Er, um, the Million Dollar challenge has been won?

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A large quote but a press release....

Singaraja, Bali, INDONESIA, September 18, 2003. Hundreds have tried to win the million dollars the Randi organization has offered to anyone able to scientifically demonstrate any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability yet no one has passed even the first step. The Yellow Bamboo organization from Bali INDONESIA is the first ever to do so. On 14 September 2003 Mr Nyoman Serengen, the founder of Yellow Bamboo (with over 40,000 members) successfully slammed down, without touching, the Randi representative Mr Joko Tri clearly demonstrating extraordinary paranormal ability. This demonstration was held in front of a media representative from the Radio Republik Indonesia broadcasting network and other independent witnesses

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


Million Dollar Challenge Won by Yellow Bamboo

Singaraja, Bali, INDONESIA, September 19, 2003.
Hundreds have tried to win the million dollars the Randi organization has offered to anyone able to scientifically demonstrate any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability yet no one has passed even the first step. The Yellow Bamboo organization from Bali INDONESIA is the first ever to do so. On 14 September 2003 Mr Nyoman Serengen, the founder of Yellow Bamboo (with over 40,000 members) successfully slammed down, without touching, the Randi representative Mr Joko Tri clearly demonstrating extraordinary paranormal ability. This demonstration was held in front of a media representative from the Radio Republik Indonesia broadcasting network and other independent witnesses.

For many years, Mr James Randi has offered one million dollars to anyone successfully demonstrating any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability.

Out of hundreds to take the Randi challenge, Yellow Bamboo is the first and only group to pass the initial test and become a claimant. Yellow Bamboo first contacted Randi in December 2002 and underwent lengthy negotiations to eventually agree on a protocol and location.

The demonstration finally took place on 14 September 2003 in the early evening on the beach in Singaraja on the north coast of Bali. Mr Joko Tri from Solo, Java was chosen by Randi to carry out the demonstration.

Mr Tri was supposed to go towards and then tap Mr
Serengen but something amazing happened.
Instead of tapping Mr Serengen, Joko Tri was
unexpectedly slammed to the ground before he could reach his target.

Explains Mr Tri “I tried 100% to tap him. I really did. All I can say is I felt a small push come from no where and smack me down.”

Dr Alvin G Donovan III of the Yellow Bamboo
organization was there to witness the event. “This will forever change the way we think about personal power. Imagine possessing the ability to knock down any attacker without touching them.”

What are the practical applications of this technology?

Dr Donovan “Yellow Bamboo can teach this skill in only 5 days. Imagine the US government spending billions fighting terrorism while here is a ready solution.”

Now, according to their contract with Randi, Yellow Bamboo is a claimant to the million dollars. One additional Randi representative will try to attack Mr Serengen in Bali.

After Mr Serengen knocks down this one the million will be turned over immediately.

What are they going to do with the money? According to Donovan “We will use it to travel the world, giving free seminars to those who wish to learn our technology.”

About Yellow Bamboo Organization
The 40,000 strong Yellow Bamboo Organization is
headquartered in Singaraja, Bali, INDONESIA and was founded in 1989 by Mr Nyoman Serengen a government official. Yellow Bamboo specializes in teaching self defense, spiritual development and healing.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Dr Alvin G Donovan III
Yellow Bamboo Organization
Intl + 62 812 365 2355 (best time 7PM to 11AM NY time)
www.YellowBamboo.com>

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Is this old news? I mean a press release and all.
 
Look at the date. Then do a search for "Yellow Bamboo" here. Yes it's old hat. They tried at a preliminary, but documentation was poor, fraud suspected.

Not heard of since.....

Business as usual.

Hans
 
MRC_Hans said:
Look at the date. Then do a search for "Yellow Bamboo" here. Yes it's old hat. They tried at a preliminary, but documentation was poor, fraud suspected.

Not heard of since.....

Business as usual.

Hans
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I know it's old but a press release?
 
But:

Now, according to their contract with Randi, Yellow Bamboo is a claimant to the million dollars. One additional Randi representative will try to attack Mr Serengen in Bali.

After Mr Serengen knocks down this one the million will be turned over immediately.
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So the million hasn't been won yet.

Why the press release? I suppose it's the most exciting thing that's happened to them in years - no harm in capitalising on it.
 
What are they going to do with the money? According to Donovan “We will use it to travel the world, giving free seminars to those who wish to learn our technology.”
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Couple of things here. First, they'll give "free seminars". I wonder how much these "free" seminars would cost. And second, this may just be semantics, but doesn't the word "technology" imply something outside the body? My brain isn't "technological" in the sense the word is normally used. My computer, however, is. So I'd have a problem with the way they've used it.

Not that they have any further shot at claiming the million anyway. They've been given their chance, and they failed.
 
Yeah right! They fail two mention two little points: (Of course)

(See Randi's commentary for October 3, 2003)

1- Joko Tri did not represent the JREF.
On August 11th, 2003, a Mr. Joko Tri Lestari, on the island of Java, wrote me volunteering to go to Bali and go through the Yellow Bamboo rigmarole that they'd put forth. I told him that though he appeared to have the right qualifications, and that I would normally accept him to do the preliminary test, I'd officially severed my connections with them. But, I told Joko, he was quite free to go there and see what happened, if they'd let him do so.
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2- Even if Mr. Tri had been there on behalf of the JREF, the protocol was not followed.
First, no continuous videotape record was made, as I'd clearly required. Without that, there is only evidence that Mr. Tri fell down, but no indication of how or why. Second, Joko did not walk up to Serengen and "gently tap him with a piece of bamboo," as I'd specified, and YB had agreed to, but charged at him full tilt, with a huge bamboo pole — which he'd supplied himself, he told me. There were people close enough to touch Joko as he ran forward, in fact there was quite a crowd involved. The demo took place when it was very dark, giving much different conditions for viewing than there would have been at ten in the morning, as YB had previously agreed to do. So, essentially, there is no evidence of anything supernatural available here. Most damning of all: the report that Joko Tri gave me regarding what he experienced, is congruent with another modus, one that is not at all new, strange, nor unusual. I'm gathering data on this right now, and I'll report on it. This modus was offered by several readers with experience in the subject.
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We've seen the 5-second video, and it's very clear that somebody's arm or leg swings into the picture and contacts Mr. Tri on the back an instant before he falls. Whatever it is is clad in what looks like black cloth, but it is still glaringly visible, and it's chronological proximity to Mr. Tri's fall is at the very least suggestive of a causative action. If I lived in Bali, I would volunteer to take the test as well...and I would bring two cameras and two people to operate them. I would also make sure the test was done in broad daylight, and that I was surrounded by nobody when it happened. A brightly-lit hallway would be an excellent venue. I would also walk up to this person and gently tap him, as expressed in the agreed protocol. I guarantee there would not be a repeat performance.
 
Ed said:
A large quote but a press release....

Is this old news? I mean a press release and all.
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I know it's old but a press release?
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Ed, since no one's said it, and maybe you didn't realize, any idiot can write a press release. I've written quite a few myself. And idiot reporters (or magazines with no credibility anyhow) will publish them unchecked. I've managed to publish a couple of "press reports" that were what I wrote, about my own products, verbatim. Happens all the time.
 
Joshua Korosi said:
If I lived in Bali, I would volunteer to take the test as well...and I would bring two cameras and two people to operate them. I would also make sure the test was done in broad daylight, and that I was surrounded by nobody when it happened. A brightly-lit hallway would be an excellent venue.
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About fifty Hell's Angels to form a circle around the participants might be a good idea, too.
 
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