Listen to Benjamin Zephaniah's poem 'Talking Turkeys' and choose the best option.
The poem was written in a Caribbean variety of English and has been adapted to Standard British only for educational purposes as some students of English may find it hard to understand. I highly recommend reading the poem in its original version so as to get a good taste of the author's poetry. At the end of the activity you will find a link to Benjamin Zephaniah's website. I really hope you enjoy the poem as much as I do.
Which two words have the same vocalic sound in the following extract?
How many words contain the diphthong /ai/ in the following lines?
How many words contain the diphthong /ei/ in the following lines?
Benjamin Zephaniah says that he's got a lot of __________?
Which is the missing word?
How many words have the sound /3:/ like in the word 'bird'?
Which list of words all contain the sound /ei/ like in the number 8?
Which word or words have the same vocalic sound as in nice /ai/ ?


Rico Blanco (born March 17, 1973) is a Filipino musician. He is one of the founders of Filipino rock band Rivermaya, where he served as vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and chief songwriter from 1993 to 2007. Blanco has so far recorded, written and produced more local and regional number one hits than any other musician since 1994, and has sold over a million albums in the Philippines and Southeast Asia during that period.


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The reason for the peace sign was because of the era I grew up in. Also when you met someone new, most of the time they ask what is your sign, so I have the Sagittarian sign running through my peace symbol. I had to have something on me to symbolize my youthful years. This tat is only two days old and is still healing and I think really well.


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An F-35A Lightning II from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, maneuvers over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 10, 2020, as part of JBER Salutes, a two-day event to show appreciation to service members and nearly 100 Anchorage-area "COVID Heroes" and their guests. The service members and COVID Heroes, nominated for their support to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, toured various areas of the installation, viewed exhibits and static displays of aircraft, and watched demonstrations by explosive ordnance disposal, military working dog teams, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear experts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)
U.S. Air Force Academy Class of 2024 basic cadets complete the assault course at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., July 14, 2020. The course is part of phase two of training which takes place in Jacks Valley at the academy. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, cadets maintained a safe social distance on the course at all times. (U.S. Air Force photo by Trevor Cokley)
Maj. Garret Schmitz, F-16 Viper Demonstration Team pilot and commander, performs a dedication pass in an F-16 Fighting Falcon at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., July 16, 2020. The dedication pass is an aerial salute to service members past and present. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Benjamin Ingold)
Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 212th Rescue Squadron operate an all-terrain vehicle at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, July 10, 2020, as part of JBER Salutes, a two-day event to show appreciation to service members and nearly 100 Anchorage-area "COVID Heroes" and their guests. The service members and COVID Heroes, nominated for their support to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, toured various areas of the installation, viewed exhibits and static displays of aircraft, and watched demonstrations by explosive ordnance disposal, military working dog teams, and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear experts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Alejandro Peña)
Tech. Sgt. Leah Oakleaf, 931st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chief, reviews her technical order for configuration plans of the fuselage cargo palette locks at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., July 11, 2020. Rapid response from vendors to create quality replacement for parts such as cargo locks and outlets played a key role in resolving deficiencies that previously withheld the KC-46A Pegasus from operating as an aeromedical evacuation aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Nilsa Garcia)
Airmen assigned to the 911th Maintenance Squadron perform a home-station check inspection of a C-17 Globemaster III at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station, Pa., July 7, 2020. Airmen performed the first-ever HSC in the new two-bay hangar that was built as part of the 911th Airlift Wing's ongoing aircraft conversion. (U.S. Air Force photo by Joshua J. Seybert)
Airmen assigned to the 378th Expeditionary Operations Group conduct an integrated combat turn to test their capability to rapidly land, refuel, weapons reload and take off at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, July 3, 2020. The integrated combat turn allows the fighter jet to spend less time on the ground and more time in combat operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt Benjamin Wiseman)
U.S. Air Force firefighters assigned to the 48th Civil Engineering Squadron conduct a controlled burn training exercise at RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom, July 8, 2020. 48th CES firefighters participate in live fire and smoke training quarterly to ensure readiness for real-world situations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jessi Monte)
A KC-46 Pegasus assigned to the 931st Air Refueling Wing, McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., lines up to refuel an U.S. Navy Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet, July 1, 2020 over South Dakota. This marks the first time the 931st ARW refueled the Blue Angels using a KC-46. The KC-46 represents the beginning of a new era in air-to-air refueling capability to support the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. The modernized fly-by-wire boom provides a larger air-refueling envelope than the KC-46's predecessor, the KC-135 Stratotanker. In addition to the boom, the aircraft is capable of refueling through drogue and wing aerial fueling pods, or WARPs, to provide simultaneous multi-point air refueling. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Andrea Morris)
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Loadmasters assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron watch a C-130J Super Hercules taxi at Hyakuri Air Base, Japan, July 8, 2020. Over the course of two days, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force paratroopers and Yokota AB service members completed a bilateral jump training mission, enhancing U.S. and Japanese interoperability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Gabrielle Spalding)
Air Force special tactics operators and simulated partner forces load a CV-22 Osprey assigned to the 8th Special Operations Squadron after executing a full mission profile during exercise Commando Crucible at Eglin Range, Fla., June 30, 2020. The exercise provided a rigorous operating environment that tested ST operators, their support teammates and outside agency participants on the abundance of moving parts and products required in a deployed environment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Rose Gudex)
This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
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Christmas is not our local shopping mall's story to tell. Christmas is the Church's story to tell. So in 2006, 5 pastors decided to do Christmas differently. They called it the Advent Conspiracy, and came up with four tenets—Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All—to guide themselves, their families, and congregations through their season of preparation for Christmas.
Mary's reaction to the shocking news that she would give birth to God's son was one of worship. In the craziness of the Christmas season, how can we too, respond this way to God and the call he has for us?
In Jesus' Sermon on the Mount he speaks to God's propensity to provide for and take care of things of the earth. If God is concerned about the well being of the earth he is also deeply concerned about our well being. We are invited to consider, this holiday season, to make space for God by eliminating our need to accumulate things in our attempt to find meaning and happiness. Trust God to fill your longings and use your resources to impact the world around you.
The Christmas story is full of real life, much grittier than the sanitized version that we often think of. The story is also filled with generosity that serves as a great example to us. Come find out how the generosity of that first Christmas can intersect with your life.
The good news of Christmas is good news for everyone – no exceptions. How do we receive and pass on that good news? Join us as we explore what that might look like for us.


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FC Tucson was founded in 2010 by a local group of dedicated Tucsonans who wanted to elevate the sport and bring professional soccer to the City of Tucson. Since that time, FC Tucson has been responsible for helping to put Tucson on the national stage by hosting the annual MLS pre-season training events as well as developing America's top Players who have gone on to become MLS and US Men's National Team Members. This year marks the 10th anniversary of FC Tucson and the Club intends to enter the new decade with a commitment to showcasing top talent and bringing the community together in a whole new fashion. We are calling all Supporters, Fans, and Community Members to join us in this new decade to build a movement and make this Club their own.
Amanda Powers ~ Biography
Incoming FC TUCSON club president Amanda Powers is no stranger to competitive sports, the sports business, or the challenges of transforming promising local enterprises into regional powerhouses. An NCAA All-American swimmer and former start-up Chief Operating Officer (COO) of New Mexico United, Powers was integral to the development of that state's first—but already iconic—statewide professional sports franchise. Prior to the team's first season, her economic feasibility/site study for a downtown Albuquerque soccer stadium helped jumpstart efforts to attract local investors to the United "cause." Investors roundly responded to her findings and the franchise's subsequent marketing efforts—to the tune of $8M.
The franchise then hired Powers to develop and implement United's core strategic business objectives, scale up operations, and act as gatekeeper to the company's vision. Within one year, they were duly rewarded for their efforts. The United "brand" became ubiquitous around the state, and the record-breaking crowds queuing up for first season (2018-2019) games—before the new United stadium was even built—signaled that the United phenom was already here to stay.
Powers arrives in Tucson following a consultancy with several new and existing franchises in the USL Championship, but her record of championing strategic business development efforts spans more than 15 years. Over that time, Powers has worked alongside entrepreneurs from a variety of industries, including education, transportation logistics, banking and finance, biotech, and real estate development. Powers' overriding interest in helping entrepreneurs plan and execute visionary strategies led her to found Kinship Consulting in 2013. From 2014 to 2016, Powers cut her teeth in economic development as an Economic Research Analyst providing GIS mapping site-services, written business plans, and economic analysis reports for project developers, private equity firms, Economic Development Organizations (EDOs) and governmental entities within the EB-5 industry. She advised developers and participated in advising members of U.S. Congress in sound economic policies for the EB-5 program.
During her years in Albuquerque, Powers, a California native, has played a crucial role in the development of TEDxABQ ( Albuquerque), has been an active member of the Young Professionals of Albuquerque (YPA) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and remains active in a wide array of community initiatives and organizations that support new economic thinking. She is passionate about volunteerism and has mentored dozens of incarcerated teenage girls at the Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD) Camino Nuevo Detention Facility.
Amanda is married to a Los Alamos native and will be making a new home in Tucson, Arizona with her husband Malcolm, their dog, cats, and two goats. Amanda has a degree in International Business from Sonoma State University and a Project Management Certificate from the University of New Mexico.
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We are one Christian family worshipping in five villages along the A453 — Barton-in-Fabis, Gotham, Kingston-on-Soar, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, and Thrumpton.
The communities in which we live have ancient roots, as do the buildings in which we gather. We meet together as God's family united by God's Son Jesus, as our Lord and Saviour; and as we meet week by week for fellowship, praising our heavenly Father and hearing Him speak to us through the Bible, we seek to encourage one another to live as His obedient children.
As Anglican churches, we belong to the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham within the Church of England, but our local church family is made up of people from different denominations, and you will be made welcome whatever your spiritual background.
With 5 churches our pattern of services changes from week to week, so do check the calendar to see where and when we are meeting; and if this is your first visit you might appreciate knowing what to expect.
You'll find information on our churches and our various activities here on this website, but if you need to know more then please contact me, Richard Coleman. You can also find us on Facebook.
If you would like to know more about how knowing Jesus, and God as your Father, brings meaning, purpose and fulfilment to our lives, and how we can know God personally, then why not visit the Knowing God website.
You can be assured of a warm welcome in all our churches.
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The Panama Papers has received the Pulitzer Prize in the Explanatory Reporting category. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) – the Washington D.C.-based organization that coordinated the project – interpreted this as a prize to collaborative journalism itself. The use of technology was its fundamental ally. Looking closer at how the Panama Papers came alive, through a network of more than 100 journalists and reporting partners around the world working in secret for over a year, opens a window into how collaborative and networked journalism work today. And what vital a role technology plays.


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Dubai is building a new skyscraper it will be 500 meters tall and it's facade will be covered with digital displays
by Shalu Pillai
Just like New York, Dubai shows no sign of stopping when it comes to its ever-expanding skyline!
If it isn't competing with the title of the world's tallest building or the most bizarre, Dubai is definitely pushing the boundaries. The latest addition to its towering skyline is the new Burj Jumeira, a 550-meter-tall skyscraper that will rise from a lake shaped like the fingerprint of the emirate's ruler- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and will form the centerpiece in Downtown Jumeirah district.
The oval-shaped base is patterned to replicate the outline of His Highness' fingerprint will be surrounded by shops, water fountains and more. The new venue will be a center for social, cultural and artistic events and activities in the emirate.
The skyscraper will rise from one end of the lake will consist of two connected curved buildings, which have been modeled to suit topography of the region and designed with a façade that will be covered in digital displays. The building will also feature a 450-meter-high sky lounge and sky restaurant, multiple observation decks offering 360-degree panoramic views of the city, the opportunity to skydive and a flexible event space named the Crown and at the very base.
"Burj Jumeira's design is inspired by the harmonious ripples of the United Arab Emirates' desert sand dunes and its flowing oases," said the state-owned global investment holding company.
The first phase of work on the Burj Jumeira is expected to be complete in 2023.
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Hope you enjoy this instructable just in time for Halloween! !!CAUTION!! This beanie is really warm to be in so I suggest wearing it on a cold fall day/night.
For starters we want to do the hard part first, beast's head. I do not want to wear a mask on all night so instead I decided to make a hat. The good thing about this choice is you can wear it all the time, Halloween or not, the materials don't cost that much! I would like to note that this hat is warm so it's great in winter and fall! I used this design from a beast costume that people sold.
*i got all my fabrics from Jo-Anne's fabric store !
*To be honest I didn't take that much pictures during the process (I was on a roll) so I hope these instructions are clear. If not fill free to ask about it in the comments!
For the beanie part to cover around the whole caramel fabric I hot glued (you could sew it which i recommend I just don't have any sewing skills whatsoever) one side at a time. I made sure to leave a little space just in case. Try it one and trim it. Put on the beanie and measure how much space you need to fill the whole thing with caramel fur.
To start off with the details it's the eyebrow. Draw a slightly bent line that's 10 inches long. Then cut it out trace it on the tan fabric ad cut it out. Either sew or hot glue it on the front of the beanie.
Draw a line that's 26 1/2 inches long and 3 1/2 inches wide. Make one side an arrow and another one a smaller arrow on the other side. Trace that onto the dark brown fur and cut. I cut some foam into a long brick about as long as the beanie(At first I wasn't sure but I made a good choice). Put the tail on the foam and glue it down cover the sides with it. Take some of the hair from the end and glue the two sides together. Take a blue fabric and cut it into a long strip. Tie the blue bow on the sides you glued together.
For the ears do the exact same thing you did do the ear flaps except smaller and don't put any leather string in it.
The horns are pretty simple. You draw a horn shape on paper you could look up pictures online. Cut it out as trace the stencil on the dark colored fur. Glue the two pieces together but leave the opening. Stuff a sock in it! Literally! Use some scissors and trim down the fur. After glue the opening and glue it onto the hat a little slanted.
Step 10: Finished the Hat!
Yay! You finished the hat! It wasn't that hard! It's time to grab the outfit!
Now you can be a beast on the dance floor! If you want to go full beast mode then you should get the outfit that I found on eBay if you want, but trust me you look good in the blazer or not. ;) ha! me taking alot of selfies in it! I'm hoping to wear this on Halloween so it will be exciting..... Anyways I hope all you peoplez out there have a wonderful Halloween and be safe! Ugh I sound like my dad.... Get lots of candy an look good doing it! Post pictures if you made this hat and show me pictures of your Halloween costume! Have fun my fellow iblers!
So nice hat.good work. ?
Your welcome and I enjoy your instructables a too!
This is really well designed, I would totally wear it all year. Thanks for sharing!


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Being an argumentative sort of person, every once in a while* I find myself getting into a spot of witty repartee. It usually happens on twitter, the land of the 140-character he-said/she-said/THE-GOVERNMENT-IS-OUT-TO-GET-YOU banter, but occasionally I find myself getting into arguments in other places online, or even in real life.
Arguing on twitter is basically my life
Often these arguments are over the subject of vaccines. Because whilst vaccines have been accepted by public health organisations the world over as the most important medical innovation of the 20th century, and one of the most lifesaving interventions that we've ever come up with, there is a small minority of people who are convinced that vaccines are bad for their child's health.
A small, very vocal, minority.
Now, I'm not here to criticize parents. It's very important to note that most parents want the best for their kids. They are trying to look out for their children, and occasionally in this pursuit they get misled. And make no mistake, the people who sell vaccine fear are professionals in the art of deception. They know exactly how to convince a worried parent that the most dangerous thing in the world for their child is the vaccine, rather than, say, the measles.
It's not the parents who are spreading vaccine denial. They are victims of professionals. If you are a parent who is worried about vaccination: don't stress. You are a good parent. You have just been lied to. Have a read of this article, and maybe go have a chat with your doctor about why immunization is important and why it's a good thing for your kids.
Whenever you talk vaccines, the anti-vax professionals come up with the same arguments time and again. Here are my top 8, and why they make no sense whatsoever:
8Vaccines Cause Autism. I'm not really going to go into this, because it has been refuted time and again. Virtually every study involving a) humans, b) more than 10 participants, and c) researchers who haven't been convicted of fraud, has shown that there is no link between vaccines and autism. It was a valid concern in the early 90s, but we have 30 years of evidence showing that autism is in no way linked to vaccines.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM ALL REPUTABLE STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THIS FOR DECADES
7There Hasn't Been Much Research. This is always a bit of a weird one, because people are usually claiming that on the one hand there hasn't been enough research done on vaccines to prove them safe, but on the other they know the truth because they've done their research and it shows vaccines to be basically poison.
It's a strange argument to make, but it comes up all the time.
This is simply a lie told by vaccine-deniers to make parents scared. Vaccines are one of the most well-researched interventions of all time. We have data from literally millions of children across the world demonstrating their safety. There has been more research on vaccines than almost any other medical intervention.
The research has been done. Time and again. Vaccines are safe and effective.
6Vaccines Are Enormously Profitable. This is also a weird one, because…so what? So are any number of things. The international flour market is gigantic, but that doesn't make every bread advert a missive from the devil. Flour millers have actually been influential in protecting babies worldwide by fortifying their products with macronutrients and preventing neural tube defects.
Pictured: tasty. Probably not sent by Lucifer
It's also untrue. Pharma companies make far more money from so-called 'blockbuster' drugs than vaccines — for example, Astrazeneca's Nexium, despite being no more effective than cheaper options for gastrointestinal problems, has made them more than $50 billion. The yearly earnings have been somewhere between 2 and 5 times as much as the flu vaccine. In fact, if you look at the top 20 earners for pharma companies, not one of them is a vaccine.
Lots of big earners. None of them vaccines. Source
5Vaccines Cost Loads. Perhaps more importantly than this, however: vaccines don't cost much at all. Take the whooping cough vaccine. A full 3 doses costs around 100 USD. That seems like quite a bit, until you remember that a single case of whooping cough can easily top $10,000 if it requires significant treatment.
Vaccines are actually cost-saving. What this means is that for every dollar you spend on vaccines, you get about seven dollars back because you stop people from getting sick and dying from their illnesses. Generally speaking, it would be much more profitable for the medical industry to not vaccinate, because disease tends to be really expensiv
Pictured: pricey
4The CDC Is Lying. This is one of my favourite red herrings, because it is just so easy to disprove. Whenever someone brings up the CDC, my response is…so what? Let's say the CDC is evil, awful, in the pocket of Big Pharma. It's not — the people who work at the CDC are dedicated, honest, and usually incredibly good at public health — but for the sake of argument, let's say the CDC is corrupt.
People who focus on the CDC ignore one glaring truth: the US isn't the only country in the world. If the CDC is corrupt, what about every other public health organisation in the world that recommends vaccines. Australia. France. The UK. Japan. China. The list goes on. Forget about the CDC. Have a look at the Australian Department of Health on vaccines.
Or the Japanese immunization schedule. Or one of hundreds of other countries that all choose to vaccinate. Either there's a global conspiracy including countries that are literally at war with one another — a bit unlikely — or immunization is a good thing no matter what you think of the CDC.
I was going to make a dick joke, but their page on sexual health is actually really good and dick jokes are pretty hard.
3The US Is Special. This is another one that I love, because it's so easily disprovable. No, the US doesn't give a uniquely high number of immunizations. Much of the OECD has a virtually identical vaccine schedule to the US, bar a few minor differences.
The US also has significantly less punitive laws in terms of vaccination than other countries — for example, in France you can go to jail for failing to vaccinate your kids.
So no. The US isn't special. It's just another country, trying to stop nasty diseases like polio, diptheria and measles from killing children.
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2Vaccine Manufacturers Can't Be Sued For Making Kids Sick. This is actually a very simple lie. You can sue whoever you want, even in the US. What the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act actually does is make it much easier to get compensation for children who have suffered vaccine injuries.
If you can demonstrate that you had a vaccine and suffered a recognized issue — let's say anaphylaxis — there is a reasonably simple method of gaining access to compensation in the US.
Elsewhere in the world, for example Australia, often all you can do is sue in civil courts. And even if you've suffered genuine harm from vaccination, proving this in a court of law is next to impossible, meaning that people who do suffer injuries are almost never compensated.
It's also worth noting that saying "vaccine manufacturers can't be sued" is again a uniquely American piece of nonsense. There are hundreds of other countries. Most of them allow anyone to try and sue anyone. And yet, the UK court system isn't flooded with cases of vaccine manufacturers being successfully sued.
1Vaccine Injury Is Common/People Are Getting Sicker. Last but not least, the most common one of the bunch. Forget the CDC, forget the pharmaceutical companies, this is the real evil.
Every year, people are getting sicker. And it's all down to vaccines.
It's terrifying, I know
There are two parts to this story. Firstly, we aren't getting sicker. Not even a little bit. Life expectancy is marching steadily upward, with some people predicting that we will be living past 100 in this century. Not only that, but infant and child mortality is at record lows, and is only heading swiftly down. This isn't just true for wealthy countries mind you — the entire world is getting stubbornly healthier
Secondly, vaccine injury is an amazingly well-researched field. We know the rate of injuries associated with vaccines all too well. It's roughly 1 serious problem for every million vaccinations given. This is a number that has been replicated worldwide, from Japan to Thailand to Australia to Finland and yes, to the US.
Contrast this with the rate of serious problems from, say, measles, which is around 1 problem for every 4 people infected, and you can see why vaccines are so important!
Vaccines Rock
There's not really much more to say. These are common arguments, mostly just based on simple lies. Vaccines are safe and effective, not because pharmaceutical companies say it's so or because the CDC has proclaimed it, but because thousands of dedicated researchers the world over have spent decades checking to make sure that they are.
So go and get your kids vaccinated. It's good for society, it will save us all money, but most of all it might save their life.
Vaccines rock.
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Techno-Sociality: The myth of technology's role in social alienation
Steven Winn in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday reiterated a sentiment that goes increasingly unchallenged as iPods, cell phones and WiFi-enabled laptops proliferate: that all these gadgets produce an increasingly disconnected, atomized public sphere. This is a familiar critique — as a grad student in Chicago last year, I remember a student in the campus newspaper voicing a similar dissatisfaction with the popularity of iPods and other mp3 players on campus — he argued that, lost in our private worlds of music, we fail to reach out and connect with one another.
Certainly, I wonder about the social impact of new technology — particularly, that strange contradiction between identical yet personalizable mass goods. This contrast sometimes spurs me to imagine us iPod users as "customizeable automatons," fooled into a myth of self-determination because we can tailor each assembly-line product to fit our alleged individual needs. But this issue remains a stubbornly complex one of the relationship between technology and society, which rests on a number of assumptions which ought to be considered a little more carefully.
Most broadly, technology does not simply progress in some ineluctable, linear manner according to unbiased scientific advances, as Raymond Williams demonstrated many years ago. Technology is inseparable from culture, and depends on the vested interests of those with power and resources. New technological needs arise according to new social forms, frequently dependent on innovations produced for entirely different purposes (such as military applications — think of binary code, or the internet). The potential social effects of new technology cannot be considered separately from other kinds of social change, like increasing mobility.
When fearmongering about the effect of new gadgets on the social sphere, writers like Winn seem to assume a simple relationship between social change and technology, where the rise of cell phones and iPods inevitably leads to social alienation. But what's more, this view requires a particular understanding of a public sphere that I just don't find convincing. Before you had an iPod or a cellphone, did you regularly engage in conversations with strangers in the street, on the bus, or walking across campus? If society has become increasingly atomized, I don't think the problem has to do with new tech gadgets that absorb us into our own private worlds, but with a use of social spaces that may not fit our current social needs.
I remember commuting to work before iPods and cellphones were ubiquitous (though Walkmans, of course, came out in the '80s — why all the hubbub now?). I was always careful to bring a book with me to read on the train from Cambridge to downtown Boston, or a newspaper, and even if I didn't, I rarely spoke with anyone during the walk from my apartment or to my office. Or when I was in college in the late nineties — walking across campus, you might occasionally nod to a familiar face from class, but the "public sphere" of walkways and lawns didn't really constitute a prime site of social engagement. Getting lunch with friends, socializing in the dorms, working together in the library — those spaces better allowed for creating social connections, and were necessarily more specialized than some generic "public" space because they allowed you to meet people through an existing connection, like a mutual friend, shared class or communal housing. In fact, both then and more recently, technological wonders like instant messaging and WiFi contributed to social activity. In college, I used used ICQ to chat with my friends across campus or even on other campuses. As a grad student last year, WiFi in the school library allowed for chatting and sharing music while working, because while loud voices were prohibited, typing was not.
Ultimately, I question whether or not mobile communications and media devices really interfere with the public sphere, or simply provide communications and media for increasingly mobile populations. Now I no longer have to sit near the phone in order to talk to my mom back east, and I can bring music with me instead of (or alongside) books and magazines when travelling or commuting. If opportunities for social interaction are dwindling in late modern society, we need to look at how social spaces are produced and sustained. Most communal spaces these days are either private or commercial — I can invite friends over to my home, or meet up with them in a cafe or a nightclub. Communal public space does not feature prominently in modern urban areas, and to the extent that it does, people still seek out others with whom they already have some kind of friendship or common interest. If building community and social capital is at issue, then we must consider the ways in which community is created in a mobile society. Technology, in fact, can and does facilitate the production of "communities of practice," disseminating information and connecting people according to existing social networks. Our sprawling, mobile, mediated mass society may indeed invite a level of social fragmentation that undermines social capital, but laying the blame on the latest tech toys simply misses the broader picture.
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"raunch feminism" and popular culture: uncritical feminists gone wild!
A new book seems to be garnering some attention in the liberal echo chamber lately, a journalistic account by Ariel Levy of New York magazine of the rising prevalence of porn imagery as female empowerment in pop culture. Salon.com's Christine Smallwood reviewed Levy's book, and her concept of "raunch feminism," suggesting that feminism has been co-opted for profit (supposedly because feminism has become too all-inclusive and therefore difficult to define). Smallwood, of course, is mainly recapping the gist of the book, and does offer a brief critique, but both she and Levy largely overlook the shifting role of leisure and consumption in contemporary late-capitalist society, which are integral to any interpretation of style or media content.
According to Levy, stripping is now on par with overt political activism. While Levy is right to identify the problematic ways in which sex-positivism has been embraced — often reproducing existing gender norms rather than challenging them — she misses how leisure activities and consumption have become the primary means through which people now express (and experience) identity. Is the problem strip parties instead of fighting for reproductive rights, or is it the focus on parties instead of activism?
Take, for instance, adolescent girls and fashion. Smallwood describes the prevalence of teen girls whose thongs peek out over their super-lowrise jeans, wearing baby tees with various cheeky, sexually suggestive messages. Is this proof that teenaged girls have embraced "raunch culture" and are attempting to assert their female empowerment by flaunting sexist imagery? Or are these girls engaged, instead, in a struggle between articulating their own budding identities (and sexuality), the expectations of their parents and the eager attention of marketers? A look at girls and consumerism in American history, for example, reveals how fashion has long been a site where girls attempt to establish their own independence, while their elders fret over the propriety of their consumer choices. Many in our society still feel strongly about what's "age appropriate" for teen girls, invariably invoking criticism and even moral panic when young women seem to exude excessive sexuality or maturity √¢'Ǩ'Äú whether it's makeup and high heels or visible thongs and Playboy logos.
More than a whiff of moral panic envelopes this whole line of thinking, that girls and young women are becoming too trashy, too sexually explicit, too fond of porn, and are therefore dismissing the hard-won gains of political feminism. "A quick glance at the T-shirts" writes Smallwood, "ought to be enough of a clue that all is not well in American mass culture." Of course, it's not that I disagree that sexism is alive and well, and deeply rooted in our culture. It does little to alter the underlying gender dynamics when women assume masculine roles of gazing and consuming images of other women, viewing them as objects rather than subjects with their own agency. Embracing a typically masculine approach to sex and sexuality certainly does not constitute equality, and feminism is not simply about having "choices." But I can't help but suspect that a simplistic, journalistic account of the prevalence of porn in pop culture is going to fail to grasp the broader context.
Unfortunately, Smallwood's review fails to take any of this into account. She critiques Levy for her blindly inclusive understanding of popular culture, focusing primarily on white, middle class women. Smallwood concludes that Levy offers little in the way of providing a solution to the damage supposedly inflicted by the popularity of porn imagery, but concedes that "Levy has done the good work of documenting raunch culture." I haven't read the book itself yet, so I suppose I should refrain from suggesting that Levy has offered a superficial account that is itself a product of pop culture (with a healthy dose of moral worrying). Instead, I should bite the bullet and read the book, so I can offer my own critique. But when the liberal media takes up and touts these easy-to-digest accounts of the decline of feminism and the dangers of teen culture, it only perpetuates an uncritical approach to the role of popular culture in society.
5 Oct 2005, 5:51pm
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culture/counterculture: thoughts on burning man and media coverage
While waiting at the pharmacy today, I picked up a copy of Rolling Stone (with a very aged quartet of the same name on the cover, I might add), and discovered the article the magazine had run on Burning Man, sending a journalist and a photographer to the desert to cover the event. At the risk of being an apologist for something which I think can be legitimately critiqued, this article reminded me of all the reasons I dislike journalistic approaches to human social behavior.
Unfortunately, I can't provide a link because I'm pretty sure the article isn't available online — just the photos:
http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/_/id/5392537
So I'll have to try and sum it up first. The author purports to approach the event with an open mind, then proceeds to ridicule the majority of participants for being hairy, naked and benighted. He denigrates a pair of topless passersby as "freaks," and concludes that Burning Man is just about a bunch of middle-class white folks with corporate day jobs blowing off steam one week a year in the desert.
Of course, it's not that I haven't suggested a similar critique myself. I think there are legitimate questions of class and race that should be raised in the face of narratives about the value of temporary community or an uncommodified "gift" economy. Burning Man is only available to those with the resources — time, money, material goods — to take off a week (at least) and pack in everything needed for desert survival (food, water, camping gear) not to mention fun and creative expression (costumes, drugs, elaborate art installations). And furthermore, it's worth considering where the social benefit lies in devoting a significant amount of time and resources every year to an escapist festival far removed from everyday society, at least if you embrace the language of social change while doing so.
Burning Man, I would agree, is problematic in light of the stories participants tell about their involvement in it. But the pat, unexamined dismissal penned by this Rolling Stone journalist is just as limited and myopic. The author, for example, is unable to address any questions regarding the value of "symbolic creativity," the act of making meaning through everyday creative acts, from assembling a countercultural outfit to burning a mix cd. Perhaps thousands of people gather in the desert to walk on stilts and drive their art cars precisely because they do not find sufficient meaning in the everyday world, and Burning Man provides a site where this kind of creativity can be expressed, articulated, and realized.
What hampers this article is its complete lack of any kind of underlying method, or familiarity with the significant body of work that has already been devoted to examining youth subcultures and counterculture. There are no simple answers regarding the efficacy of symbolic rebellion. In a world of symbolic meaning and signification, why shouldn't creative acts have real consequences? Or is the symbolic expression of dissidence destined to remain an empty gesture?
Regardless of the value of cultural movements such as Burning Man, this kind of superficial journalistic attention fails to address the complex issues which underlie any form of cultural production. Instead, the article allows Rolling Stone to profit from flaunting the gaudier aspects of the festival — fire, nudity, weird art — while safely panning behaviors and attitudes the author (or editor, or readers) may find uncomfortable.
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Il vicequestore aggiunto è una qualifica utilizzata nella Polizia di Stato, equiparata al grado di Maggiore delle Forze Armate (compresa l'Arma dei Carabinieri) e del Corpo della Guardia di finanza, nonché al dirigente Aggiunto della Polizia penitenziaria.

Vicequestore aggiunto della Polizia di Stato

Detto direttore tecnico capo per la carriera dei funzionari tecnici o medico capo per la carriera dei funzionari medici, è la prima e più bassa qualifica  dirigenziale della carriera dei funzionari della Polizia di Stato. Le qualifiche di tale carriera sono: vice commissario, commissario, commissario capo (qualifiche non dirigenziali, ma ex direttive) e vicequestore aggiunto, vice questore, primo dirigente, dirigente superiore, dirigente generale (qualifiche dirigenziali). Prima dell'introduzione della qualifica di vice questore, avvenuta con il decreto legislativo 29 maggio 2017 n.95, il vice questore aggiunto era equiparato,secondo il d.lgs. 334 del 2000,contemporaneamente, sia al grado di maggiore che di tenente colonnello dei Carabinieri e della Guardia di finanza. Con il d.lgs. n. 95 del 2017, la qualifica dirigenziale di vice questore aggiunto della Polizia di Stato è ora equiparata al grado di maggiore dell'Arma dei carabinieri e del corpo della Guardia di finanza. Il vice questore aggiunto, infatti, è superiore al commissario capo e inferiore al vice questore, corrispondenti rispettivamente ai gradi di capitano e di tenente colonnello dei carabinieri e della guardia di finanza. Alla qualifica di vice questore  aggiunto sono ammessi, mediante scrutinio per merito comparativo e superamento del corso di formazione dirigenziale, i commissari capo con almeno sei anni di servizio in tale qualifica. Da tale qualifica si viene promossi, a ruolo aperto, decorsi cinque anni, alla qualifica superiore di vice questore.Precedentemente, secondo la legge 121 del 1981 e sino al 2000,il vice questore aggiunto era equiparato al grado di tenente colonnello dei carabinieri e della guardia di finanza.

Dirigente aggiunto della Polizia Penitenziaria

Ruolo direttivo ordinario
La promozione alla qualifica di commissario coordinatore penitenziario del ruolo direttivo ordinario del Corpo di polizia penitenziaria si consegue mediante scrutinio per merito comparativo al quale è ammesso il personale con la qualifica di commissario capo penitenziario che abbia compiuto quattro anni di effettivo servizio nella qualifica.

Ruolo direttivo speciale
La promozione alla qualifica di commissario coordinatore penitenziario del ruolo direttivo speciale del Corpo di polizia penitenziaria, si consegue mediante scrutinio per merito comparativo al quale è ammesso il personale con la qualifica di commissario capo penitenziario che abbia compiuto sette anni di effettivo servizio nella qualifica.

Vicequestore aggiunto forestale

Ruolo direttivo dei funzionari
A seguito dell'abolizione del Corpo forestale dello Stato, operata dal d.lgs. 177/2016 tale qualifica non esiste più. La promozione a vicequestore aggiunto forestale si conseguiva, a ruolo aperto, mediante scrutinio per merito comparativo al quale era ammesso il personale con la qualifica di commissario capo forestale che avesse compiuto cinque anni e sei mesi di effettivo servizio nella qualifica.

Ruolo direttivo speciale
La promozione a vicequestore aggiunto forestale del ruolo direttivo speciale si conseguiva, a ruolo aperto, mediante scrutinio per merito comparativo, al quale era ammesso il personale con la qualifica di commissario capo forestale del ruolo direttivo speciale che avesse compiuto cinque anni e sei mesi di effettivo servizio nella qualifica.

Direttore-vicedirigente dei vigili del fuoco

Ruolo dei direttivi
La promozione a direttore-vicedirigente si consegue a ruolo aperto, mediante scrutinio per merito comparativo al quale è ammesso
il personale con la qualifica di direttore che abbia compiuto cinque anni e sei mesi di effettivo servizio nella qualifica e non sia
incorso in alcuna delle cause di esclusione previste dalla normativa vigente.

Ruolo dei direttivi medici
La promozione a direttore medico-vicedirigente si consegue, a ruolo aperto, mediante scrutinio per merito comparativo al quale sono ammessi i direttori medici che abbiano compiuto cinque anni e sei mesi di effettivo servizio nella qualifica e non siano incorsi in alcuna delle cause di esclusione previste dalla normativa vigente.

Ruolo dei direttivi ginnico-sportivi
La promozione a direttore ginnico-sportivo-vicedirigente si consegue, a ruolo aperto, mediante scrutinio per merito comparativo
al quale sono ammessi i direttori ginnico-sportivi che abbiano compiuto cinque anni e sei mesi di effettivo servizio nella qualifica e non siano incorsi in alcuna delle cause di esclusione prevista dalla normativa vigente.

Ruolo dei collaboratori e dei sostituti direttori amministrativo-contabili
La promozione alla qualifica di collaboratore amministrativo-contabile esperto è conferita a ruolo aperto, secondo l'ordine di ruolo, ai collaboratori amministrativo-contabili che, alla data dello scrutinio, abbiano compiuto cinque anni di effettivo servizio nella qualifica e che, nel biennio precedente lo scrutinio medesimo, non abbiano riportato una sanzione disciplinare più grave della sanzione pecuniaria.

Comparazione con i gradi delle Forze armate italiane

Comparazione con le qualifiche dei corpi ad ordinamento militare

Note

Bibliografia
 Giorgio Cantelli, Luigi Memma, Polizia a cavallo. Storia, ordinamenti, uniformi. Ponchiroli editori, Bagnolo San Vito, 2009. ISBN 978-88-902347-8-1
 Antonio Laurito, La storia e le uniformi della Polizia italiana. Promozioni editoriali police, Roma, 2008.
 Giuseppe Quilichini, Storia fotografica della polizia 1848-1962. Una storia di uomini. 2 voll. Italia Editrice New, Foggia, 2005. ISBN 978-88-95038-01-8

Voci correlate
Autorità di pubblica sicurezza
Polizia di Stato
Questura
Questore (ordinamento italiano)

Gradi militari
Polizia di Stato

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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (v. 1).
We live in an age of unparalleled skepticism about the essential content of the Christian faith. There is a tremendous doubt concerning the origin of human life and of the universe. It is held that we are cosmic accidents, grown-up germs that have emerged from the slime, having no significance and no dignity.
Thus, the technical and abstract question of whether or not we can demonstrate that there is some eternal, transcendent, self-existing Creator from whom all other life and reality derives is a critical issue. In fact, what we decide about this issue touches heavily upon everything else the church proclaims about Christ and God.
The philosophical argument for God's existence is this: If something exists now, then Something exists necessarily. What we mean by "necessary existence" is that there is Something that has the power of existence within itself eternally. That Being cannot not exist. It exists by the sheer power of what it is.
To come at it another way, let's assume that there was a time when there was absolutely nothing. You don't have to be a philosopher to answer the following question: If there were a time when there was absolutely nothing, then what would there be now? Absolutely nothing. You cannot get something from nothing. So, since the world presently does exist, there has to be something that has always existed. And, that Something must have sheer existence within itself.
Could this be the universe itself? No, because if the universe as a whole were self-existent, it could not change. Change means something is contingent, dependent, derived. Therefore, the self-existent Being must be the Creator of the universe of time and change.
The god of the philosophers is not the God of the Bible. We worship and serve no abstract First Cause but a loving Father. Yet, we also know that our loving God is the self-sufficient origin of all things. Praise God for His power that allows Him to create the complex beauty of the universe.


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Tower cranes: building ships
By Heinz-Gert Kessel2016-04-21T16:19:00+01:00
At the SHI shipyard one 3,600 tonne capacity class floating crane performs a large block installation lift while a number of stationary Terex luffers and saddle jib climbing cranes are responsible for
Special correspondent Heinz-Gert Kessel discusses the merits of tower cranes for use in shipyards.
To cope with quickly changing market situations and changing demand for different types of vessels, shipyards need economical and flexible crane logistics.
The shipbuilding industry is still recovering from the 2008 market downturn and the falling oil price has also had a negative impact. China's shipbuilders alone reported nearly a 70 % drop in orders during the first seven months of 2015. South Korea, however, fared better, mainly by concentrating on special vessel construction of, for example, offshore rigs, and high-end ships such as liquid natural gas carriers.
With financial backing from governments and the availability of low cost labour, new shipbuilding capacity has been developed in South East Asia. This is adding to the currently huge amount of over- capacity. It will be 2017 before the shipbuilding industry can be expected to pick up again, according to the Castrol Marine Trade Barometer.
Weighed down by delayed offshore projects, South Korea's big three shipyards, Samsung, Daewoo and Hyundai, are trying to limit the impact by selling all non-core assets and are implementing rigorous restructuring programmes.
Under these circumstances it is necessary to take a new approach. An alternative is needed to the long term investments of custom-designed goliath cranes or large luffing jib cranes for the heavy block construction method. Medium capacity cranes responsible for the bread and butter work in the shipbuilding industry must be evaluated to find the most cost effective crane mix in a shipyard.
Alternative type
To help control investment costs, top end high capacity models of modular series-production tower cranes with sophisticated drive units could be essential. Shipyard owners could gain further flexibility with this type of construction industry crane from the ability to adapt them with custom-built components. When no longer needed the standard cranes could find application in other industries.
Examples of custom components include rail mounted purpose-built portals, different proven foundation types (anchor, travelling carrier, cruciform base) and the add-on potential of rental back-up of complete crane or crane components.
The great flexibility of the tower crane concept could make it a sophisticated alternative to the classic mobile crawler crane. Crawlers need lots of working space and they negatively impact the quay from ground pressure and surface damage caused by the crawler tracks. To evaluate the benefits and limits of modular tower cranes in contrast to level luffing jib shipyard cranes the inherent design characteristics of both types should be considered.
First to be considered are the advantages of the custom built level luffing jib crane (LLC) for the shipbuilding industry. According to Tadashi Ito at crane manufacturer IHI in Japan, the standard LLC has a capacity of 50 to 60 tonnes at 30 to 40 m radius. Tower cranes with 10 to 20 tonnes capacity are only used for small parts assembly work in the Japanese shipbuilding industry. A recent shift in Japan has been to favour large LLCs with more 100 tonnes capacity.
To cover the lifting radius required by two ships lying aside a pier during outfitting work, or to reach the top of high-rise drilling rig structures of offshore vessels, LLCs with long jibs between 90 and 110 m have being realised by several crane manufacturers. On a single jib crane the load is raised and lowered at the same time as the working radius is changed. For the precise lifting work required in the shipbuilding industry a frequent choice is to use a rope drum balanced level luffing mechanism.
It means that the weight of the rope stored between the A-frame and the top of the boom can become so heavy that it generates an uneconomically excessive pull on the boom tip. In addition, a large number of moving parts has to be maintained. Wire rope storage in the form of a triple pulley block leads to significantly greater hoisting rope lengths, which adds to the replacement cost of the ropes.
An alternative could be another level luffing method - the drum balanced type. In this case the hoisting wire rope is connected to the luffing drum. To achieve a horizontal load path the hoist rope is pulling in and out when the luffing drum is rotating. An alternative to this mechanical method of level luffing is a sophisticated electric steering system, as found in modern luffing jib tower cranes used in the construction industry.
In this case, however, energy consumption will rise because the luffing and hoisting winches are both in operation during a luffing movement. In addition, experienced service personnel are required for the complex electrical steering system. The rail mounted undercarriage and the risk of wind from the front when working in steep boom configuration mean that the traditional LLC crane has a large minimum working radius in comparison to the luffing jib tower crane. Having said that they don't need a complicated, sometimes maintenance-intensive, buffer system at the A-frame to prevent the boom from overturning.
Most LLC will be delivered with a weatherproofed machinery deck or, at least, walk-in electric control cabinets. These are now standard for construction tower cranes. A jib that can be lowered with its tip to the ground for easy inspection and maintenance work is also requested. For low maintenance, tubular sections adapted to the requested height are becoming more and more popular over the traditional block-column design.
Portal and travelling bogies can be especially designed according to the requirements of the individual track for the crane. Also considered should be the accepted wheel loads and the desired gantry height and gauges. In Europe it is often the case that cranes following the rigid design of the totally tailor made LLC, to the FEM A5 standard for heavy duty cycle work, have an extraordinary long service life of 25 years or more.
Modular towers
Next to be considered are the advantages of the modern modular tower crane for the shipbuilding industry. In addition to the well-known medium sized saddle jib tower crane, modern modular design top slewing luffing jib and high capacity saddle jib cranes are an interesting alternative to small and medium sized LLC shipyard cranes. These are basically used for fit out and repair work where loads up to 30 or 40 tonnes have to be moved.
On one hand the fast load cycles typical of construction tower cranes are a benefit. On the other hand speed is the natural enemy of accuracy. New ways of providing precise control for load placement are important for ship yard applications. These include improving the sensitivity of stepless frequency inverter controlled motor drives, for example, Liebherr's Micromove.
Shipyards traditionally tend to use luffing jib cranes because they can work close together. Even tandem lifting operations are possible and they can be luffed away to overslew tall vessels and other obstacles. A common feature, in addition to the main hoist, is a runner winch for light service work. The growing number of large luffing jib construction tower crane models increases the choice for the shipbuilding industry.
In terms of energy consumption, trolley speed, manufacturing costs and availability from rental crane fleets, the series-system saddle jib type tower crane is still unsurpassed. To combine the benefits of saddle jib and luffing jib cranes, designer Franc Jost developed the JLT series of articulated trolley jib shipyard tower crane where the front part of the boom can be raised. In this way, overall tower height can be reduced and, with that, the wind attack area, which means less corner pressure on the quayside and a shorter pendulum length for the hoisting rope.
As Mariano Echavarri from Comansa explains, saddle jib cranes can be even less wind sensitive, as demonstrated on a job site in the USA where a flat top crane can be still operated where the wind speed is 45 mph (73 km/h) while a luffer in a shipyard has to stop work at 25 mph (41 km/h).
If requested the tower crane upper can be based on a custom-built closed tube tower or even the shipyard can manufacture its own tower and portal, to reduce initial costs. Individual design and fabrication of a closed tubular tower system is expensive when carried out by the crane manufacturer. In addition, the standard tower system is already certified to be used in connection with the upper crane. This saves delivery time and money for the client.
Elevation variation
A modular tower system allows the tower height to be changed easily according to new requirements at the shipyard. Krøll has increased the hook height of several big, 60 tonne, capacity tower cranes at DSME some 20 years after delivery, simply by providing additional tower sections. Jorn Lorentzen adds that according to Krøll's experience the lattice crane tower is much lighter and can be split into pieces for easy erection and transportation in contrast to a tubular tower which also requires an expensive plate-type structural portal.
On the other hand, a crane tower made up of lattice tower sections needs more maintenance than a tubular tower of fixed length. That applies not only to the anti-corrosion painting of the structure but also monitoring the connection devices, regardless of whether slug bolts or screws are used. For heavy duty cycle work, for example, 2 million hoist cycles, then fatigue issues rule out the use of lattice structures.
A case study by Wolffkran, however, found that in most yards cranes were only in operation for about 70 % of the working year. Hence, it should be sufficient for most shipyard work to apply for FEM A3 tower crane standard and thereby avoid capacity derating of standard tower cranes. When applied as a rail mounted unit, tower cranes in the shipyard industry should have rigid and high-powered travel bogies. This is because, in contrast to the construction industry, shipyard cranes are intensively used to travel with their loads over hundreds of metres.
Shipyard tower cranes have custom-designed cabins and access platforms for optimum safety during maintenance work. A permanent operator lift integrated into the tower should also be included. A standard construction tower crane may also have to be specially painted with a marine finish to cope with the humidity and salty atmosphere. In this respect Krøll's standard corrosion protection uses zinc and aluminium primers. Most tower cranes use electric power. If necessary diesel power packs can be added, especially when the crane is shifted around the yard to different job sites or in cases where the supply of enough electricity may be a problem.
While LLC shipyard cranes generally only use an individual rail track, tower cranes are highly versatile in their temporary installation. In addition to a rail mounted undercarriage, they can be erected on foundation plates welded directly to the vessel deck for temporary use on a cross frame foundation during fitting out work. They can also be based on a concrete foundation. In this case, thanks to the very small out of service radius, a wide working area can be served outside the footprint of the crane.
When a traditional LLC in a shipyard is found to be in the wrong place, expensive relocation work becomes necessary and it is normally ruled out for that reason. To move a tower crane as a single unit, it can be prepared with special lugs on the tower head or the slewing ring section. They allow the crane to be shifted by a floating crane or a goliath crane.
Portal base
A method designed in South East Asia is to use a 1.50 m low portal under which a self propelled modular transporter unit can be moved in to shift the fully rigged crane around on the shipyard. Wilbert has improved this idea. Günter Kronewitter, Wilbert spokesperson, uses the luffing jib WT 2405L e.tronic as an example. Capacity is 32 tonnes at 51 m outreach in two fall operation mode and it still lifts 16 tonnes at 78 m radius. It can be used as a stationary tower crane while the ship yard traffic can pass under the standard Wilbert portal which has pylons instead of conventional travelling bogies.
In contrast to a standard LLC shipyard crane the original climbing tower crane design allows flexibility in the tower height and, at just 10 m, a very small minimum working radius. It is unnecessary to compensate for a large minimum radius by travelling during working. In addition, thanks to the moving Wilbert ballast system, corner pressures are reduced.
According to Claus Hartmann from Lion Cranes, at the proposal stage the idea of releasing a new tower crane from an existing, sometimes inadequate, rail track system could have great potential to cut initial shipyard crane installation costs and increase versatility. The same crane, for example, could be used for prefabrication and yard work at a remote area of the shipyard while it might also be transferred, when rigged, to the quayside for use there in a prepared location as stationary crane.
Shipyards are increasingly faced with a wide range of short-term projects. A versatile and modular crane design will become more attractive to a rental market. Delivery times are long for custom-designed LLC cranes and the second hand market is limited. A modular tower crane requiring only limited adaptation to the special project requirements for ship yard applications could be a sound alternative.
International Cranes & Specialized Transport - July 2019
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Hospital refurbishment for Wolffkran
Wolffkran supplied two XXL class Wolff saddle jib tower cranes to help renovate the Klinikum Ingolstadt clinical centre in Ingolstadt, Germany
Wolffkran tower for Empire
Empire Crane Company in the USA has expanded its tower crane fleet with the addition of a Wolffkran 355B luffing jib model
First Wolff in Manhattan
American crane rental company Federated Crane set up a Wolff 700 B US luffing crane at the Three World Trade Center (3 WTC) site in Manhattan, New York
International Tower Cranes (ITC) conference review
The 2017 International Tower Cranes (ITC) conference in May provided a chance for the international tower crane community to discuss a range of key issues
Olympian challenge: towers instead of crawlers
Morrow equipment won a high profile refurbishment project in Canada using a pair of tower cranes instead of a conventional method with mobile cranes
Next-level planning for tower sites
A new approach to project planning is being promoted by Felix Weinstein, founder and manager of Felix Engineering. His approach takes things into a new dimension, the fourth dimension