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Just start your goals
By: Samra Younas
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

Smart Goal layout brings structure and accountability to your goals and objectives. Setting SMART goal is one of the most effective tool for achieving goals.

I started by changing my first personal goal from “improve my English” to “ I will improve my English by speaking at least 10 sentences and by reading two articles on daily basis. I want to achieve it within 3 months.

Almost everyone has a goal of opening a business or getting that dream job. Nowadays It is very important to be a good English communicator achieving professional goals because every sector either be a public or private demand that their employees have good command in English.

I will focus grammar, Vocabulary and pronunciation. So, first week I revise and practice tenses. Also I read articles of my fellows. I have to manage time to follow my SAMAT goal. I avoid some other activities that was not so much important.

Before smart goals I had only known what I want to do in life, but I did not know about how to achieve them. Now I have a direction where I have to go. I am just following it. IN SHA ALLAH I will reach to my destination.
Fixing Stuff Around Myself
By: Muhammad Adain Siddiqui
Tags: Leadership, Fixed, Responsibility, Blog, Amal Academy

This blog is about the stuff that I fixed today in a room where I usually study and take online classes.

The room that I was in to fix my stuff was the Drawing Room of my house. We usually keep covers on the sofas and I mostly sit on the floor to do my work because it is indeed a very silent room.

Drawing Room of my house

The things that I think needs to be fixed are the prayer mats and writing pads/copies lying on the floor.

Stuff that needs to be fixed

This stuff is usually on the floor when I’m using it, but when the work is over all these things should be put back into its own righteous place.

I picked up all the stuff that was lying on the floor mainly and put that on a table in the corner.

All the things fixed on a corner table

Now, the room looks quite clean and proper.

Fixed my Drawing Room

I am really great and self-satisfied after doing this activity and it provided me with a sense of responsibility. I would have done it on my own if Amal Project didn’t have asked me for it but I wouldn’t have done it in the same time because I usually take time and start doing other stuff before fixing the previous one.

This activity really helped me understand the concept of Leadership that one does not have to be at the authority to do basic tasks instead it requires self-responsibility and dedication towards your own work. A person can be his/her own leader daily by ordering around himself/herself to do the right work at the right place.
Fixing stuff around yourself
By: Ayesha Haque
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

Change comes from within.

Before working on changing the world a person should evaluate themselves to see what they lack for bringing that change. What could be the niche that could people to support and stand with you and once, that’s taken care of there is nothing stopping you from reaching that pinnacle.

For achieving what I desire I need to work on courses and assignments and many and a proper job and for that, I need to improve my productivity.

For improving one’s productivity and focus they need to start with an ordered and organized environment. And that’s what I did. Picture 2shows my surroundings before I cleared my surroundings and picture 1 shows after I worked for myself.
Fixing Stuff Around Your Self
By: Mahnoor Naveed
Tags: Self Improvement, Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship, Activity, Cleaning

Here I am with my blog for fixing stuff around me.

Being a coding enthusiast I am spending my most of the hours in front of my laptop screen and by doing lots of stuff I just don’t pay attention to the mess created on my desktop, many of the file/folders are not needed any more, some of them need to be in respective folders in a file directory.

So I decided to clean this mess, I have to delete extra files and folders, move some of them on their folders and rearrange them. After doing this My mind is super peaceful and it is so satisfying.

Before

After

When my desktop was messy, I couldn’t pay attention to the important ones also I was under pressure. It is super amazing, Thanks to Amal ❤
#JustStart Your Goal
By: Sukhra Khurram
Tags: Amal Academy, Amal Fellowship

#JustStart Your Goal

If we have a goal and a plan, and we are willing to take risks and mistakes and work as team, we can choose to do the hard thing

-Scott Kelly

Goals big or small are the stepping stones towards happier life and the way we set them makes difference in achieving them. Everyone have a goal in their life that they want to achieve. How much time you take to achieve the goal make it a short term or a long term goal. Without goals and purpose of life, we can never enjoy life.

Amal Academy taught us new and interesting type of goals that are SMART goals. By applying the S.M.A.R.T we can minimize the risk of leaving it incomplete and the following principle will help us to achieve the goal:

1. Smart

2. Measurable

3. Achievable/Attainable

4. Relatable

5. Time-bound

GOAL: I want to improve my English vocabulary so that I can have good storage of words by the end of March 2021 to use in my speaking skills. I will do this by reading English book for 2 hours everyday and newspaper and articles as well.

Challenges: Time management is my greatest challenge. And

I searched for and asked many people for good collection of books.

Tasks

I bought some good books

I read blogs and articles

Manage my time of at least 2 hours a day to read a book

Experience: My experience was wonderful as I felt my surroundings to be so friendly while reading book instead of wasting my time on games and mobile screen.

Book I started

Learning and next steps: I learned that if we take small steps by planning our goals, and stick to our goals, we can achieve it no matter how big our goal is. I will complete this task and I will practice my speaking skills with my friends as well.
Fixing stuff around you
By: Azeem Iqbal
Tags: Amal Academy

I am enrolled in Amal Academy course and this is my project work to explain an experiment with you about fixing stuff around me.

I passed introcan intravenous canula in the dog today to give give some medication for relieving the pain. I was having left over canula and needles with me about this procedure as you can see in this photo.

I dig up a pit to dispose them off. I went outside, found a suitable spot away from the population and buried the syringes in it. The following pictures are the final outcome of my task.
#JustStart_Your_Goals
By: Aarij Aziz
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Islam, Startup, Amal Academy, Goals

Hey Fellas I just started working on my goal.

This goal once completed will help me with my Long-Term-Goal (IN SHA ALLAH).

This is a complete step by step process.

In the first week when I started the weekly tasks and completed it, I felt pretty great and I have already started working for the second task.

In past I had some issues with time management, It was on my to-do list for quite a bit now. But I got an understanding now on how to start working on my goals.

I learned that you just have to make some time to get things in an order and via a proper approach you can start working on your Goals right away.

Next step is to complete the tasks weekly and check my progress and also help other people to get their life in order. Because without Goals life is meaningless.

Thanks See Yaa.
Building A Better Community, Together
By: Marcus Franke
Tags: Short Story, Notes, Publication, Travel, Community

We have published more than 50 exceptional stories on the World Traveler’s Blog since the 1st. December 2020 and not a single one has been deleted or removed from the blog ever since.

The stories accepted and uploaded are here to stay and earn money every day! Every story earned its spot!

Cody and I are incredibly proud of our travel community and acknowledge the commitment and energy that went into creating those astonishing stories.

Cody James Howell PhD (Raiden) and Marcus
Hi, Aaron
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, The Masterpiece, Publication

Hi, Aaron

We’ve added you as a writer.

Please follow the guidelines while submitting your best unpublished-drafts.

Thank You, and Welcome to The Masterpiece.

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Join our FB group:

www.facebook.com/groups/themasterpiecewriters

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We will share your masterpieces on:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MasterpiecePub

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/themasterpiecewriters

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-masterpiece
Thank you, Joanna. Take care and have a great day.
By: Erin Singh
Tags: Publication, Welcome, Poets On Medium, Poetry, Submission

I just added you, welcome to the publication. Happy Holidays to you as well!

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I want to be part of Writers’ Blokke. @youdecode
Tags: Publication, Writers Blokke, Writer, Medium, Readers

I want to be part of Writers’ Blokke. @youdecode
I would love to be added as a writer to your publication.
By: Karen Downton
Tags: Travel Writing, Travel, Publication

I would love to be added as a writer to your publication. I’ve travelled overseas and domestically within Australia so I’ve got many stories to tell and share experiences.
Hi, Tatiana
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Publication

Hi, Tatiana

We’ve added you as a writer.

Please follow the guidelines while submitting your best unpublished-drafts.

Thank You and Welcome to The Masterpiece.
Hi, Sam
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Publication

Hi, Sam

We’ve added you as a writer.

Please follow the guidelines while submitting your best unpublished-drafts.

Thank You and Welcome to The Masterpiece.
Virtual exchange in the Asia-Pacific: research and practice
By: Sylvie Thouësny
Tags: Research, Publication, Virtual Exchange, Open Access, Education

Edited by Eric Hagley and Yi’an Wang

Virtual Exchange (VE) is of great import to language and culture teachers and researchers but is also gaining popularity in other fields. However, around the world and in the Asia-Pacific region in particular, the number of exchanges is not high and the quality of those that exist needs to continue to improve. It is essential that the latest research and best practice can be disseminated to ensure VE develops further. In this edited volume, various researchers and practitioners provide firsthand perspectives, well-researched accounts of current situations, ideas for future exchanges, and areas in need of further development. We hope it will be of use to the VE practitioner and researcher alike.

Permalink:

https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.47.9782490057788

Book publication date: 21 December 2020

#openaccess #peerreviewed #research #publication #virtualExchange #foreignLanguage #education
About
By: Lubov L
Tags: For Writers, Publication, Medium Publications, Writing Community, Publishing Platforms

About

Source: Writer’s Studio Logo

Writer’s Studio was created for the writers who want to learn more about the Art of Storytelling and exchange their experiences.

Here you can find the answers for your questions about publishing process, learn more about writing techniques, and find useful tools to boost your inspiration!

If you are a writer on Medium, feel free to submit your articles to Writer’s Studio.

Here you can learn more about our submission guidelines.
Hi, Nicole
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Publication

Hi, Nicole

We’ve added you as a writer.

Please follow the guidelines while submitting your best unpublished-drafts.

Thank You and Welcome to The Masterpiece.
How to Submit Your Writing to a Medium Publication
By: Stephen Matlock
Tags: Writing, Rejection, Publication, Happyfuntime, Guidelines

So great, right? You create content, submit it to a publication, and then as sure as the sun rises in the east, your piece is “published” and you start getting those sweet, sweet clicks.

Not so fast.

Publications can be great tools for distributing your works, but publications, as I said earlier, are aggregates of content with similar themes. Readers can get a landing page on Medium that is a default publication; what makes a Medium publication different is that it is a creation of a person or a team that looks for common information or views or voices. That is, there are people behind a publication, and for them to build out a coherent publication, there are generally some type of requirements for submission, even if it’s as simple as “don’t send us stuff about how X made you a millionaire overnight — we already are well on our way with that.”

When you want to see your piece distributed by a publication, you submit it. but before you do, consider that publications don’t accept just everything. Usually there are submission guidelines or rules or requirements — the language might change, but the people who manage the publication are going to perform some kind of review before they consider publishing your work.

So, it’s a good idea to read the publishing requirements, first. Then, if your work meets those requirements, the people behind the publication can decide to publish it.

Then it’s gravy time as the reader-clicks increase and the cash piles up.

Some typical requirements might include the following:

No pieces on religious beliefs — or only pieces on religious or sectarian beliefs.

No abusive language — or let the fur fly.

No submissions that contradict the publication’s purpose — a publication devoted to elder care, for example, might not want a piece on the travails of pregnancy, or a travel site might not want a submission on the Joys of Summer Reading at Home.

You can imagine your own set of other requirements. This is enough to understand what publications are looking for.
Write With The Linux For Everyone Community
By: Jason Evangelho
Tags: Publication, Writers Life, Linux, Open Source, Community

The Linux For Everyone “Helping Hands” Community logo

Sometimes the only thing better than that thrill of discovery is sharing that discovery with others. If you’re passionate about Linux or open source software and have something important, fun, or educational to say, share it with us. Then we’ll share it with the world.

Stuck on exactly what to write about? Each month we’ll have themes to get those ideas flowing, beginning in January 2021 with “Installing Linux.”

Here’s how to join the Linux For Everyone community and submit your words:
Write For Us
By: Shounak Das
Tags: Programming, Publication, Coding, Guidelines, Rethink Programming

Write For Us

Photo by Sergey Zolkin on Unsplash

We are always looking for great content to help programmers learn and improve in what they are doing everyday, and we hope you are here for the same. Before you start writing for ReThink Programming, please go through this post and follow the guidelines.

Topics

You can write articles on anything related to programming, like:

Tutorials on how to code something interesting, in any programming language.

Advice for programmers for coding and career or job related aspects.

Articles on working of code behind the scenes, for example, rendering of CSS, how JavaScript works, etc.

Style Guide

Please read the above style guide before moving on.

Your Medium account should have your name, a bio and a picture of you.

of you. Your article must have a title and a subtitle .

and a . Please remove all personal CTAs in your post such as “sign up for my newsletter” or “follow me on Twitter.”

in your post such as “sign up for my newsletter” or “follow me on Twitter.” If you include code snippets longer than 5 lines, use GitHub gists . Paste the URL of the gist into your post and press enter.

Paste the URL of the gist into your post and press enter. Please add a nice cover image that you have the rights to use or are Creative Commons. We recommend sites like Unsplash. Please give the photographer credit. See the top of this post for an example.

or are Creative Commons. We recommend sites like Unsplash. Please give the photographer credit. See the top of this post for an example. Try to make the article read time is longer than at least three minutes. On average, 7 minute long stories have highest read ratio while 3 minute long get most views.

Submitting a Story

After your draft is ready, click on the … menu in the top right corner of the screen. Then, click on “Add to publication” from the dropdown, and select ReThink Programming. We’ll get notified and respond within 24 hours.

We’re looking forward to your submissions!👍
What Percentage of Readers Write Comments on Medium?
By: Debesh Choudhury
Tags: Engagement, Writing, Publication, Comment, Readers

Comments | Engagement

What Percentage of Readers Write Comments on Medium?

Photo by Cristian Dina from Pexels

I see many surveys on online writing. I haven’t come through any report on quantitative data on engagement, especially on comments. How much engagement do we online writers on Medium get? Do you have any idea how many comments readers write on your stories?

Do you, as a writer, value readers’ comments?

This is an important question. Why? Because the comments can give rise to new opportunities among the blogging community. A single comment can lead to new business openings.

Comments are real gold in online blogging

Don’t neglect the comments. This is what I, as a reader and blogger, always don’t neglect. In fact, I jump to write a comment whenever a post resonates with my conscience. I never miss the golden opportunity to open the commenting window.

What percentage of the readers write comments?

Do you have any metric on the engagement with the readers? Say, if I ask you, what percentage of your monthly readers wrote comments?

Many authors are happy to look at the number of “claps.” They also look at the reading time because that is directly connected to how much money your posts pull. But, I doubt how many authors bother to see how many comments are written by the readers.

I am curious to know what other bloggers at Medium think.
Write for the Pub Pub
By: Victoria A. Fraser
Tags: Writing, How To, Publication, Submission Guidelines, Publishing

Formatting

For now, I can only imagine 2 types of articles for this pub, but if you have more ideas let us know! Totally open to suggestions on how to make the pub pub the best best (not a typo, just a bad joke I can’t get enough of).

Here’s how to write for us:

Article 1: A List of Pubs

If this is confusing, then you can see examples at the end to mimic. It’s not too difficult, but it saves everyone editing time and we want to be consistent. Editors have lives too you know.

Title, Subtitle, and Kicker

Keep it to 5 pubs max

Write a blurb about the pub

Tag the editor

Include an article we might like

Article 2: Announcing a new pub

You’re making a new pub! That’s rad. Send us an announcement and we’ll publish it. There aren’t many guidelines for this other than length but here’s what we would like to know from you:

Title: “Now Announcing: Your pub’s name!”

Subtitle: Whatever suits you

Kicker: “Introduction”

What your pub is about

Who can write for you

Include a link to it

Keep it <300 words

Here’s an example:
Hi, Kayla
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Publication

Hi, Kayla

We’ve added you as a writer.

Please follow the guidelines while submitting your best unpublished-drafts.

Thank You and Welcome to The Masterpiece.
Hi, Subha
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Publication

Hi, Subha

We’ve added you as a writer.

Please follow the guidelines while submitting your best unpublished-drafts.

Thank You and Welcome to The Masterpiece.
Article Publishing
By: Crab T
Tags: Uvu, Brandon Sanderson, Publication

Podcasts are taking over, but I still love to read a good story. With time being short I’ve drifted to publications like The Athletic to get my fill of a short entertaining read.

I feel there are many people out there who feel the same as I do, so I decided to create a publication that talks about one of my favorite things, writing.

My love of writing stems from Brandon Sanderson, who is known for his Mistborn series and The Stromlight Archive. I decided to make a publication based around his work as I felt it gave me the focused direction I needed to create this project. I modeled the design after the previously mention The Athletic, a sports publication. I did this because in my time looking at other publications and talking with other users, The Athletic had the easiest to learn layout and functional use of any competitors.

As the publication is meant to update its content monthly, I didn’t want to over burden the user with information, leaving the homepage to just be two pieces and then an ad.

An issue I ran into was creating ads for the layout, as The Athletic is a paid service there are no ads in its design. A quick way I found to get around that was to make the ads fit the whole page as the user scrolled. I wanted the publication to stay true to its content so I decided to have the two ads shown here be tabletop gaming dice, and lower on the page, a lightsaber both from real companies who’s products I love.

The other issue I found was trying to separate articles from other types of pieces. I ddi this with a caption for these other pieces, and leaving articles to be their self contained preview.

Here’s an example of an article. I keep the hero image the same as the preview image on the homepage, this time though, the text has moved over the image.

The users get to know a little about more about the article such as the author, date it was written (so as to avoid spoilers if a book comes out between issues), and share features to the most notable social medias.

I decided to add a carousel of images to the article as I wanted to let users interact with the page, keep them invested into the page. This gives users more than the occasional text breakup with a simple picture, allowing some mental rest as they read.

Overall I enjoyed this project as it allowed me to explore something I never would have otherwise, with constraints I didn’t expect. My love of reading really let me get into this project, and show things off about that love with others who would like to see this design come to fruition.

I have a full prototype here, and I hope you enjoy reading these articles as much as I have.
Hi, Murad
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Publication

Hi, Murad

We’ve added you as a writer.

Please follow the guidelines while submitting your best unpublished-drafts.

Thank You and Welcome to The Masterpiece.
Loose Words Letter #37
By: Jonathan Greene
Tags: Publication, Poetry, Loose Words Letter, Poetry On Medium, Newsletter

Loose Words Letter #37

Photo by Jayden Brand on Unsplash

Welcome to the weekly newsletter from Loose Words. These letters go out every Thursday and highlight many of our published poems from the past week. We hope that these poems find you in the throes of calm, enjoying what is right in front of you.

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” — Carl Sandburg

Each week, we post a few lines from each featured poem (all friend links so anyone can read them) to give you a sneak peek into the full version, but we encourage you to click in and finish the ones that hit you. A one-minute read could change your day.
A Call for Amazing Stories: Guidelines for New Writers
By: Mia Fornes
Tags: Publication, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Business, Guidelines

Welcome to Femmepreneur!

We’re excited to have you as part of our writing team, and can’t wait to read and publish your work! To ensure the publishing process moves as smoothly and quickly as possible, please read through the following guidelines.

#1

We will do our best to review all submissions within 24 to 48 hours.

#2

Please only submit one draft to us at a time. We want to make sure that every piece gets the attention it deserves. As soon as we’ve reviewed your draft, feel welcome to submit another.

#3

We reserve the right to make changes to any draft submitted to our publication (title/subtitle changes, picture changes, etc.), and will leave you a private note on your piece should we deem any large edits necessary.

Story genre

We are looking for stories with takeaways for our readers. We want to hear about your experiences, your opinions, the lessons that these things have taught you, and the lessons that your readers can learn from reading your story.

We do not publish poetry, open letters without actionable takeaways, or stories that read as journal/diary entries.

Story topics

As our name indicates “Femmepreneur,” we’re interested in powerful stories that deal with womahood and entrepreneurship. For example:

Entrepreneurship, creativity, freelancing, startups, investing, innovation, marketing, social media

Culture today: leadership, diversity, inclusivity, climate change and sustainability.

Web dev and design: design, developing, programming, apps, software

Technology: Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, VR/AR/MR, IoT, robotics, data science, machine learning and big data.

The drafts we publish will be well-edited, and without grammar or spelling mistakes.

Titles & subtitles

Make sure your title and subtitle in your article match the display title/subtitle and are written in title case format.

If you are not sure how to do this, read this Medium help article on custom titles.

Proper tags

Please review your tags before submitting your piece.

Your story must be tagged in at least one or two of the following categories:

Entrepreneurship

Women

Startup

“Tone” consideration

Please be conscious of the tone through which your piece will be viewed by your readers. Any work that may be deemed by our editors to be victim shaming, group stereotyping, or otherwise offensive may be rejected.

Not a place for hateful work

We will not publish any hateful piece.

Finally, submit your piece to:

femmepreneurmedium@gmail.com

You’ll be added to the writing team!
Revamping, and Expansion of The Opinioc
By: The Opinioc Team
Tags: Services, Publication, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Newsletter

Unsplash: Anatoliy Babiy.

Dear Readers,

We are highly appreciative of all the support, patience, and trust that you have showered on us. It bestows us with immense pleasure to announce that out of the number of projects that we are working on — climacteric of one among them has been accomplished.

Opinioc started its journey as a Medium-partnered publication, and within a short span of time, it set the Thames on fire and became one of the top publications on Medium.

But not to confine it there, a multivariate platform was envisaged in a comprehensive, concise way — where the evolving needs and challenges posed by the new generation will be maneuvered in a succinct, client-friendly, and target-oriented manner. This was only possible because of the support from our readers who had faith in the principles guiding our publication.

As our Opinioc family grew, a need was felt to expand our reach in order to be more inclusive. To cater to those demands, we have revamped and designed a full-fledged website — https://opinioc.com for our esteemed readers, and writers. Also, a new feature — ‘NEW VOICES’ was conceptualized and added, which hopes to provide an open-ended platform giving impetus to every voice out there. The section ‘NEW VOICES’ intends to be the repository of thoughts, ideas, and graphics.

Besides, the methodology for the submission has also changed — keeping traction with the on-going technological advances and not limiting it to the old-school. The writers can either mail their piece at submissions@opinioc.com or create a Profile, and use the extensive dashboard provided to submit the same.

Apart from that, we would like to take this opportunity to share the great news with our Opinioc family that we have expanded and started Opinioc Services.

In the Services part of the Opinioc, we have collaborated with a team of highly skilled and experienced members who have to their glory — a number of projects and to fulfill the requirements of the time, we have devised this as a broad range platform where Content Writing, Digital Marketing, Web Development, and Designing needs will be addressed.

Together we started this journey and together we are growing. We do acknowledge the effort of every person in making this expedition interesting and successful. We are overwhelmed by your response, we also inform you that the Opinioc has now fully resumed its publication and services.

Warm Regards

The Opinioc Team
Be in The Know About Living A Life In Vancouver
By: Canada Unleashed
Tags: Life, Vancouver, Best Of, Publication

Getting lost at one point in your life in Vancouver may just happen without you knowing, be it with your career, with your business, with your relationship, and even more so, with yourself. So before that ever happens, you gotta meet Georgia Straight.

Trusted by over 800K unique readers/visitors, print, and website per week, and being an integral part of the active urban West Coast lifestyle, the Georgia Straight sets its unprecedented record for the credibility of updating the people with its publications, be it with the latest news, lifestyle, and entertainment weekly in Vancouver for 50 years and counting.

The Georgia Straight is your go-to community for Vancouver’s most comprehensive listings of entertainment, activities, and special events. That which, you can have them help you out with your marketing needs if you are up to letting the people in Vancouver and the world know that you and/or your business has something great to make life in Vancouver the best!

Regular weekly coverage of the Georgia Straight also includes news, tech, arts, music, fashion, travel, health, cannabis, and food. Thethe Georgia Straight also produces a series of entertaining and informative reader polls, which are included in their issues; Best of Vancouver that features educating and inspiring real-life experiences of people living life in Vancouver; and Golden Plates Award featuring the best of the best culinary discoveries that satisfy your gustatory cravings.

The Georgia Straight is not just a publication in general that updates you on what’s happening in Vancouver as you sleep, they can as well be your personal confidante that you can rely on when you are finding a career job in Vancouver, finding a new home to settle in, getting in the know about Vancouver’s economy for your business plans or updated research in finance, needs guidance to help you out in your daily life in Vancouver, excites you with contests where you can show off what you got, and what’s touching is you’ve got someone to whom you could vent out anything that weighs hard on your chest with their confession’s page.

The Georgia Straight is a sure way to advertise your promotions for your business or startup if you are an entrepreneur in Vancouver. You can contact the Georgia Straight in the information below;

Contact the Straight

2Vancouver Free Press Publishing Corp.

1635 West Broadway

Vancouver B.C. V6J 1W9

Phone 604–730–7000

Fax 604–730–7010

Distribution 604–730–7087

Subscriptions 604–730–7000 gs.info@straight.com
Write for Us
By: Violet Daniels
Tags: Reading, New Publication, Publication, Fiction, Books

Write for Us

Image created by the author using Canva

· About Us

· What Stories We Accept 📚

· Submission

· How to be Added as a Writer ✒️

· Contact Us 📧

About Us

A Thousand Lives is a publication devoted to spreading the word about books. Underpinning our ethos is the belief that a good book can change the world. And for this to happen, and for everyone to benefit from books, we, as writers and readers, must spread the word.

Whether that’s in the form of traditional book reviews, author profiles recommendations or listicles — our central aim is to provide stories where readers will benefit from reading about a book they are yet to discover.

We believe reading is an educational tool — regardless of the genre — and want to spread awareness about great books to likeminded people.
How To Prepare A Homework With Academic Publications
By: Ata Tekeli
Tags: Academia, College Education, Assignment, Publication

It can be given depending on the course instructor at colleges.

Before classes became online, I never had to use academic publications to make my homework. Until the final exam that required me to research various topics to write a two-page summary. Here, we’ll outline how to do this homework.

1-Researching academic literature

The first step would be to look for academic literature regarding the topic. And Google Scholar becomes useful when it comes to searching the literature. As you go through the literature, download the articles that could be useful to your assignment to your computer.

2-Reading and marking important points on academic literature

The second phase starts as soon as you’ve found the resources needed to make your own assignment. And the hard part begins when you started to open their pages to mark important points that could be used to complete your required homework.

3-Writing these marked points with the name of the papers to create an ordered list of phrases

After you’ve marked crucial points in various papers, you need to take notes with online note-taking applications downloaded on your computer. To make this process easier, you can copy and paste the marked points towards your online note-taking application downloaded on your computer.

4-Interpretation and finalizing the results

After you’ve taken your notes on various papers, you can start interpreting the results obtained from your research. But they have to be written in your own words or you might get into serious trouble depending on your school’s regulation on cheating and highly similar content. Even more, your professors might make it a problem if they found high similarity on your own papers.

5-Checking for potential errors before submitting

After you’ve done your own work, it might be needed to show references depending on your homework. And to make it look more professional, use Grammarly to check and fix your mistakes before submitting. After you’ve completed all the steps to do your homework, you can easily submit your assignment to places defined by the school or the professors.

How would you do homework that requires academic research? Have you ever done this kind of assignment? If you did, share your experiences in the comments section below.
Narnia
By: Voicing Freedom
Tags: Cs Lewis, Publication, Pop Culture, Cinema, Chronicles Of Narnia

BBC News Labs

You know people complained about this late 1980’s BBC rendition of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion Witch and The Wardrobe but no one can say the acting was poorly done. A far as the make up and special effects.. well it was the 80’s what can be said? That’s what was available at the time. As for the 2000’s major motion pictures apparently as time has past (as it’s been 10 years since the last and third was released) the studios have decided to reboot it altogether as the then child actors are all grown. Much of the delay and finally drop of the film series had to do with the original studios went under. I have to say the last story of the publication was a bit of a let down but that’s artistic merit and it was C.S Lewis’s writings so he could do with it what he liked. ::Shrugs::

Either way anyone wants to look at it, the series is a great allegorical film of Faith, Resisting Temptation, Discernment, what you give yourself over to, Courage, Self-Awareness, and Strength either for children or adults. You would’ve thought however in the first installment when the witch went off on Peter about the Turkish Delight he would have gotten the hint something was very wrong…not the sharpest tool in the shed… I’m just saying. lol

Isaiah 53:7

“He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.”

As Bishop TD Jakes once said more or less (if I can ever find the actual sermon I’d repost it as it was incredibly powerful for people of faith) during an Easter Sunday sermon “The demons were partying on Friday (Good Friday), they had broke out the cake and ice cream, they thought they had won until Sunday morning and the stone was rolled away.”

Powerful messaging of full restoration for those who love God, keeps his commandments, and the holy days holy.
Follow the Bread Crumbs.
By: Moni Vazquez
Tags: Short Story, Publication, Short Form, Short Fiction, Very Short Story

Follow the Bread Crumbs. I will not betray our 150 words motto and tell you all you need to know within that range. This started because I want to be a better writer, and there’s no better way to learn to say more with less. And as others were doing the same I wanted a place for all 150 words stories to live, and prosper of their own little dense life.

I wanted a home for every good writer striving for more, for different, for challenges.

This is not better, this is not ‘instead of’ this is only us. Some Bread Crumbs to follow.
Booking.com WSDM WebTour 2021 Challenge
By: Dima Goldenberg
Tags: Publication, Challenge, Data Science, Dataset

Booking.com’s mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. By investing in the technology that helps take the friction out of travel, Booking.com seamlessly connects millions of travellers with memorable experiences, a range of transport options and incredible places to stay.

Many of the travellers go on trips which include more than one destination. For instance, a user from the US could fly to Amsterdam for 5 nights, then spend 2 nights in Brussels, 3 in Paris and 1 in Amsterdam again before heading back home. In this scenario, we suggest options for extending their trip immediately they make their booking.

The goal of this challenge is to use a dataset based on millions of real anonymized accommodation reservations to come up with a strategy for making the best recommendation for their next destination in real-time.

Multi-Destinations Trip Recommender on Booking.com Website

The challenge is part of the WebTour 2021 ACM WSDM workshop on web tourism that will be held at the 14th ACM international 2021 WSDM Conference.

Top performing teams will receive prizes sponsored by Booking.com and be invited to submit short papers to the workshop about their solution approach.

For more information, the dataset, timeline and submission guidelines please visit https://www.bookingchallenge.com

Link to the challenge paper

Good luck!
I have found this is true in my experience.
By: Barbara Radisavljevic
Tags: Publications

I have found this is true in my experience. I’m fortune enough to write for two publications whose writers actively read a lot from those same publications. I like small publications which publish on topics I like to write about.

But I’ve also learned that small publications are more likely to quietly fade away. That’s what happened to one of my favorites. The editor got too busy to keep publishing. So if I want to submit to a small publication, I check it first to make sure it has recently published articles.
Editors Needed for Environmental Publication
By: Samuel Avraham
Tags: Editing, Publication, Environmental Issues, Editor, Climate Change

We Reinterpret the Mainstream Stories

Instead of seeing an economic collapse, we see the underlying ecological factors. We interview scientists, scholars and experts. We highlight local environmental destruction as well as global.

But I can’t do this alone.

Once this publication had finally begun to attract viewers and writers, I fell sick with COVID-19. I recuperated within a month, but by then my full-time job had me occupied and I’ve found it nearly impossible to juggle this publication with my other commitments.

And this is why we need more editors.

People with expertise in biology, climate change, marine sciences, conservation or sustainability. Individuals with the ability to see past our consumption-based society and who dares to dream of a green future.

A future where humanity has taken up the role as ethical stewards of this planet, instead of acting like a mindless swarm of locusts.
6 Reasons I Started A Bible Teaching Publication
By: Brad Creech
Tags: Publication, Bible, Christianity, Religion, God

I have been on Medium now for just over a week. Already, I have made the decision to start a personal publication for verse by verse Bible teaching. Sounds crazy, right? I am aware that it is probably one of the least “marketable” things on this site, but not all of us are here to make a living. Here are six reasons I decided to go ahead and take the leap into a Bible teaching publication:

1. A personal reason

I have to teach the Bible! It runs in my veins. In fact, if I’m not teaching the Bible in some way I don’t know what to do with myself. I can only conclude that this drive in me is God telling me to find every opportunity to teach His Word.

2. I see a need

There are enough “10 steps to a better you" kinds of Bible teachers circulating the internet. I see a need for careful, slow, and deep Bible study. It’s the kind of Bible study that combs every verse to pull out anything and everything of value. I believe an alarming number of Christians are missing out on the joy and wonder that comes from this deep study. So I am going to do what I can from my small corner of cyberspace to bring out the riches of God’s Word.

3. I don’t want to be selfish

If the Lord allows me to see beauty in His Word I don’t want to just keep it to myself. I want to show it to others. After all, when Isaiah had his famous encounter with the glory of God the result was God sending Isaiah out to speak His Word. Our sanctification is one reason God impacts us, but not the only reason. Another reason is that we might spread that impact to others. So here I am, trying to make an impact.

4. No verse is wasted

In the economy of the Bible there are no worthless verses. There is no filler. Every word is profitable (2 Timothy 3:16–17). Yes, even the genealogies. I want to take it slow and pull the profit out of every word I can. When we do “Read the Bible in a Year” programs we get a good overview of the biblical map, but we miss so much from the ground level. I don’t want to miss anything from Scripture. It is a treasure to be investigated deeply and carefully.

5. Organization

Simply put, I want people to be able to easily read piece by piece through a series instead of wading through my profile trying to find the next post. A publication seems to be the best way to do this in an organized way.

6. Medium needs some more Bible teaching

So far I am loving this platform, but it didn’t take me long to notice one thing about it. There are tons of stories criticizing Christianity. More Bible teaching here means more clear representation of the true Christian faith. The whole world needs that desperately right now.
Thank you, Suntonu Bhadra for choosing my words for the prompt champion!
By: James G Brennan
Tags: Writing, Publication, Poetry, Paper Poetry Editorial, Paper Poetry

Thank you, Suntonu Bhadra for choosing my words for the prompt champion! I am extremely humbled and honoured, me heart skipped a beat! Thank you to Melissa Bee and Carolyn Hastings for your inspirational prompt. Thank you Suntonu and Melissa for all your hard work in Paper Poetry, what a brilliant idea Suntonu! Thank you as always for your support and to all the writers here. Always. J. 🙏✨✨✨✨🙏
CALL for widening participation: short papers from EUROCALL 2020
By: Sylvie Thouësny
Tags: Research, Publication, Eurocall, Open Access, Education

Edited by Karen-Margrete Frederiksen, Sanne Larsen, Linda Bradley, and Sylvie Thouësny

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the EUROCALL society succeeded in holding the 28th EUROCALL conference, EUROCALL2020, on 20–21 August as an online, two-day gathering. The transition process required to make this happen was demanding and insightful for everyone involved, and, in many ways, a logical consequence of the core content and purpose of EUROCALL. Who would be better suited to transform an onsite conference into an online event than EUROCALL? CALL for widening participation was this year’s theme. We welcomed contributions from both theoretical and practical perspectives in relation to the many forms and contexts of CALL. We particularly welcomed longitudinal studies or studies that revisited earlier studies. The academic committee accepted 300 abstracts for paper presentations, symposia, workshops, and posters under this theme; 57 short papers are published in this volume. We hope you will enjoy reading this volume, the first one to reflect a one hundred percent online EUROCALL conference/Online Gathering.

Permalink:

https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.48.9782490057818

Book publication date: 14th December 2020

#openaccess #peerreviewed #research #publication #eurocall2020 #CALL #technology #languageLearning #languageAcquisition #languageTeaching
Hi, Zach
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Publication

Hi, Zach

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Thank You and Welcome to The Masterpiece.
Hi, Todi Afo
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Publication

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The River No Man Can Walk Through Twice
By: Rowen Veratome
Tags: Identity, Publication, Philosophy, Poetry On Medium, Newsletter

The River No Man Can Walk Through Twice

Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash

Hi all,

The famous pre-socratic philosopher Heraclitus portrayed the world as fundamentally and irrevocably in flux. While only fragments of his writing remain, much of it is potent enough to still resonate today. He famously said: “No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

Not all philosophers would agree! Over time, many thinkers have come up with theories of personal identity in an attempt to explain how someone can be the same person over time despite the fact that all parts of them change. As an example, someone might say that they are the same person across their life despite all of their changes because of their continuous experience.

The question of how identity can be maintained given change is usually called the persistence problem. If you’re interested, you can learn more about the problem of identity persistence at the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s page on personal identity here.

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Heraclitus

In any case, the poems I have for you this week relate deeply to the puzzle of personal identity. Joey Slaughter, who is a new writer for this publication, shared a lovely poem about the experience of going to the same place years apart finding yourself changed. You can read Trees here. I shared a related poem, The Ganges, which uses the ebbs and fluxes of a river as a metaphor for human variability.

I’m grateful for everyone who has followed Paradox Café or submitted their work. I’ll do my best to write and curate thought-provoking poems.

Keep Swimming,

Rox A.

P.S. Some people view identity preservation as a problem to be solved; they want to explain how identity preservation and change can be compatible. Others believe self-hood and identity as we imagine it is an illusion (as is expressed in Buddhist religions). Where do you stand? I’d love to hear from you.
Hi, Ibrahim
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Publication

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