All About Movie Tags - DVDRip, Cam or telesync(TS) ? Also about other formats

DVDRip
A copy of the final released DVD. If possible this is released PRE retail (for example, Star Wars episode 2) again, should be excellent quality. DVDrips are released in SVCD and DivX/XviD.


CAM
A cam is a theater rip usually done with a digital video camera. A mini tripod is sometimes used, but a lot of the time this wont be possible, so the camera make shake. Also seating placement isn't always idle, and it might be filmed from an angle. If cropped properly, this is hard to tell unless there's text on the screen, but a lot of times these are left with triangular borders on the top and bottom of the screen. Sound is taken from the onboard microphone of the camera, and especially in comedies, laughter can often be heard during the film. Due to these factors picture and sound quality are usually quite poor, but sometimes we're lucky, and the theater will be fairly empty and a fairly clear signal will be heard.

TELESYNC (TS)
A telesync is the same spec as a CAM except it uses an external audio source (most likely an audio jack in the chair for hard of hearing people). A direct audio source does not ensure a good quality audio source, as a lot of background noise can interfere. A lot of the times a telesync is filmed in an empty cinema or from the projection booth with a professional camera, giving a better picture quality. Quality ranges drastically, check the sample before downloading the full release. A high percentage of Telesyncs are CAMs that have been mislabeled.

Syrian protests draw deadly fire - At least 27 Dead !

Syrian security forces have killed at least 34 people, including an 11-year-old boy, according to witnesses, in the latest crackdown on anti-government protests.

Twelve people were killed in the central city of Homs, while 15 died in the town of Maaret al-Naaman, located near the western city of Idlib, activists said.

Two protesters were shot in the southern region of Deraa, one person was shot in the Damascus suburb of Daraya and one in the port city of Latakia.

Two more died in the eastern town of Deir Ezzor and one person killed in the central town of Hama.

The dead in Homs included two boys, named as Aiham al-Ahmad, 11, and 16-year-old Ahmad Bakr, witnesses said.

A witness told Al Jazeera they were shot when police officers opened fire on Friday, after their vehicle crashed into a wall and was attacked by protesters.

The attack took place after officers drove police cars into a crowd of about 2,000 demonstrators in an attempt to disperse them, a second witness said.

After hitting several protesters, one of the cars crashed into a wall, prompting the officers to jump out and open fire. Four other protesters were also killed, while at least seven others were wounded.

In a separate incident, three residents were killed when security forces attempted to storm a hospital in the al-Wa'r neighbourhood of Homs, according to a witness.

Locals responded by forming a human chain around the hospital, in an attempt to prevent the police arresting wounded protesters inside. The witness said some locals had shot at the police using handguns.

Al Jazeera is unable to verify the reports because of restrictions on reporting imposed by Syria's government.

NATO air strikes, sinks eight warships of Dictator Gaddafi !

The NATO military alliance says it has sunk eight warships belonging to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces.

The ships were targeted in co-ordinated overnight attacks on the ports of Tripoli, Al Khums and Sirte, the alliance announced on Friday.

The deputy commander of the NATO mission in Libya said the air strikes were needed to protect civilians and NATO forces at sea.

Shelling was also heard in the Ghabat al-Qasr neighbourhood of the capital, Tripoli, in the early hours of Friday.

NATO, acting under a UN mandate, has been carrying out air strikes on Libya since Gaddafi used force to put down a revolt inspired by uprisings elsewhere in the Arab world.

In some of the latest strikes, NATO hit Gaddafi's forces around 15km east of the opposition-held town of Zintan in the Western Mountains region. The town and the port city of Misurata have seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent weeks.

Source; Aljazeera.net

NATO says Dictator Gaddafi forces 'significantly degraded'

The head of the NATO military alliance has said that military and political pressure have weakened Dictator Muammar Gaddafi's hold on power in Libya and will eventually topple him.

"We have significantly degraded Gaddafi's war machine. And now we see results, the opposition has gained ground," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a news conference in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, on Thursday.

"I am confident that combination of strong military pressure and increased political pressure and support for the opposition will eventually lead to the collapse of the regime."

Rasmussen’s comments were echoed by US President Barack Obama.

"Time is working against Gaddafi. He does not have control over his country. The opposition has organised a legitimate and credible Interim Council," Obama said in Washington.

"When Gaddafi inevitably leaves or is forced from power, decades of provocation will come to an end and the transition to a democratic Libya can proceed," he said, defending his decision to take military action against the Libyan leader's anti democratic regime.

Spinners, Gambhir help Kolkata breeze past Pune

Kolkata Knight Riders 119 for 3 (Gambhir 54*) beat Pune Warriors 118 for 7 (Yuvraj 24, Balaji 2-7, Shakib 2-16) by seven wickets.


Current Points table at the end of the article. 

It was billed as Sourav Ganguly's payback game against Kolkata Knight Riders. Instead, it proved to be a stern examination on a turner for the Pune Warriors batsmen, and called in to question the home side's decision to play only one specialist spinner as Shakib Al Hasan, Iqbal Abdulla and Yusuf Pathan exploited the generous spin available to tie Pune down. Kolkata, anchored by Gautam Gambhir, and under no pressure with an asking rate of below six, motored to victory, taking a big step towards making the play-offs.

Unless they lose badly to Mumbai Indians in their last league game, and Kings XI Punjab manage another big win in their last match, Kolkata should be through to the knock-outs.

The comfortable victory was set up by the Kolkata spin trio, who picked up five wickets for 51 runs in 11 overs, but more than that, preyed on the minds of the Pune batsmen, who struggled to score on a pitch that would have been a good test of batsmen's skills in a Test match against quality spin, but looked out of place in a Twenty20 game.

Right from the first ball that Abdulla bowled, it was clear that the batsmen were in for a hard grind. It was flighted, drew Manish Pandey forward, and spun sharply across as he missed the ball by a long way. The third was the typical left-arm spinner's sucker ball, making Pandey push forward outside the line for the turn and going straight on to strike him in front. This was after Jesse Ryder had targeted the second ball of spin in the game, trying to smash Yusuf Pathan for six but only finding mid-off. It was the beginning of Pune's problems.

Callum Ferguson came in ahead of Ganguly, and the relative ease with which he played during his short innings made one wonder again what he had been doing in the Pune dugout for most of the season. It was the spinners' night though, and Ferguson was left clueless as he skipped out to Shakib, only for the ball to turn a long way past his bat for Shreevats Goswami to do the rest.

There was a time when left-arm spin from both ends would never be tried against Ganguly, but that time is long gone. Ganguly led a charmed life today, almost edging the ball on to the stumps and also escaping a stumping chance. He showed one glimpse of the batsman he once was, lofting Abdulla for a very straight six, but clearly, sustained big hitting on a difficult pitch was too much to expect. He departed on another failed attempt to break free, sweeping Shakib to Yusuf at backward square leg.

It was not until the 13th over that Pune's most explosive batsmen, Robin Uthappa and Yuvraj Singh, got together. A run-rate that had remained stuck below six after the opening over forced Uthappa to go hard at Yusuf in the next over, but he swung it to deep midwicket where Lee took a sharp catch. Yuvraj was left playing the tragic hero yet again, but even he could not do much, ultimately top-edging a pull off L Balaji, who came on to bowl for the first time in the last over.

Alfonso Thomas got Pune the breakthrough in the first over, getting Goswami caught behind with one that took off. That was as close as Pune came to entertaining hopes of an upset, and Kolkata's line-up proved to be too powerful, not even requiring the services of Jacques Kallis, who had injured his finger in the field.

Gambhir, as always, showed how to tackle a turning pitch, repeatedly using his feet against Pune's spinners, Rahul Sharma and Yuvraj. He also played two delightful extra cover drives off successive deliveries against Thomas. Yusuf wasn't far behind, making room to cut Rahul's skiddy deliveries from off stump through short third man.

That it wasn't to be Pune's day was evident when consecutive throws from Ferguson ran to the boundary, the latter after hitting the stumps. Not that it mattered in the end, as Kolkata were simply the superior side by a long margin.

Al Jazeera Journalist, Dorothy Parvaz reveals about Syria's mini Guantanamo (Secret Prison) !

I was standing in two fist-sized pools of smeared, sticky blood, trying to sort out why there were seven angry Syrians yelling at me. Only one of them - who I came to know as Mr Shut Up during my three days in a detention center, where so many Syrians 'disappeared' are being kept - spoke English.

Watching them searching my bags, and observing the set of handcuffs hanging from the bunk bed wedged behind the desk in the middle of the room, I guessed that I was being arrested - or, at the very least, processed for detention.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked.

"Shut up! SHUT UP!" said Mr Shut Up.

Embattled IMF chief, Strauss-Kahn resigns finally !

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has resigned as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, after he was charged on Monday with the alleged sexual assault and attempted rape of a maid at a New York hotel.

The IMF's executive board released a letter from the French executive late on Wednesday in which he denied the allegations against him, but said he felt compelled to resign "with sadness''.

"It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today to present to the executive board my resignation from my post of managing director of the IMF," Strauss-Kahn said in his letter of resignation.

"To all, I want to say that I deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me," the statement added.

"I think at this time first of my wife - whom I love more than anything - of my children, of my family, of my friends.

"I think also of my colleagues at the fund; together we have accomplished such great things over the last three years and more.

"I want to protect this institution which I have served with honour and devotion, and especially - especially - I want to devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence."

The IMF's previous second-in-command John Lipsky will remain as acting managing director.

Also their are some critisism against him in the procedure he followed when providing Funds to countries which are very much biased towards dictatorship and/or does anti democtratic acts.

Japan falls back into recession - Economy contracts sharply after devastating earthquake and tsunami !

Japan's economy has slipped into recession after a worse than expected performance for the first quarter of the year.

The economy contracted sharply in the first quarter as factory production and consumer spending declined in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Real gross domestic product - a measure of the value of all goods and services produced domestically - shrank at an annualised rate of 3.7 per cent in the January-March period, the country's cabinet office said on Thursday.

The result marks the second straight quarter that the world's third largest economy has lost steam and undershoots an annualised 2.3 per cent fall forecast in a Kyodo News agency survey.

While there is no universally accepted definition of a recession, many economists define it as two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. Others consider the depth of economic decline as well as other measures like unemployment.

Japan's magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami left more than 24,000 people dead or missing, and wiped out entire towns in the hardest-hit areas.

Damage is estimated at $300bn, making it the most expensive natural disaster in history.

It damaged factories in the region, causing severe shortages of parts and components for manufacturers across Japan, especially automakers. A crippled nuclear power plant caused widespread power shortages that added to the headaches faced by businesses and households.

Seijiro Takeshita, director Mizuho International, told that recovery may take a long time because clean up efforts are taking so long.


Consumer spending falls

As a result, Japan's factory production and consumer spending both fell the most on record in March. Exports in March went south for the first time in 16 months.

Companies are reporting lower earnings and diminished outlooks for the rest of the fiscal year.

Al Jazeera's Laura Kyle, reporting from the Iwate Prefecture, said that the economic impact has also hit at a local level, with a large number of unemployed people living in the country's north.

Toyota, Japan's biggest automaker, said last week that its quarterly profit tumbled more than 75 per cent because of parts shortages after the tsunami. As of May, the crisis cost the company production of
550,000 vehicles in Japan and another 350,000 overseas.

UNP MP John Ameratunge further confirms that Ra-NIL saved Anti Democratic Mahinda who was accused of acrrying out several murders !

UNP MP and former Minister during UNP Regimes, John Ameratunge confirms that it was then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who had saved then Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was accused of acrrying out several murders at the time.

When several local and international journalists have inquired about the articles published about the above incident in several online web portals, John Ameratunge, who was at the time the Internal Affairs Minister, had confirmed that the incident was true.
He had said that Ranil Wickremesinghe had opposed the move to arrest Mahinda Rajapaksa when all arrangements for it was made.John Ameratunge has also said that although the relevant files had gone missing at the time, he had made photocopies of the files.

Magistrate Upali Samaraweera, who heard the two murder cases that were allegedly carried out on the request of Mahinda Rajapaksa, had retired, the President had appointed him as the Prisons Commissioner. The judge is now a director of the Board of Investments.

Earlier Article ; http://tiptopsl.blogspot.com/2011/05/mahinda-who-was-to-be-convicted-of.html

ICC doubtful about Sanath Jayasuriya and 3 other players over match fixing allegations

The International Cricket Council (ICC) it is learnt are doubtful whether Sri Lankan cricketers Thilekaratne Dilshan, Chamara Silva, Sanath Jayasuriya and Fervez Mahroof have been involved in match fixing.

The Sri Lankan team lost the one day match between India and Sri Lanka played in Rajcourt on December 15, 2009 by three runs after chasing a score of 414.

It is learnt that the ICC is doubtful about Sanath’s playing at the match.Sanath recorded only five runs when the Sri Lankan team had scored 339 for three wickets by the 39th over.

but we hope Sri Lankan Players have never done such a disgusting work to tarnish Mother Lanka.

Source ; lankanewsweb

National Saving Bank Chairman's Wife Appointed as New CJ of Sri Lanka !

Senior Supreme Court Judge Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake took oaths as the new Chief Justice before Mahinda Rajapakse few days back, becoming Sri Lanka’s first woman Chief Justice.

Incidentally she is Sri Lanka’s 33rd Chief Justice, succeeding her retiring predecessor former Chief Justice Asoka de Silva.

Mahinda Rajapakse’s nomination of Dr. Bandaranayake, formerly Associate Professor of Law and the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, as the new CJ was approved by the Parliamentary Council on May 12.

As her husband is the current CEO of NSB (also apointed by Mahinda ), their are doubts among many about the decesions being given.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will have to face charges against war crimes - says ICC chief prosecutor !

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has sought arrest warrants for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son, Saif al-Islam, and another Libyan official on war crimes charges.


Luis Moreno Ocampo will hand a 74-page dossier of evidence to a three-judge panel at the court in the Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday.


They will decide whether the case is strong enough for them to confirm crimes against humanity charges, and issue international arrest warrants.


"We are almost ready for trial," Ocampo said in a statement earlier. "The office collected good and solid evidence to identify [those] who bear the greatest responsibility."


The third official named was Abdullah Senussi, gaddafi's intelligence chief.
Ocampo's investigation into potential human rights violations has spanned several countries and involved sorting through around 1,500 documents, Al Jazeera's Rory Challands said.


But the two-and-a-half months it has taken to come up with a petition for arrest warrants is a "heartbeat in international justice," he added.


On Monday, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Gaddafi was looking for a "suitable place" to find exile.
"Messages have been arriving from the regime's restricted circle," he said. "Certain [members] have spoken under cover and are beginning to say that Gaddafi is looking for an honourable way out," he added.

IMF chief 'sex assault' trial postponed - Dominique Strauss-Kahn placed behind bars as his arraignment is put off so that he can undergo forensic examination.

A New York court appearance by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund [IMF] chief, to face charges he sexually assaulted a hotel chambermaid has been postponed until Monday so he can undergo an examination, his lawyers have said.

"Our client willingly consented to a scientific and forensic examination tonight ... at the request of the government and in light of the hour we have agreed to postpone the arraignment until tomorrow morning," William Taylor, his lawyer, told reporters outside Manhattan Criminal Court on Sunday.

"He's tired but he's fine," Taylor said when asked about Strauss-Kahn, who was led away from a police station in handcuffs and is currently placed behind bars.

Sri Lankan Leader, Mahinda's close friend Hassan Ali defeated at Tamil nadu Election !

One of Sri Lankan Leader Mahinda's close friend, Hassan Ali, who contested from the Congress Party at the Tamil Nadu elections, has been defeated.

He is a politiciann who has supported Sri Lankan Leader Mahinda as a powerful representative of India's Congress Party in the Tamil Nadu government..

Traditional Newspapers are Dying Today ? - 10 Reasons

Demand for the daily newspaper has been declining for some time. More and more papers are finding their subscriptions shrinking, and as a result they are able to attract fewer businesses to advertise in their papers. Today there are many ways for us to get the news quickly, and without having to read.  All of these options intrude upon the desire of people to wait for the morning paper to find out the news. Thus for the traditional newspaper, this has meant a slow death from depleting revenues, when their papers are not being bought.  It is a problem that is growing and shows no signs of improving. Here are ten factors that have contributed to the slow death of print newspapers.

Other forms of news. The local newspaper will carry stories on a wide selection of subjects in local, national and world news. However, you might not be interested in wading through all those pages just to find out some specific details on a given story. With email and RSS feeds, you can get target news sent direct to you on the areas you’re interested in. Between television, internet and radio you don’t have to spend your time looking through the paper’s pages.

Cost. Why pay for the newspaper when you can get the same information on the internet for free? This is pure cost consideration.  There may be some coupons you like in a given paper, but they may never offset the actual cost of subscriptions.
Price of materials.  Paper costs have been going up for a long time. But newspapers are only able to charge a set amount for their paper, or they will not find any subscribers. It is a difficult balance to maintain. It is another area that is causing them to struggle, that many people don’t realize.

Influence Of Owners. Newspapers can be affected in how they present and report the news by the philosophies of their owners. Those biases can be evident by the stories they choose to publish. Many people are looking for news sources that will give them multiple views.

Convenience. Unless you have the paper delivered to your house, and even then it can be subject to weather, there are times it is easier to look on the internet at your convenience. You can quickly search through items online for your topics of interest, rather than having to scan the pages of a traditional newspaper.

Delivery problems. There is a low tolerance these days for poor customer service.  How many times will you pay for the daily paper if you have problems with your deliveries? It is just easier to look to other means to find out what you want to know.

Watching Versus Reading. Why read through lots of paragraphs when the news on the television will show you what is happening, often in live video footage. It doesn’t have to take as much time, and you can enjoy other activities at the same time.

Listening Versus Reading. Just like with watching, listening to the news on the radio can be done while you are doing other things. You can listen while you are driving in your car while driving to and from work. We have become a multi-tasking society.
Limited Interests. The more we get exposed to the entire world’s problems, the more we may wish to just dwell on limited or specialized news interest. We now have the ability to choose what areas of news coverage we want to receive.

Competition. It isn’t that newspapers aren’t trying to keep up with the changes in information, they have their online sites too. Technology is simply leaving them behind in a race that they are finding it hard to compete in.

Today the future for the traditional newspaper is not very promising. Many have begun to search for ways to improve or change their approach to deal with this reality, but it appears to be a losing battle.


by Sheryl Owen
http://www.changeofaddress.org/blog/2011/10-reasons-traditional-newspapers-are-dying/

Kochi stay mathematically alive with a thumping win over RR !

Kochi Tuskers Kerala 98 for 2 (Hodge 33*) beat Rajasthan Royals 97 (Menaria 31, Hodge 4-13, Sreesanth 2-16) by eight wicket. (Current points table at the end of the article)

The short boundaries in Indore proved to be bad masters for Rajasthan Royals. The small playing field seemed to be playing on their minds as batsman after batsman in the middle order perished to reckless strokes. Brad Hodge was at the receiving end of those gifts, ending up with a career-best 4 for 13, but it was perhaps a tight first spell from Sreesanth - three overs for 15 runs and the wickets of Rahul Dravid and Ajinkya Rahane - that set the desperation in. Kochi chased the paltry 98 in style, giving their net run-rate a boost too.

(Photo ; Shane Warne Bowled by Hodge) Coming into the game, both the teams had an outside chance of making it to the play-offs, but Rajasthan didn't seem too optimistic on that front. They knew the remoteness of the outside chance, and took the opportunity to make six changes to their side. Rajasthan now stand knocked out, and Kochi, with 12 points from 13 games, need to win their last game and need Kolkata and Punjab to lose theirs.

None of Rajasthan's experiments worked. RP Singh and Sreesanth offered no freebies. Faiz Fazal was caught plumb in front by a full toss before Sreesanth got Dravid with a nice outswinger. Rahane followed up a flick from wide outside off to mid-on with a shuffle too far across, making it 26 for 3 in 5.2 overs.

Rajasthan didn't look to rebuild; they knew they would need a substantial total here. Ashok Menaria began with a six off Sreesanth, Shane Watson with three off debutant left-arm spinner P Prashanth. At 56 for 3 after eight, it seemed like Rajasthan were on their way back, but Watson played all around a full delivery from Prasanth Parameswaran.

Now began the Hodge show. He kept tossing the ball up, the Rajasthan batsmen kept trying to hit the ball into the jungles of Madhya Pradesh. All of Hodge's four victims thought they could hit him for sixes; they could not have been more wrong. Pinal Shah managed to go as far as long-on, Jacob Oram failed to even get a touch, Shane Warne dragged one slog-sweep on, and Menaria found long-off. When Menaria fell, Rajasthan had slumped to 89 for 9 in the 16th over, and they were not going to get many more.