Hidden Fire Research Articles

Mother Teresa: A faithful follower of humanity

As far as science is concerned, any state`s growth and development, or a person`s well health, is the most important aspect. Mother Teresa`s inborn desire to live an outstanding life was never easy, and she faced many difficulties and sufferings throughout her life, just as many prophets in the Bible did. Mother Teresa used to have a dream about her future mission in which she felt the impoverished people`s suffering was Jesus` suffering and she considered as her suffering. With her unselfish service in love and care, she was proclaiming God`s Fatherhood to all of the whole humanity. She was a beam of hope for all the souls in and around her life who were searching for authentic humanness in the twentieth century and for many. With nothing but her faith to guide her, she ventured into the slums, bringing hope and solace to those on the outskirts of society. Mother`s ideals and teachings are the teachings of Christ, which she lived out in her life and seen in her service. The angel of the slums and the hidden fire within her had a dream to accomplish in spreading gospel ideals via her manner of life. Her brilliant heart draws attention to her secret activities, attracting all the religion to her eager service.

INFLUENCE OF MIDDLE EAST ARMED CONFLICTS INTO BATTLEFIELD CHANGES

Wars conducted in the Middle East after the WWII significantly affected the course of military strategy, and combat tactics, and military technology. Presented paper describes circumstances of local wars and military conflicts in the Middle East and their influence on development of warfare art and technology. The wars with Israel which were lost by the Arabic countries in 20th century affected development of military strategy and tactics of using the armoured weapons and air forces. They contributed significantly to development of the intelligence, and antiaircraft combat assets, and antitank weapons. In consecutive wars the Arabic countries were not able to coordinate military operations, what gave possibility for the Israel army to successively defeat armies of particular countries. Military conflicts between Israel and Hamas and Hezbollah, and suffered losses, caused the development of new revolutionary combat assets such as combat vehicles active self-defence systems (Trophy), or antimissile/antiaircraft systems (Irone Dome). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), drones, and precise weapons were widely used. Reconnaissance and military intelligence affected significantly the results of military operations. Palestinian and Lebanese organisations counterweighed the advantages of Israelian army by systems of fortifications, tunnels, and hidden fire positions. Israelian army implemented combat vehicles in urban area fights. They proved to be efficient what denied opinions about uselessness of armoured weapons at urban fights, or even the tanks in the 21st century. The war in Syria indicated the efficient use of combined combat tactics, conventional military operations, and guerrilla and terrorist methods and actions.The high morale represented by Hezbollah and ISIS fighters proved to be an essential component of military operations. Risking own life at fighting the enemies made great impression on them, and disorganised the defence, and provided dazzling successes in the battlefield. Aviation played important role in all operations fighting the forces of Arabic countries, Hamas, Hezbollah, or Islamic State (IS).

The Detection Method of Fire Abnormal Based on Directional Drilling in Complex Conditions of Mine

In the light of more and more urgent hidden fire abnormal detection problem in complex conditions of mine, a method which is used directional drilling technology is put forward. The method can avoid the obstacles in mine, and complete the fire abnormal detection. This paper based on analyzing the trajectory control of directional drilling, measurement while drilling and the characteristic of open branch process, the project of the directional drilling is formulated combination with a complex condition mine, and the detection of fire abnormal is implemented. This method can provide technical support for fire prevention, which also can provide a new way for fire anomaly detection in the similar mine.

Dr Radhakrishnan as a Philosopher

Dr Radhakrishnan’s thinking was Upanishadic. He also firmly believed in the birth of a new order based on ancient Indian wisdom. Drawing his inspiration from the Vedas, the Upanisads and the Gita, Radhakrishnan believed that humanity must become one. What kind of religion did Radhakrishnan advocate? Not a credal or dogmatic one, not an intellectual theology disputing over dogmas and contemplations. Radhakrishnan takes pride in the fact that Hinduism is not bound up with a creed or a dogma, with a founder – prophet or a historical personality, with a book like the Bible or the Quran, but a “persistent search for truth on the basis of a continuously renewed experience”. Radhakrishnan, as an ardent Hindu, could not transcend Hinduism itself. He was respectful of all religions, but it is ultimately Hindu standards by which he judged other religions. Hinduism was always for him the ideal religion, of course, a Hinduism re-interpreted, purged of all that he found distasteful in it. That President Radhakrishnan was a dhvajasthambalam in the temple of our nation’s consciousness: upright and resplendent in rough weather and fair, inspiring us to a higher purpose. K R Srinivas Iyengar noted that without the reserves of the spirit, the inner poise, the hidden fire, all other endowments cannot count for much. And the spirit that moved and sustained our ancient Indian Rishis and Acharyas is not foreign to Professor Radhakrishnan

At Regina . . . from Aeneid, Book Four

At Regina . . .from Aeneid, Book Four Timothy E. Smith (bio) And yet, The queen nourished the wound in her veins. Smitten with blind passion, Consumed by hidden fire, She kept thinking about his greatness, His virtue. She couldn’t help but dwell on the honor of his family. His words, his handsome face kept appearing in her mind, in her heart. Her obsession gave her body no rest. Later, As she gazed out over her lands, Lit with Phoebus’s morning light, Just after Aurora dawn goddess Had driven moist shadows from the sky, She confided in her sympathetic sister A mix of infatuated nonsense And true romantic passion. “Anna my sister, [End Page 84] What dreams torment me! I lie awake, sleepless, through the whole night! Who is this strange visitor? Who has come to our homeland? How nobly he carries himself. What courage in his heart, his chest, His wars. I truly believe—and it is no empty hope, He is the progeny of the gods. Fear always reveals a degenerate man, And he has never known fear. Oh, how he has been tormented by the Fates! What exhausting wars he sang of last night! If it were not already so settled in my mind, If I were not already so resolved That I would never again seek to join anyone in bonds of marriage, After Love cheated me of my first man, Robbed me of him with his early death; If the very thought of the marriage torch did not so wear me out, Then perhaps I could give in to this, My weakness, My desire for love. Anna, I confess it truly now, Since the murder of my poor husband Sychaeus, When my brother—that murderer— Spattered the Penates with his blood, He has been the first, The only one to affect my feelings, To make me doubt my resolve. I recognize the familiar feelings, the trace of an old flame within. But I would hope that the Earth’s jaws would yawn open, [End Page 85] Reveal its gaping depths to me first, Or that the omnipotent father would blast me into the shadows, Hurling his thunderbolt down to the bloodless shades of Erebus, Down to the endless night, Before I ever violate you, oh my vows, Before I let go of you, oh my modesty, my honor. He who first joined me to him, He who stole all of my love, Let him keep it with him. Let him hold it close in his grave.” And with that, she cried, filling her bosom with tears. Anna comforted her with this reply: “Are you really going to waste your life all alone? Pining through your self-imposed punishment, Eternal maidenhood? Will you never again know the sons of sweet Venus? Will you never taste her gifts? Do you really believe the ghosts and ashes care for such things? Let it go! None of your suitors have ever moved you from mourning, None of the Libyans here, nor those who came from Tyre long ago. You snubbed the African chief Iarbas, All the other kings too, good men, Men whom this rich African land showers with wealth and triumph. Why do you fight a love that you can actually love? Don’t you think about who controls these lands you’ve settled? On one side, the camps of the Gaetulians, a race unbeatable in war, Over there, the unbridled Numidians surround us, And then there is the vast, wild quicksand of Syrtis, a barren, desert kingdom, And the raving tribe of the Barca. Don’t forget the wars that might still rise up from our old home, Tyre, The threat of your wicked and greedy brother. [End Page 86] In fact, I think it was under the auspices of the gods themselves, No—I bet it was Juno’s favor that set their course here, She herself sent the winds to blow Trojan ships to our shore! What a city you would see, sister, What a kingdom would rise from such a marriage! Punic glory would vaunt itself to the heavens, Oh, if joined with those Trojan arms! You should pray to the gods for pardon...

Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan by Sho Konishi (review)

Reviewed by: Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan by Sho Konishi Joseph P. Ferguson (bio) Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan. By Sho Konishi. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2013. xiv, 411 pages. $49.95. Sho Konishi’s book, Anarchist Modernity, opens a rich trove of historical material about a movement that has been overlooked by many historians and casual observers of Japanese-Russian relations. Konishi explores cooperation and exchange between Japanese and Russian intellectuals (something he terms “cooperative anarchy”) from the Meiji Restoration to the early decades of the twentieth century. What makes this even more interesting is that the intellectual exchange took place in a time of tremendous political tension between the two nations. At the end of the nineteenth century and during the first two decades of the last century (the focus of this work), cultural contacts between Japan and Russia saw a period of flowering that has never been surpassed in the history of their bilateral relations. The subtitle “Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan” belies the breadth and focus of this work. Konishi explores cultural relations to their fullest. He reaches beyond a typical exploration of literature, drama, or art and closely examines religion, language, natural science, and antistate movements. Although it is widely known that the two governments were (and remain) strategic rivals in Northeast Asia, there was a profound mutual admiration and fascination among the peoples of the two nations in the early twentieth century. Naturally, this admiration was primarily concentrated in the educated and elite urban classes, but it was a strong and deep-seated feeling. One of the few volumes that have taken on this subject is the series of essays in A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868–1926, edited by J. Thomas Rimer (Stanford University Press, 1995). In this book, Rimer writes: “Culture is not independent of politics, but it does have a life of its own, and in nations like Russia and Japan, where cultural accomplishment is esteemed, it can cast a strong and persistent shadow” (p. 8). As Konishi points out in his introduction, “It would be difficult for any student of modern Japanese intellectual life to overlook the immense Russian cultural presence in Japan” (p. 5), comparing it during the Meiji period with the Chinese influence on the intellectual life of Tokugawa Japan and with the U.S. influence on the intellectual life of Japan after World War II. Japan and Russia, as nation-states, have much more in common than is generally assumed. The territorial dispute, dating from the early post-World War II years, is what most casual observers consider when they ponder [End Page 385] Japanese-Russian relations. This topic has been covered extensively in English, Japanese, and Russian. Nevertheless, as developing and modernizing nation-states, both Japan and Russia looked to “catch up” with the West. Additionally, since the early eighteenth century (in the case with Russia) and the late nineteenth century (in the case with Japan), both nations have assumed an uneasy middle ground between East and West and have been racked by political and intellectual debates about where the societies and nation-states belong. Although the focus of Konishi’s work is the intellectual (and cultural) interaction, the larger themes of national identity and modernization should be kept in mind while reading this work. And in the case of the Japanese populace, a deep fascination for Russian art, intellectual history, and culture has persisted since the earliest days of bilateral relations. Konishi’s description of “cooperative anarchy modernity” (regarding Russian intellectual influences in Japan) is that of a movement free from Marxist conceptions of determinism as the material basis for historical developments. For Konishi, anarchism is not opposed to modernity. In the case of Japanese-Russian intellectual relations, anarchism is not a political movement against the state but a cultural, intellectual, and social movement. The discourse and networking among Japanese and Russian intellectuals may have been anarchic, but the cultural and intellectual development arising from this anarchy led to concrete results. Konishi discounts any description of Russian intellectual influence in Japan as “Western” and...

Fire retardant and post-fire nutrient mobility in a mountain surface water—karst groundwater system: the Hidden Fire, Sequoia National Park, California, USA

Nutrient mobility in strongly coupled surface water–groundwater systems is not well studied in fire dominated ecosystems. In 2008, the Hidden Fire in the Kaweah River basin in the Sierra Nevada, CA, USA provided an unexpected opportunity to document how nutrient concentrations change post-fire in a karstic groundwater—surface water system. The results from 4 years of sampling and water quality data (2009–2012) suggest that nutrient byproducts from 94 Phos-Check D75 R fire retardant that was dropped to combat the fire were mobilized into the aquatic system. Dissolved nitrate concentrations sharply increased at most monitoring sites with the onset of winter precipitation and seasonal snowmelt in the spring of 2009, remained elevated during seasonal sampling at some sites in 2010, and were significantly lower in 2011 and 2012. Average nitrate concentrations in sub-basins during the 2009 high-discharge period are strongly correlated with the amount of retardant applied in each sub-basin, but not correlated with the sub-basin area. Dissolved phosphate concentrations were highest upstream of sink points where streams directly recharge marble karst aquifers, and decreased between recharge sites and springs; indicating organic and/or inorganic uptake of P in the subterranean system. Although measured nutrient concentrations were within the range documented post-fire in other aquatic systems that did not receive fire retardant, evidence from the Hidden Fire strongly suggests that fire retardant derived nutrients entered and flushed through the Yucca Creek system, and that managers should consider the potential impacts of retardant application on aquatic ecosystems even when retardant is not applied directly on waterways .

Fire Supervisory System Design Based on Embedded System

This paper introduces fire supervisory system design based on embedded system using by ARM9. Embedded technology and field bus technology are used for the system design. The system can realize detecting on-line. Showing uninterruptedly the information for fire monitory point of the building, the working current for electricity lines, the leakage current, as well as environmental temperature parameters e.g., through the LCD panel. Through this system The fire information of the building and the electrical wiring or the change, fault and abnormal condition for fire danger parameters of the equipment can be mastered at any time, and the hidden fire danger can be found in time, eliminating the hidden fire danger through the alarm and terminal linkage device.

Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature (review)

Reviewed by: Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature Barak Kushner (bio) Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature. By Tomoko Aoyama. University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. viii, 273 pages. $52.00. Tomoko Aoyama's fascinating new book on the meanings and symbols of food in modern Japanese literature aims at debunking the myth, aptly summed up by Higuchi Kiyoyuki, that historically Japan possesses a "literature with no appetite."1 The book is organized more thematically than [End Page 507] chronologically, a feat that will please scholars and students who wish to look across time at various genres of literature. Reading Food is on its way to a gustatory revelation about the true seat of cuisine within the Japanese literary mindset. Aoyama comes to our rescue early in her manifesto to remind us that reading food in modern Japanese literature "involves production, distribution, preparation, and consumption," among other elements (p. 2). She looks at how food is presented in texts but also at what it tells us about relations. Relationships surrounding food are, in Aoyama's opinion, a window on the historical soul of Japan. She makes the claim that "food abounds in modern Japanese literature" (p. 7). To be sure, drinking as a pastime was written about in copious volumes, but scholars seem to have paid less attention to the activity of eating in Japanese literature. Indeed, it is hard to recall a Japanese equivalent to the prevalence of eating in Chinese novels where it is a central part of the culture. In a move to push her analysis away from the singular confines of plot and narrative summaries, the author includes diaries, which have a long history in Japan, under the rubric of literature. Aoyama examines Masaoka Shiki, a poet who lived during the Meiji era until the early 1900s. In testimony to his obsession with food, Masaoka recorded in excruciating detail in his diary his daily health regimen as well as what he ate, which was to be sure a very strange diet. Male diarists were not the only scribes taking note of what they digested; those hungry within Japan's blossoming empire also made bold statements. Hayashi Fumiko's Hōrōki (Journal of a vagabond, 1928-30) listed the appetites of a healthy young woman. Hayashi was known to have said that the only two reasons for living were eating and writing. Aoyama suggests that Hayashi's frank depiction of her economically depressed straits offers a larger commentary on the social and political fissures rife within Japan's expanding imperial empire. Hayashi shared a common experience with the vast majority of Japanese: eager for empire yet not quite satiating their caloric fill. Hayashi was never a Marxist; what moves her is not ideology but hunger and independence. "There isn't any proletariat or bourgeoisie in my head. All I long for is a handful of white rice" (p. 27), she proclaims. One can almost read Aoyama's literary descriptions as a new historical trope for Japanese history—the overwhelming centrality of consumptive desires thwarted by hunger and malnutrition from 1868 to 1945, contrasted with Japan's overabundant yields and excessive consumption from the 1970s until today. In chapter 2 Aoyama analyzes what she labels "down to earth writing," literature written in everyday language for life's sake rather than for poetry's sake. Nagatsuka Takashi's 1910 novel, Tsuchi (The earth), is a detailed study of day-to-day village life. As with Hayashi's self-referential novel, peasants [End Page 508] in the story have barely enough to survive after they sell their crops and pay their rent. Such proletarian-leaning literature reminds one of the Chinese revolutionary author Mao Dun's "Chun can" (Spring silkworms, 1932), in which a family is driven into penury by the day-to-day sacrifices necessary to feed the voracious appetites of the small larvae that could potentially help them reap profits. J. Thomas Rimer's edited volume, Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868-1926 (Stanford University Press, 1995), touched on these issues. Should we see this as "food literature" or should it be classified in a different manner? To her credit, Aoyama defines food widely in...

British intelligence and the causes of unrest in Mesopotamia, 1919–21

In the autumn of 1920 Major N.N.E. Bray, a special intelligence officer attached to the Political Department at the India Office, wrote (in one case in conjunction with the War Office) three major reports on the causes of unrest in Mesopotamia, where a rebellion of substantial proportions, costing tens of thousands of lives, had recently broken out. The conclusions drawn therein, based almost entirely on information collected by British intelligence, were from the British point of view disturbing. For in Bray's view the unrest in Mesopotamia was the product not only of local discontent and faults in the administration, recently established, but also of a wideranging conspiracy, originating in Berlin and Moscow.' With the publication of Masayuki Yamauchi's The Green Crescent under the Red Star: Enver Pasha in Soviet Russia, 1919-22 and other recent studies, it now becomes possible to check the evidence presented by Bray, in support of his thesis, and test the validity of his conclusions.2 The results are surprising. While much, but by no means all, of the material contained in Bray's reports proves reasonably accurate, the conclusions drawn, though at first sight valid, must be considered, with the advantage of hindsight, misleading. Bray's interest in questions concerning the external causes of sedition in the British Empire in Asia appears to have originated in remarks made by Sir Charles Cleveland, Head of the India secret service, at a a meeting, chaired by Field Marshal Lord Nicholson, Chief of Staff of the British Army, held at the military headquarters building, Simla, in 1911. At that meeting, supposedly called to review the question of expenditure on the army in India, but in fact mainly concerned with the threat posed to British authority in the subcontinent by the rising tide of nationalism in the area, Cleveland so Bray, who attended the meeting, later recalled had remarked that in India they did not only have to deal with political agitation, but also with sedition, fostered in baffling secrecy. Unrest was spreading like a hidden fire. Suppressed in one place it immediately broke out in another. 'These outbreaks are interconnected, highly organised and my impression ... is that they are controlled by one great intellect, but whose?

The development of a hidden fire challenge

In accordance with the Montreal Protocol, production of all Halon fire suppressants ceased on 1 January 1994. FAR/JAR regulations require Halon 1211 or equivalent hand extinguishers to be installed on transport category aircraft. Although there is a Halon ’bank‘, a replacement agent will have to be found. The Aviation Authorities require that ’no loss of safety‘ should occur if a replacement agent is used. One proven benefit provided by Halon 1211 is the ability to extinguish hidden fires by a total flooding effect. Therefore, it is necessary to quantify the hidden fire-extinguishing ability exhibited by Halon 1211. Following an invitation for competitive tenders to develop a standard hidden fire test protocol, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) awarded a contract to Kidde International Research. After some range-finding work, a suitable test fixture was devised. This test fixture comprised arrays of four fires in two of five locations to establish in which regions an extinguishing concentration had been attained. A matrix of 10 tests ensured that each fire location was adequately represented. Tests have been carried out with hand extinguishers from four manufacturers. Results varied from 45% extinguishment to 60%, depending on the quantity of Halon contained in the extinguisher, and the discharge rate (a faster discharge rate creates more turbulence, aiding mixing and dispersion). In addition, tests were carried out using under- and over-filled extinguishers to examine the sensitivity of the test method. With the exception of one hand extinguisher, all results could be correlated to the mass and mass flow rate of agent used. This device extinguished a significantly higher percentage of fires than would be expected, based on its mass/mass flow rate characteristics. Limited testing was carried out with six Halon replacements: FM-200, FE-25, CEA-4.10, CEA-6.14, FE-36 and Triodide, using apparatus designed to give a constant discharge time (10±1 s). The results obtained appeared to be similar to Halon 1211 (50±5% extinguishment), provided the quantity of agent is scaled according to its n-heptane cupburner concentration. The two exceptions are agents with markedly different volatilities to Halon 1211 (b.p.−4°C): FE-25, b.p. −49° C, (65% extinguishment) and CEA-6.14, b.p.+58°C (35% extinguishment). Implications for the size and weight of a hand extinguisher, based on the results of these tests, are for the physically acting agents, a weight penalty of 1.4 to 2.6, and a volume penalty of 1.9 to 2.9. If Triodide is considered, there is a weight penalty of 1.06, and no volume penalty. However, it should be borne in mind that any hand extinguisher, before it is evaluated against hidden files, will have had to have passed the traditional ratings (currently UL 5B:C, BS 3A:34B) to be approved for aviation use. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868–1926. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. Stanford: Stanford University Press and Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. xix, 289 pp. $45.00.

A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868–1926. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. Stanford: Stanford University Press and Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. xix, 289 pp. $45.00. - Volume 55 Issue 4

Reviews of Books

Reviews of Books

A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters 1868-1926.

A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters 1868-1926.

A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868-1926

A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters, 1868-1926

The Fire

is yours, not without a fight. And also, in Scott County, what is yours includes the right to walk up to any man and look him in the eye. You may not have a job, and your businesses may have failed one after another, but you have the right to shake hands with one of the senators from Tennessee and call him Howard Junior. In Scott County, Uncle Thurman wanted me to know, you have to be loyal, but you have the right to choose who gets your loyalty. The boys in lowland Tennessee can't tell you who to fight anymore than the fellows in Washington or the Kaiser in Germany can. And when you do pledge your loyalty—to General Winfield Scott or to the United States of America, or to the Board of Education of the County of Scott—then it is your responsibility to be ready to lay down your life, even for the football ticket money. The Fire A fire that's built from sticks will burn bright, but it dies so quickly, a cannibal flare. A fire that is burning low and sure, banked tightly against the storm and the night, its coals secret, hidden from the open air, may smolder forever, hot and pure. Perhaps our love is such a hidden fire, a low-banked one that is easy to feed, a bed of glowing coals just ready to roast, an easily kindled flame of desire, a means to fill our every need, a fire of which only a few can boast. It comforts me to know that when we're old our bed of coals will not grow cold. —Susanne R. Turner 58 ...