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5 Awesome Years at Coinbase
By: Graham Jenson
Tags: Programming, Jobs, New Zealand, DevOps, Coinbase

In 2015, I got an email from a recruiter:

I may have responded because of the personal nature of the email (mentioning my GER project), but TBH I have no idea why I responded. I emailed back that I was more into DevOps work which they also had positions for. So we set up some online interviews.

I didn’t really need this job so I was super relaxed during the interviews, mostly I just had a good time solving interesting problems. One question was to implement the Mandelbrot set which I did in Ruby, and another was some data munging problem I did in Javascript. In one interview Brian Armstrong dropped by to ask a few questions, including if I was a Coinbase user. After saying “no” he sent me $15 of Bitcoin (he used to do that with everyone).

I think because I had fun and demonstrated some skill with multiple languages they decided to fly me (and my wife) to SF for a week long interview called a work-trial.

At the work-trial I was given a project to setup a third-party code-coverage tool for Ruby. That quickly got derailed when I realized the tool wouldn’t scale to Coinbase’s large codebase, so I started looking around for other problems to solve. I found a way to speed up some test times, worked with an engineer on a visualization, and also tried to help out (i.e. flailed around) during a few DDOS incidents.

Hanging out in a cool SF office with a ton of talented engineers building high stakes applications was exhilarating. There is nothing like being in a room full of experts working hard to solve an immediate problem. I think my willingness to jump in, help and to find useful things to do when stuck is why I got an offer at the end of the week.
The Tinder Date Who Was Strangled and Stuffed Into a Suitcase
By: Anita Durairaj
Tags: Crime, United Kingdom, New Zealand, True Crime, Dating

The Tinder Date Who Was Strangled and Stuffed Into a Suitcase

Photo of Grace Millane (Image Source: The Sun)

In 2018, Grace Millane was a 21-year-old British woman who had just graduated and was on a gap year trip. She had been looking forward to her trip to New Zealand for months.

As part of her adventure, she decided to travel solo as a backpacker and her plan was to stay in hostels in the area. First, she travelled to Peru and then as Christmas approached, she landed in New Zealand.

She had only been in New Zealand for 2 weeks but she was looking to have some fun and celebrate her upcoming 22nd birthday. She set up a Tinder date with 28-year-old Jesse Kempson.

On Saturday, December 1, she was scheduled to meet up with Kempson so she set off from the Base Backpackers hostel where she was staying in Auckland to meet up with him. As the date with Kempson was proceeding, she even messaged a friend to say,

“I click with him so well.”

A few hours later, they headed to his hotel room and during sex, Kempson murdered Millane.
Back to the future
By: Benn Crawford
Tags: Covid 19, New Zealand, Future, Investment

Protesters and picket signs rallying outside medical institutions and civic buildings.

Demands for normalcy to resume.

Back to work.

Back to buying stuff, whatever and whenever we want.

Back to being anywhere at any time we please.

Back to self-determination and personal discretion.

This is the correct answer, isn’t it?

This is what getting back to creating our futures looks like, right?

What would it take to convince people that we can expect more for our lives than moving from one slightly better job to another? Or a bigger house; a more expensive car; a better holiday; another partner.

We may not get another chance to restart our economy and our day-to-day lives the way we can post our COVID-19 lockdown.

When we think about where recovery money and effort go, what if we expected things not only to resume but to be better? A lot better.

In New Zealand, we have temporarily housed 1000 rough sleeper during the lockdown. 1000 is a relatively tiny number. We can solve this if we want. How about we make that housing permanent and help every homeless person to have a roof over their head?

We’re going give media a lifeline and ensure our journalist can keep connecting us to our communities and the world. How about we require that news publication are genuinely independent — foundations not enterprises, freed from corporate agendas and focused on bringing politicians and leaders to account, and lifting the deeds of everyday people.

What if our construction projects deliver the housing we need and we build infrastructure that makes the cost of power trivial, high-speed internet as accessible as municipal water, and transports options numerous and all carbon neutral?

How about we change the way our academic institutions are funded? Instead of focusing on how many students they have, or how well they can appeal to international candidates, what if they concentrate on how many STEM graduates, PHDs in literature and social sciences, and Masters in computing they produce, how diverse each class is, and how many alumni go on to create jobs for others?

What if instead of getting back to normal, we got back to creating the kind of future that makes things better not only for everyone else but for ourselves. That’s ultimately what those protests are about — making things better for ourselves than they are today.

What about we lift our eyes from our feet, and look further into the horizon.
Medical Studies Abroad — MBBS in New Zealand
By: Ample Websol
Tags: New Zealand

New Zealand, a lovely island is known for entrancing condition, scene, social legacy, bio-assorted variety, and cricket! Aside from these, over a couple of years, New Zealand has additionally ascended as a solid nation with premium nature of instruction. Like the UK, US, Canada, and Australia, New Zealand has turned out to be one of the investigation abroad goals favored by worldwide understudies. Being a nation with rich biodiversity numerous understudies want to consider advanced education in New Zealand which offer adaptable fields of study. In the end, understudies who like to think about medicinal projects abroad likewise depend on New Zealand.

Comprehensively, instruction establishments in New Zealand can be characterized into five sorts.

Colleges of New Zealand, MBBS college in New Zealand goes under this classification

School of instruction

Polytechnic universities

Expert schools for exceptional degrees

Preparing foundations for professional training

But the fifth classification of foundation, the initial four classifications of establishments is possessed and controlled by New Zealand Government.

MBBS colleges and schools in New Zealand are completely directed by the Government. Other than these universities are enrolled under the statement called the New Zealand Qualification Authority which guarantees following the high caliber of training, structure, and different terms and conditions.

Nature of instructing is past perfection. Understudies increase colossal advantages from savvy study hall preparing, singular consideration and hands-on down to earth working background.

All establishments and restorative universities are universally perceived and understudies with the degree are contracted by worldwide managers.

New Zealand is a glad and youthful nation with plentiful assets. Understudies can get a strong learning climate and get an extraordinary vocation.

Nature of instructing is past perfection. Understudies increase tremendous advantages from savvy study hall preparing, singular consideration, and hands-on useful working background.

All foundations and therapeutic schools are universally perceived and understudies with the degree are enlisted by worldwide businesses.

New Zealand is an upbeat and youthful nation with copious assets. Understudies can get a steady learning climate and get an incredible vocation.
Floating cities, autonomous delivery vehicles and a car with legs!
By: Jenny Morel
Tags: New York, Self Driving Cars, New Zealand, Technology, Future Tech

The Future of Everything Festival. Count me in! The opportunity to hear about new technologies and where they’re going and to mix with other people who are interested in this. The Festival is put together by the uber-connected WSJ, and it’s held in Tribeca, New York. Sounded like a great way to spend a few days.

The big surprise was that “everything” includes more than technologies. Well, of course it does, just that I wasn’t thinking that way. There was architecture, cities, fashion, politics, food, energy, consumer goods, sustainability — and technology in pretty much all of them!

My favourite: the car with legs from Hyundai. It’s a concept car rather than a real car at this stage. If you slip off the road, it can get you back up. If you need to go up the steps to collect a wheelchair passenger, it can lift itself up to the door:

And I loved the Nuro autonomous delivery vehicle, which is delivering groceries in Phoenix and Houston:

Even better, turns out that Dave Ferguson — the co-founder who presented — is a kiwi! And he’s coming to MORGO Bay of Islands in August.

Then there was The Lab, with lots of fun stuff to play with. Molecular whiskey anyone? I made my own mix by adding drops of smoky, fruity, oaky flavours. This is Glyph from San Francisco company Endless West. Why spend all that time ageing your whiskey when you can just add the right molecules?

And Segway’s new Drift e-skates, which let each leg go in a different direction — just like starting to ice skate!

And the Magic Leap VR experience and a clever make up dispenser that optically reads your skin before applying just the right minute amount of make up to cover blemishes, and future foods and …

And perhaps after all that, the highlight was the field trip to Brooklyn Navy Yards where we visited New Lab and the Steiner Studios and saw the site on the top of the hill where the old Naval Hospital building lies abandoned.

New Lab is an incubator for mostly hardware projects — growing leather from fungi, a radical new electric motorbike, and a portal that we could enter and talk to people in Gaza City, and lots more. The CEO said that they are very unusual in being mainly a hardware incubator. So I had to tell him about Level Two in Auckland, which has produced Rocketlab and Lanzatech with more exciting companies on the way. Imche from Level Two is going to visit them next week!

Then on to Steiner Studios 50 acres of studios, with 10 acres more in development and another 20 acres up the hill in the wonderfully overgrown grounds of the old Naval Hospital. And it is SO close to Manhattan:
New Zealand Horse Racing: Free Pick at Wanganui for June 18
By: Twinspires.Com, Racing, Sports
Tags: New Zealand, Free Picks, Betting, Horse Racing, Betting Tips

Horse racing starting gate (Photo by Keeneland/Coady Photography)

NEW ZEALAND PREVIEW JUNE 18

It took Charred a long time to get going as a racehorse, but he looks primed for another big effort in the Wanganui Function Centre Highweight at Wanganui on Thursday (NZ time).

Royal Ascot Betting Picks for 2021

In his first 38 races Charred won just once while recording 10 other finishes in the top three, and looked set to be nothing bar a journeyman. But the five-year-old has shown serious improvement in his last three starts, especially since being paired with highweight jockey James Seivwright.

The pair were too strong in a maiden highweight at Tauranga on April 21, and after finishing third in the hands of Chris Dell at New Plymouth, Seivwright was back aboard to win a Rating 65 contest at Pukekohe over 2200m (about 1 3/8 miles) on May 21.

Charred moves up to Rating 74 company for this week’s race at Wanganui but in a race featuring a number of horses that are best over fences he looks set to be a big chance.

One of those jumpers who does possess some ability without obstacles is Bak Da Master. His two most recent runs were over hurdles, in which he was victorious once and runner-up in the second, and he may have won the latter but for botching the previous hurdle. Prior to those efforts he finished second in a flat race and he has the ability to feature.

Perhaps the most interesting runner is Verry Flash, a full brother to multiple grade one winner and A$8.6 million-earner Verry Elleegant. Verry Flash doesn’t have his sister’s ability but he has won seven times and was last seen out taking on group three company in the Rotorua Cup (2200m), finishing near the tail of the field.

Verry Flash has since been transferred to the highly-skilled trainer Kevin Myers with a jumping career in mind, but he is stepping down in class here and it would pay to watch the market to see what sort of chance he might have.

Nitro Ted, Jackaroo, and Red Rufus look the best of the others.

Royal Ascot Information

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The Wild South
By: Mary Jane Walker
Tags: South Island, Surfing, New Zealand, Wilderness, Beach

At Riverton, also known known by its traditional Māori name of Ararimu, the first place to stop off at, apart from some local café, is at Te Hikoi Southern Journey Museum and Information Centre, at Riverton/Aparima.

While you are there, you can pick up a brochure on the Riverton/Aparima South Coast Heritage Trail, which gives a really comprehensive list of local points of interest in this region, including some that I don’t mention.

Without going into all the details of the heritage trail, the next place to go after Riverton/Aparima, heading west, is More’s Scenic Reserve. This has some lookouts, and a coastal hiking trail to Colac Bay starts from there as well.

Colac and Ōraka both mean the same thing. Ōraka means ‘of Raka’. Raka was a leader of local Māori in days past. Settlers who heard the Māori name in the grammatical form ko-Ōraka wrote it down as Colac and gave that name to the locality.

There is a good webpage on Colac Bay, here. The bay is popular with surfers, and you can even have your photo taken next to a statue of a surfer!
All living creatures need sleep.
By: Health Fitness
Tags: Baby, Baby Sleep Training, Baby Sleep, Baby Boomers

All living creatures need sleep. Sleeping gives people and all living creatures the time for the body to recuperate and regenerate. Lion’s needs 16 to 18 hours of sleep, while primates, ten to twelve hours of sleep. Humans need on average six to eight hours sleep to rejuvenate. Human babies need a full eight hours of sleep and naps in between.

The body uses sleep as a way to regenerate cells and refresh the brain and overall aids in the development of our body, mind, and health. During our sleep, the human body can regenerate hair follicles, fingernails, toenails and even the outer covering of the skin. This happens because of the automatic pilot that is built into our bodies. People tend to think that the body only needs to recharge spent energy on the day’s work but in truth the body works the regeneration cycle much faster when the brain does not control much action.

Babies therefore need their sleeping time to develop muscles, limbs, and skeletal structure. In order to achieve a good night’s sleep for your baby, it is important that your baby have comfortable and inviting bedding. The secret to a good bed is one that feels just right. Beds that are to big may make your little one feel insecure. Your baby’s bed should be cozy and offer security for them to get a good night sleep. Selecting the proper bedding should also be a concern. The bedding should be easy to touch and feel cozy. Bedding that is to stiff or even to fluffy decreases your baby’s comfort level and therefore reduces his/her sleep time. We would want our babies to enjoy their beds and consider it a place of security.

Try to make your baby’s sleeping experience a pleasant one. Bedding should be inviting to the eye. There are so many wonderful patterns and fabrics on the market today that choosing the right bedding should not be to difficult. Remember that your baby needs enough rest to stimulate his/her growth and development and when this is achieved, your baby can reach his full potential.
BABY SLEEP TRAINING 2021..
By: Indraj Verma
Tags: Baby Sleep Training, Baby Care, Children Care, Baby Sleep Routine

A baby’s first year of life is filled with a great number of milestones.

Sleeping through the night on a regular basis may be one that parents look forward to the most.It can take some time for parents to adjust to a new baby’s sleep routine and learn how to help ensure their baby is getting a healthy amount of sleep. It’s natural to have questions about what is considered normal sleeping habits and what changes might occur over the first 12 months of your child’s life.

So, if you are one of those new mommies who are tired of their sleepless nights or your newborn sleep during the day and do not let you sleep at night, and you are desperately looking for help to set your baby’s sleep routines?

If you want to train your baby for some consistent sleep patterns and want to help him with his sleep problems, then we are here to help you with the best kind of product that you are looking for your newborn, which is Baby Sleep Miracle. It is an all-in-one solution to your baby’s sleep difficulties.

What is the Baby Sleep Miracle …

Baby Sleep Miracle is a comprehensive online training program to teach parents effective and natural sleep techniques and train them for bedtime routines of their babies. The program brings a complete sleeping guide for sleep-deprived parents that how they can make their babies sleep at night naturally.

The author of this online training program is Mary-Ann Schuler, a well-known child psychologist and a mother of two children. She keenly studied and observed the different behaviors of children in different environments that what makes them cry, restless, and sleep at odd timings of the day?

What Parents Say About the Program?

My 2-month-old daughter Eva was up every hour and it practically became my new full-time job. Baby Sleep Miracle helped me learn how to deal with her. After reading the book, I finally understood why she’s crying, what is the best way to calm her down and get a good sleep for everyone!

Alexia G.

It’s just amazing how it helped me and my baby finally get the sleep we needed. I got so many good ideas for how to calm a crying infant, what are some of the best ways of getting them back down when they wake up in the middle of the night.

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How to put your baby to sleep earlier
By: Sudha Gurusamy
Tags: Baby Care, Baby Sleep Training, Baby Products, Baby Sleep Routine

three tips to put kids to sleep

Putting babies to beddy-bye can be a big botheration for moms. There is additionally accouchement who break up all night afflictive the mother. Putting them to beddy-bye will be abundant afore the parent’s abatement asleep. Even more difficult for working moms. Struggling with the kids all night and abrogation them to beddy-bye and alive up afore the parent’s abatement asleep.

Therefore, parents anticipate that it is abundant to put their accouchement to sleep. But accouchement charges to accept whether they are accepting advantageous sleep. That is, it is the parents’ albatross to brainwash an advantageous beddy-bye arrangement in their aboriginal 4 months.

When the time comes for the baby to fall asleep, you must first proceed to make the baby feel it. Doctors say parents often follow three methods to put their children to sleep. That is to say, they follow these methods of bathing the children and putting them to sleep, feeding them, and putting them to sleep by singing. And some parents put their accouchement to beddy-bye by massaging and arena acceptable bendable music. Find out which of these helps your babyish abatement asleep. Follow it and put

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Baby Sleep Secret
By: Reeya C
Tags: Baby Sleep Consultant, Baby Sleep Music, Baby Sleep Routine, Baby Sleep Training, Baby Sleeping

By doing this 1 weird trick, you can really get your baby to sleep in less than one minute.

This really works: This is the number one most important discovery for parents in over 25 years!

Not only that, but it works free of harmful chemicals, gimmicks or gizmos that cost a lot but do little…

The fact is, research from the Stanford Sleep lab shows that this simple 27-second trick added to your parenting routine allows your child to sleep through the night.

It activates the pineal gland flushing your little one’s body with melatonin, the save yet utterly effective sleep hormone. You will discover exactly how at the link below:

Click this link → 27-second trick INSTANTLY puts babies to rest and helps them sleep through the night.

Did you know that 91% percent of young mothers trust one person more than anyone else? …and it’s not your husband, your parents, or your friends?

No, I’m talking about your pediatrician. Most moms trust them because of what they do…

Or what they’re supposed to do:

Help your babies grow up healthy and happy. But what if your pediatrician is abusing your trust? The truth is, he often does. Especially when it comes to your baby’s sleep. And it’s not even his fault.

It’s just that there are so much misinformation and economic interests which can cloud one’s judgment. And obscure a real, long-term solution.

Fortunately for you, an experienced team of child psychologists and doctors has made a remarkable breakthrough to achieve peaceful and uninterrupted sleep for any baby.

A powerful yet forgotten method whose incredible properties have been hidden on purpose and buried deep in medical archives. And why?

Because it’s so easy to do yet so effective it would’ve basically toppled the entire industry.

Now it’s here
Things You Should Learn From A Newborn care specialist
By: Mynewborn Carecoach
Tags: Newborn Care Specialist, Newborn Specialists, Baby Sleep Training, Baby Nurse

About to get blessed with an infant? The diving feeling has no replica in the entire world. Though everyone in this world has children but the tenure from conceiving to the first few years are the most delicate years for a child’s life and for parents too. During the early years, children need to be pampered, especially when they are fussy, for this, you can try warmth, motion, and closeness to calm them down. Reaching out to Newborn care specialist helps in understanding the process in depth.

Newborn care specialist

Learn it all from the Basics

New parents are not aware of all such tactics as infants are too delicate to handle and hence parents fear trying anything new on them. This is right to a great extent but they grow trying new things helps in identifying their latest skills, fears, and qualities, like if you leave your kid near a pool, he may try to play with water and after a certain period may start swimming.

Life with a Newborn Is Not Easy but Fantastic

Babies undergo a lot from a rambling stir at nights due to sleep deprivation to inability to express their requirements and hence it’s up to the parents to comprehend the untold. Though this could be troubling but his\her first move, first smile, first eye contact can change everything for the parents.

Learn Child Care Tricks To Make It Simple

Learning potential tricks for childcare is important, as you can’t try medication on children at such an early age. There are certain tricks that work better than medication. Tricks like an elbow-to-knee trick to eliminate gas works like a miracle for babies.

Tips Can Be Of Use

Tips like patting the little ones for sleep, handling the neck of the baby or keeping them awake during breastfeeding should be known to every mother.

Newborn specialists

Things are learned by time and so the childcare, nurse your child’s way, contact Newborn specialists to know behavioral and physical changes in child and to tackle the milestone carefully.
Baby Sleep Training
By: Jim Dixen
Tags: Baby Boomers, Baby Sleep Training, Baby Products, Baby, Baby Sleep

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Does your baby need to be rocked to sleep by you — or wake up in the middle of the night demanding a breast, bottle or cuddle before drifting back to sleep? If your little one is at least 4 months old, it may be time to start sleep training.

By that age, babies can — and should — be able to fall asleep or fall back to sleep on their own by self-soothing.

If you’re dreading sleep training (also called sleep teaching), know that it’s often accomplished faster than many parents imagine, and it doesn’t necessarily even have to involve lots of tears. Here’s how and when to start sleep training your baby to help everyone get a good night’s sleep.

What is sleep training?

Sleep training is teaching your baby to fall asleep without help from you. That means baby is put down for bed fully awake, and she drifts off without being rocked, swayed, cuddled, nursed or shushed.

Sleep training also teaches baby how to fall back to sleep when she inevitably does wake up overnight (since night waking is a normal part of the sleep cycle, even for adults).

What sleep training isn’t

First, sleep training and night weaning do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. You can still feed your baby once or even twice during the night, depending on age and stage. Talk to your pediatrician about when it’s appropriate to fully drop your baby’s nighttime feeds.

That’s one of many ways that sleep training is not as harsh as it sounds. It doesn’t necessarily involve shutting the nursery door and letting baby cry all night. In fact, you can adjust the amount of crying you let your baby do to your comfort level before you offer a soothing song or a comforting rub on the back.

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Sleep Training For Baby: Myths And Real Facts All Parents Need to Know
By: Holistic Childcare Solutions
Tags: Sleep Training Baby Uk, Baby, Sleep Training Baby, Sleep Training

Sleep training for children has always remained a topic of debate among all parents. When some parents find it harmless for their little ones, some others find cruelty in the “cry-out” methods. And different misconceptions about sleep training propagate such baseless debates.

In the upcoming part of this article, we will discuss some myths about baby sleep training in the UK and beyond. Hopefully, after going through them, you will get the required knowledge about this training. Continue reading.

Myths About Sleep Training For Your Baby

Myth 1- Only Parents Get Benefitted From Sleep Training

Sleep training offers better sleep for tired parents indeed. But it does not mean only they enjoy its benefits. Waking up many times at night could leave an adverse impact on the children’s health.

It causes exhaustion, and disturbed sleep never goes well for them. Sleep training teaches them self-soothing that helps them to avoid night crying.

Myth 2: Sleep Training Comes With Long-Term Adverse Effects

Many parents hesitate to go for such training, considering the adverse health impacts. But the fact is no scientific study has found any adverse effect of this training. In fact, studies prove that sleep training benefits your children’s physical and mental health by offering many short-time developments.

Myth 3- In Involves Crying Out Process Necessarily

Cry-out is the fact from where the debates regarding sleep-training emerge. But thankfully, all this training doesn’t involve this process at all. If you are one of those parents who find it frustrating, you may opt for such a session. The two most popular examples of these techniques include routine awakening and fading.

Anyway, to find a suitable sleep training session for your kid, make sure to get detailed information on different sessions carefully.

And before you book an appointment with your trainer research different companies offering this service carefully. Amid several options, you may keep your trust in this trusted baby sleep trainer.

Contact This Trainer For The Satisfactory Sleep Consultation

Deal with Holistic Childcare Solutions and get baby sleep training in the UK. It does not matter what the sleeping problem is, trainers over there always remain committed to giving the best solutions. Go Through its website carefully and get an idea about its services. To gather more relevant information about this reputed sleep training provider, visit its site holisticchildcaresolutions.com now.
Quick Tips to Get Your Baby To Sleep!
Tags: Baby Sleep Routine, Baby Sleep Training, Baby, Baby Care, Baby Sleep

Quick Tips to Get Your Baby To Sleep!

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Sleep deprivation is one of the challenges of having a baby. Parents can find that they have to survive on less sleep when they have a new born infant. Every parent is waiting for the glorious day when their baby sleeps right through the night. Parents normal sleeping patterns are often disrupted by babies who nap through the day and then cry at night. They need to apply strategies in order to cope with babies and sleeping habits.

It is recommended that a parent should try to sleep when the baby is napping. You should unplug the phone, put a do not disturb sign on the door and snooze along with your baby. A warm bath can help to make your baby sleepy at nighttime. You should schedule your infants bath time just before put your baby down to sleep. Bedtime should to be about the same time every night because babies and sleeping routines are important.

A baby can wake up and cry for no apparent reason. There are times when you can be baffled with your babys crying. Babies may be crying because they are teething or have colic. If you have exhausted all the possibilities, they may be satisfied with a hug. You have to acknowledge the unfortunate fact that babies and sleeping don’t always go together.

Teething and illnesses make the problem worse. You should have something to rub on to sore gums when your babys teeth start to push through. Colic can also interrupt babies and sleeping soundly so you should also have medicines for this illness as well. If you are a despairing parent with a wakeful child, just remember that it won’t always be like this. After the first six months babies and sleeping habit will become more regular.

Babies need a comfortable and quiet environment to sleep. A lullaby or a mobile above the cot may calm babies if they are anxious. In factFree Articles, some parents have found that placing baby next to a tumble drier soothes them into sleep! Some parents take their babies out for a car ride in order to solve the babies and sleeping problem. Their baby falls asleep in the car and is then carried gingerly to bed. There are some babies that are unable to fall asleep in their cot. Their parents have to wait for them to nod off wherever they happen to be and than carry them to bed.
Nou, hallo Amsterdam!
By: Henry Daubrez
Tags: Design, Agency, Digital, News, Dogstudio

Technically, in 2021, Dogstudio will turn 15.

A long enough period to look behind and hopefully evolve and grow from past mistakes. Now, in my opinion, the biggest mistake of them has been waiting 11 years to try ourselves on new challenges in new countries.

You know, when you build your company in a city of roughly 100.000 people and a country the size of the state of Maryland, you don’t exactly set the bar high or your expectations to be one day collaborating with Fortune 500 firms, culture-defining organizations, world-leading festivals, and the largest tech firms…

But then again, here we go:

Last year, during the absolute reign of It-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named ( *cough* Corona *cough* ), a few things happened:

On one side, we experienced an exciting and rather challenging increase in demands, leading to new visible, and also less visible collaborations with Microsoft, Tomorrowland, Tomorrowland (again), Ford, TIME inc, Rappi, and Amazon-owned ZOOX to name but a few. And as the cherry on the cake, we managed to even close 2020 (against all odds) with our best results to date in terms of visibility, growth, and revenues.

On the other side, the absolute fragility of the situation pushed us to seriously re-consider our very own future from different angles.

As we recall it, there’s a single moment which lead us to open our office in the US: losing a pitch for a notorious New York magazine because “the other guys were just around the corner”.

That sucked.

Moreover, quite recently, we noticed that as much as we loved our little town in Belgium where everything started, we took a moment to reflect and only noticed an ocean of missed opportunities for not putting ourselves out there before. Don’t get me wrong, we loved being the underdog (see what I did there?) for a while, but this era has come to a close. So we decided to take our business about 262 km up north to world-renown Amsterdam to let us join in on its party.

We never lied about our intentions, Dogstudio always has been about friendships, human connections, and encounters, and our only regret since we opened both our Chicago and Mexico offices actually were for waiting too long and missing on meeting amazing people in front of a coffee or a beer. Some of them even joined us in our adventure either as clients, as teammates, and for some, as both ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

Today, we’re excited to announce Dogstudio will be opening its Amsterdam location as of the 1st of February.

We consider ourselves lucky to be able to once again step out of our comfort zone and embrace what may come. So more than ever, if you’re around, we’d once again love to meet new friends and go for a beer, bitterballen, or both, because who knows how long we might end up sticking together?

See you in Amsterdam.

262 km from where it originally started.

Give or take.
George Aye I’ve always admired Greater Good and now I know why.
By: Emily O. Weltman
Tags: Patriarchy, Agency, Entrepreneurship, Creative, Sexism

George Aye I’ve always admired Greater Good and now I know why. You built something out of never wanting to work for toxic white supremacy creatives and agencies that pretend to do good while really being exactly as you described, ripped from a Mad Men script. It’s literally why I started my company (still in its infancy). I’ve said that sentence often.

Everything you’ve described I can attest to at other agencies who would have idolized and/or partnered with IDEO. In 2018 as a Sr Producer at another agency who did experiential design and tech, our agency was hired to basically manage a project. I had always wanted to work there as IDEO is held up as this elite amazing creative place. I should have known elite meant toxic. Anyway I dodged a bullet because I heard what a $#&! Show it was…and the description of their process was like an alarm. Not that the agency that I was at was much better. I worked at big names in brand, apparel, and advertising. All were the same from 12 person studio to a 800 person agency. White men got away with everything and they were the end all be all.

I ultimately quit in 2019 when I’d been working on building my biz on the side, when a white bro dressed up in feminist clothing screamed at me on the phone that I had one job to do and why couldn’t I just do it (his job that he didn’t feel like doing). He embarrassed me and belittled me in front of our team and then exploded. I was mortified and shocked and it took 4 days before his feigned apology that was forced upon him by the bros in charge. It was one of only a string of incidents and psychological games that org played with me while I worked 80 hour weeks. Dangling a FT job for over 9 months and reprimanding me for not being friendly (not smiling basically) when I was operating on no sleep because I had worked 4 days straight in a hotel room.

Another time I went to an install where the male tech director told me he didn’t think I should manage it (my job) because the teamsters wouldn’t listen to a woman. The Union guys in Boston were less sexist or at least less subtle about it and showed me more respect than the Carnegie-Mellon-educated engineer. After the final straw I quit and vowed never again to work for creative agencies that weren’t really doing the work. Now when I work with toxic people I have a 1 and done policy and a much higher vetting process. This was one of my better jobs in the creative world.

Creative agencies on the whole are broken because they’ve been built up like the rest of corporate America, to value white men’s ideas and output over all else. I applaud you for boldly calling them out as it is hard to stand up to these institutions and gatekeepers who hold our careers and reps in the balance. But the more we do it the better. Thank you for your words, your work, and pushing for a better future of work. 🙏🏻💙
AgenceMe is Now Bruno
By: Barthélémy Chalvet
Tags: Brun, Agency, Agenceme

AgenceMe Story: Back in 2014

If you don’t know us yet, AgenceMe is a brand and digital agency based in Paris and California. We have worked with big companies like Uber, Sanofi, Allianz, Roche, Orange, Sendinblue, Qonto, Engie… over the past 7 years in branding, marketing and web development.

But we have to tell you… we’re not a simple branding and digital agency like many others… I know, all branding and digital agencies say the same thing ;) but this time, it’s real. We are more than that… we are a family, literally.

I created this agency, 7 years ago, with Marine, my lovely wife, and Léonard, my blood, my brother. We were three during 2 years in a tiny office in Normandie. I designed, Marine took care of projects and business and Léonard developed. It was a funny period because no one went to a design and development school. We learned everything by ourselves and actually this is the best thing to do. Passion, motivation and curiosity are keys for us.

Our goal: Create a business that matters in the industry.

We started with basic skills, we met awesome people across the world, helped out some big companies and spoke with smart entrepreneurs. It’s been an incredible journey! 7 years later we can say we achieved our goal. AgenceMe is not the biggest agency in the world or even in France but in some way we feel that we’ve made an impact in our industry. We were the first agency on Dribbble France, we’ve grown to more than 100k followers across social networks, we’ve won awwwards and plenty of news talk about our work…. It’s just the beginning and Bruno will help us to do much more.
Conjure Spotlight: Ameera
By: Ameera Macarthur
Tags: Agency, Conjure, Spotlight

This month we’ve put the spotlight on Ameera — our EA who joined the team last year shortly after graduating from university.

What is your name and role at Conjure?

My name is Ameera and I’m the Executive Assistant to the three partners at Conjure.

Where are you from and how long have you been at Conjure?

I always struggle with telling people where I’m from, I was born in London but moved to Somerset at secondary school age. I moved back to London as soon as I finished school but then moved to Liverpool for university. I like to claim I’m from London, but it is debatable! I have been at Conjure now for about 5 months.

Before Conjure, what was the most unusual job you’ve ever had?

When I was a kid I had a job as a hand/arm model for a Nickelodeon advert. I had to have a fake cast put on which I was asked to doodle on, in production my doodles were turned into animated characters. That is probably the most unusual job I’ve ever had, although I’m not sure I even consider it a job, I never saw any money for it!

What tools do you use at Conjure on a daily basis?

On a daily basis, I use G-Suite products and Chrome, I also use a range of other tools such as Agile our CRM system, Mailchimp and a social media scheduler called Later.

What is the best thing about working at Conjure?

Conjure has a good atmosphere, everyone is friendly and approachable. I also think having some flexibility with working hours is a nice touch. I’m given the ability to manage my own tasks and time.

What advice would you give to someone new working at Conjure?

I would just say that everyone is really nice, so be honest and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

What’s your favourite ice-cream flavour?

I’m much more into sorbet than I am ice cream, I love any fruit flavoured sorbet. But if you’re talking ice cream only then Ben and Jerry’s Peanut Butter Cup flavour is top tier.

If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?

I’d love to learn to play an instrument and be a great musician, but I’m absolutely tone-deaf! I would love to learn to sing too. I did try to learn an array of instruments as a kid, but It didn’t go very well.

Where is your favourite place to eat in London?

This is really difficult, I love food and eating out. I don’t think I can decide on a definitive favourite, but at the moment I’m really obsessed with a Pasta restaurant called Padella. It’s really close to the Conjure office by Borough Market and does the best fresh pasta, their burrata is also to die for! Well worth the wait.

If you had to move out of England next week where would you go?

My first instinct is to say Jamaica, the beaches are so amazing and I love Caribbean food. But more realistically a city a bit closer to home, I really like Barcelona and I could also see myself living in Copenhagen.
The best travel Agency in Assam
By: Nature Hunt
Tags: Agency, Naturehunttours, Travel, Northeast, Assam

Assam, one of the states of Northeast India which is also known as the Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters includes the seven states and Sikkim. Northeast India is one of the favorite destinations of tourists. The state is one of the least explored regions in the country. Assam is a land of wild forests, mighty rivers, a large area of tea plantation. The Assam is famous for the large producing tea center in the world.

Assam shares its borders with Bhutan, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram, Assam is a perfect destination for the nature lover, adventure enthusiasts, wildlife photographer. The one who loves adventure, Assam will not let you down because it has got the trekking, river-rafting, motorbiking, paragliding and many more. You can also take your trip to the water bodies of Assam and visit Majuli Island which is the largest river island in the world and also visit Umananda Island which is at the center of the river Brahmaputra.

The Assamese people are very much devotees to God and it has a sacred land with ideal locations for the people seeking spirituality. Kamakhya Mandir is one of the renowned temples of Assam. From all over the world people visit this temple. Other holy sites of the Assam is Guru Tegh Bahadur Sahib and Christian Church.

The travelers who are interested to explore the beauty, culture, and tradition of Assam and are planning to visit Northeast, we nature hunt is there to help you out.

Nature Hunt a tour operator agency established in 2009, with headquarter in Guwahati, is helping tourists to explore the natural beauty of Assam and other northeast states. Its been an eleven years nature hunt is doing excellence in making the tour of the travelers in an easy and smooth way. Nature Hunt has got its own properties ( guest house) for the guest who is tired and wants to relax in a silent place.

The properties of Nature Hunt are Nature Hunt Eco Camp Kaziranga and Lake View Homestay.

The Nature Hunt Eco Camp is located close to Kohora, the central range of Kaziranga National Park. The guest house is styled in the Assamese culture which is made up of a mix of bamboo, mud and hay structures and it has its own small tea garden. You will fall in love while seeing all these natural beauties and your trip will be memorable for a lifelong.

Lake View Homestay Chandubi which is away from the hustles and bustles of the Guwahati city, this amazing place will make you astonished. The homestay is situated in a tribal village of the Rabha tribe of Assam and in the bank of Chandubi Lake.

Nature Hunt also prepares travel itineraries for guests, understanding their likes and requirement.

If you want to explore Assam’s Wildlife Safari (wildlife tour) then don’t forget to inquire in our website for the best tour packages.

HEAD OFFICE : 1st Floor, House №96, Near Excel Centre, Borthakur Mill Road, Ulubari Guwahati-781007 | India

+91 99575 77417, +91 94355 15011,

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CD01: Everyone should wear the briefs
By: Mark Ellerington
Tags: Design, Advertising, Branding, Agency, Creative

I think we’re doing it all wrong, you know.

Briefing, I mean.

I see so many times (and in many different agencies too) the pain and anguish in someone’s face when its their task to try and commit to paper all of the information, data, insight and inspiration that makes up a briefing document. Doesn’t matter who’s actually crafting the masterpiece — a strategist, account manager, project manager or even the client themselves — it’s a difficult job even if there is a ‘handy one-page template’ nearby.

But the thing is, it shouldn’t really be a document at all. It should be a conversation.

Ok, yes… I admit… and I agree that everything does need to be written down somewhere for reference at least. But maybe it’s time we all think of the brief as a set of notes from a conversation or minutes, if you like.

As soon as there is a sniff of a new challenge, get a team together. Someone from a commercial point of view, someone from strategic, a creative, a specialist, or anyone kinda-relevant to what needs to be done. Even if they’re not quite right for the job at hand, they’ll have a perspective and a point of view from their expertise — and that is precious. Get them in a room, designate a note-taker and just chat. Throw things around and the discussion that follows turns into absolute gold dust.

The fundamentals like timings and budget get covered and protected. The challenges and pitfalls get thrown around. Perspectives argued and clarified way before anyone has gone into the actual doing of the work. The big opportunity becomes the main topic. ‘What if’s’ start to reveal themselves, and more importantly, the initial ‘output’ becomes talked about as an ‘outcome’.

Collaboration begins early, the team have input, and brief-writing becomes a shared responsibility.

Try it, see if this brief fits.