mexique, et tous les connaisseurs d'architecture devraient venir ici.  Le centre historique - avec des places, des cathédrales, des églises, des jardins, des théâtres, des musées... En général, la ville ressemble un peu aux capitales européennes.  Et c'est pourquoi il convient à tous ceux qui aiment visiter les musées, voir des sites antiques, se promener tranquillement dans les jardins et les parcs.

À voir : Église de l'Assomption de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie, parc Rotonda, musée-atelier José Clemente Orozco, églises de San Francisco et de Santa Monica, parc Agua Azul.

Mérida est une ville "blanche" et chaleureuse de la péninsule du Yucatan, où se déroule chaque année le plus grand carnaval du Mexique, et chaque soir, elle ravit les invités et les résidents avec des concerts, des soirées créatives, des spectacles en plein air.  Il y a aussi beaucoup d'européens à Mérida, y compris son propre amphithéâtre, où des spectacles basés sur des œuvres anciennes sont encore mis en scène aujourd'hui ;  rues avec des maisons colorées à deux et trois étages, des places, des cathédrales.

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Douyin was launched by ByteDance in September 2016, originally under the name A.me, before rebranding to Douyin (抖音) in December 2016. Douyin was developed in 200 days and within a year had 100 million users, with more than one billion videos viewed every day.

While TikTok and Douyin share a similar user interface, the platforms operate separately. Douyin includes an in-video search feature that can search by people's faces for more videos of them, along with other features such as buying, booking hotels, and making geo-tagged reviews.

ByteDance planned on Douyin expanding overseas. The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, stated that "China is home to only one-fifth of Internet users globally. If we don't expand on a global scale, we are bound to lose to peers eyeing the four-fifths. So, going global is a must."

The app was launched as TikTok in the international market in September 2017. On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked first among free application downloads on app stores in Thailand and other countries. TikTok has been downloaded more than 130 million times in the United States and has reached 2 billion downloads worldwide, according to data from mobile research firm Sensor Tower (those numbers exclude Android users in China).

In the United States, celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon and Tony Hawk, began using the app in 2018. Other celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Will Smith, and Justin Bieber joined TikTok as well as many others. In January 2019, TikTok allowed creators to embed merchandise sale links into their videos.

On 3 September 2019, TikTok and the U.S. National Football League (NFL) announced a multi-year partnership. The agreement occurred just two days before the NFL's 100th season kick-off at Soldier Field, where TikTok hosted activities for fans in honor of the deal. The partnership entails the launch of an official NFL TikTok account, which is to bring about new marketing opportunities such as sponsored videos and hashtag challenges. In July 2020, TikTok, excluding Douyin, reported close to 800 million monthly active users worldwide after less than four years of existence.

In May 2021, TikTok appointed Shou Zi Chew as their new CEO who assumed the position from interim CEO Vanessa Pappas, following the resignation of Kevin A. Mayer on 27 August 2020. In September 2021, TikTok reported that it had reached 1 billion users. In 2021, TikTok earned $4 billion in advertising revenue.

In October 2022, TikTok was reported to be planning an expansion into the e-commerce market in the US, following the launch of TikTok Shop in the United Kingdom. The company posted job listings for staff for a series of order fulfillment centers in the US and is reportedly planning to start the new live shopping business before the end of the year. The Financial Times reported that TikTok will launch a video gaming channel, but the report was denied in a statement to Digiday, with TikTok instead aiming to be a social hub for the gaming community.

According to data from app analytics group Sensor Tower, advertising on TikTok in the US grew by 11% in March 2023, with companies including Pepsi, DoorDash, Amazon and Apple among the top spenders. According to estimates from research group Insider Intelligence, TikTok is projected to generate $14.15 billion in revenue in 2023, up from $9.89 billion in 2022.

On March 8, 2024, President Joe Biden said he would sign into law a bill forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok within 180 days. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted unanimously, 50-0, to advance the bill on March 7, 2024. ByteDance launched a congressional lobbying campaign mobilizing TikTok users in response.

On 9 November 2017, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, spent nearly $1 billion to purchase musical.ly, a startup headquartered in Shanghai with an overseas office in Santa Monica, California, U.S. Musical.ly was a social media video platform that allowed users to create short lip-sync and comedy videos, initially released in August 2014. TikTok merged with musical.ly on 2 August 2018 with existing accounts and data consolidated into one app, keeping the title TikTok. This ended musical.ly and made TikTok a worldwide app, excluding China, since China already had Douyin.

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looks like we might have a new top artist this year...but what's that?? it's beyoncé with a steel chair! | my top songs from the year, in non-spotify wrapped form

2022 playlist | 2021 playlist | 2020 playlist | 2019 playlist | 2018 playlist

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In 1908, considered one of its first feature movies 'The Rely of Monte Cristo' was completed. It shot in Chicago. Also, by the end of 1911, over 15 film-creating businesses experienced sprung up in the area. One of the well-known people today inside the Hollywood ahead of the Planet War I happen to be Charlie Chaplin, Samuel Goldwyn, Douglas Fairbanks and Cecil B. de Mille. The twentieth Century - Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Photos, Columbia, Warner Brothers and so forth. have been amongst its greatest movie businesses.

Nevertheless, with the appearance of talkie quite a few renowned stars with the silent period just about pressured to retire. Nonetheless, the greatest danger to Hollywood arrived Together with the introduction of tv in the late forties. Lots of film corporations had to tug down their shutters. Moreover, this introduced an excellent modify in Hollywood. With the early 60 s Hollywood were supplying about 80% with the systems towards the U.S. television network.

Today Hollywood is not merely the centre of Movie industries but will also of The tv movie and recording industries of The us.

Hollywood is the biggest film field during the issue of total revenue and second premier in total ticket collection, overall film release. The movies releasing throughout the world While using the Higher screens, despite, modern Hollywood consists of large technological innovation to their Studios.

The picture proven is from D.W. Griffith's epic movie 'Intolerance'. It's got built in about 1916 and generally acknowledged by film critics and the general public as amongst the best classics of all situations.

1 adobe hut stood in Nopalera, referred to as with the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area in 1853. By 1870, an agricultural Group bloomed in the area with thriving crops of numerous common and alien kinds. These occupants realized the region because the Cahuenga Valley, after the go from the Santa Monica Mountains instantly to your north. Shortly thenceforth, land conjecture led to subdivision of the big plots and an inflow of householders.

Many of the other highlights of Hollywood tend to be the Hollywood Bowl (a organic amphitheater), the Pilgrimage Play Amphitheater and Greek Theatre in Griffith Park, Grauman's Chinese Theater and the California Art Club.

Summary

India has the earth's second largest populace and one of several swiftest growing economies on earth. India features a promising potential, given the unprecedented advancement in financial state and its clout in the worldwide troubles. India is currently riding to the wave of a big boom in Laptop driven new financial state. Several produced international locations of the globe are trying to find the large pool of English Talking proficient software package gurus in India. As the whole world is reworking in direction of expertise society, India also is moving proportionately competing with the globe. With the increase of Online end users as well as the advancement of knowledge and communication technology in India had boasted the development in direction of e-commerce in world-wide economic society. In IT sector India is booming as a super power. In the last few many years India has produced quick strides while in the IT sector particularly in the application solutions and IT enabled providers. During this paper we analyses the picture of IT field in a very in the vicinity of upcoming in India & contribution of India in globe's Facts Technological innovation Sector.

Introduction

From the 1950s, IBM had a Digital monopoly of computer systems in India. The 360 series release in sixties was the khatrimaza full movie key workhouse of the massive companies. They even maintained a sequence of programmers who could produce down application's for their devices. Having said that in 1978, when George Fernandes, ministry of industries at that time, commanded IBM to get area shareholders into its subsidiary, the corporate refused strictly and went back right after winding up its all operations in India. Its ex-workers then setup Pc Routine maintenance Corporation, with the main object of retaining IBM pcs.

During the duration of 1995-2000, the Indian IT Marketplace has recorded a C.A.G.R. (Compounded Annual Growth Level) of greater than forty two.4 p.c, which is sort of double the growth charge of IT industries in most of the produced international locations. For Specifics Call AMCHAM National Secretariat, New Delhi Foreign corporations specifically American businesses have performed a significant job in making India an emerging IT Tremendous energy on earth. These MNCs account for almost 22 for each cent of Indian software package exports. In accordance with the hottest NASSCOM estimates, in 2001-02, multinational infotech firms exported software program truly worth Rs. 6500 crore from India. Country's complete software export was pegged at Rs. 29400 crore. Regarding expense and progress, U.S. providers like Cognizant Systems (most significant export earnings earning MNC) IBM, Oracle, GE, Cisco, Compaq, Intel amongst Some others direct the MNCs in the data Engineering sector. Nine away from best twenty Indian IT companies are from United States. These account for more than 37% from the turnover of the best twenty firms running in India. Even with their important contribution to your IT sector, these organizations have to face many procedural and operational problems in India.

However, the amount of e-commerce, in India, is much down below the amounts realized in USA, which was about 1 percent of the overall GDP in 1999. Even more, the expected volume of e-commerce in India in 2001 (US$ 255.3 million) is likewise below the amounts predicted to generally be obtained, which in comparison to Australia (US$ 3 billion), China (US$ 586 million), South Korea (US$ 876 million) and Hong Kong (US$685 million) is sort of fewer.

Time has adjusted the way in which businesses are carried out. What was purported to be known to several and limited to the house towns, appears to generally be an historical methodology of carrying out the operate. The existing working day brands work on globe broad scale, that is certainly They can be thriving in not simply a person certain region but have deepened their roots to all the corners from the world which you can visualize.

Information Know-how is exactly what constitutes the most important sector in the existing working day development of finishing up company. It truly is since you can not be existing all over the place to watch the do the job, but with networking and communications, it is possible to always remain in connection with one other company internet sites of yours.

ICT Methods of India

A spate of reforms-submit-1991 economic disaster-have presented impetus towards the Indian economy, specifically into the ICT sector. As Element of the reform agenda, the Indian Federal government has taken key ways to market ICT including the development in 1988 of a Entire world Industry Policy, with a target computer software enhancement for export; telecommunications policy reform; privatization on the national lengthy-length and cell phone markets; and improvement of a far more in depth method of ICT. While India's achievement is commanding increasing attention and expenditure, it has however to lead to the distribution of social and economic Positive aspects throughout a broader base of the population. Troubles-including the perception of an unfavorable regulatory climate, an overloaded judicial technique, very poor infrastructure and costly accessibility, and constrained usage of ICT-remain. The rising shift in authorities approach, toward knowledge-intensive services, has made a climate much more conducive to addressing business, domestic infrastructure, instruction and using ICT to fulfill improvement requirements.

Coverage: India's target self-reliant industrialization within the 1970s and 1980s continues to be replaced with reforms aimed toward positioning India on the globe financial system: the foreign direct expenditure course of action has actually been streamlined, new sectors happen to be opened around international immediate investment and possession, and the government has exempted the ICT sector from corporate income tax for five years. These reforms have aided India to become ever more integrated into the global overall economy by means of advancement in the export of program and talent-intense application solutions, like contact-centers.

In 1986, the Indian federal government declared a completely new software coverage intended to serve as a catalyst to the application industry. This was followed in 1988 with the globe Market Plan as well as institution of your Software package Technology Parks of India (STP) plan. Therefore, the Indian application sector grew from the mere US�a hundred and fifty million in 1991-1992 to the staggering US$5.seven billion (which include in excess of US�4 billion well worth of software exports) in 1999-2000-representing an yearly growth rate of over fifty %.

The institution in the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was a essential stage towards helpful implementation of telecommunications reforms. In 1992, the cellphone sector was opened up to non-public operators, in 1994 the fastened providers marketplace followed, And at last in 1999, national lengthy distance operations ended up opened to non-public Levels of competition. Ahead of these reforms, the Office of Telecommunications were the only provider of telecommunications services.

On top of that, to appeal to overseas immediate expenditure, the government permitted foreign fairness of up to one hundred pc and obligation cost-free import on all inputs. Govt-established technological innovation parks also presented Experienced labor services to consumers, a cost-powerful program for India because ICT labour is so reasonably priced by world wide specifications.

Infrastructure: Teledensity in India has achieved three.five per cent of your inhabitants. Approximately one percent of households have fixed line connections, as compared to ten p.c in China. The mobile sector has somewhere around three million consumers, rising at one hundred pc for every annum, and is predicted to outstrip the fixed line industry during the around upcoming. The number of World wide web accounts is all-around 1.five million, growing at 50 per cent for each annum. India also has incredibly substantial penetration fees of terrestrial Tv set, cable and radio. Voice and knowledge wi-fi alternatives, for both domestic and export markets, are increasingly created and applied domestically.

Use of telephones in Indian villages has improved in the final five to six several years in the introduction of the Public Phone Business office (PCO) run by community shopkeepers. Much more than 60 percent from the villages in India have at least a person cell phone. This also includes above 800,000 Village Public Telephones (VPTs). Worldtel is undertaking a pilot in four states to secure financing to upgrade the Village Public Telephones so they will before long be World-wide-web-available.

In some urban spots, India's Software package Engineering Parks (STPs) deliver infrastructure, properties, electric power, telecommunications amenities and high-speed satellite links to aid export processing of program.

India also has a variety of progressive computerized networks in position, like a inventory exchange, the Indian Railways Passenger Reservation System, along with the Countrywide Informatics Centre Community (NICNET), which connects govt organizations in the central, state and district concentrations.

Business: India's very well-proven framework for shielding mental property legal rights has actually been a vital inducement to organization financial commitment: nicely-recognised international trademarks happen to be shielded by Indian regulations, even every time they were not registered in India. In 1999, main laws was handed to protect mental assets legal rights in harmony with Worldwide techniques and in compliance with India's obligations less than TRIPS.

Substantially of your initial domestic demand stimulus for ICT and ICT expert services industries in India has come from federal government: 28 per cent of complete IT expending to this point can be attributed to government and public sector expenditure. Major places of presidency expenditure consist of: economical companies, taxation, customs, telecommunications, training, protection and community infrastructure. On account of the growth in ICT use in India, the ICT business itself has also greater its domestic economic activity, for instance, quite a few ICT firms have designed accounting and phrase processing offers in Indian languages. The opportunity effects of the progress over the domestic economic system is way broader than establishing software package for export only.

Human Ability: In spite of comparatively very low literacy charges among the the overall population, India has numerous critical strengths in human money: a sizable English-speaking populace and globe-course training, study and administration institutions-a direct result of expenditure in self-reliance in science and technology. Together with developing Indian Institutes of Know-how in different metropolitan areas all-around India to create a large pool of technical capabilities, the government has a pc policy to really encourage R&D in individual desktops. The IT coaching sector continues to mature in a quick amount: overall training revenues in 1998 had been estimated at US$225 million, thirty p.c up within the previous 12 months. Having said that, one among the most significant challenges to your Indian software package marketplace continues to be The issue in attracting and retaining gifted gurus.

Articles and Programs: India has a big populace with good linguistic range. Building and maintaining locally appropriate written content for a rustic with 418 languages is usually a obstacle. Even so, nearby language material is slowly but surely generating ICT more applicable and available into a broader cross-portion in the inhabitants. For example, India's Center for Advancement of Innovative Computing has recently released a scheme identified as iLEAP-ISP to create a absolutely free multilingual term processor to get created accessible to all World-wide-web subscribers. On other fronts, some states like Tamil Nadu have launched their own initiatives to aid the standardization of local language software through interface programs that could be adapted to term processors, dictionaries, and commercial keyboards for use in schools, colleges, authorities places of work and homes.

An emphasis has also been placed on the event of suitable e-govt apps in India. Some states for example Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh have started to introduce purposes which allow citizens to have speedier plus more transparent usage of federal government services-for example, the provision of knowledge on regulations and rules, and the procuring of licenses and official files online.

Strategic Compact: Public-non-public partnerships, catalyzed from the IT Ministry, have played a vital job in India's ICT-relevant enhancement. On the list of constructive final results of this exertion continues to be the IT Act of 2000, which was based upon the recommendation on the Countrywide IT Process Drive, and aims to set the overall technique for that IT sector. Additionally, the government and the personal sector are beginning to arrive with each other to foster ICT progress. For example, a joint exertion by the pc Science Automation Office on the Indian Institute of Science along with a Bangalore-based personal organization have formulated Simputer-an affordable micro-Computer system that enables illiterate users to browse the online market place.

India's progress and contribution in environment's facts technology sector is of best standing. Metropolitan areas like Bangalore are getting to be the favourite(most chosen) Places of all the massive banners like HSBC, Dell, Microsoft, GE, Hewlett Packard, and several other Indian multi national firms like Infosys Systems, Wipro, and Microland who've build their workplaces in town. It truly is as the city gives superior infrastructure, with large flooring Room and fantastic telecom services. This can be judged on the basis with the higher expansion studies of India along with the altering outlook of the businesses towards India .

It's due to this development quite a few well-known brands which have not but Create up there rigid workplaces while in the region are which makes it quick to have a place in India far too. As an example, Sun Microsystems, a world IT key, announced in Bangalore to double the existing workforce of the company's Sunlight India Engineering Heart (IEC) from the current one thousand to 2000 in the next two decades time. IEC, which happens to be the most important R&D Middle for Solar outside the house the US , would also center on creating products in India to accommodate the wants of the Indian sector, which might be benchmarked globally.

This fast expansion of IT Sector is without doubt a result of the endeavours of Indian governing administration and the other developments that took in another parts of the globe.

The region has seen an period when after the IBM shutted its store in India in 1950, the mainframes which were imported into the country were being all from Russia . Western Laptop couldn't be imported on account of an American embargo on export of significant-technology tools to India , which was regarded as an ally of the Soviet Union .

Slowly and gradually, With all the time the nation could build its 1st powerful parallel Laptop or computer in 1991 known as CDAC, by connecting collectively a string of less strong pcs.

With time and the continuous advancement around the world, the state ongoing battling and arrived up as the world chief in Data Engineering Sector.

The marketplace has grown up to US $ 5.7 billion (which includes over $4 billion worth of software package exports) in 1999-2000, While using the yearly advancement level not sliding underneath fifty p.c considering the fact that 1991.

It exports software and services to almost ninety five nations https://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/?query=hollywood movies worldwide. The share of North The usa ( U.S. & Canada ) in India 's program exports is about sixty one for every cent.

The Indian labor is not only affordable but is technically experienced also to the whole world course degree. It is as a result of Indian Education and learning Technique that features in its training course curriculum the sensible understanding of the most up-to-date technological innovation which is formulated in environment together with the fluency in English Language that imparts compatibility within an Indian technician to speak and work by means of out the globe.

Further more the geographical place of India serves it the benefit of currently being particularly halfway spherical the world in the US west coast, which can be one more reason why India is chosen destination of many major manufacturers.

Also, The presence of a large number of Indians, Specifically engineers, while in the US gave India an uncomplicated entry into the US application sector.

What adds more into the dominance of India in Information and facts Technologies Sector is the government policies like the enactment of cyber legal guidelines to shield and safeguard the curiosity of software program providers in India .

Starting from the Software Technologies Parks of India (STPI),

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Top 50 Songs Scrobbled for the Week Ending 7/31/2016

TW LW ARTIST - SONG 1 1 Drake/Wizkid/Kyla – ONE DANCE(2 weekA @ #1) 2 2 The Chainsmokers/Rozes - ROSES 3 4 Kaytranada/AlunaGeorge – TOGETHER 4 8 Alicia Keys – IN COMMON 5 5 Passion Pit – WHERE THE SKY HANGS 6 6 Twenty88 – DEJA VU 7 3 Maxwell – LAKE BY THE OCEAN(1 week @ #1) 8 12 The Internet – SPECIAL AFFAIR 9 7 Thundercat – THEM CHANGES 10 9 Janet Jackson – NIGHT(1 week @ #1) 11 14 Rihanna – SEX WITH ME 12 11 Yuna/Usher - CRUSH 13 17 Red Hot Chili Peppers – DARK NECESSITIES 14 18 Disclosure/Miguel – GOOD INTENTIONS 15 10 Ro James - PERMISSION(1 week @ #1) 16 13 Kelela - REWIND 17 15 Desiigner - PANDA 18 24 DNCE - TOOTHBRUSH 19 16 Lianne La Havas – UNSTOPPABLE 20 25 Rihanna – NEEDED ME 21 19 Alessia Cara – WILD THINGS 22 20 Justin Beiber – COMPANY 23 26 MNEK – AT NIGHT (I THINK ABOUT YOU) 24 27 Coldplay – UP & UP 25 23 Nick Jonas/Tove Lo – CLOSE 26 21 Monica/Lil Wayne – JUST RIGHT FOR ME(1 week @ #1) 27 22 Drake/Future - JUMPMAN(1 week @ #1) 28 32 Beyonce - SORRY 29 33 Fat Joe/Remy Ma/French Montana/JayZ – ALL THE WAY UP (REMIX) 30 31 Corinne Bailey Rae – GREEN APRHODISIAC 31 29 Sam Sparro – IN YOUR HEAVEN 32 35 Fitz and the Tantrums - HANDICLAP 33 38 Calvin Harris/Rihanna – THIS WHAT YOU CAME FOR 34 40 Drake - CONTROLLA 35 41 Adele – SEND MY LOVE (TO YOUR NEW LOVER) 36 28 Taylor Swift – NEW ROMANTICS 37 42 Sia/Sean Paul – CHEAP THRILLS 38 30 Jeremih - OUI(2 weeks @ #1) 39 39 Ariana Grande – DANGEROUS WOMAN 40 34 Disclosure/The Weeknd - NOCTURNAL(1 week @ #1) 41 36 AlunaGeorge/PopCan – I’M IN CONTROL 42 37 Erykah Badu – PHONE DOWN 43 47 Janet Jackson – TAKE ME AWAY 44 48 Usher/Young Thug – NO LIMIT 45 --- Kent Jones – DON’T MIND 46 --- Phantogram – YOU DON’T GET ME HIGH ANYMORE 47 43 Mayer Hawthrone – LOVE LIKE THAT 48 45 Jidenna - KNICKERS 49 46 Zara Larsson/MNEK – NEVER FORGET YOU 50 --- Ro James – BURN SLOW

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Mónica Mayer, b. 1954 Lo Normal / The Normal Mexico (1978) Photographs and ink on card Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM  [Source], [Source], [Source]

The artist says:

These were a series of postcards presented in 1978 in a feminist art exhibition in Mexico City called “Lo Normal (Normal).”

They are like the kind of tests one finds in women’s magazines. My face shows different reactions and there are instructions in the bottom for people to fill it in according to how they feel about a phrase that changes in each postcard answering the statement: I want to make love with:... Each postcard had different answers such as: with my father, in a packed theater, with myself, and get paid, etc.

It’s cute to see they were actually quite shocking at the time.