Gackt Military Homecoming - subtitled

Military Homecoming subtitled by melmika1 Using the song 12gatsu no Love Song by Gackt, to create a slideshow of our servicemen and women coming home.

Okinawan Gekijoban Tempest Movie

Original article here or here

Yukie Nakama

“Gekijoban Tempest 3D” is scheduled to open in theaters on January 28, 2012


The NHK historical drama “Tempest” is going to get a 3-D movie in theaters next year. Nakama Yukie will remain in the starring role, along with fellow cast members such as Tanihara Shosuke, Tsukamoto Takashi, Takaoka Saki, GACKT, and Okuda Eiji. Amuro Namie’s song “Tempest” will be the theme song.

The Tempest, based on a 2008 best-seller novel with the same title authored by Ikegami Eiichi. The Tempest sets in the period towards the end of Ryukyu Kingdom dynasty (a kingdom that ruled most Okinawa islands from the 15th to 19th century). Nakama Yukie will be playing the leading character, Mazuru, a common young girl in the kingdom who feels unfairness treatment towards women. She feel it is unfair that woman cannot complete their study. 

Gackt

And so, taking advantage of the disappearance of her step brother, she disguises as man named Son Neion, and passed the exam to be the royal govenrment's official. Yamamoto Koji will be playing the role of Mazuru's love interest, whom Mazuru will have a forbidden romance with. Namase Katsuhisa will be playing the role of Son Neion's enemy in the royal palace. The drama series currently airs on NHK BS-Premium and will end on September 18. The movie is reported to be a two-and-a-half-hour edit of the drama series, with no plans for new footage to be shot. 

Belgian Soccer Fans Taunt Tsunami Victims

Original Articles here. 1st link, 2nd link, 3rd link

Friday’s match between Beerschot and Lierse was supposed to be hotly-contested derby, but events were overshadowed by the mindless stupidity of the away fans, subjecting Japanese international goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima to horrific chants about March’s disaster.

 Referee Luc Wouters called a halt to proceedings in the second-half after some Beerschot supporters chanted ‘Kawashima, Fukushima’ repeatedly, and some even threw cans onto the field at the keeper as he was about to take a goal-kick.

 Shortly after the restart, Hernan Losada scored for the away team and Kawashima was quite rightly shaken from previous events. Reports claim that after full-time, Kawashima was left in tears in the Lierse locker-room. He spoke afterwards to the media saying “I am prepared to forget about a lot of things, but not that. It is not remotely funny.”

 Kawashima, originally from Saitama, spent 9 years playing across Japan before moving to Lierse in 2010. During the off-season, he has returned home to aid the relief effort in parts of the country affected. He also played in the Osaka charity match back in March, showing how committed he is to helping Japan. At the time of the disaster, Kawashima said he was struggling to stay focused on football given the scale of the disaster and being so far away from home. His family lived near Tokyo, about 200km away but he feared of the nuclear threat. He even played for the club in the immediate aftermath, receiving great fan support from across Belgium and helping Lierse avoid relegation. It shows tremendous courage from the man, to play football at a time when football really comes second.

 Beerschot released a statement on the club’s website deploring the fans’ actions. It said “The chants directed at Lierse goalkeeper Kawashima were so offensive and totally inappropriate. The throwing of projectiles on the ground under any circumstances out of the question. Both incidents damage our club, which every day is distinguished by a large social engagement in the community of Antwerp.”

 The statement also suggests that Kawashima incited the away support with gestures, which they claim made the situation worse. They also note that debuting Beerschot keeper Stijn Stijnen receieved abuse from the home support, but didn’t respond to it.

 It finishes - In any case, Beerschot AC would like to stress insults directed at victims and survivors of such disasters can not be tolerated. The club calls for calm and serenity, and calls for a consistent and straightforward approach to this problem on all Belgian football.

 Even if Kawashima did react, what do you expect him to do? Around 25,000 people died in the tsunami/earthquake, and the entire infrastructure of Japan was brought to its knees. I find Friday’s events incredibly sickening for some football fans to stoop so low. It doesn’t at all surprise me though. Beerschot have a history of distasteful chants to put it mildly. Whilst I don’t want to tar every Beerschot fan with the same brush, the league has to clamp down on this: either with several home games behind closed doors, a heavy fine or even a points deduction.

 Disasters should never be made fun of, especially not from the terraces. This incident has received a lot of global coverage, and obviously a lot more in Japan. I wouldn’t blame Kawashima for leaving the league either soon. It could portray Belgian football in a particularly bad light. Belgian fans certainly are some of the most passionate in Europe, but there are moments where passion overflows and crosses the line. 

After School- Bang! at MTV ZUSHI FES (Live)

Anniversary Lunch (from Heaven)

'Golden Sakura' located in Wake Forest, North Carolina

The day was like magic. We got both boys off to their first day of school without a problem leaving a couple to celebrate their 16^th wedding anniversary. So what did we do first? We took off the trash and got everything ready for Hurricane Irene’s visit. By lunchtime I took my wife to a Japanese restaurant, Golden Sakura, located in Wake Forest, North Carolina. 

They just opened for lunch as we were seated at the table where they would be cooking our Hibachi style lunch. No one else was coming in at this time had allowed us to be treated to a private lunch as our meal was prepared by a Teppanyaki chef. He treated us to a private show of his acrobatic skills with the cooking utensils. He juggled them all around him; flipping them high into the air as he majestically catches them with the other utensil. He had eggs dancing in midair before splitting in half as the complete contents fell onto the grill with the shell still hanging onto the spatula.

The most entertaining part was as the food was cooking; he took half an onion and arranged it into a volcano shape. Pouring cooking oils inside and lighting it gave us a wonderful show of a flame shooting out of this creation. Looking like the booster rocket of the space shuttle at liftoff as we felt the heat being emitted from it. The smell of the food being cooked was filling the room as my wife and I were the only ones present watching this Master Chef orchestrated all the different foods throughout the table.

As our expensive plates were filled with this wonderful decoration we then proceeded to feast. A wonderful meal it was as my wife and I enjoyed a wonderful conversation that so many parents lack due to the lack of time and privacy. This was our first conversation in a long time with no interruptions from our kids.  We actually had an adult conversation and it felt great. By the time we finished the meal we felt like the whole world had been lifted from us. All the burdens, stresses and built up tensions were gone.

We journeyed to a few other places before heading home to await our kids return from school. All the time we felt twenty years younger and more alive. That day was like a gift from heaven. A private meal, wonderful entertainment and an actual conversation not related to some kind of toy or video game. We plan to visit this place again in the future as 

Wedding Anniversary

Once again we made it through another year of ups and downs to celebrate another wedding anniversary. Our first wedding was in Seoul Korea on this date during an approaching Typhoon. To legalize the wedding for American laws we held another wedding ceremony one year later in Reno, Nevada.

Seoul, Korea 1995 

Reno, Nevada 1996

Hurricane Floyd vs Terilyn Joe

As Hurricane Floyd was moving through North Carolina in 1999 I had just recently returned from Okinawa to America, eventually finding a place in Hayward, California. My wife who was pregnant was still staying in Okinawa with her family. She was going through a difficult pregnancy. But that’s another story. As I was working and helping out a friend of mine with his fishing business I made it a point to keep an update of Hurricane Floyd as it was moving closer to my home state of North Carolina.

One day I was at a church house in Berkeley as many people were there with me as we camped out in front of the TV watching images of the hurricane moving across the state. At times I would tell my own personnel stories. One story of me being on a fishing pier in Surf City just after a hurricane passed and just before the pier collapsed into the water.  But that’s another story. As we were watching live news coverage from WRAL TV show on the local TV station as Greg Fishel led the updates of the storms track.

Periodically the local news people would offer their input but only the weatherman, Peter Giddings, was the only one with any knowledge of what was really happening. The newscasters would make comments of support but within that same breath of air they would smile and talk about how great the weather is in the Bay Area. Crocodile tears are about all they were offering. But as the hurricane moved away and helicopter news crews started flying over the damaged areas, news coverage in the San Francisco area changed to showing cities, towns and entire half of North Carolina area underwater. People were trapped on roof tops as many homes were destroyed as the local broadcasters showed nothing but dead pigs floating on water.

As images of dead pigs covered the local news reports, those who knew me understood why I loved pork products so much. North Carolina is after all #1 in pork in the world. Okinawa, according to my Okinawan wife, is in 2^nd place. There was a newscaster who really pushed my buttons, so to speak, to the point I lost it that day. And being in a house full of religious people including a Pastor of a church led to a very colorful exchange I was having with the TV set. Even today I could see why Elvis Presley shot his TV set.

The newscaster is Terilyn Joe. If you watch the movie, George of the Jungle, she’s the newscaster on TV as George is rescuing the sky diver from the bridge. Back then she was about the only person I would hit with a rolled up newspaper. I mellowed out later on in life but on that day she was number one on my hit list. Apparently she must never have seen or have been educated on what a hurricane is or does. Maybe she thought it was a big rain storm with a breeze. And as the typical newscaster that inspired Don Henley to record the song ‘Dirty Laundry’,  she lived up to that song every time she opened her mouth.

They keep showing dead pigs on TV, people losing everything, half the state is underwater and  I can’t reach my family due to wide spread power outages and she is smiling away like she’s was playing with baby puppies, talking about the worst being over. At that moment I lost it. All this fake personality of caring was followed by me rifling of a few obscenities. I remember those words very clearly as with the expression of the Pastors face. It should be noted that more people die after a hurricane passes.

After I calmed down I did apologize. The people who were with me that day knew the seriousness of hurricanes and how I was concerned about my family and friends. A few were amazed by the combination of words I used as with the frequency and repetitive of them. Maybe when reporting on an earthquake Terilyn Joe might have a better understanding the seriousness of the situation. But on that day to me, she was the most stupidest person I have ever witness trying to pass herself off as a mammal. Mind you I am leaving off many cuss words that I originally had said it that statement but to this day I have no regrets saying them.

Gackt as Ghost Rider?

What would a Japanese Ghost Rider look like?

Home Cooking

My son wanted to see if he could cook. Everything went great even though he forgot to add water to his microwavable macaroni and cheese.

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance | Theatrical Trailer

The ending of the trailer is really cool. At least they kept the Penance Stare and the chains.

GACKT marches at “Kenshin Festival”

GACKT appeared as a guest for the “Kenshin Festival” that took place on August 20th and 21st at Jouetsu City in Niigata. Original story here.

 The “Kenshin Festival” is held every year to honor the bravery and influence of the warlord, Uesugi Kenshin of the Sengoku Period. On August 20th, GACKT held “GACKT Live Message Ima Koso Tsutaeru ‘Gi no Kokoro’“, and shared his thoughts about the restoration from the Great Tohoku Earthquake saying, “The will to cooperate, that is Bushido (the code of Samurai), and is the ‘heart of righteousness’ that Kenshin conveyed.”

Additionally, on August 21st, GACKT also participated in the “Shutsujin Gyouretsu”. Wearing an armor on a white horse, GACKT Kenshin led about 700 people around the town, and revived theKawanakajima Battle at Kasugayama-jou Shiseki Hiroba.

 GACKT commented, “This Kenshin Festival is different from before, and holds a great meaning. After the disaster, many people recognized that the ‘heart of righteousness’ symbolizes the beauty of Japanese people’s hearts. What is the identity and qualities of Japanese people?”

 He continued, “Instead of the rational ‘which will profit’ way of thinking; the presence and acts of the right at heart, as well as the spiritual strength is what makes Japanese people wonderful. I think we were able to deliver those thoughts. From now on, I want to continue delivering my thoughts as a Japanese, and as a samurai.”

Angry Birds

We are addicted to playing the Angry Birds game. So much so that my two sons play against each other on who get the highest score the quickest. Once they found out about the $70 stuffed animals of these things I drew the line on getting them. But once we saw the display of these things at Wal Mart I was outvoted on buying these things. My wife thinks these are the most adorable think right next to those little RODY's she collects from Japan.

The Path of a Hurricane

Hurricane Irene is projected to hit North Carolina this weekend. As everyone is shopping like the end of the world is approaching and weather forecasters trying to decide whether to risk their jobs on even making an accurate guess on where the eye of the hurricane will make land fall, I was treated to a projection of a few possible paths it might take.

To my horror one of those paths goes right over my house in Wendell, North Carolina.

East coast earthquake felt in Triangle - Local/State - NewsObserver.com

My cat went crazy before any of us felt the tremors.

East coast earthquake felt in Triangle - Local/State - NewsObserver.com

TOEI Releases Official Demo Trailer for REBELLIONS - JEFusion

I liked it when they transformed into motorcycles.

TOEI Releases Official Demo Trailer for REBELLIONS - JEFusion

Son of SPAM

My son is an Okinawan.

His mother is an Okinawan. His father, that’s me, is an American with my lineage going back to Scottish, Irish and Portuguese descent. But with our oldest son, he has clearly shown his connection to his Okinawan (Ryukyu) heritage.

A little back story. After WW2 there was no food for the Okinawans to eat mainly because the entire islands had been destroyed by Americans and Japanese forces. All food supplies coming into Okinawa were from the American side. Being wartime, the Okinawans were eating the same foods that the American military were eating. And the meat was Spam. And now more SPAM is sold more in Okinawa than probable anywhere else in the world. It’s the main food dish after pork and fish.

And my son has taken to eating Spam like it was a gift from God himself. Just tell him that he’ll be eating Spam for dinner, his eyes get all big as a huge smile covers his face as he squeals in excitement. He even love eating Okinawan noodles rather than the Japanese style noodle. Luckily the only Japanese store in the Raleigh, North Carolina area is operated by an Okinawan family that makes sure that many Okinawan foods are sold there.

He also loves practicing Karate on his little brother which is a martial art that was developed in Okinawa. If he’s not drop kicking his brother or trying to break boards they are both sword fighting with their replica swords.  He loves talking about going to Okinawa to enjoy the beaches and seeing his much older female cousins. In time after saving up for the trip, as with winning the lottery, we may be able to afford to take the whole family to Okinawa for a family reunion. Until then we keep sending and receiving care packages from home.

Until then we’ll keep buying Spam in large bulk quantity.

Falling Entertainment

Like many vendors, lunch is usually drive-through or a packed lunch from home. And we can usually be found eating our lunch in our vehicles with the radio, reading something while playing a game or two on the cell phone. Two days ago I happened to look up and was treated to a very entertaining show.

I just happened to see a car circling the parking lot as a man came out of the grocery store. Dressed in the way many guys do with the fashion of wearing ones pants, without a belt, hanging down so their underwear can be seen. He was walking towards the car that was parked far from the grocery story but began running as the woman in the car started yelling for him to hurry up. Grapping his pants, in the way that it looked like he had to go to the bathroom really badly, he started running and yelling at the woman. As the many cuss words filled the air the man, while running, changed hands but in all of his multi-tasking, didn’t grab his pants in time which lead to a most revealing event.

Unable to grab his pants in time while running, they fell very quickly to his knees causing him to stumble over and sliding to a complete stop with his butt sticking up in the air. The girl in the car was laughing way out load with a sprinkling of vulgarities to the man who responded with a few choice words towards her. He got up and checked himself and eventually pulled his pants up and limping his way to the car as their argument continued on as they left the parking lot.

As I looked around the parking lot I caught eyes with a few other vendors enjoying their lunch as well as the show. All of us were laughing understandably of what we had just witnessed. Life carries on no matter what. Sometimes just looking around and it provides you with wonderful entertainment.

How To Gain Weight

I recently talked with an old friend of mine who now lives in Korea. After catching up on each other’s lives and the usual topics of the day we began to converse about me trying to loss a little weight. This led to something he learned while living in Korea about the three main reasons why many people have put on a lot of weight over the years.

1. Chemical Imbalance. Whether its medicine, in foods we eat or items put on or in our bodies, these chemicals affects our bodies. As many of these chemicals build up will begin to interfere with the normal functions of the body. Kidney Stones, Gall Stones are examples. Medicines advertised states that the side effects can damage the body in different ways.
2. Personnel Choice. Whatever the reason from stress to partying, people will eat more foods than the body can naturally burn off. People who eat more food than the body can handle will definitely gain weight. Going to a gym, exercising or even changing how much or what type of food you eat can fix this. But it all comes down to how much effort that person chooses to do.
3. Ancestors Sin. Western people may not fully understand this part. If someone is overweight can mean that someone within seven generations of that person’s ancestry was a thief. The only way to clear this problem is indemnification. To pay back for this theft whether to repay the victim and/or through a prayer condition with fasting. Fasting can be a three or seven day fast, drinking clear water only or by skipping a morning meal for 21 days. To constantly pray for 21 or 40 days at a certain time and for a set length of time for forgiveness from God and to those that were robbed by this person’s ancestor.

GACKT Stars as a Samurai in "Bunraku" - JEFusion

GACKT Stars as a Samurai in "Bunraku" - JEFusion

Jean Havoc with Lust

I took one of my wife's drawings and fixed it up a bit. Along with adding another picture of hers as the background.

The Path I Chose

A lot can happen in a day. Even in the span of minute’s one can see if they made a correct path choice from their early youth.

While I was working in one store, at separate times, I met two people I went to high school with. One person I met by his smell and appearance looked like he just got out of bed. It was well in the afternoon but dressed like he just came from the gym even though it was apparent that he never set foot in one to begin with. In school he was cocky, upper class attitude of being better than anyone while tormenting those he deemed the bottom of society. Now he looked like he’s on hard times whether it be alcohol or drugs and making due with whatever he can to get by.

The second person I met was a bit surprising for me. In school I remember her as the one to make it all the way. She had great grades and was able to get into any college she wanted. Smart and likable in school but when I saw her I did a long double take. At first I didn’t recognize her but as we talked for a while I learned that all her dreams died or changed considerably because she and her boyfriend didn’t have protection from getting pregnant.

She couldn’t handle going to college and taking care of her baby so she gave up school, stayed with her parents while making the best she could do with a part time job. Eventually she married but she also had acquired government assistance in food stamps and medical coverage. I was surprised she had gained a lot of weight for she was very skinny in school. Now she looked like a complete different person.

What worked for me in school may not work for others. But I survived the bullying and being looked down by others as someone most likely to be forgotten. Most of those I went to school with did accomplish a lot in their life while other didn’t. I chose to not care about being in the different schools class societies such as: the jocks, nerds etc... I chose to instead to get through school by watching from the sidelines. Still bullied a lot and treated like an outcast but I survived.

Many former classmates have died since graduation due to drugs, alcohol and other vices but what surprises a lot of former classmates is that I’m still alive. And that I have been very active at that. Visited and lived in many different countries, almost arrested or killed several times as well as traveling across the country many times while meeting and experiencing many people and their cultures.  Most people who knew me have never journeyed at least 100 miles from their home or even went someplace outside the state of North Carolina.

That day I saw the path I chose to take in school as a justifiable one for me. It was a difficult one at the time but it ended up making me stronger. More prepared for the harshness that life after school was and did offer. I could have tried to be with the in-crowd and faked all those usual attitudes that people have in those groups. But I never could fake on who I really was, even though at the time I didn’t fully know my potential. But in the present day, after meeting those two, I believed that the choice I made a long time ago worked. 

Breaking for Radar

If doing what I did is wrong then I don’t want to be right.

Coming home one day I had the honor of having someone tailgate me for almost the entire trip home. I say almost because at one point this person almost had a really bad experience with a special toy of mine. I live just outside Wendell, North Carolina. As I journeyed through the town heading for home, the person tailgating me made every effort to make me feel like I was having a prostate exam.

As the evening convoy of cars was making their way out of Wendell on a road that has a few impassable curves for about half a mile before opening up to a nice long straight road, the tailgater was defiantly making plans to pass me as soon as the road straightens out. And being so close behind me I was able to see the radar detector on the dash board. With my special toy, a radar gun by my side I planned to see what little fun I could create, if any at all.

Sure enough the road straightens out and this car engine came roaring aloud as it began to make its way into the next lane to pass me. I was already driving faster than the posted speed limit but this person was planning on driving at NASCAR speed. With radar gun in hand I pressed the trigger and witnessed an event that could only be compared in a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. I only wished that I had video recorded it.

There were many cars all traveling together with me leading the way out of town. As the road opened up to a straight line, the tailgater began to pass me. As the car began to along side of me, I pressed the trigger to send out a signal. I could see the lights on the radar detector in this car lighting up as I myself began increasing my speed. For that matter all the other cars behind me began to move up closer thinking that this tailgater was going to go forward, not backwards.

When the person driving this car detected the radar signal panicked. The car swerved a bit and began to get back behind me but couldn’t quite do it as the other cars had already closed in. This person realizing that it couldn’t pass me since I was already driving faster than the posted speed limit and figuring I would be the one getting the ticket. Nor could this person go back into the correct lane due to all the cars closing in to prevent this. Pressing on the radar gun again led to a rather noisy ending. The tailgater in the wrong lane ended with the driver slamming on the breaks.

This person basically slammed on the brakes hard. Looking through the rear view mirror, I could see smoke everywhere as this lone tailgater was now maneuvering to the back of the line. I made it home safely know that someone somewhere was mystified as to why there was no police car in sight. 

And hopefully to stop tailgating.

Gamarjobat - Amazing Comedy Duo

Stealing Pictures (without credit)

My wife was a little taken aback by a few websites she found by chance today. Apparently someone took many pictures she had drawn and placed then on their own blog site claiming them as their own. She was happy by all the comments on the website saying that they loved the pictures but felt let down that no credit was given to her.

My wife's site where she post pictures
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=15706583

The person who took the pictures without given credit to her
http://ultimate-spear-lust.tumblr.com/post/5759430807/fmt-strippers#

Shadow Art "Bad Apple"

The Touhou Project also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a Japanese dōjin game series focused on a shoot'em up game made by the one-man developer Team Shanghai Alice, whose sole member known as ZUN, is responsible for all the graphics, music, and programming for the most part. The series was inducted into the Guinness World Records in October 2010 for being the "most prolific fan-made shooter series"

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Outtakes

Car Chase using Traffic Camera's

How To Stop Cancer Without Using Chemotherapy

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.

Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins:

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer 

  cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have

  multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients

  that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after 

  treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the

  cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable

  size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a 

  person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer

  cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and

  forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has

  nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic,

  but also to environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing

  diet to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day

  and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing

  cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells

  in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc. and can

  cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars

  and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often

  reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of

  chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor

  destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from

  chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either

  compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb

  to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to

    mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.

    Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other

    sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer

    cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc. are made

  with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute

  would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small

  amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in

  color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the

  gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting

  off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer

  cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based

  diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat,

  like chicken. Meat also contains livestock

  antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all

  harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole

  grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into

  an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked

  food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live

  enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to

  cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance

  growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building

  healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most

  vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw

  vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at

  temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..

e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high

  caffeine Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer

  fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or

  filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap

  water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of

    digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the

    intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic

    buildup.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By

    refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes

    to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the

    body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system

    (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,

    EFAs etc.) to enable the body’s own killer cells to destroy

    cancer cells.. Other supplements like vitamin E are known

    to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's

    normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or

    unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.

    A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior

   be a survivor. Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness put

   the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to

   have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy

   life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated

    environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to

    get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen

    therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer

    cells.

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.

This especially applies to foods that contain fat he said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food you get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.

This is an article that should be sent to anyone important in your life.

My Dad

My father gave me the most important advice that I still use today. And he doesn’t even realize it nor the opportunity to see how I turned out in life. Throughout my life he was the most influential person in my life. And I didn't even know it.

Many years before I was born my parents had a very difficult marriage. My father worked with the Department of Transportation building road systems up and down North Carolina along the Interstate 95 Highway connecting many towns and cities to each other. He would drink a lot and vent his frustrations upon my mother and my brother who is 12 years older than me and eventually my sister who is 7 years older than me. Eventually my brother moved in with our grandparents, on our mother’s side, who lived at Surf City, North Carolina.

Our grandfather worked at a local rock quarry and grandmother worked at a diner just before you cross the bridge onto Topsail Island. When he graduated high school my grandfather finally retired and they all moved to be closer to their family. By then my sister moved in with them to keep from being verbally abused by our father. A few years later I was born and my father looked like he was mellowing out a bit. That is until I was four years old.

I don’t remember what was being said or fully understand the situation at the time but my life after that night 

became different. I was in my parents’ bedroom as they argued and exchanged words back and forth. Many loud and explicit words all the while as my dad were packing a suitcase. They dropped me off at my grandmother’s, on my father side, while they drove away. I looked forward to stay with my grandmother for I had my own chair next to a window where I could watch cars drive by or see the deer walk around the fields.

But that night as they dropped me off there was a huge thunderstorm coming in and as I watched them drive away I could see lots of lightning and heavy rain from the window. My grandmother told me that my dad was moving away and wasn’t coming home again. Later on I learned that he was having an affair and once my mother found out about it pretty much killed the marriage. My mother was carrying him to live with her as she stayed a few days to sort things out for herself.

For many years after that I seldom saw him unless he visited my grandmother. I do remember riding on a motorcycle as we drove through a few fields and on the open road. No helmets at all. But primarily I would hear my mother refer to him as in a very frank and demeaning way. As a child growing up I would honestly take it as fact and viewed him the same way. I did spend a few weekends from time to time with him and his new wife but we never really did anything together.

We watched TV without talking to each other. And if we did go somewhere I was treated as luggage. To paint a better picture of this, his wife, the other woman, had a pug dog that she worship the ground he walked on. The dog ate before I did, he was given toys and spoiled rotten and when we drove around or did anything that resembled a family outing, I had to ride in the back of the enclosed pickup truck that smelled like animal vomit and diesel fuel. All because that dog might hurt himself back there. All the while I was holding back my vomit.

The last time I was with his was a weekend I was more than anxious to be with him. We were going fishing out on a boat. I counted the days until that Saturday morning when he and one of his fishing buddies picked me up and we headed for a lake near Middlesex, North Carolina. We got all the gear out and onto the boat and then all of what love I had for him died moments later. He handed me a fishing pole, bait and a couple of dollars for breakfast when the convenient store opened up. Then they went out onto the lake and out of view.

An elementary school kid playing around a bridge by the road as other fishermen were going by inquiring as to why I was all by myself. Only to receive the same warning as to stay clear of the road as they themselves journeyed out unto the lake. The store opened up as I survived on junk food and soda until evening time when they returned from fishing. They caught plenty of fish and in short time I was home in a most grumpy and foul mood. I never saw him again for years after that day.

The years leading up to that fishing trip with my brother and sister, we would visit him every Christmas Eve as we gave him presents and he’ll open them  and set them aside. To the best of my memory I never received any form of gifts from him except for some pocket money for me to feed myself. As much as my mother and grandparents pushed me, it became clear that I was never going to see that man again. And it stayed true for many years until one Sunday afternoon I was with my brother and sister as we went to the hospital in Wilson, North Carolina as I was told by my brother, to visit a friend of his.  

Once inside the hospital my brother told me the real reason we were there. Our dad was there for surgery on both of his knees. Reluctantly I went with him. In the hospital room the TV was on a basketball game and I didn’t even look at my dad the whole time while many family and friends came in to visit. I just focused on the game on TV and zoned out all the other events going on in the room. And I hate basketball.

When it came time to leave, my brother and sister said their goodbyes as they left the room. I went up to him, noticing the condition he was in and without a thought in my head or for that matter any emotions connecting me to this man, I proceeded to do something I have never done before. Even to this day I still don’t know what came over me and chalked it up to an out of body experience or possession if you will. But looking at him in the hospital bed I leaned over to him and gave him a huge hug.

As my brother and sister were in the hallway waiting we began to leave when my sister forgot her purse and went to retrieve it. Minutes later she came back crying. My brother thought dad had said something to her. She said that when she went back to his room dad was crying his eyes out. And he told her what I had done and it became clear at that moment that this was perhaps the first time we actual hugged each other. It was also the first time I saw my brother in shock but all the while I wanted to simply go home.

Time moves on and eventually dad gets a divorce and another wife. And I find myself living in California and other parts of the world. Eventually my mother who has mellowed a bit towards my dad informed me that he is dying. He had cancer that was eating away at his body and was given a few more months to live. Eventually I called him and we talked for a while. Nothing serious just regular chit chats with once again as we said our goodbyes over the phone I told him that I loved him. After I hung up the phone I just sat puzzled for a long time trying to figure out why I said that and  chalked it up to a slip of the tongue.  A few weeks later he died.

I felt nothing. My supervisor was going to give me time to go to the funeral but I turned him down. I didn’t cry or get emotional in any way. My friends though that I was grieving in private but in reality I just forgot everything about him and went on with my life with no regrets or feelings towards him. That is until I got married that eventually put my whole life on a collision course back with my dad.

Like in the irony of life or whatever you want to call it, I have the same name as my dad. But I never used that name. Instead I only went by my middle name Doug until my wife forced me to go by my first name. We met through a close personal friend and very quickly we found ourselves getting married in Korea in August 1995 just as a typhoon was getting ready to hit the country. Eventually she went back to Japan and I to America where we proceeded with the immigration paper work. Another adventure in of itself.

Until she could move legally to America we corresponded frequently through letters and occasional phone calls. She always addressed me by my first name as did her entire family. I was being slowly programed by a rather large Okinawan family in getting used to being called by that name. And as we started our family life together she would always call me by that name. And one day as we were together it hit me as to what was happening to me. I was living my life by using my dad as a model.

To be more exact, what my dad did to my mother and his kids I did the opposite. I chose to live my life in being nothing like his. I refused to drink alcohol. I kept manners and helped out whenever I could. I even enjoyed giving gifts to friends and donating money and time to strangers. Becoming nothing like my dad in the way he raised me or my brother and sister. As I became a dad myself, I forced myself to really provide for my family. To take care of their needs and provided a home to where my kids would be proud to call me dad.

And one day as me and my youngest son are walking around Wal Mart looking for the rest of the family, my son casually and openly say that I was a great dad. Needless to say a lot of emotions started bubbling to the surface. I tell my wife what he said and they all agree that I’m doing a good job as a husband and dad. I accomplished this on-the-job task by the way I saw my dad raise us. How he treated us and provided nothing like a father should for his family made me want to be nothing like him.

Many years later I find myself looking towards my dad as being the best teacher in my life. He taught me to be nothing like him. To not make the same mistakes he made. Creating regrets and to die lonely and far removed for your true family. What would my life have been like if I lived a life similar to his? Would I be drunk all the time or have been to bed with lots of women catching who knows what diseases going around today.

I looked to my dad as an example of what not to do throughout my whole life as someone I wanted to be nothing like or have anything to do with a type of person like him. As I am married with kids I see that I did learn a lot from my dad.  Who showed me what small mistakes look like when they grow too large. How casual sex can destroy so many people.

Even the woman my dad had an affair with whom he later married left him for someone else. And the next woman he married letted him waste away as he was slowly dying just so she could get his insurance money. My dad was a living example of what not to do. He educated me by example and it only costed him a family. I know there were a lot of things he wanted to sayto me the last time we talked. The cancer had made him very weak and he couldn’t say it but as I look at my own kids I can envision everything he wanted to say.

He died before I got married as he never got a chance to see her or his grandchildren. I doubt he made it to heaven. Hopefully somewhere other than hell but wherever he may be, I hope he know that I now love him.

Melvin Perry