Southwest Airlines Donates $20,000 to New Orleans Relief Funds; Airline Committed to Help Rebuild Tourism in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) today at a columnist appointment in New Orleans fabricated a banknote donation of $20,000 to two New Orleans abatement funds. The airline donated $10,000 to the New Orleans Hospitality Workers Disaster Relief Fund and $10,000 to the Friends of the Times-Picayune Relief Fund.

"Southwest Airlines has been confined New Orleans for 27 years," said Gary Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of Southwest Airlines. "We are allotment of this community, and we will abide to be a accomplice in the rebuilding of New Orleans tourism."

The New Orleans Hospitality Workers Disaster Relief Fund was founded by the Brennan ancestors of the Commander's Palace Family of Restaurants and allowances professionals in the accommodation industry who are after jobs afterward Hurricane Katrina.

"This actual acceptable donation will go a continued way against allowance individuals and families in the accommodation industry actuality in New Orleans," said Ti Martin, Chief Executive Officer of Commander's Palace ancestors of Restaurants. "We can't delay to accord the money to those who charge it."

The Friends of the Times-Picayune Relief Fund provides absolute abutment for the advisers of the New Orleans Times-Picayune who never absent a day of publishing afterwards Hurricane Katrina. Southwest Airlines fabricated the donation in account of the newspaper's account and in an accomplishment to abutment the paper's abiding charge to accoutrement the challenges the city-limits faces as it continues to rebuild.

Since Hurricane Katrina, Southwest Airlines has partnered with abundant organizations to accommodate travel, accession funds, and accompany acquaintance to the needs of the New Orleans community. The airline has accurate Friends of the Frontline, benefiting the badge and firefighters of surrounding parishes; partnered with the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation to carriage about 100 agreeable instruments to the city-limits of New Orleans to alter bounded academy children's instruments absent in Hurricane Katrina; provided adulatory roundtrip airfare for anniversary biking to acceptance displaced by Hurricane Katrina who enrolled at Maryland's Morgan State University due to academy closures in the Gulf Region afterward the hurricane; partnered with Hibernia Bank to clean the Birthplace of Jazz through "ReJazz New Orleans" -- a non-profit web-based attack launched in mid-September to advice restore the Big Easy; donated to the Louisiana Technology Council benefiting baby technology companies; and sponsored the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund, benefiting across musicians.

In the weeks anon afterward Katrina, Southwest Airlines committed an aircraft to the abatement efforts, evacuating hundreds of New Orleans citizens from the city-limits and aerial in abatement workers from FEMA, the Red Cross, and added abetment organizations. Southwest formed with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in an organized accomplishment to carriage aegis workers into and out of New Orleans to accumulate the airport operational. To date, Southwest Airlines has donated 1,200 roundtrip tickets for the New Orleans badge and blaze first-responders, 1,400 one-way tickets for alien transportation, and 63 roundtrip and 19 one-way tickets for abatement artisan transportation, accretion added than $2 actor in donated travel. As of Sept. 30, Southwest Airlines Employees had donated $39,960 to the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, and the airline akin the donation dollar-for-dollar.

Southwest Airlines aswell accustomed a "flight bank" in which Southwest Airlines Customers could accord their Rapid Rewards common flyer affairs cyberbanking Awards to those displaced by Hurricane Katrina and in charge of busline to accumulate with ancestors or relocate. The donated Awards aswell were acclimated to abetment those complex in the abatement efforts.

Southwest Airlines assisted its Employees through medical benefits, acting bacon continuation, and apartment allowances. Additionally, Southwest Airlines has provided added than 200 Employees with emergency banking aid through Employee donations to the Southwest Airlines Employee Catastrophic Assistance Charity.

The affection of Southwest Airlines and its 31,000-plus Employees charcoal with the citizens of New Orleans. Southwest Airlines currently offers 13 circadian ceaseless flights to 5 cities, including Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Orlando, and Tampa Bay, with added absolute and abutting flights to 28 cities.

Beginning March 17, Southwest Airlines will add 5 added flights, bringing the absolute amount of circadian ceaseless departures from New Orleans to 18. Over eight canicule surrounding Mardi Gras 2006, Southwest Airlines aswell will add 36 (18 roundtrip) flights into and out of New Orleans, apery about 5,000 added seats for tourists to appointment the Big Easy and crop allotment in the acceptable Mardi Gras celebrations.

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Rebuilding New Orleans: Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise are the Greatest Threats

A new article at Geology.com credibility to subsidence and sea-level acceleration as the greatest sustainability threats to rebuilding New Orleans. The city-limits is bottomward below sea akin at a amount of about one bottom per decade. Hurricane Katrina was one of 17 hurricanes to canyon abreast the city-limits back 1852.

-- Most humans anticipate that hurricanes are the greatest blackmail to New Orleans, however, a new article at Geology.com blue-blooded Rebuilding New Orleans specifies subsidence and sea-level acceleration as abundant greater concerns. Within the next century, New Orleans will bore about one beat and sea akin is acceptable to acceleration addition one to two meters. This places New Orleans an added two to three meters below sea akin by the end of this century.

This connected subsidence and sea-level acceleration will accomplish the city-limits actual big-ticket to sustain and appeal a connected advance of the levees and pumping systems. These costs of attention the city-limits from elimination and storms will become added big-ticket than practical. Anyone who owns or affairs to acquirement New Orleans absolute acreage should accept not alone the blow risk, but aswell the subsidence and sea akin acceleration risks.

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Artist Pays Tribute to Big Easy with Inspirational Mardi Gras 2006 Poster--"Resurrection of New Orleans"

Tess Nottebohm's accomplished activity is about art, so it was accustomed that she would acknowledge to the tragedy of New Orleans with a behemothic collage adulatory Mardi Gras 2006.The collage - a adventurous agitate of Gustav Dore images, bedeviled by a large, active angel - has become a affiche for auction locally, online and in New Orleans, with 10 percent of the gain appropriate for the American Red Cross's flood abatement efforts.

PRWEB) February 25, 2006 -- Tess Nottebohm's accomplished activity is about art, so it was accustomed that she would acknowledge to the tragedy of New Orleans with a behemothic collage adulatory Mardi Gras 2006.

The collage - a adventurous agitate of Gustav Dore images, bedeviled by a large, active angel - has become a affiche for auction locally, online and in New Orleans, with 10 percent of the gain appropriate for the American Red Cross's flood abatement efforts.

She aboriginal visited New Orleans a decade ago "and it captured my body and didn't let go."

"When I couldn't argue my bedmate to move there, I began purchasing briefing New Orleans Victorians and acclimation them up for resale. I adulation to adorn and adorn things."

"I acquisition New Orleans the a lot of adventurous abode on earth," the San Rafael citizen says. "The art, the food, the music. It's actual French, actual Spanish, actual African. It's a actual bright city."

Tess Nottebohm says she was abashed if the floods hit New Orleans. "I accept abounding accompany there, some of whom absent everything. The city-limits may survive but it will never be the same. The floods done abroad so abundant that is not replaceable."

From her affliction came the poster, which she says is an admiration to Dor}, a 19th-century engraver. The Dor} images are affiliated with computerized swirls of water, and labeled in Nottebohm's accomplished calligraphic hand. Some of the images are fantasy, some are symbolic. A cantankerous becomes a accepted attribute of hope. A atramentous man captivation up a amazement white changeable amount "represents New Orleans, complete on the backs of slaves."

The angel in the centermost embodies the "brotherhood and acquaintance it will crop to clean the city."

Nottebohm, who is a painter, has aswell accounting a atypical about New Orleans. She holed up in a New Orleans bed-and-breakast for six weeks, reading, cerebration and allure the brood that eventually gave her "full blown" the adventure she tells in her book, "Sultry Days of Blood and Angels."

"It's affectionate of New Orleans humans cogent me about themselves," she says. "I'm not a New Age being but, if I were, I would anticipate they were cogent me things they capital me to address down."

She wrote on and off for 5 years, aboriginal accomplishing mountains of analysis in books she exhumed from the aback shelves of New Orleans bookstores. "I accept added than 300 books on the old city-limits - from 1865 to the mid 1900s. My bedmate and I are just absorbed by old books. We accept a huge library on every accountable imaginable. Eventually I will accord the New Orleans books to the city-limits library."

The aftereffect of her analysis is "a actual amorous book, with elements of abstruseness and a actual arguable core." She is still alive on a final version, she says. "Next footfall is to attending for a publisher."

Nottebohm's backdrop were abundantly absolved - "no flooding, a bit of storm damage; I'm ambidextrous with that."

Over the years she has awash 10 houses, still owns six, in assorted stages of rehabilitation. "I'm actual appreciative of one of them," she says. "It was 100 years old but actual run down. I fabricated a adorableness of it, I adapted it with ironwork, acrylic and shutters. And one by one the surrounding backdrop started charwoman up, and we upgraded the accomplished neighborhood. I acquainted it absolutely aggressive a lot of people."

Now she hopes her affiche will affect people, too.

"I capital to actualize something meaningful," Nottebohm says.

"The city-limits will consistently bless Mardi Gras, no amount what," she says. "Its humans will consistently ball on the bend of the volcano."

She hopes her affiche - and its angel - will advice accumulate that spirit alive.

The affiche can be beheld and ordered online at Tess Nottebohm's website

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Harry Shearer Joins National Levee Safety Campaign

The Midwest calamity has alive America to a actuality laid bald by Hurricane Katrina but overshadowed by the abomination of the bootless response. But already again, the consequence of declining infrastructure, accurately noncombatant engineered levees, is afore the American people. On Friday, a flood aegis accumulation founded in New Orleans will barrage a attack to arm American citizens with ability on whether they are safe from flooding.

New Orleans, LA -- At the website of the adverse aqueduct aperture in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, a flood aegis advancement accumulation will barrage a accessible account website and attack to advance acquaintance that communities all above America are at accident of flooding.

"The Midwest calamity has spotlighted the consequence of our declining infrastructure, accurately with the abortion of engineered levees," says Sandy Rosenthal, Founder and National Spokesperson of Levees.Org which began in New Orleans afterwards Hurricane Katrina. "Once again, beach and engineering abortion and the consistent confusion is afore the American people."

The Midwest calamity has spotlighted the consequence of our declining infrastructure, accurately with the abortion of engineered levees Once again, beach and engineering abortion and the consistent confusion is afore the American people. Are you as safe as you anticipate you are? What happened actuality in New Orleans could appear anywhere, to you I anticipation humans adapted to apperceive whether or not they're safe So I wrote a affairs that adapted the Corps of Engineers' account of at-risk levees into a simple searchable abstracts base. in the aforementioned baiter as New Orleans Forty-three percent of the American citizenry lives in areas adequate by levees Clearly, beach abortion is not just a busline New Orleans problem, and we have to get the chat out. On Friday, July 18 at 10:30 a.m. actor/producer Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, and Spinal Tap) will accompany Levees.Org, its supporters, and association of the busline association for a photo shoot while antic the new T-shirts.

As a accessible service, Levees.Org has created a searchable abstracts abject so citizens anywhere can acquisition out if they're at accident of calamity by traveling to AreWeAtRisk.org and entering their zip code.

"Are you as safe as you anticipate you are? What happened actuality in New Orleans could appear anywhere, to you," warns Harry Shearer in a public account announcement produced by Levees.Org endure year featuring the brilliant who volunteered his time.

After levees burst and breached during Hurricane Katrina, Congress ordered the US Army Corps of Engineers to audit levees above the United States. In February 2007, the Corps appear a list over 120 levees in 28 states of alleged "maintenance concern."

"I anticipation humans adapted to apperceive whether or not they're safe," says Stanford Rosenthal, 18, webmaster for Levees.Org. "So I wrote a affairs that adapted the Corps of Engineers' account of at-risk levees into a simple searchable abstracts base."

T-shirts can be purchased on area Friday morning for $20. Citizens are acceptable and encouraged to acquirement their bodice in advanced by visiting Dirty Coast, 5704 Magazine Street, Mon-Sat 11-6.

The T-shirt theme, that abounding are "in the aforementioned baiter as New Orleans" is a accommodating venture. After the official barrage and photo shoot on Friday, T-shirts will be priced at $25 and Levees.Org will get $5 for anniversary T-shirt Dirty Coast sells. Tees will be accessible online by 5 p.m. Saturday CST.

"Forty-three percent of the American citizenry lives in areas adequate by levees," says HJ Bosworth, noncombatant architect and advance adviser to Levees.Org. "Clearly, beach abortion is not just a busline New Orleans problem, and we have to get the chat out."

Leeves.Org was founded in November of 2005 by Sandy Rosenthal, 51, and her son Stanford, now 18, while active in Lafayette, Louisiana afterwards evacuating from New Orleans. They alternate to the city-limits and grew the alignment to over 20,000 members. The non accessory group's mission is apprenticeship that busline New Orleans was destroyed not by a accustomed disaster, but by the affliction engineering abortion in the apple back Chernobyl.

Year 3 Katrina: Outspoken Group to Release Eye Popping Video

Responding to the aggressive rumors afterwards Hurricane Katrina and the abortion of the federal flood protection, a New Orleans-based accumulation has produced a weapon they achievement will blast the allegory goblins, and acknowledge that about bisected the American citizenry is "in the aforementioned boat" as New Orleans.

New Orleans, LA -- On the eve of the celebration of the affliction engineering abortion in US history, the New Orleans-based accumulation levees.org will absolution its latest weapon.

On August 28, the flood aegis non accumulation accumulation will barrage the new abbreviate blur "The Katrina Myth: The Truth about a Thoroughly Unnatural Disaster" which goes afterwards and obliterates the annihilative and arbitrary belief they say are slowing the region's recovery.

Hurricane Katrina anesthetized just east of New Orleans three years ago on August 29, 2005 and acquired the region's ailing advised and complete beach arrangement to collapse. The flood aegis in the New Orleans across is by federal mandate, the albatross of the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

The New Orleans Premiere of the 10-minute documentary is chargeless and accessible to the public, but basement is bound and guests are acerb encouraged to make a reservation. Everyone is arrive to appear out and appearance their abutment for the new film, levees.org and amends for New Orleans. The celebration accident will activate with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and the tunes of the abide applesauce casting "Some Like It Hot." After a abbreviate airing down anamnesis lane to bethink on the advance of levees.org, the 10-minute documentary will accomplish its debut. There will aswell be an after-show discussion.

Simultaneous with the abide premiere in New Orleans, screenings of the blur will crop abode at over seventy (70) locations all above the country including New York, Illinois, Texas and California. A absolute of twenty altered states will be represented. The civic screenings are meant to accompany acquaintance about the levees to the accomplished country.

What: Documentary premiere, "The Katrina Myth; the accuracy about a thoroughly aberrant disaster"
When: Thursday August 28, 2008
Where: Touro Synagogue, Jacobs Social Hall, 4238 St. Charles Avenue, flush New Orleans (secure parking at Carondelet and Gen. Pershing)
6:30 Light food, drinks and music
7:30 Presentation, the cine screening and after-show discussion.

Seating will be bound so it's all-important to assets in advance. To assets a place, go to levees.org or alarm 504-269-2650.

Levees.Org was founded in November of 2005 by Sandy Rosenthal, 51, and her son Stan, again 15, while active in Lafayette, Louisiana afterwards evacuating from New Orleans. The alignment now numbers over 20,000 members. The mission is apprenticeship that busline New Orleans was destroyed not by a accustomed disaster, but by the affliction engineering abortion in the apple back Chernobyl.