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italian-landscapes · 6 years

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A while back, I commented a post about the Nazi German Holocaust (so-called murderer of many people in their Lagers or concentration camps, above all Jewish people during the Nazi era, 1933-1945).

Long story short, this is the link to the original post, and below my “debate” with @uwdude, who I can’t tag for some reason I don’t know and it doesn’t interest me much right now.

I suggest @uwdude to go back and revise a little history, the Real One, though, not that one publicised by a certain political extreme-right part to promote only a part of the history, that one that (but guess what...), can justify the Nazism and its atrocities.

For example, it seems extremely reckless to me comparing Allies with Nazists: of course the Allies killed a lot of people, but only as a response of German invasion of Poland in 1939 and not to “save” the Jews, whose events in Germany and abroad little or nothing was known at the time.

And, in any case, with deniers’ logic, if someone kidnaps, enslaves, starves, let to die of starvation and diseases from #300,000 to #500,000 people (see what the same writer says at point #36 of this post topic), Questions and Answers about the Holocaust). What did the free countries had to do, if not help them and every European conquered and submitted people? Exactly like every good citizen would call the police, if he sees a person committing a crime.

And, like I already said and I would rather not repeat once again, the Nazi German didn’t persecute only Jews, but also Slavic, Gypsy, homosexuals, political opponents and everyone who wasn’t just a “good and perfect exponent of the superior Aryan race” of the new Third Reich. Also, the Nazis euthanized most of German persons with psychiatric disorders, incurable patients, children with disabilities and all they considered untermensch (sub-human people), during the so-called Aktion T4 program.

And, to make it quite clear about the Jewish, Polish and Slavonic peoples, better to remind some dates and quotes, all facts happened well before the beginning of the second world war (1939); here are some examples of pre-war Nazi laws against Jewish people:

National Socialist Program, aka 25-point Plant of 24 February 1920 and, particularly, point #4:

Only a member of the race can be a citizen

A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed

Consequently, no Jew can be a member of the race

Adolf Hitler was appointed as chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933

April 1933, law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

April 1933, law Concerning Admission to the Legal Profession

April 1933, Law Against the Overcrowding of German Schools

July 1933, Citizenship and Denaturalization Law

September 1933, Hereditary Farm Law

September 1933, Establishment of the Chambers of Culture

September 1935, Nuremberg Laws

among them the Reich Gypsy Laws (see also the anti-Gypsy racial policy)

January 1936: An Executive Order on the Reich Tax Law forbade Jews from being tax consultants

April 1936: The Jewish people were banned from the veterinary profession by the Reich Veterinarians Law

October 1936: The Reich Ministry of Education banned Jewish teachers from teaching in public schools

April 1937: The mayor of Berlin ordered public schools not to allow Jewish students to attend until further notice

anti-semitic laws 1938/1939

Generalplan Ost (General Plan for the East Territories), for the German colonization of Russia and elimination and enslavement of Slavic people)

Occupation of West (and East, after 1941) Poland

German mistreatment of Soviet POWs

I also suggest to the deniers to talk with some of the very last nazi camps’ survivors or Allies liberators, or to read their memories or also to watch some of the clips on this topic you can easily find on the web, On the other hand, the 66 questions and answers about the holocaust, we’re talking about haven’t a single shred of evidence to support them. From my point of view, no-contest with evidences vs. nothing,

Ah, I almost forgot: to avoid any infamous and totally inappropriate misunderstanding, I’m not a Jew, even if this it’s totally not about what above, but just to shut neo-nazis and deniers up with their same, boring topics, for instance “you talk like that only in defense and justification of your race”.

If anyone wanted to comment in any way, he/she will always be welcomed, but only with data and facts, accompanied by documentary evidences. On the contrary, any insult and senseless claptrap will not be considered.

To conclude, have a look at these two clips, the first one with Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton (three notorious Communists, as everyone knows very well..., among them the last one, just the one who wanted to go on with the war, but this time against the Red Army) visiting a Nazi camp, and the second one on Aktion T4 program:

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P.s.: I’ve just had a look at uwdude’s blog; he definitely doesn’t have a clue what he was in for, if he lived in Nazi Germany.

As an homosexual, he was surely interned in a camp, and long before the Jews who he hates so much, because the convictions for such a sexual behavior, not conform to the "German norm.", began since the same 1933, at the very beginning of Nazi government.

The 175 paragraph of the German penal code, in force since 1871 ("An unnatural sex act committed between persons of male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed"), were amended by Nazis in “A male who commits a sex offense with another male or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed", making possible the persecution of every same-sex act, even if it were just the possession of gay sex photos or the mere exchange of love letters between gay men.

And, imprisoned in a concentration camp, with his striped tunic and a pink triangle to show the reason of his sentence, uwdude would suffered a harsh and unusually cruel treatment, because homosexuals were considered to be the lowest of the low in the concentration camp hierarchy.

And, likely, he would never leave the camp alive: some 50,000 homosexuals were officially sentenced in total. Most of these men served time in regular prisons, and an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 of those sentenced were incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. It is unclear how many of the 5,000 to 15,000 would die in the camps, because the death rate of homosexuals in concentration camps may have been as high as 60%.

Just a very last thing: before reblogging posts like the following, better think very well about what would've happened to him if he was interned in a Nazi concentration camp. This isn’t a joking matter.

Better for uwdude to know these facts, before supporting those which would have been his own persecutors.

#germany #nazi germany #nazism #lagers #concentration camp #concentration camps #holocaust #jewish people #jews #homosexuality #homosexuals #gay #gay man #lgbt community #lgbt #nazi camps

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Rules

You are NOT allowed to send screenshots in this game. Receipts are allowed (i.e. copy-paste text from skype) but screenshots are STRICTLY prohibited, except to the host. You are NOT allowed to fake receipts through making a new skype as someone else.

Cross tribal communication is not permitted.

The hosts has final say. Please respect the decisions that we make (you agreed to do so when you applied).

If you receive a total of 3 strikes, you will be removed from the game. You can be removed from the game after only 1 warning, depending on the situation (warnings are for violations like cheating). There is a more detailed section on strikes and warnings below.

All challenges are mandatory unless stated otherwise (like if a reward is offered in exchange for giving up chances at immunity or a similar circumstance).

If you are in another game with a fellow player, you are required to let the hosts know.

The beginning of the game (for total newbies):

At the beginning of the game, you will be added to your tribe chat. This is the online version of your tribe beach, where you can talk publicly with your other tribe mates to bond and such. This is where all challenges, results, and announcements will be sent and where non-live tribal councils will be held. You’re more than welcome to call this chat and talk if people want to.

To start off, you will need to add your fellow tribe mates as contacts on Skype.

If you want to make an alliance with three players on your tribe and nobody else to secure numbers or stay in touch with the minority group or distract a group or whatever, you will need to make a group chat on Skype (the hosts can teach you to do this if you don’t know how already). Please give your chat a name even if it isn’t an official alliance.

The hosts MUST be in your alliance chats. We will send reminders of this in the tribe chat periodically, since it’s easy to forget. We won’t interfere with any of your game talk, but we do need to be there so we have a sense of what’s going on in the game and make sure no talk violates the rules. You do not need to make an alliance chat in order to communicate with just one other person. You can just direct message them on Skype. If you have any questions about communicating with other players, just let us know!

Immunity Challenges:

During the tribal stage of the game, each tribe will compete in immunity challenges. The losing tribe will attend tribal council and vote someone off their tribe, except in circumstances of twists, which will be laid out clearly in posts or announcements.

If a tribe has a numbers advantage, they will be required to sit out member(s) of their tribe. The tribe must tell the host who they are sitting out within the amount of time listed on the post. The sitting out player may not attempt the challenge before choosing to sit out, and they may not advise on any strategy during the challenge. If a tribe fails to notify who will be sitting out, the hosts will randomly select someone to sit out, and that randomization can be done on screen share at players’ request.

Contestants cannot sit out in back-to-back challenges. If one person sits out of an immunity challenge, they must compete in the next immunity challenge.

After the merge, players will compete for individual immunity. The contestant who wins individual immunity cannot be voted for at tribal council. Twists may affect the amount of players with immunity.

If the contestant who won individual immunity wishes to give their immunity to another contestant, they must notify the hosts at least 6 hours before votes are due to accommodate for revotes. Once the announcement is made that individual immunity is being given to another contestant, the voting will restart and all contestants must cast another vote, even if they already cast a vote before the announcement was made. Failure to do so will result in a self vote. In this situation, depending on when the announcement is made, there may be a deadline extension at players’ request. At a live tribal, players may transfer individual immunity any time before the votes are cast.

If you fail to submit a score for an immunity challenge, you will receive a strike. If you alert us that you will not be submitting you will NOT receive a strike. Two consecutive strikes will result in removal from the game. Three strikes overall with also result in removal from the game.

All immunity challenges are mandatory.

Reward Challenges:

During the tribal stage of the game, tribes may compete in reward challenges. The winning tribe will win a reward. The reward varies each time. The reward will be explained when the challenge is posted, but will typically have to do with searching for the Hidden Immunity Idol/other advantages, or some kind of advantage in the immunity challenge.

If a tribe has a numbers advantage, they must sit a player(s) out of the challenge. See immunity challenges for expansion on this; same rules apply.

After the merge, contestants may compete in reward challenges as well, either in groups or individually. The rules for the challenge will vary based on the reward given that round.

Reward challenges are mandatory unless specified otherwise and you will receive a strike if you do not submit that will count towards your total number of strikes.

Scores:

To submit a score for a challenge where screenshots are required, you must take a screenshot of your full screen, which includes the date and time. Your FIRST NAME must be in the URL bar for your score to count. If you have any problems with screenshots (including if you are playing from a smartphone), let us know and we will help you or give you an alternative.

If a score is submitted after the deadline, it will not count at the hosts’ discretion (there may be lenience if it is very close, or if there is an extreme circumstance) and will result in a challenge strike.

All scores must be new! You cannot use a score that you have from a previous game or from playing on your own time. The date and time must be visible in the screenshot.

If you are caught using an old score, you will receive a punishment.

You may not alter your scores using any photo editing software. If you do this you will be removed from the game.

Hidden Immunity Idols:

If you wish to use a hidden immunity idol, you must inform the hosts BEFORE the voting deadline.

Once the voting deadline passes, no idols may be played or transferred.

If you are playing your idol for someone other than yourself, you must specify who you wish to play it for.

If you want to give possession of your idol to another player in the game, you must tell the host and the hosts will transfer it for you. Any idol not moved by the hosts is not legitimate.

The idol can be used up to and including the final 5, meaning that you can idol yourself into the final 4 but no further. After that it’s just a fancy souvenir from your time in the game.

In the event of a revote, the idol cannot be played on the second round of voting.

Idols cannot be transferred across tribal lines, with the exception of during One World rounds.

So How Do I Find the Idol?

You can search for the idol on the Island of Immunity

You are not required to search for the idol.

You are allowed to share information about the idol hunt with whoever you want, but keep in mind that a) it is ultimately an individual game, and b) any information you hear may be a lie. The only people who will never lie about the idol hunt is the hosts.

Tribal Council:

The tribe that loses immunity will attend tribal council. Tribal councils will be made public and the other tribe will be able to see the results.

If tribal is live on Google Hangouts: all questions will be asked live, votes will be cast in real time, idols and items will be played live, and the results will be read in real time. Everyone will be required to attend, unless there are extenuating circumstances, in which case a player or two may be allowed to vote and answer their question early.

If tribal is not live: tribal questions will be asked soon after immunity results are given. Tribal questions must be answered publicly in the tribe chat before tribal council begins. If a tribal council is not hosted and broadcast on Google hangouts, it is NOT considered live. You MUST play any idols or objects before the voting deadline.

Failure to answer your tribal council question will result in a strike.

Votes must be cast by the voting deadline. If they are late, they will not count. The voting deadline can be extended with certain requests (normally, a tribe majority must consent). You must tell the hosts you are playing an idol or an item before the time the votes are due.

To reiterate: if you wish to play an idol at a non-live tribal council, you can only do so until the voting deadline. You may retract an idol play between the voting deadline and tribal council, but you may not initiate a play. The time between the voting deadline and tribal council exists ONLY so that host can get together the votes, make the tribal post, etc.

Voting and tribal councils:

In the tribal stage of the game, the tribe that loses the immunity challenge will attend tribal council and vote someone off their tribe.

After the merge, all players left in the game must attend tribal council. The contestant with individual immunity cannot be voted for but will vote at tribal council.

To submit a vote, you will write out your vote on the parchment provided for you, using any photo editing software or website of your choice (the hosts can recommend one if you don’t have one) and you will send it to your host chat via Skype with a voting confession.

You may decorate your parchment however you want, provided the name of the person you’re voting for is clear on it.

Your voting confession will be made public, i.e. read on call and included in the post.

Failure to cast a vote at tribal council will result in a self vote and a strike.

If you self vote twice in a row, you will be removed from the game.

Once you submit your vote, you can change your vote until the voting deadline and must re-submit a parchment and voting confession. Your old parchment will be deleted.

Cheating/rule-breaking:

Cheating includes but is not limited to:

Altering a challenge score.

Using a score from Google.

Talking to members of the opposing tribe.

Talking to jury members, or members who were voted out pre-merge.

Sending screenshots (if someone sends you a screenshot and you do not report it, this can be held against you, too).

Receiving help in a challenge (besides asking for tips/advice, i.e. having them do the challenge for you) from someone outside of the game.

Attempting to rig the game in your favor in any way.

Soliciting information about the game from someone in the viewing lounge or otherwise able to watch the game unfold (if someone sends you this information, please let the hosts know so we can take action).

Punishments:

In the event that a contestant is caught breaking the rules, the hosts will choose a punishment appropriate for the action. The punishment will be decided by the hosts without input from the contestants unless all contestants are affected by a rule break.

Under normal circumstances, we will follow these guidelines for punishments:

Generally speaking, strikes are punishments given out for failure to maintain activity in the game, such as self-voting, not submitting for a challenge, not answering a tribal council question, or not submitting a confessional. Strikes are intended to keep the game active and remove any players who are ghosting. Three strikes overall will result in removal from the game, and two consecutive strikes will also result in removal from the game, unless there are extreme circumstances such as a familial death, serious injury, or otherwise serious incidents.

On the other hand, warnings will be issued for any violation of ethical rules, such as cross-tribal communication, communicating with a member of jury, removing hosts from chats, sending screenshots, or soliciting information about the game from someone in the viewing lounge. Warnings are not the same thing as strikes. Players will receive one warning explaining their violation of the rules. Generally speaking, if it happens again, the player will be removed because they have compromised the integrity of the game. Jury members are still considered players in the game, and the warning system will still apply to them.

Please keep in mind that the hosts are human, that this is an online game, and that none of it is as serious as it may feel. We want to have fun, so do your best to make this experience fun for everyone. Any bullying or comments with the intention of hurting others will be cause for the immediate removal from the game.

For most circumstances, either a strike or a warning are a sufficient punishment. However, depending on the severity of the rule break, other punishments include but are not limited to:

Immediate evacuation from the game.

Not receiving a reward.

Ineligible to win individual immunity.

Decreased immunity score.

A vote at tribal council.

Removal from jury.

Inability to join the VL after the game.

Quitting:

If a member of the tribe quits after the immunity challenge, there will be no vote unless the tribe unanimously agrees to still have one.

Depending on the situation, if a contestant quits while the jury is in place, they will not be on the jury and will not be allowed to cast a vote for a winner. A member of pre-jury will replace them or the jury may remain the same at the hosts’ discretion. There are extenuating circumstances (death in the family, medical emergency, etc.) that will allow a player who quits to remain on jury.

Don’t quit please.

Seriously.

Being voted out:

Once you are voted out of the game, you will be removed from the tribe chat and added to either the pre-jury chat or the Ponderosa chat.

You are permitted to post last words in the chat, but please run it by the hosts before posting to ensure it won’t interfere with the game.

In your last words, you may not mention any game specifics. This is in order to avoid potentially screwing up someone else’s game. If it is post-merge and your public last words are intended to sabotage someone’s game, you will not be allowed to serve on jury.

You will also be asked to submit a last words confession via the confession link, but this will not be public until after the game has finished, so you may say whatever you want there.

After being voted out pre-merge, I encourage you to continue following the season. Game updates will be posted in the pre-jury ponderosa chat, and you’re more than welcome to continue talking with the hosts. We’d love to have you in future games and give you applications to other things in the community! If you are voted out before the jury phase of the game starts, you will be added to a pre-jury ponderosa chat.

Pre-jurors are not allowed to communicate with anyone left in the game or anyone on the jury as it can interfere with the outcome of the game.

Jury:

Once the jury phase of the game starts, when players are voted out, they will be removed from the tribe chat and placed in the ponderosa chat. This is the jury chat.

Jury members are not permitted to talk to players who are still in the game.

Jury members will be allowed and encouraged to watch tribal councils. If tribal council is in the tribe chat, jury members will be re-added so they can take part in the call and then removed. If tribal council is on google hangouts, the jurors will be given a youtube link where they can watch tribal council as it unfolds live. Don’t be afraid to remind us to add you to the tribe chat, as it can be easy to forget!

You are allowed to post reaction gifs and emojis without any text during tribal councils if you are observing the chat, like how jurors can only make faces in response to the drama on the show.

Jury members are allowed to discuss the game in the ponderosa chat but not with anyone left in the game or anyone voted out pre-merge.

If a jury member is caught interfering with the game, they will be removed from the jury, no exceptions

In the event that someone is removed from the jury, the slot may be filled by a prejuror or the jury may remain the same at the host’s discretion.

Confessions:

To submit your confessions, use the link on the blog that will direct you to a Google Form where you will submit your confession. You can ask us for a confessional link as well if you are on mobile.

We recommend saving the link as a bookmark on your browser so you have it when you need it in case we are not around.

You can add gifs to your confessions, they can be written, they can be audio or they can be video.

If you are uploading a video confession to YouTube, make sure that you set the privacy settings to unlisted. This makes it so that only the people with a link to the video can see it. You wouldn’t want anyone in the game seeing what you’re saying, so make sure it’s unlisted.

Confessions will be posted at the end of the game once the winner is announced, grouped by “episode,” or by round. During the game, the host is the only people with access to them, so don’t be shy about sharing what’s going on and how you’re really feeling. However, if you would like to send a confession to our viewing lounge, send one to your host chat!

Tie Breakers:

In the event of a tie at tribal council, a revote will be held. The contestants who the vote is tied between will not be allowed to vote.

If there is still a tie after the revote, the contestants will draw rocks to see who gets voted out. To simulate a rock draw, the names of the remaining contestants will be put on a list and randomized on random.org. This randomization will happen live with screen sharing on so the contestants can ensure that it’s fair. At the beginning, the host will ask how many times from 1-10 players want it randomized, and it will be randomized that many times. The person on the TOP of the list after the final randomization will go home.

The contestants who are tied will be immune from drawing rocks as well as any player(s) with individual immunity or any players who played a hidden immunity idol.

If there is a tie at the final 4, the 2 contestants who are tied will face off in a challenge of the host’s creation that will be comparable to the fire making contests on Survivor. The winner of the challenge will stay in the game.

Tolerance:

This game has a zero tolerance rule when it comes to bullying of any kind, whether it be personal or take on racial/homophobic/gender based tones. Regardless, cruelty, harassment, and bullying are not tolerated.

If a contestant makes any racial and/or gender and/or homophobic slurs or anything along those lines, they will be removed from the game.

If somebody breaks this rule on bullying, personal attacks, and harassment, please notify the hosts immediately with screenshots and we will handle it for you. You will be taken seriously, kept completely anonymous, and not punished in any way for coming forward. The safety and comfort of you players is our absolute highest priority.

If you are unclear on any rules, please ask us to clarify.

If there are any questions that you have that are not addressed in the rules, do not hesitate to ask us. Please consult us and do not make any assumptions about the rules, as it could be bad for your game. Players have ended up going home because they didn’t read the rules.

More rules may be added as the game progresses and more things are revealed. The hosts reserve the right to change and update rules as situations arise during the game

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mediacalling · 5 years

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10 Useful (and Fun!) Ways to Use Instagram Stickers

Over 500 million people use their Instagram stickers for brands and personal accounts every single day. And it makes sense why. There are endless ways to use them. (Plus, they’re just so darn fun!)

Instagram stickers open up a whole new world of digital engagement and recognition for brands—regardless of industry or niche. And you can choose from lots of different sticker types, such as:

Hashtag stickers

Poll stickers

Question stickers

Location stickers

Mention stickers

Music stickers

Countdown stickers

GIFs

Emoji sliders

Shoppable tags

In this post, we’ve created a handy list of ways you can use Instagram stickers. But before we dive headfirst into those tips, however, let’s review why Instagram stickers are so great in the first place.

Benefits of Using Instagram Stickers

Engagement

Customers love interacting with your content. Stickers, such as for polls and questions, make talking with your audience easier. Or, at the very least, include them in the conversation. (If you’re stuck on ideas, grab some content inspiration.)

Brand Development

Stickers give brands more opportunities to show off their personalities. Instagram stickers let you share things like music and GIFs that uniquely represent your brand voice. Using them will help make your Instagram stand out among the competition and continue to hone recognition from viewers.

Discoverability

Location, hashtags, and mention stickers make getting found in Stories shared by other accounts easier—whether by an influencer adding your post to a Story or the location of an upcoming live event. The more strategic stickers you add to your post, the greater chance your Story will be seen by new and relevant audiences.

Check out these ways that you can use Instagram stickers for brands to reap those (and many other) benefits.

10 Ideas for Using Instagram Stickers

1. Share context

A picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need to add context clues. A random photo of a crowd standing outside your store doesn’t mean anything on its own. Add an event hashtag sticker on top, though, and suddenly your viewers can access all the photos taken at your special occasion.

2. Set reminders

Of the many Instagram stickers for brands and personal accounts we’ve seen, the set reminders tool is the most practical. Once you put a Countdown Sticker on your Story, viewers can add the event to their calendar and turn on reminder notifications. It’s a great tool for helping your fans keep up with all your awesome events and special offers.

3. Schedule live streams

Use the Countdown Sticker to notify viewers when you’ll be going Live. One of the best ways to get new eyeballs on your streams is by promoting the heck out of the event ahead of time. Because Instagram Stories go hand in hand with Instagram Lives, it only makes sense that you should use them together.

4. Caption live replays and videos

Stories need context (as we’ve already explained). So when you share a replay of a live stream (or even just a regular video) to your account, you can use Instagram Stickers. Hashtag and mention stickers help explain who and what your video is about. And Question or Poll stickers can work as fantastic survey tools for your main topic.

5. Promote time-sensitive events.

Events like one-day-only sales or early bird specials greatly benefit from the addition of Instagram Stickers for brands. In addition to using the countdown timer, brands can also add funny reaction GIFs or emoji sliders to add excitement or call attention to the time crunch.

6. Answer FAQs

Give customers a chance to get their most pressing questions answered with help from Instagram stickers for brands. The question sticker allows for short-form answer responses, so they’ll have a chance to add details if they like. You can then use the mention sticker when you share their questions with the corresponding answer in your story later.

7. Set the mood

There’s no better way to convey a feeling than to use with the right music. (Just ask anyone who has ever proclaimed their love for someone while holding a boombox over their head.) Use the music sticker on your Story to create the vibe. Instagram helps you out with this by offering a music search by category, listing songs for happy, upbeat, and inspirational music, among others.

8. Get direct feedback

Sometimes, businesses have questions for their audience that they can’t ask anywhere else. Which brings us to our other favorite use for questions stickers. Add these to your story to learn things like audience preferences, opinions, and special requests. Everyone loves having their opinions heard, so this Instagram sticker for brands is sure to be a hit with your audience.

9. Promote CTAs

Instagram stickers for brands are about more than just having fun. They can also be a great tool for driving traffic to certain landing pages, boosting engagement with other social posts, and much, much more. For example, you can help viewers find and submit to your contest using the hashtag sticker.

10. Feature new products

Shoppable tags are a new Instagram story sticker for brands that everyone can get excited about. Tag the products featured in your story to send users to your online store. You can even use the rest of your story to share other product details and demos when selling products on Instagram.

If you want to make some incredibly engaging and memorable Instagram stories, you’ve got to use Instagram stickers for brands. These 10 creative uses for Instagram story stickers are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Woman won beauty contest set up by the banned neo-Nazi terrorist group

Alice Cutter, 22, named herself ‘Buchenwald Princess’ in beauty competition – after the German concentration camp where thousands of Jews were slaughtered during WWII

A woman accused of being a member of National Action entered a beauty contest set up by the banned neo-Nazi terrorist group in a bid to recruit more members to it.

Alice Cutter, 22, won the competition in which she named herself ‘Buchenwald Princess’ – after the German concentration camp where thousands of Jews were slaughtered during WWII.

She entered ‘Miss Hitler’ to ‘raise the profile’ of National Action, jurors at Birmingham Crown Court were told as her trial opened today.

The court heard that it was ‘no coincidence’ that her fiancé Mark Jones, 24, had been pictured doing a Nazi salute in an execution room at the camp just a month earlier.

The engaged couple have gone on trial accused of being members of the banned far-right organisation, which was proscribed in December 2016.

They deny the charges alongside co-defendants Garry Jack, 23, and Connor Scothern, 18.

It is alleged she entered competition in a bid to recruit more members to the extremist group National Action and ‘raise the profile’ it, jurors at Birmingham Crown Court were told. Cutter and her fiancé Mark Jones have gone on trial accused of being members of the banned far-right organisation, which was proscribed in December 2016

The couple deny the charges alongside co-defendants Garry Jack, 23, and Connor Scothern (pictured left outside the court)

Prosecutor Barnaby Jameson QC said: ‘Terror comes in many different forms.

‘None, perhaps, more chilling than the particular brand of terror the four accused were seeking to spread.

‘The terror of the gun, the terror of the knife, the terror of the noose, the terror of the explosive, the terror of the gas chamber.

‘The terror of an ideology so warped, so extreme and so twisted, its continued existence will be shocking to many of you, if not all.

‘It is the terror of pathological racial prejudice. It is the terror of society lacerated by division. It is the terror of ethnic cleaning.

‘It is the terror of life without mercy. It is the terror of violent dictatorship. It is the terror neo-Nazi white supremacy.

‘It is, above all, the terror of hate.

‘This case is about a fellowship of hate. A hate so fanatical and a fellowship so defiant that the accused would sooner break the law than break their bonds of hate.

‘This case is about a tiny, self-selecting group of young people in this country, for whom Hitler’s work will always be unfinished.

‘A group for whom the Final Solution to the Jewish question, to use Hitler’s words, remains to be answered by complete eradication.

‘We are talking about a group seeking to mimic Hitler’s ‘Sturmabteilung’ or storm detachment – the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi party.

‘The Crown should make it clear at this early stage that this case, involving as it does Nazi fanatics, will by its nature lead you, the jury, into a world as dark as a black sun.

‘The words ‘black sun’ are chosen for a reason. Why will become clear in due course.

‘It is a world that will transport the court back to the horrors of Nazi Germany: the concentration camps, the gas chambers, the mass executions, the crematoria and the Satanic chimneys.’

The court heard how Jones had travelled with a fellow member of the group to the Buchenwald concentration camp where he posed for a photo doing a Nazi salute.

The image later appeared on the National Action website with the caption ‘Oy vey. Such horrors. Dem bois were recently on tour in Germania’.

Mr Jameson added: ‘It shows the faces, deliberately blurred, of two men in an empty room giving the Nazi salute.

‘The men were in the execution room of Buchenwald, a Nazi concentration camp that stood out, even by the standards of Nazi concentration camps, for its depravity.

‘Like Auschwitz, Buchenwald is a permanent museum to honour the victims and remind the world of the horrors perpetrated in the name of Nazism.

‘There expression ‘Oy vey’ was deliberate. It is Yiddish indicating dismay or grief.’

Mr Jameson told the court how Jones and Cutter were to later become an item after she appeared in Miss Hitler 2016.

Cutter put herself forward for the competition via the VK online network the week after Jo Cox MP was murdered by a far right extremist.

The contest was organised by the far right organisation National Action, which was banned the same year after members celebrated the killing of Ms Cox.

She wore a National Action face-mask in her profile photo and called for women to ‘step up and be lionesses’ and ‘rip apart the hyenas laughing at us’.

Mr Jameson added: ‘On 24th June 2016 National Action staged, if you can believe this, a beauty contest titled Miss Hitler 2016.

‘This was, no doubt a publicity stunt to raise the group’s profile and attract more members.

‘Amusing to a teenage schoolboy, perhaps, until you look at the detail.

‘Alice Cutter entered and I think won the competition as ‘Buchenwald Princess’ and set out her mission statement in a detailed interview.

‘It is anything but funny.

‘The name ‘Buchenwald Princess’ was perhaps no co-incidence given that Jones had visited the execution room at Buchenwald the previous month and Jones and Cutter became an item.’

Mr Jameson read out an excerpt of the answers she gave in an interview for the contest, in which she said: ‘It’s so important to me that there’s a balance of feminine to masculine in the movement.

‘Without feminine involvement, what would a movement be?

‘A sad sausage fest with no appeal?

‘Women are the most important figures when it comes to teaching and raising the next generation to be strong and proud.

‘Nurturing is not a weak role, it is essential.

‘I don’t want this horrendous cycle of sanctioning the demise of our own race for the benefit of others to continue due to women falling victim to cultural Marxist propaganda.

‘We need to step up, be the lionesses we ought to be and rip apart the hyenas laughing at us as we get raped, beaten, brainwashed and de-feminised en masse.

‘Hyenas have no place in our pride and they never will.’

The court heard Jones and Cutter become an item after she appeared in Miss Hitler 2016

The court also heard Jones was arrested at a white supremacist event in Swansea in March, 2016, and fined for throwing a flare in the street

The four defendants are charged with membership of the group between December 17, 2016 and September 5, 2017 after it was banned by then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

Cutter, of Halifax, West Yorks. and Scothern, of Nottingham, remain on bail, while Jones, of Halifax, and Jack, of Birmingham, West Midlands are in custody.

The court also heard, National Action members superimposed their faces onto characters from Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’ film in a meme shared between the group, the court heard.

The jury were told Jones was featured in the image as ‘Mr Angry’ due to his ‘intense interest in guns and knives’.

Mr Jameson added: ‘On November 4, 2016, an image finds its way onto Scothern’s mobile of six National Action men dressed from Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs.

‘To ‘Mr Pyro’s’ right is the first defendant, Jones, under the name ‘Mr Angry.’

‘This is the same Jones who gave the Nazi salute in the execution room in Buchenwald and who had an intense interest in guns and knives.

‘You will have to decide whether the epithet ‘Mr Angry’ was apt.

‘Jones is a National Action die-hard. He was a far right activist since his late teens, being part of the youth wing of the British National Party.

‘He formed a relationship with Alice Cutter in 2016 and the couple moved in together in West Yorkshire in 2017.

‘During the banned phase you will hear that Jones was a member of the inner chat group strictly reserved for National Action leadership under the name ‘Granddaddy Terror’.’

Birmingham Crown Court was also told how Cutter complained of anxiety and chest pains when National Action was banned.

Mr Jameson said: ‘On December 12, 2016, Jones alerts Cutter to the possibility of terrorism raids

‘The panic was well-founded and began to spread.

‘On December 12, 2016, Parliament gave a public indication that National Action would be banned by the end of that week.

‘At 11.58am, Cutter messaged Jones as follows: ‘I suggest you get your arse home asap and make sure everything is wiped’.

‘At 1.13pm Cutter messaged again: ‘No way to truly clean up my iPad. Or phone even.

‘At 1.14pm Cutter messaged ‘I wish I could call I’m really sick today cause of it to the point where I’ve got such bad anxiety I’m dry heaving and having stabbing pains in my chest’.

‘Given that Cutter denies ever having been a member of National Action, you may wonder what was so worried about wiping her iPad and mobile?’

The court also heard Scothern had a vile meme on his phone showing piles of ash with the words ‘dead jew child’.

The antisemitic image appeared on his mobile on December 9, 2016, just days before the extremist group he is accused of belonging to was banned.

All of the defendants deny the charges. Cutter and Scothern are pictured outside of Birmingham Crown Court

Mr Jameson said Scothern’s father thought he had been ‘groomed’ and ‘brainwashed’.

He added: ‘News of the imminent ban parked an explosive exchange of texts between Scothern and his father.

‘The latter warned his son he risked being stabbed or sent to prison.

‘Scothern replied ‘I’d rather [be] stabbed than submit to my enemies and allow my continent to be given to invaders where the f**k is your honour and pride’.

‘His father responded ‘you sound a bit brainwashed are you being groomed’.’

Mr Jameson said the final defendant Garry Jack was an ‘out and out fanatic’ who wanted to be part of the National Action ‘revolution.’

He told the jury: ‘Jack said he was willing to sacrifice time, relationships and friendships to become part of a revolution.

‘Within a fortnight of joining, Jack was chosen for the stickering attack on Aston University.

‘Jack was, we say, was connected to almost everyone in National Action including his co-Defendants, Cutter, Jones and Scothern.

‘In the post-proscription phase, Jack, or ‘Rump Steak’ continued as an active member of National Action.

‘His mindset remained overtly Nazi during the banned phase of National Action.’

All of the defendants deny the charges.

The trial continues.

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Should We Incorporate Social Media Into Online Education?

The following is a guest post written by Emily Johnson, freelance blogger and content writer. If you would like to submit a guest post, please contact us.

Let’s be honest: online teaching and learning is not easy. Both instructors as well as students need to deal with a number of problems that arise from the limitations of virtual education. Thus, online instruction requires novel, creative methods, which would help students acquire new knowledge and make them feel less isolated.

Does social media have the power to improve virtual education? Can it solve most of the problems both online educators as well as online students strive to overcome each and every day? Would incorporating it into virtual teaching and learning make a difference? Keep on reading to find out.

The Challenges of Online Education and How Social Media Can Help To Overcome Them

Whether you’re a teacher who considers conducting online courses or a student who got enchanted by an idea of getting a degree online and wants to try, chances are that you think there’s nothing complicated about it:

As an online tutor, all you’ll have to do is to prepare materials, upload them on a site, and then, check the progress of your students and provide them with feedback.

As an online student, all you’ll have to do is download materials from a website, study them at home, and then, do the homework and upload it on a site.

That’s it, right? Unfortunately, in practice, it’s more complicated than that. Each step of the way only seems to be easy. In reality, problems arise. Problems, which can be hard to deal with and solve.

#1 Computer literacy.

Attending and creating an online course requires a person to develop new computer skills, and while professors may already have the knowledge on how to navigate the necessary systems and programs, many students don’t. Research shows that computer literacy of university graduates is low. Thus, we can assume that computer literacy of students who just begin their studies or are in the middle of them isn’t any better.

Now, to be able to fully participate in an online course, students need to learn to use LMS (i.e. Learning Management System), be able to operate such programs as MS Word or PowerPoint, and fix computer problems if they occur. Without any technological knowledge and skills, it can be a challenge too hard to deal with.

Also, although “Help Pages” and detailed FAQ sections may be of some help, finding the necessary information and following instruction can be time-consuming, problematic, and frustrating. Thus, here’s another idea:

To allow students to contact and chat with a computer expert via a social media platform. It’s fast and easy. Moreover, this way, students can quickly improve their computer skills and feel more supported in their studies.

#2 Communication problems and the lack of human contact.

Conducting as well as participating in an online course often results in communication problems and limits for both professors as well as students. Thus, exchanging thoughts, sharing ideas, asking questions, clarifying various issues, explaining the course material, or simply talking, may take some time and be difficult (especially if it can only happen in the LMS or via email). What’s more, distance learning means learning away from a campus and student dormitories, which can affect a person’s sense of belonging to a community of students and so, make them feel isolated.

Can we improve communication between online tutors and students, and help students make friendships, share their thoughts, and interact with their peers? Yes, we can. Social media is the answer.

By promoting the use of social media and creating special groups for students on such platforms as Facebook, we can help teachers contact their students (and vice versa) quickly from any device, and we provide students with a perfect place to talk to their peers, discuss problems, share various ideas or reviews, and form a community. In fact, in a recent study, 75% of students say they feel comfortable using social networking to discuss course work with other students and 58% use it to communicate with their classmates.

Now, since students find social media platforms useful for educational purposes as well as forming friendships, incorporating social media into online education can both improve communication between students and teachers, and make students feel less lonely.

#3 Boredom, self-motivation and time-management.

Although online courses work for a number of students, many fail an online class, especially at community colleges. Why? Well, in a study conducted in 2011, students provided a number of reasons why you may fail an online course, and so, drop out of college. Here are the causes:

Motivation (35%).

Study habits (17%).

Academic preparedness (12%).

External factors (11%).

Attitudes (11%).

Instruction (10%).

Relevancy issues (4%).

What also has a negative impact on online students is the fact that e-learning may sometimes feel like e-reading. Thus, online courses lack variety and can be simply boring. After all, not everyone find reading textbooks and other materials as the best way to learn. Some students acquire new knowledge by listening to lectures. Others prefer doing things in practice. There are also those who learn best by watching videos. So, variety in virtual education is a must to keep students engaged.

Now, since online students are not self-motivated to learn, find it hard to create and stick to their own learning schedules, and often get bored, is there anything we can do to help them? As a matter of fact, yes, there is. Social media gives us a possibility to solve a number of problems that online students face.

Here are several creative ideas on how educators can use social media platforms to support their students:

Create and post inspirational and motivational quotes on Facebook, and thus, help your students achieve their goals.

Send reminders about assignments and upcoming deadlines via online platforms.

Make competitions and contests (thus, you can encourage creative writing, help students improve their skills in a number of areas, and entertain them).

Instead of uploading another longish lecture on a website for your students to read, make a video lesson on YouTube.

Ask intriguing questions in posts and so, start an online discussion (let your students engage in a conversation with you as well as their peers).

Encourage your students to make posts or tweets on a given topic for extra credit.

As you can see, social media gives a number of possibilities to help students succeed in an online class.

Final Thoughts

There are many reasons why we should incorporate social media into online education. First of all, students are familiar with it, so they will have no problems with accessing materials on social media platforms or contacting their teachers. Also, social media platforms can help students to form and maintain interactions with others. Moreover, it allows online students to ask more questions and get answers fast.

For online teachers, social media gives a lot of new opportunities as well. Teachers can easily contact their students, have more possibilities to help them acquire new knowledge as well as engage them. Also, it’s much faster, easier, and convenient to give students feedback via a social media platform than an online system.

Thus, by incorporating social media into virtual education we’ve nothing to lose, and a lot to gain.

Author’s Bio: Emily Johnson is a college graduate who spends her free time writing thought-provoking blog posts about education, college life, blogging, and writing. Her articles that give career advice help and inspire people all over the Web. To find out more about Emily, check her website, OmniPapers, and her Twitter.

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