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Re C.I.A. / Sherman Kent Award / US$ 2,500.00 /

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol51no2/Studies_v51no2_2007-5Jun.pdf

Awards:- The Sherman Kent Award of $2,500 is offered annually for the most significant contribution to the literature of intelligence submitted for publication in Studies. The prize may be divided if two or more articles are judged to be of equal merit, or it may be withheld if no article is deemed sufficiently outstanding.
An additional $5,000 is available for other prizes, including the Walter L. Pforzheimer Award. The Pforzheimer Award is given to the graduate or undergraduate student who has written the best article on an intelligence-related subject.

Unless otherwise announced from year to year, articles on any subject within the range of Studies’ purview, as defined in its masthead, will be considered for the awards. They will be judged primarily on substantive originality and soundness, secondarily on literary qualities. Members of the Studies Editorial Board are excluded from the competition.

The Editorial Board welcomes readers’ nominations for awards.

Skylon – Reusable Spaceplane development.

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/

Reaction Engines Ltd has been at the forefront of the development of technologies for reusable spaceplanes for over twenty years. REL is both expert and experienced in space transportation generally, and in the engines for reusable space launchers specifically. In particular, REL is a world authority on heat exchanger technology for the engines of advanced reusable space launchers.

By applying a combination of established physical principles and innovative engineering design, we intend to develop a range of products that will enable the commercial exploitation of space.

REL is based at the Culham Science Centre in Oxfordshire in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYos3J_8D5Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G-HPHNrrLQ&feature=related

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of CRISIS MAPPERS (ICCM)

4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of CRISIS MAPPERS (ICCM)

October 11-14, 2012
Washington, DC

http://crisismappers.net/

http://crisismappers.net/page/iccm-washington-2012

http://www.robarts.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7&sid=6bc1a7b39a6585ceb1aa3bda4196733e

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‘Gentlemen or Ladies: Who is Timothy Robarts and why is he asking me to chat with him?’

FAO. Robarts.com Email Distribution List Membership.

This is the question which will soon be in the minds and on the lips of every member of this virtual community who receives these emails from Robarts.com and who takes the trouble to read and thoroughly to understand them.

This was the question which was addressed to me online and apparently to the rest of the Robarts.com Email Distribution List by one of our correspondensts within the past few days.

May I point out that an email which is received from an email distribution list and which has been sent via ‘BCC’ will not provide the recipient with the opportunity to correspond with all of the other members of the email distibution list by clicking on the ‘Reply To All’ key on the keyboard? Emails which are sent from the Robarts.com website to the Robarts.com Email Distribution List are sent by means of the ‘BCC’ key being used as a standard practive in every case of an email being sent to the List. Such an email may be replied to by the recipient but the reply email will not be copied to every other member of the virtual community. It will simply be sent to the original sender who in this case will be the Robarts.com communications suite from whence it came.

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