Liu Wei, the Armless Pianist – China’s Got Talent (English Annotations)

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Liu Wei, despite his disability, is able to play a beautiful rendition on the piano with his toes. He lost his arms in an accident and the whole world turned upside down for him. But with his mother’s encouragement, he pick up and learnt to play the piano with his toes to give the audience beautiful music. Watch this Youtube video of Liu Wei and be thankful for the little blessings that come along your way.

Male or Female Singer – A Must See

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Watch this talented male or female singer from our neighbour, Indonesia. The costumes and makeup are so professionally done, notwithstanding the voices that go with them. Hudson and Jessica, we salute you. See that he also made the sign of the cross at the end of the performance and I guess he is a Catholic. Watch this for yourself to believe it!

Salt – The 2010 Movie

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Evelyn Salt interrogates a Russian defector, Orlov, who tells her about “Day X”, an operation organized by a powerful Russian since the Cold War, which will lead to the destruction of the United States. Orlov also mentions that at the funeral of the late Vice President in New York City, the visiting Russian President will be killed by a trained Russian spy named Evelyn Salt. Salt, who is shaken up at the accusation, attempts to contact her husband Mike, a German arachnologist, fearing that he will be in danger. Meanwhile, Orlov escapes, prompting Salt to escape herself—causing the CIA to think she is a spy. She flees back to her apartment and finds her husband missing. Salt resumes and grabs essentials as well as a venomous spider. After barely escaping a frantic highway pursuit, Salt takes a bus to New York City. The next morning, she sneaks into the heavily guarded St. Bartholomew’s Church where the Vice President’s funeral is being held and shoots the Russian President. She then encounters Peabody where she surrenders but escapes the NYPD.

A series of flashbacks show Salt growing up in the Soviet Union where Orlov taught her and many other children to obey him and ingratiate themselves into the American government. Then, when it came to Day X, he would command them to strike from various positions in the US. Salt meets Orlov who congratulates her on her killing. He brings her to a river barge, where he tests her allegiance by having another agent kill Mike right in front of her. Salt appears to be unaffected by this, thus passing Orlov’s test. He then tells her Part Two of Day X, which would involve seizing the United States’ stock of nuclear weapons. Salt, who had gone to Orlov only to discover his plans, kills Orlov and everyone else on the barge. She then goes to the rendezvous set up by Orlov to meet a NATO mole.

The NATO mole and a disguised Salt go to the White House. Once inside, her NATO counterpart suddenly starts shooting at Secret Service agents and detonates a bomb. The Secret Service, along with Winter, rush the President to the lower bunker of the White House. Meanwhile, the President, believing Russia is preparing a nuclear strike against the US, begins to transmit the launch codes from the nuclear football. Salt infiltrates the bunker and dispatches the bodyguards. Winter picks up a gun and kills everyone but the President, whom he knocks unconscious.

He explains to an astonished Salt that he was part of Orlov’s plan all along. Winter then uses the nuclear football to start the sequence for launching nuclear missiles at Tehran and Mecca. Salt asks Winter to let her in but before he opens the door, a playing news program reveals that the Russian President is not dead, but only placed in a near-death state from spider venom. He realizes that Salt is not on his side but she manages to break in, and after an intense struggle, she succeeds in knocking him down. Just after she manages to abort the nuclear missile launch set up by Winter, agents break in and arrest her. Winter goes free, but later Salt uses her chains to strangle him.

Salt is put on a helicopter with Peabody, and explains everything to him. A skeptical Peabody finally accepts she is telling the truth after he receives an SMS saying that her fingerprints were found at the barge, confirming her betrayal to Orlov. They both know that there are other moles out there, and Peabody agrees to let her escape, so she can find and kill them. He uncuffs her and Salt jumps into the river below, free once more.

Download YouTube Videos as MP4, FLV or 3GP format using Firefox Plugin

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YouTube is one of the largest portal of different videos and if you want to download any of them, you can do that by using Firefox browser. There is an add-on ‘named “1-Click YouTube Video Download” available for Firefox which will enable you to download YouTube videos on single click.

Install “1-Click YouTube Video Download” on Firefox browser and then open a YouTube video on YouTube site. There you can see three links at the bottom of the playing video. Links are named as the format like ‘FLV, MP4, 3GP. Click on the link to download the video in that format.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for YouTube Videos

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If you are frequent user of YouTube for uploading your own videos say tutorials, presentations, how to’s then you should follow simple steps for search engine optimization (SEO) or search engine targeting. This will help you getting your videos displayed when people will search for terms related with your own video. YouTube is a huge source of traffic for lot many sites and authors who used to upload many videos related to a popular term (keyword). If you want same kind of traffic by showing your own videos on first page of search operation on YouTube then follow the steps mentioned here.

Add Title and End Clips in Uploaded Videos on YouTube

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If you have already uploaded a video on YouTube and now wants to add Title at the start of the video and a snap at end for advertisement, then here is the way to do that. Yes, you can download the video file from YouTube and edit that on desktop application like Camtasia Studio to do the same but here I will let you know the way to do it without even downloading or using any desktop video editor application. Title at start of the video is very helpful in describing the content of video as well we for promoting your website. Same befits are there in adding one slide at the end of each video.

As you know, YouTube has recently launched their own editor thru which you can actually do basic editing of a video. But there is no option to add any image or slide in the uploaded video thru YouTube Editor. So what we will have to is that, we can take the title or end slide clip from any other uploaded video of your own and then use that clip on both end of the video file which needs to be changed. If you are not having any video with title or link for your site, You can create a small video on your desktop using any screen capturing tool and upload that to YouTube.

How To Use Online YouTube Video Editor

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YouTube has launched YouTube Video Editor which enables users to edit videos after uploading it on YouTube. If you uploaded a video on YouTube and then you think that it is bit longer then you can short your video by editing it over there itself. By using this editor, you can merge multiple videos, customize the opening and end of the video by adding special instructions, promotional links, titles etc. You can also add soundtrack to your video from YouTube’s list of soundtrack to make your video more interesting.

Here is a video showing how to use “YouTube Video Editor” online to optimize and enhance your already uploaded videos

Despicable Me – 3D 2010 Movie

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Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3-D feature film from Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9, 2010 in the US. The film stars Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, and Miranda Cosgrove.

Plot

In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences and flowering rose bushes sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden deep beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by an army of mischievous little minions, we discover Gru (Steve Carell) planning the biggest heist in the history of the world: he is going to steal the Moon.

Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. That is, until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential dad.

One of the world’s greatest super-villains has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher).

Toy Story 3 – 3D Movie in 2010

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As Andy, now 17, prepares to leave for college, his toys face an uncertain future, since he hasn’t played with them in years. He decides to take Woody with him, packing the others in an unlabeled garbage bag, which he intends to store in the attic. Unfortunately, when Andy’s sister distracts him, his mom inadvertently takes the garbage bag to the curb, thinking that it contains trash.

Woody, the only toy who realizes what Andy was trying to do, finds the others and tries to explain, but they refuse to listen. They decide instead to be donated to a daycare center, and Woody inadvertently goes with them. When the toys arrive at the daycare center, they receive a warm reception from the other toys, headed by a large stuffed bear (Lots-o-Huggin’ Bear, also known as “Lotso”). Seeing how happy his friends are at the center, Woody says goodbye to them and leaves for Andy’s house. He doesn’t get far before Bonnie, one of the center’s kids, finds him and takes him home to become one of her toys.

Meanwhile, Woody’s friends receive an unpleasant surprise when the group of young kids in the room where they are located plays with them too roughly. They then learn that Woody was telling the truth when Mrs. Potato Head, who lost an eye in Andy’s house, sees Andy becoming upset with his mom over the toys, and decide to escape. Buzz is the only one who gets out, but Lotso catches him and tries to bargain with him. Buzz refuses, and Lotso reprograms him, then turns him on the others and imprisons them.

At Bonnie’s house, Woody learns that Lotso was once owned by a loving girl named Daisy, but he snapped after discovering that she had replaced him after inadvertently leaving him behind. Lotso then took over the daycare center, making it a prison for the toys that were there. Woody decides to rescue the others from the daycare center and get back to Andy’s house before Andy leaves for college.

Woody sneaks in and comes up with an elaborate plan to bypass the security that Lotso has set up. They reprogram Buzz and nearly escape, but Lotso catches them on a dumpster, with a garbage truck fast approaching. Woody convinces the other daycare toys of Lotso’s treachery, and they toss Lotso in the dumpster. However, Lotso grabs Woody at the last minute, and Woody’s friends jump in to rescue him. The garbage truck then takes them to the city dump, where Woody rescues his friends — and Lotso — from an incinerator. Lotso, however, betrays them, but when he tries to escape, he is caught by a garbage man (revealed to be a grown Sid from the first film), who once had a Lotso of his own, and is tied to the front of the garbage truck, along with a few other mangled toys.

Meanwhile, Woody and his friends narrowly escape the incinerator, clean themselves up and make their way back to Andy’s house. Woody decides that his friends deserve better than being stored in the attic, and leaves a note on the box. Andy reads the note and donates the toys to Bonnie, introducing each toy and ending with Woody, who he says “will never give up on you.” Andy and Bonnie play with the toys before Andy finally drives off. As Woody and Buzz watch Andy leave, Woody introduces Buzz and his friends to Bonnie’s other toys.

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – 2010 Movie

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On a farm in Britain during World War II, Mrs. Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is driven to her wits end by her hectic life. Between trying to keep the family farm up and running and her job in the village shop, aided by the elderly and slightly mad Mrs. Doherty (Maggie Smith), she also has three boisterous children to look after, Norman (Asa Butterfield), Megsie (Lil Woods) and Vincent (Oscar Steer). All of this she has to do while her husband is away at war. So when her children’s two spoiled cousins, Cyril (Eros Vlahos) and Celia (Rosie Taylor-Ritson) are sent to live on their farm and another war is being fought between the two sets of children, she is in need of a little magic.

So Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) arrives to take matters into her own hands. At first, the children do not listen and carry on fighting, but after a bang of Nanny McPhee’s stick, they soon realise that they cannot go on fighting, and the two eventually learn to tolerate each other. For instance, Megsie gives Celia some of her best clothing when the ones she brings are ruined, which had made her resort to wearing their mother’s wedding dress. Meanwhile, Mrs. Green’s brother in law, Uncle Phil (Rhys Ifans), has gambled away the farm and is being chased down by two hit women. He desperately attempts to make Mrs. Green sell her half of the farm, using many mean and spiteful schemes to make Mrs Green have no choice but to sell the farm. His plans include digging a hole so that the family piglets can escape. Mrs Green takes all the children on a picnic during which an ARP Warden, Mr. Spolding (Sam Kelly), warns them all about bombs and how he imagines a pilot might accidentally release his bomb in the remote area in which the family lives. At the end of the picnic Uncle Phil delivers a telegram saying that Mr. Green has been ‘killed in action’ in the war. Mrs Green believes the telegram, along with everybody else. But Norman says that he can “feel it in his bones” that his father is not dead. He tells this to Cyril, who at first says it is just because he is upset, but then agrees to support and help Norman to determine the truth. So the two boys decide to ask Nanny McPhee to take them to London to the war office where Cyril and Celia’s father works.

They travel to London with Nanny McPhee and ask Cyril’s father Lord Grey (Ralph Fiennes), who is very important in the War Office, what has happened to Mr Green. At first he scoffs at Norman when he tells him about his disbelief of his father’s death, but after Cyril angrily informs his father that he knows that his parents are getting a divorce, Lord Grey goes to check what has happened. While he is gone, Cyril tells Norman that he and Celia have been sent away because their parents will be splitting up, and Norman asks where Cyril and Celia will live. When Cyril replies “with Mum I suppose, not that it makes much difference, she only ever really sees us when she wants to show us off”, Norman tells Cyril that he and Celia are welcome to go and live on the farm with the Greens. Cyril’s father returns and tells Norman that his father is not listed as K.I.A, but M.I.A and that there is no record of a telegram ever having been sent to Mrs Green.

The boys then leave and Norman works out that the telegram brought to his mother by Uncle Phil was in fact a fraud, the meanest of all Uncle Phil’s attempts to get Mrs Green to sell the farm. While the boys were at the War Office, Megsie, Celia and Vincent were trying to stop Mrs Green from signing the papers and selling the farm, Just as Mrs Green is about to sign the papers, a huge bomb is dropped, but does not explode and is sticking out of the barley field. When Nanny McPhee returns with Norman and Cyril, the children go out to watch Mr Spolding dismantle the bomb, but he falls from the ladder and Megsie takes over. She succeeds with the help of the other children and Nanny McPhee’s putty eating bird. Nanny McPhee then helps to harvest the barley, with a little magic, and she and Mrs. Doherty, who seems to be familiar with her, watch the family celebrate. During their conversation, it is revealed that Mrs. Doherty is, in fact, baby Aggie from the first film. Nanny McPhee lives by a rule ‘when they need her but do not want her, Nanny McPhee must stay. But when they want her but no longer need her, Nanny McPhee must go.’ As Nanny McPhee walks away from the now happy family, the children and Mrs. Green chase after her, determined to prove they still need her. However they discover that they in fact do not, as they round a bend to see that their father is descending from the hill, passing Nanny McPhee along the way. Mr. Green (Ewan McGregor) in army uniform and with an injured arm, runs to the arms of his children and wife and rejoices in the discovering that after leaving three children to go to war, he has returned to find five.

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