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On May 28, Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, the director of Center for Applied Genomics and professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), USA, paid a visit to Beijing Key Laboratory for Genetic Research of Skeletal Deformity of Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) and gave a lecture entitled “Integrative Genomics Discoveries and Development at centre for applied genomics at CHOP” at the 44nd PUMCH Academic Salon Series in scholarism auditorium of PUMCH. Dr. Hakon Hakonarson introduced the history and development of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and presented the up-to-date integrative genomics discoveries and research progress at CHOP. Dr. Hakon Hakonarson also visited the new-established Genetic Clinic of Skeletal Deformity.

..Although dripping in fin-de-siècle charm, the Cedar Park firehouse was the result of a no-bid, lifetime city contract that remained inviolate for 30 years and netted architect Philip H. Johnson a small fortune. Johnson owed his good luck thanks to a familial connection to one of Philadelphia’s most powerful political bosses. In 1903, when journalist Lincoln Steffens described Philadelphia as “corrupt and contented” (and the same year Johnson’s drafted the firehouse plans), the city’s 7th Ward was under the iron-fisted rule of the Republican boss Israel M. Durham. A longtime party operative who had served in the Pennsylvania State Senate and as State Insurance Commissioner, he lavished generous salaries on himself and his loyal associates. He also traveled widely to Europe and the American West, all while receiving a handsome $20,000 a year salary as State Insurance Commissioner. During his final years, he became majority owner and president of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. Although poor health prevented Durham from watching from the stands, he kept a telephone by his hospital bed so he could manage the team and follow the games in real time.

One of Durham’s most controversial acts was the awarding of a lifetime contract to his brother-in-law Philip Johnson for City Health Department projects. No relation to the famed modernist architect of the same name, Johnson was a competent (if not particularly imaginative) architect who had previously worked at the City’s Bureau of Engineering and Surveys. After starting his own firm in 1903, thanks to the contract granted by his brother-in-law, Johnson churned out dozens of public buildings during his tenure. Among them were the City Hall Annex (now the Notary Hotel), the Philadelphia General Hospital, the Philadelphia Hospital for Mental Diseases at Byberry. and the old Philadelphia Convention Center on Civic Center Boulevard. After Durham’s demise in 1909, several Philadelphia mayors tried to get Johnson’s lifetime contract overturned. The courts consistently sided with Johnson, and as a result more than $2 million worth of projects flowed into the architect’s office until his death in 1933. Protected from competitive bids, Johnson made few efforts to hide the wealth garnered from the city coffers, belonging to the Philadelphia City Yacht Club and the Larchmont Yacht Club in the suburbs of New York City.

Israel Wilson Durham (24 October 1855 – 28 June 1909) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 6th district from 1897 to 1898 and the 2nd district from 1898 to 1899. He was a political boss of Philadelphia's 7th ward and also briefly the president and principal owner of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team in 1909.

In the film, Denzel Washington's character says he prays that the Philadelphia Phillies win the pennant. The Phillies had done just that three months prior to the film's release.

World’s Greatest Philanthropy
The Shrine was unstoppable in the early 1900s. Membership grew rapidly and the geographical range of Temples widened. The first Shrine Circus opened in 1906 in Detroit. During the same period, there was growing member support for establishing an official Shrine charity. Most Temples had individual philanthropies, and sometimes the Shrine as an organization gave aid. After the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, the Shrine sent $25,000 to help the stricken city and in 1915, the Shrine contributed $10,000 for the relief of European war victims. But neither the individual projects nor the special one-time contributions satisfied the membership who wanted to do more.

At the June 1920 Imperial Session in Portland, Oregon. Freeland Kendrick (Lu Lu Temple, Philadelphia) established the “Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children,” to be supported by a $2 yearly assessment from each Shriner.

W. Freeland Kendrick (1873[1] – March 20, 1953[2]) was the Republican Mayor of Philadelphia from 1924–28. He served as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Republican National Convention in 1920,[3] and served as the President of the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926.

One of Kendrick's first actions after being elected as mayor in 1923 was to recruit Marine Corps Brigadier General Smedley Butler to serve as Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety, to enforce Prohibition and vice laws. After a contentious two years, Kendrick dismissed Butler on December 22, 1925.

Kendrick was also an active Shriner, serving as Potentate of Lulu Shrine from 1906–18, and again from 1920–23. He was elected Imperial Potentate from 1919–20 and served as the second chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Shriners from 1934–49.[7] While he was serving as Imperial Potentate, he put forth the resolution that created the Shriners Hospitals for Children.[8] From 1949 until his death, he served on the board of trustees for the Philadelphia Shriners Hospital.

The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 was a world's fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Its purpose was to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the 50th anniversary of the 1876 Centennial Exposition... Key speakers at the opening ceremonies were Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of Commerce and future President Herbert Hoover, and Philadelphia Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick..

Possible 2026 revival
A group called USA250 is looking to hold another world's fair-type exhibition in Philadelphia in 2026 to commemorate America's 250th birthday. In April 2015, the Philadelphia City Council unanimously passed a resolution to study the matter.

In April 2015, Philadelphians are making big plans for America's 250th anniversary in 2026, and that work was unanimously endorsed by a resolution passed by Philadelphia City Council in April 2015...

Christine Pfister
Honorary Consul of Switzerland
145 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106 https://www.consularcorpsofphiladelphia ... itzerland/

Christine Pfister was born and raised in Switzerland, before moving to the United States. She studied Business Administration in Fribourg, Switzerland. In New York, she studied at Christie’s Education at Christie’s and since 1995 she has been the Co-Owner and Director of Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia. Pentimenti Gallery features content driven contemporary art which challenges traditional materials and aesthetics by a line of internationally established artists alongside young talent. The gallery’s exhibitions were reviewed in major publications, such as Art in America, The Art Economist, Timeout New York, the Brooklyn Rail, USA Today, Philadelphia Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, and more. The gallery has exhibited nationally at various international art fairs, most recently at Pulse NY, Volta NY, Art Miami Context, etc.

She has also given many lectures, and participated on panels, in the Philadelphia area. Lectures include the University of Pennsylvania, the University of the Arts, the American Association of Museums, and more. She is active in a variety of Swiss, cultural and professional organizations including: Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia; CFEVA; The Cercle Professionnel de Philadelphie; the New Helvetic Society; The Maurice Rohrbach Fund and the Swiss Benevolent Society. In 2011, Ms. Pfister was appointed Honorary Consul of Switzerland to Philadelphia and western Pennsylvania.

As one of revolutionary America’s first capitals as well as the gathering place for its Founding Fathers leading to the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution, Philadelphia is increasingly emerging as a leading economic and cultural hub for the East coast. It also remains a traditional diplomatic focal point with 48 consular representations, including Switzerland. America editor William Dowell explores the extraordinary role of Christine Pfister, Berne’s honorary consul, who is helping to change the city’s global artistic profile.

...Today, Pfister is Switzerland’s honorary consul in Philadelphia and the director of Pentimenti, one of the city’s most respected galleries focusing on emerging contemporary art. Her clients range from local art fanatics to collectors in Switzerland, Paris and the Middle East to the far flung reaches of the planet. She has done a number of exchange programs with museums and galleries in Switzerland, and she is a leading presence in some of America’s most important contemporary art fairs. Her next project is the upcoming Art Fair in Abu Dhabi, which will coincide with the opening of the Louvre’s satellite museum in the emirate.

..Pfister’s career and her success at a time when many art galleries are threatened with closing, happened almost by chance. She had been going to school in San Francisco and traveled around most of the Western United States, including Hawaii, when a friend suggested taking a trip to Philadelphia. The friend wanted her to meet another Swiss friend, Tom Pfister, who was engaged in marketing for the leading German software company, SAP, which at the time had a headquarters in Switzerland.

SAP had only one American client, but it was a big one: the multinational science and engineering giant, DuPont. DuPont demanded that if SAP wanted its business, it would have to post someone to the US to meet its needs.

Tom Pfister had signed on for a three-year tour in 1991. It turned out that Pfister had interests that went beyond business. While studying marketing in Geneva, he had developed a passion for art and enrolled in night classes to study drawing and painting. Landing in Philadelphia, with only one client, he had an urge to expand his horizons. A friend, who had studied at the auction house Christies, suggested that he take over a vacant storefront in Philadelphia’s Old City, and open a gallery. It would be a great way of inserting himself into the creative community.

ART BASEL: MAKING ART FAIRS SUCCESSFUL

When she finally took over Pentimenti, she had a broad vision of the latest trends in new and emerging art. The focus became more specific as she gathered experience. She was particularly interested in emerging artists. “When you go to Art Basel, which is the major reason that Art fairs are so successful,” she says, “you see artists who are already established in their careers. What I am interested in is the artists who have not yet reached that point. I enjoy working with the artists, and at times helping them to go ahead with a project that they might not have finished because they didn’t have the financing or enough support.”

..SWITZERLAND: PHILADELPHIA’S SIXTH MOST IMPORTANT INVESTOR

Tom Pfister originally had a three-year visa to work in the US. When the time was up, SAP asked him to stay, enabling him to secure him a resident Green Card. He eventually left SAP to start his own international marketing company, Match Code, and only recently started a second company, Nitro Marketing. In 2011, the Swiss government asked Christine Pfister to become its honorary consul in Philadelphia. She subsequently joined the board of directors of the Consular Corps, which represents the honorary consuls of 35 countries in the city that served as America’s original capital. She recently resigned from those duties in order to have more time to spend on other projects.

The development of the SAP logo since it was founded by the five IBM employees Dietmar Hopp , Hasso Plattner , Klaus Tschira , Hans-Werner Hector and Claus Wellenreuther in 1972 was recently due to Tom Pfister, Marketing Manager at SAP America and today head of his agency Matchcode , traced in his blog.

As a founder of Nytro Marketing, a worldwide marketing service provider for leading global brands, I am managing Nytro’s growth strategy across 4 continents. I’ve applied more than 20 years of business experience to the goal of more closely aligning Marketing with Business Strategy and Sales, ensuring optimal returns of marketing investments...

Prior to founding Nytro, I founded and developed Matchcode from its humble beginning to a leading worldwide marketing company. Before that I was a marketing executive within SAP where I had the honor to build the initial marketing organizations in Europe, America, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

..My first company was a discotheque in Switzerland, which later was sold. I also founded a leading Contemporary Art Gallery, Pentimenti Inc., in Philadelphia that is currently run and managed by my wife. I completed my business and economic studies in Switzerland, Geneva, Bruxelles and the U.S. and speak a few languages – English, French, Spanish, German and Swiss German.

Furthermore, I am an Officer in the Swiss Military and author of the book ‘The Dream’ which benefits the poor children of Brazil.

Matchcode GmbH, founded in Vienna in 2008, is your professional marketing service agency for successful events, campaigns and trade fair appearances throughout Austria.

Verena Hartinger, Managing Director

AP SE (/ˌɛs.eɪˈpi/) is a German multinational software corporation based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, that develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.[2][3] The company is especially known for its ERP software.[4][5] SAP is the largest non-American software company by revenue, the world's third-largest publicly-traded software company by revenue, and the largest German company by market capitalisation...

Other activities
Adidas, Member of the Supervisory Board[5]
Baden-Badener Unternehmer-Gespräche (BBUG), Member of the Board (since 2019)[6]

SUMMARY: This post is really a continuation of my previous post : On arrested former UNICEF official Peter Dalglish, Street Kids International, Plan UK and some very royal connections . Further research into one of the Plan UK board members led to the globalists' Business Backs Education campaign which is advocating the privatisation of education by companies which need much further scrutiny. Technology firms such as Facebook, seem to be deeply embedded with them.

This report was published on 14 January 2015, ahead of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, to raise awareness of the Business Backs Education campaign, launched by the Varkey Foundation in partnership with Dubai Cares and UNESCO. The campaign was launched at the Global Education & Skills Forum in March 2014 by President Bill Clinton together with Co-Chairs Jim Hagemann-Snabe, CEO of SAP and Majid Jafar, CEO of Crescent Petroleum.

.. a report on the website of Economic Policy Group ("EPG") Address: The Office Group, 2 Stephen St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1AN

A Google search gives us : S Technologies Ltd, 2 Stephen St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1AN

Who is S Technologies? Parent organizations: eBay, Viva VA PA LLC, eBay International Advertising GmbH

BGI admitted they store and reanalyze leftover blood samples and genetic data from prenatal tests, which are sold in at least 52 countries. The report also suggested this information could be used by the CCP for military research.

Btw please avoid the yellow and green text.
Very very hard to see/read.