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Norbert Perez
...is a reknown lecturer and public speaker.
He has delivered speeches and seminars to audiences in Germany, Peru, Mexico, Canada, Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Hawaii,
California, Denver, New York and Washington, DC, on such diverse topics as: world peace, ancient
Chamori culture, traditional massage therapies, Pacific Island languages, technology and
computers, telecommunications, religions of the islands, island politics, and the sovereignty
movements in the islands, etc.
...Mr. Perez is the author of over 100 children's books on
Chamori, Hawaiian, Samoan, and Tongan Legends & Myths and is the inventor of the Neutron Ray Emitter and the Laser Feedback
Amplifier. He is currently the President of PUGUA' International Corporation, a technology and telecommunications consulting
company. Additionally, he is the publisher of Pacific Times Magazine, an online publication dedicated to the cultures, languages
and traditions of the islands and Ms.George Magazine, a contemporary lifestyle webzine for the global American woman; plus
Five other regional magazines. Currently, Mr. Perez is involved in several research programs: 1st, he
is working with Go Smart Technologies on the design, fabrication and production
of the first Electric-Solar Transport Vehicle in Hawaii. Secondly, he is involved with the design
and production of the first Arabic Translator Software for Homeland Security and other federal
agencies. Thirdly, he is engrossed in a five year universal program for Women Only on Mental Telepathy and Telekinesis. And finally, Mr. Perez is preparing Abstract submissions for
UNESCO and the International Endangered Language Society to capture, codify, computerize and save
some of the world's nearly extinct dialects...such as Pudeh in Taiwan.
In 1993, Mr. Perez designed and developed the NP2000, the first Chamoru language translator software.
The program became the prototype for 45 other Pacific Island languages, such: as Palauan, Chuukese, Hawaiian,
Samoan, Fijian, Nauruan, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, Ilocano, Visayan, Japanese, Chinese and many others.
Aside from his activities with PUGUA' International, Pacific Times and Ms. George Magazines, Mr.
Perez is the founder and president of the Bring Our Ancestors Home Foundation, an Hawai'i based, non-profit
organization dedicated to identifying and facilitating the repatriation of the ancient Chamori remains
and sacred artifacts from Hawaii, California, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, London, France and museums throughout the world.
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