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"After hurricane katrina, he bankrolled emergency response missions to New Orleans and went along to help distribute supplies to the flood victims. He's a good man. He's a hero in his own way. However, his financial success has come at a cost. He's always on the go. He has the beautiful house, but he is seldom home to enjoy it with his family. This method can bring you what you want—just be sure that you really want it. The Science Behind the Method Before I explain the method, let's review our model of "mind" as a means to reconsider all that you are and what you are capable of being." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Short-term crisis counseling immediately after a traumatic event—the kind practiced by no doubt well-intentioned social workers and psychologists who descend on dazed victims and witnesses after some immense tragedy, like school shootings and hurricane katrina and 9/11—has been shown to be unhelpful, and sometimes destructive.37 Medication or therapy, it is important to understand that there are no panaceas. One must understand and accept that there are no magic bullets, no cure-all agents to rescue us from oblivion." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Its trauma recovery network coordinates clinicians to treat victims and emergency service workers after such crises as hurricane katrina and the 9/11 attacks. (See Recommended Resources, page 333.) 83 to 90 percent of civilian participants after four to seven sessions, and many others have found a significant decrease in a wide range of symptoms after three or four sessions. My friend Daniel Amen, M.D." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "That hormonal storm, which can be a light tropical rain for some folks and hurricane katrina for others, also affects neurotransmitters like serotonin, influencing mood and cravings and behavior. For various reasons the combination of nutrients I'm about to tell you about works wonders. The Dynamic Duo: Magnesium and Vitamin B6 Let's start with magnesium. Taking magnesium seems to relieve symptoms of PMS for many people. Supplementation with magnesium can improve mood and also help with fluid retention. Women with PMS have reduced magnesium levels." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The cataclysm produced by hurricane katrina made people "find their feet" and march on Washington to protest the administration's policy of focusing on the oil war in Iraq to the neglect of preparedness for natural disasters and the plight of poor people at home. Will humanity wait for a natural or man-made catastrophe that kills hundreds of thousands or millions to come up with the will to change? It may then be too late. We must, and still can, head toward a timely shift in values, vision, and behaviors." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"This proved crucial in the aftermath of hurricane katrina, when paper records for thousands of patients in Louisiana hospitals were lost. Louisiana veterans who fled to other states were able to go to a local VHA facility, and the doctors there could access their records without missing a beat. But VistA does more than simply make it possible for vets to move around the country more easily. It also provides the data that has allowed the VHA to measure its own performance. VistA has helped reduce error and infection rates, while also improving the coordination of care." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Not content with their obscene profits, the oil industry in the aftermath of hurricane katrina immediately raised gas prices to more than three dollars a gallon—an increase of more than forty-five cents a gallon in two days. The Bush administration used the cover of crisis to suspend environmental laws for refineries and chemical companies so they could "cope" with the economic impact. This was on top of the $14.5 billion worth of tax breaks and incentives given in the industry-friendly energy bill passed in August 2005. Hmm . . ." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"So will natural disasters, which are unlikely to see even the inadequate level of response that followed hurricane katrina. Finally, when social and geopolitical conditions have deteriorated sufficiently, there will be other, potentially more pernicious threats. More than likely, Americans will be confronted by an unfamiliar and frightening array of legal, financial, and security restrictions, including lockdowns, curfews, internments, capital and exchange controls, and even martial law." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "In 2005, hurricane katrina wiped out much of New Orleans and tore through wide swaths of the Gulf Coast region. Following broad political pressure and a wave of recriminations, the federal government ponied up more than $100 billion, a figure expected to rise. Other disasters, including the September 11 terrorist attacks, also triggered an ad hoc response, with Washington authorizing at least $20 billion for New York alone. That event also led to the creation of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, which provided a backstop of $100 billion a year in the event of similar hostilities." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"This proved crucial in the aftermath of hurricane katrina, when paper records for thousands of patients in Louisiana hospitals were lost. Louisiana veterans who fled to other states were able to go to a local VHA facility, and the doctors there could access their records without missing a beat. But VistA does more than simply make it possible for vets to move around the country more easily. It also provides the data that has allowed the VHA to measure its own performance. VistA has helped reduce error and infection rates, while also improving the coordination of care." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"At first New Orleans thought it had been lucky. Hurricane Katrina's eye veered east just as the powerful Category 4 storm made landfall, sparing the city a direct hit. But luck was not in the city's favour that fateful day. Levees protecting low-lying New Orleans from the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain had breached, and an unstoppable torrent poured into the residential areas and downtown alike. For those unable or unwilling to obey the earlier evacuation order the nightmare was just beginning." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Again, this is not conjecture: as I write hundreds of thousands remain displaced by hurricane katrina, across Texas and other southern states, a year after that disaster.) As economic shocks due to direct losses, social instability, declining public confidence and insurance payouts cascade through the financial system, the funds to support displaced people and build new living areas will become increasingly scarce." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Since appearing in the general population in 1999, these antibiotic resistant infections have spread among children, professional athletes, and hurricane katrina evacuees at a Dallas shelter. Fatal 10% of the time, this number can reach 25% if the bacteria cause pneumonia. Another contaminant, Propionibacterium acnes, is a common cause of pimples (acne). This bacteria has also been implicated in more serious and intractable infections. Four months after Officer Rodriguez's inspection, the FDA took the Sandoz plant and its CEO to the woodshed." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Mass customization, mobility, and versatility in building materials make prefab homes ideal for low-income communities and areas that have been struck by disaster, such as the Gulf Coast and Pakistan, which respectively were hit in 2005 with hurricane katrina and the Kashmir earthquake. As consumers get hip to the importance of green design, prefabs are begining to incorporate more ecofriendly features. Many of the existing prefab companies already offer their homes with optional green elements such as solar Opposite: A computer rendering of Zoka Zola's Zero Energy House, Chicago, Illinois." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In the weeks following hurricane katrina, Jon Stokes worked in Louisiana, assisting in the development and maintenance of computer labs for evacuation shelters; the liveCD for Disaster IT sprang from his experience. For future shelters, the liveCD could mean one less obstacle to evacuees' need to connect with friends and loved ones. )c The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog mmm The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog (SEA-EAT blog) launched on December 26, 2004." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "The growth of megacities may exacerbate the trend, especially in those places where vulnerability to "natural" disasters collides with local governments' inability to accommodate rapid growth with proper infrastructure. hurricane katrina nearly wiped New Orleans off the map and sent hundreds of thousands into flight; imagine a Katrina-caliber storm directly hitting a city of millions where many people live in shacks. What that storm would have done to Lagos or Dhaka is anybody's guess. Are we prepared to handle the consequences? as & jc moral claim as do those whose very lives are at stake?" - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The meeting was canceled due to the disaster wrought by hurricane katrina.) Insurers are "only going to become more articulate and more active on these issues in terms of encouraging clearer government policy on climate change and encouraging their clients to better protect themselves from potential climate change risk," said Brigid Barnett, a senior research analyst who focuses on financial services at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, in the Globe and Mail article.20 Whole international markets are now devoted to carbon credits." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"For instance, the polluted water that flooded New Orleans after hurricane katrina is an example of the overflowing of unconscious ignorance. Holding back the river and thus depleting the deltas and further weakening the shoreline is another example of the ignorant expression of our relationship to water. This calls us to see very clearly that we cannot impose our priorities, that we must work with the elements. "We can conceptualize a world of harmony and beauty. Visualize families, nations, the land in cooperative harmony and each one of us doing what needs doing." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Just consider the example of the lack of jurisdictional coordination that hampered rescue efforts in the wake of 2005's hurricane katrina disaster. Indeed, because of the multiplicity of risks, markets, and counterparties involved, the situation might be akin to the disastrous forest fires that swept across the West Coast of the United States in recent decades. Often, there were simply too many hot spots to tackle at once, and wide swaths were left ablaze until they eventually burned themselves out. Few areas of the financial system will be unaffected when the meltdown rages." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"In early September 2005, hurricane katrina leveled New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region of the U.S., with estimates of 1,307 dead, up to one million people homeless, 60 to 80 percent of houses destroyed, and $150 billion in property damage. The horrendous loss of life and property is astonishing. Of course, the displaced lives, the sorrow, and the ongoing hardship for the survivors can never be fully measured. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), there is a link between hurricanes and global warming." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Writing after the hurricane katrina in August 2005, universal expert Thomas Friedman opines, "There is something troublingly self-indulgent and slothful about America today—something that Katrina highlighted and that people who live in countries where the laws of gravity still apply really noticed. . . . We let the families of the victims of 9/11 redesign our intelligence organizations, and our president and Congress held a midnight session about the health care of one woman, Terri Schiavo, while ignoring the health crisis of 40 million uninsured." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"HMOs, nursing homes and so on) could be as much as $200 billion—a hurricane katrina every year."11 No wonder Andrew Weil, M.D., begins an authoritative survey of the medical profession, published in The Archives of Internal Medicine, with these words: "The chassis is broken, and the wheels are coming off."12 Asking questions like, "How can we slow the growing cost of our medical system," "How can we pay for the Medicare prescription drug benefit," and "How can we bring the uninsured into the system," have taken public debate in entirely the wrong direction. They are the wrong questions." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.) "Similar results have been shown in work with hurricane katrina survivors, Pakistani earthquake survivors, and those dealing with the effects of other disasters. Charles Figley, founder of Green Cross, which addresses the psychological needs of disaster victims, has said that, "Energy Psychology is among the most powerful interventions available to us."17 In June 2006, Sarah Bird and Paul O'Connor, Irish humanitarian volunteers sponsored by the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, traveled to Kashmir to help earthquake victims." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Almost a year after the transaction, hurricane katrina smashed New Orleans. Our warehouse was flooded and destroyed. All the coffee inside was ruined. The insurers paid us the value of the coffee as we had paid for it, including one container of Kenyan. All during the trip, I kept asking myself, is it possible for good works to be done when so many of the people and organizations involved have a different agenda? Is there some tipping point where good intentions and hard work can overcome systematized corruption and self-interest?" - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "I only wish that Prodecoop had been in charge of the reconstruction of New Orleans after hurricane katrina instead of the feds. I arrived in Esteli at nightfall and roved the peaceful streets and parks until I was ready to sleep. In the morning, we drove from Prodecoop's office up into the mountains to reach San Lucas. At the base of the last left turn up the mountain sat a forlorn man in a red pickup. He was the same coyote who sat there every harvest, offering ready cash to the farmers who carried their beans down the mountain. But there were few customers this year." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"What transpired in New Orleans after hurricane katrina was an example of the poorest being most victimized. Lesser developed nations are even more vulnerable because of overcrowding, unsanitary personal hygiene, lack of medical services, and inadequate public health measures. Of the three components necessary for a pandemic, the first two are nearly in place. H5N1 bird flu is a lethal virus that has the ability to become a human infection to which no one has immunity. To make matters worse, many social and economic conditions are in place for an epic disaster." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.) "Natural disasters have been low on federal priorities. hurricane katrina showed us that nature is more powerful than terrorists and more unpredictable, even if we know the trajectory. A tear in the fabric of society is upon us. With the breakdown brought about by a super flu, borders would be closed and international flights suspended. Schools and other places where people come in close contact, like theatres, would also be closed. National security may become vulnerable; insurgency and terrorism might escalate. Entire cities may need to be quarantined." - J. E. Williams, Beating the Flu: The Natural Prescription for Surviving Pandemic Influenza and Bird Flu (Get the book.)

"Hunter, a Canadian, had made millions for the firm after natural gas prices exploded in the wake of hurricane katrina. He was thought to be so savvy about gas futures that his bosses at Amaranth let him work out of his home in Calgary, where he drove a Ferrari in the summer and a Bentley in the winter. The jazzy wheels matched the snazzy wheeling and dealing at the American energy fund, where 1.4 percent of net assets went for "bonus compensation to designated traders" and another 2.3 percent was doled out for "operating expenses." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"There's even a term for the feedback loop between an environmental collapse and the failure of the human systems that caused it: Opposite, left: A Red Cross volunteer comforts a hurricane katrina refugee at the Houston Astrodome, Houston, Texas, 2005. Opposite, right: A survivor of the Kashmir earthquake talks with Pakistani paratroopers, Chautha, Kashmir, 2Q0S. Wexelblat disaster. In such a world, planning for effective disaster relief efforts isn't a luxury: since massive disasters are no longer a question of "what if" but "when," we'd better be ready." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

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