Doubly charged Higgs bosons and lepton number violation are wickedly cool.
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is presently the best description of matter and its interactions at small distances and high energies. It is constructed based on observed conservation laws of nature. However, not all conservation laws found in the SM are intentional, for example lepton number conservation. New physics models, such as those that introduce singly and doubly charged Higgs bosons, are flexible enough to reproduce previously observed data but can either conserve or violate these accidental conservation laws. Therefore, some of the best ways of testing if these types of laws are much more fundamental may be with the help of new physics.
Conservation laws, like the conservation of energy or the conservation of linear momentum, have the most remarkable impact on life and the universe. Conservation of energy, for example, tells us that cars need fuel to operate and perpetual motion machines can never exist. A football sailing across a pitch does not suddenly jerk to the left at 90º because conversation of linear momentum, unless acted upon by a player (a force). This is Newton's First Law of Motion. In particle physics, conservation laws are not taken lightly; they dictate how particles are allowed to behave and forbid some processes from occurring. To see this in action, lets consider a top quark (t) decaying into a W boson and a bottom quark (b).
(+2/3)e ≠ (+1)e + (+2/3)e.
we see that electric charge is conserved.
The top quark-bottom quark-W boson interaction terms in the Standard Model. Bars above quarks indicate that the quark is an antiparticle and has opposite charges.
L=0 to all other particles.
The W boson-neutrino-electron interaction terms in the Standard Model. Bars above leptons indicate that the lepton is an antiparticle and has opposite charges.
However, lepton number conservation is not required to explain data. At no point in constructing the SM did we require that it be conserved. Because of this, many physicists question whether lepton number is actually conserved. It may be, but we do not know. This is indeed one topic that is actively researched. An interesting example of a scenario in which lepton number conservation could be tested is the class of theories with singly and doubly charged Higgs boson. That is right, there are theories containing additional Higgs bosons that an electric charged equal or double the electric charge of the proton.
Models with scalar SU(2) triplets contain additional neutral Higgs bosons as well as singly and doubly charged Higgs bosons.
(+2)e ≠ (+2/3)e + (+1/3)e.
(+2)e = (+1)e + (+1)e.
For the decay into same-sign W boson pairs, the total lepton number is 0L + 0L + 0L = 0L. In this case, lepton number is conserved!
For the decay into same-sign leptons pairs, the total lepton number is 0L + (-1)L + (-1)L = -2L. In this case, lepton number is violated!
Doubly charged Higgs boson interactions for same-sign W boson pairs and same-sign electron pairs. Bars indicate antiparticles. C's indicate charge flipping.
Therefore if we observe a doubly charged Higgs decaying into a pair of same-sign leptons, then we have evidence that lepton number is violated. If we only observe doubly charged Higgs decaying into same-sign W bosons, then one may speculate that lepton number is conserved in the SM.
Doubly charged Higgs bosons do not interact with quarks (otherwise it would violate electric charge conservation), so we have to rely on vector boson fusion (VBF) to produce them. VBF is when two bosons from on-coming quarks are radiated and then scatter off each other, as seen in the diagram below.
Diagram depicting the process known as WW Scattering, where two quarks from two protons each radiate a W boson that then elastically interact with one another.
If two down quarks, one from each oncoming proton, radiate a W- boson (-1e) and become up quarks, the two W- bosons can fuse into a negatively, doubly charged Higgs (-2e). If lepton number is violated, the Higgs boson can decay into a pair of same-sign electrons (2x -1e). Counting lepton number at the beginning of the process (L = 0 – 0 = 0) and at the end (L = 0 – 2 = -2!), we see that it changes by two units!
Same-sign W- pairs fusing into a doubly charged Higgs boson that decays into same-sign electrons.
If lepton number is not violated, we will never see this decay and only see decays to two very, very energetic W- boson (-1e). Searching for vector boson fusion as well as lepton number violation are important components of the overarching Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research program at CERN. Unfortunately, there is no evidence for the existence of doubly charged scalars. On the other hand, we do have evidence for vector boson scattering (VBS) of the same-sign W bosons! Additional plots can be found on ATLAS' website. Reaching this tremendous milestone is a triumph for the LHC experiments. Vector boson fusion is a very, very, very, very, very rare process in the Standard Model and difficult to separate from other SM processes. Finding evidence for it is a first step in using the VBF process as a probe of new physics.
We have observed that some quantities, like momentum and electric charge, are conserved in nature. Conservation laws are few and far between, but are powerful. The modern framework of particle physics has these laws built into them, but has also been found to accidentally conserve other quantities, like lepton number. However, as lepton number is not required to reproduce data, it may be the case that these accidental laws are not, in fact, conserved. Theories that introduce charged Higgs bosons can reproduce data but also predict new interactions, such as doubly charged Higgs bosons decaying to same-sign W boson pairs and, if lepton number is violated, to same-sign charged lepton pairs. These new, exotic particles can be produced through vector boson fusion of two same-sign W boson pairs. VBF is a rare process in the SM and can greatly increase if new particles exist. At last, there is evidence for vector boson scattering of same-sign W bosons, and may be the next step to discovering new particles and new laws of nature!


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Q: cocos2d-x didnt compile with box2d i cant include box2d in cocos2d-x.
i compile for android using cmake
add_subdirectory(MyGame/cocos2d/external/Box2D ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/box2d)

add_definitions(-DCC_ENABLE_BOX2D_INTEGRATION=1)

target_link_libraries(${APP_NAME}
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this was in one question where it was usefull but for me it gave new errors.
CMake Error at MyGame/cocos2d/external/Box2D/CMakeLists.txt:11 (add_library):
  add_library cannot create imported target "ext_box2d" because another
  target with the same name already exists.

what i should to do with it? and error was showed twice

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TMF, 1993,	Volume 94,	Number 2,	Pages 200–212	(Mi tmf1417)
Vector addition theorems and Baker–Akhiezer functions
V. M. Buchstabera, I. M. Kricheverb
a All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Physical-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements of USSR Gosstandart
b L. D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract: Functional equations that arise naturally in various problems of modern mathematical physics are discussed. We introduce the concepts of an $N$-dimensional addition theorem for functions of a scalar argument and Cauchy equations of rank $N$ for a function of a $g$-dimensional argument that generalize the classical functional Cauchy equation. It is shown that for $N=2$ the general analytic solution of these equations is determined by the Baker–Akhiezer function of an algebraic curve of genus 2. It is also shown that functions give solutions of a Cauchy equation of rank $N$ for functions of a $g$-dimensional argument with $N\le 2^{g}$ in the case of a general $g$-dimensional Abelian variety and $N\le g$ in the case of a Jacobian variety of an algebra curve of genusg. It is conjectured that a functional Cauchy equation of rankg for a function of a $g$-dimensional argument is characteristic for functions of a Jacobian variety of an algebraic curve of genusg, i. e., solves the Riemann–Schottky problem.
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 1993, 94:2, 142–149
Citation: V. M. Buchstaber, I. M. Krichever, "Vector addition theorems and Baker–Akhiezer functions", TMF, 94:2 (1993), 200–212; Theoret. and Math. Phys., 94:2 (1993), 142–149
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Book Review: The Lair Of The White Worm
November 19, 2014 in book review | Leave a comment
The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911) 163 p.
I can't remember why I had this sitting around on my ereader (apart from it being public domain and therefore free). I think it might be because it was supposedly an influence in Stephen King's short story "Jersualem's Lot" in Night Shift, which I quite liked, but since then I've read Stoker's Dracula and really didn't like it. Compared to The Lair of the White Worm, though, Dracula is a beautiful masterpiece. This is a really, really, really bad book. Even amongst Gothic scholars, Stoker's die-hard fans and general lovers of old-timey English horror literature, The Lair of the White Worm is a rambling and nonsensical novel.
The plot, such as it is, involves young colonial lad Adam Shaw returning to the motherland at the invitation of his great-uncle, who wishes to pass on his Staffordshire mansion to him. But it turns out one of their neighbours is an ancient and monstrous wyrm-like creature in human guise, so they take it upon themselves to destroy her. There are also weird psychic battles between unrelated characters, a horrifically racist caricature of an African voodoo priest, and a gigantic kite which controls birds or something? I gave up trying to follow the plot after about forty pages. Oh, and despite being set in 1860, the climax involves copious amounts of dynamite, which wasn't invented until 1867.
It explained a lot when I found out The Lair of the White Worm was written after Stoker had a a number of strokes in the midst of tertiary syphilis, and he died not long after finishing it. Apparently the original version had forty chapters; I appear to have read the edited 1925 version which removed almost a hundred pages, and thank God for that. I can't imagine the malarkey that would have gone on in those extra chapters. The Lair of the White Worm is an outright bad novel, and was only published because it was written by an extremely popular author and would have sold no matter what its pages contained.
(And what the hell's going on with that cover? Why does the Worm have arms?)
Book Review: The Candle in the Wind
The Candle in the Wind by T.H. White (1958) 120 p.
The Candle in the Wind is the fourth and sort-of-final book in T.H. White's Arthurian mega-book The Once and Future King, since the very final instalment The Book of Merlyn was published separately and posthumously. It deals with the final stages of King Arthur's life, as Lancelot and Guinevere's affair is exposed and the Arthur is reluctantly forced to pursue violent justice against them.
I feel this series dropped in quality considerably beyond its opening volume, but The Candle in the Wind is probably the strongest book since then. Even though I found the majority of it weak, the final stages – and I'm only talking about a matter of perhaps ten pages – are beautiful, as Arthur sits in his war tent philosophising about everything he has learnt thus far, and finally passes his wisdom onto a young page, implied to be Thomas Mallory. Put like that it sounds trite, but for all the silliness present in this series, White is often capable of a very beautiful writing style.
I still find The Once And Future King to be odd and uneven. The gravity of the themes and the occasional bursts of eloquent writing don't really gel too well, in my opinion, with the perky, English, P.G. Wodehouse-style writing that dominates for 90% of the series. But the flashes of beauty in there are sometimes worth it and I was pretty pleased with the ending of The Candle in the Wind. The next and final book is The Book of Merlyn.
Book Review: Over The Wall
Over The Wall by Peter Wartman (2013) 101 p.
This is a short YA graphic novel which I think I picked up after seeing it on a Goodreads list of standalone, non-superhero comics. It revolves around a mysterious abandoned city, cut off from the world by both physical and magical walls, and the girl who crosses the walls to try to find her missing brother.
I liked it well enough – it's a simple story and Wartman has a pleasing artistic style, especially good at creating an empty sense of unease in the deserted city. But it raises the question of whether I should be reviewing comics the way I do novels. I read this book in, I think, less than 15 minutes, which makes it feel more analogous to a short story rather than a book. I wouldn't review a single short story, but I feel compelled to review Over The Wall because it came in its own binding and my gut feeling is that it is a "book." But because of its brevity I don't have a lot to say about it. I don't know!
Book Review: The Ghost Road
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (1995) 278 p.
I have conflicting feelings about Remembrance Day, and the public reverence of World War I in both Britain and Australia. I suspect that for most of the 20th century, when the war was a real event in the living memory of many people, that it was probably purely a day of remembrance and reflection. Now, in the age of 9/11 and Iraq and Afghanistan, when it seems so distant as to be entirely mythical, I think our society's perception of World War I – and, by extension, all wars – has slipped back towards the jingoism and nationalism of the 19th century ruling class who propagated it in the first place. I stood at the moat of the Tower of London last week, amongst crushing crowds, and admired Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red for the striking public artwork that it is – but I couldn't help but feel unsettled by this sanitised, aestheticised depiction of war, which has become the accepted norm.
Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy – which begins with Regeneration, continues in The Eye In The Door and concludes with the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road – is an incredibly important piece of contemporary literature which highlights the real, ugly truth of the war; one of the most important truths being the fact that it had terrible effects on everybody it touched, not just the young men who lost their lives. (And I use the word "lost" rather than "gave" very intentionally.) It's notable that The Ghost Road is the first novel in the series which actually has scenes set in the war zone that aren't memories, dreams or flashbacks. The previous two books, especially The Eye in the Door, focused as much on the wives, mothers, pacifists, protesters and wounded as they did on the soldiers and the dead. That's another side effect of our reverence for veterans and war dead; it marginalises the effects war has on civilians.
From a purely technical standpoint The Ghost Road is certainly the finest book in the trilogy, and a deserving winner of the Booker Prize. It cleanly narrows the scope down to two of the trilogy's main characters: Dr Rivers, a fictionalised version of the real-life psychologist who treated traumatised soldiers, and Billy Prior, Barker's fictional working class officer who returns to the front despite an opportunity for a desk role, out of an ineffable sense of duty towards his fellow soldiers. Prior's experience at the front is contrasted with Rivers' treatment of the wounded in London, and a surprisingly extensive flashback sequence detailing Rivers' time as an anthropologist in the South Pacific, which serves as a comparative metaphor about death and its effect on those who remain living. I criticised Barker's writing style in Regeneration and to a lesser extent The Eye In The Door because much of it involved conversations between two men sitting on opposite sides of a desk. The Ghost Road, however, has a wonderful sense of physical beauty, from a tropical beach in Melanesia to the ruins of an overgrown French village:
A labyrinth of green pathways led from garden to garden, and they slipped from one to another, over broken walls or through splintered fences, skirting bramble-filled craters, brushing down paths overgrown with weeds, with flowers that had seeded themselves and become rank, with overgrown roses that snagged their sleeves and pulled them back. Snails crunched under their boots, nettles stung their hands, cuckoo spit flecked a bare neck, but the secret path wound on.
I've always appreciated this trilogy for its brutal and honest depiction of the war, but The Ghost Road is the first of Barker's books which I actually enjoyed as a novel as well.
It's not easy (and nor should it be) to criticise the manner in which nations memorialise their war dead; it can easily come off as churlish and cynical. I don't mean to suggest this day of remembrance should be done away with. But I feel uneasy about a ritual which has begun to take on symbolic, semi-religious overtones, with its symbols (poppies) and incantations (Gallipoli, Anzac, lest we forget). From the earliest days of primary school I've had those words drilled into my head, long before I could properly appreciate and understand even the concept of war. During the minute's silence in November I'd imagine myself in the trenches with rifle and bayonet in hand – not an empathic act of remembrance, but rather a boyish adventure fantasy. I doubt I was the only one. When the symbols and artworks of our remembrance are sanitised, when our politicians repeatedly say things as trite and false as "they died for our freedom," and when the right wing can reposition World War I into a more pleasing arrangement of good vs evil, it's clear that our society is deeply conflicted about how it wishes to portray this war. Barker's Regeneration trilogy does us a great service by presenting the era in all its ugly detail; not just the grisly slaughter of the front, but the twisted politics of British imperialism, class warfare and capitalism which led to it. The Regeneration trilogy is a warning that while we must remember, we must not remember selectively.
Book Review: The Dead Zone
November 9, 2014 in book review | 3 comments
The Dead Zone by Stephen King (1979) 467 p.
Stephen King is an author I like, but a wildly uneven one – some of his books are awful, while some of his books are among the best I've ever read. He's not really high on my priority list, but I'm not averse to reading his stuff when it comes up, and I picked up an old paperback of The Dead Zone for 50p at a library sale.
One of his earlier books (always a good sign with King), The Dead Zone is enlivened by how much it doesn't stick to a predictable formula, and it's really one of those books you want to read knowing nothing about it. Although apparently it was adapted into a Cronenberg film starring Christopher Walken in the 1980s, and a relatively long-running TV series in the 2000s, so maybe it's more well-known than I thought. I'd only heard of it (and knew the ultimate direction it went in) because I've been keeping up with James Smythe's long-running Re-reading Stephen King series at the Guardian, but I think I would have liked it better if I went in blind, knowing nothing about what happened – not even the first act. So if you haven't heard of The Dead Zone and you've enjoyed anything else King has ever written, stop reading this now and keep an eye out for it. It's one of his better books and well worth your time.
If you still want to know more, suffice to say that it follows the life of Johnny Smith, a young man with a latent psychic sense and an ability to predict what lies in the past, present and future of certain people. A life-altering accident heightens this ability like never before, and Johnny must suddenly decide what to do with it – and how to cope with the way people now treat him. Some of the best parts of The Dead Zone are in the unexpected flashes Johnny gets of other people's lives when he touches their belongings; as he pushes coats aside on a rack at a restaurant and knows that a man there is slowly going mad, or when he handles a 100-year-old photograph and learns that its subject, a man long dead, poisoned his wife. Johnny's psychic ability is a curse as much as a gift, but King does a good job of making Johnny an affable character and never letting his misgivings and misery seem too self-pitying.
Stephen King is noted as a horror novelist, but I've never personally found that to be a good description of his work, which ranges across the whole gamut of speculative fiction: he has time travel novels, apocalyptic novels, fantasy novels and more. The Dead Zone feels more like a suspense thriller than anything, combining the fantasy aspect of Johnny's sixth sense with a story of serial killers, FBI agents and something much darker. It's a little slow to get going, but it ends up being a great read – not as good as something like The Stand, The Mist or The Long Walk, but definitely one of King's better novels.
Book Review: The Last Werewolf
November 2, 2014 in book review | Leave a comment
The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan (2011) 339 p.
This novel got a lot of buzz when it was released back in 2011, when I was working in a bookstore, and I recall filing it away on the TBR pile but have only just got around to reading it now. I timed it as my Halloween read, as part of my general pleasure at living in the northern hemisphere where the seasons actually correspond to the dates I subconsciously think they're "supposed" to, after growing up on European and American culture. Probably this will wear off, but at the moment I'm trying to theme almost all my reading; I can't imagine how one could bear to read a book set in summer when there's rain drizzling down the windowpanes and the sun sets at 4pm.
Anyway, The Last Werewolf isn't really a horror novel. Glen Duncan is more well-known as a literary author, dipping his toe in the pool of genre fiction (see also – Justin Cronin and The Passage), and The Last Werewolf contains more philosophy than frights. Jake Marlowe is the titular last of the kind, two hundred years old, wealthy and world-weary, spending his days as a human guzzling scotch and having sex with expensive escorts, and his full-moon nights as a werewolf killing and eating people. The Last Werewolf doesn't romanticise this; Jake is a monster and he knows it, and the only reason he remains a relatively likeable character is because Duncan does such a great job of making him such a witty, civilised narrator. Informed of the death of the second-last werewolf at the hands of the Hunt division of WOCOP (the World Organisation for the Control of Occult Phenomena), and the personal vendetta the chief of the Hunt has against him, Jake learns that he has less than a month to live – the hunter wants the beast, not the man, and will wait for the full moon. Tired of life after two centuries of killing (a "concentration camp heap" of victims stretching into his past), he decides to accept his fate and return to Snowdonia, where he was first stricken with lycanthropy in the early 19th century. Of course, there are other things afoot, and Jake is soon embroiled in a globetrotting adventure across Wales, London, France, Greece and the United States, giving The Last Werewolf more than a touch of spy thriller to it. Combined with a weird acronym organisation for an antagonist and Jake's taste for cigarettes, fine scotch and classy hotels, it's a borderline James Bond vibe.
I greatly enjoyed the first half of The Last Werewolf. Above all else, Duncan is an excellent writer, sending Jake through wonderfully atmospheric places (snowy London streets, a book-filled Earl's Court mansion, a peaceful Greek island) while he speaks to the reader in his fantastic narrative style: a sort of baroque Gothic rumination, belying his actual time of birth, which has been modernised and accrued yet more wisdom and cynicism as Jake has grown up through the ages, into the world of mobile phones and the internet. It's eminently readable and a lot of fun.
It does, however, begin to wear a bit in the second half of the novel, not helped by a plot twist which leads the book to some annoying places. Love at first sight might be technically feasible, within the novel's horror/fantasy parameters, but that doesn't make it any less irritating. There's also a lot of sex and violence; I'm no prude, it's just that too much of anything gets tedious, much like Jake's initially fascinating monologues once he starts to cover the same ground in them. And the conclusion is a messy game of cat and mouse, full of abductions and double-crossing, which leans far too heavily into Jason Bourne territory. There are two sequels to The Last Werewolf, and while I would have been open to reading them if I thought they'd reflect the character of the first half, the resolution of the plot makes it pretty clear they'd be more like the second, so I'm not sure I will.
That all sounds fairly negative, but actually I liked The Last Werewolf a lot; I just always find it disappointing when a cracking novel goes downhill. It's still one of the best books I've read this year. If you heard about it when it got all that press upon release but never bothered to read it, I recommend giving it a try; it's not for everyone, but it's worth your time to check it out.


This morning the government announced the appointment of a minister for loneliness, a huge step forward to reduce the loneliness that affects about nine million people in the UK. To celebrate, we'd like to share the story of Marie Greenhalgh, who was determined to address the loneliness and isolation she saw affecting older people in her local community of Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester.
Marie's journey started simply, a befriending scheme and a series of social eating events in the spirit of The Big Lunch, and has now become a fully-fledged award-winning social enterprise. Today, Marie visits No. 10 Downing Street as a thank you for her work as part of the Jo Cox Loneliness Commission, of which Eden Project Communities is one of 13 partners. She shares with us what this means to her, what it means for her work and the big plans she has for making all communities age friendly.
'As someone who works at grassroots level, it's exciting to visit No. 10. I know and understand real poverty and real need. I work with it on a daily basis. The intention [of the project's work] is to make communities more age friendly, to create communities that are connected to older peoples' needs so that they can better respond to them. Simple things like having a seat in high street shops for older people to rest on, or sharing where there are toilets available are practical steps that can make an elderly person's life a lot easier.
Building on their original idea of social eating schemes, Marie and Wythenshawe Good Neighbours want to expand on the idea of resource provision for the elderly in the community.
They have recently been awarded the Our Manchester: Voluntary and Community funding, which will kick in in April of this year, and an Award for All grant from the National Lottery. This funding will allow for a full-time project employee, and also mean that Marie will, for the first time, begin to be paid as a part-time employee, in addition to running the project in a voluntary capacity.
The end goal? To open a permanent resource space – The Living Room for Later Life Resources Centre.
They hope to offer a sitting service as part of the Centre, a space to give carers a place to come for respite. For Marie, The Living Room for Later Life Resources Centre will bring the issue of age friendly communities to the fore by putting it in the direct view of local people.
Inspired by Marie and what she has achieved? Share her story or create you own. We can all do our part, big or small, to reduce loneliness and create better connected communities. You can hold a Big Lunch, organise an activity to bring your community together, or simply let people know you are happy to chat.
See what Marie and Wythenshawe Good Neighbours are up to now via their website, Facebook page and Twitter.
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Earthquake Report: New Britain!
We just had an earthquake in the New Britain region of the equatorial Pacific. Here is the USGS website for this M 6.7 earthquake. This is a very interesting earthquake for this region because it is very deep.
Below is my interpretive poster for this earthquake. This map shows the slab contours (an estimate of the subduction zone plate interface). These contours are estimated by Hayes et al., (2012). The hypocentral depth is 499.1 km, which is deeper than the slab depth according to Hayes et al. (2012), which is about 220 km. This earthquake is clearly in one of the downgoing slabs of this region. I include several figures below that present various interpretations of the different oceanic slabs in this region.
I placed a moment tensor / focal mechanism legend on the poster. There is more material from the USGS web sites about moment tensors and focal mechanisms (the beach ball symbols). Both moment tensors and focal mechanisms are solutions to seismologic data that reveal two possible interpretations for fault orientation and sense of motion. One must use other information, like the regional tectonics, to interpret which of the two possibilities is more likely. The moment tensor shows northwest-southeast tension. If this is due to slab tension, then the slab would be dipping to the northwest, or the southeast. This tension may also be due to some form of bending in the slab, but it is difficult to tell given these limited data. Most of the recent seismicity in this region is associated with convergence along the New Britain trench or the South Solomon trench.
I include some inset figures.
In the top of the poster are two figures from Oregon State University, which are based upon Hamilton (1979). "Tectonic microplates of the Melanesian region. Arrows show net plate motion relative to the Australian Plate." To the right of the map is a cross section showing how the Solomon Sea plate is subducting beneath New Britain. This is from Johnson, 1976.
In the lower left corner is another generalized tectonic map of the region from Holm et al., 2015. This map shows the major plate boundary faults including the New Britain trench (NBT), one of the main culprits for recent seismicity of this region.
In the upper right corner are two figures from Holm and Richards (2013). The panel on the left shows (a) a plan view of the downgoing slab relative to islands in this region, (b) and (c) oblique views of the downgoing oceanic lithosphere of the Solomon Sea plate. Their paper discusses the back-arc spreading in the Bismarck Sea. They use hypocenter data to construct this 3-D model of the slab. On the right is a forecast of how the slab will be consumed along these subduction zones in the future.
In the lower right corner, I include a map that shows the Modified Mercalli Intensity Contours from this earthquake. I include this map further down on this page and have some explanations about what the Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) scale is.
Here is the localized map that shows the MMI contours. The MMI is a qualitative measure of shaking intensity. More on the MMI scale can be found here and here. This is based upon a computer model estimate of ground motions, different from the "Did You Feel It?" estimate of ground motions that is actually based on real observations.
I have posted material about the recent and near recent (decadal) seismicity in the past:
Here is a post regarding the foreshocks. 2015.05.03
Here is a post summarizing the seismicity since 2000 AD. 2015.03.29
Here is a post comparing the New Britain region with the adjacent Bougainville region. 2015.03.30
This is a map showing the seismicity of this region since 2000 A.D.
Earlier, I discussed seismicity from 2000-2015 here. The seismicity on the west of this region appears aligned with north-south shortening along the New Britain trench, while seismicity on the east of this region appears aligned with more east-west shortening. Here is a map that I put together where I show these two tectonic domains with the seismicity from this time period (today's earthquakes are not plotted on this map, but one may see where they might plot).
Here is the generalized tectonic map of the region from Holm et al., 2015. I include the figure caption below as a blockquote.
Tectonic setting and mineral deposits of eastern Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. The modern arc setting related to formation of the mineral deposits comprises, from west to east, the West Bismarck arc, the New Britain arc, the Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni Chain and the Solomon arc, associated with north-dipping subduction/underthrusting at the Ramu-Markham fault zone, New Britain trench and San Cristobal trench respectively. Arrows denote plate motion direction of the Australian and Pacific plates. Filled triangles denote active subduction. Outlined triangles denote slow or extinct subduction. NBP: North Bismarck plate; SBP: South Bismarck plate; AT: Adelbert Terrane; FT: Finisterre Terrane; RMF: Ramu-Markham fault zone; NBT: New Britain trench.
Here is the slab interpretation for the New Britain region from Holm and Richards, 2013. I include the figure caption below as a blockquote.
3-D model of the Solomon slab comprising the subducted Solomon Sea plate, and associated crust of the Woodlark Basin and Australian plate subducted at the New Britain and San Cristobal trenches. Depth is in kilometres; the top surface of the slab is contoured at 20 km intervals from the Earth's surface (black) to termination of slabrelated seismicity at approximately 550 km depth (light brown). Red line indicates the locations of the Ramu-Markham Fault (RMF)–New Britain trench (NBT)–San Cristobal trench (SCT); other major structures are removed for clarity; NB, New Britain; NI, New Ireland; SI, Solomon Islands; SS, Solomon Sea; TLTF, Tabar–Lihir–Tanga–Feni arc. See text for details.
Here are the forward models for the slab in the New Britain region from Holm and Richards, 2013. I include the figure caption below as a blockquote.
Forward tectonic reconstruction of progressive arc collision and accretion of New Britain to the Papua New Guinea margin. (a) Schematic forward reconstruction of New Britain relative to Papua New Guinea assuming continued northward motion of the Australian plate and clockwise rotation of the South Bismarck plate. (b) Cross-sections illustrate a conceptual interpretation of collision between New Britain and Papua New Guinea.
This map shows plate velocities and euler poles for different blocks. Note the counterclockwise motion of the plate that underlies the Solomon Sea (Baldwin et al., 2012). I include the figure caption below as a blockquote.
Tectonic maps of the New Guinea region. (a) Seismicity, volcanoes, and plate motion vectors. Plate motion vectors relative to the Australian plate are surface velocity models based on GPS data, fault slip rates, and earthquake focal mechanisms (UNAVCO, http://jules.unavco.org/Voyager/Earth). Earthquake data are sourced from the International Seismological Center EHB Bulletin (http://www.isc.ac.uk); data represent events from January 1994 through January 2009 with constrained focal depths. Background image is generated from http://www.geomapapp.org. Abbreviations: AB, Arafura Basin; AT, Aure Trough; AyT, Ayu Trough; BA, Banda arc; BSSL, Bismarck Sea seismic lineation; BH, Bird's Head; BT, Banda Trench; BTFZ, Bewani-Torricelli fault zone; DD, Dayman Dome; DEI, D'Entrecasteaux Islands; FP, Fly Platform; GOP, Gulf of Papua; HP, Huon peninsula; LA, Louisiade Archipelago; LFZ, Lowlands fault zone; MaT, Manus Trench; ML, Mt. Lamington; MT, Mt. Trafalgar; MuT, Mussau Trough; MV, Mt. Victory; MTB, Mamberamo thrust belt; MVF, Managalase Plateau volcanic field; NBT, New Britain Trench; NBA, New Britain arc; NF, Nubara fault; NGT, New Guinea Trench; OJP, Ontong Java Plateau; OSF, Owen Stanley fault zone; PFTB, Papuan fold-and-thrust belt; PP, Papuan peninsula; PRi, Pocklington Rise; PT, Pocklington Trough; RMF, Ramu-Markham fault; SST, South Solomons Trench; SA, Solomon arc; SFZ, Sorong fault zone; ST, Seram Trench; TFZ, Tarera-Aiduna fault zone; TJ, AUS-WDKPAC triple junction; TL, Tasman line; TT, Trobriand Trough;WD, Weber Deep;WB, Woodlark Basin;WFTB, Western (Irian) fold-and-thrust belt; WR,Woodlark Rift; WRi, Woodlark Rise; WTB, Weyland thrust; YFZ, Yapen fault zone.White box indicates the location shown in Figure 3. (b) Map of plates, microplates, and tectonic blocks and elements of the New Guinea region. Tectonic elements modified after Hill & Hall (2003). Abbreviations: ADB, Adelbert block; AOB, April ultramafics; AUS, Australian plate; BHB, Bird's Head block; CM, Cyclops Mountains; CWB, Cendrawasih block; CAR, Caroline microplate; EMD, Ertsberg Mining District; FA, Finisterre arc; IOB, Irian ophiolite belt; KBB, Kubor & Bena blocks (including Bena Bena terrane); LFTB, Lengguru fold-and-thrust belt; MA, Mapenduma anticline; MB, Mamberamo Basin block; MO, Marum ophiolite belt; MHS, Manus hotspot; NBS, North Bismarck plate; NGH, New Guinea highlands block; NNG, Northern New Guinea block; OKT, Ok Tedi mining district; PAC, Pacific plate; PIC, Porgera intrusive complex; PSP, Philippine Sea plate; PUB, Papuan Ultramafic Belt ophiolite; SB, Sepik Basin block; SDB, Sunda block; SBS, South Bismarck plate; SIB, Solomon Islands block; WP, Wandamen peninsula; WDK, Woodlark microplate; YQ, Yeleme quarries.
This figure incorporates cross sections and map views of various parts of the regional tectonics (Baldwin et al., 2012). The New Britain region is in the map near the A and B sections. I include the figure caption below as a blockquote.
Oblique block diagram of New Guinea from the northeast with schematic cross sections showing the present-day plate tectonic setting. Digital elevation model was generated from http://www.geomapapp.org. Oceanic crust in tectonic cross sections is shown by thick black-and-white hatched lines, with arrows indicating active subduction; thick gray-and-white hatched lines indicate uncertain former subduction. Continental crust, transitional continental crust, and arc-related crust are shown without pattern. Representative geologic cross sections across parts of slices C and D are marked with transparent red ovals and within slices B and E are shown by dotted lines. (i ) Cross section of the Papuan peninsula and D'Entrecasteaux Islands modified from Little et al. (2011), showing the obducted ophiolite belt due to collision of the Australian (AUS) plate with an arc in the Paleogene, with later Pliocene extension and exhumation to form the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. (ii ) Cross section of the Papuan peninsula after Davies & Jaques (1984) shows the Papuan ophiolite thrust over metamorphic rocks of AUS margin affinity. (iii ) Across the Papuan mainland, the cross section after Crowhurst et al. (1996) shows the obducted Marum ophiolite and complex folding and thrusting due to collision of the Melanesian arc (the Adelbert, Finisterre, and Huon blocks) in the Late Miocene to recent. (iv) Across the Bird's Head, the cross section after Bailly et al. (2009) illustrates deformation in the Lengguru fold-and-thrust belt as a result of Late Miocene–Early Pliocene northeast-southwest shortening, followed by Late Pliocene–Quaternary extension. Abbreviations as in Figure 2, in addition to NI, New Ireland; SI, Solomon Islands; SS, Solomon Sea; (U)HP, (ultra)high-pressure.
Baldwin, S.L., Fitzgerald, P.G., and Webb, L.E., 2012, Tectonics of the New Guinea Region, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., v. 40, pp. 495-520.
Hamilton, W.B., 1979. Tectonics of the Indonesian Region, USGS Professional Paper 1078.
Hayes, G. P., D. J. Wald, and R. L. Johnson (2012), Slab1.0: A three-dimensional model of global subduction zone geometries, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B01302, doi:10.1029/2011JB008524.
Holm, R. and Richards, S.W., 2013. A re-evaluation of arc-continent collision and along-arc variation in the Bismarck Sea region, Papua New Guinea in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 60, p. 605-619.
Holm, R.J., Richards, S.W., Rosenbaum, G., and Spandler, C., 2015. Disparate Tectonic Settings for Mineralisation in an Active Arc, Eastern Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in proceedings from PACRIM 2015 Congress, Hong Kong ,18-21 March, 2015, pp. 7.
Johnson, R.W., 1976, Late Cainozoic volcanism and plate tectonics at the southern margin of the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea, in Johnson, R.W., ed., 1976, Volcanism in Australia: Amsterdam, Elsevier, p. 101-116
Tregoning, P., McQueen, H., Lambeck, K., Jackson, R. Little, T., Saunders, S., and Rosa, R., 2000. Present-day crustal motion in Papua New Guinea, Earth Planets and Space, v. 52, pp. 727-730.
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from "damning evidence" to "no clear evidence" – extensive data manipulation must have taken place. How and why the data was manipulated to render such drastically different results remains unknown to us.
The ultimate question to be answered is, how can this analysis, these results, and these conclusions be believed? In March, the same MoH reported "damning evidence" of a rise in Iraq birth defects. Now in September, this new report must be viewed with extreme caution if not with suspicion and disbelief.
Dr Mozhgan Savabieasfahani, a native of Iran, is an environmental toxicologist based in Michigan. She is the author of over two dozen peer reviewed articles and the book, Pollution and Reproductive Damage (DVM 2009). A short and anonymous report just appeared on the World Health Organization (WHO) website. It is titled"Summary of prevalence of reported congenital birth defects in 18 selected districts in Iraq." Previously, this report was referred to on the WHO website as a "joint study" with the Iraqi Ministry of Health (MoH) which began in May-June 2012. It was to examine the prevalence of congenital birth defects in a number of geographically dispersed areas of Iraq which were exposed to bombardment or heavy fighting, or were unexposed.
This joint investigation was initiated following widespread public alarm over unusual increases in poor reproductive and birth outcomes in Iraq after the US-led invasion. Across Iraq, increasing numbers of birth defects appear to be surfacing, including in Mosul, Al-Ramadi, Najaf, Fallujah, Basra, Hawijah, and Baghdad. In some provinces, cancers also are rising. Sterility, repeated miscarriages, stillbirths and severe birth defects – some not found in any medical books – are reported widely.
This article has a misleading title. The author does not "downplay" Fukushima radiation hazards. On the contrary, he is pointing out the seriousness of radioactive matter in the oceans, and how this has been ignored in the past Scientists downplay Fukushima radiation hazards DW 25.10.2013 Julian Ryall, Tokyo Experts agree that the radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant is an "environmental catastrophe," but it is only a fraction of the fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests carried out in the 1950s and 1960s, they say…….
People forget that the world we live in already has a lot of cesium-137 in the environment," Dr. Mitsuo Aoyama, senior scientist in the Oceanography and Geochemistry Department of the Japan Meteorological Research Institute, told DW…….
Because of costs, the de facto "solution" is firstly to extend reactor operating lifetimes, then partly decommission and dismantle reactors when they are taken out of service, delaying the decontamination of nuclear sites, and pushing all costs into the future. Unfortunately and until the reactors are made safe, they by definition pose almost open-ended risks. These extend from "simple" accidents and technical malfunction, to operator errors, and to the risk of them becoming giant Dirty Bomb targets in civil war, international war, or terror attacks. Even the most extreme non-nuclear industrial risks, notably at "Seveso or Bhopal type" chemical facilities, are pale by comparison.
Nuclear Power Dirty Bomb The Market Oracle, Oct 28, 2013 By: Andrew_McKillop THE 100-YEAR CURSE Within the next 15 – 20 years as many as 100 industry standard Westinghouse-type 900 MW PWR pressurized water reactors, concentrated in the "old nuclear' countries will have to be decommissioned, dismantled and their sites made safe – unless political deciders maintain the sinister farce of rubber stamping reactor operating lifetime extensions. The decontamination process could take as long as 100 years. In several countries, especially Germany, Switzerland and probably Japan the dangerous game of politically-decided reactor life extensions – to push back the date of final decommissioning – has already ended or is ending.
Asahi Oct. 28, 2013: TEPCO President Naomi Hirose […] explained that it is getting difficult for the utility to secure sufficient manpower at the plant and that it was grappling with tasks the company was not familiar with.
Nuclear Power Dirty Bomb The Market Oracle, Oct 28, 2013 By: Andrew_McKillop "……RECYCLE, REUSE AND DEFEND THE ECONOMY Nuclear waste business, as we know, is not business friendly and leads to the very basic reflex of simply dumping a considerable and growing part of the world's unmanageable nuclear wastes from the current world fleet of around 436 operating civil reactors (depending on how many Japanese reactors are broughtback into service). Proliferation risks are deliberately restricted to only conventional explosive nuclear weapons and their radioactive materials – totally ignoring both Depleted Uranium weapons using "recycled" nuclear wastes, and the potential future Dirty Bomb targets of active and "partly decommissioned" reactors lurking on the horizon. These with almost no possible doubt will be prime targets in coming civil wars and international wars. These nuclear war options are above all cheap, and of course very dirty.
Since the 1991 Gulf War 1 against Iraq, the war against Afghanistan starting in 2001, and the second war against Iraq of 2003 at least 2500 tons of Depleted Uranium weapons have been used by the US, UK and France in these "delightfully far away" over the horizon wars against lesser races and nations. Depleted Uranium ordnance, to date has caused a conservatively estimated 10 000 cancer deaths, and as many as 50 000 still-living cancer victims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This has easily calculated economic consequences. When this concerns free market white democrat middle class consumers, the same types of cancers are costed at roughly $ 40 000 for a cancer death and $ 25 000-per-year for surviving cancer sufferers.
The final decommissioning at Trawsfynydd and elsewhere depends on finding a safe long term solution for where to deposit the ILW as well as the High Level Waste (HLW) currently stored at Sellafield. This includes the spent nuclear fuel which was removed when the plant closed.
Radioactive Waste: Where to Put It? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131027140628.htm Oct. 27, 2013 — As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques. Scientists at The Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Denver will describe the potential of shale formations; challenges of deep borehole disposal; and their progress in building a computer model to help improve understanding of the geologic processes that are important for safe disposal of high-level waste.
The team's work is an important step forward in understanding how LEEs injure DNA because it provides a realistic experimental platform for analysis of results. The goal is to use this knowledge to improve current uses of radiation, such as in cancer treatments.
"The way by which these electrons can damage DNA, and how much damage they inflict, quantitatively, is of major importance not only for general radiation protection purposes, but also for improving the efficiency and safety of therapeutic and diagnostic radiation therapy," said Michel Fromm, the lead researcher from Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France, whose expertise is in creating nanometer-scaled DNA layers. His co-author on the paper is Leon Sanche, of Sherbrooke University Québec, Canada, who is one of the world's leading authorities on LEE research.
The team explored specific features of a small DNA molecule called a plasmid on a specialized thin film they created, which was irradiated by an electron gun. The impact produced transient particles called anions, which dissociate into "pieces" of DNA. When analyzed, these molecular fragments provide insight into the mechanisms of DNA strand breaks and other DNA injuries that health researchers seek to understand, repair and prevent.
"The fascinating point is that each time the close environment of DNA changes, new mechanisms of interaction of LEEs appear," Fromm said.
Myth-busting Germany's energy transition Smart Planet By Chris Nelder | October 12, 2013 Major English-language media have been propagating a false narrative about the stunning success of Germany's transition to renewable energy: theEnergiewende. To hear them tell it, the transition has been a massive failure, driving up power prices, putting Germany's grid at risk of blackouts, and inspiring a mass revolt against renewables.
Nothing could be further from the truth……..
I debunked a few of the hoary tropes about the Energiewende one year ago, such as the notion that the grid can't handle a large share of variable renewable power. But apparently many in the major Western media still haven't gotten the memo.
So let's clear out the fog and debunk a few of the favorite myths about theEnergiewende.
In their determination to publicize its hazards, the intervening women were pioneers alerting the American public to the scientific consensus that all radiation exposure is cumulative and damages cellular DNA.
No Nukes and Intervening Women http://www.huffingtonpost.com/renee-parsons/no-nukes-and-intervening-women_b_1425733.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=623147b=facebook Renee Parsons : 04/16/2012 In an era when Occupy Wall Street protestors are beaten and arrested like hardened criminals, more than 40 years ago in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there was another organized protest movement that captured the nation's attention as it spread from New Hampshire's Clamshell Alliance to the Abalone Alliance in southern California..In the mid-to-late 1970s, massive civil disobedience and notably peaceful arrest of protestors were taking place from the tidewater of Virginia to the farmlands of Oklahoma against the construction and operation of commercial nuclear power reactors.


Great to see you've got some steady work coming in. You deserve that cintiq, so enjoy it!
Yes, steady work can be a good thing. Especially after such a dry year. Ugh.
Argh, everYone is getting Cintiq's~ looking forward to seeing how the direct digital drawing works out!
I was 'iffy' about it too. I kept wondering what he heck it was *about*. But then I kept hearing good rumblings about it. So I went with my guy and two kids. We all laughed and we all loved it.
Give it a go. And supporting other studios besides Pixar, Disney and Dreamworks is a good thing. Especially when they are making movies like this and 'Surf's Up'.
So howcum you're so against Craptastic 3D?
Is that like with me and how I feel about Céline Dion?
Well, it's annoying, over-hyped and unnecessary.
I've only seen one 3-D movie in my life, in the theater.
I can take it, or leave it.
It will eventually get harder and harder to avoid them.
The 3D craze is really nothing new; if you're a creepy dork like me and you love the old monster movies you're probably familiar with "House of Wax" and "Creature from the Black Lagoon", both of which were originally presented in 3D and featured a lot of pointless effects thrown into the camera to grab audience's attention (more so with "House of Wax", with its cancan girls bottoms and random guy with the paddleball). Yeah, I'm a creepy dork but it's October, so give into the Halloween spirit.
As for 3D for all of these animated films, it's only a matter of time before viewers get to experience the wonder of Shrek's phlegm coughed all over your popcorn and Junior Mints. Enjoy the show!
Maybe there's a reason it didn't stick around before. Just because the glasses aren't blue and red doesn't mean the studio execs aren't doing the same tired stunts like pointless effects being thrown at the camera to justify it.
The only reason they are shoving it down our throats again is because they've all invested TONS of money in the technology already. And because everyone is at home in front of their huge flat screens watching their Blu-Ray DVDs and not going to the movies.
I'm also waiting for princess and the frog, and I wish it make producers happy too.
Let us know how you like meatballs Kasana!
Cloudy was okay, but Astro Boy was better. Really underrated movie. Hope it wins an Annie!
It's just great to see such a wide variety of animated films coming out…that are good! Glad you enjoyed it.


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How to Improve Company Culture (10 Ways)
There is a lot of focus on the need to improve company culture in response to the racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd, the "Great Resignation" impacting every HR leader I speak to these days, and the surge of employee burnout. The fact that all of these challenges exist at the same point in time only makes the need to improve company culture even greater.
According to a July 2021 survey by SHRM, 40% of employees feel burned out, drained, or exhausted from work, 30% of employees report struggling to get necessary work done, and 27% feel less loyal to their organization.
With all of the focus on improving company culture, and why it's absolutely critical at this point in time, there is less talk about specifically how to improve company culture from the top-down and the ground-up. So, we're getting straight to the tactics to help you address the pressing challenge: how to improve company culture.
Ten Ways to Improve Company Culture:
1. Evaluate your culture, set goals, and measure progress.
According to Heidrick & Struggles research, 82% of CEOs say culture is important but far fewer acknowledge culture's impact on performance. It's crucial to keep a finger on the pulse of employee engagement and sentiment through regular surveys, town halls, and one of my favorite retaining tactics: "stay" interviews. For example, at a minimum once per year, I conduct stay interviews where I ask each of our employees at Inspire:
What do you love most and least about your role?
What resources do you need to do your best work?
What can I do more or less as your manager?
Are there moments you felt friction when you considered leaving? If so, what caused you to stay?
Every company was forced to make sudden changes in March 2020, and if you haven't recently, now is the time to take a moment and evaluate what's working, what isn't, and what's missing in your company culture. Evaluate if your goals have shifted or need to be realigned to your values, then build metrics into managerial performance reviews, retention goals, and operational strategy.
Rose Gailey, Partner, Organization Acceleration & Culture Shaping, Heidrick & Struggles
Early in the pandemic we were thrilled to help facilitate listening circles, to see organizations commit greater resources to their employee resource groups (ERGs), and to engage in open town halls. If you've relaxed these efforts, it's time to revisit what you learned and to facilitate more open dialogue with your teams. Rose Gailey, Partner, Heidrick Consulting, Organization Acceleration & Culture Shaping at Heidrick & Struggles, and co-author of the recently released, Future Focused: Shape Your Culture. Shape Your Future shares that now, more than ever, leaders need to be empathetic and have "the ability to listen with understanding to secure psychological safety and provide a safe place for employees to voice concerns." Tuning into other people's experience will also enable leaders to engage employees, find clarity, and lead with purpose and intention.
3. Bring your whole self to work (set the example from the top).
Sophia Dozier, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leader at IBM shared a story with us on Redesigning the Future of Work that has stuck with me since. In the week following the murder of George Floyd, a Vice President invited her team to an impromptu sharing circle, where she took the lead in stating how tired and frustrated she felt. Whether it's taking parental leave, using vacation time, maintaining a flexible schedule, admitting when you're feeling overwhelmed, or otherwise prioritizing your well-being, employees will take this as permission to do the same.
Sophia Dozier of IBM, Matt Kudish of the National Alliance on Mental Health, NYC, and Lauren Winans, Inspire HR Expert, Total Rewards discuss mental health at work.
4. Equip your leaders to manage a hybrid workforce.
As more employees work remotely, a manager is increasingly becoming more of a coach and less of a supervisor. And it will be an easier transition for some than others. Managers need training and guidance around how to engage teams that are split between remote and in-person, performance review systems fit for a more independent workforce, and their role in promoting employee wellness and company culture.
5. Communicate realistic employee expectations.
Pamela Sinclair, Corporate Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources at PGIM, the Global Investment Management Business of Prudential Financial
Pamela Sinclair, Corporate Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources at PGIM, the Global Investment Management Business of Prudential Financial, shared with us during "Strengthening Company Culture Through the Pandemic + Beyond" that a large source of friction between employees comes from a lack of clear expectations. She stresses the need for employees to share what they need—for example, a caregiver who cannot take meetings during school pickup times—and for employers to actively check-in and ask questions so their team feels comfortable sharing. Every person has been affected by the pandemic in a different way, but we've all been affected. It's up to leaders to consistently communicate and ensure everyone on their team understands the expectations for their work and the resources available to assist them.
6. Establish (and enforce) remote meeting policies.
Zoom fatigue is a reality for everyone from entry-level to the C-suite. Create realistic and human-centric policies to regulate remote meetings. Several of our clients have instituted 50-minute and 25-minute frameworks to give people a chance to breathe in between meetings, others have blackout times, for example Wednesday and Friday afternoons, designated as meeting-free times. Also be clear about when to have cameras on, which meetings will include open check-ins, and other ways to set reliable expectations for employees.
7. Provide opportunities for employees to create friendships.
People with close work friends are 96% more likely to feel "extremely satisfied with life," according to Tom Rath, author of Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without. But according to Gallup, just 15% of remote workers report that they have a best friend at work. It is particularly important for leaders of a remote or hybrid workforce to create opportunities for employees to socialize, to carve out time for employees to share and bond over travel experiences, families, and even music tastes—creating human connections. Post a fun poll in your Slack chat, create a team playlist on Spotify, launch a book club, introduce viewing parties for favorite TV shows, and bring the team together for lunch on in-office days.
8. Offer volunteer opportunities for employees to engage outside of work.
Deloitte has found in its volunteerism survey that 89% of employees think the overall working environment is better at organizations that sponsor volunteer activities. It isn't just about the time together outside of work—it's about the chance to band together to accomplish something greater. According to Deloitte, 70% of employees say volunteer activities are more likely to boost staff morale than happy hours, and more than three-quarters say volunteering is essential to employee well-being.
9. Reward employee engagement and performance.
The impromptu gift card, closing early on a Friday, cash bonuses—these are all nice benefits that send the message "You're valued." But as Kerry Roberts Gibson, Kate O'Leary and Joseph Weintraub of Babson College argue in HBR, there is often a crucial gap between managers who think they are showing appreciation and employees actually feeling appreciated. Remember the softer signs of appreciation like saying thank you in a sincere way, providing both positive and constructive feedback regularly, recognizing employees in the way that works for them (not everyone wants a company-wide shout-out on Slack, for example), and be growth-minded for your employees.
10. Celebrate milestones.
Include the professional milestones like work anniversaries, dates of historical significance for the company (like the date it was founded), or a colleague passing a professional certification exam. And don't forget the personal events like birthdays, births, and inclusive holidays—just remember that some employees may be more comfortable keeping their personal news to themselves. These are more than social gatherings, they're reminders of the shared experience and rituals that create a sense of belonging and strengthen company culture.
At Inspire, we host a company-wide Thank You party in November each year and we weren't about to miss it in 2020, Covid or not. We had a blast bringing the whole team together to watch highlights of our work with clients, see each of our silver linings from a trying year and to engage in some friendly competition playing virtual "Family Feud." This year, we're hosting another virtual bash with an illusionist and marking Inspire's 15th Anniversary!
We're passionate proponents of committing to improve company culture, but we know that this can seem like a daunting task. It doesn't have to, though. A mix of small gestures and large initiatives can result in a noticeable change—and a company where people want to work.
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Federalism Marries Liberty in the DOMA Decision
By Randy Barnett on June 26, 2013 4:52 pm
[With permission of SCOTUSBlog, I am cross-posting my analysis of today's Windsor DOMA decision, Federalism Marries Liberty in the DOM Decision. Other essays have or will be posted by William Duncan – Marriage Family Law Foundation, Larry Tribe – Harvard Law School, Suzanne Goldberg – Columbia Law School, Helen Alvare – George Mason University School of Law, Gerard Bradley – Notre Dame Law School, John Eastman – Chapman University School of Law, Eric Restuccia and Aaron Lindstrom – Michigan Solicitor General's Office, Steve Sanders – Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and Paul Smith – Jenner & Block.]
Because the logic of Justice Kennedy's opinion for the majority in Windsor is novel, it is likely to confuse observers as it seems to have confused the dissenters. So in this post, I want to lay bare this logic, by explaining how it resembles, but also differs from, the federalism argument we made in our "Federalism Scholars" amicus brief (cited by the Court at page 23).
In our brief, we contended that DOMA was unconstitutional because (a) Congress had no enumerated power to regulate or "defend" marriage by imposing its definition on the states, and (b) DOMA was not necessary and proper for carrying into execution any of its enumerated powers. By operating in so sweeping and undiscriminating a manner, DOMA was exceeded its enumerated powers by enacting a law that by design interfered with the operation of the traditional state regulation of marriage. But overlooked in debates about our argument, we also made this federalism claim in the context of equal protection: (c) DOMA's sweeping and indiscriminate application to over a thousand federal statutes could not pass any level of equal protection scrutiny, even the most deferential, because Congress failed to identify a federal interest why each of these disparate federal laws should not track state laws defining marriage, as had previously been the case.
In his opinion for the Court, Justice Kennedy employed much of this "federalism" logic, but with a significant twist that converted it from an enumerated powers into a "liberty" argument. In brief, he used the interference with the traditional province of states to regulate marriage to justify heightened scrutiny under the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause. Here is the logic of his opinion:
The definition and regulation of the right to marry is traditionally the province of states (and is not among the enumerated powers of Congress. ("The recognition of civil marriages is central to state domestic relations law applicable to its residents and citizens." [17])
When it enacted DOMA Congress was demonstrably intending to and did interfere with this traditional function of states to define and regulate the right to marry by raising the cost to same-sex couples of being married under state law. ("DOMA seeks to injure the very class New York seeks to protect" [20])
Therefore, the Court will use heightened scrutiny to evaluate the rationality of DOMA's imposed definition of marriage (" In determining whether a law is motived by an improper animus or purpose, '[d]iscriminations of an unusual character' especially require careful consideration.").
This unusual deviation from the past practice of respecting state law definitions of marriage was improperly motivated by animus. ("The avowed purpose and practical effect of the law here in question are to impose a disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages made lawful by the unquestioned authority of the States." [21)
In short, under Justice Kennedy's reasoning, it is the fact that states have recognized same-sex marriage that gives rise to heightened judicial scrutiny ("Here the State's decision to give this class of persons the right to marry conferred upon them a dignity and status of immense import." (emphasis added) [18]). In essence, state law is being used to identify a protected liberty or right within its borders against a federal statute. Although this converted our enumerated powers argument into a protection of individual rights, at the same time, it both relied on and preserved the states' prerogatives to define and protect liberty.
What makes this form of reasoning novel is that a state's exercise of its police powers to identify a right has not previously been used to justify heightened Due Process or Equal Protection clause scrutiny (although something like this was hinted at by Justice Kennedy's allusion in Lawrence to an "emerging consensus" among the states concerning antisodomy laws). In the past, the judicial protection of federalism was considered to be an issue that is doctrinally separate from that of due process or equal protection. First, ask whether a law is within the power of Congress to enact? Second, if so, ask whether it violates the constraints of the Fifth or Fourteenth Amendments? Under the second inquiry, heightened Due Process Clause scrutiny only occurs when a liberty that is deemed to be a "fundamental right" is being restricted; heightened Equal Protection Clause scrutiny only occurs when legislation employs a "suspect classification" like race or gender.
Here the Court transcends this doctrinal line by using state laws to identify an individual's liberty interest that justifies subjecting a federal law to heightened scrutiny. This is not how the doctrine has previously worked. Why the innovation?
To date, the Court has not recognized "homosexual relations" as a "fundamental right," or "homosexuality" as a suspect classification. Taking either step in Windsor would have resulted in a so-called "fifty-state solution" that would mandate same-sex marriage for every state. So what the majority does instead is identify a new "trigger" for heightened scrutiny: interfering with an interest in one's state-recognized marriage. In this way, the federalism concerns expressed on pages 17-19 are as essential to its due process/equal protection reasoning as they were to Justice Roberts' adoption of a "saving construction" in NFIB v Sebelius.
This should come as no surprise, given that Justice Kennedy was the swing vote. But it is noteworthy that the four liberal justices signed onto this federalism-laden analysis without the usual concurring opinion asserting, say, a traditional equal protection rationale for requiring the recognition by all states of same-sex marriages. Perhaps they figure, as Justice Scalia speculates, that there is more than enough in the majority opinion about "animus" to assist such challenges to state laws in the future. Or perhaps if enough states recognize same-sex marriage we will see the "emerging awareness" rationale of Lawrence v. Texas emerge once again.
By adopting this federalism approach to identifying protected liberty, however, states remain free to continue deciding the marriage question. Of course, this assumes that what the Court today says about the irrationality of DOMA at the federal level is not used to undermine the constitutionality of refusals to recognize same-sex marriage by states – as Justice Scalia predicts will flow from the majority's reasoning.
But the logic of today's opinion implicitly turns on the absence of any articulated federal interest in disregarding state laws defining marriage. That states are tasked with protecting different interests than the national government is the hallmark of federalism. As Judge Boudin wrote in Massachusetts v. HHS, "[o]ne virtue of federalism is that it permits this diversity of governance based on local choice… Congress' denial of federal benefits to same-sex couples lawfully married in Massachusetts has not been adequately supported by any permissible federal interest." (emphasis added)
For now, federalism wins out in theory as well as in practice. States are free to define marriage as they wish (subject to Equal Protection and Due Process clause restraints), and the fight over "gay marriage" will continue in the states for years, as other litigation winds its way back to the Court. So far, this process of federalism has been beneficial to the cause of same-sex marriage in a number of respects, not least of which is the perceived legitimacy of same-sex marriage in states where it has been adopted by legislation or popular initiative. But whether this bodes good or ill for same-sex marriage, it is a visible demonstration that federalism need not be just for conservatives.
I believe that both Rick Pildes and Will Baude offer similar or at least compatible analyses.
UPDATE: In the comments, someone asks when the Supreme Court will reverse Gonzales v Raich, since States "have recognized some persons' rights to marijuana for medical reasons (even to the extent of issuing them licenses) and the Federal prohibition is based solely on animus toward pot users?" I thought about mentioning Raich in my original post because we raised a structurally similar point concerning the "class of activities" — the medical use of marijuana — that had been defined by the states, the regulation of which we contended was not "essential" to the broader regulation of interstate commerce. But because the Raich decision was a Commerce Clause, not a Due Process decision, it was too much of a stretch to discuss. In Raich, however, we also had a Due Process Clause challenge that never reached the Supreme Court and was lost in the Ninth Circuit on remand because the Ninth Circuit panel held that "the right to use medical marijuana" (which is not how we defined the liberty in question) was not "fundamental" under Glucksburg, and neither was there an "emerging consensus" under Lawrence, though one could develop in the future. Should we now renew our Due Process Clause challenge relying on Windsor? Perhaps, and this deserves serious thought. One way Windsor could be distinguished from Raich, however, is by the "federal interest" in regulating the interstate commerce in recreational marijuana, for which it is necessary to reach intrastate medical marijuana. There was no such federal interest in altering over 1000 laws of a variety of types, as DOMA did. On the other hand, the "necessity" of reaching state authorized medical marijuana as a means of regulating the interstate commerce in marijuana was justified by majority (and by Justice Scalia) in Raich on deferential rational basis grounds. Could Windsor justify heightened scrutiny because the state identified a liberty interest?
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