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President Barack Obama's decision to begin arming Syria's rebels deepens U.S. involvement in a regional proxy war that is increasingly being fought along sectarian lines, pitting Sunni against Shiite Muslims, and threatening the stability of Syria's neighbors.
Arming the rebels is bound to heighten U.S. tensions with Russia, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad. It could further escalate a brutal, if deadlocked, civil war that has killed nearly 93,000 people and displaced millions, with no end in sight. There are fears that Assad's stockpile of chemical weapons, believed to be one of the world's largest, could fall into the hands of Islamic extremist groups or that he might unleash them if he feels cornered.
Obama's decision marks a turning point for the U.S., which up to now had avoided getting drawn into the conflict militarily. A key U.S. concern had been that U.S.-supplied weapons could fall into the hands of al-Qaida-linked militants fighting alongside the rebels.
However, U.S. credibility was on the line after the White House said Thursday that it has conclusive evidence that Assad used chemical weapons against rebel fighters. Obama has said in the past such use would cross a red line, suggesting greater U.S. intervention.
Washington's decision comes at a time of several military setbacks for the rebels and the growing involvement of Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, which is fighting alongside the regime. Hezbollah's role was key in the capture of the strategic rebel-held town of Qusair earlier this month.
The full scope of the assistance authorized by the White House is still unclear. But the administration could give the rebels a range of weapons, including small arms, assault rifles, shoulder-fired rocket-propelled grenades and other anti-tank missiles. Rebel commanders say they need anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to counter the regime's superior firepower, delivered from warplanes and armored vehicles. But Obama's opposition to sending American troops into Syria and concern about high-powered weapons ending up in the hands of terrorist groups makes it less likely the U.S. will provide sophisticated arms that would require large-scale training.
The regional context for the Syria conflict is the struggle for influence between Shiite Iran on the one hand and major Sunni power Saudi Arabia on the other, backed by smaller Gulf Arab states, such as Qatar, and non-Arab Turkey.
Assad is part of the Iranian camp, along with Hezbollah. At home, he draws his support largely from Syria's minorities, including fellow Alawites, followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam, as well as Christians and Shiites. His other foreign backers include Russia and China.
Most rebels are Sunnis. The West, including the U.S., has so far backed the political opposition and provided humanitarian and non-lethal support to the rebels.
Hit by defections, regime forces have been stretched thin, a key reason why Assad lost control over large stretches of northern and eastern Syria early in the fighting. However, he has been able to hang on to the capital, Damascus, and other cities, especially in the heavily populated west of the country. Building on the successful capture of Qusair, Hezbollah-backed regime fighters have scored a number of military successes in recent weeks. Pro-Assad troops are now trying to dislodge rebels from the cities of Homs and Aleppo, Syria's largest. The rebels hope the U.S. weapons will give them new momentum.
Neither side has been able to deliver a decisive blow since the uprising against Assad began in March 2011 and escalated into a civil war. Fighting could drag on for months or years.
With Russia and Iran standing by Assad, he seems poised to cling to power for now, even if unable to retake all of Syria. Some predict an eventual division of Syria into regime- and rebel-held areas, with conflict simmering for years.
A fall of the regime, a prospect that appears distant at the moment, would not ensure an end to the fighting. Assad's die-hard supporters might not lay down arms and the rebels are divided between Western-backed moderates, fundamentalist Salafis and al-Qaida loyalists who could battle for control after a collapse of the regime.
Still, a defeat of the regime could curb Iran's influence in the Arab world, weaken Hezbollah in Lebanon and strengthen minority Sunnis in Shiite-dominated Lebanon and Iraq. In one reconfiguration of regional alliances, the Palestinian militant group Hamas last year broke away from Iran's camp over Assad's crackdown on the rebels, fellow Sunnis.
The Syria conflict is whipping up sectarian fervor. Sunni-Shiite tensions in the region have risen sharply, particularly since Hezbollah raised its profile by fighting in Qusair. Sunni hard-liners view Hezbollah's intervention as a declaration of war by Shiites against Sunnis, and have called on Sunnis to fight in Syria. This could increase the flow of foreign militants into Syria. Already several thousand foreign militants are believed to be fighting among the rebels.
Russia has been a major weapons supplier to the Syrian regime. Russia said repeatedly it would honor its contracts to deliver advanced missiles to Syria, including S-300 air defense systems, ignoring appeals by the West to halt shipments.
Russian officials played down the threat of an arms race Friday. Asked if Russia could retaliate for the U.S. decision to arm the rebels by sending the S-300s, President Vladimir Putin's foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said the two sides aren't competing in Syria.
The rebels, meanwhile, could obtain weapons from other Western sources. Last month, the European Union decided to let its arms embargo against Syria lapse, enabling individual members to arm the rebels. Britain and France had pushed for the measure, though they said at the time such shipments were not imminent.
The regime's chemical weapons stockpiles are a major wild card in the conflict.
The Obama administration says the regime carried out multiple small-scale attacks with such weapons, killing up to 150 people. The findings announced Thursday were aided by evidence sent to the United States by France, which, along with Britain, has said it had determined that Assad's government used chemical weapons.
Experts say Assad might have been trying to terrorize rebels and civilians, while not causing mass casualties that would trigger greater Western military involvement.
The regime is believed to be in control of its stockpiles for now. Israel has said it would strike to prevent chemical weapons from reaching Hezbollah which has fought with Israel in the past.
The fighting repeatedly has spilled into neighboring Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, raising fears of a regional conflagration.
Lebanon, still scarred by its own 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, is increasingly on edge. Hezbollah's involvement in Syria has prompted retaliatory rocket fire by Syrian rebels on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes have struck three times at suspected Hezbollah-bound weapons shipments in Syria, and Israeli officials threatened more strikes in the event of future arms deliveries. Assad did not retaliate up to now, but said he would deliver a strategic blow if the Israelis attack again.
The conflict already has fueled a spike in sectarian warfare in Iraq as the Shiite-led government struggles to contain its worst eruption of violence in years amid a wave of Sunni unrest. Syrians have been killed in Iraq and combat-hardened Iraqi fighters have been crisscrossing the frontier.
Turkey has repeatedly struck back at the Syrian military in response to shelling and mortar rounds that landed on its territory. NATO has sent anti-aircraft batteries to Turkey's border area with Syria. In May, two car bombs blamed on Syria killed more than 50 people in a Turkish border town.
Associated Press writers Adam Schreck in Baghdad and Aron Heller in Jerusalem contributed.


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I've already looked at the empty night skies,
At least a 100 times by now…
O Dear moon mine,
Where are you still lost?
Are you hiding behind the clouds,
Or just off-schedule, I wonder!
Come soon, O beloved moon mine,
I have been missing you, more than you know…
– Himali
Today, Indians worldwide celebrate the festival of Karva Chauth – where females fast the entire day without food or water for the health, happiness, long life and well being of their spouse/future husband. The fast is broken in the evening after prayers and sighting of the moon.
I had also observed a fast today for my Mr. Future Husband (I know it may sound overly silly, but isn't life all about listening to your heart? 😉 ). In the evening, although it had turned dark since 6 PM, the moon was sighted only by 9:15 PM. At around 6:30 I decided I needed to head out for a walk and took a long extended walk by the sea, went to the temple, prayed, grabbed some 'kheer' served as prashad, walked a bit more by the sea, went for my meditation class and walked back home; all of it while trying to spot the moon every 10 seconds 😛 Finally, after I came home by 9 the moon was sighted and I said my prayers for the health, happiness, and wellbeing of Mr. Future Husband and also so that he can find his way to me soon and I get to recognize him 🙂
This reminds me of one of my most favorite posts – Jode Rehjo Raaj. I don't seek to find the perfect love. I seek to be the perfect love for my soul-mate.
….and while every one would be wondering how lucky the girl is to have such a loving and supportive husband, I wish I do things like what the husband did for his wife, for my future spouse and fill his life with love and light ❤
All of us deserve love that loves us for our goodness, is proud of us, makes us a better version of our own selves and is happy for our success.

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Ah, spring…
It's getting closer by the minute. Yesterday I noticed a tree on my street, which doesn't usually bloom until April, already has flowers on its branches, and this morning on the Today Show the hosts were saying that much of the country has been having an unseasonably warm winter.
But it's not all good. They say it's confusing some crops and bird migrations.
I think it's also confusing my sense of smell. This winter, I've been reaching for the heavier perfumes I tend to wear this time of year less often than usual, and opting for lighter, fresher fragrances like the new Burberry Body Mist ($50) more often instead.
I almost wore out the original Burberry Body last fall, and I like this new, limited edition spin on the scent just as much.
It seems more dainty and delicate than its sibling, yet still retains the rosy, feminine feel that made the original Burberry Body a hit with me.
Burberry Body Mist
"Dive into a sensation of green freshness with the fruity accents of peach and the sensuality of freesia. This fragrance blooms with light floral notes of rose petals and iris, gently combined with the captivating signature of sandalwood. The cashmeran base blends with soothing vanilla, amber, and musk to reveal the unique character of this seductive woman. A new way to experience Burberry Body, this mist is formulated without alcohol and can be used all over the body and hair." – Sephora.com
- Top notes: fresh green absinthe, peach and freesia
- Middle notes: Rose absolute, iris and sandalwood
- Base notes: wood cashmere, creamy vanilla, amber and musk
It reminds me of a lighter version of Lancome's rosy Tresor, but with stronger notes of iris and freesia, and I think it's just so girly and sweet that it compels me to don a pink dress, pearls and heels.
For a body mist, the scent also lasts a surprisingly long time. I can still detect a single spritz on my wrist six hours later.
It's also human male approved. 🙂 Yesterday I sprayed some in my 'do, and when El Hub and I hugged when he got home from work, he so eloquently said, "You smell good."
I doubt that Tabs, the other male in my life, appreciates the scent as much as he should, but since he does have a taste for the finer things, you never know. I'll ask him the next time he's making biscuits on my tum.
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Better Valentine's Day gift for a dude: electronics or zombies?
Those are two of El Hub's favorite things, but neither one makes an ideal gift for Valentine's Day.
Hmm… I go through this every year. After 10 years together, you'd think it would be easier than this.
What do you think? What's a good Valentine's Day gift for a dude?
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It's clear that DK's scheme won't work - nor will any scheme that is based on unitary linear orthodox quantum theory using orthogonal base states.
However, concerning Valentini's, Josephson, Weinberg, Stapp & my different & independent from from DK's approaches: while the trace operation to get expectation values of observables on quantum density matrices is invariant under unitary transformations of the base states which preserve orthogonality, that is not true for the transformation from an orthogonal Fock basis to the non-orthogonal Glauber coherent state basis, which is clearly a non-unitary transformation that is OUTSIDE the domain of validity of orthodox quantum theory. I think many Pundits have missed this point?Hawking's former assistant Bernard Carr spells this out clearly in Can Psychical Research Bridge the Gulf Between Matter and Mind?" Bernard Carr Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol 59 Part 221 June 2008Begin forwarded message:From: nick herbert <email@example.com>Subject: Re: AW: AW: More on the |0>|0> termDate: June 14, 2013 11:14:57 AM PDTTo: Suda Martin <firstname.lastname@example.com>Thank you, Martin.I finally get it.My confusion lay in the attribution of the short calculation below.I thought this calculation (which leads to rA) was due to Gerry.Instead it is a calculation done by Gerry but attributed to DK.It was not a calculation that DK ever carried out butarose from Gerry taking Gerry's FULL CALCULATION,applying the Kalamidas approximationand getting an incorrect result.The correct result is Zeroon which you and Gerry agree.So if Kalamidas would have carried out the calculation this wayhe would have gotten an incorrect answer.I hope I have now understood the situation correctly.But Kalamidas did not carry out the calculation that Gerry displays.DK did not start out with the FULL CALCULATION and then approximate.DK starts with an approximation and then calculates.DK starts with an approximation and carries out a series of steps which all seem to be validbut whose conclusion is preposterous. Furthermore the approximation (weak coherent states)is an approximation used in dozens of laboratories by serious quantum opticians withoutas far as I am aware leading to preposterous or impossible conclusions.Therefore it seems to me that the calculation below is another nail in the Kalamidas coffin, BUTTHE BEAST IS STILL ALIVE.1. No one yet has started with Kalamidas's (approximate) assumptions, and discovered a mistake in his chain of logic.2. No one yet has started with Kalamidas's (approximate) assumptions, followed a correct chain of logic and shown that FTL signaling does not happen.Martin Suda came the closest to carrying out problem #2. He started with the Kalamidas (approximation) assumptions and decisively proved that all FTL terms are zero. But Martin's proof contains an unphysical |0>|0> term that mars his triumph.I am certain that the Kalamidas claim is wrong. The FULL CALCULATION refutations of Ghirardi, Howell and Gerry are pretty substantial coffin nails. But unless I am blind there seems still something missing from a clean and definitive refutation of the Kalamidas claim. See problems #1 and #2 above.I do not think that Nick is being stubborn or petty in continuing to bring these problems to your attentions. I should think it would be a matter of professional pride to be able to bring this matter to a clean and unambiguous conclusion by refuting Kalamidas on his own terms.Thank you all for participating in this adventure whatever your opinions.Nick HerbertOn Jun 14, 2013, at 3:29 AM, Suda Martin wrote:Nick,Thank you for comments!I would still like to explain my short considerations below a bit more precisely, anyway. I feel there was perhaps something unclear as regards my email (12th June), because you wrote "you were confused".I only considered the following:DK disclosed a calculation (see attachment) which is completely wrong because he made a mathematical limit (see first line, where he omitted the term ra^{+}_{a3}) which is absolutely not justifiable here (just as CG mentioned, see below) because both parts are equally important if you make the expectation value properly. If you take both parts you get exactly zero: alpha^{*}(tr^{*}+rt^{*})=0.So one does not obtain a quantity like (r alpha)^{*}.That's all. There is absolutely no discrepancy between me and CG.Nice regards,Martin-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----Von: nick herbert [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2013 23:33Betreff: Re: AW: More on the |0>|0> term"And again, the notion that an alleged approximate calculation (I say "alleged" because as with everything else there are correct and incorrect approximate calculations) based on a weak signal coherent state somehow trumps an exact computation valid for any value of the coherent state parameter, is, well, just insane. If you want to see where things go wrong just take more terms in the series expansions. Add up enough terms and, viola, no effect! One can't get much more specific than that." --Christopher GerryActually, Chris, one can get much more specific than that by explicitly displaying the Correct Approximation Scheme (CAS) and showing term by term than Alice's interference vanishes (to the proper order of approximation).Absent a correct CAS and its refutation these general claims are little more than handwaving.Produce a CAS.Refute it.Is anyone up to this new Kalamidas challenge?Or does everyone on this list except meconsider deriving a CAS a waste of time?Nick HerbertOn Jun 12, 2013, at 2:03 PM, CHRISTOPHER GERRY wrote:We are both right: the two terms cancel each other out! That thewhole expectation value is zero is actually exactly what's in ourpaper's Eq. 9. This happens because the reciprocity relations musthold. That Kalamidas thought (or maybe even still thinks) hiscalculation is correct, is at the heart of the matter, that is, thathe is either unable to do the calculations or that he can do them butchooses not too because they don't get him where he wants to go.The Kalamidas scheme will not work not work on the basis of generalprinciples as we showed in the first part of our paper (see alsoGhirardi's paper).And again, the notion that an alleged approximate calculation (I say"alleged" because as with everything else there are correct andincorrect approximate calculations) based on a weak signal coherentstate somehow trumps an exact computation valid for any value of thecoherent state parameter, is, well, just insane. If you want to seewhere things go wrong just take more terms in the series expansions.Add up enough terms and, viola, no effect! One can't get much morespecific than that.Christopher C. GerryProfessor of PhysicsLehman CollegeThe City University of New firstname.lastname@example.com---- Original message ----Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:28:16 -0700From: nick herbert <firstname.lastname@example.com>Subject: Re: AW: More on the |0>|0> termTo: Suda Martin
All--Excuse me for being confused.Gerry refutes Kalamidas by showing that an omitted term is large.Suda refutes Kalamidas by showing that the same term is identicallyzero.What am I missing here?I wish to say that I accept the general proofs. Kalamidas's schemewill not work as claimed.That is the bottom line. So if the general proofs say FTL will failfor full calculation, then it will certainly fail for approximations.The "weak coherent state" is a common approximation made in quantumoptics. And dozens of experiments have been correctly described usingthis approximation. So it should be a simple matter to show if oneuses Kalamidas's approximation, that FTL terms vanish to theappropriate level of approximation. If this did not happen we wouldnot be able to trust the results of approximation schemes notinvolving FTL claims.Gerry's criticism is that Kalamidas's scheme is simply WRONG--that hehas thrown away terms DK regards as small.But in fact they are large. Therefore the scheme is flawed from theoutset.If Gerry is correct, then it seems appropriate to ask: Is there aCORRECT WAY of formulating the Kalamidas scheme using the "weakcoherent state" approximation, where it can be explicitly shown thatthis correct scheme utterly fails?It seems to me that there are still some loose ends in this Kalamidasaffair, if not a thorn in the side, at least an unscratched itch.It seems to me that closure might be obtained. And the Kalamidasaffair properly put to rest if everyone can agree that 1. DK hasimproperly treated his approximations; 2. Using the CORRECTAPPROXIMATION SCHEME, the scheme abjectly fails just as the exactcalculation says it must.Why should it be so difficult to construct a correct description ofthe Kalamidas proposal, with CORRECT APPROXIMATIONS, and show that itfails to work as claimed?AS seen from the Ghirardi review, there are really not that manyserious FTL proposals in existence. And each one teaches ussomething-- mostly about some simple mistakes one should not make when thinkingabout quantum systems. Since these proposals are so few, it is reallynot a waste of time to consider them in great detail, so we can learnto avoid the mistakes that sloppy thinking about QM brings about.When Ghirardi considers the Kalamidas scheme in his review, I wouldconsider it less than adequate if he did not include the followinginformation:1. Kalamidas's scheme is WRONG because he treats approximationsincorrectly.2. When we treat the approximations correctly, the scheme fails, justas the general proofs say it must.Gerry has provided the first part of this information. What isseriously lacking here is some smart person providing the secondpart.Nick HerbertOn Jun 12, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Suda Martin wrote:Dear all,Yes, if one calculates precisely the Kalamidas - expression given inthe attachment of the email of CG one obtains exactlyalpha^{*}(tr^{*}+rt^{*})=0due to the Stokes-relation of beam splitters. No approximations arenecessary. So, I am astonished about the sloppy calculations ofDemetrios.Cheers,Martin________________________________________Von: CHRISTOPHER GERRY [firstname.lastname@example.com]Betreff: Re: More on the |0>|0> termI probably shouldn't jump in on this again, but...I can assure you that there's no thorn in the side of the quantumoptics community concerning the scheme of Kalamidas. There are onlypeople doing bad calculations. Despite claims to the contrary, ourpaper, as with Ghirardi's, does specifically deal with the Kalamidasproposal. It is quite clearly the case that EXACT calculations inthe Kalamidas proposal shows that the claimed effect disappears. Tosuggest that it's there in the approximate result obtained by seriesexpansion, and therefore must be a real effect, is simplypreposterous. All it means is that the approximation is wrong; inthis case being due to the dropping important terms.The whole business about the |00> and whatever (the beam splittertransformations and all that) is not the issue. I'm astonished athow the debate on this continues. The real problem, and I cannotemphasize it enough, is this: Kalamidas cannot do quantum opticalcalculations, even simple ones and therefore nothing he does shouldbe taken seriously. As I've said before, his calculation of our Eq.(9), which I have attached here, is embarrassingly wrong. It'sobvious from the expression of the expectation value in the upperleft that there has to be two terms in the result both containingthe product of r and t. But Kalamidas throws away one of the termswhich is of the same order of magnitude as the one he retains. Ormaybe he thinks that term is zero via the quantum mechanicalcalculation of its expectation value, which it most certainly isnot. His limits have been taken inconsistently. So, he not onlydoes not know how to do the quantum mechanical calculations, hedoesn't even know how or when the limits should be taken. There'sabsolutely no point in debating the meaning of the results incorrectcalculations. Of course, by incorrectly doing these things he getsthe result he wants, and then thinks it's the duty of those of uswho can do these calculations to spend time showing him why hiscalculations are wrong, which he then dismisses anyway.My point in again bringing this specific calculation of his is notto say anything about his proposal per se, but to demonstrate theabject incompetence of Kalamidas in trying to do even the mostelementary calculations. And if anyone still wonders why I'm angryabout the whole affair, well, what should I feel if some guy unableto do simple calculations tries to tell established quantum opticsresearchers, like me and Mark Hillery, that our paper showing wherehe's wrong dismisses ours as being "irrelevant?" He doesn't evenseem to know that what he said was an insult.And finally, the continued claim that the specific proposal ofKalamidas has not been addressed must simply stop. It has beenrepeatedly. I suspect this claim is being made because people don'tlike the results of the correct calculations. That's not the problemof those of us can carry through quantum optical calculations.CGChristopher C. GerryProfessor of PhysicsLehman CollegeThe City University of New firstname.lastname@example.com---- Original message ----Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:12:19 -0700From: nick herbert <email@example.com>Subject: Re: More on the |0>|0> termTo: "Demetrios Kalamidas" <email@example.com>yer right, demetrios--the |00> term on the right is always accompanied in Suda'scalculation by a real photon on the left.But this is entirely non-physical.No real or virtual quantum event corresponds to this term.Especially with the high amplitude required forSuda-interference-destruction.So your specific approximate FTL scheme despite many generalrefutations still remains a puzzlement.A thorn in the sideof the quantum optics community.if any think otherwiselet them put on the tableone unambiguous refutationOF YOUR SPECIFIC PROPOSAL--not of their ownnor of somebody else'stotally different FTL signaling scheme,NickOn Jun 11, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Demetrios Kalamidas wrote:Nick, The EP and CSs do derive from the same laser pulse: part of thepulse pumps the nonlinear crystal and the other part is split offaccordingly to create the CSs. However, you are still misssing the point: If no EP pair iscreated, then you will certainly get '00' on the rightsometimes.... BUT there will be no left photon in existence. Theproblem with the Suda term is that when it appears, it appearsonly accompanied by a left photon in a superposition state: ie italways appears as (10+e01)(00+11). Think of it this way: Suppose you just have an EP source thatcreates pairs, with one photon going left and the other right.Imagine that on the right there is a highly trasnparent BS withsay|r|^2=0.001. That means that only one out of every thousand rightphotons from the EP are reflected, and 999 are transmitted. So,this means that for every 1000 counts ON THE LEFT, there will be999 counts tranmitted on the right. Now introduce, at the otherinput of that same BS, a CS so that it has a tiny reflectedportion of amplitude |ralpha>. Allegedly then, there will arisecases where no photon is found in the transmitted channel withprobability equal to |ralpha|^2. Since alpha is arbitrary, we canchoose |ralpha|=0.1. This means that the probabilty of getting nophoton inthe transmitted channel will be |ralpha|^2=0.01.....Which nowmeans that, for every 1000 EP pairs created, we will get 1000counts on the left, but only 900 counts in the transmitted channelon the right! Whereas, without the CS in the other channel, therewould be999 counts on the right for that same 1000 counts on the left.DemetriosOn Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:44:42 -0700nick herbert <email@example.com> wrote:Demetrios--I don't know how the entangled pair (EP) and CSs are generated.I supposed all three are created with a single PULSE in a non-linear crystal.Now one can imagine that this pulse fails to create an EP butdoes create a CSThen some of Bob's detectors will fire but no ES is formed.So this kind of process could lead to lots of |0>|0> terms.However what we need are not "lots of |0>|0> terms" but a preciseamplitude (rA) of |0>|0> term.Given our freedom (in the thought experiment world) toarbitrarily selectthe efficiency of the non-linear crystal, it is hard to see whythe elusive |0>|0>term would have exactly the right magnitude and phase to cancelout the interference.Your original FTL scheme still continues to puzzle me.NickOn Jun 11, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Demetrios Kalamidas wrote:Nick, The 'entire experimental arrangement' is indeed where theproblem (mystery) arises: When both CSs are generated it is easy to understand that '00'will arise, simply because each CS has a non-zero vacuum term. However, the entire arrangement means inclusion of theentangled photon pair: Any time that pair is generated, you are guaranteed to get aphoton on the right, regardless of whether the CSs are there. So, when entangled pair and CSs are present, there must be atleast one photon at the right. In fact, when only one photonemerges at the right WE KNOW both CSs were empty.On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:34:30 -0700nick herbert <email@example.com> wrote:Demetrios--Sarfatti sent around a nice review of quantum opticsby Ulf Leonhardt that discusses the structure of path-uncertainphotons.Here is an excerpt:The interference experiments with single photons mentioned inSec. 4.3 have beenperformed with photon pairs generated in spontaneousparametric downconversion[127]. Here the quantum state (6.28) of light is essentially|01> |02> + ζ |11>|12 >. (6.29)In such experiments only those experimental runs count wherephotons are counted,the time when the detectors are not firing is ignored, whichreduces the quantumstate to the photon pair|11> |12> .Postselection disentangles the two-mode squeezedvacuum.We argued in Sec. 4.3 that the interference of the photon pair|11> |12> at a 50:50 beam splitter generates the entangledstate (4.24). Without postselection,however, this state is the disentangled product of two single-mode squeezed vacua,as we see from the factorization (6.6) of the S matrix. Thenotion of entanglementis to some extent relative.this excerpt suggests a possible origin for Suda's |0>|0> term.In the above process, it's justthe inefficiency of the down converter that generates a |0>|0>term. That won't do the trick.But in your more complicated situation--containing two properlytimed coherent states--when Bohr's "entire experimental arrangement" is considered,the| 0>| 0> term mayarise naturally with the proper amplitude and phase. It wouldcorrespond to events whenthe coherent states were successfully generated but there wereno events in either upper or lower path.If this conjecture can be shown to hold true, then theoriginal Kalamidas proposal wouldbe refuted by Suda's calculation.The trick would be to examine--in a thought experiment way--exactly how those two |A> beamsare created--looking for entanglement with |0>|0> states inthe part of the experiment considered in your proposal.Nickref: Ulf Leonhardt's wonderful review of quantum optics,starting with reflections from a window pane and concludingwithHawking radiation.
OK, here is a simple case - not same as Kalamidas mind you - that seems to be outside the rules of orthodox quantum theory.Alice the receiver has an ordinary orthodox quantum bit with base states |0> & |1> for a given orientation of her apparatus which never changes in the experiment. Bob the sender has two distinguishable non-orthogonal Glauber coherent eigenstates |z> and |w> of the non-Hermitian observable boson destruction operator a, where z and w are complex numbers. Right at this point we have violated one of the axioms of orthodox quantum theory in a factual way since Glauber states are facts.Suppose we have the entangled state|A,B> = (1/2)^1/2[|0>|z> + |1>|w>]then using the orthodox Born probability rule in density matrix formulation givesp(0) = p(1) = (1/2)[1 + |<z|w>|^2]p(0) + p(1) = 1 + |<z|w>|^2 > 1the entanglement signal at Alice's receiver is |<z|w>|^2
violating conservation of Born's rule for probability - because the observable is not hermitian and actually a closer examination shows a non-unitary time evolution. This is a larger theory that reduces to orthodox quantum theory in the appropriate limit.notehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_statesNow, we can squirm out of this by a-priori ad-hoc forcing of the non-universal normalization|A,B>' = [1 + |<z|w>|^2]^-1/2|A,B>givingp'(0) = p'(1) = 1/2 with no signaling
Note, that Bob does not need to use that normalization at all because of Alice's <0|1> = 0.That's why I use "non-universal" above.However, it's not clear the Nature works this way without more testing.On Jun 1, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Ghirardi Giancarlo <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:Il giorno 01/giu/2013, alle ore 18:38, JACK SARFATTI <firstname.lastname@example.com> ha scritto:Ghirardi: I do not agree at all on this. The actual situation is that there has never been a clear cut indication that in Kalamidas serf-up something (probabilities, outcomes or whatever you want) actually changes something at left as a consequence of preparing one or the other state at right, so that it can be used to send faster than light signals. It is his duty and not ours to prove that the effect exist. I believe to have argued against its existence and I have also checked that for the most natural observables at left no difference occurs when you choose one or the other of the two initial states. The game is back to Kalamidas. And, sincerely, I am a little bit disturbed by all this enormous mess and many inadequate and unjustified statements that have been put forward during the debate. I am not keen to follow the matter any more.
On Jun 1, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Suda Martin <email@example.com> wrote:Dear all,
thanks to everybody for emails, papers, contributions to discussion and comments. I enjoyed very much the highly interesting dialogues. I can fully agree to the arguments of CG and GG, of course.
Only a comment with respect to the question of the approximation:
As regards the approximation done in the calculation of DK, I would like to point out again - and I sent a pdf called Interf_BS_50_50_Suda.pdf two days ago - that because of such an approach the normalization of the output wave function behind the 50/50 BS has been changed to (1+2|alpha|^2+|alpha|^4), see Eq.(7), instead of being exactly 1. The probabilities for the potential "interference part" (see Eq.(6)) are (|p_10|^2+|p_01|^2)/4=2|alpha|^2 and the other parts give all together 2(|q_10|^2+|q_01|^2)/4=1+|alpha|^4. One keeps therefore precisely the modified normalization of Eq.(7).
One can clearly see that the "interference part" and the other parts are outcomes from an incorrect normalization.
Nice regards,
Begin forwarded message:From: CHRISTOPHER GERRY <firstname.lastname@example.com>Subject: Re: The Kalamidas affairDate: June 1, 2013 9:46:37 AM PDTTo: nick herbert <email@example.com>Cc: Ghirardi Giancarlo <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Demetrios Kalamidas <email@example.com>, John Howell <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Suda Martin <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Ruth Kastner <email@example.com>, JACK SARFATTI <email@example.com>, "Romano firstname.lastname@example.com [MATH]" <firstname.lastname@example.com>Nick and everyone,The specific failings of the Kalamidas proposal have, in fact, been pointed out in the papers you mentioned and elsewhere. I don't understand why anyone continues to say otherwise. To say that they have not been addressed does not make it so, and comes off merely an act of denial. This has been an interesting episode, but I think it's time to stop beating a dead horse. Chris
On Jun 1, 2013, at 9:13 AM, nick herbert <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:Kalamidas fans--NH: I believe that everyone is in agreement that general considerations prove that the Kalamidas proposal must fail.JS: YesIn both Ghirardi's and Gerry's papers, they emphasize these general considerations and decline to engage in the specifics of Kalamidas's calculations. Whether one wishes to engage the specifics or not is a matter of taste. But Kalamidas is asking us to engage in specifics. As he puts it: Since you know that I am wrong, it should be "easy pickins" topoint out exactly where I am mistaken.Gerry comes closest to meeting Kalamidas's challenge to move out of the safety of generalities and deal with specifics.In the conclusion of Gerry's paper he states "Clearly, if the exact calculation shows no interference, but the approximate calculation does, there is something wrong with the approximate calculation. Looking at Eq 6, one notes that while some terms to order rA have been kept in going from 6a to 6c, the terms labeled "vanishing" in Eq 6b are also of this order and have been discarded. Thus the approximate calculation in {1} is inconsistent and wrong."Gerry engages in specifics. He is meeting Kalamidas on his own terms. But he neglects to specify exactly which terms of order rA Kalamidas has mistakenly labeled as "vanishing". When Gerry displays these wrongly-neglected terms (perhaps in an informal note), he would have definitively "slain the beast in his own lair" and we can all get on with the non-Kalamidas aspects of our lives.JS: Agreed, thanks Nick :-)NickPS: There is still the fascinating Martin Suda Paradox which was discovered in the context of the Kalamidas refutation, but that is a separate issue altogether.JS: What is that Nick? Please give details.Begin forwarded message:From: JACK SARFATTI <firstname.lastname@example.com>Subject: [ExoticPhysics] Fwd: The Kalamidas affairDate: June 1, 2013 7:45:42 AM PDTTo: Exotic Physics <firstname.lastname@example.com>Reply-To: Jack Sarfatti's Workshop in Advanced Physics <email@example.com>Sent from my iPadSubject: Re: The Kalamidas affairyes I agree with thisany attempt at signaling within axioms of orthodox quantum theory will fail e.g. Adrian Kent's papershowever, antony valentini, myself and others (Stapp, Weinberg, Josephson) have all independently proposed several extensions giving a more general non-orthodox post quantum theory containing orthodox quantum theory as a limiting case. In particular, the non-hermitian boson destruction operator is a macroscopic observable with Glauber coherent eigenstates that are non-orthogonal distinguishable violating orthodox quantum theory. Furthermore, they obey a non-unitary dynamics given by the c-number landau-ginzburg equation for spontaneous broken symmetry ground/vacuum state emergent local order parameters. These order parameters entangle with others and also with orthodox qubits, so we have a new larger theory here analogous to general relativity in relation to special relativity.Furthermore, there is no violation with the group structure of relativity because intervals are frame invariant and what matters is the interval between actual irreversible detections. What is violated is the retarded casuality axiom appended to relativity that is adhoc like Euclid's fifth axiom. Again the analogy to non-Euclidean geometry is appropriate.Sent from my iPadOn Jun 1, 2013, at 6:40 AM, CHRISTOPHER GERRY <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:Everyone,I'm in total agreement with Prof. Ghirardi's assessment. The beam splitter transformations are not the essential point here, as even if the are done correctly, the claimed effect goes away. We addressed the beam splitter issue in our comment to demonstrate that sloppy calculations in general are contained in the Kalamidas paper. We then assumed that the one case of his t and r of parameters that would satisfy the reciprocity relations actually held, thus ensuring that his transformations did not violate unitarity (for that one case!) and from there showed via an exact calculation that the effect disappears. As I said, it will disappear even with totally correct, unitary beam splitter transformations, just as stated by Prof. Ghirardi. ChrisChristopher C. GerryProfessor of PhysicsLehman CollegeThe City University of New firstname.lastname@example.com---- Original message ----Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 14:57:07 +0200From: Ghirardi Giancarlo <email@example.com> Subject: The Kalamidas affair To: CHRISTOPHER GERRY <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Demetrios Kalamidas <firstname.lastname@example.com>, John Howell <firstname.lastname@example.com>, nick herbert <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Suda Martin <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Ruth Kastner <firstname.lastname@example.com>, JACK SARFATTI <email@example.com>, "Romano firstname.lastname@example.com [MATH]" <firstname.lastname@example.com>Dear all, attached herewith you will find a letter (even though it looks like a paper for technical reasons) that I have decided to forward to you to make clear the conceptual status of the situation. I hope of having been clear and I wait for comments.With my best regardsGianCarlo________________remarks.pdf (83k bytes)_______________________________________________________________ExoticPhysics mailing firstname.lastname@example.com://mail.softcafe.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/exoticphysics


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For more information or to sign up for the program, families can visit www.InternetEssentials.com or call 1-855-846-8376, or, for Spanish, visit www.InternetBasico.com or call 1-855-765-6995.


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Revised Draft of Updated Guidelines for Buses and Vans
T101 General. This document contains scoping and technical requirements for vehicles that are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities. The requirements apply to the acquisition of new, used, and remanufactured vehicles and the remanufacture of existing vehicles to the extent required by regulations in 49 CFR Part 37 issued by the Department of Transportation under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
Advisory T101 General. The Department of Transportation has issued regulations under the Americans with Disabilities Act that contain additional requirements regarding nondiscrimination in the provision of transportation services to individuals with disabilities. Transit operators must comply with the Department of Transportation regulations, in addition to this document.
T102 Equivalent Facilitation. The requirements in this document do not prevent the use of alternative designs and technologies that result in substantially equivalent or greater accessibility and usability. The Department of Transportation regulations contain procedures in 49 CFR §37.7 for determining whether alternative designs and technologies provide equivalent facilitation.
T103 Conventions
T103.1 Dimensions. Dimensions that are not stated as maximum or minimum are absolute.
T103.2 Tolerances. All dimensions are subject to conventional industry tolerances for manufacturing processes, material properties, and field conditions.
Advisory T103.2 Tolerances. Tolerances are not intended to be variances that can be used in design. Information on specific tolerances may be available from industry or trade organizations and published references.
T103.3 Figures. Figures are provided for informational purposes only, except for Figure T703.
T103.4 Units of Measurement. Measurements are stated in metric and U.S. customary units. The values stated in each system (metric or U.S. customary units) may not be exact equivalents, and each system shall be used independently of the other.
Advisory T103.4 Units of Measurement. Users should work entirely within one system of measurement, either metric or U.S. customary units. Combining values from the two systems may result in non-compliance.
T103.5 Vehicle Length. The length of buses, over-the-road buses, and vans is measured from standard bumper to standard bumper, exclusive of any additional protrusions.
Advisory T103.5 Vehicle Length. Vehicle length is measured with the vehicle as supplied by the original equipment manufacturer. After manufacture additions such as bicycle racks are not included when measuring vehicle length.
T104 Definitions
T104.1 General. For the purpose of this document, the terms defined in T104.4 have the indicated meaning. Terms used in this document that are defined in regulations issued by the Department of Transportation at 49 CFR 37.3 have the meaning indicated in those regulations.
Advisory T104.1 General. The following terms that are used in this document are defined in the Department of Transportation regulations: accessible, bus, fixed route system, new vehicle, public entity, over-the-road bus, remanufactured vehicle, used vehicle, and wheelchair.
T104.2 Undefined Terms. The meaning of terms not specifically defined in T104.4 or in regulations issued by the Department of Transportation shall be as defined by collegiate dictionaries in the sense that the context implies.
T104.3 Interchangeability. Words, terms, and phrases used in the singular include the plural; and words, terms, and phrases used in the plural include the singular.
T104.4 Defined Terms.
Boarding device. A lift, ramp, or bridgeplate.
Bridgeplate. A short plate or short ramp designed to bridge a horizontal or vertical gap between a vehicle floor and a station platform, or between a vehicle floor and a lift platform.
Level boarding bus system. A system in which buses operate where some or all of the designated stops have station platforms, and the design of the station platforms and the vehicles are coordinated to provide level boarding.
Operable part. A component of a device or system used to insert or withdraw objects, or to activate, deactivate, adjust, or connect to the device or system. Operable parts include, but are not limited to, buttons, levers, knobs, smart card targets, coin and card slots, pull-cords, jacks, data ports, electrical outlets, and touch screens.
Surface discontinuities. Differences in level between two adjacent surfaces.


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Hatha yoga is a popular yoga choice in today's fitness community. Groups and individuals use this ancient, classic yoga style to get fit and encourage a healthy mind-body connection. Knowing more about Hatha yoga will help fitness beginners see more about how this traditional yoga practice informs newer yoga styles and brings a lot of authentic principles to a yoga routine.
Kundalini yoga is a form of physical and meditative yoga that comprises of various techniques using the mind, body and our senses. The Kundalini energy is often represented as a snake coiled at the base of the spine. This yoga gives special consideration to the role of the spine and the endocrine system – both essential parts for yogic awakening.
Classes are suitable for all levels from beginner to expert and are from 6pm -7:30pm every Sunday, at the spacious gynasium in Lark Lane Community Centre.
Hatha /Kundalini yoga classes
Tuesdays – 6.30pm – 8pm
Thursdays – 6.30pm – 8pm
Sundays – 6pm – 7.30pm
Thursday 7.30-8.30pm
Classes are £5 (one hour) and £5.50 (hour and a half) or 10 weeks at £35.
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If you are like me (and have a masochistic interest in watching pseudo-scientific documentaries) then you probably watched Animal Planet's Mermaids: The Body Found over the weekend. And if you were like me, you probably knew that it was fake. You could tell just from the commercials, before the documentary aired, that there was something completely bunk about it (like the fact that it claims mermaids are real, for instance–usually sends up red flags for me). They even made a rather subtle disclaimer:
However, if you weren't like me, you probably thought the documentary made a very compelling case and were convinced by its conclusions. Well, sorry to say, you were fooled (FOX News seems to think the doc was genuine). As reported by MSNBC:
If you were unnerved over the holiday weekend by Animal Planet's special "Mermaids: The Body Found," take a deep breath. It's OK to go back in the water again, and you can quit eyeing your copy of "The Little Mermaid" suspiciously.
The two-hour program is fiction, but it's presented in documentary style, with actors playing scientists who claim to have found the body of a mermaid on a Washington state beach.
via TV & Entertainment News – Reviews, Rumors, Gossip – The Clicker | TODAY.com Blogs – Were you fooled by Animal Planet's mermaid special?.
While I was watching the documentary, the producers did some very interesting things. They used CGI to produce long segments of content (specifically about the 'Aquatic Ape theory'), they used real science (complete with DNA analysis, cellular analysis, the link between dolphins and humans, certain interesting evolutionary attributes of humans, and gave it credibility by using agencies like NOAA), drew upon real coverups (like the Navy's coverup of sonar equipment testing which led to several beachings like the one in North Carolina), counted on the value of internet information (i.e., viral videos and the trust many people have in internet underground media), and also attempted to link mermaids culturally using archaeology and art history. They even used an image of a cave painting (completely CGI'd, of course) where humans and mermaids were either fighting or working together or something, but it is based on real cave paintings.
Behind the guise of credibility, the falsity–that mermaids are real–was neatly presented in a manner through which many of us have become accustomed: sound bites and edited clips. While I watched the production, I was on the net reading responses. Some were skeptical right away, as they rightly should have been. Many of the claims were debunked during the airing (like the fact that IMDB listed actors who played the roles of the scientists) and the website linked to the film, which has a fake DOJ/Homeland Security Seize order (determined to be fake just by looking at the name of the file under the page info). A quick Google search yielded no reference to a mass beaching in Washington or in South Africa during the years mentioned in the film. No intricately carved spearheads made of stingray tails and spines were found.
And while some were skeptical, many–too many–were persuaded (read the comments, some commenters believe that the government paid people to talk down the show!). They were persuaded even when the documentary presented itself as a fiction (at the end of the doc). Twitter is still blowing up with comments about how 'mind blowing' the doc was; it is downright upsetting that so many have bought into this fiction without even verifying their information. The most Wikipedia said about it during the airing was that it was a 'mockumentary', with no real discussion about the film until some time later the next day. Comments on blogs and on hype videos were full of people just accepting the conclusions of the film. And it reminded me of an episode of Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files (because I love this show, even if they play up/hype the fakes a little for production value) where they faked a video of a lizard man and posted it on Youtube, and people claimed they had seen this very faked lizard man, and that clearly the thing was real (even though the team fabricated the whole thing).
This is why shows like Ghost Hunters are popular. When you produce a show well, and focus on your audience by feeding them semi-factual information and information which seems like it should be possible, they will more than likely accept your conclusions. Films about the historical Cain and Abel, the Shroud of Turin, Jesus nails, Noah's Ark, the Ark of the Covenant, Mary Magdalene, Atlantis, and others use this very same formula to produce believable stories which, unfortunately, are based mostly (or wholly) on fiction. Ancient Aliens is another presentation just like this. They prey on their audiences ignorance.
In the end, I enjoyed Mermaids: The Body Found, because I knew what I was going to be watching–I knew it was fiction and just made for entertainment. I thought a lot of the (faked) evidences were cleverly conceived and tied together. It was entertaining, the acting was decent (sometimes it was excellent) and if Mermaids did exist (don't worry, they don't) you would expect this sort of evidence to exist–you would need exactly this sort of extraordinary evidence in order to prove it. So I thought that was very interesting. The paranoid operative who remained anonymous was a good touch–really hammered home the fun factor for me. But I worry about those who are not as skeptical as I am; those who would watch it and accept it at face value instead of doing any additional research. That this happens with a documentary about mermaids–mermaids–is worrisome. Because when it comes to figures like Moses, or Adam and Eve, or even Jesus, I know people will be less likely to challenge what they see and more readily acclimated to accept what they see at face value.
So hopefully, maybe, this docufiction will be a lesson to everyone. We'll just have to wait and see.
UPDATE (5/31/12): Right now the twitter feed is blowing up at #mermaids; right now the show is re-airing and people still think, three days later, that it is a real documentary. I'm talking hundreds of people on twitter really bought into this, without doing the slightest bit of research. Hopefully someone is reading this and will pass this article along.
Filed under: Belief, Blog Memes, Society | Tagged: Animal Planet, Debunked, Fake, Mermaids: The Body Found, Review |


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