Margarita Ibrahimoff
>Margarita Ibrahimoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Wilson
Rita Wilson was born as Margarita Ibrahimoff in Hollywood, California and grew up there. Her mother, Dorothea Tzigkou, was Greek, raised in Sotirë near Dropull i Sipërm in Albania, close to the border with Greece. Her father, Hassan Halilov Ibrahimoff (1920–2009), was a Bulgarian Muslim (Pomak) born in Oraio (Breshtene), Greece, close to the border with Bulgaria. Her father's family moved to Bulgaria when he was a child. He moved from Bulgaria to the US in 1949. He converted from Islam to Orthodox Christianity upon his marriage and changed his name to Allan Wilson in 1960, choosing his name after a local street. Wilson was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith. In addition to Bulgarian, her father could speak "Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek, a little bit of Italian, a little bit of French" according to Wilson's husband Tom Hanks, who said he modeled his portrayal of the character Viktor Navorski in the film The Terminal on his father-in-law.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz9lOuw_DhU
>BoomerangBill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), previously the William H. Gates Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the largest private foundation in the world, holding $46.8 billion in assets. The primary goals of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the U.S., to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation is controlled by its three trustees: Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett. Other principal officers include Co-Chair William H. Gates, Sr. and Chief Executive Officer Mark Suzman.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/5/20997583/sue-desmond-hellmann-gates-foundation-departure
Dec 5, 2019
The Gates Foundation has enormous impact. Its CEO leaving could have an enormous impact, too.
The leaders who call the shots at major philanthropies are some of the most powerful people in the world that you’ve never heard of.
And one at the tippy-top of that list is stepping down in a rare changing of the guard at the Gates Foundation.
Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the CEO of the $50 billion charity, said she would leave her post next year due to health and family issues, ushering in a new era at what has been viewed as the tech sector’s most successful giant charity. Desmond-Hellmann has served as Bill Gates’s senior-most aide for the last five years, overseeing the world’s largest foundation that dispenses about $5 billion a year in grants.
And so while Desmond-Hellmann has not been a household name, she held enormous influence across the globe, shaping everything from malaria programs in Africa to billionaires’ willingness to participate in the Gates-led Giving Pledge. The CEO of a megafoundation is the type of person who operates with little scrutiny or accountability but whose opinions can ricochet around the world and direct the flow of billions of dollars.
That’s especially true if you’re the head of the Gates Foundation, which has been called, correctly, the nerve center of Big Philanthropy. The Gates Foundation is a role model for many newly wealthy who dream of enormous influence after their business careers, as Gates has had. In the 20 years since they established their foundation, the Gateses and their other rich peer, Warren Buffett, have made it bigger in assets than the older, legacy philanthropies that are icons, those named after people like Ford, Rockefeller, or Carnegie.
That’s made Desmond-Hellmann herself a big deal. A doctor and former AIDS researcher who rose high in the leadership ranks at Genentech, she’s only the third CEO of the foundation in its history. As the head of the Gates Foundation — with an astounding 1,500 employees — Desmond-Hellmann had to deal with the blowback to their work on US education reform, a key priority for Gates. She eventually admitted in 2016 that the foundation had made some mistakes and that it was a “learning organization.”
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HBO documentary: After Truth
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/after-truth
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2018/06/20/gates-foundation-third-building-headquarters.html
Gates Foundation sets start date for third 'boomerang' building at Seattle headquarters
The world's largest charitable organization is planning for growth at its Seattle campus.
2018
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-ancient-carthaginians-really-did-sacrifice-their-children
Ancient Carthaginians really did sacrifice their children
A collaborative paper by academics from institutions across the globe, including Oxford University, suggests that Carthaginian parents ritually sacrificed young children as an offering to the gods.
The paper argues that well-meaning attempts to interpret the 'tophets' – ancient infant burial grounds – simply as child cemeteries are misguided.
And the practice of child sacrifice could even hold the key to why the civilisation was founded in the first place.
The research pulls together literary, epigraphical, archaeological and historical evidence and confirms the Greek and Roman account of events that held sway until the 1970s, when scholars began to argue that the theory was simply anti-Carthaginian propaganda.
The paper is published in the journal Antiquity.
Dr Josephine Quinn of Oxford University's Faculty of Classics, an author of the paper, said: 'It's becoming increasingly clear that the stories about Carthaginian child sacrifice are true. This is something the Romans and Greeks said the Carthaginians did and it was part of the popular history of Carthage in the 18th and 19th centuries.
'But in the 20th century, people increasingly took the view that this was racist propaganda on the part of the Greeks and Romans against their political enemy, and that Carthage should be saved from this terrible slander.
'What we are saying now is that the archaeological, literary, and documentary evidence for child sacrifice is overwhelming and that instead of dismissing it out of hand, we should try to understand it.'
The city-state of ancient Carthage was a Phoenician colony located in what is now Tunisia. It operated from around 800BC until 146BC, when it was destroyed by the Romans.
Children – both male and female, and mostly a few weeks old – were sacrificed by the Carthaginians at locations known as tophets. The practice was also carried out by their neighbours at other Phoenician colonies in Sicily, Sardinia and Malta. Dedications from the children's parents to the gods are inscribed on slabs of stone above their cremated remains, ending with the explanation that the god or gods concerned had 'heard my voice and blessed me'.
Dr Quinn said: 'People have tried to argue that these archaeological sites are cemeteries for children who were stillborn or died young, but quite apart from the fact that a weak, sick or dead child would be a pretty poor offering to a god, and that animal remains are found in the same sites treated in exactly the same way, it's hard to imagine how the death of a child could count as the answer to a prayer.
'It's very difficult for us to recapture people's motivations for carrying out this practice or why parents would agree to it, but it's worth trying.
'Perhaps it was out of profound religious piety, or a sense that the good the sacrifice could bring the family or community as a whole outweighed the life of the child.
'We have to remember the high level of mortality among children – it would have been sensible for parents not to get too attached to a child that might well not make its first birthday.'
Dr Quinn added: 'We think of it as a slander because we view it in our own terms. But people looked at it differently 2,500 years ago.
'Indeed, contemporary Greek and Roman writers tended to describe the practice as more of an eccentricity or historical oddity – they're not actually very critical.
'We should not imagine that ancient people thought like us and were horrified by the same things.'
The backlash against the notion of Carthaginian child sacrifice began in the second half of the 20th century and was led by scholars from Tunisia and Italy, the very countries in which tophets have been found.
Dr Quinn added: 'Carthage was far bigger than Athens and for many centuries much more important than Rome, but it is something of a forgotten city today.
'If we accept that child sacrifice happened on some scale, it begins to explain why the colony was founded in the first place.
'Perhaps the reason the people who established Carthage and its neighbours left their original home of Phoenicia – modern-day Lebanon – was because others there disapproved of their unusual religious practice.
'Child abandonment was common in the ancient world, and human sacrifice is found in many historical societies, but child sacrifice is relatively uncommon. Perhaps the future Carthaginians were like the Pilgrim Fathers leaving from Plymouth – they were so fervent in their devotion to the gods that they weren't welcome at home any more.
'Dismissing the idea of child sacrifice stops us seeing the bigger picture.'
>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-483748/Elton-John-defends-photograph-seized-child-porn-art-raid.html
Elton John defends photograph seized in 'child porn' art raid
Last updated at 20:40 26 September 2007
Sir Elton John has admitted that an art exhibit seized by police as part of a child pornography probe is his.
Elton's website today said that he had purchased the controversial piece and it was on loan to a gallery.
The photograph shows two naked girls laughing and playing. One is wrapped in costume fabric and the other is lying on her back, her knees bent under her.
Police and Crown Prosecution Service lawyers must decide whether the image bought by Sir Elton at auction is art or pornography.
The photograph was seized by detectives the day before an exhibition of the musician's private collection was due to go on public display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
It is now being examined by Northumbria Police to see if it breaches pornography legislation.
Entitled Klara And Edda Belly-Dancing, the photograph depicts an image of two naked young girls and was taken by controversial American photographer Nan Goldin.
It was among 149 photographs owned by Sir Elton which formed the Thanksgiving exhibition at the Baltic arts centre, on the banks of the River Tyne in Gateshead.
The rest of the photographs went on show last Friday as planned.
A statement on Sir Elton's official website today confirmed the image was owned by him.
It read: "The photograph entitled Klara And Edda Belly-Dancing (1998) is one of 149 images comprising the Thanksgiving installation by renowned US photographer Nan Goldin.
"The photograph exists as part of the installation as a whole and has been widely published and exhibited throughout the world.
"It can be found in the monograph of Ms Goldin's works entitled The Devil's Playground (Phaidon, 2003), has been offered for sale at Sotheby's New York in 2002 and 2004, and has previously been exhibited in Houston, London, Madrid, New York, Portugal, Warsaw and Zurich without any objections of which we are aware.
"Elton John is known as one of the world's foremost collectors of photographic art and has several thousand photographs in his collection, including works by Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus and Ansel Adams.
"Elton John purchased the "Thanksgiving" installation from the White Cube gallery in London in 1999, and the installation is presently on loan to The Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art in Newcastle."
Concerned management at the flagship Baltic arts centre called in police and officers removed the exhibit from the multi-million pound art gallery last Thursday, the day before the exhibition opened.
A spokesman for Northumbria Police said: "We attended the Baltic last Thursday at the invitation of management who were seeking advice about an item from an exhibition prior to it going on public display.
"This item is being assessed and Northumbria Police in consultation with the CPS are investigating the circumstances surrounding it."
A spokeswoman for the Baltic said: "We are working alongside the police and are not in a position to comment further."
>The photograph entitled Klara And Edda Belly-Dancing (1998) is one of 149 images comprising the Thanksgiving installation by renowned US photographer Nan Goldin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/coronavirus/woman-who-hid-coronavirus-symptoms-to-fly-to-china-faces-criminal-charges/2335939/
Ex-Biogen Employee Who Hid Coronavirus Symptoms to Fly to China Faces Criminal Charges
A Biogen employee who allegedly flew from Massachusetts to Los Angeles to China and then tested positive for COVID-19 is under investigation in China for concealing her symptoms and putting fellow travelers at risk of infections, the Los Angeles Times reports.
According to the L.A. Times, Jie Li, a Chinese citizen living in Massachusetts, became ill with coronavirus symptoms was denied testing when she went to a local hospital. The newspaper said she decided to fly to China through Los Angeles, took fever-reducing medications before boarding the plane and lied to flight attendants.
Li is now hospitalized, and according to Chinese law, she could face up to three years of imprisonment or detention, with possible forced labor or up to seven years in prison.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-51971951
Coronavirus treatement: US Food and Drug Administration joinbodi neva approve Chloroquine wey Trump say 'fit treat Covid-19'
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) don come out say 'cha cha', dem neva approve any melecine wey fit treat, cure or prevent di Coronavirus and dem still dey do research.
Di message from FDA, wey be di highest join-bodi wey dey control health mata for America, counter one anti-malaria drug, Chloroquine wey US Presido Donald Trump claim say fit treat Coronavirus.
Tori be say oga Trump for live TV address wey im give on Thursday claim say di Food and Drug Administration (FDA) don approve di drug for treatment of di virus.
But, inside latest statement, di joinbodi say dem neva finish studies to conclude weda true-true chloroquine fit treat patients wey get Covid-19 to reduce dia symptoms.
Chloroquine fit control Coronavirus?
First human trial vaccine to protect against Coronavirus don start - Dis na wetin you gatz know
Chloroquine na melecine wey dem dey use treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
"E don show very good results. And we go fit make di drug available sharp-sharp. They (FDA) don go thru di approval process, dem don approve am. We go fit make di drug available…," Trump bin tok for press briefing
FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn say, "We must make sure say dis products dey effective, if not we go dey take risk to treat patients wit product wey fit no work wen dem for use oda beta treatments."
Di FDA bin approve plenti treatments wey fit reduce di symptoms of Covid-19 but no treatment yet.