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  Michael D. Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Brown (born November 8, 1954) was Undersecretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPandR) until 2005, a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), generally referred to as the director or administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Brown is now (as of September 26, 2005) apparently working as a consultant for the Federal government, helping to determine what went wrong in the response to Hurricane Katrina.
Brown was born in Guymon, Oklahoma on November 8, 1954.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Brown   (2923 words)

  
 SI.com - NFL - Turnovers doom Packers in loss to Bears - Sunday September 19, 2004 6:25PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mike Brown, whose 95-yard fumble return for a touchdown sparked the Bears' 21-10 victory over the Packers on Sunday, was lost for what could be an extended period with a right Achilles' tendon injury in the waning minutes.
Brown was carted off the field with 3:54 remaining and on the next play, backup safety Bobby Gray picked off a high throw from Favre.
Packers C Mike Flanagan, replaced by Grey Ruegamer in the second half, indicated his knee injury that limited his offseason work was bothering him.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/football/nfl/09/19/bc.fbn.bears.packers.ap/index.html   (807 words)

  
 Mike Brown Profile - Chicago Bears - Photographs
Brown is a solid pick for the Bears because the Bears are no longer looking for just good cover guys, but guys who can bring down receivers with solid hits and tackles, and at while at Nebraska, Mike earned that reputation.
Brown's forte' is a rover-secondary man, but in 1998 he started the first seven games at free safety before returning to his rover position.
Mike was honored at the 1997 African Heritage Academic Recognition Banquet for posting a 3.0 semester or cumulative grade point average for the fall term of 1996.
www.sportcenters.net /Mike_Brown_Profile.html   (1373 words)

  
 Cavaliers: Cavaliers Name Mike Brown Head Coach
Mike is the only person we offered the job to and we are very confident he is the right person to lead the Cavaliers to a very successful future on the court,” Gilbert said.
Mike was the defensive specialist for us and that's something we really hang our hat on as a team.
Brown spent the previous three seasons (2000-2003) as an assistant coach under Gregg Popovich with the San Antonio Spurs.
www.nbdlalbuquerque.com /cavaliers/news/brown_coach_050602.html   (799 words)

  
 NBA Development League ROANOKE: Mike Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mike Brown, a veteran of 11 NBA seasons, enters his third season as assistant coach of the Roanoke Dazzle in 2004-05.
Brown, 39, who averaged 5.0 points and 4.4 rebounds in his NBA career, was a third-round pick in the 1985 NBA Draft (69th overall) by the Bulls.
Brown, who made 112 NBA regular-season starts and played in 44 NBA playoff games, was dealt in June 1993 to Minnesota for center Felton Spencer, then spent two seasons with the Timberwolves before finishing his NBA career with the 76ers and Suns and shuttling between Europe and the NBA.
www.nba.com /nbdl/roanoke/mike_brown_bio.html   (538 words)

  
 Embattled FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown was abruptly recalled to Washington on Friday, a clear vote of no confidence from his superiors at the White House and the Department of Homeland Security.
Brown had been roundly criticized for FEMA's bearish response to the hurricane, which has caused political problem for Bush and fellow Republicans.
Brown, who said he last talked to Bush five or six days ago, said the resignation was his idea.
www.loep.state.la.us /newsrelated/katrinafemadirout.htm   (297 words)

  
 Michael G. Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown, M.G., 2000, The Maslov integral representation of slowly-varying dispersive wavetrains in inhomogeneous moving media, Wave Motion 32, 247-266.
Brown, M.G., 1998, Phase space structure and fractal trajectories in 1 1/2 degree of freedom Hamiltonian systems whose time-dependence is quasiperiodic, Nonlinear Processes Geophys.
Brown, M.G., 1994, A Maslov-Chapman wavefield representation for wide-angle one-way propagation, Geophys.
anole.rsmas.miami.edu /people/mbrown.html   (798 words)

  
 Painting the Light Fantastic: Carl Brown by Mike Hoolboom
Decrying purist notions of a sublime abstraction, Brown claims a documentary base for his efforts, insisting that they are faithful records of an upset mind-in-motion, glimpsed from the inside-out.
Brown's work shares with abstract expressionist paintings of the 50's an aesthetics of silence, or at least, an insistence on the paucity of the word.
Of Brakhage's work and Brown's both we might declare the reverse: that language is strained into speechlessness by a cinema tied to the synapses, the optic fibers, the central nervous system.
www.mfj-online.org /journalPages/MFJ27/HoolCBrown.html   (1595 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Cavs officially hire Mike Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown received a four-year $10 million contract and inherited a team that fractured late last season and missed the playoffs again.
Brown insists his preference is to continue coaching the Pistons, but the fact the club allowed the Cavs to speak with him would indicate that Brown's days in Detroit are numbered.
Brown, a father of two and the league's second-youngest coach behind New Jersey's Lawrence Frank, began working on his relationship with Cleveland's superstar on Wednesday night with a phone call to James.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/cavaliers/2005-06-01-mike-brown-hiring_x.htm   (839 words)

  
 NFL Notebook: Browns ravaged by injuries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It could be the final setback for the talented but seemingly fragile Brown, whose determination to keep coming back from injury has inspired his teammates.
Brown has been sidelined by injuries to both knees, his ankle, neck and elbow.
Mike Brown, the team's safety and defensive captain, is finished for the year after his right Achilles' tendon was torn Sunday against the Packers.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04265/382749.stm   (546 words)

  
 FEMA -- Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary, Emergency Preparedness and Response   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown led FEMA’s thousands of dedicated disaster workers during the most active hurricane season in over 100 years, as FEMA delivered aid more quickly and more efficiently than ever before.
Brown served on the President's Consequence Management Principal's Committee, which acted as the White House's policy coordination group for the federal domestic response to the attacks.
Brown practiced law in Colorado and Oklahoma, where he served as a bar examiner on ethics and professional responsibility for the Oklahoma Supreme Court and as a hearing examiner for the Colorado Supreme Court.
www.fema.gov /about/bios/brown.shtm   (470 words)

  
 FEMA's Mike Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown: I will tell you this, though, every person in that convention center, we just learned about that today and so I have directed that we have all the available resources to get to that convention center to make sure that they have the food and water, the medical care that they need.
Brown's comment "so any reports to the contrary are just incorrect" is proof that he was aware of reports that conditions were bad, but that he was making the conscious decision to disregard them.
Brown the job at FEMA after he was fired from an administrative position coordinating and training horse show judges.
talkaboutgovernment.com /group/alt.politics.clinton/messages/1324871.html   (3490 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Reports: Mike Brown to get Cavs job   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown, a defensive specialist, is considered one of the top assistant coaches in the league.
Brown was among the candidates interviewed for coaching vacancies at Atlanta and Toronto last year.
Brown also was an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs for three seasons, including their NBA championship in 2002-03.
www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/cavaliers/2005-05-30-brown-reports_x.htm   (645 words)

  
 Mike Brown Player Profile Prospect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown was a member of the Team USA’s gold medal winning squad at the World U-17 Challenge in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 2002 and the fourth place USA squad at the IIHF U-18 Championships in Yaroslav, Russia in 2003.
Brown is a hard-nosed, energetic forward who thrives on the physical side of the game.
Brown, in all likelihood, will never become a top scorer but nevertheless it is an area that he could improve in.
www.hockeysfuture.com /prospect.php?pid=116   (505 words)

  
 A Mike Brown Sampler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown's private box: That one made me laugh, because it reminded me of my frustrations as a school-kid.
The bully of the class would ask me, "What's the color of brown, Brown?" And there was nothing I could do about it.
(Mike laughed at his own joke, knowing the reporter was seeking a parallel to Mike's own dire situation.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/12/26/spt_mbrownbox26.html   (433 words)

  
 NBA.com: COACHES
Mike Brown begins his first season as the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Brown spent three years with the Washington Wizards’ staff beginning in 1997, spending the first two years as an assistant under Bernie Bickerstaff, and his final year as the team’s professional scout.
The 35-year-old (3/5/70) Brown began his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets in 1992, where he spent five seasons, first as the team’s video coordinator and then as a scout.
www.nba.com /coachfile/mike_brown?nav=page   (447 words)

  
 Bodybuilding.com - Mike Mahler - Interview With The Renaissance Man
Mike is a real Renaissance man and knows a great deal regarding a variety of topics.
Mike has been around the iron game for several years and he has written several books on strength training.
MIKE MAHLER: That is incredible that you made such an amazing amount of progress naturally in such a short time span.
www.bodybuilding.com /fun/mahler10.htm   (2072 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NFL - Five-year deal keeps defensive stalwart in Chicago
The Bears reached a five-year, $17.5 million contract extension with safety Mike Brown, who was entering the final year of his contract.
Brown, a second-round choice of the Bears in 2000, is considered one of the leaders on the Bears defense.
The 25-year-old Brown would have been an unrestricted free agent after the season had he played out of the final year of his contract.
espn.go.com /nfl/columns/clayton_john/1582278.html   (176 words)

  
 wgnradio.com - Radio 720 WGN - Chicago's News and Talk . . . and Sports
Mike talks with Doug Wood and Denise Browning, members of the Wicker Park Garden Club, about their 1800 plant move to a public park.
Mike Nowak is joined by John T. Young, Dawn Stockmo and Tony Riviello, all of Brompton Court and all participants in the Brompton's award winning garden.
Mike talks with Nancy Clifton from the Chicago Botanic Garden about how to care for your outdoor plants when you bring them in for the winter, with a surprise in the middle of the interview.
wgnradio.com /shows/gardening/audio   (3019 words)

  
 CBS News | Brown Still On FEMA Payroll | September 27, 2005 11:30:06
Brown spoke to congressional aides from both parties a day before he is scheduled to testify in front of a special House committee investigating the government's response to the Aug. 29 disaster.
Brown came to symbolize the halting federal efforts to rescue victims of the storm and flooding that followed in which more than 1,000 people died in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Brown defended himself against charges that he learned from television that thousands of refugees gathered at the New Orleans convention center, where adequate food, water and other supplies were lacking and there was rampant violence.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/09/26/katrina/main886323.shtml   (593 words)

  
 CBC News: New FEMA director chosen to replace Mike Brown
Last week, Brown was relieved of his responsibilities for the hurricane relief and recovery, and was sent back to Washington.
Brown said he decided to resign "in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president...
Last week, senior politicians said that Brown should be fired from his job and not merely relieved of his responsibilities for hurricane relief.
www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/09/12/brown_resigns_20050912.html   (402 words)

  
 Bush chooses new FEMA director - Hurricanes' Aftermath - MSNBC.com
Brown resigned Monday after days of criticism over what some said was a slow and ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina’s devastation.
Bush was told of Brown’s resignation earlier in the day Monday and spoke to Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff, who was Brown’s boss, from Air Force One in the afternoon as he flew back to Washington from an overnight visit to the region.
Brown said that all the resources the agency had in place before the storm were overwhelmed and that he did not anticipate the total breakdown in communications.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9315184   (815 words)

  
 Cavaliers Hire Mike Brown As Head Coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brown, a 13-year NBA assistant who won a league title with San Antonio, was introduced Thursday as Cleveland's new coach.
Brown's main challenge in Cleveland will be getting James, the Cavs' All-Star forward, into the NBA playoffs for the first time.
The nomadic 64-year-old Brown maintains that his focus is on his health and the Pistons, who are tied 2-2 with Miami in the Eastern Conference finals.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/01/sports/s132908D31.DTL   (646 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Mike Brown lost for season   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Bears safety Mike Brown will miss the rest of the season after tearing his right Achilles tendon in a victory over Green Bay, coach Lovie Smith said Monday.
Brown, who scooped up a fumble and returned it 95 yards for a TD Sunday to spark the Bears' 21-10 win over the Packers, was injured in the closing minutes at Lambeau Field.
Brown, in his fifth season out of Nebraska, is one of the Bears' captains.
www.usatoday.com /sports/football/nfl/bears/2004-09-20-brown_x.htm   (291 words)

  
 Résumé/CV - Mike J. Brown (Denver, CO)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mike is available for 1099-based short or medium-term contract work in software development, technical writing, or mentoring.
Mike's strongest professional interest is in bringing together well-documented, standards-compliant, open-source technologies into practical systems for the management of metadata.
Mike Brown, in particular, has extensive experience coding and auditing large-scale XSLT applications for efficiency and maintainability.
skew.org /~mike/resume   (2135 words)

  
 SI.com - NFL - Roundup: McAllister injures right ankle - Sunday September 19, 2004 10:29PM
Brown, the No. 1 overall pick in 2000 who missed the end of the last two seasons before of injuries, sprained his left foot in the first quarter.
In Green Bay, Chicago safety Mike Brown was carted off the field late in the fourth quarter with a right Achilles' tendon injury.
Also in the game, Bears OL Mike Gandy (hamstring) and DT Alfonso Boone (knee) were hurt.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/football/nfl/09/19/bc.fbn.nflinjuries.ap/index.html   (753 words)

  
 Who is Mike Brown?
Mike Brown was born in Montgomery, Alabama nine months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Mike got to be too much to handle for his mother when he was sixteen.
Mike contributes articles on the courts and prisons to the Las Vegas Tribune on a regular basis.
www.mikebrownsolutions.com /whoismb.htm   (402 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NFL - Young Bears making their mark
Mike Brown returned this interception for the game-winning touchdown in overtime.
Owens, who ended the second of the 49ers' two overtime victories earlier this season with a 52-yard touchdown catch at Atlanta, was, indeed, tattooed on the play by Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher.
Brown and strong safety Tony Parrish, for sure, bring plenty of wood to the battle and Urlacher is quick enough to get back into deep zones and make himself a presence in the passing lanes.
espn.go.com /nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1270267.html   (1625 words)

  
 'Bengal Way' here to stay
Brown said the Bengals would look inside and outside the organization for a successor to LeBeau.
Brown's refusal to yield player personnel power might prevent him from attracting top coaching candidates.
The perception, which Brown contends is inaccurate, is that he makes all major decisions, meddles in coaching and scouting areas and is excessively frugal.
bengals.enquirer.com /2002/12/31/bengals31final.html   (945 words)

  
 ABC News: Cavaliers Hire Mike Brown as Head Coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mike Brown calls a play during the first quarter of the sixth game of the Eastern Conference semi-final against the Detroit Pistons in Indianapolis, Thursday, May 19, 2005.
Brown, a 13-year NBA assistant who won a league title with San Antonio, has been hired as the coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
"Mike Brown was our first choice and only choice to be the new head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers," Gilbert said in an e-mail to the AP.
abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=811803   (421 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Mike Brown Player Card   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mike Brown has not been involved in any transactions this season.
When Bears S Mike Brown first felt the pain in his right Achilles' tendon, he thought a defender had hit him with a low block.
Brown tore his Achilles' tendon Sept. 19 and is out for the season.
sports.espn.go.com /nfl/players/profile?statsId=5068   (129 words)

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