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Apple gets thrown in the briar patch
December 13th, 2012 at 8:16 pm by Dr. Drang
OK, let me get this straight.
- Apple and Google have a falling out over the built-in iOS Maps app. Among the problems: Google wanted more access to user information and Apple wanted the app to provide vector graphics and turn-by-turn directions the way Google's maps on Android do.
- Apple cuts Google out and rewrites the Maps app with vector graphics and turn-by-turn. The data set behind the new app, however, isn't as good as Google's and the new Maps doesn't have Street View or public transit directions.
- Three months later, Google puts out its own maps app with turn-by-turn, vector graphics, Street View, and public transit directions. It is widely hailed as a great addition to the dominant and every-growing portfolio of iOS apps.
- Apple is considered to have come out of this with a black eye.
I don't see how Item 4 follows from Items 1-3. iOS now has a free maps app that's every bit as good as what's on Android. Google Maps is almost certainly collecting more user information than Maps was before, but it isn't nearly as much information as it would be if Google Maps were a system app. Also, because it isn't a system app, whatever data Google Maps collects, it isn't getting it by way of Apple.
Sounds to me like playing hardball got Apple most of what it wanted. Reminds me of Flash.
Update 12/14/12
A few followups:
- I suspect most iPhone users will continue to use the built-in Maps app because it's already right there and it's integrated with Siri, Contacts, etc. Yes, Apple will lose a certain amount of data collection, especially with regard to points of interest, but it was always going to be behind Google in that area. The raw map data (getting addresses right) is, I've read, less dependent on users.
- Neither Apple nor Google make maps for the sake of making maps—they're not Rand McNally. Apple wants maps as a feature to sell its phones; Google makes them to gather information on us that it can sell. A separate Google Maps app is a compromise that gives the iPhone two good free maps apps and allows Google to collect more info than it could before.
- In the original setup, Google controlled the iOS system maps by controlling the data. Apple has broken that monopoly with only three months of inconvenience to that part of its customer base that needed what only Google provides.
- Personally, I doubt I'll use Google Maps except for Street View (which I really missed—there's nothing like that point of view when you're going to an unfamiliar area). Because I live in the U.S., where Apple's mapping data is generally good, and I seldom use it for finding restaurants and other points of interest.
Overall, I see this as a win for Apple and a lesser win for Google. More important, it's a big win for iPhone users.
31 Responses to "Apple gets thrown in the briar patch"
John says:
Pretty sure "Apple Maps" has taken irreparable "PR damage" at least in my country.
Jim Forte says:
The point is that Apple does not have to do anything with its maps app as google did all the work and gained non of what it asked for.
Wes Campaigne says:
Jim: Google is most certainly gaining what they asked for — increased brand visibility, control over how the maps are displayed, access to user data (especially by having map users log into their Google accounts) — but they're not quite gaining it in the way that they wanted, i.e., through a built-in system app that everyone uses by default.
No matter how much better Google Maps might be than Apple Maps, there exists a wide swath of users that will never go out of their way to download and use the Google Maps app in place of the built-in Maps. Access to those users is the one big thing that Google's lost through this whole ordeal.
Lukas says:
I agree that this didn't turn out as bad as it could have for Apple, but I don't think they're in a particularly great situation, even ignoring the PR disaster this has been for Apple.
The current situation allows Google to control who has the best mapping experience. Which means that Android has the best mapping experience. And the more people use Google's Maps app on the iPhone, the harder it is for Apple to catch up with Google, because the usage data from those iPhone users will go to Google, not Apple.
Jason Verly says:
Let's take a step back and look at where Apple is headed. Google Maps is back on the iPhone (and hopefully the iPad in the near future) with a very nice update compared to what was previously integral to iOS. As Apple looked towards iOS 6, they wanted turn by turn navigation in Google Maps, just like Android got. Google wasn't moving as fast as Apple wanted, so Apple decides to give it a go. While Apple failed miserably with their version of Maps, they eventually got what they wanted - turn by turn navigation in Google Maps.
Prediction: 12 months from now Apple will have quitely moved away from Maps and allows Google to be defacto standard in iOS 7.
Foomandoonian says:
I wonder if you would still feel like Apple had made a canny move if your home town had disappeared?
It's amusing that you and Gruber both updated your posts on this subject with qualifiers about how Apple maps seem fine for you and that you don't really use the features that Google offers anyway.
I do agree though: In the long term, this is the smartest move for Apple.
Andrew Shotland says:
Jason, there's just as good a chance (and in my view, a more likely chance) that Apple will double down on improving Apple Maps and over the next year we will see a lot of the problems - like people dying from bad directions - fade away. I think Apple will play the improvements in a fairly low-key way and, like Google Maps has done, it will just get better over time - I remember when Google Maps lost La Jolla for a few weeks - and with each iOS/iPhone/iPad update more people will trial it and decide it's fine.
Maps is a critical service on mobile phones with a number of strategic opportunities that I don't think Apple wants to cede to Google so fast.
Karl says:
@Jason - Google never wrote nor maintained the iOS Maps applications. That was Apple's end to end, only the data came from Google. So it wasn't Google not moving fast enough, it was Google explicitly withholding that data from Apple.
Apple has zero reason to ever go back to Google's data, since you underestimate how much data they'll be able to collect as the defacto map data provider in all iOS apps as well as the primary map app.
Eli says:
"The raw map data (getting addresses right) is, I've read, less dependent on users."
Sure, but that's not where the problem really is with Apple Maps. The main problem is points of interest. If I want directions to the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue, having to separate Google the address in Mobile Safari, and then enter it into Maps is just ludicrously cumbersome, especially on a platform where copy-and-paste is kind of a pain. You write, "I seldom use it for finding restaurants and other points of interest." I, also, seldom use either maps application for, say, finding out what Thai restaurants are near a specific location, but I use it constantly for looking up directions and 99% of the time I don't know the street address of my destination, only its general location in the city. And I don't think I'm atypical. This is the use case where Apple Maps just falls down completely.
Steven Klein says:
I've been using Apple maps for a few months now, and so far, I've seen only one minor mistake. (It showed a Target store on the wrong side of the street.)
Usually I enter an exact street address, though sometimes I use Siri and say something like "directions to the nearest Walmart."
I live in the Detroit suburbs. Your mileage may (literally) vary.
Ryan Singer says:
Google had their chance to finally make some money in an App Store.
jv says:
We can't be sure the majority of people won't use Google Maps as the default app.
You are underestimating the Google brand. This is not Netscape versus IE. This is Google. The one and only search on the internet for a decade. The one and only maps for a decade.
Apple had to do what they had to do, but this is definitely not a win, not yet.
James says:
"I suspect most iPhone users will continue to use the built-in Maps app because it's already right there and it's integrated with Siri, Contacts, etc."
This right here is the issue.
I suspect close to zero iPhone users in the majority of locations outside the US will ever launch Apple Maps willingly again. It's not close to viable in London and I know that large parts of Australia are also 10+ years out of date. It's not just the mapping (which is pretty bad), it's also a complete lack of up to date POI information outside of what they can pull from Yelp. Yelp being something that almost no one in the UK has ever even heard of.
So: we're all back on Google Maps and that's all fine.
Except we can't ask Siri questions or effectively use many apps that rely on the Mapping component. Google are apparently offering a way to integrate theirs instead but it's extra effort from devs and so won't happen across the board (although anyone making an app for Europe / Australia at least, would have a killer selling point if they did swap to Google vs. their competitors).
So I'm mostly back to where I started with iOS5, I'm certainly glad I now have vector maps but I'm not glad that Siri isn't as useful as it could be.
I'm not sure (nor sure I care) who won between Apple and Google, but compared to the two companies reaching an agreement and keeping GMaps as the default: the user lost.
The only way back from this is if Apple allow users to switch default apps for mapping (mail & browser would be nice too). Something I hope WILL be arriving at some point soon.
Douglas Thiel says:
I remember when I went to London last Spring (2012) and was using the Google version of the iOS maps app. In the middle of the night, arriving close to my destination from Heathrow, I was standing in the middle of a two lane (as in middle ages type of lane) intersection. Google maps miserably failed me. I had 3 directions to take and had no idea which one to take. Naturally I took the 2 wrong directions before the 3rd correct direction.
Later, on the same trip, I tried to find the Apple Retail Store in Convent Gardens. Again, Google Maps delivered me close to my destination.
My opinion of Google Maps is that it was quite inadequate in both situations, one where I was exhausted, and utterly dependent on the technology.
Therefore, I really don't know how Apple could do worse. Sure there were some funny images on the web, sure some people have no common sense and drive 50 miles out of their way based on their Apple Map directions. You can't help everyone in all situations until you have great AI. :-)
Dick Applebaum says:
@Jason Verly "Prediction: 12 months from now Apple will have quitely moved away from Maps and allows Google to be defacto standard in iOS 7."
I think that exactly the opposite will happen. Apple Maps has the potential to be far better than Google maps — especially with features like 3D Flyover.
Not to mention the additional mapping capabilities that Apple got when they bought PlaceBase… things like programmable maps ovetlaid with layers of demographic data: household income; average rainfall; number of bathrooms; number of cars; college education; political affiliation, etc.
There used to be web sites for PlaceBase and PushPin (their interactive mapping APIs) — but these have been taken down. I played with some of the examples — and it was amazing the custom maps you could in a few minutes.
The above, likely, will be of most interest to businesses like real estate; advertising; direct mail; political campaign get out the vote… and would be used more on the desktop or an iPad — as opposed to an iPhone.
Finally, Apple has patented a new type of "Schematic Maps" where the map layout and proportion is modified to display important way points and eliminate distracting data — a kind of flow diagram from point a to point b. This could be very useful as a high-level navigation view — especially in a small screen…
Apple Maps — you ain't seen nothin' yet!
Tim Buchheim says:
I downloaded Google Maps, but I'll probably continue to use Apple's Maps most often. I find it to be quite accurate where I live (in the Los Angeles area) and I prefer Apple's user interface. Plus, I absolutely love the Yelp integration. I'd much rather have Yelp reviews than Google's restaurant info.
But I'm happy to have Google for public transit directions. Apple's patchwork solution would be ok (but still not great) if local transit apps were any good, but they're not.
I'll also launch Google Maps occasionally for Street View probably.
Jim says:
As a dissenting opinion regarding performance in Europe: Apple Maps is demonstably better in Berlin (where I live), and I've found Apple maps to work without fail through out much of German speaking Europe.
Speaking specifically to Berlin: Google has finally gotten transit data, or it thinks it has. Months ago they got data from DBahn, which does national rail. They also happen to own the S-Bahn, so now it tells you to walk 25 minutes to snag an S-Bahn train instead of the 3 minute walk to the U-Bahn station, because Google doesn't know the U-Bahn (or busses) exist. Google also has issues correctly placing pins for locations here. For example the Tempodrom, a venue here, has its pin dropped a km or so away. Oddly enough if you zoom far in on the right spot, it's actually labeled correctly on the map, but you wouldn't know that looking near the pin.
Those examples illuminate an important difference: Apple Maps (usually) knows what it doesn't know. You'll sometimes see it not return search results for a location. Google guesses. That leads to it being wrong more frequently (in my experience).
Apple Maps did not, however, work at all in Belgrade. They literally have nothing but a pin for the city.
So the lesson is, Apple Maps is an adequate choice (or sometimes even better) if you are living in a civilized part of Europe (as opposed to Belgrade or London). I kid, I kid! Seriously though, your experience will vary widely by what city was in. This was always true, really.
James says:
To be honest, even if Apple Maps used the same data as Google's, I wouldn't use it right now.
I agree the UI of the app itself is marginally superior (though it's not hard to learn the quirks of G's app, and I like the new G brand style (in GMail iOS, Search and so on) in Apple's Maps but the actual map rendering is years behind.
How is showing almost all road sizes in the same colour (white) a good idea? Why is peppering the map with big circular points of interest that give a local sandwich shop the same visual priority as a tube station a good idea?
Until Apple take some basic basic cartography lessons I think their app will be considerably lesser.
3D Flyover is the a perfect example of form over function. It's pretty once, but completely useless for any task you'd do on a map whatsoever. It's exactly like Google Earth: really pretty and fun but nothing to do with 'mapping'.
trrll says:
I expect that I'll continue to use Apple Maps for most things, with Google Maps as a fallback if Apple Maps can't find something. But I may return to Google Maps for transit routing, since its interface is a bit nicer than the other transit routing apps I've tried.
Laws says:
In the past, Facebook, and now Google - "Your privacy is of little concern to you".
Ted T. says:
@James: Apple Maps are fine in Italy and demonstrably superior to Google in some places like Linosa.
Apple maps suffered heavily from not considering your current location as paramount in searches: you ask for a Park Ave. address from a NYC location, and the pop-up "did you mean" chooser thingy wonders if you mean Park Ave. in Something-or-Other Texas. Stuff like that can't be that hard to fix and needs to be fixed pronto.
The other thing is public transportation (and biking): a disproportionate share of iPhone users live in cities and heavily use public transportation or bike. Integrating public transportation and biking direction in Apple Maps will have a huge impact on their usefulness for much of the target audience.
JW says:
Apple Maps are pathetic in Japan, suffering from gaping black holes, comically wrong labels, and a uniform lack of data for anything of significance — completely unusable. Seeing as how Japan is an important market that's only just recently been won over by the iPhone, it's difficult to see Apple's mapping moves as anything but premature missteps here.
Google, on the other hand, is typically on par with the local options (e.g., Yahoo Japan, Mapion) because they actually license data from companies that know what they're doing. For Japan, that's Zenrin. Apple might get there eventually, but at what cost to mindshare?
Andy says:
I live in the Bay Area and (in my experience) Apple maps is generally at least as good, if not better, than Google maps here. For point of interest finding, I find Apple maps much better. This is probably because Yelp is very popular here. I have to wonder if many people's perception of Apple maps being terrible is due to all the negative press rather than experience. Anecdotally this is the case with many of my friends. I'm sure it's bad in many places, especially outside the US, but I've yet to have any problems with it —- something I can't say is true of Google maps.
How is this not a win for Apple and for users? We now have two mapping apps that are better than the old maps app, and you know don't have to have any info exposed to Google if you don't want to expose it. I'll probably only use Google maps for transit directions, but I'm happy to have it as an alternative.
@James: completely agree about the info presented by Apple maps. You have to zoom in way too far to see many street names and business locations. I hope they eventually show information at a much higher density.
Steven says:
Yes, Apple has taken a PR hit, but people have short memories - this won't be an issue a year from now. In the mean time, this is a win-win. How? Google gets the info it wants - great for Google, but only if the customer opts in - great for Apple. Google maintains its presence on the most lucrative of platforms - great for Google, Apple is able to stick to its principles concerning privacy - great for Apple. Google fosters an image of magnanimity - great for Google, Apple gets time to address the problem while the UX on its flagship device does not have to suffer the lack of a top flight mapping application - great for Apple.
Davesmall says:
As the author notes, before the release of Apple maps, the iOS version of Google Maps was inferior to the Android version. For example, there was no voice turn-by-turn navigation using Google Maps on the iPhone.
Now iPhone users have the best of both. They can use the Apple maps, which I've been doing with zero complaints or problems. They can also download the new Google Maps app which is said to be even better than it's Android counterpart. Clearly, the iPhone user experience has been improved by these competitive gyrations.
Apple repeatedly says that their top priority is to provide the best possible user experience. I believe that's why they approved the new Google app for the App Store. Now they can continue to improve Apple Maps while their customers enjoy both options.
Another factor here is that a sizable percentage of iPhone users are not paying attention to the blogs and won't even know there is a new Google Maps app available. Many of them won't realize that the maps app changed when Apple replaced Google's maps with their own. I don't know how large this user segment is but I suspect larger than you would think. I'm repeatedly encountering iPhone users who just use it for the basics and don't ever get very high up on the learning curve. These folks will stick with Apple maps.
Terrin says:
After downloading and testing out the new Google Maps App, I have to say 1) it is somewhat confusing to use, 2) in the two small trips I set up to give me turn by turn directions, it forgot on several occasions to make turns, and 3) it was slow at correcting for alternated routes.
For example, after having the Google App search for a location, it isn't exactly clear how to get this going with turn by turn directions. I live in Ann Arbor Michigan, where Google has its AdSense program located. There really isn't any reason it should have goofed the turn by turn directions. It also was slow to devise alternative routes.
On both trips, my girlfriend had the Apple Maps App dictate the way as well. It was easy using Siri; the maps are prettier, it didn't forget to tell me to turn, and it corrected on the fly quicker.
So, at least around me, I don't think Apple has a lot to fear unless people really want street view.
lmjabreu says:
Everyone's ignoring Foursquare and their POI database, which is as good or better than Google's in terms of accuracy and has definitively more information. Apple should really use their data, just like they're using TomTom/etc for map data.
Khürt Williams says:
@Ted T. says: "… a disproportionate share of iPhone users live in cities …"
I think only people who live in cities think that.
Marc Troy says:
Apple Maps is horrific in vast parts of Europe. I travel a lot and Apple Maps made me furious. The data is so bad, there's so many problem, I don't think they can fix this within a few months.
I've installed Google Maps and everything is back to normal. Who cares about vector maps, who cares about Streeview and 3D something. The most important part - again THE MOST IMPORTANT aspect is working maps. That's all the counts. The rest is not important.
Jeffrey R says:
I work in a medical clinic that has give iPhone 5 to all of its doctors. Not a single one wanted to be upgrade to iOS 6 until Google Maps was available after one of them got stranded out in the middle of nowhere by the Apple Maps on their personal device.
For me, I don't understand why people like the 3D features? It only works well in big cities and remember a large percentage of people DON'T live in big cities. Street View is much more convenient when driving down a street and you want to be sure where to stop, especially when buildings are poorly marked.
Vincent says:
To be honest I own a iPhone 4S and the iPad Retina Display the 4th Generation since Apple has released IOS 6.0 till now Siri and Apple Maps is the best thing I ever seen I can find restaurants and movie and everything its the best if I had too give Apple thumbs up I half to give them a 100% what they have done for the OS for Apple.


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"Whenever we look to the interests of our neighbor or the community and serve them, we are in a very real sense God's own co-workers." The hospice residence has been designed to provide three levels of care, including: 1) General inpatient care, which is short-term, intensive medical care for a sudden exacerbation of pain or other symptoms. 2) Respite care, which gives family caregivers a break for up to five days. 3) Residential care, which is for patients who would prefer the option of living at the hospice residence because they are too frail to live at home and/or because loved ones are unable to care for them. Ensuring comfort and privacy for patients and their families was a top priority for the Alexian Brothers and ABHS officials as they developed plans for the hospice residence, said Kathleen Gunderson, ABHS Vice President, Ancillary Services. "We wanted to be certain that we had a very patient-centered model for this facility," she said.
"We wanted to make the end-of-life experience as warm, supportive and spiritual as we possibly could." The result is a facility in which each patient room has individual climate controls, a tray ceiling with indirect lighting, bedside sconces for reading, sleeping accommodations for multiple family members, an oversized patient bed to allow room for a family member or a pet, built-in shelving for displaying photos and other personal items, a bathroom with a shower, and a 55-inch LED television. The rooms also feature windows on at least two sides to admit as much natural light as possible. The windows can be opened to let in fresh air and have safety stops for security. The windows have been positioned low enough to give patients outdoor views from their beds.
"There has been a significant amount of landscaping done, so the views are very nice," Gunderson said. To maximize privacy for patients, all rooms have been designed so that patients cannot be seen from the hallway when the door to their room is open. The facility has two unobtrusive nursing stations and two state-of-the-art medication rooms. It is equipped with a wireless call system so patients can contact staff, even when patients leave their rooms. The facility features two bathing spas, each with a whirlpool tub designed so that a patient can be moved comfortably in a seated position into the tub. There also is a massage room where massages and hair styling will be available. Other amenities include a library with a fireplace, a family lounge with a piano, a recreation room, a family kitchen, a chapel, a family laundry area and three furnished patios. The residence has its own pastoral-care team, with a chaplain-to-resident ratio significantly higher than the national hospice standard.
The facility also features artwork in patient rooms and common areas to provide a calming effect for patients and families. "The whole concept is to provide a calming atmosphere," Gunderson said. "We'll also be using a lot of alternative therapies, such as massage, art, music and pet therapy, to make those last days or months more bearable for the patient and their family. It goes back to the tradition and values of the Alexian Brothers in caring for the dying (during the Black Death of the Middle Ages) and the dignity of the person and care of the whole person. That's where we are going with this."
About Alexian Brothers Health System
Ranked among the nation's best-performing health systems, the Alexian Brothers Health System (ABHS), part of St. Louis-based Ascension Health, is comprised of five hospitals and a center for mental health; immediate care centers, diagnostic imaging facilities, occupational health centers and a physician practice group that serves more than two million people every year in Chicago's suburbs. ABHS also has an enduring commitment to identifying and developing an effective response to the unique health and housing needs of older adults through a dynamic senior ministries program that operates an array of residential, retirement and community resources in Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. For more information visit: www.alexianbrothershealth.org
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Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs has signed on as an investor in the Field of Dreams Movie Site expansion project.
Thursday, Chicago-based development company Go the Distance Baseball, LLC announced Boggs' involvement.
The projected $38 million expansion project includes a 24-field youth baseball-softball tournament facility, complete with lodging for traveling teams as well as other amenities.
Boggs, a 12-time All Star, spent most of his 18-year MLB career with the Boston Red Sox and has more than 3,000 hits to his name.
"Keeping the Field of Dreams Movie Site alive and growing for generations to come is a great way to give back to the sport I love and that has been my livelihood," Boggs said in a media release Thursday.
He helped bring the New York Yankees to the 1996 World Series championship and finished his career with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
In addition to all that, Boggs had four straight .300-plus seasons, five American League batting titles, eight Silver Slugger Awards and two Gold Glove Awards.
A Nebraska native, Boggs now lives in Tampa, Fla. He said in an interview with KWWL TV Thursday afternoon, he sees this project as a way of giving Midwest ballplayers a leg up to the major league.
"A lot of times in the north, they don't have the climate that California, Texas and Florida have, naturally. Those three states produce the most professional athletes as far as baseball players go, so the north of sort of limited," Boggs said. "Once the leaves fall off the trees and the snow hits the ground, baseball's sort of done, but one of the facilities that we're going to have on site is an indoor facility where they can practice year round, get in there, take some ground balls, maybe take some batting practice and get they're throwing in, and that way, when the spring comes, they're not a step behind."
He said the Midwest facility will also save parents money.
"It's something the Midwest needs, naturally: an area for youth baseball players and youth softball players to go," Boggs said. "We feel that this area geographically benefits the parents economically for the fact that they don't have to go to the east coast for their children to compete."
The MLB Hall of Fame inducted Boggs in 2005, and the Red Sox Hall of Fame inducted him in 2004.


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Ad networks cater to people buying advertising because that's where the money is flowing and advertisers care about where their ads are being placed. This is why vertical ad networks make sense, they vet destinations for appropriateness and fit. SyndiGO is another one to watch; they build a vertical ad network for you as an advertiser.
Similarly, Travel Ad Network should also roll up a bunch of travel properties to get a better footprint, and a vertical integration. The Travel space is slightly more complicated, because of the considerable clout of the vertical search engines, of which, Kayak also intends to pull together a vertical ad network.
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lmao..im studying for my last final tonight and i thought hmm u know what would be nice right now?? some wine!! but i didnt want a lot so i poured some cranberry juice first and started having some second thoughts and decided that i shouldnt be having any wine while i study…but of course i decided to do it anyway and u know what happened?? I GOT WINE ALL OVER MY PAPERS AND MY TEXTBOOK
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Um…fuck this post…i am completely for equality and that is the reason i don't like this post. it has some good points but it basically goes to say that we are never allowed to truly co-exist, that in the queer community there is a type of higher Archy based on what your sexual orientation is, which is not only hypocritical (because we are fighting against bigotry and it can come from both sides) but it completely goes against what we are fighting for… which I thought was equality. Two wrongs don't make a right stop hating on the allies because you believe they are not 'queer' enough to have an opinion. We are all in this together, please start acting like it.
lol what "it basically goes on to say that we are never allowed to truly co-exist" it says nothing of the sort. it it a post explaining that people who call themselves allies to the queer movement are often not allies at all. how in the world did you come to the conclusion that we don't believe we can co-exist ffs
we are not fighting for equality. we are fighting for liberation.
and nowhere in this post does it say we're hating on allies because they are not "queer" enough to have an opinion. we are hating on "allies" who are not actually allies. and queer opinions have always been and will always be more relevant and valid than cishet opinions when it comes to queer issues, period.
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Set of folded stationery cards printed on bright white, smooth card stock to bring your personal artistic style to everyday correspondence. Each card is blank on the inside and includes a soft white, European fold envelope for mailing.
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Submitting a picture of someone NOT SHOWING THEIR MODS and following with the caption "This bog-troll is [name deleted because this post is fucking rude], She is full of awful body modification's! She is chubby and has two butterfly tattoo's on her "hips" that are both uneven and one is way bigger then the other, it has a red ribbon and the other is pink. doesnt red mean Aids? Anyhow, she got her belly button pierced, she had it pierced too far up it got infected she kept it in and did NOT clean it, plus she sweat like a hog on a hot summer day which made it worse, She is now stretching her ears, in the past MONTH she has had 3 blowouts, went from 0-00-1/2 and is now wanting to go to 5/8s! she doesnt even bother with 7/16 or 9/16. She is an idiot and no dumbass like her should have mods!"
Yes, asshole, red means AIDS support, but does not mean she HAS AIDS like you are implying. Even if she did, so what? There are so many ways someone can get HIV/AIDS (like, idk, from birth) that it's irrelevant and you have no right to judge this person. Pink means breast cancer and i don't see you judging/questioning that.
Look guys, please. just. don't. be. assholes. Seriously. Even if you don't like the person, SUBMIT THEIR MODS, not all this irrelevant shit about why you don't like them.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- After contemplating a gubernatorial run for seven months, Louisville real estate developer Hal Heiner made it official on Tuesday with announcements in Lexington, Hazard and Louisville.
"Kentucky is at a crossroads and we are in desperate need of strong leadership and innovative thinking," Heiner said to supporters in Lexington, the hometown of his running mate, former Urban Councilmember K.C. Crosbie.
Largely unknown outside Jefferson County, Heiner, a former Metro Councilman, mayoral candidate and charter schools advocate has a lot of introductions to make, but he has a lot of time. The GOP primary is 14 months away.
"My entire life has been driven by deep convictions," Heiner said. "When I see something that isn't right, I feel compelled to do something about it."
And what's not right - Heiner says - is the commonwealth consistently next to last in national economic ratings. He said it's time to put "KentuckyFirst" by copying pro-growth legislation of Republican legislatures and governors in states like Indiana and Tennessee.
"Too many in Frankfort have put themselves first, defending the status quo, holding us back, while completely ignoring the best interests of the state we love," Heiner said.
Heiner made the announcement at Star Manufacturing in Lexington. Its workers stayed on the job behind him as Heiner spoke. The metal stamping plant once made typewriter parts and is now a supplier to Toyota. Heiner said Kentucky needs a chief executive like him to lead its transition.
"Someone who has competed in the global economy and has a track record of success," Heiner said.
Crosbie, who holds posts with both the Republican National Committee and Kentucky Republican Party, blamed Democrats for
"The Democrat politicians who control Frankfort now and those aspiring to replace them are the same insiders who have had a stranglehold over change for decades," Crosbie said.
Allies of presumed Republican candidate James Comer, Kentucky's Agriculture Commissioner, are raising questions about Crosbie, saying she should resign her post with the Kentucky Republican Party as she campaigns in this race. Crosbie told WHAS11 she does not plan any such move.
As for questions about lobbying work performed by Crosbie's husband for gambling interests, Heiner says such "politics of old" are what have held Kentucky back.
"That's why we end up with 55% of our children that are either dropping out or are not prepared for college or career, because we're focused on all of this underworld political activity and people are focused on their next races," Heiner said.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS) -- Republican Hal Heiner says he wants to use his business experience to improve Kentucky's economy as the state's next governor.
The former Louisville councilman entered next year's governor's race at a campaign kickoff event Tuesday in Lexington.
Heiner, an engineer and developer, has recruited former Lexington-Fayette County councilwoman KC Crosbie as his running mate.
Heiner says Kentucky needs leadership and innovation. He says his "Kentucky First" campaign theme stresses his goal of improving the state's performance in job and personal income growth.
The 2015 Republican primary is about 14 months away.
Another potential Republican candidate is state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer.
Comer says he's in a strong position should he enter the race. For now, he says he's focused on helping Republicans running for office this year.


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Z decays to four leptons
A bit more than a year ago I was pleased to see a clear signal from CMS for the decay of Z bosons to four leptons. Of course there are literally millions of recorded Z decays to two leptons (e+ e- and μ+ μ-) used for standard model physics studies, lepton efficiency measurements, momentum/energy scale determinations and detector alignment. But Z→4L is cuter and of some intrinsic interest, being relatively rare.
It turned out the main interest of physicists who analyzed the signal was Higgs boson decays to four leptons. By now that Higgs signal is well established and plays an important role in the Higgs mass measurement, but at the time of the CMS publication (InSpire link, i.e., arXiv:1210.3844 October 2012), Z→4L provided the ideal benchmark for H→4L.
You might think that the rare decay Z→4L had been well studied at LEP. In fact, it was quite well studied because the ALEPH Collaboration had once reported an anomaly in the 4L final state when two of the leptons were tau leptons. (At the time, this observation hinted at a light supersymmetric Higgs boson signal.) The anomaly was not confirmed by the other LEP experiments. A perhaps definitive study was published by the L3 Collaboration in 1994 (InSpire link). Here are the plots of the two di-lepton masses:
Most of the events consist, in essence, of a virtual photon emitted by one of the primary leptons, with that virtual photon materializing as two more leptons – hence the peak at low masses for the Mmin distribution. Note there is no point in plotting the 4-lepton mass since the beam energies were tuned to the Z peak resonance – the total invariant mass will be, modulo initial-state radiation, a narrow peak at the center-of-mass-energy.
Here is the Z resonance from the CMS paper:
A rather clear and convincing peak is observed, in perfect agreement with the standard model prediction. This peak is based on the 5 fb-1 collected in 2011 at 7TeV.
ATLAS have released a study of this final state based on their entire 7 TeV and 8 TeV data set (ATLAS-CONF-2013-055, May 2013). Here is their preliminary 4-lepton mass peak:
Clearly the number of events is higher than in the CMS plot above, since five times the integrated luminosity was used. ATLAS also published the di-lepton sub-masses:
This calibration channel is not meant to be the place where new physics is discovered. Nonetheless, we have to compare the rate observed in the real data with the theoretical prediction – a discrepancy would be quite interesting since this decay is theoretically clean and the prediction should be solid.
Since the rate of pp→Z→2L is very well measured, and the branching ratio Z→2L already well known from LEP and SLD, we can extract branching fractions for Z decays to four leptons:
So, as it turns out, the SM prediction matches the observed rate very well.
Inclusive W and Z cross sections
The inclusive W and Z production cross sections are benchmarks for any hadron collider. Excellent measurements were published by CDF and D0, but the superior detector capabilities of CMS and ATLAS allows for even better measurements. Fiducial cross sections are relatively free from theoretical uncertainties and can be used to constrain the parton distribution functions (PDFs), which are of central importance for nearly all measurements done at a hadron collider. In fact, ATLAS published an interesting constraint on the strange-quark density on the basis of inclusive cross section measurements. I'll return to this result in a future post.
The first results were published back in 2010 and then updated in 2011 and 2012, based on 7 TeV data. Since W and Z bosons are produced copiously at the LHC, very small statistical uncertainties can be achieved with a rather small amount of integrated luminosity. (We have tens of millions of Z bosons detected in leptonic decay channels, for example, far more than the LEP experiments recorded. And we have roughly ten times the number of W bosons.) Remarkably, experimental systematic uncertainties are reduced to the 1% – 1.5% level, which is amazing considering the need to control lepton efficiencies and background estimates. (I am setting aside the luminosity uncertainty, which was about 3% – 4% for the early data.) The measurements done with only 35 pb-1 are nearly as precise as the theoretical predictions, whose errors are dominated by the PDF uncertainties. We knew, back in 2011, that a new era of electroweak physics had begun.
Experimenters know the power of ratios. We can often remove a systematic uncertainty by normalizing a measured quantity judiciously. For example, PDFs are a major source of uncertainty. These uncertainties are highly correlated, however, in the production of W and Z bosons. So we can extract the ratio (W rate)/(Z rate) with a relatively small error. Even better, we can plot the W cross section against the Z cross section, as ATLAS have done:
The elongated ellipses show that variations of the PDFs affect the W and Z cross sections is nearly the same way. The theoretical predictions are consistent with the data, and tend to lie all together. (The outlier, JR09, is no longer a favored PDF set.)
It is even more interesting to plot the W+ cross section against the W- cross section, because the asymmetry between W+ and W- production relates to the preponderance of up-quarks over down-quarks (don't forget we are colliding two protons). Since the various PDF sets describe the d/u-ratio differently, there is a larger spread in theoretical predictions:
During the 8 TeV running in 2012, the instantaneous luminosity was much higher than in 2010, leading to high pile-up (overlapping interactions) which complicate the analysis. The LHC collaborations took a small amount of data (18 pb-1) in a low pile-up configuration in order to measure the W and Z cross sections at 8 TeV, and CMS have reported preliminary results. They produced ellipses plots similar to what ATLAS published:
You might notice that the CMS ellipse appear larger than the ATLAS ones. This is because the ATLAS results are based on fiducial cross sections – i.e., cross sections for particle produced within the detector acceptance. One has to apply an acceptance correction to convert a fiducial cross section to a total cross section. This acceptance correction is easily obtained from Monte Carlos simulations, but it comes with a systematic uncertainty coming mainly from the PDFs. (If a PDF favors a harder u-quark momentum distribution, then the vector bosons will have a slightly larger momentum component along the beam, and the leptons from the vector boson decay will be missed down the beam pipe more often. Such things matter at the percent level.) Since modern theoretical tools can calculate fiducial cross sections accurately, it is not necessary to apply an acceptance correction in order to compare to theory. Clearly it is wise to make the comparison at the level of fiducial cross sections, though total cross sections are also useful in other contexts. The CMS result is preliminary.
Back when I was electroweak physics co-convener in CMS, I produced a plot summarizing hadron collider measurements of W and Z production. My younger colleagues have updated that plot to include the new 8 TeV measurements:
This plot nicely summarizes the history of these measurements, and suggests that W and Z production processes are well understood.
As I learned a the WNL workshop, the collaborations are learning how to measure these cross section in the high pile-up data. We may see even more precise values, soon.
Resuming blogging: what I learned recently about electroweak physics at the LHC
I regret that I have nearly abandoned this blog. It has been a long time since I tried to point out interesting results in high energy physics. Happily, I was asked to give an hour-long talk about electroweak physics at the LHC, at the workshop hosted by the (TIFR) in Mumbai. I was able to spend many days reviewing the recent publications of the LHC experiments in order to prepare for my talk. On my way back to the US, I realized that I could use my new understanding as the basis for a series of posts. I hope I will manage to keep with it…
Nice, short video on US contributions to CERN Science
I just heard about a youtube video written by Don Lincoln about the role the United States plays in CERN science – specifically, the LHC. You can view it here:
Apparently Ernie Monitz, the new Secretary of Energy, linked this to his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ErnestJMoniz/posts/222609781237091
A really good video "explaining" why the Higgs is important is associated with the one by Don. It comes from MinutePhysics and is fun. Take a look:
Higgs couplings to fermions and massive vector bosons
Let's review the tests of the Higgs couplings to fermions and massive vector bosons completed by CMS and ATLAS.
The Higgs mechanism generates mass terms in the standard model Lagrangian. Electroweak symmetry is broken at the same time that the W and Z bosons get their mass. Fermions masses, on the other hand, are generated via Yukawa terms, and have nothing to do with electroweak symmetry breaking. The Higgs coupling to the electroweak gauge bosons go as MV2/v, while the Higgs coupling to the fermions goes as Mf/v, where v is the Higgs vacuum expectation value (v = 246 GeV).
Could there be a new physics effect that modifies these tree-level couplings? CMS and ATLAS have taken all their Higgs data and performed a fit with two free scale factors: κV for the vector boson couplings and κF for the fermions. The effective couplings for the Higgs boson to gluon pairs and photon pairs are expressed as their standard model loops modified by κV and κF as appropriate.
The CMS result is here. The contours centered on the black cross are the constraints from CMS data, and the yellow diamond is the standard model expected values, that fall within the 1σ CMS curve. While best value for κF is less than the SM value, the best value for κV agrees perfectly with the SM. There is a second local minimum with κF < 0 but that one is not favored by the data. (Source: CMS public Higgs page)
This plot shows contours from ATLAS data including the solution with κF < 0. The best value is marked by the X and the SM value is marked by the blue cross. The ATLAS data agree with the SM for κF and are a bit above the SM for κV. (Source: ATLAS Higgs page)
I have tried to put the two curves on the same grid:
Measurement of the Mass of the Higgs Boson
Let's use the word "Higgs boson" for the new state discovered by ATLAS and CMS. The collider physics community is trying to measure everything they can about this new particle. One of the "easiest" properties to measure is its mass, MH. (One of the more difficult is the CP Nature of the Higgs boson.)
Values for MH were published by both ATLAS (arXiv:1207.7214) and CMS (arXiv:1207.7235) last July:
ATLAS: 126.0 +/- 0.4(stat) +/- 0.4(sys)
CMS : 125.3 +/- 0.4(stat) +/- 0.5(sys)
Although there is a difference in the central values, this difference is not significant even at the level of the statistic uncertainty alone.
CMS have updated their value and shown it at the HCP Symposium in Tokyo last week. Their new value is
CMS new: 125.8 ± 0.4(stat) ± 0.4(sys) GeV.
This measurement is documented in CMS PAS HIG-12-045.
For theorists, the exact value (125? 126?) is generally of little concern, because the real mystery is why MH is not closer to the Planck scale. For good reason they have thought hard about this, inventing several possible explanations why the Higgs mass is near the electroweak scale and not at the Planck scale.
For experimentalists, on the other hand, the data are there to make a precise measurement, so we should do so.
As the reader surely knows by now, signals for the "Higgs boson" have been established in several channels, including di-photons, a pair of Z bosons decaying to four charged leptons (total), a pair of W bosons decaying to two charged leptons and two neutrinos, and possibly some evidence in the b-bbar mode. Of these modes, only the di-photon and the four-lepton modes provide a narrow peak at the putative Higgs boson mass, so the CMS and ATLAS collaborations derive their mass measurements from those channels only.
When the Higgs decays to two photons, two energetic and narrow showers are recorded in the electromagnetic calorimeter ("EM calorimeter"). The EM calorimeters of CMS and ATLAS are especially advanced in design and capability — years ago physicists had the decay mode H→γγ in mind when they designed these two wonderful devices. They are truly state-of-the art.
When the Higgs decays to four leptons, we mean electrons and/or muons, not tau leptons, because the Z boson masses and kinematics can be fully reconstructed for the Z→ee and Z→μμ decay modes. So the four leptons can be four electrons, four muons, or two electrons and two muons. The electron energies are measured primarily by the EM calorimeters, so those measurements are quite good. The muon momenta are measured mainly by the precision Silicon detectors which provide several precise points along the trajectory of the muon through a well-known and very uniform magnetic field. Once again, the ATLAS and CMS spectrometers are exceptionally performant, thanks both to the precision of the points (a few microns each) and the high magnetic fields (2 – 4 Tesla). The decay mode H→4L was a leading consideration in the design of these two spectrometers. (CMS and ATLAS also have very advanced dedicated muon detectors mounted outside the calorimetry, that play the essential role in distinguishing muons from other charged particles. For very high momenta, the muon detectors also contribute to the muon momentum measurement, but for the momenta occurring in H→4L decays, they do not contribute much.) For CMS, the measurement resolution (the estimated error for a single lepton) is about the same for electrons and muons produced in Higgs decays. (At higher momenta, though, electrons are more precise than muons, while at lower energies, muons are more precise. This is why we reconstruct J/ψ decays with muons, while heavy Z' boson decays will show up as narrower peak in the ee channel than in the μμ channel.)
It turns out that the statistical precision on the mass measurement for H→γγ and for H→4L is about the same. This did not have to be the case – the statistical precision depends on the measurements errors, on the size of the signal and on the size and shape of the background. Here is the CMS plot comparing the H→γγ and for H→4L mass measurements.
The green curve shows the H→γγ measurement, and the red curve, H→4L. They plainly are compatible, justifying their combination by CMS; this combination is represented by the black curve.
(You can find this and other plots at the CMS public web site for the combination of CMS Higgs searches.)
There is a subtle point about the combination: should the two channels be given a weight corresponding to the rate expected in the standard model, or should the weight depend on the observed rates? The H→γγ rate is a bit higher than expected, and the H→4L rate is very slightly lower. (It used to be significantly lower, but the signal strength is now quite close to unity.) CMS have produced a two-dimensional plot that allows the normalization of the modes to be free independent of the masses:
Within the present uncertainties, it does not make much difference. (The black curve in the first figure above was computed taking the ratio of rates for H→γγ and H→4L from the standard model, but allowing the normalization of the two together to float.)
The statistical uncertainty is at the level of 0.3% (δM/M), so one has to be careful about systematic uncertainties. Is the absolute photon and electron scale, determined by the EM calorimetry, and the absolute muon scale, determined by the magnetic field, accurate at the level of a fraction of a percent?
Needless to say, much effort was expended in calibrating these absolute energy/momentum scales. The copious production of Z bosons, decaying the electron and muon pairs, provides the key to getting the scale right: the Z mass is known at the 10-4 level, thanks to resonant depolarization techniques applied at LEP. Narrow J/ψ and Υ resonances provide cross checks of the momentum scale. Uniformity of response is achieved with huge sets of isolated and well-measured tracks. There is a real art to this, and decades of experience. One should keep in mind the essential role played by the people who design, care for, and calibrate the detectors, without which no clever analysis would produce results this good.
The details of the way systematic uncertainties are handled when combining H→γγ and H→4L are not yet public. One should take into account the degree of correlation between the two mass peaks coming from possible errors on the EM calorimeter energy scale. This correlation will not be large, however.
CMS derived their total systematic uncertainty by eliminating it and seeing how the total uncertainty shrinks. This corresponds to a narrowing of the black parabola in the first plot. (Technically, the systematic uncertainty is eliminated by fixing the nuisance parameters to their best-fit values, and then scanning in MH.) The difference in quadrature of the full width of the parabola and the narrower width obtained when the systematic uncertainty is eliminated is taken as the systematic uncertainty; this is valid so long as there is no correlation between the statistical and systematic uncertainties, and as long as the minimum of the parabola stays basically in the same place. Here is a comparison of the parabola with and without the systematic uncertainty:
In this manner the CMS Collaboration arrived at their updated and preliminary measurement of the Higgs mass, MH = 125.8 ± 0.4(stat) ± 0.4(sys) GeV. Taken in its entirety, this measurement is precise at the level of 0.5%. One can expect this value to be refined somewhat as the measurement is improved by including more data and perhaps reducing systematic uncertainties.
The CP Nature of the Higgs Boson
We are in the process of ascertaining the properties of the Higgs-like particle discovered by CMS and ATLAS last July 4th. It must be a boson because it decays to pairs of bosons. Since it decays to a pair of massless photons, it cannot be spin-1. The relative rates of decays to WW and ZZ on the one hand, and γγ on the other, are close to what is expected for spin-0 boson and not what is expected for a spin-2 graviton. John Ellis, Veronica Sanz and Tevong You wrote a nice paper about this earlier this week (arXiv:1211.3068, 13-Nov).
So let's assume that the new particle X(126) is a Higgs boson (and I will use the symbol "H" for it). If it is the standard model Higgs boson, then its CP eigenvalue must be +1. If it is a member of a two-Higgs-doublet model, then its CP eigenvalue might be -1, and if there is CP-violation in the Higgs sector, then its CP eigenvalue would be something other than +1 or -1.
The new news about this comes from the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium that just finished in Tokyo last week. The CMS Collaboration presented results that indicate that CP = -1 is the wrong hypothesis for the H. They used the golden channel H→ZZ→4L, where the four leptons are electrons and muons. The H state is completely reconstructed in this channel, and backgrounds are low. The Z bosons themselves are massive spin-1 particles, which means that they can be transversely and/or longitudinally polarized, so that one can talk about the degree of their polarization. They are produced coherently in the decay of the H, so their quantum mechanical states are entangled and their joint quantum mechanical state reflects the properties of the parent particle, H. Their quantum mechanical state is manifested in the angular distributions of the four leptons, especially taken as pairs — two for the first boson Z1 and two for the second bosons Z2. So a study of the angular distributions tells us, on a statistical basis, whether the parent particle H is spin-0 or spin-2, and what its CP eigenvalue is. This physics as been studied by many authors, some of whom work on the CMS analysis discussed here, and who published their ideas two years ago (Gao et al., InSpire link). Many theorists have discussed similar material, for example arXiv:1108.2274.
Checking the hypotheses spin-0 and spin-2 is not fruitful at this time, and anyway we have reasons to believe that is has spin-0. So assuming that it does have spin-0, we can check the hypotheses CP-even and CP-off.
With four leptons in the final state, several angular distributions are available. Here is a diagram from Gao et al. labeling the main ones in the H center-of-mass frame:
There is the polar angle θ* the two Z bosons make with the beam axis. There are the two polar angles θ1 and θ2 that the lepton pairs make in the rest frames of the two Z bosons. Finally, there is a relative azimuthal angle Φ that the two Z decay planes make with each other.
The most striking differentiation between CP-even and CP-odd comes from the polar angles θ1 and θ2 and the azimuthal angle Φ. Here are the ideal distributions:
The CP-even case is shown by the solid red dots and the CP-off case by the open blue dots — the distributions are plainly different.
The event sample available to CMS at present is not large enough to make a determination of the CP eigenvalue by simply plotting one of these distributions. Instead, the CMS physicists built a probability density function for the two hypotheses based on the measured decay angles. This gives them the highest achievable statistical power (i.e., ability to distinguish two hypotheses CP-even vs. CP-odd) for the observables that they measure. An abstract-like summary is available on a CMS web page and also in the public document CMS PAS HIG-12-041.
The authors take the SM expectation as the null hypothesis and the alternative is the CP-odd hypothesis. The test statistic is D = [1 + P(CP-odd)/P(CP-even)]-1, where P is the probability density calculated from the lepton angles and the two Z masses. There are three terms in the theoretical expression for P, one of which is small for both hypotheses and neglected, and the other two that dominate; which one dominating depends on which CP eigenvalue is assumed. The method takes account of the correlations among all measured quantities — indeed this is the point of the method and the reason why it is more effective than simply projecting out the angular variables.
The distribution of the discriminating variable shows some a priori power of discrimination:
The discrimination is not dramatic, but it is not negligible either. The few data entries do land more to the right of the plot than to the left, favoring the CP-even hypothesis.
The hypothesis test boils down to one number, namely, the log of the ratio of likelihoods. The distribution of this variable is typically Gaussian, and the two hypotheses show up as Gaussians with different means and more or less the same width. The power of the test amounts to the separation of the two peaks (which depends on the separation of the means and the narrowness of the peaks); for a powerful test there is very little overlap between them. The power of the test depends on the number of events, so the authors made the plot for the number of events observed:
The magenta peak on the right represents the CP-even hypothesis (as expected in the SM), and the blue peak on the left represents the CP-odd hypothesis. The two peaks do overlap, so there are some values for this quantity for which a conclusion would be difficult or impossible. As it turns out, the value from the CMS data lands a bit to the right — see the position of the green arrow. If the H particle truly has CP-odd, then the probability to observe the value indicated by the green arrow is low, about 2.4%. In this sense, the CMS analysis disfavors the CP-odd hypothesis at the 2.5σ level. It is completely compatible with the CP-even hypothesis.
So the conclusion is that the new particle is probably CP-even, as expected in the SM.
While this indication is fairly strong and extremely important, 2.5σ can be a fluctuation. We have seen larger fluctuations in other places in the grand landscape of Higgs searches. We will have to see whether ATLAS can perform this analysis and what their data will indicate. Furthermore, the possibility of CP-violation is completely set aside in this analysis, since only two hypotheses are tested – one cannot do better with the present data sample. At some point physicists will define an angle in CP space that quantifies the deviation from the CP-even hypothesis, and experimenters will start to constrain or measure that angle.
Note: Tommaso Dorigo wrote about this briefly, last Wednesday.
Update (21-Nov): The witty author of one of my favorite blogs, In the Dark, wrote yesterday about interesting new CP-violation results in the B system (link: Time will say nothing but I told you so…) and provided a very nice, succinct description of what C, P and CP violation means. Take a read!


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Why do guys wake up with an erection?
And will it ease by itself, or must they bring themselves to orgasm every morning?
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Well its not from sexual arousal, although a lot of guys use it as an excuse to masturbate. Its kinda like how your nipples get hard when you get REALLY cold, there's usually nothing sexual, just your body doing what it needs to do. But its usually a combination of things. The average guy has eight hard, full-on erections every night. Its just our bodies keeping everything in check. -especially when he's in adolescence with insanely raging hormones-.Aside from that it could be caused by the way an erection puts pressure on the tube going from your bladder, out your body. (urethra) If a guys bladder is full and he's in a deep state of sleep its kinda like a fail safe to make sure he doesn't wet the bed.
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We don't know why we get them, they can ease by themself but most blokes would prefer to masturbate to get rid of it
increased blood flow from the relaxation of the deepest level of sleep and it just goes away just like a regular boner lol
It's due to increased levels of testosterone which occur right before your sleep cycle ends. And it goes away just like any other boner.
I thought it was due to the relaxation of your body once you enter REM sleep, allowing blood to flow more easily and into the penis?
Yeah, but the testosterone makes it stay there. I'm pretty sure that's what we learned in frosh health. It's been a while.
brando is right it come from tthe relaxation of a very deep sleep and all your blood is on the move like there's no tomorrow
I usual get one straight after I wake up... hormones are running pretty high in the mornings..
Cause your body is in a fully relaxed state. It can go away pretty easily but I learned to never waste a boner
We get erections while we sleep so that the penis gets plenty of blood and it keeps everything working. Older guys rarely get erections during the day unless they get some direct sexual stimulation or are watching p*rn so it is necessary for the body to have erections at night. If a guy ignores the erection when he wakes up it goes away in a minute or two.
Hahaha, never heard of morning wood? Yeah, we wake up with boners all the time. It usually just goes away by itself, but if I don't have anywhere to be that day I usually just take care of it right then and there, lol.


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