The editorial appeals for a national commitment to reach beyond disaster reconstruction to design a new program for revitalization for Japan as a whole.
The outcomes of this Power Shift Pacific: Looking Beyond Disaster Youth Forum, will include the development of action plans and youth projects to be implemented in different communities, as well as the development of a Pacific youth volunteer network enabling an exchange of information between Pacific Island youth living abroad and their island communities.
UNESCO: Pacific and M��ori Youth Converge to Talk Disaster Resilience.
Such moves are commendable, but the government ought to go beyond just reacting to the disaster.
The IRS can waive the 60 day window in some instances such as when the delay was beyond your control (think disaster or if the bank or trustee fouls up the transfer).
Beyond that, monetarism was a disaster when it was most famously imposed from 1979-82.
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And what we don't have is a clear definition of who is responsible in a time of a disaster, that reaches beyond the ability of local governments to react to.
"There are emotional and physical stresses associated with a disaster like this that go beyond the cost of the building blowing down and the home blown away and the family letters and pictures that will never be seen again, " he said.
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Beyond the influx of reconstruction funds, the disaster has helped open the purse strings of people in the afflicted areas.
And for local people, the presence of the wreck just beyond the harbour is a constant reminder of the disaster, he says.
To be sure, Obama has been battered by a series of struggles, starting with the economy, but including a series of events that were at least initially beyond his control -- from the Gulf oil disaster to a Republican minority that by any objective standard has tried to block him at every single turn -- and dragged down his approval ratings.
And what is important about this is that we have not simply averted what would have been an absolute disaster, assuming, again, Congress acts, which would have been passing a period beyond which we would no longer have had borrowing authority and risking -- creating the possibility of default on our obligations for the first time in our history.
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