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Issue 12 • Date Dec. 2012
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Front CoverPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): C1| | PDF (366 KB)
Journal of Display Technology publication informationPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): C2| | PDF (136 KB)
Table of contentsPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 679| | PDF (141 KB)
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New LTPS Pixel Circuit With AC Driving Method to Reduce OLED Degradation for 3D AMOLED DisplaysPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 681 - 683
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This work presents a new low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor pixel circuit with a novel driving scheme that is based on the simultaneous emission and reverse-biased methods. During high-speed 3D operation at 240 Hz, the proposed circuit can successfully compensate for the TFT threshold voltage variation and improve the IR drop in the power line. Simulation and experimental results confirm the stability of the OLED current and the amelioration of the OLED lifetime. Furthermore, over the entire range of data voltages, the nonuniformity of OLED current is less than 5%. View full abstract»
Scene-Adaptive RGB-to-RGBW Conversion Using Retinex Theory-Based Color PreservationPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 684 - 694
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This paper proposes a retinex theory-based approach to RGB-to-RGBW conversion that preserves the human color perception within a pre-determined level of color distortion for RGBW displays. The proposed method primarily consists of two procedures. In the first, it searches for the maximum intensity level that induces no color distortion for a given image by extracting the white spectra from the common components of the RGB primary colors and adjusting all the pixels' gains uniformly. In the second, the proposed method applies an additional gain to each pixel based on its chromaticness and controls the color distortions arising from the individual gains using the color perception estimated by retinex theory and a feedback mechanism. Experimental results showed that the proposed method was more effective than conventional methods in terms of intensity increment and color preservation. For Kodak test images, the proposed method increased the average intensity by 1.4987 times with a color-distortion level of 0.0094 compared to reference RGB displays, whereas the conventional methods increased the average intensity by 0.8624-1.3429 times with color-distortion levels of 0.0325-0.0682. The surplus intensity yielded by the proposed method can be used to dynamically reduce the power consumption of a liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight or to provide brighter images on LCDs. View full abstract»
Role ofPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 695 - 698| | Quick Abstract | PDF (744 KB) | | HTML
High-κ dielectric is regarded as an effective material to reduce the operating voltage of the amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin film transistors (TFTs). However, the dielectric with high permittivity often has the drawbacks of inducing small conduction band offset energy and high interface trap density. Here a bilayer HfO2/SiO2 gate dielectric for thin-film transistors (TFTs) is employed to address the issues. Compare to the a-IGZO TFT with solely 15 nm-thick HfO2 gate dielectric, the TFT with the bilayer HfO2/SiO2 (10 nm/5 nm) gate dielectric improves the subthreshold swing (SS) from 0.22 to 0.12 V/decade, the mobility from 1.4 to 7 cm2/V·s and current on-off ratio from 9×106 to 1.3×10 9. Finally, Hooge's parameters (extracted from the low-frequency noise measurement) of a-IGZO TFTs were investigated to understand the defects near the channel/dielectrics interface so that the role of the thin SiO2 layer can be verified. The device with bilayer HfO2/SiO2 structure exhibits a value of 2×10-3, which is an order of magnitude lower than the one with a single HfO2 layer. The Hooge's parameter of our bilayer dielectric is the lowest among the reported metal-oxide based TFTs on the glass substrate. View full abstract»
Image Saturation Improvement for 180 Hz Stencil-FSC LCD With Side-Lit LED BacklightPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 699 - 706
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The green-based 180 Hz Stencil-FSC method was proposed to effectively suppress color breakup for a field-sequential-color liquid crystal display (FSC-LCD). Nevertheless, this method has an issue on green color desaturation. Therefore, we further propose the "limited backlight signal ratio" (LBSR) to determine a proper backlight signal to increase image color saturation and simultaneously suppress color breakup. To realize a thin and high image quality eco-display, in addition, the light spread function model and the number of backlight divisions for a side-lit backlight are optimized and combined with the LBSR stencil-FSC method. View full abstract»
Plasma Display Panel Driver With Dissymmetric Energy Transfer Speed for High Efficiency and Fast Voltage TransitionPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 707 - 713
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A plasma display panel (PDP) driver with dissymmetric energy transfer speed is designed to obtain fast voltage transition during the up-commutation period and improved efficiency during the down-commutation period. The proposed driver configures the sustain circuit and the resonant circuit in such a way that the resonant network is energized by the sustain voltage level and the half sustain voltage level in charging and discharging the panel capacitor, respectively. The energy transferred into the panel from the power supply is twice as fast as the conventional Weber-type driver biased by half sustain voltage level, for improved image quality and display resolution. The proposed driver, on the other hand, recovers the panel energy using the resonant circuit with the half sustain voltage and increased inductance, leading to enhanced energy recovery. Moreover, the proposed driver is supplied from half of required sustain voltage level. As a result, the proposed driver can be designed by devices with reduced voltage rating compared with the conventional Weber-type driver. Therefore, the PDP driver presented in this paper can feature faster sustain voltage transition, higher brightness, uniform images, low-voltage power supply, low-voltage-rating switching devices, and high efficiency. View full abstract»
Fast 3D Computational Integral Imaging Using Graphics Processing UnitPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 714 - 722
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In computational integral imaging (II), the elemental images are processed on serial processors to reconstruct one plane (slice) of the 3D scene. In this paper, we present a fast three-dimensional (3D) integral imaging system via a graphics processing unit (GPU) which allows parallel processing with multiple processors. We show that it can significantly accelerate 3D scene reconstruction in II using the GPU based stream-processing model. The streaming version of the ray back propagation algorithm with lookup table is presented. It is demonstrated that the ray back propagation algorithm with a lookup table for the 3D scene reconstruction in II to be processed on parallel processors may greatly improve computational speed while requiring minimally larger memory space as compared with CPU sequential computing. Experimental results verify the feasibility for parallel implementation of 3D integral imaging. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on achieving a 3D computational integral imaging system using GPU computing with high parallelism. View full abstract»
Digital Driving Method for Low Frame Frequency and 256 Gray Scales in Liquid Crystal on Silicon PanelsPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 723 - 729| | Quick Abstract | PDF (1485 KB) | | HTML
A liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) panel for projector applications is developed using a new digital driving method to increase the gray scale of the projected image without increasing the driving frequency. The LCoS panel, which has a wide video graphics array (WVGA) resolution, is fabricated using 0.18 μm CMOS process technology with an area of 9600 μm × 5800 μm. The projection system is successfully demonstrated using the fabricated LCoS panel and the proposed digital driving method. The measured results of the projection system show that the proposed driving method achieves an 8-bit gray scale at a driving frequency of 75.6 MHz, which is less than 13.7% of the frequency in previously reported methods such as frame rate control and pulse width modulation. View full abstract»
Special issue on Green TechnologyPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 730| | PDF (943 KB)
IEEE Copyright FormPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 731 - 732| | PDF (1564 KB)
List of ReviewersPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 733| | PDF (67 KB)
2012 Index Journal of Display Technology Vol. 8Publication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 734 - 751| | PDF (439 KB)
Open AccessPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): 1000| | PDF (1155 KB)
Journal of Display Technology information for authorsPublication Year: 2012 , Page(s): C3| | PDF (118 KB)
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This publication covers the theory, design, fabrication, manufacturing and application of information displays and aspects of display technology.
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Frayler misses gold by a fraction of a second
GUADALAJARA, Mexico After nearly two hours in the Pacific Ocean, it all came down to a fraction of a second.
And for 17-year-old Arthur Frayler, those three-tenths of a second cost him a gold medal Saturday in the 10-kilometer open water swim at the Pan American Games.
"It was a battle for first," said Frayler, a high school senior from Pennsylvania. "That's all it was really."
Canada's Richard Weinberger edged Frayler to the line in the 6.2-mile race off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, winning the gold medal in 1 hour, 57 minutes, 31 seconds. Frayler was next - only 0.3 seconds behind.
"We got to the boat at the same time. He touched me out," said Frayler, who added silver to his swimming gold in the 1,500-meter freestyle Tuesday. "I just missed touching the board, which happens. It's open water swimming, it happens."
Although it wasn't gold, Frayler's medal still helped the United States extend its lead at the top of the medals table on Day 8 of the Pan American Games. The U.S. team won seven titles Saturday, bringing its gold total to 48. Brazil was next with 18.
Archery favorite Brady Ellison won the men's individual title, while Rocky Carson won the men's singles title in racquetball. In shooting, Emil Milev and Vincent Hancock added two more golds, giving the United States 10 gold medals in the sport.
Two more medals came in water skiing, where Andrew Adkison won the men's wakeboard and Regina Jacquess took the women's overall title, while Helen Maroulis claimed the last in freestyle wrestling.
Although Frayler missed out on another gold, his Pan American Games ended on a high note, even if it was joined with a somber tune.
Frayler was close friends with Fran Crippen, the defending Pan Am Games champion in the open water swim who died competing last year in the United Arab Emirates.
Frayler, who will attend the University of Florida next year, was swimming in Guadalajara with Crippen on his mind.
"Fran was like my older brother. He got me into open water swimming," Frayler said. "He pushed me during practice. He told me I could be better than I was. I swam that race for him today."
Taking silver, though, was not in any way settling for second best.
"I fought as hard as I could. Came out second by 0.3," said Frayler, who is hoping to qualify for next year's London Olympics. "I think he (Crippen) would be proud of me, with how I swam at Pan Ams, and I'm going to keep fighting for him."
Before the Olympics come around, Frayler still has some work - and plenty of homework - to do back home. He is a senior at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Penn.
"Life at home is good for me," Frayler said. "I have great friends and family that understand my commitment to the sport and school."
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Living in New York City for five years as a transplant from Ohio, illustrator and T-shirt designer Nathan Pyle was fascinated by the unique habits and unspoken customs New Yorkers follow to make life bearable in a city with 8 million people (and seemingly twice the number of tourists). Nathan decided to draw his favorite tips and etiquette lessons and post them on the internet, where his 12 original panels went viral immediately and became the basis for this hilarious illustrated book (check out the fully animated ebook, too!). In NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette, Pyle reveals the secrets and unwritten rules for living in and visiting New York including the answers to such burning questions as, which cabs should I try to hail? What is a bodega? Which way is Uptown? Why are there so many doors in the sidewalk? How do I walk on an escalator? Do we need to be touching right now? Where should I inhale or exhale while passing sidewalk garbage? How long should I honk my horn? If New York were a game show, how would I win? What happens when I stand in the bike lane? Who should get the empty subway seats? How do I stay safe during a trash tornado? Each tip is a little story illustrated in simple black and white drawings. Visitors and newcomers to New York will love it because the advice is smart, funny, and not condescending. New Yorkers will love it for its strategic and humorous approach to mastering the daily chaos of the city.
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Dead or Alive Online Announced 21
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It's even more odd that Tecmo would go in this direction considering the fact that Itagaki's (Team Ninja's head honcho) preference for the Xbox is based on the technical superiority of that system over the PS2 and Gamecube, which superiority they've used to great effect with Dead or Alive 3 and Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball (whatever you think of the latter as a game, in graphical terms it's friggin' beautiful). Going backwards and trying to get extra life out of old games/engines seems like the last thing someone so concerned about system specs would want to do.
I have no doubt that these two games will be as good as the games were originally, and maybe even better graphically. And, yes, the online component is interesting and could attract people who haven't played the games before. But the positives of online play seem to me outweighed (especially in terms of the wider market, as opposed to DOA fans) by the fact that DOA and DOA2 are now, by video game standards, ancient.
Speaking as an owner of an Xbox, DOA3 and DOA:XBV - and someone who enjoys all three - there's no way I'll buy this package unless they've improved the DOA2 engine to such a degree that it matches up with DOA3 (and if they had, wouldn't they just make it DOA3 online?). Even then, and even with online play, it'll still have a hard time getting more than 25 of my gaming dollars when Soulcalibur 2 - a game whose import version has already met with critical and gamer acclaim - is right around the corner.
They're certainly milking it for all its worth, aren't they?
Let's not also forget the recent Rygar (which I haven't had the chance to play yet but I hear is really good). Lots of folks are probably clamoring for another Tecmo Bowl, but just keep Mighty Bomb Jack dead and buried, and we're okay...
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I don't click on Fabulous looks of the day because I hate the gallery set up. You have to click on photos then click again and load the next photo. Please change the layout to how the other posts are.
@Elle, I agree. Please change. Thanks!
Co-sign with Elle and Anonymous, it's super ridiculous!
Yep hate it! But love yall!
If you don't like it, don't click on it, it really is that simple!
@ 2 cents, if people who support the fbd have some good feedback for the team why not give it? That only improves the site! #nobusinesssense
@2 Cents normally I agree with that sentiment but these posts usually have most of the fashion now and it's just a little cumbersome
Yea I don't care for the set up either. I just zoom in to see all of the looks at once and click on the ones I'm interested in.
@Elle I agree.i was just about to leave a comment on how much i dislike this layout.
Welll….thanks for all your comments! We have a gallery. It's a new thing. Lots of sites have galleries. Just random pictures that can indulge your voyeuristic side. It is unlike Week in Chic or any other feature because it's just a bunch of images without all the editorializing.
Why not send me a link to a site with a gallery function you like? We will do our best.
The reason I keep coming back to this site. Claire listens… Great job dearie! Here's wishing you an even better 2014! mmuah! XX
Hi Claire thank you for listening. Love the site! Could we please have a gallery that only refreshes the image instead of the whole page maybe? People.com has a gallery set up like that. Thanks again!


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- Continuing its commitment to helping organizations deliver best-in-class customer experiences by tapping into enterprise data, Oracle today announced Oracle Knowledge 8.5, the industry-leading knowledge management software that supports web self-service, agent-assisted service and customer communities.
- Oracle Knowledge 8.5 is the most comprehensive release since the acquisition of Inquira in October 2011. It introduces significant product enhancements, improved analytics and advances in both performance and scalability.
- Organizations today understand the imperative to deliver consistent, high-quality customer service and support across channels. Additionally, organizations recognize the need for intelligence to assist in this process. Oracle Knowledge 8.5 proactively delivers relevant, contextual knowledge at the point of interaction to agents, knowledge workers, and customers -- helping increase customer loyalty and reduce costs.
- By enabling searches across a wide variety of sources, Oracle Knowledge 8.5 amplifies access to knowledge once hidden in the myriad systems, applications and databases used to store enterprise content.
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- Expanded Language Model for Global Customers: The new 3-level language model "Global - Language - Locale" within Oracle Knowledge 8.5 provides simplification, automation and an improved search experience for organizations with a global footprint.
- Improved iConnect Functionality: Oracle Knowledge 8.5 delivers enhanced iConnect for better usability and performance. This specialized knowledge application proactively delivers contextualized knowledge directly into CRM applications, allowing front-line employees to reduce the effort to serve customers.
- Platform & Technology Standardization: Oracle Knowledge 8.5 has been certified on Oracle technologies, including Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, reducing cost and complexity for customers to manage assets across platforms.
Oracle Knowledge 8.5 provides the following additional benefits:
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Drinking from the Fire Hose
What happens when the bottom of the world chat about IT Service Management.
HOSTS Episode 16: Karen Ferris, Simone Moore, Andrew Friar, Tristan Boot
Month in review
Tristan, Simone, Andrew and Karen discuss the past months highlights and lowlights.
Tristan turns 40! Tristan and Andrew are frustrated with the RFI/RFP process and it should definitely be a subject of a future podcast. Good things happening with itSMF NZ.
'Enjoying Your Working Life' seminars a great success for HDAA. Simone sad to miss out on Aprill Allen's presentation at the NSW itSMF seminar but Andrew was there and it was a great success. Follow April on Twitter @aprillallen.
Andrew getting great feedback from an organisation implementing his recommendations.
itSMF NZ and AU will offer assistance to anyone who wants to present. There is coaching and mentoring available.
Karen's top ten tips on giving presentations available here.
Karen reflects on the Pink12 Conference and the recent itSMF Sweden Conference in Stockholm.
The team discusses 'Hot Sources of Information' and 'How to Drink from the Fire Hose'.
Andrew's highly recommended book is 'Eight Things We Hate About IT'.
Tristan doing his ICT research and networking with his peers at the pub – "A Few Quiet Yarns".
Back2ITSM is the place to be but not as a lurker! facebook.com/groups/back2itsm/
Can we avoid Back2ITSM going the same way as the Linkedin forums?
Other sources include HBR, itSMFA Bulletins, itSMFNZ newsletters, At Your Service, HDAA eNews, CIO Magazine.
Use Twitter to see what others are reading. Follow people when you really want to know what they are saying. Everything else should be put in 'lists'. This helps 'drink from the fire hose'.
Evernote and Instapaper are good tools for filtering and saving to read later and recording ideas. Social bookmarking can be done with Delicious.
Integrate your online tools with 'If This Then That' and SMAK.
Team discuss hash tag usage and social media etiquette. Follow the team on Twitter @karen_ferris / @TristanNZ / @simonejomoore / @ajfriar.
Conference Details
Australia itsmf.org.au/leadit/2012/
New Zealand itsmfconference.org.nz/
Booby(s) of the Month
Be careful when you download from the internet that you get what you intended! Kazakhstan's glorious anthem mishap.
The team will record Episode 26 on April 2012.
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Incidents, Problems & Chaos
What happens when the bottom of the world chat about IT Service Management.
HOSTS Episode 15: Karen Ferris, Simone Moore, Andrew Friar, Tristan Boot
A special apology from Karen Ferris, as she travels the world having drinks with Mr Chris Dancy.
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HOSTS for Episode 15: Simone Moore, Andrew Friar, Tristan Boot
HOSTS Episode: Karen Ferris, Simone Moore, Andrew Friar, Tristan Boot
A special apology from Karen Ferris, as she travels the world having drinks with Mr Chris Dancy.
Month in review
Simone, Tristan, and Andrew discuss the past months highlights and lowlights.
- 12 Months of the Podcast, as made clear by the anniversary of the Christchurch Earthquake.
- Tristan introduces an upcoming documentary on the Earthquake - When a City Falls trailer
- Simone is preparing for the upcoming Enjoy Your Working Life workshop
- Watching the development of the Back2ITSM Facebook group Kicked off by Stephen Mann and inspired by his original blog post on the same topic
- itSMFnz Conference site itsmfconference.org.nz/ Looking for sponsors and speakers!! He is even contemplating speaking.
- The Poodle bites back - The UK podcast discusses everything social as inspired by the IT Skeptic
The Team Talk with the Andrew Sauter from Thinking Dimensions on all things Problematic
Winners of the Telstra ITSMF Service Management Innovation award.
About the KepnerandFourie technology
On the topic of incident management and questions have a look at the Thinking-Dimensions white-papers on 'IT Root Cause'. Topics include the 'MIM' process that Thinking-Dimension won the Innovation award.
When Asking Questions, Tristan bought up Douglas Adams.
On the topic of Decision Making have a look at Thinking-Dimensions whitepapers
To learn more about IT Service Availability and IT Root Cause Analysis have a look here
If you'd like to learn more about Thinking-Dimensions IT RCA course download the pdf here
Booby(s) of the Month
Our Booby of the month has a little celebrity content Stephen Fry - NZ broadband booby NZ Herald story
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Rob England, The IT Skeptic, IT Swami, Commenter on all things IT Joins the TEAM to forecast 2012.
Month in review
Tristan, Andrew and Karen discuss the past months highlights and lowlights. A hectic start to 2012 and business is looking good. The IT job market seems to be coming to life. The team congratulates Marianna Billington on her election to the Chair of itSMF IEB.
The Team Talk with the IT Skeptic – Reflections on 2011 and Predictions on 2012
• The IT Skeptic
• TIPU – a method for Continual Service Improvement from the IT Skeptic.
• How hard can it be run a decent IT organisation? Forbe's magazine.
• IT Skeptic Awards for 2011
• Focus on tools alone is still a problem. Failing to plan and talk to others!
• IT Swami predictions for ITSM 2012 and beyond.
• There will be a new fad to replace social media that will be location related.
• Gartner News Room for 2011 Technology Hypecycle
• Where is social on the hype cycle? IT Skeptic doing his best to kick it down the hill!
• Battle between ITIL and COBIT 5 will heat up this year.
• COBIT 5 Isaca Update
• Current state of ITIL report for APMG.
• Service management is just a perspective on IT management. Do we drop the IT from ITSMF or drop the 'S'?
• There will be an 'Agile' disaster this year.
• Euro currency will collapse and lead to new US banking crisis.
• Bring Your Own Devices.
• SMH Tweet Survey
• Rob's magic wand would be to help folks bring about cultural change.
• Tristan stores his service management books in the liquor cabinet!
• Rob's long-term prediction will be that IT will become the cops as we will be losing control. It will be all about governance and management of risk.
Booby(s) of the Month
• Forbe's magazine.
The team will record Episode 15 on February 22 2012. This show will have special guest Andrew Sauter from Thinking Dimensions talking about all things Problem Management.
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The Team Reflect on 2011 & Look Forward to 2012
Highlights for the Month
Simone's highlight for the month was the round of sustainability workshops that Karen did for HDAA and attending first Geek Girl event in Sydney.
Tristan's month has been a blur!
Highlights of 2011
Establishment of the ITSMAP crew
Meeting Chris Dancy
itSMF NZ Conference
itSMF AU Conference and the wine tour
Kepner Fourie course
Surviving a year
Inaugral podcast was on 23rd February 2011 – the day after the Christchurch earthquake – magnitude 6.3
Karen's book – Balanced Diversity and itSMF webinar
Scratch and sniff ITSM book
Get Published – Listen to Chief Editor itSMF Publishing on podcast episode 4
Andrew is doing a book review for itSMF AU on Balanced Diversity
Favourite podcast of 2011
2011 saw 13 episodes – 5 special guests – 2 live broadcasts from conference floor in AU and NZ
Favorites include the live broadcasts and special guests
Fujitsu global sustainability benchmark
Predictions for 2012
Continue to talk about organisational / cultural change
End of management – Gary Hamel
Outsourcing is in
End of the inbox
Company ditches email
Confluence for collaboration
Mastering gamification
Gamification by design – Gabe Zichermann
Forbes 2012 women in technology
2012 Events
itSMF New Zealand Conference June 12-14 2012 – Mac's Function Centre, Wellington
itSMF Australia Conference August 20-23 2012 – Gold Coast Convention Centre
Booby(s) of the Month
Faulty Royal Mail website over charges customers
Booby of the Year
Qantas due to their hashtag #qantasluxury disaster. Karen's recent experience shows that they are still not quite getting it right despite trying very hard!
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Jolly Green Giant In The Room
What happens when the bottom of the world chat about IT Service Management.
HOSTS Episode 12: Karen Ferris, Simone Moore, Andrew Friar, Tristan Boot
Month in review
Simone, Tristan and Karen discuss the past months highlights and lowlights.
Tristan attended Fusion USA Conference and itSMF AGM and returned to Christchurch for the first time since the earthquake.
Simone met Danish royalty on their visit to Sydney. Simone how holds DPSM credential for priSM.
Karen attended the itSMF UK Conference and held her book in her hand – Balanced Diversity: A Portfolio Approach to Organizational Change - for the first time! Sales were good. Copies available from your local itSMF book store. ISBN: 9780117080607.
The Team discuss Green IT / ICT Sustainability with special guest Alison Rowe.
Alison is the Global Executive Director for Sustainability at Fujitsu.
Alison discusses the key findings from the Fujitsu Global Benchmark Report 2011.
2010 report looked at Australia, India, USA and UK. 2011 added China, Canada and New Zealand. 2011 results have gone backwards. 2010 overall average IT sustainability index was 56.4 (out of 100) and in 2011 54.3.
Low percentage of IT visibility of power bill. In Australia less than 1% have energy in the IT budget. There is direct correlation between performance of organisations and accountability for / visibility of energy consumption.
Up to 80% of financial organisations energy bill is from ICT. Others are similarly high.
Sustainability initiatives are not being given the priority that is needed.
The quick wins or "low-hanging fruit" have grown back. Initiatives have not been institutionalized through embodiment in process.
It is important to focus on the entire lifecycle of IT assets and the supply chain.
Organisations need to look at sustainability from a strategic perspective and value creation.
There are not enough big sticks or levers (i.e. carrots) to make organisations move through the levels of maturity. Maybe the carrot should be a kumquat.
Canada (60.3) is the leading country in the survey followed by UK and USA. Australia and New Zealand are in the middle of the pack.
The leading industry overall is the IT, Media and Communications industry.
Energy needs to become a strategic asset and managed on a day-to-day basis.
Alison believes that if utilities and IT industries come together we can drive the sustainability agenda. This will require investment into smart grids and utilities.
Hoping for an Australian / New Zealand average score of 65-70 in a few years time. There is one company in USA who scored 97 out of a hundred in 2011 and has set a leading example. We also need to look at what has not worked rather than just what has worked well.
The barbeque conversation needs to change. Sustainability needs to be embedded into the organisational culture.
It's not just a top-down approach. In Fujitsu they developed "green teams" that have a budget to spend on sustainability initiatives. These can then be replicated across sites. This year they had "green awards" for initiatives both at work and home. Submissions from staff were overwhelming. Alison shared a classic example from the New Zealand team. A staff member had a farm with a pig called Dorothy and food scraps from the kitchen went to feed Dorothy and the piglets. It is about making it "real".
IT Service Management can assist by embedding sustainability into processes. The processes are already there and just need refining.
Listener Competition
We need a different term for "Green IT" in order to sell the sustainability agenda. Listener should send their ideas to firstname.lastname@example.com by 10 December 2011. The best response will receive a $50 iTunes Gift Certificate.
HDAA ICT Sustainability Workshop Details
Canberra - Hotel Realm Wed 30 November hdaa.com.au/eventDetails.asp?Eid=17
Brisbane - Emporium Hotel Thur 1 December hdaa.com.au/eventDetails.asp?Eid=18
Melbourne - Marriott Hotel Thur 8 December hdaa.com.au/eventDetails.asp?Eid=19
Sydney - Novotel Rockford Fri 9 December hdaa.com.au/eventDetails.asp?Eid=20
Booby(s) of the Month
Qantas takes the biscuit this month by making a hash of its tweet campaign.
The team will record Episode 13 on December 14. This will be our festive round-up.
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Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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|Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination
|Dhaka, Bangladesh
|August 15, 1975
|Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family
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|20 (including Sheikh Mujib, his wife and three sons)
Non-fatal injuries
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The assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangabandhu) occurred on August 15, 1975. Mujibur Rahman was killed with most of his family members by a tiny group with powerful guns. He led a very simple life in his own house with a minimum level of security.
It is true that a tiny group belonging to the evil axis of Razakars, Pakistani collaborators, and the conspirators were happy after the killing of Bangabandhu. They organized to take-over the power under the leadership of the second Mir Jafar named Khondoker Moshtaque of Bangladesh. It was not clear at the outset about the patrons and other cohorts of the killers and the conspirators. We had to wait to see the conclusion. Eventually, the patron of the killers, the beneficiary of the killing, and behind-the-scenes conspirator named Gen. Ziaur Rahman emerged as a strong man just like his Pakistani master Gen. Ayub Khan. This ruthless dictator rewarded some of the killers with jobs in the foreign ministry. Some of the killers were given support for forming a political party with their cadres always carrying fully loaded arms to terrorize the public. All of the killers were given impunity that gave them freedom from the consequences for the heinous crimes that they committed. Under the blessings and patronization of the military dictator Gen. Zia, the killers portrayed themselves as if they were above the law of the land. All these were happening in a country where any unruly acts were possible under the blessing of the Martial Law Administrator Gen. Zia. The conspirators and the killers did a massive propaganda to rationalize the killing of Bangabandhu and his near and dear ones. In their propaganda, they propagated that they were going to bring piece and tranquility along with the prosperity in the country, which was going through some chaos in the post-war Bangladesh. They tried in vain to suppress the glorious history of the struggle of Bangabandhu for the independence of Bangladesh.
Colonel (was Major in August 1975) Syed Faruque Rahman, Abdur Rashid, Sharful Haque (Dalim), Raju Ahmed and A.K.M. Raju Ahmed, all majors in the Bangladesh Army and veterans of Bangladesh Forces. With cue from certain foreign intelligence, they planned to topple the government and establish a military government of their own. Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed, an Awami League cabinet minister under the Mujibur regime, agreed to take over the Presidency. Over the years many paint of alternative pictures of different conspiracies, implicating Mustaque and CIA as participants.[1][2] It is alleged that the chief of the army staff Major General K M Shafiullah and Defence Intelligence Agency DGFI Air Vice Marshall Aminul Islam Khan were aware of the conspiracy.[3]
In the early morning of August 15, 1975, the conspirators were divided into four groups. One group, consisting of members of the Bengal Lancers of the First Armoured Division and 535 Infantry Division under Major Huda, attacked Mujibur's residence. Mujibur's son, Sheikh Kamal, fired shots from a second floor window towards the entrance. Mujibur was shot as planned, before he could show his outrage for the scandalous military intrusion to his premises by these officers. Mujibur may have had time to telephone Colonel Jamil, the new chief of Military Intelligence. Jamil was shot and killed at the gate.[4]
Other occupants killed in the attack were Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, wife of Mujibur (killed upstairs); Sheikh Nasser and a couple of servants (in the lavatory); Sheikh Jamal; 10-year-old Sheikh Russel; and several daughters-in-law of Mujibur. Two daughters, Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, were in West Germany at the time. They took refuge with the Indian government and were flown to India.[4]
Two other groups of soldiers killed Sheikh Fazlul Haque (Mani), Mujibur's nephew and influential leader of the Awami League along with his pregnant wife at 13/1, Dhanmondi, and Abdur Rab Serniabat, Mujibur's brother-in-law, and a minister of the Government along with 13 family members on Mintu Road.
The fourth and most powerful group was sent towards Savar to repel the anticipated counter-attack by the Security Forces where after a short fight and a loss of eleven men, Security Forces surrendered.
Three months later, four major founding leaders of the Awami League, first Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed, former Prime Minister Mansur Ali, former Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam and former Home Minister A H M Kamruzzaman were arrested and brutally murdered in Dhaka jail on November 3, 1975.
Aftermath of assassination[edit]
Khondaker Mustaq Ahmed assumed the presidency, Major General Ziaur Rahman became the new Chief of Army Staff. The leading conspirators were all given the highest ranks. They were later toppled by yet another coup led by Brigadier General Khaled Mosharraf on November 3, 1975. Mosharraf himself was killed during a counter revolt four days later on November 7, which freed Major General Ziaur Rahman in power and was brought in to bring law and order. In the meantime Major Syed Faruque Rahman, Rashid, and the other army officers had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel under the military rule of Major General Ziaur Rahman. They were exiled to Libya, China, Rhodesia, Canada and other countries, and were given several diplomatic posts in Bangladeshi missions abroad. Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd.) Syed Faruque Rahman later returned and founded the Bangladesh Freedom Party in 1985, and took part in the presidential election in 1987 against military ruler Lieutenant General Hussain Mohammad Ershad.
The military decided not to court-martial the military officials who masterminded and participated in the coup. No case was registered with the police, by relatives of Mujibur or his party men, either. In fact, the conspirators could not be tried in court of law on the charge of assassination because of the Indemnity Act passed by the government under President Khondaker Mustaq Ahmed. However, when Awami League, led by Mujibur's daughter, Sheikh Hasina, won the election in 1996, it repealed the Act. The Bangabandhu murder trial commenced. Col. (Rtd.) Syed Faruque Rahman was arrested from his Dhaka Old DOHS home. Col. (Rtd.) Bazlul Huda was brought back from Bangkok, where he was serving sentence for shop lifting, as part of criminal exchange program between Thailand and Bangladesh. Lt. Col. Mohiuddin Ahmed was active in military service when he was arrested. Col. (Rtd.) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan was on active diplomatic service, appointed by previous Prime Minister of Bangladesh Begum Khaleda Zia, and returned to Bangladesh when he had been called back by foreign ministry. Later he was arrested. Col. (Rtd.) Abdur Rashid and other accused, however, left Bangladesh as 1996 general election showed an upcoming Awami League victory. Colonel (Rtd.) Rashid is now reportedly shuttling between Pakistan and Libya. All these men were also involved in jail killing in November 1975.[citation needed]
The trial ended on November 8, 1998, and death sentences by firing squad were given by the District and Session Judge of Dhaka Mohammad Golam Rasul, to 15 out of 20 accused of the assassination. Taher Uddin Thakur, former Information Minister and one of the suspects (by Hasina government), was cleared during the period of Hasina Government. He died naturally in 2009.[5] However, the sentences were yet to be carried out as five of the convicts sought permission to file appeals in the high court. Taher Uddin Thakur was released from all the accusations of government and released. High Court bench comprising Justice Mohammad Ruhul Amin and Justice A B M Khairul Haque (current Chief Justice of Bangladesh) gave a divisive verdict. Senior Justice Amin acquitted 5 out of original 15 accused, but junior Justice Haque upheld the lower court verdict. So another verdict from a third judge became essential. Later, as a third judge Justice Mohammad fazlul Karim accused 12 out of original 15 including 2 acquitted in Justice Amin's verdict. One of the convicts, Major (Rtd.) Aziz Pasha, died in Zimbabwe on June 2, 2001.[6] As 5 accused again appealed to Appellate Division, decision remained pending due to a shortage of minimum requirement of three judges for a hearing session since August 2001, as several of judges embarrassed to hear the case. On June 18, 2007, one of the conspirators who had been sentenced to death, Major (Rtd.) A K M Mohiuddin Ahmed, was extradited to Bangladesh from the United States, following a series of failed attempts to gain asylum or permanent residency in the United States. On August 7, 2007, the murder case hearings resumed after six years.[7]
The appellate division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh gave its verdict on November 19, 2009,[8] after a five member special bench, headed by Justice Mahammad Tafazzal Islam, spent 29 days hearing the petition filed by the convicted.[5][9]
The appeal of the convicts was rejected and the death sentence was upheld.[10] Before the verdict, approximately 12,000 extra policemen were deployed to guard strategic buildings, including the Supreme Court, to prevent any attempt to disrupt the proceedings by the convicted men's supporters.[10] The men's supporters have been blamed by the government for a grenade attack on one of the prosecution lawyers in October 2009, although no one has been charged yet.[10]
Captain (Rtd.) Qismet Hashem, Captain (Rtd.) Nazmul Hossain Aanssar and Major (Rtd.) Abdul Majid were acquitted throughout the high court division and appellate division verdicts and are, now, living in Canada.
Conspirators Major (Rtd.) Bazlul Huda, Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd.) Mohiuddin Ahmed, Major (Rtd.) A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Colonel (Rtd.) Syed Faruque Rahman and Colonel (Rtd.) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan were executed on 28 January 2010.[11][12]
The absconding convicted conspirators are being hunted by the Bangladeshi government of Sheikh Hasina.[13]
See also[edit]
- ^ Memoir written in 2005 by Lawrence Lifschultz
- ^ Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution, by Lawrence Lifschultz, London: Zed Press, 1979
- ^ Ziaur Rahman informed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman earlier about coup threat
- ^ a b Dasgupta, Sukharanjan (1978). Midnight Massacre in Dacca. Vikas. pp. [page needed]. ISBN 9780706906929.
- ^ a b Mujib murder case appeals verdict today
- ^ 6 killers still out of reach
- ^ Bangabandhu murder case hearing resumes today after 6 years; The Daily Star; August 7, 2007
- ^ Major Md. Bazlul Huda (Artillery) & Ors. vs. The State, Criminal Appeal Nos. 55–59 of 2007
- ^ Security tightened around SC – The Daily Star, November 19, 2009
- ^ a b c "Bangladesh officers lose appeal". BBC. 19 November 2009.
- ^ Ahmed, Anis (January 27, 2010). "Bangladesh Hangs Killers of Independence Leader Mujib". Reuters.
- ^ Charlie Gillis (February 15, 2011). "The assassin among us – Nur Chowdhury faces execution for killing Bangladesh's president. That's why he's safe in Canada.". Maclean's.
- ^ Wednesday, October 15, 2014. "Premier with vigorous efforts to bring back convicted killers of Mujib"


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I'm afraid I have to disagree with all the other reviews here. Yes, the central idea is fantastic - but what about the writing?
The first half of the book, in particular, is terrible. I found it impossible to `see' the action happening, and to get into the world of the story, because the author failed to paint a picture of anything - settings, characters, situations etc. I'm not someone who likes a lot of description - I just need to be able to visualise things. For example, a crucial crime scene is described as a room up a staircase in Ariel College - `a room bustling with people' - and that's it. In my mind's eye I imagined some sort of common room, but later discovered it was a bedroom.
There was a lot of this kind of confusion. I assumed that the body Denison and Weathers looked at in the first chapter was that of Amanda because the investigators kept asking people about their relationships with her - but I later realised that Amanda died years earlier.
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`...Parrish was sitting on the last step of the victim's staircase.'
`So either he saw the killer...' said Denison.
`... or he is the killer,' finished Ames.
`Not necessarily,' protested Halloran... `The rooms on the south side of the building have windows out into the street.'
`Or,' said Weathers. `The killer could have hidden...'
At first I wondered what relevance the windows had to this character maybe being the killer. Then I realised that the `Not necessarily' speech by Halloran is a real howler of a non-sequitur. To correct this, the remarks by Denison and Ames need to be switched (`So either he is the killer...'/ `...or he saw the killer')
The characters are one-dimensional and I didn't care about any of them. The writing often descends into clichés (e.g. the room that was `bustling with people'; colour `draining away' from faces) and there is absolutely no sense of menace until right at the end. I felt the author really got into her stride only in the last few chapters - and even then, the writing wasn't great.
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Sorry to go on, but in view of the overwhelmingly positive reviews here (which persuaded me to buy the book in the first place) I felt I had to explain my measly one star!
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I agree......no characterisation or descriptions at all. I couldn't differentiate between the three characters in the first few chapters and feel like giving up. They're like cardboard cutouts. I shall attempt it again tonight but I'm not optimistic.
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I agree totally. I stood in the book shop and read the first 8 pages, wow I thought this book looks great - how wrong I was that was the most exciting part, I found it so boring and mixed up that i actually fell asleep. I read alot because I dont like tv much and rarely have I had the misfortune to make such a bad choice. I have to say I am amazed it has such a high rating on here.
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I am watching with interest to see if more negative reviews will eventually appear. Thanks for these comments - for a while I wondered if I'd read a different book from everyone else!
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`...Parrish was sitting on the last step of the victim's staircase.'
`So either he saw the killer...' said Denison.
`... or he is the killer,' finished Ames.
`Not necessarily,' protested Halloran... `The rooms on the south side of the building have windows out into the street.'
`Or,' said Weathers. `The killer could have hidden...'
There's no non-sequitur here. This is a fast-moving conversation, rendered naturalistically. You can either regard Halloran's remark as a response to Denison's comment, but one which by the time he gets it out has been overtaken by Ames cutting in, or you can regard it as a response to the too simple analysis offered by Denison and Ames (that Parrish has to be the killer if he claims no one came past him). Not so, Halloran points out: the killer could have escaped through a window on the other side of the building. Then Weathers comes in with yet another possibility: the killer hid. Either way, nothing confusing, not bad writing.
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Hi Tom. I still think it can be classed as a non-sequitur as it doesn't follow the previous statement (i.e. that by Ames). Maybe you're right and the author did intend your second interpretation - that Halloran's speech is a response to both the previous speeches - but if so I think the passage should have been rewritten to make this clear. To me, writing that isn't clear is bad.
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