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The Burro Fire grew to about 287 acres Saturday afternoon in a remote area of the San Juan National Forest about 23 miles northeast of Dolores.
Firefighters from the U.S. Forest Service and several local fire departments responded about 4 p.m. Friday to the wildfire, about five miles south of Colorado Highway 145 along the Bear Creek trail.
Fire restrictions
Stage 2 fire restrictions are in place throughout Southwest Colorado.
Prohibited acts include:No campfires, including in developed campgrounds and recreation areas. No charcoal or coal barbecues or wood-burning stoves. Gas, pressurized cannister powered stoves with shut-off valves are allowed if they are at least 3 feet away from flammable material such as grass.No open burning, burn barrels or agricultural burns without prior approval.No smoking, except for in a building or vehicle.No welding, use of open-flame torches, pipe-fitting, or metal grinding without a fire-watch official present with proper mitigation tools.Oil and gas welding and cutting operations can be done only in an area with a radius of at least 20 feet from all flammable materials.No use of equipment with an internal combustion engine without a properly installed spark arresting device, including chain saws, ATVs and generators.No use of chain saws without a spark-arresting device and a readily accessible fire extinguisher and shovel.No explosives such as fireworks and tracer round bullets.Note that agencies such as the Forest Service may have different restrictions.San Juan National ForestNo traveling off marked roads, trails and parking areas in cars or off-road vehicles.Discharging a firearm, air rifle or gas gun is prohibited on all land in the San Juan National Forest.
The fire scorched 3 to 5 acres by 5 p.m. Friday. By 6:30 p.m., the fire grew to 40 acres, according to Dolores District Ranger Derek Padilla, who was at the scene. By Saturday afternoon, the fire, which was burning in ponderosa pine and fir on a northeast-facing wall, was estimated at 287 acres after a mapping flight by a multi-mission aircraft. The fire rapidly moved downslope and southward into Bear Creek drainage, Padilla said, and on Saturday, it was burning on both sides of Bear Creek and spreading to the northeast. Containment was 0 percent, the San Juan National Forest said about 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Campers were evacuated and hikers have been directed to safety, but no structures or private land were threatened, according to the Dolores Ranger District of the San Juan National Forest.
San Juan National Forest technician James Godwin is stationed at road closure Forest Service Roads 561 and 350 near Transfer campground. Dispersed campers were being told to leave, including a large ATV group.
"Everyone has been compliant and understand it is for public safety," he said.
Jeremiah Frane's family had to pack up and leave. "We are making the best of it," he said.
Roads and trails closedThe Colorado Trail was closed from Molas Pass to Junction Creek, and the La Plata County Sheriff's Office was conducting a sweep of the trail from the eastern side of the Hermosa Creek watershed, while San Juan National Forest staff conducted a sweep from the western side.
The Roaring Fork, Gold Run and Bear Creek trails, as well as Forest Road 435 and Hillside Road (Forest Service Road 436) were closed Friday. About noon Saturday, the San Juan National Forest also closed an area bounded by the Divide Road (FSR 564), Roaring Fork Road (FSR 435), Scotch Creek Road (FSR 550), Windy Gap Area Road (FSR 350), Spruce Mill Road (FSR 351), and Upper Hay Camp Area Road (FSR 556).
The closure prohibits all public entry into the closed area, including campgrounds, trails, trailheads and National Forest System roads.
The closure will remain in effect until July 31 or until rescinded. It might also be extended because of fire activity, forest officials said. Violations of the closure carry a penalty of at least $5,000 and six months in prison.
The existing order to close the Hermosa Creek watershed remains in effect.
Air quality, weather worsenOn Saturday morning, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment issued an air quality advisory for portions of Southwest Colorado, including northeast Montezuma County, because of the smoke from the Burro and 416 fires. If visibility is less than 5 miles in your area, smoke has reached levels that are unhealthy, the press release said. Residents with heart disease or respiratory illnesses as well as the very young and the elderly, are most vulnerable.
The National Weather Service forecast for Saturday called for 8 to 13 percent humidity, 40 mph wind gusts, and high temperatures in the mid-80s. A red flag alert was in effect because of the heightened risk of fires, and Stage 2 fire restrictions are in effect throughout the San Juan National Forest.
The firefightPadilla said firefighters from Cortez, Dolores, Rico and the Bureau of Land Management responded to the fire. Patrick Seekins, Forest Service fire management officer, was assigned as the incident commander.
Padilla told a Journal reporter at the scene that 30 to 40 firefighters were involved with the blaze, including seven or eight smokejumpers, two helicopters and two fire engines.
Padilla said that the Dolores Ranger District has been preparing for an active fire season, and has local firefighting resources were available to fight the Burro Fire without pulling crews from other fires.
The Type 3 federal firefighting crew has not yet requested mutual aid from local fire districts at this point, said Mike Zion, Chief of the Dolores Fire District. Zion also emphasized that because of the severe dry conditions, it was important that local fire crews be held in reserve to respond to any new fire.
Hitting new wildfires quickly with air support dumping water and fire retardant is critical, Zion said, and the state has agreed to pay for the first 24 hours of planes and helicopters on any fire.
"The state recognizes how important it is to get control of these fire right away, and have given chiefs the authority to order air support if needed," Zion said.
A San Juan National Forest press release at 8 p.m. Friday confirmed said that no resources were diverted from the 416 Fire north of Durango, 13 miles away on the opposite side of the Hermosa Creek watershed.
"The resources were available from local and pre-positioned out-of-the-area resources," the press release from Cam Hooley said. Hooley added that fire retardant has been ordered. By sundown, it had been applied to the fire.
The 416 Fire reached 8,691 acres on Saturday, up 1,511 acres from Friday. No structures have been lost, and it remained at 10 percent containment. All evacuations and pre-evacuations remain in effect, which includes 1,625 evacuated homes and 1,272 homes on pre-evacuation. A community meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Saturday at the La Plata County Fairgrounds.
Orr said Friday that he didn't expect the fire, near Colorado 145 mile marker 34, would cause major road closures or ruin anyone's travel plans.
"It's in a fairly remote area," he said.
The cause of the fire has not been determined, but Padilla said the area had seen some lightning earlier in the week. The fire was reported by a medical helicopter.
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Many companies have clear guidelines to ensure that the number of business trips will decrease in favour of travel-free meetings. A research group at KTH has looked closely at the factors that determine how meetings take place, and the result is that money, time and a fear of technology, play a crucial role.
The researchers have collaborated with four major media companies in Sweden in an attempt to identify motivational factors and barriers to video conferencing.
"We quickly found that video conferencing is replacing business trips primarily to save time and money," says Minna Räsänen, one of the researchers at the Centre for Sustainable Communications (CESC) at KTH.
The environment is less important when firms choose between a business trip or a video conference, even though many guidelines highlight the environment as the main argument.
Other, less tangible factors that determine the choice are often individual. This may include the employee's fear of problems with technology or uncomfortable situations when cameras, headsets and other equipment have to be handled.
A well-thought-out choice of meeting room is also important.
"It may be a mistake to place the video conferencing equipment in the most popular meeting room. This means that video conferences complete with regular physical meetings for room space," says Minna Räsänen.
It is efficient, both economically and environmentally, if video conferencing equipment is located in rooms that are available and bookable for many employees. This increases the chance that video conferences increase in number and that the purchase of equipment will be profitable, and that more trips are replaced in practice.
For more information, contact Bernhard Huber, communications manager at the CESC, at 08-790 64 52 or bhuber@kth.se.


In the interview, she told Reinhard that she was so upset she couldn't finish her salad.
Phillips said she had started thinking about coming forward after the allegations about Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein surfaced. Then she said she saw the news about Moore flashing across the television screen while in a break room at her job at a company called NFM Lending in Westchester County, N.Y., Reinhard said.
Phillips also repeatedly asked the reporter to guarantee her that Moore would lose the election if she came forward. Reinhard told her in a subsequent text message that she could not predict what the impact would be. Reinhard said she also explained to Phillips that her claims would have to be fact-checked. Additionally, Reinhard asked her for documents that would corroborate or support her story.
Later that day, Phillips told Reinhard that she felt "anxiety & negative energy after our meeting," text messages show. "You just didn't convince me that I should come forward," she wrote.
Phillips was not satisfied. On Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, she suggested meeting with another Post reporter, Stephanie McCrummen, who co-wrote the initial article about Corfman. "I'd rather go to another paper than talk to you again," Phillips told Reinhard.
Back at the newsroom, Reinhard became concerned about elements of Phillips's story. Phillips had said she lived in Alabama only for a summer while a teenager, but the cellphone number Phillips provided had an Alabama area code. Reinhard called NFM Lending, the company Phillips said she worked for in Westchester County, but was told no one named Jaime Phillips worked there.
The company issued a statement after the publication of this article saying Phillips worked briefly for Maryland-based NFM Lending, but her tenure ended in the summer of 2016. The company also said it has no offices in Westchester County.
Alice Crites, a Post researcher who was looking into Phillips's background, found a document that strongly reinforced the reporters' suspicions: a Web page for a fundraising campaign by someone with the same name. It was on the website GoFundMe.com under the name Jaime Phillips.
In a March posting on its Facebook page, Project Veritas said it was seeking 12 new "undercover reporters," though the organization's operatives use methods that are eschewed by mainstream journalists, such as misrepresenting themselves.
Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is a tax-exempt charity that says its mission is to "investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct." It raised $4.8 million and employed 38 people in 2016, according to its public tax filing. It also had 92 volunteers.
O'Keefe's criminal record has caused the charity problems in some states. Mississippi and Utah stripped the group of a license to raise money in those states because it failed to disclose O'Keefe's conviction on state applications, records show.
Also working at Veritas is former television producer Robert J. Halderman, who was sentenced to six months in jail in 2010 after he was accused of trying to blackmail late-night host David Letterman. Halderman was with O'Keefe outside the Project Veritas offices Monday as a reporter tried to ask about Phillips's role with the organization.
Because Jaime Phillips is a relatively common name, it wasn't a certainty that the GoFundMe page that Crites found was created by the same woman who approached The Post. But there was another telling detail, in addition to the name. One of two donations listed on the page was from a person whose name matched her daughter's, according to public records.
McCrummen agreed to meet Phillips that afternoon.
Phillips suggested meeting somewhere in Alexandria, Va., saying she was shopping in the area. Post video reporters accompanied McCrummen, who brought a printout of the fundraising page to the interview.
Again, Phillips had arrived early and was waiting for McCrummen, her purse resting on the table. When McCrummen put her purse near Phillips's purse to block a possible camera, Phillips moved hers.
The Post video reporters sat separately, unnoticed, at an adjacent table.
Phillips said she didn't want to get into the details of what she had said happened between her and Moore.
She said she wanted McCrummen to assure her that the article would result in Moore's defeat, according to a recording. McCrummen instead asked her about her story regarding Moore.
McCrummen asked Phillips to verify her identity with a photo identification. Phillips provided a Georgia driver's license.
McCrummen then asked her about the GoFundMe page.
Paul Conner, executive editor of the Daily Caller, said Monday that no one with the name Kathy Johnson works for the publication and that he has no record of having personally interviewed Phillips. Conner later said in an email that he had asked other top editors at the Daily Caller and the affiliated Daily Caller News Foundation about Phillips.
"None of us has interviewed a woman by the name Jaime Phillips," Conner wrote.
At the Alexandria restaurant on Wednesday, Phillips also told The Post that she had not been in contact with the Moore campaign. As the interview ended, Phillips told McCrummen she was not recording the conversation.
"I think I probably just want to cancel and not go through with it at this point," Phillips said at Souvlaki Bar shortly before ending the interview.
She picked up her coat and bag, returned her drink to the front counter and left the restaurant.
By 7 p.m. the message on the GoFundMe page was gone, replaced by a new one.
"Campaign is complete and no longer active," it read.
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly said the NFM Lending office a Post reporter called to verify Jaime Phillips's employment was in Westchester County. The company has no offices in that county. This story has been updated with a statement from Maryland-based NFM Lending indicating that Phillips's brief employment with the company ended in the summer of 2016.
Thomas LeGro and Dalton Bennett contributed to this report.


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Seznam klášterů v Brně tvoří výčet církevních staveb klášterního charakteru na dnešním území největšího moravského města. Seznam je rozdělen do tří částí. V té první se nacházejí stavby existující, kde jsou zahrnuty jak kláštery, které fungují dodnes, tak objekty, které již náboženským funkcím neslouží, ale v minulosti sloužily jako konventy. Druhá sekce obsahuje zcela zaniklé kláštery, ze kterých se do dnešních dob nezachovalo nic, případně zůstaly pouze archeologické stopy. Poslední část seznamu popisuje dvory a rezidence, které nemají klasický klášterní charakter, ale byly v majetku církevních řádů, jež je využívaly.

V rámci těchto kapitol jsou kláštery řazeny abecedně podle běžně používaných a rozšířených názvů církevních řádů (tedy místo označení s oficiálním názvem, např. "klášter řádu bratří kazatelů", je použito označení "klášter dominikánů"), který v té určité stavbě jako první působil. Dále je u každé stavby zmíněno umístění se zeměpisnými souřadnicemi, obrázek (pokud je dostupný), oficiální název prvního působícího řádu a stručný historický popis kláštera.

Výčet celkem 37 staveb není úplný a vychází z knihy Encyklopedie moravských a slezských klášterů (, Libri, 2005). Hlavní autor této publikace, Dušan Foltýn, v předmluvě uvádí, že v případě klášterů založených do poloviny 19. století se jedná o kompletní seznam. Od poloviny 19. století ale vzhledem k velkému rozšíření nejrůznějších menších řádů a kongregací vzniklo velké množství nových objektů klášterního charakteru. Proto bylo u takových staveb přistoupeno k výběru nejdůležitějších klášterů s ohledem na historický význam či architekturu. Oproti této publikaci byl přidán navíc pravoslavný monastýr.

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We often have difficulty judging the events in our lives and then responding appropriately. Although God has placed eternity "in our hearts," we don't know the reason or the outcome of our life's events (Eccl 3:11).
The danger comes in being known for only one mode of operation and one response for all seasons. In Matt 11, Jesus speaks to a generation who responds in one way—with skepticism and unbelief. Those who judge see John the Baptist as a demon-possessed man rather than a prophet. They see Jesus as a glutton, a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and sinners—not the one who has come to save them from their sins.
Jesus illustrates their responses with a tale. He compares them to children who call out to each other in the marketplaces, saying, "We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn" (Matt 11:17). Those who hear and fail to act confuse the writer of Ecclesiastes' times of mourning and dancing. They don't acknowledge the judgment of John the Baptist or the joy of Jesus.
For those in His audience who refused to acknowledge His words, and miracles, Jesus pronounces a judgment far worse than that of Sodom. Those who respond with humility and faith, however, have the promise of rest. Jesus invites them: "Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls" (Matt 11:29).
This response is an act of faith. We need to rely on God's Word and His Spirit to judge the events of our lives, and to help us respond with faith.
What response are you known for?


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Hugh Jackman Announces A World Tour!
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Hugh Jackman has been teasing a special announcement lately and it's had his fans going crazy at what it could be. Well, earlier today the man himself announced his plan of a world tour in 2019 in which he will perform songs from The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables, and more hits from Broadway and film.
The tour will kick off with 12 shows across Europe and the UK beginning Monday, May 13th in Hamburg, Germany at Barclaycard Arena, with stops in Amsterdam, Paris, Manchester, Dublin, and London, with two shows at The O2 Arena. The 22-city North American leg will begin Tuesday, June 18th at Toyota Center in Houston, TX, with stops in Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Las Vegas, and New York, with two shows at Madison Square Garden, as well as two performances at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Tickets for his one man tour go on sale 9am Friday 7th December and are available from the official tour website.
This is a show we definitely don't want to miss!
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Rethinking Poetic Innovation at the Modernist Studies Association Conference
Earlier this month, P&PC had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the Modernist Studies Association's annual conference held this year at the Hyatt Regency in the nearly post-apocalyptic downtown of Buffalo, NY. Themed around "The Structures of Innovation," there were your fairly predictable panels ("make it new," right?) on Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, DADA artwork, avant-garde little magazines, and the Paris and New York art and literary scenes. There was also a "roundtable" discussion, organized by Marsha Bryant and Alan Golding, that focused on the subject of "Rethinking Poetic Innovation" and had at least one person buzzing afterwards.
MSA roundtables are a pretty fun format in which, rather than droning on in sequence with extensive prepared remarks, five or six invited speakers offer short position papers then open the floor for discussion with each other and the event's attendees. Imagine our pleasure and surprise when, this past spring, Bryant approached and entered into negotiations with the P&PC home office about P&PC's participation! Now imagine our lone P&PC representative sitting in front of an audience of seventy-five modernists (including keynote speaker Michael Davidson, Lynn Keller, Jed Rasula, and Dee Morris) and among the roundtable's cast of Bryant, Golding, Bob Perelman, Steven Yao, Elizabeth Frost, and Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux—all tenured profs, all well published, some of whom certain members of the P&PC home office staff started reading in graduate school lo these many years ago. Hands somewhat a-tremble, our stomach feeling more like a Kurt Schwitters collage (example presented above) than the proverbial nest of butterflies, but bolstered by the presence of a younger, up-and-coming, somewhat iconoclastic generation of modernist scholars including Meredith Martin and Bartholomew Brinkman, here's the perspective on "Rethinking Poetic Innovation" that P&PC offered. (N.B. If you're a regular P&PC reader, well, bless you; the following is nothing you haven't heard from our offices before. We're posting it not for your benefit but for those at the conference—get this—who admitted to having never before heard the name of Edgar Guest.)
In the late nineteenth and early twentietth centuries, Americans regularly assembled and maintained poetry scrapbooks—personal verse anthologies that edited together poems cut out of newspapers, magazines, church bulletins, advertisements, greeting cards, and other print sources, oftentimes sampling in news articles, pictures, photographs, die cuts, or other items. Well known writers like Anne Sexton, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings, Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Marianne Moore kept such albums. Over the past six or eight years, I have assembled and studied an archive of 150 or so poetry scrapbooks produced by ordinary or less celebrated readers. The photocopy I've distributed here today (pictured above) is a page spread from one of those albums—a 230 page-long, 300-poem collection kept in the late 1920s and early 1930s by Doris Ashley, an unmarried sawyer's daughter in her early 20s who was living just south of Boston.
It's an interesting document, as Ashley puts four "modern" poems, including the now iconic poems by Pound ("In a Station of the Metro," located at the bottom of the second page) and H.D. ("Oread," located in the middle of the first page), in conversation with two popular poems and a news report on H.L. Mencken's late-life marriage to Sara Haardt (a published writer who, in the 1910s, was a prominent voice lobbying the Alabama state legislature to ratify the nineteenth Amendment). The juxtapositions are compelling and represent a vernacular cut and paste analogue to, if not precedent for, modernist practices of bricolage or collage, as Ashley reads across or through a highbrow-lowbrow divide and very compellingly pairs up the Pound and H.D. poems, which are frequently combined in our histories of modern poetry but which her original source book, Louis Untermeyer's 1925 edition of Modern American Poetry, did not print together.
If Ashley recognizes the shared poetics of "In a Station" and "Oread," she is not limited by them. In fact, what most connects the six poems here is the image of the tree—the pear tree in Millay's poem, the pines in "Oread," the maple tree in Anne Campbell's poem, the "wet, black bough" in "In a Station," and the rain of Stanton's "A Rain Song" that waters them all. This arboreal conceit extends thematically to the newspaper article—the seasons, gardens, plants, and flowers offer an appropriate landscape in which to read about Haardt's latish marriage (she was 31); astonishingly, this conceit extends sonically, as well, as the "wet, black bough" of Pound's poem echoes the subtitle of the Mencken article: "Noted American Bachelor Finally Bows to Cupid." (Note: Ashley, an aspiring writer, would, like Haardt, remain unmarried until her late 20s, and P&PC reads this page spread, in part, as an articulation of how and why Ashley justified remaining single as a life choice that was more deliberate than prevailing images of spinsterhood would suggest.)
There is certainly more to discuss about this page spread, including the alternative map through the poetry of modern America that it and other such anthologies suggest, as well as its place in the history what Kenneth Goldsmith is calling uncreative writing. (Food for thought: can we call Ezra Pound [pictured here] a "popular poet" when he appears in a scrapbook alongside poems by popular poets Stanton and Campbell? Campbell, by the way, was a poet for the Detroit News who reportedly made $10,000 per year off of the daily publication and syndication of her poetry in the 1920s and 1930s.) I'm presenting these pages here, however, to help forward four ideas that might help us to rethink poetic innovation. Those ideas are as follows:
1. Future work on poetic innovation needs to include more study and theory of innovative reading as well as innovative writing.
2. Innovative reading and writing are not limited to experts in literary spheres but happen within popular culture as well—including, as I've argued elsewhere in relation to the old Burma-Shave billboard poems, the commercial marketplace. Innovation is not inherently oppositional and is regularly articulated to, and expressed in terms of, the market. In fact, the very claim to "innovation" itself, in artistic and commercial spheres alike, as well as their overlap, is a form of capital worth studying further.
3. Although Ashley's scrapbook doesn't suggest it directly, poetic innovation within popular and mass culture likely intersected with, and affected, the work of "literary" poets more regularly than we think—not just in terms of raw materials, but form, precedent, and logic as well. When we use the French word collage to describe modernist literary practices, for example, we disguise modernism's roots in popular practice and overlook the fact that Pound, H.D., Moore, William Carlos Williams, T.S. Eliot and others were born in, learned to read in, and were educated in an America where scrapbooking was a primary form of reading and thinking and where the word collage did not yet exist.
4. What we call "literary" poetry also affected innovation within mass and popular culture. That is, not only did popular culture provide modernist writers with resources for their art, but, as we see in the case of Doris Ashley, modernist writers provided uncredentialed readers with raw materials for thinking and creating as well.
Note: if you're interested in these and related issues, keep your eyes out for the P&PC-endorsed book-length study Poetry & Popular Culture in Modern America, due out from Columbia University Press in the Fall of 2012.
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