GEAR IN REVIEW - Epiphone Joe Bonamassa Les Paul
Epiphone is catering to the many Joe Bonammasa fans out there that might not be able to afford the more expensive Gibson models.
This is in no way a guitar with just a name stamped on it. There are some amazing features on this guitar that you normally never see in a guitar in this price range. Signature guitar fan or not this guitar is a serious step above any other Les Paul style guitar in this price range. Lets see what sets this one apart.
The first thing we noticed was the pink lined vintage Lifton style hardshell case. Beautiful features and rugged construction make this an amazing case for this guitar. You could not ask for a nicer looking case for this guitar. It looks like a case a 4000 dollar Custom Shop model would come in. Yes it is included.
The long neck tenon extends the neck into the body past the neck humbucker. This gives the guitar better sustain , tone and makes the guitar as a whole a more one piece experience. This also makes the neck much stronger Normally only found in high end Les Pauls this is a great feature on this JB model and quite impressive in any guitar under 1k.
High end USA pickups....
The pickups are USA Burstbuckers and nail vintage Les Paul tones. Smooth buttery sustain out of the neck pickup and biting full rock tones are had with the bridge humbucker and leave no reason to replace them as you might in most guitars like this. Testing with various Fender and Roland amps a bunch of different tones are possible. Searing rock to warm neck solo tones ooze from this tone machine. This is an amazing sounding guitar.
Vintage fat neck....
The baseball bat neck is a treat for vintage Les Paul fans. This neck is amazing! It fills up your hand yet still plays fast , comfortable and feels great. This profile is made to Joes specs just for this guitar. Rosewood board , 22 frets , custom shop bound. All the appointments found in the higher end models.
Fit and finish....
This guitar came setup perfectly out of the case. Even with the fat neck it felt fast and played amazingly well. Fit and finish seemed perfect. Binding looks great, really clean fret work and nut. No issues. She weighed in around 9 lbs. Perfect weight for a Les Paul. I had to remind myself this was a budget model. It really is that good.
14:1 Grover tuners keep things in tune. Epiphone really addressed the features that are changed out in alot of guitars and upgraded them on this model. This is a lot of guitar for the money.
The Mahogany body , maple cap and upgraded features on this model make it a homerun value for well under 1k. No upgrades needed would be a great title for this review. A killer guitar that is attainable to all players.
Joe fans and fans of hot rodded Les Pauls need to check this one out at your Epiphone dealer today.
Just like Les Pauls built since 1952, the Joe Bonamassa Les Paul starts with the hallowed tonewood combination of a select solid mahogany back with a carved hard maple top. The body is made from solid (not chambered) mahogany for depth and resonance, and capped with a hard maple top for superb clarity, cut, and definition. A solid mahogany neck is glued in with a deep-set neck joint for superior resonance and sustain, and carved to Joe's preferred rounded 1959 "D" profile for a full yet extremely comfortable feel in the hand. Its select rosewood fretboards carries 22 medium-jumbo frets, and a synthetic bone nut provides long life and unparalleled sustain.
To maximize all this tonal splendor, Epiphone loads the Joe Bonamassa Les Paul with a pair of Gibson U.S.A. BurstBucker™ humbuckers, a BB2 in the neck and a hotter BB3 in the bridge. BurstBuckers™ are Gibson's most accurate recreation of the legendary PAF ("Patent Applied For") humbuckers of the late '50s and early '60s, and include magical details like unpolished Alnico II magnets and unequal turns of 42 AWG wire on each bobbin, which results in the added "edge" or "bite" for which genuine PAFs are famous. To combat microphonic squeal at high volumes, however, these BurstBuckers are double vacuum wax potted, a must for the high-gain guitarist.
To maximize resonance and sustain, the Joe Bonamassa Les Paul carries Epiphone's acclaimed LockTone™ versions of a nickel-plated Tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece, two further ingredients in that legendary Les Paul sustain, along with premium Grover tuners and a pair of straplocks to keep it secure throughout the gig. And while your wailing with supreme tone, the guitar projects supreme style, too, with Joe's preferred Metallic Gold finish, black body-back and neck, black plastics, black truss-rod cover with "Bonamassa" inscribed, and mismatched set of two amber top-hat knobs and two gold top-hat knobs with inserts.
All guitars include a replica brown Lifton-style case with pink lining, a numbered and hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity, and Epiphone's Limited Lifetime Warranty and 24/7/365 Customer Support. But production of the Joe Bonamassa Les Paul is strictly limited, with only 1,000 guitars available worldwide, so act now to avoid disappointment.


Metacritic has revealed what would happen if The Game Awards winners were decided by Metacritic score, rather than a jury vote.
The review aggregator has launched a new awards tracker to note which games have received wins or nominations for major industry awards.
Currently, it only covers the nominations for The Game Awards, which were announced on Monday.
Over time, Metacritic will add the winners and nominees for the BAFTA Games Awards, DICE Awards, Game Developers Choice Awards, New York Game Awards and its own Metacritic Game of the Year.
As it stands now, the list provides a fun way to see which game would win each category at The Game Awards, were the results chosen purely in terms of Metacritic score.
The Game Awards 2023 winners (if they were decided by Metacritic)
- Game of the Year – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Independent Game – Dave the Diver
- Best Debut Indie Game – Pizza Tower
- Best VR / AR Game – Gran Turismo 7
- Best Multiplayer – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Mobile Game – Terra Nil
- Best Narrative – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Art Direction – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Best Action Game – Hi-Fi Rush
- Best Action/Adventure Game – The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Best Fighting Game – Street Fighter 6
- Best RPG – Baldur’s Gate 3
- Best Sim/Strategy Game – Pikmin 4
- Best Sports/Racing Game – Forza Motorsport
- Best Family Game – Super Mario Bros Wonder
The Game Awards will be streamed live from the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 7.
There are 31 awards up for grabs in total at this year’s Game Awards, with the winners set to be determined by a blended vote between the voting jury comprised of global media publications (90%) – which includes VGC – and public fan voting (10%).
Baldur’s Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 are both up for eight prizes, ahead of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which is up for seven awards.
Last year’s ninth edition of the annual event was a major production featuring musical performances from an on-stage orchestra and Hozier, celebrity guests, an awards show, new game reveals and more.


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BEIJING, China – Jamaica’s Asafa Powell finished second to American Tyson Gay as the two qualified automatically for the final of the men’s 100 metres here at the World Championships on Sunday.
Gay was away early and Powell closed well as they did 9.96 seconds and 9.97 respectively. Jimmy Vicaut of France was third in 9.99.
Meanwhile, American Justin Gatlin showed that he will be hard to beat in the final of the 100 metres later on Sunday, when he sped to 9.77 seconds to win his semifinals heat.
Gatlin got a good start and powered away from his rivals for victory, as his teammate Mike Rodgers was second 9.86 and Femi Ogunode of Qatar third in 10.00.
Jamaica’s Nickel Ashmead finished a disappointed sixth in 10.06 seconds as Levi Cadogan of Barbados was eighth in 10.19.

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In this episode of The Lifecourse Podcast, Ellen Flint
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commuters' Body Mass Index (BMI) and body fat.
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Flower And Bee Necklace with crystals, if you or someone you know loves Bees then this pendant is perfect. This is a longer length chain with a teardrop shape pendant. The pretty detailing features flowers, leaves, blue crystals and of course a bumble bee. Made from 18ct gold plated brass with enamel detailing in soft pastel colours.
Wear with a dress, t-shirt or shirt – the length can be adjusted which makes this more versatile. Either wear as a stand alone statement piece or with other necklaces of varying lengths.
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Egypt: country in throes of 'human rights crisis' ahead of COP27 - new report
Government-led ‘National Human Rights Strategy’ being used to deflect international criticism
Alaa Abdel Fattah’s sister Mona Seif tells Amnesty: ‘No strategy will protect our right to freedom of expression’
‘President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi must acknowledge the depth of the human rights crisis’ - Agnès Callamard
With Egypt set to host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in November, Amnesty International has said the country is in the throes of a “human rights crisis” as it published a new report today on the continuing crackdown under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Environmental and human rights groups have raised concerns about limiting protests to “designated areas” at COP27 and the ability of the Egyptian civil society to meaningfully participate without fear of reprisals.
In the 49-page report - ‘Disconnected from Reality’: Egypt’s National Human Rights Strategy covers up human rights crisis - Amnesty shows how the Egyptian authorities have used a “National Human Rights Strategy” - launched a year ago - as a PR tool to deflect attention from its real human rights record. Since the launch of the strategy, the Egyptian authorities have repeatedly referred to it in public and in private meetings with other governments as evidence of their commitment to human rights.
The five-year strategy was drafted by the Government without consulting independent human rights organisations or the Egyptian public, and presents a deeply misleading picture of the country’s human rights crisis, absolving the authorities of responsibility by blaming security threats, economic challenges and Egyptian citizens themselves for “failing to understand” and exercise their rights.
The strategy ignores the fact that thousands of people in Egypt are arbitrarily detained or unjustly prosecuted. In the past two years alone, dozens have died in prison following the deliberate denial of healthcare and being held in cruel and inhuman conditions. Instead, the strategy lauds Egypt’s constitutional and legal framework, ignoring the introduction of a series of repressive laws criminalising or severely restricting the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.
In recent months, in a positive but very limited step, dozens of prisoners of conscience and others held for political reasons have been released from jail in Egypt. However, the authorities continue to arbitrarily arrest scores of other critics and opponents, while many of those released are banned from travelling. Since 2013, the authorities have also censored hundreds of websites, raided and closed independent media outlets, and detained dozens of journalists for expressing critical views or simply doing their jobs.
Amnesty has welcomed some of the National Human Rights Strategy’s modest recommendations, presented as “target results”, including the review of crimes punishable by the death penalty, alternatives to pretrial detention and the introduction of comprehensive legislation to combat violence against women. However, the “target results” don’t begin to address the scale of the human rights and impunity crisis in the country.
The prominent human rights activist Mona Seif, whose brother Alaa Abdel Fattah has been arbitrarily imprisoned for the majority of President Sisi’s rule and is currently on a punishing long-term hunger strike, told Amnesty:
“No strategy will protect our right to freedom of expression or achieve peaceful coexistence of people unless it frees all the people who are imprisoned because of their opinion, because of ideas they expressed and because they had a different narrative than that imposed by the state.”
Another case highlighted by Amnesty’s report is that of Mohamed Baker, founder and director of the Adalah Centre for Rights and Freedoms, who has been arbitrarily detained for almost three years. In November 2021, he was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of “spreading false news” in relation to social media posts and reports by his human rights organisation on detention conditions and the death penalty in Egypt.
Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said:
“The Egyptian authorities have created the National Human Rights Strategy as a shiny cover-up to their unrelenting violations of human rights, thinking they would fool the world ahead of COP27.
“The grim reality of their notorious human rights record cannot be rebranded in a PR stunt.
“The international community must not be deceived by Egypt’s attempts to conceal the magnitude of the human rights crisis in the country.
“President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi must acknowledge the depth of the human rights crisis, for which his government is responsible, and take concrete action to resolve it.”
Recommendations to Sisi’s government
Meaningful advancement of human rights in Egypt must start with the authorities releasing the thousands of people arbitrarily detained for peacefully exercising their human rights. All politically-motivated criminal investigations against human rights defenders must be closed and all travel bans, asset freezes and other restrictions must be lifted. Criminal investigations into crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations committed by the security forces must be initiated, with a view to bringing those responsible to justice. These include unlawful killings of hundreds of protesters and extrajudicial executions, torture and enforced disappearances.
Basis of the research
Amnesty’s report is based on extensive documentation of patterns of human rights violations committed in Egypt since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power, as well as information gathered since the launch of the National Human Rights Strategy from multiple sources, including victims, witnesses, human rights defenders and lawyers. Amnesty also reviewed official documents, audio-visual evidence and reports by UN bodies among others. The findings were shared with the Egyptian authorities on 7 September.


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Sadegh Chinikar,Nariman Shah-Hosseini and Tahmineh Jalali Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever and experimental lessons in Iran
CCHF is a viral zoonotic disease that can develop into a severe hemorrhagic fever in human and has a case fatality of 13-50%. The classification of the Nairoviruses was originally based on their antigenic relatedness; however, the groupings have subsequently been substantiated through demonstration of morphological and molecular affinities between the viruses. CCHFV has also been transmitted to human through contact with blood or tissue of infected animals and also nosocomially. CCHF virus (CCHFV) is transmitted to humans by bites of infected ticks (several species of genus Hyalomma). Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) name derives from the separate regions in Asia (Criema) and Africa (Congo) where severe and often fatal human cases of hemorrhagic disease and fever were recognized in the 1940s and 1950s for the first time. CCHFV is a member of genus of Nairovirus, family Bunyaviridae.
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Alright Holly Levell, you’ve won me over. This Monster Munch soft sculpture is stunning (even though I’m more of a Mighty Munch man myself), many an arduous Bus Eireann trip would have been impossible without a flavored corn snack of some kind.
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Five times a charm for local lakes legend
Mount Gambier driver Peter Gazzard has won his fifth Legend of the Lakes Hill Climb after smashing his own speed record.
The home-grown champion conquered the 1.4 kilometre Valley Lake circuit in 50.99 seconds late on the third day, before mechanical troubles ended his campaign.
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"They're pretty highly stressed and with sticky tyres it's fairly common for them to break things."
Gazzard says it was a tense wait until race officials confirmed he had clinched the overall lead - with closest rival Kevin Mackrell finishing only a fraction of a second behind in his Datsun 260 Z.
Greg Keene placed third, posting a time of 53.67 in his Porsche 911 GT2.
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The Slow Knot of Time By Martin Jones
Lyrical like poems greet you in this new collection of poems from Martin Jones. It is quite the calling card to illustrate a sensitive poet’s voice.Amazon USA
“The Slow Knot of Time”
By Martin Jones
Review by LB Sedlacek
Lyrical like poems greet you in this new collection of poems from Martin Jones. It is quite the calling card to illustrate a sensitive poet’s voice.
The lines are marked by an attention to detail peppered with moments of fragility, exaltation, dreams, Cadillacs, fate etc. The variety of poems is refreshing.
He seems to write with a curiosity. He even includes a poem which is an homage to Robert Frost. He handles this quite nicely.
His poems are mostly free verse, with some in prose. Plus there are some conversational poems as well. Even his rhymes are good. The poems seem inquisitive as if they want you the reader to go along with them along their path of discovery, or to help solve any unanswered questions.
His writing is committed. There is great care in each and every poem and it shows. The poems also invoke place or travel like poetry. It’s almost like going on a journey when turning the pages in this new poetry book.
The book is divided into two sections. The first section contains poems mostly for adults. The second section has poems for kids. This makes this poetry book a shareable book amongst parents and kids, or grandparents and grandkids. What will become of poetry if we don’t encourage younger generations to read and write it?
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Including the kid poems in the end is quite endearing. It also shows the skill and range of Jones’ abilities. This poetry book is filled with retrospection, love, dancing, family, ah so many things.
The poems are accessible. That makes all the difference when you read poems you want to enjoy them, learn from them, remember them and perhaps think about them later.
“The Slow Knot of Time” will be a long lasting poetry collection. It is a clever and encouraging book of poems.
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It was little more than a week ago that the Warriors stunk up Oracle Arena with a 26-turnover performance, blew a game to Detroit despite shooting 57 percent and had their coach branding them as a bunch of players that didn’t look like they cared very much.
Then the Warriors left town, thankfully, and somewhere on the way to Los Angeles, San Antonio and Denver, must have bathed in a basketball Lourdes. The team that returned to Oracle Monday night bore no resemblance to those imposters who stumbled out of the gate 4-3.
This version of the Warriors shot just 36.8 percent but smothered the Miami Heat by 17, 97-80. Golden State didn’t score 100 points for the first time in 28 games dating back through last year’s playoffs, but as we all know, that matters little when the Warriors are feisty and focused because they can win a game seemingly 100 different ways.
Against the Heat, they dusted off the sausage grinder special. The offensive-minded casual fan probably yawned and went to bed but purists and defensive diehards had to have loved it. Admittedly, Miami was a more than a bit challenged offensively, especially playing without shooting guard Dion Waiters, but the Warriors applied some serious clamps and demonstrated quite convincingly that they can still be a force on the back end when they put their minds to it. Steve Kerr called it the best defensive effort of the year, and that was an understatement for a team that had given up at least 108 points in eight of its first 10 games.
The Warriors forced 23 turnovers that resulted in 29 points, racked up 12 steals and blocked 10 shots. Miami’s starting lineup played an aggregate 117 minutes and scored a grand total of 34 points. Athletic 7-foot center Hassan Whiteside, who came into Oakland averaging 15.2 points and 12.4 rebounds, was 1 for 9 from the floor and had just five boards having to deal with Zaza Pachulia, Draymond Green, Kevin Durant, Jordan Bell and Kevon Looney. Yes, the reborn Kevon Looney, who might have been the best defensive player on the floor.
In short, a totally different Warriors team than the one that coughed and sputtered to that Pistons defeat.
“I don’t know if we would have won this game last week or a couple of weeks ago,” said Durant. “But that’s a sign of us moving in the right direction.”
The Warriors are moving, all right. Straight up. All of a sudden, their 8-3 record matches Houston for the best in the Western Conference. They have their first legit winning streak of the season at four straight. And there are interesting challenges this week from some young teams that aspire to the Warriors’ level of excellence some day.
The Minnesota Timberwolves come to town Wednesday night, and all that emerging talent led by Karl Anthony Towns is really starting to gel. The Wolves have won five straight and are four games over .500 for the first time in 10 years at 7-3. The Wolves are usually walkover material at Oracle but they’re a bigger threat right now than Oklahoma City, a team they’ve already beaten twice.
Then Saturday, the Philadelphia 76ers come to town with their compelling young tandem of Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons. After a stuttering start, the Sixers have won four in a row and are over .500, seemingly for the first time since Warriors assistant Ron Adams had to show his I.D. to order a beer.
Green didn’t exactly sound amped for the Minnesota matchup, but clearly understands the challenge that team brings now.
“They’re a very good team, a talented team, and they’re starting to put it together,” Green said. “I still think if we play our brand of basketball and we play our best ball, we win.”
The Warriors aren’t playing their best ball just yet but they’re a whole lot closer than a week ago. What’s so impressive right now is that Kerr is playing pretty much his entire roster and keeping everyone engaged. All 13 players that suited up Monday saw action, but the knockout number is that 11 of them played at least 10 minutes. Only Nick Young and JaVale McGee didn’t log double digits.
“(Assistant coach) Mike Brown thinks I’m crazy playing everybody,” Kerr said. “But I like doing that. You risk guys being upset that they don’t play big minutes, but the way I approach it, everybody has to stay ready and they’re all going to get their chance. I know all these guys can play.”
The Warriors are so deep they can afford to give veterans a night off, and it was David West’s turn for this game. Naturally, Green got in foul trouble and McGee had an off night, which normally would have meant a lot more time for West. But rookie Bell provided some typically active relief off the bench, and Looney was terrific. His big defensive night included three blocks. As Kerr and so many of Kevons teammates said, its inspiring to see him playing like this.
“That’s what coach is all about, playing to everybody’s strengths,” Durant said. “Whoever is out there, we’re going trust them and encourage them to be aggressive on the offensive end and defensively just help each other out. D. West rested tonight, but Loon came in and gave us unbelievable minutes … Jordan Bell, (Omri) Casspi … a lot of guys came in and did a great job. It was a grind-out game, but everybody had their hard hats on tonight.”
Indeed, and the worries of a week ago are, if not forgotten, impressively tucked away by a team finally showing its multiple-championship pedigree. We’d say it was about time, but even with this four-game rebound, there are still 71 regular season games to go. This latest magnificent Warriors marathon has only really just begun.


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Led by Frits van Eerd, the racing team Netherlands won the world title at the LMP2 Pro-A levels at this year’s World Tolerance Championship. That is why it is time for a new challenge, which has been discovered in the United States.
The racing team will compete in the IMSA Endurance Cup next year in the Netherlands States. With this, the Dutch team will appear next year at the start of popular races such as 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of September.
The drivers are back team owner Van Eard and former F1 driver Quito van der Garde. New to the team is young American talent Dylan Murray, who will be the mandatory silver-rated driver. During Daytona’s 24 hours, there should be four drivers in a team, which is why no one but Rinus VK will join the team that weekend.
It was a dream come true for Van Eerd. “I always say I want to race in the United States. I studied there and already participated in IMSA races at the time, so it’s really a dream come true for me that we’re going to do four big IMSA races now. Let’s get started. .It’s a wonderful experience and I’m so glad it continues now, “said Jumbo CEO.
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• JCPenney is one of the most popular department stores in North America with over 1,000 stores.
• JCPenney continues to source garments from factories worldwide that are accused of violating international labor rights, despite a company policy of carefully selecting vendors that respect labor laws.
• JCPenney has been criticized for its lax sourcing policies regarding gold, the mining of which is harmful to the environment and workers.
• The NAACP gave JCPenny a "D+" grade for the company's commitment to African Americans and people of color.
• JCPenney has been accused of selling jewlery with unsafe levels of lead.
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-- Profile Updated 04/25/2011
Based in Plano, Texas, JCPenney operates over 1,000 department stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The company also manufactures several other clothing lines. JCPenney employs 155,000 people and recorded sales of $19.9 billion for fiscal year 2007.
Send Bangladeshi Child Workers Back to School
Bangladeshi garment plant Harvest Rich employed roughly 200 to 300 children to sew clothes for Puma, JCPenney, Wal-Mart and Hanes. In October 2006, the National Labor Committee reported children being beaten, suffering from exhaustion, working mandatory 12 to 14 hour days, and being paid as little as 6½ cents an hour. Harvest Rich fired more than 100 child workers following the publication of NLC's report and threatened to fire any workers found cooperating with the investigation of labor conditions. NLC is demanding US companies sourcing from the factory to supply each fired child worker with a monthly stipend to ease strain on their families and cover essential school expenses for textbooks, supplies, uniforms and shoes so the children may return to school. Read NLC's report to learn more details of the factory. Click on the URL below to take action in support of Bangladeshi Child workers.
No Dirty Gold
The No Dirty Gold campaign sponsored by Oxfam America and Earthworks focuses on changing the destructive practices of the gold mining industry by using consumer pressure. Gold mining often destroys clean environments, harms workers, contaminates drinking water and displaces communities simply to supply the developed world's demand for jewelry. No Dirty Gold calls on consumers to sign its campaign pledge and to demand that jewelers source their gold responsibly. Sears/Kmart, JCPenney, Wal-Mart and Fred Meyer Jewelers have been identified as "laggard" retailers that fail to make a commitment to purchasing more responsibly produced gold. Click on the URL below to take action.
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A recent investigation by the Workers' Rights Committee has revealed that apparel manufactures in Bangalore, India have been refusing to pay factory workers more than $10 million, because they refused to comply with the minimum wage increase in India in March of 2009. Approximately 1/3 of all factory workers, or 125,000 workers, in the region are owed back wages by factories, who say they were acting on the advice of the leading industry association, the Clothing Manufacturers' Assocation of India. The factories involved manufacture apparel for many well-known US and international brands including, Wal-Mart, Adidas, the Gap, H&M, JC Penney, Levi-Strauss, Phillps Van Heusen, and Nike.
-- National Labor Committee, 03/04/2010
The National Labor Committee’s May 2006 report titled " US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement Descends into Human Trafficking & Involuntary Servitude," documented a series of worker rights’ violations in Honorway Jordan Ltd. and Atatek Garment textile factories which sew brands for JCPenny. The lack of respect for workers’ basic human rights included the following:
- Human trafficking and involuntary servitude of guest workers
- Confiscation of workers’ passports and denial of legally required identification cards
- Routine work shifts of 15 to 15.5 hours. Typical work weeks were at least 95 hours
- No sick days, paid vacations, or government holidays allowed
- Wages below the legal minimum without overtime compensation
- Sporadic pay
- Inadequate and unsanitary working conditions
- Workers subject to pay reduction, humiliation, violence and threats if production goals not met
Khokon Shaikh, who was forcibly returned to Bangladesh after working for Honorway Jordan Ltd, stated: “If you want to work here you have to accept [current working conditions], otherwise go back to Bangladesh.”
The NLC’s September 2006 update on Jordanian factories reported little progress in the JC Penney supplier factories. The report highlighted labor violations in Atateks Garment Factory, where labor practices remain unchanged. In August 2006, 10 workers were fired, imprisoned, beaten, and forcibly deported. Workers appealed to the Jordanian Ministry of Labor, Jordanian police and the Bangladesh Embassy to no avail.
-- National Labor Committee, 09/27/2006
Target and JCPenney continued to source from the Nobland garment factory in Guatemala despite management's aggressive opposition to union activity and the companies were slow to respond intervention requests by U.S. LEAP. Union organizers were subject to harassment and termination, and the factory was abruptly shut down in June 2005.
-- U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project, 10/01/2005
Source URL: www.usleap.org/Maquilas/maquilatempnew.htm#nb
According to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), Sears and JCPenney source baby clothes from AAA Inc. in the Philippines, which fails to provide adequate sanitary facilities for workers and enforces tight restrictions on their use.
"Behind the Brand Names: Working Conditions and Labour Rights in Export Processing Zones"
-- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 12/01/2004
Source URL: www.eldis.org/go/display/?id=18086&type=Document
In April 2003, a federal court on the Pacific Island of Saipan approved a $20 million settlement on a class action lawsuit filed against JCPenney and 25 other U.S. retailers. The lawsuit charged that the companies contracted sweatshop labor on Saipan, a U.S. Commonwealth, and should be held accountable for worker treatment and conditions in foreign-owned factories operating on U.S. soil. According to the complaint, the more than 30,000 garment workers involved regularly worked 12-hour days, seven days a week, often times "off the clock" without receiving any pay or overtime. The lawsuit also accused JCPenney and the other companies of operating a "racketeering conspiracy" through which workers, who are mostly young women, sign contracts waiving their basic human rights and pay recruitment fees of up to $10,000 to secure sweatshop jobs. By agreeing to the terms of the settlement, the companies admitted no wrongdoing.
-- Clean Clothes Campaign, 01/08/2004
Source URL: www.cleanclothes.org/legal/04-01-08.htm
In October 2003, the National Labor Committee (NLC) published a report on the KB Manufacturing maquiladora in Nicaragua. KB is an important supplier of JCPenney apparel, specializing in suit jackets for men. Managers at the KB factory carried out a range of documented violations against Nicaraguan as well as international labor laws. Among the violations, workers cited forced overtime work, inaccurate or withheld overtime pay, extreme heat, unsafe cafeteria food, poor lighting, inadequate toilet facilities, and constant threats to move the factory if workers failed to increase productivity.
-- National Labor Committee, 10/01/2003
Source URL: www.nlcnet.org
A July 2003 investigation by the Philippine Daily Inquirer uncovered sweatshop abuses by Anvil Ensembles, a producer of baby clothes. The Inquirer exposed instances of management giving workers amphetamines to keep them awake for 48- and 72-hour shifts, failing to pay minimum wages, and providing substandard latrines. JC Penney and Sears both subcontracted with Anvil as of July 2003.
-- Philippine Daily Inquirer, 07/03/2003
According to CorpWatch, a nonprofit organization that monitors the behavior of large corporations, JCPenney is one of several U.S. corporations employing 40 thousand factory workers in Jordan’s Qualified Industrial Zones. Posited as a product of Jordan’s 1994 peace agreement with Israel, which permitted Jordan to export products duty free to the United States provided at least eight percent of their industrial inputs come from Israel, these factories have yet to establish standards for treatment of workers. Of the 40 thousand workers in the Qualified Industrial Zones, fewer than half are Jordanian. Ninety percent are women under the age of 22, and most pay the minimum wage, about $3.50 a day. A Jordanian human rights official described the workers’ living conditions as complying with minimum human rights standards permitted by US retailers. "There are 80 people per floor, ten rooms in each," he explained, "there are eight people per room and five and a half square feet of space for each according to JCPenney's specifications."
-- CorpWatch, 02/26/2003
Source URL: www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=5688
Health and Safety
In 2003, Federated Department Stores, Kmart and JCPenney were among the list of retailers implicated for selling costume jewelry containing unsafe levels of lead. The Center for Environmental Health selected hundreds of pieces of costume jewelry to undergo safety testing, and more than one-third of the items chosen had concentrations of lead that could pose a significant health risk to children and adults alike.
-- Center for Environmental Health, 01/27/2006
Source URL: www.cehca.org/jewelry.htm
Ethics and Governance
JC Penney Corporation Inc was recently ordered to pay $50,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of Reinell Singh. Singh, an African American who worked as a greeter at the Staten Island store, claimed that her supervisor referred to her several times using racial slurs and subsequently fired her for racial reasons. In addition to the compensatory damages, the department store is required to adopt a non-discrimination policy and complaint procedures, and anti-discrimination training.
-- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), 02/12/2009
JCPenney received a "D+" grade on the 2006 NAACP Economic Reciprocity Initiative report. The grade reflects a measurement of corporate America's commitment to the African American citizenry and other people of color. Companies were surveyed for their activity in employment, vendor development and contracting, advertising and marketing, dealerships and philanthropy.
-- NAACP, 07/03/2006
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Have you ever heard of the “garbage patches” that float in the middle of the oceans? Yes, presumably. Marine litter is today is considered one key element of human impact on ecosystems at a global scale (Law et al., 2010). In 2011, an emblematic mark of that recognition came from the United Nation Environmental Program (UNEP) that featured marine plastic debris as one of its major issues of the year (Kershaw et al., 2011). But this issue has not always been a prominent object of international concern.
In 1972, Carpenter and Smith were the first scientists to describe unexpected plastic debris concentration in western Atlantic. However, for more than two decades, this news rarely entered mainstream media. It was only forty years after these first scientific investigations that plastic marine pollution ‘officially’ became a global issue. If the phenomenon has been known for so long, how is it that it only recently became a matter of public concern? What specific set of events allowed plastic debris in oceans to be considered as an “ongoing catastrophe”? How can the emergence of this public awareness be understood?
Neither strictly natural, nor strictly social, plastic accumulations in oceans can be described as a type of “hybrid” (Latour, 1993). Above all, these floating phenomena are a product of time: On the one hand, they became a threat for ecosystems over decades of intensive consumption and disposal of plastic items; on the other hand, more than forty years have been necessary to build them as “matter of concern” (Latour, 2004). The complex process of producing this public issue is the concern of this article.
The “plastic threat” in oceans
Generally, if anthropogenic debris appears as an offence to “nature”, it is first in pure aesthetic, phenomenological terms: Here, perception of abjection expresses above all a conflict between an idealized view of “natural” landscape and a kind of culturally produced desire to protect its apparent status as untouched wilderness. Beyond the unpleasant experience of encountering ‘polluted’ waters—whether in the form of treading on soiled beaches, wandering past wrecked cars in rivers, or spotting floating bottles in the ocean surf, we could all potentially agree that the silent and invisible accumulation of these items over time would contribute to a global threat. But with quasi-imperceptible phenomenon such as garbage patches, some differences have to be examined. The process of accumulation in the oceans could be ignored as long as most of the debris floated far from human life centers. Because of the striking contrast between those tiny little pieces and the immensity of the oceans, the accumulation of plastic debris has been a slow and silent process of gradual invasion covering a large surface area of the oceans. Therefore time is a key actor.
Despite an initial lack of consistent data, scientists now agree on a range of understandings of the harms related to presence of plastics in the marine environment, from this garbage’s impacts on wildlife to its effects on human health (Thompson et al., 2009). Indeed, one key threat now understood related to this pollution in oceans is the slow fragmentation of plastic objects, driven by currents in multiple giant vortexes around the globe. As a result of acthisdispersion, satellites are unable to capture immediately legible images of these concentrations. Micro-debris can only be measured in “at-sea observation”, consisting, in broad outline, in “raking over” oceans’ surface with plankton nets. Despite scientists’ painstaking efforts over 20 years to collect these observations, this type of factual evidence was not successful in raising public awareness of the marine litter issue.
Standing on the edge of human perception, far from everyday public concerns, the quasi-abstracted nature of gradual accumulation is one of the reasons why campaigns in the media were needed to transform plastic accumulation into a prioritized global environmental issue. In the 2000s, a number of poignant pictures spread by mainstream press and websites played a key role in mobilizing of public opinion. From the Albatros’ stomach-full-of-plastic-caps to the turtle-deformed-by-a-plastic-ring, iconic pictures recognized by growing numbers of people around the world today connect improper disposal of plastic litter with a growing threat for wildlife. In a way, these animals acted as early “sentinels”, exemplifying for large audiences an encroaching danger.
But, in our case, words, at least as much as pictures, could have played a central role in the emergence of plastic accumulation concern.
A postmodern Columbus
At the end of the 1990s, Captain Charles Moore, the founder of Algalita Marine Research Foundation, described to Curtis Ebbesmeyer—a famous oceanographer and specialist of ocean currents and floating objects—his encounter with staggering concentrations of plastic litter accumulated in the middle of the Eastern Pacific on a large surface area. The oceanographer nicknamed it “the great Pacific garbage patch”. The narration of this strange confrontation sounded like a pale caricature of the great discovery of the new world: Moore, the Columbus of post-modern times, discovered a new “continent”, a New World built by the unintentional consequences of humans’ action. Media from around the world reported the “discovery”, first carefully then more ardently. That Moore’s claims lacked scientific evidence, including quantified data about the size of these “patches”, seemed to be a sufficient reason to doubt this “story” as the biased spin of a sensationalizing activist. Yet the tangible dimension of the word “patch” helped to spread the powerful mythical image of an archipelago of “garbage islands” scattered in the middle of the ocean. In the wake of Moore’s intervention, DEVICESarchitects in the Netherlands in the early 2000s launched a project named the “recycled island”, which presented the recycling of garbage patches as a kind of “promised land” for climate refugees.
The “patches” metaphor travelled beyond activist circles. Oceanographers and marine biologists soon developed model simulations of the distribution of marine litter in the main oceanic gyres. Interestingly, the production and circulation of these scientific representations markedly increased after Moore’s re-invention of plastic accumulation in oceans (Leichter, 2011). These scientific bricolages (Levi-Strauss, 1962), oscillating between the collection of empirical data and their extrapolation in theoretical models of dispersion, produce pictures that precisely materialized the dispersal of plastics on seas, and participated in the spread of a conception of plastic accumulation as solid “patches”.
Over the course of ten short years, we witnessed a semantic shift in the appellation of these accumulations. In part because the word “patches” came to be criticized by scientists—and by Moore himself—as a misleading metaphor, some soon suggested an alternate name: “plastic soups”. From a solid to a liquid metaphor, this new denomination was supposed to better reflect to the inconsistent, quasi-immaterial, and hardly perceptible nature of plastic accumulation. But, the “plastic soup” moniker also drew attention to a new danger absent from the earlier metaphor, namely the problem of plastic toxics components’ bioaccumulation in the food chain.
Moreover, this new expression points to a movement of ongoing anthropization of a hypothetic immaculate nature. If some parts of oceans can be compared to a plastic soup, their fluctuating frontiers are interpretable as a way to foreshadow a blurring of the limits between nature and culture. In other words, this new view presents oceans as a human product in progress, a “toxic soup.”
Ironically, while they became a public concern, concentrations of marine litter have been perceived as something at once threatening as desirable: The accumulation was a threat because the process immediately appeared as a potential risk for ecosystems; however, it was at the same time desirable as it posed a new challenge for scientists and publics to mobilize around.
What has to be underlined here is the equivoque position of scientific discourses around the metaphors that make it appear as a public concern: If these buzz words can on occasion mislead the actual comprehension of a given phenomenon, they also fully participate in its emergence as a global issue. Thus, plastic marine debris has become a global concern through the weaving of perceptible and threatening evidences, lead by a kind of unwitting cooperation between eco-activists, the media, politicians and scientists. But, the hermetic ethical barriers between these poles of the debate are just apparent: With figures like Moore, who presents himself as both an activist and a scientist, the porosity between these different levels of engagement becomes visible. Indeed, activist-scientists are (politically and economically) interested in seeing their area of specialization grow into a global concern. As central components of alert devices, the formulation and dissemination of denomination processes play a crucial role.
In competing attempts to represent the multiple aspects of the marine litter problem, the tropes of “soup” and “patches” both literally and figuratively emerged as parts of a complex issue. The UNEP reports that at least 70 percent of marine litter actually sinks (Kershaw et al., 2011). Thus, any attempt to “clean” the surface of oceans would be primarily ephemeral and cosmetic. But despite the lack of comparable worldwide measures of plastic concentration, and despite the absence of scientific proof of human contamination by plastics’ toxics (Thompson et al., 2009), “garbage patches” happen, and the recognition of their existence seems, day after day, to call for new solutions. As recent campaigns organized by NGOs demonstrate, the metaphors have created impetus for new responses to a re-conceptualized problem: from cleaning beaches to sorting garbage, from avoiding plastics to banning them altogether. But, facing a problem that has been monitored by scientists for 40 years, are these emerging “everyday practices” adequate responses to the “disaster”?
To become “matters of concern”, oceans of plastic had to be concretized through metaphors of consistency. In this way, it is as if sentinel devices needed to build a kind of thickness of matter to be able to launch alerts. In our case, that thickness stays profoundly ambivalent: Resulting from the combination of heterogeneous narrations, it seems to be a product of a kind of contemporary bricolage, closer to the myths of the “savage mind” than to the certitudes of engineers.


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Man United want Atletico Madrid star to replace unsettled player
- Man United's interest in Jan Oblak could suffer a major setback due to his release clause
- The Atletico Madrid goalkeeper has a massive £103million buy-out clause on his contract
- The Red Devils number one David de Gea has been linked with a move out of Old Trafford
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Man United are interested in signing Atletico Madrid star Jan Oblak but the whopping amount in his release clause is proving to be a bottleneck, The Sun.
The Red Devils are in the market for a new goalkeeper as Sergio Romero is set to leave Old Trafford at the end of the season.
David de Gea's future at the Theatre of Dreams has also been thrown in doubt with French side Paris Saint-Germain heavily linked to the Spaniard.
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It is understood De Gea is pushing for a move to the Spanish capital where his wife works as a TV reporter.
Dean Henderson is currently manning the post for United after De Gea was given a six-match leave to witness the birth of his child.
The Reds Devils have been long term admirers of Oblak as well as AC Milan's Gianluigi Donnarumma and Lille's Mike Maignan.
However, Oblak's £103million buy-out clause has proved to be a stumbling block to get the Atelti goalie into their squad.
The Slovenian still has two years left on his deal and the La Liga leader are likely to allow him to leave for less.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had earlier reported that Bruno Fernandes' attitude on the sidelines after he was substituted against Man City has got the attention of Man United fans.
The Portuguese scored from the spot in the second minute of the game and was substituted in the 90th minute while the score was at 2-0.
After walking off the pitch, the 25-year-old stood behind United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and was showing concern about what was going on with the remaining minutes of the game.
Akan Anwankwo is a sports editor with Legit.ng and has 7 years of field and office experience. He graduated from the University of Lagos in 2014 with a Bachelors degree in English and Literature Studies. Akan intends to educate, inform and make readers passionate about sports. Learn more about him on his Twitter handle: @ anwankwo_akan


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LOS ANGELES – Third baseman Justin Turner’s $64 million, four-year contract with the Dodgers was made official on Friday.
In a back-loaded deal, Turner gets a $4 million signing bonus, payable Dec. 31, and salaries of $12 million next season, $11 million in 2018, $18 million in 2019 and $19 million in 2020.
He would get a $1 million assignment bonus each time he is traded.
“I’m excited to return to the Dodgers for another four years,” Turner said in a release issued through the team. “Playing in Los Angeles has been special for me, and I want to continue to represent and give back to this community and bring our fans the championship they deserve.”
Turner, 32, is coming off a career season, in which he batted .275 and posted career-highs in runs (79), hits (153), walks (48), doubles (34), triples (three), home runs (27), RBI (90) and games played (151). Turner, who played at Cal State Fullerton and Mayfair High in Lakewood, finished ninth in the NL MVP voting this season. He also was a finalist for both the Gold Glove Award among NL third basemen and the Players Choice Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award for his community involvement.
“We are extremely happy to announce that Justin Turner will remain a Dodger for years to come. J.T. has been, and will continue to be, a vital part of the Dodgers on the field, in the clubhouse and in the community,” Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman said in a release. “His talent, work ethic, leadership and instincts for the game embodies a lot of what we look for in a Dodger player.”
Turner spent two seasons with Baltimore and four with the New York Mets, then became a free agent when the Mets failed to offer a 2014 contract. He signed a $1 million, one-year deal with the Dodgers, hit .340 in 109 games, and took over as the starting third baseman.
Turner has batted .296 with 81 doubles, 50 home runs and 193 RBI in 386 regular-season games in three seasons with the club. During his time as a Dodger, Turner ranks among National League leaders in batting average (.296, ninth), on-base percentage (.364, 14th) and slugging percentage (.492, 12th), while hitting .345 with runners in scoring position – the second-best mark among NL qualifiers.
In 18 postseason games with the Dodgers, he has posted a .357/.471/.607 slashline, going 20 for 56 with six doubles, a triple, two home runs and 12 RBI. He batted .400 with five RBI in the five-game NL Division Series against Washington last fall, then .200 with three RBI in a six-game NL Championship Series loss to the Chicago Cubs. He failed to accept the Dodgers’ $17.2 million qualifying offer.
The Dodgers also have a pending $80 million, five-year agreement with closer Kenley Jansen, which cannot be completed until they make a corresponding move on their 40-man roster. The deals raise the Dodgers’ projected luxury tax payroll to $230 million next year, in line for a tax of about $19 million.
At the winter meetings, the Dodgers announced a $48 million, three-year contract with left-hander Rich Hill, acquired from Oakland at the trade deadline Aug. 1.


"Facebook seems to be in acknowledgement that people are using a lot of different apps to communicate," said eMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson. "In order to continue to reach audiences, younger in particular, it needs to have a broader strategy...not put all its eggs in one basket."
Facebook said it is keeping WhatsApp as a separate service, just as it did with Instagram, which it bought for about $715.3 million nearly two years ago.
At $19 billion, Facebook is paying $42 per WhatsApp user in the deal.
For Facebook, WhatsApp's huge user base, fast growth pace and popularity is worth the money.
"We want to provide the best tools to share with different sized groups and in different contexts and to develop more mobile experiences beyond just the main Facebook app, like Instagram and Messenger," Zuckerberg said in a conference call. "This is where we see a lot of new growth as well as a great opportunity to better serve our whole community."
WhatsApp, a messaging service for smartphones, lets users chat with their phone contacts, both one-on-one and in groups. The service allows people to send texts, photos, videos and voice recordings over the Internet. It also lets users communicate with people overseas without incurring charges for pricey international texts and phone calls. It's free to use for the first year and costs $1 per year after that. It has no ads.
"It'll be tempting to read this as a sign Facebook is scared of losing teens," said Forrester analyst Nate Elliot in an emailed note. "And yes, the company does have to work hard to keep young users engaged. But the reality is, Facebook always works hard to keep all its users engaged, no matter their age. Facebook is tireless in its efforts to keep users coming back."
Asked about the demographics of WhatsApp's users, Facebook finance chief David Ebersman said that, "if you look at the kind of penetration that WhatsApp has achieved, it sort of goes without saying that they have good penetration across all demographics, we would imagine.
That said, "it's not a service that asks you to tell them your age when you sign up," he added.
Facebook's shares fell $1.82, or 2.7 percent, to $66.24 in after-hours trading Wednesday after the deal was announced. Earlier in the day, the stock hit a 52-week high of $69.08.
Liedtke reported from San Francisco. AP Business Writer Tali Arbel in New York contributed to this story.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The White Sox’s seven-game losing streak came to an end Thursday with a 9-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
How it happened: The White Sox arose from their offensive slumber to score their most runs since an April 6 victory at Kansas City. Juan Pierre (two bunt singles in his first two at-bats) and Omar Vizquel (two RBIs in his first two at-bats) led the charge. Carlos Quentin followed in the No. 3 spot with two RBIs. Gavin Floyd was on the ropes at times but battled back to give up just two runs.
What it means: That passionate group of White Sox fans ready to storm Ozzie Guillen’s office was slowed a bit as the manager has made moves that have helped. Moving Quentin to the No. 2 spot Wednesday has worked for two consecutive days. Even bigger was his move to replace Gordon Beckham with Omar Vizquel on Thursday. Even Mark Teahen, playing in his third consecutive game for a struggling Brent Morel, got into the act with two walks and two runs scored while playing solid defense at third.
Key stats: The White Sox scored in the first inning for the first time since April 10. The White Sox also had a double-digit hit total for the first time since April 8. They had double digit hits in six of their first seven games and then none until Thursday.
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Shortlisted for the Winston Graham Prize for Historical Fiction'This book is a rarity - a novel as remarkable for the vigour of the storytelling as for its literary ambition. Kim Sherwood is a writer of capacity, potency and sophistication' HILARY MANTELA Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to the Revenue. Leaving Grace's cottage in flames, he takes her orphaned daughter Molly on board ship disguised as a boy to join his crew. But Molly, or Orlando as she must call herself, will grow up to outshine all the men of Tom's company and seek revenge - and a legacy - all of her own. Woven into Molly's story are the writers - from Celia Fiennes to Hester Thrale to George Eliot - who are transfixed by her myth and who, over three centuries, come together to solve the mystery of her life. With extraordinary verve and chutzpah, Sherwood remakes the eighteenth-century Heroical novel and challenges women's writing and women's roles throughout history.
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- ISBN: 9780349015392
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- Weight: 400g
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We believe that levies and taxes charged to maritime companies by States should be used in part to support the welfare of seafarers by funding port based facilities and services.
Our efforts in New Zealand were successful and we are now working to support partners in Australia to bring about similar changes.
Our maritime levy campaign began in 2019 in New Zealand. In 2020 we published a report on the underfunding of welfare services and the poor MLC compliance of New Zealand. We followed this up with a Counsel's Opinion, indicating how the situation could be rectified. This led to a government commitment to rectify the situation and an eventual change in legislation.
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How to Become DSP Officer: Although various low and high level posts are present in the police department, but if you are curious to know about what is the DSP post involved, then the information given by the article will be special for you.
Here you will be able to get basic information related to the post of DSP, eligibility, examinations, salary for this post and other aspects. This article will prove to be a guide for all the students who want to build their career as DSP in future.
It will be our endeavor to make you aware of the necessary information related to the post of DSP and the doubts in your mind should be resolved through the article, with the same belief that all the things have been clarified in front of you by the information. Which is our aim to benefit you for a bright future.
- Full Form of DSP
- How to Become DSP
- DSP Exam Format
- DSP Exam Syllabus
- DSP Eligibility
- DSP Salary
- Job Description of DSP
- Most frequently asked questions about DSP post
Full Form of DSP
Generally, the word DSP is used in the society, due to which common people are often unaware of its true meaning or Hindi translation. But in the true sense, the full form of the word DSP is ‘Deputy Superintendent of Police‘, which translates to Deputy Superintendent of Police in Hindi.
For this post in India, candidates are selected by some major competitive examination, which is the post of class 1 officer under the state government. The order of this post appears in the list of high level officers of the police department, related to which we will discuss other important aspects in further detail.
How to Become DSP Officer
Let us tell you that in India, competitive examination commissions are present for the selection of high level officers in all major government departments under the state government and central government. In which the candidates are selected for the post of DSP by the following two major commissions, such as;
- State Public Service Commission Examination
- Union Public Service Commission Exam
Exam for DSP
The above mentioned State Public Service Commission is present in almost all the states of India, with the help of which each state selects the candidates in their various government departments through competitive examination.
Under this, the examination is organized every year for the State Police Department, in which physically strong and capable candidates are selected in a phased manner on the basis of the marks of the examination.
Although the State Public Service Commission also conducts examinations for other posts in the Police Department, mainly the highest post appointed by this Commission in the State Police Department is Deputy Superintendent of Police. For which we will give you the details of the available exam format and the complete syllabus.
Union Public Service Commission Exam:
Union Public Service Commission, also known as UPSC, is considered to be the most prestigious examination in India. This is an independent commission of India, under which various examinations are organized throughout the year.
Staff, high level officer posts for almost all government departments of the country are selected by this commission in a phased manner.
Let us tell you that the main examination of Union Public Service Commission is also known as Civil Service Examination or Indian Civil Service Examination.
Here under the Civil Services Examination, the option of Indian Police Service is given for service in the police department of the country.
All the candidates who are selected for the Indian Police Service are finally appointed to the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police initially in the State Police Department.
Although, after a few years of service, such officers get promotion to higher level posts, but for a few years of work experience, initially the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police is given to all the newly selected candidates.
This means that by passing the examination by both these options, students can build their bright future, under which a golden opportunity is obtained to work on the post of DSP of Police Department.
DSP Exam Format
We can hope that after reading the above information, all of you have clearly understood that what are the examinations for the post of DSP.
Now here we will try to know what is the format of the available examinations, and what are the main things included in them. Which is like this.
State Public Service Commission Exam Pattern
- Preliminary Exam
- Main Exam
Let us tell you that due to the existence of independent Public Service Commissions of different states present in India, there can be a difference in the fixed marks of all the three stages given here.
Therefore, in whichever state you are a resident, it proves to be an appropriate step for you to get information about the DSP post exam from the official website related to the Public Service Commission of that state.
Union Public Service Commission Exam Format
- Preliminary Exam
- Main Exam
Preliminary Exam Format
There are total two papers in the pre exam which are known as General Studies-1 and General Studies-2. These two papers independently carry 200 marks, thus making a total of 400 marks in the pre-examination.
A duration of 2 hours is given to solve each paper here, whose format will be of multiple choice, here you are given four options to answer the question asked, out of which you have to choose the correct option.
A total of 100 questions are present in General Studies-1 paper, in which 2 marks are given to each question, while 80 questions are present in General Studies-2 paper, in which two and a half marks are given to each question.
All the candidates who qualify the pre-examination by securing the marks fixed by the commission, all of them are considered eligible for the main examination.
DSP Officer Exam Pattern
Let us tell you that the format of the main examination is in writing, in which the written examination is organized for a total of 9 papers. A total of 1750 marks have been fixed by the commission for the main examination, the details of which are given in the following way according to each paper.
- Paper 1 – Essay (Total Marks 250, Total Time 3 Hours)
- Part A – Compulsory paper of any one Indian language (total marks 300, total time 3 hours)
- Part B – English Language (Total Marks 300, Total Time 3 Hours)
- Paper 2 – General Studies Paper 1 (Total Marks 250, Total Time 3 Hours)
- General Studies Paper 2 (Total Marks 250, Total Time 3 Hours) – Paper 3
- Paper 4 – General Studies Paper 3 (Total Marks 250, Total Time 3 Hours)
- General Studies Paper 4 (Total Marks 250, Total Time 3 Hours) – Paper 5
- Paper 8 – Optional Paper 1
- Paper 9 – Optional Paper 2
It is mandatory for all the candidates to clear both the papers to be taken as Part A and Part B under the format of Main Examination given above.
The candidates who qualify these two papers are declared marks only after checking their next seven papers. Otherwise, the candidates who have failed in these two papers or in any one of these papers have to apply again and try for success in the next time.
The list of language for optional subject and Indian language paper is made available on the official website of the commission, from which you have to apply by selecting the language and optional subjects according to you.
Where the Part A and Part B paper is called the eligibility paper, in which the marks obtained are not added to the final marks list, only on the basis of the marks obtained in the other seven papers, the list of successful candidates is issued on the official website of the commission.
All the candidates who qualify in the main examination with good marks, they all are called for the interview, whose brief information we will see further.
DSP Officer Interview
According to the marks decided by the commission, the candidates who qualify the main examination are called for the final stage of the interview, which has to be passed.
Here 275 marks are fixed for interview, which are added while releasing the final list. Meaning that all the marks you get in the interview out of 275 are included in the marks of your merit list.
The candidates who qualify all the above three stages are selected on the basis of marks obtained for Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Indian Foreign Service etc. Out of which the candidates who get higher marks are given a chance to choose the elective service department.
Apart from this, all the candidates who are selected for the Indian Police Service, they are given training in the Indian Police Academy for a few months, after which such candidates are included in the service of the Deputy Superintendent of Police in the police department under various state governments.
DSP Officer Exam Syllabus
Here we will take information about the syllabus of the examinations to be taken for DSP, which is as follows:
State Public Service Commission Exam Syllabus
It is advisable for you to find the syllabus of the examination to be taken for the post of DSP by the official website of the State Public Service Commission of the state you are a resident of.
Let us tell you that except in the syllabus of the Union Public Service Commission and the State Public Service Commission, except for a few things, there is not much difference to be seen, yet by getting the syllabus of your state examination independently, prepare for this examination accordingly. Every step is beneficial till success is achieved.
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UPSC Exam Syllabus
Below you have been given the detailed syllabus of all the stages of the Union Public Service Commission, which is as follows:
UPSC Preliminary Exam Syllabus
Paper 1 – General Studies 1
- Overall History of India and National Freedom Movement etc.
- Major things related to Indian economy and economic development – Social development, poverty, economic development, population etc.
- Current Affairs – Major Events of India and the World
- General Science
- Geography of India and World
- Indian Politics and Administration – Indian Constitution, Panchayat Raj, Administrative System, Social Sector Projects and
- Indian Polity and Governance
- Environmental Science
Paper 2 – General Studies 2
- Decision Making and Problem Solving
- General Mental Ability
- Basic Numeracy
- Logical and Analytical Reasoning Questions
- Interpersonal Skills and Communication Skills Questions
UPSC Main Exam Syllabus
- Precis Writing
- Usage and Vocabulary
- Short Essays
- Comprehension of Given Passages
Indian language (one Indian language from the language list of the Commission)
- Precis Writing
- Usage and Vocabulary
- Short Essays
- Comprehension of Given Passages
- Translate from English to Indian Language and vice-versa
Essay Paper – Paper 1
Write an essay on the topic given in the question paper.
General Studies 1 – Paper 2
- Freedom Struggle
- Indian art and culture (literature, architecture and construction etc. from ancient times to modern times.)
- Post-independence India and the situation within the country
- Indian Society and Diversity
- Impact of Modernization on Indian Society
- Contribution of women mainly Indian women, etc.
General Studies 2 – Paper 3
- Indian Constitution
- Functions and Responsibilities under the State Government
- State Legislative Building and Indian Parliament
- Various constitutional posts, selection of posts, their rights
- poverty and hunger
- Duties of Administrative Services in Democracy
- Government schemes, etc.
General Studies 3 – Paper 4
- Indian Economy
- government finance planning
- land reforms in India
- financial investment issues
- Disasters and Disaster Management
- Security Challenges and Safety Management
- Various security organizations and the main things related to them
- Science, Information Technology, etc.
General Studies 4 – Paper 5
- Ethics and Human Creation
- Contribution of intellectuals and great philosophers in India and the world
- Values and Practices Required for Administrative Service
- various laws
- Important policy issues related to the government system, etc.
Paper 6 – Optional Subject
Paper 7 – Optional Subject
This stage is of total 275 marks, in which the qualities of punctuality, morale, decision making ability, etiquette etc.
In this way the main examination is conducted for a total of 1750 marks, in which 275 marks of interview are added. Ultimately, the candidates are selected by the commission on the basis of the total marks obtained out of 2025 marks, in which the selected candidates for the Indian Police Service go to the IPS officer. All these IPS officers are initially appointed to the post of (DSP) Deputy Superintendent of Police.
Required Eligibility Criteria For DSP Exams
1. Eligibility Criteria For State Public Service Commission Exam
If you want to apply for the State Public Service Commission examination and want to know the necessary eligibility criteria, then it becomes necessary for you to visit the official website of the State Public Service Commission of your state.
Eligibility Criteria for UPSC Exam.
- For this examination, the interested candidate must have passed the minimum graduation / bachelor’s degree examination from any education stream. All the candidates who are studying in the final year of graduation are considered eligible to apply for all the exams, but it is mandatory for all these candidates to pass the graduation exam till the final selection.
- The minimum age of the candidates interested in the examination is 21 years and the maximum age should be 32 years, here, 5 years for backward caste / community candidates, 3 years for other backward class candidates, 3 years for security service candidates and physically handicapped The candidates are given age relaxation up to 3 years according to the Constitution of India.
- It is mandatory for the interested candidate to be a citizen of India.
- It is mandatory to have passed the graduation examination from a recognized educational institution / university.
The candidates who fulfill all the above criteria can join the Indian Police Service by passing the Civil Service Examination of the Union Public Service Commission, which gets a chance to work as Deputy Superintendent of Police in the Police Department of the State Government.
Salary of DSP Post
In almost the whole of India, officers working on the post of (DSP) Deputy Superintendent of Police are given a salary of about 60,000 rupees per month, in which some differences can be seen in some specific states.
Job Description of DSP Officer
- Being an important post of the police department, the officer working in this post is given the major responsibility of maintaining security, peace, law and discipline in the society, which is relatively to be fulfilled in any situation.
- With the prohibition of criminal activities, the powers to reduce and destroy the crime by force are given for this post, so the main task of taking action on the person/institution/community related to the crime according to the legal rights.
- Investigating criminal cases, gathering necessary evidence, presenting criminals before the court, etc., also have to be done by the DSP level officer, for which the help of other police officers of lower level is also given to such officer from time to time.
- In some special situations, if a person of the level of Superintendent of Police is not present in service or is on leave due to some reasons, then in this situation the duties of a person of the level of Deputy Superintendent of Police have to be performed.
- In order to prevent or eliminate some specific endemic level crimes, a special police force has to be created in some states, which is often headed by a Deputy Superintendent of Police officer of the IPS category.
Along with all the above mentioned duties, the DSP level officer also has to manage and control the functioning of the police department to protect women, small children, elderly, handicapped people in the society under the police department.
In this way, till now we have given you information on almost all the major aspects about the high level post DSP Officer of the Police Department, we hope you have liked this information very much, must share the article to reach it to other people. Thank you so much for staying with us.
Most frequently asked questions about DSP post
Q1. What is the minimum education eligibility required to work on the post of DSP?
Answer: It is necessary to pass minimum Graduation / bachelor’s degree from any education stream.
Q2. Tell me the full form of DSP?
Answer: Deputy Superintendent of Police.
Q3. Can IPS level police officer work as DSP?
Q4. Does the State Public Service Commission exam give an opportunity to work on the post of DSP?
Q5. What is the category of DSP officer under the police department?
Answer: Class 1 officers.