The JREF sponsors The One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge offering a prize of US $ 1, 000, 000 to eligible applicants who can demonstrate evidence of any paranormal, supernatural or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties.

JREF President DJ Grothe released a press release calling out Priceline. com for endorsing Caputo, stating, " It is difficult to watch the show and not feel heartbroken for those who are desperate to hear from the departed ... and even more so if they are being manipulated by a charlatan.

The officers of the JREF are:

The two cards complete with autographs are framed for public view at the JREF offices in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

In 2011 the JREF again issued the million dollar challenge to James Van Praagh, Allison DuBois, Sylvia Browne, Carla Baron, John Edward, and others if they can prove their abilities in controlled experiments.

* James Randi Educational Foundation The James Randi Education Foundation ( JREF ) was founded to promote critical thinking in the areas of the supernatural and paranormal.

The JREF website publishes a ( nominally daily ) blog at randi. org Swift, which includes the latest JREF news and information, as well as exposes of paranormal claimants.

The JREF has provided skeptical views in the area of parapsychology.

The James Randi Educational Foundation ( JREF ) is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi.

On April 3, 1996 James Randi formally announced the creation of the JREF through his email hotline: It is now headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

In 2008 the astronomer Philip Plait became the new President of the JREF and Randi became the Chairman of the JREF Board of Directors.

Then in December 2009 Phil Plait left the JREF due to involvement in a television project, and D. J. Grothe assumed the position of President on January 1, 2010.

While on the ISS, Lu teamed up with magician James Randi ( founder of JREF ) to perform a card trick in outer space.

This same procedure was being done by Randi back on Earth at the JREF headquarters in front of witnesses from the Miami Herald.

Each SBA regional office also maintains a `` want '' list of surplus property, principally machinery and equipment, desired by small business concerns in its area.

It also maintains shops for the design and fabrication of exhibits, training aids and instruments and libraries for the loan of films and teaching lantern slide sets.

Azerbaijan also maintains good relations with the European Union, in the framework of its Eastern European Neighbourhood Policy ( See Azerbaijan and the European Union ).

It also maintains a botanical garden ( the Botanischer Garten Aachen ).

It also maintains service centers which coordinate activities such as printing literature, responding to public inquiries, and organizing conferences.

Unusual Films also maintains a student film production program.

Western Khmer, also called Cardamom Khmer or Chanthaburi Khmer, spoken by a very small, isolated population in the Cardamom mountain range extending from western Cambodia into eastern Central Thailand, although little studied, is unique in that it maintains a definite system of vocal register that has all but disappeared in other dialects of modern Khmer.

also maintains diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.

The French military also maintains a force as part of Operation Licorne.

It also maintains a National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors to help bring greater recognition and protection to Britain's most historic pubs.

Carolina also maintains a rivalry with New Orleans, with both teams playing in the NFC South division.

Bondi and Thomas Gold used the Copernican principle to argue for the perfect cosmological principle which maintains that the universe is also homogeneous in time, and is the basis for the steady-state cosmology.

The band also maintains that the Levi's story was completely fictitious and invented by Biafra to discredit them.

The College also maintains the Dartmouth Skiway, a skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth ski team.

It also maintains the integrity of the data in the database.

It maintains Ministerial Partner Standing with the United Church of Christ, which means that clergy ordained in the Disciples of Christ may also serve in the United Church of Christ.

DCMI also maintains a small, general vocabulary recommended for use within the element Type.

DCMI also maintains a list of projects using Dublin Core on its website.

For example, Duncan Kennedy, in explicit reference to semiotics and deconstruction procedures, maintains that various legal doctrines are constructed around the binary pairs of opposed concepts, each of which with a claim upon intuitive and formal forms of reasoning that must be made explicit, not only in their meaning but also its relative value, and criticized.

For instance, the United Kingdom has its Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington, D. C., but also maintains seven consulates-general and four consulates elsewhere in the US.

The NTF also maintains a list of ITF medical advisors, and facilitates the formation of self-help groups.

The country also maintains a captive register for French-owned ships in Iles Kerguelen ( French Southern and Antarctic Lands ).

The FBI also maintains over 400 resident agencies across the United States, as well as over 50 legal attachés at United States embassies and consulates.

The lab also maintains a second lab at the FBI Academy.

The FSM also maintains a resident consulate in Hawaii and Guam.

The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

The establishment of the church as an institution recognized by worldly rulers is also visible in legal history.

Administrative law may also apply to review of decisions of so-called semi-public bodies, such as non-profit corporations, disciplinary boards, and other decision-making bodies that affect the legal rights of members of a particular group or entity.

In addition to the regulation of the administrative procedure, the VwVfG also constitutes the legal protection in administrative law beyond the court procedure.

There may also be legal or contractual requirements for acceptance of the system.

The term " black-letter law " is also used commonly in the American legal system to mean well-established case law.

His government also introduced a new Factory Act meant to protect workers, the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 to allow peaceful picketing, and the Employers and Workmen Act ( 1875 ) to enable workers to sue employers in the civil courts if they broke legal contracts.

In some legal systems, directors may also be removed by a resolution of the remaining directors ( in some countries they may only do so " with cause "; in others the power is unrestricted ).

Blood alcohol content ( BAC ), also called blood alcohol concentration, blood ethanol concentration, or blood alcohol level is most commonly used as a metric of alcohol intoxication for legal or medical purposes.

There also can be a lack of determining " knowledge-appropriate " communication, as when someone uses ambiguous legal words, or medical jargon, when speaking with another person that lacks understanding in these areas.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

Roman Dutch common law relies on legal principles set out in Roman law sources such as Justinian's Institutes and Digest, and also on the writing of Dutch jurists of the 15th century such as Grotius and Voet.

By contrast, several countries can also use the same currency ( for example, the euro ), or one country can declare the currency of another country to be legal tender.

In contrast to a commercial bank, a central bank possesses a monopoly on increasing the nation's monetary base, and usually also prints the national currency, which usually serves as the nation's legal tender.

Usually a natural person perpetrates a crime, but legal persons may also commit crimes.

If a " positive list " approach were taken, only species evaluated and approved for the positive list would be permitted in trade, thus lightening the review burden for member states and the Secretariat, and also preventing inadvertent legal trade threats to poorly known species.

The Church also has a number of statements regarding diagnosed conditions accompanied by legal affidavits of authenticity signed by medical practitioners who witnessed a non-medical healing.

Concerning interpretation of Halakha ( or Jewish law ): because of Judaism's legal tradition, the fundamental differences between modern Jewish denominations also involve the relevance, interpretation, and application of Jewish law and tradition.

It has also tried to protect Canadian culture by setting legal minimums on Canadian content in many media using bodies like the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ).< ref >

Creatures of statute ( also known as creatures of the state ) are legal entities, such as corporations, created by statute.

Comparative law is different from the fields of general jurisprudence ( legal theory ), international law, including both public international law and private international law ( also known as conflict of laws ).

Comparative law may also provide insights into the question of legal transplants, i. e. the transplanting of law and legal institutions from one system to another.

** Romano-Germanic subgroup ( comprising those legal systems where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law-see also Civil law ( legal system ))