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Amazon calls 2016 holiday season its best ever; shares rise The Amazon Echo home assistant and its smaller version, Echo Dot, topped the best-sellers list, said Jeff Wilke, chief executive of Amazon's worldwide consumer division, in a press release. "Despite our best efforts and ramped-up production, we still had trouble keeping them in stock," he said. Sales of voice-controlled Echo devices were nine times more than they were during last year's holiday season, the company said. Amazon did not disclose comparable sales figures from a year earlier. "It's all relative to other numbers that they've never told us," said analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research. Amazon likely sold between 4 million and 5 million devices this year to date with Alexa, the voice-controlled assistant on the Echo, estimated Morningstar analyst R.J. Hottovy in a research note. Shoppers can command the Echo to perform a host of tasks, from playing music to turning on Christmas lig

Please don't see my animated blockbuster, says Japan's 'new Miyazaki' The ying and yang doesn't end there. The story is set between the beautiful mountainous Nagano region where Shinkai grew up and Tokyo's hyper modern megapolis. It also plays on the tension of teenagers desperate to quit their small towns for the big city yet who are still entranced by the beauty of age-old Japanese traditions. "It is a film about memory, but also about losing memories," said Shinkai, who adapted the story from his own novel. "It's about individual memory and collective memory, the forgetting of a certain morality and sense of tradition." While he is resigned to the fact that the comparison with Miyazaki will haunt him forever, he insisted that they are very different. To prove it he commissioned the Japanese J-rock group Radwimps - whose music you could see giving the old master tinnitus - to do the soundtrack. Shinkai is also at pains to point out that

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams... Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation. Paula Amato

Stumbled upon this when I did a search on Vietnam. Interesting read! Vietnam: Where saying 'I love you' is impossible Bill Hayton was the BBC's correspondent in Vietnam until he fell foul of the authorities for reporting on dissidents in the country and had to leave. Here he looks back at the vagaries of life in one of the world's five remaining communist-run states. 1. It's impossible to say "I love you" in Vietnamese It isn't because the Vietnamese are not passionate. Rather, there is no word for "I" or "you" in colloquial Vietnamese. People address each other according to their relative ages: "anh" for older brother, "chi" for older sister, "em" for younger sibling and so on. This is why

Agree! Very well written. The Three Types of Chemistry You Need to Make Your Relationship Successful A couple months ago I was taking an Uber to the airport when my driver asked me what I did for a living.   My quick and easy go-to response is, "I am in graduate school." When I eventually told him what for, he enthusiastically responded, "Wow! So like, couple's therapy?" Typically upon hearing this news, people respond in a variety of ways including their terrible experience in therapy, how they feel like they are their own friends' and families' therapist too, their crazy friend who definitely needs therapy, or my personal favorite, "Why would you ever want to do that?" But this man responded differently. Instead of going on a whole spiel about his opinion on therapy, he simply asked me, "What do you think makes relationships most successful?" I sat back in my seat and took a second to think about it, granted it was about 6:00 in the

Kathy wrote it very well on how to select a career that complement one's life!

'Hamilton lost the battle but won the war,' claim papers as Rosberg quits Mercedes and F1; Was the 'mental strain' too much? http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24207/10681153/fleet-street-lewis-hamilton-made-nico-rosberg-retire-from-formula-1

The latest rout, triggered by American businessman Donald Trump's win at the US presidential election, has seen the currency fall nearly 7 per cent since Nov 9. On Thursday (Dec 1), the greenback fetched as much as 4.4705 ringgit, its highest level since September 2015. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/international/battered-malaysian-ringgit-keeps-tumbling-5-key-questions/3333712.html

So inspirational! For Real Human Beings Only By Robin Sharma #1 bestselling author of  The Leader Who Had No Title As I sit here on a glorious day during late Summer, I reflect on what it means to be human… My thoughts are offered with humility. These are just my observations based on the best of my understanding. To be human means: – to stand for your dreams + heart's desires and deepest values no matter what stones those who do not understand may toss at you. – to wake up each day radiating hope, strength, wisdom and love, regardless of whether your'e at the peak of the mountain or lost in the valley of disruption. – to find the blessings of your work and notice the dignity within it, whether you run a nation, lead a family, drive a taxi, teach a class, dig graves or bake bread. [To all my friends in JoBurg, please find the janitor in the men's WC/restroom at the airport and tell him his shining example of leadership + decency still walks with me to this day – I'd rea

🎯这篇太值得看了！ This is really worth your reading! 祝身体永远健康，香港伊利沙伯医院临床肿瘤科唐志聪医生编写 : Wishing you good health always - Doctor Tang from St. Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong wrote this: ⛄}《人，只要脾、肝、大肠、肾，四个功能健康，就能永远离开癌症、糖尿病、心脏病、高血压。 We, human being, as long as our spleen, liver, large intestine and kidney are healthy, we will be far away from cancer, diabetes, heart attack and high blood pressure. 🌷}脾，一定要健康。 Keeping the Spleen healthy must be top priority. 如果有病，就先恢复脾的功能。 Once you are sick, you must work on the recovery of your spleen first. 每天三餐，五谷杂粮一定要占总饮食的 50％，一定要养成这个习惯。 Our daily three meals should contain 50% of grains/wheat/brown rice, must learn to make it as part of our eating habit and diet. 🍚}杂粮就是红豆、黄豆、绿豆、薏仁，这些都是杂粮类，莲子也很好，有了这个概念之后，脾好肝就好。 Grain crops are red bean, soya bean, green bean and Chinese Pearl barley. Lotus seeds are also good. Once your spleen is good, your liver will automatically be healthy. 🕙}脾在造血，一天有两个重要的时间，就是子时24:00和午时12:00，所以，你该休息的时候一定要休息。

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 張學友 Jacky Cheung & 梅艷芳 Anita Mui ─ 相愛很難 (Xiang Ai Hen Nan) Download MP3 here I stumbled upon this while bracing the hardship at this foreign country early this year. 最好　有生一日都愛下去   It would be best, if I can love everyday that I am alive 但誰人　能將戀愛當做終生興趣   But who can treat love as a lifetime hobby?   生活　其實旨在找到個伴侶   Life is actually about finding the the one we love   面對現實　熱戀很快變長流細水   Let's face reality, passionate love quickly changes like the flowing water.   ＊可惜我　不智或僥倖   It’s a pity, being either illogical or fortunate,   對火花天生敏感   I'm born sensitive to the spark of love   不過　兩隻手拉得太緊   However, when two hands pull too hard,   愛到過了界那對愛人   Crossing the line when loving each other, these couples   同時亦最易變成一對敵人   At the same time can so easily become a pair of enemies.   也許相愛很難   Perhaps loving each other is really hard   就難在其實雙方各有各寄望   Hard in the sense that both actually have different hopes and aspirations.   怎麼辦   What can possibly be done?   要單戀都難   One-sided love is