THE MUSES

Muse

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This article is about the goddesses. For other uses, see Muse (disambiguation).

The nine muses — Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Erato, Melpomene,Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania — on a Romansarcophagus (2nd century AD, from the Louvre)

The Muses (Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι Mousai; perhaps from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men-"think")^[1] in Greek mythology, poetry and literature, are the goddesses of the inspiration of literature, science andthe arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture, that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths.

The Muses, the personification of knowledge and the arts, especially literature, dance and music, are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (who was memorypersonified). Sometimes they are referred to as waternymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and withPieris. According to Pausanias in the later 2nd century AD,^[2] there were three original Muses, worshiped on Mount Heliconin Boeotia. In later tradition, four Muses were recognised: Thelxinoë, Aoedē, Arche, and Meletē, said to be daughters of Zeus and Plusia or of Uranus. In Renaissance and Neoclassical art, the dissemination of emblem books such as Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (1593 and many further editions) helped standardize the depiction of the Muses in sculpture and painting.

The Muses were both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike (hence the English term "music") was just "one of the arts of the Muses". Others included Science, Geography, Mathematics, Philosophy, and especially Art, Drama, and inspiration. Some authors invoke Muses when writing poetry, hymns or epic history. The invocation typically occurs at or near the beginning, and calls for help or inspiration, or simply invites the Muse to sing through the author. The British poet Robert Graves popularised the concept of the Muse-poet in modern times.^{[citation needed]}His concept was based on pre-12th century traditions of the Celtic poets, the tradition of the medieval troubadours who celebrated the concept of courtly love, and the romantic poets.

UNIT 731 REVISITED

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Most of us heard about the horrible experiments on humans of the Nazis done by doctor Mengele. But the Nazis weren’t alone in conducting cruel experiments on humans. One of the lesser known atrocities of the 20th century was committed by the Imperial Japanese Army’s Unit 731. Some of the details of this unit’s activities are still uncovered. This webpage was set up to collect and organize the information known to date about Unit 731 and present it to anyone interested. For 40 years, the horrific activities of "Unit 731" remained one the most closely guarded secrets of World War II. It was not until 1984 that Japan acknowledged what it had long denied - vile experiments on humans conducted by the unit in preparation for germ warfare. Deliberately infected with plague, anthrax, cholera and other pathogens, an estimated 3,000 of enemy soldiers and civilians were used as guinea pigs. Some of the more horrific experiments included vivisection without anesthesia and pressure chambers to see how much a human could take before his eyes popped out. Unit 731 was set up in 1938 in Japanese-occupied China with the aim of developing biological weapons. It also operated a secret research and experimental school in Shinjuku, central Tokyo. Its head was Lieutenant Shiro Ishii. The unit was supported by Japanese universities and medical schools which supplied doctors and research staff. The picture now emerging about its activities is horrifying. According to reports never officially admitted by the Japanese authorities, the unit used thousands of Chinese and other Asian civilians and wartime prisoners as human guinea pigs to breed and develop killer diseases. Many of the prisoners, who were murdered in the name of research, were used in hideous vivisection and other medical experiments, including barbaric trials to determine the effect of frostbite on the human body. To ease the conscience of those involved, the prisoners were referred to not as people or patients but as "Maruta", or wooden logs. Before Japan’s surrender, the site of the experiments was completely destroyed, so that no evidence is left. Then, the remaining 400 prisoners were shot and employees of the unit had to swear secrecy. The mice kept in the laboratory were then released, which could have cost the lives of 30,000 people, since the mice were infected with the bubonic plague, and they spread the disease. Few of those involved with Unit 731 have admitted their guilt. Some caught in China at the end of the war were arrested and detained, but only a handful of them were prosecuted for war crimes. In Japan, not one was brought to justice. In a secret deal, the post-war American administration gave them immunity for prosecution in return for details of their experiments. Some of the worst criminals, including Hisato Yoshimura, who was in charge of the frostbite experiments, went on to occupy key medical and other posts in public and private sectors. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/17/world/unmasking-horror-a-special-report-japan-confronting-gruesome-war-atrocity.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm War Atrocity By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: March 17, 1995 EMAIL PRINT He is a cheerful old farmer who jokes as he serves rice cakes made by his wife, and then he switches easily to explaining what it is like to cut open a 30-year-old man who is tied naked to a bed and dissect him alive, without anesthetic. "The fellow knew that it was over for him, and so he didn't struggle when they led him into the room and tied him down," recalled the 72-year-old farmer, then a medical assistant in a Japanese Army unit in China in World War II. "But when I picked up the scalpel, that's when he began screaming. "I cut him open from the chest to the stomach, and he screamed terribly, and his face was all twisted in agony. He made this unimaginable sound, he was screaming so horribly. But then finally he stopped. This was all in a day's work for the surgeons, but it really left an impression on me because it was my first time." Finally the old man, who insisted on anonymity, explained the reason for the vivisection. The Chinese prisoner had been deliberately infected with the plague as part of a research project -- the full horror of which is only now emerging -- to develop plague bombs for use in World War II. After infecting him, the researchers decided to cut him open to see what the disease does to a man's inside. No anesthetic was used, he said, out of concern that it might have an effect on the results. ________________________________________________________________ But the Unit was not only infamous for its vivisections. Some prisoners sent to Unit 731 were taken outside and tied to stakes. The Japanese would then test new biological weapons such as plague cultures or bombs filled with plague-infested fleas on them. Other studies involved exposing human guinea pigs, called 'logs' by the Japanese scientists, to their limits. Humans were locked inside pressure chambers to test how much the body could take before their eyes popped out. Some human test subjects were taken outside during the harsh winter until their limbs froze off for the doctors to experiment how best to treat frostbite. Since the Japanese army used poison gas during the war, one of the Unit 731’s mission was to develop a more potent poison gas, thus prisoners were subjected to poisoning. In 1984, a graduate student at Keio Medical University in Tokyo found records of human experiments in a bookstore. The pages described the effects of massive dosages of tetanus vaccine. There were tables describing the length of time it took victims to die and recorded the muscle spasms in their bodies. At least 3,000 people, not just Chinese but also Russians, Mongolians and Koreans, died from the experiments performed by Unit 731 between 1939 and 1945. No prisoner came out alive of the Unit’s gates. During the war, the Japanese Imperial Army used biological weapons developed and manufactured by Unit 731's laboratory in Harbin throughout China, killing or injuring an estimated 300,000 people. Aftermath Facebook http://www.unit731.org/Aftermath.html For its part, the Japanese government did not acknowledge the existence of Unit 731 until recently. When it became apparent that Japan would be defeated, Japanese soldiers destroyed the headquarters of Unit 731. The Chinese later rebuilt some of the main buildings and began setting up a museum in 1982. Eight years ago, 180 Chinese victims and families of victims sued the Japanese government, demanding an apology, compensation and a full disclosure of Unit 731's activities. Last month, the Tokyo High Court acknowledged the existence of Unit 731 but upheld a lower court ruling that denied the plaintiffs compensation. None of the Japanese scientists in Unit 731 was ever punished. In 1946, US General Douglas MacArthur granted all the Japanese scientists immunity from war crimes prosecution in exchange for the germ warfare data gathered from experiments in Harbin. As explained in an internal War Department memorandum, dated June 23, 1947: "Since it is believed that the USSR possesses only a small portion of the technical information, and since any war-crimes action would completely reveal such data to all nations, it is felt that such publicity must be avoided in the interests of defense and security of the U.S. It is believed also that the war-crimes prosecution of Gen. Ishii and his associates would serve to stop the flow of much additional information of a technical and scientific nature." Gen. Ishii lived on the outskirts of Tokyo until his death in 1959. Other "graduates" of Unit 731 include the former governor of Tokyo, the former president of the Japan Medical Association, the former director of the health ministry's preventive health research centre, the former chairman and president of Green Cross Corp. and the past heads of a number of Japanese medical schools. The man in charge of vivisections, Yoshisuke Murata, became director of the respected Kyoto University medical school, and later medical director at Kinki University. In 1981, a fictionalized work by journalist Seiichi Morimura was published called Gluttonous Devils, which was based in part on interviews with surviving Japanese who worked at the laboratory. It was filled with accounts of victims being subjected to freezing, high pressure and vivisection. Yoshio Shinozuka Facebook As all the prisoners of Unit 731 were killed, and the employees swore secrecy about the experiments, first-hand testimonies are very hard to come by. Yoshio Shinozuka, 69, of Yokaichi City, east of Tokyo, was a 15-year-old Imperial Army Youth Corps cadet when he was assigned to Unit 731 in Manchuria in May, 1939. He stayed with the unit until August, 1943. After the war, he remained with an active unit in China, was arrested there in 1952 along with other former Unit 731 members and detained until 1956 without being prosecuted. He said he had been assigned to a germ-producing section of Unit 731 which had experimented mostly with rats, and also had been involved with epidemic prevention research. From time to time, more experienced Youth Corps members were asked to help with human experiments although security was tight and secrecy obsessive. "There was a special cell (for human experiments) which had a window but it was almost impossible to see in," he said. "It had iron doors which were always locked and guarded. To get in, you needed special permits and a pass with a photograph, and the entrance and exit times were recorded. It was very strict. "Towards the end of my time with the unit I went in twice when maruta experiments were being conducted. The two people seemed to have just died and had been opened up. "My job was to collect parts containing the bacteria and put them in a glass case . . . for confirmation of how far the disease had spread through the body." Mr Shinozuka said that after four years of training with, and "brain-washing" by, the unit, he knew what was happening at Harbin and was not surprised at what he saw in the cell. He had not even felt guilt at being part of it. It was only after the war, when he was in custody of the Chinese, that he had become aware of the full horror of Unit 731's activities. "Before the war, we were told we'd have to fight to protect ourselves, our families and the Japanese people. "When we were detained by the Chinese, we found the authorities treated us humanely, whereas I saw our treatment of them had been inhumane. We were surprised," he said. "That's one reason I've decided to speak out. The other is that what really happened with Unit 731 had to be made public so that it will never be repeated. Our young people have to be told the truth." © UNIT731.org -

Seer and Prophet Calchas

Homer's oral energy illusive in reading the poem as literature merely
Rage of Achilles  is equivalent to the rage of the core of the soul -metaphysical rage we cannot comprehend through our modern lens of reference -we cannot see the world magically or mythically as we have a very faint connection to other and higher worlds that the pagans of antiquity as well as the ancient Christians had for  a short while.We do not have the second sight, the immediacy of that sight i the sense the ancients had second sight as Homer maintains of Calchas,the seer.

Reading the play Iphigenia at Aulis will further enlighten us as to the central role of Calchas in this epic notwithstanding the paucity of space reserved for him.

Definition: Calchas, son of Thestor, was a seer from a family of seers. Agamemnon employed the services of Calchas in the Trojan War.

Calchas predicted that it would take the Greeks 10 years to defeat Troy.

Calchas was the seer who told Agamemnon that if he wished to be able to set sail from Aulis, he would have to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis. He also knew that Agamemnon was to blame for the pestilence Apollo sent the Greeks.

Calchas advised the Greeks they needed the bow of Hercules to win the Trojan War.

Calchas

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Calchas presides at the sacrifice ofIphigeneia in a peristyle fresco fromPompeii.

In Greek mythology, Calchas (/ˈkælkəs/; Ancient Greek: Κάλχας, possibly meaning "bronze-man"), son of Thestor, was an Argive seer, with a gift for interpreting the flight of birds that he received of Apollo: "as an augur, Calchas had no rival in the camp".^[1] He also interpreted the entrails of the enemy during the tide of battle.^[2]

Career[edit]

It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended. The episode was related at length in the lostCypria, of the Epic Cycle. He also states that Troy will be sacked on the tenth year of the war.^[3]

In the Iliad, Calchas tells the Greeks that the captive Chryseis must be returned to her father Chryses in order to get Apollo to stop the plague he has sent as a punishment: this triggered the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the main theme of the Iliad.

In Sophocles' Ajax, Calchas delivers a prophecy to Teucer suggesting that the protagonist will die if he leaves his tent before the day is out.

Calchas also plays a role in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica. Calchas said that if they were brief, they could convince Achilles to fight. It is he rather than Helenus (as suggested in Sophocles' Philoctetes) that predicts that Troy will only fall once the Argives are able to recruit Philoctetes.^[4] It is by his advice that they halt the battle, even though Neoptolemus is slaughtering the Trojans. He also tells the Argives that the city is more easily taken by strategy than by force. He endorsesOdysseus' suggestion that the Trojan Horse will effectively infiltrate the Trojans. He also foresees that Aeneas will survive the battle and found the city, and tells the Argives that they will not kill him. He did not join the Argives when they boarded the ships, as he foresaw the impending doom of the Kapherean Rocks.^[5]

Death[edit]

Calchas died of shame at Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War (as told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying, although Strabo^[6] placed an oracle of Calchas on Monte Garganoin Magna Graecia. It is also said that Calchas died of laughter when the day that was to be his death day arrived and the prediction didn't seem to materialize.

In medieval and later versions of the myth, Calchas is portrayed as a Trojan defector and the father of Chryseis, now calledCressida

Japanese atrocities

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cibgG_V3WBc#t=78

Japanese atrocities by far outstrip even the Nazi atrocities in Europe. Incredible, and unbelievable bestiality ensued through out the rape of Nanjing, the attacks on Shanghai.,the biowarfare over 20 provinces of China with an aggregate 6 million deaths.
Holocaust -over 6 million Chinese died from tortured and massacre
Japan's consistent lack of remorse and reparations refused to the victims
Unit 731  horrid practices given in this video
plague bombs
vivisections w/o anesthesia
POW  horrific experiments  pressure chambers   terrible agony
mummified alive  frostbite experiments, then amputations
bubonic plague over villages  germ warfare
Nanjing massacre   kill burn and loot all, decapitations, drowning, live burials,castration, people buried to waste and torn apart by  dogs, impaling babies and tossing them into boiling water
mass rapes, then stabbed and killed afterward, cannibalism of dead victims

  SUFFERINGS OF POW'S-  MANY CRIMINALS RELEASED BY GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

COMFORT WOMEN   COMFORT STATIONS THROUGH OUT OCCUPIED CHINA, EAST INDIES   SEXUAL SERVICE 20-50 x PER DAY  MANY SUICIDES  AT LEAST 125 MILLION RAPES  OVER THE WAR YEARS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt7zlBlHQFs
STEAL ALL KILL ALL, BURN ALL
MASSIVE LOOTING BEGAN IN NANKING   SUMATRA MALAYSIA ,STOLEN ALL OF THESE GOLD AND TREASURES -PRINCE CHICHIVU  OF IMPERIAL FAMILY INVOLVED  MELTED DOWN IN SINGAPORE AND PHILIPPINES -BURIED IN CAVES -SUNK IN TOKYO BAY
MACARTHUR SHOGUN OF JAPAN  STRUCK A DEAL WITH EMPEROR HIROHITO AND ROYAL FAMILY  US TOOK TREASURE  AND IN THE DEAL LET  IMPERIAL FAMILY LIVE

LT GEN ISHII NEVER PROSECUTED DEAL STRUCK HE AND UNIT 731 PARTICIPANTS WOULD NEVER BE PROSECUTED IN EXCHANGE FOR INFORMATION HANDED OVER TO THE US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgtIyNRv3g8
UNIT 731
LT GEN SHIRO ISHII RECRUITED ALLIES TO KEEP SECRET   LED UP TO HIRO HITO
HARBIN DEDICATED TO BIO WARFARE APPROVED BY EMPEROR HIRO HITO

PINGFAN PRISONS FILLED WITH FODDER SUBURB OF HARBIN JAP GOVT FUNDED THE ENTIRE PROJECT  STAFFED WITH SUPERB SCIENTISTS AD DR'S    DEHUMANIZATION
TWISTED LANGUAGE   SUBJECTS CALLED LOGS
LIVE VIVISECTIONS W/O ANESTHETIC
EXPOSED TO DIRECT BOMB BLASTS TESTED ----MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN
DR'S SW THEIR WORK AS NOBLE WORK FOR THE EMPEROR

RATS DELIVERY OF BUBONIC PLAGUE  TO OVER 20 PROVINCES   FOUND PERFECT DELIVERY SYSTEM  BY AIR  , POISONING WATER SUPPLIES
CERAMIC BOMB WITH FLEAS  BOMB DISINTEGRATED
MUKDEN CAMP POW'S
PLAGUE 1947, 30,000 DIED
COVER UP  UNIT 731
CORRUPTION OF OUR SCENTIFIC COMMUNITY
UNIT 731  STORY SHOWN WORKLDWIDE
HARBIN MUSEUM

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Diabetes drug may delay prostate cancer progression

Among older men, prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer.

Type 2 diabetes is a common condition as well — and it’s not uncommon

for older men to have both diseases.

This information set the stage for a recent analysis of men who had

prostate cancer and diabetes and who frequently used a diabetes drug called

metformin (Glucophage, Glumetza, Fortamet). About half the men in the

study took metformin. Men taking metformin for their diabetes had a 24

percent lower chance of dying of prostate cancer in the first six months of

metformin use than did men taking other diabetes medications.

The research, published in the Journal of Clinic Oncology, was based on

past medical records. In addition to a significantly reduced risk of dying of

prostate cancer, men taking metformin for diabetes also experienced a 7

percent reduction in risk of death by any cause over two years, compared

with men who didn’t take the drug.

Mayo Clinic doctors say that this intriguing analysis suggests the possibility

that a relatively safe and inexpensive drug may be helpful in treating

prostate cancer. However, the link in this study is merely an association.

More robust research is necessary to determine true cause and effect. In addition,

other questions remain, such as whether metformin may be helpful

in those with prostate cancer who don’t have diabetes. It’s too early to recommend

metformin for anyone with prostate cancer, but for those with prostate

cancer and type 2 diabetes, metformin may be a treatment choice

Nerve damage — Injury to nerves

that sense stool in the rectum or that

control the anal sphincters can lead to

fecal incontinence. Damage may be

related to childbirth, a habit of straining

to pass stool, a spinal cord injury, a

stroke and even certain diseases —

such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis

— that may affect these nerves.

■ Chronic constipation — Ongoing

constipation can lead to a mass of hard,

dry stool in the rectum (impacted stool)

that’s too hard to pass. As a result,

muscles in the rectum and intestines

stretch, eventually weakening and allowing

watery stool from farther up to

leak out around the hard mass. Nerves

in the anus and rectum may become

less responsive to the presence of stool

when there’s chronic constipation.

Loss of storage capacity in the rectum

— Changes in the rectum wall that cause

the rectum to stiffen — such as may occur

from radiation treatment, rectal surgery

or inflammatory bowel disease —

reducing its capacity to hold stool

Treatments vary

Once fecal incontinence is diagnosed

and the likely cause is identified,

your doctor can discuss treatment options

that may be best suited to your

situation. It’s not unusual to use multiple

approaches to treat fecal incontinence.

Among the conservative options are:

■ Dietary changes — What you eat

and drink affects stool consistency and

how fast it passes through your digestive

system. If constipation is causing

fecal incontinence, your doctor may

recommend drinking plenty of fluids

and gradually increasing your intake of

fiber-rich foods. Getting adequate fiber

can help with diarrhea, too, as it bulks

up stool, making it less watery

Medications — Your doctor may

recommend anti-diarrheal drugs or

laxatives, depending on what’s causing

the incontinence. Sometimes, medications

you’re taking for other conditions

can contribute to fecal incontinence. If

that’s the case, your doctor can work

with you to make appropriate medication

changes to help reduce aggravation

of fecal incontinence. With this in mind,

it’s important that your doctor is aware

of all prescription and nonprescription

drugs and supplements you’re taking.

Biofeedback and pelvic floor exercises

— Restoring pelvic floor muscle

strength can improve anal sphincter

muscle control and awareness of the

need to have a bowel movement. Biofeedback

may be used to help you learn

how to properly squeeze and relax pelvic

floor muscles. During biofeedback,

a trained physiotherapist uses special

sensors to measure bodily functions

that help teach you what it feels like

when you actively squeeze and relax

your pelvic floor muscles

Sacral nerve stimulation

A relatively new treatment option

is electrical stimulation of the sacral

nerves. This option may be considered

if more-conservative measures

aren’t successful.

Your sacral nerves run from

your spinal cord to muscles in your

pelvis. These nerves regulate the

sensation and strength of your rectal

and anal sphincter muscles. The

device is implanted in the upper

buttock under the skin and delivers

continuous small electrical impulses

to the sacral nerves to help strengthen

muscles in the bowel.

Sacral nerve stimulation is much

less invasive than are other surgical

approaches, and it carries low risk

of serious complications. Although

long-term results are unknown at this

point, multicenter studies of sacral

nerve stimulation have reported

marked and sustained improvement

in bowel control