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...former deputy security of homeland security James Loy, was that it forced officials in other hurricane-prone places to re-examine their emergency plans. "There are many other places in the nation that are now much better prepared," Loy says. Last month, Loy and former FEMA director James Lee Witt founded Protecting America, a coalition of emergency officials, first responders and insurers. The coalition suggested that Gulf officials learn from Florida's example when rebuilding their hurricane response capability. It is one of only five states that reports feeling confident in its evacuation plan, and Loy and Witt...
...music player inside will find it all and blast it through your FM stations. People who use FM transmitters for their iPods will be sad to hear that there is no iPod jack, or even a simple auxiliary input jack, on the Blackbird. Fortunately, Alpine's Steve Witt tells me that the company is "studying that implementation right now," and that a version with a iPod-compatible jack could be out within a year...
...responding to disasters, Summers added. He called this sharing of ideas “the center of what we talk about when we talk about the university being at the center of serving the world.” Former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) James Lee Witt keynoted the symposium, delivering a scathing indictment of the Bush administration’s management of the federal emergency preparedness system. Witt, the Clinton-appointed director of FEMA from 1993 to 2001, also called for active student and academic involvement in disaster management. Citing a maxim from an Argentine Baptist...
...because the play had been whistled dead despite the puck still being loose. “A disallowed goal is something that’s a little frustrating because kids work so hard, and goals aren’t easy to come by,” Yale coach Hilary Witt said, “But the officials have to make their calls. If they lose sight of the puck, there’s not much you can do.” The goal had appeared to come off the stick of freshman Crysti Howser, who plagued the Crimson defense...
...preemptive whistle, with about two minutes remaining in extra time, erased a game-winning goal for the Bulldogs when the official lost sight of the puck.In a contest in which offense was so scarce, and with Martin playing so well, the almost-scores were difficult for Yale coach Hilary Witt to swallow.“Disallowed goals is something that is very frustrating because kids work so hard,” Witt said. “Goals aren’t easy to come by and when they don’t go your way, they don?...