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Cthulhu Saves the World PC Review
by Alex Fuller · Published August 14, 2011 · Updated April 20, 2020
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Celebrating its very well-received outing on Xbox Live Indie Games, Zeboyd Games has given PC gamers the chance to enjoy its lighthearted RPG, Cthulhu Saves the World, with a number of gameplay tweaks and some new features. The Cthulhu Saves the World: Super Hyper Enhanced Championship Edition Alpha Diamond DX Plus Alpha FES HD – Premium Enhanced Game of the Year Collector's Edition (without Avatars!), hereafter known as the Super Edition (also available on Xbox Live Indie Games), is a very enjoyable romp with an appeal that spreads across the RPG spectrum thanks to its retro graphics, finely tuned battle system, and well-written humour.
One of a number of games that hark back to the retro days of gaming, Cthulhu Saves the World is very easy to pick up and play. Players take control of the mighty Cthulhu himself, but unfortunately a wizard has sealed his powers and the player must help Cthulhu get them back. Doing so requires Cthulhu to become a true hero, and thus he embarks upon a very tongue-in-cheek quest that ultimately leads to him saving the world, picking up a number of entertaining allies as he goes. The controls are simple and work equally well using either the keyboard or a gamepad. Players will find their time split between the first-person, Dragon Quest-esque battle screen, and the standard top-down view when exploring dungeons, towns, and the world map.
The battle system is a fairly simple turn-based affair at first glance but contains a surprising amount of depth. Enemies gain strength with each passing turn, meaning that players will need to consider the most efficient ways of winning battles. Simply grinding out basic attacks is rarely an effective tactic, and players will be required to use the full array of abilities that Zeboyd Games has provided. In addition to the various damage-dealing attacks, players can inflict various statuses, attempt to draw enemy strikes onto specific characters, or link up with special Unite moves.
The party, which consists of up to four characters, is fully healed after each battle and returned a small amount of MP, allowing the leeway for these random battles to employ tactics rather than being simple distractions. If the party should get wiped, players do have to option to retry a battle, provided at least one of the 1-ups that perform the same function they do in platforming games is in the party's possession. Being able to retry battles, along with saving anywhere, combine with frequent MP restoration points to give players feel little frustration at an unlucky wipeout or a simple misjudgement. Battles also play out at a nice quick speed, with zero loading or unnecessary fluff. Players do get some control over character progression, being able to select one of two level-up rewards each time.
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Dungeons themselves are generally good fun to explore, although they do have some flaws. Most have a large number of paths, so those who enjoy investigating will find plenty. The flip side of this, however, is that dungeons often just feel too long and winding, not helped by the lack of indicators that progress is being made until one is almost staring it in the face. There's not too much in the way of puzzles outside of route-finding, but this is a point in Cthulhu's favour as any extra tasks would easily become bothersome in the current dungeon designs.
Random battles take place in both dungeons and on the world map, occurring at a steady enough rate to keep things mixed up without becoming an annoyance. Each dungeon has a limit to the number of random battles that are faced, allowing those who want to find all the loot to do so in peace. The limit is usually set so that most people casually exploring will be just about on the verge of meeting it by the end of the dungeon. Those wishing to grind are also catered for, with an option in the menu allowing a battle to be started at any point.
The underlying story itself isn't anything particularly noteworthy. Plot points are often skipped over and the game really could have used more content in the story, plus more fleshing-out of the world. It is pretty clear, however, that the story is not intended as one to be taken especially seriously, with the fourth wall easily dismantled within the first thirty seconds. This is all to Cthulhu Saves the World's benefit, as where the game shines through is in its humour and tongue-in-cheek references. The well-written humour fits nicely into the dialogue and descriptions to ensure the game remains light-hearted and entertaining. A good balance has been established in keeping the amount of humour to a sensible level, meaning there's always enough to provoke a smile, but never so much as to overshadow the gameplay. The cast is a good source of charm, especially Cthulhu himself, who easily steals the show. A couple of the party members prompt lingering thoughts about the point of their inclusion, but the overall enjoyability of the game and party interactions mean that these thoughts never come to the forefront.
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Cthulhu Saves the World will take a bit under ten hours on a normal playthrough. The Super Edition is very well-balanced in terms of difficulty, most of the time providing enough of a challenge to keep players on their toes on normal difficulty. After completing the game players can play it again at one of the other levels of difficulty or try out one of the bonus modes, each of which adds something extra to the core game. Players' choices include a score attack mode that rewards players for defeating bosses while underleveled, a go-it-alone mode, and finally the Super Edition also includes the Cthulhu's Angels mode, which sees Cthulhu delegating the world-saving to an all-female party with new dialogue, characters, and abilities. Also added is a director's commentary option, selectable when starting a new game in any mode, which provides some rather interesting insights into the game's development process.
Naturally, the visual quality is limited by the sixteen-bit format, but Zeboyd Games has done a very good job of making the artwork attractive. Dungeons are all unique and interestingly designed. The various characters and enemies share in the variety and have clearly received a lot of love, taking differing degrees of inspiration from other sources, but all giving their own little twists to breathe a bit more life into the world of Cthulhu. On the music front, a very good job has been done that complements the retro graphics, adding further to the charm introduced early on. The tracks all do a great job of livening up the dungeons, world map and battles, and never become grating even when repeated. While limited in number, the sound effects also do a nice job, notably those in the battle system that augment the satisfaction of a highly damaging attack.
Even before considering the ridiculously low price point, Cthulhu Saves the World is a very enjoyable game. While there is obviously some room for improvement, the humourous retro appeal negates any impact the flaws might have made quite well. Adding the price into any calculations, there is almost no argument against the extraordinary value for money Cthulhu Saves the World provides. Those looking for an easy-to-pick-up and entertaining RPG experience would have to work very hard to find a better option.
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Simple yet challenging battle system
Easy to pick up
Humour is well-written
Good music complements the game style
Story and world could be much more fleshed out
Dungeons often feel a bit too large
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The game port is a device port that was found on IBM PC compatible and other computer systems throughout the 1980s and 1990s. It was the traditional connector for joystick input, and occasionally MIDI devices, until made obsolete by USB in the late 1990s.

Originally located on a dedicated Game Control Adapter expansion card, the game port was later integrated with PC sound cards, and still later on the PC's motherboard. During the transition to USB, many input devices used the game port and a USB adapter dongle was included for systems without a game port.

History

The game port first appeared during the initial launch of the original IBM PC in 1981, in the form of an optional US$55 expansion card known as the Game Control Adapter. The design allowed for four analog axes and four buttons on one port, allowing two joysticks or four paddles to be connected via a special "Y-splitter" cable.

At the time there was no industry standard for controller ports, although the Atari joystick port was close. It was introduced in 1977 with the Atari Video Computer System, and was later used on the VIC-20 (1980), Commodore 64 (1982), and Amstrad's PC1512 (1986). In contrast with the IBM design, the Atari port was primarily designed for digital inputs; its only analog connections were intended for paddles, although as there were two analog inputs per port they could theoretically support a joystick. The Apple II, BBC Micro, Tandy Color Computer, and other popular 8-bit machines all used different, incompatible, joysticks and ports. In most respects, the IBM design was similar or more advanced than existing designs.

Originally available only as add-on that took up an entire slot, game ports remained relatively rare in the early days of the IBM PC, and most games used the keyboard as an input. IBM did not release a joystick of its own for the PC, which did not help. The most common device available was the Kraft joystick, originally developed for the Apple II but easily adapted to the IBM with the addition of another button on the back of the case. When IBM finally did release a joystick, for the IBM PCjr, it was a version of the Kraft stick. However, it connected to the computer using two incompatible 7-pin connectors, which were mechanically connected together as part of a larger multi-pin connector on the back of the machine. This eliminated the need for the Y-adapter. Adapters for Atari-style "digital" sticks were also common during this era.

The game port became somewhat more common in the mid-1980s, as improving electronic density began to produce expansion cards with ever-increasing functionality. By 1983, it was common to see cards combining memory, game ports, serial and parallel ports and a realtime clock on a single expansion card. The era of combo expansion cards largely came to an end by the late 1980s, as many of the separate functions normally provided on plug-in boards became common features of the motherboard itself. Game ports were not always part of this supported set of ports.

However, the game port was given a major boost in usage in 1989, with the introduction of the first Sound Blaster. As sound cards were primarily used with computer games, Creative Labs took the opportunity to include a game port on the card, producing an all-in-one gaming solution. At the same time, they re-purposed two otherwise redundant pins on the port, 12 and 15, to produce a serial bus with enough performance to drive an external MIDI port adapter. Previous MIDI systems like the MPU-401 used their own separate expansion cards and a complex external adapter, whereas the Sound Blaster only required an inexpensive adapter to produce the same result. By the end of the year the Sound Blaster was the best selling expansion card on the PC, and the game port was receiving widespread software support.

With the exception of laptops—for which companies released joystick adapters for parallel or serial ports, which needed custom software drivers—through the early 1990s, the game port was universally supported on sound cards, and increasingly became built-in features as motherboards added sound support of their own. This remained true through the second half of the 1990s, by which time integrated sound support had displaced the third-party sound card to a large degree. By the early 2000s, such support was so widespread that newer sound cards began to dispense with the game port as it was certain the machine they would be used in already had such support, including MIDI. Every Sound Blaster card from the first model up to August 2001 included a game port. In 2001 the Sound Blaster Audigy moved the game port to a second expansion slot, which connected to a header on the card.

The introduction of the first USB standard in 1996, was aimed squarely at the sort of roles provided by the game port, but initially had little market impact. The introduction of the iMac, which was based almost entirely on USB expansion, began a rapid expansion of USB in the market. This led both to new gaming devices using USB, as well as the profusion of adapters. For instance, the 1997 Microsoft Precision Pro joystick was re-introduced in a version that used a game port connector, but also included a USB adapter in the box. The rapid takeover of USB meant that this was superfluous when the Precision Pro 2 was released the next year in 1998. By 2000, game ports were purely for backward compatibility with now outdated devices.

Microsoft Windows discontinued support for the game port with Windows Vista, though USB converters can serve as a workaround.

Hardware
The game port's DA-15 connector includes inputs for a total of four analog channels and four buttons. These were almost always implemented as two joysticks with two buttons each, but it is also possible to support four paddle controllers each with one button, or a single gamepad with two analog sticks and four buttons using the same inputs. The port includes redundant pins, including a total of four +5 V supplies, and separate grounds for most of the buttons. In most similar game ports, like those on the Atari, a single +5 V and ground is used for all the channels.

The game port was originally mounted on a dedicated ISA card. Since the early 1990s, when the game port moved from dedicated expansion cards to PC I/O or sound cards, these connectors have usually doubled as connectors for MIDI instruments; two of the redundant +5 V and GND pins of the original standard were rededicated to MIDI input and output to make this possible. To use a game port with MIDI instruments, a break-out cable with the necessary opto-isolation hardware and compatible connectors is required - typically these consisted of a male and a female DA-15 and two male 5-pin DIN connectors. For many sound cards, the game port midi capabilities were based around the Roland MPU-401 MIDI interface (in UART mode only), however some older sound cards (notably the original Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro) used a proprietary interface that was not compatible with the MPU-401.

The analog channels are read by sending voltage into the line, through a potentiometer in the controller, in this case 100,000 ohm, and then into a capacitor. The value is read by timing how long it took for the voltage in the capacitor to cross a certain threshold. The rate varied depending on the resistance, and thus physical position, of the potentiometer. In the Atari port, which had similar analog channels, there is a convenient timer available in the form of the video clock circuitry. In the PC there is no similar clock because video functionality is normally provided on an expansion card. Instead, a software routine needs to first trigger capacitor discharge by issuing an IO write to the Gameport, and then measure the time it takes to charge them again by constantly polling Gameport. Using original IBM formula, Time = 24.2 μs + 0.011 (r) μs and assuming 100Kohm potentiometers this process can take up to 1.1ms per readout, or over 60ms if we decide to read joystick position 60 times a second. This significant overhead was the reason why using original Gameport on the PC could consume up to 10% of CPU time independent of CPU speed.

Software
Initially there was no standardized software for running the joysticks; applications would poll the known ports associated with the sticks as part of their game loop. This did, however, leave the implementation of a lot of housekeeping tasks to every application that used them, such as looking for and enumerating the active devices, and calibrating them. This changed in Windows 95, which introduced standardized Windows registry entries to hold these values and make it easier for applications to find these devices. DirectX further expanded the options through DirectInput with the "joystick mini-driver" with a number of new capabilities. Among these were support for up to six analog axes, a point-of-view hat, and up to 64 buttons. It also supported up to 16 such devices, which could be connected using any interface, not just the game port.

See also
 USB Human Interface Device class

References

External links

 Fairly detailed game port pinouts and specs
 Page with extensive info and a lot of experimental/DIY material on game ports

Computer connectors
Electrical connectors
Legacy hardware
Game controllers

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A Powerful Turkish Cinematic Condemnation of State-organized Genocide
Film-Review; Gelecek Uzun Sűrer (2011/Turkey)/ The Future Lasts Forever, Written and directed by Őzcan Alper
British Gala Night; 24th February 2012, 7.30 pm. at the Cineworld, Wood Green, London.
Professor Hovhannes I. Pilikian
Someone high-up at the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism must be an enlightened Soul and more of a Democrat than any of the Eurocrats, having subsidized this film by Őzcan Alper. May that highly evolved Soul become a Prime Minster of a truly democratic Turkey one day, proud of its multi-ethnic constituents rather than the ridiculous ultra-nationalist mantra – "Proud is the Man who is a Turk" nonsense – sang throughout schools in Turkey under the portrait of an Atatűrk framed with Crescent flags.
Whoever is that enlightened Soul, I hope he can free Zarakőglu and Leila Zana and many others from prison, and shield Turkish intellectuals from the evils of Article 301 of the criminal penal code, by abolishing it altogether from the forthcoming new Constitution of Turkey. I hope that the latter shall not be yet another political Ottoman-type trickery to genocide more people.
And, whatever you are up to, dear Reader, do not miss the first five minutes of this masterly film – As if in a live theatre, in the total darkness, a cock crows – a detail suggesting that we are in a village – dogs bark, cows moo, horses neigh, suddenly the unexpected sound of helicopters approaching, women and children shriek, bombs explode, machine-guns shoot, a horrible mixture of the sounds of war, the screen lights up with a most beautiful horse, racing for his life, his breathing cleverly amplified on the microphones (an excellent detail of a sensitive film-director), the target of the mortal hullabaloo, running away like a proud Kurdish peshmerga, a mountain guerilla fighter trying to survive an unfair battle with a US-equipped genocidal State-army.
The Horse successfully avoids the first shot, but on the second he finally falls, blood down his beautiful belly, like a pregnant woman, struggles to get up to fight another day, but sadly it cannot because of a third shot from an invisible sniper, and gradually, slowly with his back turned to the viewer as if in deep shame that he could not survive, stretches his legs and dies like a Swan, like a Tchaikovsky-ballerina in a most beautiful breathtaking posture … the film-director has succeeded in a most remarkable way to instantly create an immediate emotional bond between his film and the viewer, something Anglo-Saxon film-directors have yet to learn to achieve in Hollywood!
Alper's Horse is as much a classical symbol and the metaphor for human freedom. As my psychologist wife, Clare Pilikian confirms; you can lasso a wild horse to tame it, but kill it? Never! To kill a horse is the lowest point of barbarism and criminal depravity … only inhuman wretches of genocidal intent are capable of such an atrocity.
And you would not be wrong to presume as much, as during the film you will soon discover through the eyewitness accounts that such a genocidal crime was indeed committed by the Turkish army, during the 1990's, under the very filthy noses of our Western imperialist governments tacitly encouraging the Turkish State, arming it to the teeth to wipe off 8 thousand Kurdish villages off the map of central Anatolia, once the lands of very ancient Armenia … where the horse was first 'domesticated' historically. Rock-carvings, archeological bones-evidence, backed by classical literary reference (Xenophon's Anabasis) prove the existence of horse-cults in the Armenian Anatolian Highlands, precisely where the Kurdish horses are being slaughtered in this film today.
The greatest single obscenity of modern imperialist history is the fact that the Kurdish people, a huge majority of perhaps 60 million, spread through several countries of the Middle East, still lack a homeland.
The Ottoman Young Turks that attempted to genocide the Armenians in 1915 intended to do the same to the Kurds (they said so to Morgenthau, the American Ambassador in Ottoman Turkey), after abusing their unsophisticated, un-educated, illiterate tribal leaders to do their genocidal dirty job. The present-day enlightened Kurdish leadership (their Parliament-in-exile) has already apologized profusely and profoundly to the Armenian people for their earlier leaders' ignorant participation in the Young Turk crime, having understood today that the Turkish state did finally come round to doing the same to them in our own days, when Kurds were arrested and tortured and killed in prisons for merely speaking Kurdish at home – Leila Zana, a Kurdish MP is back in prison today, having already been there for a decade previously … And the first national hero of the Kurds who could transcend tribalism and medieval Sharia laws against women, Abdullah Őcalan, who could bring total peace and democratic federalism to Turkey has been in solitary incarceration on the Imrali island in the Sea of Marmara since 1999 … hilariously, 1000 military personnel guard him – How more ridiculous the Turkish State-genocidal madness can be! Őcalan's first Islamic name in Arabic means God's slave, not Mr. Erdogan's slave … unless of course the latter thinks he is Allah himself, which is not unlikely.
The Turkish State has this strange Sado-Masochist habit of killing their friends … it is what the Young Turk Leaders did to their Armenian Masonic bosom friends, ignoring and betraying their Masonic obligation to protect them at all costs from such violence! They killed Hrant Dink, their greatest Armenian friend trying to forge a brotherhood with the Turks! They made a song and dance for decades about Kurds being "Mountain Turks", only to kill even their … horses! What if the Turks were … field-Kurds thus murdering their own brothers!
Sitting before a wall of thousands of passport-sized photographs of victims, the survivors tell the camera of their true experience of the Turkish soldiery invading their villages, separating men from women and children, and simply massacring them for absolutely no reason… when all alive are dead, they attack the stables, their horses!
The Turkish army would enter a Kurdish village; give the inhabitants an hour to desert their homes, before they burn down the lot, thus creating 4 million refugees of Kurds within their own homelands, anciently of Armenia.
In a blue-tinged documentary film within the film, you witness tanks with Polis (in Turkish) inscribed on them, stopping in a village, soldiers jumping out of their tank-holes with machine guns, tearing boys from their screaming mothers and beating them to a pulp before your very eyes! "By 1992, a way of killing people was found fit for Kurds, called murder by unknown assailants" … I could 'see' my very own maternal grandmother named Isgouhi (= the true one) Der-Arsenian (= of the Male God) sitting there with the same black scarf covering her head, looking like a raven, telling us how the Turkish gendarmes came to their village Khassgal-Izmit searching for … weapons. They dragged out her teenage sons, beat them mercilessly and pointlessly … My grandparents later had to buy some rusted gun-bits from some bashibozuks to hand them over to the Ottoman cut-throats in case they returned for future inspections.
And my grandmother Isgouhi Der -Arsenian used to sing those heart-braking laments and lullabies, which did not sound like true lullabies, but more like goodbyes to the dead children … from murdered mothers – precisely what the Kurdish women do in this film in front of walls covered with a thousand faces …
And Sumru (played Oscar-winningly by Gaye Gűrsel), a shapely young university post-graduate from Istanbul, records them with shocked intensity, although she is a kind of Turk, and does not know Kurdish. She is shown with her boyfriend (Harun) on a bus full of Kurdish students amidst … Turkish Crescent-flags, but singing Vinceremos = we shall be victorious – and here is an unpredictable eye-catching detail – the students sing not sitting-down in the bus (as you would expect), but standing-up and applauding … it proves an original directorial mind at work.
Cut to a scene on a train, the window imprinted heavily with the nationalist Crescent silhouetted through a succession of mountainous landscapes and a lake (Van?) The Crescent finally disappears – we are traveling through (Armenian) Kurdistan – while Sumru reads a sweet sad letter from Harun informing her that he had to go … he knows he is not coming back because he will be killed – the violence of the state is always incomparably greater than that of the rebels – nevertheless, he hopes, just hopes against hope that perhaps … he'll see her again one day, perhaps in another world, and signs "your lover from the Mountains"!
Sumru (whose name means Summit!) gets out at Diyarbakir, today the capital city of the non-existent Kurdistan, yesterday's Tigranagert (= build by Tigran) the Great, the capital city built by the Armenian King whose empire in 180 BC stretched down to Palestine, from where King Tigran had transported a whole community of Jews to enliven with trade the very life of his brand-new city … The speakers announce that trains have arrived from Istanbul, Ankara and Malatya, establishing Diyarbakir as the multi-ethnic hub joining major sections of the Turkish map. Yet, the camera pulls back to show you a blue-uniformed Turkish policeman on the platform watching the crowds intently … Such telling details are abundant in this film – Alper, like all great creative artists, couples with his perfect grasp of the overall image, a masterly eye for the constituent detail.
Sumru reassures her mother by mobile that Diyarbakiris not as dangerous as the Istanbulis think it is … no bombs exploding in the streets, even though her own heart is shattered by the absence of her Kurdish boy-friend who had left her three years ago to join the PKK guerillas in the mountains. She has had no news from him since.
As if to avenge herself on the people, Sumru goes around with her tape-recorder documenting the sounds of the city, holding her high-tech microphones at waist-level pushing it forward like a small machine-gun startling the war-worn inhabitants … the city with its famous black basalt walls can suddenly throw up a Roman ruin still habitable. Sumru finds the film-maker Ahmet (played perfectly by Durukan Ordu), who fancies himself as the 'Turkish' Al Pacino, but instead has been documenting the eyewitness accounts of the current genocide his people are undergoing by the post-modern Turkish state. The Turkish state can deny the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 all they want, argue that it could have been a massacre – as if a massacre being less than a genocide were permissible … but surely, no sane person could deny that the Kurds today, on the watch of the Anglo-American imperialists are being massacred only and only for the sole reason of being … Kurds! If that is not genocide, then Turkey's Prime Minister Mr. Erdogan is the … Vatican Pope – Hear ye, Dan Brown, a new international bestseller for thee about a crypto-Turk as a Catholic Pope, shot by an ASALA crypto-Armenian as a Mountain-Turk terrorist!
Love Impossible
There is an intense attraction between Sumru and Ahmet, but the genocidal context of their relationship is such that the two can never develop any natural human warmth into any form of sexuality. This secondary theme of the film is developed so skillfully and sensitively as to be one of its most original aspects – the impossibility of love developing let alone blossoming, even though the desire is there all along haunting their every waking moment. I shall be seventy soon, and have seen a thousand films, but have not seen yet another film on the subject, tackled with such intense humanity, sadness and compassion for the young potential lovers.
Sumru decides to exorcise the ghost of her boyfriend, by a final search, and asks Ahmet touchingly to drive her to a very dangerous area of high genocidal activity. Ahmet refuses point blank. Sumru has even a telephone conversation with Ahmet to thank him for his intellectual help and to say goodbye. But a jump cut suddenly shows us an endless seeming road, a close up on Sumru as the passenger in the front seat, and finally a camera shift to the driver being … Ahmet. We now hear that Ahmet's Dad was a truck-driver working on the roads to Iran, one of the countries that harbor a considerable population of Kurds (the film is dedicated to two Iranian film-makers in-prison). As a child, Ahmet had witnessed the death of his father shot from behind in the public square of their village – obviously another peshmerga-victim by unknown assailants…
More than a genocide-film – Lighting Lessons for film-industry
On his blue tinged TV screen, Ahmet had watched one of his archival films of a boat carrying a gigantic statue of Lenin … reclined – No Soviet sculptor would dare portray Lenin as anything but a stand-up god! Now, under the moonlight, unable to sleep, having just enjoyed the hospitality of a Kurdish peasant family, Ahmet and Sumru talk of their dreams for the future – through this dialogue, half-lit like a painting in dark-orange moonlight, the film-director suddenly effectively and affectively emotionally uplifts his film into the noble heights of humanity and dreamy Socialist compassion. NoHollywoodfilm-director is capable of displaying such emotional-intellectual cinematic depth, imparting to the film further complexities of immense significance.
In Hollywood, believe it or not, they do not know yet how to light night-scenes … because they are concerned that their film-goers are so dumb as to want to see everything all the time on the screen. Turkish film-directors have no such inhibitions – they are not frightened of leaving dark-black sections in their night-time scenes – as in the lighting technique of the German Expressionist black-and-white Cinema. Thus the superbly beautiful, Rembrandt-esque creative lighting of pitch-black night-scenes in Turkish films contains lessons for the international film-industry. Alper's night-scenes in this film are a case in point.
Ahmet dreams of a true-socialist future (the film's title translated into English is The Future Lasts Forever), which he defines poetically as being able to ride his … bicycle one day with Sumru skirting the coastline of the Black Sea stretching through several countries and their borders, reaching the city of Varna, in Bulgaria … when people everywhere would work no more than 5 hours a day … something the British imperialists are desperate to destroy throughout the European community, adopting the Nazi ideal of raping populations to death by slave-work, to merely fatten the capitalist Fat Cat Bankers and swine! Alper's film thus achieves instantly a universalism beyond its immediate theme of state-organized genocides.
O-ro-ro-tsa-yin – the Armenian Lullaby
The socialism-dreaming Ahmet drives Sumru at dawn to the local cemetery covered in snow and romantic mist (for which the climate in the Rize district of Hamshen is famous). Ahmet, in deep sensitivity gives Sumru space to look for Harun's grave, while he like the mountain-Kurd that he is wanders off into the beautiful landscape. Sumru, skillfully underplayed by the actress, goes from grave to grave, almost (you feel palpably) hoping that she would not find it … and alas, alack unfortunately she suddenly hits upon it … a gradual sob bursts on her face, pulling her up and pushing her into the opposite direction Ahmet had taken … You know that their love shall be even more impossible now … a wild black horse on white snow wanders aimlessly …
And what a creative originality of conception; you would think that Harun's now proven 'disappearance' would be the open door through which the potential lovers could find the happiness they deserved as a couple, so well-suited to one another … instead, even the potential of such a joy of future life is destroyed as a direct result of the ongoing genocide. On a long shot, the couple getting gradually more lost in the mountain fog and mist developing, the film soundtrack plays a most beautiful Armenian lullaby, accompanied on saz (recorded by Ludvig Durian, music by Khatchatur Avetissian) orchestrated with a haunting melisma (sang majestically by the Chamber Music Choir of Radio Yerevan), rendering the last five minutes of the film as un-missable as its first five minutes … and the gems in between.
And the greatest of these gems is the one, right in the mid-stream of the film-flow, transforming it into a most complex and skillfully constructed film-script of immense depth and historical significance – and here is how;
Sumru, whether by luck or by design, playing as intelligently ambiguous as possible, comes across the ruins of a dilapidated Armenian church, Sourp Giragos, Ermeni Kilisesi, Dyarbakir in the care of an old Armenian (played by Sarkis Seropyan, a colleague of the murdered Hrant Dink). His script-name Antranig in Armenian has several semantic referents, most importantly meaning the First-born … (here) of Anatolia.
The people of Turkey do know that the Armenians were the very first people in Anatolia, and they were there as late as in 1915, and they are still there as crypto-Turks, born of the thousands of the stolen young girls during the genocide … Talaat, the great genocider and the grand Vizier of the Young Turks wanted only a single Armenian left on this planet, to be skinned and stuffed as a Museum piece! Today, there are 10 million the world over, plus perhaps 3 million as crypto-Turks, the Turks of Hamshen all being such …
Antranig was also the famous guerilla commander, the Őcalan of the Armenian people fighting for survival. The bekji (= caretaker) Antranig of the Diyarbakir-church has daughters in Switzerland, but refuses to join them for a comfortable old age, and tells Sumru precisely what … Hrant Dink himself told me once in Istanbul explaining why, oblivious for his own personal safety, he would never leave Turkey; "anonts vosgornereh ais hoghin dag en" = their bones (implying the bones of our ancestors, let alone the massacred ones) are under this earth (buried in this land). The Turkish Deep-State made sure that Hrant Dink's bones joins them!
Antranig says to Sumru in Turkish, "you look like our girls". And in an absolutely masterly coup de theatre, the film-director suddenly lets Antranig ask in Armenian, "Haieren kidess? = Do you know Armenian?", and Sumru answers in (I don't know if you guessed it, yes!) in fluent … Armenian, to tell us that she is actually – a second lightening! – Hamshentsi … a crypto-Turkish Armenian.
The genius of this film-director shines brilliantly in the skill of inventing meaningful and conceptually original complexities with minimal means; suddenly, the present genocide attempted on the Kurds is superimposed on the genocide of the Armenians, the first-borns of Anatolia, of which the Armenian-speaking Hamshentsis are a living proof of the plan's total failure. Genocides in history have never succeeded, and will never! The Kurds will have their country in the end. The pity of it is the waste of priceless human blood spilt, and precious human beings – god's children all – swallowed up by Satan, the military junk-heads of this world.
There is a clever third strike of a cinematic lightening in the above scenes – Sumru pleads with Antranig to look for and find for her his mother's recorded voice singing a mournful Elegy … Antranig is reluctant initially, but eventually, on Sumru's third visit, plays the tape for her, on the porch, as rain falls heavily everywhere like the tears of all the Armenian and Kurdish mothers lamenting for their murdered children, while Antranig explains in Armenian that his own singing-mother was sacrificed during the 1915 chart … subtitled as genocide in English, the exact translation of which in Turkish would have been soykιrιm – the most dreaded and denied word of the post-modern Turkish state-vocabulary.
For this fact alone, this film can be regarded as the most aesthetically satisfying political art-film of the last two decades of world-cinema, which brings me to the beginning of the film, on a par with perhaps the greatest political film of all time, Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925).
Alper's sequence on a par with Eisenstein's
Its world famous sequence of sheer genius and total originality is the five minute sequence of The Odessa Steps; the Tsar's soldiery, in their light white summer tunics march down seemingly endless stone-steps rhythmically, robotically, with their bayonets stuck out like their penises, massacring the revolutionary demonstrators … a jump cut on a close-up of a mother pushing a baby in a pram, falls to the ground shot dead. The pram then rolls down the steps into the scattering panicked crowd!
The incident historically never took place (although The Times of the day reported government firing on the demonstrators in the streets, never from the steps) – it was the unique invention of Eisenstein's genius. The second's appearance of the actress of Italian parentage, Beatrice Vitoldi made her so famous in the Soviet Union, that in 1931, she was appointed as the first Permanent Soviet Ambassador inItaly … Sadly she was recalled toMoscow in 1937, arrested and tried during Stalin's Great Purge.
Alper's horse-genocide sequence goes one better; although the scene is staged – I am certain no horse was killed for the filming – on a closer observation, one can detect a paucity of theatrical blood on the belly of the downed horse – in Hollywood they would have loved to have poured buckets of blood on the tranquillized animal!
Although Alper's sequence is based on a factual story told by an eyewitness in the documentary section of the film, nevertheless the cinematic realization is entirely his own.
And finally, fully conscious of the new found pride of the Hamshentsi Turks in their Armenian parentage, I can insist that the film-maker's surname Alper is a version of the Armenian word akhper = brother, very common in Eastern Armenian, in the neighborhood of Hamshen. His first name, Özcan (in Turkish = pure blood, a shameful racist term), in form I think is the Armenian word Vorskan = Hunter. Thus, Özcan Alper is the Turkicized Armenian Vorskan Akhper = Hunter-Brother, which is an extremely ancient character preserved in Armenian folklore, as a linguistic fossil denoting the pre-historical times of hunter-gatherers roaming the lands of Armenian Anatolian Highlands.
Armenian communities throughout the world should make an urgent effort to see this most beautiful, politically powerful, educationally visceral, aesthetically sensational great film in local cinemas – For all enquires to organize a local /community showing, see Contact below;
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Two people died and more were hurt in a fiery four-car crash that shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 295 for hours on Friday, police say.
Police say about 2:45 a.m. someone drove a Kia Optima the wrong way on southbound I-295 and collided head-on with a Mercedes Benz before striking a Toyota Corolla.
The driver of Chevy Suburban who was also going southbound tried to avoid the crashes and lost control, crashing into a concrete barrier, police said.
Fire crews arrived at the scene near Howard Road and found a vehicle on fire with several people trapped inside, D.C. firefighters said.
The driver of the Chevy Suburban died at the scene and the Kia Optima driver died at the hospital a short time later.
D.C. police identified the two victims as 36-year-old Lance Antonio Way, of Silver Spring, and 53-year-old Audrey Wimbish, of Southeast. Police did not clarify what cars each victim was driving.
A passenger in the Suburban and the occupants of the Mercedes went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
Video from the scene shows two cars with considerable damage on the shoulder of the road and another car that crashed into the median. An SUV appears to have some fire damage.
Debris was strewn across all lanes.
Crews started moving cars off the road before 7 a.m. and reopened the road before 8 a.m. All traffic on southbound I-295 is being diverted over the 11th Street Bridge.


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Q: Customizing the FreeText Tool I am trying to customize how free text annotations look.
I need the text to have additional padding, i.e. there should be extra space around the text.
I am using the WebViewer and have tried to the setPadding and setRect functions when making the FreeTextAnnotation. These did not do what I want, the setPadding function set the padding of the selection rect.
I then tried to make a custom annotation based on the following guides and samples:

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*the Ruler sample in the samples distributed with the library itself.
I was not able to get this working correctly since I don't have a lot of documentation to go on and none of these examples have user editable components to them (like editing text after the free text annotation has been made)
Here is an example of what I want:

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A: On top of my head I don't think freetext annotations can have a padding property according to the PDF Spec. So unfortunately even if we managed to add a padding through a customized draw function, it won't be consistent, meaning that the padding will lose when the download PDF is viewed in other PDF readers such as Acrobat.
However, there is one way we can achieve this and make the appearance consistent, though it's kind of hacky. We can manually set the border and the fill color to be the same and increase the value of the border to make the freetext annotation have padding visually. For example:
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  StrokeColor: color,
  FillColor: color,
}))

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Terumah () o  offerta elevata, è un tipo di offerta nel culto ebraico. La parola viene di solito usata nel senso positivo di offerta a Dio, sebbene possa anche essere usata in un senso negativo, come nel caso di un "giudice disonesto che ama i donativi"

Nella letteratura rabbinica viene elencato come uno dei ventiquattro doni sacerdotali. La consumazione della terumah è limitata da numerose regole della Torah e poteva esser mangiata dai sacerdoti, le loro famiglie e i loro domestici.  La terumah può esser consumata solo in stato di purezza rituale.

Tale offerta è anche chiamata la "grande offerta (ebraico: terumah gedolah  תרומה גדולה) composta di solito da cibo dato al sacerdote ebraico, come dono.

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Korban
Sacerdote (Ebraismo)
Tempio di Gerusalemme
Terumah (parashah)

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By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest Is Changing the World
Product Description: In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth...read more
By Michael Levi
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9780199921782 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 4, 2014, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth.
9780190229221 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2015), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth.
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
Product Description: The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions...read more
9780199986163 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 30, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail.
9780199390021 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2014), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail.
Regulating Fraud: White-collar Crime and the Criminal Process; Routledge Revivals
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9780415826518 | Routledge, August 19, 2014, cover price $59.95
Regulating Fraud: White-Collar Crime and the Criminal Process
Product Description: First published in 1987, this book discusses white-collar or commercial crime which has grown to be a major issue in our society today. Looking at research from North America and Britain, the book explores the way fraudsters are treated...read more
9780415826501 | Reprint edition (Taylor & Francis, February 7, 2013), cover price $170.00 | About this edition: First published in 1987, this book discusses white-collar or commercial crime which has grown to be a major issue in our society today.
9780415018128 | Reprint edition (Routledge Kegan & Paul, April 1, 1990), cover price $26.00 | also contains Every Secret Thing
On Nuclear Terrorism: Library Edition
Product Description: As long as we live in a nuclear age, no defense can completely eliminate nuclear terrorism. But this book reminds us that the right strategy can minimize the risks and shows us how to do it. Nuclear terrorism is such a disturbing prospect that we shy away from its details...read more
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9781441778499 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2010), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: As long as we live in a nuclear age, no defense can completely eliminate nuclear terrorism.
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On Nuclear Terrorism
9780674026490 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $24.95
9780674032385 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 15, 2009, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Nuclear terrorism is such a disturbing prospect that we shy away from its details.
9781441778512 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2010), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: As long as we live in a nuclear age, no defense can completely eliminate nuclear terrorism.
Phantom Capitalists: The Organization and Control of Long-Firm Fraud
Product Description: This book analyzes in detail how and why people become involved in long-firm (planned bankruptcy) fraud, the similarities and differences between long-firm fraud and other crimes, the links between bankruptcy fraudsters and other professional and organized criminals, the techniques that fraudsters use, and the social and commercial relationships that exist within the operational world of the long-firm fraudster...read more
9780754645160, titled "The Phantom Capitalists: The Organization And Control of Long-firm Fraud" | Ashgate Pub Co, March 30, 2008, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: This book analyzes in detail how and why people become involved in long-firm (planned bankruptcy) fraud, the similarities and differences between long-firm fraud and other crimes, the links between bankruptcy fraudsters and other professional and organized criminals, the techniques that fraudsters use, and the social and commercial relationships that exist within the operational world of the long-firm fraudster.
9780435825201 | Heinemann, March 1, 1982, cover price $50.00 | also contains World of Ninjago | About this edition: This book analyzes in detail how and why people become involved in long-firm (planned bankruptcy) fraud, the similarities and differences between long-firm fraud and other crimes, the links between bankruptcy fraudsters and other professional and organized criminals, the techniques that fraudsters use, and the social and commercial relationships that exist within the operational world of the long-firm fraudster.
The Organized Crime Community: Essays in Honor of Alan A. Block
Product Description: This book contains a collection of essays in honor of Alan A. Block including his now classic study on the origins of IRAN-CONTRA. It brings together important contributions from Block's students and contemporaries to show the impact of his work on the field of global organized crime...read more
By Frank Bovenkerk (editor) and Michael Levi (editor)
9780387390192 | Springer Verlag, November 15, 2006, cover price $199.00 | About this edition: This book contains a collection of essays in honor of Alan A.
Victims of White Collar Crime: The Social and Media Construction of Business Fraud
By Michael Levi and Andrew Pithouse
9780198262541 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 15, 2006, cover price $75.00
U.s.-india Nuclear Cooperation: A Strategy for Moving Forward
Product Description: This report concludes that if the U.S. Congress does not approve the U.S.-India nuclear deal, it would have a real and negative effect on the bilateral relationship. Congress should adopt a two-stage approach, formally endorsing the deal's basic framework, while delaying final approval until it is assured that critical nonproliferation needs are met...read more
9780876093634 | Council on Foreign Relations, August 30, 2006, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This report concludes that if the U.
Drugs And Money: Managing The Drug Trade And Crime-Money In Europe
Product Description: The phenomenon of psycho-active drugs, and our reactions to them, is one of the most fascinating topics of the social history of mankind. Starting with an analysis of the 'policy of fear' in which law enforcement is 'haunted' by drug money, Drugs and Money offers a radical reconsideration of this highly contentious issue...read more
By P. C. Van Duyne and Michael Levi
9780415341769 | Routledge, January 1, 2005, cover price $210.00
9780415354752 | Routledge, September 30, 2005, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: The phenomenon of psycho-active drugs, and our reactions to them, is one of the most fascinating topics of the social history of mankind.
The Book Of Holy Light
9781595409874 | 1st World Library, August 30, 2004, cover price $17.95
Fraud: Organization, Motivation, and Control
Product Description: The International library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology is an important publishing initiative that brings together the most significant contemporary published journal essays in current criminology, criminal justice and penology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Michael Levi (editor)
9781855217164 | Dartmouth Pub Co, June 1, 1999, cover price $600.00 | About this edition: The International library of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Penology is an important publishing initiative that brings together the most significant contemporary published journal essays in current criminology, criminal justice and penology.
Contemporary Issues in Criminology
Product Description: Policing, crime, poverty, prison management - these are just some of the key issues facing society today. This book addresses such issues, raising questions that should be of interest not only to academic criminologists but also to all those involved in the criminal justice system...read more
By Michael Levi (editor), Mike Maguire (editor) and Lesley Noaks (editor)
9780708312971 | Univ of Wales Pr, July 20, 1995, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Policing, crime, poverty, prison management - these are just some of the key issues facing society today.
McQs for the Mrcpsych, Part I
9780852008355 | Mtp Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $29.50


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One Year On, VA Gets Forever GI Bill Right
In November 2018, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and its CIO's office were in the news for all the wrong reasons. […]
MITRE Engenuity Sets Cyber Defense R&D Project
MITRE Engenuity announced on Nov. 12 the launch of its Center for Threat-Informed Defense, which describes itself as a "collaboration with industry to improve cyber defense at scale through collaborative research and development."
CNAS AI Task Force Announces New Member
The Center for a New American Security's (CNAS) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force announced three new members.
MITRE Taps New VPs for Intelligence Programs, Human Resources
MITRE's new vice president for intelligence programs and vice president of human resources are Charles Clancy and Gus Bentivegna, respectively, the organization wrote in a May 14 press release. Bentivegna – who joined MITRE in April to enhance talent experience and total rewards compensation and benefits programs – will begin his new role immediately, and […] […]
Improving Fed Healthcare Cybersecurity Starts With Building Bigger Table
To make cybersecurity more effective in Federal healthcare, security professionals need to bring a broad swath of folks to the table to build security into technology from the beginning while still enabling the mission, said a panel of Federal chief information security officers and cybersecurity leaders at ACT-IAC's Health Security, Privacy, and Practice Forum on April 23.
Grassroots List of Cybersecurity Indictments of State-Sponsored Hackers
Katie Nickels, a threat intelligence expert for MITRE, released a grassroots compiled list of recent cybersecurity indictments of state-sponsored hackers earlier this week.
MITRE Offering Systems Engineering Fellowship
The MITRE Corporation is offering a Systems Engineering Fellowship which will allow participants to collaborate with MITRE employees, government staff, and contractors on next-generation systems.
Industry Wants More Detail on AI R&D Plan
Industry partners would like more clarity and more Federal support of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the upcoming update to the 2016 National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan. This request came in the recently released responses to the request for information for the update.
House E&C Oversight Panel Flags Six Cybersecurity Priorities in New Report
The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today released a report identifying core strategies to address and prevent cybersecurity incidents. After gathering input through hearings, briefings, reports, and roundtables, the subcommittee developed six specific priorities to create stronger protections against cyberattacks.
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Microchip Hack Report Puts Supply Chain Issues in Crosshairs
Regardless of whether Chinese hackers really did infiltrate more than two dozen U.S. companies and multiple government agencies through a supply-chain hardware hack, the bombshell report by Bloomberg Businessweek throws light on an ongoing problem facing the Department of Defense, among others.
Mitre Taps Gary Gagnon to Lead Security
Mitre, a non-profit organization that manages federally funded research and development centers supporting several Federal agencies, has tapped Gary Gagnon to be both VP of cyber strategy and chief security officer.
House Members Call for CVE Reforms
Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to conduct biennial reviews and provide dedicated funding to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program after finding erratic contracts and little planning documentation. The request was made via a letter to DHS Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen on Monday.
MITRE, Citing High Risk, Urges Sweeping DoD Action on Supply Chain Security
MITRE, a manager of Federally-funded research and development centers targeting Federal defense, intelligence, and cybersecurity functions, recommended in a new report released today that the Defense Department (DoD) undertake a sweeping menu of actions to improve military supply chain security, and warned that maintaining the status quo of current security policy may have ruinous consequences.
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If you are thinking to use signage for your business, you will see two options in the market – one is digital signage and the other one is traditional signage. Which one would you prefer? I know this question will confuse. For a minute, you will think digital signage would be better for you since it is digital, but very next second, you will think traditional one may be better for you, as this has been being used successfully for long. This confusion may make your decision difficult as you may feel impatient what if you realize later that you made a wrong choice, as the other option was better. I can understand your state of mind.
To help you make the right choice, I have decided to do a brief comparison between these two – digital signage and traditional signage.
Let us start with digital signage.
Digital signage is a versatile product. You can use to fulfill your multiple requirements. To share important information with your employees and clients, to educate your target audience about your products, their features, and their prices, to advertise your products and services, to avoid mess at public places like railway stations, bus stops, airports, and metro stations, and for so many other purposes.
Their versatility has brought a great boom in their demand. Business organizations are increasingly including it aiming at improving the quality of their operations, advertisements, and creating a good brand image in the eyes of their target audience.
However, is this right to say the inclusion of technologically advanced product can allow businesses to serve the client in a better way and help them in achieve their business goals? In some ways, this is right, but not completely.
Catching the attention of your target audience becomes quite easier with it. The information on the display appears in a colorful way that conveys your message in an appealing manner that everybody appreciates. Therefore, this can be a great advertisement tool to grab the attention of your target audience for you.
As this is digital, you have freedom to show several information one by one. Moreover, if anytime you feel the information that is being shown on the signage has become irrelevant so needs to be replaced with new relevant information, you have freedom to do it. You simply can do this by uploading the new information in the software.
You can connect your digital signage directly with the internet. You can connect that to your social media accounts. So, you can look for relevant information on the web and show that to your target audience.
When we do anything in life, in our personal life, social life, or professional life, certainly return on investment is always in our mind. If we do something good for somebody, certainly, we want that person to stand with us when we are in need, is not it? So, if you are investing in business, then how you can ignore the return on investment, certainly not. The digital signage will provide you high return on investment since this will grab the attention of everybody and drive your target audience to your store.
As you have now seen its pros, we now come at the cons.
Digital signage is used to show different pieces of information in a colorful style that irritates many people. Many people find this difficult to look at it because of its changing screens.
Digital signage is a software-based machine. Its software may corrupt or some problem in hardware may happen that can result in its breakdown in that case you have to get it fixed.
This is expensive compared to traditional signage. So, if you take it leaving traditional signage you have to pay more.
Since the digital signage has been introduced, a decline has been noticed in the demand for traditional signage but this would be wrong to say people have completely discarded it. Still, there is a large number of businesspeople who prefer this for their needs.
We start with its pros.
This is the best thing about traditional signage is that it does not demand maintenance.
Contrary to digital signage, it provides you more options. You get in many different shapes, sizes, and styles.
It is cheaper than digital signage.
If any information ever becomes obsolete or irrelevant, you can change it. However, you cannot do as you do in digital signage. When you want to display some new information, you can take help of a painter to show the new information with the paint.
Now, we look at its cons.
The digital signage allows you to display different information at the same time, or one after another. On the other hand, when you use traditional signage, you do not have any such facility, and this is the thing that creates a major difference between the two.
It is another major difference between the digital and traditional signage. It is not as appealing as the digital signage is.
Both digital signage and traditional signage have their own features. It is up to you, which you prefer. However, if you ask for recommendation, I will recommend you digital signage.
Sandra has been a writer for 1 year. He has written on diverse products of diverse industries. In this blog, she has talked about digital and traditional signage to help people make the right choice.


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Is it Time to Revisit Workplace Bullying Policies and Best Practices?
Dr. Joe Aller, DHA, MBA, CPA
Director, Analytics and Research, IBI
As employer Covid-19 vaccination and testing policies mature, employees are gradually moving back into the office. It's an exciting time for co-workers to meet in person, have lunch together and socialize. However, there may be some Covid-19-related stigma souring the return to the office. Employer's vaccine policies, government mandates, political orientation, and personal beliefs have all led to a potentially polarized, vocal, and passionate segmenting of those returning to the office. Whether the office is a basketball court, police car, hospital, school, or a cubicle in an office building, strong, passionate feelings could result in an increase in workplace bullying.
Research shows Covid-19 survivors experience heightened feelings of stigma across many domains including social rejection, financial insecurity, internalized shame, and increased social isolation. We know this already takes a toll on individuals metal health (see IBI's research on the Impact of Covid-19 on Employee Mental Health and an upcoming webinar on it) but may not have thought through holistically how this dynamic plays out in the workplace as employees return.
Workplace bullying policies have been around for many years. Employees generally understand the lines between social interaction and camaraderie, versus creating a hostile workplace for co-workers. When these lines are crossed, bullied employees are ideally supported through documented policies and procedures. However, we may not have faced an issue so divisive and polarizing as Covid-19-related feelings and associated actions. Given the high levels of energy and the potential risks to the organization as employees reunite in the office, we recommend revisiting organizational policies and procedures for managing workplace bullying for current best practices and effective mitigation strategies.
Ferris, et al., present a framework for a comprehensive review of policy best practices focused on 6 key areas:
Use a broad-based small group of stakeholders chartered with the task of reviewing the current policies and procedures in place today.
Employ a focus on policy content which includes support for the normality of conflict, debate, and differences of opinion while establishing a zero tolerance for bullying.
Include broad based formal and informal resolution options. For instance, a facilitated dialogue, training, mediation, and a well-defined investigation process.
Include a defined time frame with the goal of concluding quickly while maintaining employee dignity.
Policies should be easily accessible to all employees with any changes to content or other modifications announced.
Monitor and review the policy regularly.
Workplace bullying represents significant personal, economic, and social challenges for an organization. Given the current climate, it makes sense to review and update relevant policies and procedures to protect employees, maintain worker productivity, and evolve as the issues we face do.
Ferris P.A., Deakin R., Mathieson S. (2021) Workplace Bullying Policies: A Review of Best Practices and Research on Effectiveness. In: D'Cruz P., Noronha E., Caponecchia C., Escartín J., Salin D., Tuckey M.R. (eds) Dignity and Inclusion at Work. Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment, vol 3. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0218-3_3
Yuan, Y., Zhao, Y., Zhang, Q., Zhang, L., Cheung, T., Jackson, T., Jiang, G., & Xiang, Y. (2021). COVID-19-related stigma and its sociodemographic correlates: a comparative study. Globalization and Health, 17(1).
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