Chief Paulison has over 30 years of experience in emergency management, working his way up the ranks from firefighter to chief of the Miami-Dade County fire and rescue department,

[When Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown asserted on ABC News' Nightline last Thursday that he had only just learned of evacuees stranded at the city's convention centre, host Ted Koppel challenged:] Don't you guys watch television? ... a total failure.

Doug brings valuable management experience. He's an enthusiastic leader who has a successful track record of working extremely well with employees, physicians and community members, which is most recently demonstrated by the many successes he has helped to achieve at Estes Park Medical Center.

We are delighted to be recognized for our extensive experience in helping firms to launch asset management operations. We are continuing to invest extensively in our global infrastructure so we can serve asset managers in their operations around the world.

We face an extraordinary threat to our national security and physical safety of the American people of a character that, at least in my lifetime, we have never faced before,

We have to continue to use both low-tech and high-tech tools to assist our Border Patrol in patrolling this portion of terrain and protecting ourselves against people who want to sneak across.