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WHB Nobles/Ars Goetia's Sexual Paraphilias

Note: Some of these definition I only search through Google. (The list will be updated every time there's a new devil is been revealed) MINORS DNI

Gehenna (Satan's Region)

Leraye

Keraunophilia - Sexuoeroticism for the sound of Thunder

Sitri

Cardiophilia - Sexuoeroticism for the sound of heartbeats

Paimon

Haematophilia - Sexuoeroticism for Blood

Astaroth

Narratophilia - Sexual interest and arousal obtained from speaking or hearing sexually explicit words during sexual activity.

Zagan

Kinesophilia - Sexual arousal hinges around human movement and exercise.

Belial

Discophilia - love for recorded music

Amy

Catagelophilia: Sexual arousal from being humiliated, ridiculed, or made fun of in public or private.

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Juno P. Cruel Orgasm 666

Aphephilia ((h)Aphepilia) - is the scientific term for a sexual fetish concerning being touched.

Abaddon (Asmodeus' Region)

Phenix

Morphophilia - Interest in sexual partners whose body characteristics (e.g., height, weight, skin and hair color) are different from one's own.

Dantalian

Autassassinophilia - A paraphilia in which sexual arousal and the achievement of orgasm are facilitated by the fantasy or belief that one is in danger of being killed.

Ronove

Acrotomophilia - is when a person is sexually aroused by people whose body parts, typically arms or legs, have been amputated or by amputation sites in the body

Tartaros (Mammon's Region)

Bimet

Timophilia - A primary arousal from gold or wealth.

Eligos

Diaphanophilia - Sexual fondness for viewing nudity through diaphanous fabrics such as veils, underwear, baby dolls, etc.

Hades (Leviathan's Region)

Barbatos

Heliophilia - The property of an organism being attracted to sunlight.

Foras

Scopophilia - Literally, the love of looking.

Glasyalabolas

Necrophilia - sexual intercourse with or attraction towards corpses.

Orias

Autopedophilia - refers to the gaining of sexual pleasure from dressing as a child, pretending to be a child, or having a sexual fantasy about being a child.

Paradise Lost (Lucifer's Region)

Marbas

Merinthophilia - Sexual arousal from being tied up.

Morax

Stigmatophilia - Sexual interest in and arousal by a partner who is tattooed or has scars, or by having oneself tattooed, particularly in the genital area.

Buer

Doraphilia - Sexuoerotic arousal and fetishistic fondness for the smell and feel of animal skin, fur, and leather.

Gamigin

Ablutophilia (uncountable) (rare) A paraphilia involving sexual excitement from baths or showers.

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Rin JJ. wanking night

Basculophilia - The desire to be dandled or rocked in order to obtain a pleasurable sexual excitation.

Avisos (Beelzebub's Region)

Stolas

Pecattiphilia - Sexual arousal from performing an act one believes is a sin.

Bael

Olfactophilia - Sexual arousal by, smells and odors emanating from the body, especially the sexual areas.

Amon

Harmatophilia - is the fetish or preference for people who break rules or commit mistakes.

Naberius

Autozoophilia - A paraphilia in which the person is attracted to seeing themselves in the position of an animal in a sexual encounter. It is not the same as Zoophilia, the attraction to animals.

Niflheim (Belphegor's Region)

Gusion

Sapiophilia - a person who is sexually attracted to a person with intelligence.

Bathin

Hodophila - One who loves to travel.

Andrealphus

Oculophilia - A paraphilia involving sexual attraction to eyes and the licking of eyes; eye fetishism.

Beleth

Tobaccophilia - one who gets sexual pleasure from tobacco.

Agares

Hybristophilia - one who is sexually aroused by a criminal offender.

Vassago

Homilophilia - Sexuoerotic arousal and pleasure from hearing or giving sermons and speeches.

Human world

Minhyeok

Melcryptovestimentaphilia - sexual fetish or fantasies about women's black underwear/lingerie.

Heaven

Gabriel

Hierophilia - Sexual arousal from sacred objects.

Michael

Erotophonophilia - sexual arousal or gratification contingent on the death of a human being.

Raphael

Automysophilia - is a fetish for being dirty or being defiled.

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Worth a google translate

https://efd.se/unik-pilotstudie-ger-nya-insikter-om-damfotbollsspelares-fysiska-kapacitet/

Unique pilot study provides new insights into women's soccer players' physical capacity

During the past year, more than 250 Swedish women's soccer players at the elite level have regularly tested their physical ability with the help of new, Swedish technology. The result provides new insights into the physiology of women's players, but also that more studies are needed. - We want to highlight how important it is for women's players to develop the ability to work explosively in order to increase physical performance on the field and thus possibly reduce the risk of injury, says Helena Andersson, MD.Dr.Sci at Umeå University.

Women's football has developed rapidly over the past twenty years and at elite level the physical demands have been greatly increased. Each match, the women's players run a little over a mile, of which two kilometers are done at high speed and many runs at even higher sprint speeds. In addition, the players perform many explosive actions during the match, such as accelerations, decelerations and melees.

In scientific studies on men's elite players, it has been shown that well-developed, so-called explosive capacities can minimize the risk of injury. However, studies of the explosive capacity of women's players have been few, and generally tests of just explosive moments have taken place on isolated occasions during the season. But now new, mobile technology from Swedish Photon Sports has opened up the possibility for clubs to easily and continuously measure the players' abilities.

This forms the basis of the unique pilot study, which was carried out in collaboration between Elite Women's Soccer and Photon Sports. 

- The pilot study shows interesting results and contributes to more knowledge about how we can reduce injuries in women's football and also strengthen the players' physical status. These are priority areas and we are happy that we are already seeing results from the investment we have made regarding research connected to women's football, says Stefan Alvén, sports manager Elite Football Women.

During the 2022 season, several associations in the OBOS Damallsvenskan continuously tested their players on the 5 m sprint, 30 m sprint and a type of jump, so-called countermovement jumps. The data has then been processed and analyzed by Dan Fransson, PhD at Gothenburg University, Helena Andersson, Med.Dr.Sci at Umeå University and Hannah Hutterman, MSc. 

- By testing players up to several times a week, we have gained a completely new overview of the players' physical explosive capacity and how it varies over a season or, for example, pre-season. If you get a picture of a player's normal explosive capacity, you could possibly detect changes in their normal pattern and thus reduce the risk of injury, says Dan Fransson.

Even though it is about preliminary data, it still shows the importance of increasing knowledge about women's soccer players and especially the explosive training, he believes. - Gaining a deeper understanding of women's physical and physiological responses to soccer-specific training methodology is necessary for players to train effectively.

What the group came to is that, somewhat surprisingly, there was no correlation between the jumping exercise and the shorter sprint distances, as other studies have shown. Instead, there was a strong correlation between countermovement jumps and top speed at the longer sprint distance. Taken together, it indicates that height performance may be an important so-called marker of women's soccer players' ability to perform at top speeds.

- Looking more closely at this type of jump and the relationship with neuromuscular performance and fatigue in elite soccer will give us valuable information. It can enable trainers to plan training and recovery strategies on an individual level, says Helena Andersson. 

The pilot study is the first of its kind and has given the group ideas about future studies, she says.

- Going forward, we would like to investigate whether neuromuscular performance can differentiate between different player positions and whether there can be a difference between elite players and top-class players in the Swedish first league. We would also like to design a training study to be able to improve neuromuscular capacity in female elite players. From studies on men, we know that it is important, both for increased performance but also to reduce the risk of injuries.

The technical measuring equipment was developed by the Skellefteå-based company Photon Sports, which with its 3D cameras and advanced sensors measures and documents the players' individual movement patterns with a focus on speed, agility and resilience. In addition to the teams in the OBOS Damallsvenskan, the system is also used by several of the top teams in men's soccer in Sweden and Europe.

Elitfotboll Dam is behind the project in collaboration with Photon Sports, with partial financing from Sparbanken Skåne, Folksam and Infrastructure Logistics.

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Gender Data Gap

Gaps in gender data and the lack of trend data make it difficult to monitor progress for women and girls. Unless gender is mainstreamed into national statistical strategies and prioritized in data collection, gender data scarcity and gaps will persist.

Investment in national statistical capacity is central to improving the coverage, quality, and timeliness of data for monitoring gender equality and the SDGs. But beyond this, making sure that data represent the lived reality of women and girls in all their diversity by addressing deep-seated biases in concepts, definitions, classifications, and methodologies, is essential to making women and girls visible. Gender data gaps are visible everywhere, within our technologies, healthcare, science etc. For women in sport, the gender data gap can be seen in fitness wearables, sport science, sport statistic in professional sport and lack of studies done female physiology and how it differs to men.

Smartphones are too big to fit women’s hands comfortably. Virtual reality headsets, billed as the future of gaming and workplace training, are too large for women’s heads. Google’s speech recognition software struggles to understand women speaking. These biases are frustrating in everyday life, but they quickly become dangerous when they filter into technology designed to improve our health.

But from fitness trackers to smart watches, devices designed to help us live happier, healthier lives still rely on data that is biased towards men. And it’s not a new issue.

Treadmills, for example, often use calorie counters skewed towards men’s weight, while fitness trackers can be wildly inaccurate because a woman’s resting heart beat changes throughout her menstrual cycle. This bad data can give women a warped view of reality: technology is trying to tell them how they are performing but the results are wildly inaccurate because it assumes they are men.

The current major players in the femtech industry - period apps - have demonstrated that it is profitable to target women and gather their data. The Android and iOS app stores have dozens of period tracking apps, the majority of which still centre around wanting to get pregnant (or avoiding it entirely).

Among this wave of period app companies, there is an obvious gap. They have so far ignored the fact that hormone cycles also cause women’s bodies to function differently throughout the month. A study by University College London demonstrated that women’s menstrual cycle directly impacts upon their training and performance.

Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, the number of women participating in sports has skyrocketed, increasing 560 percent at the college level, yet women continue to be underrepresented in exercise science research—both as participants in general studies and as the specific subject of scientific inquiry—creating huge gaps in knowledge about female physiology and performance. For decades, scientists have worked under the misguided assumption that, with the exception of their reproductive organs, men’s and women’s bodies were essentially the same.

The absence of females is pervasive across all medical research. A review of 1,382 exercise medicine studies published between 2011 and 2013 found that women made up 39 percent of total study participants. A follow-up evaluation found that among 188 studies published in two academic journals in early 2015, women made up 42 percent of study subjects. The discrepancy is particularly pronounced in sport science. Among studies in that field, women accounted for only 3 percent of participants.

The gender data gap and its default male origins have been disadvantaging women for millennia, but in a world where we increasingly outsource our decision-making to algorithms trained on data with a great big hole in it, this problem is set to get a lot more serious very quickly. And if we don’t choose to correct the mistakes of the past now, we will blunder into a future where we have literally coded them in.

In this world be see a bias to one human, the straight white male and the data studies done in science equivocate to this one type of human. How are marginalised groups mean to be the best they can be without the correct study and research got into them.

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[tronrpg]

what are Sirens?

what are Sirens? we just don't know.

but i'm getting ahead of myself.

To my knowledge, there has never been an officially-released Tron pen-and-paper RPG. There certainly would have been a market for it around the original film's release, had it done better at the box office. And assuredly there have been dozens of homebrew splats and rulesets shared between fans and friends over the years. The Fract, in an ideal world, would eventually be a complete RPG system, enough to fill up a corebook and run a game. But in thinking about worldbuilding, I've run into a storytelling problem that, if not unique to the world of Tron, is certainly still a sore-thumb kind of issue.

Tron--that is to say the OG 1982 Grid, the New Grid, and whatever metatextual setting that the Fract takes place in--is neither science fiction nor science fantasy. For those who aren't clear on the delineation between the two, the plainest I can describe it is to say that "Star Trek" is (generally) science fiction, and "Star Wars" is (generally) science fantasy. Science fiction is nominally supposed to adhere to scientific rules or at least bend them to a reasonable degree in order to tell a story. Science Fantasy bends and breaks those rules, sometimes with impunity, because space wizards waving laser swords around speaks for itself.

The setting of Tron, taking place as it does outside the Grid, is a simulacra of a modern-day "real world" as we know it, with science and computers behaving the way we know they normally do. Except for in the Grid itself. We have to assume that both the Old and New Grids were special in some way, or at the very least that Grid-like systems with sentient programs are few and far between; because computer systems and programs as we know them do not behave like they do on either Grid. If they did, why would Flynn have bothered to create a new one if there are Grids within every computer in the world?

And that's where the science fiction of Tron falls down. Stephen Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird were not computer experts, and they wrote the original screenplay during a time when computers were widely known but not widely understood, particularly by the common person. They can be forgiven for leaning hard on the fantasy and spirituality elements that make Tron a work of more consequence than oh, say, Computer Warriors. But by the time Legacy was released, the world was a very different place, and the ubiquity of computers and technology meant that the average person had a basic knowledge of how a computer works and what it can do; and the OG Grid does not fall into those parameters. So it's hard to say that Tron is strictly science fiction, where rules have meanings, or science fantasy where rules are up for grabs, because each of us carry around a real-world analogue to the Grid in our pockets all day and by now we are all pretty sure that Google Chrome does not, in a metaphorical or spiritual sense, fight for us.

(This, incidentally, is where I feel Legacy did the right thing by having Flynn starting from almost-scratch with the New Grid instead of attempting to apply real-world IT logic to the Grid like Tron 2.0. Divorcing the fiction from things like emails and spreadsheets allowed Legacy to retain some of the spirituality and potential of 1982; and inasmuch as Tron 2.0 is a great game that I intend to revisit soon, I find the "real computer" stuff to be kinda cringey.)

And here's where we come around to Sirens, finally. What the hell are they? Aside from being conventionally-attractive female-coded Programs in white vinyl outfits who appear to have largely representational or ritualistic roles in the New Grid, it's not entirely clear what they do or what separates them from a garden-variety Program. We see Gem and the three other Sirens in Legacy, there are a handful of Sirens in Uprising, including Lux, who appears to have been a...battle Siren? Maybe?

When it comes to putting together an RPG, you have to lean on rules. You have to nail things down and say, outside of GM fiat, a dice roll does that and a stat means this and an attack is performed thusly. So in thinking about squishing the world of Tron into an RPG format, which unlike most video games does not contain a single linear storyline; you have to think about making the world digestible and processable by squaring the edges and making definitions. You want the players and the GM to be able to exercise the vastness of their imaginations, but you want to set the parameters of the playing field, or else why have a themed RPG at all?

That's where I started thinking about how Tron's mish-mash of science fiction/fantasy elements make it a unique challenge to format as an RPG setting. Would it be better to emphasize the fantasy theming, or would players prefer a more grounded approach with real-world computer elements? Is it possible to have a balanced approach? How do you color in the missing information about how the Grid and Programs work, the stuff that the original works never really explained? Just what the HELL are Sirens anyway? Is there some sort of unspoken caste system in the Grid? Are there male-presenting Sirens? Can they suit up and play in the Games? Can they all do that synchronized-walking-backwards thing? Do Sirens just show up when Programs are about to compete at something? Why so much eyeshadow? Why does it rain in the Grid? Why did Flynn serve Sam and Quorra a roast suckling pig? Why does Clu 2.0 look more like Lord Farquahd than Jeff Bridges? WHAT HAPPENED TO RAM? IS HE PART OF THE JUNKY RECOGNIZER NOW OR DID HE TURN INTO THE BIT OR WHAT? KEVIN FLYNN, WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

...okay, got that out of my system, thanks for bearing with me. The point is that there are a lot of fill-in-the-blanks when it comes to worldbuilding lore in the Tron universe, and that may be by design. I love Star Wars, but the industry that has been built up over the last 40+ years to make sure every puppet, alien and CGI blob with a nanosecond of screen time has a full backstory and Wookieepedia entry, I find, largely detracts from the magic of the original movies. Not having everything explained adds to Tron's lasting allure. On the other hand, it makes a project like the Fract a product of guesswork and blue-skying.

So let's say I was creating a Tron RPG, like you do. And I wanted to make Sirens a playable class (which I intend to). Based on the information given to us by the canon, which isn't much; I'd say that Sirens are, first and foremost, specialists. They have specific skills that they hone and adhere to and do not deviate from to take on other roles, which makes them in-demand as bodyguards or enforcers but their specialization limits a players' build choices. They are also largely recognized in the Grid as having ritualistic or shamanistic public roles, perhaps representing the link between Programs and Users. (Maybe Dumont was a Siren 1.0. He could have had on a white vinyl singlet under that getup, who knows?) Maybe they're like priestesses or shrine maidens, maybe they take vows like nuns. This might make them like Monks in D&D.

You see how narrowing the possibilities of what Sirens are in order to fit them into an RPG character class box also reduces their potential in canon--but of course canon's not being contradicted here; this is a fan work and is not intended to overwrite the creative work of others. I just hope that if it ever gets completed, it plays enough like the work that inspired it, so that other fans can get the same rush of imagining what it's like to be on the Grid.

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8 Ways to Cultivate a Home Yoga Practice

8 Ways to Grow a Residence Yoga Exercise Method

You asked - and also we have provided!

Last week we asked what topics you Yogahubbers want to see more of on the blog, and an unusual quantity of you shared a rate of interest in finding out more concerning exactly how to better cultivate a home yoga practice.

While there's absolutely nothing that can fairly reproduce attending your favourite course or a specific educator's weekly flow, occasionally we merely can not make it right into the workshop - which's alright too.

The very first step to growing a residence practice of yoga is truly to recognize that yoga exercise is not almost the asanas. Sure, it looks wonderful to take out a headstand when the topic comes up at a celebration and also all of an abrupt you're the centre of interest - but a gymnast can do that. This is not yoga. There is a lot more than physical achievement to be experienced by involving with our breath, bodies, and power daily, therefore when we speak concerning 'yoga exercise' below we're actually discussing all aspects of the method - asana, pranyama, reflection, self-awareness and self-contemplation, to listing but a few.

1. Pick a Time and Stick to it

While I'm cognizant we can't all be early birds (I've gotten my reasonable share of bleary-eyed, unhappy remarks from family members members/housemates over the past couple of years), if we really wish to experience one of the most take advantage of our yoga exercise practice there is no time rather like the very early hrs. One factor for this is that it's normally quieter currently, the pre-sunrise hush guaranteeing we get as much solitude as possible. Another reason is that practicing and practicing meditation prior to you start your workday indicates that you're starting it more concentrated as well as energised, indicating you're a lot more likely to perform better and in real snowball effect, experience an on the whole more effective day. If you really hate mornings and also are much more prone to snoring than 'Om' ming prior to 7am, at least try to make the time you choose to practice consistent. It helps when attempting to make it right into a habit.

2. Find A New Spot

Do you generally hang around in the resting space? Don't do your yoga method there. A fresh environment is finest - ideally neat and not also cramped! It makes good sense to restrict distractions when you're trying to grow your concentration as well as route your attention internal, and you're much more likely to experience straying eyes or ideas if you're surrounded by stuff. At the minimum make certain your area is tidy prior to settling to clean out your mind!

3. Don't Make into a #Thing

Oversharing is a major torment of our times, as well as with social media sites at our fingertips it can be tempting to upload our satisfaction at having completed our #practice for the third day in a row. The threat right here develops when we gradually succumb the buzz of obtaining praise for this instead of the buzz of the act itself. It likewise has actually been scientifically proven that making objectives public such as this makes it much more difficult to maintain them. Make it much easier for on your own (and your buddies on social media) by making your technique a time for you. You'll quickly begin to appreciate and expect the moment spent with on your own and also away from #socialmedia.

4. Don't Have an End Goal

Similar to the above factor, having a certain 'end goal' in mind to attain by exercising yoga exercise is a poor concept. Be it an especially tough asana, recorded performance history, or (god forbid) a supposed 'target weight', we should take our interest far from accomplishing these things, and instead concentrate on the process as well as the moment as we remain in it. Yoga is intended as a method to help us value ourselves, our bodies, minds, as well as ever-changing world as everything occurs - for the uncertain, unpleasant, attractive as well as problematic beings we are. Focusing exclusively on developing an asana or taking an instagrammable photo is actually growing the exact reverse of yoga - concentrating power and also interest outward rather than inward. Leave completion objectives behind, as well as make the objective the moment.

5. Use Resources

We reside in an age where Google can give us with virtually anything we ask of it, so why not use it to your benefit? There are hundreds, otherwise thousands, of yoga teachers on Youtube who supply video clips of classes differing in size, design, and virtually anything you can intend to focus on. If you're battling to remain on the floor covering for greater than a few mins at once or simply desire to obtain a few originalities to play about with, we would certainly recommend taking an on-line course! Yoga with Adriene, YogaTX and Sadie Nardini are just some of the excellent networks we've encountered, however the opportunities truly are endless!

6. Get Creative!

Don' t have a yoga exercise block? Order that old enormous hardback publication you have actually always claimed you 'd check out. Bolsters? Pillows and blankets will certainly support any kind of clumsy falls from asanas we're uncertain of. Our house technique provides us with a risk-free and exclusive environment to try things we might have fidgeted around in a jampacked course situation. Bonus right here is that nobody will certainly see you fall over!

7. Go Easy on Yourself!!

It's tough to make something a routine. Some days we show up on our mats loaded with ideas and motivation and positive energy. Some days we drag ourselves there in determined search of these feelings, returning with our heads down to see if we left them there the other day. Everyday is various, and it is essential to acknowledge this as well as not place way too much pressure on yourself to replicate a previous day's practice. Self-awareness is vital here.

8. Every Practice Counts

There is no winning or falling short in yoga exercise. There is only being. Ten minutes will gradually turn right into 15, 20 ... etc, and also the even more you practice focusing on the mind as well as breath, the much more you will get out of those 10 or 15 minutes each day. It's truly high quality over quantity right here, and we have to find out not to let the assault of external influences make us think otherwise.

For a lot more from Jenny see Upward Encountering Blog!

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This type of supply is just not viable like a stand - alone insurance policy, however if the organization has generated associates previously offering products for these people just makes sense to solicit far more online marketers via sales. As mentioned at first from the post, dropping right behind the particular scientific contour will only have the ability to harm your company. Even so, always examination just about any new suggestions or methods prior to actually placing the life span of the business on their shoulder blades. Examine the results of anybody else you know has made use of the approach and decide if it could pertain to what you are advertising and marketing at the same time.

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Why is SEO important in Digital Marketing?

Website improvement or SEO is a basic piece of advanced promoting. It helps in improving the positioning of your site on Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) in contrast with your rivals. It is likewise viable in improving the online presence, web traffic, business change rates, and Return on Investment (ROI). While looking for explicit watchwords, the highest level sites normally get a higher number of guests which further improves the opportunity of meeting potential clients that can transform into real organizations.

Different Methods of SEO in Digital Marketing

To comprehend the significance of SEO in computerized promoting, it is critical to get acquainted with the various techniques engaged with the equivalent. You can counsel any SEO Companies Singapore as far as executing these strategies on your site.

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On-page improvement includes the methods that help in improving the perceivability of a site and furthermore making them more easy to understand. Both these variables can additionally add to improving web traffic too. Additionally, components, for example, web content and the HTML source code of a page likewise assume a significant part regarding on-page enhancement. Also, it includes measures, for example, including Meta watchwords and keeping up a suitable thickness of catchphrases so that web crawlers can discover them effectively against pertinent catchphrases. The more effectively web indexes can discover a site against applicable catchphrases the higher will be their rankings which would prompt improved web traffic and improved chance of producing leads and business transformation.

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Off-page enhancement includes the cycle of third party referencing and advancement of your business site. The approaching connections influence the rankings on web indexes significantly. Consequently, you should take endeavors in building joins with approved, tenable, and mainstream locales. This will help in improving the authority of your area too.

Motivations to utilize SEO in Digital Marketing

Coming up next are a portion of the significant purposes behind which organizations should utilize SEO in advanced promoting. You should recruit an office offering SEO administrations Singapore to yield the advantages of SEO administration for business.

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Portable SEO - As the quantity of versatile clients is developing quickly, you can't ignore the significance of versatile SEO in computerized advertising. Indeed, even web crawlers, for example, Google consider site scans made through portable as an essential factor for deciding rankings of a site.

Improved ROI - As referenced prior, SEO helps in improving site rankings and web traffic, accordingly, this further aides in improving the business transformation rate also. Website design enhancement permits you to follow the aftereffects of your computerized promoting endeavors. This, thusly, causes you to choose, regardless of whether you have to make any further changes or alterations. A SEO Services Singapore can help in following the ways clients follow, or the catchphrases they use to look before they at last buy an item or administration. This data you can additionally use in your SEO endeavors. At long last, you can utilize different scientific devices to decide your ROI from your SEO endeavors.

Step by step instructions to adjust SEO in Digital Marketing Strategy

As we have set up that SEO offers different advantages to organizations, how about we examine how you can adjust SEO in your advanced showcasing technique. Web optimization is a combination of different types of advanced promoting exercises. It isn't just needed regarding the specialized part of advancing a site yet additionally as far as client experience (UX) and substance.

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Things to do in quarantine you might not have thought of

- Clean/polish your shoes, takes up to five minutes max - Go through any craft kits you might have lying around  - Learn to press flowers, takes about a week  - Write short/long stories from online writing prompts - Learn a song in a different language - If there is an instrument in your house you don’t know how to play, teach yourself a song (or make up your own!) - Draw out plans for your dream home - Purge your closet, desk, anywhere you keep things - Write letters to people of things you’d never say and then never send them - Try listening to new artists - Make food from a foreign country you’ve never tried before - Name all your plants (mine are Sylvester, Chloë, Tiffany, Jelli, Jenny, Jessie and Juniper) - Organize your files on your computer/laptop and Google Drive (if any) - Learn a foreign alphabet, for example Korean, Russian or Greek - Get in contact with a family member you haven’t talked to in a while - Become pen friends with someone in a foreign country using an app like HelloTalk - Learn pointless words (I am a sesquipedalian logophile who uses words like pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis to torment those with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia) - Eat a variety of cheese like Gruyere, Camembert and Gouda and drink wine (or grape juice if you’re underage like me) while pretending you’re in Paris or Rome - Draw on your face with eyeliner - Replace that one light bulb that you haven’t gotten round to yet - Learn about a religion you’re not part of (we’ve been looking at Islam, Judaism and Christianity in my history class at the moment and as a Christian I am finding this VERY interesting) - Go through Goodreads or something and make a list of books to read - Browse through your old exercise books (if you keep them) and make fun of your old self - Pick a random household product, for example dish wash liquid. Figure out how to make it better - Paint a friend via video chat or have them paint you - Use a video editor and edit a kids TV show for fun - Make a plant book containing information about all the different plants in your garden (their names, scientific names, soil/water/lighting preferences, etc) - Invent a new species of animal (on pen and paper) - Make your school notes ~pretty~ - Learn to name all the countries, capitals and flags of the world Short intermission in the middle of this post to let you know I just finished eating lunch and I ate way too much and now I feel sick - Make a wishlist - Dress up everyday even though you’re not going anywhere - Organize your cleaning supplies - Learn how something works (for example, a motherboard. That stuff baffles me) - Replenish tape dispensers and staplers throughout your house - Change the letters on the signboard in your room (if you have one) - Pick out new profile pictures, wallpapers, etc - Go through your candles and burn some you haven’t before Intermission 2.0 because I’m trying to join my History class meeting and it’s not working, are you kidding me- never mind it’s working now - Make jewelry - Become a master photo editor/photoshopper - Watch ice skating (I like Evgenia Medvedeva! Her Sailor Moon performance was so cute!) - If you’re into k-pop, stan a new group (I’d like to get more into MAMAMOO or ATEEZ) - Donate online, there are plenty of organizations that need your help (for example, the Red Cross for Lebanon is providing aid after the devastating explosion in Beirut). Remember to be careful about where you send your money, however, there are some organizations that use the money for themselves - Support writers online - Play Just Dance (let me know if you beat my high score, it’s 12,808 for Con Altura!) - Romanticize things

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Business travel can present some real challenges, but it is possible to come back home from a trip in better shape than when you left. Prior planning and preparation is the key.

Apply the tips I provide below and you will not only come back home fitter than when you left, you’ll won’t have to play catch-up when you return to the office.

While traveling on business, your mantra should be, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt

Good is not the enemy of great. A twenty-minute workout in your hotel room is much better than doing nothing at all.

It all starts with planning ahead, so that is where we will start.

Trip Planning:

1. Hotel: Visit the hotel’s website, prior to booking your room. Choose the hotel with the best fitness center by comparing photos of the hotel’s fitness center on the hotel’s website. Some hotels will also give you access to local gym facilities.

2. Bring your own gym: I always travel with the following items in my suitcase: 1) Wireless Headphones  2) Lifeline Power Up Chin-Up 3) Jump Rope 4) Resistance Bands 5) Sports Watch or Heartrate Monitor 6) Boxing Timer app (downloaded on my smartphone) 7) Running Shoes (I usually wear them on travel days) 8) Workout Clothing

BASIC PACKING LIST

3. Download Helpful Content: Download music and video content, for your workouts and travel days. You might also want to download some YouTube workout videos as well. There are lots of No Equipment Cardio Workouts and Resistant Band Workouts available. You can also download PDF documents to your tablet to do some professional reading during your travel days. There are apps available that can read the documents to you: a. eReader Prestigio (Google) b. @Voice Aloud Reader (Google) c. vBookz (Apple)

Travel days:

1. Exercise: Often times it is difficult to work out on travel days, but that doesn’t mean you can’t exercise. I make a conscious effort to walk as much as possible and take the stairs whenever possible. I will walk around the airport listening to an audiobook while I am waiting for my flight instead of sitting down. You are going to be sitting enough on the plane.

2. Eating: I recommend having a quick breakfast at home. If I am rushed, I’ll have a shake and a piece of toast. After I go through security, I’ll use my company credit card to purchase water and some snacks for the trip. I expense these items as my breakfast. Beef jerky and high protein, low carb protein bars are usually your best options. The key to not overeating is to log your food on the MyFitnessPal app.

Staying the Course During Your Trip:

1. Exercise: Whenever possible, wake up early and workout before beginning the work day. I recommend laying your workout clothing next to your smartphone. Place your phone far enough away that you have to get out of bed to turn it off. This will make getting up easier.

If the weights that the hotel fitness center has to offer are lighter than you usually use, you can make the weight feel heavier by slowing down your repetitions. You can pre-fatiguing the major muscle group being worked, for example, perform the dumbbell fly immediately before incline presses. Lastly, you can decrease your rest periods between sets to make the workout more challenging.

The simplest exercises to perform during a trip for each major body part are: 1) Legs: One-legged squats and lunges. 2) Chest: Dips between furniture and push-ups (using the resistance bands). 3) Back: Pull-ups using these straps that turn any door into a pull-up station (Lifeline Power Up Chin-Up). 4) Shoulders: Jack-knife push-ups. 5) Triceps: close-grip push-ups or resistant band triceps extensions. 6) Biceps: resistant band curls.

2. Eating: The key to not overeating is logging your food. It is especially important while traveling. Eating out is possible when creating a caloric deficit, but you have to take certain precautions. McDonald’s McMuffin® is my go-to breakfast when traveling. Other go-to meals I order in sit-down restaurants are small steaks with grilled vegetables or grilled fish fillet with rice.

Avoid sauces; they can contain a lot of unwanted calories. Some menus provide calorie estimates. You can usually find menu items at chain restaurants on the MyFitnessPal app (Google or iTunes), so logging it is quick and easy.

Many of us were taught from an early age to eat everything on our plate and not to waste food. Unfortunately, restaurant portions are typically larger than you need for a single meal.

As a rule of thumb, a portion of protein is roughly the size of your palm, a portion of carbohydrates is what will fit in your cupped hand and a portion of fat is the size of your thumb. A portion of vegetables is the size of your clenched fist, but I don’t put many restrictions on vegetables since they have a low caloric density, and are rich in nutrients and fiber.

If your order arrives at the table, and you realize it is more than you need to feel satisfied; ask the waiter for a takeout box. Place the extra food in it to avoid the temptation of overeating. The takeout provides a future meal or snack, depending on its size.

I recommend you limit the number of dinners you eat with your coworkers. I think one dinner to bond with coworkers over a couple of drinks is fine, but most nights, I would recommend you decline the offer. Explain to them that you are going to order room service so you can get caught up on your paperwork. Order off the menu. A steak with grilled vegetable is a great meal. Again, avoid any heavy sauces.

Staying in and ordering room service will allow you to be more productive and stay on track. The more you travel, the more important it is that you do this. Not only will you be healthier, you’ll be less stressed by travel because you won’t fall behind on your work. You can often fit in an additional workout because you can control your nightly schedule.

I believe if you apply these tips, you’ll find that staying in shape while traveling is doable. Just remember to, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt. This is great advice for any situation.

Learn more, Gym in a Carry-on – The Business Travelers Fitness Packing List

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Corporate Meditation: How and Why Big Businesses Are Promoting Meditation

Big services are clever. They've reviewed the studies. They comprehend that time invested meditating means well balanced workers who obtain points done. And also they get that putting the psychological health and wellness of their workers first raises both imagination as well as focus.

The Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace

There are tons of benefits of mindfulness backed by scientific research study. You can check out about the neuroscience of meditation in this recent post by neuroscientist Sarah McKay.

But what are the particular advantages that companies report? Business reflection train Golbie Kamarei, whose job involves both mentor mindfulness at the workplace as well as researching the impacts, led a survey to collect information at her corporate firm, in an attempt to verify the principle of meditation in the workplace.

Here is some of the research study she reported on relevant to the influence of mindfulness in the workplace, as told to Berkeley Greater Good:

91 percent reported it favorably affected the culture

88 percent would advise it to a coworker

66 percent said they really felt much less stress and anxiety or had improved stress-management capabilities

63 percent are better able manage themselves at work

60 percent reported raised focus as well as better decision-making skills

52 percent are able to better handle job relationships

46 percent reported enhanced innovation as well as creativity

It appears like all the cutting-edge CEOs are joining the conscious motion. Whether these business presented company reflection as an efficiency hack or as a real method to enhance lives, right here's whose practicing meditation and what these practicing meditation firms need to say.

1. Apple

Steve Jobs took a practice that worked for him and shared it with Apple's corporate culture. He was taken into consideration a leader of "mind innovation" when he introduced Zen mindfulness meditation to the business structure at Apple. Workers have accessibility to a reflection area, 30-minute daily meditation breaks, as well as on-site yoga exercise as well as meditation classes, which were all component of a process that Steve made use of to lower his very own tension, obtain more clearness, and also enhance his creativity.

2. Google

Google was fortunate sufficient to have one of their original software program developers spearhead a program at Google that began in 2007 called, "Browse Inside Yourself." Google offers an on-site reflection space and also reflection courses, believing that meditation can aid boost not just staff member mental wellness and also wellness, yet the company's profits as well.

3. Yahoo

Yahoo supplies meditation rooms and also complimentary meditation classes for workers to take advantage of and minimize anxiety while at the office. It seems that tech business like Yahoo are the early adopters of the conscious meditation at the workplace society with publications like Quick Company proclaiming reflection as a "must-do" to get hired.

4. Proctor and Gamble (P&G)

When various other business were mounting health clubs, P&G CEO A.G. Lafley was beginning a reflection direction program and installing meditation spaces in P&G's company structures. He's quoted as saying, "You can not out-work a trouble, you have to out-meditation it."

5. Nike

Nike utilizes a mindfulness and meditation train who recently led a workshop for a group of Nike employees. This group was composed of about 13 innovators that execute and perform significant tasks for Nike-- a lot of them are concentrated on leading the international brand name in new instructions. Mindful leadership events such as this have come to be an advantage of functioning for the huge sports brand.

6. HBO

HBO has a new hit show Enlightened and it appears like a few of that enlightenment has rubbed off on their headquarters. The firm boasts a fitness center, yoga courses, and also once a week reflections. They may generate tv, however they don't urge a society of sofa potatoes.

The method these large business are taking isn't hard to apply. Whether you have a small business or job for a business titan, it's the optimal time to present this old-time technique as part of the new means of harmonizing work and life.

Do you benefit a firm that advertises meditation? We would certainly like to know where you function as well as just how they bring mindfulness to your office. Leave a comment with your business name below.

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01 Falun Gong

Hey everyone, welcome to the show Dogma: A Podcast About Cults, I’m your host Denis Ricardo.

This show is about cults. The origins, practices and abuses of cults. So, if you are uncomfortable with descriptions of sexual, physical and mental violence and abuse, this is not the show for you.

I’m gonna try to keep it light and fun, but this stuff can get kind of dark… so you’ve been warned.

Today we’re gonna look into a cult by the name of Falun Gong. It’s one that not a lot of people have heard of, but are surprisingly very familiar with.

It’s a fairly young cult, not more than 27 years old. It began in 1992 in the northeast of China and was founded by a guy by the name of Li Hongzhi. I’m going to apologize on the pronunciation of some of these proper nouns, I am really bad at pronouncing the tones in Chinese languages.

The cult all began with Li Hongzhi running a public qigong seminar in the city of Changchun.

Qigong is an ancient Chinese practice of meditation and slow movement for the purpose of self-healing. It was and is still used in many Chinese communities as a form of alternative medicine.

The modern qigong movement started in the 1950s, shortly after the Cultural Revolution started by Mao Zedong.

Mao was a pretty hardline atheist, and believed that superstitious practices were not good for the advancement of China and communism. So, soldiers in Mao’s army adapted qigong to just be about meditation and focus, taking out all the of the spiritual elements of it. The practice was pretty popular and remains very common to this day.

Li felt a little differently about qigong, though. He feels as though the spiritual elements should be restored. So, he did just that.

Falun Gong was actually in the Chinese Communist Party’s favor, and initially saw it as a good movement. But they quickly changed their mind after they thought the movement was getting a little too independent. The Chinese government is notorious for monitoring the religious practices in China. So, in 1999 the Chinese Communist Party branded Falun Gong as heretical and began a massive propaganda campaign against the group. It mostly focused on negative articles in state-run press, which Falun Gong was quick to protest.

In April of 1999 10,000 Falun Gong protested outside a government compound in the capital Beijing demand that the government recognize them as a religious movement and stop persecuting them.

In China there are only 5 officially recognized religions because it is an atheist state. Those are Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism and Islam.

Side note, just because I’m formerly Catholic,

China’s relationship with Catholicism kind of interesting, China does not recognize the power of the Holy See’s authority to appoint bishops. So Catholics in China aren’t “Roman” Catholic or “Orthodox” Catholics they’re “Chinese” Catholics. Their relationship is contentious, but China has granted the Pope the right to reject any of the Chinese appointed bishops.

But moving on… at this point, the leader of Falun Gong, Li, was already in New York at and he was getting the cult off the ground here in the US.

But things were pretty bad for Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Reports of forced re-education, extrajudicial executions, harvesting of organs and attacks by the Chinese police at the behest of the Communist Party against Falun Gong practitioners surfaced. But, it’s not the easiest to corroborate these claims, because neither Falun Gong or the CCP are necessarily the most upfront about their practices. The New York Times has said there has been at least 2000 deaths in 2009, though Falun Gong claims that number is nearly twice that. An independent investigator, Ethan Gutmann estimates there were at least 65,000 Falun Gong members killed for organs based off of interviews. Chinese authorities do not publish statistics of Falun Gong members killed or not killed.

OK, do some less depressing stuff, Falun Gong’s main practices.

Falun Gong is a blend of traditional Chinese beliefs, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

They have three central tenants of power Truthfulness (真, Zhēn)*, Compassion (善, Shàn)*, and Forbearance (忍, Rěn)*. Thank you, Google Translate. These are achieved through meditative exercise and performance.

*these words were reproduced with Google Translate pronouncing them

Falun Gong’s teachings say that everybody is innately good and divine, but that we have descended into darkness and accrued bad karma. Reincarnation is handled by different gods for different people and ultimately the goal is to be released from the cycle of samsara and to reach enlightenment.

This sounds pretty normal for an Asian religion like Buddhism. So far so good? [With hesitation in their voice] Yeah, it gets a little weirder.

Falun Gong emphasizes traditional Chinese teachings and disregards scientific claims like evolution. This also explains why they are vehemently against communism because it is not Chinese, it’s a European philosophy.

As I said before China is an atheist state, and typically Buddhists do not have an issue with evolution and Buddhism. I couldn’t find any numbers specifically citing the public acceptance of evolution in China, however. But I have found that it is taught in school like here in American coastal elite public schools without much of a hitch.

David Ownby, a professor at the Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Montreal interviewed the leader Li Hongzhi and said that Li claims there are 10,000 supernatural powers, such as clairvoyance, precognition, levitation and transmutation and these can be achieved by humans.

Li stated at a lecture in Australia that

“…homosexuality, organized crime and promiscuous sex are not the standards of being human.”

His stance on homosexuality lead to the rescinding of a Nobel Peace Prize nomination by San Franciscan legislators back in 2001.

Li and Falun Gong have also been criticized for their teaching of mixed-marriages. A New York Times article from 2001 states

“[Li] said interracial children are the spawn of the ‘Dharma Ending Period,' a Buddhist phrase that refers to an era of moral degeneration. […] he said each race has its own paradise, and he later told followers in Australia that, 'The yellow people, the white people, and the black people have corresponding races in heaven.’ As a result, he said, interracial children have no place in heaven without his intervention.”

Many practitioners of Falun Gong have denied this and have pointed out that many of its members are in mixed-race families.

But, let’s not forget the aliens.

So Li in general seems to be against most modern things. In a 1999 TIME Magazine interview in he said:

“The aliens have introduced modern machinery like computers and airplanes…everyone thinks that scientists invent on their own when in fact their inspiration is manipulated by the aliens. In terms of culture and spirit, they already control man…the ultimate purpose is to replace humans. If cloning human beings succeeds, the aliens can officially replace humans”

Li also thinks very highly of himself. The BBC, quote:

“…he is a being from a higher level who has come to help [mankind] from the destruction it could face as the result of rampant evil.”

Having a leader proclaim to know the way to save humanity is one of the signs that the leader’s group is a cult.

So, remember when I said that another one ways to get to their three central tenants was performance? Well, you know how they do it? By selling you $150 tickets to see the spectacle of 5000 years of traditional Chinese dance while listening to anti-atheist, anti-communist propaganda… it’s Shen Yun.

So apparently Shen Yun ads popping up everywhere is now a meme, but I’ve grown up in California all my life, and I swear I’ve been seeing these things since at least 2008. These things aren’t new to me. But I guess they’re finally getting to middle America, so people can joke about it.

I said before Falun Gong was anti-Communist and anti-evolution? Well, it shows up in the performance

Here’s a sample of lyrics from a song in the show called “Awaken”

"So long ago you came down to this world For millennia you have reincarnated here Fighting to get ahead, the true you has faded Self-interested actions have cost you your purity Atheism is a pack of lies The heresy of evolution now eclipses the Divine word Amidst disaster, people complain that the gods have forsaken us Do not use science to drive humanity toward danger You came to this world for salvation, your destiny To return to heaven is your soul's deepest wish You came to this world for salvation, your destiny To return to heaven is your destiny."

And, as I said before, the group is condemned by the Chinese government. The Chinese embassy made a post on their website, calling Falun Gong an anti-communist cult, that it undermines US-Chinese relations and that Shen Yun is a political tool for this cult and is anti-Chinese agitprop. This was all in English, and I find it a little weird they’d call it “agitprop” because that’s typically reserved for communist propaganda. So I found it a little strange.

But clearly this is also propaganda, it’s a statement by a government body, and all reports on its more outrageous beliefs are from western publications so there is a bias. But straight from the horse’s mouth is the anti-evolution message and we know that these performers don’t get paid.

In the end, it’s hard to classify this as a cult. It has cult-like elements, like surveillance by a government, a savior-leader. But it lacks a hierarchy and I could not find anyone who had left the movement and faced consequences for it, which are typically signs of a cult.

It’s got some very out-there, potentially dangerous beliefs, but is it a cult? [With hesitation in their voice) Personally, I’m gonna say yes, though I don’t think it necessarily ticks all those checkboxes, so maybe it can’t really be classified as a cult.

Now comes the fun part, where I get to beg you for money. I come to you hat in hand to maybe just consider throwing a dollar or two to my Patreon. I can’t offer much right now as far as donor rewards go, but I will try my best to give you access to episodes early and maybe some other fun side projects that I have available that are still loosely related to cults. That you so much if you decide to be ever so gracious.

Thanks so much for listening, that was the first episode. I will put all of my sources in the description. Most are from Wikipedia, but I checked to see if those sources were legit, so lay off me.

New time, we’re going to be focusing on a cult a little closer to home and maybe some of you remember this cult very vividly.

All right, take care and goodbye.

Citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Falun_Gong

http://www.atheistrepublic.com/forums/atheist-hub/shen-yun

https://culteducation.com/group/1254-falun-gong/6922-is-falun-gong-a-cult.html

https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2010/11/30/china-conundrum/

http://faluninfo.net/category/persecution/killings/individual-cases-of-falun-gong-deaths/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/

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