http://dirtysouthgamers.net Gaming Since MSN GameZone DirtySouthGamers.net DirtySouthGamers.net Evo RSS Parser 60 http://dirtysouthgamers.net/images/evo/minilogo.gif http://dirtysouthgamers.net 94 15 Nuke-Evolution 2.0.7 Powered - Xtreme 2.0 Edition en-us webmaster@dirtysouthgamers.net 2010-09-04T13:47:44-06:00 hourly 1 2010-09-04T13:47:44-06:00 http://dirtysouthgamers.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=32#52
It will be a 4 vs. 4 Squad Rush tournament. All matches will be held on a map that has been decided beforehand by GameReplays.org staff. Each phase will be open for one day; it is up to you to organise with your opponents and team-mates. The tournament will be completed in approximately 2 weeks, beginning on the 17th of July and lasting until the 1st of August. There is a standard time set for all matches which will be 19:00 GMT. Use this Time Converter to check whether you are able to attend the tournament. The prize of this tournament is $100, which can only be received via Paypal. It has been kindly sponsored by the very own staff of Bad Company 2 here at Gamereplays.org!

There will be tournament moderators available should there be queries on how the matches should be carried out. A nominated member of the team will record each game on WeGame. You will have to upload the game if you wish to continue to the next round, otherwise there is no proof of your winning.

Please read the rules and regulations before confirming your team's participation at the tournament. If your team has signed up but no-showed without informing the moderators 3 days in advance, penalties shall be imposed. Failure to adhere to the tournament rules will result in a warning by the moderators, or in severe cases, a ban from all future tournaments that are carried out throughout GameReplays.org for a set period of time.

Rules

   * Team Limit: 16 teams of 4 players each plus a waiting list for an additional 16 teams.Tournament brackets will include 32 teams once the waiting list is fully filled.
   * Scoring Method:The attacking team shall get 1 Point for each M-COM station that they destroy. Once they have destroyed all M-COM stations or run out of tickets, the teams switch roles. The winner is the team with the greatest number of points. Should there be a tie, the match shall be replayed on the same map until a winner is decided.
   * Friendly Fire: On
   * 3D Spotting: On
   * Vehicle Third Person: On
   * Crosshair: On
   * Kill Cam: Off
   * Hardcore: Off
   * Minimap: On
   * Minimap Spotting: On
   * Map Selection: 2 squads decide on map.
   * Banned Weapon: Carl Gustav

Tournament Procedures and Regulations

   * Registration: Each team member must be registered on GameReplays.org, and you must advise us of each team member's in-game and GR names.
   * Reporting:A screenshot of the final score along with their Wegame video must be submitted by each team at the tournament results thread.
   * Player Drops and Substitutions: If a player happens to disconnect during live play, he may immediately rejoin the server if possible. If he is unable to, then a legally rostered player is allowed to join in order to take his place. Live play does not stop during this time. Substitutes may be brought into the server between rounds provided they do so in a timely manner and are legally rostered.
   * Server Crashes: In the event of a server crash during a round the round should be replayed. All previous round results will stand. In the event of repeated server crashes, the other team's server, or an alternate server, shall be used. The match will resume and the previously completed rounds will stand.
   * Voice Over IP (VOIP): VOIP will be not be required to be enabled on match servers. Both teams may agree to use VOIP but only by both parties consenting in 'match comms'. Gamereplays.org will not rule on disputes that involve VOIP.
   * Sportsmanship: All members of all squads are responsible for treating each other with respect during the match. Please respect those in the server at all times and please don't be careless with your language. Sportsmanship rules are not limited to communications made within the server, but also apply to match comms.
   * Inter-team disputes: Such disputes are highly recommended to be resolved by the respective team leaders. Should the problem be out of hand then shall the tournament moderators intervene directly. A note however, that the discussion forums shall be frequently monitored by the moderators to ensure that such problems do not arise or be kept to a minimum.
   * Ladder Tracking: All teams that participate in the tournaments will have their names added to our Ladder.Points shall be rewarded as stated in the ladder.

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By T. Rees Shapiro
Thursday, July 15, 2010

First Lt. Vernon J. Baker, 90, an Army infantryman who, more than 50 years after the end of World War II, became the only surviving African American to receive the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the war, died July 13 at his home near St. Maries, Idaho. He had brain cancer.

In 1993, the Army commissioned a study led by researchers from Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., to determine whether there had been a racial disparity in how the Medal of Honor was awarded during World War II.

Of the more than 400 Medals of Honor awarded, not one of the 1.2 million African Americans who served in the war was a recipient.

After researchers found the discrepancy, the Army recommended seven African American soldiers for the country's most prestigious military honor, including Lt. Baker.

On Jan. 13, 1997, after Congress voided a statutory limit for awarding the medal, President Bill Clinton presented the families of six men with the Medal of Honor; four had died in combat, and two others had died since the end of the war. Lt. Baker, then 77, was the only living recipient.

In April 1945, then-2nd Lt. Baker was one of the few black officers serving in the segregated 92nd Infantry Division near the northern Italian village of Viareggio.

He and his 25 men were ordered to lead an assault on Castle Aghinolfi, a heavily guarded mountain fortress on the western end of the Gothic Line, a series of fortified bunkers considered to be the one of the last lines of German defense toward the end of the war.

Two hours after starting their mission on April 5, Lt. Baker and his men came within 300 yards of the castle. While attempting to find a suitable place for a machine gun, Lt. Baker observed two rifle barrels hanging out of a concealed slit in some rocky earth.

After stealthily crawling to the opening, he popped up and emptied the clip of his M-1 rifle into the observation post, killing two sentries.

While searching for more camouflaged emplacements, Lt. Baker spotted a machine-gun nest occupied by two soldiers distracted by their breakfast. He shot and killed them both.

A German soldier then hurled a grenade that landed at Lt. Baker's feet. Undeterred, he fired two fatal rounds at the fleeing German, while the grenade by Lt. Baker's boots failed to explode.

He found the door to another bunker and blasted it open with a grenade. A wounded German soldier stumbled out in confusion, and Lt. Baker shot him. After tossing in a second grenade, he raided the bunker with a submachine gun blazing, killing two more Germans.

On the way back to his men, Lt. Baker saw that his platoon's position had come under heavy machine gun and mortar fire. He watched in despair as 19 of his men were cut down by bullets or wounded by shrapnel.

Even though he'd been shot in the hand, Lt. Baker led the evacuation of his remaining men, helping to eliminate two machine-gun nests and four more German troops.

In the midst of the retreat, Lt. Baker's platoon came across German soldiers wearing helmets painted with red crosses carrying litters covered with blankets.

His shellshocked men urged him to let them fire, but Lt. Baker refused. When the platoon came within 50 yards of the supposed medics, the Germans dropped their stretchers and picked up machine guns.

"Hit the bastards!" Lt. Baker instructed his men, according to his 1997 memoir "Lasting Valor." "Our riflemen cut loose with a vengeance. . . . The enemy platoon dissolved."

On July 4, 1945, Lt. Baker received the Distinguished Service Cross, the military's second highest decoration for his actions in Italy. Upon receiving the Medal of Honor 52 years later, he burst into tears.

"I'm not a hero," Lt. Baker later said. "I'm just a soldier that did a good job. I think the real heroes are the men I left behind on that hill that day."

Vernon Joseph Baker was born Dec. 17, 1919, in Cheyenne, Wyo., where he was raised by his grandparents. He learned to hunt at a young age and became an expert marksman.

He shined shoes, swept out a barbershop and worked as a railroad porter before graduating from high school. When he attempted to enlist in the Army, he was told by a recruiter that there was no place for "you people." He tried again and was accepted into the infantry in June 1941.

He stayed in the Army until 1968, retiring as a first lieutenant. His other decorations included the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. After his Army career, Lt. Baker worked in Vietnam with the Red Cross and counseled military families.

His marriage to Leola Baker ended in divorce. His second wife, Fern Brown, died in 1986. Survivors include his third wife, Heidy Pawlik Baker; and two children.

He spent much of his later life hunting big game in Idaho. During one expedition, he discovered a mountain lion lurking behind him. After receiving his Medal of Honor, Lt. Baker was asked by Clinton what happened to the cougar.

"Why, it's in my freezer," Lt. Baker said. "I'm going to eat him."]]> 50@http://dirtysouthgamers.net Vernon J. Baker, African American Medal of Honor recipient 2010-08-12T09:13:18-06:00 http://dirtysouthgamers.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=29#49 ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against
white men, who came, year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands.
You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought
to be ashamed of it. The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from
their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the
Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not
steal.
An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would
be put to death, and eat up by the wolves. The white men are bad school
masters; they carry false looks, and deal in false actions; they smile in the face of
the poor Indian to cheat him; they shake them by the hand to gain their
confidence, to make them drunk, to deceive them, and ruin our wives. We told
them to let us alone, and keep away from us; but they followed on, and beset our
paths, and they coiled themselves among us, like the snake. They poisoned us
by their touch. We were not safe. We lived in danger. We were becoming like
them, hypocrites and liars, adulterers, lazy drones, all talkers, and no workers.
We looked up to the Great Spirit. We went to our great father. We were
encouraged. His great council gave us fair words and big promises; but we got
no satisfaction. Things were growing worse. There were no deer in the forest.
The opossum and beaver were fled; the springs were drying up, and our squaws
and papooses without victuals to keep them from starving; we called a great
council, and built a large fire. The spirit of our fathers arose and spoke to us to
avenge our wrongs or die. We all spoke before the council fire. It was warm and
pleasant. We set up the war-whoop, and dug up the tomahawk; our knives were
ready, and the heart of Black-hawk swelled high in his bosom, when he led his
warriors to battle. He is satisfied. He will go to the world of spirits contented. He
has done his duty. His father will meet him there, and commend him.

1832
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As much as we love our trusty keyboards most online gamers, at some point, grow weary of typing frantic messages into chat windows to communicate. Various shortcut keys and other devices have been employed to facilitate this process over the years, but nothing compares to real-time voice communication. Add technology that allows you to control the game itself with voice commands, and you're looking at something that's already changing the way we frag.

Pros
It's not hard to see the advantages of being able to talk to each other in the game. The main thing is - no more dying while typing out your favorite insult or organizing your teammates. In many cases it changes the flow of the game significantly and gives those who use it a definite edge. Combined with voice recognition features for controlling games, it can turn a very complicated series of keyboard commands into a few short words.

I've also found out recently that the speech-to-text features of some voice recognition software can made it work with games, meaning that you can use the standard chat window in the game without typing.

Cons
Of course, there are those that prefer not to hear a bunch of chat on top of their game. While there are typically plenty of options to adjust these things, including the ability to mute bothersome talkers and limit the users on your channel, I'm sure I'm not the only one that has been in a game where someone has demonstrated an annoying ineptitude with the "talk" button, or insisted on keeping the mic really close to their mouth and talking really loud.

It should also be noted that the exchanges of racial and sexual slurs so common in the chat window are getting to be standard procedure on the voice channel as well. Most voice channels are moderated only by the people using them.

Bandwidth consumption and hardware performance remain a concern for some gamers. For the most part, voice communication software does a very good job of minimizing the load, and doesn't slow things down as much as you might expect. Voice recognition programs for controlling games can be another matter, however, and many gamers consider it either too demanding on hardware or too unreliable to be useful.

Other Considerations
Depending on your game of choice or the platform you game on, you may already be enjoying the conveniences of voice communication. The Xbox Live Starter Kit, for example, comes complete with a headset and even a voicemasking feature. A growing number of first-person shooters, including the latest versions of Counter-Strike and Battlefield 2, have integrated voice communication which works quite well, although you can only talk to your own team. The only additional hardware you may need is a microphone.

If your favorite PC game doesn't have built-in voice, or you want to use a single voice system for a variety of games, there are several affordable software options available. There are also programs that will change the sound of your voice and convert your speech to text.

smoke1]]> 47@http://dirtysouthgamers.net TeamSpeak vs Ventrilo vs Mumble Audio for Gamers 2010-08-06T22:46:01-06:00 http://dirtysouthgamers.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=23#46 46@http://dirtysouthgamers.net Mel Gibson's Racist & Sexist rant against Oksana Grigori 2010-08-04T08:52:03-06:00 http://dirtysouthgamers.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=26#45 just let us know ein-gaming.com always willing to help out old friends.]]> 45@http://dirtysouthgamers.net If ya need a scrim THC..... 2010-07-25T19:44:11-06:00 http://dirtysouthgamers.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=11#42
Racism and the Administration of Justice

Discrimination in the administration of justice whether in policing, criminal prosecutions, trials, sentencing, or imprisonmentcan cause extraordinary harm to individuals and society alike, and have lasting consequences for future generations. Members of racial, ethnic, and other minorities or vulnerable groups often face harassment, arbitrary detention, and abusive treatment by the law enforcement apparatus and disparate treatment by prosecutors and the courts.

Police disproportionately target members of marginalized groups for arrest in many countries. Members of these groups may also face disproportionate prosecutions, unfair trials, and disproportionately severe sentences on criminal charges. Humiliating treatment, beatings, sexual abuse, and shooting deaths of members of marginalized groups often contrast starkly with treatment accorded to others and members of these groups have little recourse to legal remedies to abuse.

Ostensibly race- or descent-neutral laws can have a disparate impact on vulnerable minoritiesor even majoritiesas a consequence of prosecutorial discretion or sentencing policies or the nature of the law itself. The resulting impact on particular descent-based groups may be vastly disproportionate to the actual involvement of members of these groups in the overall pattern of criminal activity.

Criminal penalties that are accompanied by temporary or permanent disenfranchisement further exclude members of groups already facing discriminatory treatment from participation in political life and accentuate their economic, social, and political marginalization

Discriminatory effect can be particularly devastating in the application of the death penalty, which Human Rights Watch opposes because of its inherent cruelty. Some basis for discrimination other than the underlying crime for which the penalty is ostensibly applied routinely enters into the determination of which persons are executed and which persons are allowed to live. The inherent fallibility of all criminal justice systems assures that even when full due process of law is respected innocent persons are sometimes executed. Because an execution is irreversible, such miscarriages of justice can never be corrected.

Discriminatory abuse within the framework of the administration of justice is not limited to measures enforcing criminal law. Police power may be used in the enforcement of administrative normssuch as restrictions on freedom of movement or residency or the right to educationthat discriminate in effect and often also in intent. The law enforcement apparatus may also act outside the law to uphold established social and economic hierarchies, denying particular groups their rights, enforcing their subordination to others, and even excluding them from particular occupations, educational opportunities, communities, or access to public resources. Political rights guaranteed in law may be denied vulnerable groups in practice through the misuse of executive or police power.

Those facing discrimination can also be denied equal protection by police and the courts when they stand up for their rights in disputes with other private citizens. Police may stand by as attacks are made upon members of marginalized groups, or deliberately delay their intervention. Criminal investigations into such crimes, if initiated, may be half-hearted. Police in many countries refuse even to register the complaints of members of marginalized groups distinguished by their race, ethnicity, or descent, while giving special treatment to those attacking them. Members of marginalized groups who are accused of crimes or subjected to generalized suspicion and intimidation are too often also treated with extreme brutality by law enforcement personnel. And police all too often acquiesce in racial attacks by others- participating directly in or condoning violent efforts to punish, repress or banish members of racial minorities who have incurred the wrath of those in power.

Discrimination in criminal justice and other areas of public policy is perhaps most pervasive and deep rooted where the heritage of slavery and legislated segregation remains a potent factorand when founded on caste. This sometimes embraces hidden forms of racism that permeate public and private practice across whole societiesand finds its clearest expression in the state's administration of justice.

Discrimination in law enforcement and the justice system can be a primary factor in preserving or promoting economic, social, and political inequities founded in broader discriminatory state and private practices. In a vicious cycle, racial or descent-based economic, social, and political marginalization generates discrimination in the action of the police and the judicial system, deepening social divisions and increasing that marginalization. When the police and the courts are the face of the state most constantly engaged with members of groups subjected to broader social discrimination, their abusive treatment compounds and confirms their subordinate status.

At the national or local level discrimination can arise from practices with racist intent, like racial profiling, in which an individual's presumed race is the determining factor in placing them under suspicion. The mechanisms of criminal justice can equally result in unjustified discriminatory effect where there is no clear racist intent. Discriminatory impact can be shown in patterns of police abuse, arbitrary arrest, incarceration, prosecution, and sentencing. The de facto denial of remedies to particular groups within a criminal justice system or the disparate effect of de jure disenfranchisement of members of a particular group may be evidence of unjustified racial discrimination regardless of the intent of lawmakers and public officials.

Discrimination in a criminal justice system may be deliberate, reflecting invidious bias. Or it may flow from ostensibly neutral decisions that nonetheless produce an unjustified racially disparate impact. Both types of racial discrimination contradict the principles of justice and equal protection of the laws that should be the bedrock of any criminal justice system - and both contravene the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, CERD. States must take steps to identify and address the racist impact of any element of the criminal justice system.

CERD obliges states to nullify any law or practice which has the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination. This notwithstanding, early drafts of the World Conference program of action call for measures to address discrimination in the administration of justice only where discriminatory intent can be discerned. The World Conference should recommend measures to identify and to remedy the racist effect of law or practice even in the absence of racist intent.

Some Examples

Police target minorities as possible criminal suspects solely on the basis of their race or ethnicity.

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     A 1998 study of police stop and search patterns in England and Wales by the British Government's Home Office found that Blacks were 7.5 times more likely to be stopped and searched than whites.1
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     In a two year period in the U.S. state of Maryland, blacks constituted 79.2 percent of the drivers stopped and searched by the police on Interstate 95, even though they constituted only 17.5 percent of the drivers who were violating traffic laws.2
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     The war on drugs in the U.S. is waged overwhelmingly against black Americans. For example, although there are more white drug offenders than black in the United States, blacks constitute 62.7 percent of all drug offenders sent to state prison and black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13.4 times the rate of white men.3

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     Aboriginal people in Australia are 9.2 times more likely to be arrested, 23.7 times more likely to be imprisoned as an adult, and 48 times more likely to be imprisoned as juveniles than non-Aborigines.4

Race influences death penalty decisions.

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     A study of the federal death penalty by the U.S. Department of Justice released in September, 2000 found 80 percent of federal defendants who faced capital charges were members of racial minorities, as were 74 percent of convicted defendants for whom prosecutors recommended the death penalty.5
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     The death penalty is also more likely to be sought and imposed in the U.S. for killing a white person than a person of a different race: 82 percent of capital cases involve a white victim, although nationwide only 50% percent of homicide victims are white.6

Use of force by the police may vary by race of suspect. In Brazil, darker skinned people shot by the police are almost twice as likely to be killed than whites shot by the police: the lethality index (ratio of people killed to people wounded in intentional shootings) for black and brown skinned people shot in the favelas was 8.66, compared to a white lethality index of 4.63.7

Police ignore, condone, or encourage violence by private individuals directed against racial minorities:

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     In June, 2000, police turned their backs and left a Dalit untouchable village in India's Bihar state as an upper caste mob entered it and slaughtered thirty-four lower-caste men, women and children.8

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     In February, 2000 skinhead thugs shouting racist insults attacked five Roma in Nachod, in the Czech Republic; victims said police were among the attackers and did nothing to stop the assault or arrest the perpetrators.9

Enforcement of control of movement and residence often assumes ethnic or racial dimensions:

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     The Russian propiska system of permits provides a pretext for the police harassment, arbitrary arrest, and extortion of people distinguished by their racial characteristics: in September 1999 Moscow police were given carte blanche in the wake of two bombing incidents there to carry out mass arrests of ethnic Chechens living in the city, taking more than twenty thousand Chechens to police stations.

Developments

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has played a leading role in the promotion and protection of international human rights standards. General recommendations issued by CERD concerning articles of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination have provided essential interpretive guidance for measures to combat discrimination:

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     CERD, in its General Recommendation XX (48), on article 5, 1996, observed that the deprivation of civil and political rights, as in felony disenfranchisement, must not discriminate either in purpose or in effect:

2. Whenever a State imposes a restriction upon one of the rights listed in article 5 of the Convention which applies ostensibly to all within its jurisdiction, it must ensure that neither in purpose nor effect is the restriction incompatible with article 1 of the Convention as an integral part of international human rights standards. To ascertain whether this is the case, the Committee is obliged to inquire further to make sure that any such restriction does not entail racial discrimination.10

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     Reports to CERD by states parties to the convention have become increasingly frank and useful tools in the identification of continuing challenges of racial discrimination and related intolerance.

In its first report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, submitted in September 2000, the United States acknowledged dramatically disparate incarceration rates for minorities, noted the many studies indicating that members of minority groups may be disproportionately subject to adverse treatment in the criminal justice process, and acknowledged concerns that racial minorities are more likely to be victims of police brutality.11

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     Consideration of country reports by CERD has assisted states parties to the convention and the human rights community to recognize and address particular forms of racial discrimination.

In its concluding observations, as it reviewed India's tenth to fourteenth periodic reports as a state party in 1996, and taking into account the prevalence of caste-violence and the lack of equal protection, CERD affirmed that "the situation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes falls within the scope of" the convention.12

Recommendations

1. Data on the number and nature of racist, xenophobic, or related incidents or offenses or suspected bias crimes should be collected and published. (Drawing from the Plan of Action/Strasbourg, para. 12.)

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     Investigations and reporting should cover individual cases, as well as situations which indicated a pattern or practice of racial discrimination. (Drawing from the Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 52.)

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     Data should be broken down to include the race, ethnicity, or descent as well as the gender of the persons reported harmed, with due regard for data protection and privacy guarantees.
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     Data should be collected and published concerning the number of cases prosecuted, and the outcome of the prosecutions or the reasons for not prosecuting. (Drawn from Plan of Action/Strasbourg, para. 12.)

2. Governments should require police, courts, and prison authorities to gather, maintain, and publish statistical data that identifies the race, ethnicity, or descent as well as the gender of those involved in the criminal justice process, from persons stopped by the police to persons incarcerated.

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     Such information should be collected in accordance with human rights principles and protected against abuse through data protection and privacy guarantees. (Drawn from the first Draft Plan of Action of the Conference Secretariat, para. 73).
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     Such information should be used to identify and eliminate stereotyping or racial profiling by law enforcement officials. (Drawn from Plan of Action/Secretariat, para. 83.)
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     Data showing the discriminatory effect of criminal justice policies and practices in the form of an unjustified disparate impact upon members of particular groups should trigger remedial action.

3. Governments should carefully review the performance of all institutions within the criminal justice system to identify patterns of discrimination and should undertake necessary restructuring and introduce corrective mechanisms to address discrimination that is found. (Drawn from Recommendations of the Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 46.)

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     Governments should design, implement and enforce effective programs to prevent, detect, and ensure accountability for incidents of police misconduct constituting discrimination based on racism or related intolerance, and to prosecute such police misconduct. (Drawn from Plan of Action/Secretariat, para. 83.)

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     Public officials in the criminal justice system should be held accountable for discriminatory policies and practices. (Drawn from Plan of Action/Secretariat, para. 83, and Recommendations of the Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 46.)

4. Civilian review boards or civilian ombudsman should be created to monitor conduct of police, including evidence of racial or related bias. (Drawing upon the recommendations of the Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 22.)

5. Governments should provide prompt and effective remedies for victims of discrimination in law and in practice. (Drawing upon Plan of Action/Santiago, para 82).

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     Procedures for the initiation of complaints should be simple and flexible and should be available to victims and, as appropriate, authorized public agencies or third parties. Easy accessibility to remedies should be provided especially for those likely to be victims of racial discrimination, for both citizens and non-citizens, for individuals as well as groups. (Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 52.)

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     All stages of the procedures should be expeditiously handled. (Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 52.)

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     Dissemination of information concerning the availability of remedies, including recourse procedures, should be widespread. (Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 52.)

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     Governments should assist victims to pursue remedies, where necessary through legal assistance and support, including where appropriate the help of an interpreter in civil and criminal cases. (Drawing upon Plan of Action/Santiago, para 82 and Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 52.).

6. National, independent, specialized bodies should be created with competence to investigate allegations of racial discrimination and related intolerance, without prejudice to judicial remedies. (Drawing upon Plan of Action/Santiago, para 82 and the Plan of Action/Strasbourg, para. 8.)

7. Governments should introduce training for all those involved in the administration of justiceincluding police and other law enforcement officers, the judiciary, prosecutors, and personnel of the prison systemto combat racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. (Drawn from the first Draft Plan of Action of the Conference Secretariat, paras. 8 and 9 and the Declaration of the Strasbourg Meeting, para. 35; the Plan of Action/Santiago, para. 157; and recommendations of the Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 46.)

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     Training should cover international human rights standards set out in the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Drawn from the first Draft Plan of Action of the Conference Secretariat, paras. 8 and 9 and the Declaration of the Strasbourg Meeting, para. 35; the Plan of Action/Santiago, para. 157; and recommendations of the Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 46.)

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     The successful completion of such training programs should be made one of the criteria for promotion. (Drawn from the first Draft Plan of Action of the Conference Secretariat, paras. 8 and 9 and the Declaration of the Strasbourg Meeting, para. 35; the Plan of Action/Santiago, para. 157; and recommendations of the Expert Seminar on Remedies, para. 46.)

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     Training should be reinforced by the incorporation of international human rights standards into the working rules, regulations, and procedures of the criminal justice system.

8. The death penalty, as a penalty that is inherently cruel, irreversible, and particularly susceptible to discrimination in its application, should be abolished.

1. United Kingdom, Home Office, Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System: A Home Office Publication Under Section 95 of the Criminal Justice Act of 1991 (London, England: Home Office, 1998), chapters 3 and 4, cited in U.S. Department of Justice, A Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collection Systems (Washington D.C., November 2000), p.18 , available on the web at www.usdoj.gov.

2. John Lamberth, Driving while Black: A Statistician Proves that Prejudice Still Rules the Road, Washington Post, August 16, 1999, at C1; David Cole, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (The New Press: New York, 1999) at 36 and fn.66.

3. Human Rights Watch, Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs, May, 2000, available at www.hrw.org.

4. Roderic Broadhurst, Aborigines and Crime in Australia, in Michael Tonry, ed., Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, Illinois, 1997).

5. U.S. Department of Justice, The Federal Death Penalty System: A Statistical Survey (1988-2000), (Washington, D.C.: Department of Justice, September 12, 2000), available on the web at www.usdoj.gov.

6. Death Penalty Information Center, at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/dpicrace.html.

7. Data from unpublished research by Human Rights Watch.

8. Human Rights Watch, World Report 2001, p. 197; See also, Human Rights Watch, Broken People: Caste Violence Against India's Untouchables (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2000).

9. Ibid., p. 291.

10. CERD, General Comment XX (48th Session) on article 5, available on http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/MasterFrameView/8b3ad72f8e98a34c8025651e00 (accessed May 23, 2001).

11. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 9 of the Convention, Third periodic reports of States parties due in 1999, Addendum, United States of America, CERD/C/351/Add.1 , October 10, 2000.

12. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: India, CERD/C/304/Add.13, September 17, 1996.


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A PDF version of this guide can be found here
Client logging is having PB log all messages to a log file located in your PB folder named pbcl.log. This is handy to get your guid, find out why you are PB kicked, find the server ip of a server and even logs other players kicks.


Client Logging Setup

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What you need
- Text Editor
- PBCL Config (Here)


Setup Logging

To enable this you need to have the pbcl.cfg file in your root PB folder (Windows Vista and Windows 7 users please read the note at the end of this document). The contents of this file should contain the following:

Code:

pb_MsgPrefix "[skipnotify]PunkBuster Client" pb_Sleep 500 pb_LogToFile 1 pb_SsLog 1 pb_SsSave 1

If you want to see all the PB messages on the screen use the following to replace the first line:

Code:

pb_MsgPrefix "PunkBuster Client"

This will however spam a lot of PB messages on the lower, middle of your screen (Max 3 lines showing)

Retrieve your PB GUID

Once PB logging is enabled join a PB enabled server. Load into the server and join a team.

Now you GUID should be saved in the log. To get it open the pbcl.log file and search for:

Code:

PB Server assigned guid = <guid>

The full line should look like the following:

Code:

[05.02.2007 11:36:56] PB Server assigned guid = 206e3ab09c9b0776230be5a78a02f1f0

Now you can use this to search ban lists to see if you're banned should you get a Prior Kick/Ban message from PB.


Retrieve a server IP address

This is mainly for games that may not show an IP address and you want to be sure your using the right address for streaming.

Join your server, get in game then quit. Look in the pbcl.log for:

Code:

Connected to Server <ip>

An example of this is:

Code:

[03.06.2010 18:47:44] Connected to Server 156.25.48.25:15687

That is the IP you need to use on PBBans

Note for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users

Please note that Windows Vista and Windows 7 stores the logs and other PB files outside the game folder commonly located at:

Code:

C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\PunkBuster\<Game>\pb\

You can enter this to view the PunkBuster working folder for the current user and select the game you wish to setup logging for:

Code:

%USERPROFILE%\Appdata\Local\PunkBuster\

or

Code:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\PunkBuster\

Put the pbcl.cfg file in this location for each game you wish to enable logging for. The log file will be saved here.]]> 41@http://dirtysouthgamers.net How to get your Bad Company 2 GUID 2010-07-15T23:30:07-06:00