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California Adopts Strong Equal Pay Protections
Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Fair Pay Act into law Tuesday.
California will soon have what advocates say are the strongest equal pay protections in the country after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed the California Fair Pay Act into law Tuesday.
SB 358, introduced by state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D) earlier this year, requires employers to prove that any pay gap between workers is due to factors like skill level or seniority and not gender. Additionally, the legislation protects workers from retribution for sharing salary information or asking about their colleagues' compensation.
Brown signed the bill into law during a ceremony at Rosie the Riveter Park in Richmond, California.
"Sixty-six years after passage of the California Equal Pay Act, many women still earn less money than men doing the same or similar work," Brown said. "This bill is another step toward closing the persistent wage gap between men and women."
The bill unanimously passed in the state Senate in May, and cleared the Assembly 66-2 last week.
Jackson attended Tuesday's ceremony, posting a celebratory photo on Twitter:
"This is a momentous day for California, and it is long overdue. I want to thank the Governor for his support and for signing this bill into law. Equal pay isn’t just the right thing for women, it’s the right thing for our economy and for California," Jackson said in a statement. "Today, California leads the nation in showing how it can be done."
The legislation goes a step further than existing fair pay regulations by establishing the standard of equal pay for "substantially similar work" rather than "equal work." The bill's backers say this language closes a loophole employers could use to justify gender-rooted differences in compensation.
While federal attempts at closing the gender gap, such as the U.S. Senate's Paycheck Fairness Act, have divided congressional Democrats and Republicans, the California bill had strong support from both parties as well as business groups like the California Chamber of Commerce.
"As working moms and women who have competed in male-dominated industries, Assembly Republican women stand behind the importance of paying women and men equally for equal work," Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen (R) said in a statement in August.
On average, women are paid 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. The gender pay gap is even worse for women of color. As the Center for American Progress reported last year, Hispanic women on average made just 54 percent of what white men made in 2013, while black women made 64 cents on the dollar compared to white men.
Equal pay regulations have been on the books in California since 1959, but pay disparity still persists. A 2013 study by the National Partnership for Women & Families found California women earned an average of 85 cents on the dollar compared to men, costing female full-time workers approximately $33.6 billion annually.
Advocates hope California's new law is a beacon of progress to come.
"The win here is undeniable. We think of 2015 as the year of fair pay," Equal Rights Advocates executive director Noreen Farrell said in a statement. "With the strong support for fair pay bills in the California legislature, a business community willing to prioritize pay equity for women, and calls for fair pay from the Oscars stage to the United Nations, it seems the tides are shifting toward closing the gender wage gap."
The law also won praise from actress Patricia Arquette, who put a spotlight on pay equality during her acceptance speech at the 2015 Academy Awards.
"The California Fair Pay Act received bipartisan support because women support families and drive our economy. They also have tremendous political power," Arquette said in a statement. "It is a critical step toward ensuring that women in California are seen and valued as equals."
The California Fair Pay Act goes into effect Jan. 1.
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THE TIME MACHINE SERIES
Leonard and His Time Machine : Leonard Equals Einstein
Illustrated by Barbara Robinson
© 1967 Harr Wagner Publishing Co. San Francisco, USA.
Wie jedes Jahr habe ich an der Demonstration anlässlich des Equal Pay Days teilgenommen. Frauen verdienen im Durchschnitt 22 Prozent weniger als Männer bei gleicher und gleichwertiger Arbeit. Das muss sich ändern!
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir.
Address: Transportnaya Street 54, Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast, Russia.
This church is one of the larger modern Orthodox churches in Voronezh and was established during the post-Soviet revival of religious life in the city.
The church's publicly listed year of foundation is 1999.
It belongs to the wave of new Orthodox church construction that took place in Voronezh after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when many new parishes were established to serve expanding residential districts.
The church is dedicated to Saint Vladimir the Great (c. 958-1015), the ruler of Kievan Rus' who accepted Christianity and initiated the Baptism of Rus' in 988. Because of this, he is known in Orthodoxy as Equal-to-the-Apostles. Churches dedicated to him commemorate the Christianisation of the Eastern Slavic world.
The church is notable for its striking blue-and-white exterior, multiple domes, and large bell tower, making it one of the most recognisable modern Orthodox churches in Voronezh. This appearance can be seen in contemporary photographs of the church.
The parish is very active and maintains its own church websites.
Publicly available descriptions mention that it functions as:
An active parish church.
A centre of worship and religious education.
A cultural and spiritual centre for the surrounding district.
A gay couple at the rally, their sweatshirts proclaiming Equal Rights. National Equality March, US Capitol, Washington DC.
Equal in an Unequal World
The Global Ethics Forum 2013 - Public Forum 'Equal in an Unequal World' took place on Thursday 27 June 2013 from 14:30 to 18:00 in the Main Hall of the Ecumenical Centre, 150 route de Ferney, CH-1218 Geneva/Switzerland. The Public Forum was organised in the context of the Global Ethics Forum 2013 working sessions on 27 and 28 June.
The 2013 meetings built on the success of the first (2009), second (2011) and third (2012) Global Ethics Fora and played a key role in the preparations for the Global Ethics Forum 2014 Conference in Bangalore/India. We are thankful to Infosys for their sponsorship and support for the Global Ethics Forum 2013. The 2013 meetings were smaller in size and organised around the Public Forum on the first afternoon and closed working sessions for invited participants only. The working sessions provided an opportunity for the Global Ethics Forum Workgroup moderators and key members to meet face-to-face to discuss their progress, present deliverables (articles, guides, tools) and together with directors of the Globethics.net Regional Programmes and contacts to plan the participation and roles of each respective Workgroup and programme at the Global Ethics Forum 2014.
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"The Fortaleza de Santa Teresa, or Fortaleza Santa Tereza is a military fortification located 36 km (22 mi) south of Chuy and 305 km (190 mi) northeast of Montevideo on Route 9, in the Rocha Department of eastern Uruguay. It lies about 800 m (2,600 ft) from the coast at Playa la Moza, almost halfway between Angostura (to the south) and La Coronilla (to the north), north of Punta del Diablo and roughly 4 km (2.5 mi) northeast of the northeast bank of the Laguna Negra.[citation needed] It lies within the Santa Teresa National Park. It was erected from October 1762 by the Portuguese, having abandoned the attempt at building a fort in Maldonado and leaving the Fuerte San Miguel.[1]
It has the shape of an irregular pentagon, and five angles are finished in projecting bastions. There are five checkpoints for each angle of the pentagon, elegantly constructed in the form of carved stone pulpit. The perimeter of the fortress measures 652 meters and it occupies one hectare in area.
The walls are massive, built with huge granite masonry, strictly equal in size and perfectly carved. The outer wall is about four feet thick at the base and about two meters, the interior, filling the space between one and another. A solid embankment in some places is up to 7 m wide. The height of the outside walls in some places reaches to 11.5 m.
Doors
“La puerta principal” It is built of solid wood arched at the top and looks to the west. “La Puerta oculta de socorro”. Looks south, and is of smaller proportions than “la Puerta Principal”. “El Túnel de la Trinchera” corresponds to what is now identified as a deep trench with walls of smaller stones located in front of the fortress in an east-west direction. “El Túnel del Arca”. is supposed to be hidden underground under the Fort. According to oral tradition, it consists of three or more rooms connected by walkways and a large tunnel that goes to the East. The output would be found somewhere near the Atlantic Ocean about 2000 m away. The popular belief here is that a secret artifact is hidden underground called the Arca secreta del Padre Lucas.
Lodging
Inside the fortress it lodged a maximum of about 300 men. The interior construction, also of stone masonry, preserved in perfect condition from the colonial era, have been restored with care and replacement roofs added. These buildings are: the flag room and guardia on the sides of the front door, the main, which was formerly the chapel, two large blocks, and the "polvorín", built with huge blocks of granite and the cells.
Cemetery
Cemetery
The cemetery is located a short distance from the west wall, and used from the second half of the eighteenth century to beyond the extinction of the fortress as such, since it continued to be in use in the neighborhood.
Enlisted men lie there, the strong Spanish garrison in the area, Spanish, slaves, Indians and Portuguese alike. Of major note are Agustín Lipopisi and Félix Sayobí, two Guaraní chiefs and missionaries of San Carlos y Chorpus, Cecilia Maroñas, daughter of the Spaniard Francisco Maroñas and Portuguese María Espíndola, one of the sons of Commander Alagón who attacked by a cougar in Potrerillo, and many others.
Like the fort, the small enclosure was built by the former Jesuit Lucas Marton, with convicts, and Guaraní Indians. It was designated as the first sector to be restored. Although the condition was not good, it maintained its original layout and stones, albeit collapsed, were in place. The small crosses are the original stone, not the large stone cross though, which was carved by the master mason Juan Buzzalini who served in the whole process of restoration of the fort.
History[edit]
The current Fortaleza de Santa Teresa was built by the Spanish crown, though its foundation and name are due to Portugal. In the brief period from 1762 to October 1775, they built three forts.
The signing of the Treaty of El Pardo (1761) in practice nullified the Treaty of Madrid (1750). Governor and Captain General of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, Gomes Freire de Andrade, anticipated its consequences for the southern region and ordered troops to the region. Bringing a little more than a thousand men, the Portuguese strategy was to quickly build a fortified defensive line, south of Fuerte San Miguel to stop the Spanish invasion in progress. After the conquest of Colonia del Sacramento in October 1762 by the governor of Buenos Aires, Pedro de Cevallos, the fort began construction with about 400 soldiers and armed with a few pieces of small arms. The site chosen was the strategical pass of Angostura near the Castillos Grande.
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The fort, designed by Gómez de Mello, consisted of a trench dug in the slope of a hill site, known as Chico Castillo. The timber was moved from the area of Fuerte San Miguel, about 30 km distant, a daunting task for the time, because they had to ford countless streams and swamps.
On October 6, 1762, a cornerstone was laid at the foot of the foundation and the fort was given the name in honor of Saint Teresa. However, construction was halted due to the war. However, in the war between Spain and Portugal, the Spanish general Pedro de Cevallos ordered the construction of another fort, directed against Portuguese Brazil, designed by Francisco Rodríguez Cardozo. Materials were used from the building that had been started. Ceballos then continued on his way to São Pedro do Rio Grande, in the same month taking Fuerte San Miguel, near the Arroyo Chuí.
The Treaty of San Ildefonso (1777) confirmed the Spanish possession of the Fortaleza de Santa Teresa and the Fuerte San Miguel. A third fortification was built between 1765–1775, designed by engineer Bartolomé Howel and built by ex-Jesuit Lucas Marton and Guaraní Indians. With the imminence of a British invasion in 1775, Bernardo Lecocq worked to strengthen the structure of the fort as he did with the Fuerte San Miguel. Other repairs were made in 1797.
In 1776, a year after completing the construction of the Fortaleza de Santa Teresa, Portugal returned to threaten the Spanish in these parts of Latin America. Governor Juan José de Vértiz y Salcedo moved from Buenos Aires to organize the defense, pending General Pedro de Cevallos and his army to carry out a counterattack. Upon arrival, they received news of the signing of the peace treaty of San Ildefonso, suspending all activities. Cevallos nevertheless was promoted as Captain General and became first viceroy of Río de la Plata. From that time the fortress was held until 1828, with the emergence of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, becoming state property. By the Treaty of May 15, 1852, which established the border demarcation at the mouth of the Chui Stream and the San Luis River, the two forts (San Miguel and Santa Teresa) remained in Uruguay.
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Once Uruguay was established, the state, for nearly a century, had no resources to preserve historical monuments. Thus began the decline of the Fortaleza de Santa Teresa. Nevertheless, it fulfilled its role as a watchtower on the border during the presidencies of Fructuoso Rivera and Manuel Oribe, between 1830 and 1843. During the so-called Guerra Grande in the mid-nineteenth century, it was occupied by Manuel Oribe, but afterwards the structure was abandoned. In 1895 it was reoccupied as a prison. However, the total abandonment came about and it served to shelter cattle and bats, the latter inspired the former president Dr. Baltasar Brum to write a literary composition based on an Indian legend of the place.
In 1921, under Brum, the historian and archaeologist Horacio Arredondo conceived and proposed to restore it and preserve the Fort of San Miguel and the Fortaleza del Cerro in Montevideo. In 1928 his plan was put into practice and the forts were restored. Since the 1940s, it has contained a museum and been a tourist site; one of the few bastions of the colonial era in Uruguay which still survives.
Folklore and legends[edit]
The following legend was written by Baltasar Brum in 1930 based on an indigenous legend of the place. It recounts the formation of the hills with an emphasis on the origin of the Cerro Verde (the complete original version is on La Fortaleza de Santa Teresa).
"The Heart of stone siren"
According to the legend: the spirits of the elements that inhabited the seas and land, after the triumph of Christianity there, migrated to our continent in search of tranquility, but they were discovered and lost their freedom. Lovers of beauty and peace, they refused to fight against the human gods, and therefore, during a large gathering, decided to mutate in forms reminiscent of their passions. The land spirits sought refuge in the flowers, trees, pines and insects, while the marine ones in capes, promontories, reefs, seaweed, dolphins and seals.
Five sirens, Caaibaté, Maci, Manipeya, Cuñataí and Alua who lived in the seas were transformed into the Cerro Verde, and into the capes of Fortaleza, i.e. Moza, Chato, del Barco o del Naufragio and Árido. Caaibaté, was a siren loved in the South and in the North, who loved the former and disdained the later. Metamorphosed into the Cerro Verde she suffers the eternal harshness of the North rejected lover, who, with the help of the sunrise and sunset, suppliers of sand, isolated her from the ground, by covering her with dunes. The South prevents this, by circulating, with the caress of his breath, the sap that comes from the heart of the siren in order to give life to the lush green vegetation that covers her, in a triumphant defense of love over hate”."
CAMP ZAMA, Japan - During an Army promotion ceremony, the soldier earning the extra chevron or rocker often chooses the person who will affix the new rank on his or her uniform. Some newly promoted soldiers spend days mulling over whether a fellow service member or loyal loved one should fill this prestigious role . For Army Master Sgt. Chasitie S. Lee, the choice was clear: her husband and battle buddy would do the honors.
Lee stood at attention as her husband, Army Sgt. 1st Class Jewel R. Lee, tore off her sergeant first class rank and replaced it with that of a master sergeant during a promotion ceremony held June 5, 2015, at Camp Zama, Japan.
"First of all, I thank my Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, for showing me that all things are possible," said Lee, a native of Enterprise, Ala. "I also wouldn't be here today without the unwavering support from my command and the unconditional love for my husband ... Thank you for being by my side."
A native of Enterprise, Ala., Lee serves as an equal opportunity advisor for Headquarters & Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Japan, while her husband supervises maintenance operations for the same company. The couple plan to continue their Army careers as they prepare to transition to new assignments at Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif. Meanwhile, the Lee family will remain immersed in their current duties as they joke between themselves that the Army has dictated who officially gives orders in this relationship.
"That would be our daughter," said Lee with a grin.
Photos by Army Sgt. John L. Carkeet IV, U.S. Army Japan
In today’s world, it is more important than ever to ensure that children in developing countries have access to a good quality education system. There are almost 35 million children that are unable to attend schools in Africa, compared to over 28 million children in Asia and rest of the world standing at 12 million. Therefore, in the third world and developing countries, education could be the key tool to break the vicious poverty cycle. Education allows people to develop the technical and leadership skills which help the poor to come out of the poverty trap.
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Young boy attending the protest with his parents laughing as a dog licks his face.
Washington, DC / November 15, 2008
Prop. 8 plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier were the first gay or lesbian couple to get married in California after the passage of Prop. 8. Their ceremony was officiated by Attorney General Kamala Harris at San Francisco City Hall.
Photo Credit: American Foundation for Equal Rights
If no one will say who is the high class people (if got high then sure got low), then the world will be more equal and less jealousy as well as peace.
如果這世界沒有人稱呼誰是上等人（有上等就會有下等），這世界將會更平等，沒有妒忌之心及和平。
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Fushimi Inari-Taisha, Kyoto, Japan
Fushimi Inari Taisha (伏見稲荷大社?) is the head shrine of Inari, located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari which is 233 metres above sea level, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines which span 4 kilometers and takes approximately 2 hours to walk up.
Since early Japan, Inari was seen as the patron of business, and merchants and manufacturers have traditionally worshipped Inari. Each of the torii at Fushimi Inari Taisha is donated by a Japanese business. First and foremost, though, Inari is the god of rice.
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