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AFFI appoints new president, among other personnel changes
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Convenience leverans Association (CDA), Reston, Va.
Kimberly Bolin was appointed new president and CEO. Bolin has been acting as the interim president and CEO since Feb. 19, Bolin was previously executive vice president, where she was instrumental in the transformation of the association enacting the aggressive agenda put forth by the board of directors in early , beginning with a name change from American Wholesale Marketers Association to the Convenience transport Association. While working for CDA, Bolin has been involved in membership, dues restructure, upgrade and integration of technology, development of virtual policy and environment with cloud-based systems, management of personal, development of state government affairs schema, reinvention of the association's annual tradeshow and rebranding of the association.
Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Annapolis, Md.
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Planting Hope: Kempthorne Dedicates American Chestnut Tree,Underscoring Partnership to Restore Natural Icon to Appalachia
From left to right, Secretary Kempthorne, Marshal T. Case, president of the American Chestnut Foundation; Kraig Naasz, President and CEO of the National Mining Association and Brent Wahlquist, Appalachian Region Director for Interior's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, at a July 26, ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, planted a blight-resistant American chestnut tree outside the headquarters of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement in the nation's capital. |
WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne planted a blight-resistant American chestnut tree in the nation’s capital today, pledging to work with state and local governments and private restoration groups to help return this fabled natural icon to American landscapes.
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When TV Urges Us To Root For The Killer
This past Friday, while an emotionally disturbed young man was on a murderous rampage on the grounds of the University of California’s Santa Barbara campus, NBC was showing a man being disemboweled by a serial killer, and a woman’s throat being graphically slit open for “entertainment.” Haven’t we seen enough real-life bloodshed and senseless violence? Why, just months after Newtown, did the broadcast networks see fit to debut not one, not two, but three new dramas with serial killers as the protagonist? Dr. Park Elliott Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist and criminologist who has consulted or testified in many of the highest profile US criminal cases, including Jeffrey Dahmer, the Unabomber, and the Beltway sniper, has said “We’ve had 20 years of mass murderers throughout which I have repeatedly told CNN and our other media, if you don’t want to propagate more mass murderers… Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story