Dear Colleagues, We hope you all had a good summer recess. We're resuming the alcpg meetings with a talk by Abe Seiden on new NSF funding opportunities. Since more people may be interested in this topic the distribution this time also includes the lcd-l list. Thursday, August 23, 2007 11:00 AM (PST), 1:00 PM (CST) Fermilab: Hornet's Nest, WH8X SLAC: Group C Conference Room Speaker: Abraham Seiden (UC Santa Cruz) Title: NSF funding opportunities for joint Detector R&D for sLHC and ILC The slides can be found at: http://ilcagenda.linearcollider.org/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2144 Video-conferencing will be provided via adhoc IP: Adhoc video: 88alcpg (8825274), Adhoc telephone: dial 1-510-883-7860 followed by 8825274# Suggestions for future talks are welcome. Send them to Norman Graf, John Jaros or Marcel Demarteau. Norman, John and Marcel