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The ABCs of Marriage and Relationship Education
Written by Seth Eisenberg
Nearly 30 years ago Virginia Satir, called the "Mother of Family Therapy," encouraged psychotherapists to shift focus from therapy to education as their primary strategy for helping repair relationships. Fifteen years later, Dr. Marty Sullivan of Duke University's renowned Integrative Medicine Program began integrating relationship skills training into a holistic approach to promoting health and wellness.
Findings from a five-year study funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, provides significant evidence validating their pioneering examples.
New Paradigm for Marriage, Family, Health and Wellness
Satir recognized increasing rates of marital and family breakdown from the sixties onward as a consequence of transitioning gender roles as couples struggled to create and sustain marriages based on a paradigm that didn't exist prior to the freedoms and rights women gained throughout the twentieth century. With that transition, the basis of marriage evolved in many Western societies, including the United States, from providing "security, stability and raising children" to meeting each other's needs for "love and intimacy."
Understanding this shift is key to considering both the value of relationship education and differences between evidence-based skills training and traditional marriage therapy or counseling. It's also helpful for reflecting on the origins of homelessness, addictions, increasing rates of poverty, and factors that can lead to violence against the self or others.
A Holistic Approach to Health and Happiness
In the late nineties, Dr. Marty Sullivan, whose early work integrating PAIRS relationship education skills into a holistic approach to helping patients recover from heart disease, said:
"What does coronary artery disease have to do with relationship skills? I think it has a lot to do with that because when we look at the risk factors for coronary artery disease and the psychosocial risk factors, many studies have shown that they are very strong. I think that it is no accident that we have an epidemic in this country of divorce and dissatisfaction in marital relationships and also an epidemic in coronary artery disease."
In a plenary address to a 1997 conference of policy-makers and practitioners in Washington, D.C., Dr. Sullivan cited Mother Teresa as a motivating influence:
"There was an interesting interview with Mother Teresa when she was traveling in Europe. Someone asked her, 'What is the worst disease that you have seen?' They were thinking that this woman had been to India and she was going to talk about Cholera, or leprosy, or AIDS. She thought for a moment and she looked at the press and said, 'loneliness and isolation in the West.'"
Underlying Impact on Key National Challenges
While the primary target of relationship skills training is typically couples and parents, tools for improving interpersonal communication, emotional understanding, and healthy conflict resolution can have a lasting impact on children of those couples and also others in the community. Relationship education helps people see what's often below the surface and improve skills for communication, emotional understanding, and constructive conflict resolution.
Many of the national challenges facing the United States are rooted in relationship breakdown. There are few examples of horrific acts of violence being committed by people who have not experienced the breakdown of vital relationships. It's a factor, too, in a high percentage of suicides of active-duty military.
It's also rare that men and women who become homeless, fall into poverty, or find their lives hijacked by addictions do not first experience the breakdown or loss of relationships that could have helped prevent the spiral of hopelessness, despair, and isolation.
So how can relationship skills training and principles be integrated into modern approaches to promoting health and wellness?
Seven Principles of Relationship Skills Training
1. It's Your Ship, You're the Captain
Relationship education is about helping people find strategies and solutions that fit for their unique circumstances, values and relationship goals. That includes respecting their own personal responsibility for their success and the decisions they make for their lives. Evidence-based skills training provides techniques that are easy to understand and use to develop greater awareness of what lies beneath the surface, navigate typical relationship challenges, and overcome differences that are a natural part of any close relationship.
2. One Mouth, Two Ears
Relationship education provides safe, time-limited structures for conversations that matter, which are often much more about listening than talking. Learning to actively listen with empathy and respect to another person's perspective and experience –without judgment, defensiveness, blame, or an effort to quickly try to "fix" the issue or the person — makes it safer for intimates to develop greater awareness of themselves and each other.
3. Riding the Waves
Relationship education teaches practical, usable skills for better understanding and safely expressing the full range of emotions, including anger, sadness, and fear. Upsetting feelings held in eventually either implode or explode. Confiding painful feelings to a significant other leaves more room to experience love, pleasure and happiness. Just as powerful waves lose their energy when they break against the shore, the same is generally true of strong emotions when expressed in a safe, structured process.
4. It's Rarely the Problem that's the Problem
Relationship education enables distressed couples — with good will towards each other, openness to learning, and a desire for the relationship to succeed — to deal with differences and problems in ways that often lead to greater closeness, understanding, acceptance and commitment. The issues that surface are typically symptoms of communication breakdowns, hidden assumptions and expectations, behaviors that come from holding in upsetting feelings, or lack of skills for constructive conflict resolution.
5. Love is a Feeling
Relationship education helps people develop their emotional intelligence, including understanding that feelings of love come from the anticipation of pleasure in our interactions with others. If instead of anticipating pleasure, we expect pain, feelings of love are unlikely to survive, let alone thrive. What's a pleasure changes during different stages and passages of life. Sustaining feelings of love requires learning what it takes in today's circumstances to stay a pleasure in each other's lives. And doing it.
6. Marriage is a Contract
Relationship education recognizes that although nearly all traditional marriage vows include the promise to "love 'till death do us part," the marriage contract itself cannot be dependent on "feelings" of love, which naturally wax and wane. That doesn't mean commitment or obligations wax and wane. Emotions are affected by many factors, often unrelated to issues inside our closest relationships. Marriage is the glue that's meant to hold couples and families together during periods of growth, change and challenge that are a natural part of life.
7. Relationships are Work
Relationship education is built on the understanding that what happens in our closest relationships impacts quality of life, fulfillment, happiness, and the ability to pursue cherished dreams and aspirations. Relationships take regular attention. Without intentionally nurturing relationships, it's easy to become strangers, for relationships to wither and become vulnerable. Beyond staying a pleasure in each other's lives, the work of an intimate relationship is to consistently meet each other's needs for bonding (emotional and physical closeness). Relationship education provides a road map and usable skills for sustaining healthy relationships that are an ongoing source of love, pleasure, happiness, and fulfillment for both partners.
Significant, multi-year research has shown that evidence-based skills training leads to greater marital satisfaction, happiness, and stronger families for the far majority of participants. For singles, relationship skills training can reduce symptoms of distress and anxiety that often lead to isolation, create new possibilities for connection, and improve emotional and physical well-being.
After a rough divorce, last week I stumbled into a World Marriage Day celebration. . .
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Mike McManus says
I agree with most of what Seth Eisenberg writes. However,in #5 he defines "Love is a Feeling." Certainly that is what the culture or Hollywood teaches. But love in Scripture is never defined as a feeling.
"Let love and faithfulness never leave," says Proverbs 3:3. That is a decision one can make, not a feeling. I Corinthians 13:4-7, has 15 definitions of love, all of which are an act of the will: "Love is patient…" are you naturally patient? I'm not, but I love Harriet and really try to be patient with her.
Mike McManus, Marriage Savers.
Kitty Wojcik GPC, CGMS says
We've spent literally 40 years trying to strengthen, revitize, fortify and/or promote marriage — and the general public still doesn't "understand" or "want what we're selling"?… Could it be that marriage itself, in it's current state (traditional or not) really IS worse than non-marriage?
Before you jump on me with a million statistics, here's what I'm thinking:
The marriage movement often puts women in a box and says women's "primary" happiness is in regard to loving a man. That marriage and all that follows makes a women happy. That having children fulfills a women and that the value unfolds over time. I believe that and lived my life like that. But what are women experiencing now that are giving them pause en masse and across socio-economic lines?
Marriage and love is good but "what comes after" is really hard. For instance, the raising of children doesn't come with directions and women make plenty of mistakes over the course of twenty some formative child rearing years. The marriage movement focuses on troubled relationships but even women in good relationships who have done their very best to love their man and kids, still raise children with problems, resentments, hurts, and disorders. What comes after marriage is not an easy process and takes a significant toll on both men and women.
In the case of women, they cry to release stress and re-group. Crying goes on in households by women of all economic, ethnic, and educational levels. Some women cry a little, some a lot and some over a phase in life, when for instance a loved one dies or a child is sick or economic woes bring on regret or poverty. So even without the husband knowing or hearing the women cry, children in the family see their mothers cry… sometimes for extended periods. They hear their mother's lament and they experience their mother's pain.
Could it be that the now-grown up men and women of those women, who love their mothers very much, say to themselves, "I don't want what my mother (or father) had"? And is it justified?
Walter Lowe says
With the emphasis on love and intimacy, one might ask to what end have we placed that focus? When the focus turns inward, erosion is a natural consequence – evidenced by the spiral of hopelessness, despair, and isolation. The men tend to be absent, pursuing "enhanced" identity outside the relationship, while the women's spiral only accelerates – greased by layers of tears.
Perhaps this also has to do with changes in our understanding of "family," which the marriage has traditionally been the center of. In the past, we would have several generations living in close proximity – if not even in the same household. Having the grandparents around was often a blessing, in spite of all the "mother-in-law" jokes that tend to circulate. Although that older generation might also be a cause of different crying, it was a generation that had already done its own crying as well. Children (and their parents too) could often appeal to a "higher court" in the settling of family disputes, and the community was usually peppered with supporting relatives. Grandfathers picked up the slack and filled in gaps for the fathers/husbands.
Even in the hard times of the Great Depression, families depended on each other for support. However, during the post-WWII booms, the nuclear family unit began to erode and crumble. The grandparents became a problem for the independent identity of the young family unit parents, and these elders were moved into "senior centers" or their own living spaces. Many of them even chose to remove themselves – in America Florida and Arizona became senior citizen "dumping grounds" and "escape havens" as the new social class group of "snow birds" moved south for the winter, seeking its own independence.
At the same time, the feminist movement encouraged women to recognize their roles as house slaves, urging them to throw off the shackles of the vacuum cleaner, stove, and washing machine. Masculine values became the recognized norm, and women were encouraged to seek fulfillment as a man would.
(My mother, a stay-at-home-mother with five children and one or two foster children to care for, objected to the pleadings of the feminist movement. She always said she would not lower herself to the level of a man. She instituted a division of labor within the household and she enjoyed not having to regulate her life according to the whims of bosses and production schedules.)
Today we all have the freedom to pursue our individual interests, joining the army of individuals to "be all you can be" by ourselves, and our sense of community seems to revolve around external and material aspects of life without a clear sense of community responsibility and membership that extends from the basic family unit. Thus, a local sports team can win a "national championship" and the local residents, wearing the team colors, trash the community in personal celebration. It's enough to make strong men cry as well.
Of course, it is not a disgrace for people to participate in roles that create a sense of partnership in the marriage relationship as well as to seek identify fulfillment outside the home. However, the perception in our culture (and many others that I have experienced) indicate that masculine roles (and by extension masculine values) are preferred in general.
Certainly a man can be a "house-husband" or fulfill such roles as nurse or court stenographer, but the general perception by other males is that such a person is fulfilling a "lessor" role in the community. I'm not saying I approve of this, – but it is the reality. An unfortunate situation that makes women cry. The men should be crying over it as well, but that would certainly put their manhood in doubt.
Although I am just an English teacher, I look at how our language reflects the culture when we pair up concepts: rich/poor, wise/foolish, strong/weak, true/false, pass/fail, win/lose, etc. In these examples, the "preferred" item always comes first (good/bad).
Does it make sense if we reverse the order? Are masculine values preferred? We do say boys and girls, males and females, men and women, doctors and nurses, etc. The one time the female is in the preferred position is on the wedding day – bride and groom. On that day the female is first because she has caught her man and made a success of her life!
Of course, the next day they are husband and wife and the hierarchy is "restored." (At home they may be "mom and dad" because she is responsible for the nurturing that takes place there.) This is not something I endorse, but we shouldn't deny this reality. It won't change by itself!
In my 101 classroom we read Natalie Angier's "Why Men Don't Last: Self-Destruction as a Way of Life," where she observes such differences and the concepts related to them (http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/health/why-men-don-t-last-self-destruction-as-a-way-of-life.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm). It is interesting that she notes that women are greater risk takers than men. Men will take risks related to their physical well-being; while women take even more serious risks related to emotional and psychological health. If men fail, they are dead and gone. If women fail, they have to deal with the failure and then try to continue on – usually on a path soggy with layers and layers of women's tears shed for generations.
In order to find value, women are qualifying for the pole position at the Daytona 500 – thus attempting to prove themselves by taking masculine style risks. Such feats are celebrated in the culture, which only encourages more women to try to find their value through such "adrenaline rush" activities.
As Angier has noted, these days it is difficult for males to understand their roles as well – the young boys who took the survey and said that males need to be strong and independent also said they needed to be caring and supportive. How can they do both?
Another one for the teardrops is Bel Kaufman's "Sunday in the Park" showing just how confusing this can be for a male – as well as the stress it puts on a marriage relationship: http://fictiondaze.blogspot.com/2004/06/sunday-in-park.html My heart goes out to the husband stuck in the middle of these conflicting social roles.
Please pass the Kleenex.
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Regional News of Tuesday, 30 June 2020
Source: GAN
Coronavirus: Hohoe Municipal Hospital records declining OPD cases
The Hohoe Municipal Hospital has recorded a sharp decline in its Out-Patients Department (OPD) attendance from 10,000 to about 300, a month as a result of the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus disease.
Dr. Pius Mensah, Medical Superintendent of the Hospital disclosed this during a tour by Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, Deputy Minister of Health to the COVID-19 Management facilities in the Volta region.
He said the Hospital observed this trend after it recorded its first two positive cases in April, this year which had led to stigmatisation of the Hospital and its staff leading to reduction in patronage of some of its services including the OPD.
"Life has not been the same for the past four months," he said.
"One key challenge had been stigmatisation of the hospital staff which had led to decrease in OPD attendance from 10,000 a month to just a little over 300 and we are still struggling to recover despite sustained education," he added
Dr Mensah said eight health staff; a doctor, an anaesthetist, three nurses and three midwives have all recovered covid-19 and back to work without any residual medical complications from the infection "except one who tested positive" on June 28.
He said four of cases was from surveillance, five as contacts of index cases and 12 from subsequent cases have so far been recorded after the Hospital recorded its first two cases on April 12, this year adding that Covid-19 case count in Hohoe stood at 21 with 15 recoveries.
The Medical Superintendent said the Hospital had managed 23 suspected cases at its Holding area designated for keeping suspected cases for between 24 to 48 hours, whilst awaiting their sample results with staff running a 12-hour shift to ensure 24-hour service at the area.
He said a total of 33 staff were exposed to the index case, a pregnant woman out of which four tested positive for the disease and were treated at home, recovered and returned to work in May while the last four cases that tested positive in June could not be linked to any case although they have recovered.
Dr. Mensah said a total of 779 samples from contact tracing and surveillance excluding repeat tests had been taken since the outbreak which were sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research and the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) testing centre.
He said 909 contacts for the 21 positive cases had been traced so far and also added that the treatment centre which had begun operations and that some 16 cases being managed at the facility were referral cases from Kpando, Ketu North, Ho and West Districts of the region.
The Medical Superintendent said work at the treatment centre was not complete since it was a research centre which was converted into a clinical unit, adding that building effective teams and working together had helped the Hospital to come far in its efforts at combating the pandemic.
Dr. Okoe Boye said comparing Ghana to the rest of the world, the country's Covid-19 statistics was an "aspiring one" with a zero point six per cent deaths.
The Deputy Minister said this was due to tracing of contacts, testing them and treating them and providing the necessary care and making sure that no lives were lost adding that "I believe strongly that we will win the war".
Dr. Timothy Letsa, Volta Regional Director of Health Services said the Directorate has recognised the good works and dedication of the management and staff of the Hospital and would make sure the needed support was provided in the Covid-19 fight, adding that, "we will not put you on the war front and leave you behind"
Mr. Andrews Teddy Ofori, Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) called on the citizenry to desist from stigmatising Covid-19 patients and continue to support the government in the fight against the disease by adhering to all the safety protocols
Auditor-General's report on COVID-19: Heads must roll now - Charles Owusu
John Mahama calls for forensic audit of COVID-19 funds across Africa
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COVID-19 Funds: It's sad people are jailed for stealing goats but thieves walk freely – Domelevo
This government is at the forefront of misbehaviour, breaching laws - Former A-G

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Effective March 15, 2019, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of School Specialty, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Justin C. Jacobs to the Board effective March 15, 2019. Mr. Jacobs is a Management Committee Director of Mill Road Capital Management LLC, an investment firm focused on investments in small, publicly traded companies, where he has worked since 2005. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Jacobs worked at LiveWire Capital, an investment and management group focused on control, operationally-intensive buyouts of small companies where he led investments and held various operational positions in numerous portfolio companies. Mr. Jacobs was an investment professional in the private equity group of The Blackstone Group from 1996 to 1999. Mr. Jacobs holds a B.S. from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.
Mr. Jacobs' experience in operating roles, principal investing, public and private boards of directors, and various capital markets provide valuable experience and perspective to the Board of Directors.
As a non-employee director of the Company, Mr. Jacobs will be paid an annual cash retainer equal to $75,000, to be paid in four equal quarterly installments. On March 15, 2019, Mr. Jacobs also received a prorated grant of 2,995 restricted stock units ("RSUs"), which will become 100% vested on March 15, 2020. When they vest, the RSUs will be settled in shares of common stock on a one-for-one basis.
There were no arrangements or understandings between Mr. Jacobs and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as a director. Mr. Jacobs does not have any direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.


Mamamia has appointed former Foxtel marketer Rob Farmer as group director of marketing and partner solutions.
Farmer worked at Foxtel as marketing director between 2011 and 2017, leading the businesses in-house creative agency and the product and content marketing teams.
Having started consultancy practice The Inside Out at the start of 2018, Farmer began consulting with Mamamia in July.
He will take on responsibility for B2B and B2C marketing, research and insight, in-house design and commercial content solutions for partners, across Mamamia, Social Squad and new ventures.
His appointment comes as Mamamia beefs up its senior leadership team, recently hiring former News Corp exec Tony Prentice as chief revenue and operations officer. The media company later appointed Howard Wilbury as head of partnerships.
Farmer's previous roles include Viewer Marketing Director at the UK's ITV, and Board Director for Levi's at creative agency BBH London.
Mamamia founder Mia Freedman says Farmer will bring a "fresh perspective" to the company.


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Current Affairs Updates - 8th April 2018
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In our today's Current Affairs Updates - 8th April 2018 we have picked up some of the best and important headlines which are probable to be asked in the upcoming examinations of Bank like IBPS PO, IBPs CLERK,RRB, RBI and SSC CGL, SSC CHSL and Rail exams. Aspirants should go through them in details to have a not of every detail mentioned below. You may also like our Daily Current Affairs Quiz.
The World Health Day is celebrated on 7th april. Theme: 'Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere'
It is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organisations.
Banking, Economic & Financial Affairs
FPI investment limit in Govt Securities hiked
In a move that could temporarily soften bond yields, the Reserve Bank of India, in consultation with the Government, on Friday hiked the foreign portfolio investors (FPI) investment limit in Central government securities (G-Sec) from 5 per cent of outstanding stock now to 5.5 per cent in FY2019 and 6 per cent in FY2020.
Union Food Processing Industries Minister Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal will inaugurate the second Mega Food Park in Uttarakhand at Mahuakhera Ganj in Kashipur in Udham Singh Nagar district on Sunday ie 8th April 2018.
The mega food park– M/s Himalayan Mega Food Park Private Ltd, which is being set up in an area of 50.14 acres, would have a central processing center as well as well as three Primary Processing Centers (PPCs) at Ram Nagar, Ramgarh and Kaladungi.
Jammu gets its first tulip garden at Sanasar
Situated amid lush green woods with trekking trails, Jammu's first tulip garden at Sanasar is attracting nature enthusiasts from all over the country.
The Union government on Friday banned imports of the hormone oxytocin to stop its misuse in the livestock industry, where activists say it causes hormonal imbalances and shortens the lives of milch animals.
The government also asked customs officials to step up vigilance against those likely to try and smuggle oxytocin into India, the Central Board of Excise and Customs said in a notice on its website.
Prof Panchanan Mohanty, former dean of the School of Humanities at University of Hyderabad (UoH) has discovered two languages, which have been lying hidden from linguists.
As a part of the research activity of the Centre for Endangered Languages and Mother Tongue Studies, UoH, Prof Mohanty of the department of linguists, discovered two languages - Walmiki and Malhar. Linguists do not know that these two languages exist. Only a few people living in the forest and hilly areas speak these languages. Surprisingly, they have remained out of public focus
Shimla gets its first grid-connected solar plant
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur recently inaugurated the first grid-connected solar power plant in Shimla having a capacity of 35 KW, installed on the rooftop of the Department of Environment, Science and Technology.
Qatar allows women to join national service amidst intensified diplomatic blockade by Arab quartet
The Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed a legislation Women aged over 18 will be able to volunteer for national service while men will now serve a year instead of three months.
The RH300 sounding rocket, developed by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) as part of a study to enrich available atmospheric data, would be launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS)
The launch, scheduled at 19.15 hrs, is part of a study undertaken by VSSC under the Sounding Rocket Experiment (SOUREX) programme, which utilises the RH-300 MKII sounding rocket to study the Equatorial E and lower ionosphere regions of the atmosphere, it said.
Defence & Railway News
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is going to conduct its biggest ever combat exercise "Gagan Shakti, 2018" along Pakistan and China borders.
Meanwhile, the IAF is readying to mobilise its entire asset and equipment inventory to conduct its biggest exercise ever.
Application / Portal
Tamil Nadu Govt Launches Mobile App Bi-lingual 'Uzhavan' for Farmers
In a bid to use technology for farmers' benefit, Tamil Nadu government has come out with a mobile application that will allow ryots to have access to nine types of services including details about their crop insurance.
The Minister of State for MSME, Giriraj Singh launched a mobile phone application for locating 4,000 Khadi stores in the country.
There are more than 8,000 Khadistores in India, the rest of stores will also be available on the store locater by the end of this month. This was informed by Vinai Kumar Saxena, Chairman KVIC in the board meeting today.
Schemes / Programme
In Uttar Pradesh Ganga Hariteema Yojana (Ganga Greenery scheme) is being launched today in 27 districts of the state located on the bank of river Ganga.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will launch the scheme at Allahabad in a function organised on the bank of Sangam the confluence of rivers of Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati.
Mahila Shakti Kendra Scheme: An initiative to empower rural women in India
The scheme is envisaged to work at various levels, and at the National level (domain based knowledge support) and State level (State Resource Centre for Women) technical support to the respective governments on issues related to women is provided.
Agreements/ MoUs Signed
The Government of India, Government of Maharashtra and the World Bank signed here today a US 420 million dollar project to help Small and Marginal farmers in the Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra.
The project will help in increasing climate resilient practices in agriculture and ensuring that farming continues to remain a financially viable activity for them.
IndusInd-Samsung tie up to facilitate 'tap and pay' credit system
IndusInd Bank announced a collaboration with Samsung Electronics to enable its MasterCard and Visa credit card customers to use 'Samsung Pay'.IndusInd credit card holders can now 'tap and pay' at merchant outlets having Point of Sale (PoS) terminals using a wide range of Samsung Smartphones.
Maharashtra government, the Centre signs MoU with World Bank to aid farmers
The Maharashtra government, along with the Centre, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the World Bank to help more than 5142 villages from drought-prone districts of Vidarbha and Marathwada to adopt climate resilient practices in agriculture.
Summit /Conference / Events
The Prime Minister has announced that on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti a "Gram Swaraj Abhiyan" would be organised starting from 14th April to 5th May 2018.
This Abhiyan is being undertaken for reaching out to poor households, spreading awareness about government welfare schemes and other people-centric initiatives.
Awards & Honours: Sports
India continued to go strong at the Commonwealth Games 2018 weightlifting events with Sathish Kumar Sivalingam bringing the country its third gold medal, in the men's 77-kg category and extending India's medal tally to five.
He finished with a total effort of 317 kg.
The India women's hockey team registered their first victory of the ongoing Commonwealth Games campaign after beating Malaysia 4-1 in their second match of Pool A.
Two goals from Gurjit Kaur (6', 39') and a goal each from skipper Rani (56') and Lalremsiami (59') saw the Indians secure a morale-boosting victory against their Asian counterparts. The only goal for Malaysia was scored by Nuraini Rashid in the 38th minute.
Awards & Honours: Miscellaneous
Chhattisgarh on Friday bagged the 'State of the Year' Award under the 'business leader' category as part of the India Business Leadership for the remarkable increase in business and services activities in various sectors.
The plunge witnessed is said to be the result of various decisions taken on the policy in the field of business by the Chhattisgarh Government in the past few years and its effective implementation.
Other Sports & Award Related News
Leander Paes Becomes Most Successful Doubles Player In Davis Cup History
Leander Paes became the most successful doubles player in the history of Davis Cup as he combined with Rohan Bopanna to not only grab a record 43rd win but also bring India back in the tie against China .


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A national living wage is on the table. Now let's talk about a global living wage
Posted on April 19, 2019 by particularkev
Australia's Harvester Judgement of 1907 defined a living wage as 'fair and reasonable' payment sufficient for an unskilled worker to support a family in reasonable comfort.
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Shelley Marshall, RMIT University
The idea of the living wage is back on the political agenda. In the United States the Democrats are proposing to double the federal minimum wage. In Australia the federal Labor Party has promised to deliver a living wage.
"A living wage should make sure people earn enough to make ends meet, and be informed by what it costs to live in Australia today – to pay for housing, for food, for utilities, to pay for a basic phone and data plan," Opposition leader Bill Shorten said this week.
The principle of the living wage is the subject of my book published in January. To write the book I spent five years researching working conditions in countries including Australia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, India and Thailand.
What my research underlines is that there are limits to thinking about a living wage for Australian workers without also making the principle global.
A 'reasonable' standard
Australia first embraced the living wage more than a century ago in what is arguably the nation's most famous labour law case. The Harvester Judgement of 1907 defined a living wage as "fair and reasonable" payment sufficient for an unskilled worker to support a family in reasonable comfort.
In deciding exactly how much income was needed to assure this, Australia's Conciliation and Arbitration Court examined 11 households to determine the cost of typical living expenses. These included lighting, clothes, boots, furniture, insurance, union membership, sickness, books, newspapers, alcohol and tobacco.
Explainer: what exactly is a living wage?
Twelve years later the principle was enshrined in international labour law, when the International Labour Organisation was established in 1919. It defined a living wage as one "adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country".
A century on, Australia's industrial relations system has long abandoned the central premise of the living wage. Around the world being paid enough to live on remains elusive. We are all intimately connected to many of these workers. They have assembled the phones we handle. They have sewn our clothes.
Women in Bangladesh who make clothes for brands such as Big W, Kmart, Target and Cotton On earn as little as 51 cents an hour, according to an Oxfam report published last month.
The report is based on interview with 470 garment workers in Bangladesh and Vietnam. Three-quarters of the Vietnam workers and all of the Bangladeshi workers earned less than a living wage (as calculated by the Global Living Wage Coalition).
It would cost you 20 cents more per T-shirt to pay an Indian worker a living wage
Fear of capital flight
It is very hard for workers to mobilise for higher wages in many countries around the world. In January 5,000 garment workers in Bangladesh were sacked after going on strike for higher wages. During protests, police shot dead one worker. More than 50 others were injured.
Striking garment workers in Cambodia have also been shot dead by police during protests.
Especially in price-sensitive industries, globalisation exerts strong pressure on governments to keep minimum wages low, lest any increase lead to "capital flight". This competition pits countries in a race to the bottom.
Should labour costs go up in Bangladesh, for example, its government fears garment brands moving production to, say, Ethiopia. It's a legitimate fear; in my 15 years of research I've seen whole garment factories dismantled and trucked across borders to countries where the labour is cheaper.
Cooperation is the answer
The obvious solution would be for countries to cooperate and raise minimum wages collectively and incrementally (at an agreed percentage every year). This approach would help overcome "first mover risk". Business would have less incentive to look for cheaper labour elsewhere.
For this to occur would, of course, require huge amounts of international political good will. Nation states would need to put aside the tendency to think in terms of immediate self-interest and work cooperatively for mutual benefit.
Here we face a problem with the architecture of international law in general, and labour law in particular.
Though the principle of a living wage was enshrined in the treaty that formed the International Labour Organisation, it is not codified in any of the eight fundamental international labour conventions. These cover forced labour, child labour, workplace discrimination and the right to unionise.
But even if it was, that wouldn't necessarily make much difference. International law isn't the same as national law. Most international treaties, conventions and agreements are not enforceable. There is no real penalty for any country that refuses to sign, nor for any signatory failing to meet its obligations. The ILO cannot enforce targets in the way needed to address a problem this big.
Emulating trade law
However, there is one area of international law that comes close to what we usually think of as law: international trade and investment law.
In addressing goals like reducing tariffs, countries faced similar coordination problems. Beginning with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which came into effect in 1948, half a dozen major multilateral trade deals were negotiated before the agreement in 1994 to establish the World Trade Organisation.
The WTO has since adjudicated hundreds of disputes in which one nation has accused another of failing to meet its WTO commitments. Investors can also take states to tribunals to seek compensation for unfair behaviour. States take these tribunals very seriously.
Why not emulate this architecture of international trade law for living wages?
Concrete targets for raising wages could be set through multilateral agreements. Countries would increase wages incrementally, by a certain percent each year, in a coordinated fashion, until they reached a living wage level.
An international tribunal would hear claims against states accused of failing to raise or enforce minimum wages as agreed. National tribunals would adjudicate cases involving corporations.
Cambodian garment workers, for example, would be able to take their government to the international tribunal for failing to raise wages or enforce minimum wage laws. A state held liable to pay compensation for wage breaches could pursue factory owners or their international buyers through national tribunals. This would be an incentive for states to police their own labour laws.
Instead of having separate national conversations about living wages, now is a good time to start the conversation at a global scale.
Shelley Marshall, Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, expert in corporate accountability, RMIT University
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Whether you are a newbie to business or struggling to make progress in your business; I will share one tip at a time…To help you to make continuous daily improvements. Simply, rinse and repeat these tips daily for best results.
Unlike, most of my writings that can be long, long, long…I promise to make this post shorter, sweeter and hopefully to the point (lol)…HoW? By sharing one or two tips per post.
Just ask yourself, " What are activities you'd love to improve on when it comes to your business or projects? What ever it is you may be working toward, wouldn't you love to focus your attention specifically, on step by step gradual improvements?
Hint..Hint…One of the things you'd probably most definitely want to improve on are the things that are most important or most crucial to the success of your business. Focus on the major things, then practice making an impact, by following the tip(s).
You don't have a business without customers which makes this tip, number one on the list. So try doing things daily that will help your niche audience. Once you know who your customers are or will be…By giving and adding value for them.
Remember, it's not about abruptly or forcefully showing them what you think could help them. Who in the world wants that? I know I don't. Would you? You have a market to attend to, that is very interested in your expertise or what you know; So why not help them.
They want your value, good advice, and a caring, helping hand when they need it. In other words, a meaningful relationship would be great, also ensure you'll be around to continue to help.
Once, you have an audience/prospects or customers that you're able to help by providing value and establishing meaningful relationships you are well on your way.
I know it sounds weird to find your audience before your products or services…But just think about it, that really makes perfect sense. Yes, to first explore the market….Find your audience, the "Who" or Your (niche) group of customers. Also, think… Where do these people hang out and how can I connect?
Recap: Discover who needs the help and then figure out how you will be helpful to them by accessing them with what they want and desperately need.
Now…Find and base your products and services, on your audience/customers needs or hunger so to speak. Yes, this is where your products or services will serve as yummy "food" for your customer's hunger, getting the pic?
This is best, I can explain it, hope this tip helps if you're not already in the know about it. If you are, way to go! Also, it may be the best way to prevent a lot of un-necessary pain, effort and working in vain.
Finding out your target audience is not weird at all, I think it's by knowing who they are that you can really talk to them on an interpersonal level.
I am starting a business online and this article has reminded me of some very important core information about business and worths the read. Thank you for that. I would find it easier to read if there are more formation though.
Wow you definitely have a great theme and I loved the way you have organised your article. However, is it possible to maybe not bold your main text as this distracts from the headings? You write very well and your writing is very structured so your readers will be able to take the main points from your article in an easy way.I liked how you stated the method of rinse and repeat of those tips as well as this will lead to success. Well done!
Sure, I will consider your great tip. I appreciate your feedback and help. Thanks!
Sure, I will considered it. I appreciate your time and advice, Thanks.
I do need to take a step by step approach to work towards my goals. I like the part about doing something daily to help my niche audience. I understand that it is me that they entrust and I should be the same way. I feel like if I know my audience more and more, I could connect to them gradually, more and more. Thanks a lot.
Welcome, and glad you get it Joe. You are on point when it comes to knowing your audience as much as you can; So that you're better able to connect. Not only does that promote trust but it also shows that you actually care.
This is a great tip which I think builds the foundation of your business. Before asking people to open their wallet you of course need to provide some value and make your customers feel that they can learn some useful stuff from you. Like Kyle says: You need to create a service that people love, but you can't make people love a service. BTW, are you getting any emails or comments from your readers/visitors that encourage you to continue your work?
I agree, and in today's market if you have value and able to offer things people want and need, they will usually ask or do business with you. Just put yourself in their shoes…Let's take myself for instance, when I'm looking for a product or service I will usually seek out value and feel most comfortable doing business with those I already know and trust, or one who has great credibility and reviews due to their value. By giving value, it indicates that you really care and spend lots of dedicated time and energy to be helpful to others.
I love the graphics on this site. They hold the attention. I wanted to shake the hand of the lady who had her hand extended because it seemed like her hand was coming through the screen.
Nice tips. More and more we are finding that it is possible to find your customer before you have a product to sale. One of the ways to do this is blogging. Another way is vlogging and things of the sort.
I appreciate the tip you gave on not shoving your offer down a persons throat, even if we think they need it! And your 2nd tip, develop relationships was golden! Because so much is done online, it's easy to want to get down to it, but you eloquently reminded us that relationships are still key in business.


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