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By bringing together product and solution providers with both channel partners and senior decision-makers from the government and private sectors, the IFSEC 2022 poses a perfect opportunity for EZVIZ. The brand brings forth quality products lined up like the next generation Indoor & Outdoor PTZ Cameras, Battery Camera, Solar Battery Camera, Smart Video Door Bell, Smart Sensor Kit & Air Purifiers.
EZVIZ, India's global smart home security brand, is participating in the IFSEC 2022 event to be held in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, from 1st – 3rd December, 2022. With an aim to create a safe, convenient and smart life for users through its intelligent devices, cloud-based platform, and AI technology, EZVIZ will be presenting new range of innovative products and services that can be applied to home, workplaces, stores, schools, and more. The brand empowers partners to share their unique cloud services, and enables them to build a thriving IoT ecosystem. The new products will be showcased in Hall No. 05 at Stall No. C02 and will be further made accessible in the Indian market by early 2023.
Speaking on their participation, Mr. Bipin Gupta, Product Manager, EZVIZ said, "We are pleased to be a part of an event that works on bringing together industry peers across the safety and security realm. In recent years, the demand for home security systems has significantly increased owing to the heightened need for quality security services. At EZVIZ, we work towards a vision of enabling customers to secure the homes with smart home products which are easy to use, hence making EZVIZ as the go-to brand for smart home & security products. With the recent announcement of new product range – the next generation Indoor & Outdoor PTZ Cameras, Battery Camera, Solar Battery Camera, Smart Video Door Bell, Smart Sensor Kit & Air Purifiers, we hope to serve all aspects of security and present a comprehensive experience while satisfactorily addressing the needs of our customers."
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Greg Wahl has lived in Dupont Circle since 1994 and has seen the changes to 17th Street first hand. He said riding his bike is part of his routine living in Washington, D.C. and is happy to see infrastructure in place to support him. (Heidi Kirk / The Wash)
'It is unbelievable that this is still coming up.' Dupont residents continue long-standing arguments about protected bike lanes on 17th Street
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In July, DDOT converted the 17th Street corridor to add an additional bike lane and room for streetearies as part of a continual project to make the street more friendly for all users. Despite the changes, many residents are still expressing their frustration with the setup.
Kevin Rogers risks getting a ticket every time he visits 17th Street in Dupont Circle.
With a lack of handicap parking spots, the corridor of streetearies, bars, cafes and businesses makes it hard for people who have paraplegia like Rogers to get around. So instead, he parks in a loading zone.
Rogers has been outspoken about the recent transformation of 17th Street parking, bike and driving lanes.
He said he is looking out for the next person with mobility issues who struggles to find accessible parking spots in the area.
"I have been doing this for 40 years. I have been fighting accessibility for a long time," Rogers said.
17th Street has always been host to a network of "shareability" issues, with narrow streets causing tension between the retailers, pedestrians and vehicle traffic, according to many local residents.
During the pandemic, more people began walking, biking and running throughout the city, sparking a conversation surrounding potential improvements. Formerly, the street had only a narrow one-way bike lane going south, with no room for bikers to safely ride in the opposite direction.
DDOT transformed the corridor entirely in July by adding space dedicated to streetearies, a shared through-traffic lane southbound and a single protected bike lane northbound. While these changes improved the area for pedestrians and bikers, they reduced street parking and loading zones.
Three months later, it seems few people are happy.
The adaptations to the 17th Street corridor was intended to provide the community with a shared space for pedestrians, bikes and cars alike. (Courtesy of the Washington Area Bicyclist Association)
People gathered in front of the Safeway on 17th Street on Friday, protesting the bike lane and demanding a comprehensive review, a study of alternatives and a public presentation of the ongoing bike lane plans for the rest of the street.
Some protestors held a sign that read "NO BIKE HIGHWAY ON 17th!" citing high-speed cyclists as one of the primary issues the bike lane creates.
Bike lane opposers were the first to gather Oct. 1 in front of the Safeway at 1701 Corcoran St. NW in Dupont East. Their protest drew the attention of passersby and bike lane advocates eventually joined to fight back. (Heidi Kirk / The Wash)
Former 2B ANC Commissioner Aaron Landry said he oversaw the project for the reverse bike lane when it was proposed by the DC Department of Transportation in July of 2020. Landry said DDOT took the perspectives of many stakeholders into account and came up with a compromise for all people involved. While he said it isn't the perfect solution to some of the issues on 17th Street, he said it accommodated most of the people that held stake.
"The overall result is a much safer and lively street, and I'm really proud of the work we did to help make 17th Street safer," Landry said.
The strip along 17th Street is part of a larger plan within the District of Columbia to improve its streets by adding an additional 20 miles of protected bike lanes by 2022. Though the plans are motivated by increasing bike transportation, the lanes affect more than just bikers.
With 17th Street being a host to many streetearies, local businesses and other staples, the replacement of street parking with a bike lane affects the entire East Dupont community. (Heidi Kirk / The Wash)
Dupont East Civic Action Association President Nick Delledonne has been one of the most outspoken voices in the community against the bike lane. Delledonne said he thinks the bike lane has caused a host of issues, including dangerous streets for pedestrians due to high-speed cyclists. Delledonne said he fears that someone might get hit by a fast-moving bike while trying to cross the street.
"We don't want anyone to be injured. The protected bike lane causes a hazard for the residents. It is really dangerous," Delledonne said.
Another issue that Delledonne raised with the bike lanes was the removal of parking spaces to accommodate them.
One of the local businesses affected by the lane is Cairo Wine and Liquor. Owner Howard Aaronson said he's not against bike lanes in general but said he thinks that 17th Street would be better off without them. He said he thinks the space could be better utilized by parking spaces for his customers.
"It is affecting our customers because there is no place for them to park," Aaronson said.
While the street does have loading zones in place, Delledonne said they aren't well marked or plentiful enough to support the number of businesses that are receiving shipments on any given day.
Cairo Wine and Liquor Owner Howard Aaronson said his truck drivers risk getting a ticket every time they bring a shipment due to the lack of loading zones. Additionally, they struggle to pull out of the designated zones for lack of space. (Heidi Kirk / The Wash)
Ariton Ishmali echoes the same concern. He said he is bike-savvy but doesn't dare ride on 17th Street for fear of being hit by a car or a high-speed scooter that is improperly using the lane.
"I am a biker, but if I come this way, I am looking to kill myself," Ishmali said.
Despite these skeptics, other bikers said they think the lane is a huge improvement to the area and makes the community a safer place for bikers, drivers and pedestrians alike.
Daniel Adler said he thinks the lane doesn't just benefit bikers but makes the community an overall more accessible place for people to live. Adler said he sees more locals out and about since the changes to the strip made it a more vibrant spot for people to gather together.
"It made the street more friendly for people. We have taken a public space that was previously dedicated to cars, and we have converted it into a space for people," Adler said.
Stephen Marencic uses the lane to bike to work. He said the changes have improved his commute astronomically and even makes him feel more comfortable biking with his kid.
"I have been hit several times [before the changes]," Marencic said. "The lane gives me more confidence in biking around the neighborhood."
But Adler said he thinks there is still work to be done on 17th Street. He said he thinks the community could benefit from raised crosswalks and clearer signage. Despite these suggested improvements, he said he thinks the configuration is overall benefiting the community and not causing a hazard for pedestrians.
Despite some opposition and calls to action, DDOT is still moving forward with a bike lane extension. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission for the Dupont Circle Neighborhood passed the extension plans at its Sept. 9 meeting.
The extension runs from T Street NW to Florida Avenue and will be installed in the coming months.
Heidi Kirk is a Washington, D.C.-based reporter interested in covering human interest and politics. In the past, Heidi has reported for The Arkansas Traveler, Work It Daily and has held multiple broadcast television internships.
Heidi is currently a graduate student at American University, where she reports for the Investigative Reporting Workshop. She covers Dupont Circle for The Wash.
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The American Physical Society has released a new assessment, titled "Direct Air Capture of CO2 with Chemicals," to better inform the scientific community on the technical aspects of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
In systems achieving direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide (CO2), ambient air flows over a chemical sorbent, either liquid or solid, that selectively removes the CO2. The CO2 is then released as a concentrated stream for disposal or reuse, while the sorbent is regenerated and the CO2-depleted air is returned to the atmosphere. DAC is now included in discussions of climate change policy because it is among the few strategies that might lower the atmospheric concentration of CO2 to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. However, the intent of this assessment is not to make specific policy recommendations.
The assessment is the outcome of a two-year study conducted by a 13-member committee whose members work in industry, academia, and national and government laboratories. It concludes that DAC would play a very limited role in a coherent CO2 mitigation strategy for many decades. Deployment of DAC would not be pursued aggressively until the world has largely eliminated centralized sources of CO2 emissions, especially at coal and natural gas power plants, either by substitution of non-fossil alternatives or by capture of nearly all of their CO2 emissions. For example, it makes little sense to ignore the emissions of CO2 in the flue gas from a coal power plant while removing CO2 from ambient air where it is 300 times more dilute.
The assessment estimates that removing CO2 from the flue gas of a coal power plant would be seven or more times less expensive, relative to a benchmark DAC system that, in the assessment committee's judgment, is well enough described in the published literature that its costs can be estimated today. The benchmark system removes 1 MtCO2/yr from the atmosphere. Applying a simplified costing methodology used in industry for early-stage projects, its avoided cost is estimated to be at least $600/tCO2. Using the same methodology, the estimated avoided cost for "post-combustion capture" of CO2 from the flue gas of a reference coal power plant is about $80/tCO2.
A variety of science and engineering issues will determine the ultimate feasibility and competitiveness of DAC. If DAC were to ever have a substantial role in removing CO2 from the atmosphere, it would need to be much less costly than the benchmark system considered in the report. Today, few relevant experimental results have been published, and no demonstration or pilot-scale DAC system has yet been deployed. Improved designs would involve alternative strategies for bringing air into contact with chemicals, new chemistries for sorption and regeneration, materials that can operate effectively and efficiently over thousands of consecutive cycles, and low-carbon energy sources for power and heat in order to avoid emitting more than one CO2 molecule into the atmosphere for each CO2 molecule captured. From what is now known, it would not be wise to delay dealing with climate change on the grounds that at some future time DAC could be available as a significant compensating strategy.
Robert Socolow (Princeton University) served as a co-chair of the DAC study.
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Possessing his father's durable good looks, vigor and charm, this tall, strapping, exceedingly handsome second son of John Wayne had huge boots to fill in trying to escape his legendary father's shadow and corral Hollywood fame on his own terms. But attempt he did and, looking back, he may not have achieved the outright stardom of his father but certainly did quite admirably, making over 40 films in his career -- nine of them with his dad.
One of four children born to John Wayne and his first wife, Josephine Alicia Saenz., Patrick John Wayne carried his father's name, so it seems natural that a similar destiny would be in the making. Patrick made his debut film bit at age 11 in his father classic western Rio Grande (1950) and proceeded to apprentice in The Quiet Man (1952), The Sun Shines Bright (1953), The Long Gray Line (1955), Mister Roberts (1955), and The Searchers (1956), some with and some without his father's name above the title credits. All the above-mentioned films, however, were helmed by family friend and iconic director John Ford. Following high school, he attended Loyola University and graduated in 1961 (older brother Michael Wayne had graduated five years earlier).
During this time, he went out on his own to star in his own film, the second-string oater The Young Land (1959). Realizing he was not quite ready to carry his own film, he returned to the family fold and gained more on-camera confidence throughout the 1960s supporting his father in The Alamo (1960), Donovan's Reef (1963), McLintock! (1963), and The Green Berets (1968). A few exceptions included a role in Ford's sprawling epic Cheyenne Autumn (1964), his turn as James Stewart's son in the frontier adventure Shenandoah (1965) and in An Eye for an Eye (1966) in which he and Robert Lansing played bounty hunters. He co-starred in the short-lived comedy western series The Rounders (1966).
Following work on his dad's Big Jake (1971), Patrick broke away again and sought success on his own. Interestingly, he earned more recognition away from the dusty boots and saddle scene and into the sci-fi genre. His career peaked in the late 1970s as the titular hero braving Ray Harryhausen monsters and saving Tyrone Power's daughter Taryn in the popular matinée fantasy Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977), then battled more special effects creatures in the Edgar Rice Burroughs film adaptation of The People That Time Forgot (1977).
Patrick was a smoother, more gentlemanly version of the Wayne package with a completely captivating smile and accessible personality. He co-starred as a romantic love interest to Shirley Jones in another brief TV series Shirley (1979), and occasionally forsook acting chores to emcee game shows and syndicated variety series. Although the scope of his talent was seldom tested over the years, he was a thoroughly enjoyable presence on all the popular TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including Fantasy Island (1977), Murder, She Wrote (1984), Charlie's Angels (1976), and The Love Boat (1977).
Following the death of his elder brother Michael in 2003, Patrick Wayne became Chairman of the John Wayne Cancer Institute. Divorced in 1978 from Peggy Hunt, he is married (since 1999) to Misha Anderson.
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Zhuying ji also known as the Collection of Precious Glories is a collection of Chinese poetry by Cui Rong, first published in the reign of Wu Zetian (690-705). The book contains poems by Cui Rong (653-706), Li Jiao (644-713), Zhang Yue (677-731), and others. The original work was long thought to be completely lost, however fragments constituting about one-fifth of the original have been found among the Dunhuang manuscripts, with fifty-five poems by thirteen men. One notable feature of this anthology is that Cui Rong arranged the work in descending order of official rank of the included poets; which, among other things, underlines the nature of early Tang poetry as a type of poetry associated with the imperial courts and palaces.
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The assessment of whether a worker is an independent contractor or an employee is a fact-intensive inquiry. Moreover, different tests apply depending on the law. Thus, while a worker may be classified as an independent contractor under federal tax law, the same worker may be classified as an employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the federal law covering minimum wage and overtime.
The three general categories of tests are: (1) the Right to Control test; (2) the Economic Realities Test; and (3) the ABC test. There are also state-specific variations of the aforementioned tests. Just last year, California's Governor signed into law Assembly Bill 5, which requires application of the "ABC test" when determining if California workers are employees or independent contractors for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the Industrial Welfare Commission wage orders. The ABC test presumes that a worker is an employee unless the hiring entity can satisfy three conditions. The burden is on the employer to prove that the worker meets all of the defined criteria.
Why Does it Matter if You are Classified as an Employee v. an Independent Contractor?
Employees are legally entitled to certain benefits and protections that are not afforded to independent contractors. For example, a worker classified as an employee in California would be protected under California's workplace safety and retaliation laws, as well as wage and hour laws that require employers to pay their workers at least the minimum wage, overtime, and provide meal and rest breaks.
What are the Three Conditions of the ABC Test?
Under the California ABC test, a worker is an employee unless the hiring entity satisfies the following three conditions:
The worker is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity involving the performance of the work;
The worker performs work that differs from the hiring entity's usual course of business; and
The worker is normally involved in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed.
Three-Prong Breakdown
In order to understand the ABC test, it may help to breakdown each of these three conditions as follows:
Control and Direction of Work
The first prong lays out the arrangement as it relates to control and direction. A worker who is subject to the same type of control a business typically exercises over its employees will likely be considered an employee. On the other hand, if the worker is free to do the work as he or she sees fit with no training or oversight from the employer, the worker will likely be considered an independent contractor.
Work Outside of the Employer's Business
The second prong relates to the essential business functions of the employer. If the worker provides services comparable to that of an existing employee, that worker will likely be viewed as working in the hiring entity's "usual course of business," and thus be classified as an employee.
Independently Established Work
The third prong looks to see whether the worker performs similar duties for other entities or under other circumstances. If a person works exclusively for one entity, it is more likely that the worker is an employee of that entity.
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G.O.O.D Music and Hustle Gang artist Travis Scott finally released his long-awaited-mixtape-turned-digital-album Owl Pharaoh today via his website. The project was slated to drop months ago but was delayed due to sample clearance and what seemed to be a very busy schedule from the young artist and producer. The wait seems to be worth it with a sound very reminiscent of his mentor Kanye West, sans any chip on his shoulder. The whole project is worth a long listen with features from A$AP Ferg, Meek Mill, Wale, Toro Y Moi, and Theophilus London. What surprised a number of Travi$ fans was the fact that a many of the singles he had released earlier in the year were not on the project including "UP", "Old English", and "16 Chapels". Regardless the project did a good job at showcasing what the world can expect from Travis Scott as he tours the country with friend and fellow Epic Records label mate Casey Veggies. The songs that stood out in my opinion were "Upper Echelon", "MIA" and "Quintana". Download Owl Pharaoh from this XXL freshman.
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Shearwater GeoServices has confirmed the appointment of Kristin Færøvik to the company's board of directors.
Færøvik was the Managing Director of Lundin Energy Norway. She is currently the chair of the board at Moreld, as well as a board member at Sval Energi and Bunker Holding. Previously, she held executive positions at Rosenberg WorleyParsons, Marathon Oil, and BP Norway.
Tim Mooney, President of New York-based vessel operator Fire Island Ferries, has been selected to serve as the new head of the Interferry Board of Directors for the next three years.
Mooney has a BS/BA from Nichols College in economics and computer science and started his career in the computer industry. He spent 25 years working with IBM, Wang Laboratories and Parametric Technology Corporation. In 2003, he left the computer industry to join his father to help run Fire Island Ferries.
Mooney has served on the Interferry board since 2013.
Towage provider Svitzer has appointed Kasper Karlsen as its new Global Chief Operating Officer and Deniz Kirdar True as Managing Director of the company's operations in the AMEA region.
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Karlse has been with Svitzer since 2020, holding the role of regional COO in Europe and standing in as UK Managing Director following the merger of the UK North and South clusters in June 2022. He has held different leadership positions in the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group over the last 15 years.
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True joined Svitzer in 2014 as COO in the Europe region and held the role of Head of Operational Excellence before moving to the Australia region as General Manager for the East Coast in 2020. She has worked in shipping for almost 20 years.
Echandia has appointed long time maritime executive and business developer Göran Fransson as Chief Commercial Officer.
Fransson has previously held the roles as Global Business Manager at Alfa Laval, Commercial Director at maritime systems company Trident BMC (formerly Baltec Marine), and Vice President Sales and Marketing at US Ship Supply Corporation.
Alabama-based boatbuilder Silver Ships has appointed Steven Clarke to the role of CEO. Previously, Clarke held the role of Chief Financial Officer for seven years.
Clarke began his career as a Data Analyst at the USDA in North Carolina before moving to the role of Financial Analyst in the West Coast-based Coast Crane Company, a subsidiary of Essex Rental Corporation. In 2015, Clarke joined the Silver Ships team as co-owner and Chief Financial Officer.
Mark Worsfold has joined Babcock Australasia as Program Director – Strategic Maritime Partnerships this week after 35 years' service with the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), his most recent role as Logistics Commander (Maritime). In his new role with Babcock, he will be responsible for the safe delivery of New Zealand's Maritime Fleet Sustainment Services (MFSS) program.
David Ruff, CEO Babcock Australasia, says Worsfold will continue to serve the Navy by providing the critical services required to enable the New Zealand Defence Force's maritime capability.
Dutch engineering consultancy Royal HaskoningDHV has appointed two new Global Directors: Sabine Bink started as Global Director Industry and Buildings effective December 1, 2022 and Jon Robinson will start as Global Director Water and Maritime effective January 5, 2023.
Bink comes from Royal HaskoningDHV's own ranks including a stint as Director Project Management and Consultancy Multinationals. As Global Director Industry and Buildings, she succeeds Marije Hulshof, who earlier this year was appointed to Royal HaskoningDHV's Executive Board.
Robinson joins Royal HaskoningDHV from AECOM where he was Head of Water Sector, Europe. Within water, environment, maritime and power businesses he has held operational, sector and strategy development roles in AECOM and predecessors.
As Global Director Water and Maritime, Robinson succeeds Niels Schallenberg, who earlier this year decided to pursue his career outside Royal HaskoningDHV.
Carnival Corporation has confirmed that Sara Mathew, retired Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Dun and Bradstreet Corporation, has been appointed to Carnival Corporation's Boards of Directors.
During her over 12-year tenure with Dun and Bradstreet, she served as Chair and CEO from 2010 to 2013, following prior roles as President and Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Dun and Bradstreet, Mathew held various roles over her 18 years at The Proctor and Gamble Company, within finance, accounting, brand management and investor relations.
At Carnival Corporation, Mathew will serve in a non-executive capacity as a board member and will also serve on the Audit Committees.
Global shipping, logistics and marine services provider GAC Group has announced the appointment of Pontus Fredriksson as its new Group President effective from January 2023. Bengt Ekstrand, who has held the position for the past 10 years, will take on the role of Executive Co-Chairman alongside GAC's long-standing Executive Chairman Björn Engblom.
Fredriksson joined GAC in 2007 and has been Group Vice President of GAC's Americas region since August 2019. He previously held various finance and managerial roles in the Middle East, including Managing Director of GAC Bahrain.
Bollinger Shipyards has made a number of leadership announcements following the recent acquisition of Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding (BMS) and Bollinger Mississippi Repair (BMR), formerly VT Halter Marine. The announcements reflect leadership changes at BMS and BMR, as well as Bollinger Lockport New Construction and Bollinger Marine Fabricators in order to best align titles and functions across all 14 Bollinger facilities.
Chris Remont has been named Executive Vice President and General Manager of Bollinger Mississippi Shipbuilding (BMS). In this role, he will oversee the facility's ongoing and future programs and is responsible for execution and delivery. Remont was previously EVP for New Construction Programs at Bollinger.
Bob Merchant has been named Vice President of Operational Strategy and Integration. He will be responsible for the strategic overview of companywide functional business units. He previously served as President and CEO of VT Halter Marine.
Merchant spent most of his career at Ingalls Shipbuilding.
While Tim Martinez will remain the Executive Vice President of Repair for Bollinger, he will now oversee Bollinger Mississippi Repair (BMR).
Geoffrey Green has been named Executive Vice President of Government and External Affairs, where he will oversee all state and federal government relations, community relations, communications and marketing activities. Geoffrey previously served as Vice President for Government Affairs for Bollinger.
Mark Matta has been named Director of Program Management for Bollinger Lockport New Construction and Bollinger Marine Fabricators. He will be responsible for program execution of the US Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter (FRC), US Navy Mine Countermeasures Unmanned Surface Vessel (MCM USV) program, as well as multiple projects in support of the US Navy Columbia-class Submarine program.
Jeffrey Gehrmann has meanwhile been named the General Manager of Bollinger Mississippi Repair.
Dr. Gunnar Stiesch will take over MAN Energy Solutions' Technology department, which was previously headed by CEO Dr. Uwe Lauber in a dual role, and will join the board as the new Chief Technology Officer effective January 1, 2023.
Stiesch was previously Head of Engine Development at MAN and has worked for the company in R&D functions for almost 15 years. He holds a doctorate and habilitation from Leibniz Universität Hannover and began his professional career in 2003 as a development engineer at MTU Friedrichshafen. In 2008, he took over as head of the development department in the four-stroke engine and exhaust aftertreatment division at the former MAN Diesel and Turbo before becoming overall head of the company's engine development at the Augsburg and Copenhagen sites in 2017. He also holds a professorship at Leibniz University in Hanover.
Havfram Subsea has appointed Gregor Scott as Managing Director for the company's UK operation.
Over the last 10 years, Scott has held commercial and leadership roles within the Havfram organisation. As Managing Director (UK), he will assume responsibility for delivering the Havfram Subsea strategy in the UK as the organisation transitions into an independent company following the sale of its offshore wind business last month.
Scott has more than 20 years' experience in the international oil and gas and offshore renewables industries working in a variety of roles from Naval Architect through to Commercial Management. He joined Havfram in 2012, where until his recent promotion, he was Business Acquisition Director, focusing on the SURF and Renewables Business lines.
Scott holds a BEng (Hons) in Naval Architecture from the University of Strathclyde.
Canadian unmanned systems specialist Kraken Robotics has confirmed that Bernard Mills recently join the company's Board of Directors.
Mills is an internationally experienced executive specialising in defense and critical infrastructure sectors. Previously, he held the role of President at Ultra Sonar Systems, leading an international business unit of over 850 staff delivering underwater sensing technologies to some of the world's navies. Earlier in his career, he worked for underwater systems company Thales, with roles in both France and Australia.
Mills also sits on the board of Canadian defence industry association CADSI.
Silversea Cruises President and CEO Roberto Martinoli will assume the role of senior advisor to Royal Caribbean Group President and CEO Jason Liberty, effective January 1, 2023. Barbara Muckermann, currently Chief Commercial Officer, will become Silversea's next president and CEO, and will join Royal Caribbean Group's Executive Committee.
Under Martinoli's leadership since 2016, Silversea's fleet has grown to include 11 ships. In summer 2023, it will welcome Silver Nova, the first hybrid luxury cruise ship utilising fuel cells. Martinoli also led the acquisition in 2022 of Silver Endeavour to help enable the company to access both polar regions.
Muckermann brings more than 25 years of experience in the travel and hospitality industry. She first joined Silversea Cruises in 2001, and held several roles at other luxury and cruise brands from 2005 to 2016 before returning. In her current post as Silversea's Chief Commercial Officer, she oversees all aspects of sales, marketing, revenue management and guest relations, as well as strategic communications and brand and product strategy. Muckermann is a Doctor in Political Sciences and Economics, and holds a joint MBA from London Business School and Columbia University.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises has confirmed the appointment of Andrea DeMarco to the position of President, effective January 1, 2023.
Having been Regent's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer since September 2021, DeMarco will expand her reporting line to now include revenue management, passenger services, and the company's international sales operations. She succeeds Jason Montague as President. Montague will then serve as special advisor to the company.
DeMarco has 20 years of diverse cruise industry experience across multiple areas of the business. She has served as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for Regent Seven Seas Cruises since September 2021. Prior to this role, she held various positions of increasing responsibility since joining Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings in 2012, including as Senior Vice President of Investor Relations, Corporate Communications and Environmental, Social and Governance for the Company from January 2020 until August 2021. Prior to her time at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, she worked in revenue management, corporate financial planning and charter sales at the Royal Caribbean Group.
DeMarco earned an MBA in Finance from Florida International University and a BS in Finance from Florida State University.
Oceania Cruises has confirmed the appointment of Frank A. Del Rio, current Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, as President of Oceania Cruises effective January 1, 2023. Howard Sherman, current President and CEO, will remain with the cruise line's parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings as a special advisor.
Del Rio started his career in the cruise industry in 2003 as one of the first employees at Oceania Cruises. In his current role as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer he leads all sales and marketing activities across the globe with teams based in the brand's offices in Miami, Southampton, Sydney, and Sao Paulo.
Del Rio rejoined the company in early 2022, marking a continuation of his 14-year tenure, which ran from 2003 through 2017. During his time at Oceania Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, and ultimately at Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, he rose to the rank of Senior Vice President and led all aspects of Port and Destination Services along with Onboard Revenue.
Prior to his return to the company, Del Rio was involved in the private equity, finance, and tech spaces, where he was involved across a wide spectrum of products and industries, including AI, telecommunications and 5G network solutions, medical, and real estate development.
Helena Lennerstedt has been appointed as the new CEO of Humphree.
Lennerstedt has a background in several positions in different companies in Sweden. The last seven years saw her serve as Vice President Purchasing at Volvo Penta. She has a Master's in engineering from Linköping University and has studied International Business.
Lennerstedt succeeds Hannes Norrgren, who has taken up the role of Senior Vice President for Business Unit Industrial at Volvo Penta. She will take up the new position in January 2023.
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Teekay Corporation has confirmed the appointment of Brody Speers, Vice President Finance and Treasurer, as the company's new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective January 1, 2023.
Speers will take over his new roles following the retirement of current EVP and CFO Vince Lok, who had worked with Teekay for nearly 30 years. Lok will continuing to oversee Teekay's Finance, Accounting and Tax teams. He has laso agreed to stay on as an advisor through the end of 2023 to help ensure a smooth transition.
Speers joined Teekay in 2008 and has served in several senior financial positions in Teekay's Finance, Accounting and Strategic Development departments, working alongside Lok for most of the past 14 years. This includes serving as Chief Financial Officer for Teekay LNG Partners (now Seapeak) in 2017 and 2018, and more recently as Teekay's Vice President, Finance and Treasurer overseeing the Finance, Accounting and Tax teams for the company.
Prior to joining Teekay, Speers worked as a Chartered Professional Accountant for an accounting firm in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a Chartered Business Valuator.
Global integrated logistics and materials management specialist ASCO has appointed Ross Irvine as general manager of its ship management agency Seletar and its AFM freight management service line.
Irvine stepped into his new role following the promotion of his predecessor Mike Pettigrew, who was recently appointed managing director for ASCO UK.
Since joining ASCO in 2012 as a Ships Agent, Irvine has held a number of roles within the company, including various management positions. Most recently, he was a service delivery manager at Seletar.
Beyond his role at ASCO, Irvine currently serves as a tutor at the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. He has also completed the Institute's Foundation and Advanced diplomas with distinctions in Offshore Support and Shipping Business and their Professional Qualifying Examinations.
Australia's Mid West Ports Authority (MWPA) as welcomed Courtney Ackland and Tony Corbett as its new Chief Operating Officer and Trade and Commercial Manager, respectively.
Ackland is a local Geraldton resident having worked at Iluka Resources (Mid West) for the last eight years, six as their Operations and Registered Manager. He has a strong working knowledge of the shipping and logistics industries with accountability for Iluka's Mid West shipping, road haulage, and product storage requirements.
Ackland will commence working in his new role in 2023. The Chief Operating Officer is a newly formed role at MWPA, combining two previous General Manager roles to bring landside and marine operations, maintenance, assets and engineering all under one position.
Corbett has been the Trade Development Manager at the Port of Newcastle, NSW, for the last five years, and has around 30 years of experience in the ports and logistics sectors. He assumed his new position on December 1, 2022.
The Port of Hamburg has appointed Sameeha Pradeep Sule as its new representative in Mumbai.
Sule has been leading the representative office in India since October 1, 2022. That same month, she took over management of the Hamburg Representation Mumbai (HRM) office, which also represents Port of Hamburg Marketing. Her predecessor Lea Miram is leaving India after four years and returning to Germany.
Soren Skou has retired as CEO of A. P. Møller–Mærsk, handing the role over to Vincent Clerc.
Clerc, currently CEO of the company's Ocean and Logistics business, will succeed as CEO of Maersk effective January 1, 2023.
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After 15 years in the Asian business community, Susanne Arfelt Rajamand has agreed to become the new CEO of fishing company Royal Greenland.
Rajamand comes from a position as Managing Director of the dairy company Fonterra's division in Southeast Asia. She has previously with consumer goods company Unilever, where she started as a trainee and rose to Managing Director in Singapore.
Rajamand succeeds Mikael Thinghuus, who resigned in October after 12 years as CEO. She will assume her new role on February 1, 2023.
Rajamand holds an MSc in Business Economics from Copenhagen Business School and has completed an Executive MBA from Tsinghua University in Beijing and INSEAD. For the past 15 years she has been a resident in Singapore.
Niels Hintzen will be the new Chief Science Officer at the Pelagic Freezer-Trawler Association (PFA) effective March 1, 2023. He will succeed Martin Pastoors, who has led the PFA's scientific work for almost nine years.
Hintzen has worked as a fisheries researcher for Wageningen Marine Research (WMR) for 16 years. He holds a Master of Science in biology from Wageningen University.
In his role at WMR, Hintzen's specialisations included statistical analyses to simulate future fisheries management scenarios. He also worked with international groups of scientists in assessing herring stocks in Europe and jack mackerel stock in the South Pacific.
Canadian aquaculture engineering company Poseidon Ocean Systems has appointed Jamie Gaskill as Chief Executive Officer. He has served as a Board Member of Poseidon for the past 18 months and with this transition, will move into an active leadership role within the company.
Gaskill has over 30 years of experience across the entire salmon farming value chain—including smolt production, sea-farming, in-sea closed systems, harvesting and processing. Eighteen of those years were served as a director with a salmon farming company in leadership and management roles including managing director and both freshwater and seawater production director roles.
Poseidon co-founder and current CEO Matt Clarke will transition to the role of Chief Technology Officer, where he will focus on continuing to develop new technologies to improve the aquaculture industry.
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Premium Art Fair G-SEOUL 2013- At Grand Hilton Seoul from July27 until July 1-Displaying many things to see
Ethnic Chinese art collectors invited through the Quintessentially Asia office of the Global Luxury Lifestyle Group
– Bordeaux Wine Fair, Salon Du Vin Seoul 2013, and Q Gourmet Week to be held as well
A premium art fair dubbed Gallery Seoul will be held under its new name, G-Seoul, for five days between June 27 and July 1 at Grand Hilton Seoul. The third annual event (G-Seoul 2013) is hosted by The Guard and The Joongang Ilbo and sponsored by the 2013 G-SEOUL Organizing Committee and J Contentree. Starting this year, the event will be supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (MCST) and Arts Council Korea (ARTCO). It is also participated in by Freeport, a luxury storage platform that has emerged as a Mecca of art storage for worldwide art collectors since its establishment in Geneva in 1859.
G-SEOUL 2013 aspires to join the ranks of world-class events
In a bid to be reborn as a world-class art fair, the third annual event was renamed G-SEOUL 2013. It will be held for five days (June 27 ~ July 1) at Grand Hilton Seoul, which boasts of well-arranged landscaping.
This year's event will be participated in by 50-plus galleries from all over the world, including Kukje Gallery, Hakgojae, Gana Art, Arario, Johyun Gallery, Leeahn Gallery, Jean Art Gallery, Wellside Gallery, Gallery Mee, Sun Contemporary, The Page Gallery, Gallery 2, Gallery em, Gallery SoSo, JJ Joong Jung Gallery, ARK Gallery (Indonesia), Nadi Gallery (Indonesia), MA2 (Japan), Collectiva (Germany), James Cohan Gallery (New York), PACE Beijing Gallery (Beijing), MOT (London), Tang Contemporary (Beijing), Victoria Miro Gallery (London), Moriyu Gallery (Tokyo), and Gagosian (London).
Special exhibit: Hypernarrative, K's collection, way of seeing
G-Seoul 2013 will include a special exhibit, K's Collection, which will display the value of documentary photos focusing on the vivid sense of reality and of "being there." The works displayed will enable visitors to see previously undisclosed images of each era.
"Hypernarrative" is also held with the arrangement of Curator Lee Dae-hyung. It will observe the role to be played in Korea's contemporary art by an approach of making a changed narrative structure that goes beyond the order of time and space, rather than the difference in forms and genres. Visitors will have the pleasure of seeing the efforts made by Lee Dae-hyung to explore and train young artists through Korean eye and the new view adopted by participating artists concerning contemporary art and narrative.
Other events simultaneously held include: "A TABLE Exhibit" showing the beauty of artworks that we see in our everyday lives, and; "Way of Seeing Exhibit," which displays the new approach of nine artists.
Ancillary events – WINE, DOCENT
The ait institute, an institution specializing in fine art education, will give interesting in-depth explanation on the event as a whole using the VIP Docent Program for visiting VIPs. Artists' visit to studio, a program linking fine art museums with art galleries, and lectures by world-renowned art experts will also be held.
VIP visitors to G-SEOUL 2013 will also be invited to Salon du Vin Seoul 2013, where they can sample 80-plus wines made in 20 premium wineries in Bordeaux, France. At the information desk of Salon du Vin Seoul 2013 on one side of the exhibition hall, visitors can taste deluxe Bordeaux wines at Petit Salon du Vin and get information on, or place orders for, wines sold at the Seoul 2013 event place.
During the event, many ethnic Chinese VIP art collectors invited through the Quintessentially Asia office of the Global Luxury Lifestyle Group will visit Korea. The event will serve as a valuable opportunity to introduce the potential of the country's fine art market and new artists to them and listen to their opinions on fine art markets worldwide.
Moreover, at G-SEOUL 2013, Quintessentially Korea, which has VVIP concierge service know-how, will provide high-quality service for VIPs both in and out of Korea. Grand Hilton Seoul will display diverse hotel package programs.
A celebrity attending the event
Car aficionados are already excited about the car of F1 driver Takuma Sato, which will be displayed during G-SEOUL 2013. The Japanese car racer, who took part in the F1 races between 2002 and 2008, has posted the best record in F1 among Asian car racers. At present, he is taking part in the Indi Car Series in the United States. He won the championship in the third round of the IZOD Indi Car Series held on April 21 this year in Long Beach, California. He will take part in the SUPER FORMULA race held in Inje Autopia in August this year, with the car displayed during G-SEOUL 2013.
Q- Small Gourmet Week
The Q-Small Gourmet Week event will be held on July 1 ~ 7 during the G-SEOUL 2013 and hosted by Quintessentially Korea of the Global Luxury Lifestyle Group at 30-plus luxury restaurants in Gangnam. Visitors to the G-SEOUL 2013 will get various benefits, such as Q-Small Gourmet Menu (menu specially selected by chefs), Welcome Dish, Wine Corkage Service, etc., offered by the restaurants.
Admission tickets for G-SEOUL 2013 may be purchased through Interpark (+82-1544-1555) or G-SEOUL 2013 The Guard Secretariat (+82-2- 556-1440).
Summary of the G-SEOUL 2013event
Event name: G-SEOUL 2013_INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR
Hosted by: The Guard and The Joongang Ilbo
Sponsored by: The 2013 G-SEOUL Organizing Committee and the J Contentree.
Place: Grand Hilton Seoul (353 Yeonhui-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul)
Period: From June 27, 2013 until July 1 (for five days)
Opening ceremony: 6:00 PM on June 27, 2013
Open on: – 3:00 PM– 9:00 PM, June 27 (for invited VIP/PRESS only)
– 11:00 AM – 2 PM, June 28 ~ 30 (for VIP Only)
– 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM, June 28 ~ 30 (for general public)
– 11:00 AM -3:00 PM, July 1 (for all)
Programs: G-SEOUL 2013 VIP Art Program; ART TALK 13; VIP Concierge Service; Salon du Vin Seoul 2013
For inquiries, please call +82-2-556-1440.
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Q: IOS UIScrollView - scroll and click element at the same time I have a UIScrollView with an button just outside the content area of the scrollView. The user has to scroll up and hold the spring effect which one finger and push the button with another finger. The problem is that the touch on the button is never detected.
Please see the illustration below

The scroll view in it's initial state. the orange area is the scrollView, the white area the button

The user is now scrolling and holding with one finger to overcome the spring effect of the UIScrollView, and want to click the button
Any suggestions?

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UIScrollView blocks all touches while zooming or scrolling
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These Corporate Giants Claim They Support Climate Action. Their Behavior Suggests Otherwise.
Amazon, Apple, Disney, Microsoft et al, are part of groups aiming to neuter the reconciliation bill.
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Some of America's most prominent companies, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Disney, are backing business groups that are fighting landmark climate legislation, despite their own promises to combat the climate crisis, a new analysis has found.
A clutch of corporate lobby groups and organizations have mobilized to oppose the proposed $3.5 trillion budget bill put forward by Democrats, which contains unprecedented measures to drive down planet-heating gases. The reconciliation bill has been called the "the most significant climate action in our country's history" by Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the US Senate.
Most large US corporations have expressed concern over the climate crisis or announced their own goals to cut greenhouse gases. Jeff Bezos, one of the world's richest people, has said that the climate crisis is the "biggest threat to our planet" and the company he founded, Amazon, has created a pledge for businesses to cut their emissions to net zero by 2040. Microsoft has promised to be "carbon negative" within a decade from now and Disney is aiming to use only renewable-sourced electricity within the same timeframe.
But these leading companies, and others, either support or actively steer the very lobby groups that are attempting to sink the bill that carries the weight of Joe Biden's ambitions to tackle the climate crisis, threatening one of the last major legislative efforts that will help decide whether parts of the world plunge into a new, barely livable climatic state.
"Hiding behind these shady groups…puts these companies' household names and reputations in serious jeopardy."
"Major corporations love to tell us how committed they are to addressing the climate crisis and building a sustainable future, but behind closed doors, they are funding the very industry trade groups that are fighting tooth and nail to stop the biggest climate change bill ever," said Kyle Herrig, president of watchdog group Accountable.US, which compiled the analysis.
None of the companies contacted by the Guardian would rebuke the stance of the lobby groups they are part of and none said they would review their links to these groups.
"Hiding behind these shady groups doesn't just put our environment at risk—it puts these companies' household names and reputations in serious jeopardy," Herrig said.
The US Chamber of Commerce has vowed to "do everything we can to prevent this tax raising, job killing reconciliation bill from becoming law". The leading business lobby group's board includes executives from companies including Microsoft, Intuit, United Airlines and Deloitte, which have all expressed concern over climate change – Deloitte even includes teaching the climate crisis to employees in its staff training – and have made various promises to reduce emissions.
Another group, the Business Roundtable, has said it is "deeply concerned" about the passage of the bill, largely because it raises taxes on the wealthy. The organization is made up of company chief executives, including Apple's Tim Cook, who has called for stronger action on the climate emergency from governments and businesses. Other members include Andy Jassy, chief executive of Amazon, Sundar Pichai, who heads Google's parent company Alphabet, and Darren Woods, chief executive of the oil giant ExxonMobil.
The National Association of Manufacturers—backed by Johnson & Johnson, Dow, and Goodyear—hopes to upend the bill "in every way you can imagine."
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a trade group that includes Bayer and AstraZeneca among its members, has run adverts attacking the proposed bill. The Rate Coalition, another lobby group that has Disney, FedEx and Verizon as members, is also planning an advertising blitz to help kill off the legislation while the National Association of Manufacturers—backed by Johnson & Johnson, Dow, and Goodyear—has said it is attempting to upend the bill "in every way you can imagine."
This blitz threatens legislation that already faces a perilous path through Congress, with the president needing every Senate Democrat to vote for the package for it to pass. Joe Manchin, the centrist Democrat from West Virginia who is a major recipient of donations from the fossil fuel industry, has said the climate section of the bill "makes no sense" and has demanded that subsidies for coal, oil and gas remain in place. Republicans universally oppose the bill.
If enacted, the bill would establish a system to phase out emissions from the US electricity system, provide payments to prop up carbon-free nuclear energy and support the adoption of electric vehicles.
As the first major attempt at climate legislation in more than a decade, the bill comes at a time when scientists warn the world is rapidly running out of time to avoid catastrophic climate change. The legislation's failure would not only wound Biden politically, it would also likely hinder attempts to prod other countries into more drastic action at crucial upcoming UN climate talks in Scotland.
"This is a historic chance to end fossil fuel subsidies and invest in a livable future," said Lukas Ross, climate program manager at Friends of the Earth. "We can't waste this opportunity to pass meaningful climate legislation because there might not be another."
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Nov. 18, 2020 By Christian Murray
The plan to relocate the sanitation garage on 21st Street to an industrial area in Astoria took a step further Monday when a Council subcommittee approved it sending the plan to the full council for a vote.
The City plans to move the dilapidated sanitation garage at 24-28 21st St. to a 10-acre industrial site by Luyster Creek in Astoria. As part of the plan, the city has pledged not to sell the 21st Street sanitation site to private developers and says it will use the land to build 100 percent affordable housing.
The Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings and Dispositions approved the plan by a 5-0 vote Monday, forwarding the plan for a vote in the city council that is sure to be passed within the next month.
Residents of Ravenswood and Queensbridge have complained for years about pollution emanating from the 21st Street facility and the smelly garbage trucks that idle nearby. The trucks, residents say, also leave oil spills and garbage on the roadway.
"The Ravenswood community fought long and hard for justice and won a hard earned commitment from the mayor in 2017 to fund a new garage that is not directly next to thousands of public housing residents," said Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer in a statement.
The Mayor at the town hall meeting in 2017 promised Van Bramer that he would allocate $130 million to remove the 90-year-old sanitation depot and find a new location.
The Dept. of Sanitation presented its plans to the community in February noting that the current facility is no longer big enough, is in poor structural condition and that its trucks are often forced to park on the sidewalk on 21st Street by 34th Avenue.
The plan involves the construction of a new garage and salt shed on a 9.8 acre site at 31-11 20th Avenue that will enable DSNY to continue serving north west Queens. The salt shed will replace the salt facility on the waterfront at 43rd Avenue and Vernon Boulevard.
The new garage will be a 19,775 square foot facility and the salt shed about 20,000 square feet. The new facility is in the 22nd Council District represented by Costa Constantinides.
Van Bramer applauded Constantinides for working with him on the details of finding a new location.
Proposed Site at 20th Ave. (City Planning)
"The agreement we've made delivers major wins for the western Queens community," Constantinides said in a statement. "This will improve traffic safety along 21st Street, clean the area for Queensbridge and Ravenswood Houses, and create truly affordable housing."
The City has agreed to make several improvements as part of the relocation. The first is a guarantee that the existing site be kept as public land and is not sold to private developers. Any development would include 100 percent affordable housing and space for community use.
The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development will be in charge of developing the 21st Street site and the process will begin this spring. The agency says it will work with community groups including the Western Queens Community Land Trust and the Ravenswood Tenants Association as it puts together a plan.
The DSNY has also pledged to take steps toward cleaning up Luyster Creek, a polluted waterway adjacent to the proposed facility. This involves replacing invasive plant species and fortifying the shorefront to combat erosion.
The city also plans to increase traffic safety on 21st Street, which runs from northern Astoria to the Queensboro Bridge. The DOT has agreed to launch a community outreach program as part of a plan to make it easier for pedestrians and cyclists—as well as buses– to traverse the 4-lane thoroughfare.
"This is a great day for Ravenswood," Van Bramer said. "I am glad to have accomplished a decades long goal of my constituents in Ravenswood—to move the existing polluting garage off its current site and to replace it with a use that the community wants to see."
Mayor Bill De Blasio at a town hall co-hosted by Van Bramer in Long Island City in 2017 where he pledged to move the sanitation garage (Photo: Mayor's office)
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No private developer in their right mind is developing anything next to Ravenswood…. unless we're building more ProJects….


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DNA testing could exonerate man 13 years after he was executed for rape, murder
Katherine Burgess
Memphis Commercial Appeal
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - If Sedley Alley was unfairly denied DNA testing from a 1985 crime scene and then executed, he'd be the only person in the state of Tennessee to suffer such a fate, argued Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, in court Monday.
"Only he," Scheck said. "He is in a class of one."
Alley was executed in 2006 for the rape and murder of Suzanne Collins, 19, whose body was found outside the Millington naval base where she was stationed.
Criminal Court Judge Paula Skahan heard arguments from attorneys for The Innocence Project, a nonprofit that advocates for DNA testing and criminal justice reform, and the state in a hearing Monday.
April Alley, Sedley Alley's daughter, filed the petition to have DNA from the crime scene tested in her role as executor of her father's estate. She is represented by attorneys from the Innocence Project.
Skahan is expected to rule on the petition for post-conviction relief on Nov. 18.
The body of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Collins was found early morning in 1985 in Edmund Orgill Park. An autopsy showed she had been struck at least 100 times and strangled. She had been sexually assaulted and impaled with a tree branch.
Alley initially denied any involvement, but later signed a statement admitting to killing Collins. Details of his statement contradicted the crime scene and autopsy, and a witness' description of a suspect didn't match Alley's physical appearance.
Later, Alley would say he did not remember the crime and that he had been coerced into confessing.
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"This has all the earmarks of a false confession," Scheck said. "But we need not debate it, because DNA evidence can provide us an answer."
Alley was executed by lethal injection on June 28, 2006, with his daughter present at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
Questions of Tennessee law at center of arguments
Some of the arguments made Monday were arguments Scheck had made before, when Alley was still alive. Then, Scheck had argued that stains on the t-shirt that Collins was wearing and on her bra should be tested, as well as DNA from red underwear found by her body that the prosecution had argued belonged to the assailant.
Tennessee courts denied the petitions for DNA testing prior to Alley's execution, and much of the argument Monday centered around whether a 2011 ruling by the Tennessee Supreme Court — issued five years after Alley's execution — would have entitled him to DNA testing had he still been alive.
Scheck argued that the ruling was "clear" and that "if (Alley) were alive today, he would get testing."
"Common sense tells you that," Scheck said.
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Steve Jones, assistant district attorney general, argued that the circumstances of that Tennessee Supreme Court ruling were different than Alley's case and that Alley already had full due process.
"He would not be entitled to post-conviction DNA testing if he were alive today," Jones said.
Jones also argued that Tennessee law guarantees a right to post-conviction relief for "a person convicted or sentenced." In this case, the petition was filed by the estate for Sedley Alley, not the person, he said, making it not applicable.
A tip led to renewed quest for DNA testing
The Innocence Project decided to become involved years after Alley's execution when it learned a man had been arrested for murder and previously charged with rape. That man had gone to the same training school as Collins and matched a suspect description, Scheck said. They also had suspicions about a boyfriend of Collins.
"We got that communication and we asked that question: Oh my god, is the evidence still there?" Scheck said.
The evidence from 1985 remains in storage in Shelby County. The petition asks that 17 items be tested.
"The primary reason we are here is April Alley wants to know the truth," Scheck said. "She has the courage to seek the truth here and DNA testing can, as it has in hundreds of post-conviction cases since we founded the Innocence Project 28 years ago, provide that truth."
The goal of the DNA analysis statute is not just to exonerate the innocent, Scheck said, but also to identify actual assailants. Their petition asks that the DNA be compared with preserved samples of Sedley Alley's DNA as well as the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).
Death row exonerees attend in support
April Alley was present at the hearing Monday, sitting beside her lawyers. She didn't take questions from the media.
Also present were three people who have been exonerated from death row: Kirk Bloodsworth, Sabrina Butler and Ray Krone.
Bloodsworth, the first American sentenced to death to be exonerated by DNA testing, spoke about his own conviction for the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl before DNA proved his innocence and allowed the true assailant to be identified.
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While Sedley Alley was alive, Bloodsworth had spoken before the Board of Probation and Parole on Alley's behalf.
"I was very disturbed," Bloodsworth said. "I thought you should test the DNA. At the end of the day, this is all we're trying to do. We have a criminal justice system that's adversarial in nature, but it cannot be adversarial to the truth. In my opinion, we should test it."
Butler became the first woman exonerated from death row after being convicted of killing her nine-month-old son.
On Monday, she spoke about the pain of losing her son and expressed her sympathy for April Alley.
"To feel her pain and know that she just wants the truth, she just wants to know, and is that so wrong?" Butler asked. "Is that so wrong?"
Follow Katherine Burgess on Twitter @kathsburgess.
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