<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"><head></head><body vlink="purple" link="blue" lang="EN-US"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear CLAS Collaboration,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Attached is a PDF file with a draft of a comment on the paper that was circulated by M. Amaryan et al., see the preprint at:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.3325">http://arXiv.org/abs/1110.3325</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">For some history, this is the pentaquark analysis presented earlier this year at a CLAS Collaboration meeting, where a vote <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">was taken about whether to approve this as a CLAS paper. (The vote failed.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">At present, the attached paper is signed by the CLAS Coordinating committee members, plus Elton Smith (chair of the analysis <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">review committee for the Amaryan et al. analysis). The intent is to publish the comment paper on the arXiv website.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If you would like to join this paper as a co-author, please send email directly to me (<a href="mailto:hicks@jlab.org">hicks@jlab.org</a>). (Do NOT reply to this <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">email unless you have a comment to go to the collaboration as a whole.) If you want to suggest revisions to this paper, <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">send your comments to <a href="mailto:hicks@jlab.org">hicks@jlab.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The deadline to join the paper is Friday, October 28.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ken Hicks<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>