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Nachman Shai.
Israeli Diaspora Minister Has Atlanta Ties
Nachman Shai was a visiting professor at Emory University recently.
https://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/israeli-diaspora-minister-has-atlanta-ties/
Manhattan federal judge William Pauley dies at 68
(Reuters) - U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley III, who oversaw two decades of Manhattan federal court fights including the criminal case against longtime Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, has died. He was 68.
Pauley died Tuesday morning "after a battle with an illness," Southern District of New York district court executive Edward Friedland said in an email.
Pauley had taken senior status in 2018. He joined the court in 1998, appointed by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.
He presided over a string of high-profile cases: In 2013 he ruled that the National Security Agency could lawfully record millions of Americans' phone calls, a decision a federal appeals court later overturned, and in 2016 he picked a monitor to ensure Deutsche Bank AG reported swaps data properly.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/manhattan-federal-judge-william-pauley-dies-68-2021-07-06/
https://archive.ph/eJx3M
Bruce Springsteen’s Daughter Makes Olympic Equestrian Team
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/bruce-springsteen-daughter-makes-olympic-equestrian-team-1234978165/
https://archive.ph/3aYwR
Pelosi reaffirms US support for Tibet on Dalai Lama's 86th birthday
Dharamsala, Jul 7 (IANS): The US on Wednesday reaffirmed support to the cause of Tibet by saying its people can practice their religion, speak their language and celebrate their culture freely without interference or intimidation from China.
Extending greetings to Tibet's exiled Dalai Lama on his 86th birthday, whom Beijing regards as a dangerous "splittist", or separatist, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said calling the exiled spiritual leader's birthday an opportunity to celebrate "the message of hope and spiritual guidance that he has shared with the world".
https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=850701
https://archive.ph/XbX3X
Hundreds of people from international programs in Antarctica to go through MIQ
More than 400 foreign staff from International Antarctic Programs will spend two weeks in controlled solitary confinement in New Zealand before breaking out on the ice.
Christchurch is an important gateway to the continent and has long hosted Antarctic programs implemented by foreign countries.
Post-Covid, countries wishing to travel to Antarctica via Christchurch now have to obtain a border waiver and then remain in MIQ after arriving in New Zealand.
Rose King, co-chair of MIQ, said 204 people will arrive in Christchurch this month on charter flights to support a foreign Antarctic program or travel to the continent.
https://theinformant.co.nz/hundreds-of-people-from-international-programs-in-antarctica-to-go-through-miq/
https://archive.ph/ntV0m
The Air Force is planning another large-scale exercise in the massive Powder River Training Complex in the Northern Plains.
The training area covers nearly 35,000 square miles of airspace in the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming – the largest over the continental U.S.
Officials at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota say multiple types of aircraft will take to the skies July 19-23, and that could cause loud noises.
https://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/large-scale-air-force-exercise-set-in-northern-plains/article_9f6149b8-32a6-5189-8f1c-72a84d850c3c.html#
https://archive.ph/sAbbr
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2471330/
Contracts For Jan. 13, 2021
ARMY
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Tarrytown, New York, was awarded a $2,625,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for 1.25 million courses of a monoclonal antibody therapeutic (a combination of casirivimab and imdevimab) for COVID-19. Bids were solicited via the internet with one received. Work will be performed in Tarrytown, New York, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 11, 2022. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation (Army) funds in the amount of $2,625,000,000 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Newark, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (W15QKN-21-C-0014). (Awarded Jan. 12, 2021)