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How Morocco can pull off historic shock against holders France in World Cup semi-final but they have one major weakness
EVERYONE loves an underdog and football fans have been treated to one of the greatest Cinderella stories in World Cup history.
Morocco flew under the radar during the group phase.
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In a four-team tussle which included Canada, Croatia and Belgium, Walid Regragui's men finished top with seven points from nine.
It's no coincidence that Morocco are doing well either.
The African giants have conceded just one goal at the entire tournament, which was an own goal against Canada in a 2-1 win.
The Atlas Lions have already put Belgium, Spain, and Portugal to the sword and became the first team from the continent to reach the World Cup semi-finals, a truly remarkable feat.
Morocco are just one more victory away from booking their place in the final and the possibilty of winning the whole thing.
However, a colossal obstacle stands in the way in the reigning World Cup champions France.
Les Bleus are aiming to become only the third team to win the tournament back-to-back, while Didier Deschamps can cement himself as one of just two managers to win multiple World Cup titles.
Here are three key tactical areas where this clash between France and Morocco can be won and lost.
France are the team to beat in Qatar
Morocco are the surprise package of the World Cup
Morocco's unbreakable block
Morocco boast the best defence at the World Cup in 2022 but it's not a coincidence that the side are so resilient at the back.
The team's superb defensive record is even more impressive as Regragui himself took over at the helm just four months before the tournament began.
Morocco have some wonderful attacking players in their ranks including Chelsea playmaker Hakim Ziyech and Sevilla centre-forward Youssef En-Nesyri.
However, with such little time to integrate his philosophy on the team, Regragui was forced to lean on the strong defensive core within the squad.
Players such as Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich fullbacks Achraf Hakimi and Noussair Mazraoui have been sensational alongside Nayef Aguerd from West Ham United and Wolves defender Romain Saiss.
Nevertheless, the entire side helps out when Morocco lose the ball, forming an incredibly secure defensive block in front of the goalkeeper.
Regragui lines his players out in a 4-3-3 which becomes a highly compact 4-5-1 when the team settles into a low defensive block.
Morocco are sitting in their typical 4-5-1 low block. The space between the lines is really compact, making it difficult for opponents to play through.
Morocco defended very deep against Portugal in the quarter-final
Very little high pressing occurs out of possession by Morocco.
As soon as they have lost the ball, the plan is to structure themselves in a low block state as quickly as possible.
There are some interesting individual roles in this set-up.
The centre-forward is tasked with sitting on the opponent's deepest midfielder to stifle this player's ability to dictate the tempo of the game.
En-Nesyri did this extremely well against Spain's single pivot Sergio Busquets in the Last-16.
The Barcelona stalwart was unable to control the game as he so often does which slowed down Spain's play as the team were forced to find alternatives to playing through Busquets.
Meanwhile, it would be almost offensive not to mention the importance of Sofyan Amrabat to the side defensively.
The Fiorentina man sits as Morocco's No6 and has been handed the responsibility of marking any player that comes into the pockets of space in front of the backline.
Often, this requires picking up two players at once, meaning Amrabat must always be switched on and possess a high level of positional and tactical awareness, which he certainly does.
As Morocco are sitting in their compact 4-5-1 block, Amrabat is positioned between two Spanish players, ready to pounce on either in his zone if they receive the ball.
Antoine Griezmann has become France's playmaker
It is Amrabat's domain where France's main creator Antoine Griezmann operates and so, should the Moroccan keep the French playmaker quiet, the Atlas Lions may be able to stifle their opponent's ability to create meaningful chances.
French patience
Regragui will be fine with allowing Didier Deschamps' men to have the lion's share of possession.
The highest possession percentage held by Morocco at the World Cup this year is 41 per cent against Canada.
In their quarter-final triumph over Portugal, Regragui's men registered merely 26 per cent of the ball.
With this in mind, it is highly likely that Les Bleus will dominate proceedings in this semi-final tie. But the French must be patient.
Morocco average just 32 per cent possession at the World Cup
They will not be able to create a plethora of chances due to Morocco's incredibly resilient defensive block, and resorting to nothing but crosses like Portugal did will be too predictable for the African side.
France must use their individual quality and intelligence to find gaps inside Morocco's block rather than meaninglessly whipping balls into Olivier Giroud.
The champions' last-16 victory over Poland provides Deschamps with the perfect outline for how to break down a rigid defensive block.
Poland were defending in a really conservative 6-3-1 low block for large parts of the match, with the wingers dropping into the backline.
The Polish were able to cover the full length of the pitch while still maintaining compactness between the lines. It looked as though there was no space for France to play into. Yet, they still found it.
After a long period of possession, Kylian Mbappe received the ball between the Polish lines. The Poland centre-back stepped out of position to close him down which left space for Giroud to run into and eventually score after Mbappe slipped his striker in on goal.
Using quality and quick passing, France were able to drag Poland's backline out of position and create space for runners in behind.
However, this wasn't rushed.
Against Morocco, Portugal began rushing their play, especially after En-Nesyri opened the scoring, and so there was a lot of wasted possession from the European side.
France didn't rush into things despite not bagging the first goal until just before half-time, although this was helped by the fact that Poland hadn't scored either.
Nonetheless, Deschamps' title holders waited for the right opportunities to up the tempo and drag certain defenders out of position to create clear-cut opportunities.
It is this same patience that will be necessary if France are to break down the best defence in Qatar.
Even if Morocco score first, Les Bleus must remain calm and try to patiently provoke space in their opponent's block before capitalising.
Morocco counterattacks and weakness
Morocco don't care for having long spells of possession and prefer to get the ball forward as quickly as possible.
One method of doing this is through counterattacking. The Atlas Lions are truly predatory on the break and combine pace, power, precision and unpredictability to allow them to terrorise defences.
The wingers, Ziyech and Sofiane Boufal, are experts at carrying the ball and bare the brunt of the load during counter-attacking situations, but Hakimi also supports from right-back.
The former Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund defender has a wealth of experience as a winger and so is a useful tool for Regragui in the final third.
Ziyech, En-Nesyri, Boufal and Hakimi are all attacking an exposed Portuguese defence and came close to doubling the team's lead.
When Morocco are in full flight during attacking transitions, it is very difficult to stop them.
France will need to be careful that not too many players commit themselves going forward as it can leave them susceptible to being taken advantage of from counterattacks.
This is particularly dangerous down France's left side as left-back Theo Hernandez loves to bomb forward and link-up with Mbappe on the flanks, leaving the nearest centre-back in danger.
Hakimi is caught out of position and Spain create a decent opportunity down this side after breaking from deep.
However, Morocco also have a tendency to put themselves in danger when Hakimi breaks forward.
The Spanish-born full-back is very keen to get involved in the attack, but this leaves the space down Aguerd's right vacant and exposable.
As Mbappe likes to lurk on the left flank, France may be able to take advantage of the Moroccan full-back's adventurous nature by catching him with transitions of their own.
Before the tournament commenced, predicting a semi-final of France and Morocco would have been met with plenty of scoffs.
But now, this is the reality of this rather peculiar winter World Cup.
Both Morocco and France can make history in their own respect by making it to the final and winning the competition, but getting past one another to reach the last hurdle will be tricky.
The two sides are quite well-matched tactically and so this is unlikely to be a thriller but will certainly appeal to analytical nerds like us.
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Morphology of a small-field bistratified ganglion cell type in the macaque and human retina
Dennis M. Dacey (a1)
Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2009
In in-vitro preparations of both macaque and human retina, intracellular injections of Neurobiotin and horseradish peroxidase were used to characterize the morphology, depth of stratification, and mosaic organization of a type of bistratified ganglion cell. This cell type, here called the small bistratified cell, has been shown to project to the parvocellular layers of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (Rodieck, 1991) and is therefore likely to show color-opponent response properties.
In both human and macaque, the two dendritic tiers of the bistratified cell are narrowly stratified close to the inner and outer borders of the inner plexiform layer. The inner tier is larger in diameter and more densely branched than the outer tier and gives rise to distinct spine-like branchlets bearing large, often lobulated heads. By contrast the smaller, outer tier is sparsely branched and relatively spine-free.
In human retina, the small bistratified cells range in dendritic field diameter from ∼50 µm in central retina to ∼400 µm in the far periphery. The human small bistratified cells are about 20% larger in dendritic-field diameter than their counterparts in the macaque. However, when the difference in retinal magnification between human and macaque is taken into account, the small bistratified cells are similar in size in both species. In macaque, the small bistratified cell has a dendritic-field size that is ~10% larger than that of the magnocellular-projecting parasol ganglion cell. Human small bistratified ganglion cells tend to have smaller dendritic-field diameters than parasol cells. This is because parasol ganglion cells are larger in human than in macaque retina (Dacey & Petersen, 1992).
In macaque retina, intracellular injections of Neurobiotin revealed heterotypic tracer coupling to a distinct mosaic of amacrine cells and probable homotypic coupling to an array of neighboring ganglion cells around the perimeter of the injected cell's dendritic tree. The amacrine cell mosaic had a density of 1700 cells/mm2 in peripheral retina. Individual amacrines had small, densely branched and bistratified dendritic fields. From the homotypic coupling, it was possible to estimate for the small bistratified cell a coverage factor of ~1.8, and a density of ~1% of the total ganglion cells in central retina, increasing to ~6–10% in the retinal periphery.
The estimated density, dendritic-field size, and depth of stratification all suggest that the small bistratified ganglion cell type is the morphological counterpart of the common short-wavelength sensitive or 'blue-ON' physiological type.
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The Tuol Tompoung Market, located just south of Central Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is commonly referred to as the "Russian Market" by locals and visitors alike. The market gets its name from the past, when the market used to be full of Eastern-bloc knockoffs and fakes. Today, the market is still full of knockoffs and fakes, but most of them now are imported from China!
If you want to shop for "name brand" clothes, bags, sunglasses, or more, the Russian Market is one of the best places in the city, providing you know how to barter for a fair price.
The Russian Market is busy, crowded, and cramped. Even if you don't plan on buying anything, it can be a really interesting experience in and of itself to squeeze yourself through the narrow alleys inside the market, looking at the counterfeit DVDs, fake Prada bags, cheap souvenirs, and fresh produce. The market is also a great place to find some of the cheapest and tastiest Khmer street food in the city.
You will have to barter at this market in order to get the best price. Bartering is just a part of shopping at a market like this one in Cambodia.
Bartering is almost like a game. The goal isn't to get the cheapest price possible, but instead to agree on a price that both the buyer and seller thinks is fair and reasonable.
Don't think that the shopkeeper is trying to rip you off or cheat you because they quote you a higher price than you expect. The point is to barter it down to a reasonable price. Bartering is supposed to be fun!
The Tuol Tompoung Russian Market in Phnom Penh is located at St 163, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, within walking distance of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.


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BY DEBBY NG
With our physical environment increasingly threatened, it has become essential to recognise that even a single person is capable of making a big difference.
Most conservation efforts in Nepal fail to demonstrate the interconnectedness of people and the natural world; instead, many such efforts seem irrelevant to local people. Lacking an understanding of how their actions fit into a larger whole, or of how they can profit from their environment, people who live along wetland peripheries continue to devalue wetlands. For example, little children steal the eggs of endangered birds just for play.
Rajendra is changing the way people view wetlands and, in the process, enabling them to see the correlation between their own health and livelihood and that of the wetlands. Rajendra encourages farmers living along the periphery of wetlands to see these areas both as an addition to their current resource base and as the key to allowing them to move to the next level of economic independence.
He teaches the locals who live along the periphery of the wetlands, as well as the sanctuary's millions of visitors, to respect, protect and profit from the wetlands. Rajendra and his staff involve local people in the management of the sanctuaries and in the conservation of resources in the surrounding areas.
Ritwick Dutta
Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment
Before Environmental Law became a household word, Ritwick was already breaking frontiers in its field and challenging some of the most powerful people in his country. Through a process he calls "environmental democracy", Ritwick gives ordinary citizens in India an unprecedented voice in the authorisation of major infrastructure projects. Working with partner environmental groups and communities in India's leading biodiversity "hotspots", he trains residents to read and interpret the complex legal reviews that accompany each project, giving them the tools to understand the immediate and long-term implications of proposed developments. He then works to demystify pertinent laws and processes for legal action, empowering citizens to take full advantage of the country's legal system.
India's unprecedented economic boom has fuelled a considerable rise in large-scale infrastructure projects across the country, ranging from big dams that generate energy and support irrigation systems, to the construction of new highways and airports. Meanwhile, industrial demand for resources continues to grow, increasing the number of mining and forest clearing projects across the country.
Suwimon Piriyathanalai
Protection of the communities'coastal resources and livelihoods has long been a source of conflict in Thailand's southernmost provinces. Suwimon is determined to work with the Muslim Malays, a traditionally marginalised group, to develop a non-violent channel to defend their rights to fish and protect coastal resources.
Suwimon is using her integration and work experience to encourage local communities and officials to work together. By building strong and well-informed community associations, she is increasing the capacity of coastal Malay Muslims to defend their interests and negotiate effectively with the state and other actors. These community associations play a key role in protecting the coastal environment, preventing violent conflicts over coastal resources, and making the residents less vulnerable to the pressure of recruitment efforts of armed groups in the region – a first step towards establishing peace in the region.
Toto Sugito
Bike 2 Work
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Toto Sugito is building a bike riding movement, Bike 2 Work, to reduce air pollution and improve city transportation in Indonesia. B2W's goal is to introduce biking as an easy and healthy means of transportation by pushing for local governments to create bike lanes and storage places, providing a motivational support network of cyclists, and giving people access to safe, affordable and convenient bikes. Toto is successfully bridging the gap between public issues such as pollution and health problems and individual lifestyles, encouraging people to recognise their individual role in larger social problems and participate in collective action towards solving these problems.
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Bali FOKUS
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Solid waste has grown into a major problem in urban areas throughout Indonesia. The public service of waste removal and disposal has until now been urban-based, the responsibility of local governments. But over the past 35 years, there has not been any city authority in the country that has properly managed or successfully provided public waste management and sanitation services.
That's where Yuyun steps in. A first-class innovator and environmental engineer by training, she is developing a decentralised, community-based waste management system that brings privatisation of public services to small-scale providers. Working in Bali, she has gained the cooperation of large businesses like hotels and restaurants, sanitation workers (including garbage collectors and scavengers), and local governments and communities to actively support environmentally responsible solid waste management. Yuyun is convincing local communities that solid waste is one public resource that should not be outsourced to mega-companies but should be managed practically and efficiently to benefit the local people, businesses and the tourist industry; while relieving some of the burden from the local government.
Yuyun sees significant pressure on regional government to outsource public services like waste management. Numerous foreign-owned companies are vying to secure contracts for sanitation and waste management in places like Bali, an international tourist centre. Their capital-intensive approaches displace hundreds of thousands of jobs in the informal sector.
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Debby Ng forayed into journalism following failed attempts at becoming a world-class equestrian. A wildlife crime investigator, underwater photographer, dive master and founder of a marine conservation organisation, she spends what remains of her time writing about the environment, its wildlife, and its people.
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In 1969, a special group of Canadians risked life and limb to bring food and medicine to millions of dying children and women in the largest non-governmental War Airlift in human history.
The history of Nigeria, as it is taught in Nigerian schools, deliberately excludes details of the controversial Nigerian Civil War aka The Biafran war – the secession of South-East Nigeria (named BIAFRA), following brutal widespread attacks against South-eastern Nigerians; amidst the seeds of intra-ethnic discord planted during the long decades of British colonial rule in Nigeria.
As a result of this, my generation and I have grown up never fully knowing or grasping the sheer scale of the war, or the size and extent of the war relief effort it spawned in its wake. Conversations with my parents whilst growing up, and more recently, my Father-in-law and his former teacher (a former Canadian Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria), stirred my curiosity about the Canadian effort to relieve human suffering during the war. I realized, as a Newcomer to Canada, that this amazing story of bravery by Canadians has been forgotten or not told at all to my generation, as well as preceding and following ones in the postbellum period – not only in Nigeria but also in Canada.
I want to share my shocking personal discovery of CANAIRELIEF and its herculean effort in saving so many lives – including those of both my parents and parents-in-law; because it is a story that needs to be heard for the first time by younger generations and to be remembered by older ones.
Rev. E. H. Johnson of the Presbyterian Church pushes for Canada to take leadership of an international intervention program to help hungry, sick and dying Biafrans halfway across the world.
The unbelievable bravery of Canadians in the face of danger. The different types and times of danger that Canadians subjected themselves to during the Biafran Airlift.
What made CANAIRELIEF such an important part of the Biafran Airlift Mission? How did Canadians get involved in this epochal effort? Follow this heartwarming 4-Part Mini Series o the CANAIRELIEF story and what makes Canadians amazing.
A quick video breakdown and introduction of the Operation Lights Out Film.
Ron & Hazel McGraw (St. Catherines, Ontario) – Former Presbyterian missionaries who risked their lives and remained in Biafra during the war to serve with CANAIRELIEF.
Dr. Marjorie Ross (Toronto, Ontario) – Former Presbyterian missionary who remained in Nigeria after the war broke out and helped with rehabilitating Biafran refugees behind-the-lines in Nigeria. She tells her family's amazing story of their beautiful life (in Southeast Nigeria), how they became stranded with their children after War was declared on Biafra and their near-miraculous escape.
Remmelt Hummelen (Toronto, Ontario) – Former Presbyterian National Office staff who worked as a United Nations program advisor and a conflict mitigation specialist for United States Aid for 20 years. Hummelen worked directly with CANAIRELIEF and helped to raise awareness that led to the various humanitarian contributions and staggering funds raised by the mission.
Rev Rick Fee (Toronto, Ontario) – a Former Presbyterian missionary who worked and lived in Southeast Nigeria (the former Biafran enclave) after the war and recounts his experiences, and the devastation that was still visible almost a decade after the war ended.


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Mr. Borree has also represented lawyers and law firms, and has argued before Illinois' First District Appellate Court. Mr. Borree also maintains experience in arbitrating disputes for his clients. Mr. Borree served as the firm's hiring partner between 2012 and 2016. Between 2017 and 2019, Mr. Borree served on the firm's management committee. As of January, 2022, Mr. Borree serves as the firm's managing partner.
In 2013, Mr. Borree was named a "Rising Star" in Civil Litigation by Super Lawyers and named a "Super Lawyer" in 2017, 2018 and 2020. Between 2015 – 2017, he was given the "Emerging Lawyer" distinction from Leading Lawyers. "Emerging Lawyers" have been identified by their peers to be among the top lawyers who are 40 or younger or have practiced for no more than 10 years. Less than 2% of all lawyers licensed in each state receive the distinction of "Emerging Lawyer." In 2018-2019, Mr. Borree was also named a "Leading Lawyer."
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Kaohsiung woman, lover must pay after husband finds them cheating
HARD EVIDENCE:The woman's husband and a private investigator rented rooms adjacent to hers in a motel where she met her lover and collected their bed sheets
By Pao Chien-hsin and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
A Kaohsiung resident and her lover have been ordered to pay NT$500,000 (US$16,684) to the woman's husband after her husband discovered they were having an extramarital affair.
The woman, surnamed Chiu (邱), rented a motel room with her coworker, surnamed Lu (呂), where they engaged in sexual intercourse while Chiu's husband listened from the neighboring room.
Chiu's husband waited until the couple left in the morning, entered the room, and gathered the sheets and other items for use as evidence in a case against the two. He filed a formal complaint and requested NT$2 million in damages for psychological injury.
Investigators said that Chiu and Lu were found to have traveled together numerous times since 2015, adding that Chiu's husband became suspicious when Chiu's Facebook posts showed the two to be unusually friendly with each other.
The husband then hired a private investigator who photographed the two holding hands at a night market.
On Oct. 1, he and the investigator followed the couple to a motel in Kaohsiung's Siaogang District (小港), where they stayed in the two rooms adjoining that of the couple to collect evidence.
When the couple returned from breakfast, the husband and the investigator entered the room to take photographs, remove the pillows, sheets and other items and present the two with a notice that expressed the husband's intent to file a formal complaint.
During the hearing, the couple argued in their defense that Lu had pent up sexual desire and asked Chiu to help him, but that the two had not engaged in sexual intercourse.
They said the sounds the investigator had heard were fabricated at Lu's request, but that Chiu had only stimulated Lu with her hands.
The Kaohsiung branch of the Taiwan High Court rejected the argument, saying that the collected evidence contained DNA from the two that it considered evidence of sexual intercourse, and sentenced Chiu and Lu to four and three months in prison for violation offenses against marriage and family under Article 239 of the Criminal Code.
The sentences are commutable to fines. The verdict can be appealed.


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'Westworld': That Season 2 Spoilers Plan Was All Just a Joke — Watch
Jonathan Nolan knows the rules, and so do we.
Well, they sure did fool a lot of people.
In a move that ensured that the TV world will definitely be talking about the show in the two weeks before its premiere, "Westworld" released its much-anticipated, every-spoiler-in-Season-2 video. The season-spanning precap that series co-creator Jonathan Nolan teased earlier today on Reddit sure started off like the show was going through with its plan to give an entire overview of the season.
From an unofficial looking YouTube handle, the video shows Bernard waking up after the events of last season and walking through the park. He gets to the familiar main street area, finding Dolores. Then, all motor functions cease. A player piano starts breaking into a familiar song. Evan Rachel Wood starts singing…Rick Astley.
It is the year 2018, and Nolan and Co. finally killed the RickRoll once and for all. Reddit has reached its TV apex, and in a move of vengeance that we all probably should have seen coming, the famed "Westworld" mystery box opened up just enough to let one of those troll faces peek out.
If you want to see what it looks like when someone has the internet in the palm of their hand before slowly crushing it while gleefully singing "We're no strangers to looooove…," watch the full video (which also has a cute little pooch!) below:
And because this whole saga was leading to this point: yes, "Westworld" Season 2 premieres Sunday, April 22 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
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Emberion to present graphene photonics developments at LASER
Various new products and associated software will be on show at LASER World of Photonics event.
Emberion's fully packaged linear array detector.
Finland-based graphene-photonics company Emberion, which spun off from Nokia in 2016, is exhibiting several eye-catching products later this month at LASER World of PHOTONICS in Munich, which runs June 24th to 27th.
The company has developed expertise in combining graphene and nanostructured optical absorbers with custom-designed read-out integrated circuits (ROIC). Its design and fabrication of custom ROICs incorporating nanomaterials has enabled Emberion to develop high-performance infrared detector products for a broad range of wavelengths from visible light to the thermal range.
At LASER it will be presenting its novel, high-performance visible-through-shortwave infrared (VIS-SWIR) detectors and detailing its progress around thermal detector development.<./p>
The company announcement stated, "We would be excited in sharing our recent achievements with you so you are most welcome to visit us at the Machine Vision Pavilion in Hall A2, Stand 113/3.
Emberion will also be showcasing a fully packaged linear array detector designed specifically for VIS-SWIR spectroscopy. This product will be commercially available this fall [2019] and the company will also be sharing detailed specifications and latest performance measurements results related to this development.
The second product on show will be the VIS-SWIR VGA image sensor, which is intended for machine and night vision as well as hyperspectral imaging. This will be available commercially from spring 2020. Both of these detectors cover spectral range of 400 to 1800 nm, offering what the company calls "excellent detectivity and [they will] provide a new cost-competitive alternative to VIS-SWIR detection."
What is more, Emberion has also been chosen as finalist for the LASER World of Photonics Innovation Award.
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Emberion says its know-how in integrating optically-absorbing materials with graphene transducers provides "a versatile way of creating sensors and detectors on CMOS ROIC substrates for diverse applications."
The company has developed sensor device structures and manufacturing methods combining nanocrystalline optical absorbers with graphene-based transistors, enabling photodetection from visible (VIS, 400 nm) to SWIR (1800 nm) wavelengths. Its semiconducting nanocrystalline material enables convenient fabrication directly on standard CMOS wafers.
The company adds that this is "a major advantage" compared to the hybrid packaging processes required for competing semiconductor heterosubstrate-based transducers, such as InGaAs-photodiodes, which suffer from decreased yield, reliability and higher manufacturing cost.
Emberion employs different colloidal quantum dot materials that can be integrated reliably on graphene transducers and can be tailored to meet specific wavelength range and response curve requirements.
The company is also developing MEMS devices in which a suspended pyroelectric substrate structure absorbs thermal radiation and acts as a modulator for the graphene-transistor. These microbolometer devices are sensitive to MWIR and LWIR thermal radiation and can be tuned to be selective to specific spectral ranges by modifying antenna structures on the pyroelectric film.
Emberion's technologies are based on materials that can be deposited on diverse substrates, including flexible ones. Functional photodetector arrays can be produced on flexible polymer substrates or on rigid glass substrates. The combination of very high performance, cost-efficient manufacturing, and deposition on potentially flexible, large area substrates is unique proposition creating new applications and business opportunities for our customers.
Based on similar graphene transducers, it is possible to combine Emberion's VIS-SWIR photodetectors and thermal detectors at the pixel level on a single die creating a multispectral detector array. In this way, states the company, "we are able to cover broad spectral ranges with a single imaging sensor, offering a compact high-performance broadband imaging solution."
Emberion is a spin-off from Nokia and was co-founded in 2016 by employees and Verso Ventures, a Finnish venture capital company specializing in spin-offs and growth companies. The chairman of Emberion's board is Verso Ventures' Managing Partner Anssi Kariola.
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Barcelona have reached an agreement with Paris Saint-Germain for the signing of France midfielder Adrien Rabiot.
The 23-year-old is said to be angling for a move out of the Parc des Frances as he is unhappy with his role, having been deployed in a deeper midfield position.
According to Spanish outlet Sport suggests that Barcelona have agreed to hand £133,000 a week for Rabiot for the next five seasons and playing him in his favoured No.8 position but Tottenham Hotspur and Juventus have been eyeing the Ligue 1 winner.
The midfielder made headlines earlier this summer when asking to be taken off France's standby list for the World Cup, having missed out on the 23-man squad.
Rabiot spent most of his career with Paris Saint-Germain making his debut with the first team in 2012 and winning 15 major honors including four Ligue 1 titles and a treble in 2015–16.


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Ahmaud Arbery: Focus on Media Bias, Because 'The Issue Is Never the Issue'
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Andrew Branca, an attorney specializing in self-defense cases, has referred to the "propaganda circus" surrounding the death of Ahmaud Arbery. One of the problems I've encountered is that, while my attention to the case has focused on the issue of media bias, which is what this "circus" is actually about, many people seem to think it is necessary to engage in arguments about the incident itself. But this is exactly what the "propaganda circus" seeks — to take a case that ought to be a matter for a judge and jury to decide and transfer jurisdiction to the "court of public opinion," for a trial-by-media, with people reacting to what cable TV talking heads say about the case. You see this in the comments on my American Spectator column Monday, as well as my blog post Monday.
A 1960s radical once said: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." Whenever the Left seizes on some incident like the Arbery shooting, they do so to advance their agenda, and the role of supposedly "objective" journalists in assisting this project is what we need to focus on: What propaganda methods are involved?
First, consider the factor of selectivity. We must keep in mind that the United States has approximately 14,000 homicides in an average year — about 1,200 homicides per month, 40 homicides per day. Very few of those crimes ever get national media attention. It must be noted that about half of U.S. homicide victims are black, as are about half of known perpetrators of homicide, despite the fact that black people constitute only 14% of the U.S population. Black-on-black violence is a disproportionate amount of crime in America, whereas situations like the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery are quite rare.
So the media have chosen a rare type of incident to make a national story. Why? The agenda is unmistakably political:
Satilla Shores is a predominantly white neighborhood, one the Daily Beast's Justin Glawe describes as featuring "several homes … decorated with Trump flags, one bearing the president's smiling face with the phrase, Make liberals cry again." . . .
>Advocates for Arbery argue his killing is a very clear case of racial profiling; in his caption for the video, Merritt wrote, "Ahmaud Arbery was pursued by three white men that targeted him solely because of his race and murdered him without justification."
It's a sentiment echoed by others, including presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who tweeted Tuesday, "The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood."
Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial election and who has said she hopes to become Biden's running mate, demanded a "full investigation, appropriate charges, and an unbiased prosecution."
That's how the left-wing site Vox spun the story last week. They scarcely bother to conceal their message: "Trump voters are racist. White Republicans are the reason Ahmaud Arbery is dead."
Yet it must be kept in mind that white-on-black homicide is a statistical rarity, a tiny fraction of the 14,000 homicides committed annually in the U.S., crimes that the national media typically ignore. The selectivity involved is driven by a partisan political motive, a desire to inflame public opinion in a way that is disadvantageous to Republicans. Another propaganda factor involved in the media's coverage is omission.
Most Americans have never seen that 2013 mug shot of Ahmad Arbery, because the media do not wish to acknowledge his criminal record:
This is highly relevant to the circumstances of Arbery's death, because Gregory McMichael, now charged with murder, was an investigator on that 2013 case in which Arbery was charged with bringing a pistol to a basketball game between Brunswick High (his alma mater) and their arch-rival Glynn Academy. Arbery was sentenced to five years' probation in that case, and was subsequently convicted for violating his probation:
In an email [Ware County prosecutor George] Barnhill wrote to the state attorney general's office on April 7, he asked to be taken off the case, stating that his son, an assistant district attorney in the Brunswick prosecutor's office, had handled a felony probation revocation case involving Mr. Arbery. He also said Gregory McMichael had helped with "a previous prosecution of Arbery."
Court records show that Mr. Arbery was convicted of shoplifting and of violating probation in 2018; according to local news reports, he was indicted five years earlier for taking a handgun to a basketball game.
How many CNN viewers know about this? And in the endless discussion of the case, how often is the significance of this information pointed out? Because, you see, first of all, that if McMichael recognized Arbery as he ran down Satilla Drive ("hauling ass," McMichael said in his statement to police), he would have been aware that Arbery was a convicted felon with a history that involved firearms. Was it reasonable for McMichael to believe Arbery had a weapon? Could this explain why the former police officer decided to get his gun and pursue Arbery? Furthermore, because George Barnhill's son was also involved in prosecuting Arbery, this helps explain why the case didn't result in an immediate arrest, because Barnhill (who was chosen to handle the prosecution after the Glynn County D.A. recused herself) had to recuse himself after Arbery's family objected to his possible conflict of interest. My purpose in drawing attention to this is not to argue about the shooting, but rather to show how the omission of these facts distorts perceptions of the case.
So, two methods of propaganda — selectivity and omission — are part of how the media have shaped the narrative of Ahmaud Arbery's death, and they have done this to advance a political agenda: "Blame Trump!"
When the 36-second video clip of the shooting went viral last week, it was presented without context — or worse, was presented with the inflammatory false context of a "black jogger" being "hunted down" when, as we now know, Greg McMichael and his son believed themselves to be in pursuit of a burglary suspect. Again, this is not to argue about the case, as such, but rather to address the propaganda methods used by the media to advance their political agenda. If all you knew about the case is what you saw in that 36-second video clip, you'd certainly be angry about it, and if you were told that Ahmaud Arbery was just out for jog, you'd be even angrier. Even after it was explained that Arbery was a convicted felon whom the McMichaels suspected of committing burglaries in the area, you might still be angry, but there is a wide distance between (a) what actually happened, and (b) perceptions created by how the case has been portrayed in the media. "The issue is never the issue."
It would be impossible for me to list everything that is being omitted, or at least not being properly emphasized, in coverage of this case. If you're going to do hourly updates on cable news about a story, wouldn't it behoove you to explore the story in-depth, rather than just showing the same video clip over and over and soliciting commentary from politicians and pundits? CNN can't be bothered, however, and instead all the really useful reporting is done by other organizations, for example the Daily Mail, which interviewed the guy who called police to report Arbery's trespassing at 220 Satilla Drive:
The witness's timeline tallies with a recording of a 1:08pm non-emergency call released by the Brunswick Police Department and published last week by DailyMail.com. 'There's a guy in the house right now, a house under construction,' the male caller says in the clip.
The audio is redacted to protect his identity but DailyMail.com can confirm it's the same voice as the man we spoke to.
He claimed there had been a rash of thefts in Satilla Shores recently that included pistols and rifles stolen from people's vehicles. Police have said they recorded one burglary in the area since January; there are no records matching claims of firearms thefts from vehicles.
However, he said he had never personally seen Arbery before and had no evidence he was linked to the theft or any other crimes.
'I saw him running down the street and I know someone matching his description had been entering vehicles and been on people's docks,' the witness added.
'So I went down there to call the police and get a closer look.'
Notice the phrase "people's docks." In case you haven't looked at a map of this neighborhood, it's waterfront property, on the north bank of the Little Satilla River, and there are boat docks behind the homes on the even-numbered addresses on Satilla Drive. While it's not Palm Beach or Malibu or some other luxurious resort location, having a riverfront property with your own private boat dock is rather a sizable investment.
If you believed that your property was at risk of being stolen or damaged by intruders, it would not be unreasonable to call the police when you saw suspicious activity in the neighborhood. Does that explain why Gregory McMichael and his son thought it would be a good idea to grab their guns and set off in pursuit of Arbery? No, except that there apparently was concern about crime in the neighborhood and — just speculating here — maybe the senior McMichael, an ex-cop, was feeling ornery that Sunday afternoon. It's one of those situations where you ask, "What the hell were they thinking?" However, you could ask the same question about Ahmaud Arbery's behavior that day.
Watch this report from Savannah's WSAV-TV:
You'll see that there's not only the video we've all seen — Arbery evidently checking out the unfinished construction site at 220 Satilla Drive — but also other videos, from the same site, taken at night and showing someone who may or may not be Arbery inside the site. According to the report, these other videos date back as far as October 2019. So it was not a matter of paranoid imagination when a 911 caller told the dispatcher the day Arbery shot that this was an "ongoing situation." There is yet another video I've seen which shows Arbery exiting the site at high speed ("hauling ass," as Gregory McMichael told police), perhaps because he realized that the neighbor had called police.
Recall that, just two years ago, Arbery got busted for shoplifting and violating probation. Even if you think he was just out for a jog and decided to check out this construction site, what would Arbery think when he saw the neighbor standing in his driveway talking on the phone?
"Oh, no. They called the police. Better get out of here."
This is speculation, but it is a fair guess that if Arbery thought police were on their way to investigate his trespassing on this property, he wouldn't stick around to explain himself to the cops. You can read the police report yourself and see what allegedly happened thereafter, and you can also read George Barnhill's letter asserting that the McMichaels' actions did not violate Georgia law. Many people — including Dana Loesch — have criticized Barnhill's argument. That's immaterial to what I'm saying about media bias. If all you know about this case is what you're getting from CNN or MSNBC, you know a lot less than half the story.
The media are deliberately distorting the case, using it as propaganda to incite racial anger to advance their political agenda.
Stop arguing about the case, and instead "turn the camera around," as Andrew Breitbart used to say: Force the media to defend their bias. Hold them accountable for their selectivity and omissions. Why are they reporting on this homicide, rather than covering any other of the approximately 40 homicides that happen every day in America? What makes this Georgia case more important than any other case?
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Beer in the State of Palestine is manufactured by three Palestinian microbreweries – Taybeh Brewery, Birzeit Brewery and the Wise Men Choice Brewery. Several beer festivals are held annually in Palestine, including an Oktoberfest-style event hosted by the Taybeh Brewery.

History

The oldest brewery in the modern State of Palestine is the Taybeh Brewery, which was opened by Palestinian Christians in the West Bank village of Taybeh, near Ramallah, in 1994, and produced its first beer in 1995. It is considered the first microbrewery in the Middle East.

The idea of a Palestinian brewery was controversial in 1994, as Palestine is majority Muslim, and many Palestinian Muslims disapprove of alcohol consumption. The Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was nevertheless an early supporter of the Taybeh Brewery, according to its founder, on the grounds that it would help break Palestine's dependence on alcohol imported from Israel. Taybeh beer was also certified as kosher shortly after its founding, and 70% of its sales prior to the Second Intifada in 2000 were to Israelis. Taybeh also depended on imports that passed through Israel for its equipment and ingredients.

Following the Second Intifada, the establishment of Israeli checkpoints and the  erection of the Israeli West Bank barrier made it significantly more difficult for the Taybeh Brewery to import brewing equipment and supplied from the port of Ashdod, and on one occasion, the brewery was charged $6,000 in costs for hold-ups at the port on a $20,000 shipment of bottles. The barriers also complicated shipping of beer to customers in Israel or abroad, cutting off exports to Jordan and lengthening the travel time from the brewery to Jerusalem from 20 minutes to several hours.

As a result, sales plunged and revenue fell by over 90% by 2002, and Khoury had to lay off all 12 of his employees. As a stopgap measure to keep the brewery in business, Taybeh sold olive oil produced by a local church in Taybeh village to a company in Belgium. Taybeh was dealt a further blow in 2007 when Islamist political party and militant group Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip and ended the sale of alcohol there, but has recovered and expanded again internationally since then.

Taybeh's first local Palestinian competition came in 2015 with the establishment of the Birzeit Brewery in the town of Birzeit near Ramallah. Although established in 2013, Birzeit Brewery only began sales of its signature "Shepherds Beer" in July 2015, due to the challenges associated with operating in the Israeli-occupied State of Palestine.

In 2016, a third microbrewery called Wise Men Choice, based in the Christian town of Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, entered the local market.

Beers

, Taybeh Beer came in six varieties: Golden, Light, Dark, Amber, Non-alcoholic, and White. Golden, which is 5% alcohol by volume (ABV) is the original variety. Its taste has been compared to Samuel Adams' Boston Lager. The Dark and Light beers (6% and 3.5% ABV, respectively) were introduced for the 2000 celebrations in the Holy Land. The Dark variety follows a classic style of the way monks brewed beer in the Middle Ages in order to fortify themselves during their fasting. An Amber variety (5.5% ABV) was launched in 2007. A non-alcoholic beer variety was introduced in 2008 specifically for the local Palestinian Muslim market. Taybeh White (3.8% ABV), a Belgian-style wheat beer, was launched in 2013.

The Shepherds Beer line produced by Birzeit includes a blonde Czech-style Pilsner, an English-type amber ale, a heavier Irish stout, and at least one rotating seasonal flavour at any given time.

The Wise Men Choice Brewery produces a range of spicey and fruity beers, including its Bethlehem Pale Ale, which is flavoured with sage, and its Pumpkin Ale, which is flavoured with pumpkin and honey.

Festivals

In 2005, the Taybeh Brewery launched an annual Oktoberfest-style beer festival dubbed the Taybeh Beer Festival that was featured in a 2008 documentary produced by an Australian named Lara van Raay called Palestine, Beer and Oktoberfest Under Occupation, which focuses on the Taybeh Brewery and its founding.

In 2016, Birzeit Brewery launched the annual Shepherds Beer Festival in Beit Sahour. In August 2017, the event drew 7,000-8,000 visitors across two days. It has been held in August again each year ever since.

Political issues

Breweries in Palestine face numerous logistical challenges as a result of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and control of nearby ports, which are the most direct means of importing raw materials and exporting finished beer. Supplies that take two weeks to get from Europe to Israel can take another three months to reach a brewery in the West Bank. The high cost of shipping due to checkpoints and other constraints can make it difficult for Palestinian breweries to compete. Taybeh beer kegs have also been cut open by Israeli authorities on occasion and their containers sent back. The disparity in water access in the West Bank brought about by continued Israeli settlement expansion also means that Palestinian breweries face concerns over limits to their access to water, discouraging their expansion.

There is at least one Israeli settler-owned brewery established in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank, a part of the occupied Palestinian territories — the Lone Tree Brewery, located in Kfar Etzion, in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc.

List of breweries
 Taybeh Brewery
 Birzeit Brewery
 Wise Men Choice Brewery

See also
 Beer and breweries by region
 Palestinian cuisine

References

Beer in the State of Palestine

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When we compare the Google Analytics figures against those of October, we can see that across the board, all metrics have improved. For example, there was an increase of 17.07% in unique users and a 14.88% increase in the number of sessions (the period of time a user actively engages with the site).
The average session duration also increased by 6 seconds meaning that people are remaining on the website longer. The bounce rate also improved dropping from 74.36% to 72.08%, a good sign as it means that when a visitor lands on a page, the page is relevant and they are interacting with the site rather than jumping right off.
Now looking back at the graph above, you'll notice that there was a huge website traffic spike towards the end of November. The increase in website visitors was the result of publishing our ethical Christmas gift guide on November 28, a post that continues to receive high numbers of visitors despite being a week old.
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We've been able to recover some ground after we lost a huge monthly donation from a Patreon supporter who pledged USD $100 per month. I was initially upset about this if you recall last month's transparency report, but I got over it. Now that we've received more financial donations, I feel like I can finally continue our work without focussing so heavily on monetisation activities like advertising and sponsored content.
Our admin officer Ted who is responsible for liaising with potential advertisers has reported an increase in the number of businesses who have "zero marketing budget" to spend. Whether this is due to an increased in Christmas marketing expenses or not remains a mystery to us at this point.
Now as you may recall, last month we also signed up for affiliate marketing accounts with sites such as shareasale.com but we haven't made a cent from those sites as yet. In 2017, expect an increased effort to push affiliate sales of ethical products we love.
If Eco Warrior Princess is to be a sustainable business in its own right and where I can actually draw a proper wage, I will need to rethink my position on advertising and affiliate sales. This is of course how many blogs and magazines generate the income to keep operating. To keep content free, they need to pay for their operations through advertising.
Now for a sustainability blog like ours you can see how the consumerist message conflicts with our sustainability message. But we're left with no other choice. To be in business, one needs to make money. Now Patreon is a godsend and we're blessed to have financial donations from readers, but it's not enough unfortunately. So we will continue to work with and promote ethical brands that meet our high ethical standards and disclose whenever we do. That's a promise.
While a positive indication, it is a poor result compared to previous months. Why has our email subscription rate stalled?
Because the giveaway we ran wasn't as good as previous ones.
Since Eco Warrior Princess readership is made up of a global audience and the premiere was held in Melbourne (Australia) this ruled out most people unless they resided in that location.
While November wasn't as big as I would have hoped, it's nothing to be upset or ashamed about. It's getting to the festive season and people are busy, and particularly those running ethical businesses who make the decisions about advertising and sponsorship.
I'm hoping that the final month of the year will be our biggest but with a week down, I'm not too sure. This month has started slowly. And since December is typically a sluggish month for most industries other than retail, I won't hold my breath. I might just start on business strategy for 2017. Best make use of the quiet time right?
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Volume 4 Issue 1-2 (2015)
The Relationship between Teachers' Occupational Professionalism and Organizational Alienation
pp. 31-44 | Published Online: November 2015 | DOI: 10.12973/edupij.2015.412.3
Yilmaz Ilker Yorulmaz, Yahya Altinkurt, Kursad Yilmaz
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The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between occupational professionalism and organizational alienation levels of teachers. The study is designed as a survey model. The sample of the study consists of 303 teachers working in the Mugla province of Turkey. Participants were selected by using the disproportionate cluster sampling technique. Data was collected through the application of the Teachers' Occupational Professionalism Scale and the Work Alienation Scale. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and correlation analyses were used to analyze the data. Based on the findings, the participant teachers' level of occupational professionalism is high. Among the occupational professionalism dimensions, teachers consider they have professional awareness the most. This is followed by emotional labor, contribution to organization, and personal development. Teachers' occupational professionalism differ according to gender and school type variables, while it does not differ according to seniority and time in service at the current school. The participant teachers' organizational alienation is low. Among the alienation dimensions, teachers consider alienating the school the most, even if its level is low. This is followed respectively by powerlessness, isolation and meaninglessness dimensions. Teachers' organizational alienation differs according to gender, school type, seniority and time in service at the current school variables. There are significant relationships between alienation and occupational professionalism levels of teachers.
Keywords: occupational professionalism, teacher, organizational alienation, professionalism
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The public sector is accountable to its citizens who, always demanding, have lately become more vocal in their calls for transparency and accountability. This increased scrutiny could be a catalyst for adopting performance management practices that will yield internal and external benefits.
What is transparency and accountability?
Can public administration do more with less?
In many cases, demands for transparency and accountability are focused on the use of public funds at the same time that these resources are shrinking. How to do more with less is a quandary that has faced the private sector for many years and some of its human resource solutions are beginning to spill over into public administration. The Aberdeen Group reported in 2012 that 60 percent of public sector organizations cited improving workforce productivity as their top human resource priority. And, as ASPA's core values state, there is a "requirement for all levels of government to move to performance-based, results-driven management…" As it has in the private sector, robust performance management practices can drive productivity in public administration.
It is my opinion that external transparency and accountability to the public cannot be achieved without first creating an internal culture of transparency and accountability. Best practices in performance management can take an organization a long way down this road. When the process is well-planned, clearly communicated, embraced by leadership and effectively administered, performance management has a positive impact on productivity, performance, employee engagement and customer relations.
The Transparency & Accountability Initiative describes four stages in an "accountability relationship:" Standard Setting, Investigation, Answerability and Sanction. Although it is referring to the relationship between a public entity and the public, these stages are directly parallel to the human resources performance management process and to the accountability relationship between management and employees. Here is how.
Standard setting is the practice of determining performance standards and setting goals by which the performance of the organization, department and individuals will be measured. In a transparent and accountable performance management process, individual performance standards directly relate to the skills, abilities and behaviors that support the mission and goals as well as the culture of the organization.
Based on the performance standards as well as priorities and objectives of the department and organization, managers and employees should set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely) goals for the workgroup or individual. Setting relevant goals provides management and employees a transparent line of site to the larger organization and enables them to focus their efforts on what matters most, thereby reducing waste.
Investigation is the process of assessing the extent to which the organization, department or individual is meeting the standards and achieving the goals set for them. Because the standards, goals and metrics of measurement have already been set and communicated, managers can learn to observe and measure objectively and fairly, based on criteria that will drive improved performance. In a high-functioning performance management system, investigation is an ongoing process.
Answerability corresponds to the feedback managers provide their employees informally through coaching and formally through performance reviews or appraisals. Ideally this is an open, participatory process through which managers engage employees to discuss their progress on the previously set standards, including what is going well and what can be improved. It's important that managers understand how to have real performance conversations with their employees. Often times this requires a culture shift. People are now evaluated on performance rather than just punching the clock. It is critical that we give managers the tools and training so they know how to conduct effective performance reviews.
Sanction corresponds to the consequences set for levels of performance, whether positive or negative, bringing teeth to accountability. Many organizations are moving to a pay-for-performance system in which employees are compensated based on their performance. This is a powerful mechanism for improving performance but must be managed carefully, especially in light of recent public criticism around annual bonuses. Compensation is not the only tool available to managers. Simple praise, as well as awarding additional responsibility, autonomy and development, is a strong motivator for high performance.
Leaders and human resources professionals within public administration can gain much by adopting best performance management practices that will help them improve organizational and individual productivity, enhance morale and build a culture of transparency and accountability.
Adam Cobb is a certified human capital strategist with experience in helping public sector organizations adopt performance management solutions to drive better business results. Cobb is a regional manager of Halogen's appraisal software.