Monday, April 4, 2011

Japan and the New Normal


They call it the disillusionment phase,” says Joanne Caye, a clinical associate professor of social work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “It’s the place where you start to feel things again, and you begin to realize that what you knew as previously normal will never happen again.” Futurity.org – Finding a 'new normal' in Japan UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — Many survivors of Japan's triple disaster are facing a hard emotional reality: The “old normal” is gone. Now the search for a new ... www.futurity.org/top-stories/finding-a-new-normal-in-japan/
Culture has money dilemma
TheNewsTribune.com
The conventional hope is that if they can just hang on until the economy recovers, things will get back to normal. But the New Normal may be very different from the old version. Even if tax revenues rebound, the looming and increasing demands for money ...

Officials share insights on future of Ga. community banking
Savannah Morning News
Q. Regulators talk about establishing a “new normal” – a baseline, if you will – for evaluating banks once the current crisis in the industry abates. How have you adjust your approach in the meantime? Braswell (GDBF): You take the same examination ...
Surveys show little faith in retirement
Ventura County Star
We are entering an age of the new normal for transitioning from work to retirement, the authors of the EBRI retirement survey proclaim. "People's expectations need to come closer to reality so they will save more and delay retirement until it is ...
State Superintendent of Schools to Retire
Patch.com
"I need to think of a new normal for me. I also want to be sure that everything here is stabilized so that there's no absolute decline in the opportunity for our students, because they deserve the best," said Grasmick, 72, whose two-decade tenure is ...
UK deans scramble to make money for their schools
Lexington Herald Leader
"We know the new normal is here," he said. "We want the state to think about education and invest in it, but we're thinking of ways in which we can continue to deliver a quality education and meet the needs of our college at the same time. ...
Five phases to planning for retirement
The Mercury
The "new normal" requires retirement savings to exceed 10 percent of income. Self-employed persons should be careful about shortchanging themselves on Social Security contributions to reap tax deductions. The next phase is Pre-Retirement, which begins ...
337 days later after tragic school bus accident, Diego Lemos hasn't slowed down
Denver Post
After weeks of hospitalization and physical therapy, Diego returns home to a new normal. Photographs of Diego's journey from accident to amputation to recovery. Through the long, painful lens of hindsight, Diego figures that the accident, ...
Judge's action elates some school districts
Cherry Hill Courier Post
But even if the Supreme Court decides the state kept students from receiving a thorough and efficient education this year, it could also determine New Jersey is too strapped to provide restitution. "I think we've adjusted to the "new normal...
Homebuilders look for recovery
Milford Daily News
Robert Denk, an economist and vice president of the National Association of Home Builders, said Massachusetts is at 30 percent of normal new home production. He said that, in this case, "normal" is somewhere around 2003 levels of development, ...
A Deeper Look Into 11 Ideas for 2011 | eJewish Philanthropy: Your ...
By EHL Consulting
As we have stressed previously, the non-profit arena today is governed by a “new normal,” changing rules and directions for fundraising success driven by a combination of a challenging economy along with the fallout from several well ...
eJewish Philanthropy: Your Jewish... - http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/
Dr. Ed's Blog: The Profit & Employment Cycles
By Dr. Ed Yardeni
The New Normal crowd has been touting the notion that employment would remain depressed and that unemployment would remain chronically high for a long time. We have been arguing that there is a very powerful relationship between the ...
Dr. Ed's Blog - http://blog.yardeni.com/
Quicker prostate biopsy result lessens anxiety, means faster ...
By Health
"I'm looking forward to a new normal and getting fully back to my family and my professional life.” Nam said fine-tuning individual risk to better pinpoint who should have a biopsy — then getting the results quickly — can mean putting a ...
Health Medicine Daily News - http://www.healthmagdaily.com/
The Oil Drum | Tech Talk - thoughts on oil production from the ...
By Heading Out
It's quite hard to believe that the combined exports of Yemen and Syria would matter in a 'normal' situation but with the superthin margins that we've currently got, that speaks volumes in of itself, this is indeed 'the new normal' . ...
The Oil Drum - Discussions about... - http://www.theoildrum.com/
Unpaid jobs: The new normal? - Fortune Management
While businesses are generally wary of the risks of using unpaid labor, companies that have used free workers say it can pay off when done right.
management.fortune.cnn.com/.../unpaid-jobs-the-new-normal/
Outliers and coexistence are the new normal for big data - O ...
To benefit from advanced analytics and study complete huge data sets, many enterprise architectures are evolving into coexistence environments that combine ...
radar.oreilly.com/2011/03/outliers-coexistence-big-data.html
Port Authority Transit Cuts: Riders Feel Pain Of New Normal
Commuters are left to wonder if this is the new "normal" for public transit in Allegheny County, now that the Port Authority has cut service by 15 percent ...
www.wtae.com/allegheny/27338540/detail.html

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