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Chris Burkard is a self-taught photographer and artist, based in Central Coast California, whose work is layered by surf, outdoor, lifestyle and travel subjects. At the age of 28, Burkard has established himself as a known name in the surf and outdoor industries, accomplished a deep body of work, held staff and senior photographer positions and has been recognized continually for his distinct creative compositions.

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Lego Ideas

Update: The "Women of NASA" Lego set is now on sale.
Lego announced on Wednesday that it would release a "Women of NASA" set.

The $25 kit goes on sale November 1 - just in time for the holiday gift-giving season - and builds on a laudable trend of selling toys that are more inclusive of women.

"Women of NASA" features four mini figurines of pioneering women from the space agency: the astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, the astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, and the computer scientist Margaret Hamilton.

Each figurine will also come with a backdrop related to their work at NASA, including the space shuttle Challenger and the Hubble Space Telescope.

Maia Weinstock, a deputy editor at MIT News, submitted her idea for the kit in July 2016 to Lego's Ideas community, where members create and vote on new set plans. If Lego picks an idea from the site, submitters get a 1% cut of sales and licensing revenue.

Weinstock's submission got more than 10,000 votes, triggering an automatic review by Lego staff, which decided to manufacture and sell it. ( Lego's giant Saturn V moon rocket set, released in June, came about the same way.)

Here's a close-up look at the kit and what it includes - and one very important piece it's missing.

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Lego is selling a 'Women of NASA' set featuring 4 female scientists, engineers, and astronauts

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Update: The "Women of NASA" Lego set is now on sale. Lego announced on Wednesday that it would release a "Women of NASA" set. The $25 kit goes on sale November 1 - just in time for the holiday gift-giving season - and builds on a laudable trend of selling toys that are more inclusive of women.

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people matching artwork

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design goes into everything. it can influence perceptions of wait time.

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1. Based just on what you can recall, please respond to the following statement: "The recipes loaded quickly for me." [Strongly agree, Moderately agree, Neutral, Moderately disagree, Strongly disagree, I didn't notice]

2. From what you can remember, estimate the amount of time it took for the meals to load. [1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds, 4 seconds, 5 seconds]

We also measured the time it took users in each group to complete the red herring task. Based on some of the literature we'd read, it seemed plausible that a skeleton loader might actually speed up task completion by orienting users more quickly to the structure of the page.

Roughly half (70) of the participants were sourced through Amazon Mechanical Turk and paid for their participation. The rest were organically sourced through Viget's social channels. The results were replicated across both groups of participants.

Hypotheses:

1. Users in the skeleton screen group will perceive the shortest wait time.

2. Users in the skeleton screen group will complete the task most quickly.

Results

We gave the test to 136 people, and the skeleton screen performed the worst by all metrics. Users in the skeleton screen group took longer to complete the task, were more likely to evaluate their wait time negatively (by answering the first question with "Strongly disagree" or "Moderately disagree"), and guessed that the wait time had been longer than users who saw the loading spinner or a blank screen.

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A Bone to Pick with Skeleton Screens | Viget

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Based just on what you can recall, please respond to the following statement: "The recipes loaded quickly for me." [Strongly agree, Moderately agree, Neutral, Moderately disagree, Strongly disagree, I didn't notice] From what you can remember, estimate the amount of time it took for the meals to load.

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kinda stupid, but cute. drag to feed!

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anonymous email drafts never sent

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I want more with my life. I want to hike early in the morning. I want to go to yoga on my lunch break. I want to get lost in creating art, making space, connecting with new people. I want to find secret places to dance my face off.

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People with depression are more likely to feel bad in response to perceived inequality, according to a study published this week in Nature Human Behaviour. Simply, in experiments where participants were tasked with playing a game with a strong element of unfairness, those participants with higher levels of brain activity in depression-linked brain regions―as recorded via fMRI scans― were more likely to later demonstrate signs of clinical depression.

This is a new test of an old idea, one that's been demonstrated in previous research. People with depression commonly demonstrate increased concern for others, or for the perspectives of others. More precisely, prosocial attitudes predict depression, which is in contrast to individualist attitudes. Individualist here basically just means selfish, or relatively selfish.

The researchers behind the current study hypothesized that they would be able to observe these tendencies at the level of actual brain activity. Fortunately, there are some tried and true methods of testing prosocial behavior. One of these takes the form of what's known as an ultimatum game. The general idea is that participants are offered rewards that are to be shared among a group. Each offer differs in how much the participant gets in relation to the rest of the group, with prosocial participants more likely refuse larger personal rewards in favor of larger rewards going to everybody else. Individualists take the offer that best benefits them, while prosocial people are more concerned with other people in the group.

So, participants in the current study played a version of the ultimatum game while wired up to an fMRI machine. Some of them registered more activity in the amygdala and hippocampus regions of their brains―both of which tend to be smaller in people with depression―compared to other participants. The researchers then sat on this data, returning after a year had passed to see who wound up with higher markers for depression. The differences in later depression indicators could not be explained away by demographics.

The implication is that people with depression (or likely to have depression) generally have a "greater empathic concern for others," in the words of Megan Speer and Mauricio Delgado, psychology researchers from Rutgers University, who penned a related commentary accompanying the study. People with depression just feel bad when others get a shit deal.

A lot of people are getting a shit deal nowadays. More and more of them. That's the particular import of the study, according to its authors.

"Widening economic inequity has become an increasing concern for society and has been implicated as a source of several psychiatric diseases including depression," they write. "Previous large-scale cohort-based studies have indicated a link between economic gaps and major depression, where economic and material disadvantage are crucial in explaining depressive symptoms. Despite this importance, little is known about the neural mechanism that underlies the link between economic inequity and mood change."

This dawning world of radical inequality is probably bad news for those with depression, but, at the same time, it might be those same people that are best suited, psychologically speaking, to knock down that inequality.

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Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up With Depression

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People with depression are more likely to feel bad in response to perceived inequality, according to a study published this week in Nature Human Behaviour. Simply, in experiments where participants were tasked with playing a game with a strong element of unfairness, those participants with higher levels of brain activity in depression-linked brain regions―as recorded via fMRI scans― were more likely to later demonstrate signs of clinical depression.

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This is a collection of a couple of polaroids I photographed while traveling around the United States.

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an infographic on how deep it is.

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Both the Australian and Chinese navies have picked up beacon signals over the past three days, but time is running out and the challenge of location is immense.

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Building of Klaviyo

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Oxford encompasses a global platform for real estate investment.

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far away but important, i suppose

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Sources: Social Security Administration; Federal Reserve of Philadelphia; Department of Labor.

This calculator estimates how much you'll need to save for retirement. To make sure you're thinking about the long haul, we assume you'll live to age 92. But you could live to be 100 or incur large medical bills early on in retirement that may raise your costs even further. Social Security is factored into these calculations, but other sources of income, such as pensions and annuities, are not. All calculations are pre-tax.

The results offer a general idea of how much you'll need and are not intended to be investment advice. The results are presented in both future dollars (at retirement) and today's dollars, which is calculated using an inflation rate of 2.3%.

First, we determine what your income will be at the time you retire by growing your current income at an annual rate of 3.8% (the inflation rate of 2.3%, plus the salary growth rate of 1.5%). We then assume you can live comfortably off of 85% of your pre-retirement income. So if you earn $100,000 the year you retire, we estimate you will need $85,000 during the first year of retirement. For each subsequent year, we increase your income need by 2.3% to keep up with inflation. We then factor in Social Security by subtracting your estimated benefits (more on that below) since that income will reduce the amount you will need to save.

The second step is to calculate the total savings you will need at the time you retire, in order to generate enough income for each year of retirement. To do this, we determine what it would cost to purchase a fixed income annuity, with inflation-adjusted payments, using a discount rate (or rate of return) of 6%. The cost to purchase this hypothetical annuity is your target savings goal.

To figure out how much you will save by the time you retire, we first estimate your future income by growing your current income at a rate of 3.8% (the inflation rate of 2.3%, plus the salary growth rate of 1.5%). Then, we determine what the sum of your annual contributions will be between now and retirement. We assume your current savings and future contributions are invested and will earn an average annual rate of return of 6%.

We estimate your Social Security benefits based on the assumption that you will have worked at least 35 years and will start collecting benefits at age 67. For most people who are working today, that's considered full retirement age. If you plan on retiring after age 67, we assumed the benefits are invested (along with your savings) and grown at the same average rate of return of 6%. We use your estimated pre-retirement income to calculate your estimated annual Social Security benefits, based on current benefit formulas and accounting for inflation. To better understand your actual Social Security benefits, please visit www.ssa.gov.

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Sources: Social Security Administration; Federal Reserve of Philadelphia; Department of Labor. This calculator estimates how much you'll need to save for retirement. To make sure you're thinking about the long haul, we assume you'll live to age 92. But you could live to be 100 or incur large medical bills early on in retirement that may raise your costs even further.

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Geraldine's travel adventures

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"Why do they have so many copies of my book? Is that a bad sign? Does that mean no one's buying it?" "No. Your book has been out for a year, and they have a lot of copies. That's a good sign. That means they keep it in stock." "Are you sure? Because doesn't it...
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"Why do they have so many copies of my book? Is that a bad sign? Does that mean no one's buying it?" "No. Your book has been out for a year, and they have a lot of copies. That's a good sign. That means they keep it in stock."

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check out the cute dancing character!

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UX / UI Designer and Digital Art Director, Narciso Carlos

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Hi, I'm a UX / UI Designer and Digital Art Director in Los Angeles, CA, These are some samples. Say hello :).

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I should do actual research on this to verify since CNN can be known to be slanted.

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Tuesday, as many of the same islands braced for the impact of Hurricane Maria, he appeared on CNN's "New Day" with a message: "Climate change is real."

"Look, you can never be 100% sure about links," Branson said after anchor John Berman asked if he saw a correlation between the recent hurricanes and climate change. "But scientists have said the storms are going to get more and more and more intense and more and more often. We've had four storms within a month, all far greater than that have ever, ever, ever happened in history."

"Sadly," he continued, "I think this is the start of things to come."

Branson noted that recent storms like Irma, which tore through the Caribbean, and Harvey, which ravaged Houston, Texas, have been extremely devastating.

"Look," the philanthropist said, "Climate change is real. Ninety-nine percent of scientists know it's real. The whole world knows it's real except for maybe one person in the White House."

Anchor Alisyn Camerota pointed out that some in President Donald Trump's administration, such as Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, have said it is "insensitive" to discuss climate change during this time.

"The cost of rebuilding just the British Virgin Islands will be three or four billion dollars," Branson responded. "The cost of rebuilding Houston will be billions of dollars. If all that money could be invested in clean energy, in powering the world by the sun and by the wind, where we won't have to suffer these awful events in the future, how much better than having to patch up people's houses after they've been destroyed?"

Last week, Trump was pressed on whether Harvey and Irma, which happened back-to-back, had changed his view on climate change. He dismissed the question.

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Richard Branson: Hurricanes are the 'start of things to come'

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Tuesday, as many of the same islands braced for the impact of Hurricane Maria, he appeared on CNN's "New Day" with a message: "Climate change is real." "Look, you can never be 100% sure about links," Branson said after anchor John Berman asked if he saw a correlation between the recent hurricanes and climate change.

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nice data visualizations. stay educated. #feminism

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By

Chad S. White

Women are a vital part of the email marketing industry. Overall, women make up 47.3% of the email marketing workforce, according to Litmus' State of Email Survey of more than 3,500 marketers. And at companies with more than 500 employees, exactly half of email marketers are women.

Email marketing professionals wear many hats, performing on average 4.4 of the 10 email tasks that we surveyed them about. Women lead the way on three of those tasks. They hold 55.2% of the email marketing jobs that involve email copywriting; 52.1% involving email planning; and 51.2% involving oversight of all marketing activities.

Men dominate three other email tasks. They hold 53.3% of the email marketing jobs that involve email design; 57.8% involving email coding; and 64.6% involving oversight of all business activities.

Men and women essentially evenly split jobs involving email strategy; email performance analysis and analytics; management of email marketing accounts, clients, or projects; and oversight of all email marketing activities.

While some of those differences in gender roles are significant, like the well-documented one in coding and in leading overall business operations, all but three of the 10 roles we asked about differed by less than 7 percentage points. So if men and women in the email marketing industry are roughly doing the same jobs, does it mean they're also paid the same? According to our research, that's not the case.

Women earn just 89 cents for every dollar men earn in the email marketing industry ($65,000 for women vs. $73,000 for men). [Tweet this →]

First, let's acknowledge that, at $68,000, the average salary for full-time workers involved in email marketing in the U.S. is comfortably above the median household income in America of $59,039 in 2016. That validates email marketing as a valuable profession and healthy industry. And, second, let's acknowledge that while that gender pay gap is sizable, it's about a third smaller than the national average of 17 cents on the dollar.

Even so, the gender pay gap is troubling so we sought to control for as many factors as we could to try to narrow or eliminate the gap by creating better apples-to-apples comparisons.

Factors that Affect the Gender Pay Gap

For instance, younger email marketers are paid much more fairly than older workers. Email professionals who are 45 years old or older see the gender pay gap balloon to 16 cents, up from the average gap of 11 cents.

The larger the company you work for, the more likely women are to be paid fairly. Working at a company with 5,000 or more employees reduces the gender pay gap to 7 cents, whereas the gap at companies with fewer than 100 employees is 16 cents.

Working in the B2B industry narrows the gender pay gap to 8 cents, compared to 12 cents at B2C companies and agencies, and 14 cents at nonprofits.

Looking at regional differences, the gender pay gap in the email marketing industry was largest in the Northeast, where women earn 80 cents on the dollar-a 20-cent pay gap that's higher than any other part of the U.S. In the South, the gap was 11 cents; in the West, 8 cents; and in the Midwest, just 6 cents. (We use the four Census Bureau-designated regions.)

Comparing Lookalikes

To make the truest comparisons, Litmus identified 80 nearly identical male and female lookalikes-working in the same region of the U.S., in the same industry, at companies of approximately the same size, being roughly the same age, with roughly the same years of email marketing experience, and performing mostly the same email marketing tasks.

For example, we identified a man and a woman working at nonprofits in the Northeast with 500-1,999 employees who are 25-34 years old with 1-2 years of email marketing experience and performing email design, coding, planning, strategy, performance analysis, and managing accounts, clients, or projects-and with the female also doing copywriting. The man earns $70,000 a year and the woman $65,000. That gender pay gap is very close to the average of 6 cents on the dollar for this group of 80 nearly identical lookalikes.

To take our comparisons a step further, we identified 15 identical lookalikes who also performed exactly the same tasks. For example, we identified a man and woman working at marketing, advertising, or digital agencies in the Midwest with 100-499 employees who are 35-44 years old with 3-4 years of email marketing experience and performing email coding. The male earns $93,000 a year and the female $77,000. That gender pay gap was very close to the average for this group of identical lookalikes, which was 16 cents.

Where the Gap Is Smallest

No matter which factors we look at, the gender pay gap persisted. However, when we look at men and women 24 years old and younger, the email marketing industry's gender pay gap shrinks to just 2 cents on the dollar.

This is in line with other research showing that the gender pay gap is small and getting smaller among millennials due to more women than men earning college and graduate degrees. This trend should help shrink the gender pay gap in the years ahead.

State of Email Salaries & Jobs in the U.S.

In this report, we take a detailed look at how various factors affect the salaries of email marketers in the United States.
Download the free report →

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By Chad S. White Women are a vital part of the email marketing industry. Overall, women make up 47.3% of the email marketing workforce, according to Litmus' State of Email Survey of more than 3,500 marketers. And at companies with more than 500 employees, exactly half of email marketers are women.

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Klaviyo customer that makes accessories for French bulldogs

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Frenchie Bulldog - Harnesses, Collars, Leashes & More

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Frenchie Bulldog Pet Supply - Shop - Frenchie Bulldog Printed Reversible Harness, Collar, & Leash specifically tailored to French Bulldogs unique sizing needs.

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insight into Klaviyo in here..

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Klaviyo's dev team cites tech-obsessed founder (who codes) as inspiration

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Photo via Built InFor Klaviyo's first five years of existence, CEO and co-founder Andrew Bialecki wrote every line of co