Pearl Harbor Elementary school is a public, co-educational grade school of the Hawai'i State Department of Education and serves grades K-6. Pearl Harbor is located in the Radford Complex in the Central Oahu District of Hawaii State Department of Education.
History
The school was established in 1956. The school was surrounded by military housing in the late fifties. As time went on enrollments decreased due to the opening of other schools around the area.
Presidential visit
The school was visited by President George W Bush on 23 October 2003.
Funding
In 2003 the Hawaii Senate voted $2,500,000 to plan, design, and construct a library for the school.
History
The school was established in 1956. The school was surrounded by military housing in the late fifties. As time went on enrollments decreased due to the opening of other schools around the area.
Presidential visit
The school was visited by President George W Bush on 23 October 2003.
Funding
In 2003 the Hawaii Senate voted $2,500,000 to plan, design, and construct a library for the school.
The Von Brausen Ratio is the ratio of bust size to waist size.
For example a woman measuring 35-25-35 would have a Von Brausen Ratio of 1.4
Ideal Von Brausen Ratios will vary person to person but most will consider the higher the number the better.
Some examples of high Von Brausen Ratios include:
-Eva Green -> 1.44
-Pamela Anderson -> 1.64
-Carmen Electra -> 1.56
For comparison a smaller ration:
-Kiera Knightley -> 1.19
-Kate Beckinsale -> 1.06
For example a woman measuring 35-25-35 would have a Von Brausen Ratio of 1.4
Ideal Von Brausen Ratios will vary person to person but most will consider the higher the number the better.
Some examples of high Von Brausen Ratios include:
-Eva Green -> 1.44
-Pamela Anderson -> 1.64
-Carmen Electra -> 1.56
For comparison a smaller ration:
-Kiera Knightley -> 1.19
-Kate Beckinsale -> 1.06
The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) is an international lobby group established in the United States of America on April 5, 2006. The organization also has offices in Canada. . In 2006, the organization issued a controversial report authored by former Canadian Secretary of State for the Asia-Pacific region David Kilgour and attorney David Matas implicating hospitals and jails throughout China for being involved in organ harvesting.
Opposition to the 2008 Beijing Olympics
The organization sponsors the international Global Human Rights Torch Relay that travels through 150 cities in 35 countries of Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia to support a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id2&objectid10482783]. Mattas has argued that "it is unthinkable under the Olympic Charter that the same government torturing people in one part of Beijing could be hosting the Olympic Games in another part of the same city"[http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=Olympics+Could+Backfire+on+Beijing%3F&id=16696]. The head of the Canadian branch of the CIPFG is Rabbi Dr. Reuven Bulka, leader of the Congregation Machzikei Hadas, who has publicly called for Israel to put pressure on the Chinese government to cease organ harvesting by quitting the Olympic Games .
International influence
In December 2006, the Australian government responded to a CIPFG petition by announcing the abolishment of training programs for Chinese doctors in organ transplant procedures in the Prince Charles and the Princess Alexandra Hospitals as well as ending their joint research programs into organ transplantation with China . Australian Senator Andrew Bartlett is a member of the CIPFG.[http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=Olympics+Could+Backfire+on+Beijing%3F&id=16696]
Opposition to the 2008 Beijing Olympics
The organization sponsors the international Global Human Rights Torch Relay that travels through 150 cities in 35 countries of Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia to support a boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id2&objectid10482783]. Mattas has argued that "it is unthinkable under the Olympic Charter that the same government torturing people in one part of Beijing could be hosting the Olympic Games in another part of the same city"[http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=Olympics+Could+Backfire+on+Beijing%3F&id=16696]. The head of the Canadian branch of the CIPFG is Rabbi Dr. Reuven Bulka, leader of the Congregation Machzikei Hadas, who has publicly called for Israel to put pressure on the Chinese government to cease organ harvesting by quitting the Olympic Games .
International influence
In December 2006, the Australian government responded to a CIPFG petition by announcing the abolishment of training programs for Chinese doctors in organ transplant procedures in the Prince Charles and the Princess Alexandra Hospitals as well as ending their joint research programs into organ transplantation with China . Australian Senator Andrew Bartlett is a member of the CIPFG.[http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=Olympics+Could+Backfire+on+Beijing%3F&id=16696]
Jeff Rosenbaum (born August 29th, 1955) is an American event organizer, the co-founder of the Association for Consciousness Exploration, LLC (ACE), and the executive director, main publicist, product manufacturer and marketing director for both ACE and its primary events, the Starwood Festival and Winterstar Symposium. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Association for Consciousness Exploration (ACE)
In 1983 Rosenbaum co-founded the Association for Consciousness Exploration, (ACE), an organization based in Northeastern Ohio which produces events, books, and recorded media in the fields of "magic, mind-sciences, alternative lifestyles, comparative religion/spirituality, entertainment, holistic healing, and related subjects". He serves as Executive Director of the organization, which has organized the Starwood Festival every year since 1981 and the WinterStar Symposium every winter since 1984. Since the mid 1980s, he has produced and sold over 100 ACE cassettes, CDs, and DVDs through the ACE website, featuring artists such as Babatunde Olatunji, Halim El-Dabh, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Stephen Kent, Terence McKenna, Margot Adler, Ivan Stang, Isaac Bonewits and Donald Michael Kraig.
Performing arts and writing
Rosenbaum has played electric and acoustic guitar, recorder and percussion with Ian Corrigan and Victoria Ganger in the ACE band Chameleon, has performed on several ACE recordings, including playing guitars on “Sympathetic Magic” with Victoria Ganger and the Starwood Sizzlers. At ACE functions, Rosenbaum has recorded and shared a stage as a percussionist, and played recorder, with such notables as Muruga Booker & GVCB, Badal Roy, Sikiru Adepoju, Halim El-Dabh, Jim Donovan of Rusted Root, Perry Robinson, Louis Martinie', Kenny Klein, and Drew Miller of Felonious Bosch, and played guitar with Gilli Smyth of Gong, Steve Taylor of Sun Machine, Brahm Stuart and Todd Alan.
He has published a section of an article in Green Egg Magazine, and was the subject of a one-page interview about Starwood in Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Practices. He has also been quoted in other books and periodicals, and appeared on radio and television.
Discography
Music
* A Bardic Circle – Cassette (ACE)
* Bonfire Dreams: Starwood Jam Sessions – Cassette & CD (ACE)
* Sympathetic Magic - Victoria Ganger & the Starwood Sizzlers - Music Cassette & CD
Spoken word
* Magick Changing the World, the World Changing Magick - panel discussion on cassette with AmyLee, Isaac Bonewits, Selena Fox, Jeff Rosenbaum and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)
* The Once and Future Legend - panel discussion on cassette with Ariana Lightningstorm, Patricia Monaghan, Jeff Rosenbaum, Robert Shea, Ivan Stang and Robert Anton Wilson (ACE)
*The Self in Transformation - panel discussion with Halim El-Dabh, Donald Michael Kraig, Jeff Rosenbaum, Joseph Rothenberg and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)
* What IS the Conspiracy, Anyway? - panel discussion on cassette with Anodea Judith, Jeff Rosenbaum, Robert Shea, Ivan Stang and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)
Association for Consciousness Exploration (ACE)
In 1983 Rosenbaum co-founded the Association for Consciousness Exploration, (ACE), an organization based in Northeastern Ohio which produces events, books, and recorded media in the fields of "magic, mind-sciences, alternative lifestyles, comparative religion/spirituality, entertainment, holistic healing, and related subjects". He serves as Executive Director of the organization, which has organized the Starwood Festival every year since 1981 and the WinterStar Symposium every winter since 1984. Since the mid 1980s, he has produced and sold over 100 ACE cassettes, CDs, and DVDs through the ACE website, featuring artists such as Babatunde Olatunji, Halim El-Dabh, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Stephen Kent, Terence McKenna, Margot Adler, Ivan Stang, Isaac Bonewits and Donald Michael Kraig.
Performing arts and writing
Rosenbaum has played electric and acoustic guitar, recorder and percussion with Ian Corrigan and Victoria Ganger in the ACE band Chameleon, has performed on several ACE recordings, including playing guitars on “Sympathetic Magic” with Victoria Ganger and the Starwood Sizzlers. At ACE functions, Rosenbaum has recorded and shared a stage as a percussionist, and played recorder, with such notables as Muruga Booker & GVCB, Badal Roy, Sikiru Adepoju, Halim El-Dabh, Jim Donovan of Rusted Root, Perry Robinson, Louis Martinie', Kenny Klein, and Drew Miller of Felonious Bosch, and played guitar with Gilli Smyth of Gong, Steve Taylor of Sun Machine, Brahm Stuart and Todd Alan.
He has published a section of an article in Green Egg Magazine, and was the subject of a one-page interview about Starwood in Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Pagan Practices. He has also been quoted in other books and periodicals, and appeared on radio and television.
Discography
Music
* A Bardic Circle – Cassette (ACE)
* Bonfire Dreams: Starwood Jam Sessions – Cassette & CD (ACE)
* Sympathetic Magic - Victoria Ganger & the Starwood Sizzlers - Music Cassette & CD
Spoken word
* Magick Changing the World, the World Changing Magick - panel discussion on cassette with AmyLee, Isaac Bonewits, Selena Fox, Jeff Rosenbaum and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)
* The Once and Future Legend - panel discussion on cassette with Ariana Lightningstorm, Patricia Monaghan, Jeff Rosenbaum, Robert Shea, Ivan Stang and Robert Anton Wilson (ACE)
*The Self in Transformation - panel discussion with Halim El-Dabh, Donald Michael Kraig, Jeff Rosenbaum, Joseph Rothenberg and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)
* What IS the Conspiracy, Anyway? - panel discussion on cassette with Anodea Judith, Jeff Rosenbaum, Robert Shea, Ivan Stang and Robert Anton Wilson. (ACE)