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What more can an innovative artist do for the world?

12.01.2023 Veronica Tsinoeva It may seem like every idea humanity could come up with has been done before. But, no! There are still some incredible artists out there who produce intriguing ideas and captivate viewers. Kristina Bagaeva is one of those creative people who is constantly pushing the boundaries of artistic expression. While her work may appear simple at first glance, a closer examination reveals the depth and complexity that she infuses into each piece. Bagaeva’s art is characterized by its lightness and airiness, which cover the hard work and attention to detail that goes into creating it. One of the key themes in Bagaeva’s work is the concept of “new sincerity,” which she explores through her use of layers and her emphasis on collaboration. Bagaeva often invites viewers to participate in co-creating her art, fostering a sense of togetherness and spiritual connection among strangers. This approach has led to unprecedented discoveries and insights for audiences, as they are able to engage with the work on a deeper level. Co-rating is a key part of all of her projects, including one yet to be released, which you too can take part in. People often feel a strong emotional bond with the things they value. These objects can speak to us in ways that we cannot quite comprehend but know intimately and recognize deeply. They can contain hidden mysteries, representing parts of ourselves that we have yet to fully discover. Even small items like photographs or fragrances can trigger memories and emotions, transporting us back to specific moments in our lives and raising personal questions. Bagaeva’s latest project is focusing on such things, and it’s particularly intriguing, as it asks participants to bring or send a single memorable item that holds special meaning to them — something that, in the event of a fire or other emergency, they would have kept if all the other items could not be salvaged. The anticipation of how Bagaeva would assemble her artwork using these pieces is captivating. However, the true value of this project lies in the personal insights and connections that it generates when experienced firsthand. Kristina has a strong sense of emotional intelligence and empathy, which allows her to create projects that engage people on a deep, emotional level. Through her work, she helps people gain a greater understanding of themselves and those around them and learn how to interact more productively with others. Ultimately, what matters most is that everyone involved in Bagaeva’s projects has a meaningful experience and enjoys themselves along the way.
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What are the different types of permanent life insurance policies?

Whole or ordinary life This is the most common type of permanent insurance policy. It offers a death benefit along with a savings account. If you pick this type of life insurance policy, you are agreeing to pay a certain amount in premiums on a regular basis for a specific death benefit. The savings element would grow based on dividends the company pays to you. Universal or adjustable life This type of policy offers you more flexibility than whole life insurance. You may be able to increase the death benefit, if you pass a medical examination. The savings vehicle (called a cash value account) generally earns a money market rate of interest. After money has accumulated in your account, you will also have the option of altering your premium payments – providing there is enough money in your account to cover the costs. This can be a useful feature if your economic situation has suddenly changed. However, you would need to keep in mind that if you stop or reduce your premiums and the saving accumulation gets used up, the policy might lapse and your life insurance coverage will end. You should check with your agent before deciding not to make premium payments for extended periods because you might not have enough cash value to pay the monthly charges to prevent a policy lapse. Variable life This policy combines death protection with a savings account that you can invest in stocks, bonds and money market mutual funds. The value of your policy may grow more quickly, but you also have more risk. If your investments do not perform well, your cash value and death benefit may decrease. Some policies, however, guarantee that your death benefit will not fall below a minimum level. Variable-universal life If you purchase this type of policy, you get the features of variable and universal life policies. You have the investment risks and rewards characteristic of variable life insurance, coupled with the ability to adjust your premiums and death benefit that is characteristic of universal life insurance.
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Philippines orders more than 25 million people into lockdown over Easter as Covid-19 cases soar

The Philippines orders more than 25 million people into lockdown over Easter as Covid-19 cases soar. Millions of people in the Philippines won’t be celebrating Easter as normal this year after the majority Catholic country imposed a strict lockdown in the capital and nearby provinces. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced the lockdown Saturday after the country reported 9,838 new Covid-19 cases — the country’s highest single-day increase, according to official state media Philippines News Agency. The Philippines has reported more than 720,000 coronavirus cases, including 13,170 deaths, making it one of the worst affected countries in Asia. The country has seen a steep rise in daily reported cases since February, and the country is now reporting more than 9,000 new cases a day. There are more than 105,000 active cases, according to the Philippines’ Department of Health. More than 25 million people across Metro Manila and nearby provinces Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal will be affected by the lockdown. The lockdown begins Monday and runs until April 4 — or Easter Sunday, a day when Christians often celebrate with special church services. Religious gatherings are not allowed during the holy week. That’s a blow for the Philippines, where more than 90% of the population are Christian, according to the CIA World Factbook. The measures include a curfew from 6 p.m. until 5 a.m. — tightened from the previous 10 p.m. curfew. Gatherings of more than 10 people outside are not allowed, and non-household members cannot gather indoors, the government said. Diners are not allowed to eat in restaurants, although take-out and delivery services can go ahead. The Philippine National Police has deployed thousands of officers in checkpoint areas to help enforce the rules, according to a PNA report. Vaccines are being rolled out to medical frontlines, and last week the Department of Health urged people who were not health care workers to refrain from jumping the queue. “Do not worry. Our goal is still to ensure that everybody will be vaccinated. But while we do this, the government is prioritizing healthcare workers as they are the most exposed and the most at risk of getting Covid,” National Task Force Against Covid-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar secretary Carlito Galvez said. “More vaccines will arrive, we are sure of that. We just have to wait for our turns to be vaccinated.” Source: CNN.com
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7 Essential Insights For SEO Client Reports

What goes into making the perfect SEO reports for your clients? If you’re managing SEO for clients, then you know how important it is to deliver accurate and insightful reports. You’ve done the work, now you have to show it. Your clients rely on you to give them the relevant information they need to make informed decisions about their marketing efforts going forward. The SEO report is their (and your) roadmap. Getting it right every time is a matter of creating a system you can consistently mimic for each client. So, what goes into making perfect SEO reports? These are the seven essential elements you need to consider 1. Traffic: Sources Is increasing organic traffic to their website your client’s main goal? Start your SEO reports with traffic. If using Google Analytics, you’ll also want to utilize the Source/Medium section of the traffic report for this part of the report. It will provide you with more information on where your visitors are coming from, helping your client determine where they should spend their time and money. Ensure that mobile sources are also included in this part of the report since mobile phones made up about 63% of organic search engine visits in 2021. To get there quickly, go to Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels. 2. Conversion Rate & Progress On Goals Massive flows of site traffic are great, but if you don’t know what your visitors want or how they want to be engaged with your content, then even all the traffic in the world won’t help you get very far. In other words, if you can’t convert your visitors into customers, no amount of traffic will help you. Conversion rate is probably one of the most important key performance indicators (KPIs) to your clients, so tuck this near the front of your report for easy access. Once you’ve discovered the conversion rate, you’ll be more equipped to explain what comes next in the report and describe why they’re seeing certain insights and data points. To demonstrate conversion rate to a customer, select certain goals that you want to track as “conversions.” In this example, one non-profit client used landings on their “Thanks for the donation!” page to track completed donations. Google Analytics will count each landing as a donation, helping to complete the goals on the Goal Completion portion. To get to Goal Completion, go to Conversions > Goals > Overview. 3. Top Performing Pages You probably know where your visitors are coming from, but it’s vital to learn where they’re heading on your site. If someone arrives at your site organically via Google, that’s awesome; however, if you know they clicked on your most recent blog post, that is way more valuable. You always want to include top-performing pages so your client knows what’s working and what isn’t. There are usually lessons they can learn from pages that are doing well and apply them to pages that could use help to attract (and keep!) traffic. One way to pull data from Google Analytics to illustrate this is via the Landing Pages section. To get there, first, go to Behavior, then Site Content, and Landing Pages. You’ll see which URLs are hot and which ones aren’t quite. 4. Page Speed Insights Take a quick break from Google Analytics for this part and head over to a tool called PageSpeed Insights from Google. It’s a completely free tool that will show your clients how fast their pages are loading and any performance issues they may be able to fix to improve their results. Sometimes, it’s something as small as a video with a file size that’s too large. This simple quick fix can get your pages up quickly. Page speed hasn’t always been a high priority, but as user expectations are becoming more and more demanding with their online experiences, getting your pages to load quickly is paramount to keeping visitors on your site. Google even tells us that the probability of someone bouncing off a website increases by 32% if load time goes from a one-second load to a three-second load. 5. Bounce Rate And Dwell Time Knowing that visitors have come to your site, clicked on certain pages, and in some cases, converted is incredibly helpful. But to complete the full picture, your client needs to know how long people are staying on their site and how many of them are clicking away after the first landing page. Dwell time is the time someone spends on a website page when they come from an organic search. Are they exploring other pages from there, or looking for a quick answer? A high bounce rate isn’t always a bad thing, though. If their landing page was one chock full of internal links to other pages on your site and they bounced quickly, it probably means they’ve moved on to exploring these outbound links. In this section, focus on bounce rate for core site pages with rich content like videos. They should be staying for a while to consume the content. 6. Rankings And Backlinks Backlinks can be powerful tools for websites struggling to make progress in their SEO rankings. You can find many tools to track links you have, which is helpful because it can identify potential SEO opportunities. If you’ve helped your client get backlinks as part of your SEO strategy, this section of the report is where you’ll show their impact. As for rankings, you should include where the site ranks for keywords that you’ve determined are most valuable to the client. Just keep in mind that rankings are no longer the end-all and be-all of SEO – we now know that countless factors, such as history, user geographic location, and personalization can all impact rankings. 7. Recommendations And Next Steps Recommendations may not be the first thing that springs to mind when underneath a mountain of data, but recommendations and next steps are ultimately what the client is looking for at the end of this >>Read more
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SpaceX on pace to shatter US launch records. Again

SpaceX has been on a tear in 2022, notching 18 rocket launches and two astronaut splashdowns in just the first 130 days of the year — an unprecedented pace for the company and the commercial launch industry. The latest is scheduled for Friday evening with the launch of 53 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites out of California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. It will be the twelfth Starlink launch so far this year, and it could be followed over the weekend with another mission set to take off out of Florida. It’s been a dizzying year of activity so far, further cementing SpaceX’s dominance over the commercial launch industry. Led by SpaceX, the industry is on pace to blow past the annual launch highs of the mid-20th century space race, when most launches were carried out by governments rather than the private sector. 2021 already set a new record with 145 total launches, compared to 129 carried out in 1984, the previous record-setting year, according to data from research firm Quilty Analytics. If SpaceX keeps up its current pace, it could launch more than 52 rockets this year alone, far outpacing its record, set last year, of 31. “Even 10 years ago, launches were rare,” Chris Quilty, the founder of Quilty Analytics, told CNN Business. In 2001, the total number of launches across the globe was only 51, he noted. “So, put that in context of SpaceX alone launching 52 times,” he said. “It’s pretty incredible.” Most of SpaceX’s launches in 2022 have focused on Starlink, its consumer internet business that relies on troves of orbiting satellites, which the company has been growing since it began launching batches of the internet-beaming satellites in mid-2019. The constellation now has more than 2,200 satellites in orbit and, as of March, 250,000 subscribers using the service around the world, a company executive said at a recent conference. While SpaceX stands out from its rocketry competitors, that doesn’t mean the company is or will be uncontested. Two new rockets capable of competing with SpaceX’s Falcons — the workhorse rockets that the company uses to haul satellites and, more recently, astronauts to orbit — are slated to debut in the next year or so. They are New Glenn, which is under development by the Jeff Bezos-backed company Blue Origin, and Vulcan Centaur, a line of rockets from legacy launch company United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The sheer number of satellites that all those vehicles can launch, including the thousands of satellites expected to add to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation and competing satellite internet businesses, have spurred a pressing discussion about congestion in outer space. If satellites collide, they can create dangerous plumes of debris. That’s happened in the past, and close calls are a frequent occurrence. Academics have long been attempting to raise awareness, and caution, around the issue. Others are more optimistic that SpaceX and others are taking those risks seriously enough to avoid catastrophe. “The companies that might create space junk would be immediately and directly affected by that space junk,” CEO of space research group BryceTech Carissa Christensen said, noting that the collision debris would threaten their own satellites — their own investments. With all those rockets active — and a few smaller launch vehicles also scheduled to begin launching from Florida’s Space Coast, which is SpaceX’s primary launch site — SpaceX could also run into bottlenecks at the launch pad. Every launch requires a team of ground support, including military weather personnel, to ensure a safe liftoff. And there are only so many launches they can handle at any given time. “There’s not an endless number of days or launch pads or launch sites where you can get things into orbit,” Quilty noted. Christensen added, however, that the ground support at the Space Coast has proven to be flexible, as evidenced by SpaceX’s ability to return a group of astronauts from the International Space Station off the coast of Florida last Friday and then launch a Starlink mission from a launch pad a few miles away mere hours later. Captain Jonathan Eno, an assistant director of operations with the US Space Force, which is charged with monitoring the weather and other possible interferences ahead of a launch, said that ground support crews in Florida have worked for years to prepare for the dramatic increase in the number of launches from the spaceport. The year he was assigned his role, 2019, the Space Coast — which includes NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral — only supported 18 launches. This year, it’s on track to support more than 60, notably including the first launch of NASA’s new moon rocket, called the Space Launch System. His team is now prepared to support multiple launches within the same day, even within minutes of each other. “SpaceX makes the news a lot. They are the ones launching the preponderance of launch vehicles right now,” he told CNN Business. “Obviously, we are gearing up for just a different reality.” Read more
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