The total Birth in the majority of the Gulf Coast areas that are hit by Hurricane Katrina plunged in the 12 months following the deadly storm, as per the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As per the report from CDC′s National Center for Health Statistics, “The Effect of Hurricane Katrina: Births in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region, Before and After the Storm,” examines birth certificates for the 12 months earlier to Katrina and the 12 months after the storm (Aug. 29, 2004 to Aug. 28, 2006). The data cover residents within the 91 Federal Emergency Management Agency- designated counties and parishes of Alabama, Louisiana along with Mississippi.

Unique detailed data are presented in an interactive map for 14 selected FEMA-designated coastal counties and parishes within a 100 mile radius of the storm’s path (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/data/map/HurricaneMap.htm).

Key result include:

. The total number of births in the 14 counties and parishes has reduced to 19 percent in the year after Katrina compared with the preceding year. The births has been reduced to 30 percent in the chosen parishes, Louisiana furthermore 13 percent for the selected counties in Mississippi but the birth in Alabama has increased to 6 percent.

. The total number of births to non-Hispanic black women in the elected parishes of Louisiana fell to a large extent (51 percent) after the storm. Births were also downhill for non-Hispanic white (14 percent), Hispanic (21 percent) also Asian/Pacific Islander (34 percent) women.

. In Orleans Parish, the central parish of New Orleans, the proportion of birth rate to non-Hispanic black women chops down from 78 percent of total births prior to the storm to 60 percent in the year after the hit by Katrina.

. The fraction of births to teens for these 14 selected counties as well as the parishes were unaffected subsequent to the storm, not including the selected parishes in Louisiana, where they deduced to 11 percent.

. Cesarean deliveries for the 14 chosen counties and parishes rose by 10 percent in the Alabama as well as Mississippi counties also 6 percent in the Louisiana parishes.

Katrina Kaif in recent times signed for an advertisement for a skin whitening cream. It has been believed that the product helps the girls to clash off signs of ageing. The moisturizer contains a Vitaniacin formulation in addition to available sunscreen protection in its different variants, making it ideal for Indian skin. It is alleged that the ad was first offered to Kareena but she turned it down because she don’t want to be coupled with a brand for older women.

Karenna as well as Katrina have a peachy as well as clear complexion that’s why both of them were short-listed for this international skin care brand. A source very close to Bebo says, “She didn’t accept the ad as she felt it wasn’t the right fit. Possibly in 15 years’ time, she will be prepared to do it. She thinks that being the face of the product would interfere with her fresh also a youthful image — so she declined that offer.” But there are no such reservations for Katrina Kaif. She was presented a huge amount, and she agreed to endorse the face cream without any delay.”

A source very close to Katrina refutes the story that it’s an anti-ageing skin care cream. “Katrina Kaif has signed the skin care cream but it will not be an anti-ageing one. Katrina Kaif is only on for a new product, but not for their entire range. At the same time we know that the anti-ageing cream is still being authorized by Sushmita Sen. the new product is mainly for the younger generation.”

0. Number of renters in Louisiana who have acknowledged the financial assistance from the $10 billion federal post-Katrina rebuilding program Road Home Community Development Block Grant - compared to 116,708 house owners.

0. Number of hospitals in New Orleans providing in-patient mental health care as of September 2009 despite post-Katrina increases in suicides and mental health problems.

1. Rank of New Orleans in the midst of U.S. cities in murders per capita for the year 2008.

1. Rank of New Orleans amongst U.S. cities in percentage of unoccupied residences.

2. Number of Katrina cottages fulfilled in Louisiana as of opening of 2009 hurricane season below $74 million dollar federal program.

33. Percent of 134,000 FEMA trailers in which Katrina as well as Rita storm survivors has been housed following the storms which are projected by federal government to have had some formaldehyde problems.

35. Percent of child care facilities had been re-opened in New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina.

35. Percent increase of stipulate in 2009 at crisis foodstuff programs in Orleans and nearby parishes, “an increase pinned on the swelling ranks of under-employed in addition to rising food, housing as well as fuel costs.”

50. Position of Louisiana among states in favor of overall healthcare.

52. Percent increase in rents in New Orleans due to Katrina.

52. Percent of federal rebuilding money that has been allocated to New Orleans that has actually been received.

60. Percent of children in New Orleans public schools who grace with your presence in public charter schools.

88: Percent of the 600 New Orleans residents who will displaced by projected new hospital complex who are minorities.

160. Number of units which will be public housing that is eligible for the new St. Bernard area after destruction and innovation. St. Bernard has been constructed with 1400 public housing apartments. Only a very little percentage of the 4000 families in public housing in New Orleans previous to Katrina will be permitted to live in the new housing being constructed on the site where their apartments has been demolished.

27,279. Number of Louisiana house owners who are looking forward for federal assistance in repair as well as rebuilding after Katrina who has been determined qualified for backing but still they didn’t received any money.

30,396. Number of kids who have not returned to public school in New Orleans because of Katrina. This diminution leaves the New Orleans public school populace just above half of what it was pre-Katrina.

63,799. Number of Medicaid recipients who have not still returned to New Orleans because of Katrina.

65,888. Unpopulated addresses here at New Orleans. This is 31% of the addresses in the City and almost as many as Detroit, a city double the volume of New Orleans.

128,341: Number of peoples in Louisianan who is looking for work.

143,193. Fewer people in New Orleans than prior to Katrina, according to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center estimated the population of around 311,853 people in Orleans.

9.5 Million. Dollar amount of federal Medicaid stimulus discarded outright by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal that would have expanded temporary Medicaid coverage for the families who leave welfare in addition to get a job.

98 million: Dollar amount of unemployment federal stimulus dollars has been rejected by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal that was obtainable to bolster the unemployment compensation funds to support 25,000 families in and around Louisiana.

900 Million: Dollar amount has been remunerated to ICF International, the company that has been hired by the State of Louisiana to give out federal Road Home rebuilding dollars.

?. Current vulnerability to storm-related flooding. The Army Corps of Engineers is continuing there work to provide guard from a storm flow that has a 1 percent probability of occurring any given year. On the other hand, Katrina was a stronger storm than the system under construction that is designed to protect against Katrina. Because no modernized indicators are present on land loss, coastal restoration along with the mitigation of flood risk due to human engineering, tracking recovery is, at most excellent, challenging.

The fourth centenary of Hurricane Katrina falls this weekend.

Usually, a fourth centennial is not a landmark; however this one is prominent for the various leadership transitions afoot.

First, the election of President Obama has finely tuned the hopes for a new federal route in the Gulf Coast. As for as now, he has been low-key, even skipping out on a stay to the area this anniversary-for the very first time in three years-instead pointing to his administration’s accomplishments to develop the business of revival, such as accelerating infrastructure repairs.

But to entirely break from the precedent, further needs to be done-especially to make sure that the downturn does not rollback the recovery gains made to date. At the same time as federal savings in public infrastructure maintenance have helped buoy the New Orleans economy, the recession has dampened the lodging market, stalling efforts to swap or repair the tens of thousands of homes destroyed by the storm.

Further, added work is needed to boost up the incomes as well as the opportunity in the region which has to convert a massive inventory of blighted properties into marketable use, and it also strengthen the safety as well as sustainability of the region all the way through comprehensive coastal restoration and protection.

At the focus, Obama along with his team should show that the $40 billion-plus in taxpayer dollars is been spent on long-term Gulf Coast revitalization is not being wasted to simply revisit New Orleans back to its old normal.

Definitely, prior to Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans was snowed under with challenges facing many older cities. It had the second maximum concentration of poverty among the 50 largest American cities. It haunted a weak economy, among shrinking high-paying industries along with expanding low-wage, hospitality jobs. Moreover, the metro area was mounting in unsustainable ways, with the city losing jobs and residents as growth shifted superficial into suburban parishes and against precious wetlands.

The chance is that the federal recovery dollars already flowing to schools, housing, health care facilities, and roads and transit can be accompanied by an overhaul of policies and systems underlying them so that New Orleanians, and our nation, get better outcome along with the performance, but it is not enough to simply get the money out the door promptly. All our aim must be for a city and region that is more comprehensive, economically robust, in addition to environmentally sustainable than before the storm.

There is no doubt that some bold innovations are underway which includes total revamping of the public school system and the installation of a first-ever inspector general to eradicate the cloud of corruption as well as suspect that hangs over locally-elected officials.

But, these efforts must be the average but it is not the exception. To that end, in the next one year, the management must go beyond “disaster recovery” in addition to work with state, local, as well as the private sector allies to smooth the progress of some transformative initiatives to boldly put the city on the pathway to reinvention. The stress is on for Obama (and New Orleanians) to demonstrate that, at the five-year crossroad, New Orleans is not trending on the way to the status quo.

Particularly, the management should not treat New Orleans as that unusual disaster case, but as a precedence city where it can examine a number of its signature initiative. From modernizing the nation’s infrastructure to boost up the green industries to linking school reform with the alteration of worried neighborhoods-as well as the launch of a new urban and metropolitan agenda-Obama can apply his desire for bottoms-up solution to the city and region that has been teeming through renewed assets, a dedicated citizenry as well as a strong philanthropic support.

But this is an aloft battle if Obama does not have an excellent local co-worker.

Providentially, Mayor Nagin’s tenure is coming to an end. Nagin has been a tragedy (excuse the pun) and his recovery czar resigned prior this summer with little fanfare as well as few accomplishments. With a primary coming up next February and a run-off election in March, New Orleans will have a chance to choose a leader with vision and skillful person who can hold up his or her end of the deal in a federal-state-local partnership to put into words the promise of recovery.

With all these stars aligning, let’s not dissipate this post-disaster moment to reconstruct a great American city.