POETRY AND CONFLICT

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• cours magistral

 The StAnza Lecture 2008: Sarah Maguire 1 ‘Singing About the Dark Times' POETRY AND CONFLICT     My last visit to St Andrews, to take part in the StAnza Festival of five years  ago, occurred on the very day Britain, the US and its allies began the invasion  of Iraq: 20th March, 2003. Five years on, we are still occupying and desecrating  Iraq and its citizens. Hardly surprising then, that the StAnza festival this year  is focussed on the theme of ‘poetry and conflict'.     The scale of the disaster in Iraq is truly impossible to imagine. The best recent  estimate calculates that the occupation has cost the United States alone three  trillion dollars and that the impact on the rest of the world is reckoned to be a  further three trillion dollars. The number of lives lost, at least the numbers of  Iraqi lives lost, remains much harder to calculate. As do the financial and  human costs resulting from the soaring price of oil and its effect on the global  economy; basic food prices in developing countries have risen by more than a  third in the past year. Facts such as these are as horrifying as they are  overwhelming. They leave us feeling powerless, numbed by their scale.     In the face of such gargantuan destructiveness, how on earth can we sit here  and talk about poetry? Beside these horrors, poetry, whether ‘political' poetry  that addresses the conflict head on, or poetry that's concerned with intimate,  ‘personal' matters, can seem utterly irrelevant.

• battle for lyric poetry
•  the stanza lecture
• ‘the battle for smolensk
• the night is damp and still  and i hear dull blows on wood outside my window
• plea for impure poetry
• poetry

Sujets

• Cours magistral
• Maguire
• Empire
• Poetry
• Battle
• Stanza
• Impurity
• Production

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• Publié par: erza0
• Nombre de lectures: 37
• Langue: English

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fa c t sa b o u t boating safety classes

STATE OF CALIFORNIA THE RESOURCES AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF BOATING AND WATERWAYS

Gray Davis, Governor

Mary D. Nichols Secretary for Resources

Raynor Tsuneyoshi, Director Department of Boating & Waterways

Who Boating safety classes are conducted by several organizations throughout Califor- nia. Thelargest of these organizations are the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and the United States Power Squadrons.A primary objective of both organizations is to promote safety afloat through education.You need not be a member or own a boat to take advantage of the basic instruction offered.Other organizations offering boating and water safety classes include the American Red Cross, YMCA, Scouting groups, and local parks and recreation departments. The Department of Boating and Waterways offers a home study course boaters can take at their own pace. Each booklet covers all the federal and state laws and rules of the road, and provides two exam answer cards to be completed and returned to the Department for grading. Those who successfully complete the course are awarded a certificate of completion which is recognized by many insurance companies for discounts on boat insurance policy premiums.

What Introductory boating courses, available to nonmembers, are provided by the Coast Guard Auxiliary and the Power Squadrons. The Coast Guard Auxiliary offers two basic classes:Boating Skills and Seamanship for powerboaters and Sailing and Seamanship for sailors.The Power Squadrons class is developed for both power and sail boaters.All three courses include instruction on aids to navigation, rules of the road, charts and compasses, boating regulations, marlinspike seamanship, and boat handling. In addition, some Coast Guard Auxiliary flotillas offer courses on coastal piloting to nonmembers.

Both the Power Squadrons and the Coast Guard Auxiliary charge a nominal fee for classroom materials.Students will be informed if there are any additional charges, such as a room fee.

When Generally speaking, both the Power Squadrons and the Coast Guard Auxiliary conduct classes at least twice a year.The first classes start in January or early February. Thesecond group begins in fall, shortly after the termination of school vacation. In some areas, classes are conducted on a continual basis.City agencies hold most of their classes during summer.

Where With few exceptions, boating classes are conducted close to most urban areas. Some large cities may have several squadrons or flotillas allowing a wider choice of class times and locations. Several units offer classes in inland areas.In many instances, if a group of individuals makes a request, classes can be arranged to suit the group.Classes offered by city agencies are conducted at predetermined locations, convenient for local residents.

Why Most California boating fatalities result from capsizing and falls overboard be- cause of operator error, including inattention, carelessness, improper lookout, or excessive boating speed. Additional causative factors include weather conditions, loading problems, insufficient training and experience, and operating the wrong craft for given water conditions—an 11-foot open boat does not belong in high surf!

Many boat insurance companies offer discounts for graduates of Power Squad- rons and Coast Guard Auxiliary classes.Boating safety education is encouraged for the entire family.

How You can access both the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and the U.S. Power Squadron Websites from the Department of Boating and Waterways' Website, at www.dbw.ca.gov.

Boating and Waterways also maintains a tollfree boating safety information telephone line, (800) 869-SAIL.Callers can inquire about boating safety classes in their area, as well as other boating safety information.

Boating safety class information is also available by directly contacting the Coast Guard Auxiliary or Power Squadrons.

U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

U.S. Power Squadrons

Northern CaliforniaNorthern and Southern California ■ ■ use slide provided [phone](800) SEA-SKIL (732-7545) (100% pms 314) Southern California ■ [phone](Recording-San Diego Area) enlarge to 376%

Founded in 1914, the United States Power Squadrons is a private, nonprofit, and non- military boating organization dedicated to boating education. Members number 60,000 in more than 450 squadrons located through- out the country and overseas. The objectives of the Power Squadrons include promoting powerboating and sailing and encouraging a high standard of skill in the handling and navigation of vessels. The organization’s principal public contributions include its boating course and its cooperative charting program, which provides additions and corrections for nautical charts.

The Coast Guard Auxiliary is a civilian, volun- teer arm of the regular Coast Guard created by an Act of Congress in 1939 to “promote safety and effect rescues on and over the high seas and on navigable waters; to pro- mote efficiency in the operation of motor- boats and yachts; to foster a wider knowl- edge of, and better compliance with, the laws, rules and regulations governing the opera- tion of motorboats and yachts; and to facilitate other operations of the Coast Guard.”The Coast Guard Auxiliary today is the only civilian boating organization with such official recognition.

Department of Boating and Waterways 2000 Evergreen Street, Suite 100 Sacramento, CA958153888 (916) 2631331 (888) 3262822 (Tollfree) www.dbw.ca.gov