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.

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

The JREF also maintains a legal defense fund to assist persons who are attacked as a result of their investigations and criticism of people who make paranormal claims.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The useful suggestion of Professor David Hawkins which considers culture as a third stage in biological evolution fits quite beautifully then with our suggestion that science has provided us with a rather successful technique for building protective artificial environments.

The spirit of this group was that we were -- and are -- living in a world doomed to eternal punishment, but that God through Jesus Christ has provided a way of escape for those who confess their sins and accept salvation.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.

in the case of a partnership or corporation, the existence of which has been terminated and on behalf of which an award is made, payment shall be made, except as provided in paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto ; ;

The bottom part of a burrow has a number of side tunnels or `` cells '', each of which is provided with an egg plus a store of beebread.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has provided financial assistance in the early stages of the Institute's program.

Merchant has found that the same basic relationships which describe the geometry and force systems in the case of the cutting mechanism can also be applied to the discontinuous chip formation provided the proper values of instantaneous shear angle and instantaneous chip thickness or cross-sectional area are used.

Moreover, man may not supplant or frustrate the physical arrangements established by God, who through the law of rhythm has provided a natural method for the control of conception.

The best rule of thumb for detecting corked wine ( provided the eye has not already spotted it ) is to smell the wet end of the cork after pulling it: if it smells of wine, the bottle is probably all right ; ;

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

Norman Paris has provided them with extremely effective orchestral accompaniment

In New Jersey, for example, the Administrative Office of the Court has promulgated a form of notice of appeal for use by appellants, though using this exact form is not mandatory and the failure to use it is not a jurisdictional defect provided that all pertinent information is set forth in whatever form of notice of appeal is used.

The latter quote has provided some controversy because it is technically speaking of wisdom.

* Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.

The ACT has internal self-government, but Australia's Constitution does not afford the territory government the full legislative independence provided to Australian states.

The shelter provided by these two mountainous ridges has produced a " micro climate " which provides relatively mild temperatures for the region and, coupled with the fertile glacial sedimentary soils on the valley floor, the region is conducive to growing vegetable and fruit crops.

Today, the Valley is still largely dominated by agriculture but also has a growing diversity in its economies, partly aided by the importance of post-secondary education centres provided by Acadia University in Wolfville, and the Nova Scotia Community College campuses located in Kentville, Middleton, Lawrencetown, and Digby.

Over the years, Hill has provided commentary on gender and race issues on national television programs, including 60 Minutes, Face the Nation and Meet the Press She has been a speaker on the topic commercial law of law as well as race and women's rights.

Among Protestants, anointing is provided in a wide variety of formats but, for the most part, however, it has fallen into disuse.

Artillery has always been equipment intensive and for centuries artillery provided its own artificers to maintain and repair their equipment.

In classical LS AAS, as it has been proposed by Alan Walsh, the high spectral resolution required for AAS measurements is provided by the radiation source itself that emits the spectrum of the analyte in the form of lines that are narrower than the absorption lines.

In LS AAS the high resolution that is required for the measurement of atomic absorption is provided by the narrow line emission of the radiation source, and the monochromator simply has to resolve the analytical line from other radiation emitted by the lamp.

As has been mentioned and as will be explained in depth below, there are pieces where Aelbert provided the landscape background for his father ’ s portraits.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Faulkner has found it useful, but he has employed it with his habitual independence of mind and skeptical outlook.

If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.

" In that interview he also mentioned a course he has twice given at Indiana University, in which he took a " skeptical look at a number of highly-touted AI projects and overall approaches.

Other authors and pedagogues remain skeptical about the necessity of this motion, but scientific evidence supporting this view has not been sufficiently developed at this time to support this view.

Singer has been an advocate of the skeptical stance in the global warming controversy for a number of years.

The exact nature of the ISA's mission and authority has been questioned by opponents of the Law of the Sea Treaty who are generally skeptical of multilateral engagement by the United States.

In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis.

This plan has been moderately well received, although more powerful would-be participants such as Nigeria and South Africa are skeptical.

Their continued popularity worldwide has proven to even the most skeptical critics that their films — quite simply — are funny.

For this reason the Continental tradition has remained much more skeptical of the importance of science in human life and philosophical inquiry.

Kripke writes that this paradox is " the most radical and original skeptical problem that philosophy has seen to date.

Ebert has been skeptical of the recent resurgence of 3D effects in film, which he has found unrealistic and distracting.

The Tribune has remained economically conservative, being widely skeptical of increasing the minimum wage and entitlement spending.

The straightforwardness of the binary between male Rome and female Egypt has been challenged in later 20th century criticism of the play: “ In the wake of feminist, poststructuralist, and cultural-materialist critiques of gender essentialism, most modern Shakespeare scholars are inclined to be far more skeptical about claims that Shakespeare possessed a unique insight into a timeless ‘ femininity .’”.

In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis.

Spaceport construction has generated some 800 temporary jobs on the site, but some Rincon residents have been skeptical that the spaceport will generate as many jobs in the long term as supporters claimed in the runup to public funding.

Academic Peter Russell has been more skeptical of the Charter's value in this field.