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Is your iPhone XS stuck on the apple? Did you stop during an update? Did you stop while using Facetime? Here's how to force the restart to unlock it
Unlock iPhone XS locked and force reboot
As you probably know, iPhone XS, XS Max and XR have been announced by Apple for a few days.
Although we have already talked a lot of iPhone XS and all its news, today I want to draw your attention to the new smartphone from Apple (and also on the Max model) to explain a trick that could be very useful in the future.
Unable to unlock iPhone XS, it does not respond to commands
In fact, it may happen that iPhone XS is blocked on some screen and it is impossible to unlock it using the touch screen.
Although iOS is a very stable and well-optimized operating system, it has its own bugs and problems, and as you install additional apps and programs, these could help create problems at the operating system level, which may suddenly crash.
So it may happen that iPhone XS suddenly stops while you use Instagram, Facebook, while you capture a screen, during an update and in many other situations.
Regardless of what you're doing, iPhone XS can be blocked suddenly and you can no longer unlock or reboot. A big problem, especially considering that, unlike the phones of 10 years ago in which it was enough to remove the battery, on iPhone XS all this is not possible since in no way can you open the smartphone.
So what can you do to unlock an iPhone XS locked on some screen and that no longer responds to commands? Simple, I'll explain it to you in this article!
How to unlock iPhone XS locked on screen and does not respond to touch controls on the screen
Unlocking your locked iPhone XS and forcing a reboot of your smartphone is pretty simple, even if the procedure changes compared to the iPhone 7, iPhone 8 and the old Apple iPhone.
Within a few seconds, however, thanks to our instructions, you can restart your iPhone XS and make it work perfectly again.
So let's see how to proceed to force a restart of iPhone XS.
I recommend it is important to press the buttons on your iPhone XS exactly in the order that I indicate below, otherwise the procedure will not work.
That said, to unlock your iPhone XS, you must:
- Press Volume UP and release it
- Press Volume DOWN and release it
- Press and HOLD the Power/Lock button on the right side of the iPhone XS
- Press and hold this button until the Apple logo (the famous apple) appears on the screen. You will have to hold it down for several seconds (about 15-20) for the guide to work properly
- If the apple does not appear, it means that you have not pressed the buttons correctly. Repeat the procedure from the beginning paying more attention
- If the apple appears on the screen, wait until it disappears. In a few moments iPhone XS will reboot and you will be able to come back to use it without any problem.
All pretty simple, right?
And in this way you will be able to unlock and restart your iPhone XS that no longer responds to commands.
If I'm wrong, what's going on?
Do not worry: if you fail the execution of the commands, nothing serious happens.
At most you will go to capture a screenshot or turn on/off the screen, nothing more.
In NO circumstances, you will lose your saved data on iPhone XS.
For this new article on the iPhone XS is everything. If by chance your precious smartphone should stop and stop responding to commands on screen, do not despair: following our advice you can solve the problem in a few moments.
In case of doubts or questions, leave a comment at the end of the article and we will help you as soon as possible.
See you next time!


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Arm Lift
What Is Arm Lift Surgery?
There are a lot of people in the world who are unhappy with the way their arms jiggle when they wave, but not many of them do anything about it! If you find yourself trying to cover your arms up all the time it's time to stop hiding and look into having an arm lift Orlando! You deserve to feel confident and happy with the way you look.
An arm lift is an elective cosmetic procedure that is surgically done to improve the appearance of the underneath of your arms. This procedure is also known as a brachioplasty. During the surgery, the extra skin and fat that is between your armpit and elbow are removed. The skin that is left over is then moved and repositioned to create a more toned arm. There are a number of reasons why you may elect to have this procedure done. As you age, all of your skin begins to change, including the skin under your arms. It starts to become loose and sag as a result. Also, if you lose a significant amount of weight the underneath of your upper arms can begin to sag and droop. Although exercise has the ability to strengthen and improve muscle tone in your upper arm, it won't treat or get rid of the excess skin that has lost elasticity and start to droop. Having this surgery done will definitely help with your body image!
Before your surgery, you will need to do a few things with your doctor to prepare. The first thing you'll do is review your medical history. You will need to answer a number of questions about your current and past medical conditions. Then you will have a physical exam. This is done to determine whether or not you're a candidate for the procedure. You will then discuss your expectations; your doctor may ask questions about why you are electing to have this surgery. Finally, your surgeon will advise you to stop using tobacco.
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Castles, temples & fabulous food
On the Seto Inland Sea, looking out over the Sanuki mountain range, sits the island of Shikoku and the old castle town of Takamatsu, Japan.
Now a vibrant city, Takamatsu has been an economic hub of the region since the Edo period. To get a sense of its history, visit Tamamo-koen Park. The 16th century Takamatsu Castle had been destroyed, but there's still plenty to explore: ruins, water moats, and classic Japanese-style yagura or turrets.
At beautiful Ritsurin-kōen, stroll through hills, bridges, islands and ponds, or sip matcha (powdered green tea) at a thatched-roof teahouse. Venture to Yashima, a 293-meter high plateau, for the best views of the sea and a visit to the Shingon temple Yashima-ji. Enjoy the city's shopping, new waterfront and many restaurants, where you can sample fresh seafood or Sanuki udon, a famous noodle dish.
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The Real Cost of a New Website Design
So you want a new shiny new website? AWESOME.
We love sprucing up a mundane boring old site or starting from scratch, but how much should that new site cost? Well that can be tricky to answer (for anyone)! I will start off boldy by saying, if anyone quotes you a quick price over the phone without taking the time to learn your goals, strategies, and challenges with your current site, they are wasting your time. In fact, it's like trying to eat a steak with a spork (remember those half spoon half fork utensils we got in grade school– cheap and breakable!) and you would just never do that.
Learn more here - https://www.impulsecreative.com/blog/the-real-cost-of-a-new-website-design


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Until April 5th, KinkLeaders.com is still accepting applications.
Before anyone gets their undies in a bunch (that is, if you wear undies!) that the program is called "Kink Leaders" please understand the title needed to be short & snappy.
This year long program is useful for anyone wanting to become a leader in the BDSM, Kink, Poly or Gender communities.
Actually this program will be useful for anyone wanting to be a community leader of any kind, but the focus will be on Sexuality/Relationships/Gender based communities.
Participation requires about one hour of work a week, some weeks a bit less.
The program consists of:
+ Written Homework Assignments (posted every Monday)
+ Pre-Recorded Videos with discussion (posted every Thursday)
+ One on one conversations with Kali (individually scheduled)
+ A monthly webinar for group interaction (group scheduled)
+ Input & Contribution from Well Known Community Leaders
+ Extra suggested resources
+ Access to both KinkAcademy.com & PassionateU.com


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I tested TBS (That Butt Stuff) and AsMaster. TBS contains no parabens and a host of natural oils. AsMaster contains parabens and a host of natural oils.
Testing conditions were mainly wet and muddy, including gravel roads and single track. Temperatures ranged from 45-70 degrees. Overall saddle times were 5-7 hours. I had enough to conduct two rides per product. I used the same Specialized shorts for each ride.
When initially applying both products, I noticed how thin they were. Both required a two-fingered application vs. the usual one finger Chamois Butt'r application.
For the first 3 hours both products did there job. Both felt the same. But by hour 4, I was aware of my taint. I felt a mild irritation, especially when I was moving around on the saddle. By hour 5, I was squirming around on the saddle, trying to find the "sweet" spot, wishing I had brought more cream with me.
Upon post-ride examination, my skin was definitely more inflamed. The good news was that there were no saddle sores with either product.
Conclusion: Chamois Butt'r is THE TICKET , especially for ultra-endurance riding/racing. (Having said that, TBS and AsMaster would work just fine for short rides and XC races.)
I think the biggest difference is that Chamois Butt'r has lanolin which allows it to endure for 4+ hours. When you scoop a fingerful out of the container, it has the same consistency as "I Cannot Believe It's Butter" butter spread. I also like the menthol which seems to have a "cooling" effect and therefore increases my comfort level in the saddle. (For those of you that do not like this "tingling," plain Chamois Butt'r works great and endures as long as its European counterpart.)
FYI, I used Chamois Butt'r for 9 months prior to being sponsored by them. This year, it held up to the extreme weather conditions at TransRockies and Pisgah stage races. No saddle sores and aside from some sit-bone soreness during the final days of each race, my taint was a happy taint!
I have plenty of samples, so if you see me out there, I would be happy to give some to you to try yourself.


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10.6084/m9.figshare.3555630.v2 Digital Science Jonathan Adams Stacy Konkiel Daniel S. Katz Digital Science Webinar: Articulating Research Impact – Strategies from Around the Globe 2016 Digital Science research database administration impact case studies 2016-08-12 12:40:55 article https://digitalscience.figshare.com/articles/media/Digital_Science_Webinar_Articulating_Research_Impact_Strategies_from_Around_the_Globe/3555630
Jonathan Adams and his Consultancy Group in Digital Science, last year, created a searchable database of impact case studies, with descriptive metadata, from the 2014 Research Exercise Framework (REF) in the United Kingdom.

Jonathan shares some interesting and diverse examples of impact from the case studies database, and speak to the expectations that administrators have when it comes to selecting tools to help them collect key indicators of impact, pinpoint that impact and then report on it accurately.

Building upon Jonathan's insights, Stacy Konkiel examines specific examples of impact that weren't submitted in the REF2014 impact case studies, but that can showcase certain important types of impact like the influence of research on public policy, technology commercialization, and more. She discusses how tools like Altmetric can help researchers easily discover where their work is making a difference in academia and beyond.

Daniel S. Katz discusses how reviewers at the National Science Foundation (USA) consider the "intellectual merit" and "broader impacts" criteria for funding and in particular how metrics might help applicants understand their impacts in these areas. Dan also talks about how reviewers might use qualitative and quantitative altmetrics data to inform their peer reviews for grant applications. He addresses many of the salient questions around this use of metrics, for example, do reviewers take metrics seriously and what types of metrics are of most value to them?


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Simi took some time to cool off at the beach, never mind looking sexy all the while she was there.
The singer shared cute, sexy photos from her outing via her Instagram page on Monday, January 9, 2017, but that's not the best part.
On one of the photos Simi shared, she wrote, "Get you a man that can make you laugh."
On his own part, Adekunle shared photo from the same beach resort location, tagging it his "Fave place in the world."
Although rumours once had it that the pair were an item, both have refuted the claims, explaining that they have just been friends for a long time.
|Adekunle Gold at the same resort beach
Simi and Adekunle Gold have come a long way and may have decided to take things to the next level.
Lets not forget all the chemistry between Simi and Falz, making things a bit tricky although they too have refuted claims of a relationship between them, a fact Nigerians are conveniently deaf to.


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Book Appreciation with Anna Clutterbuck-Cook part 1
On this episode of The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast, Heather Rose Jones does book appreciation with Anna Clutterbuck-Cook part 1
Episode 35b
In the Book Appreciation segments, our featured authors (or your host) will talk about one or more favorite books with queer female characters in a historic setting. This time we had so much to talk about we split it into two episodes.
Listen to this episode here
In this episode we talk about:
- How the pricing structure of lesbian romance can form a barrier to general readers entering the market
- Decoding how to find books that hit your sweet spot when entering a new reading community
- How the history of lesbian small presses shapes price and content expectations
- Some comparisons between f/f and m/m book communities
- How latent sexism in the romance market affects the acceptance of f/f stories
- Popular m/m and m/f romance authors putting a toe in the waters of f/f romance–what does it mean for f/f-only authors?
- How do we overcome barriers to cross-promotion between siloed reading communities, when recommendation networks don't overlap
- Lesbian publishing as a "walled garden"–the ups and downs of curated spaces
- Dealing with cross-gender motifs in historical fiction
- Complications of gender and sexuality in historic societies
- How to identify with characters without owning them–resource scarcity and contested spaces
- Three models for communicating queer content in books: the donut shop, the whisper network, and the detailed menu
- Fan fiction and learning acceptance of multiple readings of a text
- Gender dynamics in fan fiction and the distribution of f/f stories
- Envisioning independent women in history–how the sexism of popular media lies to us about the lives of historic women
- Fan fiction generations pre- and post-Xena
- Books and Resources Mentioned
- "That Could Be Enough" by Alyssa Cole
- f/f fiction by K.J. Charles
- f/f fiction by Jordan Hawke
- The Ripped Bodice (bookstore)
- Smart Bitches Trashy Books (website and podcast)
- "Black Widow, Scarce Resources And High-Stakes Stories" by Linda Holmes (NPR essay)
- "The Mazarinette and the Musketeer by Heather Rose Jones
- Anna's f/f fan fiction for Downton Abbey and Upstairs Downstairs
- Archiev of Our Own
- A transcript of this podcast is pending.
Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online
Links to Anna Clutterbuck-Cook Online
- Website: The Feminist Librarian
- Twitter: @feministlib
- Archive of Our Own: elizajane
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[Music] this is Heather Rose Jones with a lesbian historic motif podcast this weekly podcast looks at lesbian themes in history and literature and historic research into gender and sexuality we talk about current historical fiction with queer female characters including fantastic versions of the past and have interviews with authors who write those stories and in months when we have a fifth show we're proud to present new original lesbian historical fiction for your enjoyment usually when I do a book appreciation show I'm focusing on a few specific books that my guest wants to talk about but when I invited Anna Clutterbuck-Cook on to the show it was in the middle of a Twitter conversation about FF historicals in general touching on both loves and frustrations about the field so expect this to be a fairly wide-ranging conversation Anna is a reader writer historian and reference librarian she explained that in the past five years she has rediscovered the romance genre after spending years reading and writing romance and fanfiction form she reads and writes FF mm FM and poly relationships and reads primarily historical x' paranormals and historical paranormals when she can find them with a dash of contemporaries when the right one comes along she grew up in West Michigan and currently lives in Roslindale MIT Massachusetts with her wife and two cats welcome Anna thank you it's great to be on so when I first proposed having you come onto the show you suggested a few topics for discussion and I think this is going to be more of a discussion that an interview because we both have passionate opinions about them sometimes in agreement and sometimes with different points of view the first topic is I think the one I first noticed you posting about on Twitter which is the structural barriers in the publishing world for readers looking for FF romance and I think it may help if we settle on using FF to talk about in general about books featuring relationships between women and use lesbian romance or less Vic to talk about the self-identified community of readers writers and publishers who use those terms because that comes into some of the dynamics we'll be talking about so let's start talking about price yeah so to elaborate a little bit I said about how I came back into published romance in a context where I was actually purchasing books because when you are reading and writing the fanfiction the majority of those materials are going to be free the people who write them are not writing them for as part of their professional writing although sometimes they are professional writers the fanfiction is usually available without having to pay anything for them and so when I came from a context where I was reading romance stories that I didn't have to pay for at all into a space where I'm purchasing material that is sold by writers who are making that part of their living which is something I I support I believe people should get paid for their work if it's where they are choosing to do in that context but I was buying ebooks primarily because even though I belong to you a number of really strong public library systems a lot of the queer romance that I was looking for the authors were either running print fiction and then publishing different original stories on the side or were people who were recommended by other fan fiction readers most of those were independently published not confectional romance publishing houses and often online only so I wasn't able to find print versions of most of these stories and so I was buying largely through Kindle the Kindle platform on Amazon and a lot of times the way that those books are structured you get a series of novels or novellas the first couple are going to be in 99 cents apiece 2099 so in that way you can try out a new author for much less than the price of a latte these days so so as I started paying for romance novels that's the put those are the price points that I became familiar with and the context I was purchasing romance and then as it was searching for most of the author's I was reading in that context were either mm or MF and sometimes more complex relationships so I was starting to look for romance that was FF focused people would recommend things to me on Twitter their favorite authors things like that but as I was you know going to look up those titles I was finding them to be much higher in price so like 999 $12.99 those kind of prices which I I don't have a lot of discretionary money so there is a big difference in know how many titles I can buy at those higher price points and waiting into what felt like a field where I was really unfamiliar with the authors so there weren't authors I was already familiar with from these mm and MF contexts who are also writing ffs so I'm you know listening to people who have made good you know trustworthy recommendations but I'm buying at often that I'm completely just completely new to me so it can be really frustrating when you're trying to figure out what authors you like and what kind of keywords to look for in your novel descriptions whenever you're starting out with a new genre you end up inevitably reading stuff that doesn't quite do it for you because you're sort of flailing around trying to figure yeah I think sometimes especially when you're moving into a new I guess publishing community you don't know what the keywords are you don't know what the code is – that will tell you this is a book that that's gonna hit my sweet spot because every every subfield has its own code yep I agree and like even coming from you know fan fiction has a very elaborate code yes every 9/4 right one exactly and I really appreciate that you know everything I mean if people don't tag their work accurately in the fanfiction community people get very upset because that's how they sort and filter and find things and also avoid the things that they don't want to read so you know if you get a story that has one of the major characters dying at the end and the title the the data around the story hasn't used that for you pen fiction readers are gonna get very upset and so I came out of that context where I really knew how to sort through things and then the published romance world has another whole set again and I do I do think that though let's pick publishing he seems to have yet again a related but also distinct vocabulary for what people are looking for yeah so cross walking the knowledge that I brought from the previous two communities of you know romance story writers and readers into less bitch less fix pieces was not as helpful yeah is that you know might be ideal I confess the the price aspect never has never been a barrier for me and that's coming from a couple of different directions one is that that my my reading background is primarily mainstream fantasy and science fiction so I come into it with the default expectation of you know mainstream mass-market prices so it you know part of that is just you know what what is normal for you the other aspect being that you know I am in the privileged position of being able to shell out lots of money for books when I buy my fiction books I think nothing at all well ok I do think a little bit about paying more than a hundred bucks for a single book but but I do get on a regular basis so so that's something where I can I can sympathize but it doesn't hit me in in the in the gut the same way it does for for people who read a lot more fiction than I do and for people who don't have that same budget for it but it I I think part of what you noticed when you started looking at especially the less fixed side of publishing is the history of the field because the pricing on and I'm thinking of publishers like my own publisher Bela or bold strokes or publishers like that who are giving books the 999 ebook prices and the you know fifteen to twenty dollar heart the paperback prices yeah a lot of them are coming out of the early feminist publishing I mean Bela is in some ways the spiritual successor of nayad that ebooks were not a thing so the but business model got established when it was hard copies and put bookstore distribution and yet having to model yourself that way and you know I I'm very much ignorant of the development of say the mmm fiction world I remember seeing what I think must have been self-published hardcovers not not our governance but paperbacks and science fiction conventions right at the beginning of sort of the self-publishing movement back when I don't think ebooks were really a thing yet although my memory is fuzzy but I don't know if there was this same the same industry of gay male fishing that was entrenched in you know physical books for the for the current mmm romance ebook market to evolve out of or whether it really developed and bloomed within the e-book context yeah that's a good that's a good question and I like you I am more familiar with the you know women's bookstores women's publishing houses the seventies and eighties that I know were you know are very distinct and very clear predecessor to today's less polished houses I mean I know that back in the 60s and 70s and probably into the eighties there were you know gay bookstores I'm in Boston the anniversary of Stonewall celebrations where we have a whole list of you know sites of former game bookstores that well isn't that a sad thought sites of former gay bookstores yeah I I could you know mark on a map all of my old favorite feminist bookstores that none of which still exist yeah yeah and so I know it's um certainly at some point in the mid 20th century there were in part because mainstream booksellers more selling you know gay publishing houses or gay friend publishing houses my sense is that mm as it exists today is somewhat distinct from gay fiction as well yeah yes and that's that's another topic we should probably at least – so so there is yeah that's I think a topic that would be really interesting I don't sort of have enough background in the publishing aspect of it it was kind of tangential to the topic of my podcast but I mean for the listeners even the use of terms like m m and F F is coming largely out of the fanfiction movement right and I think that there is also I don't know how much truth there is to this but the cultural sense from people who aren't necessarily in the queer romance reading and writing world that that mmm is a genre developed by straight women for straight women as of course it's a misnomer because I think a lot of them are by women and I even know lesbians who preferentially write mmm but but yes bye-bye non gay men for non-game some of the conversations that women who are coming up through the less fiction community and are not reading or their perception is definitely still that mmm is a space that's not really queer and is appropriative of gay male identity which i think is an aspect of the conversation that shouldn't be ignored or you know brushed off i always think conversations about appropriation are important to have but given that the majority of the authors i know who are writing mmm are themselves queer complicates the appropriate aspect of things because it's not straight women writing about gay men for their own you know sort of community it's queer women writing queer stories i and then by trans authors and I'm not binary authors and so it's a space that is much more complicatedly queerer than people who are looking in from the outside and saying you know this is just a bunch of you know women writing gay porn for each other which of course has has the whole dismissing romance aspect to it which brings in misogyny and and yada yadi so so I think that it brings up a lot of there's also I don't think there's any problem with you know women engaging with with gay porn either but but there are problems embedded in it and I think that getting back to the price point of course one of the dynamics that's going on is however you measure it the market for mm fiction is substantially larger than the market for FF fiction and especially then the market for what is identified as less fact less effect tends to identify itself as you know the core the the prototype model of less fake which isn't to say that this covers all cases I get prototype theory into everything because that's my academic background but is that it's been written by lesbians for lesbians about lesbians the idea being that it's an own voices movement that the target audience is assumed to be women who love women and that the content of the books will guarantee the reader that you know to talk about a crude that you're not gonna have any penises wandering wandering around through your plug and that those those factors narrow it down even further than just a question of who might enjoy reading FF romance and as we know any time economics comes into a field the smaller your market the the worse your price point is so especially the people who are publishing physical books where you've got the overhead and you've got the distribution and everything that the smaller the market the higher the price you have to set in order to make ends meet so if you're trying to do it professionally especially if you're a publisher where you've got you know a physical space you've got staff it's it's simply an economic reality however that then creates a vicious spiral in the marketplace so yeah in terms of the economics of published romance and less fiction like we sexism is undeniably a part of that even in genre romance that's dominated by women there it is still like I think that economically there's a reason why mmm has been more quickly integrated into public romances genres I'm seeing more series with MF and mmm characters so you have multiple works where you're getting both types of relationships in the same stories and even those are much less likely to have FF and if they do have FF relationships in them there either in novellas which means that the author has been given permission to include this but probably hasn't been supported by the publisher you're right fully FF yeah we're seeing a couple of things coming out an extra you know I've seen a couple of those coming out from like name authors I mean like like Alissa Cole's FF novella where exactly you know it's like it would be lovely if she'd write more but one suspects that the money isn't there exactly in it so I think that this also my suspicion is that part of the reason you have so many queer women writing mmm in the romance market is that they can successfully pitch those stories and they're not getting picked up for her bath so if you're wanting to write queer romance and also work with publishing houses is in the sort of mainstream of romance those pitches are going to be much more like lucrative and just as strictly economic I need to pay rent this month yeah and so they you start out writing those and then I have you know half a dozen you mentioned ELISA Cole we've got kg Charles we have Jordan Hawk a number of others who have been who have now established themselves as mmm authors who are playing around with are people going to read my FF and fight if I put out a short story if I write them as background characters in you know a novel at center is an M M or M F relationship and I'm hopefully hopefully those experiments will prove both to the author's and the publishers that the readership is there although it's I have had some interesting speculations in my own head where I don't know that even the success of those branching out from the from the authors who are primarily M F and mm or combination of the two I don't know that that will necessarily open up the field to authors who are primarily writing FF as opposed to you know proving to publishers that yes if you've got an established readership you can do this occasionally and it won't hurt your brand danger and much like the conversation around you know white authors writing more racially diverse characters versus actually hiring yeah coloring their stories that's a dynamic that I think is important not to discount who and has real structural ramifications for who who who's writing and getting remunerated fairly for what they're doing and it gets into you know one of your other topics which is cross promotion how people find new authors that you know when when ELISA coal or KJ Charles writes in FF book that doesn't necessarily lead their readers to other FF authors that that may lead their readers to say hey you know I wish I could get more of this but if there isn't a mechanism for then crossing over and saying hey you know there are these authors who write this all the time and you might like them too now I have to say my experience with with KJ Charles is that she is wonderful about cross promoting people outside of the mm and MF markets when when they come to her her attention for for books that she thinks that her readers would also enjoy and I had Alyssa Cole on my show and and it was lovely and I'm doing my best to cross-promote in that direction to take people from mainstream as it were and tell s Vick readers hey you know there are people outside our own community who are writing books that I think you would really enjoy and and here's my my deep dark secret ulterior motive to tell people in the lesyk community you know there are people writing really really good FF romance that you might want to think about using as a model for your own writing because that gets back to one of the other things you're talking about which is you look in the in the less Vic publishing community you find a new author and you don't know you don't know what flavor you're getting and there is very definitely a strong flavor within a group of flavors within the less Vic publishing community and there's also and I'm gonna say something really controversial here from my primary audience there is a strong acceptance of a lower level of writing quality unless Vic because that's what people are used to and I know it's kind of you know hazardous for me to say things like that not only because that is my publishing context but because there's this very strong tradition of you know you do not diss your fellow less Vic people and to suggest that there are systemic quality issues in less Vic is really taboo and yet I think as I think you have mentioned on occasion you know it's very hit and miss you you you take a random lesyk romance and the chances are if you are used to mainstream publishing writing quality it is not going to meet your standards in the past that if you're someone who's coming to lesyk looking for FF relationships and saying oh gosh here's a whole community of people you write this where do I start when you start with us you know if you sort of had things that have been Hansel to you on a recommendation from friends as decent examples of the genre and you get in and it's basic sort of craft issues around point of view shifted this book is all dialogue right and you can do some of those things effectively but if it's snow if it's if it's problems that I actually wasn't really frustrated with in a piece of fanfiction that someone has written it and probably had you know a beta reader or to help them to refine and post if I'm seeing problems that wouldn't get past a beta reader in fanfiction in a published romance that I paid for you know it is it becomes that much harder to sell me on the next one right then like what make me the story is great but the quality of writing is really really thin or they're just basic structural issues and they don't know enough about the editorial processes that go into I I know that there are some people who are self published in all of these categories but if someone's working with a publishing house you know some of my favorite mmm authors I know have developmental editors and have you know several layers of working through stories to stammer out flesh out the characters and all that kind of stuff they're getting a lot of editorial support mm-hmm and I don't know if in the lesbian community there's just less of that to go around so people are don't have the opportunity to strengthen their writing through that editorial process or if something else is going on yeah and certainly for I would say the vast majority of self-published lesyk authors that the the editorial support is pretty catch as catch can but it varies enormously in very seamlessly so how do you typically find new FF authors that you have then enjoyed what are the methods that have worked for you I don't know if I have found I think I'm still in the process of struggling to find like a big big pool of lustick authors authors what I would say is that the majority of my finding romance stories whatever the relationship at the center of them that I enjoy has been largely through one-to-one contact and recommendations so either three friends whose taste I know is similar to my own who say hey I found this author it's great you know check it out poor authors who I really enjoy recommending a fellow authors so you had talked about KJ Charles Wright reading stuff and saying hey if you like my work you'll also like this that sort of snowball sampling is how I find most of my new content so whether it's fanfiction whether it's published bromance occasionally I do I will follow an author that I know into an anthology which i think is a really useful way of finding new authors so if an author I know has a short story in a book with you know five to ten other authors who are all writing paranormal shorts or something like that I'll check that book out and then usually I'll find an author to whose work who's the contribution to anthology I really like who I will then go and see what they have so that's another example I think of cross-promotion that can be really effective and for established authors it's a great way to support voices that they feel are underrepresented in the genre whoo-hoo because you can say okay if you've got a key Jake Charles or Jordan hawk or something like that whose name is on this anthology then we can bring in some other people who don't have that same draw but who are writing in a very similar vein yeah it's very much similar to you know who are your favorite authors reading and enjoying and that's that's actually one of the reasons I started doing the the book appreciation add ons to my interviews and it goes two ways and I've heard people talk about this where part of it is if you're already a fan of the author who's making the recommendations then it's you know a shortcut to maybe I would like the books they like but the other side of it is if you've never heard of this author before but they're saying I like this book in this book of this book and you have also liked a couple of them you're more likely to try that author because at the very least they've got good taste you know so I always view it as a win-win for authors to talk about the books that they like because it forms this you know this this overlay network of similarities that people can follow yeah absolutely I follow a lot of romance authors on Twitter and if they are talking about a book or you know they see and they recommend a new author you know I am much more likely if someone whose work I like to even go and give something a try at a higher price point because they say you know this is really awesome you should watch this person's work so so yeah I think that that hand selling I come from the book from the bookseller world right became a librarian and that's sort of you know this is a new book this is a new author that if you like this person you should give a try really really doesn't work I still remember the day I walked into my local science fiction fantasy book shop and I said to them to the book so the bookstore owner so there's this new author that friends of mine have thought I might like and I'm trying to remember and he came out with the author and block off the top of his head just from that introduction I mean what we have lost in the loss of small genre specific bookstores is incalculable and Twitter can only make up for a little bit I'm sorry I was gonna say do they have a podcast no you sing you sing they don't really strongly review publications romance bookstore you know the one the one you yeah I need to get down there someday yeah I'm too far away at the moment but to get down there but you know people are making pilgrimages so I look at the end the independent bookstore face even you know is is very important I think to that sort of hand telling getting nervous into people's hands because the people who work in those spaces are so excited about what they have to offer yeah the flipside of the the personal network recommendations is you know you look at those those schematic diagrams of you know personal connections and and who talks to who and and and then you you see how the different networks don't intersect or they you know have these very small intersections and I know you know when I first started regularly reading smart bitches trashy books you know looking for additional information about lesbian romance especially lesbian historical and you know just combing through their their archives with search words and whatnot and it wasn't simply that there was so little information but that when they had recommendation threads it was it was a mixture of people saying gosh I wish there was more I don't know of any and people recommending a very small set of very often the same authors over and over again where it's like I knew how small a set that was and so you can get hooked into these recommendation networks and still not realize how much is out there that you never hear about because of the structure of the network using whisper networks yes no your problem people are in your community right because if you don't know the people who are your into the whisper network then you're really vulnerable to falling into relationship with this person who have you know that the problematic person because you haven't heard you haven't heard the gossip and I think that that's really similar the the size of the silos are real yeah and they have real ramifications and I think I'm not sure apart from sort of continuing to chip away yeah I'm not sure how I don't think there's a magic way to break down those barriers in part because I think that when we've talked about this on Twitter too that there are historical reasons why the last big publishing and the less effect readership are wary of opening up those spaces yeah I think we ended up with the the metaphor of a walled garden or something like that I don't know if that was with me where especially the electric publishers that came out of the feminist publishing movement deliberately cultivated you know safe space in modern terms that you know this is what we are going to do and this is what we're going to promise you and this is what we're going to focus on and we are going to actively cultivate what we are doing in a very deliberate way coming out of you know the the you know political radicalism of the 70s and 80s and it it does what it means to do but it does have consequences for maintaining those silos for really you know telling other potential community participants other potential authors other potential readers and saying this isn't for you you know the I think we've talked about you know that they're the the less Vic publishing community is only just starting to come out from under a serious cloud of biphobia we're right you know originally you wanted to promise your readers that you do not have to worry about the characters and your romance novel possibly ever being involved with men but that then shuts out a vast potential audience of women for whom not only would that not be a problem but it feels actively off-putting for the characters to be you know anti by in terms of life choices are they any bisexual reader myself I have I have been you know very consciously lesbian you know women on these spaces in my life and there are times when I think those are useful and haven't haven't always felt so how actively hostile to me but I do think that it's really the biphobia is a part of it and I think trans representation is another part of it because I see there are certain FF romances that we'll get that have a really strong readership where there's a character who is who could be read either way and and I think those are about like it's valid to have a character who cross dresses but still identifies as a woman or identifies as butch or however that person wants to identify but but for some readers that feels like trans erasure the lesbian talk show relies on support the support of you our listeners the support of those who like and review our show on their favorite podcast app the support of our patrons on patreon and the support of our sponsors we hope you'll continue to enjoy and support the lesbian talk show so let's move on to talking about historical tropes in particular because that's a useful place to enter the discussion especially I find this especially in American West stories that you can almost guarantee one of the characters is going to be at the very least cross-dressing and engaged into masculine profession a male coded profession and very often will in fact be a passing woman will be a self-identified woman passing as a man to all intents and purposes and as you say even when it's clear from the story that the character identifies as female the the lack of any acknowledgement of other possibilities can be very off-putting to readers who expect more trans inclusivity yeah I think especially when you're talking about historical that gets into really front territory right because you as a historian you're wrestling with what the documentary record provides and what the what the documentary record provides is the fact that the identities that we now I think about as trans were different in the 19th century the vocabulary was different the ways that people express their gender or different the models they had for identifying themselves were different right and so we will never know based on the historical record for the most part unless someone leaves very clear language to the cook to explain you know that there there is a long history of women of people who were identified as women gender crossing for various professional you know survival based reasons or personal taste and if all you have is a newspaper record that says you know person died autopsy was done oh my gosh it was a woman you had the sort of sensationalist press end of the story this person was married to a woman lived as a man for many years was discovered upon death to be medically female yes right the doctors pronounced this person was actually female who's to say how that person understood their gender identity and so when people are writing a story if they're an author who understands that narrative to be about a woman who was passing as a man for sort of utilitarian purposes they're gonna tell that story in a certain way and if they're a writer or a reader who understands that narrative to be more about personal gender identity they're gonna tell that story in a different way both of those readings are valid for the person who's writing the novel but your readership is going to come at it from a whole range of perspectives and feel like their understanding of those stories is invalidated like I'm thinking of the biography the fictional biography of doctor Barry that everybody's been talking about on Twitter and this is a little bit of a this is a really loaded example because the book is being published by a mainstream publisher and it's not clearly labeled fiction so people feel like it's misrepresenting then it's at the very least fictionalized biography right so are we talking about someone who's misrepresenting a historical record versus inspired by real-life events but that I think is similar story where the author feels the historical care the historical person that their character is based off of was a woman was a cisgender woman who was crossing as a man in order to practice medicine many other people legitimately feel that the historical record says this person chose to live their life as a man it should be represented as such and so I think that that's a real a real tension in FF romance that often readers will come to a story and feel it is it is erasure to call it FF you know because their main character as one of the complications of that in the historic context and as you know I am an amateur historian and I delve into this a lot in my blog is that there is a vast territory in history both real-life people and literature where the gender disguise aspect is the window into the possibility of a homoerotic interaction where it I didn't hold ese wants about it being a sort of a portal fantasy mechanism where gender disguise creates that that window that doorway into imagining what it would be like to love somebody of the same gender and this is why you know I always get just twitchy around the idea of well if you couldn't do a trans interpretation of a historic figure you should take that interpretation because for me that takes away so many of and I'm deliberately using inflammatory language here for me that would take away so many of the characters and figures that I have been able to identify with in history and historic literature and I'm actually doing a series on the podcast right now that really goes into these ideas of the intertwining of gender and sexuality in historic themes there were you know a lot of cultural context where the culture told you if you're a female bodied person who is in love with or attracted to a woman by definition that actually makes you a trans man and and that historically there was this erasure of lesbian possibilities from the culture from the cultural context from the models that that they had for understanding how the world worked and that that's that's not exclusive there were also plenty of cultures that said no to female presenting women can be in love with a half section with each other and that's that's a thing but it does complicate the issue of interpretation and the the pith I always try to take is that there's no it's not an either/or you know you don't have to claim a particular individual or a particular story for one side in one side only we we can share it can be both a wave and a particle but that the the queer identity movement in all of its parts has had such a strong sense of claiming of historic claiming and saying this person this this person was one of us this person was like me and it's very hard to share to share and not feel like you are losing something in the sharing and and that I think it's something we are all going to have to work through and not feel like we have to elbow people out of the way to for our identification purposes yeah I think that that's very well the idea like sharing without losing something I think is really evocative and it makes me think of this essay by Linda Holmes of NPR she wrote around I think it was the Black Widow movie that came out it was one of the Avengers movies in which Black Widow was a character and the storyline there was a storyline around forced sterilization yeah and her desire to have a baby but being unable to you because she'd been sterilized and there were a lot of in social media and elsewhere and because of course you know there were people who are like you know a woman's entire identity shouldn't be reduced to you know she wants to get pregnant can't and then people equally obviously saying you know it's it's valid to want to be a mother and Linda Holmes wrote this great essay about basically resource scarcity and saying like when you have one female nurse er in this in this franchise and she gets one movie about with it centers her story everyone wants that story to feel like something that's personal to be like they can connect with that character because it's the one woman in this universe and so she becomes contested territory because everyone wants it that's okay and the solution to that is having enough in this case enough female character is that you have a wide range of possibilities for how a woman may or may not want to become a parent and how they want to become a parent and it seems to me that analogously you know the queer romance genre and even just the less big part of it those become contested because it feels like a scarce resource or a threatened resource right we were talking about all garden right it's a name that people get protective and it does seem like that that the solution is hopefully that we will have a wider array of representation so people will realize that representing character a as a trans man doesn't mean that character B can't be a butch woman and you know all those sorts of yeah you got a reader comment on my my novel let the Mazarin and the musketeer where they said it was the first story they could recall reading the first historical story they could recall reading that included both an obviously trans man and cross-dressing women and where the characters were clearly set up those identities and both present and this is the thing as we need more of that and I think we're getting more of it I've been so I have this theory of like the the three silos of the approach to queer rep in in fiction I call it the the donut shop theory which is you you have walked into a donut shop you have ordered something it's gonna be a donut you know you're gonna get a donut and this is what let's pick publishing is you have gone there for the last week donuts and that's what you're gonna get and you in mainstream publishing although we're starting to see a movement away from this it's the whisper Network it's we're gonna put queer characters in our books but we're not going to tell you about them but we're pretty confident that somebody will let you in on the secret so we don't have to scare away our straight readers but we can know we can get you as well and then the the third silo which I I started off by calling it the tumbler silo which is probably mostly based on my complete misunderstanding of tumbler dynamics but it's the we are going to list every single identity you are going to find in this book when we put up the book blurb and you may not have any idea what the plot is but by golly you will know what all the identities are and and they're all really valuable approaches and they all assume a certain readership you know what I call that the tumbler group may might actually be better identified as the fan shake approach you know you've got the tags that tell you everything that's in this recipe and within that within the the fan shaker approach or the tumbler approach or whatever you want to call it I think there is a lot more emphasis on cross intersectional identities in you know not just more of everything but people with a lot of different overlapping identities and recognizing that more is better that that providing a smorgasbord so that whoever the reader is they will find something to identify with that this is good this is not off-putting to your audience this is a positive feature yeah I definitely see aspects of that in in fan fiction communities one of the things that was thinking about as you were talking is that because fanfiction exists outside of the gatekeeping dynamics of publishing and because any given writers who are writing around an original work of some kind generate every single person's gonna do anyway a different take on the original story I think one of the things that fan fiction practice actually helps you develop muscles for is that there are multiple readings of a text right because it's actually concretely creating those multiple readings you can have television show like Eureka and everyone's gonna watch you know Episode A or B and come away with ten different ways they wish that the final scene had gone and those can all end up in the fan fiction archive and if you want to go read all ten of them you can if you see nothing that matches your interpretation in those ten you can create the eleventh and it's I want to be really careful not to idealize that space because there are still definitely gatekeeping you know there are ways that people get very clear messages about what types of what is acceptable what isn't are unacceptable what kinds of character relationships are not okay so there are people who experience fanfiction space as I'm welcoming it hostile people can still feel unwelcome but I do think that it helps people get used to the idea that a single character could be understood in many different ways and that those don't have to be mutually exclusive so hopefully as more you know fan creators and fan readers migrating into more conventional publishing spaces the experience that they've had doing that will help people feel a little bit less like we're dealing with a resource scarcity situation so since we're talking about fanfiction I want to move on to one of your other topics you were talking about fanfic gender dynamics and that your experience has been that ffs stories in fanfic tend to be clustered into contemporary phantoms crime dramas and note that there are certain TV shows that have been very productive of FF fanfiction and that your perception is that the writers and readers within those fandoms are distinct from the writers and readers of mm and MF thick and you want to talk about that a little bit more but I think that in some ways the fan fiction fan fiction spaces mirror what we've been talking about with plastic and the larger queer romance instead of publishing genre that the people I have talked to that there are definitely people who read and write exclusively FF and they aren't interested in either reading or writing other types of relationships and to me that can it's it's not I don't think a purposeful bifurcation of the space but I think it does sort of end up the conversations end up being largely separate because there are a lot of media products out there where you can create lots of different types of relationship constellations and if the people in those spaces aren't writing FF and the people in the spaces who are writing FF are reading and these other fandoms you're not kind of learned the conversations aren't happening between the in those two spaces and I see in one of the reasons I started writing FF fanfiction is that I was really frustrated with the fact that people weren't including those relationships and the works for the types of shows that I was watching things like you know Downton Abbey or that was the first one that I ended up writing in and I did a lot of thing I didn't want for Upstairs Downstairs I did sort of a lot of British dramas in the beginning because it it seems to me is such a obvious historical space for creating FF relationships in those in the 19th century sort of world that these BBC shows were creating you had a lot of women in spaces where you could develop you could create FF relationships where the women had could carve out enough independence for themselves that you didn't have to sort of reimagine a whole different history a whole different space for them and one of the things that I think one of the reasons that FF historicals either fall into the gender crossing stuff that we talked about earlier where in order to have you know this relationship be successful you have to have someone who's playing the role of a man either economically or somehow in order to make their relationship viable in the late 19th early 20th century spaces I was playing with you start having enough women who are becoming economically independent yes we mean women Jesmond they set up housekeeping together for but I wasn't seeing people do that I think a lot of times as a reflection of the dearth of women in mainstream media you writers and end up defaulting to writing mmm in a fanfiction because there are so many more main characters who are men yeah I only add that I recall one person saying and now I'm wondering if it was you but I think was somebody else saying one of the problems they ran into in writing FF fanfiction was finding properties where there were two female characters in the show that were interesting enough that you could imagine them having a story together and and I think that even for ordinary historical settings there's this this great I don't use the word ignorance but this absence of an awareness of women's lives the people can then imagine female relationships into we just we don't know what women in general were capable of and were experiencing and and it makes it so much harder to then imagine two people of that category coming together and having independent life together because we can't even imagine one woman having an independent life in history I I say we but obviously I am NOT one of these people but I find interesting that the name Xena has not come up in this discussion of ffmpeg because my experience in talking to people is that a lot of Les Vic readers came to the genre through Xena fanfiction and certainly that a lot of a vast percentage of ffs historicals have some sort of genesis in Xena fanfiction there's the entire genre of uber fiction which is less take Xena and Gabrielle and put them in some other history context and then have them fall in love again because of course they are fated soulmates which of course has its own issues but you know as I understand it both strokes books basically grew out of filing serial numbers off of Xena fan fiction and packaging it as Lesnick and and I actually I hope to have a guest on my show at some point who has very much been immersed in that stream going into the less Vic River to talk more about it but you know that I think that lesbian historicals FF historicals have been shaped in people's understanding of the field by the quantity of works that have had their origins as Xena fanfic I know that I into one early review of my own daughter of mystery that basically said well it's a very nice story but she really hasn't gotten Xena and Gabrielle down right it's like but but as if as if that was the only way that you could imagine a historical lesbian story so is it simply a fanfiction that you have never intersected with or is there some reason why yeah so I haven't that's I I am aware that it's out there I never I'm 38 and didn't watch a lot of pop cultural product as a child sort of through into the 90s so I didn't I read a lot but I didn't watch shows we didn't have cable television and so I didn't watch I missed the x-files fandom for example and I missed the Xena fandom and both of those are hugely instrumental and so the development of fan fiction but by the time I came to networked communities of fan creators that that was not those were not very active communities buffy is another space that I that I am aware of but didn't spend a whole lot of time in so I think so it's a generational thing as it were yeah I think so like my my wife was involved in networked fan spaces earlier than I was and had sort of lived through the Buffy era the end of the Xena era to the Buffy era and I think that you're also with fan fiction today it's becoming a little bit more stable because we have spaces like archive of our own but you have whole generations of fan works either pre-internet where you're gonna have to go to do research in zine libraries to get to some of that stuff or it was digital spaces like live journal or Geocities that died or content was killed and so it's very ephemeral in that way and the conversations that happened in those spaces are necessarily accessible to people who weren't in them at the time didn't you know subscribe to the right east net hmm networks and things like that so yeah there's another entire conversation to be had around the way that the dynamics of online spaces have shaped to the communities and shaped the cultural movements and I find it utterly fascinating and at that point anna and i realized that we had far more to talk about that we could manage in a single show so we took a break and will continue the conversation next week you can find links to the authors publications websites and other topics that we mentioned in the show notes as well as links to anna social media come back next show for the rest of our conversation I hope you've enjoyed this episode of the lesbian historic motif podcast if you want to follow up on anything we've covered see the show notes for links and to contact me with questions book announcements or topic suggestions if you enjoyed this podcast please read it and subscribe on itunes stitcher or pod bean and consider supporting our patreon and if you're on facebook 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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Joe \Joe\, n. See Johannes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"coffee," by 1941, perhaps late 1930s, of unknown origin. Meaning "generic fellow, man" is from 1846, from the pet-form of Joseph (q.v.). Used in a wide range of invented names meaning "typical male example of," for example Joe college "typical college man" (1932); Joe Blow "average fellow" is U.S. military slang, first recorded 1941. "Dictionary of American Slang" lists, among other examples, Joe Average, Beige, Lunch Bucket, Public, Sad, Schmoe, Six-pack, Yale, Zilch\n
Etymology 1 n. (context informal English) A male; a guy; a fellow. Etymology 2
n. (context chiefly US informal English) coffee.
Joe may refer to:
Joseph Lewis Thomas (born July 5, 1973), better known by his stage name, Joe, is an American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer.
Joe is a 1970 drama film distributed by Cannon Films and starring Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick and Susan Sarandon in her film debut. The film was directed by John G. Avildsen.
(sometimes translated from Japanese as "pure cloth") is a garment worn in Japan by people attending religious ceremonies and activities, including Buddhist and Shinto related occasions. The jōe is essentially a white kariginu, traditional hunting robes worn by nobles during the Heian period.
Not only Shinto and Buddhist priests can be found wearing Jōe at rituals, but laymen as well, for example when participating in pilgrimage such as the Shikoku Pilgrimage. The garment is usually white or yellow and is made of linen or silk depending on its kind and use.
The Shinto priest who wears the jōe is attired in a peaked cap called tate-eboshi, an outer tunic called the jōe proper, an outer robe called jōe no sodegukuri no o, an undergarment called hitoe, ballooning trousers called sashinuki or nubakama, and a girdle called jōe no ate-obi. He can carry a ceremonial wand called haraegushi or another called shaku, as in the photo.
Joe was a popular magazine published in Kenya in the 1970s, at the height of what acclaimed publisher Henry Chakava described as the "fat years" of Kenyan publishing. Joe magazine was one in a number of popular publications aimed at the new urban middle and lower-middle classes. What set Joe magazine apart was its subversive use of humour, as well as its use of art and fiction as a narrative frame for cultural, social and political analysis. This strategy was seminal not only in educating and activating its readers but also in providing a platform for new fiction writers and artists to develop their talents.
Founded by writer/publisher Hillary Ng'weno and artist Terry Hirst, Joe magazine published regularly between 1973 and 1979. The magazine was named after "Joe", a common man who used humour to deal with and expose the realities of urban life in contemporary Africa. This epitomized Joe magazine's aim; readers were encouraged to do the same, and enter into a dialogue with the character, and thus the magazine. Hirst described Joe as "a survivor who has to laugh to keep from crying."
Taking its cue from Drum, Joe magazine employed street-wise language in comic strips, fiction stories and thematic columns to explore everyday problems of the urban population. Its letters column, "Dear Joe", like Drum's "Speak up Man", encouraged interaction from readers. The magazine also carried an original short story in every issue, nurturing writers such as Sam Kahiga and Meja Mwangi, and even Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who occasionally contributed to the magazine. Joe's main distinguishing factor was its use of graphics, drawings, illustrated jokes and comic strips, such as "City Life" by Edward Gitau, "O.K, Sue! A City-Girl's View" by Kimani Gathingiri and Terry Hirst's "Daddy Wasiwasi & Co" and "The Good, the Bed and the Ugali", all of which created a lasting impression on Kenya's visual culture.
Ng'weno left Joe magazine in 1974 and in 1979 Hirst renamed the magazine Joe Homestead, increasing the number of comic strips and adding a new section on family, nutrition and health - perhaps to take Joe magazine from its original urban setting to a more rural one. However, the new title did not attract advertisers and the magazine shut down in August 1979.
Joe is a 1924 Australian silent film comedy directed by Beaumont Smith based on the stories of Henry Lawson about the character Joe Wilson.
It is believed to be a lost film.
Joe is a 2013 drama film directed by David Gordon Green and starring Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan and Ronnie Gene Blevins. It is an adaptation of Larry Brown's 1991 novel of the same name and premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival, with a subsequent screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
Joe is a single by British Alternative rock and psychedelic rock band Inspiral Carpets. It was released in 1989.
Written in 1985, it was first recorded on New Year's Eve 1987 as part of the demo album Dung 4, which was released in May 1989. The original version was written by Clint Boon and sung by Stephen Holt, but when Tom Hingley joined the band in 1988, it was modified. The modified version, issued on the "Joe" 12" in 1989 became the standard, and it was still played even after Holt rejoined the band.
Joe is a 1966 British children's TV series written by Alison Prince broadcast as part of the Watch With Mother slot. It was produced by Q3 London.
Books based on the series included Joe and the Nursery School and Joe Moves House, written with Joan Hickson.
Joe is a masculine given name, usually a short form ( hypocorism) of Joseph.
It may refer to:
- Joe Amato (disambiguation)
- Joe Becker (disambiguation)
- Joe Biden (born 1942), Vice President of the United States and former senator
- Joe Borowski (baseball) (born 1971), American sports broadcaster and former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Joe Borowski (politician) (1933–1996), Canadian politician
- Joe Brown (disambiguation)
- Joe Coleman (disambiguation)
- Joe Connor (disambiguation)
- Joe Costello (politician) (born 1945), Irish Labour Party politician
- Joe Courtney (basketball) (born 1969), American former basketball player
- Joe Courtney (politician) (born 1953), American politician
- Joe DeRita, American and actor born Joseph Wardell (1909-1993), the second Curly of the Three Stooges
- Joe Egan (musician) (born 1946), Scottish musician
- Joe Egan (Paralympian) (born 1953), Australian Paralympian
- Joe Egan (rugby league) (1919–2012), English rugby league footballer and coach
- Joe Esposito (disambiguation)
- Joe Harris (disambiguation)
- Joe Johnson (disambiguation)
- Joe Jones (disambiguation)
- Joe Kelly (disambiguation)
- Joe Louis (disambiguation)
- Joe Lydon (boxer) (1878–1937), American Olympic welterweight boxer and soccer player
- Joe Lydon (rugby) (born 1963), English rugby league footballer and rugby union coach
- Joe Lynch (actor) (1925–2001), Irish film actor
- Joe Lynch (boxer) (1898–1965), American world bantamweight champion
- Joe Lynch (director), American film and music video director
- Joe Martin (disambiguation)
- Joe O'Donnell (disambiguation)
- Joe Perry (American football) (1927–2011), American National Football League and All-America Football Conference player
- Joe Perry (musician) (born 1950), stag name of American musician Anthony Joseph Pereira, lead guitarist of Aerosmith
- Joe Perry (snooker player) (born 1974), English snooker player
- Joe Quinn (disambiguation)
- Joe Riley (disambiguation)
- Joe Sakic (born 1969), Canadian former National Hockey League player, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Joe Sayers (cricketer) (born 1983), English cricketer
- Joe Thomas (disambiguation)
- Joe Williams (disambiguation)
- Joe the Plumber, American conservative activist and commentator Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (born 1973), gained national attention during the 2008 U.S. presidential election
- Joe Bruin, the official mascot of the University of California, Los Angeles
- Joe Bush (ghost), American ghost
- Joe Lynch (Home and Away), fictional character on the Australian soap opera Home and Away
- Joe Shmoe, a fictional name like John Doe
Category:English-language masculine given names
Usage examples of "joe".
Once the two-hundred-foot abseiling rope was on the ground, Joe and Fat Boy would start to ease themselves out of the heli so that their feet were on the deck and their bodies were at forty-five degrees to the ground.
Providence, evidently, was on the side of Joe Aldehyde and working overtime.
A year of freedom just for helping Joe Aldehyde to get his hands on Pala.
And even if Joe Aldehyde did get his concession, they could still go on making love in the style to which they were accustomed.
Neither Joe Aldehyde nor the Rani had told him of this most recent rebuff.
Joe was the smart one, the one who could calculate algebraic equations in his head, the one who would go on to a brilliant career in finance, just like his father.
Just as they had delivered Joe and Bill back the same day after weeks on Algor and Bakor?
The operation of a few controls could put them in touch with Algor immediately, Joe reflected.
Still forgetful of his new alpaca overcoat, the commissioner strode from the grill room by the usual door, expecting Cardona to follow, which Joe did, with a grin.
On the one hand, we can turn Joe down and stay, mebbe help Amicus rebuild.
If the arbitrator decides that Joe is innocent, Tannahelp agrees to pay Joe and Dawn Defense an indemnity to make up for their time and trouble.
CHAPTER ONE BIG JOE, the tiger cat, poised for another playful spring at the tangle of cod line Asey Mayo was patiently unwinding in the woodshed of his Cape Cod home, abruptly changed his mind in mid - air.
But Joe continued to crouch by the door and snarl, and suddenly Asey heard the unmistakable sounds of the dining - room entry floor boards creaking.
Joe relaxed and focused his yellow eyes questioningly on Asey, who shrugged.
Sonora Joe, who was one of the selected chiefs of our auriferous republic.


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Isa 58:12 "Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; ... And you will be called the repairer of the breach, ...
Is the great falling away upon us?
Could it be the theology of misinterpreting the Bible to say the "law" (Torah of Moses) has been done away with? "I'm under grace now so I don't have to keep the Ten Commandments." Does this sound familiar in our modern christian society?
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Are we open minded?
I find it very interesting that we here and now know very little about calendar history. First off -----which calendar is it that matters to us? Which calendar tells us the story of the past? Which calendar do we 'hang our hat on' for true reference of events?
Deu 11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
Deu 11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day:
Deu 11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Joh_14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Joh_14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Joh_15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Mal 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Mat 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Mat 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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Monday, December 03, 2018
Man With Cash Mompha Shames Actress Charity Nnaji By Calling Her Online Beggar..
70 comments:
But nice at allReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 12:42
They are both fake ass wackyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 12:48
Her asking him to bless her inthat manner has absolutely nothing to do with what she terms HUMANITARIAN...Delete
She clearly saw wads of foreign currency and thought her pretty face will ensnare this man who would then contact her and they would reach an agreement of friend or possibly a relationship with benefits.
Babe unfortunately, you got beaten to your own game. He clearly isn't that type of man.
Her terming him STINGY clearly shows that she was expecting him to fall for her and start something with her in other to part with his money. He runs a Bureau de change business not a brothel girllllll!!!!
imagine her entitled mentality Go and work for your own money and stop stylishly begging rich men upandan. Bless you ko...Expose you ni!
12:48...please take any drink of your choice. Bill is on me.Delete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 14:31
@Sky...You mean it??? i should take any drink?:):) i will just choose a very very expensive one oooo LOL is that okay?Delete
thanks jare
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 15:00
But these people are known for begging so it's not a surprise because you see how they beg here without shame. They will beg you behind and curse you behind and in front. Ungrateful nasty pieces of work the lot of them. No shame, no humility.Delete
Well. "Please Im in need of cash" and "bless me Sir" re two different ways of asking. One is Low the other to an extent is dignified.ReplyDelete
The man is a scum for sharing it. She didn't beg directly but its still laughableReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:03
Humanitarian 😂😂😂😂😂.Delete
She be thief.
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:40
Dont mind her... shes a fool.Delete
Person de on in own, you go beg for money, he said No, you call am stingy goat
Na them sabiReplyDelete
Very apt for these sorts who bad mouth you in public but secretly lick ass for favours.ReplyDelete
By the way.... I really dont know who she is...Replies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:10
She said bless me not support my cause or NGO so she was obviously begging for personal reasons.Delete
Dude ignored and she should have just stayed on her lane instead of calling him stingy goat, afterall it is his money. I think he purposely brought it online to ridicule her but I don't think that was necessary.
Mopha is a shameless man. Someone like him will be begging God to bless his business. Stupid man.ReplyDelete
What is wrong in bless me
Illiterate manReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 12:48
E be like say na petrol ⛽ full your head. Women and their stupid sence of entitlement. She asked for money, mompha didn't respond, then is to call him a stupid goat, for what?. Please now few will take that affront, lying low.Delete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 12:50
Everything when you think your looks will get him to part with his money and possibly you offering some services. The next thing she will say she worked hard and built a house like her sister ChikaDelete
Nothing wrong in 'bless me sir' *Even though me I cant, sha).Delete
But them calling him stingy goat is uncalled for. Why insult him because he doesnt want to share HIS MONEY??
Anyhoo, them plenty for SDK 🙄
She deserves this kind of embarrassment because she is an arrogant beggar. She has no right to call him stingy. Beggars are meant to be humble.ReplyDelete
Why share this online? Did she offend him? Even if she did, it still isn't right. Na them sabi abeg.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:01
Why did she call him a stingy goat?Delete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:41
Cynthia abi you sef de beg online?Delete
Is this one plea??😉 Such a silly rude beggar.😏 I dont blame d man for shaming her in this manner at all cos she deserves it. See her trying to blame it on humanitarian purpose.. Who force her?? MscheeeeeewReplyDelete
Why did she call him a Stingy goat? She help am work the money? Serves her right abeg💯👍ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 12:52
Lol it's not that serious, it's like seeing someone post a new car and you say ah Bless me... I don't know who she is but she should use this as publicity and blowReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:13
If it's not that serious why would she insult the person? If not for that insult the guy would not have posted thier chatsDelete
So why call him a stingy goat?Delete
Na wah oh!!ReplyDelete
This is very wrong. Mopha behaviour is like that of a toddler. Someone needs to reset his brain.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:12
Teejay, so it is right for her to call him stingy goat?? ADelete
Anon point of correction I am not Teejay. Cutest Pat is a different person entirely OK.Delete
You don't need to clarify that to the foolish anon. They will get tired after a while. That is how they rollDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 17:42
Yoriyori, you have started ? After you will be calling God and your bishop!!! Stay on your lane oh, you have been warned.Delete
Yori Yori. Abeg leave them. Make dey no carry your matter for head.Delete
Anon 14:42 chai I am cutest pat, Teejay, sky, sexy daddy, and the latest one ossai. OYA detect another one o. Jobless people.
- Anonymous4 December 2018 at 11:28
You automatically became blind to where he was abused for nothing. Is it a force to give every beggar? Na so una take dey spread una as!ewo reach people husbandDelete
Another dumb person called Pat.
You are defending your fellow beggar.
Colleagues in the begging industry. smh
Why did he share it. He should have ignored her since he knows he won't help her .ReplyDelete
But e be like she cone proud put after the call out.Replies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:01
It is better he shared it after she called him stingy goat .... to avoid stories that touch..if not she would have eventually made up a story about the man all because he refused to give her his hard earned moneyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:13
Why wouldn't he share it when the beggar insulted him?Delete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 12:55
Mompha has inadvertently made her popular now. There was no need to disgrace her. On the other hand madam stop sliding into people's DMs to beg.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:15
He did well, you don't go sliding on someone's dm to insult them just because they couldn't bless you.Delete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:42
Popular beggerDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 14:53
Na real popular begger, n you go beg an you still insult the personDelete
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
The guy went too low. She was even subtle about it by saying "bless me" and might even be joking but bringing what was done privately to the public shows his level of stupidity.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 14:09
@Minnie Rexpect what was done privately ke? There we go, they are not friends, they don't know each other and the man is very married. He is not chatting privately with her.Delete
The man publicly showed himself with foreign currency, she privately went to beg. he said no and she insulted him, he then publicly showed her to the world.
Next time she wont slide into a married man's DM to beg for money upandan. If it was for her humanitarian cause then she would have been clear cut when asking
This is not private at all, it became public when she called him a stingy goat. She got served.Delete
Why did she call him a stingy goat? If he doesn't respond to your plea, then restReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 13:31
Since her name is charity, she need some charity work in her lifeReplyDelete
She shouldn't have abused him and mompha did wrong by publicly disgracing her.ReplyDelete
Everyone is guilty of this,in one way or the other we'v beggedReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 14:38
Speak for yourself. Awon beggarsDelete
Stupid anon,You think everything is about money, there are so many other things one can ask/beg for.Delete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 20:18
God forbid. You and who is everyone? Instead of you to ask God to bless and elevate you from a beggarly life, you're proudly shouting we are all guilty upandan. Biko those of us who are too blessed to beg exist, don't get it twisted. ✌Delete
Tacky Tacky. Cringing ever since I saw this, I'm so embarrassed for both of them. The girl should have just shut her mouth, this response is malnourished.ReplyDelete
- Miss G3 December 2018 at 14:08
Hahaha she think say na E-money wen dey dash celebrities moneyReplyDelete
Sh e should not worryReplyDelete
Churchill will see d post and bless herReplies
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 14:15
Beggers and bad mouthReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 14:23
This one na beggar with prideReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 14:25
Who knows how many celebs she has begged for money in the name of "bless me". - Mr M was not falling for that.ReplyDelete
Ashawo kobo kobo wanted to stylishly make the man her big god but he embarrassed her. The man's wife must be the real small girl with a big God.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 14:32
Desperation does tend to lead to irrational behaviour. I do not know why she begged him anything, I do not know why she insulted him, I do not know why he chose to share it publicly since the begging and insult were private, he certainly could have insulted her back in private. What I do know for sure is that in her moment of weakness she chose to place herself in position to be humiliated. Nobody is obligated to do anything for anyone else, the rich is not obligated to look out for the poor and the comfortable is not obligated to look out for the suffering. Morals and values are relative and when we see ppl with their things and if we choose to ask them for anything it is their perfect right to ignore us or say NO, and no matter the desperation of your situation move on in dignity.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 15:05
SHE IS VERY RUDE AND SHE DESERVES WHAT CAME HER WAY...SIMPLE.ReplyDelete
good for herReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 December 2018 at 20:47
If you don't want your child to beg do not name them, Charity.ReplyDelete
That guy is always loud ... He went extreme ..Perhaps that money doesn't belong to him..ReplyDelete
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Hiring activities improved marginally in September, even as employers continued to remain cautious amid global economic uncertainty, according to two reports released today.
Hiring activities improved marginally in September, even as employers continued to remain cautious amid global economic uncertainty, according to two reports released today.
As per Naukri.com and Monster.com employment indices -- a monthly gauge of online job demand -- there was a marginal rise in hiring activities in September.
However, job portal Naukri.com said that some sectors like "ITeS and banking have started witnessing a dip in the index". On an annual basis, both the Naukri Job Speak Index and Monster Employment Index witnessed double-digit growth last month, compared to September, 2010.
"Corporate India is likely to see a deceleration in hiring activity in the coming months as both employers and employees adopt a 'wait and watch' approach amid a global economic slowdown and volatile markets," Info Edge CEO and MD Hitesh Oberoi said in a statement.
Naukri.com is a part of the Info Edge group.
Monster.com Managing Director (India/Middle East/South East Asia) Sanjay Modi said in a separate statement that its index saw a positive trend last month "as opportunities continue to exhibit double-digit annual growth"
In terms of sectors, Naukri.com pointed out that the telecom, insurance and BPO sectors witnessed a slump in monthly hiring activities. "The index for telecom and BPO sectors dipped by 9%, respectively, in September when compared to August, while hiring activity in the insurance sector saw a 11% dip during the same period," it added.
On the other hand, Monster.com data showed that the banking/financial services and insurance segments recorded strong annual growth and edged up month-on-month. Modi noted that sectors like banking, as well as related
occupations such as finance and accounts, saw a notable uptick in hiring activity, despite the uncertain global economic environment.